Ben Shapiro reacts to the results from the New Hampshire primary and talks about why he thinks all human life may have been wiped out by the asteroid of death. He also talks about Bernie Sanders getting an endorsement from Harry Belafonte and why Hillary Clinton is going to have to go all in on South Carolina on Tuesday. Ben Shapiro is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show on Fox News Radio and host of the Daily Show with Bill Maher. He is also a regular contributor to CNN and the New York Times and a host of other media outlets. His new book, What Happened? is out now and is available for pre-order now. If you haven t already checked it out, you can do so here: bit.ly/TheBenShapiroShow and if you like it, share it with a friend or become a patron. Thanks for listening and share it on your social media! Tweet me if you have any thoughts or suggestions on how to improve the show. Timestamps: 1:00:00 - Did Bernie Sanders win in New Hampshire? 2:30 - What's next for Hillary Clinton? 3:15 - Is Hillary Clinton going to win in South Carolina? 4:20 - Will Bernie Sanders have a shot at the nomination? 5:10 - Where does Hillary Clinton go from here? 6:00- What s next for Bernie Sanders? 7: What s going to happen next? 8:15: What's going on with Hillary Clinton's chances? 9:00 11:40 - Where is Hillary Clinton vs. Bernie Sanders's chances in the rest of the race? 16:00 -- What does she have going forward? 17:30 -- Is Bernie s chance of winning the nomination now? 18:00 | What s Hillary s chance? 19:15 -- Where is she going to go after this? 21:40 -- Where does she win in the field? 22:30 23:10 27:30 | What's the real chance of a black and Hispanic vote? 26:40 | Does she have a chance to win the primary? 25: Is she a black or Latino advantage? 29: Does she really have a real shot at winning in the primary 32:15 33:40 35:10 -- What s her firewall? 36:10 | Is Bernie Sanders better than Hillary s ceiling?
00:00:46.000Bernie Sanders, who's a 79,000-year-old socialist, an absolute loon bag, old man screaming at the moon, he beat her by 22 points in New Hampshire.
00:01:14.000Bernie Sanders won by 20 percentage points and got less delegates than Hillary Clinton because that's the way the Democrats work it.
00:01:21.000They have these things called superdelegates and the superdelegates are basically just handpicked cronies of the Clintons who vote for Hillary Clinton when asked to do so.
00:01:29.000So Bernie Sanders just destroys her and ends up losing the delegation anyway.
00:01:35.000So, in terms of the breakdown of the polls, he beat her 93% to 5% among those who valued honesty and trustworthiness, which makes you wonder who the 5% are.
00:03:47.000And I want to give a brief breakdown of what the rest of this race looks like.
00:03:50.000So Hillary Clinton, we'll get into, I want to save kind of my discussion for Hillary Clinton about what she's doing, what her strategy is for tomorrow.
00:03:57.000Suffice it to say that Bernie Sanders is cleaning up among white voters and Hillary Clinton is cleaning up among black and Hispanic voters.
00:04:03.000So basically Hillary Clinton is Barack Obama in 2008.
00:04:09.000Hillary Clinton ends up losing Iowa in 2008, and then she wins New Hampshire in 2008, and then she goes on to lose the nomination when Barack Obama cleans her in South Carolina because 50% of the electorate in Democratic primaries in South Carolina is black.
00:04:22.000And 87% of those people went for Barack Obama last time around.
00:04:30.000I mean she really lost Iowa but she wins Iowa and then she goes to New Hampshire and she gets destroyed and now she's gonna go to South Carolina where she's got her black firewall and that's pretty much what it is.
00:04:39.000She needs black voters to show up for her in outsized numbers.
00:04:43.000Unfortunately for her, today Bernie Sanders is holding a meeting with racial conflagrationist Al Sharpton.
00:04:49.000Bernie Sanders just got an endorsement from Harry Belafonte.
00:04:53.000And Bernie Sanders just got an endorsement from Ta-Nehisi Coates, who is considered, you know, this all-wise, all-knowing black thinker.
00:04:59.000Really, Ta-Nehisi Coates is an overrated, opaque writer.
00:05:03.000His thought is extraordinarily muddy and muddled.
