The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 143 - Hillary Won't Be Indicted, The Fix Is In

00:00:00.000 On Thursday, The Hill reported a series of major Bushworld policy advisors are openly endorsing Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump.

00:00:07.000 First point, if Bushworld were actually a theme park, it would be the worst theme park ever.

00:00:11.000 Among those figures, former Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson, former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, and former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft.

00:00:20.000 The former Deputy Press Secretary to George W, his name is Tony Fratto, he told The Hill, quote, I think it's an easy call.

00:00:26.000 I think it's really easy.

00:00:27.000 Trump isn't fit for office.

00:00:28.000 Laura Bush?

00:00:29.000 She said months ago she'd prefer Hillary to Trump, basically. 1.00

00:00:32.000 Here's the truth Bushworld refuses to acknowledge.

00:00:35.000 Bushworld's rallying around Trump?

00:00:37.000 That's why Trump has succeeded thus far.

00:00:39.000 See, here's the thing.

00:00:40.000 All along, the media have been conflating two separate, distinct wings of the Never Trump movement.

00:00:45.000 Wing One, these are the people like me who reluctantly pulled the lever for John McCain and Mitt Romney, but did so well.

00:00:51.000 Moaning the whole time and grumbling that they were too far to the left.

00:00:54.000 These are people who backed Ted Cruz in the primaries and who worry that if McCain and Romney and George W. Bush and George H.W. 0.96

00:01:00.000 Bush gradually corrupted conservatism, Trump's gonna do it wholesale and then he's gonna add his whole toxic garbage heap to the mix.

00:01:08.000 People like me, we say we're not going to vote for Hillary, but we're also not going to vote for Trump. 0.65

00:01:11.000 That's one group of Never Trump.

00:01:12.000 Then there's Wing 2.

00:01:14.000 These are the moderate establishment figures.

00:01:16.000 And they refuse to back Trump, but not because his positions corrupt conservatism.

00:01:21.000 Many of them likely would have backed Hillary over Ted Cruz, actually.

00:01:24.000 These are people who refused to endorse Cruz to stop Trump in the first place because they like Trump positions better than Cruz.

00:01:30.000 Now they've got their excuse to back Hillary because Trump's so terrible. 1.00

00:01:33.000 Many conservatives have been burying their annoyance for years over the Bush family's closeness with the Clinton family.

00:01:39.000 We always suspected that the Republican establishment prefers this kind of oligarchic backroom drinking buddy Democrat nonsense to outsider conservatives.

00:01:48.000 The Bush family's relationship with the Clinton mob, that was exhibit A in the case against the Republican establishment.

00:01:53.000 And that's why so many conservatives resonated to Trump smacking down the Bush family and their 2016 emissary, Jeb.

00:02:01.000 It was really fun watching Trump knock Jeb through the nearest wall.

00:02:04.000 I mean, go back to my podcast.

00:02:05.000 You can listen to me laughing about it.

00:02:06.000 It's why I tweeted early in the election cycle, I'd support Trump before I'd support Jeb.

00:02:11.000 That was also before Trump revealed his lack of principle and the fact that he's kind of gross over the course of the campaign.

00:02:16.000 But I'm still not sure that I would have voted for Jeb in the general just because enough dynasties.

00:02:20.000 Trump was largely a backlash to the Bushes.

00:02:23.000 He was a guy aggressively attacking the people, having family barbecues with the Clintons.

00:02:27.000 Now it's ironic that Trump was also having the Clintons to his wedding, but at least the Bushes hated him.

00:02:31.000 And hatred for the Bush insider crew, it drove support for Trump.

00:02:36.000 Cruz would have been the natural, proper response to Bush-Clinton-Trump cronyism.

00:02:40.000 Trump was the wrong response.

00:02:41.000 But Bushworld's mobilization behind Clinton, it reminds us that Bushworld trolled conservatives into getting behind Trump in the first place.

00:02:49.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:03:40.000 So let's jump in with the worst story of the day.

00:03:43.000 And this legitimately is the worst story of the day.

00:03:46.000 There is an Arab who slaughtered a 13-year-old girl

00:03:50.000 In Israel, this 13-year-old girl, really pretty little girl, is Hillel Yaffa Ariel.

00:03:56.000 She's 13 years old.

00:03:57.000 She's an aspiring dancer.

00:03:59.000 The reason this is an international story is because the Palestinian went into her bedroom, climbed into her house, and stabbed her to death in her bed.

00:04:06.000 And you can see in the picture that we're showing right now, you can see the blood on her bed, right?

00:04:10.000 There's the blood on her bed.

00:04:12.000 Down on the floor, that's not the color of the carpet.

00:04:13.000 That's blood all over the floor.

00:04:15.000 She was stabbed multiple times.

00:04:17.000 She was murdered.

00:04:18.000 And the international community, they proclaim that they're really sad about all of this, and then they said, well, you know, what really matters is where she was killed.

00:04:26.000 No, not in her bedroom, not in her bedroom.

00:04:27.000 It's that her bedroom was in the wrong place.

00:04:30.000 It's that her bedroom was in the wrong place.

00:04:31.000 Because her bedroom, you see, was in a place called Kiryat Arba.

00:04:34.000 Curiat Arba is a place near Chevron, it's near Hebron, and it's in the so-called West Bank, Judea and Samaria.

00:04:41.000 Now, for a bit of historical background for you, Judea and Samaria are the actual heart of what Israel is, okay?

00:04:46.000 Tel Aviv is not really... it's part of original Israel, but it's certainly not paramount to the Bible.

00:04:52.000 Curiat Arba is, right?

00:04:53.000 It's actually mentioned, like, this area is mentioned in the Bible itself.

00:04:56.000 So this is historic Jewish land, but the international community thinks that that land ought to have no Jews on it.

00:05:01.000 No Jews at all. 1.00

00:05:02.000 Even if you think, by the way, that the Palestinian Arabs ought to control that land, which, I don't know why you'd want terrorists controlling the land, but let's say you do, even if you think that, you should ask yourself why it is that that land has to be Jew-free. 1.00

00:05:13.000 There are lots of Arabs living inside Israel.

00:05:14.000 Why does Palestinian Arab land have to be Jew-free? 1.00

00:05:16.000 There are zero Jews living in the Gaza Strip right now, right? 0.97

00:05:20.000 But the idea is that she had no right to be living where she's living, so if this Arab crawls in her bedroom window and stabs her to death, 0.98

00:05:26.000 And stabs her to death, then that's totally fine because of where this was. 0.98

00:05:31.000 And this is not a shock. 0.95

00:05:32.000 I mean, nobody should be shocked that this is how the Palestinians, the Palestinian Arabs act. 1.00

00:05:36.000 They particularly shouldn't be shocked.

00:05:37.000 I'm getting very sick of hearing that this is all about the territory.

00:05:40.000 It has nothing to do with the territory.

00:05:41.000 It has nothing to do with the settlements.

00:05:43.000 The same day this happened, two more Jews were stabbed in Netanya, which literally is on the Mediterranean coast, which is like the heart of Israeli territory under any settlement negotiation.

00:05:53.000 In any case, the real reason that this is happening is radical Islam.

00:05:56.000 The same reason that Turkey got bombed the other day.

00:05:58.000 The same reason that France gets shot up every couple of months.

00:06:00.000 The same reason 49 gay people just got shot in Orlando.

00:06:03.000 The same reason that a bunch of people got shot in San Bernardino. 0.53

00:06:05.000 That's why this little girl got stabbed to death.

00:06:07.000 It doesn't matter, though.

00:06:08.000 According to the international leftist community, she got stabbed because she was living in the wrong place because she had no right to be sleeping in her bedroom at night.

00:06:15.000 That's according to the international leftist community.

00:06:18.000 Within hours of her funeral, the so-called Middle East Quartet, this would be the UN evil organization, the European Union morally bankrupt organization, the United States led by the morally bankrupt, Jew-hating Obama administration, and the Russians, who obviously are just out for themselves and really don't care, 0.54

00:06:36.000 They came out and they said, well, really what needs to happen here is Jews need to stop building bedrooms in the West Bank, right? 1.00

00:06:41.000 They need to stop building bedrooms in Judea and Samaria.

00:06:43.000 You want to know the real reason, gang? 0.57

00:06:45.000 Why Palestinian Arabs are killing people? 1.00

00:06:46.000 It's radical Islam. 0.99

00:06:47.000 And here's the proof.

00:06:48.000 This is what Palestinian Arabs are teaching their children. 0.81

00:06:51.000 This is from the Islamic Association in Khan Yunus.

00:06:54.000 Okay, what you're seeing is you're seeing a bunch of Palestinian kids and they're carrying keys and carrying fake guns. 1.00

00:07:01.000 And then this is them kidnapping 0.68

00:07:04.000 This is them being trained to kidnap and stab Israeli soldiers. 0.97

00:07:07.000 You see? 0.75

00:07:07.000 You see the kid with the knife? 0.75

00:07:09.000 He's stabbing fake Israeli soldiers.

00:07:11.000 Kids aren't playing that, right? 0.99

00:07:12.000 Now, this is video of these kids running out of a terror tunnel and kidnapping Jews and then murdering them.

00:07:20.000 How old are these kids here, you think?

00:07:21.000 Maybe five, six years old?

00:07:22.000 Maybe four or five years old?

00:07:25.000 Right?

00:07:25.000 You wonder why kids are getting stabbed in their bedrooms in Qarayat Arba?

00:07:29.000 This is why kids are getting stabbed in their bedrooms

00:07:31.000 It has nothing to do with the location of the bedroom.

00:07:34.000 It has to do with pure, unadulterated evil.

00:07:38.000 That's what you're watching here.

00:07:38.000 These kids throwing rocks at kids dressed up as ultra-Orthodox Jews who are praying, right?

00:07:43.000 That's what those kids are supposed to be doing. 0.60

00:07:45.000 It's called shuckling, right?

00:07:46.000 That's where you're praying.

00:07:47.000 And they're taking rocks and throwing it at the children.

00:07:51.000 This is how they are training their small children.

00:07:53.000 You tell me whether this has to do with Western civilization versus radical Islam, or whether this has to do with where somebody's building an extra bedroom. 1.00

00:08:01.000 It's a bunch of crap. 0.99

00:08:03.000 And by the way, this is state-sponsored. 1.00

00:08:04.000 This is state-sponsored, okay?

00:08:05.000 This is sponsored by the people Israel is supposed to be negotiating with.

