Every accusation Democrats made about Trump during this election cycle is now blowing up in their faces, and Democrats are running around like Joe Biden, drunk with a shotgun, endangering themselves and others. Here are 5 reasons this news cycle is the greatest news cycle actually in human history: 1. Hillary Clinton has now told the FBI to come clean. Yes, really. 3. Democrats hate James Comey all of a sudden. 4. Democratic spokespeople on Comey are seriously the worst people in the world. 5. President Obama is now openly campaigning for someone under investigation. And the Clinton Foundation is under investigation, and the Obama administration is going around telling Americans that Hillary is the most qualified president they ve ever seen. Yes, this is the best news cycle we ve ever had, and it s hilarious. Should James Comey have dropped this bombshell back in July? Well, well, he had no other choice. Well, after all, we ve all had to kill a political scandal for political reasons. We re all love you, right? Happy Halloween! Ben Shapiro - The Ben Shapiro Show is a podcast about all things political scandal, scandal, and all things related to it. - Ben Shapiro's new book, The Devil Next Door, out now. It's out in paperback. If you haven't already read it, listen to it on Amazon Prime or wherever else you get your copy of The Devil Wears a Crown and it, you ll get a discount code: CRUCIAL. The Devil Knows How to Read It. by clicking here. Subscribe to the show on Audible Subscribe on iTunes and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and we'll be giving you a five-star review of the book, too! Subscribe and review it on Podchaser and other places you re getting a discount on the best listening experience, too watch it on PODCAST Thanks, Ben Shapiro is listening to The Five Things That Will Tell Me About It on The FiveThirtyEight by Ben Shapiro on the Fourteenth Episode of The Sixteenth Season of The Five Guys Podcasts by The Sixcast on Pizzarell on Podcoin or The Six Figure Podcasts on The Six Figures Podcast on Stravings on the Podchronicity on Tuesday, October 31st, 2019. Thanks for listening to Ben Shapiro, Ben Allardyce,
00:00:00.000The Democrats are in full-scale panic, and they should be.
00:00:04.000Hillary Clinton has been dropping like a stone in the polls.
00:00:07.000Weeks ago, she was up well over seven points in the RealClearPolitics poll average.
00:00:11.000She's now down to a 2.8% lead in a four-way race.
00:00:14.000In the state polls, Trump has been gaining steadily, to the point where Axiom Strategies now has Trump down just one point in Colorado and two in Pennsylvania, and up four in Florida, four in Nevada, two in North Carolina, five in Ohio.
00:00:25.000If that's anywhere close to right, this election is now on a knife's edge.
00:01:27.000Hillary spent her entire political career worrying about Rogue Weiner, only to be laid low by Rogue Weiner.
00:01:35.000Bill Clinton officiated Wiener's wedding to Hillary aide Huma Abedin, who's been paid by literally every Clinton-associated group in history.
00:01:41.000Teneo, the Clinton Foundation, the State Department.
00:01:43.000Now, Wiener's unfortunate tendency to explode and send pictures of his junk to random females, allegedly including underage females, has come back to bite Hillary Clinton after Huma already decided to publicly dump him.
00:02:02.000Third, Democrats hate James Comey all of a sudden.
00:02:04.000The New York Daily News accused FBI Director Comey of being a bomber, really.
00:02:08.000New York Times columnist Charles Blow, who does blow, essentially stated that Comey had rigged the election on behalf of Donald Trump.
00:02:14.000After months of complaining that Trump undermined democracy itself by calling into question the decency of American institutions like the FBI and saying that Republican attacks on Comey specifically undercut the country's best interests, now the Democrats want to take Comey out and pound on him with a shovel
00:02:30.000In Iowa, like Joe Pesci at the end of Casino.
00:02:34.000Fourth, Democratic spokespeople on Comey are seriously the worst people in the world.
00:02:37.000So, who are the Democrats trotting out to yell at Comey?
00:02:40.000Well, they've decided to unleash former AG Eric Holder, the most corrupt attorney general in American history, a dude under contempt of Congress, who facilitated gunrunning in Fast and Furious and lied about it,
00:02:50.000Who oversaw the transition of the DOJ into a racial grievance squad, who used the DOJ to target journalists like James Rosen, who labeled Fort Hood workplace violence.
00:02:59.000He's their go-to guy, criticizing James Comey on ethics.
00:03:02.000And then there's Senator Harry Reid, a sociopathic liar who once said that Mitt Romney paid no taxes, without any evidence, and then said that was fine, just so long as Romney lost.
