Sen. Harry Reid is one of the worst liars in the history of the Senate. And yet, here he is, receiving accolades for his supposedly grand tenure in the Senate, lecturing Americans about the supposed scourge of fake news in the pages of the New York Times. Ben Shapiro explains why Democrats have given up on being trusted with power, and why they should be worried about what s really going on in the White House and Congress. Plus, a listener mailbag about the future of the Democratic Party. Ben Shapiro and the Daily Wire's Peter Bergen talk about Harry Reid, the man who helped destroy the filibuster, and who is now the most powerful man in the country. They also talk about why Democrats should not be trusted to hold power and why the country should not trust them with power. And they finish the show with a question from a listener about the best wine they've ever had, and which is the best bottle of wine they ve ever had. Thanks to our sponsor, Wink! If you like wine, you don't know anything about wine? Wink is the place to go to get 20 bucks off of a bottle of your favorite sparkling wine, and make sure you don t look like a fool, because that's all you need to know about wine, because they make it 20 bucks or better than you do! You don't have to be a fool to drink wine at a fancy dinner party, right? Wink is the company that makes great wine, but they also makes it affordable, and it's just as good as you can drink it in the way you like it, so you can have a nice glass of good wine, too. . it's all about 20 bucks to make you feel like you're all that you should be drinking it in a nice way, right right now, not 20 bucks, but you can be sure you're drinking it at a nice, nice, good wine that's good enough to feel good and you're not going to feel like it's going to be good, good enough, and you won't look like you'll feel good about it, you're going to have a good time drinking it, too, right, you'll get a good night out, you know what they're all right, right there, right you know you're gonna have it, right they're not gonna be there, you won t have to drink it, they're gonna be good enough? - Ben Shapiro
00:00:00.000Senator Harry Reid is one of the worst liars ever to grace the national stage.
00:00:04.000He accused 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney of cheating on his taxes without any evidence, then celebrated his lie since it helped prevent Romney from becoming president.
00:00:12.000He called George W. Bush a liar who betrayed the country.
00:00:15.000He said paying taxes was voluntary, which is weird since it's not, attacked the Koch brothers as un-American, and admitted he'd rather let a child with cancer suffer than fund the government piecemeal.
00:00:25.000His Senate tenure was marked by conflict and cram downs, from the Obamacare fiasco to the destruction of the filibuster, both of which, by the way, will now backfire on Democrats.
00:00:32.000Yet, there was Reid, receiving accolades yesterday for his supposedly grand tenure in the Senate.
00:00:37.000And there he was, in the pages of the New York Times, lecturing Americans about, of all things, the supposed scourge of fake news.
00:00:43.000The New York Times tweeted, quote, Much of the responsibility for separating what's real and what's fake will fall on Democrats, writes Harry Reid.
00:01:11.000He says it's a dramatic misreading of your mandate to destroy it, even though Obama never had a clear mandate to pass Obamacare, and the public spent the next six years destroying the Democrats for misreading their mandate in passing that monstrosity.
00:01:22.000Reid wrote to Democrats, I say it has never been more important to stand up for the things we believe in.
00:01:46.000Reid is one of the worst liars in the history of the Senate.
00:01:48.000He also wrote, quote, When Democrats pick their fights next year, they can do so knowing that win or lose, they will be debating in a Senate that we made more open and more transparent.
00:01:57.000This is Reid defending the idiotic move of nuking the filibuster on cabinet picks.
00:02:01.000It's crippled his party, going into an era of Republican leadership in the White House and Congress.
00:02:05.000Reid will significantly improve America by leaving the Senate.
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00:04:24.000For those who have missed this controversy, Democrats have been saying now since the election that the reason Donald Trump was is because people believed fake news.
00:04:31.000Now, Democrats haven't really distinguished between headlines that are just flat out not true and messages that they don't like.
00:04:39.000So when Donald Trump says things like, radical Islam is something Democrats never say and it's a threat, then a lot of people will say, that's fake news.
00:04:47.000I've heard Democrats say the word radical Islam.
00:04:56.000Pizzagate is fake news because there's no evidence that Pizzagate is real, that there's this sex slavery ring being run out of this pizzeria in the middle of Washington, D.C.
00:05:07.000But the Democrats don't bother to make that distinction, and they never have.
00:05:10.000In fact, they've actually promulgated fake news at a routine rate.
00:05:16.000So that's actually destroyed their capacity to be fact-checkers.
00:05:19.000Nobody trusts you to check the facts if you're the person who promulgated half the false stories in the first place.
00:05:23.000The same people who complain about fake news are the people who are spending literally months talking about hands up, don't shoot, right?
00:05:30.000There's that famous picture from CNN of all of their anchors doing hands up, don't shoot.
00:05:34.000And those people on CNN, those same exact people, are now complaining about the scourge of fake news that drove Trump to the presidency.
00:05:39.000Well, at a certain point, we stopped listening to them.
00:05:42.000And that was real good for Donald Trump, both because it meant that we didn't listen to them when they slandered him, and it also meant that we didn't listen to them when they told the truth about him, which worked out really well for Donald Trump.
00:05:51.000It means that we're all going to have to find new sources of information, people that you trust to bring you the news.
00:05:56.000My general rule of thumb is, I mean aside from the basic rules, like everything has to be double sourced, my general rules of thumb on news to trust, news outlets to trust, is do they ever print stories that are not in their own economic self-interest?
00:06:07.000Do they ever print stories that run counter to their own narrative?
00:06:11.000Do they ever print stories that debunk things that you know that they believe?