00:08:08.000 The Palestinian Authority, which is supposed to be the moderates, right? 0.98

00:08:11.000 Those are the moderates Israel's supposed to be negotiating with.

00:08:14.000 Their official news agency called the murderer, the guy who stabbed the 13-year-old girl, called him a martyr.

00:08:19.000 Here's what the guy's mother said.

00:08:21.000 Here's what the guy's mother said.

00:08:22.000 Imagine your kid, for a second, went and stabbed a 13-year-old girl to death in her bedroom.

00:08:26.000 Here's what the mother said, quote,

00:08:43.000 Now, if the Obama administration got a hold of that quote, presumably that quote would read, Because we can't talk about the reality, which is that we're all in the same battle here.

00:08:55.000 We're all in the same battle.

00:08:57.000 Now, the left refuses to acknowledge the battle anyway, right?

00:08:59.000 When people get killed by radical Muslims in the United States, it's because of failures of gun control. 0.95

00:09:04.000 When Turkey gets bombed, 0.99

00:09:05.000 Then it's not radical Islam.

00:09:07.000 That's just an internal strike.

00:09:09.000 When this stuff happens in France, then maybe it's radical Islam, but still really it's kind of just about Islamophobia. 0.89

00:09:16.000 It's about intolerance for Muslims and that's what drives them to go and shoot people up at a newspaper office. 1.00

00:09:20.000 But there's another step of evil that suddenly attends when it comes to Jews living in Israel. 1.00

00:09:25.000 It's another step of evil. 0.92

00:09:27.000 They have to separate the Jews off, even from the West. 1.00

00:09:29.000 I mean, you remember back during the Charlie Hebdo attack, you remember that there were terrorists, and they went and they shot up a French newspaper?

00:09:35.000 You remember where they went from the French newspaper?

00:09:37.000 They went from the French newspaper to a kosher supermarket.

00:09:39.000 And it's a kosher deli.

00:09:41.000 And they shot up the kosher deli.

00:09:42.000 And you remember, President Obama said it was random.

00:09:45.000 It was random.

00:09:46.000 Charlie Hebdo wasn't random, but the kosher supermarket was random.

00:09:49.000 The Jews always have to be separated out from everybody else according to the left.

00:09:54.000 Right? 0.99

00:09:54.000 The left has never suggested, for all the crap the left has suggested, they've never suggested that the French have to negotiate with ISIS. 0.99

00:10:00.000 They've never suggested the United States has to negotiate with ISIS, right? 0.96

00:10:03.000 They've never suggested that.

00:10:04.000 They've blamed it on other things, but they've never said, okay, let's open a negotiation with ISIS.

00:10:08.000 They say every day that Israel ought to open a negotiation with the people who celebrate people who stabbed to death 13-year-old girls in their bedroom.

00:10:16.000 This is the purest form of evil, and the left is attendant upon it, the left is part of it, and all that really does is, for Jews like me, it underscores the importance of the State of Israel, a place that continues to defend Jews as Jews, right?

00:10:28.000 That was the original purpose of the State of Israel from a secular point of view, was a place that was going to defend Jews when they were left out there alone by the rest of the world.

00:10:37.000 And, once again, they're left out there alone by the rest of the world. 0.98

00:10:39.000 Everybody will pay lip service to how terrible it is, and then they'll say that it really is the fault of these crazy Jews for having built their bedrooms. 1.00

00:10:46.000 The stabbings are secondary to the building of the bedroom. 0.98

00:10:49.000 So that's, to me, that's the biggest story of the day, and it's going to be undercover by the media, because it's just not that important, because it's Jews being killed, right? 0.66

00:10:57.000 It's not gays being killed in Orlando, or editors being killed in France, or even people being killed in Turkey.

00:11:03.000 This will be covered by virtually no one tonight. 0.99

00:11:05.000 This will be covered by virtually no one, because Jews are a little bit different, which is sickening. 1.00

00:11:09.000 Okay, so, on another note, on another note, 0.96

00:11:13.000 President Obama is very, very angry at Donald Trump.

00:11:15.000 He's really angry at Donald Trump.

00:11:17.000 And he was in Canada yesterday, and he did legitimately, I don't think we grabbed footage of, but the world's most awkward handshake with Justin Trudeau and Enrique Peña Nieto, who is the president of Mexico.

00:11:28.000 They all met together, and they started kind of doing a handshake, or it looked like they were doing a secret handshake to get into the

00:11:33.000 The no-girls, boys-only club.

00:11:36.000 It was either that or some other boys-only club.

00:11:38.000 But in any case, they had this weird handshake, and then President Obama got up and spoke in front of the Parliament, and he decided to rip on Donald Trump.

00:11:45.000 And he clearly hates Trump.

00:11:47.000 Clearly hates Trump.

00:11:48.000 Despises Trump.

00:11:49.000 Much more than he hates terrorists.

00:11:51.000 Much more than he hates terrorists.

00:11:52.000 Much more than he hates criminals.

00:11:55.000 He really despises Donald Trump.

00:11:57.000 And he's mad because Donald Trump claims to be a populist.

00:12:00.000 I wanted to find populist for a moment, because people keep throwing this word around.

00:12:03.000 What does it mean to be a populist?

00:12:05.000 All a populist means is somebody who claims that they want the power to reside in the people.

00:12:09.000 Now the problem with the populist argument is that it's a methodology.

00:12:12.000 It's not actually a politics.

00:12:14.000 So you can have a populist like Bernie Sanders, who's on the left, who says, power to the people!

00:12:18.000 We must have power to the people!

00:12:20.000 And that means all the power to the government!

00:12:22.000 And you can have populists on the right, like Donald Trump, who says,

00:12:25.000 And that's this whole issue of populism.

00:12:27.000 Maybe somebody can pull up in a dictionary quickly the phrase populism, but I'm not prepared to concede

00:12:57.000 The notion that some of the rhetoric that's been popping up is populist.

00:13:10.000 He says that only his populism is real populism.

00:13:13.000 First of all, the fact that all these politicians want to fight over what populism means, populism isn't a great thing.

00:13:20.000 It isn't.

00:13:20.000 Populism is just basically catering to the lowest common denominator.

00:13:24.000 It doesn't say anything about philosophy.

00:13:25.000 Again, it's a strategy.

00:13:27.000 It's not a philosophy of governance or government.

00:13:29.000 It doesn't tell you what somebody's thinking.

00:13:30.000 If I tell you that somebody's a populist, you don't know whether I'm talking about Trump or whether I'm talking about Bernie Sanders.

00:13:36.000 So when he says that Trump isn't a real populist, what he really means is that Trump isn't saying things in the name of the people.

00:13:41.000 I say things in the name of the people.

00:13:43.000 But here's the thing.

00:13:44.000 Real populists, you know, people who actually cared about democracy, for example, they wouldn't claim to speak in the name of the people.

00:13:50.000 They would claim to speak in their own name, and then people either support them or they don't.

00:13:54.000 Obama goes on like this, ripping Trump in a foreign country, of course, because this is what Obama does, because this is who he is.

00:13:59.000 He's very upset at Donald Trump's anti-immigrant, what he calls, demagoguery.

00:14:05.000 We've had times throughout our history where anti-immigration sentiment is exploited by demagogues.

00:14:13.000 It was directed at the Irish.

00:14:16.000 It was directed at Poles and Italians.

00:14:18.000 And you can go back and read what was said about those groups, and it's identical to what they're now saying about Mexicans or Guatemalans or Salvadorans or Muslims or Asians.

00:14:31.000 Same stuff.

00:14:32.000 They're different.

00:14:33.000 They're not going to fit.

00:14:35.000 They wanted to assimilate. 0.86

00:14:38.000 They bring crime.

00:14:39.000 Same arguments.

00:14:41.000 You go back to the 1800s.

00:14:42.000 The language is identical.

00:14:47.000 But guess what?

00:14:51.000 They kept coming.

00:14:52.000 So we can stop it there.

00:14:53.000 And they kept coming.

00:14:54.000 They kept coming.

00:14:55.000 Okay, so I'll explain.

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00:15:28.000 Okay, so President Obama says this, right?

00:15:31.000 President Obama says what he says.

00:15:33.000 He says that this is the same sort of xenophobia that we used to see.

00:15:36.000 Okay, there is one difference.

00:15:37.000 There is one difference.

00:15:38.000 It used to be that we didn't hand people welfare benefits.

00:15:41.000 So it's true, when people came here from Germany or when they came from Eastern Europe, lots of Jews, when Italians came here, there was a lot of talk about crime.

00:15:48.000 There's a lot of talk about an underclass coming in.

00:15:50.000 The difference was this.

00:15:51.000 The types of people we were attracting then were people who were seeking freedom and not looking for a handout from the government.

00:15:57.000 They weren't a net cost because they didn't cost anything.

00:16:00.000 They came in, and it wasn't anybody's job to take care of them.

00:16:03.000 It was their job to make a life for themselves.

00:16:06.000 Go watch a film called Brooklyn.

00:16:08.000 It's a pretty good film, and it's about an Irish immigrant coming over to the United States, and you'll see this is exactly what it's about, basically.

00:16:14.000 She comes over to the United States.

00:16:16.000 And she gets help from her, from her, basically her family and her church to find a job and they help integrate her into the society.

00:16:23.000 There's no, at no point in the film does she go to the government office looking for a check.

00:16:26.000 Once you create a system with a government office where people are looking for a check, then the culture of the people coming over actually matters a lot more.

00:16:34.000 Because before, you were having, it's a different magnet drawing a different type of people.

00:16:39.000 It's a different system that draws a different type of immigrant.

00:16:42.000 And if people don't integrate into the prevailing society, they're never going to be able to get a job.

00:16:47.000 If you sit apart from the rest of the society, believing in a culture that doesn't exist here, you're going to have a problem getting a job and living and staying and working.

00:16:55.000 And so there had to be an integration just by force of capitalism.

00:16:59.000 Well, that no longer exists.

00:17:00.000 That's the difference between the so-called anti-immigrant demagoguery of the 1870s, kind of the know-nothing demagoguery of the 1860s, and the so-called anti-immigrant demagoguery of Donald Trump.

00:17:10.000 I'm not anti-immigrant, by the way.

00:17:12.000 I'm a full Milton Friedman libertarian when it comes to immigration, so long as there's not a welfare state.

00:17:17.000 If there is a welfare state, now you do have to pick and choose the people who come in, obviously.

00:17:21.000 But this is the sort of demagoguery in which Obama participates, this populist leftism.

