The Ben Shapiro Show - EPIC: Israel TAKES OUT Hezbollah Leader, Totally REWRITES Middle East

00:00:00.000 Well, folks, it was a big weekend in news.

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00:01:34.000 Now, the big news of the weekend is that Israel basically just reshaped the entire politics of the Middle East. 0.97

00:01:39.000 And we'll talk about what this means for the 2024 election because it does have in fact,

00:01:43.000 pretty significant electoral ramifications given the fact that the Biden-Harris White House

00:01:48.000 has absolutely blown it on foreign policy.

00:01:51.000 First, it is important to note exactly what happened.

00:01:54.000 So if you've been following the news from the Middle East for the past few weeks or for the past year or so

00:01:58.000 since October 7th, what you will have noticed that after October 7th,

00:02:02.000 Hezbollah, which is a massive Lebanese terrorist group, it is really an Iranian proxy group,

00:02:08.000 but it's also a party in the Lebanese government.

00:02:11.000 Basically, Lebanon has been turned into a chaotic hellhole by Iranian and Syrian intervention in the state. 0.69

00:02:17.000 Hezbollah is a major part of the government over there.

00:02:19.000 They are also, of course, a major terrorist group.

00:02:22.000 In 2000, Israel pulled out of southern Lebanon in an attempt to basically draw back and say, we don't want to police this area of Lebanon.

00:02:29.000 That area of Lebanon before that had been used by the Palestine Liberation Organization and Hezbollah as a launching point for terror attacks on Israel.

00:02:36.000 Israel had then fought to keep a buffer zone in southern Lebanon to make sure that southern Lebanon was not used as a launching off point.

00:02:44.000 In 2000, Israel completely withdrew in the same way that they withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005. 0.99

00:02:49.000 So, turns out the unilateral Israeli withdrawals tend to be really, really stupid and they don't work well. 0.98

00:02:54.000 Just doing a little bit of history here. 0.98

00:02:55.000 So in 2000, Israel withdraws unilaterally from southern Lebanon.

00:03:00.000 Then in 2006, There is a fairly major war, about a 34-day war between the Hezbollah forces in Southern Lebanon and the Israelis.

00:03:09.000 The Israelis go in, they pound Southern Lebanon pretty hard, and that is concluded with a UN resolution, UN Resolution 1701, which calls for demilitarization of Southern Lebanon from Hezbollah to be guaranteed by UNIFIL, a UN-sponsored set of fake troops. 0.82

00:03:25.000 Immediately upon Israel withdrawing again, that entire area is taken over by Hezbollah. 0.96

00:03:30.000 It is armed to the teeth.

00:03:31.000 And so the widespread perception in the aftermath of October 7th was that the greater military threat was not Hamas in the south to Israel.

00:03:38.000 The greater military threat was Hezbollah in the north to Israel.

00:03:42.000 They were reportedly armed with up to 200,000 rockets.

00:03:45.000 They also had a bunch of sophisticated weaponry that was capable of hitting towers in Tel Aviv.

00:03:50.000 And so one of the things that Israel had to contend with throughout the war that they were fighting with Hamas was the possibility of Hezbollah getting in.

00:03:57.000 And then they would be in the middle of a two-front war.

00:04:00.000 Well, as it turns out, because of the Biden administration's pressure on Israel and the fact that they've drawn so many stupid ideas from the Obama administration about the Middle East, because of that, Israel doesn't just face one front war in the South, they face not just a two-front war, they face essentially a seven-front war.

00:04:17.000 It also included the Iranian-sponsored Houthis in Yemen. 0.61

00:04:20.000 It included the Iraqi-Iranian-sponsored terror groups in Iraq.

00:04:24.000 Iranian-sponsored terror groups in Syria, direct Iranian attacks from Iran, attacks from the West Bank sponsored by Iran.

00:04:32.000 Basically, Iran motivated all of its proxies on October 7th and beyond to attack Israel in the hopes of sinking any sort of nascent peace deal between Israel and the Sunni Gulf Arab world. 0.56

00:04:44.000 That was the thing they were trying to forestall.

00:04:45.000 They were hoping that by initiating a conflict, that it would turn into a broader Muslim versus Jew conflict as opposed to a Shia versus Israel plus Sunni conflict.

00:04:56.000 Which is the way the Middle East was breaking down.

00:04:58.000 The Abraham Accords were largely about Israel and the Sunni Gulf Arabs deciding that Iran was a greater threat. 0.54

00:05:05.000 And they were going to basically get together.

00:05:07.000 They were going to develop together.

00:05:08.000 They were going to shake hands.

00:05:09.000 They were going to move into the future together in opposition to the Ayatollahs in Iran. 0.71

00:05:14.000 And so Iran could see that that was being fostered.

00:05:16.000 And so what they tried to do was initiate a Muslim-Jew war on October 7th.

00:05:21.000 And part of that was Hezbollah being activated in the south of Lebanon to shoot rockets into Israel.

00:05:26.000 So, for approximately 11 months, Hezbollah has been shooting rockets into Israel.

00:05:31.000 Somewhere between 8,000 and 10,000 rockets have been fired into northern Israel, forcing Israel to evacuate large swathes of its north.

00:05:38.000 Some 70,000 to 100,000 Israelis are not living in their homes and have not for nearly a year at this point.

00:05:44.000 We'll get to more on this in a moment.

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00:06:48.000 Well, a couple of weeks ago, Israel decided that it had enough.

00:06:52.000 That enough was enough.

00:06:54.000 And so Israel initiated Operation Grim Beeper. 0.56

00:06:58.000 The single most hilarious and effective anti-terror operation in history.

00:07:03.000 It turned out, as you'll recall, that Israel had 15 years ago or so founded a beeper company, a fake beeper company. 0.69

00:07:10.000 Mossad had done this.

00:07:11.000 They put together a fake beeper company in the knowledge that Hassan Nasrallah, who is the evil terroristic head of Hezbollah, we'll get to him in just a moment, That evil terroristic head would eventually realize that all of his communications were being hacked, and he would move to dumb methods of communications like beepers. 0.68

00:07:28.000 That's why Hezbollah's entire infrastructure, their terror infrastructure, they're using beepers like they were in some sort of episode of Seinfeld from 1995 or something. 0.97

00:07:37.000 The reason they're using beeper is because they were afraid that if they used iPhones, Israel would hack the iPhones, essentially.

00:07:42.000 They'd be able to monitor all their communications.

00:07:44.000 They started using beepers in about February or March of this year.

00:07:48.000 Israel had not only known that, they had sold them the beepers they were using.

00:07:52.000 And so simultaneously, they blew up all the beepers a couple of weeks ago, thereby not

00:07:56.000 only handicapping and blowing the off of hundreds, if not thousands of Hezbollah terrorists, but also

00:08:02.000 destroying their entire method of communication. They then followed that up by bombing all of

00:08:07.000 When they moved from the beepers to their secondary mode of communication, their walkie-talkies, it turns out, oops, they bought those from the Israelis also. 0.95

00:08:14.000 So it turns out that the clever Jews had clevered again. 1.00

00:08:18.000 And all of those blew up.

