The Ben Shapiro Show - Democrats Play The Race Card Early And Often

00:00:00.000 So today, Hunter Biden is expected to plead guilty to a couple of misdemeanor accounts of failing to pay his taxes at a federal courthouse in Delaware.

00:00:07.000 That is according to NBC News.

00:00:08.000 This is the first time that the Justice Department has brought charges against the child of a sitting president, but of course the charges have been knocked way, way, way down.

00:00:15.000 Because according to IRS whistleblowers, This dude, Hunter Biden, took in literally $17.3 million on behalf of the family over the course of 2014 to 2019.

00:00:23.000 And then the IRS and the DOJ and the FBI all waited until a bunch of the tax evasion charges had basically fallen off the radar.

00:00:32.000 They went beyond the statute of limitations.

00:00:34.000 And then, of course, they apparently, according to the IRS whistleblowers, denied David Weiss, the U.S.

00:00:38.000 attorney, in this case, the ability to pursue the case as a special counsel, which would have allowed him to do interviews in certain ways and charge in certain districts.

00:00:45.000 They did not pursue any lines of inquiry about how exactly the money passed to Hunter and then whether that money passed from Hunter to the big guy, Joe Biden.

00:00:53.000 The media are going to play this up as though the DOJ and the FBI really did their job here, but this is a sweetheart plea arrangement and everybody knows it.

00:00:59.000 According to NBC News, Biden is expected to follow the terms of the plea agreement he reached last month with U.S.

00:01:03.000 Attorney David Weiss.

00:01:05.000 Outlining the charges, Weiss's office said in a statement, Hunter Biden received taxable income in excess of $1.5 million annually in 2017-2018.

00:01:11.000 Despite owing in excess of $100,000 in federal income taxes every year, he did not pay any income tax due for either year.

00:01:19.000 I mean, put aside the irony of the fact that Joe Biden is constantly talking about how the rich are escaping their taxes and how the rich don't pay their share of that.

00:01:27.000 And how his son is the rich who didn't pay his fair share.

00:01:30.000 I promise you, I paid a lot of money in taxes last year.

00:01:33.000 I paid way more than my fair share.

00:01:35.000 This dude paid pretty much nothing, 27-2018.

00:01:38.000 The fact is that Hunter Biden is being let off the hook.

00:01:42.000 Because his father is the president, as per our usual arrangement, Biden was facing a separate gun charge for illegally owning a Colt Cobra.

00:01:49.000 38 special handgun, but the DOJ said that he had reached a pretrial agreement that allowed him to essentially go to drug rehab instead of being charged for lying on federal forms.

00:01:58.000 Again, put aside the irony of the fact that Joe Biden has basically said that you, the law-abiding gun owner, should not have a gun, and that Hunter Biden gets to go to drug rehab after apparently lying on federal forms about being a drug addict in order to obtain a gun, which then ended up dumped in a dumpster near a high school.

00:02:13.000 Put aside all of that, the fact is that this is, once again, a sweetheart plea arrangement.

00:02:16.000 Now, there is a sort of late-breaking story with regard to this sweetheart plea arrangement.

00:02:20.000 The New York Post reporting it yesterday.

00:02:22.000 First son Hunter Biden's legal team appears to pull a dirty trick on Tuesday to block the release of damning evidence ahead of his expected guilty plea to federal charges of tax evasion and weapons crimes.

00:02:32.000 The drama began in the morning, when the House Ways and Means Committee filed an amicus brief to Delaware U.S.

00:02:36.000 District Judge Mariella Noriega Arguing the 53-year-old had benefited from, quote, political interference, which calls into question the propriety of the investigation into his alleged crimes.

00:02:45.000 The filing included the testimony from the two IRS whistleblowers.

00:02:48.000 What happened next was outlined in a letter sent to the judge on Tuesday afternoon by the committee's top lawyer, Theodore Catilla.

00:02:54.000 Quote, At approximately 1.30 p.m., we received word that our filing was being removed from the docket.

00:03:00.000 So the House Ways and Means Committee filed an amicus brief asking for the plea bargain to basically be thrown out for corruption.

00:03:08.000 And weirdly enough, they got a notice at 1.30 yesterday that the filing was removed from the docket.

00:03:13.000 We promptly contacted the clerk's office as the lawyer and we were advised that someone contacted the court representing they worked for my office and that they were asking the court to remove this from the docket.

00:03:21.000 We immediately advised this was inaccurate.

00:03:23.000 The clerk's office responded that we would need to refile.

00:03:26.000 We have done so now.

00:03:28.000 Catilla included email exchanges with court officials and Hunter Biden's attorneys in the fresh filing.

00:03:32.000 Hi, Ted.

00:03:33.000 Following up on our recent telephone conversation, the woman who called was a Jessica Bengals, confirmed court official Samantha Grimes.

00:03:38.000 She said she worked with Theodore Catilla and it was important the document was removed immediately or they could file a motion to seal.

00:03:43.000 I do deeply apologize for the confusion on our part.

00:03:46.000 Bengals is the director of litigation services at Latham & Watkins, a massive New York-based law firm.

00:03:52.000 And Hunter Biden's attorney, Chris Clark, was formerly a partner over there.

00:03:56.000 When Katila confronted the First Son's legal team, Hunter's attorneys tried to claim the filing contained confidential and identifying information, even though the whistleblower testimony has been public for more than a month.

00:04:06.000 The timestamps from the emails indicated the request to take the document down was made after Katila refused a request to file the testimony under seal.

00:04:13.000 This is what Hunter Biden's attorney wrote, quote, as far as I'm aware, the managing attorney from Latham and

00:04:18.000 Watkins called the clerk's office to note that personal tax

00:04:21.000 information of the defendant had been filed in a non-redacted manner and to inquire

00:04:24.000 regarding having the information sealed.

00:04:27.000 As we told you we wouldn't, as you said you understood, as far as I'm aware,

00:04:29.000 the clerk took the filing down on their own accord.

00:04:31.000 Cotilla then warned, you should probably take a step back from your statements.

00:04:35.000 The clerk's office advised that it was representing to her the request was being made by

00:04:38.000 my firm. We will be advising Judge Nureyko of this in proper context.

00:04:41.000 So Latham and Watkins is saying, no, no, no, we just asked that it be taken down because it

00:04:44.000 contained identifying information. But the House Ways and Means Committee is saying, no, no,

00:04:48.000 you called them up and you said that you were us and that you were requesting as us

00:04:52.000 that we should take down the filing. Pretty amazing.

00:04:57.000 So we will see how this shakes out, of course.

00:05:00.000 But one thing is perfectly clear.

00:05:02.000 If the person whose name were on the charges were anybody but Hunter Biden, that's who would be going to jail.

00:05:08.000 As the Wall Street Journal editorial board points out, Eileen J. O'Connor writing, you'd go to prison for what Hunter Biden did.

00:05:14.000 Prison for tax crimes is real.

00:05:16.000 In the 1990s, New York hotelier Leona Helmsley served nearly two years in prison for defrauding the government by having her business pay her personal expenses and claim tax deductions for them. 0.50

00:05:26.000 What has been called Hunter Biden's sweetheart plea deal wasn't the subject of the House Oversight Committee's July 19th hearing where the two IRS whistleblowers testified.

00:05:32.000 Instead, lawmakers intended to explore ways in which IRS agents said the Justice Department had thwarted their probe.

00:05:37.000 And again, the thwarting of the probe is really the big issue here.

00:05:40.000 Because there are way deeper questions to ask than Hunter Biden's tax crimes.

00:05:43.000 Like, where did the money go?

00:05:45.000 Who was the big guy?

00:05:46.000 Why are there texts on Hunter Biden's computer talking about how he paid his daddy's bills?

00:05:51.000 Why are there texts on Hunter Biden's computer, WhatsApps, two foreign agents saying, my daddy is sitting right here?

00:05:57.000 Why is it that all of this was shut down?