00:17:26.000 And I think it's important to mention here that the populist leftism that he's pushing

00:17:29.000 is still a populism that puts himself at the head of a big government.

00:17:35.000 Give him all the power, everything is fine.

00:17:37.000 He just doesn't like the idea that Trump is proposing.

00:17:39.000 Give Trump all the power and everything is fine. 0.91

00:17:41.000 Now, speaking of giving people all the power and everything is fine, Hillary Clinton continues to be wildly corrupt. 1.00

00:17:46.000 Now, it's obvious she's a felon. 1.00

00:17:47.000 She is. 1.00

00:17:48.000 She's a felon. 1.00

00:17:49.000 And the reason we know this is because if you have classified material on a private server, you are a felon. 0.98

00:17:54.000 She was Secretary of State.

00:17:55.000 If all her email was going to a private server, she had to have classified material on there.

00:18:00.000 She's the Secretary of State.

00:18:01.000 Thus, she is a felon. 0.98

00:18:03.000 Duh.

00:18:04.000 Okay, my wife worked at the VA when she was in medical school, and one of the things she did at the VA is she had to take training as to what sort of information she was allowed to take in and out of the building because of HIPAA, because of federal law.

00:18:15.000 If she had accidentally taken out medical records from the building and put them in her car, that would be a crime, right, to do that.

00:18:21.000 Now imagine that she had set up a private server and downloaded all of the HIPAA records there.

00:18:26.000 Would that be a crime? 0.91

00:18:26.000 You bet your butt it would be a crime, right? 0.91

00:18:28.000 This is a crime. 0.89

00:18:30.000 But in order to make sure that nothing criminal happens here,

00:18:34.000 Loretta Lynch.

00:18:35.000 This is discovered by a local media outlet in Phoenix.

00:18:37.000 Loretta Lynch, the Attorney General of the United States, she meets with Bill Clinton on the tarmac in the middle of nowhere at this little airbase in Phoenix. 0.64

00:18:45.000 And the media spot her there.

00:18:47.000 And she goes and she meets with Bill Clinton.

00:18:48.000 Now, think about how corrupt this is.

00:18:50.000 Think about how insanely corrupt this is. 0.92

00:18:53.000 You've got Hillary Clinton.

00:18:55.000 And Bill Clinton, and they're conspiring to do stuff, and we know that.

00:18:57.000 We know that the Clinton Foundation was working with Hillary while she was at the State Department.

00:19:01.000 Bill was the head of the Clinton Foundation.

00:19:03.000 Hillary was the head of the State Department.

00:19:04.000 We know there were corrupt bargains between them.

00:19:06.000 We know that there was a slush fund at the Clinton Foundation.

00:19:08.000 People who were giving money to the Clinton Foundation were getting special benefits from the Hillary Clinton State Department.

00:19:13.000 We know all that.

00:19:14.000 Now you have Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and she's showing up on the tarmac and meeting privately with no cameras and no media and no one else there with Bill Clinton.

00:19:24.000 So Loretta Lynch says, of course, that this is all totally harmless.

00:19:27.000 Here's what Loretta Lynch had to say about it.

00:19:29.000 General Loretta Lynch met with former President Bill Clinton earlier this week.

00:19:34.000 So, Paula, how did this meeting happen?

00:19:36.000 We just got some tape of Lynch explaining this today.

00:19:40.000 Let's just play a little bit of that.

00:19:42.000 Well, I did see the president at the Phoenix airport the other night.

00:19:45.000 As I was landing, he was headed out.

00:19:47.000 He did come over and say hello and speak to my husband and myself and talk about his grandchildren and his travels and things like that.

00:19:55.000 So that was the extent of that.

00:19:56.000 And no discussions were held on any cases or anything of that.

00:19:59.000 And he didn't raise anything about that either.

00:20:02.000 Okay, so it was just a meeting, you know, just saying hello.

00:20:05.000 You know, it was nothing.

00:20:06.000 It was totally nothing.

00:20:07.000 And the media are so credulous.

00:20:08.000 Oh, yeah, probably nothing happened here.

00:20:10.000 Probably nothing happened.

00:20:11.000 They're like best friends.

00:20:12.000 Okay, they met like one time.

00:20:13.000 Ever.

00:20:14.000 Okay, she wasn't at Chelsea's wedding.

00:20:16.000 They don't know each other.

00:20:17.000 They just happened to meet.

00:20:18.000 Like, how does that work?

00:20:19.000 They just happen to be at the same airbase, and she's just walking around the tarmac for no reason, and Bill looks out the window and goes, Hey, look, it's Loretta.

00:20:25.000 Let's get her up here. 1.00

00:20:26.000 And then Loretta goes, Oh, hi, Bill!

00:20:28.000 I've been missing you!

00:20:29.000 Like, how does that even work?

00:20:32.000 I don't know.

00:20:56.000 What's the name of the guy he ends up shooting in the restaurant?

00:20:59.000 I can't remember the name of the guy he ends up shooting in the restaurant.

00:21:01.000 In any case, he goes to meet with... He's trying to bargain with the guy who just tried to kill his father.

00:21:06.000 And they're both Italian.

00:21:07.000 They're both Sicilian.

00:21:09.000 And he's meeting over dinner with this guy.

00:21:12.000 And he brings along McCluskey.

00:21:13.000 McCluskey's the cop.

00:21:15.000 McCluskey's on the payroll.

00:21:17.000 So McCluskey's sitting here, and Michael's sitting here, and the other guy is sitting across from him, and they're speaking.

00:21:24.000 They're just talking about, how's your father?

00:21:25.000 Oh, everything's good.

00:21:26.000 How are you doing?

00:21:27.000 Everything is fine.

00:21:29.000 And then, at a certain point, the other guy turns to the cop who's on his payroll, right?

00:21:34.000 He turns to the cop who's on his payroll, and he says to him, you know, me and Michael, we're gonna speak Italian now.

00:21:42.000 And is it Salerno?

00:21:44.000 The name of the guy?

00:21:46.000 It's killing me that I can't remember the name of the guy who's the villain.

00:21:51.000 I mean, Salazzo.

00:21:52.000 Salazzo.

00:21:52.000 That's who it is.

00:21:53.000 Salazzo.

00:21:53.000 Thank you.

00:21:53.000 So Salazzo is sitting on the other side.

00:21:55.000 Salazzo turns to McCluskey and he says, Me and Michael, we're going to talk Italian now.

00:21:59.000 And McCluskey goes, Sounds good to me.

00:22:01.000 Go ahead.

00:22:01.000 And he's sitting there with the police uniform on and they're talking to each other and they're saying what they want to say and it's not even translated.

00:22:07.000 So unless you speak Italian, you don't know what they're saying.

00:22:10.000 That's the media here.

00:22:12.000 Loretta Lynch, Obama, Bill, they turn to the media and they go, me and Loretta, we're gonna speak a little Italian here.

00:22:20.000 We're gonna speak a little Italian.

00:22:21.000 And the media goes, sure, okay.

00:22:23.000 Do what you need to do.

00:22:25.000 That's what's going on here.

00:22:27.000 The media are refusing to acknowledge the obvious, which is they're not getting together to talk about their grandchildren.

00:22:31.000 Come on.

00:22:32.000 Come on.

00:22:34.000 Bill has more grandchildren than he's even willing to talk about, I'm sure.

00:22:38.000 I mean, the idea that Bill's calling her on board to say, yeah, Loretta, I was just hanging out with Charlotte the other day, and she was so cutie. 0.86

00:22:44.000 I mean, she's so cute. 0.98

00:22:45.000 She's the only cutie I ever haven't wanted to have sex with. 1.00

00:22:47.000 It's amazing. 0.75

00:22:49.000 Like, the idea that that's the conversation and not, well, hi there, O'Reilly, you know, my wife's running for president and, you know, we know that you're not going to indict her or anything.

00:22:57.000 Well, we think that maybe there might be a slot for you opening up in the next administration.

00:23:00.000 Like, that that's not the conversation?

00:23:02.000 The idea that's not the conversation?

00:23:04.000 That it was just all friendly talk?

00:23:06.000 They were just getting together to hang out because they're best buds and they were sharing a cigar and a beer? 1.00

00:23:09.000 What kind of garbage? 1.00

00:23:11.000 What kind of crap? 1.00

00:23:11.000 Even the Democrats, by the way, know that this looks awkward. 1.00

00:23:15.000 Senator, I think it's Chris Coons from Delaware.

00:23:17.000 He says that this is he says that this this was probably a bad idea.

00:23:22.000 What do you think about the impropriety or the appearance of that?

00:23:27.000 Well, listen, I've just heard about this this morning.

00:23:29.000 My impression of the meeting was that the attorney general was coming into Phoenix to give a speech about community policing and that the former president asked to talk to her briefly about community policing.

00:23:43.000 I do agree with you that it doesn't send the right signal.

00:23:46.000 I am impressed with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the work that she's done in combating violent crime and in leading the Department of Justice, and she has generally shown excellent judgment and strong leadership of the department, and I'm convinced that she is an independent Attorney General.

00:24:00.000 But I do think that this meeting sends the wrong signal, and I don't think it sends the right signal.

00:24:05.000 I think she should have steered clear.

00:24:07.000 Even of a brief, casual social meeting with the former president.

00:24:10.000 She should have said, no thank you, I'm not available to meet right now.

00:24:15.000 I think she should have said, look, I recognize you have a long record of leadership on fighting crime, but this is not the time for us to have that conversation.

00:24:22.000 After the election's over, I'd welcome your advice and input.

00:24:25.000 Super, duper, duper corrupt.

00:24:27.000 Super corrupt, right? 0.97

00:24:30.000 And it is.

00:24:30.000 This all is super corrupt.

00:24:31.000 I love when he says that she's not corrupt, she's really doing hard work.

00:24:34.000 Loretta Lynch is the lady who's used the Department of Justice to threaten prosecution against people who participate in anti-Islamic speech.

00:24:41.000 Loretta Lynch is the lady who's used the Department of Justice to crack down on private businesses as well as police departments that have nothing to do with racism. 1.00

00:24:51.000 She's used the DOJ to crack down. 1.00

00:24:53.000 She's absolutely corrupt from beginning to end. 1.00

00:24:55.000 Andrew Klavan calls her sinister. 0.78

00:24:56.000 That's a really kind word for Loretta Lynch.

00:24:59.000 And the idea that she's meeting with Bill just out of the goodness of her heart.

00:25:02.000 Absolute horsepucky.

