Ben Shapiro talks about President Obama's trip to Cuba and why he's great. He also talks about Hillary Clinton's take on the terror attack in Brussels and why Donald Trump is the best choice against Hillary Clinton in the November election. And he explains why he thinks the Constitution stands for something other than what it actually says. Ben Shapiro is the host of the conservative podcast "The Ben Shapiro Show" and is a regular contributor to the New York Times, CNN, CBS and other media outlets. He is also a frequent contributor to The Weekly Standard and the Wall Street Journal and has his own podcast, "The Weekly Standard," which he hosts with his good friend and long-time friend, Jack Dorsey, which he describes as "The Situation Room" and "The People's Hour." He is a frequent guest on Fox News and CNN, and is the author of several books, including "The Devil Next Door" which he co-authored with John McCain. He's also the host and co-host of the radio show "The O.J. Simpson Show" on CBS Radio's "The Early Edition" and hosts the podcast "Inside the Beltway" with John Rocha and Mark Halpern, which is on HBO's "America's Most Powerful Man." and "America s Most Powerful Person." and hosts "The View From The Ground" on ABC's Hard Knocks" on "Good Morning America. and the latest episode of "The Five". on the Tonight Show with John Stewart on "This Morning Show with Jemele Radley Crowell, and his new book, "America Is Not Yours Truly," which is out on Amazon Prime and CBS Radio and The Late Night Show with Rachel Maddows, which will be out on Tuesday, October 16th and 17th, October 31st, and October 17th and 18th, and the rest of the 19th, November 5th, 2019, and November 6th, 2020, and so much more. He's on The Fiveth and 19th on CNN and The FiveThirtyEight, and he's also on NPR's "Yours Truly" on WFM and NPR's Morning Drive and WFMU, and WYCD and WTHW in New York City, and more. on WTMX in Boston, and on the BBC Radio and WAC in Boston's WYTC in Boston and NPR in Chicago, and Boston's AM Radio in the Bronx.
00:00:00.000Here we are, it's a Wednesday, and the world is in the midst of its slow-motion collapse, but at least President Obama had fun in Cuba yesterday.
00:00:51.000He's a shallow, pathetic, ridiculous little man-child, and he simply wants to be loved, even if he's looking for love in all the wrong places.
00:00:58.000And if people disagree that Obama's great, well, he can always take a lead from his new friend, the Castros.
00:01:03.000Okay, so I just want to point something out here.
00:01:05.000You see that building behind Che Guevara?
00:01:07.000It's actually worse than the sculpture of Che Guevara.
00:01:10.000It turns out that's the Cuban Ministry of the Interior.
00:01:12.000That's where they imprison, torture, and punish all the dissenters.
00:01:37.000So as the Constitution is being assaulted from all sides by President Obama, by Donald Trump, by just pretty much everybody who's never read the thing, don't care about the thing, it's important for you to know what the Constitution stands for.
00:01:50.000What are the principles and what are the values that undergird the Constitution of the United States?
00:01:54.000You may have read the document, still not understand it that well, you need somebody to really explain to you what it's all about.
00:02:00.000The folks at Hillsdale College do that better than anybody on the planet.
00:02:39.000Okay, so yesterday there was a big terrorist attack in Brussels.
00:02:44.000And as we mentioned, Donald Trump responds the way that most people respond, the way that your uncle on the toilet, if you just heard about it, would respond.
00:02:50.000He just says, oh, those damn Muslims closed the borders!
00:02:56.000As I said yesterday, he's almost 100% right.
00:02:58.000When he says that this is an Islamic problem, and when he says that the borders need to be closed to radical Muslims, obviously he's correct.
00:03:06.000I also said yesterday that if there is a terrorist attack one week before a general election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump will be the President of the United States.
00:03:15.000The reason for that is not so much Trump as it is Hillary Clinton.
00:03:20.000So, let's take a look at what Hillary Clinton had to say after we finished our show yesterday.
