The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 144 - Hillary's Not Going To Jail, Because America Is Toast

00:00:00.000 Yesterday was Independence Day, so naturally, the left has America was never great trending on Twitter.

00:00:05.000 It's an argument that's found some pretty serious support on the left in response to Donald Trump's campaign slogan, Make America Great Again.

00:00:12.000 Sean King, who's the white guy who pretends he's a black guy for the New York Daily News, he explicitly made the case for America was never great back in May.

00:00:19.000 He said, quote, What sustained period in the history of this nation, what decade, what era, what generation was truly great for everybody?

00:00:26.000 While this country might have been great for George Washington, it wasn't great for the Africans who were forced to live and work on his plantation, unquote.

00:00:33.000 This is a rather narrow definition of great.

00:00:35.000 It ignores all of world history, including modern history, and sets utopia as the objective bar for greatness.

00:00:41.000 Let's instead look at America's record in context.

00:00:44.000 When America was founded, no other nation on earth had the great and good philosophy America would embody.

00:00:49.000 The notion of a kingless constitutional republic, a land of liberty based on limited government, given legitimacy by the consent of a moral and religious people.

00:00:57.000 As Andrew Klavan, who's usually unintelligent but here was smart, pointed out, quote, Now because of what America showed the world, even the darkest tyrannies have to call themselves republics simply to maintain a pretense of legitimacy, unquote.

00:01:09.000 American notions of free speech, freedom of religion, these became the hallmarks of human rights all over the globe.

00:01:15.000 American beliefs in freedom against governmental intrusion became the basic definition of liberty.

00:01:20.000 For most of human history, virtually every society on earth held slaves.

00:01:24.000 America fought a bloody civil war, ending in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of non-black Americans in order to end slavery.

00:01:30.000 In the 20th century, while the world decayed into fascism, the United States tried to destroy it, ending Japanese totalitarianism and German Nazism and Italian fascism.

00:01:39.000 Then, while half the globe descended into communist madness, the United States rebuilt the other half of the globe, contained and finally forced the collapse of the monstrous communist system.

00:01:48.000 America's free economic policies came to dominate the globe, liberating literally billions of people from the chains of abject poverty.

00:01:54.000 Yes, America was great.

00:01:56.000 America is great.

00:01:57.000 That's why everybody wants in, and why nobody, even on the left, wants out.

00:02:01.000 But for the left, that thinks America was never great, the solution is the destruction of all those foundational principles that made us great in the first place.

00:02:09.000 Destruction of the nuclear family.

00:02:11.000 In the name of sexual license, attacks on traditional religion, racial division in the name of multiculturalism, unfettered immigration without regard to cultural differences, a growing welfare state that creates dependency.

00:02:23.000 None of that makes America great, or even good.

00:02:25.000 To keep America great requires understanding the values that made us great in the first place.

00:02:29.000 Our educational system has totally failed to teach Americans those values, so it's no wonder America's children now spit in her face. 0.99

00:02:36.000 But that merely means it's our job to educate.

00:02:38.000 After all, as Ronald Reagan said, freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

00:02:43.000 It's our responsibility to ensure that generation never arrives. 1.00

00:02:46.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:02:47.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:02:55.000 Alrighty, so even as I say that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction, it basically died like 30 minutes ago, 45 minutes ago.

00:03:03.000 It turns out that if your last name is Clinton, you can break the law as much as you could possibly hope to or want to.

00:03:09.000 So to set the stage for this, you have to remember that last week, President Clinton, Hillary's husband, the one that she's famous for, right?

00:03:15.000 She's only famous because she once had sex with Bill Clinton, the only proof being Chelsea. 1.00

00:03:20.000 Right?

00:03:20.000 That's the only reason she's famous.

00:03:22.000 She, her husband, met with Loretta Lynch, the Attorney General, on this plane, and then Hillary said it was purely social, there's nothing to see here, everything is just fine.

00:03:32.000 Here's Hillary explaining that over the weekend. 0.99

00:03:37.000 They talked about grandkids, which is very much on our minds these days.

00:03:41.000 Golf, their mutual friend, former Attorney General Janet Reno.

00:03:46.000 It was purely social.

00:03:47.000 They did not veer off of speaking about those kinds of, you know, very common exchanges.

00:03:57.000 They didn't veer off of it.

00:03:58.000 That's all they talked about. 1.00

00:03:59.000 Yeah, that is a bunch of crap. 0.99

00:04:01.000 And then she says, by the way, that she only learned about the meeting on the news, just like President Obama only learns about stuff on the news. 0.99

00:04:07.000 Here's Hillary explaining that she only learned about this on the news. 0.56

00:04:10.000 Well, I learned about it in the news, and it was a short chance meeting at an airport tarmac.

00:04:18.000 Both of their planes, as I understand it, were landing on the same tarmac at about the same time, and the Attorney General's husband was there.

00:04:27.000 They said hello.

00:04:29.000 Okay, and then the music started playing.

00:04:30.000 Okay, so Hillary Clinton says, So they chat last week, and everybody goes, wait a second, something seems fishy about this.

00:04:35.000 And the Clintons say, no, nothing fishy about this at all.

00:04:37.000 Over the weekend?

00:04:53.000 Report from the New York Times, Hillary says that maybe she would consider keeping Loretta Lynch as her Attorney General in her new administration. 0.96

00:05:00.000 Nothing corrupt about any of this, folks.

00:05:02.000 Then, President Obama announces that he is going to fly down to North Carolina with Hillary Clinton on Air Force One, which, by the way, she should not be doing because that's our taxpayer dollars to pay for Air Force One.

00:05:12.000 We shouldn't be paying for her campaigning.

00:05:13.000 And apparently she says now she's going to cover part of the cost.

00:05:16.000 Part of it.

00:05:17.000 We cover the rest.

00:05:17.000 She flies down to North Carolina, but still there's this looming issue of FBI indictment over her head.

00:05:22.000 What's going to happen if the FBI comes out and says that Hillary Clinton is actually guilty of setting up a private server to store classified information? 0.88

00:05:31.000 Top secret information?

00:05:33.000 Transmitting that information to people who it shouldn't be transmitted to?

00:05:35.000 Making it vulnerable to foreign hack?

00:05:37.000 What happens if the FBI announces that?

00:05:39.000 Well, this morning,

00:05:40.000 They announced, the FBI announces, we're gonna have a press conference.

00:05:43.000 James Comey.

00:05:43.000 We're not gonna tell you why, it's a big secret.

00:05:45.000 We're gonna have a press conference this morning, about 8 o'clock Pacific time, 11 o'clock Eastern.

00:05:49.000 President Obama is scheduled to speak with Hillary Clinton.

00:05:52.000 Like right now, as we're taping this, as we're broadcasting this, Hillary is about to join President Obama.

00:05:57.000 It's like 2.25 this afternoon, Eastern time.

00:05:59.000 They're supposed to campaign together.

00:06:01.000 And the FBI, just on that day, happens to announce what it's gonna do with Hillary. 0.95

00:06:05.000 If this is all just a little bit too cinematic,

00:06:08.000 To you.

00:06:09.000 You're not the only one.

00:06:10.000 As my business partner, managing editor Jeremy Boring says, this is like The Godfather, right?

00:06:13.000 This is the end of The Godfather, with Michael Corleone taking confession as Clemenza shoots people in an elevator.

00:06:19.000 Right?

00:06:19.000 That's what this is.

00:06:19.000 So, as Hillary and Obama are descending onto the tarmac in North Carolina, as all that's happening, FBI Director James Comey comes out, and he announces that, yeah, it turns out Hillary violated every law in the book.

