The Ben Shapiro Show - Guess Who's Actually On The Left!

00:00:00.000 There is a threat to the continuing political dominance of the right in the United States.

00:00:04.000 And that threat is the new left, people who have been pretending to be on the right for years, but who are now increasingly going mask off, anti American, anti decency, anti conservatism, allied with the Democrats.

00:00:17.000 Some of us have been predicting this for years.

00:00:19.000 Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, Ian Carroll.

00:00:22.000 These folks are on the same side as Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping.

00:00:27.000 Also on the same side as Hassan Piker and Chen Qigar and Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer and Bernie and AOC and Nohan Omar.

00:00:33.000 And they're not hiding it.

00:00:35.000 If Republicans lose the 2026 elections big, they will be a big reason why.

00:00:40.000 But there's something even more important happening.

00:00:43.000 These folks are spearheading a movement to destroy the country, to take down what makes us powerful in the world and free at home.

00:00:49.000 If they succeed, America loses, which means the world loses.

00:00:53.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:01:01.000 So, what do you call a person who thinks that the Constitution is old fashioned and it's antiquated and we should probably just dump it?

00:01:07.000 Or who thinks that America? Is truly a nefarious evil force in the world, that America's military, human rights violators.

00:01:14.000 What do you say about a person who sides with Russia and China and Iran and Venezuela, or who believes that capitalism, free markets are corrupt, and that government power is probably the solution to our problems, or a person who believes that Americans can be divided based on race into victims and victimizers?

00:01:30.000 Well, if that sounds like somebody on the left, you would be correct.

00:01:33.000 But that is also a lot of people on what we have termed the horseshoe right and what we are now going to call the new left.

00:01:41.000 Because these people have nothing in common with traditional conservatism.

00:01:45.000 And they have nearly everything in common with their new friends on the left.

00:01:48.000 Their Venn diagram with the left is a circle.

00:01:52.000 And this new left is working with the old left in order to destroy the Republican Party and in turn the country.

00:01:57.000 So let's set the stage here.

00:01:59.000 If you love America, what you love about America is probably the things that make America America individual freedom, private property, traditional institutions, churches, the Constitution of the United States.

00:02:12.000 In the end, what you love about America is that anyone can succeed in America because you need all of those things to be successful.

00:02:18.000 Anyone can in America if they make good and responsible decisions rise.

00:02:22.000 Here was Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants.

00:02:25.000 His parents came to the U.S. in 1956 to seek opportunity and avoided living under the communist hellscape now praised by people like Bernie Sanders or Hassan Piker.

00:02:34.000 Well, now Marco Rubio is Secretary of State of the United States.

00:02:38.000 Here he is describing why America is great.

00:02:42.000 I mean, my hope for America is what it's always been.

00:02:44.000 I think it's the hope I hope we all share.

00:02:46.000 We want it to continue to be the place where anyone from anywhere can achieve anything.

00:02:50.000 Where you're not limited by the circumstances of your birth, by the color of your skin, by your ethnicity, but frankly, it's a place where you are able to overcome challenges and achieve your full potential.

00:02:59.000 I think that should be the goal of every country in the world, frankly, but I think in the U.S., we're not perfect.

00:03:03.000 Our history is not one of perfection, but it's still better than anybody else's history.

00:03:07.000 And ours is a story of perpetual improvement.

00:03:10.000 Each generation has left the next generation of Americans freer, more prosperous, safer.

00:03:14.000 And that is our goal as well.

00:03:16.000 But it is a unique and exceptional country.

00:03:17.000 And as we come upon this 250 year anniversary, I think we have a lot to learn and be proud of in our history.

00:03:23.000 It is one of perpetual and continuous improvement, where each generation has done its part to bring us closer to fulfilling the vision that the founders of this country had upon its founding.

00:03:33.000 That's a pretty damn good working definition of American exceptionalism, because it turns out America is exceptional.

00:03:38.000 We have a different system of government here, we have values that are different from any place else on earth.

00:03:43.000 America is indeed exceptional.

00:03:45.000 But There are a lot of people who live right here in America who actually hate America at home and abroad and believe that America must be fundamentally changed or replaced.

00:03:53.000 Certainly thought America's enemies, people like Vladimir Putin's brain, Alexander Dugan, agree.

00:03:59.000 Alexander Dugan, we've discussed on the program, sort of the philosopher of Putinism and beloved by many members of the new left.

00:04:06.000 He's gone on a bit of a tweet bender recently.

00:04:09.000 Over on X, he wrote Look, is there at least one argument why the U.S. shouldn't be erased from the face of the earth? 0.91

00:04:15.000 Dems, globalists, are utmost perverts, Epstein. 1.00

00:04:18.000 GOP equals idiots, Epstein. 1.00

00:04:20.000 Trump and Zionists of all kinds, maniacs, pedophiles, Epstein. 1.00

00:04:24.000 Is there some other argument? 1.00

00:04:25.000 If not, you are doomed. 1.00

00:04:27.000 Or suggesting that Americans are stupid slaves, as he did. 1.00

00:04:31.000 Yesterday on X, you are not the people. 1.00

00:04:32.000 You are stupid slaves on Epstein's menu of cruel cannibal elites. 1.00

00:04:36.000 You are eaten. 1.00

00:04:37.000 It is why you watch Euphoria, because all of you are perverts. 1.00

00:04:37.000 Your brains are. 1.00

00:04:40.000 Disgusting civilization. 1.00

00:04:42.000 No reason to exist. 1.00

00:04:43.000 Please die. 0.99

00:04:44.000 Well, people like Alexander Dugan, believe it or not, have domestic allies in the United States. 1.00

00:04:48.000 Lots of them.

00:04:49.000 Many of those folks are on the traditional left.

00:04:51.000 People who are happy to mirror and parrot the propaganda of China or Russia or Iran.

00:04:57.000 People who range from Noam Chomsky of the old school to, say, Hassan Piker.

00:05:01.000 But they have a brand new set of allies as well.

00:05:04.000 People who masquerade as conservatives.

00:05:06.000 But actually, I agree with the fundamental principles of the left.

00:05:08.000 That is why we're calling them the New Left.

00:05:11.000 And again, I've warned about them the Horseshoe Right, the Woke Right, the Grievance Party for a long time.

00:05:16.000 Back in December, I gave a speech at the Heritage Foundation talking about how conservatism requires ideological borders.

00:05:23.000 Here's what I had to say The conservative movement also requires a border.

00:05:29.000 A conservative movement without a border is no conservative movement.

00:05:34.000 We are a welcoming movement.

00:05:36.000 But those who seek to undermine the character of conservatism must never be granted legitimacy as voices of our movement.

00:05:45.000 Conservatism requires ideological border control.

00:05:50.000 American conservatism is a term with a definition.

00:05:53.000 We use terms because they have meaning.

00:05:55.000 Definitions, by nature, delimit, they distinguish.

00:05:58.000 And the term American conservatism has a meaning.

00:06:03.000 And I went on to discuss at Heritage at length Tucker Carlson's opposition to conservatism and to the Heritage Foundation.

