Trump goes on CNN with Jake Tapper and asks a question about David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan. Trump gives David Duke the benefit of the doubt that he doesn't understand what he's talking about. Does he know anything about the group? Or does he just not give a damn about it? Or is it just another media hit job on a presidential candidate by the far-right wing of the right? Ben Shapiro breaks it all down and explains why it's possible that Donald Trump doesn't even understand what David Duke's racism is all about. Plus, a look at how the Democratic primary candidates are doing so far in the early primary states, and why Bernie Sanders is doing much better than the other candidates in the polls at this point in the primary race. Plus, Ben explains why he thinks Donald Trump is a dumbass and why he should have been able to see David Duke s endorsement of his presidential campaign and why it doesn't really matter. All that and much more on today's episode of The Ben Shapiro Show! Subscribe to the full show on Apple Podcasts. Subscribe and comment to stay up to date on all things politics, culture, entertainment, and culture! Subscribe, rate and review Ben Shapiro's newest podcast, The Weekly Standard, wherever you get your news and opinions from The FiveThirtyEight. Thanks for listening and share the show! Love ya, Ben Shapiro! Music: "Goodbye Outer Space" by Suneaters, "Good Morning America" by Fountains of California, "Outer Space, "Blame It On Us" by Haley & Co., "Outtro by Ferg & Co" by Cairo Brant, "Thank You" by The Good Morning America, by F&C "Outro by John Rocha and "Outrageous" by Pizzi & Co, "Thank you for Listening to My Music" by Jingle Bells, by Mr. John Rotherday by Sondro, "Coming Soon, Please Send Me Out" by Joseph McDermott, "No More Than That's Good Morning by Serenade, and Much More! "By Haley and I'll See Ya'll Can't Say It? "Solo by Ms. & I'll Hear It?" by Sisyphon & I Can't Stop You, My Thoughts On That's Not Good Enough? by Shadydave, Jr.
00:00:28.000Okay, so we begin today with Donald Trump, and I promise there's so much to get to, folks.
00:00:32.000We're gonna speed through all of it, because that's what we do here.
00:00:35.000We get through more material than any seven shows put together.
00:00:39.000All right, so on Sunday, Donald Trump, who is currently leading in, last I checked, I think it's 11 out of 12 or 10 out of 12 of the primary states that are supposed to take place, Super Tuesday tomorrow, Donald Trump was on CNN with Jake Tapper.
00:00:55.000So he was on with Jake Tapper, and I don't tend to follow the news too much on Sundays because that's my day to not pay attention to the news, and especially given what happened last week, it was sort of my weekend off.
00:01:05.000Well, that ended when I checked Twitter, always a mistake, and I saw that people were talking about Donald Trump and the KKK, and I figured, okay, this has got to be another media hit job, right?
00:01:16.000I mean, come on, Donald Trump, KKK, you gotta be kidding me.
00:01:53.000I want to ask you about the Anti-Defamation League, which this week called on you to publicly condemn, unequivocally, the racism of former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke, who recently said that voting against you at this point would be treason to your heritage.
00:02:08.000Will you unequivocally condemn David Duke and say that you don't want his vote or that of other white supremacists in this election?
00:02:16.000Well, just so you understand, I don't know anything about David Duke, okay?
00:02:19.000I don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists.
00:02:29.000Because, you know, I know nothing about David Duke.
00:02:31.000I know nothing about white supremacists.
00:02:34.000And so you're asking me a question that I'm supposed to be talking about people that I know nothing about.
00:02:39.000But I guess the question from the Anti-Defamation League is, even if you don't know about their endorsement, there are these groups and individuals endorsing you, would you just say, unequivocally, you condemn them and you don't want their support?
00:03:01.000If you would send me a list of the groups, I will do research on them, and certainly I would disavow if I thought there was something wrong.
00:03:43.000He doesn't understand who David Duke is.
00:03:45.000He doesn't understand what's going on.
00:03:47.000And then I did about five minutes of research and I had to delete those tweets.
00:03:51.000And that's because, for example, here is Donald Trump on Friday being asked the exact same question two days before that pathetic showing on Jake Tapper.
00:04:14.000So he clearly knows who David Duke is.
00:04:16.000And then back in August 2015, he was interviewed by Mark Halperin on Bloomberg News, and here is Donald Trump being asked about David Duke at that point.
00:04:24.000At the same time, we've heard this week that David Duke has come out, former leader of the Grand Dragon Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, come out and said he's supportive of your candidacy.
00:04:33.000So my first question is, why do people like that, like Donald Trump?
00:04:37.000And second, how do you feel about the David Duke quasi-endorsement?
00:04:40.000I don't know the answer to the first, who knows why, but I don't need his endorsement.
00:04:44.000I certainly wouldn't want his endorsement.
00:04:54.000Somebody told me yesterday, whoever he is, he did endorse me.
