The Ben Shapiro Show - Kamala Lied, Americans Died

00:00:00.000 Well folks, you know that it's time for us to update our calendar.

00:00:03.000 It has now been, get ready for it, here we go, here we go, right up the top, 38 days since Kamala Harris has done any sort of interview at all since becoming the nominee, which is like the entire time, right?

00:00:13.000 She became the nominee on one day, and 38 days later she has not done a single interview.

00:00:17.000 We'll get to that in a moment.

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00:00:48.000 Alrighty, so.

00:00:49.000 Again, Kamala Harris, 38 days, no interviews, none whatsoever.

00:00:54.000 And you would think that this might become an issue at some point.

00:00:57.000 Apparently, according to Politico, they're now trying to figure out exactly who she will sit with.

00:01:01.000 Because you remember, late last week, she was on the tarmac and she said, by the end of next week, we'll have scheduled an interview.

00:01:07.000 That does not mean that she would actually do the interview by the end of this week.

00:01:11.000 It means she would have scheduled the interview.

00:01:13.000 And the whole game for the Harris campaign is to hide the ball.

00:01:15.000 That is the entire game.

00:01:17.000 Never let her positions be known.

00:01:19.000 Make it so that she never has to answer a question about the horrible performance of her own administration where she is the vice president.

00:01:26.000 The insane gaslighting attempt to teach Americans that Kamala Harris is both the most important vice president who has ever lived and also completely irrelevant with no connection to any piece of Joe Biden's policy is totally crazy making.

00:01:37.000 It's absolutely insane making.

00:01:40.000 The reality is that something like 90% of Americans, according to a brand new poll from National Line Insights, think that it's important that presidential candidates answer questions, but not apparently Kamala Harris.

00:01:50.000 Her entire team is freaking out about the possibility of her actually having to do an interview.

00:01:56.000 According to Politico, nearly three weeks ago on an airport tarmac in Detroit, VP Harris was asked about plans for a sit-down interview.

00:02:03.000 She said, I've talked to my team.

00:02:05.000 I want us to get an interview scheduled before the end of the month.

00:02:07.000 Scheduled before the end of the month.

00:02:09.000 Not that she's going to actually do it before the end of the month.

00:02:11.000 Scheduled before the end of the month.

00:02:12.000 And remember, we are now 10 days out from the mail-in ballots going out in places like North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

00:02:18.000 The whole game here is to delay this beyond actual votes being turned in. 1.00

00:02:22.000 This is why early voting is so stupid. 1.00

00:02:24.000 It's really stupid. 1.00

00:02:26.000 You should do it. 1.00

00:02:27.000 I don't mean as stupid as in you shouldn't do it. 1.00

00:02:27.000 Don't get me wrong. 1.00

00:02:28.000 You should absolutely do it because them's the rules and you got to abide by those rules if you wish to win.

00:02:32.000 However, In the future, states need to move toward radically shortening the window for early voting.

00:02:39.000 Because this is insipid.

00:02:40.000 It's insipid that you should be voting for the President of the United States without her having done a single sit-down interview or answered a single adversarial question.

00:02:50.000 That's crazy towns.

00:02:51.000 And there are two reasons for that.

00:02:52.000 One is that she's lying and hiding.

00:02:54.000 And two is that no one should be voting at the beginning of September for an election that's happening in November.

00:02:59.000 Every week in American politics at this point is several years long.

00:03:03.000 It's absolutely bizarre.

00:03:05.000 Anyway, a lot of consternation inside the Harris campaign about who she should sit with because they're very much afraid that she is going to crap the bed because she has in literally every interview she has ever done.

00:03:15.000 Every sit-down interview she has ever done involves somebody asking her a tough question, her not knowing the answer, and then her just going into her word salad mode where she starts babbling nonsensically or laughing awkwardly and they're very afraid of this.

00:03:27.000 Right now, they've got her packaged.

00:03:29.000 Right now, they've got her gussied up and glossed up All you see of Kamala Harris is upshots backlit with the glowing music in the background, with the rising James Horner score.

00:03:41.000 That's all you got.

00:03:42.000 When you see Kamala Harris now, they've even toned down the guffawing laugh. 0.96

00:03:47.000 Instead, it's just a big smile, but no audible cackle.

00:03:50.000 They've gotten rid of all of that because it's all on script.

00:03:52.000 It's all on script.

00:03:53.000 The minute she gets off script, she's in trouble and they know it.

00:03:56.000 According to Politico, some of the questions rattling around the decision, who exactly is going to do the interview?

00:04:02.000 One source of intrigue concerns who in Harris' world will actually make the decision.

00:04:05.000 Brian Fallon, the campaign's senior advisor for communications, is generally considered the key person.

00:04:10.000 But the interview also has to be coordinated with Harris' official office, where the communications director is Kirsten Allen.

00:04:16.000 We hear there are some tensions.

00:04:17.000 Another source with knowledge said Stephanie Cutter, senior advisor for message and strategy, will have an outsized role as well.

00:04:22.000 Campaign chair Jen O'Malley Dillon and senior advisor David Pruf represent another camp.

00:04:26.000 And then there's Maya Harris and Tony West, Harris' sister and brother-in-law, who will also weigh in with their own views.

00:04:32.000 Then the big question is, what is the goal?

00:04:34.000 So, the main narrative in the political press is that Harris needs to do a lengthy, serious interview with a brand-name news anchor who will push her on the issues. 0.96

00:04:40.000 But Harris disagrees, shockingly.

00:04:42.000 She doesn't want to be pushed on the issues.

00:04:44.000 Why?

00:04:44.000 Because she will collapse like a house of cards if met with any pressure at all.

00:04:49.000 According to Politico, Harris herself has expressed disagreement with that view.

00:04:52.000 We are told by two people, telling some Democrats she doesn't need a big showing interview.

00:04:56.000 In October, Harris did a sit-down with Bill Whitaker on 60 Minutes and talked foreign policy.

00:05:00.000 Some of the exchanges were testy.

00:05:02.000 Some Harris aides came away unhappy with the experience. 0.98

00:05:04.000 Yeah, that's because she's crappy at this. 0.99

00:05:06.000 The constant story with Kamala Harris is that when put in positions to succeed, she fails. 0.90

00:05:11.000 And then she gets mad at everyone around her and angry at the world for having failed her.

00:05:16.000 Former Harris comms advisor Ashley Etienne told Playbook she thought Harris should have three goals for the interview.