00:06:31.000 Boop! 0.95

00:06:32.000 Eee! 0.98

00:06:33.000 Well, what can you do?

00:06:34.000 What can you do?

00:06:34.000 I mean, it's not like she's guilty of any- I mean, she's guilty of everything, but it's not like she's guilty of anything.

00:06:39.000 I mean, she's Hillary Clinton! 1.00

00:06:40.000 Come on! 0.61

00:06:41.000 Here's FBI Director's Clip 19, James Comey.

00:06:44.000 First, he leads off by making- this is the weirdest press conference ever, because he starts off by saying, no one knows what I'm going to say.

00:06:50.000 Bull.

00:06:52.000 Bull.

00:06:52.000 You think Obama's descending onto a tarmac with Hillary Clinton in tow on a plane, getting ready for him to campaign with her, not knowing what James Comey's gonna do?

00:07:01.000 Does Obama seem that risk-seeking to you, that he was gonna get up there, and that he was just gonna start talking with Hillary next to him, and then all of a sudden, the FBI shows up and just drags Hillary off, and he's just standing there going,

00:07:12.000 What?

00:07:13.000 Joe Biden?

00:07:14.000 Joe Biden, come on out!

00:07:15.000 Like, did he really think that's what was going on?

00:07:17.000 Of course he knew what Comey was going to say.

00:07:19.000 So Comey starts this thing off by saying, no one knows what I'm going to say.

00:07:21.000 It's a big surprise.

00:07:23.000 I have a hat here.

00:07:23.000 Is there a rabbit in there?

00:07:25.000 Or is there a piece of turd?

00:07:26.000 Who knows?

00:07:26.000 It could be anything.

00:07:27.000 OK, so then he proceeds for 10 minutes.

00:07:30.000 10 minutes.

00:07:31.000 to lay out a series of hardcore charges against Hillary Clinton.

00:07:35.000 I'm watching this, and I know where this is going.

00:07:37.000 I mean, I know where this is going, but while I'm watching this, I'm going, wait, wait, wait.

00:07:40.000 Maybe it's not going here, right?

00:07:42.000 Because he lays out, the charges he lays out are so clearly felonious, so clearly felonious, so clearly violative of law, that you're thinking he's going to get to the end of this iteration, and he's going to say, and now I'm referring to Loretta Lynch, that they prosecute this case and take it to a grand jury.

00:07:57.000 Remember,

00:07:58.000 His recommendation and Loretta Lynch's decision, that's not even about prosecuting.

00:08:02.000 That's about taking it to a grand jury to decide whether to prosecute.

00:08:06.000 So you think that's where he's going.

00:08:08.000 That's not where he ends up going.

00:08:09.000 Here is James Comey laying out why Hillary basically should be prosecuted.

00:08:13.000 And then at the very end, it's like he remembers.

00:08:15.000 It's like the switch clicks and he remembers, wait a second.

00:08:18.000 My boss is President Obama, and Hillary Clinton is campaigning with President Obama, so we're just not gonna do that.

00:08:25.000 So he starts off by saying that Hillary was lying about her server, which she was.

00:08:30.000 Here we go.

00:08:31.000 Secretary Clinton used several different servers and administrators of those servers during her four years at the State Department. 0.85

00:08:39.000 And she also used numerous mobile devices to send and to read email on that personal domain.

00:08:46.000 Okay, so that's lie number one.

00:08:47.000 Remember when she said she set up the private server because she only wanted one BlackBerry?

00:08:51.000 You remember that?

00:08:52.000 Not true, right?

00:08:53.000 She had multiple, multiple devices on which she was viewing things.

00:08:56.000 And, by the way, she had more than one server.

00:08:58.000 It wasn't just one in her bathroom.

00:09:00.000 She had one in many bathrooms. 0.96

00:09:01.000 Basically, any place that Bill had sex in the house with someone not her, she had a server. 0.98

00:09:05.000 Okay, then she contin- then Comey continues by saying, oh yeah, here's another lie, right?

00:09:11.000 It turns out that Hillary did, in fact, transmit classified information. 0.95

00:09:15.000 From the group of 30,000 emails returned to the State Department in 2014, 110 emails in 52 email chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received.

00:09:34.000 Eight of those chains contained information that was top secret at the time they were sent.

00:09:40.000 Thirty-six of those chains contained secret information at the time, and eight contained confidential information at the time.

00:09:48.000 That's the lowest level of classification.

00:09:50.000 Stop it there.

00:09:51.000 We can stop it there.

00:09:52.000 So he's saying here, yes, classified information was on her server.

00:09:56.000 Also, you remember she kept saying it was not marked classified when it was sent or received?

00:10:01.000 Okay, well, here's the thing, and he points this out later, he says that, he says later in this press conference, it doesn't matter whether it was Marx classified, it either is classified material or it's not classified material, it's Marx classified later, but you're not supposed to be sending this stuff, and when she said it wasn't...

00:10:16.000 Classified when it was sent or received?

00:10:18.000 He keeps saying sent or received here because he's ripping her apart, right?

00:10:20.000 He's saying she was lying.

00:10:22.000 This was all classified.

00:10:23.000 110 emails in 52 email chains.

00:10:25.000 I'm shocked it's that low.

00:10:26.000 My guess is it's not that low.

00:10:28.000 My guess is that some of the documents that were destroyed by Hillary's lawyers contained classified information.

00:10:33.000 Later here, he'll say that Hillary's lawyers absolutely destroyed a bunch of material, as he says.

00:10:39.000 So, he continues by saying that

00:10:42.000 He continues by saying that Hillary did not hand over all her emails.

00:10:45.000 Remember she said she handed over all her emails?

00:10:46.000 Yeah, that's not true either.

00:10:48.000 Agencies have concluded that three of those were classified at the time they were sent or received.

00:10:53.000 One at the secret level and two at the confidential level.

00:10:57.000 There were no additional top-secret emails found.

00:11:00.000 And finally, none of those we found have since been up-classified.

00:11:05.000 I should add here that we found no evidence that any of the additional work-related emails were intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them in some way.

00:11:14.000 Okay, so I'm not sure why we're getting cop music in the background like someone's gonna come and arrest Hillary Clinton, but in any case, what he's saying there is that she didn't turn over a bunch of emails, including emails that were classified, one at a secret level, a couple at the confidential level, and then he says Hillary's lawyers didn't read the emails they deleted.

00:11:33.000 They just went through her email chain, looked at the title of the email, and then just deleted everything.

00:11:37.000 And he says, we can't get those back.

00:11:38.000 They're gone.

00:11:39.000 There's no way to get them back.

00:11:41.000 They're finished.

00:11:41.000 Here's what he said.

00:11:43.000 The lawyers doing the sorting for Secretary Clinton in 2014 did not individually read the content of all of her emails, as we did for those available to us.

00:11:53.000 Instead, they relied on header information, and they used search terms to try to find all work-related emails, among the reportedly more than 60,000 that were remaining on her system at the end of 2014.

00:12:05.000 It's highly likely that their search missed some work-related emails and that we later found them, for example, in the mailboxes of other officials or in the Slack space of a server.

00:12:17.000 It's also likely that there are other work-related emails that they did not produce to state and that we did not find elsewhere and that are now gone.

00:12:25.000 Because they deleted all emails they did not produce to state, and the lawyers then cleaned their devices in such a way as to preclude complete forensic recovery.

00:12:34.000 What?

00:12:35.000 Okay, so there's no crime there?

00:12:36.000 So her lawyers went in, found emails, didn't read them, just deleted them, and then deleted them off their servers, wiped them so that the FBI couldn't get a hold of them.

00:12:43.000 There's no crime there, though.