00:05:06.000He's the same guy who said that on 9-11 he hates the racial legacy of the United States so much that he watched the towers come down on 9-11 while sitting on the top of his apartment building smoking dope and not feeling anything.
00:06:21.000And here's the big problem for people who are anti-Trump.
00:06:25.000The big problem for people who are anti-Trump in the establishment is that all of the establishment candidates who are supposed to be winnowed away by New Hampshire, no one's going anywhere.
00:06:34.000John Kasich's going to stick around now because why not?
00:06:37.000He has nothing better to do with his life.
00:06:38.000And by the way, he just finished second in New Hampshire, so he can say with honesty that he did better than Jeb Bush, who's still going to be around.
00:06:47.000Who is spending scads, oodles, reams of money.
00:06:50.000I mean, he's printing money just to flush it down the television advertising toilet and win low percentages of votes.
00:06:55.000He has declared victory in New Hampshire.
00:07:00.000Media's saying, oh, well, Jeb, that was a real comeback, Jeb.
00:07:02.000Really, if you had told anybody a year ago that Jeb Bush was going to finish so far out of the money in Iowa that you don't even know where in order he finished, and that Jeb Bush was going to finish fourth in New Hampshire, and that he'd be declaring victory, everybody would have said you're nuts.
00:07:17.000Well, Jeb Bush goes forward now, and the reason he goes forward is because the guy who was supposed to do well in New Hampshire, somebody I suggested last week when the momentum was behind him, might even have a shot to challenge Trump because he was moving up in the polls three points a day,
00:07:51.000And if he doesn't somehow consolidate any base of support, if for example, Chris Christie just dropped out of the race.
00:07:56.000So Chris Christie's great contribution to American letters this year has been to make Donald Trump President of the United States by killing Marco Rubio in this campaign.
00:08:06.000The bottom line is that Rubio's chances of winning South Carolina are very low.
00:08:36.000And March 1st is what they call the SEC primary.
00:08:38.000And the SEC primary is a bunch of southern states that Ted Cruz is going to dominate.
00:08:43.000This includes Alabama, Alaska, where Cruz has an advantage right now, Arkansas, Colorado, that might be the only state where Rubio theoretically has a good shot to win, Georgia, which is Cruz territory, Massachusetts, which is clearly Trump territory given how New Hampshire performed, Minnesota, which is probably Trump territory,
00:09:09.000So Rubio, theoretically, could go all the way to March 5th without having won a single state.
00:09:13.000And maybe Jeb, you know, does better than expected in South Carolina, but what is driving Trump to the top of the polls, among other things, is the fact that Jeb is still in the race.
00:09:24.000Jeb is just one of those things that, when you were a kid, you remember that you'd get the inflatable doll with, like, the weighted sand on the bottom that was round on the bottom, you'd hit it, and it would pop back up.
00:09:31.000That's basically what Jeb is to Trump.
00:09:34.000Every so often, they show up at a debate, and Trump just clocks Jeb, and Jeb falls away, and then he comes back, and he's still made of air, but he thinks he's winning, because he's still there.
00:09:43.000And as long as he stays in the race, it's going to be very difficult for Marco Rubio to grow.
00:09:48.000Chris Christie is getting out, but Chris Christie had two conversations with Trump today.
00:09:51.000He could theoretically endorse Trump, which is incredible.
00:09:54.000So the race is basically a mess for anybody who's an establishment person, which in a certain sense makes me happy.
00:10:02.000I think they're terrible at what they do.
00:10:03.000I don't want to see Jeb as president or the nominee.
00:10:06.000I think that Marco Rubio was a better second choice for conservatives than Donald Trump.
00:10:12.000I think he's a better second choice than Jeb Bush.
00:10:15.000But the establishment is taking it on the chin.
00:10:17.000So that's the good news that comes out of New Hampshire.
00:10:19.000The other piece of good news out of New Hampshire is that if Rubio and Bush, if all these guys clock each other, the person who benefits most is probably Ted Cruz.
00:10:27.000Ted Cruz is now clearly the conservative lane guy.
00:10:31.000Trump is sort of the grassroots blue-collar guy.
00:10:33.000Most of his support tends to be moderate.