00:04:58.000Actually, I don't think it was an endorsement.
00:04:59.000He said I was absolutely the best of all the candidates, but I wouldn't want it.
00:05:03.000But if you read this story and read a lot of people who are white, in organized white supremacist groups, talking bulliontly about you, talking about why they like you so much, would that trouble you at all?
00:05:20.000You know, in the poll that just came out in New Hampshire, where I'm a very high number, 35%, the people like me across the board, evangelicals like me, the Democrats like me, liberals like me, conservatives like me.
00:05:38.000The bottom line is that even there, he says he doesn't know that much about Duke, but he'll disavow him.
00:05:42.000Right, it was back in August 2015, so clearly he doesn't have to know him that well in order to disavow.
00:05:47.000And by the way, back in 2000, Donald Trump specifically said he would not join the Reform Party, he wouldn't run on their ticket, because David Duke was part of the Reform Party.
00:05:56.000So clearly he knows who David Duke is.
00:06:01.000You don't have to be some sort of genius to figure out that the KKK is a bunch of racists.
00:06:05.000And the fact is that Ronald Reagan was asked this exact same question back in 1984, and Ronald Reagan answered this question very differently.
00:06:12.000In 1984, Ronald Reagan was asked this, and here is Ronald Reagan's direct quote.
00:06:18.000Quote, Those of us in public life can only resent the use of our names by those who seek political recognition for the repugnant doctrines of the hate they espouse.
00:06:26.000The politics of racial hatred and religious bigotry practiced by the Klan and others have no place in this country and are destructive of the values for which America has always stood.
00:06:55.000If he likes me, I can't do anything about that.
00:06:57.000Why not just drop that and then say to Tapper, and by the way, the fact you're asking me about this again and again and again demonstrates how desperate the media is to tie me to extreme figures like David Duke and to white supremacist groups like the KKK.
00:07:17.000Donald Trump, you can sort of see it at work in that 2015 interview.
00:07:20.000Donald Trump is excited anytime anyone likes him.
00:07:23.000Anytime anybody likes Donald Trump, that person rises several points in his estimation.
00:07:28.000They become just a better person, a more important person in his estimation.
00:07:32.000And so, David Duke can't be all bad, after all he likes Trump.
00:07:35.000Vladimir Putin can't be all bad, after all he likes Trump.
00:07:39.000So that's possible explanation number one.
00:07:41.000Possible explanation number two is a little bit more nefarious and significantly more troubling.
00:07:45.000And that is the possibility that Donald Trump recognizes that he has a heavy base of support among white supremacists and that those white supremacists would be ticked off if he disavowed them.
00:07:55.000And I speak here from personal experience, given that, I would say, two-thirds of my Twitter mentions this week have come from white supremacist Trump supporters.
00:08:03.000This is not to suggest that the vast majority of people who like Trump are white supremacists.
00:08:15.000But it is to suggest that there is not a not insignificant subset of Donald Trump supporters who are in fact white supremacists, who hate Jews, who hate blacks, who hate Mexicans.
00:09:07.000In fact, I think he's so non-trustworthy that I did a full-on six-minute video that we'll talk about a little bit later in the program that's now got in excess of 1.5 million views online about why Donald Trump ought not be trusted.
00:09:21.000And here's Donald Trump the day after this hit on CNN.
00:09:24.000Here's Donald Trump trying to walk it back.
00:09:31.000But in 2000, you refused to run on the Reform Party platform because David Duke was a member of it.
00:09:36.000I disavowed David Duke a day before at a major press conference, and I'm saying to myself, how many times do I have to continue to disavow people?
00:09:43.000And the question was asked about David Duke and various groups, and I don't know who the groups are.
00:09:49.000I said, would you do me a favor and tell me the groups?
00:09:53.000He says, I'm just talking about David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan here, and you said, honestly, I don't know David Duke.
00:10:00.000Okay, so let me tell you, I'm sitting in a house in Florida with a very bad earpiece that they gave me, and you could hardly hear what he was saying, but what I heard was various groups, and I don't mind disavowing anybody, and I disavowed David Duke, and I disavowed him the day before at a major news conference, which is surprising because he was at the major news conference, CNN was at the major news conference,
00:11:00.000Okay, so his earpiece is what did him in.
00:11:03.000It was a magic earpiece, in which he perfectly heard every question, and answered every question, and there appeared to be no communications difficulty at any time during that interview, and yet it was the earpiece that did him in.
00:11:13.000Okay, if you believe that, then I suppose you should just go right ahead and vote for Donald Trump, who is a dishonest human being.
00:11:24.000Apparently, according to BuzzFeed today, the New York Times is sitting on an audio recording that some of its staff believes could deal a serious blow to Trump, who in an off-the-record meeting with the newspaper called into question whether he would stand by his own immigration views.
00:11:36.000Trump visited the paper's Manhattan headquarters on Tuesday, January 5th, part of a round of editorial board meetings that, as is traditional, the Democratic candidates for president and some of the Republicans attended.