00:05:21.000 The first goal would be to peel back some layers on the vice president and show some new dimensions to her. 0.96

00:05:25.000 That's like, show the happy face, talk about her personal life, talk about how she's mama-la and how she likes to cook and makes brisket for Passover and all this kind of crap. 0.95

00:05:25.000 So that means nothing. 0.95

00:05:34.000 The second goal would be policy.

00:05:36.000 To be honest, said Etienne, a big audience for this is the Inside the Beltway crowd that really cares about this.

00:05:40.000 So she should substantively draw some distinctions with Biden on policy issues.

00:05:44.000 But realistically, what they're saying is she shouldn't talk policy.

00:05:46.000 And third, show her visually as commander-in-chief.

00:05:49.000 I would want her to do some in her office at the White House.

00:05:51.000 Show her on the road.

00:05:52.000 Take you inside her home at the Naval Observatory.

00:05:54.000 Who does she want? 1.00

00:05:55.000 She wants Gayle King on CBS. 0.97

00:05:57.000 Which I believe is illegal, since you're not allowed to show actual pornography on network television even now.

00:06:01.000 The FCC bans reporters from performing actual sexual acts on the candidates.

00:06:05.000 So I don't think that Gayle King will do it, because it'll probably be illegal. 1.00

00:06:08.000 They're talking about maybe ABC's David Muir, who has the highest ratings, but he's co-moderating that September 10th debate, so that takes him off the board.

00:06:16.000 They've mentioned Nora O'Donnell.

00:06:18.000 Unlikely.

00:06:19.000 Lester Holt for sure not, because Lester Holt has a habit of asking the occasional uncomfortable questions.

00:06:23.000 That's not going to happen.

00:06:25.000 They mentioned Savannah Guthrie at NBC, which again, would be a massage.

00:06:28.000 But if they do it on MSNBC, it's cable.

00:06:30.000 So, you know, you can get away with whatever you can get away with on cable.

00:06:35.000 Very, very unlikely, again, that she's going to do anything that remotely looks like a hard interview.

00:06:40.000 So the first interview, presumably, will be some sort of sop to her. 0.99

00:06:45.000 Which is a pity, because it turns out that Kamala is, in fact, a liar. 0.92

00:06:49.000 She's Kamala Iyer. 1.00

00:06:50.000 She is a liar. 0.99

00:06:51.000 She has lied about every position she has ever held, and she is simultaneously asking us to believe that she is deeply in the room. 0.99

00:06:58.000 Really, really important.

00:07:00.000 At every level. 0.98

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00:08:05.000 And also, she's had no consequence whatsoever as vice president.

00:08:10.000 So yesterday marked the Murder of 13 American soldiers at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan.

00:08:16.000 You'll remember these soldiers from being completely ignored by Joe Biden during his administration.

00:08:21.000 You'll remember this.

00:08:22.000 During the first debate, he actually said no American soldiers had died on his watch, which of course is untrue.

00:08:27.000 13 American soldiers had been murdered at Abbey Gate by ISIS-K, which was in fact an outgrowth of the Taliban working in coordination with the Taliban because of the disastrous Afghanistan pullout, the single worst foreign policy move In the modern history of America, the Afghanistan pullout was a disaster, full scale, full stop. 0.74

00:08:50.000 It was humiliating for the United States.

00:08:51.000 We left hundreds of millions of dollars worth of military equipment in the hands of the Taliban.

00:08:56.000 We left tens of thousands of people who had worked with us to the tender mercies of the Taliban.

00:09:01.000 There are people falling off wheel wells of passenger airliners, as you will recall.

00:09:06.000 You'll recall the suicide bombing that killed nearly 200 people, including those 13 American soldiers.

00:09:10.000 Right now, women have been stuffed back into the burqas, like the full-scale burqas. 1.00

00:09:14.000 They're not allowed to show their eyes now on the streets.

00:09:16.000 None of them are going to school.

00:09:17.000 So well done to the Biden administration.

00:09:20.000 And remember that Joe Biden lied every single step of the way.

00:09:25.000 Every single step of the way, Joe Biden lied.

00:09:26.000 He suggested that an American pullout from Afghanistan would not result in the collapse of the Afghanistan government, which, of course, is not true.

00:09:32.000 And then he suggested it would be an orderly withdrawal.

00:09:35.000 It totally was not.

00:09:35.000 And then he suggested it had been absolutely smooth and wonderful, which also was not true.

00:09:40.000 Well, Kamala Harris was, in fact, deeply involved in every aspect of this decision making, according to Kamala Harris.

00:09:47.000 Here is Kamala Harris in 2021 explaining she was the last person in the room with Joe Biden making these decisions. 0.53

00:09:54.000 You just made a really big decision.

00:09:56.000 Afghanistan.

00:09:57.000 Yes.

00:09:58.000 Were you the last person in the room?

00:09:59.000 Yes.

00:10:01.000 And you feel comfortable?

00:10:02.000 I do.

00:10:05.000 So comfortable, so comfortable.

00:10:07.000 You might also recall Kamala Harris on the tarmac being asked about the 13 dead service people, and here was her reaction.

00:10:17.000 What's your response to reports of Americans... Hold on, hold on.

00:10:20.000 Slow down, everybody.

00:10:25.000 I want to talk about two things.

00:10:26.000 First, Afghanistan.

00:10:30.000 The bizarre laughter.

00:10:31.000 The bizarre laughter.

00:10:31.000 There you needed it.

00:10:32.000 Her walking up with the giant Joker grin and the bizarre laughter talking about 13 dead Americans.

00:10:37.000 Well, yesterday, Donald Trump went to Arlington to lay wreaths on the graves of the 13 dead Americans.

00:10:42.000 Here's what that looked like.

00:10:43.000 So there's President Trump laying a wreath.

00:10:44.000 President out!

00:11:04.000 And again, you can call this politics, you can call it whatever you want, it also happens to be a reality that those 13 dead service people are on the Biden administration, they are on Kamala Harris.

00:11:13.000 This did not happen on Donald Trump's watch.

00:11:16.000 As Donald Trump pointed out, Kamala Harris was involved.

00:11:18.000 Trying to pretend that Kamala Harris was not involved in the administration that she is co-named on, it's the Biden-Harris administration, is a lie.

00:11:25.000 Here was Donald Trump pointing that out yesterday.

00:11:28.000 Kamala bragged that she was the last person in the room. 0.59

00:11:31.000 She was the tough one.

00:11:32.000 She was the last person in the room during that disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan decision.

00:11:39.000 She repeatedly praised the decisions and she said it led to a catastrophe, but it was worth it.

00:11:47.000 Hey, he's right about all of that.

