The Ben Shapiro Show - Don't Believe The Media, Watch THIS First

00:00:00.000 Well, folks, it is hard to know what to think these days.

00:00:02.000 One of the reasons that it's very difficult to know what to think is because we don't have a common set of facts.

00:00:06.000 And one of the reasons that we don't have a common set of facts is because our legacy media do not tell you the whole truth.

00:00:11.000 Our legacy media pick and choose which narratives are the ones that you are supposed to be told about because you can't be trusted with the actual facts in many, many cases.

00:00:19.000 And what this means is that very often you'll see a crime, and it's perfectly obvious what the motivation for the crime is, but you are not told the motivation for the crime.

00:00:27.000 Or there's a crime and you're not told all the relevant facts about the crime because you can't be trusted with those facts.

00:00:32.000 But certain other types of crime, the motivation will be made known to you absolutely at the very beginning.

00:00:37.000 The identity of the person who committed the crime will be given to you right at the beginning.

00:00:41.000 And so you start to think as the consumer, I don't know what to believe.

00:00:44.000 Because sometimes the motivations are hidden.

00:00:46.000 Sometimes the motivations are handed to me.

00:00:48.000 And sometimes I don't know enough about the crime to even tell.

00:00:51.000 And when I'm supposed to believe the media, when then they lay out a set of facts that obviously lead toward one narrative, but refuse to lay out a completely different set of facts in another case, that lead toward a narrative they don't particularly like.

00:01:01.000 This leads to mass confusion.

00:01:03.000 And it leads to speculation.

00:01:04.000 And it leads to people putting out bad information.

00:01:06.000 And it leads to people believing that bad information.

00:01:08.000 Let me give you today's example.

00:01:11.000 Over the weekend, there's a horrific shooting in Allen, Texas, at a mall.

00:01:16.000 And federal officials immediately have come out and mentioned the motivation of the shooter in this particular case.

00:01:23.000 According to the Associated Press, federal officials are looking into whether the gunman who killed eight people at a Dallas-area mall expressed an interest in white supremacist ideology on Sunday as they worked to discern a motive for the attack.

00:01:33.000 A law enforcement official told the Associated Press the official cautioned the investigation is in its early stages.

00:01:38.000 So federal officials are immediately Leaking into the Associated Press and other members of the media that they think this is a white supremacist shooting.

00:01:43.000 Now, what's weird about that is that this happened in Allen, Texas.

00:01:46.000 I believe virtually everybody who was shot was white.

00:01:49.000 The shooter in this case, and we don't mention the names of mass shooters on my program because as a member of the media, I try to do the only responsible thing I can do in this position, which is to not glorify by naming shooters their actual names.

00:02:02.000 The name of the shooter, and I won't mention his actual name, is extremely Hispanic.

00:02:06.000 This is an extremely Hispanic name.

00:02:08.000 And so it is pretty obvious that this not only is an extremely Hispanic name, it turns out that the parents of the suspected Texas mall shooter have actually had to request a translator according to reports cited by Fox News.

00:02:20.000 The only details regarding the suspect are that he was in his 30s and lived at home with his parents.

00:02:23.000 Apparently he had some background as a security guard.

00:02:27.000 There was some talk about him being discharged from the military, that he'd served in the army, and then he'd been discharged for being mentally unwell.

00:02:35.000 But there's a person who is not white.

00:02:37.000 This is a person with a Hispanic background and he's immediately being labeled by the entire media in terms of white supremacist ideology. 0.83

00:02:44.000 Now, it's possible this guy is mentally unbalanced and therefore a white supremacist.

00:02:48.000 It's possible he's delusional in terms of his own race and therefore he believes that he's a white supremacist or maybe he is just a white supremacist, right? 0.95

00:02:53.000 All those things are on the table.

00:02:55.000 What is the evidence that he actually was a white supremacist?

00:02:57.000 Well, according to the Associated Press, the shooter had a patch on his chest when he was killed by police.

00:03:01.000 that read RWDS, which is an acronym for the phrase right-wing death squad, which is popular

00:03:06.000 among right-wing extremists and white supremacy groups, according to that official. In addition

00:03:10.000 to reviewing social media posts, federal agents have also interviewed family members and associates

00:03:13.000 of the shooter to ask about his ideological beliefs.

00:03:15.000 According to that official, investigators are also reviewing financial records, other online posts

00:03:19.000 they believe that the shooter made, and other electronic media, according to the official. The

00:03:23.000 Allen police chief actually declined Sunday evening to answer questions, saying, we don't

00:03:27.000 actually have a lot at this point.

00:03:29.000 And again, this is leading to a lot of speculation about whether we are being told the truth.

00:03:32.000 Because again, this is a person with a very, very Hispanic name and whose parents are obviously Hispanic.

00:03:37.000 They required an English translator in order to answer questions from the cops.

00:03:42.000 Why exactly is it important how fast the media came out with this particular narrative?

00:03:48.000 It's important simply because you can tell by way of contrast how slowly the media come out with other narratives that don't actually match their narrative.

00:03:55.000 It makes you doubt the narrative in this case because they've been so slow about other narratives.

00:03:59.000 So let me give you an example.

00:04:00.000 The Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting.

00:04:02.000 So, several years ago there was a shooting at a gay club in Orlando.

00:04:05.000 And the original media narrative was this must have been a right-winger who hated gay people and therefore went and shot up the gay nightclub.

00:04:13.000 And then there was speculation that this person was actually a repressed homosexual, had gone to the nightclub and shot up the nightclub. 0.94

00:04:18.000 It turned out that in all likelihood the shooter was an Islamic extremist.

00:04:22.000 The same thing happened 20 years ago during the Fort Hood shooting.

00:04:26.000 Fort Hood, member of the military, signed up for the military, obviously radicalized by a group like ISIS or Al-Qaeda.

00:04:34.000 The shooter in that particular case murdered a bunch of American service members and we were told it was an act of workplace violence because the media decided you could not know what exactly the narrative was that drove this particular shooting.

00:04:45.000 Or, to take another example, there have been a bevy of attacks, including shooting attacks, on Jews by members of the Black Hebrew Israelites over the course of the last couple of years. 0.64

00:04:53.000 Has there been a widespread media examination of the ideology of the Black Hebrew Israelites and their toxic, anti-Semitic, and yes, racist ideology? 0.97

00:05:02.000 Of course not.

00:05:02.000 We haven't had that widespread conversation.

00:05:04.000 But literally the minute the media are able to identify any aspect of white supremacist ideology, they report on it.

00:05:09.000 Now, this is not, obviously, to excuse, white supremacist ideology, which is evil. 0.99

00:05:14.000 White supremacism is evil. 0.99

00:05:15.000 I couldn't be more clear about this. 0.99

00:05:16.000 I've been speaking about this for years. 0.98

00:05:18.000 White supremacy is one of the highest forms of evil on planet Earth.

00:05:22.000 But there are many evil ideologies, and only certain types of evil ideologies get exposed by the media right away.

00:05:27.000 Here's another example, the latest example, of an ideology that is completely ignored by the media.

00:05:32.000 We are still supposed to believe that it is a giant mystery why a woman, who identified as a trans man, went and murdered a bunch of Christian schoolchildren in Nashville.

00:05:40.000 This is all supposed to be a mystery.

00:05:41.000 We still don't have the manifesto from this person.

00:05:44.000 We don't know, supposedly, why this person did what she did, when it is perfectly obvious to everyone why she did what she did.

00:05:50.000 But we're supposed to pretend that it's a mystery-wrapped enigma.

00:05:53.000 Depending on the ideology, the narrative that is supported by a particular shooting or undermined by a particular shooting, that is when the media decide that you are worthy of knowing the truth about that particular shooting.

00:06:05.000 And this is why there's so much confusion.

00:06:07.000 It's why there's so much speculation, because now people are led to speculate.

00:06:09.000 They're led to say, OK, well, the same media that refused to tell me why this trans shooter murdered a bunch of Christian school kids and they say that it's a mystery wrapped in enigma, that same media is jumping immediately without full information on this, on this other shooting.

00:06:26.000 Well, can I see a picture of the guy?

00:06:28.000 Who is the guy?

00:06:29.000 What's his background?

00:06:29.000 Does he have gang tattoos?

00:06:31.000 There's all sorts of speculation online about this sort of stuff.

00:06:33.000 I'm not saying that speculation is justified.

00:06:35.000 I am saying that the mood that leads to the speculation is justified.

00:06:38.000 Because again, we are constantly being given partial information by a media that refuses to trust us with actual facts when it comes to crime.

00:06:45.000 Instead, we're just told what we are supposed to believe.

00:06:48.000 And if we doubt that narrative, then it must be because we are complicit with the ideology that is evil in the math.

00:06:55.000 Get to more on this in just one second, because this also extends to the case of Jordan Neely.