00:11:46.000The meetings, conducted partly on the record, partly off the record, give candidates a chance to make their pitch for the paper's endorsement.
00:11:53.000The Times released a portion of the recording, but that was from the on-the-record part.
00:11:57.000On Saturday, a columnist for the New York Times floated a bit of speculation.
00:12:03.000The most optimistic analysis of Trump as a presidential candidate is that he just doesn't believe in positions except the ones you adopt for strategic purposes when you're making a deal.
00:12:12.000So apparently they say, he says, obviously you can't explain how you're going to support 11 million undocumented immigrants, because it's going to be the first bid in some future monster negotiation session.
00:12:21.000In other words, Trump may have told the New York Times this, and the New York Times won't release the audio.
00:12:26.000Of course they won't, because they want to see Trump as the nominee.
00:12:29.000Because the fact is that Trump is super vulnerable.
00:12:37.000This is the video of me that we put out last week.
00:12:41.000And has at least a million and a half views thus far, and will have many more by the time we're done talking about how Donald Trump is, in fact, a liar.
00:12:48.000We'll only play a little bit of it, but you'll see sort of the temer of it.
00:13:13.000Trump says he loves the evangelicals, that the Bible is his favorite book, it's even better than Art of the Deal.
00:13:18.000Forget the fact Trump couldn't even name his favorite Bible verse.
00:13:21.000Focus in on the fact that Trump said he never asks for God's forgiveness.
00:13:25.000Here are just some of the things Trump isn't repenting for.
00:13:29.000Bragging about his quote, experiences with women, often seemingly very happily married and important women.
00:13:35.000Cheating on his first wife, Ivana, after considering asking her for an open marriage.
00:13:39.000Supporting partial birth abortion until about five minutes ago.
00:13:43.000Refusing to label abortion murder and stating that Planned Parenthood does terrific work.
00:13:47.000Writing quote, oftentimes when I was sleeping with one of the top women in the world, I would say to myself, thinking about me as a boy from Queens, can you believe what I am getting?
00:14:09.000Now, I do want to comment on one thing.
00:14:11.000Today, Milo Yiannopoulos, he and I are friends, and Milo discovered, thanks to one of Milo's apparently white supremacist supporters, that I had written a column back in 2011 in which I talked about Donald Trump in pretty glowing terms.
00:14:26.000And the way that people became knowledgeable about this column is because on February 9th, I tweeted out myself to remind people that I had written this about Trump circa 2011.
00:14:35.000Because the point that I was making is that Donald Trump circa 2011, and even when he got into this race, was a candidate who had tremendous staying power.
00:14:43.000And if he had an ounce of discipline, and if he had an ounce of actual conservatism to him, then he might be somebody that I would consider.
00:14:51.000What campaigns do is they strip away layers.
00:14:54.000And what this campaign has shown Donald Trump to be is an unprincipled liar willing to say anything and do anything in order to achieve his political purposes.
00:15:01.000He has skills when it comes to taking down the media, but he's also somebody who really will do pretty much anything to attain victory and then even more than that in order to push forward his personal power.
00:15:13.000Well, meanwhile, the other candidates are beginning to catch on to this.
00:15:16.000And so Marco Rubio has really gone on the offensive against Trump.
00:15:19.000And good for Marco Rubio, the senator from Florida.
00:15:22.000He smacked Donald Trump over the KKK flap today.
00:15:24.000Here's what Marco Rubio had to say about it.
00:15:27.000One of the reasons why he said he wasn't going to run is because David Duke was part of the Reform Party.
00:15:32.000So he knows exactly who David Duke is.
00:15:34.000He was asked this morning two times, will you repudiate and condemn the Ku Klux Klan?
00:17:02.000My boy Ted Cruz, the guy who I'm backing in the primaries, and I'll explain why I suggest that I'm supporting him in the primaries, but I'm not endorsing.
00:17:10.000I don't endorse candidates because I endorse ideologies.
00:17:14.000And for me, the candidate who's electorally viable, who best reflects my ideology, is the person that I support at the time.
00:17:21.000The moment that Cruz becomes not viable, then I'll shift my support.
00:17:25.000And the moment that, just like the moment that Rubio becomes not viable, I would shift my secondary support to Rubio.
00:17:31.000So the whole point here is that I support Cruz over Rubio in the primaries, but I'm not going to endorse anybody because if Cruz came out tomorrow and decided that he didn't like conservatism, I would throw him by the side of the train tracks immediately.
00:17:44.000Anyway, here is Ted Cruz doing the same thing to Rubio.
00:17:51.000And what do you think of his statement that he believes he might be targeted by the IRS because he's a Christian?
00:17:59.000Well, I think his statement, nobody heard it had any reaction other than laughter.
00:18:04.000Listen, I've released now nine years of taxes.
