The Ben Shapiro Show - Joe Biden Left Classified Information Pretty Much Everywhere | Ep. 1647

00:00:00.000 More classified documents are found at Joe Biden's house by his lawyers.

00:00:03.000 Democrats struggle to respond.

00:00:05.000 And the Miss Universe pageant is now run by a man who believes he is a woman standing up for feminism.

00:00:10.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:10.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:11.000 Well, it's another day and more documents have been found at Joe Biden's house.

00:00:22.000 Classified documents.

00:00:22.000 And the best excuse for Joe Biden, as always, is he doesn't know where his house is or what a document is.

00:00:27.000 The best advice for Joe Biden from his lawyers is going to be, I was senile.

00:00:31.000 I don't know what I'm doing.

00:00:32.000 And also elect me president again in 2024.

00:00:35.000 According to the Associated Press, lawyers for President Joe Biden found more classified documents at his home in Wilmington, Delaware than previously known, the White House acknowledged on Saturday.

00:00:42.000 White House lawyer Richard Sauber said in a statement a total of six pages of classified documents were found during a search of Biden's private library.

00:00:48.000 The White House had said previously only a single page was found there.

00:00:51.000 This latest disclosure is in addition to the discovery of documents found in December in Joe Biden's garage, which is of course the most secure location in all of America.

00:00:59.000 Donald Trump's lock closet at Mar-a-Lago.

00:01:00.000 That place is wildly insecure.

00:01:02.000 Chinese spies are rappelling from the ceilings a la Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible in order to grab the documents from Donald Trump's closet. 0.59

00:01:09.000 But Joe Biden's garage in Delaware, that is the place where no one would dare look.

00:01:14.000 No one would ever break into a garage in Wilmington, Delaware.

00:01:18.000 Also, they found it in November at his former offices at the Penn Biden Center for boondoggles and wasteful money in Washington from his time as vice president.

00:01:26.000 Now, as we will also remind you, the vice president does not have the summary power of declassification.

00:01:30.000 The president of the United States basically does.

00:01:32.000 The apparent mishandling of declassified documents and official records from the Obama administration is currently under investigation by a former U.S.

00:01:38.000 attorney, Robert Herr, who was appointed as a special counsel on Thursday by Attorney General Merrick Garland, who is seeking to avoid as much blame as possible.

00:01:45.000 It won't matter.

00:01:46.000 In the end, it's going to have to be Merrick Garland who decides whether to prosecute Donald Trump or whether to prosecute Joe Biden.

00:01:50.000 The answer is neither of them will be prosecuted because they are part of the special people.

00:01:54.000 If this were you, you would be prosecuted, but you are not a special people.

00:01:57.000 They are special people, so they will not be prosecuted.

00:01:59.000 Salber said in a statement on Saturday that Biden's personal lawyers, who did not have security clearances, stopped their search after finding the first page on Wednesday evening. Salber found the remaining material on Thursday as he was facilitating their retrieval by the Department of Justice.

00:02:11.000 By the way, quick question.

00:02:13.000 How did they know it was classified?

00:02:14.000 The answer is it was marked classified.

00:02:16.000 That is the only way you know to stop looking through the documents.

00:02:19.000 It's not as though they have independent knowledge knowing that documents are classified or not.

00:02:23.000 It means that these things must have been clearly labeled secret or top secret.

00:02:27.000 And then they were just hanging around in Joe Biden's house in Delaware or in his garage next to his throwback Corvette.

00:02:33.000 The lawyer, Richard Sauber, said, Now again, why did it take two months for the White House to acknowledge that any of this happened?

00:02:37.000 with classification markings were discovered among the material for a total of six pages.

00:02:41.000 The DOJ officials with me immediately took possession of them. Now again, why did it take two months for the White House to acknowledge that any of this happened?

00:02:49.000 The answer is, of course, they had to get well past the actual election cycle.

00:02:53.000 On Thursday, asked whether Biden could guarantee that additional classified documents would not turn up in a further search, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, the world's most untalented press secretary, told reporters, quote, you should assume that it's been completed.

00:03:04.000 Yes.

00:03:05.000 And then two days later, they had to announce that there were more pages that were actually found at his house.

00:03:09.000 Bob Bauer, the president's personal lawyer, said his legal team has, quote, attempted to balance the importance of public transparency where appropriate.

00:03:17.000 Yes, I'm sure that's what this was all about.

00:03:21.000 I'm sure that despite the fact this was all discovered on November 2nd, the first thing that Joe Biden thought was, how can I protect the transparency of the process and ensure that the process goes forward fully legally?

00:03:31.000 It never occurred to Joe Biden or his lawyers, maybe we'll wait until after this election cycle is over and everybody goes to sleep for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

00:03:39.000 And then when they come back, then we'll tell them about this little snafu.

00:03:43.000 The Associated Press goes out of its way to try and distinguish this from Donald Trump because Donald Trump, of course, was very stubborn about not turning over the documents, whereas Joe Biden turned over the documents forthwith.

00:03:52.000 Yes, but that does not actually change the underlying fact is you are not supposed to have classified documents sitting in your garage in a box in the same box where you're keeping your old family photos, for example.

00:04:01.000 This raises a bunch of serious problems.

00:04:03.000 One of those problems is that the president's son was apparently living at this home at the time.

00:04:08.000 Normally, if the president's son were living at this home during the time, you'd think, okay, well, no biggie, right?

00:04:12.000 I mean, it's just the president's kid.

00:04:14.000 However, Hunter Biden has a rather long and inglorious history of running away to foreign countries while his father was the vice president of the United States or in the post-vice presidency and picking up giant bags of cash from foreign sources who are nefarious at best.

00:04:26.000 Not only that, it now turns out that Hunter Biden listed this particular house as owned by him and also said that he was renting the house at the same time in his tax forms, which raises some pretty serious questions.

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00:06:46.000 According to Breitbart.com and Miranda Devine over at the New York Post, Hunter Biden recorded monthly rent payments of $49,910 while living at President Joe Biden's residence.

00:06:57.000 On a document titled Background Screening Request, it appears Hunter paid $49,910 in monthly rent for a year while living at Joe Biden's Delaware residence, where the president kept classified documents alongside his Corvette in the garage.

00:07:09.000 Hunter listed his rental tenancy from March 2017 to February 2018, according to the document.

00:07:13.000 The document is signed July of 2018.

00:07:17.000 In 2017, Biden left the White House and stored a large number of classified documents inside that garage and in two other locations.

00:07:23.000 The first batch of documents found are alleged to contain information pertaining to both Ukraine and Iran, according to CNN.

00:07:29.000 The document also shows that Hunter checked a box on the form claiming to own Joe Biden's home.