00:06:11.000 Mission statement, which of course was kind of important because Kevin Roberts had suggested that he would critique Tucker Carlson when appropriate.

00:06:17.000 The silence is rather deafening at this point.

00:06:18.000 Here is what I had to say back in December.

00:06:22.000 Quote, the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.

00:06:33.000 Those who oppose those principles definitionally oppose American conservatism.

00:06:38.000 That is just definitional.

00:06:40.000 Such people are not ideological allies, they are not part of the rich debate.

00:06:44.000 That is constantly ongoing between various strands of conservatism.

00:06:48.000 They are opponents, and they ought to be treated that way.

00:06:52.000 Which brings us to Tucker Carlson, who has become, by any honest assessment, an opponent of conservatism, an outsider masquerading as an insider, and destroying the character of the conservative movement in the process.

00:07:06.000 Now, lots of people have suggested over the past couple of years when I critique the new left that I'm wrong, that people like the Tucker Carlson's and the Candace Owens's and the Nick Fuentes's are actually on the right.

00:07:18.000 And that we have to somehow unify with them.

00:07:20.000 We need unity.

00:07:21.000 Well, this was, at best, wishful thinking.

00:07:25.000 It was, as Winston Churchill, a man that Tucker Carlson thinks was the actual villain of World War II, feeding the crocodile, hoping it will eat you last.

00:07:33.000 See, these folks have always been willing to unify on their terms.

00:07:37.000 You want them to back Republicans?

00:07:39.000 Well, then Republicans have to embrace a form of anti Americanism that differs from open leftism only in its view of who the victimized class is here in America.

00:07:48.000 They will slather some rhetoric about Christianity on top of their leftism, and then hope you notice that you will not notice that sleight of hand.

00:07:55.000 People like Tucker Carlson, who first completed reading the Bible by his own admission about two years ago and who spends his days attacking lifelong Christians like Mike Huckabee, or people like Candace Owens, whose biblical fluency is approximately equivalent to her fluency in speaking the English language properly, but has suddenly deemed herself poptress, or Nick Fuentes, whose version of Christian observance involves fapping to catboys and ranking people based on melanin level.

00:08:18.000 All these people are the new left equivalent of James Tallarico, the Texas Senate Democrat candidate who cites the Bible to trans the kids.

00:08:24.000 There's not a single mainstream Catholic or Protestant figure in America.

00:08:29.000 Who embraces their worldview?

00:08:31.000 Not one.

00:08:32.000 Again, they are just James Tallarico of the right, but they're not on the right.

00:08:37.000 They're on the new left.

00:08:38.000 And if they don't get what they want, then they just go home or they unify with the left, their natural allies.

00:08:43.000 Now, again, there's nothing new about this politically.

00:08:45.000 Splinter factions are always happy to ally with the enemy to foment their own ambitions.

00:08:50.000 The Nazis famously were happy to ally with the Soviets to take on the French and British.

00:08:55.000 We warned you. 0.89

00:08:57.000 And now those warnings are coming true.

00:08:58.000 I mean, they were always true, they weren't warnings.

00:09:00.000 They were just realities.

00:09:01.000 But now the mask is coming off.

00:09:03.000 The new left is now openly allying with the actual left in an attempt to destroy the GOP.

00:09:08.000 Coming up, we'll get to the new world order pushed by our enemies at home and abroad first.

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00:10:21.000 So, yesterday, Nick Fuentes, who calls himself America First, apparently America First means now being a Democrat.

00:10:28.000 Here was Fuentes admitting his agenda.

00:10:33.000 I care about affordability.

00:10:34.000 I care about foreign interventions.

00:10:36.000 I care about the border.

00:10:39.000 I'm a non woke moderate Democrat.

00:10:41.000 I think the GOP needs to be destroyed. 0.85

00:10:42.000 I think the corrupt criminal government of Trump needs to be slowed down. 0.98

00:10:46.000 We need to impeach the orange. 0.80

00:10:48.000 It's time to put this in a peach.

00:10:51.000 Trump needs to be placed inside of a crystal.

00:10:53.000 He needs to be impeached. 0.99

00:10:54.000 This fat orange, tiny hands, needs to be impeached. 0.93

00:10:58.000 And then in 28, no Vance, no Rubio. 0.99

00:11:01.000 We have to burn down the whole party.

00:11:05.000 Again, points for honesty.

00:11:07.000 At least Fuentes says the thing out loud. 0.95

00:11:10.000 He also admits, by the way, that the only thing keeping him going is Israel.

00:11:12.000 You'll notice that he is wearing a half zip for James Fishbeck, the Florida candidate for governor who is going to clock in well below 10% in the Republican primaries.

00:11:24.000 We'll get to that in a little while. 0.86

00:11:25.000 He says basically the only thing keeping him going at all right now is Israel because that's the point of unity.

00:11:32.000 That is the point where, again, the left and the new left all come together. 0.63

00:11:38.000 Dude, my war against Israel is the only thing keeping me going at this point. 0.91

00:11:44.000 Immigration, who gives a s? 1.00

00:11:47.000 Country's over. 1.00

00:11:48.000 It's over.

00:11:49.000 Have you been outside?

00:11:52.000 Do you ever actually even leave the studio?

00:11:54.000 Do you know what it's like out there? 0.99

00:11:58.000 We're already a non white country. 0.85

00:12:03.000 He is just a member of the left, but who calls himself a member of the right.

00:12:06.000 Tucker Carlson, in his interview with the New York Times, he says he would love a new party.

00:12:10.000 That new party sounds a lot like, you know, the Democratic Party in a lot of ways.

00:12:16.000 You know, you can't just put a new coat of paint or fresh drywall on these structures because they are ridden with rot.

00:12:23.000 Okay.

00:12:23.000 So I would like to see them repaired.

00:12:25.000 That would be the simplest solution.

00:12:27.000 I don't think that's likely to happen.

00:12:29.000 So, of course, I would be thrilled to see the rise of a party that represented the majority of Americans.

00:12:38.000 Candace Owens, of course, coming out and openly embracing, again, the sort of horseshoe here, the new left joining left, quote, we need to continue to fix the fracture between the left and the right. 0.73

00:12:48.000 We now know what true evil is it's us against the Epstein class and warmongers.

00:12:51.000 So, totally mirroring the language of Alexander Dugan. 0.96

00:12:55.000 And of course, that is indistinguishable.

00:12:58.000 from the rhetoric of, say, Hassan Biker.

00:13:00.000 Ian Carroll, who is her cutout, her mustachioed cutout, saying the same thing.

00:13:05.000 Quote, both sides are tricked into caricaturizing each other.

00:13:08.000 The left thinks the whole right wing is Ted Cruz.

00:13:09.000 The right thinks the whole left wing is Dylan Mulvaney.

00:13:11.000 In reality, the vast majority of regular Americans on both sides are regular and reasonable people.

00:13:17.000 The right and left represent two halves of a whole.

