The Ben Shapiro Show - May 23, 2023


Jeffrey Epstein Blackmailed Bill Gates

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Jeffrey Epstein was a billionaire financier and sex offender who was found dead of an apparent suicide in his jail cell in 2019, but there have long been questions about where exactly he got his money, and why he was able to hobnob with some of the most famous people on the planet. And now, a story has emerged from the Wall Street Journal that sheds new light on Epstein s life and how he got it all started. Bill Gates had an affair with Jeffrey Epstein, and Bill Gates may have been the most powerful man in the world to know him, because Jeffrey Epstein had a black book with a list of names like Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Hillary Clinton, and many others, but where exactly did he get his money? And why did he have access to it? And what was it in his black book that made him so valuable to the rich and famous people he was hanging out with? And how was he able to get access to so much of that money, even when he was in so much trouble with the law? And how did he manage to get away with such a massive amount of crimes? with no one knowing exactly what he was doing? and no one being able to stop him from getting away with it and get out of jail at all? This is a story that could change the way we see the world or at least one of the world s most powerful people . a story from The New York Times. and the New York Post on this week's front page in this week s front page story on Jeffrey Epstein's little black book. in the latest edition of the story from the WSJ. The story is a fascinating, and it s a story you won t want to miss! the story you need to listen to find out what s in the black book, because it s in that black book if you haven t read the book, it s worth checking out! and if you don t have it, you re not going to miss it. And if you do, you ll definitely want to do so listen to the full story on the next episode of the podcast on the podcast, The Dark Side of the Internet, right here this is the link to the book you ve been waiting for. , right here on the internet, and you ll get a copy of the book that s out there.

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00:00:00.000 Alrighty, so ever since 2019, when Jeffrey Epstein was found dead of an apparent suicide by hanging in his jail cell, there's been a lot of speculation about what exactly happened to Jeffrey Epstein.
00:00:09.000 Obviously, the big joke meme online is that Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself, but there are serious questions as to whether Jeffrey Epstein actually killed himself, considering that he said previously that He was not going to kill himself, and then he apparently hanged himself in a jail that was supposed to be secure in the first place.
00:00:23.000 But there have been a lot of questions surrounding Jeffrey Epstein for years, because Jeffrey Epstein hobnobbed with all the richest and most famous people on the planet, and nobody had any idea exactly where Jeffrey Epstein had gotten his money.
00:00:35.000 And nobody knew why it was that Jeffrey Epstein, who was in serious trouble with the law in the mid-2000s, was still able to gather all sorts of attention and credibility from some of the richest and wealthiest people and most famous people On the planet!
00:00:49.000 All those questions have been percolating in the background.
00:00:52.000 So, as early as 2020, 2019, 2020, there were serious questions about where exactly Jeffrey Epstein had gotten all of his money.
00:01:00.000 There was talk about the idea that he had a 70-acre secluded island, that he had multiple homes all over the place, that he had supposedly amassed a fortune of 500 million pounds, which amounts to something like 700 million dollars, and it is very unclear where exactly he made that money because he was fired for Poor performance in his early academic career.
00:01:21.000 And then he ended up at Bear Stearns and then he worked there as a trader and then a partner for a long time.
00:01:24.000 But then he had breached security violations and then he left his job.
00:01:28.000 That was in 1981.
00:01:29.000 And then he set up a consulting firm called Intercontinental Assets Group.
00:01:32.000 And it is totally unclear where exactly the money came in, but suddenly he was worth, you know, half a billion dollars or more.
00:01:40.000 And nobody knew where that money had come from.
00:01:42.000 And if, again, you look at the timeline of Jeffrey Epstein's life, it is a very mysterious timeline.
00:01:47.000 He started in the 1990s this financial management firm, which included the CEO of Victoria's Secret as a client, according to CBS News.
00:01:53.000 In the 2000s, he continued to invest tens of millions of dollars into various funds, including a fund that was found to be leveraged 17 to 1, and that helped to eventually lead Bear Stearns into collapse in 2008.
00:02:06.000 In March 2005, a 14-year-old girl became the earliest underage victim to formally accuse Epstein of molestation, citing an incident at his Palm Beach mansion.
00:02:15.000 It took 10 years, 2015, before investigators executed a search warrant on Epstein's Florida home as the case brought forward several other teenage sex victims.
00:02:24.000 But in 2006, police were charging Epstein with multiple counts of unlawful sex acts in a minor.
00:02:28.000 State Attorney Barry Krischer referred the case to a grand jury.
00:02:30.000 The grand jury heard from only one accuser in June of 2006.
00:02:34.000 In July 2006, after the Palm Beach grand jury, the FBI opened a federal investigation.
00:02:39.000 In June of 2008, after more than a year of investigation and bargaining between the two legal sides, Epstein finally appeared in a Florida courtroom and ended up pleading guilty to one count of solicitation of prostitution and one count of solicitation of prostitution of a minor under the age of 18.
00:02:51.000 He got an 18 month sentence and he was registered as a sex offender.
00:02:56.000 And then he began work release in jail as early as October of 2008.
00:03:00.000 By July 2009, he was given early release from jail completely, and he never served time in a federal prison at all.
00:03:06.000 At all.
00:03:07.000 And then for years and years and years, he was hanging out with the most famous people on planet Earth.
00:03:11.000 Jeffrey Epstein's Little Black Book included names ranging from Bill Clinton to Donald Trump.
00:03:15.000 Just a huge number of very, very famous people who are hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:03:21.000 And after his death, there were questions as to where the records went.
00:03:24.000 What was in his black book?
00:03:25.000 Why did he know these people and what was he doing for them?
00:03:27.000 Were they paying him for something or other?
00:03:30.000 Had he killed himself?
00:03:31.000 Well, now we have a story that has emerged from the Wall Street Journal that really is shocking only in the sense...
00:03:37.000 That it's precisely what you expected, but the fact that it took this long for it to be uncovered is in fact rather surprising, and it serves as the foundation for the generalized theory that Jeffrey Epstein was essentially a blackmail specialist who must have had support of some sort of government, because the fact is that everyone apparently knew exactly what he was doing, and he escaped prosecution for a very, very long time.
00:03:58.000 The reason I say this is because the story of what he did to Bill Gates here is truly an astonishing one.
00:04:02.000 According to the Wall Street Journal over the weekend, Jeffrey Epstein discovered that Bill Gates had an affair with a Russian bridge player and later appeared to use his knowledge to threaten one of the world's richest men, according to people familiar with the matter.
00:04:13.000 The Microsoft co-founder met the woman around 2010 when she was in her 20s.
00:04:16.000 Epstein met her in 2013 and later paid for her to attend a software coding school.
00:04:20.000 In 2017, Epstein emailed Gates and asked to be reimbursed for the cost of the course, according to one of the people familiar with the matter.
00:04:27.000 The email came after the convicted sex offender had struggled and failed to persuade Gates to participate in a multi-billion dollar charitable fund Epstein tried to establish with JPMorgan Chase.
00:04:36.000 The implication, it was pretty clear, was that if Epstein did not get the money from Gates, then he would reveal the affair.
00:04:42.000 So again, the idea here is that he uncovered an affair that Bill Gates had had with this woman in early 2010s.