00:08:19.000 So now their methods of communication were gone.

00:08:21.000 Their top infrastructure was largely damaged.

00:08:23.000 And they didn't really have the ability to do anything because Israel had such great intelligence penetration into Lebanon that it was simultaneously launching massive air assaults, some 1,600 air assaults over the course of some 36 hours, destroying about half of Hezbollah's long-range weaponry.

00:08:39.000 So, what did that mean?

00:08:40.000 What that meant is that Israel, over the course of the last 10 months, has basically taken Hamas out of play.

00:08:45.000 Hamas is still holding about 100 hostages, maybe half of those people may be alive, stationed around Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas, if he is in fact still alive, which is unclear at this point, because nobody's heard from him for weeks, so he could theoretically be dead.

00:08:58.000 And those hostages could just be sort of dispersed, being held by terrorists all over the Gaza Strip at this point, no one really knows.

00:09:03.000 But, in terms of what Israel has accomplished with Hamas, Israel, in the aftermath of October 7th, has wrecked Hamas.

00:09:10.000 I will say this, the mark of a first world country, the mark of a proper military, is not that you never get surprised.

00:09:16.000 The mark of a proper country is that if you do get surprised and you get hurt, you hit back so hard that the people who hit you no longer exist, nor do any of their friends.

00:09:26.000 So the mark of America being a first world country is that when we get hit at Pearl Harbor, we then proceed to launch two of the most destructive assaults on our enemies in world history, on the Japanese and on the Germans. 0.86

00:09:38.000 The mark of the power of the United States is that after 9-11, we took down two countries.

00:09:44.000 These are marks of actual power.

00:09:46.000 So, Israel gets hit on October 7th.

00:09:48.000 It's a massive disaster, the worst intelligence and human disaster in the history of the state of Israel. 0.78

00:09:53.000 And they proceed to completely root out Hamas, and they have this threat in the north. 0.68

00:09:59.000 And this threat in the north has been used by Hamas as a rationale for not surrendering the hostages, because they are hoping, Hamas was hoping, in the Gaza Strip, that eventually, if it came down to it, Hezbollah would get full scale in the war, and the intimidation factor of Hezbollah in the north would force Israel to make all sorts of concessions to Hamas, including leaving them in power in the Gaza Strip.

00:10:19.000 So Israel has now completely taken that off the table because not only did they wreck Hezbollah's forward operating power, and remember Hezbollah is an arm of Iran. 0.69

00:10:28.000 So Iran has now had its two knights taken off the board.

00:10:32.000 Hamas has been taken off the board.

00:10:33.000 Hezbollah has been effectively Hezbollah has been really, really hurt.

00:10:39.000 And that was before what happened on Friday.

00:10:42.000 And as for Iran itself, what Iran has shown is that Iran does not actually have the forward operating capacity, in the absence of its proxies, to attack Israel in any sort of serious or sophisticated way.

00:10:51.000 You remember earlier this year, they tried to launch an attack on Israel.

00:10:53.000 They fired 300 cruise missiles and drones at Israel. 0.98

00:10:57.000 About half of them, because they were crap, fell into Iran themselves. 0.99

00:11:00.000 And the rest of them were shot down by Israel and its Western allies, including by the way, 0.96

00:11:04.000 Jordan and some from Saudi Arabia, apparently Saudi Arabia shot down

00:11:08.000 some simultaneously fired missiles from the Houthis.

00:11:11.000 Okay, so what does that mean?

00:11:12.000 It means that Iran has basically demonstrated that it is a paper tiger. 0.99

00:11:16.000 Iran needed to be viewed as something really, really scary in the region, 1.00

00:11:21.000 because that is the only rationale for Israel and the allies not taking out its nuclear program.

00:11:26.000 Only if Iran is scary, does Iran get to continue to bargain with the United States 0.96

00:11:30.000 and the West and have the United States and the West under people like Barack Obama and Joe Biden,

00:11:34.000 sign them billions of dollars of checks because they're so scary.

00:11:38.000 Because, oh no, what are they gonna do?

00:11:39.000 So Israel has been pursuing the single most effective military operation

00:11:43.000 in modern history.

00:11:44.000 Israel in Lebanon has lost zero soldiers, zero.

00:11:49.000 And they have proceeded to take out virtually all of Hezbollah's long-range military capacity and their entire leadership structure. 0.64

00:11:57.000 All of it.

00:11:58.000 Because here's what happened on Friday.

00:12:00.000 The leader, as I mentioned, of Hezbollah is a man named Hassan Nasrallah.

00:12:03.000 Hassan Nasrallah took over Hezbollah in the early 1990s.

00:12:07.000 He's sort of a charismatic religious figure. 0.69

00:12:09.000 Obviously, he also happens to be a genocidal Jew-hater. 0.99

00:12:12.000 He also hates Christians. 0.96

00:12:14.000 If you know your history, what you'll realize is that Lebanon used to be a Christian country. 0.56

00:12:18.000 It used to be run by Christians.

00:12:19.000 And then, because of the influx of people from the Palestine Liberation Organization, because of the influx of Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, the influx of Syrian Muslims, because of that, Lebanon, which is always multicultural and multi-religious, has turned into a chaotic, Civil War-ridden bleep show. 0.65

00:12:37.000 Lebanon is a disaster area, and that is because of Hezbollah in large part, which is the single most powerful proxy of Iran in the region. 0.90

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00:13:52.000 So who, what is Hezbollah?

00:13:54.000 Well, number one, they're responsible for hundreds of American deaths.

00:13:56.000 They're responsible for the Beirut barracks bombings.

00:13:59.000 But not only that, they're responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Syrian Muslims who are siding against the Assad regime.

00:14:07.000 The Assad regime has worked with Hezbollah.

00:14:08.000 They're responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Lebanese, Muslims, and Christians.

00:14:13.000 Hezbollah is a State Department-designated terror organization. 0.52

00:14:16.000 In fact, Hezbollah is an Arab League-designated terrorist organization.

00:14:22.000 And they've made their agenda very clear, going all the way back to like 1985.

00:14:26.000 In an open letter published February 16th, 1985 in Al-Safir, they say, we are often asked, who are we, the Hezbollah, and what is our identity?

00:14:34.000 We are the sons of the Ummah, the Muslim community, the party of God, Hezbollah, the vanguard of which was made victorious by God in Iran.

00:14:40.000 Right, they're an Iranian front group.

00:14:43.000 And they say, The U.S.

00:14:44.000 has tried through its local agents to persuade the people that those who crushed their arrogance in Lebanon and frustrated their conspiracy against the oppressed were nothing but a bunch of fanatic terrorists whose sole aim is to dynamite bars and destroy slot machines.

00:14:55.000 Such suggestions cannot and will not mislead our Ummah, for the whole world knows that whoever wishes to oppose the U.S.

00:15:00.000 that arrogant superpower cannot indulge in marginal acts which may make it deviate from its major objectives.