00:13:19.000 He can't spell the word halves, obviously.

00:13:21.000 Either one taken to the extreme is destructive.

00:13:23.000 Right now, we have both taken to the extreme and intentionally penduluming to keep us all at each other's throats.

00:13:28.000 What we need is balance, conversation, and solidarity between the rising right and left wing populist movements in the United States and around the world. 0.59

00:13:36.000 And of course, the new left and left are coming together around simping for radical Islam. 0.74

00:13:43.000 This is, again, one of the more astonishing aspects of the new left their sudden sympathy for radical Islam.

00:13:48.000 Candace Owens, of course, has suggested that she was bamboozled by all of the opposition to Islam into saying that she opposed radical Islam, but now she understands that she was just bamboozled.

00:13:57.000 The wool was pulled over her eyes.

00:13:58.000 Tucker Carlson has been doing precisely the same thing, simping for Sharia law. 1.00

00:14:02.000 And now Megyn Kelly is going to jump in on the act because, of course, that's where the clicks are.

00:14:06.000 Here was Megyn Kelly yesterday praising Tucker for gaining a younger Muslim audience and in the process trying to do the same herself.

00:14:13.000 Because once again, no parade has ever begun with Megyn Kelly at the front and no parade has ever ended without Megyn Kelly at the front twirling a baton.

00:14:22.000 Here was Megyn Kelly chasing those clicks. 1.00

00:14:23.000 Go get those clicks, girl.

00:14:25.000 Like he's gotten very, very popular lately, I read with Muslim viewers because he's been standing up for Islam.

00:14:34.000 You know, and I have to tell you, Mark, it's been something I've noticed just since I've gotten a sort of more clear-eyed on Israel that a lot of the anti-Muslim rhetoric that's put out there originates with people who are very, very pro-Israel who kind of need us to demonize them.

00:14:52.000 And I've taken a look recently at my own rhetoric on this to say, have I been manipulated?

00:14:56.000 I want to make sure I'm not getting manipulated.

00:14:58.000 But I think he's having a lot of Muslim viewers flock to him.

00:15:01.000 I know for a fact he has a lot of young men flocking to him.

00:15:05.000 And so, while he may have lost some contingent of the Fox News audience that's very, very pro Israel and pro Trump, and you can't say anything about Trump, for every one of those who leaves, there is another newer, younger audience member who does want to hear these traditional lines challenged and hear just new independent thinking.

00:15:27.000 I mean, I'm experiencing some of that myself, and Tucker probably times 10. 0.67

00:15:35.000 Actually, her own misperceptions about Islam were probably driven by, wait for it, wait for it, the nefarious pro Israel people.

00:15:42.000 And get those clicks, girl.

00:15:44.000 Well, here is the thing there are basically two strategies that the new left could use to take over the GOP.

00:15:49.000 The first is to win the battle internally against the GOP.

00:15:52.000 That requires burning down the GOP in order to take it over again.

00:15:56.000 But that's not going super well because it turns out that the new left is actually really, really unpopular inside the GOP.

00:16:03.000 By the way, also pretty unpopular generally.

00:16:05.000 So, take, for example, the Ohio primary last night for GOP governor.

00:16:09.000 So, Vivek Ramaswamy was running against a guy named Casey Putsch.

00:16:13.000 I know it's too on the nose, but this guy's name is Putsch.

00:16:16.000 Anyway, for those who don't know the reference, like the Beer Hall Putsch.

00:16:21.000 In any case, Vivek Ramaswamy had a piece in the New York Times during this campaign in which he took on this peculiar version of New Leftism.

00:16:33.000 And what he pointed out in this New York Times piece is that there was a, an idea, Groiberism, that suggested that American-ness is based on your ancestry alone.

00:16:47.000 That essentially it was racial American-ness.

00:16:49.000 And what he wrote was, American-ness is not a scalar quality that varies based on your ancestry.

00:16:53.000 It's binary.

00:16:54.000 Either you're an American or you're not.

00:16:55.000 You're an American if you believe in the rule of law, in freedom of conscience, in freedom of expression, in colorblind meritocracy, in the U.S. Constitution, in the American dream, and if you are a citizen who swears exclusive allegiance to our nation.

00:17:07.000 That seems like a fairly good description of what Americanism ought to be.

00:17:12.000 Meanwhile, Casey Butch was burning MAGA flags as of July 2025.

00:17:20.000 He put out a tweet Here was my MAGA flag.

00:17:22.000 This is how Trump voters feel.

00:17:24.000 How does everyone in America get their country back from all of these left and right? 0.99

00:17:27.000 Psycho billionaire.

00:17:28.000 So, right, he is the new left guy saying the same sort of stuff as the Tuckers and the Candaces and the Fuentes's. 0.52

00:17:34.000 His platform, still pinned to the top of his ex profile, says that he is the only, all caps, only Ohio governor candidate that's Christian, anti data center, pro Second Amendment, anti H 1B foreign labor. 0.75

00:17:46.000 Right? 0.80

00:17:46.000 So, in essence, not in favor of private property, not in favor of economic innovation, slather some Christianity on top of it, supposedly. 0.80

00:17:59.000 And this Is obviously a reference to the fact that Vivek Ramaswamy is Hindu, clearly.

00:18:03.000 Well, so how did it end up for Casey Putsch, who had the support of Tucker Carlson?

00:18:08.000 He was on Tucker's podcast.

00:18:10.000 The answer is Vivek crushed him.

00:18:13.000 Vivek won 82.2% of the vote in that Ohio primary.

00:18:18.000 Casey Putsch was stuck down at less than 18%.

00:18:22.000 And this seems to be mirroring the results elsewhere in the United States.

00:18:29.000 In Florida, for example, Byron Donald is running a very successful primary race against James Fishbeck.

00:18:35.000 Fishbeck is another Fuentes and Tucker endorsed candidate, and Fishbeck is running in the low single digits in terms of support, but he has a lot of Greiper support in the online netherworld.

00:18:45.000 So the New Left has another strategy.

00:18:46.000 If you can't just win outright, drive the GOP into the ground.

00:18:50.000 Blame the people who actually support the GOP for its downfall.

00:18:53.000 Blame President Trump.

00:18:54.000 Blame conservatism.

00:18:55.000 And then try to grab the remnants of the GOP and forge them into some sort of New Left coalition.

00:19:01.000 That would be, by the way, when the political Molotov Ribbentrop pact ends.

00:19:05.000 And Americans are forced then to choose between the Democratic Party left and the GOP new left.

00:19:10.000 That would be the goal.

00:19:12.000 Well, nobody is happier with the radicalism of the Democratic Party than our new left friends.

00:19:16.000 It's why they ally openly with Cenk Weigar and Hassan Piker.

00:19:19.000 It's why they mirror the rhetoric of Zoram Amdani.

00:19:22.000 See, here's the thing America is filled with moderates, meaning people who are center right.

00:19:26.000 And those moderates tend to swing elections toward the less crazy party in any two party system.

00:19:32.000 Well, that's not great for the new left because they're pretty radical.