00:04:49.000 And then Epstein later met her, found out about the story, and then paid for her college education, her software coding education, simply so he could then go to Bill Gates and shake him down, pretending that he was being reimbursed for that when in fact he was actually just being paid to shut down the blackmail.
00:05:04.000 A spokeswoman for Gates said, Mr. Gates met with Epstein solely for a philanthropic purpose.
00:05:08.000 Having failed repeatedly to draw Mr. Gates beyond these matters, Epstein tried unsuccessfully to leverage a past relationship to threaten Mr. Gates.
00:05:15.000 So that is Bill Gates acknowledging full well that Epstein was blackmailing him.
00:05:19.000 Now again, this is not a giant shock, because this is probably what Epstein was doing with pretty much anyone.
00:05:24.000 He had these very, very lucrative relationships with some of the richest, most famous perverts on the planet.
00:05:30.000 I mean, there's a reason that people are flying to and from Epstein Island, where he was pretty overtly trafficking in underage girls.
00:05:39.000 Mila Antonova, the Russian bridge player in question, declined to comment on Gates and said she didn't know who Epstein was when they met.
00:05:44.000 She said, I had no idea he was a criminal or had any ulterior motive.
00:05:47.000 I just thought he was a successful businessman and wanted to help.
00:05:51.000 She added, I'm disgusted with Epstein and what he did.
00:05:55.000 But again, this demonstrates exactly how Epstein was operating.
00:06:00.000 He met with everybody around Bill Gates, apparently.
00:06:03.000 He gained access to Bill Gates.
00:06:06.000 And then, while he was working on this charitable fund with JPMorgan Chase, he finally met in 2013 with Gates and other Norwegian officials visiting Epstein's townhouse.
00:06:13.000 Epstein told one former Gates Foundation employee that he knew these Norwegian officials and could help Gates win a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to eradicate polio.
00:06:21.000 At which point, Gates and Epstein met together in March in Strasbourg, France.
00:06:25.000 That September, Epstein scheduled a meeting with Gates and others at his townhouse.
00:06:29.000 Now again, so it looks like he would make a connection with somebody, and then he would dig up dirt on that person, and then he would blackmail that person.
00:06:34.000 And this is not the only story that has emerged about Jeffrey Epstein over the course of the last couple of months alone.
00:06:40.000 It emerged a little bit earlier this month that Jeffrey Epstein helped move $270,000 from Noam Chomsky, the wild left linguist.
00:06:48.000 And he also paid $150,000 to Bard College president Leon Botstein, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:06:53.000 Apparently, he had financial dealings with the two academics he had met with them multiple times as well.
00:06:59.000 Now again, we still do not have the entire list of what exactly Jeffrey Epstein was doing with all these people, but the baseline assumption has to be that if you had repeated contacts with Jeffrey Epstein over the course of years, there was a good shot that dude had dirt on you, and that he was shaking you down for money.
00:07:12.000 Remember, at the exact same time that he was shaking Bill Gates down for money, Bill Gates was pretty openly saying that he was not being blackmailed by Epstein.
00:07:19.000 In fact, here is Bill Gates saying just that.
00:07:22.000 Epstein had a way of sexually compromising people.
00:07:25.000 Is that what Melinda was warning you about?
00:07:28.000 No.
00:07:29.000 I mean, it's... No, I had dinner with him, and that's all.
00:07:36.000 And that you regret the relationship, the acquaintance?
00:07:40.000 That I had dinner with him.
00:07:42.000 And the relationship between the Foundation and Epstein?
00:07:45.000 There never was any relationship of any kind.
00:07:47.000 Okay, so that is Bill Gates pretty much openly lying to journalists, saying, I was never shaken down by Epstein, we were just the best of friends.
00:07:54.000 Which raises a question about everybody else who says that they were best of friends with Jeffrey Epstein and raises the further question as to just how much Epstein was being protected by people in positions of power.
00:08:04.000 I mean, the answer has to be some because otherwise, how could he get away with this for decades on end being a registered sex offender?
00:08:10.000 Well, in just a second, we'll turn to the 2024 presidential race, but I think suffice it to say that a lot of the conspiracy theories that people have about people in positions of elite power who are working with one another or who are blackmailing one another or who are engaging in Improper behavior, behind closed doors, and then are making themselves susceptible to blackmail by state actors?
00:08:30.000 That number is pretty shocking.
00:08:32.000 When the full Epstein scandal eventually breaks, which I think it probably will, when that breaks, it's going to bring down a lot of worlds.
00:08:37.000 Okay, we'll get to the 2024 race in just one moment.
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00:09:49.000 Okay, meanwhile, the 2024 presidential race seems to be heating up.
00:09:53.000 Tim Scott, the Senator from South Carolina, has decided to launch
00:09:58.000 what is largely considered a long shot bid with Wall Street support.
00:10:02.000 So Tim Scott's support is pretty soft on the ground.
00:10:04.000 There are not a lot of grassroots Republicans who are very into the Tim Scott candidacy,
00:10:07.000 but there are a lot of money Republicans who are very into the Tim Scott candidacy.
00:10:10.000 Because again, he represents a sort of kinder, more gentler brand
00:10:13.000 of Republican politics.
00:10:14.000 Doesn't mean that he doesn't have a lot of interesting things to say.
00:10:17.000 But what Republican...
00:10:19.000 Kind of the base is looking for right now is a candidate with edge, a candidate who's willing to cut, a candidate who is rough and is willing to battle with the media.
00:10:27.000 And the question for Scott is whether he is up to something like that, whether he is too conciliatory in demeanor, whether in fact he appears to be somebody who's a go along to get along type, you know, that makes a huge difference in a Republican primary these days.
00:10:40.000 So Scott is trying to run a different sort of campaign, sort of the bright sunny optimistic campaign.
00:10:44.000 We live in the land of opportunity.
00:10:46.000 according to Bloomberg, with a positive forward-looking message built around a compelling personal story and upbeat
00:10:51.000 demeanor at an event in North Charleston, South Carolina.
00:10:54.000 He led off his campaign, and here is what it sounded like.
00:10:57.000 We live in the land of opportunity.
00:11:04.000 We live in the land where it is absolutely possible for a kid raised in poverty,
00:11:11.000 in a single-parent household, in a small apartment, to one day serve in the People's House.
00:11:20.000 And maybe even the White House.
00:11:25.000 you Biden and the radical left are attacking every single rung of the ladder that helped me climb.
00:11:34.000 And that's why I'm announcing today that I'm running for president.
00:11:45.000 Okay, so, you know, I'm not a big fan of the affect, I'll be honest with you.
00:11:54.000 I mean, if we're going to sort of analyze affect when you are running, that's not an amazing affect when you have to yell into the microphone to generate excitement.
00:12:00.000 And I can't say there's a huge amount of buzz about Tim Scott outside of sort of the intelligentsia of the Republican Party.
00:12:05.000 Again, I find Tim Scott a very, very appealing person.
00:12:08.000 I think he's a terrific senator from South Carolina.
00:12:11.000 I think that if you have to kind of categorize him with the rest of the Republican candidates
00:12:15.000 right now, he probably goes in the Nikki Haley, Mike Pence category, meaning people who are
00:12:19.000 not Ron DeSantis who are sort of hoping that DeSantis falls down on the job.