00:03:11.000Now Reid is accusing Comey of violating the Hatch Act, he isn't, and stating that Comey is covering up Trump's relationship with Russia, with no evidence, and the media naturally are taking it seriously, because of course they are.
00:03:47.000Should Comey have dropped this bombshell?
00:03:48.000Well, he had no other choice after killing the private server investigation for political reasons back in July.
00:03:53.000If he'd waited two weeks to drop this information, people would rightly have said that he stopped the investigation back in July for Hillary and started up again after her election.
00:04:01.000Well, now Hillary's got troubles, and it sure is sweet.
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00:05:24.000Last Friday, we started the show right as this was breaking, so now we know a little bit more, but here, let's break it down into discrete parts.
00:05:42.000So Anthony Wiener's penis troubles have become kind of well known at this point.
00:05:45.000He has a habit of sending his pictures of his penis to every female within a 3,000 mile radius of any age.
00:05:51.000And I have to acknowledge that the FBI agent who is tasked with the responsibility for looking at these emails has the unluckiest job in the world.
00:05:58.000Because basically, he's going through the emails, and it's like, penis, penis, penis, classified information, penis, penis, yoga email, wedding email, penis.
00:06:08.000The FBI was investigating Wiener's magic devices and found emails related to Clinton investigations.
00:06:13.000That's the first thing you need to know.
00:06:14.000Second, the Wiener device, yes, the Wiener device, has 650,000 emails on it, according to the Wall Street Journal, and they say the metadata suggests thousands of those messages could have been sent to or from Hillary Clinton's private server.
00:06:27.000FBI Director Comey's letter didn't really say much.
00:06:31.000There wasn't a lot there in the letter.
00:06:33.000It basically just said, we found some new information and I'm letting you know about it.
00:06:36.000He has sent a letter by now to all of the FBI employees and it says, quote, because those emails appear to be pertinent to our investigation, I agreed we should take appropriate steps to obtain and review them.
00:06:49.000We don't ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations, but here I feel an obligation to do so, given that I testified repeatedly in recent months that our investigation was complete.
00:07:28.000So that's not true, and that's gonna come back to bite her, obviously, sixth.
00:07:33.000The DOJ, and this really is amazing, according to the Wall Street Journal, the FBI was investigating the Clinton Foundation, and Loretta Lynch, or as Andrew Clavin likes to call her, the blandly sinister Attorney General, tried to shut it down.
00:07:44.000Now, lest we forget, Loretta Lynch met with Bill Clinton on the tarmac at an Arizona airport just before James Comey decided not to push for indictment on Hillary's private server.
00:07:55.000The Justice Department was stern, icy, dismissive of the Clinton Foundation case.
00:08:00.000Anti-corruption prosecutors at the Justice Department told the FBI at the meeting they would not authorize more aggressive investigative techniques such as subpoenas, formal witness interviews, or a grand jury testimony.
00:08:11.000Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe was the guy responsible for shutting down the investigation under severe pressure.
00:08:18.000And finally, Democrats are absolutely losing their minds, and that's the theme of today's show.
00:08:22.000So, I thought last Friday, I said that this week would be nuts, because you would see the Democrats drump every piece of terrible oppo on Trump they had.
00:08:30.000If they had a tape, a sex tape of Trump with a horse, they would use it, right?
00:09:02.000They have to wait this sucker out and hope that they have enough of a lead
00:09:06.000That it's enough going into Election Day.
00:09:08.000Now, as I say, the polls have been tightening.
00:09:09.000They were tightening even before this revelation.
00:09:11.000Hillary was down to, like, three points in the national lead, and it was very tight in a lot of states.
00:09:15.000Now, is this enough to put Trump over the top?
00:09:17.000Unlikely, but it depends how this week goes.
00:09:19.000Because there's still enough of a gap in most of these states, and enough red states in play, or purple states in play for Hillary, that she still has a pretty sizable advantage.
00:09:27.000That's why the odds makers still say that she has about a 3-to-1 advantage on him in terms of winning the presidency.
00:09:33.000But she's handling this about as badly as you can handle this.
00:09:36.000Hillary Clinton, this news breaks last Friday, and then Hillary Clinton does a presser, and here's what she had to say at her press conference.
00:09:44.000So the American people deserve to get the full and complete facts immediately.
00:09:50.000The director himself has said he doesn't know whether the emails referenced in his letter are significant or not.
