The Ben Shapiro Show - Kyle Rittenhouse Shouldn’t Even Be On Trial | Ep. 1370

00:00:00.000 Joe Biden rolls out his vaccine mandate.

00:00:02.000 Democrats struggle for answers after the Virginia election nightmare.

00:00:05.000 And the prosecution's case against Kyle Rittenhouse simply does not exist.

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00:01:40.000 Well, we have a lot of news and a lot of different areas to get to today.

00:01:44.000 Why don't we begin?

00:01:45.000 With the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, which has finally opened.

00:01:48.000 This, of course, is the trial of the 17-year-old, she was 17-year-old at the time, young man who was in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

00:01:56.000 He was there to help with medical care for people on the ground and also to prevent rioters from burning down businesses and burning cars and such.

00:02:04.000 And the entire situation ended with three people shot and two people dead.

00:02:08.000 Kyle Rittenhouse has been charged now with murder.

00:02:10.000 There's one problem.

00:02:12.000 There's no case against Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:02:13.000 I mean, there really is no case at all against Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:02:16.000 They brought up a sort of minor gun charge.

00:02:19.000 That one is a little more controversial, but the murder case just, it never existed.

00:02:23.000 And the fact that this was ever brought to trial just demonstrates how political our judicial system sometimes is.

00:02:28.000 It demonstrates that if a prosecutor gets it in their head that they must prosecute somebody regardless of the facts on the ground, they will do so even when the case just simply does not exist.

00:02:37.000 And we know that the case against Rittenhouse doesn't exist.

00:02:39.000 Because the prosecution yesterday brought forth a bunch of witnesses, and they all promptly testified to Rittenhouse's self-defense case.

00:02:47.000 And so Rittenhouse's argument is that he shot the people who were threatening him in self-defense.

00:02:52.000 And the prosecution really, really struggled.

00:02:55.000 Because it turns out that we knew from the very first day, right, as soon as the video footage emerged, we knew exactly what was going on in the Rittenhouse case, and it was that he had shot people in self-defense.

00:03:04.000 So for example, This entire incident, the timeline of the Kyle Rittenhouse incident started when Rittenhouse essentially was chased down the street by some people who were threatening him.

00:03:16.000 And a gunshot was fired in the air.

00:03:17.000 He turned around and there was a guy who was lunging for him.

00:03:20.000 And so he shot the guy.

00:03:21.000 Here is video.

00:03:21.000 This is courtesy of ABC News.

00:03:23.000 This is video from that night.

00:03:25.000 This is the first shooting.

00:03:27.000 A man who police identified as Rittenhouse runs across the parking lot of an auto service shop, followed by a shirtless man who was later identified as Joseph Rosenbaum.

00:03:37.000 Moments later shots ring out.

00:03:39.000 Gunshots Okay now, you can stop it right there.

00:03:42.000 You heard a shot before the narrator says, moments later shots ring out.

00:03:46.000 Okay well, that first shot was actually not written house.

00:03:49.000 That was somebody who's chasing him, firing a shot into the air.

00:03:52.000 Rittenhouse is running away, has no idea where the shot's coming from.

00:03:54.000 Then it turns out that Rosenbaum, who it also turns out was a career criminal, is chasing him down and is lunging for his gun.

00:04:01.000 Okay, so that is shooting number one.

00:04:04.000 Okay, so now we move on to shooting number two.

00:04:07.000 Rittenhouse is now being chased down the street by a bunch of ne'er-do-wells, and they physically assault him. 0.99

00:04:14.000 One person comes at him with a gun.

00:04:15.000 He shoots that guy in the arm.

00:04:16.000 Another person tries to hit him in the face with a skateboard. 1.00

00:04:19.000 He shoots him and kills him. 0.99

00:04:20.000 Here is that video. 0.98

00:04:21.000 Again, this is all on video, guys.

00:04:25.000 He falls down.

00:04:26.000 You can see he raises the gun.

00:04:28.000 There's somebody trying to hit him with the skateboard.