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00:08:02.000 Meanwhile, The, as we say, officials across the United States are suggesting that white supremacy is the rationale here.

00:08:10.000 And there are a lot of people online who are doubting this because, again, this person is of Hispanic background.

00:08:16.000 It's kind of weird, at the very, very least.

00:08:19.000 That was not the only violence attack that took place near the Texas border over the weekend.

00:08:23.000 There was also a terrible attack In Brownsville, according to the Houston Chronicle, seven people were killed after a driver drove a car into multiple pedestrians in Brownsville, Texas on Sunday morning, according to Maria Vareal of ABC News.

00:08:35.000 More are being treated for serious and minor injuries at local hospitals.

00:08:38.000 Apparently, the police had a male suspect in custody.

00:08:41.000 They said he was being taken to the hospital under a 24-hour guard watch, where he's being tested for alcohol and drug use.

00:08:48.000 The victims were waiting at an unmarked city bus stop outside of a migrant shelter when an SUV struck them around 8.30 a.m.

00:08:53.000 The crash was captured by a surveillance video camera.

00:08:56.000 It's the only overnight shelter in Brownsville.

00:08:57.000 It manages the release of migrants from federal custody.

00:09:00.000 It's not yet known whether the crash was accidental or intentional.

00:09:04.000 The one thing we do know is that the driver is apparently Hispanic male, and he's a resident of Brownsville.

00:09:09.000 So again, we'll see what the speculation looks like from the media.

00:09:13.000 Is it intentional?

00:09:14.000 Is it white supremacy from another Hispanic person? 1.00

00:09:16.000 We don't know the answer to any of this yet.

00:09:18.000 But the problem is, if that evidence emerges, or if the narrative emerges, and the media start pushing a particular narrative, a lot of people are gonna doubt that narrative because they're not even-handed in how they approach all ideologies of evil.

00:09:30.000 Meanwhile, Democrats are doing exactly what they do, and they're blaming Republicans.

00:09:33.000 So Joe Biden has now come out and blamed Republicans for the Allen, Texas shooting.

00:09:39.000 He said in a statement, quote, too many families have empty chairs at their dinner tables.

00:09:43.000 Republican members of Congress cannot continue to meet this epidemic with a shrug.

00:09:46.000 Tweeted thoughts and prayers are not enough.

00:09:48.000 Now he has yet to actually explain what he would do in order to stop mass shootings other than presumably ban quote unquote assault weapons.

00:09:54.000 The problem is that the person in this particular shooting was also armed with a handgun.

00:09:58.000 So unless he is going to somehow magically deprive people of the guns they already own through a gun confiscation regime, or unless he's going to also ban the sale of handguns, he's going to have a real tough time.

00:10:08.000 According to Joe Biden, however, American communities have suffered roughly 200 mass shootings this year.

00:10:14.000 According to leading counts, more than 14,000 of our fellow citizens have lost their lives.

00:10:17.000 Credible estimates show the leading cause of death for American kids is gun violence.

00:10:21.000 And now again, he is not actually addressing the vast majority of shooting cases, which do not look like this mass shooting in Allen, Texas.

00:10:29.000 They look like gang shootings.

00:10:30.000 Or innocent people caught in the crossfire between gangs.

00:10:33.000 But again, that doesn't fit the narrative.

00:10:34.000 So those are not the kinds of crimes that we cover here in the United States.

00:10:37.000 Meanwhile, Dick Durbin of Illinois, which last I checked has a city called Chicago right in the middle of it, in which gun crime is at epic levels.

00:10:46.000 He says that if you really don't like mass shootings, you should vote Democrat, which is weird because I've noticed that a lot of people get shot in Chicago every single weekend.

00:10:53.000 Do you think there is any appetite for any more potential bipartisan efforts to build on the law, perhaps to expand the red flag laws, to keep guns out of the hands of people who are a danger to themselves or others?

00:11:04.000 Or is the message to Americans who are tired of living like this simply that that's it, there's nothing more Congress is going to do?

00:11:13.000 There is something more that America can do and it's called an election.

00:11:17.000 And if people across America are fed up with these mass shootings and killings and the terrible things that are happening even to our children as a result of it, they're going to vote accordingly.

00:11:29.000 Yeah, they're all gonna vote Democrat in order to stop people from being shot predominantly in Democrat-run cities.

00:11:36.000 Genius-level stuff that Chuck Todd, of course, in the media, again, the media doing their thing.

00:11:40.000 Their nerves are that every shooting is either caused by white supremacy or the gun itself.

00:11:44.000 Those are the only two real causes of violence in the United States, white supremacy or the gun itself.

00:11:48.000 Every other cause must be put out to pasture.

00:11:50.000 It can't be mental illness.

00:11:52.000 It can't be black and white violence.

00:11:55.000 It cannot be.

00:11:56.000 Gang violence?

00:11:57.000 None of those things matter.

00:11:58.000 The only two causes of actual violence in the United States, according to our mainstream media, are the presence of guns in American society and white supremacy.

00:12:04.000 Here's Chuck Todd doing the presence of gun in American society.

00:12:07.000 This is the second deadliest mass shooting this calendar year.

00:12:11.000 When we came on the air last week, by the way, we were following the manhunt for another Texas gunman who had fatally shot five people after he was asked by a neighbor to simply stop firing his gun in his yard.

00:12:22.000 This week, six people were killed in Henrietta, Oklahoma.

00:12:25.000 In Atlanta, a gunman opened fire in a waiting room at a medical office building, killing one and injuring four others.

00:12:32.000 And yet, despite the uptick in mass shootings this year, there's been no change in the political response to this growing gun violence crisis.

00:12:40.000 It's yet another example of our broken political situation, where polarization has made governing an action, and any action, impossible.

00:12:49.000 The bases of both parties punish anybody that seeks any sort of common ground.

00:12:55.000 On polarization, that's the problem.

00:12:57.000 That's why you have to vote universally for the Democrats.

00:12:59.000 They can ram things through.

00:13:00.000 Now, he noted several shootings in that particular little monologue right there.

00:13:03.000 One of the shootings that he noted was one that was right on the border of Texas, in which an illegal immigrant shot a bunch of other people who also happened to be illegal immigrants.

00:13:11.000 But that's not an immigration problem that we should have a discussion over.

00:13:13.000 That's merely a gun problem. 0.55

00:13:15.000 In that Atlanta shooting, it was a black shooter, so it wasn't a question of ideology anymore. 0.95

00:13:19.000 Now it's just a question of the gun.

00:13:21.000 And when the media restrict the narratives that they allow you to hear, it is what creates lack of faith.

00:13:27.000 And then the media are like, well, we don't have any unity.

00:13:28.000 Why don't we have any unity?

00:13:29.000 Why is it all political polarization all the way down?

00:13:32.000 Because of you.

00:13:33.000 Because of you.

00:13:33.000 If you refuse to name the motivations in certain shootings, but only in other shootings, if you all the time suggest that the only causes of real problem in American society are white supremacy and the Second Amendment, Are you shocked that people stopped believing you?

00:13:47.000 They know you're lying.

00:13:48.000 They know you're lying.

00:13:49.000 And speaking of a case in which you're lying, we'll get to the Jordan Neely case momentarily.

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00:14:55.000 Alrighty, so.

00:14:56.000 Meanwhile, the media continue to lie about the situation surrounding Jordan Neely.

00:15:00.000 They're ginning up race riots.

00:15:03.000 It's almost summer.

00:15:05.000 It's about that time of year when we gotta have some race riots because the media needs something to cover.

00:15:08.000 And so they've decided that this case of Jordan Neely, who is a mentally ill, career criminal black man on the subway system, threatening people for the umpteenth time with an outstanding warrant for punching a 67-year-old woman in the face, And he was put in a submission hold by a U.S.

00:15:26.000 Marine, and then he died. 0.91

00:15:29.000 The media have decided this is another case of white supremacy, and they're going to go out of their way to make it into a case about white supremacy because, again, there are only two causes of crime in the United States, white supremacy and guns.

00:15:40.000 All other causes of crime go away.

00:15:42.000 Now, it's very obvious in Jordan Neely's case exactly why this happened. 0.97

00:15:45.000 The reason this happened is because the governance in the city of New York when it comes to crime is absolute sheer, unremitting garbage. 0.99

00:15:49.000 It's truly horrible. 0.96

00:15:51.000 You're talking about letting people with dozens of arrest convictions out over and over and over again. 0.93

00:15:56.000 People have clear mental illness. 0.51

00:15:58.000 You will not involuntarily commit them.

00:16:00.000 So instead, you just keep shoving them into the jail system.

00:16:02.000 That's the real reason.

00:16:03.000 But we're not going to have a conversation about that.

