The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 295 - Can Trump Focus On What Matters?

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is back, and she s back with a vengeance for losing the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump. She says, I m now back to being an activist citizen and part of the resistance. Really? What exactly is she resisting? Is this Rogue One? She dragged her party down almost single-handed in the last election cycle. Now she wants to be part the cool kids crowd again? This is precisely what s wrong with Hillary Clinton and what her husband understood: You can t hijack a popular movement with which you had nothing to do. Is Hillary Clinton back in 2020? And if so, what s to stop her from running for president again? And why should Republicans be excited to see her back in play? Plus, a story about Jimmy Kimmel and his son's heart condition, and why he turned it into a pitch for Obamacare. Ben Shapiro is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show on Comedy Central's and host of the podcast. Subscribe to his new show on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Use the promo code to receive 20% off your first month with discount code TheBen Shapiro at checkout! at TheBenShapiro.co/thebencrane Thank you Ben Shapiro for sponsoring the show! and for supporting the show. You can also become a supporter of the show by becoming a patron! at Ben Shapiro: Ben ShapiroShaw.co using coupon code: BenShaw4BenShoes at linktr.ee/p&#bencroneee at bit.ee& other links mentioned in the show? Thanks Ben Shapiro4Ben Shapiro: BenShaperson: Ben: The Daily Wire: Ben: What s better than Ben Shapiro? and ? or in this episode? . & , @ Also, check out his new book, The Real Life Story? at bencrane_ is by Ben: what s he wrote about this episode of of the Daily Wire? of this episode on Ben Shapiro s new book of The New York Times Magazine? on The New Yorker? & more! of his new novel, of course, out on The FiveThirtyEight? ?

00:00:00.000 Hillary Clinton is back.

00:00:01.000 She announced on Tuesday that she takes responsibility for losing the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump.

00:00:06.000 Well, sort of.

00:00:07.000 According to the newly defanged former Democratic leader, she takes quote, absolute personal responsibility for her loss, but she adds that quote, I was on the way to winning until a combination of Jim Comey's letter on October 28th and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me and got scared off.

00:00:21.000 If the election had been on October 27th, I would be your president.

00:00:24.000 But aside from that, she takes responsibility.

00:00:27.000 She also added that places that didn't vote for her couldn't get, quote, cell coverage for a mile. 0.97

00:00:31.000 Um, no.

00:00:33.000 What does she have going on next? 1.00

00:00:34.000 She says, I'm now back to being an activist citizen and part of the resistance.

00:00:38.000 Really?

00:00:38.000 What exactly is she resisting?

00:00:40.000 Is this Rogue One?

00:00:40.000 She dragged her party down almost single-handed in the last election cycle.

00:00:45.000 Now she wants to be part of the cool kids crowd again.

00:00:47.000 This is precisely what's wrong with Hillary Clinton and what her husband understood.

00:00:51.000 You can't hijack a popular movement with which you had nothing to do.

00:00:54.000 Bernie Sanders?

00:00:55.000 Maybe.

00:00:55.000 Hillary Clinton?

00:00:56.000 No.

00:00:57.000 But perhaps Hillary still has 2020 ambitions. 0.97

00:00:59.000 Those rumors are still floating out there, and right now the three leading 2020 candidates for the Democrats are all around her age.

00:01:04.000 Elizabeth Warren, who's a young... 0.98

00:01:07.000 67, Joe Biden, who's 74 years old, and Bernie Sanders, who's 75 years old.

00:01:10.000 She is a youthful 69.

00:01:12.000 What's to stop her from running again?

00:01:14.000 Herein lies the problem for the Democrats.

00:01:15.000 All of their top names are old fogies with no youth appeal, other than the geriatrics nutso socialist who isn't technically a Democrat. 0.78

00:01:21.000 Their youth movement, however, has no exact target.

00:01:24.000 It's just a lot of people angry about a lot of different things, complaining about the evils of patriarchal, heterosexist, cis-normative society.

00:01:29.000 Hillary cannot lead that bunch. 1.00

00:01:32.000 Republicans should be very excited to see Hillary back in play. 1.00

00:01:34.000 Just as they should be excited that Barack Obama is making a comeback.