00:15:06.000 We combat abomination, and we shall tear out its very roots, its primary roots, which are the United States. 0.99

00:15:11.000 It's an anti-American, and therefore anti-Israeli, because Israel is, of course, an ally of the United States, anti-Semitic terror group. 0.97

00:15:20.000 Hassan Nasrallah himself has suggested that the slogan of Hezbollah ought to be, Death to Israel.

00:15:26.000 He has not been shocking about it.

00:15:28.000 He said this in 2005, quote, ...is an aggressive, illegal, illegitimate entity which has no future in our land.

00:15:33.000 Now remember, in our land doesn't mean Lebanon.

00:15:37.000 In our land means Israel itself, like Tel Aviv.

00:15:41.000 He says, its destination is manifested in our motto, Death to Israel. 0.89

00:15:45.000 Which, you know, isn't quite Nike's Just Do It, but it's a motto.

00:15:48.000 I guess we gotta go with one.

00:15:50.000 Hezbollah has also angrily threatened to destroy US hegemony in the Middle East.

00:15:55.000 And of course, they've attacked a couple of U.S.

00:15:56.000 embassies and the Marine Peacekeepers' Barracks in Lebanon, as mentioned, as well as American targets in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and they've carried out terror attacks as far-flung as in South America.

00:16:05.000 Hassan Nasrallah is the head of Hezbollah.

00:16:08.000 So it's not just that Israel took out everybody under Hassan Nasrallah.

00:16:12.000 They did.

00:16:13.000 On Friday, in what has to be one of the most badass war moves in modern history, they took out Nasrallah himself.

00:16:18.000 So here's how it went down.

00:16:20.000 Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, flew to the UN.

00:16:23.000 And everyone was like, what are you doing?

00:16:25.000 Why are you flying to the United Nations?

00:16:26.000 You're in the middle of a war.

00:16:28.000 They had already initiated all these operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

00:16:31.000 So what are you doing?

00:16:32.000 Why are you leaving town in the middle of... There was actual criticism of him in Israel for having left.

00:16:37.000 And so the question is, why was he doing that?

00:16:39.000 And there was a lot of speculation that perhaps he was doing that because he wanted to meet with Team Biden.

00:16:43.000 Because Team Biden, Saudi Arabia, the French, the French have sort of a vestigial interest in Lebanon because Lebanon was a French protectorate from effectively 1920, the end of World War I, until 1944 when they gave autonomy to the Lebanese.

00:16:56.000 They continued to give military support to the Lebanese regime.

00:17:00.000 So there's all these countries, and they came forward and said, we want a 21-day ceasefire.

00:17:03.000 And Israel's like, are you kidding me right now? 0.97

00:17:05.000 Like, with whom?

00:17:06.000 With Hezbollah? 0.96

00:17:07.000 They can ceasefire anytime they want.

00:17:08.000 All they have to do is pull all their forces north of the Litani River, and none of this goes on.

00:17:12.000 It's all over.

00:17:13.000 But they're not doing it, so ain't no ceasefire.

00:17:15.000 But there's a lot of speculation that maybe Netanyahu is gonna come to the United States, he's gonna make nice, he's gonna be a little more conciliatory, because why else would he be showing up?

00:17:24.000 So that was the perception domestically in Israel.

00:17:26.000 It was the perception in the press as well.

00:17:28.000 And it happens to be the perception in Lebanon.

00:17:33.000 By Hassan Nasrallah and his team.

00:17:36.000 So, apparently, according to reports, Monday of the week that Netanyahu went to the UN, on Monday, the IDF, the higher levels of the IDF, and remember, the IDF and Netanyahu do not see eye-to-eye politically.

00:17:48.000 Many of the top members of the IDF would not vote for Netanyahu.

00:17:51.000 They're not members of Likud.

00:17:53.000 It's a very diverse coalition right now of people who are pushing to end the threat to the north in Israel.

00:17:59.000 There's video of Yair Golan, who's the head of the Labor Party.

00:18:02.000 Yair Golan is very much to the left, standing in northern Israel, pointing at the mountains of Lebanon and saying, we need to be over there.

00:18:08.000 We can't be over here.

00:18:08.000 Okay, so there's widespread unity that Israel should finish the job now and clear out southern Lebanon sufficient that Israelis can live in Israeli territory.

00:18:17.000 So, people were pretty pissed that Bibi was going to the UN.

00:18:21.000 At least there was a lot of consternation.

00:18:22.000 What is he doing?

00:18:23.000 Why is this happening?

00:18:24.000 So, apparently on Monday, the IDF went to Netanyahu and they said, listen, we want to take out Nasrallah. 0.86

00:18:30.000 If we're gonna do this, we gotta hit the head of the snake.

00:18:32.000 Enough of this. 0.99

00:18:32.000 We can't be hitting all the people who are around him and not him. 0.99

00:18:36.000 We can't be taking out all of these resources and then allow them to reconstitute.

00:18:39.000 The momentum is ours.

00:18:40.000 We know where he is. 1.00

00:18:41.000 And when we get his exact location, we want your approval to kill him. 0.99

00:18:45.000 And Netanyahu on Monday apparently said yes. 0.98

00:18:48.000 And then he flew to the United States.

00:18:50.000 So apparently, like the hour before he was supposed to speak at the United Nations, he got a call from the IDF.

00:18:57.000 And they said, we now know where he is.

00:18:59.000 We have eyes on him.

00:19:00.000 We know exactly where he is.

00:19:02.000 Do we have your approval to go ahead with the operation?

00:19:05.000 And Bibi said, absolutely.

00:19:06.000 Do it.

00:19:08.000 He then got up at the United Nations.

00:19:10.000 So in a scene very much reminiscent of the end of Godfather 1, where all family business is put to bed, where Michael's at the baptism, meanwhile, Clemenza's shooting Tattaglia, that's basically what happened at the United Nations on Friday.

00:19:23.000 So Netanyahu gets up and he gives a barn burner of a speech at the UN.

00:19:26.000 I have a message for the tyrants of Tehran. 1.00

00:19:28.000 If you strike us, we will strike you. 0.97

00:19:29.000 And Netanyahu, of course, a very good speaker. 0.95

00:19:31.000 This is a historically good Netanyahu speech.

00:19:33.000 And he says, listen, I have a message for you in Tehran.

00:19:38.000 If you F with us, you're going to find out. 0.97

00:19:40.000 F-A-F-O, man. 1.00

00:19:41.000 I have a message for the tyrants of Tehran. 1.00

00:19:45.000 If you strike us, we will strike you. 0.99

00:19:50.000 There is no place... 0.99

00:19:52.000 There is no place in Iran that the long arm of Israel cannot reach. 0.96

00:20:05.000 and And that's true of the entire Middle East.

00:20:09.000 Okay, and that was a big line, because the perception of Israel after October 7th is that maybe Israel was the paper tiger, maybe Iran was on the move.

00:20:16.000 Now again, a lot of that had been promoted by the Biden administration, which upon coming into office, had basically distanced itself from Saudi, had distanced itself from Israel, and had tried to make overtures via cutouts, like Robert Malley, who may in fact have been working hand-in-glove with the Iranians, with Iran.