00:07:33.000 It is unknown why Hunter would have paid rent if he owned the home. 1.00

00:07:36.000 Now, again, the best possible solution for Joe Biden and Hunter is we are both idiots and we do idiot things because we're idiots. 1.00

00:07:41.000 And that's very plausible, because welcome to the political world where everyone is a moron. 1.00

00:07:45.000 However, if in fact Hunter Biden is not a complete moron, and if he was not high on Parmesan cheese when he filled out these forms, this raises some pretty serious questions. 0.98

00:07:54.000 First question, why are you paying rent on a home that you purportedly own? 0.97

00:07:57.000 Second question, $50,000 a month in rent?

00:08:03.000 The F?

00:08:04.000 $50,000 a month in rent?

00:08:05.000 That is a lot of money in rent.

00:08:08.000 I mean, like, I think that if you're paying $50,000 a month in rent, you're talking about a home that would presumably be worth tens of millions of dollars.

00:08:18.000 You're talking about Joe Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware.

00:08:21.000 You'd be talking about like a mega mansion if you are talking about $50,000 in rent.

00:08:27.000 I mean, what is the mortgage if you're paying a $50,000 a month mortgage?

00:08:32.000 What exactly what is the what is the price on the house?

00:08:37.000 That's crazy.

00:08:39.000 That's nuts.

00:08:40.000 I mean, so this raises some pretty serious questions as to whether he was actually paying to rent the house or whether this is essentially money laundering, right?

00:08:48.000 That would be the other plausible excuse is that you are paying $50,000 a month to daddy.

00:08:53.000 The house is not worth $50,000 a month.

00:08:55.000 The house is worth $6,000 a month or $10,000 a month.

00:08:57.000 And the rest of it, daddy is just pocketing and you're calling it rent.

00:09:01.000 Because as far as I'm aware, Joe Biden's house in Wilmington, Delaware is not worth tens of millions of dollars.

00:09:10.000 So that is a lot of money.

00:09:13.000 What in the actual, what?

00:09:16.000 Okay, so this raises some very serious Issues, obviously, especially given the fact that we've known from documents for a long time from Hunter Biden's computer that there was an email from Chinese authorities to Tony Bobulinski, who's working with Hunter Biden and Hunter Biden to Tony Bobulinski, talking about 10% reserved in this Chinese deal for the big guy.

00:09:38.000 And there have been serious questions as to who the big guy was.

00:09:40.000 And it appears the big guy may in fact have been Joe Biden.

00:09:43.000 So that looks a lot as though Joe Biden was making a lot of money off of his son's nefarious business activities overseas.

00:09:50.000 It should be noted that Joe Biden's 2017 tax return on Schedule E only listed $19,800 in rents received.

00:09:55.000 And in 2018, Biden listed no rents received at all.

00:10:01.000 This obviously is going to raise some very serious questions about why exactly Hunter Biden was saying it.

00:10:09.000 And that is independent of the fact that you have a bunch of classified documents being kept in the house.

00:10:12.000 So you have this very untrustworthy, scuzzy human being, Hunter Biden.

00:10:16.000 By the way, Hunter Biden is so scuzzy right now that I believe that right now in court, he is fighting against the woman he impregnated with his child, that the child should not be able to have his last name.

00:10:26.000 That is a thing that he is doing right now.

00:10:27.000 So he's a real class act, this Hunter Biden.

00:10:29.000 The smartest person that Joe Biden knows.

00:10:32.000 This sort of stuff is going to come back to Biden in a very serious way and the investigations are going to begin.

00:10:38.000 Joe Biden's lawyers have put out a statement.

00:10:40.000 Bob Bauer, who's the personal attorney for the president, put out a statement talking about why all these documents were there with the timeline.

00:10:46.000 The timeline is November 2nd.

00:10:48.000 The president's personal attorneys unexpectedly discovered Obama-Biden documents at the Penn-Biden Center, consistent with statutory requirements.

00:10:54.000 The National Archives and Records Administration was notified of the discovery.

00:10:57.000 For the following eight days, the president's personal attorneys were in regular contact with NARA and anticipated that NARA would notify the DOJ and the DOJ would notify the president's personal attorneys of any next steps.

00:11:07.000 On November 3rd, NARA informed the NARA Inspector General.

00:11:10.000 On November 4th, as stated by the Attorney General, the NARA Inspector General informed the DOJ.

00:11:14.000 And on November 9th, like the day after the election, as stated by the Attorney General, DOJ launched an assessment to understand whether documents were mishandled.

00:11:22.000 The timeline here is super suspicious.

00:11:25.000 January 12th is when the President's personal attorneys informed U.S.

00:11:28.000 Attorney Lausch they had found additional material bearing classified markings at the Wilmington resident inside the room adjacent to the- Why did it take two and a half months for them to actually search the entire residence?

00:11:36.000 Like, what have they been doing this entire time?

00:11:40.000 It's a full-scale disaster area for Joe Biden because not only does it not look transparent, it looks incompetent.

00:11:44.000 Not only does it look incompetent, he's got his weirdo son living at the house at the time paying $50,000 a month in rent according to Hunter Biden's own forms.

00:11:53.000 All of this is super suspicious.

00:11:55.000 Meanwhile, the House GOP continues to seek Biden residents visitor logs as the classified document saga continues according to the Wall Street Journal.

00:12:02.000 House Republicans are seeking two years of visitor logs from Biden's Delaware home as part of a push for more details about documents marked classified that were found in Biden's home and at a Washington office used after his vice presidency.

00:12:12.000 House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer of Kentucky, he said, given the serious national security implications, the White House must provide the Wilmington residents visitor log.

00:12:21.000 Comer also requested documentation of searches Biden aides conducted, including the identity of the aides, as well as the date of their searches.

00:12:28.000 The White House declined to comment on whether it would even comply with the request.

00:12:31.000 There are people on the TVs like Andy McCabe, who was thrown out of the FBI for leaking material about his own activities at the FBI to the press, saying that the DOJ should not comply and Biden should not comply with congressional subpoenas.

00:12:44.000 Five seconds ago, obviously, if it was Donald Trump not complying, this meant that he had to be held in contempt and maybe jailed.

00:12:49.000 All of this is very, very chaotic for the Democrats right now.

00:12:52.000 According to Politico, the Democrats are basically in a state of chaos over all of this.

00:12:58.000 They don't know what to do.

00:12:59.000 Quote, talk to almost any Dem and they'll tell you that Biden's classified documents problem is not the same as former President Donald Trump's.

00:13:04.000 Biden volunteered that he had classified documents.