00:10:35.000And then the establishment lane is all clogged.
00:10:37.000So Cruz, theoretically, this could turn into a two-man race, Cruz versus Trump.
00:10:42.000And then the question becomes, who in the establishment decides to move behind Cruz or behind Trump?
00:10:48.000And as we were saying before Iowa, because this was sort of the question before Iowa, I think the establishment moves behind Trump.
00:11:22.000She lost by 22 percentage points yesterday.
00:11:25.000Okay, so that is a 78, 78 point swing for Hillary Clinton in one year.
00:11:31.000I mean, she literally almost went into negatives.
00:11:34.000So that, I mean, that's an amazing, amazing thing.
00:11:37.000So why exactly the thrill around Sanders and why exactly the thrill around Trump?
00:11:41.000And more importantly, there are a bunch of independent voters who apparently were considering between Sanders and Trump, trying to figure out who they were going to vote for, Sanders or Trump.
00:11:49.000And, you know, when you think about that, you think, OK, the voters must be dumb, right?
00:11:52.000I mean, there's a difference between Sanders and Trump.
00:11:54.000Trump is a successful billionaire businessman.
00:12:09.000And today, I really want to talk about a phenomenon that does concern me deeply about Trump and about Sanders, because I think that the passion for them
00:12:20.000So let's start by going through exactly what Trump had to say in his victory speech.
00:12:28.000So Trump gets up, and now he's finally got his big win.
00:12:31.000And I have to say, watching Trump speak is always amusing, but more in the sense that watching my daughter kind of stumble around the living room is amusing.
00:14:10.000It's that sort of command of the issues and real detailed analysis of how we're going to have an economic comeback that has drawn people to Donald Trump.
00:14:17.000But that's not the point that I want to make here.
00:14:19.000The point that I want to make is you heard Trump on trade.
00:14:21.000Okay, Trump on trade basically he thinks that we're being screwed by the Chinese, we're being screwed by the Mexicans, we're being screwed by the Japanese.
00:14:27.000First of all, the Japanese economy has been in a recession for the last 15 years.
00:14:31.000Okay, the Japanese economy has been garbage for at least a decade.
00:14:34.000The Chinese economy is falling back into the toilet.
00:14:37.000The Mexican economy has been garbage for a really long time.
00:14:40.000So if they're schlonging us, as Trump likes to put it, then why exactly are they in such terrible shape?
00:14:44.000Because all of these countries are in really bad shape.
00:14:47.000And why is it that a well-made product from overseas is supposed to make me feel bad about my life?
00:14:53.000The reality is that trade is not a zero-sum game.
00:14:57.000This is one of the problems with Trump's ideas on trade.
00:15:39.000And days ago, Trump said this, quote, the one thing we agree very much on, him and Bernie Sanders, the one thing we agree very much on is trade.
00:15:47.000We both agree we are getting ripped off by China, by Japan, by Mexico, everyone we do business with.
00:15:52.000So in other words, Trump and Sanders actually agree.
00:15:54.000So you hear he says, you know, Sanders is going to give away the store.
00:15:57.000He's going to give away the store to all these people.
00:15:59.000Except he and Sanders actually agree on this particular policy.
00:18:00.000If you look at Trump and Sanders on policy, I'm going to explain why I think that both of them are rising in a second, but their policies are actually extraordinarily similar for people who are supposed to be on opposite sides of the coin.
00:18:12.000Trump is supposed to be this uber-capitalist and Sanders is this uber-socialist.
00:18:16.000The truth is they're both crony capitalists.
00:18:18.000Right, Sanders' version of socialism is not that we do away with capitalism entirely, it's that we put an 800-pound gorilla on capitalism's back, it's called the government, and then we redistribute all of the capital from certain people to other people.
00:18:30.000Trump's idea is that the government works with certain rich people to help them at the expense of other people.
00:18:35.000That's what he says about eminent domain, for example.
00:18:38.000And this is, over and over you'll see there are similarities in the record.
00:18:54.000So in any case, Bernie Sanders talked about Obamacare yesterday.
00:18:58.000He said 29 million Americans should not remain uninsured and even greater numbers should remain underinsured with large deductibles and co-payments.