00:25:03.000 Absolute nonsense.

00:25:04.000 Well, but don't worry, the media won't focus on any of that.

00:25:07.000 And they also won't focus on the fact that the left refuses to acknowledge real dangers to the country.

00:25:12.000 They just say, okay, so Hillary is corrupt, whatever. 1.00

00:25:14.000 Okay, so there are real dangers to the country, whatever.

00:25:16.000 There's a DHS whistleblower, Department of Homeland Security whistleblower, and his name is Philip Haney, and he was testifying on the Hill yesterday.

00:25:24.000 Listen to what he says about what the federal government has been doing to cover up for terrorism, and then we'll talk about how the left has responded to all of this.

00:25:31.000 Between these two days, 2008 and 2016, came what I call the first great purge.

00:25:37.000 When I was ordered by the Department of Homeland Security headquarters to modify a euphemism, removing all linking information out of approximately 820 text subject records in our law enforcement system that almost exclusively had to do with Muslim Brotherhood Network here in the United States.

00:25:58.000 I was told to remove all unauthorized references to terrorism, that I was no longer allowed to do what are called memorandums of information received, what we call MOIRs, no more text records, no more research, and no more special treatment from the agency.

00:26:15.000 But during that time, hundreds of law enforcement actions had been taken in the three-year period when those 820-plus records were still in the law enforcement system.

00:26:27.000 At exactly the same time, a controversial inaugural meeting took place on January 27th and 28th, 2010, between American Muslim leaders and the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, which was hosted by the Department of Homeland Security, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.

00:26:47.000 It was controversial because several of the individuals who attended the invitation-only conference in D.C.

00:26:53.000 were known affiliates of at least two of the same Muslim Brotherhood front groups that had just been named as unindicted co-conspirators in the largest terrorism trial in the history of the United States.

00:27:05.000 Haney, it's difficult to listen to him because he's very boring, but what he's saying is that the Department of Homeland Security basically wiped out of its records affiliations with terrorist groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, for people under investigation, and then proceeded to even meet with people who had those affiliations in their civil rights division.

00:27:21.000 That's what he's saying.

00:27:22.000 So is the left worried about, you know, Hillary risking national security?

00:27:26.000 Are they worried about the cover-up from the federal government?

00:27:28.000 Are they worried about terrorism?

00:27:29.000 Are they worried about radical Islamism?

00:27:30.000 No, of course not!

00:27:32.000 They're worried about gun control!

00:27:33.000 So you got all these celebrities now, and all these celebrities get together to read the names of the Orlando victims.

00:27:37.000 They're not doing it because they want Islamic jihad fought.

00:27:40.000 They're doing it because they want gun control, of course.

00:27:44.000 John Carlos Nieves Rodriguez 27 years old

00:27:49.000 John started working at McDonald's at age 15 to help support his family and was recently made the manager of a check cashing store.

00:27:58.000 He purchased his first home this spring so that his mother could live there too.

00:28:04.000 He loved to escape to the beach, though his best friend called him a big teddy bear who was happy when everyone depended on him.

00:28:25.000 Did they do this?

00:28:26.000 Have they been doing this after the Chattanooga shootings of the military members?

00:28:29.000 No, they never do it.

00:28:30.000 They don't do it when the issue is radical Islam.

00:28:33.000 They don't do it.

00:28:34.000 They should be doing it for all the victims.

00:28:36.000 They should be doing it for all victims, but the only time I've ever seen the left treat victims as victims is when they're trying to push gun control or when they're trying to ban the Confederate flag.

00:28:44.000 And they did this sort of stuff for the shooting in Charleston.

00:28:47.000 They should be doing it when they're ripping against Islamic radicalism, but they don't care about any of that stuff. 0.98

00:28:52.000 They don't.

00:28:52.000 And they don't care about the corruption, and they don't care about the fact the Obama administration doesn't care about that stuff.

00:28:57.000 They don't care about any of that, and Whoopi Goldberg makes that clear.

00:28:59.000 The Benghazi report comes out earlier this week, says that

00:29:03.000 Hillary literally went to sleep, basically, while people were under fire. 1.00

00:29:07.000 And that the big debate in the White House was, do we spin this so that it's about a YouTube video, or do we not spin it so that it's about a YouTube video?

00:29:12.000 And also, should our soldiers wear a uniform if they go in and save our guys?

00:29:16.000 Let's dither around for eight hours and do nothing.

00:29:18.000 But here's Whoopi Goldberg summing up the thoughts of the left on all this stuff.

00:29:21.000 I mean, this is stomach-churning, folks. 0.99

00:29:22.000 Here's Whoopi Goldberg on The View, the repository of all human stupidity, a place where the total grand combined IQ of all the people on the panel is lower than 0.99

00:29:32.000 Then my weight, with a couple of decimal points, moved over. 1.00

00:29:36.000 Here's Whoopi Goldberg, one of the stupidest people in American politics. 1.00

00:29:40.000 I mean, this is part of the problem. 1.00

00:29:42.000 When people, you know, talk about, oh, she's not trustworthy, it's because people have done this.

00:29:46.000 She sat with the Republicans.

00:29:48.000 She sat with everybody she was supposed to sit with.

00:29:50.000 She talked about everything.

00:29:51.000 She didn't do anything.

00:29:53.000 Walk away.

00:29:54.000 Get something new.

00:29:55.000 We're bored with it.

00:29:56.000 We're bored.

00:29:57.000 It's not as we're voting.

00:29:58.000 It's done.

00:29:59.000 We're bored.

00:30:00.000 We don't want to watch it.

00:30:00.000 We're bored.

00:30:02.000 You're bored?

00:30:03.000 I don't care.

00:30:05.000 You're bored?

00:30:06.000 I'll tell you who wasn't bored, the people who died there.

00:30:08.000 I'll tell you who's not gonna be bored, all the people who are gonna die because people like you don't care.

00:30:12.000 The people who aren't, they're not gonna be bored, they're gonna be dead.

00:30:15.000 Because the left refuses to acknowledge the problem, wants to put in power a lady who has no capacity for non-corruption, a lady who puts her own personal self-aggrandizement and power above the lives of other fellow Americans who are in harm's way. 1.00

00:30:29.000 And you're bored with it?

00:30:30.000 You're bored with it?

00:30:31.000 What, you gotta go make a sequel to Ghost?

00:30:32.000 What do you got that's going on that's so important?

00:30:34.000 You gotta sit there jabbering about the latest Kim Kardashian butt shot on The View?

00:30:38.000 You're too bored to deal with it? 0.99

00:30:40.000 You're too bored to deal with the fact that your chosen candidate is a corrupt felon? 0.95

00:30:44.000 You're too bored to deal with that? 0.69

00:30:46.000 That she was willing to lie to the families of the people who were murdered?

00:30:50.000 Sorry if you're bored.

00:30:51.000 Sorry if you're bored.

00:30:51.000 But they're all bored.

00:30:52.000 They're all bored.

00:30:53.000 The media's bored.

00:30:54.000 Here's a CNN reporter explaining that this whole terrorism thing is just getting in the way of what we really ought to be talking about, and what we really ought to be talking about is climate change.

00:31:03.000 I think that virtually every time we go on one of these foreign trips where the White House wants to emphasize something else, I mean, here, they really want to be focusing on North America and climate change again.

00:31:15.000 Terrorism has overshadowed some of those subjects, and we know that the president's going to be getting more questions about this, and those abilities of ISIS to launch these attacks throughout the day.

00:31:24.000 I mean, it's just too bad.

00:31:25.000 Terrorism is just overshadowing this stuff.

00:31:27.000 We really ought to worry about whether the sea level is going to rise afoot in 100 years.

00:31:31.000 That's really what we ought to be worrying about right now.

00:31:33.000 Not about this whole terrorism shtick.

00:31:34.000 It really is just annoying.

00:31:35.000 I wish that people would just put that aside.

00:31:37.000 It would be really nice if they would just, you know, get on to the real issues.

00:31:41.000 Like the weather.

00:31:45.000 Meanwhile, this you would imagine would be ripe, fertile ground for Donald Trump to make some moves, right?

00:31:50.000 So there's a new poll out today from Rasmussen that shows Trump up 4.

00:31:53.000 Unfortunately, there are two other polls.

00:31:54.000 A poll that shows Trump down 10 to Hillary, 42 to 32.

00:31:57.000 Which, by the way, that statistic's amazing.

00:31:59.000 That she only has 42% and she's still beating him by 10 in the Reuters tracking poll?

00:32:03.000 Where are the other 26% of the American population?

00:32:05.000 They all go hang themselves?

00:32:06.000 Like, what are they doing? 1.00

00:32:09.000 It appears to me that the other 26% are looking and saying, okay, we've got Trump, who's a crap show, and Hillary, who's a crap show. 0.99

00:32:14.000 We don't like either of them, so we're just not going to tell you who we're voting for, right? 0.99

00:32:17.000 But the bottom line is that you would imagine Trump should be making some moves.

00:32:21.000 And Trump says some things that are worthy of saying.

00:32:24.000 Again, as always, every single day.

00:32:25.000 See, this is the thing about this particular feature of the Ben Shapiro show, this new and really, I think, consistent feature of the Ben Shapiro show.

00:32:33.000 Every single day, there's good Trump and bad Trump.

00:32:35.000 There's no day that goes by where it's just good Trump.

00:32:37.000 There's no day that goes by that it's just bad Trump.

00:32:39.000 It's almost always there's some good Trump, and there's always some bad Trump.

00:32:42.000 So it's time for some good Trump, bad Trump.

00:32:44.000 Here is the good Trump.

00:32:46.000 Okay, so, good Trump.

00:32:47.000 Donald Trump talked yesterday about Syrian refugees being allowed into Europe.

00:32:51.000 He said this on Bill O'Reilly's show, and this is exactly right. 0.99

00:32:55.000 If he made this the sole focus of his campaign, gang, he would be in good shape.

00:32:58.000 If he actually made this the sole focus, after everything that I've just said, the corruption, the felonious backroom dealing, 0.91

00:33:03.000 The fact that the left is totally bored and willing to allow Westerners to be killed, whether they're Jews in Israel or whether they're gays in Orlando, this would be where Trump can make his hay. 0.88

00:33:13.000 So here is Trump talking about ISIS. 0.96

00:33:15.000 The fact that they seem to have these victories.

00:33:17.000 I don't know if you call that a victory, but it's a victory.

00:33:19.000 It's perceived as a victory.