00:12:44.000 There's no crime, says James Comey.

00:12:46.000 And then he finally admits.

00:12:47.000 I love that he says there's no intent.

00:12:49.000 There's no intent.

00:12:50.000 But it turns out that Hillary's team was, quote, extremely careless.

00:12:54.000 We'll point out this language here, because the language of the statute under which she should be prosecuted says that you only require, not intent, gross negligence.

00:13:03.000 If you are grossly negligent with classified material, you go to jail.

00:13:08.000 What's the difference between extremely careless and grossly negligent?

00:13:11.000 There is no difference! 0.99

00:13:12.000 It's the same damn thing! 0.99

00:13:14.000 If you say, if I say, you were extremely careless driving and you sideswiped a kid, that's me saying you were grossly negligent driving and you sideswiped a kid! 0.99

00:13:22.000 Extreme negligence, extreme carelessness, gross negligence, same exact thing.

00:13:26.000 Same exact thing.

00:13:27.000 But Comey says, well, you know, she was extremely careless, but that doesn't mean she's gonna go to jail.

00:13:31.000 Here's him explaining, she was extremely careless.

00:13:34.000 Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless.

00:13:46.000 Okay, pause it there for one second.

00:13:49.000 He says there's no evidence that there was intent, right?

00:13:52.000 There's no evidence that there was intent.

00:13:54.000 You don't need evidence of intent.

00:13:56.000 Okay, let me explain something about law, folks.

00:13:58.000 As a lawyer, when it says intent,

00:14:00.000 What it means, under law, is intent to commit the act.

00:14:04.000 So, for example, if I get into a car drunk, I don't have to intend to sideswipe a child in order to be held responsible for first-degree murder.

00:14:13.000 The intent lies in me having intent to drink and having intent to get in the car.

00:14:18.000 Okay, if I violate prescriptions on classified information, if I violate those prescriptions on classified information, then it's not that I intend to turn those over to the Russians.

00:14:27.000 It's I intended to put those in a place where it's vulnerable, and then the Russians came and took them.

00:14:32.000 That's what intent means.

00:14:33.000 No one intends for bad things to happen.

00:14:35.000 People intend to do things that result in bad things.

00:14:38.000 That's the standard of intent.

00:14:39.000 So he's not even right on this.

00:14:41.000 If you're extremely careless in how you treat your emails, that's extreme carelessness with regard to what happens to the emails after you put them there.

00:14:50.000 But you intended to put them there by law.

00:14:53.000 Under the standard of law, you intended to take those emails and put them in a place where you knew they weren't safe.

00:14:57.000 That's intent.

00:14:58.000 That's intent under the law.

00:15:00.000 But he's trying to make a distinction that doesn't exist so he can make an excuse for not doing his job.

00:15:03.000 Here's James Comey again.

00:15:05.000 They're handling a very sensitive, highly classified information.

00:15:09.000 For example,

00:15:11.000 Seven email chains concern matters that were classified at the top secret special access program at the time they were sent and received.

00:15:20.000 Those chains involve Secretary Clinton both sending emails about those matters and receiving emails about those same matters. 0.91

00:15:29.000 There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton's position, or in the position of those with whom she was corresponding about those matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation.

00:15:44.000 In addition to this highly sensitive information, we also found information that was properly classified as secret by the U.S.

00:15:50.000 intelligence community at the time it was discussed on email.

00:15:54.000 That is, excluding any later up-classified emails.

00:15:58.000 None of these emails should have been on any kind of unclassified system.

00:16:02.000 But their presence is especially concerning because all of these emails were housed on unclassified personal servers, not even supported by full-time security staff like those found at agencies and departments of the United States government, or even with a commercial email service like Gmail.

00:16:20.000 Okay, this is unbelievable.

00:16:21.000 So you're saying she put it on a place that's not even, not even,

00:16:25.000 As secure as Gmail.

00:16:27.000 Not even as secure as Gmail.

00:16:28.000 But don't worry, she didn't commit a crime.

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00:16:56.000 All right.

00:16:57.000 So, Hillary Clinton, apparently, she says that this classified material was not passing across her server.

00:17:05.000 Comey says, yeah, we know that it was passing across her server.

00:17:08.000 I love that he says nobody, no one reasonable, no reasonable person should have been

00:17:13.000 Putting these emails on an unclassified system.

00:17:15.000 This is all the lead up to an indictment.

00:17:16.000 You get this.

00:17:17.000 Everything he's saying, everything he's saying supports an indictment.

00:17:21.000 All of it.

00:17:21.000 Every single piece here supports an indictment.

00:17:25.000 Right?

00:17:25.000 And then Comey hits with the final, the final note here.

00:17:27.000 And his final note is, Hillary's server could have been hacked.

00:17:31.000 Right?

00:17:31.000 That's why this matters.

00:17:32.000 Because our enemies probably knew what Hillary was saying to all of the other governmental agents and to people outside the government. 0.98

00:17:38.000 This would be clip 25.

00:17:39.000 Here's Comey. 1.00

00:17:41.000 With respect to potential computer intrusion by hostile actors, we did not find direct evidence that Secretary Clinton's personal email domain, in its various configurations since 2009, was hacked successfully.

00:17:55.000 But given the nature of the system, and of the actors potentially involved, we assess we would be unlikely to see such direct evidence.

00:18:03.000 We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial email accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account.

00:18:15.000 We also assess that Secretary Clinton's use of a personal email domain was both known by a large number of people and readily apparent.

00:18:23.000 Unbelievable!

00:18:23.000 UNBELIEVABLE!

00:18:24.000 So, foreign powers had access to Hillary Clinton's emails, but still no crime!

00:18:27.000 And here's where Comey gets to the...

00:18:50.000 The punchline.

00:18:51.000 Because all this is a big joke.

00:18:52.000 All this is a big, big joke.

00:18:54.000 If you're a YouTube filmmaker Hillary Clinton doesn't like, you go to jail. 1.00

00:18:57.000 You go to jail.

00:18:58.000 If you take the tag off your mattress at home, gang, you could go to jail. 0.93

00:19:03.000 But if you take classified information, top-secret classified information, store it on a private server, because you don't want anybody else having access to your private emails, if you then convey it to people who are hacked by the Russian government, and you do all of this because you just don't care, don't worry, you won't go to jail, so long as your last name is Clinton and you want to have sex with Bill. 0.84

00:19:21.000 That's the rule.

00:19:22.000 Here's James Comey basically acknowledging the law just doesn't apply to Hillary Clinton.

00:19:28.000 To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences.

00:19:37.000 To the contrary.

00:19:38.000 Those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions, but that's not what we're deciding now.

00:19:45.000 Okay, so in other words, if you're not Hillary Clinton, you're going to jail. 0.95

00:19:47.000 Right?

00:19:47.000 I mean, that's what he just said.

00:19:48.000 He said it right out.

00:19:50.000 Right out there.

00:19:50.000 He just says it.

00:19:51.000 Spits it out.

00:19:52.000 I mean, that's an amazing, amazing admission.

00:19:54.000 He just comes out there and he says that anybody, right, anybody else, under similar circumstances, would face consequences but not Hillary Clinton?

00:20:03.000 But not Hillary Clinton? 0.99

00:20:04.000 You go to hell. 1.00

00:20:06.000 You and your government go to hell. 0.99

00:20:07.000 I mean, this is corruption at the highest level. 0.99

00:20:08.000 It's corruption at the highest level.

00:20:10.000 And then Comey explains why he says charges aren't appropriate.

00:20:12.000 And I'm going to tear this legal reasoning apart because it's absolute nonsense.

00:20:16.000 Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.