00:19:36.000 That's not great for the hard left.

00:19:37.000 But if you are of the hard left or if you are of the new left, like the Tucker Candace Fuentes group, what you want is a binary choice between the new left and the hard left.

00:19:48.000 That's how you gain power.

00:19:49.000 That's the plan.

00:19:50.000 The first step, the traditional right, and basically anybody who believes in American exceptionalism must lose.

00:19:56.000 By the way, again, the mirror thing is happening on the left.

00:19:58.000 The traditional liberals, like traditional Democrats who kind of like America, the John Fettermans, people who like America but disagree about tax policy, they're being totally outflanked and destroyed by the left.

00:20:08.000 They're being ousted and wrecked.

00:20:11.000 And then they're pretending that they're moderates.

00:20:13.000 All right, coming up, the hard left is trying to oust the regular liberals from the Democratic Party, and they are doing so with some exceptionalism.

00:20:18.000 Extraordinary success.

00:20:19.000 We'll get to that in a moment.

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00:21:22.000 So, Rahm Emanuel, who wants you to run for president, Again, that's going to be an unsuccessful run.

00:21:29.000 He is steering toward radicalism.

00:21:30.000 He started off his campaign seeking supposed moderation on the trans issue, and now he's steering toward radicalism on pretty much every topic.

00:21:38.000 Well, he and Glenn Youngkin sparred at the Milken Institute Global Conference yesterday over whether or not the Democrats are radical with the Wall Street Journalist Gerard Baker.

00:21:48.000 It's going to happen in November, and it's going to come as a big shock to you.

00:21:51.000 People don't like corruption, they don't like the White House looking like eBay.

00:21:55.000 And you have sold, if it ain't nailed down, you've sold everything.

00:21:57.000 And they don't like a set of politics that goes from the rule of law to the rule of one man, and they're going to reject crony capitalism that is now the rule of what's happening at the White House, and you're going to get your comeuppance.

00:22:07.000 Now, you can say all you want about socialism.

00:22:09.000 I can tell you right now that's not where the Democratic Party is.

00:22:11.000 It's about building the middle class.

00:22:13.000 Well, that escalates you quickly.

00:22:15.000 Glenn, I want to compliment.

00:22:18.000 The most popular leaders in the Democrat Party today are now socialists.

00:22:22.000 The most popular leader in the Republican Party has sold everything that's not nailed down.

00:22:27.000 Take that ballroom and take everything that's going on with his kids.

00:22:30.000 With what the Secretary of Commerce's kids and with Witkoff kids, they are making money in this government, and you went into public service to serve good.

00:22:38.000 And so did you.

00:22:41.000 And now you're sitting here defending a party that wants to have some money.

00:22:44.000 And you did not walk out $4 billion richer.

00:22:49.000 Rahm Emanuel is not taking on the radicalism in the Democratic Party.

00:22:52.000 Nobody is taking on the radicalism in the Democratic Party.

00:22:55.000 Why do you think that political moderates like Ken Griffin have moved to the right?

00:23:00.000 He says that.

00:23:01.000 For example, Zorhan Mamdani is making clear that people in New York need to move down to Miami.

00:23:08.000 And now, what the mayor of New York has made clear to my partners, and principally my New York partners, my New York partners, is that we need to double down on our bet in Miami because we want to be in a state that embraces business, that embraces education, that embraces personal freedom and liberty.

00:23:31.000 Okay, but the Democratic Party increasingly is not.

00:23:33.000 And in New York last night, Again, Zorhan Mamdani has basically decided that it is fine to harass Jews at synagogue if they are going to the synagogue in order to purchase real estate in Israel.

00:23:43.000 Because apparently it is sinful to buy real estate in Israel, according to Zorhan Mamdani, and therefore threatening people outside of Sheol is a good idea.

00:23:53.000 The New York Times tried to downplay this last night. 0.88

00:23:54.000 They said a few hundred pro Palestinian demonstrators gathered outside the synagogue parked east on the upper side, upper east side of Manhattan, after it was advertised as the location of the Great Israel Real Estate event.

00:24:05.000 What were they protesting?

00:24:06.000 They were saying that there's land being sold in the Israeli settlements.

00:24:09.000 Okay, so again, for those who don't know, Israeli settlements are just Jewish areas of Judea and Samaria, the so called West Bank.

00:24:17.000 It is not illegal for people to purchase a house in Efrat or in Neve Daniel or in Jerusalem.

00:24:24.000 Okay, but it was perfectly fine for Zoram Amzani to allow a near riot outside a synagogue, obviously.

00:24:30.000 Here's what it looked like.

00:24:43.000 At a certain point here, this protest turned into people shoving the actual dividers into the cops.

00:24:50.000 They started actually pushing up against the cops, trying to resist the cops.

00:24:55.000 The radicalism of the Democratic Party was on full display in a gubernatorial debate featuring seven candidates in California last night.

00:25:01.000 So there are a couple of Republicans in that race Chad Bianco, who's the Riverside County Sheriff, former Fox News commentator Steve Hilton.

00:25:08.000 The Democratic candidates ranged from former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, who's running as kind of a Quasi independent Republican, former Orange County Representative Katie Porter, who's a psycho, billionaire hedge fund founder Tom Steyer, who just blows out a couple of hundred million dollars every election cycle, and also former LA Mayor Antonio Villarregoza, who is, shall we say, not the brightest bulb in the basket.

00:25:33.000 Well, the candidates were asked to describe Gavin Newsom in one word.

00:25:36.000 This part was at least amusing.

00:25:37.000 Here's what they had to say.

00:25:40.000 I want to talk about California Governor Gavin Newsom, who's about to leave office after eight consequential and at times controversial years.

00:25:49.000 To all of you, what is one word you would use to describe Governor Newsom's performance as governor?

00:25:58.000 We will go down the line, starting with you, Mayor Villaragosa.

00:26:02.000 One word to describe Governor Newsom's performance as governor performative, bold, progressive, failed, Steve, failure.

00:26:17.000 You can't take my word.

00:26:18.000 All right.

00:26:19.000 Game changing.

00:26:23.000 Incomplete.

00:26:26.000 So, yeah, it was great.

00:26:28.000 Well, but the people on the stage, again, Tom Steyer, Katie Porter, these people are to the left of Karl Marx, somewhere to the left of Karl Marx.

00:26:34.000 So, Tom Steyer, who's made an enormous amount of money off the oil industry, now he says that the proposed wealth tax in California doesn't go far enough.

00:26:41.000 That's how crazy they are.

00:26:42.000 Remember, the wealth tax in California is driving billionaires out of the state because it is a tax on unrealized wealth in California.

00:26:51.000 So, if you own stock in a company, but you haven't sold the stock, They want to just grab a chunk of that as though you have sold the stock, which is crazy.

00:26:59.000 Here's Tom Steyer saying we need to do more of that.

00:27:03.000 I'm confused.

00:27:04.000 Do you support the billionaire's tax that is going to be on the ballot in November, yes or no?