00:04:31.000 He shoots the guy.

00:04:33.000 And then there's a guy who approaches him.

00:04:35.000 He has a pistol in his hand, right?

00:04:37.000 The guy approaching him has a pistol in his hand.

00:04:40.000 Hey, so.

00:04:40.000 All of that is on video.

00:04:42.000 Right?

00:04:42.000 Uncontroverted.

00:04:43.000 It's on video.

00:04:45.000 Pretty clearly and obviously a case of self-defense.

00:04:48.000 The prosecution is trying to argue the Rittenhouse started the fight.

00:04:50.000 The Rittenhouse essentially insulted a guy or tried to initiate conflict with Rosenbaum, who was originally chasing him.

00:04:57.000 And the big problem is that it's pretty clear that's not what happened.

00:05:00.000 And there's FBI-inferred video.

00:05:02.000 So it turns out the FBI has eyes on nearly everything happening in the United States, apparently.

00:05:06.000 We never saw this video until now.

00:05:09.000 And you can see from the video exactly how this went down.

00:05:13.000 So, you have Person of Interest 1 and Person of Interest 2.

00:05:18.000 And you see that they're having some sort of conversation between the cars.

00:05:24.000 And then, Person of Interest 2 starts running away, being chased by Person of Interest 1.

00:05:29.000 So what the prosecution is attempting to claim is that Person of Interest 1, who is Rosenbaum, was confronted by Rittenhouse.

00:05:37.000 But that's not what the testimony of the prosecution's own witnesses said.

00:05:42.000 They said that it's precisely the opposite.

00:05:45.000 So, there's a witness named Ryan Balch, and he was called, again, he was called by the prosecution.

00:05:50.000 This guy was not called by the defense.

00:05:53.000 And Ryan Balch says, in open testimony, that Rosenbaum had said earlier that if he caught Rittenhouse alone, he would kill him.

00:05:59.000 Okay, that's not, the prosecutors called this guy.

00:06:03.000 This is their case?

00:06:05.000 The prosecutors?

00:06:06.000 There we go.

00:06:07.000 When I turned around, Rosenbaum was right there in front of my face, yelling and screaming.

00:06:14.000 And I said, dude, back up.

00:06:17.000 He said, chill.

00:06:18.000 I don't know what your problem is.

00:06:20.000 And he goes, you know what? 1.00

00:06:21.000 If I catch any of you guys alone tonight, I'm going to kill you. 1.00

00:06:25.000 And he said that to you? 1.00

00:06:26.000 Correct.

00:06:27.000 Did he say that to the defendant as well?

00:06:29.000 The defendant was there, so yes.

00:06:31.000 That's the prosecutor's witness.

00:06:33.000 Whoops, that's not good.

00:06:35.000 Now again, this is all undercut.

00:06:38.000 The entire prosecution case here was undercut by all the footage from the evening of.

00:06:41.000 In fact, the prosecutors tried to bar testimony and bar actual video of Rittenhouse talking before any of this happened, because there's video from Rittenhouse earlier in the night talking about why he was there in Kenosha, Wisconsin in the first place.

00:06:52.000 This does not sound like a guy who went out to shoot some people in the middle of a riot.

00:06:56.000 So people are getting injured and our job is to protect this business.

00:07:00.000 And part of my job is also helping people.

00:07:02.000 If there's somebody hurt, I'm running into harm's way.

00:07:05.000 That's why I have my rifle, because I need to protect myself, obviously, as well as have my med kit.

00:07:10.000 We're protecting from the citizens, and I just got pepper-sprayed by a person in the crowd.

00:07:15.000 So you had non-lethal, but you didn't respond?

00:07:19.000 We don't have non-lethal.

00:07:21.000 So you guys are full-on ready to defend the property?

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00:07:24.000 Now, if I can ask, can you guys step back?

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00:07:29.000 Okay, so then the prosecution, and I think it goes in this video, he's trying to help one of the rioters.

00:07:34.000 Then the prosecution tries to bring a second witness.