00:11:48.000 By the way, that catastrophe in Afghanistan was directly linked to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

00:11:53.000 It was directly linked to Iran's aggressive moves in the Middle East against both America and her allies, particularly Israel.

00:11:59.000 The Afghanistan pullout was a signal horrifying failure in American foreign policy history and Kamala Harris was part of the team.

00:12:07.000 She was in fact one of the two people who was part of the team making that decision.

00:12:12.000 And it had real world consequences.

00:12:14.000 Here's gold star dad Mark Schmitz, his son was Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz, who was killed at Abbeygate.

00:12:19.000 He said they just wanted to end the war no matter what the cost.

00:12:22.000 They've left thousands of people behind, and obviously millions, or billions, in our military assets behind.

00:12:31.000 They wanted to end the war, to be able to get that photo opportunity, and it didn't matter what the cost was.

00:12:40.000 And what was Kamala Harris' response to all this?

00:12:42.000 Quote, Today and every day, I mourn and honor them.

00:12:45.000 However, she said, as I have said, President Biden made the courageous and right decision to end America's longest war.

00:12:50.000 So in other words, it just magically happened and nothing to their policies.

00:12:52.000 Nothing whatsoever.

00:12:54.000 It must be wonderful if you are Kamala Harris, because whatever your problems, the media have got the cure.

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00:14:04.000 John Kirby is the national security spokesperson for the Biden administration.

00:14:08.000 He was on Fox News yesterday with Neil Cavuto.

00:14:12.000 And Cavuto asked him, remember that time that Joe Biden said that no troops had been killed abroad?

00:14:15.000 That was a lie, wasn't it?

00:14:16.000 And here was John Kirby's response.

00:14:18.000 But the president himself, if you make an incorrect statement, and you keep making that incorrect statement, is he compelled himself, wherever he is, vacationing or not, to say, I was wrong to miss this obvious point about no soldiers dying under my watch.

00:14:37.000 The president was making a larger point about ending our longest war.

00:14:40.000 Yeah, but they're a large point, right?

00:14:42.000 Right, John?

00:14:43.000 They're a large point.

00:14:44.000 He also, of course, he also recognizes, Neil, that nothing he can say, particularly on a day like today, when we should be remembering the 13 who were killed at Abbey Gate, nothing he can say is going to assuage their grief, their sorrow.

00:14:58.000 Nothing he's going to be able to say or do is going to make them feel better about losing their loved ones.

00:15:04.000 except be the best commander-in-chief that he can be, which is, of course, what he has been trying to do

00:15:10.000 for the last three and a half years.

00:15:11.000 Okay, that is not an excuse for, you know, ignoring the dead service people, of course. 0.97

00:15:17.000 Really pathetic stuff.

00:15:20.000 But this is what Democrats are forced to do when actually forced to defend their policy, which is, of course, why Kamala Harris does not want to be in public defending her actual policy. 0.96

00:15:27.000 Here yesterday, it was Democratic Representative Jake Auchincloss from Massachusetts saying that the real important thing is that Biden had the courage to pull out.

00:15:34.000 Doesn't matter how many American troops died in the process.

00:15:37.000 It was also the right decision to make to leave Afghanistan. 1.00

00:15:40.000 Joe Biden had the moral courage to make a decision that previous presidents had refused to make because of sunk cost bias and groupthink.

00:15:47.000 That war had no political endgame.

00:15:50.000 And the first thing a Marine officer learns is that all war is an extension of politics by other means.

00:15:55.000 The national government in Kabul had no agenda and no capacity to build a nation.

00:16:01.000 And so Americans were left holding the bag.

00:16:04.000 Again, that isn't the question.

00:16:06.000 The question is why you pulled out the way that you pulled out.

00:16:09.000 Kamala owns it.

00:16:10.000 She was there.

00:16:11.000 Why doesn't she have to answer questions on that? 1.00

00:16:12.000 The answer is she's going to keep running from that.

00:16:14.000 She's also going to keep running from her own positions over and over and over again. 0.66

00:16:18.000 So yesterday, Team Trump dropped a very effective ad called Kamala vs. Kamala in which she debates herself with regard to Bidenomics.

00:16:26.000 Here we go.

00:16:29.000 Food, rent, gas, back to school clothes.

00:16:32.000 That is called Bidenomics.

00:16:34.000 A loaf of bread costs 50% more today.

00:16:38.000 Ground beef is up almost 50%.

00:16:40.000 There's not much left at the end of the month.

00:16:43.000 Bidenomics is working.

00:16:45.000 The price of housing has gone up.

00:16:47.000 It feels so hard to just be able to get ahead.

00:16:50.000 And we are very proud of Bidenomics.

00:16:54.000 Okay, again, that's a very effective ad because it shows what her position has been in favor of all the things she now says are bad. 0.95

00:17:02.000 And that's true for pretty much all of her policies. 0.86

00:17:05.000 When she was asked about inflation, she famously suggested that there needed to be some form of price controls, that price gouging was the real problem. 1.00

00:17:12.000 But the problem is everybody knows that's idiotic, including Democrats. 0.98

00:17:15.000 Here, for example, is former Obama economic advisor, Jason Furman, saying price gouging? 0.99

00:17:19.000 That's not the problem.

00:17:20.000 What the hell are you talking about?

00:17:23.000 But look, the problem with the tariffs is you can do this unilaterally.

00:17:28.000 The president has the authority to raise tariffs to 10%.

00:17:32.000 I haven't heard him say it's reciprocal.

00:17:34.000 I've heard him say 10%, possibly 20% on every single country in the world.

00:17:39.000 It's in the platform, Jake.

00:17:42.000 That's something you don't actually need.

00:17:44.000 And there's a big difference.

00:17:45.000 I mean, the price catching we were talking about before, you need 60 votes in the Senate.

00:17:48.000 So it might be a fun thing to talk about on the campaign.

00:17:51.000 It's just not going to happen.

00:17:55.000 It's not going to happen.

00:17:56.000 It's not going to happen, so who cares what she has to say.

00:17:58.000 That is the new line. 1.00

00:18:00.000 They're happy it's not going to happen, by the way, because it's idiotic. 1.00

00:18:01.000 But this is true of all of her positions. 0.99

00:18:04.000 She's not answering about her border positions.

00:18:05.000 She's putting out ads about how she's tough on the border.

00:18:07.000 Today, she dropped the news via Axios that she has now flipped completely on the border wall.

00:18:13.000 Remember.

00:18:14.000 Donald Trump ran in 2016 on a border wall.

00:18:16.000 He then built some of the border wall, but not nearly all of the border wall.