00:27:11.000 Katie, I just said I will vote for it if it's on the ballot in November.

00:27:17.000 And so what I've said is it doesn't even go far enough.

00:27:24.000 It doesn't even go far enough.

00:27:25.000 Again, the Democrats are running right off the cliff, right off the cliff. 1.00

00:27:30.000 Katie Porter, by the way, she put out a pretty terrible campaign ad herself. 1.00

00:27:34.000 Katie Porter is famous for apparently throwing potatoes or something at her staff. 1.00

00:27:37.000 I mean, she's a wild person, Katie Porter. 0.91

00:27:40.000 She used to be famous for having a whiteboard that she would carry everywhere, and then she would draw little cartoons on it, and the media thought this was amazing.

00:27:46.000 Here was her terrible campaign ad that she put out.

00:27:50.000 I'm Katie Porter, and I'm not like most people who run for governor.

00:27:54.000 I actually get what you're going through.

00:27:56.000 A single mom of three kids, I know what it's like to push the shopping cart.

00:28:00.000 My minivan has almost 200,000 miles.

00:28:02.000 I have a grown kid who may soon be living on my couch.

00:28:07.000 To give Californians what they need, it's going to take standing up to Donald Trump, calling out greedy corporations, and stepping on some toes along the way.

00:28:16.000 Now, could you guys please get out of my shot?

00:28:21.000 And she put a laugh track in there.

00:28:23.000 Please get out of my shot.

00:28:25.000 By the way, the signs that they're holding there are like abolish ice.

00:28:29.000 Right?

00:28:30.000 Fight Donald Trump. 0.98

00:28:32.000 This was a flashback of Katie Porter yelling at her staffer, by the way.

00:28:36.000 It did not go.

00:28:37.000 And that's what she's referring to.

00:28:41.000 That we're going to lose more than half a million Californians dying prematurely to air pollution and other problems, and the state could lose.

00:28:48.000 Get out of my shot.

00:28:49.000 I wanted to tell you that that's actually incorrect.

00:28:51.000 It's not that it's electric vehicles, it's that if we don't meet the commitments under the Paris Climate Accord.

00:29:01.000 Okay, it does.

00:29:02.000 Okay, you also were in my shot before that.

00:29:06.000 Stay out of my shot.

00:29:08.000 Okay, I'm going to start again with electric vehicles saving us money.

00:29:13.000 That is not true, producer savvy.

00:29:15.000 Producer savvy came in my ear and said, I treat them like that.

00:29:17.000 You know what, producer savvy?

00:29:19.000 I'll have none of that here.

00:29:20.000 No. 0.94

00:29:21.000 In any case, Katie Porter in this debate, she said that illegal aliens deserve free health care. 0.67

00:29:21.000 Okay. 0.67

00:29:27.000 This is how crazy the Democratic Party is driving off that cliff.

00:29:32.000 Congresswoman Porter, your thoughts on the idea of funding health care for undocumented immigrants statewide?

00:29:38.000 Yes.

00:29:40.000 Yes.

00:29:41.000 And that's, by the way, what I think Californians deserve as answers to these questions, Alex.

00:29:46.000 And for critics who say that we.

00:29:49.000 So, yes, yes, we should fund everyone in California.

00:29:53.000 Meanwhile, she says that the sanctuary city policy is the only way the state has grown in recent years.

00:29:58.000 California is not radical enough.

00:30:00.000 Good job of the California governor to protect every single Californian.

00:30:04.000 The sanctuary state policy is designed to make sure that our state resources, the taxpayer dollars, the public servants that we have are focusing on doing their jobs, which is not cooperating.

00:30:18.000 With the federal immigration authorities.

00:30:20.000 These are Californians.

00:30:21.000 They contribute to our economy.

00:30:22.000 They pay taxes, and they're one of the only ways that our state has been growing in recent years.

00:30:28.000 We need open borders.

00:30:29.000 Open borders are the thing.

00:30:30.000 Xavier Becerra, again, former Secretary of Health and Human Services, he's out there slandering ICE.

00:30:34.000 This is, again, table stakes for Democrats at this point.

00:30:37.000 They are so radical.

00:30:41.000 I think we should police Donald Trump's masked mercenary force that they call ICE.

00:30:46.000 I think we should prosecute.

00:30:48.000 Any of those forces that violate the law.

00:30:50.000 And I think we should jail anyone who has violated the law.

00:30:53.000 That goes all the way to the top.

00:30:55.000 I agree.

00:30:56.000 If anyone has violated the laws of California, they should serve time.

00:31:00.000 Okay, so the normal Republican response to all this is just be normal.

00:31:07.000 Just be normal, right?

00:31:08.000 That's all.

00:31:09.000 So in California, in LA, there is a campaign going on right now. 0.86

00:31:13.000 It's a three way campaign between Karen Bass and then there's a member of the LA City Council who's running who's also a socialist crazy.

00:31:19.000 And then Spencer Pratt, who's a reality TV guy who is running a very social media friendly campaign.

00:31:25.000 And he put out an AI campaign ad pointing at the lack of governance in Los Angeles.

00:31:31.000 Here's what it looked like.

00:31:39.000 I'm begging you. 0.99

00:31:44.000 There's homeless drug addicts in front of the schools.

00:31:46.000 My children aren't safe. 1.00

00:31:50.000 Look, if you were a transgender migrant, I could get you a free. 1.00

00:31:52.000 Let's move the drug addicts closer. 1.00

00:31:57.000 Bass already solved crime. 0.98

00:31:58.000 I endorse her. 0.96

00:32:00.000 Now, next.

00:32:04.000 Spencer Pratt is Batman.

00:32:11.000 Joe Rogan is. 0.96

00:32:12.000 Oh, she's gorgeous.

00:32:15.000 Please.

00:32:16.000 I just want to rebuild my home.

00:32:18.000 It's been over a year.

00:32:19.000 Hey, Hugh Jackman apparently is upset.

00:32:31.000 He's fighting the Democratic Socialists of America.

00:32:34.000 This is great.

00:32:36.000 This is a machine.

00:32:38.000 If we want to burn this town to the ground whoa, throw that!

00:32:43.000 I feel so close.

00:32:45.000 You can do it, Spencer!

00:32:49.000 Now rubio is the DJ.

00:32:54.000 Everybody getting hit with vegetables, rotten tomatoes.

00:33:06.000 Okay, I will say it's pretty funny.

00:33:09.000 LA is worth saving.

00:33:10.000 Okay, again, that's.

00:33:12.000 Gavin Newsom is the aristocrat, it's pretty fantastic.

00:33:15.000 So, Spencer Pratt running a very social media friendly campaign.

00:33:17.000 But again, the thing he's running on is normalcy.

00:33:19.000 So, this is the problem.

00:33:20.000 If you have a new left inside the right that actually is against normalcy, or is anti American, is in favor of foreign multipolarity, is in favor of bigger government at home, just controlled by them, and you have a left that is focused on precisely the same things.

00:33:38.000 That's a problem.