00:06:00.000 Well, we theoretically could find out some answers to this in the near future.

00:06:04.000 David Weiss, who is the Hunter Biden prosecutor, who according to IRS whistleblowers was essentially blocked from special counsel status, he now may testify in front of Congress.

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00:07:17.000 Okay, so.

00:07:19.000 Now, the Hunter Biden prosecutor, David Weiss, he's the U.S.

00:07:21.000 Attorney for the District of Delaware.

00:07:22.000 Apparently, he will be allowed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee.

00:07:25.000 The Department of Justice sent a letter to the Judiciary Committee.

00:07:29.000 According to the Daily Wire, Weiss's testimony would come after the announcement of a plea deal where Hunter would plead guilty.

00:07:34.000 The DOJ appreciates the committee on the judiciary's acceptance of our offer for Weiss to testify at a public hearing before the committee.

00:07:40.000 The department is ready to offer Weiss to testify shortly after Congress returns from the August district work period as described more fully below.

00:07:46.000 The potential dates for the testimony?

00:07:48.000 September 27th or 28th and October 18th or 19th.

00:07:51.000 That is a long time in the future.

00:07:52.000 You may notice that the date today is July 26th.

00:07:54.000 So they're talking about September or October for Weiss to testify because he's apparently so darn busy.

00:08:00.000 The DOJ added in its letter that there were misunderstandings about what exactly its work was and why Weiss was denied special counsel status, or if he was.

00:08:07.000 According to the letter, quote, we are deeply concerned by any misrepresentations

00:08:11.000 about our work, whether deliberate or arising from misunderstandings

00:08:13.000 that could unduly harm public confidence in the even-handed administration of justice

00:08:17.000 to which we are dedicated.

00:08:18.000 Well, I mean, I'm concerned about the even-handed administration of justice,

00:08:22.000 given the fact that apparently, according to the IRS whistleblowers,

00:08:25.000 David Weiss was barred from asking serious questions for the IRS agents about how money was flowing,

00:08:30.000 which is the exact topic of this investigation.

00:08:32.000 you Again, one IRS whistleblower, Joseph Ziegler, he's the gay Democrat who pointed that out during his testimony. 0.53

00:08:40.000 He said, listen, I don't have a dog in this fight.

00:08:42.000 He's disputed several statements made by Weiss saying that Hunter should face more serious criminal charges.

00:08:47.000 Now, David Weiss has been very squirrelly about what exactly he asked for and what exactly he received from the DOJ.

00:08:52.000 Apparently, there was an open meeting where he told the IRS whistleblowers that he had asked for special counsel status and was denied.

00:08:57.000 Then, Merrick Garland was like, well, he never asked for it.

00:09:01.000 Which kind of elides the question as to why you didn't give it to him in the first place, which is exactly what Merrick Garland did do with regard to, for example, the special counsel going after Donald Trump.

00:09:10.000 There, Merrick Garland was like, hands off!

00:09:12.000 You get special counsel status.

00:09:13.000 When it came to Hunter Biden, it was like, well, unless he asks for it, then I suppose I won't give it to him.

00:09:18.000 And then we just have an argument over who asked for what when.

00:09:22.000 Well, all of this is going to blow up in public view because the fact is that we now have too many pieces of information suggesting corruption involving Joe.

00:09:27.000 We do.

00:09:28.000 Beyond all the texts from Hunter, again, the most damning text remains.

00:09:32.000 The 2019 text from Hunter Biden to his daughter in which he says he pays dad's bills.

00:09:37.000 That is a wildly damning text.

00:09:39.000 But now we have information that's been put forward by no less than two of Hunter Biden's business partners talking about Joe's involvement in the business, at least to the extent that Joe is being used as sort of the deus ex machina.

00:09:50.000 And when something was happening and they needed to call Joe to demonstrate that they actually had some pull, they would just call him on the phone.

00:09:57.000 Devin Archer, who is John Kerry's son-in-law and somebody who is business partners with Hunter Biden, he's supposed to testify behind closed doors this week about all of that.

00:10:07.000 And of course, we know Tony Bobulinski, who was largely ignored in 2020, said exactly the same thing.

00:10:12.000 He said that Hunter Biden would call Joe Biden up on the phone, he would bring Joe Biden to meetings, all the rest of this sort of stuff.

00:10:18.000 Well, Kevin McCarthy, for his part, says that an impeachment inquiry will probably get underway sometime in the near future.

00:10:23.000 It's very doubtful that impeachment inquiry does not lead to impeachment.

00:10:25.000 I've yet to see an impeachment inquiry that does not lead to impeachment.

00:10:28.000 And again, I find it incredibly difficult to believe.

00:10:32.000 I laid out the entire timeline yesterday on the show.

00:10:35.000 That Joe Biden, as pure as the driven snow, knew nothing about Hunter picking up bags of foreign cash all over the world using his name, was on the phone with Hunter and the foreign business partners, was squiring Hunter on Air Force Two to places like China, and was impacting policy in the countries where Hunter is picking up the cash.

00:10:49.000 All this is just a big coinkydinky. 1.00

00:10:51.000 Now, Speaker McCarthy said yesterday that an impeachment inquiry could be something very likely in the near future.

00:10:57.000 So now you have the president saying one thing that we've proven is not true.

00:11:01.000 You've got IRS whistleblowers saying something when it comes to government treating the Bidens different.

00:11:07.000 You've got an informant claiming that the Biden family had been bribed.

00:11:14.000 Should you ignore that?

00:11:16.000 Or should you investigate that?

00:11:17.000 The only way you can investigate that is through an impeachment inquiry so the committee would have the power to get all the documents that they would need.

00:11:27.000 What I said last night, and I continue, I said it before, when more of this It continues to unravel.

00:11:34.000 It rises to the level of impeachment inquiry where you would have the Congress to have the power to get to all these answers.

00:11:42.000 I would think the Biden family would want to answer these questions as well.

00:11:45.000 Provide the documents instead of holding them back.

00:11:50.000 What's amazing about this is the Democrats' response to all of this.

00:11:52.000 Because, again, the evidence is there that there is something nefarious going on.

00:11:57.000 I mean, Hunter and Joe, they are hand in glove for years on end while all of this is going around.

00:12:03.000 And meanwhile, you got people like Jamie Raskin.

00:12:05.000 Who, again, was one of the leaders of the impeachment into Donald Trump, who said that this is second-hand, years-old allegations.

00:12:12.000 Well, what would first-hand constitute?

00:12:14.000 First-hand allegation?

00:12:14.000 I mean, it is not second-hand.

00:12:17.000 Tony Bobulinski was business partners with Hunter Biden.

00:12:19.000 Devin Archer was business partners with Hunter Biden.

00:12:23.000 Hunter Biden texted things about Joe.

00:12:25.000 That's all firsthand.

00:12:26.000 That is not secondhand.

00:12:27.000 That is all very, very firsthand.

00:12:28.000 These are people who are directly involved in the allegations at issue.

00:12:31.000 Apparently, according to Jamie Raskin, the only thing that would count as like a firsthand allegation is if Joe Biden raised his hand and literally said, I took money from my son Hunter, or he got a bunch of bank records and just spilled them into public view, which is something he absolutely will never do.

00:12:45.000 Meanwhile, the White House is tweeting out, quote, their eagerness to go after Biden, regardless of the truth, is seemingly bottomless.

00:12:51.000 At a briefing Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, we're not going to get into hypotheticals when asked about GOP efforts to impeach Biden.

00:12:58.000 Now, this was always going to happen, OK?

00:13:00.000 Because Joe Biden has been corrupt for a very, very long time.

00:13:04.000 I mean, the dude owns a lot of houses for a guy who was on like a $150,000 to $200,000 a year salary as a senator.

00:13:10.000 And yet he had these very, very nice houses in Delaware.

00:13:12.000 I mean, there's been talk about Joe Biden and the Delaware credit card companies for a very long time.

00:13:16.000 So this is not anything new or shocking.