00:09:58.000I'm confident, whatever they are, will not change the conclusion reached in July.
00:10:04.000Therefore, it's imperative that the Bureau explain this issue in question, whatever it is, without any delay.
00:11:28.000Hillary sends out one of her campaign representatives to cut an online video, and this is the weakest routine I have seen in a very long time.
00:11:37.000Director James Comey released to Congress an unbelievably vague letter that was light on facts and heavy on innuendo.
00:11:43.000And it only serves to give Republicans a new line of attack against Hillary Clinton.
00:11:46.000But the more information that has come out, the more overblown this all seems, and the more concern it has created about Director Comey's actions.
00:12:25.000So you've got Blocky McBlock of wood telling us that there's nothing to see here.
00:12:29.000The real reason, as I said last week, that James Comey did this is because he got the notice that these emails were there.
00:12:34.000He was afraid that if he waited for three weeks to announce it, it would look like he shut down the investigation in July, held it off until Hillary was elected, and then released all of the emails after she was already the president-elect.
00:13:55.000But Josh Earnest over at the White House
00:13:57.000He has now come out and he has said that the White House doesn't really have any criticism for James Comey.
00:14:04.000So they're throwing Hillary right under the bus.
00:14:05.000They figure she's got enough of a lead she'll survive, but it's bad news for Hillary.
00:14:09.000People are abandoning her on all sides of her.
00:14:12.000Now, Democrats stick with her, and this is a point that I'm going to talk about a little bit later in the program, that Democrats, no matter what, stick with their woman.
00:14:33.000But the media have been trying to, they've been trying, struggling for a way to let Hillary off the hook and they're having a tough time doing it.
00:14:40.000Because the truth is that the Clinton people just don't have any answers.
00:14:43.000So John Podesta was on with, I think it was with Chris Wallace, and he says, you know, Huma Abedin, it wasn't that she was hiding emails.
00:15:58.000So, they have no good answers on this.
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00:17:11.000OK, so, you want to see more John Podesta struggling around like a guy blundering into... I mean, he's like...
00:17:18.000He's sort of like a character in an old horror novel where he blunders into the moors and there's some sort of monster in the moors that's going to eat him.
00:17:26.000Here it is with Jake Tapper and you're going to watch him blunder right into an abyss in the moors.
00:17:31.000But it's not that they haven't read any of them.
00:17:33.000Obviously the FBI agents who stumbled upon them read some of them and determined them to be pertinent.
00:17:44.000I'm telling you, according to the reporting of Evan Perez, our Justice Department correspondent, it's not as though they didn't know anything in the emails.
00:17:51.000They stumbled upon them, found that they seem to be pertinent to the Clinton email server investigation, and that is why.
00:17:58.000Seem to be pertinent, might not be significant, 11 days before the election.
00:18:03.000Is that something you toss on the table, or do you take the time to do what other prosecutors have done in the past and make sure that
00:18:13.000That it is so significant that you had to go forward with it.
00:18:16.000So, I don't fault him for taking a look at whatever he's found.
00:18:21.000But at this stage, having taken this step, then he at least ought to explain, you know, if he thinks they're significant or not significant, let's let him come forward and say why.
00:18:31.000John Podesta's voice rising into dog range as he realizes there's no way to explain away why it is that Hillary Clinton hid all these emails, but now it's James Comey's fault that he's not revealing all of the emails before he's had a chance to review all of them.
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00:21:56.000Let's flashback a few months to see what Democrats thought of James Comey, the director of the FBI, when he was wrongly letting Hillary Clinton off the hook.
00:22:03.000When we talked about this at the time, there were some, like my friend Andrew Klavan, who gave him the benefit of the doubt.
00:22:12.000It was very clear that Hillary Clinton had violated the law.
00:22:14.000But the Democrats were just over the moon with the wonders, with the absolute genius of James Comey.
00:22:19.000Here's President Obama at the time talking about James Comey.
00:22:23.000That investigation is now closed, and I hope that I could ask you about some of the comments that FBI Director Comey made a few days ago.
00:22:31.000As you know... You may, Mark, but I want you to make sure you're not wasting your question.
00:22:35.000I'm going to continue to be scrupulous about not commenting on it, just because I think Director Comey could not have been more exhaustive.
00:22:44.000My understanding is not only did he make a full presentation, but while we were over here, or at least flying, he was presenting to Congress for hours on end.
00:22:55.000But I just wanted to give you a chance, just in case you didn't want to burn your question.