00:20:30.000 Now as you can see from the footage of this UN speech, it's basically empty in there.

00:20:34.000 All of the Muslim nations walked out. 1.00

00:20:35.000 Now, a lot of that's for show.

00:20:37.000 A lot of that is for show.

00:20:38.000 The Sunni Gulf State Arab nations are ecstatic about what Israel is doing right now.

00:20:43.000 Israel is wrecking all of their enemies. 0.98

00:20:45.000 All the same people that Israel is wrecking right now are enemies of the Sunni Gulf States. 0.52

00:20:51.000 The Houthis, who Israel, after they killed Nasrallah, Have been hitting.

00:20:56.000 So the Houthis fired a cruise missile at Tel Aviv after the killing of Nasrallah.

00:21:00.000 Israel waited three, four days, and then they blew up a couple of ports. 0.77

00:21:05.000 So while the Biden administration is sitting with its thumb up its butt, while the Houthis hold up all shipping in the Red Sea, the Israelis are flying a thousand miles to blow up ports with sorties.

00:21:16.000 So you know who's ecstatic about that? 0.88

00:21:17.000 Saudi.

00:21:17.000 Because Saudi's been at war with the Houthis for a decade.

00:21:20.000 You know who's ecstatic about what's going on in Lebanon right now? 0.99

00:21:23.000 Everybody in UAE.

00:21:25.000 Everybody in Saudi.

00:21:27.000 Everybody in Bahrain.

00:21:28.000 Everybody in Morocco.

00:21:30.000 Everybody in Egypt.

00:21:31.000 Okay?

00:21:32.000 The Egyptians are never going to let this out of the bag, but this is the reality. 0.94

00:21:36.000 Jordan is ecstatic about what's happening right now.

00:21:38.000 Jordan can never say it, but they are.

00:21:41.000 Okay, so that's the actual logic.

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00:22:53.000 And then, Netanyahu, one of the nice things about this speech was that he got very biblical.

00:22:58.000 So he mentioned up front at the beginning of the speech, the section from Genesis where

00:23:03.000 it says the blessing that those who bless you will be blessed and those who curse you

00:23:06.000 will be cursed.

00:23:07.000 And he mentions also that Moses says this a little bit later on in the Bible.

00:23:11.000 And then he points out, here's a map of those who are blessing us.

00:23:15.000 It's the Abrahamic Hordes Nations. 0.99

00:23:16.000 And here's a map of those who are cursing us.

00:23:20.000 And that would be the Iranian Axis. 0.96

00:23:23.000 Ladies and gentlemen, as Israel defends itself against Iran in the seven front war, the line

00:23:29.000 separating the blessing and the curse could not be more clear.

00:23:34.000 Bye!

00:23:36.000 This is the map I presented here last year.

00:23:40.000 It's a map of a blessing.

00:23:42.000 It shows Israel, Israel and its Arab partners forming a land bridge connecting Asia and Europe.

00:23:51.000 Now look at this second map.

00:23:55.000 It's a map.

00:23:58.000 Look at the second map.

00:23:59.000 It's a map of a curse.

00:24:01.000 So ladies and gentlemen, the question before us is simple.

00:24:08.000 Which of these two maps that I showed you will shape our future?

00:24:13.000 Will it be the blessings of peace and prosperity for Israel, our Arab partners, and the rest of the world?

00:24:19.000 Or will it be the curse in which Iran and its proxies spread carnage and chaos everywhere? 1.00

00:24:27.000 Israel has already made its choice. 0.67

00:24:30.000 We've decided to advance the blessing.

00:24:33.000 We're building a partnership for peace with our Arab neighbors while fighting the forces of terror that threaten that peace.

00:24:41.000 And then he points out that Hezbollah has basically emptied northern Israel and he's not going to stand for that either. 0.83

00:24:46.000 He says enough is enough.

00:24:48.000 Hezbollah turned vibrant towns in the north of Israel into ghost towns. 0.95

00:24:53.000 So I want you to think about this In equivalent American terms, just imagine if terrorists turned El Paso and San Diego into ghost towns.

00:25:05.000 Then ask yourself, how long would the American government tolerate that?

00:25:11.000 A day?

00:25:11.000 A week?

00:25:13.000 A month?

00:25:15.000 I doubt they'd tolerate it even for a single day.

00:25:19.000 Yet Israel has been tolerating this intolerable situation for nearly a year.

00:25:24.000 Well, I've come here today to say, enough is enough!

00:25:27.000 Okay, so while Netanyahu was saying enough was enough, F-15s were en route to bomb Hassan Nasrallah's headquarters.

00:25:34.000 And that's precisely what happened.

00:25:35.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, a series of Israeli attacks killed many of the Lebanese militant groups' senior leaders, blew up its electronic devices, and destroyed some of its vast arsenal of missiles.

00:25:44.000 Some plan to use this meeting, where they were meeting 60 feet below the surface of a bustling working-class neighborhood in southern Beirut.

00:25:49.000 They plan to use this meeting to express frustration that Iran was restraining them From responding more forcefully to the Israeli attacks, according to people familiar with Hezbollah's discussions.

00:25:57.000 Around dusk, explosions shook the city above.

00:26:00.000 Israel's Air Force struck the bunker with about 80 tons of bombs.

00:26:04.000 According to several people familiar with the situation, the attack used a series of timed, chained explosions to penetrate the subterranean bunker, a senior Israeli military official said.

00:26:14.000 Nasrallah's death leaves a void at the top of the world's most heavily armed non-state militia, which is designated as a terrorist group by the United States.

00:26:20.000 It was a transformative event for the Middle East.

00:26:24.000 The killing showed Israel's leaders are prepared to blow past the red lines that previously defined the country's slow-burning conflict with Hezbollah to ensure its own security.

00:26:31.000 Israel has hit Lebanon with more than 2,000 airstrikes in recent days.

00:26:35.000 They said their military campaign is aimed at ending Hezbollah's attacks on Northern Israel that have forced tens of thousands of Israelis to evacuate from their homes.

00:26:42.000 But it's bigger than that.

00:26:43.000 It's a reshaping of the entire region, what is happening right now.

00:26:47.000 It's an astonishing move by Israel. 0.99

00:26:49.000 Because not only have they taken Hamas off the board as a workable piece in the Iranian proxy war, they have now effectively castrated Hezbollah as a serious forward operating base for Iran. 0.54

00:27:03.000 So what does that leave on the table?

00:27:04.000 They're the Houthis. 0.91

00:27:05.000 Israel's been hitting them.

00:27:07.000 There presumably are militias in Iraq.

00:27:10.000 Those Shia militias in Iraq have been aiming at Americans.

00:27:12.000 Americans have been hitting back.

00:27:14.000 And that leaves Iran directly.

00:27:16.000 And Iran directly is, frankly, not capable of doing serious damage to Israel if their assault earlier in the year showed anything at all.