00:03:24.000Here's what Hillary Clinton said last night.
00:03:26.000She was doing a rally and she was talking about ISIS and here's what Hillary Clinton had to say about ISIS and Donald Trump.
00:03:35.000The last thing we need, my friends, are leaders who incite more fear.
00:03:42.000In the face of terror, America doesn't panic.
00:03:47.000We don't build walls or turn our backs on our allies.
00:03:52.000We can't throw out everything we know about what works and what doesn't and start torturing people.
00:04:00.000What Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and others are suggesting is not only wrong, it's dangerous!
00:04:13.000Even her own supporters are there, and they are bound to cheer by blood packed with Satan.
00:04:18.000But that still does not solve the problem for her, which is that everything she's saying here is incorrect.
00:04:23.000So Israel has fought terror for literally a decade because they built a giant security fence between themselves and all the Palestinian areas, and suicide bombings went from pretty frequent to almost never.
00:04:33.000And that's because, again, they built a fence.
00:04:35.000Israel religiously profiles, and that's why they have a low rate of terror.
00:04:38.000The West does not religiously profile.
00:04:40.000That does not mean every Muslim should not be allowed into Israel or into the West.
00:04:43.000It does mean that unless you buy into the prevailing ideology of freedom,
00:05:45.000You are made to come up with plans to combat the problems in your life.
00:05:50.000And one of the great battles for religious people is the battle between the human need to plan and the recognition that God's in charge.
00:05:56.000But, when it comes to politics, a plan is everything.
00:05:59.000Hillary doesn't have a plan, and you're going to be afraid on terror when you don't have a plan.
00:06:02.000People are more afraid of terror now than they were during the Bush administration, because number one, Bush had a plan, and number two, Bush's plan was to kill the bad guys.
00:06:10.000Obama's plan, I mean, he was in Argentina today.
00:06:13.000And today, President Obama says the only way to defend them is to just go about our daily business.
00:06:18.000He was trying to excuse why he went to a ball game yesterday, as we mentioned up top.
00:06:23.000And his excuse was, well, I learned from the Boston Red Sox that you just have to go out and you have to play baseball, even if you're afraid of terrorism.
00:06:30.000I said, well, those are the Boston Red Sox.
00:07:22.000There's nothing irrational about this.
00:07:25.000But Hillary continues to push this message that it's irrational to be afraid.
00:07:29.000The only rational response is to give a big, warm hug to every Muslim that we can find.
00:07:36.000And if those Muslims are with Western civilization, then sure, everybody in Western civilization deserves a hug, although please don't invade people's personal spaces, particularly mine.
00:07:44.000If you touch me, I'll get upset with you.
00:08:17.000That to do anything that implies we are at war with an entire religion, with 1.2 or 4 billion people, is not only wrong, it is dangerous.
00:08:29.000Right here at home, we need to be reaching out and including Muslim Americans and communities where they live in our first line of defense.
00:08:38.000We don't need them to feel that if they hear something or see something that they can't report it.
00:09:40.000You know that there's a guy, I'm not that, like, I know a lot of cops and I'm fond of cops generally, but most people...
00:09:46.000Are kind of scared of cops because most of the time when the cop shows up, it's to do something that you're not going to like.
00:09:53.000But by the same token, if somebody's living next door and you find out that they're stockpiling bombs, they're building a suicide vest, how fast are you on the phone to the cops?
00:10:00.000How fast are you personally on the phone to the cops?
00:10:02.000Is there anything that could dissuade you from going to the cops if you knew somebody was doing that?
00:10:07.000The idea that if we're just nicer to Muslims in Western Europe or the United States, that this is what's going to drive them to start cooperating more with law enforcement,
00:11:55.000They're very upset because, you know, 30 years ago, there was support from the Reagan administration for for a junta military cadre that killed people.
00:12:04.000So Obama's down there apologizing to the Argentinians after going to Cuba to apologize to them, even though the current regime of both Argentina and Cuba, they're both terrible.