00:13:19.000 The only thing that's shocking is the extent to which the media will go to not ask serious questions about this.

00:13:24.000 Meanwhile, other Democrats, of course, are completely uninterested in this inquiry.

00:13:26.000 Here's Representative Madeleine Dean.

00:13:28.000 She is a Democrat from Pennsylvania.

00:13:29.000 She says, I have no questions about this.

00:13:31.000 All my questions have been answered.

00:13:32.000 Really, I'd love to hear how they were answered and what questions you asked.

00:13:37.000 So we're at a time of great contrast.

00:13:39.000 Democrats leading, investing in America, and Republicans chasing conspiracy theories.

00:13:45.000 On the subject of what could be a pending impeachment inquiry into President Biden, what questions, if any, do you have about Joe Biden's connection to Hunter Biden's business dealings?

00:14:03.000 I don't have any at this point, but certainly there are questions that can be asked and should be answered if there was any connection.

00:14:12.000 But we don't see any evidence of that whatsoever, so they're making it up whole cloth.

00:14:18.000 They're making it up.

00:14:19.000 Everything is made up, which is weird because it's not made up.

00:14:21.000 And again, we laid out the entire timeline and we have contemporaneous documentation and we have whistleblower allegations and we have confidential human sources who explicitly say that the heads of Burisma were openly claiming to have bribed Hunter and Joe Biden.

00:14:35.000 And all of this is worthy of questioning.

00:14:37.000 Is it not?

00:14:38.000 And yet we're just told to hand wave it away.

00:14:39.000 It's all old allegations.

00:14:40.000 Who cares about it?

00:14:41.000 There's nothing.

00:14:42.000 There's nothing to see here.

00:14:43.000 Here's the thing.

00:14:45.000 The smoke is going to lead to fire.

00:14:47.000 And the smoke is not there for no reason.

00:14:50.000 In just a second, we'll get to Joe Biden's continuing collapse on a personal level.

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00:16:03.000 Okay.

00:16:03.000 Meanwhile, And Joe Biden continues to wander around, not knowing where he is.

00:16:08.000 Yesterday, he claimed to have cured cancer, which is which is interesting.

00:16:12.000 I figure that like that's that's breaking big, if true.

00:16:16.000 Here is Joe Biden claiming that he has cured cancer.

00:16:18.000 If you could do anything at all, Joe, what would you do?

00:16:23.000 I said I'd cure cancer.

00:16:24.000 They looked at me like, why cancer?

00:16:26.000 Because no one thinks we can.

00:16:28.000 That's why.

00:16:28.000 And we can.

00:16:30.000 We can end cancer as we know it.

00:16:34.000 We ended cancer as we know it?

00:16:37.000 I feel like I would have heard about that if that were true.

00:16:41.000 Where's Daniel Dale and the fact checkers over at CNN?

00:16:44.000 The president claims that he has cured cancer.

00:16:45.000 Perhaps next he will cure dementia.

00:16:48.000 I have doubts and quibbles.

00:16:51.000 Meanwhile, in the funniest Joe Biden story of the day, it's funny because it's actually a little sad.

00:16:55.000 You know, as a new dog owner, let me tell you, how your dog acts is largely a reflection of how you train your dog.

00:17:00.000 If you are good in training your dog, your dog will not bite people.

00:17:02.000 And yet, Joe Biden has had not one but two dogs who apparently routinely bite people, according to the New York Times.

00:17:08.000 One of President Biden's dogs has now bitten several Secret Service agents and even sent one to the hospital.

00:17:13.000 Part of a series of at least 10 incidents of aggressive behavior, according to internal emails recently obtained by a conservative watchdog group, the correspondence shows Commander, the nearly two-year-old German Shepherd, has struggled to adjust to life at the White House where he arrived in 2021 and Delaware, where the Bidens own two homes.

00:17:26.000 Early in November 2022, officials on the White House medical team chose to send an officer whom Commander had bitten on the arm and the thigh to the hospital.

00:17:34.000 Just a week later, Commander bit an agent on the left thigh.

00:17:36.000 That same month, another agent was left shaken when he felt the need to hoist up the chair he was sitting on to use as a shield when Commander began barking at him from the top of a White House staircase.

00:17:45.000 Six of the incidents were bites that resulted in some form of medical attention. 0.60

00:17:49.000 This, of course, is not the only Biden dog who's been a bad, bad doggo.

00:17:53.000 In March 2021, the Bidens had to ship two of their other dogs, Champ and Major, to Delaware for two weeks of training after Major had a biting incident with a White House staff member.

00:18:01.000 Champ died later that year, assassinated by Hillary Clinton, apparently.

00:18:08.000 Great job, Joe Biden.

00:18:10.000 Meanwhile, on the policy front, a federal judge has now tossed Joe Biden's administration asylum rule for migrants.

00:18:15.000 According to the Washington Post, a federal judge in California struck down the Biden administration's temporary restrictions on migrants seeking asylum, ruling that the government's plans to reduce illegal crossings on the U.S.-Mexico border actually violated federal law.

00:18:27.000 So they put in place a system that imposed penalties on migrants who cross the border illegally, trying to funnel them to ports of entry, where then they would be let into the country willy-nilly.

00:18:36.000 And so far, that's been the result.

00:18:37.000 There's been a lot fewer lines at the border.

00:18:40.000 There have been a lot less chaos on the border, but a lot of those people just enter the country willy-nilly. 1.00

00:18:44.000 The bigger problem when it came to illegal immigration was never the kind of vast scenes on the border.

00:18:49.000 The problem was what the problem remains, which is people illegally entering the country by claiming asylum when they don't actually have a legal right to asylum.

00:18:56.000 But because the process works and is overloaded in this way that you come, you claim asylum, and then we basically give you a deli ticket counter and we say show up in three months.

00:19:05.000 For an asylum claim.

00:19:06.000 And then you show up in three months and then we give you another ticket saying show up for your court date and then you never show up again.

00:19:10.000 Statistically, this is what happens.

00:19:11.000 People show up for their first court date but not their second court date.

00:19:13.000 This is why you have 11, 12, 14 million illegal immigrants in the United States.

00:19:18.000 Well now, a judge has argued that Joe Biden can't even do that.

00:19:21.000 So even the illegal immigration policy that Joe Biden designed in order to get people to at least stand in line at the ports of entry, now a judge has said you can't even do that.

00:19:30.000 According to the Washington Post, the judge sided with advocacy groups that had argued the Biden restrictions violated federal law by endangering migrants fleeing harm and preventing migrants from seeking asylum if they crossed the border illegally, which Congress never intended.

00:19:42.000 So even Joe Biden's attempts to regularize his bad illegal immigration policy are failing on every front.

00:19:49.000 Well, when Democrats are failing, when approval ratings are low, when it appears that the president of the United States is on a weakened footing, Well, it's precisely that time that you can expect the Democrats are probably going to start playing the race card.

00:20:02.000 And as you might have guessed, that is precisely what is happening.

00:20:04.000 We'll get to that momentarily first.

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00:21:05.000 Okay, so.

00:21:06.000 Joe Biden, when in doubt, you gotta play the race card.

00:21:08.000 So, Joe Biden, yesterday, honored Emmett Till and his mother with a new national monument.

00:21:13.000 Which is all, that's fine.

00:21:15.000 I mean, Emmett Till obviously was lynched, was assassinated, for the great crime of apparently having allegedly wolf-whistled a white lady in the pre-civil rights era South.

00:21:27.000 And his mom made the brave move of having an open casket at his funeral and pointing out that these are the wages of racism.

00:21:34.000 And so now the federal government is going to establish the Emmett Till and Mamie Till Mobley National Monument, which is going to be in a few different places.

00:21:42.000 It's not just one place.

00:21:43.000 The monument honors not only Emmett Till, but also his mother, who became a renowned civil rights advocate.