00:19:05.000We should not be paying by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs at a time when the three top drug companies in this country made $45 billion in profit last year.
00:19:14.000That's an obscenity, let me tell you something.
00:19:16.000When we make it to the White House, the pharmaceutical industry will not continue to rip off the American people.
00:19:21.000Donald Trump last week said that he would, quote, stop the insurance companies getting rich, and said, quote, we're going to take care of the people on the street dying.
00:20:14.000But real immigration reform puts the needs of working people first, not wealthy, globe-trotting donors.
00:20:21.000So basically, Bernie Sanders, in his heart, he and Trump are on the same page on immigration.
00:20:25.000Sanders still kowtows to the, we need to win Hispanics routine.
00:20:30.000And says he wants amnesty and he wants and he wants various open cities and sanctuary cities, but the reality is they feel sort of the same on foreign policy on foreign policy.
00:22:21.000The good phenomenon that is helping Trump and Sanders is this real rage against the corruption entitlement culture of Washington, D.C.
00:22:30.000This insidery, we all know each other, we're all gonna help each other out, we're going to live off the backs of the taxpayer, we're gonna do what we want, we're corrupt, all of this.
00:24:59.000We are going to preserve our very sacred Second Amendment.
00:25:04.000Okay, so the Second Amendment that he was assaulting a few years back when he said he wasn't really that into guns, but, you know, all of this is crackerjack box conservatism.
00:25:14.000This is him reading the ingredients off the side of the crackerjack box.
00:25:17.000Because there's no actual statement here as to what government should and should not do.
00:25:21.000For all the flack that Ted Cruz got over his 97-hour speech in the aftermath of his Iowa caucus victory, he actually spelled out what he thought government's role was.
00:26:14.000The government fails, you do what has to be done.
00:26:17.000And people sort of want that in a leader.
00:26:19.000And this is less characteristic of Americanism than it is of European countries and some Latin American countries.
00:26:26.000But it is not uncommon across planet Earth, the desire for a strong man who's going to take you where you want to go.
00:26:33.000This is why when you talk to some Trump supporters, there are a lot of Trump supporters who are good conservatives who think that Trump is just the best guy to win.
00:26:39.000And again, in 2011, I wrote a column called The Magic of Donald Trump.
00:26:43.000I'm getting flack over it today because I'm criticizing Trump.
00:26:46.000But this column I wrote back in 2011, I specifically said, Trump may be the most electable Republican in America.
00:26:51.000Because Donald Trump doesn't care what the media thinks, because he's self-funded, because Donald Trump is willing to say anything, all of those are good reasons why Trump is super electable.
00:26:59.000So I was right then, and I'm also right now when I say that Donald Trump has a lot of support not based on his electability,
00:27:06.000But because they trust that he's just going to do stuff for them.
00:27:18.000I don't know what deals I'm going to make, but I'm going to make the deals.
00:27:21.000And Sanders supporters actually say the same thing.
00:27:23.000Sanders supporters say the same thing.
00:27:25.000So true conservatives look at government like it's the ring of power in Lord of the Rings.
00:27:30.000We want to take it to Mount Doom and we want to cast it into the fiery chasm from once it came.
00:27:35.000As a general rule, there are certain things government should do, but the vast majority of government power should be taken back to that fiery chasm and cast in because no one can safely wield it.
00:27:44.000There's no way to wield that power without it corrupting you.
00:27:47.000Trump supporters are like, this is the nerdiest episode ever, but they're like Isildur.
00:27:51.000Okay, so the Trump supporters are people who believe that they should be able to grasp that ring, wear that ring, and use it for their own glorification and power.
00:28:00.000And Trump will bring America back by using the power of government.
00:28:03.000And this is why Trump says things like, I'm gonna use government to take care of healthcare, I'm gonna use government to take care of Social Security, I'm gonna use government to take care of everything.
00:28:11.000Right, everything will be taken care of by the government.
00:28:13.000Even which businesses rise and fall, we're going to help decide that by making great deals because he's a dealmaker for you.
00:28:19.000Bernie Sanders supporters believe the same thing, except they don't actually believe that the ring has any evil to it at all.