00:12:23.000 And again, the question is whether he can actually get a crowd going.
00:12:26.000 He tried it a couple of times during his opening speech.
00:12:29.000 People were making fun of him online because he had what seemed to be sort of a Howard
00:12:32.000 Dean moment.
00:12:33.000 Howard Dean was the Vermont governor who ran for the presidential nomination on the Democratic
00:12:36.000 Party ticket in 2004.
00:12:38.000 He ended up not winning the nomination.
00:12:39.000 He collapsed pretty late in the process when he had this very weird kind of screaming moment
00:12:43.000 downstairs.
00:12:44.000 It was very strange.
00:12:45.000 Here's how Tim Scott led off his campaign.
00:12:47.000 People were sort of making the comparison.
00:12:53.000 Thank you.
00:12:54.000 you Okay.
00:12:56.000 Again, is the enthusiasm and the excitement there or does it seem to be somewhat manufactured?
00:13:03.000 It doesn't seem like there is a lot of kind of call and plan for Scott to be the guy, but there are a lot of Republicans, coastal Republicans in particular, who are looking for somebody who isn't so abrasive.
00:13:13.000 The problem, of course, is that the base is looking for somebody who's abrasive because they feel like they're under constant assault from the media, which they are.
00:13:19.000 They feel like they are under constant assault from Joe Biden, which they are.
00:13:23.000 And so the question is, who is going to be able to participate in a knife fight?
00:13:25.000 Again, the reason that Donald Trump became the nominee In 2016 is largely because Republicans had run a couple of candidates who in affect were much more like Tim Scott.
00:13:35.000 John McCain in 2008 was trying to run an upbeat positive campaign and then of course Mitt Romney tried to do the same thing.
00:13:40.000 Kind of too smooth, not rough around the edges, not willing to get combative.
00:13:45.000 The question for Tim Scott is whether he is able to get combative and kind of smooth, almost use some sandpaper on himself in order to become Less smooth, just in terms of his personal affect, the way that he approaches politics.
00:14:00.000 Republicans want somebody abrasive.
00:14:02.000 He's not abrasive enough.
00:14:03.000 And again, being abrasive is a quality of authenticity.
00:14:07.000 It's not really clear, by the way, that Scott has any sort of attack plan on Trump.
00:14:13.000 And so he becomes also the latest Republican candidate not to have an attack plan with regard to President Trump.
00:14:18.000 In the early polling, Scott isn't even, he's not even registering at this point.
00:14:24.000 But, again, I think that the plan for a lot of the Republicans who are in the race who are not Ron DeSantis is basically stand aside, let Trump rip down DeSantis, maybe you rip down DeSantis too, and then you step into the gap.
00:14:33.000 If you are an anti-Trump person, this strategy was tried back in 2016 to no avail.
00:14:38.000 Every other Republican candidate basically said, I'm going to avoid hitting Trump, and I'm going to hit Ted Cruz, I'm going to hit Marco Rubio.
00:14:44.000 And then everybody else collapsed, and the only one standing was Trump.
00:14:48.000 Again, Scott is starting from way behind, but he does have some moneyed friends who are in this race.
00:14:55.000 There are a couple of Republican colleagues who have already endorsed his bid, that'd be South Dakota Senators John Thune and Mike Rounds.
00:15:00.000 Rounds called Scott the closest to Ronald Reagan that you will ever see, and Thune gave the opening prayer on Monday at Scott's campaign launch rally.
00:15:08.000 He's also accepted something like $30 million from Larry Ellison.
00:15:12.000 Bill Haslam is serving as Scott's national campaign co-chair.
00:15:16.000 He is visiting Iowa.
00:15:16.000 He's sort of banking everything on the idea that maybe he will perform in outsized fashion in Iowa.
00:15:21.000 Again, just because he has a great optimistic story does not necessarily mean that he is going to have a lot of durability in this race.
00:15:29.000 You know, Democrats, I don't think, are very much afraid that Tim Scott is going to win the nomination.
00:15:33.000 I don't think they're particularly afraid of him if he does win the nomination again because they think that he's too conciliatory.
00:15:38.000 And I think that that giveaways how Donald Trump is responding to Tim Scott.
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00:16:50.000 Okay, so Donald Trump obviously is not taking Tim Scott's candidacy particularly seriously.
00:16:53.000 It is very obvious that Donald Trump believes that Ron DeSantis is the true only threat to his candidacy.
00:16:59.000 He put out a statement reading, quote, Okay, I have a question.
00:17:01.000 Senator Tim Scott in entering the Republican presidential primary race.
00:17:04.000 It is rapidly loading up with lots of people and Tim is a big step up from Ron DeSantimonious
00:17:09.000 who is totally unelectable.
00:17:10.000 I got Opportunity Zones done with Tim, a big deal that has been highly successful.
00:17:14.000 Good luck, Tim.
00:17:15.000 I have a question.
00:17:16.000 When has Donald Trump ever wished somebody good luck genuinely?
00:17:18.000 Like truly genuinely.
00:17:20.000 Anybody who's a threat to him, anyway.
00:17:21.000 Anybody who's competitive with him.
00:17:22.000 I'm sure there are lots of people in life he's wished good luck to.
00:17:24.000 But when... anybody who threatens Donald Trump's interests, have you ever heard him be magnanimous and generous with other people running for president as a general rule?
00:17:32.000 So far, he's been magnanimous about Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:17:34.000 He's been pretty generous with him.
00:17:36.000 He's been magnanimous with Tim Scott.
00:17:38.000 He was slightly less magnanimous with Nikki Haley early on and then he's kind of gone silent about her.
00:17:42.000 The one who he is spending every iota of his time and effort on is Ron DeSantis.
00:17:46.000 That is the guy.
00:17:47.000 And again, the reason that is the guy is because Ron DeSantis is combative.
00:17:52.000 Ron DeSantis does have a quality record in the state of Florida.
00:17:56.000 Ron DeSantis is to his right on pretty much every issue.
00:17:59.000 He has a ton of money ready to go in the bank.
00:18:02.000 And so I think Trump, like pretty much everybody else, is assuming that DeSantis is going to be sort of his chief rival for the nomination.
00:18:08.000 DeSantis, of course, has not even declared yet, and Trump is spending every waking moment thinking about Ron DeSantis.
00:18:13.000 Well, that would make...
00:18:15.000 Trump, one of two partners thinking about Ron DeSantis almost full time.
00:18:19.000 The other partner, of course, are members of the media.
00:18:21.000 And you can see by the overwhelming wave of antipathy for DeSantis, they really want Trump.
00:18:26.000 I'm talking about everybody here from CNN and Politico all the way up to Matt Drudge and Drudge Report.
00:18:31.000 Drudge Report is running pretty much every hit piece he can find on Ron DeSantis at this point.
00:18:36.000 I don't know if that's for traffic or whether Drudge really likes Trump or what the story is here, but there is pretty obviously a lot of support for Donald Trump and a lot of antipathy toward Ron DeSantis in the way that the media are covering Trump. 0.91
00:18:47.000 So the big fake story over the weekend targeting DeSantis, and there's one nearly every weekend now, some idiot story targeting DeSantis that doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense.