00:27:24.000 In fact, Israel is significantly more capable of doing serious damage to Iran's nuclear facilities and oil fields than Iran is capable of doing the other way around.

00:27:32.000 Israel's been attempting to cut off the supply lines from Syria into Lebanon in order to isolate Hezbollah.

00:27:38.000 There are militias in Syria, but one of the things that Israel has been doing also is hitting targets in Syria.

00:27:44.000 And they're preventing the shipping of Iranian materiel into Lebanon.

00:27:48.000 In fact, over the weekend, the Israelis told the Lebanese, if you allow Iranian planes into your airport, we're gonna blow up your airport.

00:27:57.000 So there were Iranian planes en route when this happened.

00:28:01.000 The Lebanese called up the Iranians and said, turn those planes around.

00:28:03.000 We can't do this.

00:28:05.000 You know what turns out is an amazing foreign policy?

00:28:07.000 FAFO.

00:28:07.000 It's an amazing foreign policy.

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00:29:13.000 While the United States, the most powerful military force on planet Earth by leaps and bounds, is allowing a ragtag bunch of terrorists funded by Iran to fire on shipping in the Red Sea with near impunity, to fire at American ships without serious retaliation, to kill Americans in Jordan, for example.

00:29:31.000 The Israelis, a far smaller country, Israel, a country of 7.5 million Jews, about 2 million Arabs, 9.5 million people total in Israel.

00:29:40.000 That country is taking on all comers right now and wrecking them.

00:29:44.000 And their intelligence apparatus is astonishing.

00:29:47.000 They have penetration in all these areas.

00:29:48.000 By the way, one of the reasons they have penetration into places like Lebanon and places like Iran, where you will remember they killed Ismail Khenia, the political head of Hamas just a few months back, is because there are so many people in these places who hate these regimes.

00:29:59.000 There are a lot of people in Lebanon who hate Hassan Nasrallah.

00:30:03.000 There are Syrians who are literally handing out candies in the street after hearing that Nasrallah was dead.

00:30:09.000 When it comes to Iran, the people of Iran don't like the regime.

00:30:12.000 It's just the IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the world's largest terrorist organization, which is in charge of this terror regime. 0.67

00:30:19.000 Ayatollah Khamenei, by the way, has been in hiding.

00:30:21.000 He's afraid that the Israelis are going to kill him.

00:30:23.000 He's afraid he's going to pick up his cell phone and there'll be a bomb in it.

00:30:27.000 So what Israel right now is showing is the power of strength and the Sunni Gulf states are going to sign back on because here's what they see. 0.98

00:30:34.000 They see that Israel is the future.

00:30:36.000 They see alliance with Israel is the future.

00:30:38.000 They see that Iran is the past. 0.97

00:30:39.000 And despite the fact that the Biden administration has blown it six ways from Sunday, Israel is demonstrating that despite the leash being held by the Biden administration, the slow walking of aid, the soft arms embargo, the Joe Biden idiotic midnight phone calls, telling Israel not to go into Rafah, telling Israel not to go take the win with regard to Iran, Despite all of that, Israel has said, no, we are going to protect ourselves. 0.52

00:31:01.000 And that is smart.

00:31:02.000 And that is good.

00:31:04.000 It means a better Middle East.

00:31:05.000 For the United States, by the way.

00:31:07.000 It means a Middle East with a series of allies who are stronger than American enemies.

00:31:12.000 Because Iran hates the United States. 0.97

00:31:13.000 They literally chant death to America. 0.98

00:31:15.000 Hezbollah chants death to America. 1.00

00:31:17.000 The Houthis, their literal slogan is death to America, death to the Jews. 0.99

00:31:22.000 Strengthening the alliance against this would be the smart move. 1.00

00:31:25.000 Joe Biden, being a moron, has not done that. 1.00

00:31:26.000 He has done precisely the opposite. 0.99

00:31:28.000 In fact, the Financial Times actually reported that in the days after October 7th, Israeli warplanes took off with instructions to kill Nasrallah.

00:31:37.000 And Joe Biden got on the phone and said no.

00:31:40.000 The White House demanded Netanyahu not do it.

00:31:42.000 So what did the Israelis do this time? 0.53

00:31:43.000 They said, guess what?

00:31:44.000 We ain't gonna call.

00:31:45.000 We're not calling.

00:31:46.000 In fact, we'll come to the United States and we'll use it as a cover story.

00:31:49.000 We'll come to the United States, says Netanyahu, I will speak at the UN,

00:31:54.000 and then while I'm speaking, I will deploy the war planes.

00:31:58.000 And five minutes after Bibi got out of the UN, the bombs dropped on Israel and killed him.

00:32:03.000 It's an amazing move.

00:32:05.000 It's truly an amazing thing.

00:32:06.000 And then as I mentioned, they've also been bombing the Houthis.

00:32:09.000 The bombing of the seaports in Yemen on Sunday after the rebel group launched a couple of ballistic

00:32:16.000 missiles at Tel Aviv is yet another sign

00:32:19.000 that Israel is not going to take the sitting down anymore.

00:32:21.000 That there's no more Mr. Nice Zionist over there. 1.00

00:32:25.000 Which means there are now all sorts of opportunities in Lebanon, by the way, because with Hezbollah weakened, it turns out there might be other powers that could fill that space.

00:32:34.000 Either the Lebanese government is going to fight Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and pull those forces out, or Israel's going in and they know it.

00:32:41.000 By the way, France could be helpful here.

00:32:43.000 France has been shipping all sorts of material over there and about Israel getting involved in Southern Lebanon.

00:32:47.000 Maybe the French should actually do something useful for a change.

00:32:50.000 Wouldn't that be nice?

00:32:52.000 So, this is the opening of a new era in the Middle East. 0.91

00:32:56.000 It's not just me saying this, it's people on the left saying this.

00:32:59.000 Dennis Ross, former Special Assistant to Barack Obama.

00:33:02.000 And Stephen Tehan, a Research Director of the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute, who worked in the US State Department at Time Magazine.

00:33:12.000 They write, just when the prospect of peace in the Middle East seemed further away than ever, the dramatic death of longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah significantly alters the balance of power and offers a renewed opportunity for peace.

00:33:24.000 The broader opportunity comes from what has accompanied Nasrallah's death, the systematic degradation of Hezbollah's capabilities over the last month.

00:33:31.000 The entire operational leadership of Hezbollah has been emptied.

00:33:34.000 You would have imagined that if they killed Nasrallah at the beginning of this war, there would have been 10,000 rockets flying.

00:33:40.000 That was the Israeli estimate.

00:33:41.000 There'd be 10,000 rockets a night flying into Israel.

00:33:44.000 There'd be 10 to 12,000 Israelis dead.

00:33:47.000 As of current count, in this current round of conflict, the Israeli count is zero.

00:33:53.000 That's unthinkable.

00:33:54.000 Like, biblically unthinkable.

00:33:55.000 Like, if you don't believe in miracles, this would be a good time to start believing if you're just looking at the stats that have been presented on the ground as to what is happening militarily.