00:21:49.000 According to a White House official, the new monument will protect places that tell the story of Emmett Till's too short life and racially motivated murder, the unjust acquittal of his murderers, and the activism of his mother, who courageously brought the world's attention to the brutal injustices and racism of the time, catalyzing the civil rights movement.

00:22:03.000 And it will include things like the Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Chicago.

00:22:07.000 That is where Till's funeral service was held.

00:22:09.000 Also, the Grabal Landing in Mississippi, where it's believed that Till's body was recovered from the Tallahatchie River.

00:22:14.000 That will be the second location.

00:22:15.000 And the third location will be at the Tallahatchie County 2nd District Courthouse in Mississippi, where Till's killers were acquitted.

00:22:21.000 Okay, all of that, you know, it is worth remembering the evils of American history in order so that we can see how far we've come.

00:22:28.000 But that's not the real reason why Joe Biden is doing this.

00:22:31.000 The reason that Joe Biden is doing this, as you can see from the announcement, the real reason that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are doing this is so that they can pretend that there are a bunch of Republicans who are just like the murderers of Emmett Till.

00:22:41.000 That is the way they do this. 0.92

00:22:42.000 It really is gross.

00:22:44.000 Again, this should be something about which Americans are fairly united.

00:22:48.000 I would hope universally united. 0.97

00:22:50.000 American racism is evil. 0.95

00:22:52.000 Racism is bad. 0.99

00:22:53.000 The murder of people on the basis of their skin. 0.53

00:22:55.000 Evil.

00:22:55.000 Right?

00:22:55.000 We should all be on the same side of that.

00:22:57.000 So why is it that this administration is now using this announcement of the monument in order to go after Ron DeSantis and Florida and falsely claim that Florida is replete with the same kind of racism?

00:23:08.000 It's really gross.

00:23:09.000 So Biden let it off yesterday.

00:23:11.000 He was talking about complicity and complicity and racism.

00:23:13.000 And as you'll see, this morphs very, very quickly into an attack on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's political opponents.

00:23:20.000 It was a lesson I learned coming out of not like real leaders in the civil rights movement, but I came out of the civil rights movement as a kid, as a public defender.

00:23:28.000 And I used to, you know, I used to say, think that if you pass something that was good, you can make hate go away.

00:23:36.000 Hate never goes away.

00:23:38.000 It just hides.

00:23:40.000 It hides under the rocks.

00:23:43.000 And given a little bit of oxygen by bad people, it comes roaring out again.

00:23:48.000 It's up to all of us to deal with that.

00:23:53.000 Up to all of us to stop it.

00:23:55.000 Up to all of us.

00:23:55.000 The best way to do it is with the truth.

00:23:59.000 Excuse me for the different context, but I think it applies here.

00:24:03.000 Silence is complicity.

00:24:06.000 I will not be silent, nor will you be silent about what happened.

00:24:12.000 Okay, again, when he says things like, it doesn't go away, it just hides under rocks.

00:24:16.000 So first of all, racism in the United States has abated beyond any other Western country by a long shot.

00:24:21.000 Again, look at the polling with regards to, for example, interracial marriage.

00:24:24.000 It went from virtually no one in the United States was in favor of interracial marriage to everyone in the United States is fine with interracial marriage by the polling data.

00:24:30.000 Okay, but according to Joe Biden, it never goes away, it just goes to hide.

00:24:33.000 So what does he mean by that?

00:24:34.000 What does he mean?

00:24:36.000 You know what the implication is. 0.91

00:24:37.000 The implication is that even though those evil Republicans who oppose Joe Biden won't openly be racist, quietly, they're very racist.

00:24:43.000 Kamala Harris, who, you know, is obviously ramping up for the possibility that Joe Biden just keels over any day because he looks like he's going to keel over any day. 0.78

00:24:51.000 She really just says the quiet part out loud.

00:24:53.000 She just goes right after Ron DeSantis in Florida.

00:24:55.000 Again, there's a reason why they are linking these two issues.

00:25:00.000 Today, there are those in our nation who would prefer to erase Or even rewrite the ugly parts of our past.

00:25:08.000 Those who attempt to teach that enslaved people benefited from slavery.

00:25:13.000 Those who insult us in an attempt to gaslight us.

00:25:19.000 Who try to divide our nation with unnecessary debates.

00:25:25.000 Let us not be seduced into believing that somehow we will be better if we forget.

00:25:34.000 Okay, so number one, no one's forgetting people get taught about Emmett Till in Florida schools.

00:25:39.000 What she's saying here, which is that these are, it's unnecessary to have debates over America's history.

00:25:44.000 Really, since you guys are the ones who pushed the 1619 project, you're the ones who suggest that America's racial history means that today the only solution is quote-unquote racial equity when it comes to government policy, i.e.

00:25:54.000 reverse racism in American government policy.

00:25:58.000 This is what they're doing. 0.71

00:25:59.000 It's super gross.

00:26:00.000 It's really gross.

00:26:02.000 Honestly, find me the American politician of either party today who's like, yeah, I'm a big, I'm standing for Emmett Till's murderers.

00:26:08.000 Like, who are those people?

00:26:09.000 They don't exist, but it doesn't matter because Kamala Harris believes, and she wants you to believe, that really, down deep, Republicans are very much in favor of black people being murdered for no reason at all.

00:26:19.000 She did this, by the way. 0.94

00:26:20.000 She was saying all of this during the Emmett Till announcement, which is super disgusting. 0.93

00:26:24.000 I mean, it really is gross.

00:26:26.000 Here's Joe Biden doing the same exact thing.

00:26:30.000 At a time when there are those who seek to ban books, bury history, we're making it clear, crystal, crystal clear.

00:26:41.000 Darkness and denialism can hide much.

00:26:45.000 They erase nothing.

00:26:47.000 You can hide, but they erase nothing.

00:26:51.000 We can't just choose to learn what we want to know.

00:26:55.000 We have to learn what we should know. 1.00

00:26:56.000 He's a liar! 1.00

00:26:56.000 These people are liars. 1.00

00:26:57.000 We should know about our country. 0.97

00:26:59.000 We should know everything.

00:27:00.000 The good, the bad, the truth of who we are as a nation. 0.98

00:27:05.000 They're such gaslighting liars. 1.00

00:27:07.000 They're such liars! 1.00

00:27:08.000 They're liars! 1.00

00:27:09.000 Okay, all of this gets taught in Florida schools. 0.86

00:27:11.000 Nothing that Ron DeSantis has passed in the state of Florida, signed into law in the state of Florida, bars the teaching of American history.

00:27:17.000 On the contrary, it preserves the teaching of American history by preventing the inculcation of lies into the curriculum.

00:27:23.000 Lies like, if you are black, you are inherently victimized in the United States, and if you are white, you are inherently privileged in the United States of America. 0.98

00:27:29.000 And that all systems of power in the United States are created for the explicit promotion of white people. 0.93

00:27:34.000 That's what critical race theory teaches. 0.79

00:27:35.000 That's what they're attempting to ban in the state of Florida. 0.90

00:27:37.000 Not teaching about the evils of American history or white supremacy.

00:27:42.000 It's a lie. 1.00

00:27:42.000 They're liars, and it's disgusting. 1.00

00:27:44.000 It truly is gross. 1.00

00:27:45.000 Because again, there is no disagreement in the United States about the evils of American history when it comes to racism and white supremacy. 0.93

00:27:52.000 There's no disagreement about that.

00:27:53.000 The only disagreement is that you guys all say that the white supremacy is still there, lurking underneath America's surface, and that all of America's key institutions, from capitalism to the meritocracy, have been infused by that evil racism. 0.85

00:28:05.000 And thus, if you oppose the democratic agenda, secretly you are a white supremacist.

00:28:08.000 Secretly, you're in league with Emmett Till's murderers.

00:28:10.000 That's the case they're trying to make.

00:28:11.000 Some of them are even more open.

00:28:13.000 ABC News' Mary Bruce actually openly tried to connect Ron DeSantis to the lynching of Emmett Till.