00:01:37.000 Obama and Hillary helped raise a generation of Democrats.

00:01:40.000 Now they'll salt the earth. 0.78

00:01:41.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:01:42.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:01:47.000 Okay, tons to talk about today.

00:01:49.000 I want to talk at length about Jimmy Kimmel's pitch for Obamacare last night on his program and what it meant to me, because I think I have some personal experience in this area that is relevant.

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00:03:10.000 Okay, so the talk of the town yesterday was Jimmy Kimmel late night and he was telling a story about his son.

00:03:17.000 He has a newborn son who tragically has a heart condition and he was brought to Children's Hospital.

00:03:23.000 He had to have emergency heart surgery.

00:03:24.000 I guess he was born maybe at Children's Hospital or at least they transferred him over there.

00:03:27.000 And Jimmy Kimmel tells this story and then he turns it into a pitch for Obamacare.

00:03:30.000 And I want to talk about this because I have some personal thoughts on the matter.

00:03:34.000 A little over a week ago on Friday, April 21st, my wife, Molly, gave birth to a boy, a baby boy, and he appeared to be a normal, healthy baby until about three hours after he was born, when a very attentive nurse at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, her name is Ninoosh, was checking him out and heard a murmur in his heart, which is common with newborn babies, but she also noticed he was a bit purple.

00:04:00.000 They did an x-ray, and his lungs were fine, which meant his heart wasn't.

00:04:04.000 So now more doctors and nurses and equipment come in and it's a terrifying thing.

00:04:13.000 You know, my wife is back in the recovery room. 0.96

00:04:15.000 She has no idea what's going on.

00:04:18.000 And I'm standing in the middle of a lot of very worried-looking people, kind of like right now, who are trying to figure out what the problem is.

00:04:26.000 It's Friday night, and so they call a pediatric cardiologist, Dr. Eben Zahn.

00:04:31.000 They did an echocardiogram, which is a sonogram of the heart, and found that Billy was born with a heart disease.

00:04:44.000 Something called Tetralogy of Fallot with Pulmonary Atresia.

00:04:48.000 It's hard to explain.

00:04:49.000 Basically, the pulmonary valve was completely blocked, and he has a hole in the wall between the left and right sides of his heart.

00:04:58.000 And then they brought my wife in, and they wheeled her in, and Dr. Zahn told her what was going on and what our options were, and we decided to take him to Children's Hospital, where there's a world-renowned cardiac surgeon who is by

00:05:12.000 We're good to go.

00:05:32.000 Was a success.

00:05:33.000 It was the longest three hours of my life.

00:05:35.000 And I have a list of people I want to thank for making that happen.

00:05:38.000 And I hope I have my list.

00:05:41.000 These are just some of the people who played a part in this.

00:05:43.000 It was an enormous team effort.

00:05:45.000 It really was.

00:05:46.000 And I want to say one other thing.

00:05:48.000 President Trump last month proposed a $6 billion cut in funding to the National Institute of Health.

00:05:54.000 And thank God our congressman made a deal last night to not go along with that.

00:05:58.000 They actually increased funding by $2 billion.

00:06:01.000 The people who have been affected by those cuts in the National Institute of Health are children, and it would have a major impact on a lot of great places, including Children's Hospital in Los Angeles, which is so unbelievably sad to me.

00:06:13.000 We were brought up to believe that we live in the greatest country in the world, but until a few years ago, millions and millions of us had no access to health insurance at all.

00:06:23.000 You know, before 2014, if you were born with congenital heart disease like my son was, there was a good chance you'd never be able to get health insurance because you had a pre-existing condition.

00:06:32.000 You were born with a pre-existing condition.

00:06:35.000 If your parents didn't have medical insurance, you might not live long enough to even get denied because of a pre-existing condition.

00:06:42.000 If your baby is going to die, and it doesn't have to,

00:06:45.000 It shouldn't matter how much money you make.

00:06:48.000 I think that's something that, whether you're a Republican or a Democrat or something else, we all agree on that, right?

00:06:55.000 Okay, so, I have some experiences here and I want to talk about them.

