Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) tweeted that Americans are evil and terrible, and that he wishes he ran the world's wealth because he thinks he could allocate it better than billions of people in free exchange goods and services all around the planet. This is not the first time Sanders has expressed this idea. In January, he said America was "not a compassionate society," and stated, "Our record is worse than virtually any other country on Earth." The problem is, the American people actually don't worship wealth in the way Sanders does. They give of themselves far more than residents of any other countries, and the wealthiest 1.4% of Americans are responsible for 86% of all charitable donations made at death. And as for his philanthropy, he donated about $8,300 to charity in 2014 on earnings of $205,000, that is half the percentage of income given to charity that the Clintons handed over in 2014. Today's show also features breaking news from the Hill, including President Trump's latest on the Trump-Russia scandal, the Comey hearing on the Hill and Trump's accusations of Obama wiretapping him, and much, much more! Ben Shapiro is on the show to talk about it all, including: 1) 2) Why Bernie Sanders is a socialist 3) Why Donald Trump is a narcissist 4) Why Trump is not a crook 5) Why he's not a racist 6) How to cook better than Bernie Sanders 7) What's going on in the world 8) What s going on the Supreme Court? 9) Who's the most important And much, and what s going to happen in the Russia scandal and why you should be worried about it's a good thing 10) What is going on with the Trump/ Hillary Clinton hearing 11) And so much more Subscribe to The Ben Shapiro's new show on The Weekly Standard? Subscribe and review it on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe to the show on iTunes Subscribe & Subscribe on Podchaser and leave us a review on iTunes! Subscribe on Review your thoughts on the podcast on iTunes and other podcasting platforms! And don't forget to let us know what you like it's great listening to Ben Shapiro did it! and what you're listening to it on your favorite podcast! Thanks Ben Shapiro does you think about it on The Ben and Jerry s latest episode on The Hill?
00:00:00.000On Saturday, socialist, septuagenarian loonbag Senator Bernie Sanders, independent of Crazyland, took to Twitter to fire off a missive about how evil and terrible Americans are.
00:00:08.000Here's what he tweeted, quote, We are living in a nation which worships wealth rather than caring for the poor.
00:00:13.000I don't think that is the nation we should be living in.
00:00:17.000This isn't the first time Sanders has expressed this idea.
00:00:19.000In January, Sanders said America was, quote, not a compassionate society, and stated, quote, Our record is worse than virtually any other country on Earth.
00:00:28.000First off, Sanders obviously worships government power rather than caring for the poor.
00:00:32.000The notion that the socialist nations with which he sympathized throughout his youth cared more for the poor than the greatest prosperity-generating nation in the history of mankind is absurd on its face.
00:00:41.000Sanders merely wishes he ran the world's wealth because he thinks he could allocate it better than billions of people in free exchange goods and services all around the planet.
00:00:50.000In fact, he routinely stands against such free exchange.
00:00:53.000Second, the American people actually don't worship wealth in the way Sanders does.
00:01:09.000Found that Americans quote, out donate Britain and Canada 2 to 1 and nations like Italy and Germany 20 to 1.
00:01:14.000What's more, more than half of every single income class except those earning less than 25 grand donate to charity.
00:01:20.000Greedy evil 1 percenters, we give one third of all that charity and the wealthiest 1.4% of Americans are responsible for 86% of the charitable donations made at death.
00:01:30.000America is by far the most religious country in the industrialized world.
00:01:33.000The notion we sit around worshiping money is a leftist conceit that identifies good middle-class living built around church and family as babbitry.
00:01:40.000But Sanders engages in just that sort of babbitry while ignoring community on his own.
00:01:46.000And as for his claims that Americans are selfish, he donated about $8,300 to charity in 2014 on earnings of $205,000.
00:01:51.000That is half the percentage of income given to charity that the Clintons handed over.
00:01:56.000Not exactly the record of a man who proclaims that wealth means nothing and that the trappings of materialism must be shed in favor of redistribution.
00:02:04.000The media constantly pay attention to President Trump's Twitter feed.
