The Ben Shapiro Show - August 18, 2023


Joe Biden’s SECRET Email Address?

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Joe Biden has been accused of using a pseudonymous e-mail address to communicate with his son, Hunter Biden, about a phone call he had with the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko. The House Oversight Committee is now asking for all records and emails related to this alleged alias address to be released by the National Archives and Records Administration. Joe Biden has long been a deeply corrupt human being, and his corruption goes all the way back to his first Senate campaign, when people related to the Biden campaign worked with members of the union to prevent the publication of a newspaper that opposed his opponent. And then, from then on, there s been an unbroken series of scandals involving Joe Biden and family members, and money from family members who should not have been lending the money because they knew that Joe Biden was the senator from Delaware, to his sons receiving jobs they certainly shouldn t have had. How does a man who earned $200,000 a year in a career in the Senate end up with $15 million mansions? How does that happen? How's that happen, and why does he have all that money flowing all over the earth? How do all of that money flow to him? And how does he do it? How does he keep it all flowing? How's he keep his name clear and clear? And how much money does he really have to pay for his mansions, and how much does he actually have to give it to his brother, James J. Biden Jr. and his wife, Jill Biden, to help him pay for them to live the life he's dream of becoming the most derelict human being on the planet? ? How does this happen, you ask the question? What does that even mean, you might ask? This is a question that needs to be answered, and the answer to the question: What does Joe Biden have to do with his name? Joe Biden is a thief, a crook? and a thief? Does he have a lot of money, doesn t he have enough money to pay taxes on his mans mans or does he own mans mansions with his own mansions in the rest of his name and he does it all for his name in the same way that his brother does not pay taxes? or is he a crootin ? Is he a thief or a cro crooper, or is it a crooper ? And does he run around with his brother?

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00:00:00.000 So late yesterday afternoon, the House Oversight Committee released a bombshell letter to the Archivist of the United States, the National Archives and Records Administration, asking for all records and emails related to a particular email address.
00:00:14.000 This is not the official email address that Joe Biden used when he was Vice President of the United States.
00:00:19.000 Instead, this is a secret email address that he allegedly used when he was Vice President of the United States.
00:00:23.000 Now, we have known about a series of names that were found in Hunter Biden's quote-unquote laptop from hell since 2021.
00:00:31.000 Those names included one called Robert L. Peters.
00:00:36.000 Robert L. Peters, it turns out, is a pseudonym the committee has now identified as then-Vice President Biden.
00:00:41.000 So first of all, you start to get into real dicey territory when you have official members of the federal government who are using alternative email addresses, pseudonymous email addresses, in order to email about actual political goings-on.
00:00:53.000 We saw that Hillary Clinton had a private email server.
00:00:56.000 There have been other people Who in the past have had private email addresses.
00:00:59.000 And if those private email addresses are dealing with, you know, private business, that is one thing.
00:01:02.000 But if they are dealing with outside business activities, and this is being used as sort of a Chinese firewall in order to screen those outside business activities from any sort of discovery, that's a real problem.
00:01:12.000 So the House Oversight Committee writes, The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating President Biden's meetings and communications with certain family members and their business associates during his tenure as Vice President.
00:01:22.000 The National Archives and Records Administration has published the Biden Vice Presidential Records Collection, which contains information relevant to the Committee's work.
00:01:29.000 Many of these records have been redacted for publication pursuant to the Presidential Records Act and FOIA.
00:01:33.000 To further our investigation, it is essential the Committee review these documents in their original format.
00:01:37.000 The committee also seeks unrestricted special access under the PRA to case number 2023 entitled email messages to and from Vice President Biden and Hunter Biden related to Burisma and Ukraine, which have been published on NARA's website.
00:01:49.000 These records have been redacted for public release pursuant to PRA and FOIA.
00:01:53.000 Also, they want all of the pseudonymous emails.
00:01:57.000 Attached to this email made available on the NARA website is a document that indicates
00:02:01.000 at 9 a.m. on July 27, 2016, Vice President Biden took a call with the President of Ukraine,
00:02:06.000 Petro Poroshenko. It is concerning to the committee, however, that this document was
00:02:10.000 sent to Robert L. Peters, a pseudonym the committee has identified as then-Vice President Biden.
00:02:15.000 Additionally, the committee questions why the then-Vice President's son, Hunter Biden,
00:02:19.000 and only Hunter Biden was copied on this email to then-Vice President Biden.
00:02:24.000 So, they're now saying that Joe Biden was using a false email address in order to email his son about a call that he had just had with the then-head of Ukraine.
00:02:35.000 This is pretty dicey stuff for Joe Biden. 0.96
00:02:39.000 And again, Joe Biden has long been a deeply corrupt human being.
00:02:42.000 I mean, Joe Biden, his corruption goes all the way back to his first Senate race.
00:02:45.000 There were serious allegations that in his first Senate race, people related to the Biden campaign worked alongside members of the local union to prevent, for example, the dissemination of a newspaper that contained an insert for his Republican opponent, that the union was basically told to create a picket line so that the newspaper didn't go out that day, thus boosting Joe Biden to his first senatorial victory in Delaware.
00:03:09.000 And then, from then on, there's been an unbroken series of scandals involving Joe Biden and family members and money.
00:03:15.000 From family members who are absolutely uncreditworthy receiving money from banks who absolutely should not have been lending the money because they knew that Joe Biden was the senator from Delaware, to his sons receiving jobs they certainly should not have had, To Hunter Biden running around in foreign precincts, picking up bags of cash under the Biden name.
00:03:34.000 Well, Joe Biden has always hid behind this sort of plausible deniability.
00:03:37.000 I was never directly involved.
00:03:38.000 I was not involved in any way, shape or form.
00:03:40.000 And it's been perfectly obvious to everybody that he was deeply involved in every way, shape and form.
00:03:44.000 After all, how does a man who earned approximately $200,000 a year for literally his entire career in the Senate end up buying $15 million mansions?
00:03:52.000 How does that happen?
00:03:53.000 How does he end up with these giant houses?
00:03:55.000 How's all that money flowing?
00:03:57.000 How does Hunter Biden, one of the most derelict human beings ever to walk the earth, clear Millions and millions and millions of dollars over the course of the last decade for being a complete ne'er-do-well.
00:04:07.000 How does his brother James clear a bunch of money?
00:04:09.000 How does brother Frank clear a bunch of money?
00:04:11.000 How are all these people now exorbitantly wealthy?
00:04:13.000 How does that happen?
00:04:14.000 Unless Joe Biden is actively interested in them doing really well by using his name.
00:04:20.000 And he knows that they're using his name in order to traffic.
00:04:23.000 He knows that.
00:04:24.000 But this would be the first evidence that Joe Biden was directly involved, as in, like, writing emails.
00:04:29.000 Now, we have a lot of indirect evidence that Joe Biden was directly involved.
00:04:33.000 We have a lot of indirect evidence, ranging from actual testimony from people like Devin Archer that Hunter Biden was having Joe stop by business meetings, or that Hunter would actually call up Joe on the phone, and they would talk about the weather, and then they would get off the phone in front of other people.
00:04:46.000 We have testimony from Tony Bobulinski that Joe would stop by various business functions.
00:04:52.000 We have pictures of Joe with various business dignitaries that Hunter was cultivating.
00:04:56.000 We have all of those things, but this would be actual communications to Hunter Biden about the business, which would be the first that we have actively seen at this point in writing.
00:05:06.000 So it'll be fascinating to see what actually arrives here and also how the White House just brushes this off.
00:05:11.000 Because what the White House will say is that we have no idea what this is.
00:05:13.000 What are they even talking about?
00:05:14.000 We have no obligation to turn over those emails.