00:33:39.000 Americans just want normality because our future rests on us actually winning.

00:33:44.000 So let's talk for a second about the future.

00:33:47.000 The battle for AI right now is the battle for the future of the country.

00:33:51.000 The reason I say this is because AI is the driver of productivity.

00:33:54.000 It is the greatest industrial transformation we have seen, probably since the Industrial Revolution, it is greater than the information revolution, what is happening right now.

00:34:03.000 And there is an ongoing battle here that has foreign implications.

00:34:07.000 China is chasing AI. 0.64

00:34:08.000 Do you want China running the world? 0.94

00:34:09.000 If they win the AI race, they win. 0.98

00:34:11.000 And that's a real thing.

00:34:13.000 They're militarily dominant.

00:34:14.000 We're using all of their apps. 0.94

00:34:16.000 They are streaming their nonsense directly in your brain.

00:34:20.000 The left and the new left seem to be totally fine with all of that. 0.84

00:34:23.000 They're anti tech.

00:34:24.000 And the reason that they are anti tech is, again, because their idea is that America is a place in which an elite class of people are victimizing everyone else with their evil technology.

00:34:33.000 And the way you can tell is because they're rich.

00:34:35.000 So Tucker Carlson with Casey Putsch, remember, this is the guy who just got destroyed by Vivek Ramaswamy and that Ohio primary.

00:34:43.000 He was Tucker's candidate.

00:34:44.000 Here they were attacking self driving cars, which has been a bugaboo of Tucker Carlson for years.

00:34:49.000 I mean, I played you a clip of him doing this on my show back in 2018.

00:34:55.000 But that's something that's happening everywhere because if manufacturers or dealerships want more money, well, they want you to service with them.

00:35:02.000 If they make it so you can only service with them no matter what, well, then they're going to, in an authoritarian way, force you to let them make the money, which is frankly another method of control.

00:35:14.000 And when you start adding all of those things up, You just keep taking away all the power for the people before eventually you get to a point where, will you even be able to own your own car anymore?

00:35:24.000 And will you driving it be a liability to where if we have self driving cars, it just takes you there at the most efficient time that whatever the it wants you to, wants you to?

00:35:36.000 So that's like an attack on human autonomy, obviously.

00:35:39.000 Yeah, it's where that's going.

00:35:42.000 Yeah, self driving cars are an attack on human autonomy.

00:35:46.000 Okay, if that were the case, they would just legislate self driving cars.

00:35:50.000 And if they legislated self driving cars, they wouldn't need to do all of the technological things that Waymo and Tesla are doing right now in order to game for human drivers.

00:35:58.000 That's obviously untrue.

00:35:59.000 And it's just an anti tech perspective.

00:36:00.000 It's a Luddite perspective that is designed to tear down the innovative centers of the country. 0.97

00:36:05.000 They're in full agreement with Bernie Sanders, who is, by the way, in full agreement with the Chinese. 0.89

00:36:09.000 He's literally doing full scale events with Chinese propagandists on why the United States ought to undercut its own AI industry. 0.81

00:36:18.000 You have a real concern that if we do not control this technology, It could escape us with calamitous impacts.

00:36:27.000 Is that correct?

00:36:29.000 Yeah, that is what I said.

00:36:34.000 Well, I mean, again, the fact that you see all these Democrats who are full scale going up against artificial intelligence, there's a reason for this.

00:36:41.000 There's a reason for this.

00:36:42.000 Here's AOC slamming the energy demands of AI.

00:36:45.000 Now, we should point out that AI is energy intensive, which is why they are helping to subsidize the building of new energy centers and grids.

00:36:53.000 They're subsidizing the building of nuclear power plants in some areas.

00:36:57.000 That it is not the energy demands they object to.

00:36:59.000 It is the AI itself.

00:37:00.000 They do not like the idea that America is going to win the AI race.

00:37:03.000 They do not like innovation.

00:37:04.000 They do not like the idea of productivity.

00:37:06.000 That is the thing they're opposing.

00:37:07.000 Here is AOC.

00:37:10.000 Because of the massive amounts of energy they use, power and water utility companies must build multi billion dollar infrastructure to keep up with the demand.

00:37:20.000 And these companies are not paying for their own energy infrastructure.

00:37:26.000 People's energy bills around the country are skyrocketing in order to pay for these AI data centers for them.

00:37:36.000 Now, listen, I understand the dyspepsia about AI.

00:37:38.000 It's mysterious.

00:37:39.000 People don't understand it.

00:37:40.000 I get all of that.

00:37:41.000 And there are clearly safety concerns about AI.

00:37:44.000 How do you ensure that AI doesn't do stuff we wouldn't want any system to do as human beings?

00:37:48.000 But the solution is not fighting innovation or destroying the path to prosperity in the name of some sort of populist revanchism.

00:37:56.000 There's a huge amount of AI doomerism that is spreading on the left and the new left, and it's rooted in the end in a sort of zero sum thinking that ends with Americans poorer and, in the end, more dependent on foreign powers.

00:38:06.000 If you want America to win, We actually need to win.

00:38:10.000 We actually need to win. 1.00

00:38:12.000 The big debate that's happening right now over AI data centers is truly kind of stupid. 0.97

00:38:18.000 Because the question is not whether we need data centers. 0.98

00:38:19.000 We absolutely need data centers.

00:38:23.000 The question is whether we want to undercut the AI industry utterly.

00:38:27.000 Sean Regan has a good piece over at City Journal, a project in the Manhattan Institute.

00:38:31.000 He says the relevant question is not how much water data centers use in total.

00:38:35.000 A data center could account for a tiny share of statewide water consumption and still trigger serious local conflicts.

00:38:40.000 If it draws from a scarce aquifer or competes with other users for a common supply.

00:38:45.000 Conversely, it could use a meaningful amount of water without much controversy if that water is acquired through existing rights, transferred from lower value uses, or returned to the system in ways that preserve downstream flows.

00:38:56.000 So, again, there are government policies that can help smooth the skids here.

00:39:01.000 But the bottom line is this AI is going to transform American economics, it's going to transform American industry.

00:39:08.000 And it is not something that we should be predominantly scared of, it is something that we should be predominantly excited about.

00:39:15.000 The way you know this, by the way, is that a huge number of Americans are using AI in their jobs today.

00:39:19.000 So, NVIDIA's Jensen Huang was speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference.

00:39:25.000 And he points out that some of us, me included, have been worried about the possibility of an AI bubble.

00:39:30.000 Now, listen, I still think that open AI is going to be wildly overvalued, which is why it is speeding to market right now.

00:39:35.000 But as he points out, we are already starting to see the productivity gains from AI manifesting in profit margins of companies, particularly Anthropic.

00:39:45.000 Here he is explaining why we're actually not in an AI bubble.

00:39:50.000 In the last three to six months, both of these companies and most of the AI native companies have turned their gross margins have gone extremely positive.

00:40:02.000 Right, so they've turned the corner.

00:40:03.000 That's right.