00:20:28.000 Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before deciding whether to bring charges.

00:20:33.000 There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent.

00:20:38.000 Responsible decisions also consider the context of a person's actions and how similar situations have been handled in the past.

00:20:47.000 In looking back at our investigations into the mishandling or removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts.

00:20:59.000 All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information or vast quantities of information

00:21:11.000 Exposed in such a way as to support an inference of intentional misconduct, or indications of disloyalty to the United States, or efforts to obstruct justice.

00:21:20.000 We do not see those things here.

00:21:22.000 Okay, that's an amazing statement.

00:21:23.000 We can stop it there.

00:21:25.000 And then he says he's not going to recommend indictment.

00:21:26.000 Okay, so here are the things that he just pointed out.

00:21:29.000 He says that all the prior cases involved the combination of clearly intentionally and willful mishandling of classified information,

00:21:37.000 She did that! 1.00

00:21:39.000 She did that! 1.00

00:21:39.000 She clearly intentionally mishandled classified information. 1.00

00:21:42.000 It's the only reason to set up a server.

00:21:44.000 My God!

00:21:45.000 Okay, that's not what intent means.

00:21:47.000 Intent doesn't mean she sent an error mail to Vladimir Putin with all her documents.

00:21:51.000 It means she had intent to put them in a place that was not safe.

00:21:55.000 If my wife, if my wife stuck documents in her purse and took them out to her car that violated HIPAA, she would be looking at jail time right now. 1.00

00:22:04.000 She'd be looking at jail time right now. 0.90

00:22:06.000 That's number one.

00:22:07.000 Then he says, vast quantities of material exposed in such a way as to support an inference of intentional misconduct.

00:22:13.000 Okay, now he's talking about a different type of intent.

00:22:15.000 You see what he's doing there?

00:22:16.000 Now the intentional misconduct is, she wanted the Russians to have it. 0.99

00:22:20.000 But clearly she exposed vast quantities of material in a way that made it possible for the Russians to have it.

00:22:26.000 And then she says disloyalty to the United States.

00:22:28.000 Okay, no one's accusing her of being a traitor, but people are accusing her, rightly so, of putting her own interests ahead of those of the United States. 0.70

00:22:34.000 And finally, efforts to obstruct justice. 0.83

00:22:35.000 The only reason, folks, the only reason to set up a private server is to obstruct justice.

00:22:42.000 That's the only reason.

00:22:44.000 She didn't put it on Gmail where it's discoverable.

00:22:47.000 She then had her lawyers wipe it down. 0.93

00:22:48.000 What does that sound like to you? 0.96

00:22:50.000 You know how far you have to stretch to come to this ridiculous conclusion? 0.93

00:22:53.000 You know how far you have to go to get here? 0.98

00:22:56.000 I mean, this is insanity.

00:22:58.000 This is true insanity.

00:23:01.000 And it's just another piece of evidence that the law does not matter to the Obama administration or the Clintons, that rule of law in the United States is utterly dead.

00:23:09.000 It's dead all the way through.

00:23:11.000 It's just, it's amazing.

00:23:12.000 It's an amazing thing.

00:23:14.000 And again, it's not amazing because I didn't expect it, but there's a difference between expecting to be clocked in the face and actually being clocked in the face.

00:23:20.000 And America just got clocked in the face. 0.90

00:23:21.000 Let me go through the statutes of which Hillary Clinton's actually guilty. 0.99

00:23:25.000 And let me show you.

00:23:26.000 It's not, did she mean to hand over the documents to the Russians?

00:23:29.000 As liar James Comey is putting, he's lying here.

00:23:33.000 He's lying here. 0.64

00:23:34.000 Okay?

00:23:35.000 18 U.S.

00:23:35.000 Code 793.

00:23:36.000 This one she is clearly guilty under.

00:23:38.000 Okay?

00:23:38.000 This is Statute F. Quote.

00:23:40.000 The statute explicitly states whoever entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 10 years or both.

00:24:01.000 You understand?

00:24:01.000 Gross negligence permitting documents to be removed from its proper place of custody.

00:24:06.000 The server he acknowledges was an improper place of custody and he says she was, quote, extremely careless.

00:24:12.000 Does that sound like gross negligence to you?

00:24:14.000 Every element of this law was violated.

00:24:17.000 This is a felony.

00:24:18.000 It carries 10 years in prison.

00:24:21.000 Hillary Clinton gets off scot-free because she's Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:24:24.000 Unbelievable.

00:24:25.000 How about 18 U.S.C.

00:24:27.000 1924?

00:24:27.000 Section 1924.

00:24:28.000 This statute says any employee of the United States who quote knowingly removes classified documents without authority and with the intent to retain such documents at an unauthorized location shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year or both.

00:24:42.000 This is why she set up a server. 1.00

00:24:44.000 That's the whole reason to set up a server.

00:24:47.000 18 U.S.C.

00:24:48.000 798 U.S.C.

00:24:49.000 is U.S.

00:24:49.000 Code.

00:24:49.000 The statute says anyone who quote uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States any classified information shall be fined or imprisoned not more than 10 years or both.

00:25:01.000 She clearly used the information in a way prejudicial to the safety of the United States by putting it on her own server for her own personal purposes. 0.98

00:25:09.000 Finally, 18 U.S.C.

00:25:11.000 2071, this statute says anyone who has custody of classified material and, quote, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years.

00:25:24.000 We know, Comey said, Hillary destroyed documents, they found it elsewhere, including classified material.

00:25:30.000 Including classified material.

00:25:31.000 Yes, she is guilty.

00:25:33.000 Yes, she should be going to jail. 0.99

00:25:34.000 No, the law does not require the sort of intent James Comey is talking about. 0.99

00:25:38.000 He is a liar. 1.00

00:25:39.000 He is a liar. 1.00

00:25:39.000 He is a politically motivated liar. 1.00

00:25:42.000 Okay, all that said, all that says, what is the media doing today? 0.96

00:25:45.000 Oh, sigh of relief, sigh of relief.

00:25:47.000 Everything's fine now.

00:25:48.000 You see, now everything's cool.

00:25:49.000 They've got their fig leaf.

00:25:50.000 This is what's so sick about the way our modern politics works.

00:25:53.000 This is too big to jail, right?

00:25:55.000 People have been saying too big to fail.

00:25:56.000 She is too big to jail. 1.00

00:25:57.000 They weren't gonna put her in prison, and so they pretend that everything is hunky-dory.

00:26:02.000 They pretend everything is hunky-dory.

00:26:04.000 And I love the politicians out there today saying, you know, Donald Trump is ripping on her.

00:26:08.000 And of course, he's right.

00:26:09.000 Everything he says about her is exactly correct, right?

00:26:11.000 Everything that he says about her being crooked and the system being rigged, all of that is 100% true.

00:26:16.000 But I'll tell you how this narrative goes for the next week.

00:26:20.000 The way the narrative goes is people like me, people like 0.89

00:26:22.000 People on the right, we point out Hillary is corrupt. 1.00

00:26:25.000 She's a liar. 1.00

00:26:26.000 She may have committed perjury in front of Congress. 1.00

00:26:28.000 She has routinely said things that are not true.

00:26:31.000 She exposed America's classified secrets to foreign nations. 0.94

00:26:34.000 And the left just goes like this.

00:26:35.000 Nyeh, nyeh, nyeh, nyeh.

00:26:36.000 She wasn't indicted.

00:26:37.000 Nyeh, nyeh.

00:26:39.000 Yes, that's all they care about.

00:26:40.000 It's their fig leaf.

00:26:41.000 It's their fig leaf now.