00:28:25.000They're not even ambivalent about the ring.
00:28:27.000They're not even tempted to throw it into the fiery chasm from whence it came.
00:28:31.000The Democrats just want that ring, and they want it forever, and they want to keep it, and they don't care if it decays them and makes them a hollowed-out shell.
00:28:38.000They don't care if it destroys everything.
00:28:40.000They want the ring, and they want to hold the ring, and they want to keep the ring.
00:28:56.000The second phenomenon is we want a strongman.
00:28:58.000So what you end up with is government is bad, let's pick the crony capitalists to fight crony capitalism, or let's pick the socialists to fight big government.
00:29:06.000Neither of these things is destined for success, but the socialists want a Hugo Chavez figure, Bernie Sanders, to ride in on the wind and use the power of government to give them all of their deepest, most fondly held desires.
00:29:16.000And you can hear that from Bernie Sanders.
00:29:18.000I mean, when Bernie Sanders speaks, it's all about what he can give to you.
00:29:25.000So let's take, I think it's clip four here.
00:29:27.000This is where he talks about economics.
00:29:30.000And you're gonna hear that this is, his definition of democracy and rights, this is wielding the power of the ring and reveling in the power of the ring, the same ring that has destroyed, by the way, every inner city the Democrats have ever touched.
00:29:45.000As we all remember, the last time Republicans occupied the White House,
00:29:52.000Their trickle-down economic policies drove us into the worst economic downturn since the depression of the 1930s.
00:30:03.000No, we will not allow huge tax breaks for billionaires.
00:30:11.000We will not allow huge cuts to Social Security, veterans' needs, Medicare, Medicaid, and education.
00:30:27.000We can stop it there because what he's saying here, obviously, what's ironic is he always, Democrats say this, oh it brought us to the worst depression since the 1930s.
00:30:43.000And, by the way, the policies that created the latest recession in the United States were policies that were crafted by Democrats in the housing market and allowed to go forward by cronyistic Republicans.
00:30:54.000So basically, people like Bernie Sanders, like Barney Frank and the House Financial Services Committee, and people like Donald Trump on the right.
00:31:02.000It was those kinds of people who ended up creating this recession.
00:31:06.000But let's go to, Donald, let's go to Bernie Sanders.
00:31:10.000He really made two key points here, and that is, we're gonna do, this will be clips, let's see, clips five and six of Bernie Sanders.
00:31:17.000So here is Bernie Sanders explaining what he thinks America is based on, and what it really is based on is a principle that suggests that he should have ultimate power to do whatever the hell he wants.
00:32:58.000We have all sorts of inequalities in human life.
00:33:00.000But the minute that those inequalities become the business of the government, your solution to a government that doesn't work for you is a government that does work for you, as opposed to just less government.
00:33:11.000When that becomes your ideal, you end up with Bernie Sanders.
00:33:14.000And by the way, it's going to get ugly, okay?
00:33:16.000Because Bernie Sanders, the next thing he says right here, this clip 6, is basically, it's time to take out the guillotine.
00:34:40.000Most of the people who are rich in America don't work on Wall Street.
00:34:43.000There are tons of rich people all over the United States.
00:34:45.000Most of them do not work on Wall Street.
00:34:47.000Second of all, the real reason that Wall Street caused this crisis is because Wall Street was working with the government.
00:34:53.000If there had been no bailouts, there wouldn't have been a problem.
00:34:56.000Wall Street knew there would be bailouts.
00:34:58.000Wall Street knew there would be bailouts because all of the mortgage-backed securities were backed in the end by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which was a government-sponsored entity.
00:35:05.000It was GSE, a government-sponsored entity.
00:35:07.000So the government creates the conditions, and then they blame the private sector when things go bad, and then the solution on both sides of the aisle is, we need a strong man to fix all of this.
00:35:17.000We don't need a strongman to fix any of this.
00:35:21.000The only purpose for a strongman would be to slash the government.
00:35:25.000This is what made George Washington such a magnificent figure in American history.
00:35:28.000Far greater, really, I believe, far greater figure than Abraham Lincoln.
00:35:32.000What made George Washington such a magnificent figure is that Lincoln had to maximize the power of the government in order to hold the Union together and to end slavery.