00:07:38.000 This is a guy named Richie McGinnis, who's a reporter for the Daily Caller, who you can see in the original video, who is following after Rittenhouse and Rosenbaum as they are running down the street.

00:07:48.000 And after Rosenbaum is shot, you can see Richie McGinnis take off his shirt and try and provide some sort of medical care for Rosenbaum.

00:07:55.000 And so the prosecutor tries to ask Richie McGinnis, so he was falling over Rosenbaum when he was shot, right?

00:08:02.000 Like, he tripped, and then he was wrongfully shot by Rittenhouse.

00:08:06.000 And he was shot for no reason, because he was just falling over.

00:08:09.000 And then Rittenhouse wanted to kill him, so he killed him, so it's not self-defense.

00:08:12.000 And Richie McGinnis is like, well, no, actually, let me explain.

00:08:17.000 I kind of caught up to them.

00:08:19.000 I was running a bit faster and so at the time initially I was probably 30 feet back when the first when everybody first started running but then by the time I arrived in the lot I was 15 feet.

00:08:32.000 And you continue to be behind Mr. Rosenbaum at the time that the defendant shot and killed him, correct?

00:08:39.000 Um, I did alter my trajectory a little bit, um, when I saw Mr. Rittenhouse turn around and saw Mr. Rosenbaum, um, lunging for the front portion of the rifle.

00:08:51.000 Lunging for the front portion of the rifle.

00:08:53.000 And the prosecutor tries to push him.

00:08:55.000 And tries to say, well, was he falling over?

00:08:57.000 And, uh, and the witness says, no, he said F you and reached for the weapon.

00:09:02.000 So, yeah, not great.

00:09:06.000 Not great, Bob, for the prosecution.

00:09:08.000 Now, the way the media are trying to portray this is as though it's just a sort of a conflict of visions.

00:09:12.000 The Associated Press says jurors heard starkly different portrayals of Kyle Rittenhouse, instigator or victim, in opening statements at his trial on Tuesday on charges of shooting three people on the streets of Kenosha during a turbulent protest against racial injustice. A prosecutor said Rittenhouse set the bloodshed in motion when he triggered a confrontation with a man that night and then killed him with a bullet to the back.

00:09:31.000 Rittenhouse's attorney told the jury his client acted in self-defense after the man tried to grab Rittenhouse's gun and others kicked the teen in the face and clubbed him in the head with a skateboard.

00:09:39.000 And one of those stories is true and one of those stories is not.

00:09:41.000 And the prosecution's story is not true.

00:09:42.000 And then they called a bunch of witnesses who ripped apart their own case.

00:09:45.000 This thing never should have been in front of a jury.

00:09:47.000 So in a second, we're going to discuss why it was in front of a jury in the first place.

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00:10:58.000 Alrighty, so given the fact that the prosecution case is just a complete crap show here, why exactly was it brought in the first place?

00:11:04.000 And the answer is, because we live in a society where the media will not allow a case not to be brought so long as the purported victimizer is of the wrong political persuasion.

00:11:15.000 There is no way that if this were a left-wing person who had shot a couple of Proud Boys in the streets and the video were available like this, that this prosecution is ever brought.

00:11:24.000 It is just too weak a case.

00:11:26.000 Politics, unfortunately, is now telescoped into individual cases of justice.

00:11:32.000 We're no longer a country where individual cases are seen for what they are, judged on their fact patterns, judged on their merits.

00:11:39.000 Instead, the outside politics of the players are telescoped into the proceedings.

00:11:43.000 And that is exactly the wrong way to do this, right?

00:11:45.000 Due process of law requires precisely the opposite.

00:11:48.000 We saw this a lot with the Derek Chauvin trial in Minnesota.

00:11:50.000 Regardless of what you think of Derek Chauvin's activities that day, and now the man has been convicted of murder, and regardless of what you think of the activities, there is still no evidence in the Derek Chauvin case that anything he did was motivated by racism.

00:12:02.000 It didn't matter.