00:16:05.000 Instead, we'll have a conversation about the evils of race in America. 0.59

00:16:08.000 Now, I want to start this off by pointing out that the video that everybody saw of the Jordan Neely death was only part of the video. So

00:16:17.000 now the full video has emerged of Jordan Neely's death. And what you will see in this

00:16:21.000 video is that after the submission hold, when Neely starts to physically suffer, when he's having

00:16:27.000 trouble breathing, the Marine in this case, who's supposed to be murdering him, according to the media

00:16:31.000 and according to AOC, this Marine puts him in the recovery position, like attempts.

00:16:37.000 to put him in the recovery and continues to ride the subway until the medical personnel can arrive.

00:16:42.000 That's typically not what murderers do. Typically, if you kill somebody, you run away.

00:16:45.000 That is not what this Marine did. Here's the rest of the video.

00:17:01.000 Okay, you can see him.

00:17:01.000 He puts him sideways, onto his side, so that he can supposedly breathe better.

00:17:05.000 You can see there's another man there who's helping out, who is a black man.

00:17:10.000 And there are other passengers who are thanking the Marine for having helped prevent this person from doing violence to them.

00:17:19.000 Now the Marine in this case is a person named Daniel Penny.

00:17:24.000 Daniel Penny is a 24-year-old U.S.

00:17:27.000 Marine from Long Island.

00:17:28.000 He's between deployments right now.

00:17:31.000 According to his lawyers, he never intended to harm Mr. Neely and could not have foreseen his untimely death.

00:17:34.000 When Mr. Neely began aggressively threatening Daniel, Penny, and the other passengers, Daniel, with the help of others, acted to protect themselves until help arrived.

00:17:41.000 He's an infantry squad leader at the U.S.

00:17:43.000 Marine Corps.

00:17:44.000 He's worked for multiple years as an instructor of water survival as well as an infantry squad leader.

00:17:48.000 Prior to this, he was an infantry assaultman.

00:17:52.000 And apparently, he's also taken part in a bunch of courses, including advanced assault marine course, an urban breachers course, and a water survival course.

00:17:59.000 It is unclear at this point whether Daniel Penney is still going to be charged.

00:18:02.000 Now, the actual reason why Jordan Neely was on the street threatening people for years on end is very clear.

00:18:11.000 The reason that he was on the street is because the system failed him over and over and over again.

00:18:18.000 So the New York Times did a long piece over the weekend about Jordan Neely and who he was.

00:18:22.000 So first, the media have decided that he was simply a very sympathetic person who did Michael Jackson dances in the subway system.

00:18:27.000 And those are all the videos that have been passed around by the mainstream media.

00:18:30.000 The media very frequently do this.

00:18:31.000 In controversial cases, particularly race-based cases, what they will do is they will take When it comes to a white on black crime or alleged crime, they'll take pictures of the person who is the victim and then they will use pictures that are like five years old or they'll use people.

00:18:44.000 Again, we're talking about controversial situations, not when it's like a clear victim.

00:18:49.000 When that happens, you will see pictures that are not most recent taken to make the victim appear as innocent as possible, as opposed to a person who may have been involved in the crime or in the controversial situation.

00:19:00.000 The most obvious example being Michael Brown.

00:19:02.000 The Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, in which Michael Brown actually attacked a police officer.

00:19:07.000 When the media trotted that out, the picture they used of Michael Brown was Michael Brown at graduation.

00:19:10.000 The picture they did not use of Michael Brown was the video of Michael Brown essentially beating up a store manager at a local storefront minutes earlier.

00:19:19.000 So when it comes to Jordan Neely, they're doing some of the same sort of stuff.

00:19:21.000 They're ignoring all of the video footage of Jordan Neely getting aggressive with people.

00:19:25.000 They're ignoring all that stuff.

00:19:26.000 Instead, they're going with, look at him dance like Michael Jackson.

00:19:29.000 Which is not the reason why he was in a headlock.

00:19:31.000 Nobody headlocks the Michael Jackson impersonator.

00:19:33.000 Somebody might headlock the guy who is violently threatening a bunch of people, including women, on the subway system.

00:19:39.000 So what exactly happened with Jordan?

00:19:41.000 Again, this is super uncontroversial.

00:19:43.000 You want to talk about bipartisan solutions?

00:19:44.000 This is one where everybody should be on the same page.

00:19:46.000 But we can't be on the same page because the media have decided that we cannot have this conversation.

00:19:50.000 The conversation we must have is about the evils of white supremacy.

00:19:53.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

00:19:55.000 First, The world feels like it's unraveling.

00:19:57.000 A lot of confusion out there.

00:20:00.000 You remember just a couple of years ago during COVID when you went to the grocery store and there was nothing on the shelves, when the warehouses were closed down, and when you couldn't go to a restaurant.

00:20:07.000 You remember all that?

00:20:08.000 Well, that kind of stuff, it can happen again.

00:20:11.000 Not just because of COVID.

00:20:12.000 of covid or something, also because of a natural disaster, God forbid some sort of terrorist attack.

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00:20:59.000 Okay, so.

00:21:00.000 This New York Times piece makes pretty clear exactly what happened with Jordan Neely in his life.

00:21:07.000 According to the New York Times, Neely's childhood was abruptly derailed when he was 14.

00:21:10.000 He lived with his mother, Christy Neely, and her boyfriend in an apartment in Bayonne, New Jersey.

00:21:15.000 Reached last week, his father declined to comment.

00:21:17.000 So first of all, start off with a broken home.

00:21:19.000 Shocking.

00:21:20.000 I know the conversations we're not allowed to have in America.

00:21:22.000 If you grew up in a broken home, you are significantly more likely to fall between the cracks of American society.

00:21:27.000 In 2007, his mom disappeared.

00:21:29.000 Her body was found stuffed in a suitcase in the Bronx.

00:21:32.000 She had been strangled and her boyfriend was charged with murder.

00:21:35.000 So that is likely to derail your life.

00:21:38.000 The relationship had been crazy.

00:21:39.000 Daniel Neely testified at the boyfriend's trial when he was 19, a fight every day.

00:21:42.000 Neely attended Washington Irving High School in Manhattan, where classmates were aware of his loss.

00:21:46.000 Perhaps to deflect from talking about his painful experience, he leaned into his childhood love of Michael Jackson, which by then had grown into a fine imitation.

00:21:53.000 But then, Neely dropped out of school.

00:21:55.000 This is like a checklist of failures of American society.

00:21:59.000 People growing up in single mom homes, with abusive boyfriends, and then dropping out of high school. 0.70

00:22:04.000 Okay, this is like, you want to create a chart of how to fall between the cracks of American society and end up in horrible situations?

00:22:12.000 This is it right here.

00:22:13.000 Neely dropped out.

00:22:15.000 In later years, he turned up on social media, executing highly choreographed Michael Jackson impersonations in the subways, dressed like the performer in his prime.

00:22:23.000 He was well-known for years to social work teams that reach out to homeless people on the subways.

00:22:26.000 He had hundreds of encounters with them, according to an employee of the Bowery Residence Committee, a non-profit organization that does subway outreach for the city.

00:22:33.000 Neely was on what outreach workers refer to as the Top 50 list, a roster maintained by the city of the homeless people living on the street, whom officials consider most urgently in need of assistance and treatment.

00:22:43.000 He was taken to hospitals numerous times, both voluntarily and involuntarily, said an employee.

00:22:48.000 Nearly racked up more than three dozen arrests.

00:22:51.000 Most were of the sort that people living on the street often accrue while homeless, turnstile jumping, trespassing.

00:22:54.000 At least four were on charges of punching people, two of them in the subway system.

00:22:59.000 Outreach workers noted, nearly heavily used K2, the powerful, unpredictable synthetic marijuana.

00:23:04.000 So, drug abuser, mentally ill, living on the streets, Single, parent home, dropped out of high school.

00:23:12.000 I mean, like, again, every possible checkmark.

00:23:14.000 And all of these should lead to, you know, some actual interesting societal conversations about things we can do to prevent this sort of stuff.

00:23:20.000 We're not going to have any of those conversations.

00:23:22.000 We're going to talk about the fact that Jordan Neely was black.

00:23:23.000 We're going to talk about the fact that Daniel Penny was white.

00:23:25.000 That's the thing the media want us to talk about.

00:23:27.000 In June 2019, an outreach worker noticed that Neely had lost considerable weight and was sleeping upright.

00:23:31.000 Around that time, he was reported to have banged on a booth agent's door and threatened to kill her, according to the worker's notes, and then he was gone.

00:23:37.000 In November of 2021, Neely punched a 67-year-old woman in the street on the Lower East Side, breaking her nose.

00:23:43.000 He was charged with assault and, awaiting the resolution of his case, spent 15 months in jail.