00:23:04.000So he says it's an exhaustive investigation, everything is great.
00:23:06.000Here's the current vice presidential candidate for the Democrats, Tim Kaine, praising James Comey back in July.
00:23:12.000There was an extensive, as you know, Brett, investigation by the FBI under the direction of a wonderful and tough career public servant, Jim Comey.
00:23:23.000Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Virginia when I was the mayor of Richmond, and he's somebody with the highest standards of integrity.
00:23:50.000We are very privileged in our country to have him be the director of the FBI.
00:23:55.000I say that as first getting to know him when he was part of the Bush administration.
00:24:00.000And so he comes from the Bush administration to the position that he now holds.
00:24:09.000And even Chairman Chaffetz has said on him, because we do believe in James Comey, I do think that in all of the government, he is a man of integrity and honesty.
00:24:43.000Eli Cummings, who's the, Elijah Cummings, rather, who is the House Judiciary, not director, but the second over there, the Democrat over there.
00:24:53.000He also thought James Comey is just spectacular.
00:24:56.000He thought James Comey was a wonderful, wonderful dude.
00:24:58.000for being here today, especially on such a short notice.
00:25:02.000You and your staff should be commended for the thorough and dedicated review you conducted.
00:25:07.000Unfortunately, some of my colleagues are now attacking you personally because your final recommendation conflicted with their preconceived political outcome in this case.
00:25:17.000Some have tried to argue that this case is far worse than the case of General David Petraeus.
00:25:25.000Who was convicted in 2015 of knowingly and intentionally compromising highly classified information.
00:25:32.000In fact, one very vocal politician we all know said this, and I quote, if she isn't indicted, the only reason is because the Democrats are protecting her.
00:25:49.000All you have to do is- This just shows you that people have no principles in politics.
00:25:53.000They don't even have real opinions in politics.
00:25:55.000They just go wherever it is beneficial for them to go.
00:25:57.000Representative Elijah Cummings of Maryland today, quote, Members of Congress have asked four months for the FBI to provide us with info regarding Trump and Russian government connections.
00:26:07.000And now he's accusing Comey of corruption
00:27:25.000Okay, this is a bunch of crap that the Hatch Act bars federal authorities from influencing an election purposely, okay?
00:27:31.000The idea that James Comey did this because he wants Trump to win is asinine.
00:27:35.000What happened here, this is what we call in sports a make-up call.
00:27:38.000He made a bad call in July, new evidence emerged, he had to say it now, otherwise it would look like the FBI was going completely political for Hillary Clinton.
00:27:45.000What's amazing, there is, I think, a larger point to be made here, which is that when you do ethically compromise things in order to protect an institution,
00:27:53.000You end up destroying yourself and the institution.
00:27:55.000So John Roberts on Obamacare, he basically acknowledged that the reason that he made the Obamacare decision in favor of Obamacare was because he didn't want to get the Supreme Court into severely hot water.
00:28:04.000He wanted to uphold the traditions of the institution.
00:28:07.000Instead, he ended up destroying the legitimacy of the institution, whatever limited legitimacy it ever had.
00:28:13.000It was like Roger Goodell with the NFL.
00:28:14.000He would protect the shield, but the way he protected the shield was by covering up some really, really bad stuff, and then it turns out the bad stuff comes out anyway and destroys the image of the NFL.
00:28:22.000Comey was trying to protect the FBI from looking like it was politicized with Hillary Clinton.
00:28:27.000Instead, he made it look super politicized, and now he's trying again to make it look not political, and so it looks doubly politicized.
00:28:33.000The Republicans are ticked at him because he shouldn't have basically acquitted Hillary back in July, and now Democrats are mad at him because he's saying, well, there's new evidence and now I have to release
00:29:23.000Tim Ryan, a congressperson, he's come out and he says, really, it's Russia's fault that this entire thing was opened in the first place.
00:29:31.000I don't think it's going to have a whole lot of effect on the current electorate, but I will say this, where have these documents, where did they come from?
00:29:41.000We have all this stuff going on with Russia right now.
00:29:44.000All of the WikiLeaks issues of stolen documents that we don't really even know if some have been manipulated or not manipulated.
00:29:51.000Why didn't the FBI have these documents through all of the different investigations that they went through on this, where the FBI said that, you know, she didn't do anything wrong, that it may be careless, but that was it.
00:30:04.000And that there would have had to been this huge conspiracy of 300 people in the State Department that would have been conspiring to, you know, release confidential information.