00:05:16.000 How do you know they're even about Petro Poroshenko?
00:05:18.000 How do you know what those are about?
00:05:19.000 Those are private emails.
00:05:20.000 And so now we are back into the Hillary Clinton hidden email address.
00:05:25.000 What is it?
00:05:25.000 What are they talking about, Irina?
00:05:27.000 And that's some pretty dicey stuff, obviously, for Joe Biden.
00:05:30.000 Joe Biden's campaign is a very weak campaign.
00:05:33.000 This is why he continues to run away from reporters.
00:05:35.000 This is the constant pattern over and over and over again.
00:05:38.000 Yesterday, for example, he was asked about his Hawaii trip.
00:05:41.000 And that's a pretty easy question.
00:05:42.000 Like, when are you going to Hawaii?
00:05:43.000 He runs away from the question.
00:05:44.000 Here he was.
00:05:44.000 Can you tell us about your Hawaii trip, sir?
00:05:48.000 No, not now.
00:05:50.000 I'm going to be leaving.
00:05:51.000 I'll be there on Monday.
00:05:53.000 Why is it important that you go?
00:05:54.000 Sir, on this family issue.
00:05:56.000 Thank you, Mr. President.
00:05:59.000 Okay, bye.
00:05:59.000 Catch you later.
00:06:00.000 And then, you know, people were asking him questions and he continued to ignore the reporters.
00:06:04.000 Again, this is the pattern with Joe Biden.
00:06:06.000 Joe Biden's pattern is, I will not answer any questions on any topic of real interest to the American people because I don't need to.
00:06:12.000 Because at least I'm not a Republican.
00:06:14.000 At least I'm not a Republican only works if Republicans continue to run candidates who are bad.
00:06:18.000 If candidates run who actually are not bad, at least I'm not a Republican, doesn't have quite the same sort of a bite.
00:06:24.000 And at least I'm not a Republican for a geriatric, corrupt, senile old man is really a bad campaign.
00:06:29.000 Here is Joe Biden yesterday running away from the press or at least hobbling away from the press. 0.91
00:06:33.000 Man, he can barely walk.
00:06:41.000 It's hard to watch him.
00:06:42.000 And honest to God, every time I watch a clip of Joe Biden, you're wondering if you're watching the last clip of Joe Biden.
00:06:48.000 It is really, it's a troubling thing.
00:06:50.000 He is not in amazing shape.
00:06:52.000 And by the way, this appeal, the same sort of appeal is his entire administration's appeal.
00:06:57.000 We will not answer questions.
00:06:58.000 Alejandro Mayorkas, the head of the Department of Homeland Security, he was asked about the border crisis yesterday, and he basically ran away from it because this is what he does.
00:07:05.000 This is what they all do.
00:07:07.000 Mr. Secretary, the southern border numbers are up to 130,000 after dipping down.
00:07:13.000 Are your lawful pathways working?
00:07:14.000 Bye.
00:07:15.000 Catch you later.
00:07:17.000 When are you going to answer my questions?
00:07:19.000 See you later.
00:07:21.000 Never.
00:07:21.000 The answer is never.
00:07:22.000 They're never going to answer the questions.
00:07:23.000 Because why would they? 0.99
00:07:24.000 They're just counting on Republicans to shoot themselves directly in the chest. 0.93
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00:08:32.000 Okay, so.
00:08:34.000 Meanwhile, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden's backup, continues to be terrible. 0.99
00:08:37.000 Chris Matthews was back on MSNBC last night critiquing Kamala Harris.
00:08:42.000 And again, the Democrats have a real problem.
00:08:43.000 They need to run the dead body because otherwise they're running Kamala Harris, and that's not acceptable to anyone. 1.00
00:08:50.000 For some reason, Kamala thinks she's... 1.00
00:08:54.000 She comes off as a prosecutor, like she's talking about people disagree with her on abortion rights.
00:08:59.000 Well, they're not wrong.
00:09:00.000 I mean, they may be wrong in your thinking.
00:09:02.000 You may disagree with them, but they're not evil, you know?
00:09:07.000 And portraying it, always being on the attack, doesn't make you popular.
00:09:15.000 He's right.
00:09:16.000 Kamala Harris is a very bad candidate. 0.97
00:09:19.000 Haven't pressed my suit in at least three years?
00:09:20.000 Talking about Kamala Harris?
00:09:22.000 Unbelievable! She's a prosecutor. 1.00
00:09:24.000 I don't know what she's prosecuting.
00:09:26.000 You're prosecuting weed smokers again?
00:09:27.000 Ah!
00:09:27.000 Okay, anyway.
00:09:29.000 He's right.
00:09:29.000 Okay, Kamala Harris is a very bad candidate.
00:09:31.000 So, Democrats are stuck.
00:09:32.000 Which brings us to the states of the Republican Party.
00:09:36.000 I have a question.
00:09:37.000 What is your plan to win?
00:09:39.000 What is your plan to win? 0.94
00:09:41.000 You have a corrupt, elderly man who is not capable of fulfilling his office. 0.99
00:09:45.000 And when he is capable, it's even worse! 0.97
00:09:47.000 I'd rather have him being senile watching Matlock in the basement than having him do the sort of damage he does to the country when he occasionally is awoken by a Thorazine shot or something.
00:09:55.000 So Republicans have an opportunity to get rid of this guy.
00:09:57.000 So you know what they should do?
00:09:58.000 Maybe they should run a candidate who could win.
00:10:00.000 I don't know.
00:10:01.000 It sounds like a crazy idea.
00:10:03.000 I know it sounds nuts.
00:10:04.000 Maybe they should focus less.
00:10:06.000 And personality and emotional response to particular candidates.
00:10:09.000 And maybe they should focus on, you know, who could be the President of the United States and make Joe Biden not be the President of the United States.
00:10:16.000 So there's a very interesting piece of data that is coming down from Nate Cohen.
00:10:19.000 Nate Cohen does some really good data analysis at the New York Times.
00:10:22.000 Even though he's at the New York Times, Nate Cohen's data analysis is good.
00:10:25.000 And he breaks down the Republican Party into essentially six pieces.
00:10:29.000 First is the so-called moderate establishment.
00:10:31.000 Highly educated, affluent, socially moderate, or even liberal, outright, never Trump, very often.
00:10:35.000 That'd be like 14%.
00:10:37.000 So the moderate establishment would be people who support, say, Chris Christie, for example.
00:10:42.000 Maybe like Nikki Haley, at the edge.
00:10:45.000 Right?
00:10:46.000 The kind of left wing of the Republican Party.
00:10:48.000 The Asa Hutchinson wing.
00:10:50.000 Then there's the traditional conservatives, 26%.
00:10:52.000 Old-fashioned economic and social conservatives who oppose abortion and prefer corporate tax cuts to new tariffs.
00:10:57.000 They don't love Mr. Trump, but they do support him, right?
00:10:59.000 So those would be maybe Trumpers.
00:11:02.000 Then you've got the right-wing.
00:11:04.000 That's 26%.
00:11:05.000 They watch Fox News and Newsmax.
00:11:06.000 They're very conservative.
00:11:07.000 They're disproportionately evangelical.
00:11:09.000 They believe America's on the brink of catastrophe, and they love Trump more than any other group.
00:11:12.000 That's 26%.
00:11:13.000 The blue-collar populist.
00:11:14.000 That's 12%.
00:11:15.000 They're mostly northern, socially moderate, economic populists who hold deeply conservative views on race and immigration.
00:11:20.000 Not only do they back Mr. Trump, he himself probably counted as one a decade ago.
00:11:23.000 That's 12%.
00:11:25.000 The blue-collar populist.
00:11:25.000 So that'd be like J.D.
00:11:26.000 Vance's crowd.