00:34:04.000 Like, a thousand years from now, as a Jew, a thousand years from now, there'll be a Jewish holiday.

00:34:08.000 Just saying.

00:34:10.000 This is re-opening all sorts of avenues that were thought closed.

00:34:14.000 Jared Kushner has a fantastic post on this.

00:34:15.000 So Jared, who has stayed largely out of the limelight since leaving politics, since helping

00:34:21.000 broker the Abraham Accords, he says, September 27th is the most important day in the Middle East 0.66

00:34:24.000 since the Abraham Accords breakthrough.

00:34:26.000 I've spent countless hours studying Hezbollah.

00:34:28.000 There is not an expert on earth who thought that what Israel has done to decapitate and 0.95

00:34:31.000 degrade them was possible.

00:34:32.000 This is significant because Iran is now fully exposed. 0.91

00:34:34.000 This is a great point.

00:34:36.000 With Hezbollah out of the picture, what's the deterrent against the West taking out their nuclear facilities? 0.60

00:34:41.000 The reason why their nuclear facilities have not been destroyed, despite weak air defense systems, is because Hezbollah has been a loaded gun pointed at Israel. 0.96

00:34:48.000 Iran spent the last 40 years building this capability as its deterrent. 0.90

00:34:51.000 President Trump would often say Iran has never won a war but never lost a negotiation.

00:34:55.000 The Islamic Republic's regime is much tougher when risking Hamas, Hezbollah, Syrian and Houthi lives than when risking their own. 0.93

00:35:01.000 Their foolish efforts to assassinate President Trump and hack his campaign wreak of desperation 0.85

00:35:05.000 and are hardening a large coalition against them. 0.97

00:35:08.000 Iranian leadership is stuck in the Old Middle East while their neighbors in the GCC are 0.94

00:35:12.000 sprinting toward the future by investing in their populations and infrastructure.

00:35:16.000 They are becoming dynamic magnets for talent and investment while Iran falls further behind.

00:35:20.000 As the Iranian proxies and threats dissipate, regional security and prosperity will rise 0.91

00:35:23.000 for Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike.

00:35:26.000 Israel now finds itself with the threat from Gaza mostly neutralized and the opportunity 0.98

00:35:29.000 to neutralize Hezbollah in the North.

00:35:31.000 It's unfortunate how we got here, but maybe there can be a silver lining in the end.

00:35:34.000 Anyone who's been calling for a ceasefire in the north is wrong.

00:35:37.000 There is no going back for Israel. 0.96

00:35:39.000 They cannot afford now to not finish the job and completely dismantle the arsenal that has been aimed at them.

00:35:43.000 They will never get another chance.

00:35:47.000 He concludes, he says, the right move for America right now would be to tell Israel to finish the job. 0.99

00:35:52.000 It's long overdue, and it's not only Israel's fight.

00:35:55.000 More than 40 years ago, Hezbollah killed 241 U.S.

00:35:57.000 military personnel, including 220 Marines.

00:36:00.000 That remains the single deadliest day for the U.S.

00:36:02.000 Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima.

00:36:04.000 Later that same day, Hezbollah killed 58 French paratroops.

00:36:07.000 And now, over the past six weeks or so, Israel has eliminated as many terrorists on the U.S.

00:36:11.000 list of wanted terrorists as the U.S.

00:36:13.000 has done in 20 years.

00:36:16.000 He said the Middle East is too often a solid where little changes.

00:36:19.000 Today, it is a liquid and the ability to reshape is unlimited.

00:36:22.000 Do not squander this moment.

00:36:24.000 Well, I don't think the Israelis will. 1.00

00:36:27.000 I think that Biden-Harris will do their best.

00:36:28.000 We'll get to that in just one moment.

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00:36:54.000 The VP Debate, tomorrow night, 8.30 Eastern on Daily Wire+.

00:36:58.000 Well, as you would predict, the usual sources are very upset.

00:37:01.000 So Ron, of course, is very upset.

00:37:04.000 Ayatollah Khamenei, who is literally in hiding right now, he put out a tweet announcing that Iran was in a state of mourning.

00:37:09.000 They're also presumably going to raise some red flags of revenge or whatever. 0.75

00:37:13.000 They're going to go into their flag stash again, they're going to put up their red flag of stupidity, and they're going to put up their purple flag of disappointment, and their orange flag of angst, and all the rest of their flags, and all the rest of that sort of stuff. 0.94

00:37:23.000 But meanwhile, he's hiding because he understands that he is now stuck between a rock and a hard place. 0.99

00:37:27.000 The rock is that he has been abjectly humiliated by the Juden. 0.96

00:37:32.000 The Jews have really humiliated him here. 1.00

00:37:34.000 And because they have really humiliated him, this makes him vulnerable. 0.94

00:37:37.000 At the same time, if he ups the ante here, Israel will clock him into next week.

00:37:41.000 Israel has been prepping for 20 years to hit the nuclear facilities, to hit the oil fields, to do serious damage. 0.89

00:37:47.000 And by the way, people are forgetting that after Iran fired those 300 cruise missiles and drones at Israel, and none of them did any damage, after that happened, Israel retaliated by firing a piece of ordinance that was so technologically sophisticated, it was literally directed very short distances from where the Iranian nuclear facilities were.

00:38:05.000 It was a warning shot.

00:38:06.000 And the Iranians didn't even see it on the radar. 1.00

00:38:10.000 So Israel has capacities they've not yet unleashed here. 0.87

00:38:13.000 First world countries fighting third world countries. 0.98

00:38:15.000 It turns out kind of a military tech imbalance.

00:38:19.000 Mahmoud Abbas was also in mourning.

00:38:21.000 So Mahmoud Abbas, he's the supposed moderate. 1.00

00:38:22.000 So whenever you hear morons say that Mahmoud Abbas should lead the Palestinians into a brighter future, understand that he too is a radical pro-terror piece of trash whose regime actually pays people to kill Jews. 0.99

00:38:36.000 He put out a statement, Mr. President Mahmoud Abbas extends his condolences to the 1.00

00:38:39.000 Lebanese Hezbollah on the martyrdom of his Secretary General Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah.

00:38:44.000 His Majesty also gave his deepest condolences to the Lebanese government

00:38:47.000 and the Lebanese brotherly people on the martyrdom of the civilian victims

00:38:50.000 who have fallen as a result of the heinous Israeli aggression 0.91

00:38:52.000 and the continuation of the war of genocide against the Palestinian and Lebanese people.

00:38:56.000 By the way, Israel is super bad at genocide. 0.95

00:38:58.000 It turns out they are fighting the most targeted military operation in literally human history between what they have done to Hezbollah in the north and what they have done to Hamas in their south.

00:39:08.000 Other pro-terrorists who are out there...

00:39:11.000 Promoting and being sad?

00:39:12.000 Shocker. 0.86

00:39:13.000 Again, they're really super crappy at genocide. 0.97

00:39:14.000 Shocker, shocker.

00:39:15.000 Quote, our country is funding this bloodbath.

00:39:17.000 Sending more of our troops and bombs to the region is not advancing peace.