00:28:18.000 Now the president's announcement.

00:28:20.000 The president who is roughly the same age that Till would have been.

00:28:23.000 It comes as we are seeing this controversial and very polarizing debate in this country over the teaching of black history.

00:28:29.000 That move by the Florida Board of Education to teach that some slaves may have benefited from the skills they developed is sparking a firestorm.

00:28:36.000 But Robin, this White House says that monuments like this to Till will help to teach the complete story of our nation's history.

00:28:43.000 Robin.

00:28:44.000 Yes, how about Ron DeSantis and the evils?

00:28:45.000 Meanwhile, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell, another objective journalism-er, she commented, quote, this is also happening as some states are being accused of chipping away at the teaching of black history, the accurate teaching.

00:28:54.000 Ron DeSantis has been accused by the Washington Post editorial board just yesterday of trying to, quote, whitewash slavery. 0.85

00:29:01.000 It's so disgusting. 0.98

00:29:02.000 It's so clearly disgusting. 0.92

00:29:04.000 And then there's the secondary disgustingness. 0.80

00:29:06.000 So, Greg Gutfeld is on Fox News doing a show, and he was talking about all of these false accusations with regard to Ron DeSantis, all the lies that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are talking about, about how American history won't be taught, black history won't be taught in Florida schools anymore, which is a lie.

00:29:20.000 It is not true.

00:29:22.000 It is a lie.

00:29:22.000 Okay, so Gutfeld was talking about the part of the curriculum that says that some slaves cultivated skills they could use for their personal benefit after slavery, which is clearly true.

00:29:33.000 And he makes the pretty much unobjectionable point that even in the worst circumstances, human beings could possibly be in.

00:29:40.000 They cultivate skills because this is how human beings adapt and survive, and it demonstrates their resiliency, even in the worst places human beings can be.

00:29:47.000 They cultivate skills that they can then use for their personal benefit afterward.

00:29:51.000 And he makes the comparison to Viktor Frankl writing Man's Search for Meaning after the Holocaust.

00:29:55.000 The notion that he was able to cultivate certain spiritual levels through suffering in the Holocaust.

00:30:02.000 And naturally, then the left jumps on that.

00:30:04.000 It's just, it's amazing.

00:30:05.000 Here's Greg Gutfeld.

00:30:07.000 Do you think that she read the whole thing and just decided to cherry pick something?

00:30:12.000 I do think that she read the whole thing, and I think that it's an incredibly complex piece.

00:30:17.000 When you look at the 191 passages, you have some good in it.

00:30:21.000 And frankly, I'm just fundamentally uncomfortable with the sentence that blacks benefited at all from this.

00:30:30.000 You know, it made me think as someone, obviously I'm not black, but I'm Jewish.

00:30:33.000 Would someone say about the Holocaust, for instance, that there were some benefits for Jews, right? 0.99

00:30:38.000 While they were hanging out in concentration camps, you learned a strong work ethic, right?

00:30:42.000 Maybe you learned a new skill.

00:30:43.000 Did you ever read Man's Search for Meaning?

00:30:45.000 Vic Frankel talks about how you had to survive in a concentration camp by having skills.

00:30:50.000 You had to be useful.

00:30:51.000 Utility.

00:30:52.000 Utility kept you alive.

00:30:54.000 But we're also talking about middle schoolers here.

00:30:59.000 Okay, again, what Gutfeld says there is absolutely unobjectionable.

00:31:02.000 As an Orthodox Jew, you know, and thank God, my immediate family, our family line was in America since the early 20th century, but the entire extended family was in Europe at the time of the Holocaust, so we lost a lot of, you know, distant relations and family relations in Europe during the Holocaust, and of course, I'm deeply ensconced in the Jewish community, so pretty much everybody knows a Holocaust survivor.

00:31:22.000 What he is saying there, which is that the durability and the adaptability of human beings, the resiliency of human beings in terrible circumstances leads them to cultivate skills that are useful to them in the rest of their lives, even in the worst circumstances, one of the glories of being a human being.

00:31:37.000 That's unobjectable.

00:31:38.000 So what does the White House do?

00:31:38.000 They immediately call him an anti-Semite.

00:31:41.000 And now he didn't even bring it up, right?

00:31:42.000 Jessica Tarlow brought it up.

00:31:44.000 But wait for the usual cast of characters to sound off.

00:31:49.000 So Andrew Bates says what Fox News was allowed to be said on the air yesterday is an obscenity.

00:31:54.000 In defending a horror dangerous extreme lie that insults the memory of millions of Americans who suffered from the evil of enslavement, Fox News told another horror dangerous and extreme lie that insults the memory of the millions of people who suffered from the evils of the Holocaust.

00:32:05.000 There was nothing good about slavery, there was nothing good about the Holocaust. 1.00

00:32:08.000 No one said there was anything good about slavery or the Holocaust. 0.91

00:32:10.000 They said that resilient human beings sometimes are capable of making the best of their horrific situations, which of course is true.

00:32:18.000 That of course is true. 0.66

00:32:20.000 That's the story of the heroism of the slaves, making the best of one of the world's worst situations in human history.

00:32:26.000 Same thing of Holocaust survivors. 0.92

00:32:28.000 Like trying to survive, trying to cultivate a skill set while undergoing the worst horrors a human being can imagine.

00:32:36.000 But, of course, they have to lie.

00:32:37.000 They have to lie.

00:32:38.000 First of all, I don't want to hear this White House talk about anti-Semitism because this White House is replete with anti-Semitism.

00:32:42.000 This White House is perfectly willing to roast on a spit the state of Israel in front of Iran.

00:32:48.000 They're perfectly willing to do it.

00:32:50.000 They are perfectly willing to bend over backwards for the likes of Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.

00:32:57.000 Them talking about anti-Semitism, I mean, you want to talk about ridiculous gaslighting, that would be it.

00:33:03.000 So, anyway, the White House is going to play the race card because this is what they have to do.

00:33:06.000 Meanwhile, on the right side of the aisle, it appears that Donald Trump is cruising toward the nomination.

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00:35:08.000 Okay, meanwhile, the Republican side of the aisle, Donald Trump continues to lead by leaps and bounds the rest of the Republican field.

00:35:16.000 In terms of the national polling, one of the things that is propping Trump up atop the Republican field is the feeling by Republicans, and polling data shows this, that he actually is the most viable candidate to go up against Joe Biden.

00:35:25.000 That is not what the statistics say.

00:35:27.000 The statistics suggest that Ron DeSantis, for example, would run better than Trump would against Biden in swing states like Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia.

00:35:34.000 But there is some national polling that has Trump up against Joe Biden.

00:35:38.000 There's a latest Messenger-HarrisX poll from July 21st through 24th, and it shows Trump up four on Joe Biden.

00:35:43.000 There's a Morning Consult poll that shows him within two of Joe Biden.

00:35:46.000 There's a Harvard-Harris poll that shows him up five on Joe Biden.

00:35:48.000 So there's some polling data suggesting that Trump is actually outrunning Biden at this point.

00:35:53.000 And again, in the race for the Republican nomination, Right now, the Republican nomination race has Trump with a 34% lead on average.

00:36:01.000 The latest morning consul polls show him at 59%, 16% for DeSantis, 8% for Ramaswamy, 6% for Pence.

00:36:09.000 And meanwhile, there is a Harvard-Harris poll showing him with a 40-point lead over Ron DeSantis.

00:36:15.000 A Monmouth poll showing him with, again, a 30-point lead, 32-point lead over Ron DeSantis, 54 to 22.

00:36:21.000 The big story of the campaign thus far is that no one seems to have broken loose from the rest of the field.

00:36:25.000 Trump is just sticking around 50% and everybody else is engaged in this kind of scrum near the bottom.

00:36:30.000 Now, the expectation early on in the race, I think for a lot of people including me, was that Ron DeSantis was going to break loose in this race.

00:36:35.000 Right now, he's in the middle of a campaign shakeup.