00:18:07.000Donald Trump has not released any of his tax information.
00:18:10.000He needs to release his tax information.
00:18:12.000And the fact that he's refusing to do so really suggests, as Mitt Romney pointed out, that there may be a bombshell in there, that there's something he's hiding.
00:18:29.000Maybe the fact is that Mitt Romney is richer than Donald Trump.
00:18:34.000We don't know, but he's clearly hiding something.
00:18:37.000On the other hand, it could be donations to liberal groups like Planned Parenthood.
00:18:41.000At every debate, it seems, he praises Planned Parenthood.
00:18:44.000Maybe he's written them a bunch of checks.
00:18:46.000Uh, or, you know, maybe there are other issues.
00:18:47.000You know, for example, there have been multiple media reports about Donald's business dealings with the mob, with the mafia.
00:18:56.000Maybe his tax returns show that those business dealings are a lot more extensive than...
00:19:00.000So Cruz and Rubio are going really, really hard after Trump, and Trump totally deserves it.
00:19:05.000And hopefully it will have some impact on the polls, although I doubt it.
00:19:07.000It's very late in the game at this point.
00:19:10.000Over the weekend, by the way, we saw Chris Christie, the man who may be most responsible for the demise of the Republic over the last eight years.
00:19:16.000Chris Christie doesn't hug Obama during Hurricane Sandy in the midst of a presidential election.
00:19:20.000Mitt Romney might be president right now.
00:19:24.000Who spent an enormous amount of time bashing Donald Trump during the debates and before, suddenly he has endorsed Donald Trump.
00:19:30.000He did that immediately after the debate last week.
00:19:36.000So here, we didn't have a chance to review the debate even, but my general take was that Trump looked weak, he looked vacillating, but I'm not sure how much it's going to matter.
00:19:45.000For the full rundown, you can go to dailywire.com.
00:19:47.000In any case, Chris Christie, let's start with what Chris Christie originally said about Donald Trump.
00:21:05.000Third, there is no doubt in my mind, and I've been saying this right from the time I entered the campaign, that the single most important thing for the Republican Party is to nominate the person who gives us the best chance to be Hillary Clinton.
00:21:29.000I can guarantee you that the one person that Hillary and Bill Clinton do not want to see on that stage come next September is Donald Trump.
00:21:38.000They know how to run the standard political playbook against junior senators and run them around the block.
00:21:44.000They do not know the playbook with Donald Trump because he is rewriting the playbook.
00:21:49.000He is rewriting the playbook of American politics because he's providing strong leadership that's not dependent upon the status quo.
00:21:55.000Okay, so he just keeps talking about strong leadership this and strong leadership that.
00:22:01.000Strong men love other strong men and gay pornography.
00:22:03.000And therefore, Donald Trump and Chris Christie are two peas in a pod.
00:22:09.000It makes your stomach a little bit churn that Chris Christie was considered at one point the great white hope for the Republicans because he really is a pathetic person.
00:22:16.000And here's Chris Christie, by the way, being pathetic.
00:22:19.000Over the weekend, he was supposed to defend Donald Trump as his surrogate, and here's how that went with George Stephanopoulos.
00:22:25.000During your campaign, you ran as a straight-talking truth-teller, specific answers to America's challenges, and here's what you told voters to question Mr. Trump.
00:22:35.000I tell everybody who goes to a Donald Trump event, if you get to ask a question, just ask him how.
00:22:41.000First, he says he's going to build a wall across the entire border between the United States and Mexico.
00:23:09.000You look at everybody else on that stage.
00:23:11.000Um, and there have been many more specifics from a lot of other folks on that stage.
00:23:14.000Um, and that was part of my argument during the campaign.
00:23:16.000But there I am as somebody who's running for president making my argument.
00:23:43.000Listen, I think that there is great ways to be able to use diplomacy and other tools to be able to come to compromise with nations that are both our neighbors and around the world.
00:23:54.000And we'll work on those things and that's what leadership does.
00:23:57.000Strong leadership is able to exert those things and be able to talk to folks about what advantages and disadvantages are of certain policies.
00:24:04.000The fact of the matter is that there won't be any question about
00:24:27.000The only reason he's endorsing Trump is because Trump promised him the Attorney General slot or the VP slot or something.
00:24:33.000And I just can't imagine anything worse, anything worse than going to Cleveland in the middle of Cleveland in the middle of the summer to hang out with Chris Christie and Donald Trump.
00:24:42.000As he takes the nomination for the Republican Party.
00:24:44.000We'll get back to Cleveland in a little while when he gets some things that I like.
00:24:47.000Okay, so that's all the chaos on the Republican side of the aisle.
00:24:50.000Jeff Sessions, by the way, who is a good guy, but is a strong immigration guy, and so that's really his only issue.
00:25:05.000I'm increasingly believing that Trump is actually a disreputable individual, a disreputable man.