00:11:28.000 The libertarian conservatives.
00:11:29.000 These are 14%.
00:11:30.000 These disproportionately Western and Midwestern conservatives value small government.
00:11:33.000 They're relatively socially moderate and isolationist.
00:11:35.000 And they're on the lower end of Trump's support compared with other groups.
00:11:37.000 And then there's the newcomers.
00:11:39.000 They don't look like Republicans.
00:11:40.000 They're young, diverse, and moderate.
00:11:41.000 But these disaffected voters like Democrats and the woke left even less.
00:11:44.000 Okay, so if you're gonna break this down, what you would figure is that Trump has about 38% of the Republican vote absolutely locked up.
00:11:52.000 Right, so that means almost 40% of the Republican Party is basically locked up.
00:11:58.000 What he says is that the alliance between blue-collar populists and the right-wing has left Mr. Trump's potential opposition in disarray.
00:12:03.000 Before Trump, the party's mainstream prevailed against right-wing candidates by uniting traditional conservatives and the moderate factions, both establishment and blue-collar.
00:12:10.000 That blueprint for victory appears to be closed, at least for now.
00:12:13.000 Without a natural factional base, Ron DeSantis has struggled to maintain a steady foothold in the race.
00:12:16.000 In fact, Trump leads DeSantis among every group of Republican voters identified in the analysis.
00:12:21.000 The rest of the party beyond Trump's base may not always back Trump's policies, but it's not necessarily anti-Trump.
00:12:26.000 The closest thing to an anti-Trump group in the party, the modern establishment, has become alienated from the rest of the party.
00:12:32.000 So, again, that breakdown breaks very much in favor of President Trump.
00:12:37.000 So, what exactly does that mean for anyone who wishes to challenge President Trump?
00:12:42.000 Well, it seems to me That if you are a, if you are a candidate who wishes to challenge President Trump, there's really only two bases to do so.
00:12:51.000 One is that President Trump, as president, didn't do enough.
00:12:55.000 That President Trump, as president, his record, the first three years was great, but in the last year he sort of fell apart, and also, you know, because of that he didn't win the last election.
00:13:06.000 That's point number one.
00:13:07.000 And there's a lot of truth to that.
00:13:08.000 The last year of Donald Trump's presidency, he was not good.
00:13:11.000 His handling of COVID was not good.
00:13:12.000 His handling of the race riots of 2020 was not good.
00:13:15.000 All of that can be true.
00:13:16.000 And then there's the second point, and this is the really more telling one, which is Donald Trump does not have an excellent shot at beating Joe Biden.
00:13:23.000 The polling that we are seeing right now that is showing him competitive with Joe Biden very often is incredibly, incredibly biased polling.
00:13:29.000 There's a poll that came out yesterday, for example, that showed that he and Joe Biden were effectively tied in the race.
00:13:35.000 There's only one problem with that poll.
00:13:36.000 It shows Joe Biden winning minority voters by plus 12.
00:13:38.000 Joe Biden is not going to win minority voters by plus 12.
00:13:41.000 He's going to win minority voters by like 30.
00:13:43.000 30 to 40 points.
00:13:45.000 Because that's what Democrats always win by.
00:13:48.000 There's been some movement at the edges, but not to the tune of like 25 to 30 percent.
00:13:53.000 This notion that Trump is going to only lose by 12 points among minority voters broad red, like Black, Hispanic, and Asian voters, It's totally wild.
00:14:02.000 But those polls are floating Trump right now, because again, if the electability argument is the chief argument, then the polls that show that Trump is still electable against Joe Biden are really, really helping him.
00:14:11.000 Obviously.
00:14:11.000 And that's about Joe Biden's weakness.
00:14:13.000 But people need to ask themselves at this point, what is Trump going to run his campaign on going forward?
00:14:18.000 This isn't about DeSantis.
00:14:19.000 This is not about Trump.
00:14:20.000 You want to make the campaign about Trump?
00:14:21.000 Then the campaign's about Trump.
00:14:23.000 Can Trump win should be the argument that Republicans are having.
00:14:26.000 And you can see already that the argument is shifting from can Trump win inside the Republican Party to what is the campaign even designed to do?
00:14:33.000 And that's a serious problem.
00:14:34.000 I'll get to that in just one moment.
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00:15:42.000 So Donald Trump is already attempting to consolidate the field.
00:15:45.000 Yesterday, he did a video where he said people should just drop out of the race and hand it to him.
00:15:49.000 Great polls just out, leading by 40, 50, and even 60 points.
00:15:54.000 Who expected that?
00:15:55.000 I did.
00:15:57.000 Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, all very strong, but also leading Biden very big.
00:16:03.000 The sanctimonious is crashing, perhaps The party should come together.
00:16:09.000 People should drop out of the race. 0.99
00:16:11.000 We unify and we beat Biden and the Democrats.
00:16:15.000 They should be easier to beat because our country has never been in worse condition than it is right now.
00:16:21.000 Thank you.
00:16:23.000 Okay, notice at the very, very end, he drops in the Biden stuff.
00:16:26.000 But really what this race is about is sort of his personal revenge on the rest of the Republican Party, by the way.
00:16:32.000 Hey, Donald Trump, as always, feels slighted by a wide variety of people.
00:16:36.000 And that's pretty much everybody he hired, by the way.
00:16:39.000 I said, Donald Trump, over the last 48 hours, canceled the crackin' again.
00:16:44.000 Does he remember that he promised that on Monday he was gonna have a press conference where he spelled out all the ways that he was cheated of the election in Georgia?
00:16:50.000 Well, now he's canceled it.
00:16:51.000 He put out a truth saying, quote, rather than releasing the report on the rigged and stolen Georgia 2020 presidential election on Monday, my lawyers would prefer putting this, I believe, irrefutable and overwhelming evidence of election fraud and irregularities in formal legal filings.
00:17:04.000 As we fight to dismiss this disgraceful indictment by a publicity and campaign finance-seeking DA who sadly presides over a record-breaking murder and violent crime area, Atlanta, therefore the news conference is no longer necessary.
00:17:13.000 So what actually happened is his lawyer said to him, Donald, we don't trust that you're not going to go in front of the press and then say a bunch of stuff that's going to get you in further trouble for, for example, suborning justice or obstructing or tampering with witnesses or whatever.
00:17:26.000 And so we need you to cancel it.
00:17:27.000 And so Trump actually listened to his lawyers for once in his life, which is a good thing, by the way, and he canceled the press conference.
00:17:33.000 But is this campaign really going to be about Joe Biden or is it going to be about all this sort of stuff?
00:17:37.000 So Bill Barr yesterday, his former attorney general, remember Joe, this was Donald Trump's attorney general, okay?
00:17:43.000 He picked him.
00:17:44.000 So Bill Barr was on Fox News and Bill Barr suggested that Donald Trump could theoretically be in jail by the time the primaries even close in May of next year.
00:17:54.000 And Donald Trump then put out a truth saying, just found this clip of Bill Barr prior to him succumbing
00:17:59.000 to impeachment and other threats of the radical left lunatics.
00:18:01.000 His bravado changed rapidly because he didn't want to be impeached.
00:18:04.000 Republicans have to be much tougher and smarter, or you won't have a party or a country left.
00:18:07.000 Barr didn't have the courage or stamina to fight, but he knew what was happening.
00:18:10.000 I canned him and felt really good about it.
00:18:12.000 Now he goes all over the place, especially Fox, pretending he's a tough guy.
00:18:15.000 What is this campaign going to be, folks?
00:18:18.000 What is this campaign going to be?
00:18:20.000 Well, I have an idea of what this campaign is going to be, and that idea comes courtesy of Matt Schlapp.