00:13:06.000 He and his team have seemingly cooperated with investigators, but dig a little below the surface and many of those same Democrats will concede they're getting frustrated with the White House's handling of the situation. 0.91

00:13:14.000 They're trying to put lipstick on a pig. 1.00

00:13:16.000 One Democrat close to the White House told CBS's Ed O'Keefe, the problem is this week they got handed 50 pigs and one stick of lipstick.

00:13:21.000 One Democratic official said, why in the world didn't they get the story out earlier, like before the holidays?

00:13:27.000 Why didn't they get the full story out at once instead of drip, drip, drip with each new discovery of documents?

00:13:30.000 Put simply, it was not handled well at all.

00:13:33.000 This could have some implications for 2024.

00:13:37.000 Obviously, Democrats are afraid that it's a huge gift to Donald Trump because if one of the big claims against Trump is that he's so irresponsible, how could he put these documents in just a locked closet over at Mar-a-Lago and we have photos of the documents on the ground placed there by the FBI investigators and it was raided and all the rest of it.

00:13:53.000 Now he seems like he's off the hook.

00:13:54.000 David Axelrod says, quote, he's been on a huge run here.

00:13:57.000 He had a lot of momentum going.

00:13:58.000 This is a bump in the road for Joe Biden.

00:14:01.000 The GOP investigations, according to Politico, are inevitable and they will be ferocious, Comer said.

00:14:05.000 Many questions need to be answered.

00:14:06.000 One thing is certain, oversight is coming.

00:14:08.000 The Biden White House's secrecy in this matter is alarming.

00:14:10.000 Equally alarming is the fact that Biden aides were combing through documents knowing there would be a special counsel appointed.

00:14:17.000 So this is a it is a a hornet's nest for Democrats, pretty clearly.

00:14:23.000 and Democrats are not sure what to do about it.

00:14:25.000 So there basically have been two lines.

00:14:28.000 One line is it's no big deal and we are going to pretend it's no big deal.

00:14:31.000 And the other is we definitely need to investigate, but let's keep a sense of proportion, guys.

00:14:35.000 It's not going to be that bad.

00:14:37.000 It's not going to be like, they know that they're a bit trapped here.

00:14:40.000 And they are trapped because they decided to go full bore on Donald Trump, may in fact be a Russian and or Chinese spy who is taking classified nuclear secrets and trading them away against the security of the United States.

00:14:52.000 They went like all the way in on that. 0.97

00:14:53.000 And so now if they don't go at least halfway in with regard to Joe Biden, they look really hypocritical. 0.88

00:14:58.000 And it is very obvious that they were in a get Trump mode. 0.82

00:15:01.000 They didn't really care about classification standards or national security secrets or any of the rest.

00:15:06.000 And so they look very nervous on TV over the weekend.

00:15:09.000 Jamie Raskin of Maryland, who is on the January 6th committee, after, by the way, having voted in 2016 not to certify the election, you'll recall, Jamie Raskin urged a sense of proportion in all of this.

00:15:20.000 By Biden's own standard.

00:15:22.000 Wasn't Biden totally irresponsible with classified information?

00:15:25.000 And aren't we right to wonder, to use Biden's words, quote, what data was in there that may compromise sources and methods?

00:15:32.000 You know, I'm hoping that we will keep a sense of symmetry about our analysis of these situations and a sense of proportion about the underlying offenses.

00:15:39.000 There's some people who are trying to compare having a government document that should no longer be in your possession to inciting a violent insurrection against the government of the United States.

00:15:54.000 No, actually, they're comparing having documents that shouldn't be in your possession to having documents that shouldn't be in your possession.

00:16:00.000 And you and every Democrat going absolutely ape bleep over Donald Trump having these documents in his possession.

00:16:06.000 Now, again, I think that we should take violations of classified We should take them about as seriously as is appropriate.

00:16:14.000 We should also recognize that Donald Trump was never selling nuclear secrets to the Chinese or the Russians, that it was all overblown.

00:16:19.000 That is not a rationale for the prosecution of the former president of the United States.

00:16:23.000 This is not going to be a rationale for the prosecution of Joe Biden.

00:16:25.000 We should be realistic about the fact that if you are a high-level politician in the United States, the standards do not apply to you.

00:16:30.000 Instead, what we are going to do is we will only prosecute you if we believe that you're actually a traitor to the United States and that you mean to expose material to prying foreign eyes.

00:16:38.000 Because we know that you can be as irresponsible as you want to be, and as long as you don't have intent, we won't prosecute you.

00:16:42.000 That is the Hillary Clinton standard.

00:16:43.000 The Hillary Clinton standard from 2016.

00:16:45.000 Hillary Clinton took a bunch of classified material.

00:16:47.000 She put it on a private server.

00:16:49.000 James Comey, then the head of the FBI, literally said that there was a high probability that prying eyes saw that material, that somebody hacked her server, that there's a good shot that a lot of that material was seen by foreign eyes.

00:16:59.000 Not just that it might have happened, he said there was a good shot that it had happened and that was not enough to prosecute Hillary Clinton.

00:17:05.000 So having a bunch of printed out documents in your closet at Mar-a-Lago or in your garage in Wilmington, Delaware, none of that is going to amount to a prosecution.

00:17:12.000 We all knew that going into Trump. 0.99

00:17:13.000 The difference is that the media decided that this, just like every opportunity, was the chance to get Donald Trump until they were, until it was all spoiled by those darned kids. 0.99

00:17:23.000 Every time, it's just Lucy with the football. 0.97

00:17:25.000 We're going to get Trump this time and then it just doesn't happen.

00:17:28.000 Well, this time it turns out they thought they had Trump and then Joe Biden decided that he was going to randomly wander into the middle of the story carrying unclassified documents.

00:17:36.000 So really, really well done here.

00:17:38.000 Adam Schiff, who himself has been I should say loose-lipped about classified material.

00:17:44.000 This is a guy who would go on TV pretty much every weekend on CNN and talk about the classified materials that he had seen.

00:17:49.000 He wouldn't tell you all the secrets, but he would tell you that he had seen some stuff, guys.

00:17:54.000 He'd seen some stuff that meant that Donald Trump was a Russian asset.

00:17:57.000 Well, now Adam Schiff is out there saying that he can't exclude the possibility of Biden handling the documents endangering national security.

00:18:03.000 Of course, he has to say this. 0.97

00:18:05.000 If Democrats don't say this, then it's perfectly obvious how ridiculous they are. 0.97

00:18:09.000 Back to the documents. 0.94

00:18:12.000 You raised the possibility of a national security assessment.

00:18:15.000 Is it possible that national security was jeopardized here as many, including you, raised that possibility with the Mar-a-Lago documents?