00:25:10.000And this election, which is going to be between a deeply non-principled demagogue and the most corrupt woman in the history of American politics, is just... It makes your stomach churn and makes you want to throw up a little bit.
00:25:22.000I'm still considering the... There was a hashtag that was trending over the weekend.
00:25:28.000People were asking why I wasn't using it.
00:25:29.000The reason I'm not using it is because there still is going to be at least one, maybe up to three, judicial nominees for the Supreme Court.
00:25:36.000If we're gonna have a crappy president, we might as well have a crappy president who is 50% likely to appoint somebody decent to the Supreme Court, as opposed to a crappy president who is 100%
00:25:46.000Likely to appoint somebody far left to the Supreme Court, destroying the Constitution from within.
00:25:50.000So if given the choice between Trump and Hillary, I would have to go with Trump.
00:25:54.000But that is again, as I've said, I would vote for a flaming bag of dog crap over Hillary Clinton.
00:26:01.000I guess Donald Trump is going to make me actually do that.
00:26:05.000Meanwhile, on the other side of the aisle, the Democratic Party is having its own issues, and it would be laughable if it weren't for the chaos in the Republican Party.
00:26:12.000Tulsi Gabbard is an up-and-coming Democratic Congresswoman from Hawaii.
00:26:15.000She has a military background, and she was the vice president of the Democratic National Committee.
00:26:20.000She actually left the DNC on Sunday and said that she backed Bernie Sanders.
00:26:23.000Here's what she had to say about it to Tom Green.
00:26:26.000Congresswoman from Hawaii, Democratic National Committee Vice Chair, has been at odds with her boss, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, for months over the Democratic presidential debate schedule.
00:26:36.000Congresswoman, you're here because you have an announcement to make regarding your position at the DNC.
00:26:59.000I saw firsthand the very high human cost of that war.
00:27:03.000I see it in my friends who now a decade after we've come home are still struggling to get out of a black hole.
00:27:10.000I think it's most important for us as we look at our choices
00:27:13.000As to who our next Commander-in-Chief will be is to recognize the necessity to have a Commander-in-Chief who has foresight, who exercises good judgment, who looks beyond the consequences, who looks at the consequences of the actions that they are looking to take before they take those actions so that we don't continue to find ourselves in these failures that have resulted in chaos in the Middle East and so much loss of life.
00:27:36.000You know, it was just a month ago, and this sort of got us curious.
00:27:40.000A month ago, you said you think the next Commander-in-Chief needs to have a, quote, military mindset.
00:27:45.000You said this during an interview on Fox News.
00:27:49.000Does Senator Sanders have a military mindset?
00:27:52.000From what I've seen from talking with him and from his record, he does.
00:27:55.000And what that military mindset means is, you go through an analysis process.
00:28:01.000It's a chaos on the other side too, but nobody's paying attention to the chaos because the Republican frontrunner refuses to...
00:28:07.000Condemn the KKK, and then the next day he condemns the KKK.
00:28:10.000He says he's tough on immigration, and then the next day it comes out in BuzzFeed that he's telling the New York Times he has no intention of deporting people.
00:28:17.000This whole thing is a joke, and it's a sad joke.
00:28:20.000And people who are buying into the idea that they can trust Trump, I understand people get emotionally tied to candidates.
00:28:26.000Okay, the minute that Ted Cruz goes down, the minute he's no longer electorally viable, I'll find another conservative who I think is electorally viable.
00:28:32.000And the minute that person goes down, I'll find another conservative I think is electorally viable.
00:28:36.000But I do not worship candidates, and you should not either if you're a conservative.
00:28:58.000And I don't worship my own father, either.
00:29:00.000You know, the fact that there's only one thing that I worship on planet Earth, and outside planet Earth, and that is God.
00:29:05.000Other than that, I have no worship for anyone, and that certainly holds true for these politicians, especially politicians like Trump, who is, in fact, a massive, massive liar who has shifted his position at every available opportunity.
00:29:27.000Last week, last Monday, the president of Cal State Los Angeles, a state-funded university, suggested, didn't suggest, he said, we're cancelling the speech that you're doing at Cal State LA.
00:29:36.000It had been planned for weeks in advance.
00:29:39.000The students had done a great job of getting out the word, and he cancelled it because he didn't like what I had to say.
00:29:44.000And I told him he could go screw himself.
00:30:00.000About an hour and a half before the event, we got word that the president of the university had announced that he had uncanceled the event.
00:30:07.000That the event would move forward as scheduled.
00:30:09.000The media, by the way, skipped in this story the part where I told him to screw himself.
00:30:12.000They went from, he cancelled it, to he uncancelled it.
00:30:15.000There was no intervening event where I said, screw yourself, because that would show that he's a weakling.
00:30:19.000So in any case, he uncancels the event, and he says, don't worry, there will be security and everything will be safe and secure.