00:18:54.000 The one from last week, of course, was the idea that Disney had canceled this billion dollar project in Orlando and then it turned out, well, actually Disney was ready to cancel that back in November because it didn't 0.72
00:19:02.000 pencil out for them since they've been losing money hand over fist. They lost four million
00:19:06.000 subscribers and half their stock value over the course of the last years. So why exactly would
00:19:10.000 they build a one billion dollar headquarters in Orlando that was completely separate from their creative
00:19:16.000 team in California? But they cancelled it and then they claimed, Bob Iger did, that it was Rhonda Sands
00:19:19.000 and the media just totally ran with it. Oh, he must, that, he's being totally honest with you.
00:19:22.000 It's not a lie at all. It must be totally. Okay, so today's lie of the day comes courtesy of
00:19:27.000 the NAACP, which of course is a wild left-wing organization.
00:19:32.000 Drudge made this his top headline.
00:19:33.000 CNN headlined it.
00:19:35.000 The NAACP issued a travel advisory about traveling to the great state of Florida.
00:19:39.000 So first of all, let me just say this.
00:19:41.000 If the left warns you not to come to Florida, I totally agree with them. 1.00
00:19:44.000 Don't come.
00:19:44.000 Please don't move here.
00:19:45.000 Please don't vacation here.
00:19:46.000 We are perfectly happy here without you.
00:19:47.000 And if you could just stay where you are in your miserable blue cities, we would be very happy to not have you here clogging up the traffic lanes and bringing your perverse views of politics down here.
00:19:57.000 We are perfectly happy in our red state paradise down here in Florida.
00:20:00.000 So if you would prefer to stay up there, please enjoy yourself in New York.
00:20:03.000 Please, if you're in California, still enjoy yourself.
00:20:05.000 Really enjoy the homelessness and crime and high taxes.
00:20:08.000 Like, let it rip.
00:20:10.000 But, let's be real about this.
00:20:12.000 There's not actually a travel advisory from the NAACP.
00:20:14.000 They're completely full of it.
00:20:16.000 But the media ran with it anyway. 0.99
00:20:18.000 Now, that of course is incredibly silly.
00:20:20.000 It's the same NAACP that was complaining that Jim Crow 2.0 was being built in Georgia while black voters were being registered at the highest rate ever. 0.75
00:20:29.000 So they have no credibility on these issues.
00:20:31.000 But credibility doesn't matter when the media is trying to break a politician.
00:20:33.000 Right now they're going after Ron DeSantis because they're hoping for Trump to be the nominee.
00:20:37.000 Trump wants to be the nominee?
00:20:37.000 The media would like Trump to be the nominee.
00:20:39.000 DeSantis is the guy most likely standing in his way.
00:20:42.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:21:50.000 Okay, so according to CNN, The NAACP is warning people of color about traveling to Florida.
00:21:56.000 They issued this travel advisory, quote, in direct response to DeSantis' aggressive attempts to erase black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida schools, the group said Saturday in a statement.
00:22:05.000 Now remember, Florida requires the teaching of black history.
00:22:09.000 You have to learn about slavery.
00:22:10.000 You have to learn about Jim Crow. 0.55
00:22:11.000 All of that is required by Florida law.
00:22:13.000 It must be taught in Florida schools.
00:22:15.000 As far as diversity, equity, and inclusion, what that means is that you're not allowed to essentially use affirmative action programs or Ibram X. Kendi anti-racism training in any sort of publicly funded program.
00:22:29.000 What does that have to do with the safety of black Americans?
00:22:31.000 Nothing.
00:22:32.000 But it doesn't matter.
00:22:34.000 The NAACP president Derek Johnson, he was out there saying that it is literally unsafe for you to go to Florida right now.
00:22:41.000 Here's what he had to say.
00:22:44.000 You just heard the words of DeSantis himself calling this call by the NAACP a stunt.
00:22:52.000 How do you respond?
00:22:54.000 Well, the governor has perfected the art of doing stunts to gain campaign contributions.
00:23:01.000 Unfortunately, this will impact people's lives.
00:23:04.000 We should not use race or othering as a tool to weaponize against people.
00:23:10.000 And unfortunately for a large percentage of Floridians, that's what he has done.
00:23:15.000 Therefore, We are advising African Americans and others that if you travel to Florida, beware that your life is not valued, that we have a political landscape that could cause harm as we prepare for the 2024 elections.
00:23:31.000 All this proves the NAACP is just a Democratic Party apparatus.
00:23:36.000 And they've lost all relevance.
00:23:38.000 Like, all political relevance.
00:23:39.000 If the NAACP has been relegated to targeting racism by suggesting that if you travel to Florida that your life is at stake, they're a joke at this point.
00:23:45.000 And they clearly are a joke, by the way.
00:23:47.000 How much of a joke are the members of the NAACP board?
00:23:50.000 At least five members of the NAACP board have enjoyed vacationing in Florida under Governor DeSantis, according to Matt Wolking.
00:23:57.000 Despite their recent warning that others should avoid traveling to the state.
00:24:00.000 That includes NAACP Board Vice Chair Karen Boykin-Towns, who went to a lovely Florida vacation in April of 2021.
00:24:06.000 It has also been enjoyed by Claude Cummings, Jr., another NAACP board member.
00:24:14.000 Also, NAACP board member Teresa Deer visited Florida under Governor Ron DeSantis, said that she was having a delightful time.
00:24:21.000 NAACP board member Michael Curry enjoyed time in Miami, Florida under Governor DeSantis as well.
00:24:25.000 And NAACP board member Scott Estali loves traveling around the great state of Florida under Governor DeSantis.
00:24:31.000 He went multiple times to Florida.
00:24:33.000 So obviously, he is living in just virulent fear that he's going to be murdered on the streets of Florida because Governor DeSantis does not truck with diversity, equity, and inclusion.
00:24:42.000 All of this is absurd on its face.
00:24:44.000 The media are running with it anyway.
00:24:46.000 Perhaps my favorite take on this comes courtesy of an MSNBC guest who is now suggesting that she went to Florida.
00:24:53.000 She's a lesbian black woman, but she went to Florida for spring break, but she did so at risk to her own life, which is what you normally do on spring break down to Florida. 0.72
00:25:00.000 Here we go.
00:25:02.000 I think it was extremely clever and I really appreciate the NAACP's guidance on this issue.
00:25:09.000 I just took my family to spring break in Florida recently and I think about all of the folks who traveled there for sun and joy and peace and restoration.
00:25:20.000 And to be reminded that actually this is getting to the point where Florida is about to be a terrorist state to many of us here in America, certainly as a lesbian, as a black woman.
00:25:30.000 I don't want to have anything to do with the place.
00:25:34.000 So then why did you go there for spring break?
00:25:37.000 That was like five minutes ago.
00:25:38.000 Saisha Mills, that's not... Do you go to terrorist states normally for a vacation?
00:25:42.000 You know, places where you literally are going to be murdered for who you are?
00:25:45.000 Is that something that you typically do?