00:12:03.000 It turned into a giant national referendum on whether police across the country were racist, despite the fact there was no evidence that Chauvin himself was racist or had done anything racist, as opposed to just egregiously wrong, in the confrontation with George Floyd.

00:12:17.000 Everything is used as a stand-in for politics these days, and the Rittenhouse trial is just a perfect example of that.

00:12:21.000 Because again, the prosecution has so little a case that they are calling witnesses who are rebutting the prosecution case.

00:12:28.000 And they can't stop it.

00:12:29.000 If somehow Rittenhouse is convicted here on the basis of the evidence that's being presented, you can only chalk that up to politics because there's literally no way to watch the testimony that's being given and not see that that's a self-defense case.

00:12:39.000 Well, this goes to a broader issue in the American public mind, and that is institutional trust.

00:12:45.000 So another major story that is undermining institutional trust these days is the case of Igor Danchenko.

00:12:53.000 So now, according to the Washington Post, an analyst who is a primary source for a 2016 dossier of allegations against Donald Trump has been arrested on charges that he repeatedly lied to the FBI about where and how he got his information, officials said on Thursday.

00:13:07.000 Igor Donchenko's role in providing information to British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who compiled the accusations about Trump in a series of reports, has long been a subject of scrutiny from internal Department of Justice investigators and special counsel John Durham, according to people familiar with the investigations.

00:13:21.000 Steele presented that dossier to the FBI.

00:13:23.000 It was part of the basis for secret surveillance court orders targeting former Trump advisor Carter Page, as the FBI investigated possible ties between the 2016 Trump presidential campaign and Russia.

00:13:33.000 So remember, the Steele dossier was used as the basis to target Carter Page, You remember that in January of 2017, before Trump's inauguration, or right after Trump's inauguration, James Comey approached Donald Trump and told him about the Steele dossier.

00:13:46.000 And that mere telling him about the Steele dossier was used as the predicate for BuzzFeed then breaking the dossier wide on its website without vetting any of the details.

00:13:55.000 And this became the basis of the Trump-Russia investigation.

00:13:58.000 Trump had deep ties to Russia and for four long years, all we heard was that Trump was a Russian plant.

00:14:03.000 The Steele dossier was still being trotted out as possibly true as late as like a few weeks ago.

00:14:08.000 ABC News' George Stephanopoulos sat down with Christopher Steele and Steele was maintaining that much of the data in there was still probably true.

00:14:15.000 Well, it turns out that since 2017, like since the beginning of the saga, since the early days of 2017, the FBI knew that the key source for the Steele dossier was lying to them.

00:14:26.000 They didn't know that in 2018, not 2019. 0.97

00:14:27.000 In 2017, no prosecution, no attempts to quash, no public statements about why the Steele dossier was a load of crap. 0.94

00:14:37.000 None of that. 0.87

00:14:39.000 They just kept investigating, right?

00:14:40.000 The Mueller investigation just kept going.

00:14:43.000 A 2019 report by the Justice Department Inspector General found major problems with the accuracy of Danchenko's information.

00:14:49.000 But the 39-page indictment unveiled on Thursday paints a more detailed picture of claims that were allegedly built on exaggerations, rumors, and outright lies.

00:14:55.000 The indictment is likely to buttress Republican charges that Democrats and FBI agents intentionally or accidentally turned cheap partisan smears into a high-stakes national security investigation of a sitting president.

00:15:06.000 It doesn't just buttress it, it proves it.

00:15:08.000 And the Democrats wandered a bunch of dirty, probably Russian-provided misinformation through the FBI and then into the media, and then back into law enforcement hands, where it was used as the basis for large swaths of the Mueller investigation.

00:15:24.000 The indictment suggests Danchenko may have lied to Christopher Steele and others about where he was getting his information.

00:15:29.000 Some of the material came from a Democratic Party operative with long-standing ties to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, according to the charges, rather than even a well-connected Russian with insight into the Kremlin.

00:15:39.000 So it turns out that some of the information wasn't even coming from Russia.