00:18:24.000 So Matt Schlapp is the chair of CPAC, and he put out a tweet yesterday.
00:18:30.000 Jesse Kelly, another radio host, tweeted out, somebody explained to me like I'm 10 years old.
00:18:34.000 How does anyone dropping out help Trump stay out of prison?
00:18:36.000 Please be specific.
00:18:37.000 If everyone drops out, what do we do when the communists in Michigan and Pennsylvania keep him off
00:18:40.000 the general election ballot?
00:18:41.000 And Schlapp says, quote, the sooner we unify behind a nominee,
00:18:46.000 the sooner we can use resources to fund the defenses of everyone indicted for being a Trump
00:18:50.000 Republican. This has become about a bigger principle in just one man. Now you may think
00:18:55.000 that the election of 2024 is about, you know, getting rid of Joe Biden, but according to Matt,
00:19:00.000 and I assume according to much of Team Trump, what it's really about is you funding Donald
00:19:04.000 Trump's legal bills. Now listen, I have a lot of sympathy for the fact that Trump is being
00:19:08.000 victimized by the legal establishment.
00:19:10.000 I've made that incredibly clear over the course of the last several months.
00:19:13.000 I think the case in Manhattan is BS, like overt BS.
00:19:17.000 I think that the January 6th case being brought by Jack Smith in D.C.
00:19:19.000 is a mischarge.
00:19:20.000 I think the case being brought by Fannie Willis, this RICO case, is an overcharge and is a misuse of RICO, likely, because she doesn't actually have a criminal enterprise And I think that the classified documents case might be a good legal case, but also is obviated by the fact that they didn't prosecute Hillary Clinton for pretty much the exact same thing.
00:19:38.000 With all of that said, why should 2024 be about litigation as opposed to, you know, elections?
00:19:44.000 I don't understand.
00:19:45.000 My interest as an American citizen is primarily in Joe Biden not being President of the United States, running the DOJ via Merrick Garland.
00:19:52.000 That is predominantly my interest.
00:19:54.000 I certainly have an interest in Donald Trump Fighting his legal battles.
00:19:59.000 That's fine.
00:20:00.000 Is that my primary interest as an American citizen who pays taxes?
00:20:03.000 Is that like the thing I care about the most?
00:20:05.000 If I have to prioritize, is it Donald Trump's legal cases or is it beating Joe Biden?
00:20:09.000 If it's Donald Trump's legal cases, that's fine.
00:20:11.000 The dude's got a legal fund.
00:20:12.000 He's not asked anybody to donate to his legal fund.
00:20:14.000 Instead, he's sort of laundering the money from his campaign into his legal fund.
00:20:17.000 So you give money to his campaign and then he uses it for his legal costs.
00:20:20.000 Is that why you're donating?
00:20:21.000 Is it because you care that much about his legal fund?
00:20:22.000 Fine!
00:20:23.000 He should open a legal fund and you can give to it.
00:20:26.000 Or do you care about beating Joe Biden?
00:20:28.000 Donald Trump could theoretically win all of his legal cases and still not beat Joe Biden.
00:20:32.000 I don't understand the prioritization and I don't understand what the campaign's plan is here.
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00:21:42.000 When I look at the polling data, what I see is that the American people, not the Republican base, the American people are not particularly interested in Donald Trump's legal troubles as the point of referendum.
00:21:54.000 The notion that what this campaign should actually be is about funding Donald Trump's legal troubles.
00:21:59.000 By the way, it's not clear that he's funding anybody else's legal troubles.
00:22:02.000 He's had a bunch of lawyers who are very loyal to him, and the minute that they said that they are not in favor of him being the nominee, apparently he's cut them off.
00:22:09.000 That includes Jenna Ellis.
00:22:11.000 Jenna Ellis is out there basically asking for donations to her legal fund. 0.99
00:22:13.000 I urge people to give to Jenna Ellis's legal fund, by the way.
00:22:16.000 But Jenna Ellis is now unpersoned because she's not sufficiently sycophantic to Trump personally.
00:22:22.000 Is this a way to run a campaign?
00:22:24.000 Again, I'm just asking you.
00:22:25.000 You can be a Trump supporter.
00:22:26.000 You can love the guy.
00:22:26.000 You can think he's a great president in every aspect.
00:22:28.000 That's all fine.
00:22:29.000 That's all dandy.
00:22:30.000 You can say that if he's the nominee, you'll vote for him.
00:22:31.000 If he's the nominee, I'll vote for him.
00:22:33.000 But that is not the question.
00:22:34.000 The question is, if he is the nominee, what is this campaign likely to be about?
00:22:39.000 Are you there to fund Donald Trump's legal troubles?
00:22:41.000 Or are you there to beat Joe Biden?
00:22:44.000 These are not synonymous.
00:22:46.000 Donald Trump is trying to combine the two into one.
00:22:49.000 But I'm just wondering what the evidence is that this is going to work.
00:22:53.000 I don't understand.
00:22:54.000 I don't understand why people think that Donald Trump's legal troubles are somehow a boon to him in a general election.
00:23:01.000 I'm asking for one piece of evidence.
00:23:02.000 I'm also asking for a piece of strategy.
00:23:04.000 Donald Trump is going to be stacked up the wazoo with legal cases.
00:23:06.000 He's got one coming in January.
00:23:08.000 He's got one coming maybe in February.
00:23:09.000 He's got one coming in March.
00:23:10.000 And then he's got another one coming in May.
00:23:13.000 That is four legal cases in the first five months of the year.
00:23:17.000 What do you think he's going to be talking about?
00:23:18.000 You think he's going to be talking about Joe Biden's inflation?
00:23:21.000 That is absolutely uninteresting to Donald Trump.
00:23:23.000 On a personal level, he is deeply uninterested in Joe Biden, politically speaking.
00:23:26.000 He doesn't care about him.
00:23:27.000 He has a personal animus for Joe Biden, an animus that I think should be widely shared because Joe Biden is a deeply corrupt human being, but is that the case that you're going to make in order to win?
00:23:38.000 I don't understand it.
00:23:40.000 I truly do not.
00:23:42.000 Okay, so this might be a topic at a debate, but Donald Trump isn't going to show up for a debate.
00:23:47.000 So Donald Trump, yesterday, he put out a statement, a couple of them, one blasting Fox News, suggesting that Fox News was being unkind to him because he was apparently, you know, not going to show up for the debate.
00:24:00.000 Anyway, he says, why doesn't Fox and Friends show all of the polls where I'm beating Biden by a lot?
00:24:04.000 Well, because the polls where you're beating Joe Biden by a lot are by a lot?
00:24:09.000 Don't exist.
00:24:10.000 That's why.
00:24:11.000 I'm sorry to break it to everybody, those polls do not exist.
00:24:13.000 I'm going to read you the last several polls in the RealClearPolitics polling average.
00:24:18.000 This is all the polls since July 23rd.
00:24:21.000 You ready?
00:24:23.000 Tie, 43-43.
00:24:24.000 Biden plus one, Biden plus one, Biden plus one, Biden plus one, Biden plus three.
00:24:28.000 The polls where Donald Trump is leading by a lot do not exist unless you're looking at cat shirt polls on Twitter.
00:24:33.000 I'm sorry, they don't.
00:24:35.000 That doesn't mean that Trump couldn't be theoretically competitive with Joe Biden, although I have serious doubts given the fact that Donald Trump Does not surpass.
00:24:43.000 In any poll, literally any poll, he does not surpass 46%.
00:24:46.000 He is not going to win the election with less than 46%.
00:24:50.000 And even at 46%, you gotta scrape on by.
00:24:53.000 That's gonna be real close.
00:24:55.000 Show me the math that Donald Trump wins 50% of the vote.