00:12:12.000Argentina is less horrifying than Cuba, but neither is any great shakes, obviously.
00:12:17.000President Obama is going on his worldwide apology tour, and while he's doing it, he's just making an ass of himself and an ass of America, but he thinks that it makes him look good.
00:12:29.000There's a vine that I thought perfectly captured Obama's attitude toward what was happening in Brussels and really in the entire world.
00:12:35.000Yesterday, somebody obviously photoshopped in a pina colada and a cigar and sunglasses, but here's President Obama yesterday at the Cuban baseball game.
00:13:14.000I mean, he likes to go to the Cuban regime and hear people cheer for him, which is what happened.
00:13:18.000He goes there and Cuba stacks the entire stadium with supporters, all cheering President Obama as he walks in, so he can feel that warm, basking glow of love that he lacked from his father when he was growing up, which is what some of this is about.
00:13:30.000Here's President Obama walking through the stadium yesterday.
00:13:34.000People snapping photos and just wonderful, just glorious.
00:14:14.000And this is why Donald Trump has a shot.
00:14:16.000This is why Donald Trump versus Hillary on terror and foreign policy, they have a shot.
00:14:19.000Because, again, the left is so ensconced in its own bizarre view of the universe that they refuse to acknowledge that there are actual bad guys out there.
00:14:27.000In fact, they'll reach over backwards in order to help those actual bad guys.
00:16:25.000And I'll explain this in just a minute, but we have to take a quick profit timeout for our friends over at Reagan.com.
00:16:32.000So you have an email address and you're concerned that the government or that corporations are going to grab your email information, use it to either market to you, spam your inbox, or perhaps to send it over to the federal government for whatever nefarious use they have for it, because, hey, you're not a terrorist, but you want your privacy.
00:17:25.000When it comes to Republicans winning elections, there's been a lot of talk about Republicans need to win by appealing to white people, Republicans need to win by appealing to lower-class people, Republicans need to win by appealing to Hispanics.
00:17:36.000There are all these theories about which subgroup you appeal to.
00:17:39.000The real answer is that Republicans actually need to do better among women.
00:17:44.000There's a massive gender gap for Republicans, and there has been for many years.
00:17:48.000The only time that gender gap was overcome was in 2004, and that was because women were afraid of what was happening overseas.
00:17:55.000It turns out that by every poll, women, for very good evolutionary reason, are more afraid of violence than men.
00:18:00.000And men are not quite as afraid of violence because we're bigger and we're stronger, we have bigger upper body strength and we're stupider.
00:18:05.000So that means that we're willing to run into fields of fire and take shots, which is a great thing, but it also means that we are not as fearful of violence as women are.
00:18:13.000Women, when they feel threatened, tend to vote for whoever is going to protect them.
00:18:17.000And the fact is that what you see is that Republicans like Rudy Giuliani can only win in blue cities like New York if they run on an anti-crime platform.
00:18:26.000If they run on an anti-crime platform.
00:18:28.000Now the platform is made for a conservative, seriously, because we're seeing the crime rates go up in every major city in the United States right now, thanks to the Ferguson effect, which is, after Ferguson and the Black Lives Matter movement, police officers have been intimidated into not doing their jobs.
00:18:44.000Because they're afraid Eric Holder is going to swoop on in and prosecute them for doing their jobs.
00:18:49.000The same thing is true on foreign policy.
00:18:51.000Thanks to Obama, the world is on fire.
00:20:14.000Our enemy is radical Islamic terrorists, are the jihadists that seek to murder us.
00:20:20.000And it is the heart of law enforcement and national security.
00:20:23.000To prevent those who are waging war on you from actually carrying out their attempted acts of war.
00:20:30.000Beyond just having relationships with MAS, having law enforcement have ongoing relationships with MAS, which happens frankly in many cities with the FBI and local police departments in many cities currently in the United States, are you saying going beyond that, because it does sound like in your statement, empowering law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods
00:20:52.000I still don't quite understand what that means.