00:15:42.000 It was coming from inside the House, from somebody who's just working with Hillary Clinton.

00:15:46.000 The Washington Post admits the allegations cast new uncertainty on some past reporting on the dossier by news organizations, including the Washington Post.

00:15:54.000 Well, it's too late.

00:15:55.000 Everybody won their Pulitzers.

00:15:56.000 And Donald Trump is no longer president.

00:15:57.000 So victory achieved, gang.

00:16:00.000 Zanchenko appeared briefly Thursday in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, where his lawyer tried to enter a plea of not guilty on his behalf for five counts of making false statements.

00:16:08.000 The judge didn't accept the plea because the hearing was not an arraignment and Zanchenko was released.

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00:17:36.000 Alrighty, so Andy McCarthy, who's been all over this since the very beginning for National Review, now he has a piece in the Washington Post about the prosecution of Danchenko.

00:17:44.000 He says Denchenko has been charged with five counts of lying to the FBI in interviews during 2017, as the bureau struggled in futility to verify outlandish allegations that Donald Trump and his campaign were clandestine agents of the Kremlin.

00:17:56.000 Those allegations were compiled in the so-called Steele dossier, which the FBI relied on in obtaining surveillance warrants from a secret federal court.

00:18:03.000 The dossier was generated by the Clinton campaign.

00:18:05.000 Its principal author was former British spy Christopher Steele.

00:18:08.000 Steele's main source was Danchenko, a Russian native based in the United States who worked at the Brookings Institute, a Washington think tank whose former president, Strobe Talbot, is a college friend of Bill Clinton's who worked in the Clinton State Department.

00:18:19.000 At Brookings, Danchenko worked with Fiona Hill, later a member of Trump's National Security Council and a key witness in the first Trump impeachment over the unrelated Ukraine controversy.

00:18:28.000 It was through Hill that Danchenko became acquainted with Steele, who ran a London-based intelligence firm.

00:18:33.000 Durham's indictment alleges that Denchenko lied about two major points.

00:18:37.000 First, he fabricated the claim that the president of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce informed him that, during the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump was involved in a well-developed conspiracy of cooperation with Putin.

00:18:48.000 In reality, that conversation never happened.

00:18:51.000 The chamber president is not identified by name in the indictment.

00:18:53.000 After the Steele dossier became public, however, there was intense speculation that the chamber's founder, Sergei Millian, was a Steele dossier source. 0.83

00:19:01.000 As I recounted in my book on Russiagate, says Annie McCarthy, Millian denied being a source that trashed the dossier as fake news created by sick minds.

00:19:07.000 Danchenko is also alleged to have concealed that one of his sources for the information he was getting to steal was a longtime Dem Party operative who was close to the Clintons, having worked on both of Bill Clinton's successful presidential campaigns and Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign.

00:19:22.000 That source was revealed on Thursday to be Chuck Dolan, a public relations executive who had Russian contacts referred to as PR Executive One in the indictment.

00:19:29.000 The FBI interviewed Danchenko because it was desperately trying to corroborate the Steele dossier claims.

00:19:34.000 One question Durham must be pressing is, what took the Bureau so long?

00:19:38.000 The Obama DOJ brought the FBI's sworn claims to the secret Federal Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in October 2016.

00:19:44.000 The FBI is supposed to verify the allegations before going to court, but it didn't interview Danchenko, who was the main source, until January 2017.

00:19:51.000 It was already obtaining its second 90-day spy warrants on Carter Page by that point.

00:19:57.000 It appears that Durham theorizes the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was a political attack manufactured by the Clinton campaign.

00:20:03.000 Relying on Tsanchenko, Steele compiled the reports for Glenn Simpson, co-founder of an intelligence firm Fusion GPS, which specializes in digging up political dirt.

00:20:11.000 Fusion GPS was retained by Perkins Coie, the Clinton campaign's law firm.

00:20:15.000 In September, Durham indicted former Perkins Coie Michael Sussman for making a false statement to the FBI while peddling Trump-Russia allegations the bureau eventually found to be unsubstantiated.