00:23:48.000 He pled guilty in a carefully planned strategy between the city and his lawyers to allow him to get treatment and stay out of prison.

00:23:53.000 The judge said this.

00:23:54.000 Do you know what the goal is today?

00:23:56.000 Yes, Neely said.

00:23:57.000 What is the goal?

00:23:57.000 To make it physically and mentally to the program.

00:23:59.000 He was to go from court to live at a treatment facility in the Bronx and stay clean for 15 months.

00:24:04.000 In return, his felony conviction would be reduced.

00:24:06.000 He promised to take medication and to avoid drugs and not to leave the facility without permission.

00:24:11.000 13 days later, he abandoned the facility and a warrant was issued for his arrest.

00:24:15.000 Oh, you mean it's a giant failure of our mental health and criminal justice systems that you just... Do you promise to be a good boy?

00:24:20.000 Do you promise that you're gonna go to get the medication that you need and to get clean?

00:24:23.000 I totally promise.

00:24:24.000 13 days later, gone.

00:24:26.000 And then he shows up next on the subway harassing people where he's put into a submission hold by Daniel Penny.

00:24:31.000 On April 9th, when outreach workers approached him in a subway car at the end of the line in Coney Island, Neely urinated in front of them.

00:24:37.000 When the outreach worker went to call the police, Neely shouted, just wait until they get here.

00:24:40.000 I got something for you.

00:24:41.000 Just wait and see.

00:24:43.000 Officers then arrived and ejected him from the train, apparently unaware of the arrest warrant.

00:24:46.000 Five days after that, an outreach worker saw him in Coney Island and noted he was aggressive and incoherent.

00:24:52.000 He could be a harm to others or himself if left untreated, said the worker.

00:24:54.000 Two weeks later, he was riding the F train, and that's when he got in this confrontation with Daniel Penney.

00:25:00.000 Here is the headline from CNN of all that.

00:25:03.000 Jordan Neely, the man killed in chokehold on NYC subway, is remembered as an entertainer shattered by his mother's murder.

00:25:10.000 Oh, is that how he's remembered?

00:25:11.000 As opposed to a career homeless person, criminal and drug abuser, who was left to percolate in his own misery by the city of New York, and then died because he was harassing people on the subway system.

00:25:25.000 And this is the way that this works.

00:25:27.000 Only one narrative is the narrative that is important for us to discuss on a national level, not how we treat the mentally ill, not the fact that if you look at a chart of people who are in mental facilities and a chart of people in jail, Go back in time, what it looks like is people in mental facilities here and then it drops radically.

00:25:42.000 And if you see people in jail, it goes up. 0.80

00:25:43.000 We're treating, we're using law enforcement to treat mental illness now because of the idiotic move during the 1960s and 70s to deinstitutionalize people. 0.99

00:25:51.000 One of the worst moves in American history, particularly people with mental health disorders. 1.00

00:25:54.000 But we're not gonna have that conversation.

00:25:56.000 We're gonna have the race conversation.

00:25:58.000 So Al Sharpton is out front saying the Marine must be prosecuted.

00:26:02.000 I say, I know y'all gotta do an investigation, do what you gotta do, I'm not attacking nobody, but I'm saying this man needs to be prosecuted.

00:26:14.000 Because what you will do if you do not prosecute him, in my judgment, is you will set a standard of vigilantism that we cannot tolerate.

00:26:26.000 The precedent alone is a threat to all of us.

00:26:32.000 That if we tolerate people on the subways defending themselves, that's a threat?

00:26:36.000 The threat is not the city. 0.84

00:26:38.000 The threat is not people on the subway system who are mentally ill harassing people, assaulting people, punching 67 year old women in the nose.

00:26:45.000 That's not the actual threat, according to Al Sharpton.

00:26:46.000 That's a conversation we don't have to have. 0.97

00:26:48.000 The threat is white vigilantes taking out black Alleged criminals, according to Al Sharpton. 0.97

00:26:53.000 That's the real problem. 1.00

00:26:54.000 Protesters, of course, have taken up the challenge because we are a bored and ridiculous society. 0.95

00:26:59.000 So, a bunch of protesters, many of them white, decided they would actually stand in the subway well. 0.94

00:27:04.000 Like, they're actually standing in the subway.

00:27:06.000 Like, where the trains pass, you stop the subway system.

00:27:09.000 This is what we call a middle-class privilege right here because these are people who apparently don't have jobs or need to get to work.

00:27:14.000 So, we're going to hold up everybody else from getting to work by standing in the subway system.

00:27:21.000 Literally standing on the tracks.

00:27:25.000 Screaming, no justice, no peace.

00:27:29.000 And there's the subway train down the tracks, just sitting there. 1.00

00:27:33.000 So first of all, let me just point out, these people are absolute tool morons. 1.00

00:27:38.000 Absolute idiots. 1.00

00:27:41.000 What's gonna happen if this continues is one of these idiots is gonna touch the actual third rail. 1.00

00:27:45.000 We're not talking like the third rail of American politics. 1.00

00:27:46.000 They'll touch the actual electrified rail and someone will get fried.

00:27:49.000 That is what's going to happen.

00:27:50.000 And then it will be the fault of white supremacy again. 1.00

00:27:52.000 That some idiot gets fried by touching the third rail. 1.00

00:27:55.000 By the way, a city worker even said this. 1.00

00:27:57.000 A city worker was like, uh, these people are idiots and someone's gonna get killed. 1.00

00:28:01.000 The police, there's a huge response right now. Our city is in crisis. Our city is going down the drain. 1.00

00:28:07.000 And as you see, they were protesters on the subway tracks.

00:28:11.000 They actually jumped from the platform onto the tracks and they were on the tracks with

00:28:17.000 power, electric. They could have been electrocuted guys, electrocuted.

00:28:22.000 And there was a train with the lights barreling right towards them.

00:28:27.000 The motormen and the crew were shaken up.

00:28:30.000 They were all shaken up.

00:28:31.000 Subway service had to be suspended through Queens and parts of Manhattan, impacting thousands of people because of a few, you know, under 100 people.

00:28:39.000 This is what happens.

00:28:42.000 And this is why the police should have gotten the situation under control earlier, but they did not do that.

00:28:49.000 And this is the situation we're dealing with in our city.

00:28:53.000 But it doesn't matter because, again, the narrative must be maintained.

00:28:56.000 And the narrative is white supremacy.

00:28:59.000 The protesters, by the way, also are threatening to tear things up because, you know, it's it's summer.

00:29:03.000 They got to do something.

00:29:04.000 And you got any summer plans?

00:29:05.000 Do your summer plans involve threatening other people, their property and persons?

00:29:08.000 Well, then I guess you're not a New Yorker.

00:29:11.000 I'm not playing with the city!

00:29:13.000 I'm not playing with the NYPD! 0.98

00:29:15.000 You can take my f***ing picture and put it up on the precinct wall! 0.98

00:29:18.000 Talk about it! 0.99

00:29:24.000 We're gonna tear this city up if we don't make some change.

00:29:28.000 We will!

00:29:29.000 We're gonna tear things up.

00:29:33.000 Good times.

00:29:34.000 Okay, so, um, I am going to point out here another crime story that no one cares about.

00:29:38.000 It will not cause any riots.

00:29:39.000 It will not cause any broader conversations.

00:29:40.000 None.

00:29:40.000 Because, again, this is the way that the media work.

00:29:42.000 The New York Post is the only outlet that I'm aware of to actually cover this story.

00:29:45.000 quote, authorities in Tulsa are investigating whether a homeless black man shot and killed

00:29:49.000 two white men because of their race. The shooter allegedly murdered the two strangers he had no

00:29:54.000 connection with on April 18th. He went inside a library around 9 40 a.m. He walked up behind

00:30:01.000 a 35 year old white man and sadistically shot him in the back of the head. Later that day, 0.79

00:30:05.000 he then went to a quick trip convenience store and allegedly shot another person in the back

00:30:09.000 of the head.

00:30:11.000 And then he shot that guy again, leaving him dead at the scene.

00:30:15.000 This shooter, a black homeless man, was also caught on surveillance video firing shots at a security guard and another person outside the Quick Trip when officers arrived who was standing outside the store and admitted to shooting both men.

00:30:25.000 According to the Tulsa Police Department, he was arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of shooting with intent to kill, one count of malicious intimidation or harassment.

00:30:32.000 The latter charge is Oklahoma's version of a hate crime.

00:30:36.000 Is this a national news story?

00:30:37.000 We're gonna hear anything about this?

00:30:38.000 Nope.

00:30:38.000 You'll never hear about it again.

00:30:39.000 They will never make the national news.

00:30:41.000 And then you wonder why people get skeptical of the media narratives.

00:30:44.000 Why people start to believe whatever information comes across the transom.