00:39:20.000 The US government are conspirators to the war criminal Netanyahu's genocidal plan. 0.98

00:39:24.000 Again, they're really super crappy at genocide.

00:39:26.000 This is not how genocide works.

00:39:28.000 Also, if there is funding that's going the wrong way, it would be the funding to, say,

00:39:31.000 the UNRWA, or the funding to Hamas, or the funding to Iran.

00:39:35.000 Those would be the wrong direction of funding.

00:39:38.000 And herein lies the problem for the Biden-Harris administration.

00:39:40.000 I said this has political ramifications in the United States, and it absolutely should. 0.99

00:39:45.000 The only reason any of this is happening is because Joe Biden is a moron when it comes to foreign policy. 0.97

00:39:51.000 Robert Gates, former Obama Secretary of Defense, said Joe Biden had never made a good decision on foreign policy, and that is true. 0.98

00:39:56.000 And there's only one person in his near orbit who's even worse than he is, and she's running for president right now, and that's Kamala Harris, obviously.

00:40:03.000 So Joe Biden, even Joe Biden, was forced to put out a statement saying,

00:40:06.000 yeah by the way we're pretty happy Nasrallah is dead. 1.00

00:40:08.000 Quote, Hassan Nasrallah and the terrorist group he led, Hezbollah,

00:40:11.000 were responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade reign of terror.

00:40:14.000 His death from an Israeli airstrike is a measure of justice for his many victims,

00:40:18.000 including thousands of Americans, Israelis, and Lebanese civilians.

00:40:21.000 The strike that killed Nasrallah took place in the broader context of the

00:40:23.000 conflict that began with Hamas's massacre on October 7, 2023.

00:40:27.000 Nasrallah, the next day, made the fateful decision to join hands with Hamas and open what he called a Northern Front against Israel.

00:40:33.000 So far, so good.

00:40:34.000 The United States fully supports Israel's right to defend itself against Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and any other Iranian-supported terror groups.

00:40:41.000 Just yesterday, I directed my Secretary of Defense to further enhance the defense posture of U.S.

00:40:45.000 military forces in the Middle East to deter aggression and reduce the risk of a broader regional war.

00:40:50.000 All of this so far is really good.

00:40:52.000 And then... Ultimately, our aim is to de-escalate the ongoing conflicts in both Gaza and Lebanon through diplomatic means.

00:40:58.000 In Gaza, we have been pursuing a deal, backed by the UN Security Council, for a ceasefire and the release of hostages.

00:41:04.000 In Lebanon, we have been negotiating a deal that would return people safely to their homes in Israel and southern Lebanon.

00:41:08.000 It is time for these deals to close, for the threats to Israel to be removed, and for the broader Middle East region to gain greater stability.

00:41:14.000 Ah, a deal, a deal!

00:41:15.000 Maybe if you just say deal over and over and over, then magically that'll feel things.

00:41:18.000 Now, the real reason.

00:41:20.000 That Biden can't just say, good.

00:41:22.000 Again, this all would have been over within October, November of 2023.

00:41:26.000 If the Biden administration had said, Israel, go to it. 0.96

00:41:30.000 Go to it.

00:41:32.000 The controls are off.

00:41:34.000 Do what you need to do.

00:41:35.000 Take out Hezbollah. 1.00

00:41:36.000 Take out Hamas. 0.78

00:41:37.000 Do what you need to do.

00:41:39.000 If that had been the position of the administration all along, this thing would have been cleaned up by the new year 2024.

00:41:45.000 Instead, they decided that they were going to take the middle road, the middle position.

00:41:49.000 And that was because, of course, they have political aims in places like Michigan.

00:41:54.000 So what we now know about Vice President Harris, she apparently is so far backing President Biden's diplomacy-focused strategy in the Middle East.

00:42:02.000 Oh, diplomacy, you say?

00:42:04.000 Because that's clearly what's happening.

00:42:05.000 Tons of diplomacy.

00:42:07.000 Your diploma's seeing the hell out of this one.

00:42:09.000 Amos Hochstein, the doltish, cloddish negotiator the United States has been sending to Lebanon, and then to Israel, and then to Lebanon, and then to Israel, and then to Iran, and then to Israel.

00:42:18.000 Like, they're sending him all over over there. 0.55

00:42:20.000 And he has accomplished zero things.

00:42:22.000 Zero.

00:42:24.000 The problem, of course, for her, is that if Israel continues to win, there are going to be pieces of her coalition that are super ticked.

00:42:29.000 And you're going to see a lot of campus unrest over the course of the next few weeks.

00:42:33.000 Because the thing that people on campus hate the most is watching the Israelis defend themselves. 0.97

00:42:37.000 They hate it. 0.98

00:42:39.000 Hate it.

00:42:39.000 And you can see the split inside the Biden-Harris administration.

00:42:42.000 So John Kirby, the National Security Council spokesperson, he says, listen, nobody is mourning Nasrallah's death.

00:42:49.000 I don't think anybody's mourning the loss of Mr. Nasrallah, a known terrorist, a guy with American blood on his hands as well as Israeli blood on his hands.

00:42:58.000 This is a terrorist organization.

00:42:59.000 He was the leader of it.

00:43:01.000 And I think people are safer without him walking around.

00:43:05.000 Well, yes.

00:43:06.000 But then, you have Lloyd Austin.

00:43:08.000 So Lloyd Austin, the Secretary of Defense, looking very uncomfortable, saying, guys, the best solution is always diplomatic, always it's diplomatic.

00:43:14.000 Listen, if you could have diplomacy your way out of this one, don't you think that might have happened over the course of the last year? 0.99

00:43:19.000 It turns out a great solution is to kill people trying to kill you. 0.99

00:43:22.000 That's an awesome solution, actually. 0.98

00:43:25.000 So we would hope that we don't see a ground incursion, because if that happens, There is a chance that the conflict could broaden into what could be a regional conflict.

00:43:41.000 So, again, we think the best solution going forward is a diplomatic solution.

00:43:47.000 Well, I'm glad that you think that.

00:43:48.000 That's really fun.

00:43:49.000 And I'm sorry that you don't want to see a ground incursion.

00:43:51.000 You know who also doesn't want to see a ground incursion?

00:43:52.000 Anyone in Israel.

00:43:54.000 The Israelis don't want to lose sons and daughters in southern Lebanon.

00:43:57.000 They have no interest in doing that.

00:43:58.000 You have accomplished zero things.

00:44:00.000 If the United States said to the Lebanese government, guys, Israel can do whatever it wants. 0.51

00:44:06.000 You know what?

00:44:06.000 If they're going to do a grand incursion, go at it, man.

00:44:09.000 If they did that, the Lebanese government might actually have an interest in not trying to hold out against all of this.