00:06:14.000And that's usually a pretty good indicator.
00:06:16.000That's why I think the Washington Post is better than the New York Times.
00:06:19.000The New York Times rarely runs stories that run counter to their leftist narrative.
00:06:23.000The Washington Post actually does sometimes.
00:07:35.000As we talked about here last night, fake news played a role in this election and continues to find a wide audience.
00:07:42.000A BuzzFeed news study of Donald Trump's own tweets, where they follow back news stories to their root source, found more of them came from Breitbart originally than from any other single source.
00:07:55.000And of course, he's ripping on Breitbart as fake news.
00:07:57.000Now, as a former employee of Breitbart, I can say that not everything that Breitbart prints is fake news.
00:08:02.000The vast majority of what Breitbart does is aggregate.
00:08:04.000They actually just rewrite other people's stories a lot.
00:08:07.000But again, Brian Williams complaining about fake news is rather ironic.
00:08:11.000And what he doesn't note there is look at some of the other sources that Trump was tweeting during the campaign, right?
00:08:16.000Some of the other big sources, the Washington Post, right?
00:08:22.000He even tweeted the Huffington Post a few times.
00:08:25.000So the idea that a National Review, which really didn't like him very much, the idea that all of the people who are tweeting were only tweeting from Breitbart, obviously that's the biggest circle there.
00:08:34.000And yes, I think Breitbart was a Trump-Pravda outlet.
00:08:38.000But that doesn't mean that every headline that came from Breitbart is fake news, nor does it mean the entire outlet can simply be thrown out with the bathwater.
00:08:44.000You actually have to evaluate each story, and there are certain reporters at Breitbart who are really quite good.
00:08:48.000I think that Charlie Spearing is a good reporter over at Breitbart.
00:08:51.000I think Aaron Klein over at Breitbart Jerusalem is a very good reporter.
00:08:54.000I think Matt Boyle is not a very good reporter, but I think there are plenty of good reporters at Breitbart, even though it's an outlet that I think is overall just a shilling for Trump.
00:09:02.000But again, the left blew all of its credibility here, and so when they call foul here,
00:09:07.000When they scream about fake news, it just doesn't resonate.
00:09:11.000I mean, Hillary Clinton is doing the same routine now.
00:09:13.000Instead of just recognizing, you guys lost the election because you ran a bad candidate, and she ran an abysmal campaign, and you didn't understand what a lot of Americans were complaining about.
00:09:22.000Instead, you were too busy cutting videos with Mary J. Blige, in which she's singing to you questions.
00:09:28.000Instead of just recognizing that, they're trying to blame some outside source cheating, whether it's the Russians cheating, or whether it's fake news.
00:09:58.000Lives of ordinary people just trying to go about their days, to do their jobs, contribute to their communities.
00:10:06.000It's a danger that needs to be addressed, and addressed quickly.
00:10:10.000Bipartisan legislation is making its way through Congress to boost the government's response to foreign propaganda, and Silicon Valley is starting to grapple with the challenge and threat of fake news.
00:10:22.000Who's going to determine what's fake news and what's not fake news?
00:11:17.000And then Mika this morning, she says, you know, Hillary tried to get me thrown off air.
00:11:20.000For simply saying that this was a competitive race.
00:11:23.000I was concerned the campaign was not understanding that perhaps there was an arrogance they needed to get up their eye worse and understand that this isn't over.
00:11:33.000I'll just say it NBC got a call from the campaign like I had had done something that was journalistically inappropriate or something and needed to be pulled off the air.
00:11:49.000Okay, and, you know, the fact that Hillary Clinton is saying fake news this, fake news that, and then she tried to have a reporter pulled off the arrow, supposedly, because that reporter was saying that this was a more competitive race.
00:12:00.000It just demonstrates how silly all of this is.
00:12:02.000Again, Hillary Clinton has no credibility to call out fake news, because Hillary Clinton is the propagator of fake news.
00:12:07.000I mean, you remember that Hillary Clinton once claimed that her husband, all of the circumstances surrounding her husband and Lewinsky, all of it was lies.
00:12:17.000The great story here, for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it, is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.
00:12:30.000Okay, and so she's been singing the same tune for 30 years.
00:12:33.000Democrats always sing the same tune when they lose.
00:12:34.000It must be that somebody lied about us.
00:12:36.000It can't be that somebody told the truth about us.
00:12:38.000The truth is, virtually all of the anti-Hillary stories were true.
00:12:41.000Virtually all the anti-Trump stories were true.
00:12:43.000Virtually none of the pro-Trump or pro-Hillary stories were true.
00:12:46.000That was sort of the theme of the campaign as we were pointing it out.
00:12:49.000Plus again, Hillary Clinton, I say she's the purveyor of lies.
00:12:51.000I mean, here are just a few of her whoppers.
00:13:19.000There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.
00:13:27.000Her arrival in Bosnia was not quite as dramatic as Clinton put it.
00:13:31.000Memory should always match the videotape.
00:13:35.000And family members of the Benghazi victims are saying you lied to them in that hearing.
00:13:40.000We've seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful internet video that we had nothing to do with.
00:13:52.000She told me something entirely different at the casket ceremony.
00:13:56.000She said it was the cause of the video and that she would get back to me.
00:14:01.000Okay, so that's just an example of some of the lies that Hillary Clinton was telling and there she is decrying fake news and talking about how terrible it is.
00:14:07.000Very difficult to take the Democrats seriously and the media seriously when they've blown their own credibility.
00:14:12.000Which means that Trump basically has free reign.