00:36:37.000 He just had to fire about a third of his staffers.

00:36:39.000 He was spending too much on staff and so now he's attempting to recapitulate his campaign.

00:36:45.000 I would assume at some point that he's going to get aggressive with the media.

00:36:47.000 I thought that he did a good interview with Jake Tapper last week.

00:36:50.000 The issue with the rest of the Republican field is that no one else is going to start jumping out from the rest of that Republican field.

00:36:56.000 So, maybe that will happen in the future.

00:36:58.000 Right now, that is not happening.

00:36:59.000 DeSantis is going to have to recapitulate and he's going to have to relaunch his campaign in fairly short order.

00:37:03.000 Now, that has happened before, to be fair.

00:37:05.000 John McCain was abandoned and left for dead in 2008.

00:37:09.000 In mid-2007.

00:37:09.000 Mid-2007 he wasn't even charting in polls.

00:37:12.000 Rudy Giuliani was leading in all the polls in 2007.

00:37:16.000 Mitt Romney in 2012 was basically the frontrunner all the way through, but there are people like Jeb Bush who are running really well at this point in the race in 2016.

00:37:22.000 So it's still very early, but things are going to have to change rather dramatically.

00:37:27.000 There's a reason why the Trump campaign is focusing all of its fire on DeSantis.

00:37:31.000 They put out a bizarre statement yesterday, the Trump campaign accusing Ron DeSantis of colluding with the Biden DOJ, which is super weird.

00:37:38.000 I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.

00:37:41.000 They literally put out a letter saying, So now they're claiming that DeSantis is somehow in league with the DOJ.

00:37:44.000 I mean, this is really weak stuff.

00:37:45.000 Here's the thing.

00:37:46.000 Is that going to translate to a general election for Trump?

00:37:48.000 was most recently summoned before donors to explain his flailing campaign.

00:37:52.000 His top lieutenants admitted to lighting donor money on fire, though even more telling, a

00:37:55.000 top DeSantis fundraiser confessed their strategy relied on endless political prosecutions of

00:37:59.000 President Trump by radical leftist prosecutors.

00:38:00.000 So now they're claiming that DeSantis is somehow in league with the DOJ.

00:38:03.000 I mean, this is really weak stuff.

00:38:05.000 Here's the thing.

00:38:06.000 Is that going to translate to a general election for Trump?

00:38:08.000 This is the big question people should be asking themselves.

00:38:09.000 Again, I'd love to see the data supporting the idea that the strongest candidate, not

00:38:14.000 that he's stronger than Biden, maybe he is, maybe he's not.

00:38:16.000 Again, I have doubts.

00:38:17.000 But the data that he is the strongest candidate against Biden is somewhat lacking.

00:38:22.000 And that is particularly going to be a problem for him, given the fact that, again, a lot of the people who are around Donald Trump are now putting Trump in an uncomfortable position.

00:38:31.000 So today in a court filing, Rudy Giuliani just admitted that he made false allegations about Georgia election workers and no longer contest the outcome of the Georgia election.

00:38:40.000 Remember, it was Rudy Giuliani who was leading up a lot of the election narrative 2020 that Donald Trump actually won in Georgia.

00:38:46.000 He was putting significant pressure on people in Georgia.

00:38:48.000 Now he's admitting that he was making stuff up in Georgia.

00:38:51.000 Is any of that stuff going to matter in a primary?

00:38:52.000 Absolutely not.

00:38:53.000 Is any of that stuff going to matter in terms of a general election?

00:38:55.000 That's certainly not going to help President Trump.

00:38:57.000 But right now, Trump is by far the most durable candidate in the field.

00:39:01.000 He's Proved that he has the support of about 45 to 50 percent of the Republican base.

00:39:05.000 And unless some other Republican changes their strategy and breaks loose, it will be Trump for the nomination.

00:39:10.000 That's at least how it appears right now.

00:39:11.000 Now, Republicans are facing some pretty uphill battles in the 2024 situation overall.

00:39:17.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, New York's highest court is now set to weigh in

00:39:21.000 on a new set of congressional maps in the state.

00:39:22.000 A ruling analysts say could position Democrats to pick up as many as five US House districts

00:39:26.000 in the closely held chamber.

00:39:28.000 New York Republicans on Tuesday appealed the most recent ruling in a Democratic lawsuit

00:39:31.000 that seeks to throw out district lines that were in place for last year's elections

00:39:34.000 and help the GOP pick up three seats in the Empire State.

00:39:37.000 Democrats said those maps were only meant to be in place for 2022.

00:39:40.000 The New York State Court of Appeals apparently is likely to rule along those lines.

00:39:45.000 And that means that if Republican redistricting in North Carolina and Ohio happens, New York will then redistrict itself and presumably hand a bunch of House seats back to Democrats.

00:39:54.000 So it's going to be a closely held House.

00:39:56.000 These battles are going to be ongoing.

00:39:57.000 The country is split very close to 50-50 on every available line.

00:40:01.000 OK, meanwhile, the latest in the continuing fallout from Me Not Liking Barbie.

00:40:05.000 Apparently, this is just an endless national story, and I'm confused as to why Except I'm not confused.

00:40:10.000 As I mentioned a couple of days ago on the show, the reality is that I stepped upon the idol.

00:40:15.000 You're not supposed to step upon the idol.

00:40:16.000 You're not supposed to mention that Barbie is a bad movie.

00:40:18.000 You're not supposed to mention that radical feminism is a complete failure. 1.00

00:40:22.000 You're not supposed to mention any of that because the idolatry of these movies, of these cultural totems, must be complete and you must be made to bow before them.

00:40:32.000 This presumably is why the great intellect over at The View We're, uh, decrying my specific critique of the Barbie movie.

00:40:39.000 So, as always, I'm perfectly willing to go on The View.

00:40:41.000 Not only am I perfectly willing, I'm perfectly eager to go on The View.

00:40:44.000 It has been several years since I've suggested that I come on The View.

00:40:47.000 And, uh, yet I'm shocked.

00:40:49.000 I've never received an invite.

00:40:49.000 Now, I know for a fact why that is.

00:40:51.000 I mean, I'm friendly with Meghan McCain, who was on the show for years.

00:40:55.000 She routinely asked the producers if I could come on the show, and they routinely said no.

00:40:58.000 I wonder why.

00:41:00.000 In any case, Whoopi Goldberg, leading light, and a person who believes that apparently Hitler was not a racist.

00:41:08.000 Whoopi Goldberg had some views about panning the Woke Barbie movie.

00:41:12.000 It's a movie about a doll!

00:41:18.000 I thought y'all would be happy. 0.98

00:41:19.000 She has no genitalia, so there's no sex involved. 1.00

00:41:23.000 Ken has no genitalia, so he can't be... It's a doll movie! 0.99

00:41:27.000 And you know who...

00:41:31.000 The kids know it's colorful and it's Barbie.

00:41:35.000 They haven't lived through what the adults have lived through.

00:41:39.000 So when they're seeing this movie, that's not how they're looking at it.

00:41:42.000 The kids are looking at it as a Barbie movie.

00:41:45.000 You guys, I want you all to tell your daughters why you're not taking them to see the Barbie movie.

00:41:51.000 I'm so taken by some of these right-wing men who have all these thoughts on masculinity.

00:41:57.000 Like, somehow the Barbie movie is going to make them feel emasculated.

00:42:00.000 No, caring so much about it is honestly the most emasculating thing I could think about.

00:42:04.000 Wasn't that Ben Shapiro?

00:42:06.000 Because if you're sitting there and you flipped it on a head and it was... He looks like he should be in the Barbie movie.

00:42:13.000 Oh, in what capacity, Whoopi?

00:42:17.000 That's a strange... I look like I should be in the Barbie movie.

00:42:20.000 Because of my stunning Ryan Gosling-like good looks?

00:42:24.000 What are we talking about here?

00:42:25.000 Okay, so just a few comments on this.