00:26:43.000 Sally Cohn tweeted out, well, now that she hasn't been indicted, can people on the right stop whining about it?

00:26:47.000 To which I tweeted back, you haven't stopped whining about Trayvon Martin.

00:26:51.000 Right, and Trayvon Martin's case wasn't even wrong.

00:26:53.000 That case was right. 0.99

00:26:55.000 I'm still looking for an explanation as to how Comey's decision here was even decent.

00:26:59.000 It wasn't.

00:27:00.000 Here's my theory of what happened here.

00:27:01.000 My theory is that James Comey originally was gonna turn over the facts to Loretta Lynch, and Loretta Lynch was going to reject the indictment.

00:27:08.000 After the Clinton-Lynch meeting, it became politically unpalatable for that to happen, so instead they made Comey fall on his sword.

00:27:15.000 Instead they made Comey fall on his sword. 1.00

00:27:16.000 Now, in the hands of any other candidate, in the hands of any other candidate, this could be a devastating rebuttal to Hillary's argument that she's gonna keep America safe, right? 0.97

00:27:26.000 This could be a really devastating rebuttal.

00:27:28.000 And it should be.

00:27:30.000 And Jonathan Capehart, who's a big fan, a big fan of Hillary Clinton's, and he wants Hillary to win, he hates Trump and all this.

00:27:38.000 Capehart says that the meeting between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch was a disaster of epic proportions over the weekend.

00:27:43.000 Here's Jonathan Capehart saying this.

00:27:46.000 And it's clear she's trying to do two things.

00:27:49.000 One, she's trying to explain how this process works because she knows that this was and remains a disaster of effort proportions when it comes to the independence and the integrity of the Justice Department.

00:28:03.000 She wants everyone to understand

00:28:05.000 How this process is working, too.

00:28:07.000 In the clip you showed, she talks a great deal about career prosecutors and career investigators.

00:28:14.000 She's trying to make it clear to everyone, if they're willing to hear it, that she's not making the decision.

00:28:20.000 Political people are not making the decision.

00:28:22.000 It's career prosecutors and investigators who have been there before she got there and will be there after.

00:28:28.000 So that way she's trying to make it clear that there isn't going to be any political influence.

00:28:34.000 Okay, so he's saying it's a disaster for her, but it isn't really a disaster for her, because the media won't let it be a disaster for her.

00:28:39.000 So, the media are looking for another headline, right?

00:28:41.000 They don't want to print that Hillary was extremely careless with documents. 0.91

00:28:45.000 They don't want to print that Hillary exposed classified material to the Russians. 0.99

00:28:49.000 They don't want to talk about any of this stuff, because this stuff is awkward for them.

00:28:52.000 So instead, they look for another headline.

00:28:54.000 Now,

00:28:55.000 What you would hope is that your candidate would not be someone who provides fodder routinely for the other side.

00:29:01.000 Make it hard for them, in other words.

00:29:02.000 Make it hard for them.

00:29:04.000 If you're gonna generate headlines, generate attack headlines on Hillary Clinton.

00:29:07.000 As I've said for the past couple of weeks now, if Donald Trump just stopped doing anything but attacking Hillary Clinton,

00:29:14.000 Then, it would put a lot of pressure on people like me, the Never Trump folks, it would put a lot of pressure on people like me to vote for him. 0.98

00:29:19.000 Because, then the case would be pro-Hillary versus anti-Hillary, as opposed to, on one side we've got this horrible crap show of Donald Trump, and on the other we have this horrible crap show of Hillary Clinton. 0.95

00:29:30.000 By the way, you know, I've seen this argument today. 0.99

00:29:31.000 Hillary Clinton is so deeply corrupt, you can never vote for, you know, you should certainly vote for him, because otherwise you're voting for her. 1.00

00:29:38.000 As you know, I don't buy that argument. 0.70

00:29:40.000 Me not voting is me not voting, but,

00:29:42.000 Even if you assume the premise of that argument, if you think that Donald Trump is going to save you from executive branch corruption and abuse, let me remind you that a week ago he was saying that he was going to use the FBI and the IRS to investigate Amazon.com and the Washington Post so he could target Jeff Bezos because he doesn't like Jeff Bezos, the owner of the place, right?

00:30:00.000 So, let's stop pretending.

00:30:02.000 Honestly, I think the beginning of wisdom is honesty.

00:30:05.000 The beginning of wisdom is honesty, and let's be honest about something.

00:30:07.000 There are no good choices in this election.

00:30:09.000 Maybe there's a better choice, maybe there's not.

00:30:11.000 There are no good choices in this election.

00:30:13.000 And for people to pretend that there are any easy choices in this election, that's to ignore the reality, which is that we have two Democrats, one running against each other, one may be better, one may be worse, but one also represents my philosophy, supposedly, and one doesn't.

00:30:26.000 I mean, this is a very real, balancing decision.

00:30:28.000 Anybody who's having an easy time with this one isn't thinking it through.

00:30:31.000 Or they're refusing to acknowledge the problems inherent in either decision.

00:30:35.000 Obviously there's a problem not voting for Trump because it's effectively not helping him stop Hillary.

00:30:41.000 And obviously there's a problem voting for Trump because it's turning over conservatism to a guy who's really a bad guy.

00:30:47.000 So Donald Trump, you know, over the weekend, he could have spent the entire weekend talking about Loretta Lynch and Clinton, and then he could have gone into this week targeting Hillary Clinton.

00:30:55.000 Instead, Donald Trump tweeted this over the weekend.

00:30:58.000 So here's the tweet.

00:31:00.000 He tweets, Crooked Hillary makes history, right? 0.71

00:31:02.000 And it's a meme.

00:31:03.000 And the meme is the history made Hillary looking in the air photo from her website, and it's pasted over a bed of dollars. 0.76

00:31:11.000 And then the controversial part, it's inside a Jewish star, it's his most corrupt candidate ever. 0.99

00:31:15.000 Inside a red Jewish star, it's his most corrupt candidate ever. 0.99

00:31:20.000 So, this creates a firestorm because obviously this looks like something that he grabbed from an alt-right white supremacist website that's linking money and Judaism, right?

00:31:29.000 That's what it looks like.

00:31:30.000 And that's old-school anti-semitism.

00:31:33.000 And it turns out that's exactly what it is.

00:31:35.000 It turns out that he likely grabbed it from 4chan or from a white supremacist supporter who was pushing this out via Twitter, and they just grabbed it and put it up.

00:31:42.000 Right?

00:31:43.000 Unattributed, they just grabbed it and they put it up.

00:31:45.000 So the media goes nuts over this.

00:31:47.000 And Trump then releases a revised version of this, which has a circle on it, right?

00:31:51.000 And the circle covers the Jewish star. 0.79

00:31:55.000 Except that they're incompetent, so you still see the points of the Jewish star in the background, because that's how incompetent this team is. 0.95

00:32:01.000 So the media goes nuts over this. 0.88

00:32:02.000 The media say, well look, this just demonstrates once and again that Donald Trump is in with his white power alt-right supporters.

00:32:10.000 And here's the problem.

00:32:10.000 I can't really argue with that since I've been arguing for months that he is in with those alt-right white supremacist supporters.

00:32:17.000 Now, do I think that this is the biggest deal ever?

00:32:19.000 No, I don't think it's the biggest deal ever because I've already been saying this stuff is a big deal for months.

00:32:23.000 This doesn't change anything that I felt about Donald Trump. 0.93

00:32:25.000 It doesn't change anything I believed about his crap show of a candidacy or his crap show of a campaign. 0.95

00:32:30.000 None of this changes anything for me. 0.99

00:32:32.000 But the media decided now, now of course they're going to make this into the biggest story ever.