00:30:25.000We get in the car and we're on the ride over, me and Lindsay and Candace and like a bunch of people from the office because at this point it's become basically a circus.
00:30:32.000And we've got a couple of security guys in the car.
00:30:35.000And we're getting notices that people are getting very rowdy and it's getting very ugly.
00:30:39.000And we're being told that we have to be sneaked in.
00:30:41.000I want to enter through the front, right?
00:31:45.000Like, they had a backdoor open, and they were smuggling the kids through this maze of hallways, four at a time, so that they could come and sit down.
00:31:51.000So we decide that we can either wait two hours for them to smuggle everybody in, and there's no guarantee they even do that, or I can just start the speech on time.
00:31:58.000So I start the speech about 15-20 minutes late.
00:32:01.000I do my speech, which has been viewed.
00:32:22.000And I go back and there are 20 uniformed cops in back just to protect me.
00:32:26.000Which is flattering, but I mean also sad and pathetic that this is a college.
00:32:30.000I pay taxes for these idiots to go to school.
00:32:32.000And the cops tell me, we can't guarantee your safety or that of the students if you go out there.
00:32:38.000In other words, they might rush us, my security guy says, you know, we might take down the first two guys who come at us, but there's no guarantee we take down number three.
00:32:45.000And my security guy is an Israeli guy, big guy, he says, I've seen mobs before, this is no longer just a crowd of protesters, this is now a full-on mob.
00:33:32.000These people were locked out in the hallway.
00:33:56.000That's because people had barricaded themselves across the door and the police were so scared that there was going to be a break-in into the auditorium that they locked the doors from the inside to smuggle these kids in from the back.
00:34:05.000We can move on to the next clip as well.
00:34:07.000There's one of the guys in the room and he's literally getting pushed around by a massive crowd of people who are screaming at him.
00:35:21.000You remember back in Baltimore, when there were the Baltimore riots, and the mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, said, we told the police to give them room to riot, basically?
00:35:30.000It's going to be administrators, state actors, whipping up crowds into a frenzy, and then saying, okay, we just have to give you room to vent your emotions and violate other people's rights.
00:35:38.000We can't let students come in the room.
00:36:07.000We do begin with that breaking news on the campus of Cal State LA in East Los Angeles.
00:36:12.000Hundreds of students and protesters have gathered outside the auditorium where conservative talk show host Ben Shapiro just finished a speech.
00:36:19.000KTLA 5's Chris Wolf live on the campus with more.
00:36:25.000Yeah, you guys, we're just outside the Student Union Theater.
00:36:27.000We're keeping a slightly safe distance from the crush of people, that crowd inside.
00:36:32.000To be honest, this was one of the most intense and uncomfortable situations I've found myself in recently.
00:36:38.000To say the situation inside that theater was tense was simply an understatement.
00:36:42.000People were screaming and shouting and getting into each other's faces.
00:36:46.000They got into our faces simply because we were there.
00:36:49.000I should note, though, we did not witness any outward signs of violence or physical contact.
00:36:54.000That doesn't necessarily mean that did not happen.
00:36:57.000It's just that we did not observe that.
00:36:59.000Take a listen and look at what happened.
00:37:12.000People shouting things like, racist go home, we are not the problem.
00:37:17.000Well, we gave you the background at 1.30.
00:37:19.000We'll give you more background right now.
00:37:20.000A conservative author and commentator is speaking at the Student Union today on the topic entitled, When Diversity Becomes a Problem.
00:37:29.000The president of this university canceled the speech, then relented late today, saying his initial action was based on security concerns surrounding the appearance of Ben Shapiro.
00:37:39.000The conservative student group Young Americans for Freedom organized the event and invited Mr. Shapiro here today.
00:37:45.000We found a crush of people outside the theater's main entrance.
00:37:49.000We never got inside that theater, and crowds quickly covered every single entrance or exit that we could see.
00:37:56.000I expected to see a larger police presence than what I observed outside the auditorium this afternoon.
00:38:01.000We saw young people, students of all races, people from various activist groups, and possibly from all walks of life.
00:38:12.000That's what it looked like, and that's how it felt.
00:38:29.000Because there's nothing they like better than an anti-racist Jew.
00:38:32.000That's their favorite thing, the white supremacists.
00:38:34.000Well, what this speaks to is, number one, the level of ignorance of the students who have never heard anything about me, don't know anything about me, except what their disgusting, racist, pathetic professors tell them.
00:38:44.000And two, the left has no interest in hearing other points of view.
00:38:48.000They were free to come in the theater.
00:38:49.000They could have come in and asked questions.
00:39:42.000And then the assumption by the cops is, the assumption by the police officers is, that these crowds will eventually disperse and you'll have a safe way out.
00:39:50.000I've been told that if you try to get out right now, you could be in a situation where you walk up behind these people and they refuse to let you out.
00:40:21.000Okay, and this is not a matter of cowardice.
00:40:23.000We're not stepping into a model of 300 angry people out there.