00:18:26.000 I don't think we can exclude the possibility without knowing more of the facts.

00:18:30.000 We have asked for an assessment in the intelligence community of the Mar-a-Lago documents.

00:18:35.000 I think we ought to get that same assessment of the documents found in the think tank as well as the home of President Biden.

00:18:45.000 But look at that, like newfound sobriety from the Democrats, almost as though they were completely drunk before.

00:18:50.000 And now it turns out that a bunch of Democrats probably routinely do this sort of stuff.

00:18:54.000 A lot of government officials probably have lots of classified materials they accidentally took home.

00:18:58.000 I mean, let's put the... I always try to attribute to stupidity that which I can, as opposed to malice. 0.99

00:19:03.000 I don't think that Joe Biden went through the documents and was like, I will take these classified documents home so that I can give them to Hunter so that Hunter can trade them away on the Chinese markets. 0.98

00:19:11.000 I think that is extraordinarily unlikely.

00:19:13.000 I think a lot of other reasons to think that Hunter and Joe are pretty corrupt, but I don't think that that's I don't think that's it.

00:19:19.000 With that said, do I think that Democrats are now forced to treat these situations with the lack of crisis mentality that they actually do deserve?

00:19:29.000 I think now they are.

00:19:30.000 I think they've been sort of rocked back into the world of reality. 1.00

00:19:33.000 And then you have idiots like Ilhan Omar. 1.00

00:19:35.000 Ilhan Omar, the despicable congresswoman from Minnesota. 1.00

00:19:38.000 And she's out there saying, this is really about Republican hypocrisy. 0.98

00:19:40.000 Oh, is it really? 0.90

00:19:41.000 Is it?

00:19:41.000 Is that what this is about?

00:19:43.000 Tell me more.

00:19:45.000 Well, one, I'm glad that there is a special prosecutor that's been appointed to investigate this.

00:19:51.000 You are glad that there is a special prosecutor?

00:19:53.000 Yes.

00:19:53.000 Tell me why.

00:19:53.000 Because any time there is a deviance in regards to security protocols that should be taken serious, it should be investigated.

00:20:02.000 What I find interesting is that Republicans who have defended Trump After he literally stole classified documents, refused to turn them over, lied about having them, are now only interested in investigating Biden, who has cooperated.

00:20:23.000 So you have to understand, right, Republicans aren't really interested in upholding the law, in following security protocols.

00:20:31.000 What they're interested in is playing a political game.

00:20:36.000 As opposed to Democrats, who are totally not interested in playing political games.

00:20:38.000 They are just deeply concerned about classified national security issues.

00:20:42.000 Uh-huh.

00:20:43.000 Right.

00:20:43.000 Sure.

00:20:44.000 Man, the vocal fry on that lady.

00:20:46.000 Every time she speaks, like, ah, down here.

00:20:48.000 Ah.

00:20:48.000 In any case, the rest of the media have decided that this is, in fact, the line.

00:20:51.000 They've hit on the line. 1.00

00:20:52.000 The line is, Republicans are hypocrites! 0.97

00:20:54.000 You mean that, so, so just to get this straight, if you guys go absolutely nuts over Donald Trump having a bunch of classified documents in his, in his closet, Not because he wanted to sell them, but because he's Donald Trump. 0.97

00:21:04.000 And Donald Trump probably was sitting there like, I like these documents.

00:21:06.000 This one has Kim Jong-un's signature on it.

00:21:08.000 Look, it's pretty.

00:21:08.000 It's nice.

00:21:09.000 It's like poetry.

00:21:10.000 Slam poetry. 0.97

00:21:12.000 Which is really why he was keeping the documents there.

00:21:13.000 And if you said that at the time, like, how dare you not take classified national security seriously?

00:21:18.000 And now they're like, my God, my God, we're not going to take this seriously.

00:21:23.000 Why should we take this seriously?

00:21:24.000 And if you and if you said that classified national security issues should be taken seriously, but like, let's be real, nobody's actually stealing national security documents to disseminate them with the bad guys.

00:21:34.000 If you said that, then this was downplaying it. 0.75

00:21:36.000 Their line is you're now a hypocrite if you point out that Joe Biden did exactly the same thing because he did exactly the same thing. 0.93

00:21:36.000 This is their new line. 0.93

00:21:42.000 So CNN's Jake Tapper, he went after James Comer on this, the Republican congressperson from Kentucky, saying, do you only care about the classified documents when Democrats do the mishandling?

00:21:51.000 The answer is no, but we're going to take it with exactly the same amount of seriousness.

00:21:55.000 Everyone in Washington, D.C.

00:21:57.000 has a double digit IQ.

00:21:59.000 That's the amount of seriousness with which we should take virtually all of their behavior.

00:22:03.000 So, what do you say to viewers who don't understand why President Biden's documents seem like a big priority for you, but President Trump, who took hundreds more documents, did not comply with the subpoena, did not reach out to the National Archives or the Justice Department to say, hey, we found these documents.

00:22:22.000 It's not a priority.

00:22:23.000 Do you only care about classified documents being mishandled when Democrats do the mishandling?

00:22:30.000 Absolutely not.

00:22:32.000 Look, we still don't know what type of documents President Trump had.

00:22:36.000 That's one of the questions we've asked National Archives.

00:22:38.000 Just because Joe Biden's lawyers said they turned over five documents doesn't mean they just turned over five documents.

00:22:44.000 They could have turned over 500 documents.

00:22:48.000 Okay, so again, the answer to all of this is that everyone should have taken all these investigations with exactly the grain of salt that they deserved.

00:22:55.000 A giant chunk of rock salt should have been taken with all these investigations because none of this, honestly, is that big a deal.

00:23:01.000 It wasn't that big a deal when Trump did it.

00:23:02.000 It's not that big a deal when Biden does it.

00:23:03.000 We can pretend that it's a big deal until we find out that he's actually trafficking in national security secrets.

00:23:08.000 But what is amazing is where the media really get hot and bothered, where they get very hot and bothered about where the focus goes.

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00:25:14.000 So Chuck Todd actually got angry yesterday that Republicans are targeting Hunter Biden.

00:25:17.000 Why?

00:25:19.000 Why?

00:25:19.000 Serious question.

00:25:20.000 There's some pretty good indicators that Hunter Biden was engaging in some fairly corrupt behavior abroad that may implicate his father, who is the president of the United States.

00:25:28.000 And yet you, the Praetorian guard in the media, you're very upset about all this.

00:25:30.000 So you're willing to whole hog on Donald Trump's Russian asset, who's selling the nuclear codes to Vladimir Putin.

00:25:35.000 But if Republicans start asking questions about Hunter Biden, who may be passing 10% to the big guy while paying 50 grand a month to his dad in rent, according to his own forms, then that's not worthy of question.