00:25:47.000 For actual vacation, not for ideological reasons. 0.98
00:25:49.000 You just head on down to Florida because you as a lesbian black woman have your life in danger? 1.00
00:25:52.000 Of course, this is unbelievably silly. 0.99
00:25:54.000 Representative Byron Donald of Florida, he slammed the NAACP over all of this, as he should. 1.00
00:25:59.000 The NAACP hereby issues a travel advisory to African Americans and other people of color regarding the hostility towards African Americans in Florida.
00:26:09.000 Why are they doing that? 0.99
00:26:12.000 This is silly and it's dumb. 1.00
00:26:13.000 It's political. 1.00
00:26:14.000 It makes no sense.
00:26:15.000 We should be focused on making sure people actually have the opportunity to achieve, which Florida is actually doing and thriving in way better than other states.
00:26:24.000 Let's say New York or California or Washington State.
00:26:28.000 We're doing a significantly better job helping black Americans succeed.
00:26:31.000 And it's not just about me.
00:26:32.000 It's about all the millions of black people that live in our state.
00:26:35.000 They're talking about the they say regarding the hostility toward African-Americans in Florida.
00:26:40.000 Do you feel hostility?
00:26:44.000 No. 1.00
00:26:45.000 Again, this is so dumb. 1.00
00:26:46.000 I don't even know what we're talking about, man. 0.99
00:26:48.000 The only hostility I feel is this inflation hit in my pocketbook, I'll tell you that.
00:26:52.000 Byron Donalds, of course.
00:26:53.000 Exactly right.
00:26:54.000 And that's coming from somebody who's already endorsed President Trump. 0.99
00:26:57.000 It's one of the dumbest political hits I've ever seen. 0.97
00:26:59.000 By the way, I should mention at this point that 17% of Florida's population is black and that Florida's black immigrant population saw an 81% growth from 2000 to 2019 with the addition of 350,000 people. 0.98
00:27:11.000 That growth is larger than the entire 2019 black immigrant population of Colorado, Arizona, Washington, Nevada, Indiana, and Ohio combined. 0.93
00:27:20.000 So yeah, clearly you're taking your life in your hands if you're a black person in Florida. 1.00
00:27:23.000 It's just the stupidest garbage ever. 1.00
00:27:25.000 That was not the only ridiculous hit on DeSantis over the weekend. 1.00
00:27:28.000 Politico, which has just become essentially a talking points outlet for the Democratic Party as well, put out an article targeting Casey DeSantis.
00:27:36.000 Now, let me, I've met Casey several times.
00:27:39.000 She's one of the most charming people on earth.
00:27:40.000 Casey is a delight.
00:27:41.000 Okay, Ron's wife is just a wonderful person.
00:27:44.000 And this entire article is about how terrible she is.
00:27:46.000 They literally compare her to Lady Macbeth in this article.
00:27:50.000 Who do they quote to suggest that Casey DeSantis is, in fact, Lady Macbeth?
00:27:55.000 They quote David Jolly, an ex-GOP Florida congressperson, who's now an MSNBC analyst.
00:28:01.000 They quote a bunch of anonymous Republican lobbyists.
00:28:05.000 They quote Roger Stone, who is a Trump devotee and a rat-effer extraordinaire.
00:28:10.000 That's literally his job.
00:28:13.000 He's the one who compared her to Lady Macbeth.
00:28:16.000 Stone's hyperbolic charge is part of a broader effort on the part of Trump to kill in the crib the candidacy they consider their greatest threat.
00:28:23.000 They recently have scored a series of key, albeit early, strategic wins, a flurry of in-state endorsements, for instance, contributing to the perception of a novice faltering dissent that's also visible in a slide in early primary polls.
00:28:33.000 In the tragic drama, of course, Lady Macbeth prods her husband to kill the king so she can be the queen.
00:28:37.000 At this juncture, the literary analogy only goes so far.
00:28:40.000 And then that's because DeSantis isn't going so far after Trump, really.
00:28:46.000 But they then quote a bunch of former DeSantis administration staffers, quote, She sees ghosts in every corner.
00:28:52.000 She's more paranoid than he is, said a second staffer. 0.96
00:28:54.000 He's a vindictive mother effer. 0.61
00:28:57.000 She's twice that, said a higher up on one of his campaigns. 0.96
00:28:59.000 She's the scorekeeper.
00:29:00.000 Does she sort of humanize the robot? 1.00
00:29:02.000 Does she push him on the grip and grin, baby kissing, give him a cleaner, softer image?
00:29:05.000 Yes, said another former gubernatorial staffer.
00:29:07.000 Does she also feed into his worst instincts of being secluded and insular and standoffish with staff?
00:29:11.000 Yes.
00:29:13.000 So, um, the idea here is that she's bad because you trust her a lot and uses her as a political advisor.
00:29:20.000 Obviously, that's terrible.
00:29:22.000 Now, there's only one problem with this theory, which is that, again, Casey is rather delightful.
00:29:26.000 As a cancer-surviving mother of several children, she also happens to be a pretty good political advisor to a guy who just won the state of Florida by 20 points.
00:29:34.000 So, it is obvious that this is effectively a two-person race.
00:29:38.000 The entire media are allied not against Trump, but against DeSantis in the primaries.
00:29:42.000 Trump has joined them, which is why he's attacking DeSantis from the left.
00:29:46.000 And you're gonna see a series of ridiculous hits On DeSantis, despite the fact that Trump, the person that is supposedly the most dangerous person in the race and the most dangerous person in America, is running.
00:29:56.000 The media, they know exactly who they want to be the nominee, pretty clearly at this point.
00:30:02.000 Okay, in just one second, we'll get to the latest on the national debt fight.
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00:32:14.000 Okay, meanwhile, the debt ceiling is about to be hit.
00:32:17.000 We're supposed to hit that.
00:32:19.000 Beginning of June, Janet Yellen is claiming that that date is immovable, that we are basically on the verge of hitting it right now.
00:32:28.000 Meanwhile, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden have still not reached a deal to raise the debt ceiling.
00:32:33.000 Following a high-stakes meeting at the White House, according to the Wall Street Journal, they plan to press ahead with talks as the U.S.
00:32:37.000 nears a deadline to prevent a first-ever default.
00:32:40.000 Now, this is the rare circumstance on a debt ceiling fight where Republicans actually have the upper hand.
00:32:44.000 That doesn't mean they shouldn't cut a deal.
00:32:45.000 They should.
00:32:46.000 If the debt ceiling is hit, And Biden offers something, Republicans will be blamed.
00:32:52.000 But Biden made a massive strategic error very early on here.
00:32:56.000 Because he was high on his own supply and because his brain does not function properly, the President of the United States very early on said, I'm not going to negotiate at all over the debt ceiling.
00:33:05.000 I want a clean debt ceiling increase with no cuts to spending, none.
00:33:09.000 And we'll argue about the budget later.
00:33:10.000 Well, that was never going to happen because Republicans have control over the purse strings.
00:33:14.000 And Republicans actually did pass a bill with a very narrow majority that essentially Made the debt ceiling increase in return for keeping spending at 2022 levels.
00:33:25.000 So this is not massive cuts to government spending.
00:33:27.000 It's actually fairly moderate cuts to government spending.