00:40:26.000The cowardice is this administration that allows this garbage and evil to go on right here on American soil.
00:40:38.000Right now, I'm just going to call on everybody all across the country who believes in free speech, who believes in free assembly, who believes in the Constitution of the United States and Liberty.
00:40:45.000I'm calling on you to look at what's happening out here.
00:40:49.000Recognize that when the students cannot be guaranteed safety on their own campus from people far outside whipping a mob into a frenzy over basic principles of free speech, it's time to stand up.
00:41:22.000My personal email address, in case you want to get in touch with me, any of you, and this is over the internet too, my personal email address is bshapiro at dailywire.com.
00:41:30.000If you need help, if you need coverage, if you need media coverage, we're going to organize a movement because this cannot stand.
00:41:44.000Okay, so that's how it went at the very end.
00:41:47.000And, um, I mean, it was a very intense experience.
00:41:50.000So, there's your update on what happened there, and this is America now.
00:41:53.000Okay, what happens there, that's just the start.
00:41:54.000It's going to come to your school, it's going to come to your neighborhood, it'll come to your city, because the left will not sleep unless they have silenced opposing points of view.
00:42:02.000This is what is at stake in our politics right now.
00:42:05.000Okay, so time for a couple of things that I like and then a couple of things that I hate.
00:42:09.000So, as I mentioned before, we may have to go to Cleveland to cover the Republican National Convention, which is just gonna suck.
00:42:16.000But in case you don't know what Cleveland is like, here's what Cleveland is like.
00:42:21.000Here's the Cleveland tourist video number one by some guys who live in Cleveland.
00:44:17.000I can honestly say I watched zero minutes of this live, which made my life much better, because...
00:44:22.000As you can tell, there's a lot that makes me angry lately, and I can't imagine why.
00:44:27.000I mean, it's not like the world is going up in flames.
00:44:29.000As I said to Lindsey and Candace and Jeremy this morning, I said, you know, if Trump sweeps tomorrow, that will make this the worst day in at least the last three days, because it's just like every day, man.
00:45:35.000So Chris Rock was hosting the Oscars and he felt the necessity to talk about racism.
00:45:40.000What's amazing is that Hollywood gets called racist, then it throws itself an evening to sort of pat itself on the back for how they're super not racist after being called racist.
00:45:48.000So here's Chris Rock mocking them, but they're so tolerant and wonderful.
00:45:53.000And by the way, does anyone recognize- when was the last time Chris Rock was relevant?
00:45:56.000It's been, like, at least five years since Chris Rock was relevant.
00:45:59.000I mean, last I checked, wasn't he doing those movies with Jackie Chan, or was that- is that- that's not Chris Rock.
00:47:31.000He goes along on this rant and the idea is that now we should really care deeply about what happens to black people at the Oscars because the black people in America who really suffer, it's just a sign that black people are suffering that they don't win little meaningless gold statuettes.
00:47:46.000So that was part of the evening was the race jokes and Hollywood isn't black enough, whatever that's supposed to mean.
00:47:52.000He did make one good joke at one point.
00:47:53.000He said, you know, if we really want to have more black nominees, we should just have a separate category, like best actress and best actor.
00:47:59.000It should be best black person in a film.
00:48:01.000And, you know, of course, mocking that idea, which is exactly correct.
00:48:05.000Whoopi Goldberg and Tracy Morgan, by the way, skewered diversity in 2016 also.
00:48:10.000They did a little film parody montage that looked like this.
00:50:38.000So the black people, they have it so rough.
00:50:40.000Again, this sort of undermines the argument a little bit because, like, Eddie Renmayne
00:50:47.000Presumably, it looks like a terrible movie, but Eddie Redmayne is probably a better actor in The Danish Girl than Tracy Morgan would be, right?
00:50:55.000I mean, I don't think that's the point they're trying to make, but it's sort of the point they end up making.
00:50:58.000By the way, Whoopi Goldberg gets featured there, and it shows you how ridiculous Hollywood is.
00:51:02.000Whoopi Goldberg gets featured there, and the black people have it so rough in Hollywood business.
00:51:06.000Whoopi Goldberg is worth a fortune, right?
00:52:06.000Good evening, and thank you very much.
00:52:07.000Despite significant progress over the last few years, too many women and men on and off college campuses are still victims of sexual abuse.
00:52:18.000And tonight, I'm asking you to join millions of Americans, including me, President Obama, the thousands of students I've met on college campuses, and the artists here tonight, to take the pledge
00:52:32.000A pledge that says, I will intervene in situations when consent has not or cannot be given.
00:52:48.000We must and we can change the culture so that no abused woman or man, like the survivors you will see tonight, ever feel they have to ask themselves, what did I do?
00:53:25.000I don't know who he's talking about, but Biden tweeted out afterward, I'm so brave and Lady Gaga is so brave.