00:30:47.000 Why people are simply looking at Twitter and scrolling to see if anybody they trust is giving them better information than the legacy media.

00:30:53.000 It's because of all of this.

00:30:55.000 It's because of all of this.

00:30:56.000 Okay, in just one second, we're going to talk about the presidential race.

00:30:59.000 Joe Biden is falling down on the job.

00:31:01.000 I mean, his poll numbers are egregiously bad.

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00:32:51.000 Meanwhile, the Biden administration is facing down a series of rolling crises of their own making.

00:32:55.000 Title 42 is slated to end this week, and everybody understands this is going to mean tens of thousands of arrivals on our southern border.

00:33:02.000 We are talking millions coming across our southern border over the course of the year.

00:33:08.000 In fact, here is some video from Bill Malugan.

00:33:11.000 He's done an amazing job of covering this stuff from border.

00:33:13.000 Here's some video of the border over the weekend.

00:33:15.000 It is a line of people who are amassing at the border to get in.

00:33:19.000 Look at this line.

00:33:21.000 These people are showing up at America's southern border.

00:33:23.000 Does this look like people who think they're about to get turned away and sent back to El Salvador?

00:33:28.000 Or sent back to Venezuela?

00:33:29.000 Or sent back to the variety of countries from which they come?

00:33:32.000 Are these people who look like that?

00:33:33.000 Or does this look like a giant line of people who are about to get into Disneyland?

00:33:37.000 Because that's really what they think.

00:33:39.000 And by the way, they're probably correct.

00:33:40.000 They're going to be put into migrant facilities and then they will be given a, why don't you come back a little bit later date and we will assess whether you actually have a realistic asylum claim.

00:33:48.000 And then they will just disappear into the interior.

00:33:49.000 And then 15 years down the road, Democrats will decide that they actually have been here through no fault of their own and we should give them some form of amnesty.

00:33:55.000 They understand this, which is why they are here.

00:33:57.000 Everything changed when Barack Obama decided in 2012 that he was going to unilaterally go around Congress and simply legalize millions of people.

00:34:03.000 When that happened, everybody understood that there was a giant neon flashing light above the American border that said, come on in, the weather's great.

00:34:11.000 And that's what's been happening ever since.

00:34:13.000 Alejandro Mayorkas, in an attempt to pretend that he actually knows what the hell he is doing, the Department of Homeland Security head, he actually visited the border.

00:34:20.000 He did not speak well for himself.

00:34:23.000 Our border is secure.

00:34:24.000 The border is secure because we are maximizing our resources to deliver the most effective results to our border with the most extraordinary workforce in the world.

00:34:35.000 But Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra disagrees.

00:34:39.000 Is our border secure?

00:34:41.000 Well, I can tell you no.

00:34:43.000 There's a lot of places on the southwestern border that our federal partners do not have control.

00:34:52.000 And by the way, if by secure, you mean that even the people who are processed normally just get released into the interior, then sure, it's secure.

00:34:58.000 Because that's actually what's happening right now.

00:35:00.000 Apparently, there are over 2,000 migrants, including kids, sleeping on the streets of downtown El Paso, according to Jorge Ventura Media.

00:35:06.000 And they expect those numbers to skyrocket once Title 42 expires. The New York Times has already

00:35:10.000 reported that thousands of kids have been trafficked across the American border. And

00:35:14.000 then they're just sent to essentially slave labor inside the United States,

00:35:18.000 thanks to the Biden administration. The Biden administration was told about it,

00:35:21.000 they did nothing. Even Democrats are upset about this, so long as they actually live on the border.

00:35:25.000 Representative Henry Cuellar, who's a Democrat from Texas, he said, I stopped even bothering

00:35:28.000 calling the White House, they're not doing anything.

00:35:30.000 Do you have confidence in Secretary Mayorkas? I do.

00:35:37.000 You know, I do.

00:35:38.000 I just think that there were other forces, and I'll leave it like that, that were holding them back, holding the career people like Troy Miller and like Raul Ortiz and other, you know, the border patrol chiefs that we have down there.

00:35:50.000 What are the forces holding them back?

00:35:53.000 It's a White House.

00:35:54.000 I mean, quite honestly, there were some staffers at the White House that I stopped talking to the White House.

00:35:59.000 I just talked to Homeland because their perspective was very different from our perspective.

00:36:05.000 It was okay to try to bring in as many people, but I always say, look, I believe in immigration, but when is enough enough?

00:36:15.000 And the answer for the Biden administration is it's never enough.

00:36:17.000 And so it's going to get worse and worse and worse.

00:36:19.000 Again, one Brownsville, Texas resident named Deborah Belch says

00:36:21.000 Mayorkas doesn't care. Nobody cares. 1.00

00:36:23.000 They're just inundating our town with illegal immigrants who are coming across the border. 1.00

00:36:26.000 Now, Secretary Mayorkas did not, to my knowledge, meet with just the residents here, but had you had an

00:36:33.000 opportunity to speak directly to Secretary Mayorkas, what would you

00:36:36.000 have said to him?

00:36:37.000 Oh, that's a really good question.

00:36:40.000 I would ask him if he even cares about us.

00:36:44.000 Because I have to take my son to school.

00:36:48.000 His school is kind of in the middle of this.

00:36:49.000 It's cruel.

00:36:54.000 To not have a plan in place for all of the people you're supposed to represent and then yet you're bringing thousands more over?

00:37:00.000 And then you have the audacity to lie to the American people about it?

00:37:04.000 Who are having to live in this daily?

00:37:06.000 It's unacceptable!

00:37:08.000 He keeps talking about humanity and being compassionate and cutting out the cartel and it's just lip service.

00:37:20.000 It is just lip service.

00:37:21.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden, it's amazing.

00:37:23.000 He's so afraid of his left wing that he just activated 1,500 troops to go down to the border.

00:37:28.000 But he has to promise his left wing, guys, don't worry, they're not actually policing the border.

00:37:31.000 This is what we call ideological capture.

00:37:33.000 You've got the husk of an elderly Democrat human being who has now been mind-melded with Bernie Sanders.

00:37:38.000 It's unbelievable.

00:37:40.000 Why is this even a necessary line?

00:37:43.000 What does he think he's winning?

00:37:44.000 He should say that he is sending 1,500 troops to secure the border.

00:37:47.000 But he has to maintain the lie, on the one hand, that the border is already secure, and on the other hand, he has to wink and nod to his left-wing base that he's going to let as many people through as possible.

00:37:55.000 We're in a situation now where those 1,500 people at the border, they're not there to enforce the law.

00:38:00.000 They're there to free up the border agents that need to be on the border.

00:38:06.000 And we're having another 1,000 people coming in, or asylum judges, to make judgments, to move things along.

00:38:15.000 Why feel the need to deny that?

00:38:16.000 It's amazing.

00:38:17.000 It's amazing.

00:38:17.000 Meanwhile, Representative Yvette Clark, Democrat of New York, she sort of let the cat out of the bag.

00:38:21.000 She said, well, maybe the reason that we're doing this is to put pressure on the Republicans to pass comprehensive immigration reform.

00:38:26.000 So I guess the plan for Democrats is we're going to threaten you with millions of illegal immigrants entering the country so that you will pass a bill that allows millions of illegal immigrants to enter the country. 0.90

00:38:36.000 And if that's the logic, wow.

00:38:40.000 I think what Secretary Mayorkas has prepared with the CBP One app that enables people to actually apply for asylum, seek a pathway to the United States via an app, it is a laudable endeavor.

00:39:00.000 And at the same time, it's critical that we build the pressure for comprehensive immigration reform.

00:39:08.000 You know, people are coming to the U.S. 0.94

00:39:10.000 because their homes of origin have become inhospitable and inhumane in terms of their safety, their security, and the promise for the future for them and their families.

00:39:24.000 Oh, well, then I guess that you're going to use the threat of destroying America's border in order to get people to actually sign off on the destruction of America's border.

00:39:34.000 Great stuff.

00:39:34.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden continues to struggle on the economy as well.

00:39:38.000 There's a jobs report that came out end of last week.

00:39:40.000 Pretty good jobs report.

00:39:41.000 What it really means, the Fed is going to have to keep raising those rates.

00:39:43.000 As the Fed raises those rates, it squeezes the banks because the banks have a lot of their asset base in bonds that have now been devalued, which means the Fed is going to have to step in and fill in all of that money.

00:39:53.000 That money's gonna have to come from somewhere.

00:39:54.000 It's gonna create more inflation. 1.00

00:39:55.000 So they now have a cycle in which every time they try to stop inflation, they actually have to increase inflation.

00:40:00.000 It's a disaster area.

00:40:01.000 Meanwhile, we are coming up on the debt limit as well.

00:40:04.000 Because Joe Biden refuses to even negotiate with people on the other side, the debt limit is approaching and it's approaching fast.