00:24:58.000 Show me that he wins 48% of the vote.
00:24:59.000 I'd love to see it.
00:25:01.000 It would make his campaign much more durable to me.
00:25:04.000 Because what I care about is beating Joe Biden.
00:25:06.000 By the way, Donald Trump... One other question.
00:25:09.000 You know, thank God I make a very nice living.
00:25:12.000 If, God forbid, I have legal troubles, I will pay for those legal troubles using the nice living that I have made.
00:25:17.000 Donald Trump is eons wealthier than I am.
00:25:20.000 He has a multiple of wealth that I do.
00:25:23.000 Donald Trump is supposedly one of the richer people on planet Earth.
00:25:26.000 According to Donald Trump, he's worth up to 10 billion dollars.
00:25:29.000 Why is he using his campaign funds to fund his legal problems?
00:25:32.000 This is a serious question.
00:25:34.000 Why?
00:25:36.000 I mean, shouldn't he be using them to beat Joe Biden?
00:25:38.000 Forget about the idea that his own supporters are really hoping he'll use the funding not for his legal funding, but for everything else.
00:25:44.000 Isn't there a tacit admission there that either he's not worth as much money as he says he is, or that he would rather use your money to fund his legal bills than his own money to fund his legal bills?
00:25:53.000 Like, why is his money not being used for his own legal problems and for the legal problems of his allies, by the way?
00:26:01.000 And speaking of his campaign, I mean, there's an incredible story from Politico today.
00:26:05.000 Okay, and this is a story talking about Laura Loomer. 0.93
00:26:07.000 So Laura Loomer is apparently very upset at me because I mentioned that she's a kind of a crazy person and that Donald Trump is allied with her. 0.98
00:26:13.000 She's kind of a crazy person, Donald Trump is allied with her. 0.99
00:26:16.000 That's just what, that is what it is. 0.97
00:26:18.000 In any case, according to Politico, Ron Filipkowski, who is a far-left Twitter addict, He has teamed up now with Laura Loomer and people affiliated with Donald Trump's campaign to attack Ron DeSantis.
00:26:35.000 So just to get this straight, the way that it works in Republican Party politics is if you say one bad word about Donald Trump and you are another Republican candidate, Republicans are angry at you.
00:26:43.000 If Donald Trump's campaign teams up with Ron Philip Kowalski to attack Ron DeSantis, that's good, apparently.
00:26:51.000 Apparently, according to Politico, Filipkowski said, I'm probably the top anti-DeSantis person on Twitter.
00:26:56.000 So if rivals have something anti-DeSantis, they want to get into the mainstream, they'll send it to me.
00:27:00.000 The Trump campaign declined to comment on whether they are coordinating with a far leftist, Ron Filipkowski, to attack DeSantis.
00:27:06.000 Which, by the way, does not seem like, you know, really good conservative strategy.
00:27:10.000 It doesn't.
00:27:11.000 It seems to me that if you don't want a circular firing squad, that should apply to everyone in the firing squad.
00:27:17.000 Laura Loomer said that they speak occasionally, quote, he knows I'm a Trump loyalist and I know he doesn't like Trump.
00:27:21.000 And despite our differences, we have found common ground on making sure Ron DeSantis has never elected president of the United States ever.
00:27:28.000 So never DeSantis is a thing, apparently.
00:27:31.000 So that is strong stuff right there.
00:27:35.000 Strong stuff.
00:27:35.000 Ron Philip Kowalski teaming up with Laura Loomer to attack Ron DeSantis.
00:27:40.000 Does this sound like a way to beat Joe Biden?
00:27:41.000 Just a question.
00:27:43.000 By the way, DeSantis has now been targeted by more negative expenditures than both Biden and Trump combined.
00:27:48.000 A quarter of all independent expenditures in the 2024 election cycle, according to the Washington Examiner, $20 million, have targeted DeSantis.
00:27:56.000 Trump was hit with just $8 million of negative independent expenditures directed toward him.
00:28:01.000 Biden was attacked with $9 million of independent expenditures.
00:28:04.000 So pretty much everybody is attacking DeSantis at this point, and nobody is attacking Trump.
00:28:09.000 Weird!
00:28:10.000 Weird.
00:28:10.000 You know who else nobody is attacking is, of course, Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:28:14.000 Listen, I'm friends with Vivek.
00:28:16.000 I think Vivek's a really smart guy.
00:28:17.000 Also, Vivek spends every waking moment not attacking the frontrunner of his own party.
00:28:23.000 Not mentioning anything about his political differences with the frontrunner of his own party.
00:28:27.000 Vivek is a clever guy.
00:28:28.000 I will also note that the polling data with regard to Vivek is a little bit bifurcated.
00:28:32.000 The online polls show him at 8, 9, 10%.
00:28:34.000 And then the actual phone polls, the ones that are a little bit more reliable than online polls, have him like two.
00:28:39.000 That's a pretty wide gap.
00:28:41.000 And the press are, of course, jumping on the idea that Vivek is surging and DeSantis is falling.
00:28:45.000 Here's the reality of the race. 0.96
00:28:46.000 The race is absolutely stagnant.
00:28:48.000 It's been stagnant for three to four months.
00:28:50.000 Again, if I look at those RealClearPolitics polling averages and I'm looking at them right this very instant, what you see Is that DeSantis has declined about somewhere between 3 and 4 percent over the course of the last, I don't know, 8 months?
00:29:05.000 If you look at the polling in October of 2022, it showed Trump at 53 and DeSantis at 19.
00:29:11.000 Today, in the RealClear polling average, it shows Trump at 55 and DeSantis at 15.
00:29:16.000 That is not exactly a polling collapse.
00:29:19.000 Vivek has been surging to 11 percent.
00:29:24.000 And DeSantis, even in that Fox News poll, that's the only, by the way, the Fox News poll is the only recent poll that shows an actual Vivec surge.
00:29:29.000 That's not an online-only poll.
00:29:31.000 That poll, there's a Morning Console poll that shows him at nine.
00:29:33.000 Both of those polls also show DeSantis at 16%, which means that he's basically where he's been for the last several months.
00:29:39.000 This race has not changed very much.
00:29:40.000 There's a little bit of movement at the bottom of the race, not a lot of movement in the rest of the race.
00:29:45.000 What does that mean?
00:29:45.000 It means going into the debate, I would assume that all the attacks are going to be on DeSantis, right?
00:29:51.000 That's basically the way this is going to go.
00:29:54.000 Well, Jeff Rowe, who runs one of the DeSantis super PACs, he then, so one of the things that the super PACs sometimes do to avoid legal complications with coordinating with campaigns, because they're not allowed to do so, sometimes in like dark corners of the internet, they'll post things hoping that the campaign sees it and then implements.
00:30:11.000 So apparently, a memo has now gone out from Jeff Rowe, debate advice for DeSantis for next week.
00:30:17.000 Trump has already said he's not debating.
00:30:19.000 In fact, he's going to counter-program the debate.
00:30:21.000 According to CNN, Trump is going to do some sort of event with Tucker Carlson, it sounds like.
00:30:28.000 He is floating that he's skipping it.
00:30:30.000 But I got to say, the RNC is absolutely gutless.
00:30:34.000 I mean, they are super gutless.
00:30:35.000 Because what is the RNC doing here?
00:30:36.000 The RNC is coordinating with Trump's surrogates to represent him in the spin room.
00:30:41.000 So apparently that means that they will allow Kerry Lake, Byron Donalds, and Matt Gaetz, as well as other Republicans in Congress who are Trump supporters openly, to attend the debate next week and then basically critique the debate in the spin room.
00:30:53.000 That's wild.
00:30:54.000 That's wild.
00:30:55.000 I'm sorry, if your man doesn't show up, you should not be in the spin room.