00:33:29.000 And Joe Biden said, I will not negotiate. 1.00
00:33:31.000 This was such a stupid move by him, like a massive failure by Joe Biden. 0.99
00:33:35.000 And it put him in a bad position because now it looks as though Joe Biden is the one who's intransigent because he is. 0.99
00:33:40.000 And Kevin McCarthy has been able to hold his caucus together throughout all of this, and he's likely to receive a bunch of concessions from Joe Biden, including some actual cuts to spending, like cuts back to 2022 levels of spending, which again, The job of the Speaker of the House is to win as many concessions from the President of the United States as he possibly can because he doesn't control the Senate or the presidency.
00:34:02.000 Which means that clawing back some of this and wrong-footing Joe Biden in the process, making Biden look weak, and by the way, putting Biden on thin ice with his own base.
00:34:11.000 Because one of the things that the Republicans have held to is the idea of work requirements for receiving SNAP funding or TAN funding, right?
00:34:18.000 All this government funding that right now is basically just given to you without you having to work a living.
00:34:24.000 The Republicans are about to claw back some of that stuff.
00:34:26.000 They're about to claw back some COVID funding.
00:34:28.000 All of this is good stuff.
00:34:30.000 And if Biden caves on it, Republicans should take a victory lap.
00:34:33.000 Now, listen, there are a lot of entrenched interests in sort of the Republican commentariat who will tell you to be absolutely purist, that we should absolutely let this hit the debt ceiling.
00:34:41.000 It's going to be great.
00:34:42.000 OK, number one, hitting that ceiling will not, in fact, be particularly great.
00:34:45.000 And if Republicans are blamed for it, it will be even worse than that.
00:34:48.000 There are a lot of Republicans in swing states and swing districts who will lose their seats over that sort of thing.
00:34:52.000 Plus, the economy will absolutely crater.
00:34:53.000 And that's not good for anybody. 0.97
00:34:55.000 But if Republicans are able to win concessions from Joe Biden, and if they're able to take advantage of the fact that Joe Biden made, again, a massive strategic blunder, and saying you're not going to negotiate preemptively is a massive strategic blunder, it makes you look as though you're stubborn and stupid, which is what Joe Biden is on this topic, then Republicans should take the victory.
00:35:12.000 And that is a victory for McCarthy, for a speaker who was considered extremely weak when he took office, a person who was barely able on what was it, the eighth, ninth, tenth vote 0.53
00:35:22.000 to get the speakership, to hold together a majority in the House,
00:35:24.000 to get something through that actually carves away concessions from Biden.
00:35:27.000 That's actually just, you know, take good news when you get it sometimes.
00:35:31.000 So Kevin McCarthy, for his part, he said, Joe Biden isn't really negotiating,
00:35:34.000 but he needs to negotiate better.
00:35:35.000 He says, we need to pass something this week.
00:35:37.000 Earlier this afternoon, Speaker McCarthy laid out a timeline
00:35:42.000 of when the two sides must reach a deal.
00:35:45.000 I think we're going to do it tonight, we're going to do it tomorrow,
00:35:51.000 but we've got to get something done this week to be able to pass it and move it to the Senate.
00:35:55.000 OK, meanwhile.
00:35:58.000 The Democrats are trying to claim that if they don't get a deal, they will somehow be able to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling, which is not really going to happen again.
00:36:08.000 They keep trying to paint Republicans as crazy terrorists on this thing, but McCarthy is coming off as really moderate here.
00:36:12.000 Here's McCarthy saying, listen, all we're going to do is spend less than we did last year, which, by the way, is more than any other year in American history.
00:36:20.000 The underlying issue here is the Democrats, since they took the majority, have been addicted to spending and that's going to stop.
00:36:27.000 We're going to spend less than we spent last year.
00:36:31.000 McCarthy also makes the point we should probably stop borrowing money from the Chinese to pay, essentially, welfare queens.
00:36:37.000 Are work requirements also still part of this?
00:36:39.000 Or are you just talking about spending levels right now?
00:36:42.000 Just agreeing on the spending levels?
00:36:43.000 Are work requirements on social safety net programs going to be part of this?
00:36:46.000 When you talk about work requirements, remember, we want to take people from poverty to jobs.
00:36:51.000 It's only for people who are able-bodied with no dependents. 0.90
00:36:56.000 I don't think it's right that we borrow money from China to pay somebody that has no dependents able-bodied to sit on a couch.
00:37:03.000 What we find is people become more productive.
00:37:06.000 So that's still a red line for you?
00:37:07.000 Every study has shown it helps the economy, helps people, and it helps our supply chain make us less dependent upon China.
00:37:16.000 Okay, that is absolutely correct.
00:37:17.000 And again, McCarthy's doing a pretty great job of sounding moderate there, which is exactly what the American people want.
00:37:21.000 They just want some sort of sanity here. 0.97
00:37:23.000 Meanwhile, Democrats are being as crazy as they want to be.
00:37:24.000 Representative Steve Cohen, a Democrat of Tennessee, he says that Joe Biden should use the 14th Amendment to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling, which Joe Biden has already said he can't do, and Janet Yellen has already said he can't do.
00:37:35.000 The validity of the public debt authorized by law shall not be questioned.
00:37:40.000 Some legal scholars say that could apply to the debt limit.
00:37:44.000 What's your view on this?
00:37:45.000 Should the president go down this road sooner rather than later?
00:37:49.000 In part because, as he was saying a few moments ago, there would be a legal process that might play out.
00:37:57.000 I'm sure there'd be a legal process that would play out, but I'd always go with Lawrence Tribe. 0.86
00:38:03.000 He's my expert.
00:38:04.000 I think he's considered one of the finest attorneys and legal minds in this country on constitutional issues and others, and he believes it's a valid clause that needs to be foremost in the President's mind, and that you don't have to make a deal, and the whole debt ceiling is irrelevant.
00:38:20.000 The Constitution says you have to honor the debt.
00:38:23.000 So I think it's an ace in the hole for the President.
00:38:25.000 I think he'd like to negotiate.
00:38:27.000 And he'd like to be able to show he can work together with the Republicans.
00:38:31.000 That's an absurdity piled on top of an absurdity.
00:38:33.000 Quoting Larry Tribe.
00:38:34.000 Larry Tribe's piece in the New York Times.
00:38:36.000 He says originally that you can't use the 14th Amendment to increase the debt ceiling, but basically because I want to, now I'll pretend that we can.
00:38:43.000 So that's amazing stuff.
00:38:44.000 Meanwhile, the Biden administration failing on pretty much every front.
00:38:47.000 Amazing story.
00:38:48.000 The Biden administration somehow achieved the signal feat Of nuking, like, a Syrian shepherd and then claiming that the guy was a terrorist.
00:38:59.000 I'm not kidding.
00:39:00.000 Like, this one just kind of went over everybody's head.
00:39:02.000 It just didn't get the kind of attention it should.
00:39:05.000 This administration has a really nasty habit of blowing up random people and then claiming they killed terrorists.
00:39:09.000 You remember they did this in the aftermath of the pullout from Afghanistan.
00:39:13.000 They claimed that they had killed, like, a top ISIS-K member and it turned out that the guy was actually an interpreter for the Americans and we had basically nuked him and his family.
00:39:21.000 Well now, according to the Washington Post, U.S.