00:40:04.000 Now, when you're making something and your gross margins are highly profitable, your goal is to make more of it, which is the reason why both OpenAI and Anthropic are just racing for capacity because they're Their tokens, these numbers, these intelligence that they produce, the margins are excellent.

00:40:25.000 And so they're excellent.

00:40:27.000 Cursors is excellent.

00:40:28.000 You look across the entire AI natives ecosystem, everybody.

00:40:34.000 And the reason for that is because finally, AI has become useful.

00:40:39.000 Okay, so how is AI useful?

00:40:41.000 So Jensen Huang explains again, he's the head of the most lucrative company, the highest value company on planet Earth.

00:40:49.000 It's worth literally trillions of dollars at this point.

00:40:51.000 He says that what people are getting wrong is that it'll change how you do your job, but it won't eliminate your job in the main.

00:40:58.000 Here's Jensen Huang.

00:41:02.000 The fact that now I see an AI write a program completely by itself, we go, oh, that's it.

00:41:08.000 Software engineering jobs are gone.

00:41:10.000 That doesn't make any sense.

00:41:11.000 The purpose of a software engineer is not to code, the purpose of a software engineer is to solve problems, innovate new things.

00:41:19.000 That's their purpose.

00:41:20.000 I never said when I was growing up, I said, you know what I want to do more than anything?

00:41:25.000 I want to type.

00:41:30.000 You know, I was, I was, I was, I landed in America when I was nine years old.

00:41:35.000 When I landed here, I go, you know what?

00:41:37.000 My dad, he sent us here so we can type. 0.93

00:41:40.000 Type our butts off. 0.78

00:41:41.000 We're just going to sit at a desk.

00:41:43.000 We're going to hunch over this little tiny display and we're just going to type every single day.

00:41:47.000 We're going to type.

00:41:48.000 We're going to type from the moment we wake up to the moment we go to bed.

00:41:52.000 That doesn't make any sense.

00:41:55.000 Now, his point here is that jobs and tasks are not the same thing.

00:41:59.000 Your job has a purpose to produce productivity.

00:41:59.000 You have a job.

00:42:01.000 For the company you work for or for a purpose that you want.

00:42:05.000 And the tasks in which you engage are the means by how you achieve the purpose of the job.

00:42:11.000 And those change over time.

00:42:14.000 My job is to provide you the best, truthful information as I see it.

00:42:18.000 My tasks over the course of time have changed.

00:42:21.000 I didn't have AI as a search tool before.

00:42:23.000 Now I do.

00:42:25.000 If you go back 20, 30 years, I'd have to go to a library to gather all the information.

00:42:28.000 Now I don't.

00:42:30.000 Does that change my job or did it just change the tasks that are part of the job?

00:42:34.000 And as he's pointed out, The reality is that the single biggest job creator in America right now is AI.

00:42:41.000 It is the building of data centers.

00:42:43.000 It is the hiring of new engineers.

00:42:45.000 It is the hiring of people in a wide variety of industries who know what the hell they're doing.

00:42:48.000 He says it's not that you're competing against AI for a job, you're competing against the guy next to you who has learned how to use the AI for a job.

00:42:58.000 And the alternative, by the way, this sort of Luddite, revanchist alternative is quite bad.

00:43:03.000 Joe Lonsdale, who's a major investor, he points out that.

00:43:08.000 If you kill AI, if you undercut American innovation in the name of some supposed common good, if you do that, what you are going to do is actually hurt people.

00:43:19.000 He points out that it's government regulation on innovation that in medicine has actually harmed millions of people.

00:43:25.000 Here's Lonsdale on CNBC this morning.

00:43:29.000 The FDA has killed millions of people.

00:43:31.000 Let's be totally clear, right?

00:43:33.000 So it's killed money.

00:43:34.000 It's literally led to the deaths of millions of people, Andrew, because basically there are all these new therapies, especially now, by the way, with AI that we could be developing.

00:43:41.000 Which also hopefully saves some life.

00:43:43.000 I mean, I like that.

00:43:44.000 But the trade off is like probably 100 to 1, right?

00:43:47.000 So there's a very famous story from 60 years ago where they caught some stuff that was killing people in Europe and saved them here.

00:43:52.000 And then they've used that as an excuse to make this massive bureaucracy that makes it cost 10 or 100 times more to do drugs than it should, which means there's tons of these new drugs you could be developing to save lives that we're just not able to do.

00:44:02.000 Like, I would be investing billions more to save lives, but I can't.

00:44:06.000 So the equivalent is terrifying to me.

00:44:08.000 The government is bad at these things, the bureaucrats are bad at these things.

00:44:12.000 He is right about this.

00:44:13.000 He is right about this.

00:44:14.000 And again, A broader worldview that hates capitalism and private property, and is using the unpopularity and the sort of doomerism around AI as a tool in order to sink private property and capitalism and to be very worried about the economy, for example.

00:44:29.000 Understand the op, understand what is actually happening right now.

00:44:33.000 Again, we can all say that there ought to be some regulation surrounding AI because the reality, even Joe Lonsdale, who's about as AI positive as it's possible to be, says there ought to be careful, narrow AI regulation.

00:44:44.000 I mean, this is not a gigantic secret.

00:44:48.000 You know, there probably should be some national agreement on regulation on new powerful models.

00:44:53.000 It should be as small and as narrow as possible.

00:44:56.000 Should not have the same bureaucracy.

00:44:57.000 You should make sure the government, from the start, has metrics on the speed at which it has to go and the transparency because you're going to have cronies.

00:45:04.000 You're going to have the big guys capture it.

00:45:05.000 You're going to slow it down.

00:45:07.000 Pharma loves the FDA against biotech.

00:45:09.000 It makes it too expensive for us to build our own pharma companies.

00:45:12.000 We have to sell to them.

00:45:13.000 This is what the big guys want.

00:45:16.000 Okay.

00:45:16.000 And again, he's right about that.

00:45:18.000 But the solution here is not to kill industries outright in the name of some sort of bizarre utopian vision in which everything is wonderful without innovation, without private property, without capitalism, without freedom.

00:45:29.000 What you really need is some sort of big man in order to cram down your version of utopia. 0.54

00:45:35.000 Okay, meanwhile, the latest in Iran. 0.62

00:45:38.000 So there is apparently an offer that has been put forward by the United States to Iran to end the war.

00:45:44.000 This is according to Axios reporting this morning.

00:45:48.000 Barack Ravid, who is always a target for leaks by the more isolationist wings of the Trump administration, he says the White House believes it's getting close to an agreement with Iran on a one page memorandum of understanding to end the war.

00:46:02.000 And set a framework for more detailed nuclear negotiations.

00:46:06.000 The U.S. expects Iranian responses on several key points in the next 48 hours.

00:46:10.000 Apparently, the key points that have been proposed include the idea of a sort of gradual ramping down of sanctions, a gradual opening of the Strait of Hormuz.

00:46:24.000 It would involve a 12 to 15 year complete freeze on the uranium enrichment in Iran.

00:46:32.000 And if there was any.