00:40:09.000 Now Joe Biden is basically saying, I may just ignore the debt limit.

00:40:12.000 Because after all, this is the trajectory of the American presidency over the course of my lifetime.

00:40:15.000 It started off with Remember that time that the legislature was a co-equal branch of government?

00:40:19.000 It used to be first among equals.

00:40:20.000 Now it's a co-equal branch of government, or it was.

00:40:22.000 Now it's not even that.

00:40:23.000 It's a tertiary branch of government.

00:40:26.000 It's an evolutionary overhang.

00:40:27.000 It's a vestigial organ of American government.

00:40:30.000 Because now, people like Joe Biden, they can just ignore the debt ceiling entirely.

00:40:32.000 Here is Joe Biden saying that.

00:40:35.000 But this is a very volatile Congress.

00:40:37.000 There are members of Congress that might be okay with us defaulting.

00:40:41.000 I know that.

00:40:42.000 Because they think it could hurt you more politically.

00:40:45.000 Given that, are you prepared to invoke the 14th Amendment and blow through the debt ceiling?

00:40:50.000 I've not gotten there yet.

00:40:52.000 And here's the deal.

00:40:54.000 I think that... First of all, this is not your father's Republican Party.

00:40:59.000 This is a different... No, sir.

00:41:01.000 A different group.

00:41:03.000 And I think that we have to make it clear to the American people that I am prepared to negotiate in detail with their budget.

00:41:14.000 No, you're not.

00:41:15.000 You're not.

00:41:16.000 In other words, if you guys give up your leverage, I'll negotiate with you.

00:41:18.000 No, that's not how negotiations work.

00:41:20.000 The good news is that if you are a Democrat, you can continue to maintain this fiction that you can unilaterally take over the spending mechanisms of government despite not actually running the House.

00:41:31.000 And you can do so by getting your paid shills like Lawrence Tribe to shill for you.

00:41:35.000 Lawrence Tribe is an amazing thing.

00:41:37.000 So Lawrence Tribe Who used to actually be sort of an interesting constitutional commentator.

00:41:41.000 I never agreed with him, but he at least attempted to engage with the Constitution.

00:41:45.000 Now, all that happens is that the Democrats call him up and like, can you give us a legal excuse to do what we want to do?

00:41:49.000 He's like, sure, why not?

00:41:50.000 See, there's a piece over at the New York Times today called Why I Changed My Mind on the Debt Limit.

00:41:54.000 Now, the short answer to this is because it's convenient.

00:41:57.000 Because it's convenient.

00:41:59.000 He writes in this piece, Section 4 of the 14th Amendment says,

00:42:01.000 The validity of the public debt shall not be questioned.

00:42:03.000 Proponents of the unconstitutionality argument say, When Congress enacted the debt limit,

00:42:07.000 effectively forcing the U.S. to stop borrowing to honor its debts

00:42:10.000 when that limit was reached, it built a violation of that constitutional command into

00:42:13.000 our fiscal structure.

00:42:14.000 And that as a result, that limit and all that followed are invalid.

00:42:17.000 I've never agreed with that argument.

00:42:18.000 It raises thorny questions about the appropriate way to interpret the task.

00:42:22.000 The text.

00:42:22.000 Does Section 4 read properly prohibit anything beyond putting the federal government into default?

00:42:26.000 If so, what actions does it forbid?

00:42:28.000 Most important, could this interpretation open the door for dangerous presidential overreach if Section 4 empowers the president single-handedly to declare laws he likes unconstitutional?

00:42:36.000 And then Lawrence Tribe says this.

00:42:37.000 I still worry about those questions, but I've come to believe they are the wrong ones for us to be asking.

00:42:43.000 So, oh, that's convenient.

00:42:44.000 So the question now isn't whether the president can tear up the debt limit statute to ensure the Treasury Department can continue paying bills.

00:42:50.000 The question isn't whether the president can, in effect, become a one-person Supreme Court.

00:42:53.000 The right question is whether Congress can invoke an arbitrary dollar limit to force the president and his administration to do its bidding.

00:43:01.000 The answer is yes.

00:43:02.000 They literally are given the power of the purse.

00:43:04.000 Of course the Congress is able to negotiate with the president of the United States over spending.

00:43:09.000 So, but Lawrence Tribe, again, It just demonstrates what a joke left-wing constitutional interpretation is.

00:43:15.000 He admits in the piece that he understands that the 14th Amendment does not bar Congress from setting debt limits.

00:43:21.000 And then he's like, yeah, but you know what?

00:43:22.000 That's becoming really inconvenient.

00:43:23.000 So I flipped here because I just don't like the Congress.

00:43:25.000 I don't like the Republicans run it.

00:43:28.000 Man, Democrats, they are willing to do literally everything on behalf of power.

00:43:33.000 Well, none of this is benefiting Joe Biden in the polls.

00:43:36.000 We'll get to that in just one moment.

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00:44:44.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden isn't just failing on the domestic front, he's also failing on the foreign front.

00:44:49.000 So, according to the Wall Street Journal, Joe Biden is now looking to China to solve the problem in Ukraine.

00:44:54.000 Hey, this is so Obama.

00:44:55.000 Do you remember Barack Obama?

00:44:56.000 He declared a red line in Syria.

00:44:57.000 He said if Bashar Assad uses chemical weapons in Syria, that will be a red line.

00:45:01.000 Then Bashar Assad used weapons that were chemical in Syria.

00:45:05.000 And Barack was like, I don't know about that.

00:45:06.000 Well, you know, I feel bad.

00:45:08.000 That's not great.

00:45:10.000 And Vladimir Putin came in and was like, I'll run this place.

00:45:12.000 And Barack was like, that sounds good, Vlad, you do it.

00:45:14.000 And that is why Russia now has a presence in Syria.

00:45:16.000 The same thing is now happening in Ukraine.

00:45:19.000 So after a year of the United States funding the war in Ukraine, I think correctly to repel the Russian invasion, now, because Joe Biden refuses to articulate a way out of this morass, they're turning to China. 0.53

00:45:29.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, some U.S.

00:45:31.000 and European officials said they believe that Ukraine's planned spring offensive could pave the way for negotiations between Kiev and Moscow by the end of the year, and China could help bring Russia to the table.

00:45:40.000 The willingness to encourage negotiations and seek out a role for China in talks represents a shift in Western thinking, particularly in the United States, which has been highly skeptical of any involvement for Beijing, giving China's longstanding support for Moscow.

00:45:50.000 Secretary of State Antony Blinken publicly expressed cautious optimism recently Beijing could help defuse the conflict.

00:45:56.000 The approach is based on the belief that neither side has the ability to continue fighting indefinitely and that Beijing's willingness to play a role in international peace talks should be tested.

00:46:04.000 Still, they remain uncertain about Russia's willingness to negotiate a ceasefire.

00:46:06.000 So, we're now going to bring Russia to the table and empower Russia in all of this?

00:46:10.000 China in all of this?

00:46:11.000 We're going to empower China? 0.98

00:46:12.000 So, this entire war was justified on the basis of several things.

00:46:16.000 One, Russia invading a sovereign country, taking over its capital. 0.53

00:46:19.000 Bad.

00:46:20.000 Got it.

00:46:21.000 Two, degrading Russia's military such that they could not invade surrounding nations would be a good thing. 1.00

00:46:27.000 Achieved.

00:46:28.000 Three, minimizing both Russia and China's influence in Europe, because Russia would cut itself off in terms of oil, which they did, and that made Europe more dependent on the United States.

00:46:36.000 And meanwhile, China was backing Russia, which meant that Europe should not be looking with warm eyes toward China, especially given China's aggression and their attempt to take over Taiwan.

00:46:49.000 And somehow Joe Biden has blown that third one.

00:46:51.000 So he's now going to bring China back to the table and make China a part of this negotiation.

00:46:55.000 Just genius level stuff from a man who refuses all leadership when offered to him.

00:46:59.000 It's just an amazing, amazing thing.

00:47:01.000 Meanwhile, speaking of the failures of the Biden administration on the Middle East, it is impossible to see how Biden could have failed any worse than he's failed in the Middle East.

00:47:08.000 He has empowered Iran.

00:47:09.000 He has fostered a budding relationship between Saudi Arabia and China and Iran.

00:47:14.000 And now the Arab League has decided to readmit Syria.

00:47:18.000 According to the New York Times, when Syria's neighbors and peers ejected it from the 22-member League in November of 2011, months after the Arab Spring uprising began, the move was seen as a key condemnation of a government that had bombed, gassed, and tortured protesters.

00:47:30.000 Now, the region is normalizing relations, increasingly convinced that Arab countries are gaining little from isolating Syria as the United States has urged them to.

00:47:37.000 That leaves Syria poised for a triumphant return this month in Saudi Arabia at the Arab League's next summit.