00:25:46.000 It seems to me if you're concerned about what Hunter Biden did, you should be equally outraged about what Jared Kushner did.

00:25:54.000 I'm concerned about getting the truth.

00:25:56.000 I don't target individuals.

00:25:57.000 Target individuals.

00:25:59.000 You're targeting Hunter Biden multiple times on this show, Senator.

00:26:02.000 You're targeting an individual.

00:26:06.000 You know, Chuck, part of the problem, and this is pretty obvious to anybody watching this, is you don't invite me on to interview me.

00:26:12.000 You invite me on to argue with me.

00:26:15.000 I'm just trying to lay out the facts that certainly Senator Grassley and I uncovered.

00:26:20.000 They were suppressed.

00:26:21.000 They were censored.

00:26:22.000 They interfered in the 2020 election.

00:26:24.000 Conservatives understand that.

00:26:26.000 Unfortunately, liberals in the media don't.

00:26:30.000 Okay, so I do love that Chuck Todd is very upset they would possibly take a look at Hunter Biden.

00:26:34.000 He's going to mention Jared Kushner in the same sentence.

00:26:36.000 Again, there's some pretty significant distinctions right here between Jared Kushner.

00:26:40.000 I guess the accusation with Jared Kushner is that Jared Kushner has taken money for his hedge fund from the Saudis after brokering peace in the Middle East.

00:26:51.000 When did Hunter Biden broker peace in China?

00:26:54.000 Ever?

00:26:55.000 Or with regard to Ukraine?

00:26:56.000 What connections did he have with any of these places independent of just his father's name?

00:27:00.000 Can anyone name it?

00:27:01.000 In any case, this is always the go-to standby so that you don't actually have to deal with the fact that the Hunter Biden situation actually is very ugly for the president or could get uglier.

00:27:08.000 Meanwhile, it is not a shock that CNN, in a desperate attempt to regain ratings, is now apparently considering hiring a comedian to host one of its primetime shows.

00:27:18.000 According to Semaphore, the news entertainment personality could fill the primetime 9 to 11 p.m.

00:27:23.000 hours with a non-traditional version of news, five people familiar with the planning said.

00:27:27.000 So CNN is so serious about the news, the most trusted name in news, they're so serious about the news, our media, that now they're talking about literally hiring a comedian like Jon Stewart in order to do the news at CNN.

00:27:40.000 Which, by the way, just shows you how far things have come.

00:27:43.000 And CNN has come full circle.

00:27:44.000 You remember in the early 2000s, there was a show on CNN called Crossfire.

00:27:47.000 It was with Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala.

00:27:49.000 And they would sit there and they would argue about politics.

00:27:50.000 Pretty good show.

00:27:52.000 And Jon Stewart went on that show and said it was bad for America.

00:27:54.000 Now, the truth is it was truly bad for America.

00:27:56.000 It was not the debate between Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson.

00:27:58.000 What was truly bad for America was Jon Stewart smirking his way through political ignorance while pretending that he knew what the hell he was talking about, which he clearly does not.

00:28:06.000 And now CNN is going to have no dissenting points of view on the air.

00:28:09.000 They still don't have a Republican working for the network, but they are going to have Jon Stewart or somebody else like Jon Stewart doing some sort of political comedy at night.

00:28:18.000 Makes perfect sense.

00:28:19.000 CNN president Chris Licht hinted at his desire to sign Stewart in an interview last year with the New York Times saying he'd love to bring on the former late night host.

00:28:25.000 Stewart is still under contract with Apple where he's making absolutely unwatchable garbage where he just parrots woke talking points in order to regain his lost credibility with the radical left.

00:28:35.000 They're talking about hiring Bill Maher.

00:28:37.000 I don't see that happening at all.

00:28:39.000 They're looking for their version of John Oliver.

00:28:41.000 One television news insider familiar with the search told Semaphore.

00:28:44.000 Executives have discussed turning the 9 p.m.

00:28:46.000 hours into a series of shows modeled like a variety program with shows within shows for different journalists.

00:28:46.000 to 12 a.m.

00:28:51.000 One network executive told Semaphore, none of this is going to save you, CNN.

00:28:56.000 Solid, solid stuff, right?

00:28:57.000 Maybe they can hire Samantha Bee. 1.00

00:28:58.000 You know, really go for it.

00:29:01.000 Amazing work here by CNN.

00:29:03.000 OK, meanwhile. 0.62

00:29:05.000 In the most ridiculous news of the day, the Miss Universe pageant happened the other night. 0.70

00:29:11.000 And far be it for me to say that I watched a single minute of it. 0.81

00:29:14.000 I did not.

00:29:15.000 The only minute of it that I watched is what was going around online.

00:29:18.000 What was going around online was a video of Thai businesswoman and CEO of the JKN Global Group, Anjakrajutathip.

00:29:27.000 And now there's one problem with Anjakrajutathip.

00:29:32.000 I don't know how to pronounce that name, so I'm going to screw it up.

00:29:36.000 This person is not a woman.

00:29:38.000 This person is a dude.

00:29:39.000 A dude with a lot of surgeries, as you will be able to hear from this clip.

00:29:43.000 So the owner of Miss Universe bought Miss Universe and now has said that the world's most famous beauty pageant is entering a new era.

00:29:52.000 And here is what Jakra Juzatip said.

00:29:54.000 Miss Universe organization, from now on, is going to be run by women. 1.00

00:30:04.000 Owned by a trans woman. 0.94

00:30:06.000 For all women.

00:30:08.000 For all women really around the world to celebrate the power of feminism.

00:30:21.000 Thank you.

00:30:22.000 you The power of feminism. 1.00

00:30:26.000 It will be owned by a woman. 1.00

00:30:29.000 A trans woman. 0.99

00:30:34.000 I'm sorry, uh, has our society become ridiculous enough yet for you? 0.98

00:30:38.000 And this is just Hunger Games type stuff.

00:30:42.000 It's absurdity piled on top of absurdity.

00:30:45.000 Jakra Juzatep continued, the pageant would stand for quote, diverse cultures, social inclusion, gender equality, creativity, a force for good, and of course, the beauty of humanity.

00:30:54.000 The beauty of humanity.

00:30:55.000 Quote, I turned pain into power and I turned life lessons into wisdom.

00:30:59.000 So the company which owned Miss Universe was bought out for about $20 million.

00:31:05.000 I love that they call this person a mother of two.

00:31:06.000 This is not a mother. 0.96

00:31:08.000 This is a dude.

00:31:11.000 So really exciting stuff.