00:42:26.000 A few comments on this.

00:42:27.000 Number one, the insane gaslighting by people like Whoopi Goldberg is amazing.

00:42:30.000 So, they made Barbie into a cultural moment.

00:42:32.000 It's a cultural moment!

00:42:34.000 And the movie is stacked with politics.

00:42:36.000 Every single review, left and right, points out the movie is stacked with politics. 1.00

00:42:39.000 They play this dumbass game. 1.00

00:42:40.000 It's a really ridiculous clown nose on, clown nose off game. 1.00

00:42:44.000 It's so political. 0.99

00:42:45.000 It's so important.

00:42:46.000 Everyone should see it.

00:42:46.000 It has such important things to say about the state of modern womanhood.

00:42:49.000 And then we're like, yeah, what it has to say is garbage and stupid and wrong and bad for girls. 1.00

00:42:53.000 And then they're like, it's just a movie about a doll. 1.00

00:42:55.000 It's just a movie about a doll.

00:42:56.000 Why are you so upset about a movie about a doll?

00:42:58.000 I don't know.

00:42:58.000 Why are you so upset that I'm upset about a movie about a doll?

00:43:00.000 Because it's not just a movie about a doll, you idiots, obviously. 1.00

00:43:03.000 You're really liars. 1.00

00:43:03.000 I mean, you know that it's not a movie about a doll only. 1.00

00:43:06.000 It's a movie about men and about women and about feminism and about the patriarchy.

00:43:10.000 You know who will tell you that? 0.99

00:43:11.000 Greta Gerwig, who made the damn thing. 1.00

00:43:13.000 You know who will tell you that? 0.99

00:43:14.000 Every member of the media, including Whoopi Goldberg!

00:43:17.000 So, but this whole routine, oh well, I don't even know why you're so upset about this.

00:43:20.000 I don't even know why you care.

00:43:21.000 Okay, first of all...

00:43:23.000 The movie's bad.

00:43:24.000 I'm upset I wasted two hours of my life on the movie.

00:43:27.000 But what really is upsetting is the gaslighting, is the lying.

00:43:30.000 You don't get to say, look at this super important thing.

00:43:33.000 And then I notice it, I'm like, yeah, I think it's bad.

00:43:34.000 And they're like, it's not even important at all.

00:43:36.000 Why are you even noticing it?

00:43:38.000 It's so irritating.

00:43:38.000 Okay, so that's number one.

00:43:40.000 Number two, Alyssa Farrah Griffin.

00:43:42.000 Okay, so I know Alyssa. 0.75

00:43:43.000 Okay, Alyssa used to work in Mike Pence's office. 0.99

00:43:45.000 The first time I visited the White House, Alyssa was an aide to Mike Pence.

00:43:48.000 And she was a fan of the show, okay?

00:43:50.000 And I'm only making this personal because Alyssa decided to make this personal.

00:43:54.000 So, let me point out here, when we are talking about, you know, emasculation and all the rest, you know what is kind of emasculating?

00:44:01.000 Moving from Mike Pence's office over to The View, where you get to be the designated conservative that all of your friends, your pseudo friends, dump on every single day.

00:44:11.000 And where you win points of favor and they pat you on the head and give you little Scooby treats if you say the right thing.

00:44:16.000 As far as feeling emasculated on a personal level, I just had my fourth kid, man.

00:44:20.000 Like, give me a break.

00:44:24.000 My reproductive success has been assured at this point, folks.

00:44:27.000 I'm not particularly concerned about the emasculation charge from Alyssa Farrah Griffin.

00:44:31.000 By the way, again, you guys, I noticed that you spent a lot of your airtime on this.

00:44:36.000 So, yeah, obviously it was important enough for you to comment on.

00:44:40.000 Here's the overall take.

00:44:40.000 The overall take, again, is that for a group of Wine moms who are daytime drunk, watching the Barbie movie, by themselves crying at America Ferrera, whining about being a woman, and then they go on The View, and then they talk about it, and then you mention the movie's bad.

00:44:55.000 This is idolatry.

00:44:56.000 You must never, ever, ever speak ill of the Greta Gerwigs of the world.

00:44:59.000 You must never speak ill of a movie as important as this.

00:45:02.000 And if you do, then they will pretend that the real story is that... Why do you even know?

00:45:06.000 Why?

00:45:06.000 It's a movie about a doll.

00:45:08.000 By the way, America Ferrera's Barbie speech apparently took two days and 3250 takes to film, which is incredible because it sucks! 0.95

00:45:14.000 I'm just going to point out, it's bad. 0.78

00:45:16.000 It's a bad take.

00:45:18.000 30 to 50 takes?

00:45:19.000 Are we filming Citizen Kane here?

00:45:21.000 30 to 50 takes for America Ferreira to give this whiny speech. 1.00

00:45:26.000 Apparently Greta Gerwig said that when she gave that speech, everyone on the set was crying.

00:45:29.000 The men, the women, they were all crying. 0.98

00:45:32.000 Yes, only the most self-absorbed people in the world would cry over a speech as pathetic, dull, and honestly shallow as that particular speech. 0.76

00:45:40.000 Meanwhile, in other news that made a lot of headlines yesterday, Brawny James, who is LeBron James' son and is expected to be, or was expected to be, a first-round pick in the NBA draft at some point in the very near future, apparently suffered a cardiac arrest. 0.69

00:45:52.000 He's since been released from the ICU in stable condition.

00:45:55.000 according to a statement from the USC Galen Center.

00:45:59.000 Yesterday, while practicing, Brian James suffered a cardiac arrest.

00:46:01.000 Medical staff was able to treat Brian and take him to the hospital.

00:46:03.000 He's now in stable condition, no longer in the ICU.

00:46:05.000 We ask for respect and privacy for the James family.

00:46:07.000 We'll update media when there's more information.

00:46:10.000 LeBron and Savannah wish to publicly send their deepest thanks and appreciation to the USC medical and athletic staff for their incredible work and dedication to the safety of their athletes.

00:46:18.000 This, of course, led to a massive amount of speculation online that perhaps the reason that Bronnie James had a cardiac arrest is because of the wild spate of cardiac arrests that have been experienced by young men in the aftermath of the COVID pandemic.

00:46:31.000 There's been a lot of suggestion that the vaccinations, in particular, because they cause a higher rate of myocarditis than the norm, that because of that, that is what has led to things like browning chips.

00:46:39.000 Now, we don't have any information about that, and so I'm not fond of speculating on the medical situations of people, because it's quite possible that this is a congenital heart defect, right?

00:46:48.000 Long before COVID or vaccines were a thing.

00:46:51.000 People like Reggie Lewis who played for the Boston Celtics literally dropped dead of cardiac arrest.

00:46:55.000 He was a star for the Boston Celtics.

00:46:56.000 This sort of stuff has happened for a very long time in the country.

00:46:59.000 The rates are much higher.

00:47:00.000 It is unclear, just to give you the data, it is unclear whether those rates being higher is entirely due to young people taking the COVID vax or whether it is due to young people also actually getting COVID because there is a rate of increased myocarditis among young people who get COVID as well.

00:47:15.000 Now, for the vast, vast, vast, vast majority of young people, they're not going to have a cardiac arrest.

00:47:20.000 It is true that the second dose of the vaccine particularly raises the risk of myocarditis for young men in particular.

00:47:28.000 According to a systematic review of the evidence that was released in April of 2023, this is from PubMed.

00:47:34.000 Apparently, the highest incidence of myocarditis ranged from 8.9 to 39 cases per 100,000 persons in studies using four stratifiers.

00:47:41.000 Six studies reported an incidence greater than 15 cases per 100,000 persons or doses in males aged 12 to 24 after dose two of an mRNA-based vaccine.

00:47:51.000 So there are a lot of questions about the myocarditis effects on young men.

00:47:55.000 I know that there are people who I speak to frequently, Dr. Marty Makary over at Johns Hopkins, who's deeply concerned.