00:35:44.000If he had wanted, he had the control of the army, he had the control of everything.
00:35:48.000George Washington is one of the unique figures in human history because George Washington said, all the power is right here in front of me, I can feel it with both hands, and instead, I'm gonna cut myself out.
00:35:59.000Instead, the power of the government is going to be given back to the people.
00:36:03.000You realize what a magnificent thing that is?
00:36:04.000That's what makes America what America is.
00:36:29.000Bernie Sanders has a grand idea of what utopia should look like and everybody is either a speed bump or a tool on the road to his utopian vision.
00:36:38.000So don't trust when people say, we need a strong man.
00:37:13.000He just thinks that his God-like mission is to spread the wealth around, and Donald Trump thinks his God-like mission is to get everybody to put up a picture of Donald Trump in his house.
00:37:22.000So this is what's disturbing to me about what's happening in New Hampshire.
00:37:25.000I think it's indicative of what's happening more broadly in the country.
00:37:29.000Okay, so in the rest of the Republican race, we'll run down some of what some of the other candidates are saying.
00:37:33.000Marco Rubio, who, as we mentioned before, has totally been beaten about the ears in New Hampshire.
00:37:40.000He basically admitted, this was my fault.
00:38:56.000The light overcame the darkness of negative campaigning, except that you got doubled up by Donald Trump, the most negative campaigner in the race.
00:41:40.000And I do think that the traditional concepts of romance are becoming increasingly important in an age where we've decided to throw them by the wayside.
00:41:48.000Also, in things that I like, I want to say hello to our new listener, Sarah Evans.
00:41:52.000Sarah Evans, of course, is the country singer.
00:42:47.000And also, this is a person who will never be performing at a Super Bowl halftime show.
00:42:52.000I mean, given what they will put out there, the kind of nonsense that Beyoncé put out there, the racist garbage Beyoncé put out there, I really do not think that Sarah Evans is going to be making a Super Bowl appearance anytime soon.
00:43:04.000And if she does, I guarantee you they won't allow her to do anything conservative.
00:43:18.000Lena Dunham is a human manatee, and she also is a sexual abuser of her sister, which naturally earns her a spot next to Michelle Obama, pushing, let girls learn.
00:43:29.000What they don't tell you in this ad is that Lena Dunham wants young girls to learn about their older sister lesbian kissing them when they're young girls and paying them candy to do so and masturbating in bed next to them when they're teenagers.
00:43:41.000Like, that's not, I think, I don't think that's what Michelle Obama's going to talk about here, but you never know.
00:43:45.000I mean, things are getting wild around here.
00:43:47.000So here's Lena Dunham with Michelle Obama, two of the most charming women in America.
00:44:10.000And the best way to get girls to learn, of course, is to back Hillary Clinton, who has allowed basically every Muslim country to slip into anti-woman dictatorship.
00:44:18.000That's the best way to let girls all over the world learn.
00:44:21.000And Lena Dunham can learn you some things, young ladies.
00:44:24.000Alright, so, next on the... next on the things that I hate...
00:44:30.000Next on the things that I hate, Chris Matthews.
00:44:34.000He's gone completely bananas over Ted Cruz.
00:44:36.000I mean, of all the things in life that Chris Matthews hates, Ted Cruz ranks number one.
00:46:10.000Again, the media despises Cruz because they know that Cruz is an actual threat to do all the things that I talked about earlier, like cutting government and cutting off their revenue source and cutting off all of their friendly relationships in Congress.
00:46:22.000Cruz can't do all of those things, but Cruz can certainly make life less friendly for the folks over at MSNBC, because the people over at MSNBC rely on the patronage of the Democratic Party in order to get ahead.
00:46:34.000Okay, final thing that, this is actually a thing that I like.
00:46:36.000So Ted Cruz, you may have noticed I'm a fan of Ted Cruz in this primary process.
00:46:40.000I will criticize him as somebody who's weak on optics.
00:46:44.000I criticized him over some of his activities in Iowa, although I think that was vastly overblown.
00:46:49.000Ted Cruz has cut a really terrific ad on Donald Trump.