00:18:20.000 And then in 2020, Democrats ran against the border wall.

00:18:23.000 The border wall was a sign of racism.

00:18:25.000 It was a sign of xenophobia.

00:18:26.000 Well, now, Kamala Harris has flipped 180 degrees on this thing. 0.99

00:18:30.000 According to Axios, if elected president, Kamala Harris pledges to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the border wall. 0.71

00:18:36.000 A project she once deposed and called un-American during the Trump administration.

00:18:39.000 You know what would be awesome?

00:18:40.000 Is if somebody could ask her a question about that.

00:18:42.000 But nope!

00:18:43.000 They've got her behind that bulletproof glass to make sure that nobody can ask her a single question. 0.92

00:18:48.000 Trump's literally behind bulletproof glass because people are trying to shoot him.

00:18:51.000 Kamala Harris is behind the bulletproof glass erected by her campaign so no one can ask her a question. 1.00

00:18:55.000 She's in the cone of silence.

00:18:57.000 According to Axios, it's the latest example of Harris flip-flopping on her past liberal positions, 0.98

00:19:02.000 like supporting Medicare for All and banning fracking.

00:19:04.000 Proposals, aides now say she is against.

00:19:06.000 She herself, by the way, has not said she is against them.

00:19:08.000 She's not had to answer a single question.

00:19:10.000 Why is that important?

00:19:11.000 Because when you have footage of her saying, I'm for Medicaid for All,

00:19:14.000 and then footage of her saying, I'm now against it, that's bad for her campaign. 0.99

00:19:17.000 So instead, what they've been doing is simply allowing her aides to go out

00:19:21.000 and reverse her on every one of these positions. 1.00

00:19:23.000 She herself has not reversed a single one of these positions.

00:19:25.000 Not on fracking, not on Medicare for All, not on the border wall.

00:19:28.000 So they just keep sending aides out to do the dirty work so that the media, again the tail end of that human centipede, so the media will ingest that and then crap out the story that she's actually reversed her positions. 1.00

00:19:39.000 But she has not reversed anything.

00:19:42.000 She has not articulated any change in her positions.

00:19:44.000 That's the whole point.

00:19:45.000 Everything is designed for media consumption and for your consumption via the media that's making the sausage in the back room.

00:19:53.000 In her speech to the DNC last week, Harris said she would sign the recent bipartisan border security bill.

00:19:58.000 But, of course, that bill includes border wall funding.

00:20:02.000 Now, Harris's campaign is suggesting that that's really, really important, the border wall funding.

00:20:09.000 Again, the embrace of the border bill is a new one.

00:20:14.000 Harris' campaign is portraying her as a hardline immigration restrictionist in ads. 0.99

00:20:20.000 As Axios points out, like the wall itself, Harris's changes on border policy reflect how Trump has shifted the political debate on immigration during the past decade.

00:20:26.000 Now the reality is, it's not Trump that shifted the political debate on immigration.

00:20:30.000 He was reflecting a strongly felt sentiment among Americans that dates all the way back to the mid-2000s.

00:20:35.000 I'm old enough to remember when the Bush administration proposed immigration reform in 2006, and it was Republicans who shut it down.

00:20:42.000 So that's nothing new.

00:20:44.000 What actually changed is that the Biden administration blew open the borders so horribly by letting in 10 million illegal immigrants that even Kamala Harris is now forced to separate off from those positions, but she is not forced, apparently, to answer any questions about it.

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00:21:53.000 Democrats for their part continue to try to claim that Kamala Harris should not have to answer any of those questions at all.

00:21:59.000 So, for example, yesterday, Representative Debbie Dingell of Michigan, she said, you know, you guys are exaggerating the idea of an interview.

00:22:08.000 You don't really need to interview her.

00:22:10.000 Do we really need to know what she thinks or do we just need vibes?

00:22:12.000 You know, vibes are good.

00:22:14.000 How important do you think it is for actual voters in your state, for example, to hear her answer tough questions from journalists about key policy issues?

00:22:24.000 Well, I think sometimes you all over exaggerate what the importance of it.

00:22:28.000 She knows what she's going to have to do.

00:22:30.000 She's going to have to spell out her vision and talk about policies more. 0.56

00:22:34.000 You're going to start to see that.

00:22:38.000 I mean, that's amazing.

00:22:39.000 She doesn't have to do any interviews.

00:22:40.000 I mean, you can see that she's reversed.

00:22:41.000 No, you do need, because here's the thing.

00:22:43.000 When you reverse a position, that suggests you're wrong.

00:22:46.000 So now you have to explain why you were wrong and why you shifted.

00:22:50.000 When my kids are arguing with each other and one of them does something bad and then they apologize, it's not just enough to say sorry.

00:22:55.000 You have to say sorry for what?

00:22:57.000 Why is she shifting? 0.99

00:22:59.000 Why is she changing? 0.92

00:22:59.000 What was wrong with her prior position? 0.92

00:23:01.000 She should have to explain that.

00:23:02.000 The whole goal of her campaign is to flip all of these positions and never explain it. 1.00

00:23:06.000 Because if she flips them, she gets all of the moderates to vote for her, and if she never explains it, all the left-wingers think she's winking at them. 0.55

00:23:13.000 Which, by the way, she probably is. 0.91

00:23:16.000 According to the Dispatch, Sheldon Whitehouse, who is a Senator from Rhode Island, and Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, appeared on a panel at the DNC.

00:23:27.000 According to Whitehouse, Senate Democrats would be virtually certain to pass a Supreme Court reform bill by a simple majority, blowing up the filibuster if they capture the White House, Senate, and House.

00:23:37.000 They will kill the filibuster.

00:23:38.000 They will stack the Supreme Court.

00:23:40.000 They will add two new states in D.C.

00:23:41.000 and Puerto Rico.

00:23:43.000 They will completely change the operating rules of the road for the United States government.

00:23:47.000 That is their goal.

00:23:48.000 And Kamala Harris will do it. 0.73

00:23:50.000 According to White House, quote, to get around the filibuster,

00:23:52.000 we're going to have to have a process that allows very substantial debate

00:23:55.000 from the Senate minority.

00:23:56.000 We're not going to want to give Republicans multiple stalls, multiple filibusters on this.

00:23:59.000 So the bill that gets around the filibuster will be virtually certain to include

00:24:02.000 permanent reproductive rights, permanent restored voting rights,

00:24:04.000 getting rid of corrupting billionaire dark money and Supreme Court reform.

00:24:08.000 If you've got a bill like that moving, that's going to have spectacular tailwinds behind it.