00:20:56.000It's doing what law enforcement does in any circumstance.
00:20:59.000If you have a neighborhood where there is a high level of gang activity, the way to prevent it is you increase the law enforcement presence there and you target the gang members to get them off the street.
00:21:09.000But you're talking about Muslim neighborhoods, not radicals particularly.
00:21:14.000I am talking about any area where there is a higher incidence of radical Islamic terrorism.
00:21:21.000Europe's failed immigration laws have allowed a massive influx of radical Islamic terrorists into Europe, and they are now in isolated neighborhoods where radicalism festers.
00:21:32.000It festers and grows, and sadly that leads directly to the kind of attack we saw in Brussels, to the attacks we've seen in Paris.
00:21:42.000We need to prevent radicalization, and that is by targeting it.
00:21:46.000And Anderson, I'll give you an example.
00:21:48.000Yesterday I was on with Wolf Blitzer on CNN and Wolf asked me, well gosh, what difference does it make if you call it radical Islamic terrorism?
00:21:57.000Well it impacts the policy dramatically because if you won't identify it, and Obama won't identify it, Hillary won't identify it, Democrats won't identify it,
00:22:10.000And so, for example, President Obama...
00:22:28.000And they say, well, New York had a program like this and it was shut down back in 2012 and it was totally ineffective.
00:22:33.000In Commentary Magazine, there was a guy named Mitchell Silber.
00:22:35.000And Mitchell Silber debunked pretty much all of this.
00:22:38.000The Federalist has a very good piece today by a guy named David Marcus talking about this.
00:22:42.000He writes, On criticisms that the NYPD's demographics unit was violating the rights of Muslims, Silber says, Plainclothes officers of the demographics unit were deployed for this mission.
00:22:51.000They went into neighborhoods that had heavy concentrations of populations from the countries of interest and walked around, bought a cup of tea or coffee, had lunch, observed the individuals and the public establishments they entered.
00:23:05.000Doing so was perfectly within the purview of the NYPD.
00:23:09.000On criticisms the NYPD had no real results, quote,
00:23:30.000That led to the 2008 identification of Abdul Hamid Shahada, which is a New Yorker who was arrested and is currently facing federal charges for allegedly lying about his plans to travel to Afghanistan in order to kill US servicemen.
00:23:44.000So basically, yes, it was an effective program, yes, it was a useful program, and Cruz is exactly right.
00:23:53.000This is why Republicans with actual plans to stop terrorism do better in these sorts of issues than all of the people on the left who keep saying that there really is no problem, let's just ignore it, no biggie, no big deal.
00:24:06.000There's another battle breaking out between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
00:24:09.000So every time you think that Republicans are about to get the upper hand in sort of the public relations war, because they're right when it comes to terrorism, and Democrats are wrong, they start going after each other.
00:24:19.000So, for example, Mitt Romney was going after Trump over his wives, and he made a joke about this, right?
00:24:26.000So apparently, Romney said, Donald Trump has had several foreign wives.
00:24:29.000It turns out there really are jobs Americans won't do.
00:24:42.000The reason he's very upset is because there's a group called Make America Awesome.
00:24:48.000It's a super PAC that's mocking Trump.
00:24:50.000It's run by a gal named Liz Mair, who was a consultant, a political consultant, to Scott Walker briefly before she was fired because she was pro-choice.
00:24:57.000And Liz Mair put out an ad, a Facebook ad, that was targeted at Utah, just ahead of the Utah primaries.
00:25:03.000And it was a Facebook ad starring Melania Trump, who is Donald Trump's wife, his current wife.
00:25:08.000And it's a picture for those who can't see and are unlucky enough not to have bought a subscription and so can't see this.
00:25:14.000It is Melania Trump naked lying on what looks like a bear skin and she is handcuffed to a bed is what it looks like.
00:25:22.000She's got a handcuff on her on her left hand and it says meet Melania Trump your next first lady or you could support Ted Cruz on Tuesday.