00:39:23.000 military officials are walking back claims that a recent strike in Syria killed an influential al-Qaeda figure.
00:39:28.000 Following assertions by the dead man's family, he had no ties to terrorists, but was a father of 10, tending his sheep when he was hit by an American missile.
00:39:35.000 Apparently the guy's name was Latfi Hassan Misto, 56.
00:39:38.000 His family identified him as a victim of a Hellfire missile attack on May 3rd.
00:39:42.000 He was a former bricklayer who lived quietly in a town in northwest Syria.
00:39:46.000 They described a kind, hardworking man whose whole life was spent poor.
00:39:49.000 The operation was overseen by CENTCOM.
00:39:51.000 They claimed hours after the strike, with no evidence or naming a suspect, that the Predator drone strike had targeted a senior Al Qaeda leader.
00:39:57.000 Now they say we are no longer confident we killed a senior AQ official.
00:40:02.000 They say that maybe the guy was Al-Qaeda, maybe he wasn't, but maybe he was just taking care of sheep and we just decided to nuke him and then tell everybody that everything was fine. 0.71
00:40:10.000 Asked about this, Jake Sullivan, who, by the way, how does Jake Sullivan still have a job with this administration?
00:40:14.000 He was fundamentally involved in the entire Russia hoax, in planting the Clinton plan, the so-called Clinton plan, planting all the fake intel with intelligence officials so that they could push out lies about Donald Trump and the And the Russian collusion scandal.
00:40:31.000 Jake Sullivan is still out there with the job.
00:40:33.000 Here he was trying to explain why they had droned a shepherd.
00:40:36.000 The U.S.
00:40:37.000 is walking back claims that a drone strike in Syria earlier this month killed a senior leader of the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
00:40:46.000 The family of the man killed told CNN he was just a 56-year-old shepherd with 10 kids, zero connections to terrorism.
00:40:55.000 Is that right, that the strike did not kill the senior al-Qaeda leader, it killed a civilian?
00:41:00.000 And if it is true that it was a civilian killed, is anyone going to be held accountable?
00:41:05.000 The Pentagon is conducting a full and thorough investigation.
00:41:09.000 They will report the results of that investigation to the President, and we will proceed from there.
00:41:14.000 So far, we do not have evidence to validate the claims being made in Syria, but I am going to withhold any judgment on what exactly happened here until the Pentagon's investigation is complete.
00:41:28.000 It is amazing how this administration has a constant habit of just hitting the wrong things with missiles.
00:41:34.000 It's like, they won't do anything about a Chinese spy balloon that floats over the entirety of the continental United States, but they'll knock down a weather balloon that's floating above Lake Michigan five seconds later. 0.56
00:41:41.000 They won't actually do anything to stop the terrorists from taking over Kandahar and Kabul, but the minute we leave, they'll just kill an interpreter.
00:41:47.000 In Syria, they'll just nuke some random shepherd who's tending to his sheep on a hillside. 0.58
00:41:52.000 They're like, oh, big deal.
00:41:53.000 It's totally, totally fine.
00:41:55.000 Meanwhile, this administration apparently also screwed up its estimate with regard to military aid to Ukraine.
00:41:59.000 According to Reuters, the Pentagon overestimated the value of ammunition, missiles, and other equipment it sent to Ukraine by about $3 billion, according to a Senate aid and defense official on Thursday.
00:42:08.000 Why exactly would they say that?
00:42:10.000 They would say that specifically because they wish to give $3 billion more to Ukraine.
00:42:14.000 So what they're saying is, we estimated, say, that we gave $20 billion in aid to Ukraine.
00:42:19.000 Actually, we were supposed to give $20 billion and we only gave $17 billion, which means let's send them another $3 billion in aid.
00:42:23.000 This is definitely one way of ending around Congress.
00:42:27.000 It is something that does not appear to be perfectly clean.
00:42:30.000 Here is Jake Sullivan trying to explain that one away.
00:42:33.000 There was this very bizarre admission from the Pentagon this week of an accounting error that suggested that the US has at least three billion dollars that it didn't know it had that it can use for Ukraine aid.
00:42:47.000 That's a hell of an accounting error and it provides a lot of fodder to critics of USAID Ukraine and critics who say there's not enough oversight going on.
00:42:59.000 Are you concerned about this accounting error?
00:43:03.000 Well, one thing I just want to make clear.
00:43:05.000 That is not money that went out the door and disappeared.
00:43:08.000 That is not a waste of that $3 billion.
00:43:11.000 It is simply a tally of how much military equipment we have given them.
00:43:15.000 Okay, well, I get it.
00:43:17.000 I just don't understand why you think that makes it significantly better.
00:43:20.000 That you're basically unilaterally devaluing the equipment that we gave to the Ukrainians so that you can sign another $3 billion check to the Ukrainians. 0.80
00:43:27.000 Shouldn't that stuff go through Congress?
00:43:29.000 At least a little bit?
00:43:30.000 Meanwhile, this administration, by the way, continues to not bring home Paul Whelan.
00:43:35.000 In the middle of the Ukraine-Russia war, Paul Whelan, the ex-Marine who has now been in custody over in Russia for a significant period of time.
00:43:43.000 He was given a 16-year jail sentence in 2020.
00:43:46.000 Whelan is speaking out now.
00:43:47.000 He's like, I don't understand.
00:43:48.000 Why did you guys bring home Brittany Griner-Banami?
00:43:50.000 What's the deal?
00:43:52.000 The last time he spoke with CNN's Jennifer Hansler by phone was in December, shortly after the release of WNBA star Brittany Griner, the result of a second prisoner swap between the U.S.
00:44:03.000 and Russia that didn't include Whelan.
00:44:06.000 Today, he fears the possibility of being left behind again, but his tone is more optimistic.
00:44:12.000 I'm more confident now.
00:44:14.000 You know, I feel that my life shouldn't be considered less valuable or important than others who have been Okay, but he is still sitting and waiting to actually be liberated.
00:44:34.000 Meanwhile, Brittany Griner, she's back playing in the WNBA after we released the Merchant of Death to bring home a WNBA player.
00:44:40.000 Again, very, very bad trade and the only time anyone has ever cared about a WNBA trade. 1.00
00:44:43.000 This has to be the clip of the day.
00:44:44.000 Brittany Griner's coach.
00:44:46.000 It was great, but like, honestly, come on LA.
00:44:47.000 Like, we didn't sell out the arena for our BG.
00:44:49.000 Like, I expected more.
00:44:51.000 You know, to be honest, right?
00:44:52.000 not sell out because it's a WNBA game. No WNBA game has ever sold out so far as I'm aware.
00:44:56.000 Here's a Brittany, here's Brittany Griner's coach trying to call out the fans. 1.00
00:44:59.000 It was great but like honestly come on LA like we didn't sell out the arena for BG.
00:45:06.000 Like I expected more you know to be honest right like it was great it was loud but
00:45:11.000 um how was how was it not a sellout?
00:45:17.000 How was it not a sellout?
00:45:18.000 Um...
00:45:20.000 Cause no one cares about your sport?
00:45:22.000 That would be the reason?
00:45:23.000 Cause no one wants to watch women's basketball? 1.00
00:45:25.000 That would be the reason?