00:47:42.000 Perhaps represented by Bashar al-Assad.

00:47:45.000 So Joe Biden has now ushered in a new era of pan-Arabic cooperation or pan-Islamic cooperation across this region in opposition to American interests.

00:47:55.000 Just slow clap for this genius.

00:47:56.000 Well, I wonder why Joe Biden is failing in the polls.

00:48:00.000 Brand new poll is out.

00:48:01.000 It's a Washington Post ABC News poll, and it is devastatingly bad for Joe Biden.

00:48:05.000 In fact, even George Stephanopoulos, who is the lackey du jour for this administration, literally, the fact that, again, it'll never cease to astonish me that George Stephanopoulos poses as some sort of objective moderator when he literally was the pressman for Hillary Clinton.

00:48:20.000 Here's George Stephanopoulos talking about Joe Biden's approval rating.

00:48:25.000 Our brand new poll conducted with the Washington Post, it shows major challenges for President Biden.

00:48:29.000 His approval rating is at 36%, a career low.

00:48:32.000 More Americans now say Donald Trump did a better job handling the economy, and Trump is leading Biden in a 2024 matchup.

00:48:40.000 Oh, well, that's not good for Joe Biden.

00:48:43.000 Now, Republicans, I think, can be taken in very easily by the poll suggesting that Biden is eminently beatable.

00:48:48.000 And they might think, OK, well, we can nominate whoever.

00:48:50.000 Well, let's see how durable this poll is, right?

00:48:52.000 Again, the poll shows that Trump would beat Biden by about seven points.

00:48:55.000 Same poll shows DeSantis beating Biden by about seven points.

00:48:58.000 So what this really says, the American people don't like Joe Biden very much.

00:49:01.000 But let's see what the polls continue to show as Donald Trump continues to lead the Republican presidential primary.

00:49:08.000 What the polls really suggest is that people don't like Joe Biden, like, at all.

00:49:12.000 Question in the poll, would you like the Democratic Party to nominate Biden to run for a second term as president, or would you like the Democratic Party to nominate somebody else?

00:49:19.000 Democratic leading adults, 58% somebody else.

00:49:24.000 Woo! 0.99

00:49:26.000 64% of you include no opinion.

00:49:27.000 Democrats split evenly, 47-47, on whether they want Biden to be the nominee.

00:49:32.000 This guy's the incumbent president.

00:49:34.000 Independents, 77% say they do not want Joe Biden to be the nominee.

00:49:39.000 Do you approve or disapprove of the way Biden is handling his job as president?

00:49:42.000 He's back down to 36% in the polling data.

00:49:46.000 Again, 54% of Americans say that Trump did a better job with the economy than Biden, which obviously is true.

00:49:50.000 We didn't have 40-year high in inflation.

00:49:53.000 As far as do you think Biden or Trump is honest and trustworthy, they think Biden is more honest than Trump by about an 8 percentage point margin, 41 to 33.

00:50:02.000 When asked who has the mental sharpness it takes to serve effectively as president, 54 to 32 Trump.

00:50:07.000 In good enough physical health to serve effectively as president.

00:50:10.000 64-33 Trump.

00:50:13.000 As far as general election matchups?

00:50:15.000 In a Trump versus Biden matchup, you have about 36% say they would definitely vote for Trump, compared to 32% for Biden.

00:50:22.000 Another 9% say they would probably vote for Trump, versus 6% who they'd probably vote for Biden, 18% undecided.

00:50:27.000 So that puts Trump's numbers in that general election matchup at 45%, in terms of definitely or likely to vote for him, and it puts Joe Biden at 38.

00:50:34.000 So 47 to 38, 45 to 38 in that particular poll.

00:50:36.000 to 38 in that particular 45 to 38 in that particular poll.

00:50:39.000 Same poll shows DeSantis versus Biden 42 to 37.

00:50:43.000 So what that really says is that people really don't like Joe Biden at all.

00:50:47.000 Now, Republicans are going to have to earn more than 42% if it's Ron DeSantis, and they're probably going to have to earn more than 45%.

00:50:52.000 45% ain't going to put you over the top.

00:50:54.000 The real question is whether those 18%, how those 18% split in the Trump vs. Biden vote, and how the 21% split in the DeSantis vs. Biden vote.

00:51:02.000 Again, this is the question for every election.

00:51:04.000 Because in the lead up to every election, it's those undecideds in the middle who represent the entire margin of defeat or victory for a candidate.

00:51:11.000 In 2016, independents who were deciding on the last day split in favor of Trump.

00:51:15.000 Trump won.

00:51:15.000 In 2020, they split in favor of Biden.

00:51:17.000 Biden won.

00:51:18.000 How they split in the case of Trump versus Biden, who knows?

00:51:21.000 DeSantis versus Biden, who knows?

00:51:23.000 The same poll, by the way, showed that 56% of Americans say that Trump should face criminal charges over 2020.

00:51:31.000 54% say they want him to face criminal charges over classified documents.

00:51:33.000 So does that mean the Republican, that generally speaking, the voters want to see Donald Trump as the guy facing Joe Biden?

00:51:40.000 No.

00:51:40.000 But the voters don't get to choose Biden.

00:51:42.000 Democratic primary voters do.

00:51:44.000 Voters don't get to choose Trump overall.

00:51:45.000 Republican primary voters do.

00:51:48.000 Man, we are headed for, it's going to be a hell of an election cycle.

00:51:52.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden continues to just be awful at this.

00:51:56.000 I mean, truly awful.

00:51:57.000 So he's asked over the weekend about Hunter Biden.

00:51:59.000 Hunter Biden may very well be indicted in the very near future.

00:52:04.000 Sir, there is something personal that's affecting you.

00:52:07.000 Your son, while there's no ties to you, could be charged by your Department of Justice.

00:52:10.000 that would be high on the list.

00:52:12.000 Joe Biden was asked about this, and Joe Biden was like,

00:52:14.000 a hundred has never done anything wrong ever.

00:52:17.000 He's the greatest.

00:52:18.000 I love him.

00:52:19.000 Sir, there is something personal that's affecting you.

00:52:23.000 Your son, while there's no ties to you, could be charged by your department of justice.

00:52:27.000 How will that impact your presidency?

00:52:29.000 First of all, my son's done nothing wrong.

00:52:32.000 I trust him.

00:52:33.000 I have faith in him.

00:52:35.000 And it impacts my presidency by making me feel proud of him.

00:52:41.000 It affects my presidency by making me feel proud of him?

00:52:43.000 I have a question.

00:52:44.000 What exactly about Hunter's behavior makes you proud of him?

00:52:47.000 I would love to know.

00:52:48.000 Like seriously love to know.

00:52:50.000 Now I understand, you know, if Joe Biden is he's trying to be a good dad.

00:52:53.000 Let's take it.

00:52:53.000 Let's take the most kind of The most friendly view of Joe Biden possible.

00:52:57.000 He's trying to be a good dad who's making his derelict son feel better about himself.

00:53:01.000 He doesn't want to rip on national TV.

00:53:03.000 But what's the message that you're putting out generally?

00:53:05.000 The message you're putting out generally is that you don't care that your son's a criminal. 0.96

00:53:07.000 Your son is a criminal. 1.00

00:53:08.000 Hunter Biden is a garbage heap. 1.00

00:53:10.000 He's a flaming bag of hot trash. 1.00

00:53:13.000 Between fathering children with strippers and doing cocaine off carpets and What is it? 1.00

00:53:23.000 Name each sin that Hunter Biden has not committed.

00:53:25.000 It's very difficult to imagine them at this point, honestly.

00:53:29.000 The Wall Street Journal points out that Joe Biden sounding off on this sort of stuff isn't exactly great, especially because, again, his Attorney General Merrick Garland is the one who's gonna have to review the case.

00:53:37.000 When the President says that he sees nothing here, and then Merrick Garland is the one who works for him, that's obviously some inappropriate signaling.

00:53:43.000 He should just say, listen, I can't speak about this.

00:53:45.000 No, I don't speak to law enforcement.

00:53:47.000 I love my son.

00:53:48.000 He can't just, he can't do that.

00:53:50.000 So, again, Joe Biden putting himself in a box right here.

00:53:54.000 Okay, meanwhile, I have to, quick note on the King, the, the, on the crowning of King Charles III.

00:54:01.000 So, I'm American, so I don't care.

00:54:04.000 The only thing about this that is interesting to me is that historic institutions ought to be preserved in Western society as sort of a general rule.

00:54:11.000 So, it is a historic moment when Britain crowns a new king for the first time in, what, 80 years?

00:54:18.000 I mean, it's been a long time.

00:54:20.000 70 years?

00:54:21.000 Here's a little bit of the video of King Charles III being crowned as the 62nd British monarch.