00:33:20.000 You have, through the internet, they're taking our youth and the youth from other countries all over the world, and they're joining ISIS. 0.77

00:33:27.000 The youth thinks it's wonderful because they see victory.

00:33:30.000 You know, it's being portrayed as they are beating the United States.

00:33:34.000 And people are joining ISIS because of that.

00:33:36.000 Hillary Clinton is going to have to get tougher on terrorism. 1.00

00:33:42.000 She is.

00:33:43.000 She'll never get tougher.

00:33:44.000 She's not tough enough. 0.98

00:33:45.000 She's going to get tougher, at least rhetorically, on terrorism. 0.95

00:33:49.000 She's going to have to.

00:33:50.000 Because President Obama's policy of containment has failed.

00:33:54.000 Everybody in the world knows it's fair.

00:33:55.000 I don't see it happening with her.

00:33:57.000 She's not going to get tougher.

00:33:58.000 It started under her. 0.96

00:34:00.000 It was a little group of people.

00:34:02.000 It could have been wiped out quickly and effectively then.

00:34:05.000 Now it's a very large group of people.

00:34:07.000 And it's only getting bigger.

00:34:08.000 And if she gets in, it'll be massive. 0.69

00:34:11.000 And we won't even have a country anymore.

00:34:12.000 We're going to be afraid to walk outside.

00:34:14.000 All right.

00:34:14.000 Now we're going to hold Mr. Trump over a deal.

00:34:16.000 And Bill, remember one other thing.

00:34:18.000 They're letting tens of thousands of people come in from Syria, and nobody knows who these people are.

00:34:24.000 And a lot of those people are ISIS.

00:34:26.000 A lot of these people are ISIS.

00:34:28.000 Okay, what he's saying right there, he got a lot of flack for that last line.

00:34:31.000 A lot of these people are ISIS.

00:34:32.000 Polls show that 13% of Syrian refugees say they have sympathies with ISIS.

00:34:36.000 So, this is good Trump, right?

00:34:37.000 What Trump is saying here is exactly right.

00:34:39.000 If I thought he actually took the issue seriously, it would make me feel a little bit better about Trump.

00:34:43.000 I don't think that he takes it particularly seriously.

00:34:45.000 I think he's an ad hoc guy and he says what comes to mind, but I think that as soon as it's out of his head, it's out of his head.

00:34:50.000 But here, this is good Trump, right?

00:34:51.000 This is the Trump that says we gotta take these issues seriously.

00:34:54.000 And then, naturally, because it's a day ending in Y, there's some bad Trump.

00:34:58.000 So,

00:34:59.000 So Trump also was talking more about free trade yesterday. 0.97

00:35:02.000 One of the things that's very irritating to me politically, and it's very hard for me on politics, I do think that there are smart things and stupid things in politics.

00:35:09.000 I think there are true things and false things in politics.

00:35:12.000 And I think that politicians will basically lie to you in order to get you to do what they want you to do.

00:35:18.000 I think right now there's a movement by the left and by the right, really by the left, because Trump is of the left, on trade, to rip on free trade.

00:35:27.000 And we talked for 20 minutes yesterday about Trump's anti-free trade policies.

00:35:32.000 Both Trump and Hillary Clinton are lying to you about free trade.

00:35:36.000 Here is Donald Trump lying to you about free trade yesterday.

00:35:40.000 You go down the line and you look at what we've accomplished together, and I said to myself, why would the U.S.

00:35:47.000 Chamber of Commerce criticize what I'm saying?

00:35:50.000 Because here's what I'm saying.

00:35:51.000 Very simple.

00:35:53.000 I'm all for free trade.

00:35:54.000 It's fine.

00:35:55.000 But I want Carl Icahn negotiating for me.

00:35:58.000 I want the greatest business people negotiating my deals.

00:36:01.000 Not Hacks, okay. 0.98

00:36:03.000 But I'm all for free trade.

00:36:04.000 But here's what, because, you know, the U.S.

00:36:07.000 Chamber of Commerce is totally controlled by the special interest groups, folks, just so you understand it.

00:36:12.000 And there are special interests that want to have the deals that they want to have.

00:36:15.000 They want to have TPP, Trans-Pacific Partnership, one of the worst deals.

00:36:20.000 It'll be the worst deal since NAFTA.

00:36:22.000 No, it'll be the worst.

00:36:23.000 It'll drain the rest of your businesses out of Maine, believe me.

00:36:26.000 I mean, it's just going on like this, going on like this.

00:36:29.000 It's all nonsense, what he's saying. 0.72

00:36:30.000 I mean, the idea that NAFTA killed American economics is just silliness.

00:36:34.000 It's not true in any way.

00:36:36.000 We read the statistics yesterday.

00:36:37.000 It's not true.

00:36:39.000 And Charles Krauthammer gets this right.

00:36:40.000 He says we've now reached this point where both parties are against free trade.

00:36:45.000 Well, what he saw for the Republican primaries is that the traditional ideology, free trade,

00:36:52.000 More reasonable, more open on borders, was something that everybody else was supporting.

00:36:58.000 And he saw a real opening, and he won the nomination.

00:37:02.000 Essentially on that message.

00:37:04.000 Question is, how will it play in the country?

00:37:06.000 I think what's most interesting is the fact that if the Republicans are now banning free trade, for the first time ever in our memory, we're having a presidential campaign where neither side is for free trade.

00:37:19.000 Which I think bodes really badly

00:37:22.000 For our allies abroad, the Australians, the Canadians, the Mexicans, imagine the Mexicans looking at the cancellation of NAFTA, what effect it would have on them.

00:37:32.000 They're looking at a race where the country, with both parties, is now turning against free trade.

00:37:39.000 They had always assumed the United States to be the one country that would rise above the most narrow economic nationalism and save the idea of free trade.

00:37:49.000 That's not going to be true.

00:37:51.000 Okay, so what Krauthammer there is saying is true, although I will say that when he says we'd rise above the most narrow economic nationalism, economic nationalism would require free trade, as I said yesterday.

00:38:05.000 If you were actually an economic nationalist and you wanted America to be economically strong, you wouldn't fight free trade.

00:38:11.000 But he's right.

00:38:11.000 Basically, everybody is lying to you in order to get ahead, and that's what's so disappointing about this election.

00:38:16.000 One final note on the whole Trump of everything.

00:38:19.000 Mike Lee, who's the senator from Utah, where Trump is now running head, neck and neck with Hillary.

00:38:23.000 There's a new poll out, by the way, in Iowa, came out moments ago.

00:38:26.000 Shows Trump down 48-34 in Iowa.

00:38:29.000 Bloodbath.

00:38:30.000 Here is Steve Malzberg questioning Mike Lee about why is it that you won't back Trump?

00:38:35.000 And listen to Lee's answer.

00:38:37.000 I just don't understand why you're not out there, you know, trumpeting Trump.

00:38:41.000 Hey, look, Steve, I get it.

00:38:43.000 You want me to endorse Trump.

00:38:44.000 Well, I don't understand why you're not.

00:38:45.000 Really well.

00:38:46.000 Yeah.

00:38:46.000 Oh, well, we can get into that if you want.

00:38:49.000 I mean, we can get into the fact that he accused my best friend's father of conspiring to kill JFK.

00:38:56.000 We can go through the fact that he's made some statements that some have identified correctly as religiously intolerant.

00:39:03.000 We can get into the fact that wildly unpopular in my state.

00:39:07.000 In part because my state consists of people who are members of a religious minority church, of people who were ordered exterminated by the governor of Missouri in 1838, and statements like that make them nervous.

00:39:18.000 Now look, these things are not something that I couldn't get over if I heard the right things out of them.

00:39:25.000 But if you want to go to why it is I have concerns, I can go on if you'd like.

00:39:31.000 I hope I can get over these concerns.

00:39:33.000 I hope Mr. Trump can help me identify them.

00:39:35.000 But don't sit here and tell me, Steve, that I have no reason to be concerned about Donald Trump.

00:39:42.000 Well, again, I'm not gonna tell you- And Lee is exactly right.

00:39:45.000 And this is the problem with this election. 0.97

00:39:47.000 Hillary is so awful. 1.00

00:39:48.000 I mean, I can't say it enough times. 1.00

00:39:49.000 Hillary is so awful. 1.00

00:39:51.000 Awful. 1.00

00:39:51.000 She's a felon. 1.00

00:39:52.000 She doesn't believe in any of the right things. 1.00

00:39:54.000 She's gonna get people killed. 1.00

00:39:55.000 All of this is true. 0.87

00:39:57.000 And Trump, all he has to do is make people comfortable, and he's utterly incapable of doing it.

00:40:00.000 He's utterly incapable of doing it.

00:40:02.000 Okay, time for some quick things I like, things I hate, and mailbag, because we have a clock that means nothing.

00:40:06.000 So, quick things that I like.

00:40:08.000 Well, first, sorry, quick side note.

00:40:12.000 This one goes out to, this note of love, goes out to Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, who apparently are a couple.

00:40:19.000 Really?

00:40:20.000 Like, page six on the New York Post is now reporting that Mika and Joe, Mika's getting divorced, I guess, after 23 years to be with Joe.

00:40:27.000 It's a true romance.

00:40:29.000 I guess after they both broke up with Trump, they have a rebound relationship.

00:40:33.000 But here, Joe and Mika, apparently today, they kind of were flirting with each other on the air, because this is our media now, and it makes you want to just hang yourself.

00:40:39.000 So here's what it looked like.

00:40:41.000 Biggest two days, like, since Gordon Gekko roamed the world with those huge cellphones.

00:40:46.000 That's great.

00:40:46.000 Can I get to the lead story now?

00:40:48.000 By the way, there's a lot of lead stories today, but why don't we start with the Trump lead stories?

00:40:52.000 I will finish your sentence and start with politics.

00:40:55.000 A new poll in the presidential race shows the growing worry in the GOP about Donald Trump's struggle.

00:41:01.000 Okay, so there's a lot of lead stories today, aren't there?

00:41:06.000 Okay, so, all right, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:41:10.000 So things I like, we're finishing up with pre-Hays Code films.

00:41:13.000 Pre-Hays Code films include, the Hays Code was from 1933 to 1960, to reiterate, as we've said every day this week, that Hollywood imposed on itself a voluntary standard for how movies were gonna go.

00:41:24.000 And before that, the movies were very risque, they were very edgy, and some of the people who were stars that were hurt by the Hays Code

00:41:33.000 Oh, Your Excellency, I must speak to you!

00:41:34.000 I'll see you at the theater tonight.