00:24:12.000 And he says he expects that Kamala Harris will endorse that move, the killing of the filibuster, in order to stack the Supreme Court.

00:24:21.000 Don't worry, though, she's a moderate.

00:24:22.000 Don't worry, she's a moderate.

00:24:23.000 Maybe she should answer a question about it, perhaps.

00:24:26.000 Or maybe, maybe we are 38 days in and she has not answered a single question.

00:24:34.000 And I'm sorry, her going on national TV with some sycophantic reporter who proceeds to ask her how she's feeling that day.

00:24:41.000 Or whether Doug is really the dad-in-chief and she's mama. 0.84

00:24:44.000 That ain't gonna do it.

00:24:46.000 If she never has her feet held to the fire, the American people are being deserved.

00:24:50.000 Not just by her, by the media that's supposed to be bringing them some semblance of the truth, as opposed to just being the press office for the Democratic Party.

00:24:57.000 Well, meanwhile, the Democrats are trying to back out of the debate with Donald Trump on September 10th.

00:25:02.000 They are deeply afraid that Donald Trump is going to ask a hard question of Kamala Harris, or that one of the debate moderators will, and that she will be caught wrong-footed.

00:25:11.000 President Trump is pushing forward with the debates. 0.93

00:25:14.000 President Trump points out the reason she's not doing press conferences is because she is a dummy. 0.93

00:25:19.000 He is correct. 0.98

00:25:20.000 He is right.

00:25:21.000 I have yet to see the evidence that Kamala Harris is as brilliant as her proponents make her out to be. 0.74

00:25:27.000 Can I see like one shred of evidence that she is some sort of preternatural genius?

00:25:33.000 Truly, every time she gets off teleprompter, she's a disaster area.

00:25:38.000 It's why she's running away from every press conference. 1.00

00:25:38.000 Everyone knows it. 1.00

00:25:41.000 Here is Trump pointing this out.

00:25:44.000 You know, the deal was we keep the same rules.

00:25:46.000 Now, all of a sudden, they want to make a change in the rules because she can't answer questions.

00:25:50.000 Why doesn't she do a couple of question and why doesn't she do something like I'm doing right now? 1.00

00:25:56.000 She can't talk. 0.95

00:25:58.000 We can't have another dummy as a president. 0.99

00:26:00.000 OK, we cannot have a dummy. 0.96

00:26:04.000 He is right about that.

00:26:05.000 He is totally right. 0.71

00:26:06.000 Joe Biden is senile, and Kamala Harris is empty-headed. 0.88

00:26:10.000 She is. 0.85

00:26:12.000 She does not have much going on between the ears.

00:26:14.000 That's the dirty secret of her entire political career. 1.00

00:26:16.000 She says things off a teleprompter, and the minute she's off the teleprompter, she's a full-scale disaster. 0.99

00:26:22.000 Everyone knew this until eight weeks ago, until it became unnatural to speak the truth.

00:26:26.000 It's amazing how fast everything shifted.

00:26:29.000 39 days ago, the going wisdom is that Kamala Harris was a very weak candidate who could not perform in the spotlight. 0.94

00:26:35.000 Now the going wisdom is that she is brat, man. 1.00

00:26:38.000 She is genius.

00:26:39.000 She is great at this.

00:26:41.000 Super intelligent.

00:26:42.000 Super likable.

00:26:44.000 If you're getting a bit of a headache, a little dizzy from all the media machinations here, you're not alone.

00:26:48.000 I think many Americans are as well.

00:26:50.000 So the new trick Democrats are trying to play is that they're trying to get out of the debate while blaming Trump for it.

00:26:54.000 Well, the media are magically pretending that Kamala Harris is great at her job, but I'll tell you who actually is quite great at their job, the IRS. 0.95

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00:28:10.000 So, Brian Harris, who is the unbelievably dishonest spokesperson for the campaign, he came forward and he suggested that they needed to change the rules of the debate, September 10th.

00:28:21.000 So the rules had already been set with Biden.

00:28:22.000 The rules were, the microphones are muted.

00:28:25.000 Those are the rules.

00:28:26.000 And Trump had agreed to those.

00:28:27.000 And you'll recall that then Trump said, well, you know, it's a different, it's a different candidate now.

00:28:32.000 Maybe we should check the rules.

00:28:33.000 And they're like, no, there'll be no change to the rules.

00:28:35.000 You will show up at the debate.

00:28:36.000 And Trump said, fine, I'll show up at the debate and two more.

00:28:38.000 We'll do three.

00:28:39.000 And then she was like, no, no, no, no.

00:28:41.000 We'll do one.

00:28:42.000 And maybe if I'm nice, we'll do two.

00:28:44.000 And he agreed to that.

00:28:45.000 So everything they demanded, he agreed.

00:28:46.000 Then, they demanded to change the rules.

00:28:48.000 After he tried to change the rules and they said no, that was him trying to run away, then they tried to change the rules, and then when he bucks, they say that he's trying to get out of the debate. 1.00

00:28:57.000 It's the most transparent, stupid crap I've ever seen. 1.00

00:29:00.000 It's so transparent. 1.00

00:29:02.000 So Trump himself was asked about this.

00:29:04.000 Trump himself was asked about The hot mic issue.

00:29:09.000 Would you like the mics to be on?

00:29:10.000 Would you like them to be off?

00:29:11.000 And because Trump doesn't really care all that much, but his campaign does, he was like, well, I don't really care what the mics are on.

00:29:16.000 Which, again, not amazing tactics here, but here we go.

00:29:21.000 Would you want the microphones muted in the debate whenever you're not speaking?

00:29:25.000 We agreed to the same rules.

00:29:27.000 I don't know.

00:29:27.000 It doesn't matter to me.

00:29:28.000 I'd rather have it probably on, but the agreement was that it would be the same.

00:29:33.000 As it was last time.

00:29:35.000 In that case, it was muted.

00:29:36.000 I didn't like it the last time, but it worked out fine.

00:29:40.000 They're trying to change it.

00:29:41.000 The truth is, they're trying to get out of it.

00:29:45.000 And he's right.

00:29:46.000 They are trying to get out of it.

00:29:48.000 So the Harris campaign immediately comes forward and says, OK, fine.

00:29:51.000 So he wants the mics on.

00:29:52.000 So the mics will be on now.

00:29:54.000 OK, but here's the thing.

00:29:55.000 If Trump accepts the mics being on, I promise you within 24 hours there will be new conditions because this is what Harris's campaign is trying to do.