00:31:15.000 I do love that a An entire pageant that is built on stereotypes about beautiful women is going to now be run by a man who says he is a woman, who now says that he is fighting on behalf of feminism.

00:31:29.000 So here's the real question.

00:31:30.000 Okay, if we're going to take this feminism thing all the way to its logical extreme here, then probably the Miss Universe contest has to be open to fat women, correct? 1.00

00:31:38.000 We have to be body positive here at the Miss Universe contest. 0.92

00:31:41.000 And in fact, not only just fat women, fat men.

00:31:44.000 After all, some men are women, and it would be absolutely sexist to only allow trans women to participate who have had an extraordinary amount of plastic surgery to make them appear more like women on the outside. 0.80

00:31:57.000 So probably we need a bunch of fat, hairy dudes who say that they are women also in bathing suits, parading around at Miss Universe contest if we truly wish to achieve gender equality and not buy into the harmful gender stereotypes that cause people to think that men are men and women are women.

00:32:11.000 That is definitely the best way to heal this problem. 0.72

00:32:15.000 Again, a society that refuses to be able to laugh at these sorts of problems is a society that is essentially dead on its feet.

00:32:22.000 And if we are supposed to take seriously this ridiculousness, then we are a society that is essentially finished.

00:32:28.000 The innate absurdity of this is beyond compare.

00:32:32.000 Okay, meanwhile, today marks Martin Luther King Jr.

00:32:35.000 Day.

00:32:37.000 The national holiday was declared in 1983.

00:32:40.000 And every time we have Martin Luther King Day these days, we have a broad scale discussion about Martin Luther King Jr.' 's association economically with sort of the communist left, which of course is not why there is a Martin Luther King Jr.

00:32:53.000 Day.

00:32:55.000 There are many people who have been leftist in America, and there's no Eugene Debs Day here in the United States.

00:32:59.000 In any case, the reason that Martin Luther King Jr.

00:33:01.000 Day exists is because, of course, there was an attempt to achieve racial comedy in the aftermath of the 1960s and 1970s, and the idea was that we should pay homage to the idea that we should treat people based on their individual identity rather than on their group identity.

00:33:14.000 We've decided to do away with that, as we'll get to in a moment.

00:33:16.000 Boston did unveil what has to be one of the worst statues I have ever seen in my entire life.

00:33:21.000 is supposed to be of MLK, it's called The Embrace, and it's supposed to be based on him hugging Coretta Scott King.

00:33:31.000 But whoever is the artist decided instead to make it look as though there are hands that are hugging what looks to be a vermicious knid, I guess, from Charlie and the Glass Elevator.

00:33:45.000 Or, I mean, that is the clean version of what exactly they're hugging right here from particular angles. 0.95

00:33:50.000 It's, uh, I don't, modern art is generally garbage. 0.99

00:33:53.000 This is super garbage. 1.00

00:33:55.000 It is really bad. 0.99

00:33:56.000 Like, they decided to essentially make the statue, for those who can't see it, they decided to make this particular monument headless.

00:34:01.000 So, you don't- Martin Luther King Jr.

00:34:03.000 has no head.

00:34:04.000 Coretta Scott King has no head.

00:34:05.000 You just see arms that are kind of hugging each other, but you can't tell that they're arms from most of the angles.

00:34:10.000 Here is what it looks like.

00:34:11.000 When this was revealed, by the way, just the kind of gasp by the crowd, like, what in the world?

00:34:14.000 So instead you have this giant, hideous monument in the center of Boston now.

00:34:19.000 Uh, so that's exciting.

00:34:20.000 Here's what it looked like.

00:34:22.000 The embrace unveiled on Boston Common today, the statue honoring the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

00:34:28.000 and his wife.

00:34:29.000 Can we pause that for a second?

00:34:30.000 What the F is that?

00:34:31.000 What in the world is that?

00:34:33.000 So from one angle, you can actually see that it is arms, but from the first angle, it does not look like arms. 0.97

00:34:39.000 From the first angle, it looks like bizarro world garbage.

00:34:42.000 What is happening right now?

00:34:45.000 So obviously the modern artists decided that they were going to have a message and the message was that you're going to go inside of it, you're going to walk around, you're going to look up to the sky.

00:34:54.000 How about statues that look like things, guys?

00:34:56.000 How about that?

00:34:57.000 Is it too much to ask?

00:34:58.000 Like, I'm fine with a statue of Martin Luther King.

00:35:00.000 It's a beautiful one over in Washington, D.C.

00:35:02.000 I'm just, I'm wondering why they decided to go for the headless statue of Martin Luther King as opposed to, you know, the one that had a head.

00:35:12.000 What happened here?

00:35:13.000 Go back to the first angle for a second, when they first unveiled this thing.

00:35:17.000 Because, yeah, what is that?

00:35:20.000 This right here.

00:35:23.000 It looks as if a person is wrestling an anaconda.

00:35:27.000 Bizarre, bizarre statue.

00:35:30.000 By the way, it is worth noting with regard to statues that it will be about 20 years until the statue comes down.

00:35:30.000 Super weird.

00:35:35.000 And the reason it will end up coming down is because it will turn out that they will do more Review into Martin Luther King's personal life, which was really, really dicey in terms of his treatment of women.

00:35:44.000 And then there'll be questions asked about whether there should be statues to Martin Luther King Jr.

00:35:48.000 I mean, that is the standard.

00:35:49.000 Is it not?

00:35:50.000 Well, in any case.

00:35:51.000 Every Martin Luther King Jr.

00:35:53.000 Day, there is an attempt to basically suggest that Americans must accept the entirety of Martin Luther King's agenda in order to achieve what Martin Luther King Jr.

00:36:04.000 wanted for America.

00:36:05.000 Now, listen, just because we have a holiday celebrating the aspect of Martin Luther King Jr.' 's legacy that we all agree with, does not mean that we agree with the entirety of his legacy.

00:36:13.000 This happens to be true with literally every monument, literally every day of the year.

00:36:16.000 There are many things about George Washington's policy agenda that you and I might not agree with.

00:36:21.000 He was, in fact, a slaveholder.

00:36:22.000 However, his life is worth celebrating because of the things that we do agree with and we think are great and glorious.

00:36:27.000 The same thing is true with regard to Martin Luther King Jr.

00:36:29.000 But we have an entire commentary that is dedicated to the proposition that if you celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.

00:36:33.000 Day, then this must mean that you embrace everything Martin Luther King Jr.

00:36:36.000 ever did or said.

00:36:37.000 We'll get to that in just one moment.

00:36:38.000 Alrighty, folks.

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00:38:03.000 Okay, so every Martin Luther King Jr.