00:27:06.000Jeb's wife is Mexican, and so she must love illegal immigration because his wife is Mexican.
00:27:11.000Trump ended up deleting that tweet, and then if you remember, we talked about it at the time, Jeb Bush ended up asking Trump for an apology, and then Trump said no, and then Jeb did what he always did, which is he sort of cowered in the corner and cried himself to sleep.
00:30:38.000I'm sure that's just, I'm sure that's absolutely true, that they had sex multiple times a day because he's just such a virile, violent, vibrant man, Donald Trump.
00:30:47.000Trump told Stern about Melania looking good in a quote, very small thong.
00:30:51.000So this whole herposing nude thing, it's not a shameful part of the past that it's some sort of hit on Melania to bring it up now.
00:30:56.000It's an integral part of the Trump brand.
00:30:59.000I mean, honestly, I said to somebody this morning, you look at that picture and you realize that they targeted this to Utah, and Utah then promptly voted for Ted Cruz 55% more than they voted for Donald Trump.
00:31:11.000And you realize that Utah's a really holy state, because I promise you, they run that ad in California, Donald Trump wins 173% of the available votes, because Melania Trump is a good-looking woman.
00:31:42.000I will tell you what I think is an utterly unfair hit, and this is where Trump is gonna go next, and that is they're gonna bring up the fact that there was a police report in which they found Heidi Cruz crying on the side of a road in 2005.
00:32:49.000We used to sit around and play cards and be buddies.
00:32:53.000I don't want you to do any of those things.
00:32:55.000I want you to go there and I want you to struggle with each other and not get anything done for the most part, unless there's an overwhelming majority support for doing something.
00:33:30.000Looking around at what's taking place in politics today, it is easy to get disheartened.
00:33:34.000How many of you find yourself just shaking your head at what you see from both sides?
00:33:38.000Our political discourse, both the kind we see on TV and the kind we experience among each other, did not used to be this bad, and it does not have to be this way.
00:33:46.000Now, a little skepticism is healthy, but when people distrust politics, they come to distrust institutions.
00:33:52.000They lose faith in their government, and in the future too.
00:33:55.000We can acknowledge this, but we don't have to accept it.
00:34:09.000That's why they wrote all these checks and balances in there.
00:34:11.000If they trusted politicians, they would have said, let's put a god king in charge and let him run things.
00:34:16.000They distrusted politics so much that when they didn't feel they were being properly represented, they went out there with muskets and started shooting people.
00:34:23.000Right, so this idea that politics is some sort of game of nicety and that it's the tone of politics that's the real problem.
00:34:29.000Donald Trump's kind of screw you tone is maybe the only thing about him that I actually like.
00:34:34.000Now, there is a real critique of Trump, but it's not his tone.
00:34:38.000Okay, I think that some of what he says is way over the top.
00:34:42.000I do find it off-putting that he's constantly in third grade mode and he never exits it.
00:34:46.000Third grade mode is fun, it's pepper in a stew, but you put too much in and it begins to become tasteless.
00:34:52.000Trump's real problem is that he actually disdains the vision of the founders.
00:35:08.000And I wish that Paul Ryan had gotten up and said that.
00:35:10.000I wish he had said, you know, what's unacceptable about Donald Trump is that he divides Americans along the basis of group identity.
00:35:17.000And that is a nasty thing to do because America is about individualism and opportunity.
00:35:21.000What I find troublesome about Donald Trump, Paul Ryan should have said, is that Donald Trump is someone who believes that the leader of the nation should have ultimate power just to make whatever deals he seeks, as opposed to there being a give and take and struggle that takes place and an understanding that a powerful government is bad for the people.
00:35:42.000And so long as Paul Ryan is still an advocate for a relatively big government just clothed in sheep's clothing, then I have no interest in what he has to say.
00:35:50.000I'd rather have the wolf in wolf's clothing than the wolf in sheep's clothing.