00:32:35.000 So it wasn't the biggest story ever when Donald Trump explicitly refused to condemn the alt-right on Hugh Hewitt's show and on national TV when asked about it.

00:32:44.000 That is something the media will ignore, but now they have to distract from Hillary, so they bring this up. 1.00

00:32:50.000 So two things can be true at once. 1.00

00:32:51.000 One, Trump can be trafficking in white supremacist anti-Jewish stereotypes because he's ignorant. 1.00

00:32:57.000 I don't think he's an anti-Semite, I just think he's stupid. 1.00

00:32:59.000 And I think that he's happy to take support from whoever shows him support. 1.00

00:33:03.000 And if that's the alt-right, then he'll just keep chugging along, taking their memes and acknowledging them as some sort of legitimate force in American politics.

00:33:11.000 I think that can be true. 0.99

00:33:12.000 And it can also be true that the media is exploiting a stupid, ignorant move by Donald Trump in order to avoid talking about the deep-seated, nasty corruption endemic to Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration. 0.98

00:33:26.000 The entire weekend was basically covered, before this news broke today, the entire weekend was covered with just Trump supporters making bad defenses of this particular tweet. 0.98

00:33:33.000 Here's Corey Lewandowski, who is the former campaign manager for Donald Trump, and a fellow who is just a delight.

00:33:40.000 I mean, he has a nondisclosure agreement, he has a nondisparagement agreement with Trump, presumably.

00:33:44.000 CNN hired him anyway to give commentary, and things went wildly wrong on CNN.

00:33:49.000 You're saying that people are reading too much into this?

00:33:51.000 It's the same star that sheriff's departments across the country use all over the place to represent law enforcement.

00:33:56.000 To read into something that isn't there is, you know what?

00:33:58.000 I think, again, that's the mainstream media trying to attack Donald Trump for something that really isn't there.

00:34:02.000 So they put a new tweet up with a circle.

00:34:05.000 The message is the same.

00:34:06.000 Let's look at the message.

00:34:07.000 The message is that Hillary Clinton is corrupt and that the FBI is investigating the leading Democrat frontrunner. 0.96

00:34:10.000 If there's nothing there, Corey, then why did they pull it?

00:34:12.000 And why did they pull it and then send out the new tweet with, instead of that star, and it wasn't a five-point star, it was a circle the next time they did it?

00:34:22.000 He did it the next time he did it.

00:34:23.000 The bottom line is, again, the bottom line, this is political correctness run amok.

00:34:28.000 If this would have been a star next to Hillary Clinton and didn't have the cash behind it, no one would be questioning this.

00:34:33.000 This is the mainstream media trying to read into something.

00:34:36.000 And here's the thing, you have to remember where the sources are coming from.

00:34:38.000 Eric Erickson is a person who's part of the Never Trump movement.

00:34:41.000 He has been against Trump from day one.

00:34:44.000 He's entitled to do that.

00:34:46.000 But at the end of the day, the message is very clear.

00:34:48.000 Hillary Clinton is under investigation from the FBI.

00:34:51.000 She went in this weekend for a three and a half hour interview because she didn't want to be subpoenaed.

00:34:55.000 And her husband is trying to intervene in this case by meeting with the Attorney General, not to talk about golf and talk about grandchildren.

00:35:02.000 That conversation doesn't take 30 minutes.

00:35:04.000 The real question is, is the FBI going to make the right recommendation?

00:35:08.000 Because if it were you or I or anyone else in the American public, we'd be indicted by now.

00:35:13.000 And that's what should happen if that's what the facts of the case bear.

00:35:15.000 And if that is the case, then Loretta Lynch should clearly either recuse herself or agree right now to accept the recommendation of the FBI, not saying that she will take those into account. 0.96

00:35:25.000 Okay, so the last part of what Lewandowski's saying is true, and this is the problem.

00:35:28.000 What Lewandowski's saying at the end is true, but that's not what the media's gonna run with.

00:35:32.000 The media's gonna run with the fact that Donald Trump can't disavow his own bad guy supporters, right?

00:35:36.000 Because the media's looking for an excuse to cover Trump.

00:35:38.000 Now, this doesn't mean that the media wouldn't go after Trump were he innocent.

00:35:43.000 If he were innocent, they'd still go after Trump.

00:35:45.000 But at least then he wouldn't be guilty.

00:35:46.000 I mean, there's something to that idea.

00:35:48.000 He shouldn't be guilty of bad stuff.

00:35:49.000 He should avoid bad stuff.

00:35:51.000 Right.

00:35:52.000 You have Jeffrey Lord doing the same thing on CNN.

00:35:54.000 And again, it's just spin, spin, spin.

00:35:55.000 They're making it so easy for Hillary's team. 0.61

00:35:58.000 Right now, there's a poll that came out today.

00:35:59.000 It shows Trump beating Hillary by five.

00:36:01.000 Every other Republican they survey.

00:36:03.000 Every single other Republican they survey.

00:36:05.000 They surveyed Romney.

00:36:06.000 They surveyed Kasich.

00:36:07.000 I believe they surveyed Cruz.

00:36:08.000 Shows them either tied with Hillary or up at this point.

00:36:10.000 Trump is five points down in this latest poll today.

00:36:13.000 And there's a reason for that, and it's because he can't keep himself under control.

00:36:16.000 For God's sake, is there no one there at Trump headquarters to even be smart enough to just shut down his Twitter account?

00:36:23.000 To just take control of his Twitter account?

00:36:24.000 Is there no one there who's bright enough to do that?

00:36:26.000 I'm not a Trump supporter, as you know.

00:36:28.000 I think that Trump's Twitter account reflects who Trump is as a man.

00:36:32.000 But just from a purely political standpoint, wouldn't you think that you could shut him down to the extent that you could focus on the things that actually matter?

00:36:38.000 Instead, you end up with this nonsense with Jeffrey Lord.

00:36:41.000 John, number one, the sheriff's image is out there everywhere.

00:36:45.000 I mean, this has been around in America for well over a century.

00:36:50.000 When I saw this tweet, that is exactly what I first thought of, was that it was the sheriff's badge over money, which meant she was corrupt, which is the crooked Hillary, which is one of the themes of the campaign. 0.98

00:37:01.000 You know, all of this, frankly, I think some of this is a matter of culture.

00:37:06.000 Now, they took it down.

00:37:08.000 I don't think they should have taken it down, frankly.

00:37:13.000 If we're going to talk about anti-Semitism, then we need to be talking about why we had people on the Democratic Platform Committee right now pushing anti-Israel point of views who were put there by Bernie Sanders.

00:37:25.000 But Jeffrey, hold on one second.

00:37:26.000 Why is there a division over anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party?

00:37:29.000 That's serious stuff.

00:37:30.000 Fine.

00:37:30.000 But just with all due respect, if we're going to talk about division, I mean, I am always gobsmacked that Democrats like to play this game when they have been the party of racial division and at the moment they're...

00:37:47.000 Okay, so, you know, he's so so Jeffrey Lord again, half of what he's saying is true.

00:37:51.000 Okay, as I'm going to say in a second.

00:37:53.000 And the fact is the media are looking to target Trump, no question.

00:37:57.000 But Trump doesn't have to provide them fodder.

00:37:59.000 You want the evidence the media are trying to target Trump.

00:38:00.000 So over the weekend, Elie Wiesel dies.

00:38:02.000 Elie Wiesel is of course, the Holocaust survivor who won the Nobel Peace Prize in I think 1986.

00:38:07.000 And he was a he was the author of the book Knight.

00:38:11.000 Which is this very bleak look at the Holocaust from inside Auschwitz death camp.