00:30:58.000 That's like DeSantis saying, I'm not going to show up, but I am going to send Christina Pesceau over to the debate room to critique all the other candidates. 1.00
00:31:07.000 That's an absurdity.
00:31:08.000 It really is.
00:31:09.000 Again, one of these other candidates could rise, but I'm wondering how.
00:31:13.000 And I'm wondering at what point the Republicans are going to say, you know, it might be worthwhile to examine some other options at this point.
00:31:19.000 Just in case.
00:31:20.000 Just in case.
00:31:22.000 Anyway, the Jeffrow Memo about what DeSantis needs to do is, quote, Now, again, when campaigns are having trouble, very often it feels like they're just stumbling on landmine after landmine.
00:31:31.000 when Chris Christie inevitably attacks the former president and needs to attack Joe Biden and the
00:31:35.000 media no less than three to five times. Now again when campaigns are having trouble very often it
00:31:41.000 feels like they're just stumbling on landmine after landmine.
00:31:44.000 When a campaign is having trouble and since this campaign is experiencing trouble to launch
00:31:48.000 for sure, when you see this what you see is stuff like this.
00:31:53.000 Leaks in the press about debate strategy.
00:31:55.000 Now, is that a terrible strategy?
00:31:56.000 I'm not sure that this is a terrible strategy, but the fact that it is now being revealed publicly and being treated as like top line news is part of the ongoing media narrative, which is that DeSantis is getting hammered by Trump.
00:32:10.000 Here's the reality.
00:32:11.000 The media have a common interest in ensuring that Trump gets the nomination because they believe, rightly or wrongly, that Donald Trump getting the nomination will lose to Biden.
00:32:19.000 That's what they want, more than anything else.
00:32:22.000 And if Republicans believe that that's not the case, and they nominate Trump, maybe they'll be right, and maybe they'll be wrong.
00:32:27.000 But if they're right, I would like to see the data that they are right, and I would like to see the plan that Trump plans to implement to avoid what happened last time.
00:32:33.000 I still... One question, and one question only, guys.
00:32:37.000 If Donald Trump is the nominee, and he thinks that the last election was stolen from him after he won it, by big numbers according to him, right?
00:32:43.000 He won huge.
00:32:45.000 What is his plan to stop that from happening again?
00:32:47.000 Does it exist?
00:32:48.000 What would it be?
00:32:51.000 It seems to me that right now, the Republican Party is in its own referendum.
00:32:55.000 Do we care more about Donald Trump personally?
00:32:58.000 Or do we care more about beating Joe Biden?
00:33:01.000 Now maybe you think the two are not in conflict, and that's a nice easy answer.
00:33:04.000 But if the two are in conflict, which one do you prioritize as a voter?
00:33:08.000 This is a serious question for everyone.
00:33:11.000 Because the data show that the two right now are in conflict.
00:33:13.000 You can pretend the data away.
00:33:15.000 You can assume the data don't exist.
00:33:17.000 That's fine.
00:33:18.000 But, just as a hypothetical, humor me.
00:33:21.000 If the two are in conflict, beating Joe Biden or personal love for Donald Trump, which one matters more to you?
00:33:27.000 And I understand that anyone even asking the question is now considered an enemy of Donald Trump.
00:33:31.000 This is not me being an enemy of Donald Trump.
00:33:33.000 Donald Trump should be acquitted on these charges.
00:33:36.000 I think that these charges are being brought for political reasons.
00:33:39.000 I agree with all of those things.
00:33:41.000 And I will vote for him if he's the nominee.
00:33:43.000 But if, as the data show, victory in 2024 and nominating Donald Trump are in conflict, which one is more important to you?
00:33:51.000 And if it is the latter, I would ask why?
00:33:53.000 There are many ways to defend Donald Trump, including giving to his legal defense fund that apparently does not really exist.
00:33:58.000 He should set one up, like right now.
00:34:00.000 But...
00:34:02.000 What is the plan?
00:34:03.000 What is the plan?
00:34:03.000 Again, because, you know, there are things to talk about.
00:34:05.000 Like, for example, the incipient collapse of the economic status of the United States.
00:34:11.000 We'll get to that momentarily.
00:34:13.000 So we have an executive producer, a new executive producer on this show, Justin.
00:34:16.000 Justin is great.
00:34:17.000 He was hired to come into the office and, you know, really make sure that things were working and be here day to day.
00:34:23.000 And he's never here.
00:34:26.000 Like ever.
00:34:27.000 He moved to South Florida to be part of the office and then he lives in Nashville with the rest of the crew.
00:34:34.000 And occasionally I hear him in my ear saying things.
00:34:37.000 And that's about the association that I have with Justin at this point.
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00:36:22.000 Well, meanwhile, if it feels as though the economy is on the verge of falling apart, that's only because the economy is on the verge of falling apart.
00:36:28.000 According to CNN, China's Evergrande Group, which was once the country's second largest property developer, filed for full-on bankruptcy in New York on Thursday.
00:36:37.000 The beleaguered firm borrowed heavily and defaulted on its debt in 2021, sparking a massive property crisis in China's economy, which continues to feel the effects.
00:36:45.000 Evergrande filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection that allows the U.S.
00:36:47.000 Bankruptcy Court to step in when an insolvency case involves another country.
00:36:51.000 Chapter 15 bankruptcy is intended to help promote cooperation between U.S.
00:36:54.000 courts, debtors, and other countries' courts involved in cross-border bankruptcy proceedings.
00:36:59.000 So what does that mean?
00:36:59.000 Well, China's real estate sector Was 30% of the country's GDP.
00:37:05.000 But Evergrande's 2021 default sent shockwaves through China's property markets, damaging homeowners and the broader financial system in the country.
00:37:12.000 Basically, China had built a bunch of fake growth on the back of borrowing money and then building empty apartment buildings.
00:37:17.000 Evergrande is a massive company with more than 1,300 real estate projects in more than 280 cities.
00:37:22.000 They've struggled to pay off their loans.
00:37:24.000 The property company's debt load reached $340 billion by the end of last year.
00:37:29.000 Billion.
00:37:29.000 That is roughly 2% of China's entire GDP.
00:37:33.000 So China's economy is on the brink.
00:37:35.000 That means the United States economy is in trouble as well.
00:37:38.000 Meanwhile, mortgage rates have now hit over 7% in the United States.
00:37:41.000 That's the highest rate in more than 20 years.
00:37:44.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the increase extends a lengthy stretch of high borrowing costs that has slowed the housing market to a crawl.
00:37:50.000 This marked the first time since last fall the rate on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages rose above 7% a year ago, rate to around 5%.
00:37:56.000 The housing market is part of the economy hit most directly by the Federal Reserve's high-rate policies.
00:38:00.000 Well, what does that mean exactly?
00:38:01.000 It means that the prices on real estate are about to drop rather precipitously because it turns out there is no one to buy the real estate.
00:38:08.000 So, a bunch of people are just not going to sell their houses, which is fine if you can afford to stay in your house because you've got a 2% mortgage or 3% mortgage, good for you.
00:38:15.000 There are going to be some people who are not able to afford their bills and they bought the houses kind of on spec, thinking they'd be able to flip them.
00:38:22.000 And now when they cannot flip them, those houses will be defaulted.
00:38:26.000 Stocks fell on Thursday, extending August declines, with investors worried anew about continuing Fed rate hikes.
00:38:31.000 Fed officials still see inflation risks and the potential need for higher interest rates, according to meeting minutes released this year.
00:38:37.000 When the Fed started lifting interest rates at a rapid clip last year, the rising cost of borrowing to buy a home was expected to be temporary.
00:38:42.000 A year and a half on, rates are climbing back toward their highs, despite briefly dipping toward 6% in late 2022 and early 2023.
