James Comey reveals a treasure trove of Hillary Clinton's emails, but doesn't charge her with a crime. Is she still a criminal? And why is the FBI letting her off the hook again? Ben Shapiro explains why the FBI is a political tool, and why no one trusts them anymore. Plus, a look at how the Democratic presidential candidates are using the FBI as a tool for their own political advantage. And a breakdown of how the 2016 election is going to come down to the popular vote. Ben Shapiro is a writer, comedian, and podcaster. His work has appeared on Comedy Central, HBO, and the New York Times. He is the host of the podcast and is a regular contributor on CNN and other media outlets. He is also a frequent contributor on the radio show on Fox News and NPR. Ben's new book, is out now, and is available for pre-order on Amazon Prime and Vimeo. Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your friends and family! Tweet me to let us know what you thought of this episode and what you're looking forward to in the future episodes of The Ben Shapiro Show! Timestamps: 5:00 - What s your favorite conspiracy theory? 6:30 - Is Hillary Clinton still a crooper? 7:15 - Why she should be charged? 8:20 - Is she guilty? 9:10 - Is the FBI corrupt? 10:00 11: What s she still innocent? 12:00 | Is she a criminal now? 13:15 15: Who s going to win the election? 16:00: Is she running for president? 17:40 - Does she have a path to win it? 18:40 19:10 21:30 22:30 Is she going to lose the election tomorrow? 23:00 Is she really running for re-election next time? 26:00 Do you think she s running for President? 27:00 Can she really have a chance of winning the election in 2016? 25:00 Does she deserve a chance to win in 2020 or is she s ? or not? 35: Is Hillary going to run for president in 2020? 36:00 Will she have any chance of a second term? 37:40 Can she win the White House in 2020??
00:00:00.000So, FBI Director James Comey has now revealed that the 650,000 treasure trove of emails the FBI discovered on Anthony Weiner's laptop doesn't contain any information that would make him rethink his decision not to recommend indictment for Hillary Clinton.
00:00:13.000According to the Washington Post, quote, the agents' work at first seemed endless.
00:00:16.000They had to use special software to sift through 650,000 emails, but they accomplished this formidable task.
00:00:22.000And then Comey announced that, quote, all of the communications that were to or from Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State had not changed our conclusions.
00:00:29.000Most of the emails, but not all, reportedly duplicated other emails turned over by Clinton earlier or discovered by the FBI.
00:00:35.000That statement, notably, did not say that the Clinton Foundation had been let off the hook.
00:00:40.000New wiki leaks over the email demonstrate further corruption, from Hillary sending classified emails to her maid to print, to Chelsea allegedly using Foundation dollars to sponsor her wedding.
00:01:13.000It's hard to get more grossly negligent with classified material
00:01:16.000Then setting up a private server in a bathroom and then funneling classified information through it and making it vulnerable to hack in the process.
00:01:23.000Or, by the way, sending that material to your higher janitorial help for printing.
00:01:26.000It's no surprise Comey's let her off the hook again.
00:01:28.000Once you change the standard of the law, you'd actually need to find an email from Hillary to Vladimir Putin sending him the names of American spies in order to indict her.
00:01:36.000But here's what actually happened here.
00:01:37.000Comey rushed to let her off, then he rushed to get himself off, then he rushed to let her off again when the polls went south.
00:01:46.000No matter what happens tomorrow, Hillary will never be trusted by the American people.
00:01:49.000And nobody will trust James Comey or Loretta Lynch to do justice.
00:01:53.000That means the American people won't give Hillary any sort of bully pulpit or any credibility when she makes her case to the American people.
00:02:00.000Maybe, perhaps, that's the only good news to come from this horror show of an election.
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00:03:49.000Nate Silver, who's sort of the elections guru, he says that Donald Trump is relatively close to a path to winning.
00:03:55.000Here's what he had to say about Donald Trump's chances on Sunday.
00:03:58.000So we show about a three-point lead nationally for Clinton, and she's about a two-to-one favorite.
00:04:04.000The Electoral College math is actually less solid for Clinton than it was for Obama four years ago, where four years ago we had Obama ahead in states totaling 320-some electoral votes.
00:04:14.000Clinton has about 270, so she's one state away from potentially losing Electoral College.