00:41:35.000 I'll hold your seat till you get there.

00:41:38.000 After you get there, you're on your own.

00:41:39.000 Hello?

00:41:39.000 Hello, yes?

00:42:03.000 No, he's not in yet.

00:42:04.000 All right, but goodbye.

00:42:05.000 That was for you again.

00:42:07.000 I wonder what ever became of me.

00:42:09.000 I should have been back here a long time ago.

00:42:18.000 So it is funny.

00:42:19.000 The funny bits are not there, but you'll see the funny bits.

00:42:22.000 And that one's great.

00:42:24.000 A Night at the Opera is fantastic.

00:42:25.000 They have a lot of really good movies.

00:42:28.000 Groucho Marx wrote a... Actually, Harpo.

00:42:31.000 Harpo Marx, right?

00:42:31.000 Who never speaks.

00:42:32.000 He's mute in the movies.

00:42:34.000 He wrote a fantastic book called Harpo Speaks that you might be able to get on Amazon.

00:42:37.000 Still very funny.

00:42:39.000 Really, really funny book.

00:42:40.000 And a lot of gossip in there, and it's a good book.

00:42:42.000 Okay.

00:42:43.000 So because it's a Thursday and we're near the end of the week, the other thing I like is I've been doing sort of a Bible segment at the end of the week.

00:42:50.000 So this is from this week's Parsha.

00:42:53.000 This week's Parsha is a Torah portion that Jews read every week.

00:42:57.000 Throughout the whole year we get through the entire Bible by reading a portion every week.

00:43:00.000 This week, it's from Numbers, from the Book of Numbers, and the Book of Numbers 14, 18 through 20.

00:43:06.000 So, those aren't the only verses, but this is the ones we're quoting right now.

00:43:10.000 So this week's Parsha is Parsha Shalach.

00:43:13.000 This is the portion of the Torah, the portion of the Old Testament, in which the Jews are told by Moses, go ahead and spy out the land, they come back, they say, we can't do this, no way, we can't handle this, and God gets angry, and he says, okay, well then this entire generation's gonna die out in the desert, 0.80

00:43:29.000 And then we'll replace them with a new generation of Jews, and those are going to be the people who go in. 1.00

00:43:33.000 And there's one point there where God says to Moses, God, these people are so irritating. 0.96

00:43:38.000 They're so irritating.

00:43:38.000 I'm just going to wipe them all out, and I'll make a new nation out of you, right?

00:43:41.000 You and your kids.

00:43:42.000 And Moses, because he's humble, and because even though he's been really put to the metal by the Jews throughout the Torah, I mean, they're constantly complaining. 1.00

00:43:50.000 They just whine all the time.

00:43:51.000 Sort of like my show.

00:43:53.000 He finally says to God, don't do that.

00:43:57.000 If you do that, people are going to say, well, God promised to get the Jews out and bring them to Israel, and then he didn't do it, so God doesn't keep his promises.

00:44:03.000 So here is what Moses says to God to get him to change his mind, basically.

00:44:09.000 He says, The Lord is slow to anger and abundantly kind, forgiving iniquity and transgression, who cleanses some and does not cleanse others, who visit the iniquities of parents on children, even to the third and fourth generations.

00:44:19.000 Jews say this a lot right around Yom Kippur, right around the Day of Atonement. 0.56

00:44:22.000 We say this particular thing a lot.

00:44:37.000 And, uh, this formula.

00:44:38.000 So what's so special about this formula?

00:44:39.000 So what's special about this formula, as you'll notice, is that it doesn't just say, God gives us what we want.

00:44:44.000 It doesn't just say God is kind.

00:44:45.000 It says God is just, and God is kind, and we recognize that if God were just just, we would die.

00:44:51.000 And we recognize that if God were just kind, we would kill each other.

00:44:54.000 Right?

00:44:54.000 Because if God just let us alone to do what we want to do, we'd kill each other.

00:44:56.000 So, God is just, and God is kind.

00:44:59.000 He has to make exceptions to his own rules.

00:45:02.000 My favorite phrase of this, actually, I think, is something people misread a little bit.

00:45:06.000 The part where it says, he visits the iniquity of parents on children, even the third and fourth generation.

00:45:11.000 And people have questioned this for millennia.

00:45:13.000 Well, why is that a good thing, right?

00:45:14.000 I mean, why are you guilty for what your parents did?

00:45:16.000 I actually don't think that this is normative.

00:45:19.000 Meaning, I don't think that this is like, God is saying, this is what I'm supposed to do.

00:45:23.000 Right?

00:45:23.000 I don't think it's Moses saying this is what God is supposed to do.

00:45:26.000 I think that what Moses is saying is this is how the system works.

00:45:28.000 The system works this way.

00:45:30.000 And we all know this from our personal lives, right?

00:45:32.000 How your grandparents are, how your parents are, that impacts you.

00:45:36.000 It's gonna impact your kids.

00:45:37.000 It's gonna impact their kids.

00:45:38.000 I see it in myself, right?

00:45:40.000 I can see how my grandparents impacted my parents, who impact me, who impact how I raise my kids.

00:45:44.000 The bad thing is that they do carry three or four generations, but there's another version of this in the Bible where it says God remembers kindnesses down to the thousandth generation, and that's the kindness.

00:45:53.000 So the justice is that the things you do have an impact on future generations.

00:45:56.000 The kindness is that God relieves you of those things and remembers all the good things that you do down to the thousandth generation.

00:46:03.000 Okay.

00:46:03.000 Now time for a couple of quick things that I hate, and then we still have the mailbag, so, I mean, we've blown through the clock and, you know, it's over, gang.

00:46:10.000 No one cares.

00:46:10.000 Okay, so, things that I hate.

00:46:13.000 Mathis mentioned this to me yesterday and couldn't believe that I hadn't done it yet, so we're gonna do it now.

00:46:16.000 Caitlyn Jenner was on the cover of Sports Illustrated, looking just smoking hot.

00:46:22.000 And there is Caitlyn Jenner.

00:46:24.000 Who is, in fact, a dude with grown-out hair and a boob job, and still with all of his male appendages down below.

00:46:32.000 That's what Caitlyn Jenner is. 0.99

00:46:33.000 And that's relevant only because they're pretending that Caitlyn Jenner is a woman, and so he is thus a woman with a penis, and wearing his gold medals. 0.99

00:46:41.000 And they say, oh, as you know her now, Bruce Jenner, 40 years after Montreal. 0.98

00:46:46.000 Caitlyn shouldn't be wearing those medals, because woman Caitlyn did not win those medals, right? 1.00

00:46:51.000 Male Bruce won those medals.

00:46:52.000 Bruce won the medals.

00:46:54.000 Caitlyn would not have been allowed to participate, presumably competing against women, and after the hormone therapy, would not be winning against men. 0.59

00:47:02.000 But this is the whole new civil rights frontier for the left, and what's so damaging about this is that the myth that men can turn into women and women can turn into men, it confuses kids particularly, and they're pushing it into every aspect of culture.

00:47:13.000 They have a transgender character in Finding Dory now.

00:47:16.000 They're trying to tell kids that you can choose your own gender, which is absolute bunk. 0.99

00:47:21.000 And confused kids end up suicidal.

00:47:24.000 Okay, they do.

00:47:24.000 There's a reason that the suicidality rate, pre-post-op doesn't matter, well above 40% for people in the so-called transgender community.

00:47:33.000 But the mainstreaming of this and the suggestion that people like me, who say, okay, this is a person I feel terrible for, this is not a woman.

00:47:41.000 People like me, it's our fault if bad things happen to Caitlyn Jenner.

00:47:44.000 No, the bad thing already happened to Caitlyn Jenner. 0.94

00:47:46.000 Caitlyn Jenner is mentally ill, and this is a terrible, terrible thing, and they're celebrating a terrible thing. 0.86

00:47:50.000 This is a person who had an eight-hour surgery on his face, woke up crying and saying, what did I do? 0.98

00:47:54.000 So what did they do?

00:47:55.000 They called the psychiatrist to come in and explain, no, it's perfectly normal to feel bad about them doing an eight-hour surgery, but it'll be fine.

00:48:01.000 But it'll be fine.

00:48:03.000 I am not sure this is going to end well.

00:48:05.000 Okay, other thing that I hate.

00:48:07.000 So this morning, my co-host in the morning show, Alicia Krauss, she brings up this Kickstarter.

00:48:12.000 About a year ago, I began exploring these concepts of levitating plants.

00:48:16.000 And what's so cool about magnetism is it's a force that we... we can't see, but we can feel.

00:48:42.000 We're levitating the plant from the ground in midair and rotating.

00:48:49.000 She says, you want to see the coolest thing in the world?

00:48:51.000 It's the coolest thing that you've ever seen?

00:48:52.000 And she shows me this.

00:48:53.000 I'm like, okay, I guess it's kind of cool.

00:48:55.000 This thing they asked for $80,000 raise on Kickstarter.

00:48:58.000 They were given $320,000 by people.

00:49:01.000 And the only reason I can imagine that this is the case is because people don't- is because, as the Insane Clown Posse says, I mean, we can listen to the genius of the Insane Clown Posse explain it.

00:49:22.000 That's, I think, the sentiment behind the addiction to these magnets. 0.72

00:49:26.000 I had a co-host, and my other co-host, who's a lefty, which presumes that he's kind of dumb, he immediately said, how does it work?

00:49:33.000 I mean, are they, like, forcing the magnets together? 0.62

00:49:35.000 Or, like, if they take the magnets away, will it fall?

00:49:38.000 I'm like, yes.

00:49:39.000 Yes, it will. 1.00

00:49:40.000 You are stupid. 1.00

00:49:42.000 Okay, this is how magnets work. 1.00

00:49:43.000 Congratulations.

00:49:45.000 Folks, it's fine.

00:49:45.000 You want to spend money, $189 apparently for two of these things?

00:49:48.000 Like, I like magnets too!

00:49:49.000 They're cool!

00:49:50.000 Yay! 0.99

00:49:52.000 But, come on.

00:49:53.000 Okay, it's just, they're just magnets.

00:49:55.000 Okay, time for a couple of entries from the mailbag.

00:49:58.000 We'll run through them pretty quickly.

00:50:00.000 Lindsay is learning by now not to give me too many entries so that we don't go on too long with the mailbag.

00:50:04.000 Okay, Seth Wright.

00:50:05.000 Recently, a friend of mine asked who I was voting for.