00:02:20.000Obviously, lots of breaking news from the Hill.
00:02:21.000We'll talk about what's happening at the Comey hearing on the Hill with the House Intelligence Committee and Trump-Russia ties and Trump's accusations of Obama wiretapping.
00:02:30.000We'll also talk briefly about the Gorsuch hearings.
00:02:32.000We'll save some of that for tomorrow because they're happening contemporaneously with the show today.
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00:04:06.000Okay, so lots happening on the Hill today, so we will start with that.
00:04:09.000Not a good hearing for President Trump on the Hill today.
00:04:11.000So, James Comey, the Director of the FBI,
00:04:35.000And the National Security Administration head, who is Admiral Mike Rogers, they both basically came out and they said that Trump is full of crap when it comes to Obama wiretapping him.
00:04:49.000Now, that doesn't mean that there were not Trump associates caught up in wiretaps of Russians.
00:04:54.000It doesn't mean that Trump associates were not wiretapped themselves, although we have no evidence of that.
00:04:59.000It does mean that Trump's accusation that President Obama wiretapped him, or that he wiretapped Trump Tower,
00:05:05.000Again, there is no evidence at all that this is true.
00:05:08.000So, you know, the idea that Trump keeps promoting it and keeps doubling down on it, he's destroying his own public trust with this thing at this point.
00:05:14.000So Comey came out and first Comey said there was no evidence at all.
00:05:18.000He said, I have no information that supports these tweets.
00:05:22.000He said the DOJ had no information supporting President Trump's tweets either.
00:05:27.000He said no president could order a wiretap anyway because all electronic surveillance works through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act courts.
00:05:34.000Which is not a surprise, because top Democrats and Republicans in the House and the Senate have already said they have no evidence to substantiate Trump's tweet.
00:05:41.000There were the accusations last week by Judge Napolitano on Fox News that British intelligence had been working with Obama to wiretap Trump.
00:05:47.000The National Security Administration head, Mike Rogers, he said in open testimony that any allegations that the British did this were, quote, utterly ridiculous.
00:05:55.000So there are all these reports from InfoWars that there were documents that were going to come out showing that Obama had wiretapped Trump.
00:06:00.000That appears to be, at least according to this testimony, a bunch of crap, which is not surprising.
00:06:04.000InfoWars tends to report things that are not true more often than other news sources.
00:06:10.000And people buy into stuff because they feel like it confirms their pre-existing notions.
00:06:15.000There is a significant amount of confirmation bias in how people view the news.
00:06:24.000And so you have dueling narratives now.
00:06:25.000The narrative that you get from the left...
00:06:28.000Is that Trump was full of crap about the Obama wiretaps, and the narrative that you have from the right, from people like, you know, people like me and people like the folks on Fox News, is that these leaks regarding, you know, the information about the Trump team and Russia and all of that, there's no reason that should be out in front.
00:08:12.000The ends justify the means has become not just an ancillary part of politics, but the core of politics on both sides, and it's a really, really nasty negative thing.
00:09:14.000Now, we have to stop there for a second.
00:09:16.000Comey at no point said that he had uncovered evidence of actual collusion between the Trump team and the Russians as far as affecting the election.
00:09:24.000Now, Democrats have been out front saying that there is this deep collusion, it's obvious, it's open to anybody, and they're pointing at people like Paul Manafort and saying, look, Paul Manafort was Trump's campaign manager.
00:09:35.000Paul Manafort actually worked for Vladimir Putin.
00:09:39.000Well, you do need more than that if you actually want to have criminal charges or if you want to claim that the election was actually impacted in a deep way by Manafort, who was out pretty early on in the election cycle and replaced by Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway.
00:09:51.000So the idea that Manafort was the guy who was behind everything, that this was all some sort of big Russian plant, are there suspicious ties between Trump campaign officials and Russia?
00:10:01.000It's quite possible that Trump, who is admittedly an ignoramus about the political system, that he just hired somebody who is seen as sort of a black ops artist, which is what Manafort was seen as, he hired him, and then he found out that Manafort had ties to the Russians, and then he had to fire him.