00:48:00.000 I think we should all be concerned over the rates of myocarditis arising in young men after the taking of the vaccine.

00:48:05.000 It is also unclear at this point what the sort of differential is,

00:48:10.000 just to give you the data.

00:48:11.000 Again, this is not a political point, this is just what data we have available.

00:48:13.000 It is unclear the differential in myocarditis related incidents

00:48:18.000 for young people who have gotten COVID versus young people who have gotten the COVID vaccine.

00:48:22.000 The evidence seems to show that myocarditis post vaccine is less severe

00:48:27.000 than myocarditis post COVID, but it may be that many more people

00:48:31.000 who are actually getting myocarditis are getting it from the vaccine as opposed to COVID.

00:48:35.000 We just don't have solid numbers on any of that.

00:48:38.000 Apparently there's a study by Penn State College of Medicine,

00:48:40.000 this came out October of 2022, and found that the risk of developing myocarditis

00:48:45.000 was seven times higher with COVID-19 infection than with the vaccine.

00:48:48.000 But again, we've seen some mixed evidence on all of this.

00:48:50.000 The only reason I'm pointing this out is because in the same way that I'm not fond of suggesting that every day, every time it's a hot day outside, that is because you drove your car.

00:48:57.000 I'm not fond of jumping to conclusions about Bronnie James's VAX status or whether it was the VAX that did this.

00:49:04.000 Based on pure speculation.

00:49:06.000 We can wait for it.

00:49:07.000 It may very well have been the vaccine.

00:49:08.000 I don't know.

00:49:09.000 You don't know.

00:49:10.000 Nobody knows except his doctors at this point.

00:49:11.000 We will find out in short order, and so I'm very much a fan of waiting until we have the evidence to determine what the case is.

00:49:16.000 Now, does that mean that if you're 18 years old, I'm saying you should get the vaccine?

00:49:19.000 No, I'm not saying that.

00:49:20.000 In fact, I did not get my kids vaccinated, nor do I think that that would be a wise decision.

00:49:25.000 I think that basically, unless you are morbidly obese or above the age of 65, the evidence is very dicey on whether you should be taking the vaccine as opposed to just getting a bout of Omicron.

00:49:34.000 But, with that said, again, I think the wise move in all of these situations, and the fact that it's become controversial is kind of crazy, is wait for the medical evidence to arrive as to what exactly happened to Bronnie James before engaging in speculation.

00:49:47.000 Okay, meanwhile, over in Israel, the media are blowing up the situation in Israel as though the country is about to collapse.

00:49:52.000 It is not. 1.00

00:49:53.000 It is really stupid. 1.00

00:49:53.000 And it's people who are taking advantage of the situation in order to exacerbate perceived global weakness in the state of Israel. 1.00

00:50:01.000 I only comment on this because, again, it's being treated as top of news for everyone.

00:50:04.000 It's not top of news for anyone.

00:50:05.000 This is an internal debate in Israel over a fairly small judicial reform measure.

00:50:11.000 Yesterday, for example, there was an attempt by the UTJ, as I mentioned, the United Torah Judaism, which is a Haredi party, an ultra-Orthodox party, to push forward an actual bill that would have said that Torah study is equivalent to army service, and the coalition, of which UTJ is a part, were like, nope, we're not putting that up because it's bad.

00:50:26.000 We're not doing it.

00:50:28.000 That did not get the sort of coverage that the judicial reform has gotten as quote-unquote a divisive factor in Israeli society. 0.95

00:50:35.000 This is why, you know, when you see, for example, The stupidity of Moody's downgrading the debt of Israel. 0.99

00:50:43.000 It's just ridiculous. 1.00

00:50:44.000 It's really, really stupid. 1.00

00:50:47.000 Moody's giving a negative report because, you know, there are people who don't agree with the thing a government did is really foolish. 0.99

00:50:52.000 It's also worth noting at this point that the media coverage of, wow, look at that, 10,000 reservists say that they're not going to show up on a volunteer basis to serve.

00:50:59.000 First of all, if there's a war, they're showing up.

00:51:01.000 Number two, There are literally hundreds of thousands of reservists who will show up, but nobody ever pays attention to any of that.

00:51:06.000 So, all I'm here to say when it comes to this particular issue is give it time, it will calm down.

00:51:11.000 There were massive riots in France and they didn't get this sort of attention.

00:51:14.000 And the riots in France are much more indicative of bleeding social decay in France than the current conflict in Israel is indicative of some sort of internal collapse.

00:51:22.000 Okay, time for a quick thing I like and then a thing that I hate.

00:51:25.000 So, things that I like.

00:51:27.000 I will admit that I am laughing about a Santa Barbara suburb that is very upset about somebody moving in.

00:51:34.000 Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

00:51:36.000 According to the New York Post, when locals in the secluded Santa Barbara, California enclave of Hope Ranch heard that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle might be keen on leaving nearby Montecito to buy a home in the exclusive suburb they didn't roll out the welcome mat, A Hope Ranch realtor told The Post that nine months after the rumors were reported, their office continues to field calls from concerned longtime residents who fear the couple and their security team will disturb the peace in the quiet community where houses go for as much as $22.5 million.

00:51:59.000 People are not happy.

00:52:00.000 That's the word around town.

00:52:01.000 They want them to stay in Montecito and not be drawing that kind of attention up to Hope Ranch, another realtor and Santa Barbara native confirmed to The Post.

00:52:07.000 So, first of all, they all deserve it.

00:52:09.000 All of them deserve each other.

00:52:11.000 All of the rich and wealthy Santa Barbara residents, who are very into the libdom, I hope that they enjoy their new neighbors, the we-don't-want-attention-please-stop-paying-us-attention South Park characters of Harry and Meghan, who are quickly running out of things to make them prominent.

00:52:27.000 I know there's been a lot of speculation about the possibility that the couple breaks up.

00:52:30.000 There's been a lot of that sort of page six speculation about that possibility.

00:52:33.000 Which, they have kids, that'd be sad.

00:52:34.000 Any divorce involving kids would be really, really sad.

00:52:36.000 It would not be surprising given exactly the course of this marriage and who Meghan Markle has proved herself to be, unfortunately.

00:52:41.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:52:47.000 So crime in left-wing areas is now so bad that even CNN has to cover it.

00:52:50.000 So yesterday, CNN senior national correspondent Kyung La reported on crime in San Francisco retail shops.

00:52:56.000 The report is pretty stunning.

00:52:57.000 Richie Greenberg walked into a San Francisco Walgreens when he saw in the frozen food section, this.

00:53:04.000 Chains, heavy chains that went from padlock to padlock on both sides of the doors.

00:53:10.000 And this was bizarre, something I'd never seen before.

00:53:14.000 This is just more icing on the cake Telling us that rampant crime has become a regular part of life.

00:53:23.000 So typical that in the 30 minutes we were at this Walgreens, we watched three people, including this man, steal.

00:53:34.000 Did that guy pay?

00:53:37.000 Did that guy pay?

00:53:39.000 He didn't pay?

00:53:42.000 Unbelievable.

00:53:43.000 So law said, hit more than a dozen times a day when thieves tried to clean out ice cream and frozen burritos, workers grew so frustrated they resorted to the chains.

00:53:50.000 They were ordered down by corporate because of the negative messaging, but Walgreens isn't the only retailer impacted in San Francisco.

00:53:55.000 You have to ask an employee for help.

00:53:56.000 At this store, frozen food is controlled with a cable lock, fake eyelashes locked behind plexiglass, along with lotion and nail polish at another grocery store, $14 bags of coffee under lock and key.

00:54:06.000 Amazing stuff from San Francisco.

00:54:08.000 So again, wonderful job, left-wing governance, ruining some of America's most beautiful cities.

00:54:13.000 And you know what?

00:54:14.000 You get what you vote for.

00:54:16.000 Alrighty guys, the rest of the show continues right now.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - July 26, 2023

Democrats Play The Race Card Early And Often

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