00:38:47.000 Now, buyers, sellers, and investors are adjusting to the idea higher rates are here to stay, or at least here to stay longer than they were expecting.
00:38:56.000 So a lot of would-be sellers feel stuck in place.
00:38:59.000 Some buyers are giving up.
00:39:00.000 They're instead renting, which is driving up rents.
00:39:02.000 And all of this is artificially created by bad government policy and bad Federal Reserve policy, and it's going to have some pretty significant downstream effects.
00:39:10.000 Meanwhile, a lot of very important things to people's lives, like for example, childcare, those expenses are just ripping through families.
00:39:18.000 The national average price of daycare and preschool services rose 6% in July from one year before.
00:39:23.000 This has nearly doubled the overall inflation rate of 3.2%.
00:39:26.000 Everybody's got to keep working those long hours in order to earn those inflated dollars in order to pay off those inflated bills.
00:39:32.000 Parents could see their childcare bills climb higher this fall as providers boost tuition to cover rising costs and federal pandemic aid seizes.
00:39:39.000 And a lot of people don't have options, and they have to take the hit.
00:39:43.000 Rising wages and other expenses are driving up child care tuition, so people are feeling it right in the pocketbook.
00:39:49.000 People are selling off assets in order to make the bills.
00:39:52.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Americans built bookcases and shrines to the baseball cards, vinyl records, and sneakers they collected, sometimes through painstaking efforts.
00:39:59.000 Now they're selling them off.
00:40:00.000 Collectors are saying they don't have a choice.
00:40:03.000 Well, yeah, I mean, a bunch of people are losing business, and now they're going to have to sell what they got.
00:40:09.000 All of this is going, again, what goes up must come down.
00:40:13.000 And now the Federal Reserve is stuck because if they continue to raise those interest rates and attempt to quash inflation, the economy could flip over.
00:40:19.000 This boat is taking on water, the economy could easily flip over.
00:40:21.000 And if they don't raise those rates, inflation could continue to chip away at Americans' lifestyles.
00:40:28.000 So what exactly are they going to do?
00:40:29.000 They're trapped.
00:40:31.000 They're already talking about lowering the interest rates again, which would presumably jack up the inflation rates again.
00:40:37.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, most Federal Reserve officials backed an increase in interest rates last month, but some saw rising risks they might raise rates too high, underscoring growing caution about further increases.
00:40:46.000 Officials still saw significant risks inflation might not fall as much as they expect, which could require them to raise rates again this year, according to the Minutes.
00:40:53.000 Those risks include stronger economic growth and the reversal of recent supply chain improvements or declines in commodity prices, which have been largely responsible for the slowdown in inflation.
00:41:03.000 All of this is going to first hit in China and first hit in Europe and then it'll hit the United States last, but it's already hitting in Europe.
00:41:10.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, a sluggish economy, higher interest rates, and the expiration of pandemic-era life support for ailing companies is forcing more businesses in Europe to declare bankruptcy.
00:41:19.000 A new report also showed new business creation in Europe is slowing.
00:41:22.000 As the Biden administration's support for green tech continues to draw new investment abroad, the number of EU business filings for bankruptcy in the three months to end June rose 8.4% from the previous quarter.
00:41:32.000 That's the highest level since 2015.
00:41:34.000 Registrations of new business fell 0.6%.
00:41:37.000 And all the happy talk about Bidenomics is masking the fact that the economy is slowing globally.
00:41:43.000 That is Bidenomics at work.
00:41:44.000 It's a slowing economy, inflated costs, and everybody knows it.
00:41:48.000 And guess what?
00:41:48.000 Republicans should be running against that if they're not distracted with all the other issues that Democrats wish to distract them with, including Donald Trump's legal travails.
00:41:57.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden is offering all sorts of failures for Republicans to pick up on, including failures in Hawaii.
00:42:04.000 Joe Biden is going to be going to Maui, but the amount of aid that he's offered to families, like $700 a family, which doesn't even pay for the amount of money that each family in Lahaina has paid for the Ukraine war.
00:42:15.000 Seriously, like the amount of money in taxes, if you prorate it, across the economy.
00:42:20.000 What you see is the people in Lahaina paid more than $700 for the war in Ukraine and are getting less than $800 back from the federal government when their house burns down.
00:42:28.000 Karine Jean-Pierre, however, has been using the magic words, whole of government approach, which is a way of saying, we have no idea what we're doing, but we'll say a thing.
00:42:36.000 The entire nation is grieving with you and is going to be with you as you rebuild and recover.
00:42:42.000 We are not going to go anywhere until that occurs, that happens.
00:42:47.000 The president is going to continue to marshal a whole of government effort, approach, as
00:42:52.000 he has done from day one with having dozens of federal agencies and agencies and departments
00:43:01.000 on the ground helping local partners and state partners get the assistance, the federal assistance
00:43:07.000 that these survivors need.
00:43:09.000 And this is incredibly important.
00:43:11.000 This is something that the president takes very seriously.
00:43:14.000 Well, he'll be flying directly over East Palestine, Ohio, when he when he heads on over to Maui,
00:43:21.000 Again, Joe Biden is a target-rich environment.
00:43:23.000 New AP poll out today.
00:43:24.000 Only 36% of American adults approve of Joe Biden's handling of the economy.
00:43:28.000 Only 42% approve of his overall performance.
00:43:32.000 People, by the way, really, really overall do not want to see a Biden-Trump rematch next year.
00:43:38.000 Here's the AP poll.
00:43:39.000 Would you like to see each of the following individuals run for president in 2024 or not?
00:43:42.000 Joe Biden, 75%.
00:43:42.000 24 or not.
00:43:43.000 Joe Biden, 75 percent no.
00:43:48.000 Donald Trump, 69 percent no.
00:43:50.000 So obviously this is what we're gonna do.
00:43:52.000 Meanwhile, we have been hearing about this Hawaii wildfire.
00:43:55.000 It's a disaster, obviously a major, major disaster, but one of the things we've been hearing from the media is that it's all about global warming.
00:44:01.000 It's not about global warming.
00:44:02.000 It's about, as always, human failure.
00:44:05.000 According to Cliff Mass, who is a professor at the University of Washington Atmospheric Sciences, Hawaii fires are not connected to climate change.
00:44:13.000 He told my friend Jason Rantz over on KTTH, He said, uh, no.
00:44:16.000 They have nothing to do with climate change.
00:44:18.000 Like, zero.
00:44:20.000 He says they were due to a combination of dry and invasive grass and powerful wind that accelerated the spread of the fire, not climate change.
00:44:25.000 He says there's an area of extensive grass.
00:44:27.000 The grass is more bountiful than normal because there was not a lot- because there was a lot of precipitation over the winter.
00:44:31.000 They had a lot of grass.
00:44:32.000 A lot of that grass is not natural grass.
00:44:34.000 It's invasive stuff brought over in the last century.
00:44:36.000 They had an extraordinarily strong windstorm.
00:44:38.000 So, it really had nothing to do with, uh, anything except for that.
00:44:42.000 The windstorm likely destroyed a power line, creating a spark that ignited the grass.
00:44:46.000 The only thing that could have been done is to warn the locals.
00:44:49.000 And this is where the failure kicked in.
00:44:51.000 Apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal, during the 2019 wildfire season, one of the worst Maui had ever seen, Hawaiian Electric concluded it needed to do far more to prevent its power lines from emitting sparks.
00:45:01.000 The utility examined California's plans to reduce fires ignited by power lines, started flying drones over its territory, and vowed to take steps to protect its equipment and its customers from the threat of fire.
00:45:09.000 Nearly four years later, the company has completed little such work.