00:10:16.000So the idea that this extends all the way up to Trump, and that there was active collusion between Trump's people and the Russians in order to affect the election on Trump's behalf.
00:10:23.000Comey actually said in this hearing, there's no evidence that these shifts in the Republican National Committee platform, the shifts with regard to Ukraine and Russia, he said there's no evidence that that is tied in any way to Russian influence.
00:10:37.000So, you know, a lot of this is speculation on the part of Democrats.
00:10:41.000So what we've got on both sides now is speculation on behalf of scandals that really are not materializing.
00:10:47.000We have speculation on behalf of scandals that are really not materializing on both sides.
00:10:51.000On the one side, you have people on the right speculating that Trump was a victim of Obama-esque wiretapping and that this is the end of the world.
00:10:59.000And they're just basically at this point speculating.
00:11:02.000They're basically just throwing stuff out there without a lot of evidence to back it up.
00:11:05.000And on the other side, you have the Democrats speculating that Trump is some sort of Russian plant without any evidence to back it up.
00:11:11.000And so what you end up with is a bunch of innuendo.
00:11:14.000And nobody knows what the hell is going on.
00:11:16.000And that is not a good state for government to be in at this point in time.
00:11:19.000It's not that you should trust the government.
00:11:21.000I don't think you should trust the government.
00:11:22.000I'm in favor of limited government, and I wish that all of this massive distrust in government actually led to people saying, okay, well let's make the government that I don't trust less involved in my life.
00:11:32.000Unfortunately, what it seems to be doing is the opposite in a lot of ways, which is, I don't trust the government.
00:11:37.000Therefore, if we put in charge someone that I do trust, then everything will work out just fine.
00:11:59.000Just to give you some evidence that this is how people are thinking now, Adam Schiff, who is one of the people who is doing the questioning during this latest Comey hearing, here's Adam Schiff talking about the level of circumstantial evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
00:12:12.000Look, collusion is sort of what hasn't been proven here between whatever the Russians did and the Trump campaign.
00:12:18.000In fact, the former acting director of the CIA, who was Mike Morrell, who was a supporter of Hillary Clinton,
00:12:24.000He essentially reminded people, took Director Clapper at his word on this show, who said there has been no evidence that has been found of collusion.
00:12:33.000Are we at the point of, at what point do you start to wonder if there is a fire to all the smoke?
00:12:39.000Well, first of all, I was surprised to see Director Clapper say that because I don't think you can make that claim categorically as he did.
00:12:47.000I would characterize it this way at the outset of the investigation.
00:12:50.000There is circumstantial evidence of collusion.
00:12:52.000There is direct evidence, I think, of deception.
00:12:56.000And that's where we begin the investigation.
00:13:00.000I don't want to prejudge where we ultimately end up, and of course there's one thing to say there's evidence, there's another thing to say we can prove this, or prove it beyond a reasonable doubt, or there's enough evidence to bring to a grand jury for purposes of a criminal indictment.
00:13:13.000But there is certainly enough for us to conduct an investigation.
00:13:17.000The American people have a right to know, and in order to defend ourselves, we need to know whether the circumstantial evidence of collusion and direct evidence
00:13:28.000I assume that the direct evidence of deception he's talking about is Mike Flynn admitting that he talked to the Russians when he said he hadn't talked to the Russians.
00:13:56.000It is also the fault of a very, very leaky intelligence community that hates Donald Trump.
00:14:00.000So that is a third scandal and maybe the biggest one and maybe the biggest problem because the more information comes out that is unsubstantiated and there's no way to substantiate it.
00:14:09.000The more people are not going to trust either side, and they're going to go back to their respective corners, and the Republicans will talk to Trump and trust him, and the Democrats will talk to Schumer and trust him, and nobody in the center will actually have any place to go, and nobody will know what the truth is.
00:14:21.000Because the people who are supposed to be investigating the truth keep dripping out little pieces of information that are not helpful in any way, and that is James Comey's fault.
00:15:08.000He says that there should be some investigation into the leakers regarding Michael Flynn and his calls with Russia.