00:38:15.000 I happen to have worked with and helped write the autobiography of his cousin who was in Auschwitz with Elie Wiesel.

00:38:23.000 Elie Wiesel was a great man who stood up for human rights.

00:38:27.000 After he died, Sidney Blumenthal, who is just a very close Hillary advisor, big anti-Semite, his son, who Sidney Blumenthal sends, his son Max, his son's name is Max, he sends Max's work to Hillary Clinton on a routine basis, right?

00:38:41.000 That always happens and it's been happening for years.

00:38:43.000 Max Blumenthal tweeted out after Wiesel died, quote, Ellie Wiesel went from a victim of war crimes to a supporter of those who commit them.

00:38:51.000 He did more harm than good and should not be honored.

00:38:54.000 After Elie Wiesel dies, this Nobel Prize winning Holocaust survivor.

00:38:58.000 Blumenthal has also likened Israel to Nazi Germany.

00:39:00.000 Hillary Clinton has connected with Max Blumenthal in the past.

00:39:04.000 Here's the New York Observer pointing this out a few months ago.

00:39:07.000 Quote, A number of columns have been written exposing how Mr. Blumenthal sent articles to Ms.

00:39:11.000 Clinton from his son Max, one of America's most notorious Israel haters.

00:39:16.000 Ms.

00:39:16.000 Clinton responded very favorably to them.

00:39:18.000 Some of these writings would later be the basis for Max's anti-Semitic book, Goliath, whose launch was thrown by Sid at his own home.

00:39:24.000 The disgraceful writings compare Israel to the Nazis, call for the expulsion of Jews from Israel, and whitewash Palestinian terrorism.

00:39:30.000 For good measure, Max also compares the Israel Defense Force to the SS.

00:39:34.000 The emails released show Mr. Blumenthal sent 19 articles written by Max, most of which contain deep anti-Israel sentiment.

00:39:41.000 What is truly unsettling is Ms.

00:39:42.000 Clinton's glowing praise for Max's work.

00:39:45.000 On numerous occasions, she forwarded the articles to her staff with the words, please print, and a number of times she asked for multiple copies so that she could hand them out to her staff and discuss them.

00:39:54.000 So in other words, there's antisemitism on the Hillary side. 1.00

00:39:58.000 Lots of it.

00:39:59.000 And deeply embedded.

00:40:00.000 And the media are ignoring it.

00:40:01.000 And they're ignoring it because they would prefer to focus on Trump.

00:40:03.000 And again, that doesn't mean the media aren't corrupt.

00:40:06.000 They are. 0.98

00:40:06.000 They're deeply corrupt. 0.98

00:40:07.000 The media is awful. 0.99

00:40:08.000 The media is evil. 0.99

00:40:09.000 The media is corrupt.

00:40:09.000 The media desperately, desperately want to make sure that Donald Trump loses to Hillary Clinton.

00:40:14.000 All of that is true.

00:40:15.000 Donald Trump makes it easy.

00:40:17.000 Donald Trump makes it easy for them.

00:40:19.000 And that's one of the things that's so troubling about the Trump campaign.

00:40:21.000 It's why this entire campaign is a series of bad choices.

00:40:24.000 This is not, this is not an easy choice for anybody.

00:40:28.000 For anybody to claim that it is on either side is making a big mistake.

00:40:32.000 I'm talking about either side of the never-Trump, pro-Trump divide.

00:40:34.000 I made a speech at Western Conservative Summit over the weekend.

00:40:37.000 I gave the keynote address on Saturday night.

00:40:39.000 Trump had spoken the day before.

00:40:40.000 Sarah Palin had spoken the day before.

00:40:42.000 And Sarah Palin

00:40:45.000 And what I said was, look, I get your decision.

00:40:51.000 I've said it many times on this program, folks.

00:40:53.000 I get your decision to vote Trump to stop Hillary.

00:40:55.000 I do.

00:40:55.000 But do not pretend he's a conservative and do not pervert your principles in order to support Trump.

00:41:00.000 And what I mean by that is don't pretend that Trump's tweeting out sheriff's badges because you want Trump to win.

00:41:05.000 It's not true.

00:41:06.000 It's not true.

00:41:07.000 And when you do that routine, all you do is lend credence to the other side

00:41:11.000 Claiming that we are all soft on anti-semitism, for example. 1.00

00:41:14.000 That's stupid. 1.00

00:41:16.000 We can attack Hillary with alacrity because she's the most corrupt politician of my lifetime. 1.00

00:41:19.000 Barack Obama being a close second, but the two of them working together far beyond anything we've seen in the history of American politics.

00:41:26.000 I mean, it's amazing stuff. 0.99

00:41:28.000 But that doesn't mean that Donald Trump isn't a crap show of his own. 0.99

00:41:30.000 And it's really... 0.99

00:41:32.000 A devastating election for that reason.

00:41:34.000 Conservatives lost long ago.

00:41:35.000 Now it's a series of bad decisions.

00:41:36.000 So we better start building a movement, or this is just going to continue.

00:41:39.000 Because the executive branch is not going to be non-corrupt under Trump.

00:41:43.000 It may be more corrupt under Hillary, but I don't think it'll be much less corrupt under Donald Trump.

00:41:47.000 And he'll be doing it under the auspices of the conservative party.

00:41:50.000 That's why it's a hard decision.

00:41:51.000 I get either way people come down.

00:41:53.000 I get either way people come down on that decision.

00:41:55.000 Okay.

00:41:56.000 Time for them things I like, then something that I hate.

00:41:58.000 Okay, things I like.

00:41:59.000 So this week we're gonna do westerns.

00:42:01.000 So, one of my favorite westerns, I don't think I've done this one before, one of my favorite westerns is from 1993, the movie Tombstone, with Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer.

00:42:09.000 Kilmer giving a really good performance as Doc Holliday.

00:42:11.000 It's a really fun movie, we can play a little bit of the trailer.

00:42:15.000 It was a place where a man could start over.

00:42:20.000 Where a fortune could be made.

00:42:23.000 They say every town has a story.

00:42:26.000 Tombstone has a legend.

00:42:28.000 Who is he?

00:42:31.000 That's Wyatt Earp.

00:42:32.000 Made a name for himself as a peace officer.

00:42:34.000 I heard of you.

00:42:35.000 I'm retired.

00:42:36.000 You must be Doc Holliday.

00:42:38.000 Are you retired, too?

00:42:39.000 Not me.

00:42:41.000 I'm in my prime.

00:42:44.000 Hollywood Pictures presents... The only real law around here is the Cowboys. 0.92

00:42:52.000 The story of Wyatt Earp.

00:42:55.000 The first time in our lives we got a chance to stop wandering and finally be a family.

00:42:59.000 Now, this is trouble we don't need.

00:43:00.000 If we're gonna have a future in this town, it's gotta have some law and order.

00:43:04.000 What do you want, Ringo?

00:43:07.000 I want your blood. 0.96

00:43:10.000 I want your soul. 0.98

00:43:12.000 I want them both right now.

00:43:15.000 Okay, so... Okay, we can stop there.

00:43:18.000 It's a really good movie.

00:43:20.000 It doesn't let up at any point.

00:43:21.000 It's terrific all the way through.

00:43:24.000 So pick up Tombstone tonight.

00:43:25.000 It's an intense, fun film.

00:43:28.000 Okay.

00:43:29.000 Other things that I like.

00:43:30.000 So Kevin Durant, who's on the Oklahoma City Thunder, he just moved over to the Golden State Warriors, and everybody is going nuts over this.

00:43:38.000 Like, totally nuts over this.

00:43:39.000 So first things first.