00:54:25.000 God save the king!

00:54:43.000 Now Charles is formally in charge.

00:54:45.000 King Charles III, crowned today as the 62nd I mean, he's not really in charge of anything, right?

00:54:51.000 I mean, it's a ceremonial figurehead post, but I kind of like ceremonial figurehead posts.

00:54:56.000 In fact, the case for an American monarchy has actually gotten stronger only in the sense that we already have a monarchy, we just elect him, and then he actually has power.

00:55:04.000 So our elected monarch actually has power.

00:55:05.000 Their monarch has no power.

00:55:07.000 Their monarch just kind of sits around and spends a lot of their money and carries around really shiny objects.

00:55:10.000 Like, that guy's got an orb.

00:55:12.000 So first of all, cool orb.

00:55:13.000 Like the orb.

00:55:14.000 He's also got a sword and a scepter, which is sweet.

00:55:17.000 He's got a bejeweled St.

00:55:18.000 Edward's crown placed atop his head.

00:55:20.000 Prince Harry was sidelined at the King Charles coronation. 1.00

00:55:24.000 Which is hilarious and he deserves it because he's a jerk. 0.96

00:55:27.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Prince Harry sat several rows back in Westminster Abbey on Saturday, watching as his older brother Prince William knelt and pledged loyalty before his father, King Charles III. 0.98

00:55:35.000 So first of all, it would be kind of awesome if there was actually like a royal infight, like the olden days.

00:55:40.000 And it was actually like, if Prince William betrayed King Charles and tried to overthrow him, I'd be there for it.

00:55:46.000 I think most, actually most, I think many of the members of the British nobility would be there for it as well.

00:55:52.000 The moment halfway through the King's coronation was a striking image of a family disunited and a reminder of the differing paths the two royal brothers have taken in the last three years.

00:56:00.000 So Prince Harry was relegated to the back row.

00:56:02.000 Apparently Meghan Markle did not show up. 0.93

00:56:04.000 On Saturday, Prince Harry was in London for a whistle-stop tour without his wife, Meghan Markle.

00:56:07.000 Both had been invited to the service, but Miss Markle opted to stay in California with her children. 0.90

00:56:12.000 Yeah, man, it's so awkward, and I kind of love it.

00:56:16.000 The thing that I do hate, and it's really obnoxious, is this attempt now.

00:56:21.000 It's like, you know, now's an amazing time to talk about the history of British slavery.

00:56:26.000 Is now an amazing time to talk about that, and also why?

00:56:29.000 I just, like, question.

00:56:30.000 So Christiane Amanpour decided now is like an amazing time to talk about that, which is weird, because Britain ended slavery literally throughout the world in the 1800s.

00:56:39.000 So, if it had not been for Britain, slavery would still be the rule rather than the exception across the world. 0.81

00:56:45.000 So yes, did Britain engage in the slave trade?

00:56:46.000 Sure.

00:56:47.000 Did Britain do some real bad stuff in terms of its colonialism and imperialist policy?

00:56:51.000 Sure.

00:56:51.000 Also, would the world be developed in nearly the same way now if Britain had not been the dominant force on the globe from essentially the 18th century to the mid-20th century?

00:57:00.000 The answer, of course, is no.

00:57:02.000 But now we're supposed to talk about the evils of Great Britain.

00:57:05.000 Again, Britain literally, because it ruled the seas, was able to stop the global slave trade.

00:57:10.000 Which, by the way, still continues in a lot of places in Africa and the Middle East, I should point out.

00:57:13.000 Here is Christiane Amanpour, however, going after King Charles, who apparently is pro-slavery or something.

00:57:18.000 The idea of empire has become something that's not as wanted as it used to be, clearly, for obvious reasons.

00:57:26.000 And that whole colonial experiment has essentially evaporated, if not evaporated.

00:57:33.000 This is really important to also talk about, the idea of reparations and other such things, which this king ...has said he's willing to entertain investigations into even the royal family's history of slavery and the like.

00:57:49.000 And it's really important to talk about this.

00:57:53.000 So it's important now to talk about the history.

00:57:55.000 Let's talk about reparations.

00:57:56.000 Reparations to whom?

00:57:58.000 From whom?

00:57:59.000 Every time we talk about reparations, nobody asks those two questions.

00:58:02.000 From whom and to whom?

00:58:03.000 It's just like, out there.

00:58:04.000 Bad stuff happened in the past.

00:58:05.000 Let's pay some reparations.

00:58:06.000 Okay, do we also have to talk about the fact that many of the countries that Britain actually colonialized are doing significantly better, economically speaking, than the neighbors that Britain did not colonialize?

00:58:14.000 And that actually happens to be an economic fact on the ground in a lot of these places.

00:58:19.000 So how exactly do you calculate that out?

00:58:20.000 How does that become part of the calculus?

00:58:22.000 We don't, we don't, we don't know.

00:58:23.000 We simply do not know.

00:58:24.000 Okay, time for a quick thing I like.

00:58:26.000 So Richard Dreyfuss, who I really enjoy as a performer, he was asked about the new rules from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which is that you have to have basically diversity requirements for the Oscars.

00:58:36.000 And Richard Dreyfuss, that dude does not, he does not play.

00:58:40.000 Here's Richard Dreyfuss.

00:58:43.000 Starting in 2024, films will be required to meet new inclusion standards.

00:58:48.000 to be eligible for the Academy Awards for Best Picture.

00:58:52.000 They'll have to have a certain percentage of actors or crew from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.

00:58:59.000 What do you think of these new inclusion standards for films?

00:59:03.000 They make me vomit.

00:59:05.000 Why?

00:59:06.000 Because this is an art form.

00:59:11.000 It's also a form of commerce, and it makes money, but it's an art.

00:59:18.000 And no one should be telling me, as an artist, that I have to give in to the latest, most current idea of what morality is.

00:59:35.000 And what are we risking?

00:59:36.000 Are we really risking hurting people's feelings?

00:59:41.000 Okay, yes to Richard Dreyfuss here.

00:59:44.000 First of all, you know Richard Dreyfuss.

00:59:46.000 He's like, you know what?

00:59:47.000 F it, man.

00:59:48.000 I'm just gonna say what I think.

00:59:49.000 And you know how you can tell?

00:59:49.000 Because of where he's wearing his glasses.

00:59:51.000 That move where you wear your glasses like one inch from the end of your nose?

00:59:56.000 That's the move where I just don't care anymore.

00:59:57.000 I'm just gonna let this thing fly.

00:59:58.000 So good for Richard Dreyfuss.

00:59:59.000 Finally somebody speaking out.

01:00:01.000 Steven Spielberg too.

01:00:02.000 So I guess that whole kind of generation is now like, you know what?

01:00:03.000 You guys are ruining art.

01:00:04.000 So could you stop the ruining of the art?

01:00:06.000 Okay, one other thing that I like because this is just the greatest headline I've ever read.

01:00:10.000 This is a headline from the UK Daily Mail.

01:00:11.000 You ready for this?

01:00:13.000 I'm gonna read it slowly, so you understand. 1.00

01:00:15.000 Trans woman is cleared of flashing her penis at three women using Ohio YWMCA after judge ruled she's too fat for her genitals to be visible. 0.99

01:00:28.000 Yeah, see if you can follow the, I mean, that tells a tale right there. 1.00

01:00:31.000 That is a story. 1.00

01:00:32.000 Trans woman cleared of flashing her penis at three women using Ohio YMCA after judge ruled she's too fat for her genitals to be visible. 1.00

01:00:40.000 That's right. 1.00

01:00:41.000 The defense in this particular case was that a trans woman, meaning a dude, who flashed his junk at three ladies at the YMCA in the female changing room could not have done so because he's such a giant fatty that no one could see his twig and berries. 0.99

01:00:57.000 That is the defense. 0.98

01:00:58.000 Can you imagine that defense being used in court?

01:00:59.000 That's like an amazing defense. 1.00

01:01:01.000 They go, sir, madam, madam, you're being prosecuted for indecent exposure of your female penis. 1.00

01:01:08.000 Do you have a defense? 0.99

01:01:09.000 Yeah, I'm Jabba the Hutt.

01:01:13.000 Case dismissed. 0.98

01:01:14.000 You, sir, madam, are indeed an incredible fatty. 1.00

01:01:18.000 So fat, you haven't seen your own genitals since the age of 11. 1.00

01:01:21.000 Congratulations to you, madam. 1.00

01:01:24.000 Your female penis and you are now free. 1.00

01:01:27.000 Yes, this is the society we've created for ourselves and it is going absolutely spectacular. 0.99

01:01:32.000 Stick around because we are going to be joined by Mark Morgan to talk about the immigration crisis at our southern border.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - May 08, 2023

Don't Believe The Media, Watch THIS First

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