00:30:40.000So after handing Russia full power in the Middle East and Ukraine, now they think the Russians are nefarious work on behalf of Donald Trump.
00:30:46.000It really is truly amazing the hypocrisy that's been exposed by this election cycle.
00:30:51.000Now, all of this said, should Comey have done this?
00:30:55.000He made such a bad call in July that now, again, if he says three weeks from now we have new emails and I didn't reveal them to the public, then people are going to want his head on a platter and they're not going to trust the FBI ever again.
00:31:06.000So he sort of had to do this because he made the mistake in the first place
00:31:13.000Now, by the way, on another note, and we'll talk about this a little bit more tomorrow when we have more time, but Donna Brazile, this is breaking news, Donna Brazile has now been fired from CNN.
00:31:21.000She's been suspended because she's at the DNC.
00:31:24.000You remember Donna Brazile had said repeatedly that she did not leak questions from the Bernie Sanders-Hillary Clinton debates to Hillary Clinton?
00:31:31.000There's a new email that proves that she absolutely leaked
00:31:34.000Questions from CNN to Hillary Clinton, demonstrating once again that when Trump says that CNN is the Clinton News Network, that's exactly right.
00:31:43.000I mean, they actually created these questions, and then somehow, just somehow, no one knows how, these questions ended up in Donna Brazile's inbox, and she could send them directly to Hillary Clinton.
00:31:52.000It is amazing how corrupt the Democrats are.
00:31:54.000It's astonishing, actually, all the way through.
00:31:57.000And they don't feel one iota of remorse about this.
00:31:59.000It's funny, when you talk to Hillary supporters, the vast majority of Hillary supporters obviously hate Trump, but very, very few of them seriously have considerations about Hillary at all.
00:32:10.000When's the last time they had a second thought about the corruption of their own candidate?
00:32:17.000I'm proud of the fact that my party has people who agonize over Donald Trump.
00:32:20.000I think Democrats should be a little bit ashamed that they have such a corrupt candidate and very few of them are thinking about it in a serious way because after all Donald Trump is the worst and therefore Hillary must be president of the United States and have full power to run the federal government like her private server was run.
00:32:43.000I think that they are empty on ammo, and that means they have some troubles, because it's only Monday today, and the polls haven't even really reflected the entire fallout from this renewed FBI investigation.
00:32:53.000They're trying to drop some oppo, but it's real weak tea.
00:32:56.000So, for example, they're dropping oppo from Trump in 1990, saying adultery isn't a sin.
00:35:05.000And now it turns out that Halloween is all about the adults.
00:35:07.000It's about the slutty nuns, and it's about how heavily can you drink, and it's about throwing off all of the shackles of Western civilization for a night.
00:35:56.000When people say a gentleman's club, they mean a really gross place where a bunch of losers go to pleasure themselves while watching women who probably have a drug problem.
00:36:35.000John Oliver of HBO, he's coming in for a lot of criticism lately because he is just awful all the way through.
00:36:41.000So John Oliver did a segment, and I think it's really fascinating to break down what the left does when they conflate a bunch of different myths all together.
00:36:47.000So, John Oliver is very upset with what he terms school segregation.
00:36:51.000Now he doesn't mean formal school segregation, as in black people are not allowed to go to this school, only white people can go to this school.
00:36:57.000He's talking about informal segregation.
00:36:59.000And he talks about some of the problems with it without, of course, paying any attention to the real reason this is happening.
00:37:04.000It would still be problematic, even if these schools were roughly equivalent academically, as that would still be a violation of the principle of Brown v. Board of Education that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
00:37:16.000But in practice, they are very rarely equal in any way.
00:37:20.000Black and Latino children are more likely to attend schools with inexperienced teachers, which are then less likely to offer a college prep curriculum.
00:37:28.000On top of which, because race and class are inextricably linked, those students are six times as likely to be in high-poverty schools.
00:37:35.000And while there are teachers and students working incredibly hard in those places, they are often doing so with fewer resources, as one student learned during a school exchange program.
00:37:45.000So, how is it possible that our nation's schools are by some measures more segregated now than they have been in over four decades?
00:37:52.000Well, it turns out, places like New York haven't so much re-segregated as never really bothered integrating in the first place.
00:38:01.000It was very carefully crafted by Northern lawmakers.
00:38:04.000It targeted the kind of segregation by law which existed in the South, so you couldn't have a school that was officially designated whites only, but it exempted the so-called racial imbalance of Northern schools.