00:04:20.000You'd rather be in her shoes than Donald Trump's, but it's not a terribly
00:04:26.000Okay, so he says 65.7% chance of winning.
00:04:33.000And he says that Trump does have a path.
00:04:35.000That basically he's one state away from winning.
00:04:38.000This is reflective of the polls over the weekend.
00:04:40.000So basically, in order for Trump to win, he has to win North Carolina.
00:05:13.000Either don't seem particularly certain of this election or they're just trying to gin their base to get out by saying it's closer than it is.
00:05:19.000John Podesta says that he thinks that Hillary can hold Michigan.
00:06:43.000I mean, I've yet to meet a closeted Trump supporter.
00:06:46.000They don't really exist, as far as I can tell.
00:06:48.000Trump supporters tend to be very loud and very proud about who they're voting for.
00:06:51.000I'm not seeing a lot of people, even in California,
00:06:54.000And this is anecdotal, to be sure, but now we're talking in the realm of anecdotal because there are no real statistical studies.
00:06:59.000But I really doubt, I do doubt that there are a lot of Trump supporters who are simply lying to pollsters or they're not registering in the polls.
00:07:09.000The other possibility is a lot of the independents are going to swing to Trump, and the polls are not really supporting that idea either.
00:07:14.000So now I'm going to give you my breakdown of how I think this election is actually going to go.
00:07:18.000So here is my prediction, and you can take it to the bank or not, as the case may be.
00:07:22.000Here's where I think this comes down to.
00:07:24.000So, in order for Trump to win, as I say, he has to win North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Iowa, and Nevada, and then he has to win one more state.
00:07:30.000New Hampshire, Colorado, Virginia, Wisconsin, Michigan, or Pennsylvania.
00:07:48.000The Hispanic turnout is up a little bit, which is good news for Hillary.
00:07:52.000The black turnout is apparently down rather dramatically, which is really bad news for Hillary Clinton because she needs the black turnout in order to drive her over the top.
00:07:59.000Nate Cohn of the New York Times estimated as of October 31st, he said about 2.9 million people had voted in North Carolina.
00:08:05.000Out of the 4.6 million who would eventually vote.
00:08:08.000So that's a huge number of people who vote early in North Carolina.
00:08:11.000He says, based on the voting history and demographic characteristics of those people, we think Hillary leads in North Carolina by about 6 percentage points.
00:08:19.000538 gives Hillary a 50.6% shot to beat Trump in North Carolina.
00:08:24.000Now I will say, Trump doesn't have a ground game.
00:08:26.000So it's possible the polls are off in the other direction as well, that the Democrats are really going to get out to vote, they're going to send people to bus people to the polls, they're going to make sure all their elderly voters get out to vote, and the turnout game is what decides North Carolina.
00:08:38.000I think that Hillary will end up winning North Carolina, but I do think that it'll be very close, and I think that
00:08:44.000Richard Burr, who's the senator from North Carolina, may end up maintaining his seat.
00:09:09.000Apparently some 6.1 million ballots have already been cast in the state of Florida.
00:09:13.000Democrats lead Republicans by just half a percentage point.
00:09:17.000There's a poll out today that shows that people who plan on voting election day are gonna vote heavily Trump.
00:09:21.000The question is how many of those people there are and how heavily Trump that is.
00:09:26.000So this one is definitely up in the air.
00:09:28.000But if Hispanics vote disproportionately in Florida, and they're not all Cuban Hispanics, then it's possible that Trump loses Florida as well.
00:09:37.000I think that he's going to lose both North Carolina and Florida.
00:10:05.000So before Trump was up pretty big, or at least he had drawn into the lead in the last few weeks, last three, four weeks, Hillary has a major advantage in the early voting.
00:10:15.000According to John Ralston, who does elections analysis,
00:10:18.000For one of the local news stations in Vegas, he says about 770,000 votes have been cast, which is about two-thirds of the entire vote in the state of Nevada.
00:10:26.000If you suppose an election day turnout of 450,000 voters, Trump needs to win on Tuesday by 10 points to win.
00:10:49.000New Hampshire is apparently really close right now in the latest polling average, but you sort of have to look over the last year.
00:10:54.000For the last year, Hillary led New Hampshire by as much as double digits.