00:20:25.000 Durham, his charging instruments suggest the Clinton campaign used its agents to peddle the Trump-Russia rumors to the government and the media, and used the fact Trump was being investigated as part of the campaign messaging.

00:20:34.000 So in other words, if you are talking about Russian interference in the election, it's really Democratic interference in the election by suggesting that a chief issue in the election is whether Trump was a Russian cat's paw, which as you'll recall was trotted out by the Clinton team throughout the election cycle.

00:20:49.000 It turns out that the Russian probe, very likely, was just a piece of FBI manipulation by the Democratic Party, and then the FBI had to cover its own ass, and so refused to actually investigate all of the people, thoroughly, who had given it the information in the first place until now.

00:21:05.000 Eli Lake writes for Bloomberg. 0.89

00:21:05.000 It's unbelievable. 0.89

00:21:08.000 It's been clear for two years that Steele's dossier was garbage. 0.91

00:21:11.000 That's mainly thanks to the work of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who released a report in 2019 skewering the FBI.

00:21:18.000 Durham's investigation has taken a different approach.

00:21:20.000 His last two indictments suggest the FBI was not a villain but a victim, conned by Democratic operatives to pursue bogus investigations into the Trump campaign.

00:21:29.000 Danchenko is charged with hiding his relationship to a prominent Democrat in interviews with the FBI about the dossier.

00:21:35.000 Of course, that is Charles Dolan, as we were discussing.

00:21:39.000 The real victim of these Democratic Party deceptions was not the FBI, however, says Eli Lake, but the American public.

00:21:45.000 That's why Durham's investigation, now in its third year, remains not only relevant but vital.

00:21:49.000 It is an incredible thing.

00:21:50.000 So what we have here, if we got this right, what we have here is that the Steele dossier, which was used as the basis for the FBI opening an investigation, into Donald Trump's campaign, which ended up splashed across the front pages of every major newspaper in 2016.

00:22:04.000 And then after the election ended up being the basis of the Mueller investigation, which dogged Trump for four years.

00:22:13.000 And in frustration at which, Trump started making bizarre phone calls and getting himself in all sorts of legal hot water.

00:22:19.000 It turns out that all of that was because the media and the FBI decided to work along with the Democrats in order to take Trump down.

00:22:27.000 That's all that we're seeing here.

00:22:29.000 And it took years for any of these prosecutions to take place.

00:22:32.000 The FBI, it's amazing.

00:22:33.000 The FBI knew Dankchenko was lying in 2017.

00:22:35.000 In 2017.

00:22:37.000 The calendar now said, according to my calculations, that it is 2021.

00:22:42.000 What was the FBI doing all of this time?

00:22:45.000 Institutional trust with the FBI has been broken for quite a while.

00:22:48.000 It should be broken even further.

00:22:51.000 These institutions, they are motivated by politics.

00:22:54.000 Politics have infused them.

00:22:56.000 When Donald Trump talked about the so-called deep state, people took that to mean that there was an active conspiracy of people working inside these departments.

00:23:02.000 Sometimes that may be true.

00:23:04.000 There are a lot of these people who are working together, obviously.

00:23:07.000 If you're looking at, for example, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, if you're looking at that coupling, those people clearly had similar priorities.

00:23:17.000 In reality, all this means is that there is a feedback loop of people who share the same political echo chamber. 0.96

00:23:23.000 And you can apparently retail any piece of garbage to the FBI.

00:23:28.000 And so long as it is coming from a democratic source, they won't even check into the sources of the original dossier. 0.93

00:23:33.000 They won't even check into it.

00:23:34.000 And then they will launder it.

00:23:36.000 This is what James Comey did.

00:23:37.000 They will launder it through the press to the public and help to destroy the presidency of a sitting president of the United States.

00:23:46.000 That is an amazing, amazing thing.

00:23:47.000 Listen, I was loathe to believe a lot of the early charges.

00:23:50.000 There are some people who are on this way earlier than I was. 0.59

00:23:51.000 That is for damn sure.