00:15:13.000The intelligence community should not be leaking information on active investigations.
00:15:17.000I think that we know one thing for sure that the Obama administration did spy on Flynn.
00:15:22.000Now whether it was direct or indirect, somebody was reading and taking a transcript of his phone calls and then they released it.
00:15:31.000It is very, very important that whoever released that go to jail because you cannot have members of the intelligence community listening to the most private and highly classified information and then releasing that to the New York Times.
00:15:44.000There can only be one that is true as well.
00:15:45.000So, again, just to recap, there are three scandals, okay?
00:15:49.000There's one that's real, and two that really are not so real.
00:15:51.000The one that's real is the leaking scandal, because it is obvious.
00:15:55.000Members of the intelligence community should not be leaking information that is against the law.
00:15:58.000It is against the law, and it is a problem.
00:16:10.000Then, on the other hand, you have two other scandals, both of which seem to be paper-thin and falling apart.
00:16:14.000One is Trump saying that Obama wiretapped him, paper-thin, but Republicans believe it anyway.
00:16:18.000And the other is Trump and Russia were colluding, paper-thin, but Democrats believe it anyway.
00:16:22.000None of this is good for our politics.
00:16:24.000And then there's something else that's really bad for our politics that I'll discuss in just a second.
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00:17:55.000There is something else really nasty happening in politics and that is we're undermining trust from both sides because we've barricaded ourselves in our own narrative without actually looking at the evidence.
00:18:04.000Is there evidence that Trump colluded with Russia?
00:18:10.000And so we barricade ourselves in our sides and we just look for confirming information and that's exacerbated by all the social media which have algorithms that benefit
00:18:19.000Sites that are like the ones you look at.
00:18:21.000So if you tend to look at sites on the right, you're going to be promoted to more sites on the right, and that means that you are further ensconced in this bubble.
00:18:27.000But the biggest problem, I think, is that our politicians just keep lying to us.
00:18:31.000They just keep lying for their own political benefit, and then the promises they make never materialize, which undermines trust on a grand scale.
00:18:38.000Roland Martin was talking about the fact that Trumpcare is now going to be up for a vote.
00:18:42.000And Trumpcare should be up for a vote, I guess, this Thursday in the House.
00:18:45.000Trump has been promising for a long time.
00:18:47.000Nobody is going to lose their health insurance.
00:18:50.000Health insurance is going to be available for everyone.
00:18:52.000He's been using Democrat language to talk about Trumpcare for a very long time, about health insurance for a very long time.
00:18:57.000And he made a bunch of promises that this bill is just not going to guarantee because Trump was talking in terms that the bill doesn't guarantee.
00:19:03.000Roland Martin, who's a Democrat, says this, but he's not wrong.
00:19:06.000You've been had, you've been took, you've been hoodwinked, bamboozled, led astray, run amok.
00:19:11.000To watch these white, working class voters, upset and mad, saying, I voted for you, and I'm going, we tried to tell you this is what the main city was going to do.
00:19:21.000Now they're faced with the backlash of, now they love the Affordable Care Act, and now Republicans are in a box.
00:19:27.000Okay, and he is not wrong that when you make promises to people and you can't fulfill those promises, that undermines trust.
00:19:34.000So in 2010, Republicans said that they were going to repeal and replace Obamacare.
00:19:38.000In 2012, they said they were going to do it.
00:19:40.000In 2014, they said they were going to do it.
00:19:42.000In 2016, they said they were going to do it.
00:19:43.000And then the plan that they proposed doesn't actually do it.
00:19:45.000So, I want to talk about the damage that it does.
00:19:48.000When Republicans make promises to the white working class, and to the working class generally, it's not just white working class, that they cannot keep, and whether that makes a difference or not.
00:19:58.000And we'll talk about, can Republicans win by telling the truth?
00:20:00.000I think that is the big question in all of this, just generally, from the scandals to Trumpcare.
00:20:05.000I think the biggest question right now, can Republicans win by telling the truth, or is truth an obstacle to victory?
00:20:11.000And that means the truth has to go out