00:06:58.000 And I don't really talk about this a lot because I don't like to make my family life

00:07:01.000 An issue on the show and in politics generally.

00:07:03.000 Okay, a couple of years ago.

00:07:05.000 This would have been mid of 2015.

00:07:06.000 My daughter was born in January 2014.

00:07:07.000 Mid 2015, like July 2015.

00:07:07.000 My daughter, who is a beautiful little girl, she has the flu.

00:07:18.000 And she starts throwing up.

00:07:19.000 And when she's throwing up, she's fainting.

00:07:21.000 And we don't know why.

00:07:22.000 And so we take her into the... It's very scary.

00:07:24.000 I mean, she's like keeling over, literally fainting dead away while she's throwing up. 1.00

00:07:28.000 And it turns out that it was breath holding.

00:07:29.000 We didn't know that.

00:07:30.000 So we go to the ER.

00:07:31.000 And they do a bunch of tests on her.

00:07:33.000 And one of the tests they do is they run an EKG on her.

00:07:36.000 And they say the EKG looks basically normal, but we just want to have some follow-ups and send us to a cardiologist.

00:07:41.000 And the cardiologist takes a second look and does an ultrasound and then tells us that

00:07:46.000 She has a heart murmur, not just a heart murmur, it's actually such a large hole in her heart, she had an atrial septal defection, ASD, and she had a heart murmur that was so, you couldn't even hear it because the hole in her heart was so large that you couldn't actually, normally the heart murmur comes from, you hear the blood flowing the wrong way through the heart, you couldn't hear it because the hole was so large in her heart.

00:08:06.000 So, in August of last year, she had to, or August of 2015 rather, she had to have open heart surgery.

00:08:13.000 The surgeon was Dr. Vaughn Starnes, exactly the same surgeon who worked on Jimmy Kimmel's kid.

00:08:17.000 It was at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.

00:08:19.000 Could not be more grateful to Children's Hospital LA, or Dr. Starnes, who is indeed the master of his craft.

00:08:25.000 There's a reason he's the best in the world, and we were lucky enough to be able to work with him, and he obviously did the work, and saved our daughter's life.

00:08:33.000 I mean, she wouldn't have died immediately.

00:08:34.000 It wasn't like an emergency situation quite as much as Jimmy Kimmel's kid, it sounds like.

00:08:39.000 But she would have had failure to thrive as she got older. 0.98

00:08:40.000 She would have had to have open heart surgery. 1.00

00:08:43.000 If they hadn't detected it, it would have shortened her lifespan to, you know, 30 or 40. 1.00

00:08:46.000 Now they fixed it.

00:08:48.000 She's good as new.

00:08:49.000 Thank God everything is fine and she's great.

00:08:52.000 The reason that I tell this story is because when Jimmy Kimmel starts talking about the National Institutes for Health and federal funding and health insurance and all the rest of this, the reason that I was able to get great coverage for my kid is because I was employed and also because my wife and I had health insurance long before we had a kid.

00:09:10.000 He's missing a couple of key points here and I wanted to establish sort of the bonafides here.

00:09:15.000 So when I'm speaking about this, I'm not speaking from the perspective of someone who hasn't experienced nearly identically what Jimmy Kimmel has experienced here.

00:09:23.000 It was absolutely terrifying.

00:09:24.000 I mean, you go and you meet with the doctor and the doctor tells you your kid, you know, even if the doctor says it's a surgery that's done regularly, it's still frightening as all hell because they're cracking open your kid's chest and cutting her open and, you know, it was

00:09:37.000 I don't like the process, as a general rule, I don't like the process of using personal stories like this to push for legislation or to push for public policy because it doesn't necessarily follow.

00:10:01.000 And what I mean by this is, again, Dr. Starnes, great doctor.

00:10:03.000 Children's Hospital, great hospital.

00:10:05.000 Most of the people, when we were in Children's Hospital during the recovery, when we were in the ICU for about a week, when we were in Children's Hospital, most of the people who were in Children's Hospital, and I know this because my wife rotated through Children's Hospital because she's a doctor in the LA area,

00:10:17.000 A huge number of the kids in Children's Hospital are not kids who have great insurance.