00:50:07.000 We both responded with, definitely not Hillary, because he and I still believe in preserving America's founding constitutional rights.

00:50:13.000 However then, I then followed with, but I don't think I can compromise or rationalize my principles and cast a vote for Trump either.

00:50:19.000 At this point, I'm closer to casting a vote for Gary Johnson or just sitting this one out.

00:50:22.000 My friend seemed shocked by this.

00:50:23.000 He said, anything other than a vote for Trump is a vote for Hillary. 0.99

00:50:26.000 My question to you is, does that last statement, is anything other than a vote for Trump is a vote for Hillary idea hold any weight in this election at all?

00:50:32.000 Thank you.

00:50:33.000 Yeah, it holds some weight.

00:50:33.000 Sure.

00:50:34.000 I mean, I don't think that it's fully true.

00:50:36.000 I mean, by the same logic, any vote that's not for Hillary is a vote for Trump.

00:50:40.000 You know, it is annoying when people say a vote not for either is a vote for Hillary.

00:50:47.000 No, it's a vote for neither, right?

00:50:49.000 If it were a tie ball game and you were the last deciding vote and you didn't vote, it would remain a tie ball game.

00:50:52.000 You wouldn't be throwing the election to Hillary. 1.00

00:50:55.000 That said, as I've said many, many times and will continue to say, I understand if you want to vote for Trump just to stop Hillary.

00:51:00.000 I get it, I get it.

00:51:01.000 I may disagree.

00:51:02.000 The reason that I disagree is because my view is that you're corrupting your principles in order to vote for a guy who's, number one, going to lose.

00:51:09.000 And number two, even if he wins, is then going to corrupt the future of conservatism and turn it into European far-right nationalism.

00:51:15.000 And it's going to be very difficult for the conservative movement to recover from the leadership of somebody like Trump.

00:51:20.000 Particularly when conservatives fall in line and tell each other to shut up about all of the terrible things that he does and says and all of the principles that he undermines.

00:51:28.000 For example, Stephen Moore is a really good economist.

00:51:30.000 Stephen Moore, a free trader, he's basically gone silent now and he's trying to pretend that Donald Trump isn't anti-free trade.

00:51:37.000 He is anti-free trade.

00:51:38.000 And I love Stephen Moore, but he's anti-free trade.

00:51:40.000 I mean, you can't do that.

00:51:41.000 I mean, as you know, I've been confronting this head-on.

00:51:43.000 I think it's a mistake not to confront it head-on.

00:51:44.000 I think that people need to be informed, because people are going to ruin their lives over this.

00:51:47.000 There really will be young people 0.98

00:52:09.000 Who fall into the alt-right trap where they think that they're doing some great good for the universe by shouting cuck at people or by using the n-word in chat rooms?

00:52:16.000 And then they're gonna find out that not only did they not do their movements any good, not only did they not break the stranglehold of the SJWs, but they actually are going to be targeted and ruined by the SJWs for saying things that are pretty much indefensible.

00:52:29.000 The n-word is pretty indefensible.

00:52:30.000 I still haven't heard from, for example, Milo Yiannopoulos, who's a big

00:52:33.000 All right, guy.

00:52:34.000 I still haven't heard from Milo use the n-word.

00:52:36.000 He says that he's not bothered if anybody else uses it, presumably.

00:52:39.000 But why doesn't Milo use it?

00:52:40.000 If Milo's so gutsy, why doesn't Milo just use the n-word?

00:52:42.000 I mean, if he wants to violate taboos and destroy the social justice control of language, why doesn't Milo use the n-word? 0.99

00:52:48.000 And the answer is because Milo knows it's stupid to do so. 0.99

00:52:50.000 Milo knows it's a career-ender to do so. 0.99

00:52:52.000 That's why Milo doesn't do it.

00:52:54.000 But he's happy for other people to do it.

00:52:56.000 And that's what I find so kind of gross about this whole thing.

00:52:59.000 You're not fighting political correctness by saying things that are just vile.

00:53:02.000 You fight political correctness by fighting political correctness.

00:53:05.000 And Matt says, Hi Ben.

00:53:06.000 You talked about how tariffs are bad for the economy, which I agree with. 0.78

00:53:09.000 But if it would mean an elimination of the income tax in America, would you support going back to a system where virtually 100% of federal funding comes from tariffs and the IRF keeps their grubby fingers off our paychecks?

00:53:19.000 Uh, well, I mean, that's not the choice before us.

00:53:23.000 I think that if we were to talk about eliminating the income tax versus the sort of protectionism that would pay for our current budget, no.

00:53:28.000 If we're talking about the sort of tariffs that prevailed at the beginning of the republic versus the income tax, absolutely.

00:53:34.000 I mean, those were pretty low tariffs.

00:53:35.000 It depends on the level of tariffs, in other words.

00:53:37.000 If you're talking about a full protectionism,

00:53:39.000 Versus 40% income tax?

00:53:41.000 Then no, because full protectionism destroys your economy.

00:53:44.000 But this is really a mathematical calculation, not a moral one, since both of these things are bad.

00:53:47.000 The income tax is bad, and tariffs are bad.

00:53:50.000 If you're gonna have any sort of tax at all to raise money for the federal government, my view is that the only real tax that's fair is a tax

00:53:59.000 Maybe on consumption and only for purposes of how it's spent.

00:54:03.000 The purpose of the means of the tax is less important to me than the spending that arises from the tax.

00:54:08.000 The reason income taxes are so high is because we have a welfare state.

00:54:11.000 Get rid of the welfare state, you won't need all these tax dollars. 0.96

00:54:14.000 One of the things I think is so stupid about how Republicans talk about taxes is when they say things like, and George Gilder makes this point, when they say things like, 0.97

00:54:21.000 You know, we really have to... the Laffer Curve. 0.99

00:54:24.000 If we just lower tax rates, we'll get more government revenue.

00:54:26.000 I don't want more government revenue.

00:54:27.000 If government revenue lowers, that's fine with me.

00:54:29.000 So we cut.

00:54:30.000 That's the point.

00:54:31.000 I want the government cut.

00:54:32.000 That's one of the things I like.

00:54:33.000 Ricardo writes, how important do you think minority votes will be in this election?

00:54:36.000 Can Republicans reach minorities with Trump as the nominee?

00:54:39.000 No.

00:54:40.000 Republicans are not going to reach minority votes.

00:54:41.000 They're not going to reach majority votes with Trump as the nominee.

00:54:44.000 He's out there touting this Quinnipiac poll showing him at 33% among Hispanics.

00:54:47.000 If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

00:54:49.000 That ain't holding up.

00:54:51.000 As far as minority votes in the election, Hillary's going to rely heavily on them. 1.00

00:54:55.000 One of the reasons I think Hillary will do well is because the minority vote will come out not at the same rates as Obama, but in the same percentages.

00:55:03.000 And she'll do much better with the white vote than Obama ever did. 1.00

00:55:09.000 Excellent question.

00:55:14.000 Really excellent.

00:55:14.000 I've been desperately trying to work on my Trump impression.

00:55:17.000 I'll be honest with you. 1.00

00:55:18.000 My Trump impression sucks. 1.00

00:55:19.000 It's terrible. 1.00

00:55:20.000 My Obama is not bad at all.

00:55:22.000 My Obama's pretty good.

00:55:24.000 Christmas is also not bad!

00:55:26.000 I have a few that I have in my... John Kerry.

00:55:32.000 My John Kerry impression.

00:55:35.000 Here to serve you, the American people.

00:55:38.000 I have a few in my bag that are good.

00:55:40.000 My Trump socks.

00:55:41.000 So I really need to sit down with just a speech of Trump and honest to God, listening through a speech of Trump doing this would be so hard, but I need to kind of stop and start and work with my Trump impression.

00:55:49.000 That's why it's so bad.

00:55:50.000 Thanks.

00:55:51.000 Well, I'm not sure that there's ever like one...

00:56:05.000 Free markets are voluntary.

00:56:11.000 They're voluntary transactions.

00:56:13.000 Anybody who gets in the way of voluntary transactions is an obstacle to your freedom and happiness.

00:56:18.000 There.

00:56:18.000 That's why government should stay out of free markets.

00:56:20.000 Joseph, Minister Shapiro, big fan.

00:56:22.000 I wonder if you consider doing a PragerU lecture series detailing conservative arguments.

00:56:26.000 This would be an excellent member benefit for your website.

00:56:29.000 I would love to do that.

00:56:30.000 We'll think about how we can make that happen.

00:56:32.000 And as we gain members, I think that we're going to be able to do more of that kind of stuff.

00:56:35.000 So if you're not subscribing, folks, I know there are tens of thousands of people who listen to this show every single day.

00:56:40.000 As we say, we're the number one daily podcast for conservatives in America by the numbers.

00:56:45.000 Subscribe, and then we'll be able to do more of these sorts of things.

00:56:47.000 Brett writes, What do you think of the Rams moving back to LA?

00:56:50.000 I could not care less.

00:56:51.000 I could not care less.

00:56:52.000 Football is a TV sport.

00:56:54.000 I was perfectly happy watching football on TV.

00:56:57.000 I've never been to a football game.

00:56:58.000 I don't feel the need to go to a football game.

00:57:00.000 Me spending taxpayer money to bring the Rams back to LA.

00:57:03.000 They couldn't sustain them here the first time.

00:57:05.000 They couldn't sustain them here the second time.

00:57:06.000 So, I don't see why they'd sustain them here now.

00:57:08.000 Okay, Taylor says, With the government continuing to grow more and more, at what point would you say our government would become tyrannical?

00:57:14.000 Would it become possible at this point for the people to fully implement the Second Amendment, take up arms, start an uprising against the government, actually be successful?

00:57:21.000 Okay, so this is a question, this is maybe the hardest question in American politics.

00:57:24.000 It's almost, you don't know it until you see it.

00:57:26.000 I can tell you what my personal breaking point is.

00:57:29.000 My personal breaking point comes when they come to me and they say, we're going to take your kid from you because you refuse to abide by our rules.

00:57:37.000 That's my personal breaking point.

00:57:38.000 I think that's a lot of people's personal breaking point.

00:57:40.000 I think we're now- I think tyranny is gradations.

00:57:42.000 I don't think there's, like, a hard point where it's tyranny.

00:57:45.000 I think we're already living in a bureaucratic tyranny.

00:57:46.000 The question is, what level of tyranny justifies armed resistance?

00:57:49.000 I think if they come to me and they say, you can't worship as you see fit, and we're gonna take your kid away from you if you try to do so, that's when I'm coming at you with a gun.