00:38:17.000So if a New York school was all white because it was drawing from an all-white area,
00:38:21.000Even if that area had been kept that way due to a host of explicitly racist housing policies, that was somehow fine.
00:38:29.000And if you're thinking, that is some hypocritical bullshit, you are not alone.
00:38:33.000Malcolm X was pointing this out in New York at the time.
00:38:48.000You know, the Civil Rights Act didn't force racial balance in schools that were racially imbalanced before.
00:38:55.000Right, because if there's nothing prohibiting a black person from joining the white school, and it's illegal to prohibit that black person from renting in that area, then what's the issue exactly?
00:39:06.000The real reason there's segregation in a lot of these schools, de facto segregation, not de jure, not in law, de facto segregation, the reason that there's de facto segregation in a lot of these schools is because, unfortunately, there's been a lot of white flight from inner cities, and the reason there's been a lot of white flight from inner cities is because of democratic tax policy, which has increased taxes on people,
00:39:44.000The union negotiates on behalf of the more experienced teachers.
00:39:47.000The more experienced you get, the cushier the job is supposed to be, and there's no market incentive to teach in a really bad, downtrodden inner-city school.
00:39:55.000If you're a top teacher, what you really want is the top teachers at the crappy schools, presumably, and you want less experienced teachers at the better schools because the students are easier to deal with, you can learn how to deal with them there, and then you can go into a school that really needs more help,
00:40:08.000And you get paid a lot of money to do that.
00:40:09.000Michelle Rhee tried to do this in Washington, D.C.
00:40:11.000and the teachers union would have nothing to do with it.
00:40:13.000So instead what you get is the least qualified teachers teaching in the worst possible areas and the most qualified teachers teaching in the really, really nice areas.
00:40:21.000Now, one of the arguments that Oliver and the left make is that the tax money that's paid in a lot of downtrodden areas is not equal to the amount that's paid in a lot of local areas that are more upper crust.
00:40:32.000That's true, because richer areas tend to take in more tax revenue.
00:40:37.000Because, for example, LAUSD spends about $10,000 per year per student, and that's not improving its educational metric at all.
00:40:44.000We've increased spending on education in the United States multiple times over.
00:40:48.000We spend a lot of money on education here in the United States.
00:40:50.000And it doesn't match up with the amount of accomplishment in education because education really comes down to a couple of factors.
00:40:56.000One, good teachers who are being paid properly for their services, and that means market rate for their services.
00:41:01.000And two, parents who care enough to ensure that their kids get a good education in spite of all the challenges that surround them.
00:41:08.000So this is not an excuse for bad public schools, but to suggest that it's white people being racist against black people, and that's why predominantly black schools in the inner city are really crappy.
00:41:16.000No, it's government policy that drove people out of these cities.
00:41:19.000It's government policy that attempted to force people into associations they didn't want to be in, that drove people further and further out into the suburbs.
00:41:26.000It's why you saw white flight into the suburbs.
00:41:29.000The reality is that if you had a school voucher program where students of any race and any age could move into schools that were better,
00:42:14.000Because state schools are basically open admittance, right?
00:42:18.000Now, they'll say that there's more segregation than ever in higher education, too, because there aren't enough black and Hispanic people qualifying for the kind of minimum qualifications to get into these universities.
00:42:31.000That's a result of all these other informal barriers that we're talking about, including barriers—well, some of them are legal barriers, like not being able to go to the public school you want to go to.
00:42:40.000And part of them are informal barriers, like having a culture that doesn't value education in the same way that other cultures do.
00:42:46.000I mean, if you look at the difference between—and it's true even within—it's not even a black and white issue.
00:42:50.000I mean, this is true even within different subsets of the Asian community.
00:42:52.000There are various cultures in the Asian community, some of which value education more than others.
00:42:57.000So, this is not as easy a solution as John Oliver is basically suggesting here.
00:43:02.000Just get the government in to mandate that a certain number of black people go to a white school, a certain number of white people go to a black school.
00:43:07.000They tried this in the 1960s, and it ended up devastating virtually all of the school system.
00:43:12.000Well, we'll talk more about issues like this tomorrow.
00:43:14.000We'll also talk about Donna Brazile being ousted at CNN because it turns out she's a pathological liar, too.
00:43:19.000And, of course, more fallout from Hillary's FBI investigation as we continue tomorrow here on The Ben Shapiro Show.