00:10:57.000There's about a one-week spate right after the Comey announcement of the renewed FBI investigation, where suddenly Trump was ahead by anywhere from one to three points.
00:11:04.000Now there are a couple new polls that show Hillary back up.
00:11:07.000I think that Clinton is probably going to win New Hampshire.
00:11:09.000Colorado, Clinton is going to match Obama's numbers in the early voting.
00:11:12.000That means that she's probably going to win Colorado.
00:11:14.000Virginia, which used to be a Republican state,
00:11:16.000Has not voted Republican now, probably for the last 12 years.
00:11:19.000The last time they voted Republican was 2004.
00:11:21.000A lot of the people who live in Washington, D.C.
00:11:24.000have moved into suburban Virginia, and they've been infusing northern Virginia with this blue feel, so Virginia's likely to go for Hillary Clinton.
00:11:31.000Wisconsin polling looks bad for Trump.
00:11:55.000I think there are some other people, you know, who have been suggesting otherwise.
00:11:59.000I know there's a piece by Henry Olson over at National Review where he says the polls aren't taking into account the factors I mentioned before.
00:12:07.000Turnout game from Trump, the idea of the missing Trump voter who is secretly hiding and just hiding from pollsters in a basement somewhere.
00:12:16.000My final tally is I think that Trump ends up with 217 electoral votes.
00:12:19.000I think Hillary ends up with 322 electoral votes, which means he wins slightly more electoral votes than Romney did and more obviously than McCain did, but still gets blown out in pretty handy fashion.
00:12:39.000But I think that he will certainly win Iowa.
00:12:41.000I don't know if he's going to win Ohio.
00:12:43.000But in any case, in the popular vote, I think that people are underestimating the level of hatred that Democrats and leftists have for Trump.
00:12:50.000And it's not just because they think he's conservative, OK?
00:12:52.000They would have hated Cruz also or Rubio.
00:12:59.000They think Trump is an unpalatable nutjob.
00:13:02.000I think that about a quarter of that is, I think, unpalatable is right.
00:13:05.000Nutjob, I think, is a little bit less charitable.
00:13:08.000But in any case, I think that you're going to see heavy turnout in places like New York and California, just as a way for leftists to virtue signal to their friends that they voted against Trump.
00:13:17.000So I think that the popular vote margin will be larger than Romney, even though right now the popular vote margin, the polls show anywhere from 2.9 to 3.3 points in the spread.
00:13:27.000I think that the final result is going to be something like Hillary Clinton 49 or 50 to Donald Trump 44.
00:13:32.000I think it'll be a five or six point victory, which is a pretty sweeping victory for Hillary Clinton.
00:13:37.000All of this should make you pretty sad, given the fact that we didn't have to nominate this guy.
00:13:42.000There's a poll out today that shows what would have happened if we'd nominated, for example, Mitt Romney, who I didn't support for the nomination.
00:13:48.000If we had nominated Mitt Romney, he would have clobbered Clinton 50 to 40.
00:13:54.000If Obama had run against Trump, by the way, this is why you can't trust the people who say, well, look, Trump's a better candidate than Romney.
00:13:59.000He's going to win more electoral votes.
00:14:01.000He's not running against Barack Obama.
00:14:03.000He's running against Hillary Clinton, legitimately the worst major party nominee in the history of American politics, except for the moron we ran.
00:14:24.000Now, I want to go through, and we will go through in just a moment, sort of the final arguments on both sides.
00:14:30.000Because if there's been one thing that's true of this election, it's that every negative thing that each side says about the other is true.
00:14:35.000Everything they say about themselves is a lie.
00:14:38.000And we'll go through that, and we'll talk about what impact that has on our politics in just a moment.
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00:16:24.000But on the good side, the media have just fallen apart.
00:16:26.000So it has now been revealed, and this really is amazing, that apparently, apparently, this is according to media, DNC Research Director Lauren Dillon sent a pair of emails to CNN staffers with the hope that they would use her emails, these questions that she wrote for them, to ask Donald Trump.
00:16:44.000The first email had the subject line, Trump questions for CNN, and it says, Wolf Blitzer is interviewing Trump on Tuesday ahead of his foreign policy address on Wednesday.