00:38:05.000 Day, we get a bevy of think pieces in left-wing media talking about in order to live up to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., we basically have to Engage in a woke Bernie Sanders redistributionist agenda.

00:38:17.000 So, today's example comes courtesy of Esau McCauley, writing for the New York Times, the kind of revolution that Martin Luther King Jr.

00:38:24.000 envisioned.

00:38:24.000 Quote, in 1968, four days before he was shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

00:38:30.000 delivered his last Sunday sermon at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

00:38:34.000 It was entitled, Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution, and although King doesn't say the word woke, he uses the concept as it was understood by many black folks then, well before the term was co-opted by the political right to refer to any left-leaning policy it wanted to condemn.

00:38:47.000 Okay, well, if that were the part of Martin Luther King Jr.' the real King, who is too often obfuscated by politicians who use his legacy to support their own agendas.

00:38:53.000 They contend that King was colorblind when in fact his policy aims were unapologetically color conscious.

00:38:58.000 Okay, well, if that were the part of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday that we were actually The thing that every school child learns when they are in school about Martin Luther King Jr.

00:39:07.000 is the I Have a Dream speech, right?

00:39:08.000 One of the great speeches in American rhetorical history.

00:39:11.000 that enshrines the idea of group redistributionism?

00:39:14.000 The answer is no, there would not have been support for that.

00:39:17.000 The thing that every school child learns when they are in school about Martin Luther King Jr. is the I Have a Dream speech, right?

00:39:22.000 One of the great speeches in American rhetorical history.

00:39:24.000 That speech is replete with references to the idea that we should all view each other as God's creatures without reference to color.

00:39:30.000 An attempt to backfill that by looking at the fact that Martin Luther King Jr. was is economically socialistic does not change the fact that that is not what we are actually celebrating about Martin Luther King Jr.

00:39:39.000 on Martin Luther King Jr.

00:39:40.000 Day. 0.98

00:39:41.000 And trying to claim that that is what we are celebrating is silly.

00:39:45.000 Or that that's what we should be celebrating, because in order to celebrate the part of the legacy we like, we have to celebrate the whole thing.

00:39:50.000 Wrong.

00:39:51.000 We don't have to celebrate his treatment of women, and we don't have to celebrate his socialistic, redistributionist policies either.

00:39:55.000 There are a bunch of things about Martin Luther King Jr.

00:39:57.000 that are not worth celebrating, and then there are a bunch of things that are worth celebrating, and those are not the same thing.

00:40:03.000 However, again, the idea here is that if you really, really want the Martin Luther King Jr.

00:40:07.000 Revolution, what you need is a compelling case for reparations based on the debt this country owes its black citizens. 0.84

00:40:12.000 By the way, even if you were going to make this case in 1968, like directly in the aftermath of Jim Crow, it's very difficult to make that case in 2023.

00:40:19.000 You're talking about half a century later.

00:40:23.000 But, says this columnist for King, waking up is not simply understanding that racism is bad.

00:40:27.000 It is acknowledging that racism created generational wealth for white Americans and robbed black Americans of the same economic boost.

00:40:33.000 The racial wealth gap King highlighted in his sermon not only persists, but according to some studies is basically the same as it was in 1968.

00:40:38.000 Well, then I have a question.

00:40:40.000 The United States has undertaken spending of tens of trillions of dollars in social redistributionist schemes.

00:40:46.000 Ranging from food stamps to welfare to government-subsidized housing to government-subsidized college admissions policy.

00:40:53.000 That is racially discriminatory in nature.

00:40:55.000 And the wealth gap remains.

00:40:56.000 Why is it that wealth gap remains when it has closed for virtually every other minority in the United States?

00:41:02.000 The answer certainly has to do some with history, but a lot of it has to do with the fact that you have a 75% out of wedlock birth rate in the black community. 0.73

00:41:10.000 You have dramatic educational underperformance in the black community. 1.00

00:41:12.000 Now, you can go back to the original sin here, and you can blame it on the original sin.

00:41:16.000 And that's all, that's all well and good.

00:41:17.000 But the decisions that are going to change the trajectory of the wealth gap in the United States are decisions that are made today, not by government to sign checks.

00:41:25.000 They're decisions made on an individual level to be responsible and to help make life better for your children.

00:41:32.000 That is the story of how groups, generally speaking, rise in the United States.

00:41:36.000 Members, individual members of the groups, not as groups, individual members of the groups, make good decisions.

00:41:41.000 When they make good financial and personal decisions, the wealth in their family increases.

00:41:46.000 And when the wealth in their family increases, it increases intergenerationally.

00:41:50.000 This is how you cure the problem.

00:41:52.000 I will agree with you about the problem with the evils of Jim Crow and slavery. 0.80

00:41:55.000 Of course, of course.

00:41:56.000 And I'll agree with you that that obviously puts some groups behind the eight ball to start with in 1965.

00:42:01.000 But when you're talking about 2023 and the people who are now experiencing the wealth gap being born 40 years after the Civil Rights Act, then you got to start asking questions as to how do you choose to solve the problem?

00:42:16.000 But the answer is that we are just going to say that we need to to recommend the same solutions that Martin Luther King Jr.

00:42:21.000 was talking about.

00:42:23.000 Which is why you have another column in the Washington Post today by Perry Bacon Jr.

00:42:26.000 saying the racial reckoning led to lots of talk, but little real change.

00:42:30.000 And he points out many American leaders and institutions will honor the legacy of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

00:42:34.000 on Monday and pledge to work toward his goals, but they also most certainly won't sound as committed to black causes as they did in the weeks immediately following Floyd's murder by Minneapolis police.

00:42:41.000 I mean, that's because in the aftermath of George Floyd's killing by Derek Chauvin, Essentially, you had a bunch of woke virtue signaling.

00:42:41.000 Well, right.

00:42:49.000 People didn't look at the original situation of the case and say there is no evidence of actual racial bias in this particular case.

00:42:55.000 There's a lot of evidence, in fact, that George Floyd was high as a kite.

00:42:58.000 He can make the case.

00:43:00.000 And the case apparently was made to the satisfaction of the jury, if not to my own satisfaction in court, that Derek Chauvin was responsible for his death.

00:43:05.000 Again, I think the evidence there is really, really sketchy, but OK.

00:43:09.000 But nobody even alleged that that was the result of racism, that Derek Chauvin was a racist who decided to kill a black man that day.

00:43:16.000 And yet it didn't matter.

00:43:17.000 The entire country decided they were going to virtue signal on this basis.

00:43:19.000 And then when it came down to actual policy, they didn't actually do anything.

00:43:23.000 Why?

00:43:23.000 Because it turns out the vast majority of Americans don't agree with racially redistributionist policy.