00:46:34.000 Enrichment that took place that would extend the freeze period.

00:46:39.000 Apparently, it included a provision that would force Iran to transfer the highly enriched uranium they already have out of the country entirely.

00:46:48.000 Iran seems to be squirrely on this, as per our usual arrangement.

00:46:53.000 Again, this is about the 36th proposal that has been put forward to Iran.

00:46:56.000 The IRGC does not want to give up anything because they believe the minute they do, there will be a rebellion in their country and they'll be toast.

00:47:04.000 Meanwhile, in the United States, Secretary of State Marco Rubio did a press conference yesterday in which he announced that Operation Epic Fury is over.

00:47:11.000 Obviously, Operation Economic Fury continues to be very much in play.

00:47:17.000 So, their ability to build a shield behind which they could hide their nuclear program was wiped out.

00:47:22.000 That's a very substantial achievement, and that was the purpose of this operation from day one.

00:47:28.000 Well, that's one of the topics that needs to be discussed.

00:47:31.000 I don't know about it, I think you're linking it.

00:47:33.000 The operation is over.

00:47:35.000 Epic Fury is a president notified Congress.

00:47:37.000 We're done with that stage of it.

00:47:38.000 Okay, we're now on to this project of freedom.

00:47:42.000 Okay, so again, Project Freedom was an attempt to open the Strait of Hormuz.

00:47:48.000 Well, that attempt to open the Strait of Hormuz lasted approximately a day before it was frozen again in order to presumably pursue negotiations.

00:47:56.000 So yesterday, Rubio suggested that the outcome in the Strait of Hormuz would decide the fate of shipping lanes around the world.

00:48:03.000 Here's what he had to say. 0.85

00:48:05.000 If we live in a world where a rogue state like this Iranian regime is allowed to claim as a new normal control over international shipping lanes, it will not be long before you see that happen in multiple shipping lanes around the world. 0.96

00:48:18.000 I can identify for you six or seven vital shipping lanes around the world that some countries can decide, guess what? 0.97

00:48:26.000 If Iran was able to do it, we're going to do it too.

00:48:28.000 We're not going to start charging tolls, and it'll get closer and closer to us. 0.54

00:48:31.000 That's unacceptable.

00:48:34.000 Okay, but then the President of the United States.

00:48:36.000 Decided that this operation, Project Freedom, which was an attempt to get tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, would be put on temporary hold.

00:48:46.000 So he put out a notice late last night suggesting, based on the request of Pakistan and other countries, the tremendous military success that we have had during the campaign against the country of Iran, and additionally, the fact that great progress has been made toward a complete and final agreement with representatives of Iran, we have mutually agreed that while the blockade will remain in full force and effect, Project Freedom and the movement of ships through the Strait of Hormuz will be paused for a short period of time.

00:49:08.000 To see whether or not the agreement can be finalized and signed. 0.68

00:49:10.000 So, this had some people last night suggesting that we were in the middle of another taco, the Trump all these chickens out nonsense.

00:49:15.000 Well, the president then put out a statement this morning basically denying that and saying, well, you know, they're either going to go along with our deal or we could, you know, continue to bomb them into oblivion.

00:49:27.000 He put out a statement this morning suggesting precisely that, assuming Iran agrees to give what has already been agreed to, which is perhaps a big assumption, the already legendary Epic Fury will be at an end and the highly effective blockade will allow the Hormuz Strait to be open to all, including Iran.

00:49:40.000 If they don't agree, the bombing starts, and it will be sadly at a much higher level in intensity than it was before.

00:49:45.000 Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald Trump.

00:49:48.000 So, again, things stand where they've stood for the past several weeks, which is that we are choking off the Iranian economy. 0.63

00:49:55.000 If Iran caves, then we may have some sort of agreement. 0.90

00:49:58.000 If Iran does not cave, then there'll be another round of kinetic action against Iranian targets, I would hope, including Karg Island, which is their refinery capacity. 0.81

00:50:08.000 Well, meanwhile, some in Congress and in the media continue. 0.92

00:50:12.000 To militate against the president.

00:50:15.000 Marco Rubio at this press conference yesterday was asked by a reporter about Iran going nuclear, and he fired back at the reporter in this way.

00:50:24.000 I think the president, without trying to speak for him, but I think I can characterize it this way.

00:50:29.000 He doesn't understand why anybody, leave aside the Pope, the president and I for that matter, I think most people, I cannot understand why anyone would think that it's a good idea for Iran to ever have a nuclear weapon.

00:50:39.000 Look what they're doing with the Straits right now. 0.86

00:50:41.000 They're holding the whole world hostage.

00:50:43.000 They have these sailors.

00:50:44.000 You know, on commercial ships that are going to starve to death out there.

00:50:47.000 They don't care.

00:50:48.000 They don't care that this is melting down economies around the world, even of their own allies.

00:50:53.000 This is what they're doing with the Straits.

00:50:54.000 What do you think they would do if they had a nuclear weapon?

00:50:57.000 They would hold the world hostage with that nuclear weapon. 0.68

00:50:59.000 That's what they would do.

00:51:00.000 They would do exactly to the world with a nuclear weapon what they're doing now with the Straits.

00:51:05.000 Well, certainly the Secretary of State is correct about that.

00:51:07.000 So we'll see what comes next here.

00:51:09.000 Meanwhile, Marco Rubio did visit Southcom and he stood in front of a map of Cuba.

00:51:14.000 With an American general, which led to a lot of speculation that maybe Cuba is going to be next.

00:51:21.000 Rubio, during this press conference, he suggested that the only thing worse than a communist is an incompetent communist.

00:51:31.000 Their economic model doesn't work.

00:51:33.000 It doesn't work.

00:51:34.000 And the people who are in charge can't fix it. 0.96

00:51:36.000 And the reason that I can't fix it is not just because they're communists, that's bad enough, but they're incompetent communists. 0.98

00:51:42.000 The only thing worse than a communist is an incompetent one. 0.98

00:51:46.000 Well, fair enough. 0.97

00:51:48.000 We'll see what happens in Cuba.

00:51:49.000 And as Rubio points out, Cuba is getting weaker because, of course, they are not getting subsidized oil from Venezuela.

00:51:55.000 And another triumph of Trump foreign policy.

00:51:57.000 We can only hope that the next step in Venezuela, by the way, is that there is a transition to some new form of regime before Trump leaves office.

00:52:03.000 Because the thing about foreign policy, it switches every four years.

00:52:07.000 If a Democrat were to win office in 2028, then this is one of the big problems in Democratic politics the vision of an authoritarian can last for 15 years on foreign policy.

00:52:17.000 When it comes to democratic politics, very often the vision shifts back and forth.

00:52:21.000 You could see Venezuela go commie again and the American boot off the neck of the communist regime.

00:52:27.000 All righty, folks, coming up, we are going to get into the federal government going after the New York Times.

00:52:33.000 They're suing the New York Times for anti white bias.

00:52:36.000 We'll get to that in a moment.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - May 06, 2026

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