00:37:01.000And so, he had this girl who lived next door named Wilma, and he's purposefully alienating her because he knows that if she marries him, she's going to have to live the rest of her life
00:37:11.000Dealing with all of the issues that he has as a guy with no hands, that he can't open doorknobs, that he has to when he wakes up in the morning, he's completely helpless.
00:37:19.000And so there's a scene where, you know, she comes over and she says, why are you being like this to me?
00:39:23.000Okay, the scene actually ends a little bit further on.
00:39:25.000What happens is that he gets in bed, she tucks him in, and then she walks out of the room, and as she's about to shut the door, she realizes and she leaves the door just a crack open so he can get out.
00:39:44.000Actually, Peggy Noonan, who sometimes I like her stuff, sometimes I don't, but she says that she writes to the score from The Best Years of Our Lives.
00:39:50.000She likes to put it on when she's writing, and I understand that.
00:41:04.000An avowed white nationalist and Trump supporter has now launched a 24-7 hotline to, quote, help those who are attacked physically and verbally for supporting Trump.
00:41:13.000There's a guy named William Daniel Johnson, who has spoken of his desire for a white ethnostate.
00:41:18.000He's an LA-based lawyer, and he has started the Trump Harassment Hotline.
00:41:22.000And this is for people whose feelings are hurt because anti-Trump people are making fun of them.
00:41:27.000So, you know, between the burning of the crosses, these white supremacists, they go home and they get hotline calls from people to check up on them.
00:41:35.000Okay, here's the final thing that I hate.
00:42:16.000And that's how you end up with dead people, because it turns out that not everybody is singing John Lennon's Imagine along with you.
00:42:21.000There are just people who take advantage of your stupid John Lennon Imagine ideology to come into your country and then murder you.
00:42:28.000It turns out that there are wolves at the door, and when you open the door because you're busy singing Imagine and strumming along on your guitar, they're gonna come through that front door and they're going to murder you.
00:42:38.000Number two, there's this NBC terrorism analyst, and what this terrorism analyst, I don't know how you get the job, who is this, Evan Colmer?
00:42:47.000And he says that his, he has an explanation of how we fight terrorism.
00:42:54.000This is just the beginning, because we have to get to the root causes of why this happened, and those causes have not been dealt with.
00:43:01.000There are international causes, and there are local causes.
00:43:03.000Of course, international cause, there's been a war going on in Syria and Iraq now for going on five years.
00:43:10.000And that war, in addition to killing hundreds of thousands of Syrians, is now coming in the form of blowback to us here in the West.
00:43:17.000The second issue is more local concerns, right?
00:43:20.000Why is it that Muslims and other immigrants in Belgium have such a problem integrating with local society?
00:43:26.000Why is it that they do not feel like they are Belgian?
00:43:30.000Why is it that they are ghettoized into these communities?
00:43:33.000And that has a lot to do with what's going on here.
00:43:36.000Because again, if you look at the numbers, a much higher percentage of Belgians have gone to go fight in Iraq and Syria than French nationals.
00:43:52.000There are no laws on the books in Brussels telling them where they can and cannot live.
00:43:55.000They're living in communities they want to live in because they're Islamic communities.
00:43:59.000There are many Saudi Arabias and many Syrias in the middle of the West.
00:44:02.000And the West has tolerated this because they're too busy singing Imagine to realize that there are a bunch of people who don't want to assimilate.
00:44:09.000I love how the left, it's really funny, you know, there are people on the left who say that right-wingers, we treat Muslims like dehumanized Muslims, which is asinine.
00:44:40.000They've been giving them welfare cookies, and they've been giving them cultural cookies, and they've been giving them citizenship, and they've been giving them refugee status, and the result is this, because you have adult, these are adults,
00:44:49.000And these are adults making the pure decision that their ideology is better than the ideology of the West.
00:44:54.000And there are some who are saying that they're willing to kill in the name of their ideology.
00:44:57.000And there are others who are saying we're willing to allow that murder to go forward and not report it to the police because of their ideology.