00:43:41.000 I think about athletes the same way I think about anybody in a career.

00:43:44.000 You have the right to move wherever you want to move.

00:43:46.000 You do.

00:43:46.000 You have the right to take your career and take your skills to South Beach, or you take your skills to Golden State.

00:43:51.000 I've sort of evolved on this question a little bit.

00:43:53.000 I sort of see the athlete side a little bit more.

00:43:55.000 That doesn't mean that it doesn't have an effect on your legacy if you leave one team in order to join a better team in order to win championships.

00:44:02.000 There's an NBA fan who absolutely lost his mind after learning that Kevin Durant had signed with the Warriors, and it's pretty funny.

00:44:08.000 Look at the Players' Tribune, and what was the title?

00:44:11.000 It was like a new start.

00:44:13.000 New home.

00:44:14.000 New home?

00:44:15.000 New home?

00:44:16.000 What about when we made new home?

00:44:18.000 Hope you have a new home in the dumpster with your career, because that's where it's at.

00:44:21.000 Forget about it, bro.

00:44:22.000 Forget about it.

00:44:23.000 You've literally gone from my favorite player to the most hated player I've ever seen in a second, in a tweet, in a single headline.

00:44:30.000 This is the only NBA jersey I have.

00:44:32.000 It's the only one I care about.

00:44:33.000 It's the only one I used to care about, now I care about.

00:44:36.000 What is this?

00:44:37.000 What is this?

00:44:37.000 This isn't even real!

00:44:38.000 This isn't even real!

00:44:39.000 You're not even a part of this team! 1.00

00:44:41.000 You're not even a part of this trash! 1.00

00:44:42.000 No, not trash team. 1.00

00:44:44.000 Your trash is not part of this great team, great organization, great city, great everything. 0.99

00:44:49.000 The only trash part about it is the person that just left right now. 0.99

00:44:52.000 Oh, and how dare you, even in your little article, say thank you to Oklahoma. 0.96

00:44:56.000 Thank you.

00:44:57.000 Thank you.

00:44:58.000 That's like Draymond Green saying, thank you Steven Adams nuts for being there. 1.00

00:45:02.000 Now I'm gonna kick your nuts. 1.00

00:45:03.000 That's what you just said Oklahoma. 1.00

00:45:05.000 Thank you.

00:45:06.000 Oh, thank goodness Kevin Durant said thank you.

00:45:09.000 Now I can go sleep at night and win no championships.

00:45:12.000 Oh look at what the sports center just created.

00:45:13.000 It goes on like this forever gang.

00:45:15.000 So, you know, listen, I appreciate fans who are real fans of sport.

00:45:20.000 All I can say is I feel bad because I used to be more of a sport... I still am a sports fan, but I used to follow this stuff a lot more closely.

00:45:26.000 And then as you get older and you have kids, you sort of fall a little bit out of touch with it.

00:45:29.000 But I appreciate the passion of this guy, even though I think that he might need a job and a girlfriend.

00:45:35.000 Alright, final thing I don't like.

00:45:37.000 Time for a thing I don't like.

00:45:38.000 So, over the weekend,

00:45:40.000 There was an ad that came out celebrating Independence Day, and it comes out from the Ad Council, which is your tax dollars.

00:45:47.000 And it's John Cena, the wrestler, right?

00:45:50.000 He's famous for being a wrestler.

00:45:51.000 And he cuts this ad about love.

00:45:59.000 Patriotism.

00:46:00.000 There's a word thrown around a lot.

00:46:02.000 It inspires passionate debate and is worn like a badge of honor and with good reason.

00:46:07.000 Because it means love and devotion for one's country.

00:46:10.000 Love.

00:46:11.000 For a word designed to unite, it can also be pretty divisive.

00:46:15.000 You see, there's more to patriotism than flag-sequel onesies and rodeos and quadruple cheeseburgers.

00:46:21.000 Patriotism is love for a country, not just pride in it.

00:46:26.000 But what really makes up this country of ours?

00:46:29.000 What is it we love?

00:46:30.000 It's more than just a huge rock full of animals like cougars and eagles, right?

00:46:35.000 It's the people.

00:46:37.000 Do me a favor.

00:46:39.000 Close your eyes for a second.

00:46:40.000 I want to try something out.

00:46:43.000 Picture the average U.S.

00:46:44.000 citizen.

00:46:45.000 Think about it.

00:46:46.000 How old are they?

00:46:48.000 What's their hair like?

00:46:49.000 How much can they bench?

00:46:51.000 You got one?

00:46:53.000 Okay.

00:46:54.000 So chances are, the person you're picturing right now looks a little different to the real average American.

00:47:01.000 There are 319 million U.S.

00:47:03.000 citizens.

00:47:04.000 51% are female.

00:47:06.000 So first off, the average American is a woman. 1.00

00:47:09.000 Cool, huh?

00:47:10.000 Is that what you pictured?

00:47:12.000 54 million are Latino.

00:47:13.000 40 million senior citizens.

00:47:16.000 27 million are disabled.

00:47:17.000 18 million are Asian.

00:47:19.000 That's more people in the U.S.

00:47:20.000 than play football and baseball combined.

00:47:24.000 9 million are lesbian, gay, bi, transgender.

00:47:27.000 More than the entire amount of people that live in the state of Virginia.

00:47:29.000 Around 10 million are redhead, 5.1 million play Ultimate Frisbee, and 3.5 million are Muslim.

00:47:36.000 Okay, so he just continues along these lines, just reading off statistics like this.

00:47:39.000 Okay, who cares?

00:47:41.000 What does that have to do with anything?

00:47:42.000 Like, the world is also a very diverse place, it turns out.

00:47:45.000 Lots of people, lots of different religions, lots of races, lots of genders, lots of sexual organs, lots of orientations.

00:47:52.000 Lots of stuff going on in the world.

00:47:53.000 What does that have to do with American patriotism at all?

00:47:55.000 What does that have to do with American patriotism at all?

00:47:58.000 Maybe American patriotism is about the principles upon which the country was founded.

00:48:02.000 You know, the things that we're busy dumping over.

00:48:04.000 Like, we care about the diversity and all this shtick. 0.99

00:48:06.000 But do we care at all about rule of law?

00:48:09.000 Do we care at all about the fact that our top politicians are able to get away with it?

00:48:12.000 Do we care about that?

00:48:13.000 Do we care about the fact that the President of the United States is currently campaigning with a woman who's clearly a felon? 0.99

00:48:19.000 Does that matter at all?

00:48:19.000 Does it matter to us that limited government no longer exists?

00:48:22.000 That the government is supposed to get involved in every part of our lives?

00:48:24.000 That's what patriotism is about to me.

00:48:26.000 It's about the foundational principles that made the country great.

00:48:29.000 Not just the people who live here, because the people who live here, they're people who live everywhere.

00:48:32.000 Lots of good people live outside the United States.

00:48:34.000 The question is, what are the principles that a country is based on that allow in the people who are better?

00:48:41.000 And that allow the people who are better to rise?

00:48:44.000 This is the kind of stuff that I hate from the left, is that all America is is basically a random agglomeration of marbles in a sack.

00:48:50.000 It isn't.

00:48:50.000 Okay, what we are, it's about the principles that unite us, and when those principles fall away, we end up with a country that's falling apart, and unfortunately, that's what it looks like right now.

00:48:59.000 Well, hopefully I'll be a little bit less pessimistic tomorrow about the state of things, knowing me, that's... Forget it, it's not gonna happen, but you may as well stop by and find out.

00:49:07.000 I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - July 05, 2016

Ep. 144 - Hillary's Not Going To Jail, Because America Is Toast

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