00:45:12.000 Between 2019 and 2022, it invested less than $245,000 On wildfire-specific projects on the island, regulatory filings show it did not seek state approval to raise rates to pay for broad wildfire safety improvements until 2022 and has yet to receive it.
00:45:25.000 The blazes caused at least 110 deaths, destroyed Lahaina, and resulted in estimated billions of dollars in damage.
00:45:32.000 Hawaiian Electric said it would investigate any role its infrastructure may have played and coordinate with a separate probe into the fire launched last week by Hawaii Attorney General.
00:45:40.000 There's also reports that a silent alarm went off, which is completely useless.
00:45:47.000 So, once again, human failure, generally to blame for massive natural disasters, in the same way that faulty building in New Orleans led to the full-scale disaster that was a result of Hurricane Katrina.
00:45:59.000 Already time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:46:02.000 So, things that I like today.
00:46:04.000 I am amused that California is still talking about $1.2 million for reparations payouts in the state of California.
00:46:09.000 So, as you all know, California was never a slave state.
00:46:11.000 Doesn't matter.
00:46:12.000 California is still talking about reparations.
00:46:13.000 And now, they're saying that they have the math.
00:46:16.000 So, combined recommendation, reparations could total more than $1.2 million per person.
00:46:22.000 They're saying health harms come out to $13,600 annually, which is a $967,000 maximum over 71 years.
00:46:25.000 Housing discrimination, $3,400 for each year, which is $149,000 maximum.
00:46:27.000 $967,000 maximum over 71 years.
00:46:30.000 Housing discrimination, $3,400 for each year, which is $149,000 maximum.
00:46:37.000 And mass incarceration and over-policing, which amounts to someone committed a crime and went to jail,
00:46:41.000 $2,400 per year over 44 years.
00:46:44.000 So they're trying to put a price tag on differences in life expectancy from 1850 to present,
00:46:52.000 and then pay people for this.
00:46:53.000 And what they're coming up with is 1.2 million dollars per person.
00:46:56.000 Now, does California have the money for that? 0.70
00:46:57.000 Of course, California does not have the money for that.
00:46:59.000 Also, how exactly are they going to distribute that money?
00:47:01.000 What happens to people who have mixed-race parentage?
00:47:05.000 Well, who pays whom?
00:47:07.000 They don't care about any of this.
00:47:08.000 This is all for show.
00:47:09.000 They're never going to do any of this.
00:47:10.000 But it is amusing to watch California push forward with this sort of stuff, presumably by increasing the tax burden on people who are wealthy, which is driving people from the state.
00:47:21.000 So congratulations to California once again on pursuing crappy policy.
00:47:24.000 Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:47:30.000 So according to Breitbart.com, a study of open AIs at ChatGPT conducted by researchers at the University of East Anglia in the UK shows that the market-leading AI chatbot has a clear bias toward leftist political parties.
00:47:39.000 Now, we knew this for a fact.
00:47:40.000 I mean, you can see our YouTube video that we did where I have discussions with ChatGPT and where it will write glowing poems about Joe Biden and then it will refuse to write anything laudatory about Donald Trump.
00:47:51.000 There are obviously parameters that have been placed on these chatbots, on these AIs, that make them more left-leaning, without a doubt.
00:47:57.000 The study, published in the journal Public Choice, shows ChatGPT, under its default settings, favors Democrats in the United States, the Labour Party in the UK, and President Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party in Brazil.
00:48:07.000 Researchers asked ChatGPT to impersonate supporters of various political parties and positions, and then asked the modified chatbots a series of 60 ideological questions.
00:48:15.000 The responses to these questions were then compared to ChatGPT's default answers.
00:48:19.000 This allowed the researchers to test whether ChatGPT's default responses favor particular political stances.
00:48:26.000 To overcome difficulties caused by inherent randomness of the large language models, each question was asked a hundred times, different responses were collected.
00:48:32.000 What they found is that, of course, there was serious political bias to AI.
00:48:37.000 That, of course, is not a shocker at all.
00:48:39.000 As we've said, you can go to ChatGPT right now and you can try it out.
00:48:43.000 My producers, because, you know, this is what they do in their off time, they actually ran through ChatGPT a query for a musical about me.
00:48:54.000 That was actually the query.
00:48:55.000 A musical about Ben Shapiro.
00:48:56.000 What exactly was the chat GPT response?
00:48:59.000 It was an entire musical about how I realized that I've been wrong about my politics forever.
00:49:04.000 That's according to the AI.
00:49:06.000 The title is The Righteous Mind, a Ben Shapiro musical.
00:49:09.000 The show opens with Ben Shapiro and his conservative political commentator persona
00:49:13.000 addressing a crowd of supporters.
00:49:14.000 He sings about the importance of individualism, the dangers of collectivism, and the need for personal responsibility.
00:49:19.000 As the scene transitions, we see Ben in his personal life, struggling to balance his professional success with his family life.
00:49:24.000 He sings a heartfelt ballad about the difficulties of balancing his public persona with his private self.
00:49:29.000 Okay, so, um, first of all, off the rails immediately.
00:49:33.000 Immediately.
00:49:35.000 Let me just tell you, there is no difficulty balancing my family life with my professional life.
00:49:40.000 I mean, like, we were just in Georgia for a small family vacation.
00:49:45.000 And as my producers will tell you, and everyone else at the airport, I'm literally carrying around my kids all the time.
00:49:50.000 Literally physically carrying around my kids all the time.
00:49:53.000 So yeah, good job, AI.
00:49:55.000 Act two.
00:49:56.000 The second act opens with a dramatic showdown between Ben and a liberal counterpart debating the role of government in society.
00:50:00.000 The two characters engage in a fiery duet, each defending their respective positions.
00:50:04.000 As the show nears its conclusion, Ben begins to question his own beliefs and principles.
00:50:07.000 Thank you, AI.
00:50:08.000 He sings a soul-searching solo about the importance of empathy and understanding.
00:50:15.000 And how these qualities can be reconciled with his conservative values.
00:50:18.000 First of all...
00:50:19.000 It is the left that has no empathy and no understanding.
00:50:21.000 It is the left that truly believes that instead of actually, you know, taking care of people on a personal level, you should just give them money.
00:50:27.000 And other people's money at that.
00:50:28.000 It's the least empathetic position.
00:50:30.000 Hey look, a poor person.
00:50:31.000 Should I help that poor person?
00:50:32.000 No!
00:50:32.000 I should let the government help the poor person by taxing Bob!
00:50:35.000 Not true empathy.
00:50:36.000 So much empathy on the left.
00:50:37.000 Grandma's suffering.
00:50:38.000 Should I take her in my home and take care of her and help pay her bills? 1.00
00:50:40.000 No!
00:50:41.000 I will make the government tax that guy over there and they will take grandma and stuff 0.99
00:50:44.000 her in an old age home and will pay social security for it. 0.58
00:50:48.000 So much empathy on the left.
00:50:50.000 So empathetic.
00:50:51.000 The finale brings the entire cast together for a rousing ensemble number celebrating
00:50:55.000 the power of diversity and the importance of respectful discourse in a divided society.
00:50:59.000 Overall, says the I.I., The Righteous Mind is a thought-provoking and entertaining exploration of politics, family, and personal identity featuring the dynamic talent of Ben Shapiro.
00:51:08.000 So first of all, no one wants to see me in a musical.
00:51:10.000 If you want to see me sing, you have to pay to be an All Access member and watch me sing for my supper.
00:51:15.000 It is painful for all involved.
00:51:19.000 But as always, again, I know the people who are writing the AI programs, folks, and they're almost universally to the left.
00:51:24.000 So it's not a shock that the AI reflects human foibles.
00:51:27.000 All right, guys, the rest of the show continues right now.
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