00:30:01.000 They don't want her doing interviews and they don't want her doing a debate. 0.99

00:30:04.000 They believe that if she shuts the hell up, she's going to be president. 1.00

00:30:07.000 That's what they believe.

00:30:08.000 Here, for example, is Michael Tyler.

00:30:10.000 He is a spokesperson for the Harris comms department, suggesting that, well, now I guess it's settled.

00:30:15.000 I guess we'll have open mics now.

00:30:17.000 No, it's not settled.

00:30:18.000 You already agreed to the rules.

00:30:20.000 Trump agreed to the rules.

00:30:22.000 You reopen all the terms of the debate, then all the terms of the debate ought to be reopened.

00:30:26.000 Shouldn't be just up to you guys.

00:30:29.000 The single-handed arrogance of the Democratic Party trying to dictate terms of debate because they believe that they are winning, because they are afraid to put her in front of Trump for debate, and they should be.

00:30:39.000 Because what the polling shows right now is that this thing is really, really close.

00:30:42.000 The polling data right now is a little bit all over the place.

00:30:46.000 Right now you have polls from, for example, Echelon Insights that show Trump up actually by one, 49-48, so basically a dead heat, despite the DNC, despite the weeks of glowing media coverage around this sheer nothing of a candidate.

00:30:59.000 Then you have the Morning Consult poll that shows Harris up four.

00:31:02.000 The bottom line is that this is a very close race by pretty much every available metric, particularly in the swing states.

00:31:07.000 And so they are hoping to get out of the debate somehow, some way.

00:31:11.000 But here they are trying to claim that now the debate is settled, the mics will be on, whereas before the debate was settled, the mics will be off.

00:31:17.000 I mean, remember, the mics being off was a Joe Biden demand originally.

00:31:20.000 It's all crazy.

00:31:23.000 And does it matter to the Harris debate?

00:31:25.000 Does the Harris campaign matter if it's open or not?

00:31:28.000 I mean, is that enough to stop it?

00:31:30.000 That is absolutely our preference.

00:31:31.000 That is absolutely our preference in this campaign to have live microphones so that the American people can see both candidates for who they are and hear everything that comes out of their mouths.

00:31:42.000 Again, I think that the idea here from the Democrats that if he accepts the open mic, the whole idea here, we know what this is.

00:31:50.000 Why do they want an open mic?

00:31:52.000 The reason they want an open mic is because the first time Donald Trump says something in the middle of one of her answers, she wants to do the I'm speaking.

00:32:02.000 I'm speaking, Routine.

00:32:03.000 You remember she did this against Mike Pence. 1.00

00:32:05.000 It's the most obnoxious, trite idiocy. 1.00

00:32:08.000 There are apparently a bunch of single women, particularly, who are very into this sort of messaging. 1.00

00:32:13.000 That men are stepping all over us. 0.98

00:32:16.000 Men are trying to get- They're mansplaining and man-terrupting and all this crap. 0.98

00:32:22.000 If Kamala Harris were a man, she wouldn't be anywhere near the Vice Presidency. 1.00

00:32:22.000 Let's be clear about this. 1.00

00:32:25.000 Anywhere.

00:32:27.000 It is her femaleness that has brought her this far. 0.98

00:32:30.000 In every respect.

00:32:32.000 And yet, magically, we're suppo- But that's the game.

00:32:34.000 The game is, the minute Trump says something, they're gonna have t-shirts printed up.

00:32:38.000 I'm speaking. 1.00

00:32:40.000 That's the whole stupid game. 1.00

00:32:42.000 Everyone can see it coming. 1.00

00:32:43.000 And this is a campaign for dummies. 1.00

00:32:45.000 It's a campaign for stupid people. 1.00

00:32:47.000 If we fall for it, we deserve it as a country. 1.00

00:32:49.000 Meanwhile, the Democrats are projecting.

00:32:50.000 Jamie Harrison, head of the DNC, he says Trump is scared of the debate.

00:32:54.000 That's weird, because Trump proposed three.

00:32:56.000 And she rejected the one on Fox News.

00:32:58.000 She's rejected every interview so far.

00:33:00.000 And she keeps changing the terms of the debate. 0.86

00:33:01.000 So that's weird.

00:33:04.000 Scared to see that this former president is so scared to get on the debate stage.

00:33:09.000 But I guess if I had his positions, I'd be scared to let the American people know what they worry as well. 0.97

00:33:17.000 Ridiculous. 0.93

00:33:19.000 He's scared to let the American people know what he's thinking and what he says? 0.97

00:33:22.000 Donald Trump is the most voluble president in American history.

00:33:27.000 It ain't particularly close.

00:33:29.000 He's also a voluble presidential candidate.

00:33:31.000 He's tweeting all the time.

00:33:31.000 He's talking all the time.

00:33:33.000 To the consternation of half of his campaign staff.

00:33:36.000 So, again, what are you talking about?

00:33:38.000 The whole goal, again, the entire goal of the Kamala campaign is hide what you actually believe until she's in power.

00:33:44.000 And they say it out loud.

00:33:45.000 They do.

00:33:47.000 The top Kamala surrogates are out there. 0.94

00:33:50.000 Every so often, they admit the thing, and it's really ugly.

00:33:53.000 So, for example, there was top Kamala surrogate yesterday, Kelly Robinson, talking about the Bill of Rights.

00:34:00.000 This was last week at the Democratic National Convention talking about the Bill of Rights.

00:34:10.000 This is a surrogate for Kamala's campaign. 0.99

00:34:12.000 What do they think of the Bill of Rights?

00:34:13.000 Why don't we let Kelly Robinson explain? 0.96

00:34:17.000 We can't just worry about protecting democracy in this moment.

00:34:19.000 We've got to reimagine it with people that look and love like us at the center.

00:34:24.000 And I think for us right now, it's about reimagining freedom and this American story in a way that is more revolutionary than what our founders actually put down on that little piece of paper, but instead is the type of democracy that is by and for all of the people of this country.

00:34:40.000 That's the opportunity that we have.

00:34:42.000 The Constitution would be that little piece of paper.

00:34:44.000 Now, I've had personal experiences with this.

00:34:47.000 Go view my interview with Piers Morgan circa 2013, in which I was informing him about the Second Amendment, and he suggested that this little book, which was the Constitution, should be treated as irrelevant.

00:34:57.000 This is a frequent talking point on behalf of people of the radical left on any issue.

00:35:01.000 Piers is not radical left, but on that issue, he's to the left.

00:35:04.000 Here, you have people who are to the radical left on social policy, and they believe that their priorities are to override the Constitution.

00:35:11.000 They do, in fact, believe that they ought to be the kings.