00:57:58.000 Right, that's when I'm coming at you with a gun.

00:57:59.000 And the other alternative being you move.

00:58:02.000 But if they come after Texas, if they come after Idaho, if it becomes there are no places in America that you can even run to, you can't even move, or they restrict your movement, I can't leave California to go there, then armed resistance becomes necessary.

00:58:14.000 And I think that

00:58:15.000 The federal government knows that, which is why at a certain point they're going to leave Texas alone.

00:58:19.000 Because nobody wants this bloodbath.

00:58:21.000 It's one thing to do this to people in California.

00:58:23.000 It's another thing to go to the people of Texas and say, by the way, we're taking your kids because you're not teaching your five-year-old about transgenderism.

00:58:30.000 And we're gonna take your guns, too.

00:58:32.000 People in Texas? 0.99

00:58:33.000 Yeah, we got a bunch of people from Texas in this room, and Texas ain't gonna stand for that kind of crap. 0.99

00:58:39.000 Chris says, Hey Ben, my question is about my brother. 0.99

00:58:42.000 He's a full-blown leftist at this point.

00:58:43.000 That's sad.

00:58:44.000 He talks about cultural appropriation, he hates jokes at the expense of marginalized people, as he calls them, and worst of all, he's a vegan.

00:58:51.000 Okay, so first of all, I'm gonna make fun of vegans for just a second.

00:58:54.000 I'm gonna make fun of vegans for just a second, because they're marginalized people, and I'm gonna culturally appropriate by saying that he may be a vegetable. 0.98

00:59:02.000 Okay, the point being, how will you raise your kids to instill conservative values in them?

00:59:06.000 You have to give kids a mission in life.

00:59:08.000 It's not just enough to raise them with conservative values, you have to give them a mission, and the mission is living out those values in a way that makes the world a better place.

00:59:16.000 What kids are seeking is mission.

00:59:17.000 What everyone is seeking is mission.

00:59:19.000 Everyone wants to know what their place in the world is like.

00:59:21.000 The left gives them mission.

00:59:22.000 It's why people like Bernie Sanders.

00:59:23.000 They feel like they're part of something.

00:59:25.000 Conservatives don't do that.

00:59:26.000 We basically say you're on your own.

00:59:27.000 Go live your own life.

00:59:28.000 That's freedom.

00:59:29.000 That's true, but that's not a mission.

00:59:31.000 That's not a mission.

00:59:31.000 Your mission is to promulgate those values among family and friends, to build families that are capable of fighting for those values, to spread those values throughout the world.

00:59:39.000 That's our mission.

00:59:40.000 That's our mission.

00:59:41.000 And if you don't have a mission, you're gonna lose your kids.

00:59:43.000 Daniel says, Ben, if you could write and direct a movie, what would it be about and who would you want to act in it?

00:59:48.000 Great question, great question.

00:59:49.000 So, I will say this is kind of a funny answer, but if I could pick one movie that I think would be a successful box office movie, because there are lots of movies that you can, and like a movie about something, the movie that I would do is a movie about the Ollie Frazier fights.

01:00:04.000 The Ali-Frazier fight.

01:00:05.000 I've talked about this before.

01:00:06.000 I'm a boxing fan.

01:00:08.000 Ali-Frazier is so fascinating because it was such a cultural phenomenon.

01:00:11.000 Joe Frazier was a working-class hero, a black working-class hero from Philadelphia who wanted to bring races together.

01:00:17.000 Ali was a race-baiting, nation-of-Islam radical. 0.62

01:00:21.000 And Frazier basically got him back into boxing, lobbied so that he could fight him, and then Ali proceeded to ruin Frazier with the black community. 0.65

01:00:29.000 Ali proceeded to say that he was a sellout, that he was an Uncle Tom,

01:00:32.000 Frasier wasn't a smart guy.

01:00:33.000 He didn't even know what Akhal-Thanh meant. 0.89

01:00:34.000 Ali might not have either, but he's being fed lines by the Nation of Islam, which is a truly evil organization. 1.00

01:00:39.000 And he and Ali basically ruins Frasier in the black community. 0.99

01:00:43.000 And they fight first time.

01:00:44.000 Frasier knocks him out.

01:00:45.000 Well, doesn't knock him out.

01:00:46.000 Knocks him down and wins the decision.

01:00:48.000 They fight a second time.

01:00:49.000 Doesn't really matter.

01:00:50.000 Neither one is champion at that point.

01:00:51.000 And they fight a third time.

01:00:53.000 And by this point, Ali is the champion again.

01:00:56.000 And he gives Frasier a fight.

01:00:57.000 And Frasier at this point is blind in one eye.

01:01:01.000 He's blind in one eye, he's old, he doesn't have pretty much anything left, and Ali knows it.

01:01:06.000 And Ali has tons of reach on him, he's a much bigger guy, Ali's like 6'2", I think he's maybe 6'3 or 6'4", Frasier's like 5'10".

01:01:14.000 And he's got a short reach, and he's blind in one eye, and Ali gives him the fight because he thinks that Frasier's got nothing.

01:01:21.000 And then they go to Manila, the Thrilla in Manila.

01:01:24.000 They go to Manila, and Ali proceeds to call Joe Frasier a gorilla.

01:01:28.000 He says, I'm going to fight the gorilla at the Thrilla in Manila, and he's carrying around a little ugly gorilla doll. 0.99

01:01:32.000 I mean, this is racist crap, right? 0.99

01:01:34.000 And he goes after Joe Frasier personally. 1.00

01:01:36.000 He says he's stupid and he's ugly. 1.00

01:01:37.000 I'm smart and I'm pretty. 1.00

01:01:38.000 He's stupid and he's ugly and he's a sellout and he's an Uncle Tom and he's not a real black man. 1.00

01:01:42.000 Which again is ridiculous because Ollie grew up middle class in Louisville as Cassius Clay and Frazier grew up dirt poor in Philadelphia in the ghetto. 1.00

01:01:51.000 And they have this climactic fight and Frazier wants to murder him. 0.99

01:01:54.000 I mean wants to kill him in the ring. 0.93

01:01:56.000 And they go 14 rounds and it's a great boxing match. 0.97

01:01:59.000 You can watch it.

01:02:00.000 It's a great boxing match.

01:02:02.000 We're good to go.

01:02:25.000 We're good to go.

01:02:44.000 And so he throws in the towel, and Frazier throws in the towel, and Ali wins.

01:02:48.000 But for the rest of his life, that fight basically finishes Ali as a great fighter.

01:02:52.000 Ali's basically done at that point.

01:02:54.000 Frazier, for the rest of his life, is crippled by this...

01:02:59.000 Feeling of insecurity in the black community that he was once a hero in because of Ali.

01:03:02.000 Ali's now this great hero across America.

01:03:04.000 The villain becomes the hero, and the hero becomes forgotten, right?

01:03:09.000 And he spends the rest of his life bitter and angry about this, to the point where they asked Frazier later in his life, you know, about those fights, and he says, you know, Ali won two of the three fights, but if you look at Ali now, who got Parkinson's and, you know, he absorbed so much punishment from Frazier, it crippled him for life.

01:03:24.000 He says, if you look at Ali now,

01:03:28.000 I won all three fights.

01:03:29.000 Right?

01:03:30.000 And the message on his answering machine until the day he died was, you know, he said, float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, which is Ali's thing. 0.95

01:03:37.000 He said, float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, butterfly and float no more.

01:03:41.000 So bitter, bitter, angry man all the way till his death.

01:03:44.000 And Ali never was able to really rectify that and never could because he could never give back to Frasier what he'd taken from him in his younger days, but was hailed as a hero at the end of his life.

01:03:53.000 And it really is kind of a story.

01:03:54.000 It's sort of a story of America.

01:03:55.000 It's sort of a story of an American tragedy, how

01:03:57.000 Tribalism and racialism destroyed our ability to come together, destroyed heroes that we had in favor of people who are divisive, and then elevated those people, how the counterculture became the culture. 0.87

01:04:07.000 I think it's a fascinating story.

01:04:08.000 So if I could write and direct a movie, that would be the first one on my list that I think would actually do well at the box office.

01:04:14.000 Okay.

01:04:15.000 One more.

01:04:16.000 Nathan says, in light of Trump's implosion and the left's reasserted insanity, what should sound-minded conservatives do?

01:04:21.000 I've already said that one, so we'll go to Sam.

01:04:23.000 Sam says, hi Ben, I'm British, I voted for Brexit because of growing corporatism across Europe, something the left sees as a result of capitalism when in fact it's antithesis.

01:04:31.000 Why do you think corporatism and corruption has grown so much in America and Europe and what can be done to stop it?

01:04:36.000 The reason corporatism grows is because if you are a big business, you want corporatism.

01:04:40.000 You want people locked out of the market.

01:04:42.000 If you're a small business, then you think the government's going to give you the benefits if you can just get to that point.

01:04:48.000 And so corporatism does really well because those are the people who give donations to the politicians.

01:04:52.000 Those are the people who run all the big businesses that hire everybody.

01:04:55.000 Corporatism is very popular and has been really since the advent of the fascist state.

01:04:59.000 Corporatism was an invention of Mussolini.

01:05:02.000 Corporatism is a fascist term.

01:05:05.000 The idea being that the state is a corpus, right, it's a body, and every element of the state should be like a limb of the body, and the state will organize how many industries are allowed to succeed and which industries succeed and which fail.

01:05:17.000 That's what corporatism is.

01:05:19.000 It's become popular because the people in the industries that are helped, obviously it's popular among, and everybody else, we don't even notice that the government's doing it until we become the victims of it.

01:05:28.000 So that's why it's become so popular, and always will be popular, unless you have principled people standing against it.

01:05:32.000 Okay.

01:05:33.000 So that was a super long episode.

01:05:34.000 But, we will be back next week on Monday, and as promised in the Facebook Live session, I won't shave over the weekend. 0.85

01:05:41.000 So, you're about to see sexy butt. 0.99

01:05:43.000 Oh. 0.98

01:05:44.000 Yeah, I know.

01:05:44.000 Everybody's very pumped up.

01:05:46.000 No, nobody's pumped up.

01:05:46.000 But it's okay.

01:05:47.000 We'll be back here on Monday for more, because there will be more news breaking, I'm sure, over the weekend.

01:05:52.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

01:05:52.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - June 30, 2016

Ep. 143 - Hillary Won't Be Indicted, The Fix Is In

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