00:43:29.000 And so I understand why there are people like Perry Bacon Jr.

00:43:32.000 who are mad that America virtue signaled and then didn't do the stuff that they wanted.

00:43:37.000 I get it.

00:43:38.000 They feel fibbed to because they were fibbed to mainly by a bunch of left-wing media types who decided that they were going to pay lip service to the Black Lives Matter cause without actually embracing the Black Lives Matter agenda.

00:43:50.000 And so this is why we're going to get these pieces every single day.

00:43:54.000 And by the way, the policies that are being advocated are bad.

00:43:57.000 The policies that are being advocated by Black Lives Matter, the policies that were advocated by Martin Luther King in 1968, even if they were temporarily justifiable, would have been bad in the short, medium and long term.

00:44:09.000 And yet those policies are still being advocated today.

00:44:12.000 So, for example, you have the New York Times today arguing in favor of affirmative action.

00:44:15.000 Affirmative action has been one of the giantest fails in American political history.

00:44:20.000 As mentioned, the wealth gap in the United States has not been alleviated.

00:44:23.000 The notion that affirmative action, which was necessary in order to leverage black students who were underperforming on standardized tests into top-level universities, that this would heal the income and wealth gap in the United States was a lie.

00:44:33.000 It is not true.

00:44:34.000 It creates misalignment.

00:44:34.000 It creates higher dropout rates.

00:44:36.000 It means that people who actually didn't need affirmative action in order to get into their schools are looked at askance, wrongly.

00:44:43.000 And yet, you have the New York Times lamenting the possibility that affirmative action might fall.

00:44:47.000 Of course affirmative action should fall.

00:44:49.000 The answer to racial discrimination is to stop racially discriminating.

00:44:52.000 The answer to racial discrimination is not to then reverse the racial discrimination, obviously.

00:44:57.000 And yet, the New York Times is preemptively lamenting the loss of affirmative action, quote, In 1964, hoping to erase its image as a privileged cloister for white rich families, Wesleyan University contacted 400 black high school students from around the country to persuade them to apply.

00:45:12.000 The outreach led to the enrollment of what became known as Wesleyan's Vanguard Class.

00:45:16.000 one Latino and 13 black students, which helped establish the university's commitment to diversity.

00:45:21.000 Nearly 60 years later, such recruitment practices face an existential threat.

00:45:24.000 Well, yes, because it turns out that when you discriminate largely against Asian students, by the way, that is a bad thing to do.

00:45:31.000 It is not white students who are typically losing out at the university level.

00:45:34.000 Now it's Asian students, Asian students wildly overperformed by group metric on things like the SAT. 1.00

00:45:39.000 And so you've seen more and more schools basically write out the SAT as a metric of of entry in favor of sob story essays where they can try to essentially backdoor affirmative action by trying to ascertain your racial history through your essay.

00:45:54.000 College officials warn there's no way of knowing how sweeping the court decision will be, but the ruling, expected by June, is likely to have a broad impact on a range of schools, according to Vern Granger, director of admissions at the University of Connecticut.

00:46:04.000 Most people are thinking about the admissions process at selective institutions, he said, but I would say this decision is going to be far-ranging and it's going to be expansive.

00:46:12.000 If the court rules as expected, the class admitted for the fall of 2024 will look quite different, said education officials.

00:46:16.000 We will see a decline in students of color attending college before we see an increase again.

00:46:20.000 We will be missing an entire generation, said Angel B. Perez, the chief executive of the National Association for College Admission and Counseling.

00:46:28.000 Well, why?

00:46:29.000 Wouldn't that suggest that the public education system that you guys have funded to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars over the course of the last several decades, that the welfare and social safety net programs you've created, the affirmative action programs you've created, have been a giant fail?

00:46:42.000 Why would it miss a bunch of Black and Hispanic students?

00:46:45.000 Why?

00:46:45.000 Why would that happen?

00:46:47.000 Presumably because the underperformance continues, despite affirmative action being in place for the last 60 years in this country.

00:46:55.000 Mr. Granger, who also serves as president of the Association for College Admission Counseling, expects changes even at the community college level, citing drops in applications following statewide bans on affirmative action in Michigan and California.

00:47:05.000 He said some students from underrepresented groups may simply not apply.

00:47:08.000 The institutions most likely to be dramatically affected are the 200 colleges and universities regarded as selective, meaning they admit 50% or fewer of their applicants.

00:47:17.000 Well, okay.

00:47:18.000 And you know who will benefit?

00:47:20.000 The people who do well on tests.

00:47:22.000 And those people happen to be the people who should be striated into the nation's top universities.

00:47:27.000 The attempt to destroy meritocracy in favor of what?

00:47:30.000 Racial selectivity? 0.67

00:47:31.000 Is an amazing It's an amazing reversal of the thing we actually are supposed to be celebrating on Martin Luther King Jr.

00:47:38.000 Day.

00:47:40.000 Which, of course, is the idea that we are supposed to view people not on the basis of their race, but on the basis of their quality and their merit.

00:47:48.000 The sort of woke policies that are being prescribed here are, of course, the worst policies in the world.

00:47:52.000 They're really, really bad.

00:47:53.000 They're bad on everything from education to crime, which is why even the Washington Post is now having to go conservative with regard to crime policy.

00:48:01.000 Editorial in the Washington Post today, quote, Washington could become a more dangerous city if the D.C.

00:48:06.000 council votes Tuesday as currently planned to override Mayor Muriel Bowser's veto of a bill that decreases punishments for violent crimes like carjackings, home invasion burglaries, robberies, even homicides.

00:48:15.000 The far-reaching rewrite of the criminal code will further tie the hands of police and prosecutors while overwhelming courts.

00:48:20.000 With the city awash in handguns, the measure would also scale back penalties for convicted felons illegally carrying firearms, as well as for using them to commit crimes.

00:48:27.000 The bill eliminates life sentences, gets rid of mandatory minimums for every crime but first-degree murder.

00:48:31.000 The maximum penalty for someone convicted of a violent felony while using a gun to commit more violence would drop to four years.

00:48:37.000 Why are they doing this?

00:48:38.000 The answer, of course, is racial justice. 0.93

00:48:40.000 This is the reason they are doing this.

00:48:41.000 So maybe America should not embrace group justice because group justice is the opposite of actual individual justice.

00:48:47.000 And that's the thing we actually should remember.

00:48:48.000 I'm Martin Luther King Jr.

00:48:49.000 Day.

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00:48:59.000 We'll get to whether the Republican Congress is going to shut down the government over the debt ceiling again.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - January 16, 2023

Joe Biden Left Classified Information Pretty Much Everywhere | Ep. 1647

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