00:44:16.000 Once again, the weakness of this administration, the weakness of Kamala Harris, the weakness of Joe Biden, they've made the world a bloodier place, and it is only because Israel is doing historic things right now that the Middle East is being reshaped anyway, in the absence of American leadership. 0.53

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00:45:38.000 Well, meanwhile, Kamala Harris, she headed down to the border to pretend that she's actually tough on the border, which, of course, she is not. 0.97

00:45:45.000 She's got a big problem in the polls with Latinos, apparently. 1.00

00:45:47.000 According to a brand new national NBC News Telemundo poll, she has the worst level of advantage for a Democrat in four election cycles.

00:45:56.000 Right now, she's winning Latinos, but only 54 to 40, with 6% saying they're unsure or would not vote.

00:46:04.000 That's a 14-point advantage, but that is not nearly Joe Biden's advantage in 2020.

00:46:09.000 In 2020, Joe Biden had a 36-point advantage.

00:46:12.000 Not 14, 36-point advantage on Donald Trump.

00:46:17.000 In 2016, Hillary Clinton had a 40-point advantage on Donald Trump. 1.00

00:46:21.000 In 2012, Barack Obama had a 39-point advantage on Mitt Romney.

00:46:27.000 So, honestly, this is one of the things that's very difficult for me to understand about How they're even constructing these likely voter samples.

00:46:36.000 If Trump is only losing by 14% among Latinos, if that's real, and if Donald Trump is also outperforming among black voters, which he seems to be, And if Donald Trump is outperforming along male voters, which he seems to be, how is this even a super tight race?

00:46:52.000 Now, it seems to be a tight race by every poll.

00:46:55.000 As I mentioned last week, that could be poll grouping, that could be a bunch of risk-averse pollsters.

00:46:59.000 It could also be that they are trying to model out an electorate that's going to have heavy male-in voting.

00:47:05.000 According to an NBC News poll, 51% of all votes in this election cycle will be early, and those heavily trend toward Democrats, which again is setting the stage for another one of these red mirage nights.

00:47:14.000 Okay, so just be aware.

00:47:16.000 That's the thing that's going to be talked about for the next five weeks.

00:47:18.000 A lot of the mail-in voting, which gets counted last by law in states like Pennsylvania, is counted after the day of voting.

00:47:24.000 Day of voting, Trump is expected to win in most of these states, and then the mail-in voting starts to come in, and that trends more toward the Democrats.

00:47:31.000 So that's why you gotta wait a little bit later on into the night to see exactly where the voting is just so you actually know.

00:47:36.000 It's also why, if you're a Republican, please early vote.

00:47:38.000 Go out and vote right now.

00:47:40.000 Don't wait.

00:47:41.000 I know there's pushback.

00:47:42.000 Well, they're gonna throw out my vote.

00:47:44.000 If you're worried about that, vote early and then go to the polling place and cast a provisional.

00:47:49.000 But do it now.

00:47:50.000 Get out of the way, because you don't know what's going to come up on voting day.

00:47:52.000 In any case, Kamala Harris headed down to the border to try to pretend that she's actually tough on the border. 1.00

00:47:57.000 She said she's going to take action to close the border, actually, which is really exciting.

00:48:00.000 She's in Douglas, Arizona.

00:48:02.000 Amazing news, after three and a half years of the most open border policy in American history.

00:48:07.000 To reduce illegal border crossings, I will take further action to keep the border closed between ports of entry.

00:48:16.000 Those who cross our borders unlawfully will be apprehended and removed and barred from re-entering for five years.

00:48:24.000 We will pursue more severe criminal charges against repeat violators.

00:48:31.000 Okay, well, so she's real tough now.

00:48:33.000 She's so tough that she's even wearing her, like, look at me, I'm on the border jacket, which is really exciting.

00:48:40.000 There's only one problem, of course, which is in 2019, she literally said that Donald Trump was creating fictional problems at the border, which is weird because they weren't fictional.

00:48:47.000 We have a president of the United States who has created a fiction about a crisis at the border, and he has held up the United States government and its workers around his vanity project called the wall.

00:49:00.000 It's a vanity project.

00:49:02.000 Well, again, you're going to believe this lady that she's going to shore up the border? 1.00

00:49:06.000 And meanwhile, Donald Trump aggressively campaigning.

00:49:09.000 He used some language that got everybody very upset.

00:49:11.000 He said that Joe Biden has become mentally impaired over time, but Kamala Harris was always mentally impaired.

00:49:17.000 And frankly, it's a funny line.

00:49:20.000 I don't really see any huge problem with it. 1.00

00:49:21.000 They used to call George W. Bush unbelievably stupid. 1.00

00:49:24.000 They're constantly suggesting that Trump himself is mentally impaired. 1.00

00:49:26.000 Now you're gonna get all offended? 0.69

00:49:28.000 Now you're really gonna start clutching your pearls?

00:49:32.000 Uh-huh, sure. 0.98

00:49:33.000 Joe Biden became mentally impaired. 0.53

00:49:36.000 Kamala was born that way.

00:49:40.000 And everybody got very upset. No, no, you can't say that.

00:49:43.000 All he's saying is she's dumb. 1.00

00:49:44.000 He's allowed to say that. And you know what? You're always calling him dumb. So that's just 1.00

00:49:48.000 the way it works. He then pointed out in more important news that she has completely erased

00:49:52.000 our borders, which of course is true. Kamala Harris inherited the most secure border in US history. 1.00

00:49:58.000 And his borders are she then set the all time record for illegal immigration 0.61

00:50:04.000 into our country every single year. 0.52

00:50:08.000 And many of these people were stone-cold criminals and murderers.

00:50:14.000 She willfully and deliberately erased her own nation's borders, a crime so wicked as to defy description. 0.97

00:50:21.000 Okay, well, he's not wrong about that.

00:50:25.000 Now, the one thing that everybody, I think, is sort of keeping an eye out for is the cut down on information.

00:50:31.000 In the lead up to 2020, obviously, the media and social media, they combined to shut down stories that were harmful to Democrats.

00:50:38.000 And there's plenty out there that's very harmful to Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:50:40.000 Is that what we're going to see?

00:50:42.000 If John Kerry has his way, that is what we're going to see.

00:50:44.000 This guy was the special envoy on behalf of the Biden administration for years.

00:50:48.000 Here he was at the Orwellian World Economic Forum saying the First Amendment has to be stopped.

00:50:53.000 It's allowing too many people to say things that John Kerry doesn't like.

00:50:59.000 Look, if people go to only one source and the source they go to is sick and, you know, has an agenda and they're putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to just, you know, hammer it out of existence.

00:51:16.000 So what you need, what we need, is to My goodness.

00:51:21.000 My goodness.

00:51:21.000 win the right to govern by hopefully having, you know, winning enough votes that you're free to be able to,

00:51:29.000 to implement change.

00:51:32.000 My goodness, my goodness.

00:51:34.000 How much these people truly hate many American principles in favor of their clickish global regime. 0.88

00:51:41.000 It really is quite frightening.

00:51:43.000 Okay, coming up, we'll get into the Kamala Harris campaign's war on masculinity. 1.00

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The Ben Shapiro Show - September 30, 2024

EPIC: Israel TAKES OUT Hezbollah Leader, Totally REWRITES Middle East

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