00:35:15.000 Without a Bill of Rights, without protections against the government, without any sort of restrictions on the power of the government and what it can do, what you end up with is tyranny.

00:35:22.000 This is why I am personally very much afraid of a Kamala Harris administration.

00:35:26.000 It's why I've been afraid of a Biden administration.

00:35:28.000 The willingness to completely overrun all restrictions on government on behalf of whatever the king thinks is good is a very bad thing.

00:35:38.000 By the way, I should mention right here that if you want to know about the actual traditional prescription for how politics was supposed to work in the West, you have to look all the way back to the Bible.

00:35:46.000 I just did a series with Jordan Peterson, at least one episode of the series, a couple episodes actually, called Foundations of the West.

00:35:51.000 Jordan and I went to Jerusalem and we were talking about the biblical prescription that suggests that the king In the Bible, the king has to carry around his own copy of the Torah, his own copy of the Bible, because it's supposed to remind him that there are actual checks and balances on his power, that the king is not above the law.

00:36:09.000 Here's a little bit of what Jordan and I talked about.

00:36:12.000 Here you start to see the beginnings of the idea of a constitutional monarchy.

00:36:15.000 So there are even hints of this in Deuteronomy.

00:36:17.000 One of the laws in Deuteronomy is that the king is supposed to carry around his own Sefer Torah.

00:36:22.000 He's subject to the law.

00:36:23.000 The king is not above the law.

00:36:25.000 So Judaism is very clear about that, and so is Christianity, and henceforth the idea of limitations on absolute government are part and parcel of the whole system.

00:36:33.000 One of the things that, to me, lends historical credence to those sorts of stories is that it doesn't exactly show David in a positive light.

00:36:40.000 So what kind of propaganda is that?

00:36:42.000 Exactly.

00:36:42.000 That's definitely one of the things in favor of biblical narrative, is that when you show all the warts, it suggests that you're not propagandizing.

00:36:49.000 Yeah, yeah, definitely, definitely.

00:36:51.000 That happens a lot.

00:36:53.000 That's the entire Exodus story, right?

00:36:55.000 The idea is that you have an absolute monarch in Pharaoh, and he is a god.

00:36:59.000 And so everything he says goes.

00:37:00.000 And then people are brought forth from slavery to freedom, but the freedom requires subjugation to God, right?

00:37:06.000 You're still a servant, but you're not a servant of a person anymore.

00:37:08.000 Now you're a servant of an ideal.

00:37:10.000 You're a servant of a higher power.

00:37:11.000 And that means inherently limiting the power of human beings.

00:37:16.000 The series, by the way, is beautiful.

00:37:17.000 You should go check it out.

00:37:18.000 It's called Foundations of the West.

00:37:19.000 You can see, if you can actually watch the footage, which is why you should subscribe, you can see that we are walking through the ruins of the Palace of King David, which actually is available at the City of David in Jerusalem.

00:37:27.000 It's very, very cool.

00:37:29.000 The cisterns in which Jeremiah was probably held as he was railing against the king at the time.

00:37:36.000 All this stuff is deeply embedded in Western civilization.

00:37:38.000 It's also what is being uprooted by a full-scale secular leftism that believes there ought to be no boundaries on government.

00:37:44.000 And this is one reason why, by the way, why they think it's okay for Kamala to lie about her positions. 1.00

00:37:48.000 Her positions don't matter. 0.99

00:37:49.000 The king has absolute, or the queen, has absolute power.

00:37:52.000 Whatever her positions are in the moment, that's the important thing.

00:37:56.000 You, the people, do not deserve to know the positions.

00:37:59.000 She is the expert.

00:38:00.000 She is so brilliant, wise, and brat that she should make all the rules. 1.00

00:38:05.000 Go check out, by the way, Foundations of the West Daily Wire Plus available right now.

00:38:09.000 It's a multi-part series with Jordan Peterson.

00:38:12.000 I go to Jerusalem with him.

00:38:13.000 Jonathan Pazzo goes to Jerusalem with him.

00:38:15.000 He goes to Athens with Spencer Clavin.

00:38:16.000 He goes to Rome with Bishop Robert Barron.

00:38:19.000 We all sit together and discuss Western civilization.

00:38:20.000 It's really, really cool.

00:38:22.000 I highly recommend Foundations of the West over at Daily Wire Plus.

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00:39:24.000 Okay, meanwhile.

00:39:30.000 On the other side of the aisle, Donald Trump is beginning to regain some momentum.

00:39:34.000 Not only has he found his footing in attacking Kamala Harris for her lack of positions and her flip-flops on positions, obviously he gained the endorsement of RFK Jr.

00:39:42.000 on Friday.

00:39:43.000 Yesterday he picked up the endorsement of former representative from Hawaii Tulsi Gabbard.

00:39:47.000 That's not a huge shock.

00:39:48.000 Tulsi, of course, has been moving steadily toward the Republican Party since she was

00:39:53.000 basically ousted from the Democratic Party.

00:39:55.000 She also happens to be the single most effective debate weapon against Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:39:59.000 You'll remember she basically ended Kamala Harris's presidential run on the stage by 1.00

00:40:03.000 calling out all of Kamala Harris's lies about law enforcement and all of the rest.

00:40:08.000 Here was Tulsi Gabbard endorsing President Trump yesterday.

00:40:12.000 I am proud to stand here before you today, whether you're a Democrat, a Republican, or

00:40:19.000 an Independent.

00:40:20.000 Thank you.

00:40:22.000 If you love our country as I do, if you cherish peace and freedom as we do, I invite you to join me in doing all that we can to save our country and elect President Donald J. Trump and send him back to the White House to do the tough work of saving our country and serving the people.

00:40:42.000 Thank you very much.

00:40:43.000 Thank you very much, Mr. President.

00:40:47.000 Now again, the entrenched obstacles that are going to be faced by President Trump are insane.

00:40:51.000 Jack Smith is now attempting to revive the classified documents case against President Trump.

00:40:57.000 It was thrown out, as you'll recall, by a federal judge in Florida, suggesting that, effectively speaking, under the way that the filing had been done, it was illegal to go after Trump on that basis.

00:41:12.000 She said that she was not persuaded by decisions spanning back to Watergate era upholding the legality of the appointment of outside prosecutors in general and therefore Smith's appointment as a special prosecutor to go after Trump was illegal.

00:41:23.000 Smith is now appealing.

00:41:24.000 He's urging the Atlanta-based 11th U.S.

00:41:26.000 Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate the 40-count indictment against the former president.