00:45:26.000 Also, I do enjoy, this is a point made by comedian Bill Burr, why is it that women are always complaining that men don't 1.00
00:45:31.000 show up to WNBA games?
00:45:32.000 When was the last time you heard a man complain not enough women were showing up to NBA games?
00:45:36.000 And it turns out that, you know who likes men's basketball?
00:45:40.000 Everybody, but especially men.
00:45:42.000 Women constitute half the population, as Bill Burr points out, and yet they constitute zero people going to the actual WNBA games. 0.96
00:45:47.000 You guys want to pack the house?
00:45:48.000 Go for it, man.
00:45:48.000 You can watch ladies play fundamentally sound basketball that would get defeated by a fairly decent high school boys basketball team.
00:45:56.000 Enjoy yourself.
00:45:57.000 Okay, time for a quick thing I love and then a thing that I hate.
00:45:59.000 So, things that I love today.
00:46:01.000 It's not just things that I like, it's things that I love.
00:46:03.000 So, over the weekend, my wife gave birth to our fourth child.
00:46:07.000 Beautiful baby boy.
00:46:08.000 He's a real squishy.
00:46:11.000 My wife is an amazing human being and an amazing wife, an amazing woman. 0.75
00:46:15.000 Thanks to God for her.
00:46:17.000 Thanks to God for the baby.
00:46:19.000 It's always so dramatic.
00:46:20.000 I mean, giving birth is like an amazing thing.
00:46:22.000 I've seen my wife do it four times now. 1.00
00:46:24.000 And every time, you never cease to be astonished by the miracle of watching this thing happen.
00:46:29.000 And it raises so many thoughts in your head.
00:46:32.000 The absolute power and magic of being a woman to give birth is just like, it's an amazing, amazing thing.
00:46:38.000 It's a magical thing.
00:46:39.000 It's a superpower.
00:46:41.000 A woman is able to grow in her body another human being, nurture that human being for nine months, and then she has to somehow push that human being out. 1.00
00:46:50.000 And then she can begin to nourish that new human being with her own body. 0.96
00:46:55.000 It's an amazing, unbelievable thing to watch.
00:46:57.000 It's a miracle in real time.
00:46:58.000 It's always deeply moving.
00:47:00.000 Anybody who's not religious, watch a childbirth and I challenge you to question whether miracles exist because it's every single time, it's just a miracle.
00:47:09.000 The fact that women do it repeatedly is a miracle in and of itself. 0.99
00:47:12.000 My wife's done it four times and the amount of you know pain and suffering that it takes to actually do that and then you go back and do it again because this is an important thing.
00:47:19.000 You put your own body on the line to bring another human being into the world.
00:47:23.000 I mean it's just the most giving unbelievable thing in the entire world.
00:47:26.000 It also leads to political thoughts like anybody who believes that two minutes before this baby exited my wife this baby was not a baby is out of their mind.
00:47:34.000 You have to be a complete nutcase to actually believe that in the 9th month of pregnancy, or the 8th month, or the 7th month of pregnancy, or the 6th month of pregnancy, that what is inside the womb is not a human being.
00:47:44.000 And you have to be totally crazy, because you can see the baby coming out. 0.89
00:47:49.000 And when the baby comes out, it is materially no different than when it was inside.
00:47:52.000 And yet there are really people in this world who believe that it was not a baby when it was... The woman has a right to choose, even at that moment, which is just utter craziness. 0.95
00:48:00.000 It's utter, absolute insanity and craziness.
00:48:02.000 But the amount of gratitude that I have for the Almighty, for giving us a healthy child, and the amount of gratitude I have for the medical staff for helping to make all of this happen.
00:48:12.000 Modern medicine is an incredible, incredible thing.
00:48:15.000 And the amount of gratitude I have for my astonishing wife, who's astonishing in every single way.
00:48:19.000 She not only has the babies, but then takes care of the babies, and then of course she's a doctor on the side, and somebody who really has her priorities straight, somebody who knows what her priorities are in life and really takes care of our children. 0.98
00:48:30.000 It's an astonishing, astonishing thing.
00:48:33.000 I could not be happier or more grateful.
00:48:35.000 For baby number four repopulating the earth with baby Shapiros, and of course he is a very squishy baby. 1.00
00:48:41.000 He's a very squishy baby indeed.
00:48:43.000 Okay time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:48:50.000 So, thing number one that I hate.
00:48:51.000 Remember last week I told you that the Dodgers had been pressured and had finally caved to common sense, at least in a minor way.
00:48:58.000 They continued to do their pride night, the L.A. 0.79
00:48:59.000 Dodgers, but then they decided that they were going to uninvite the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, which is a wild, radical, insane, anti-religious group. 0.93
00:49:10.000 They dress up like nuns and then promote promiscuity and indecent behavior. 1.00
00:49:18.000 And it turns out that that offends a lot of people.
00:49:21.000 Particularly in Los Angeles, which has a heavily Catholic fan base.
00:49:24.000 And so the Dodgers backed off, but well now they've backed off the backoff.
00:49:27.000 They've put out another statement.
00:49:28.000 They said, After much thoughtful feedback from our diverse communities,
00:49:31.000 honest conversations within the LA Dodgers organization, and generous discussions with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,
00:49:36.000 the LA Dodgers would like to offer our sincerest apologies to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,
00:49:40.000 members of the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign community, and their friends and families.
00:49:44.000 We have asked the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to take their place on the field 0.99
00:49:47.000 at our 10th annual LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign pride night, June 16th.
00:49:51.000 We are pleased to share that they have agreed to receive the gratitude of our collective communities for the life-saving work they have done tirelessly for decades.
00:49:58.000 Oh, so much life-saving work.
00:49:59.000 The life-saving of mocking Catholics. 0.99
00:50:02.000 And promoting sexually deviant behavior. 0.95
00:50:05.000 Truly astonishing work there.
00:50:07.000 So nice.
00:50:07.000 So wonderful.
00:50:07.000 we will continue the work with our LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign partners to better educate
00:50:11.000 ourselves find ways to strengthen the ties that bind and use our platform to support
00:50:15.000 all our fans who make up the diversity of the Dodgers family.
00:50:18.000 Oh, so nice.
00:50:20.000 So wonderful.
00:50:21.000 So indecent.
00:50:23.000 But yeah, I guess now you have to take sides in the culture war.
00:50:27.000 Taylor Swift, silence is deafening.
00:50:28.000 You can't just be a baseball team that does baseball things.
00:50:30.000 Now you must speak out on behalf of the left, and if you do not speak out on behalf of the left, then you will be held to account.
00:50:36.000 That is the only reason why the Dodgers do this.
00:50:37.000 Well, there has to be a countervailing pressure from the right on teams like the Dodgers.
00:50:41.000 And if you're a Catholic, you shouldn't be going to this game. 0.97
00:50:43.000 You shouldn't be going to any of the games.
00:50:44.000 In fact, you should be telling the Dodgers precisely what you think of them.
00:50:48.000 Alrighty guys, the rest of the show continues right now.
00:50:50.000 You're not going to want to miss it.
00:50:51.000 We'll be getting into the Vaunted Ben Shapiro Show Mailbag.
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