00:53:31.000And yes, nothing says bravery quite like standing in front of a bunch of spoiled millionaires talking about problems that you have nothing to do with.
00:54:12.000That's what Whoopi Goldberg had to say about that.
00:54:13.000So the same people who are doing this routine, Abel Roman Polanski, there's a whole question about child abuse in Hollywood.
00:54:20.000They made a documentary about the amount of child rape in Hollywood.
00:54:23.000So, it's all this self-congratulatory, virtue-signaling nonsense over at the Oscars, and it's just really ridiculous.
00:54:29.000And then finally, we'll end with, we'll skip Stacey Dash.
00:54:31.000Stacey Dash showed up in what was kind of an ill, thought-out attempt to make a joke about how she'd ripped on Black History Month, but we'll go straight to Leonardo DiCaprio, who showed up to finally pick up his Oscar, because nothing, you know, a man who really has suffered as much as Leonardo DiCaprio has in his life, a man who was born into
00:54:51.000Good looks and wealth and unending streams of beautiful women sleeping with him.
00:54:56.000It really is what he lacked in his life and what we all, what I think changed America yesterday is that this guy now has a little gold statue he can call his own.
00:55:05.000All it took was him being mauled by a bear for that to happen.
00:55:08.000So here's Leonardo DiCaprio doing that and then lecturing the rest of us, as always.
00:55:14.000Making The Revenant was about man's relationship to the natural world, a world that we collectively felt in 2015 as the hottest year in recorded history.
00:55:24.000Our production needed to move to the southern tip of this planet just to be able to find snow.
00:55:33.000It is a most urgent threat facing our entire species and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating.
00:55:43.000We need to support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big polluters of the big corporations but who speak for all of humanity.
00:55:53.000The big polluters, the big corporations, this dude's gonna get on his private jet and go to his private yacht where he's gonna sail around the world on his private water ski and then he's gonna... Come on!
00:56:19.000First of all, I always think that it's kind of ridiculous to give actors awards, because you can give them awards for acting, but all actors do is make faces, and particularly movie actors.
00:56:27.000They don't even have to memorize the entire play.
00:56:28.000They memorize one scene, and then they make faces.
00:56:37.000But I don't want to hear you talk your own talk.
00:56:39.000Like, the thoughts that come out of your face that come from your brain, I don't care about those.
00:56:43.000I like the ones that come out of, like, David Mamet's brain.
00:56:45.000Right, the thoughts that you say that come out of Aaron Sorkin's brain, those are more interesting to me than the thoughts that come out of this empty-headed bubble moron, his head.
00:56:52.000I mean, Leonardo DiCaprio, why would I possibly care what this actor has to say about things?
00:56:58.000Unfortunately, we live in a culture of ubiquity, and so because you see his face all over the place, you take him more seriously than you otherwise would.
00:57:05.000Okay, final point, and then we'll sign off, because I know we're super long.
00:57:54.000The rumor was, and this would just, it's never going to happen.
00:57:56.000I'll tell you exactly what they're gonna do.
00:57:58.000What they'll do is they'll introduce some peripheral character who makes some vague reference to being gay, and that'll please the GLAAD.
00:58:03.000That'll please the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
00:58:06.000They'll say that it's a groundbreaking thing to have a gay character
00:58:09.000In this series, they're not going to make a central character gay, because they know that when I bring my kids to the movies, I don't want to be hit with that, and I won't show my kids movies that glorify homosexuality.
00:58:18.000As a religious person, I'm not going to do that.
00:58:20.000They know that, and they know that Star Wars is a kid's movie.
00:58:24.000Instead, they'll sort of edge around it.
00:58:26.000The rumor was originally, supposedly, that John Boyega, the guy who plays the Black Storm Trooper, and Oscar Isaac, who plays the kind of Hispanic-looking pilot, that they were going to get together, which is just absurd.
00:58:39.000I mean, if they do that, George Lucas can have the series back if they do that.
00:58:43.000Because, like, no one wants to see that.
00:58:46.000No one is even mildly interested in that.
00:58:48.000Plus, it undercuts the whole romantic arc.
00:58:50.000Like, is John Boyega supposed to be bisexual?
00:58:51.000I mean, clearly he's going after Daisy in the film, right?
00:58:54.000Clearly he's going after Daisy Ridley, the first female Jedi.
01:01:19.000As I've said before, when the tyrants come, the good news is that since you know me, since you want to join, if you want to join our movement, by the way, it's Be Shapiro at Daily Wire.
01:01:31.000But if you want to join the movement, do that.
01:01:32.000And definitely do it so that we're all registered.
01:01:34.000So that when they put us in the Gulag together, then we can all hang out together.
01:01:37.000I can still do the show, you won't pay me, but we'll just sit there and I'll sit on like a wooden platform in the stocks and you'll all sit there in the audience and try not to look at me because if you look me straight in the eye, then the guards come and beat you to death.