00:10:22.000 Many of them don't have any insurance.

00:10:23.000 The fact is that in the United States of America, if you have an emergency situation like Jimmy Kimmel had, let's just assume this happened at Cedars-Sinai, again, where my wife gave birth.

00:10:31.000 Let's assume that the exact same situation happened, but there was no insurance.

00:10:34.000 And the doctor spotted that there was this emergency surgery that had to happen in order to prolong the child's life.

00:10:39.000 They don't ask insurance.

00:10:40.000 They immediately send the kid over to Children's Hospital and Dr. Starnes works on the kid.

00:10:44.000 And then somebody else fills the gap.

00:10:46.000 Children's Hospital is very lucky and the Children's has enormous sums of giving.

00:10:50.000 People give tons of money to Children's Hospital.

00:10:52.000 I'm sure Jimmy Kimmel will too.

00:10:53.000 We've given charity to Children's Hospital.

00:10:55.000 People, there's a whole wall, an entire wall in Children's Hospital that is just names of celebrities who have given money to Children's Hospital to help support Children's Hospital.

00:11:04.000 People are generous with their giving.

00:11:05.000 People want to save people who are in need.

00:11:08.000 The problem with the argument

00:11:10.000 That's right.

00:11:31.000 That's why costs are passed on very often through a backdoor method via the hospital to people who do have insurance.

00:11:37.000 But it does say that it is a mistake as a society to simply say to people that there is no moral responsibility to get health insurance while you're healthy and while you don't have health problems.

00:11:47.000 Because if you don't do that, if you just say whenever you get sick you can immediately take advantage of the system,

00:11:52.000 People will wait to get sick to take advantage of the system and you'll end up bankrupting the system.

00:11:57.000 The reason the Children's is so great is because children get paid lots of money.

00:12:00.000 They get paid lots and lots and lots of money to do these sorts of things.

00:12:03.000 Dr. Starnes, I'm sure, earns millions of dollars a year and he deserves every penny that he makes and he's able to do that because there are people paying voluntarily

00:12:11.000 We're good to go!

00:12:41.000 I'm not even talking about through government now.

00:12:42.000 I'm talking about through charity and through communities and through charity hospitals.

00:12:46.000 All of that is true.

00:12:47.000 But to use a personal situation that is really difficult and heartbreaking in order to promulgate a public policy that actually doesn't achieve what you're seeking to achieve.

00:12:58.000 Children's is not worthwhile.

00:13:00.000 Children's Hospital could not be what Children's Hospital is if it existed as a public sector hospital unless you were willing to tax people up the wazoo and that sort of taxation scheme bankrupts countries and doesn't provide the same care anyway.

00:13:12.000 Look at the National Health Service in Britain or the Nationalized Healthcare Service in Canada.

00:13:17.000 This is... I have nothing but sympathy for Jimmy Kimmel because I've been through, as I say, exactly the same thing.

00:13:23.000 And it's heartbreaking.

00:13:25.000 And that heartbreak should not be used as a political tool in order to push a political agenda.

00:13:30.000 And I'm sure that Jimmy Kimmel believes every word that he's saying.

00:13:33.000 But funding for the National Institutes of Health has nothing to do with what happened here.

00:13:37.000 Again, the American people are insanely generous.

00:13:39.000 The amount of research that goes into the sorts of techniques that Dr. Sarnes used is tremendous, and it's not from the public sector in the most part.

00:13:47.000 It's actually from the private sector.

00:13:48.000 Okay, so I wanted to get that out of the way.

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00:15:16.000 Okay, so, yesterday was, of course, May Day.

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00:16:23.000 So the May Day folks, all the communists really demonstrating what kind of society they would like to build if they had the opportunity or the society they would like to destroy if they had the opportunity.

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00:16:37.000 May Day I think is a good time for us to remember

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00:16:57.000 May Day is not a holiday.

00:16:59.000 May Day is a day of tragedy if we're talking about the rise of the communist left, which

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The Ben Shapiro Show - May 03, 2017

Ep. 295 - Can Trump Focus On What Matters?

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