00:41:30.000 That is likely to carry out again beyond the election, so it's probably not going to affect the election, the classified documents case at this point.

00:41:37.000 What will indeed affect the election is the sentencing of President Trump in the absurd and ridiculous

00:41:42.000 New York case, the supposed hush money payment case, which again, hush money actually isn't a crime.

00:41:49.000 So no crime was really even alleged at that trial.

00:41:52.000 It was a made up phony crime that has never been attempted in the state of New York.

00:41:56.000 They convicted of them anyway.

00:41:57.000 And now the question is, will they home arrest him, give him jail time, whatever it is to try and stop him.

00:42:02.000 That is still very much on the table.

00:42:03.000 Plus we are now finding out the extent of interference by the federal government in the election of 2020.

00:42:13.000 It is truly astonishing.

00:42:15.000 According to Mark Zuckerberg.

00:42:16.000 So Mark Zuckerberg has written a letter to Jim Jordan of the Judiciary Committee.

00:42:22.000 Of course, I know Representative Jordan very well.

00:42:24.000 We just testified in front of his committee.

00:42:26.000 And here is what Mark Zuckerberg is now claiming about 2020.

00:42:29.000 Remember, the Supreme Court said Facebook, they could establish no evidence that Facebook was pressured by the federal government to do things.

00:42:34.000 Maybe they did it on their own.

00:42:35.000 Well, now Zuckerberg's like, no.

00:42:37.000 No, we did not.

00:42:39.000 There's a lot of talk right now about how the U.S.

00:42:41.000 government interacts with companies like Meta.

00:42:42.000 I want to be clear about our position.

00:42:44.000 Our platforms are for everyone.

00:42:45.000 We're about promoting speech and helping people connect in a safe and secure way.

00:42:48.000 As part of this, we regularly hear from governments around the world and others with various concerns around public discourse and public safety.

00:42:54.000 In 2021, senior officials from the Biden administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire.

00:43:03.000 and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree.

00:43:05.000 Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions,

00:43:09.000 including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure.

00:43:13.000 I believe the government pressure was wrong. I regret we were not more outspoken about it.

00:43:17.000 I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information,

00:43:21.000 we wouldn't make today. Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly we should

00:43:25.000 not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any administration in either direction.

00:43:29.000 In a separate situation, the FBI warned us about a potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma in the lead-up to the 2020 election.

00:43:37.000 That fall, when we saw a New York Post story reporting on corruption allegations involving then-presidential Nominee Joe Biden's family.

00:43:43.000 We sent that story to fact checkers for review and temporarily demoted it while waiting for a reply.

00:43:47.000 It's since been made clear the reporting was not Russian disinformation.

00:43:50.000 In retrospect, we shouldn't have demoted the story.

00:43:52.000 We've changed our policies and processes to make sure this doesn't happen again.

00:43:55.000 For instance, we no longer temporarily demote things in the U.S.

00:43:57.000 while waiting for the fact checkers.

00:44:00.000 And then he pledges that he is not actually going to make any political donations in this election cycle.

00:44:04.000 But again, what he is admitting here is that the Biden-Harris administration pressured Facebook to censor Americans?

00:44:12.000 He is admitting full scale that the FBI pressured them to shut down the Hunter Biden laptop story.

00:44:19.000 These are the sorts of entrenched obstacles that any Republican candidate is going to have to face in this election cycle.

00:44:25.000 It's why I keep saying that the Trump campaign is going to have to be absolutely meticulous, absolutely targeted.

00:44:29.000 We're starting to see them find their footing.

00:44:30.000 It's taken a few weeks.

00:44:31.000 They're starting to find their footing.

00:44:33.000 Meticulous attacks on Kamala Harris's lack of principle, lack of record, unwillingness to speak to principle or record, cutting through the miasma of brat.

00:44:43.000 That is the only thing that matters here.

00:44:46.000 And there's one question that should accomplish all of it.

00:44:48.000 So why didn't you do it?

00:44:49.000 I'm going to keep saying this over and over.

00:44:51.000 So why didn't you do it?

00:44:52.000 Kamala Harris now says she wants to build a border wall. 0.97

00:44:54.000 So why didn't you do it?

00:44:56.000 She says she wants to bring down inflation.

00:44:58.000 So why didn't you do it?

00:45:00.000 You say you don't like what happened to those troops in Afghanistan.

00:45:03.000 So why didn't you stop it?

00:45:06.000 You are part of this administration.

00:45:08.000 You are the incumbent.

00:45:09.000 Trump is not.

00:45:10.000 You can see what Trump did when he was president.

00:45:12.000 Your entire re-elect effort hinges on us ignoring that you're currently the vice president of the United States.

00:45:19.000 Alrighty, in just a moment, we'll get to some shocking DEI updates.

00:45:23.000 Meh, not so shocking.

00:45:24.000 If you're not a member, become a member.

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00:45:26.000 Check out for two months free on all annual plans.

00:45:27.000 Click that link in the description and join us. 0.97

00:45:30.000 Republicans or Nazis, you cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people. 0.91

00:45:35.000 Growing up, I never thought much about race. 0.95

00:45:36.000 It never really seemed to matter that much, at least not to me.

00:45:39.000 Am I racist?

00:45:40.000 I would really appreciate it if you left.

00:45:42.000 I'm trying to learn.

00:45:42.000 I'm on this journey.

00:45:44.000 I'm gonna sort this out.

00:45:45.000 I need to go deeper undercover.

00:45:49.000 Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert.

00:45:53.000 Here's my certifications.

00:45:54.000 What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness. 0.71

00:45:57.000 This is more for you than this for you.

00:45:58.000 Is America inherently racist?

00:45:59.000 The word inherent is challenging there.

00:46:01.000 I want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument.

00:46:04.000 America is racist to its bones.

00:46:06.000 So inherently? 0.98

00:46:07.000 Yeah.

00:46:08.000 This country is a piece of... 0.99

00:46:10.000 White. 0.97

00:46:11.000 Folks. 1.00

00:46:11.000 Trash. 1.00

00:46:12.000 White supremacy. 1.00

00:46:13.000 White woman. 1.00

00:46:13.000 White boy. 1.00

00:46:14.000 Is there a black person around here?

00:46:15.000 There's a black person right here.

00:46:16.000 Does he not exist?

00:46:18.000 Hi, Robin.

00:46:20.000 Hi.

00:46:20.000 What's your name?

00:46:21.000 I'm Matt.

00:46:21.000 I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.

The Ben Shapiro Show - August 27, 2024

Kamala Lied, Americans Died

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