00:23:53.000 That's because I have a certain level of baseline American trust in these institutions. 0.71

00:23:58.000 That trust has been deeply shaken.

00:23:59.000 If it hasn't been shaken for you, it's because you're not watching this closely enough.

00:24:02.000 Already coming up, we're going to get to Joe Biden's vaccine mandate.

00:24:06.000 Again, these institutions lose trust.

00:24:07.000 So what do they do?

00:24:07.000 They decide to double down and try to control every area of your life.

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00:25:25.000 So, meanwhile, the Biden administration, never at a loss for authoritarian crackdowns, is released.

00:25:31.000 They've released, as we mentioned yesterday at length, this OSHA vaccine mandate.

00:25:35.000 It kicks into place on January 4th formally.

00:25:38.000 There's some speculation that the reason the Biden administration is doing this is because they don't want it legally challenged.

00:25:43.000 We at The Daily Wire have said we will not comply with this.

00:25:45.000 We are not going to force our employees to get vaccinated.

00:25:48.000 This is so anti-science. 1.00

00:25:49.000 It is stupid all the way through. 1.00

00:25:51.000 If you are vaccinated, you are good to go. 1.00

00:25:53.000 If you're unvaccinated, you have chosen to be that way. 1.00

00:25:55.000 And now, by the way, Pfizer is about to come on market with a pill that after COVID diagnosis lowers your rate of death and hospitalization by 90%.

00:26:05.000 So, if we weren't already done then, we are done now.

00:26:08.000 We have been done for months, by the way.

00:26:10.000 And if you're in a southern state, you know this.

00:26:11.000 If you're in an uptight northern state, a northeastern state, where they're still suggesting that you can be quadruple vaxxed and still be subject to the predations of COVID-19, even if you're not immunocompromised, then it's still going on for you.

00:26:24.000 But if you're down here in Florida, it's pretty much done, and it's been done for quite a while because we're not crazy down here. 0.77

00:26:30.000 Well, the Biden administration is crazy.

00:26:31.000 And now they're saying that every employer of more than 100 people in the United States must force their employees to vax or test weekly and wear a mask indefinitely.

00:26:42.000 Presumably, forever.

00:26:44.000 And if you refuse to do this, an unwillful violation costs you $14,000.

00:26:48.000 A willful violation, if you just say, no, I'm not doing that.

00:26:50.000 It's not my business whether my employees are vaxxed at this point because everybody's had the opportunity to get vaxxed.

00:26:56.000 If you say that, they will send an OSHA agent to your place of work, and then they will attempt to fine you up to $140,000 per violation.

00:27:06.000 They're aiming at small business.

00:27:07.000 They're attempting to bankrupt companies they don't like.

00:27:10.000 And by the way, I promise you that because we are filing a lawsuit, first day that this thing goes formally into effect in January, there will be an OSHA inspector at our door.

00:27:18.000 I'm sure that is the case.

00:27:20.000 Again, one of the reasons that they're delaying it is because what they're hoping is that if we file a lawsuit, a court will say it's not ripe because there's been no harm yet.

00:27:30.000 The case hasn't actually, you can't adjudicate it yet because there's been no harm.

00:27:33.000 We filed for a preliminary injunction against this.

00:27:35.000 Many states are doing the same.

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00:27:42.000 That does help us out because us fighting on behalf of our employees and getting this law struck down on behalf of all Americans is regulation.

00:27:48.000 It is unconstitutional and by the way, illegal.

00:27:51.000 On behalf of all Americans, that's in all of our interest.

00:27:53.000 You can help us out by subscribing.

00:27:54.000 We really appreciate it.

00:27:55.000 We need your help with that, but The goal of the Biden administration, I don't even think it's for this thing to take effect. 0.94

00:28:01.000 I think this is all bullcrap.

00:28:03.000 I think that their goal here is essentially to pretend that they've done all they can do, get this thing struck down, and then move on with their lives.

00:28:10.000 Sort of like their CDC eviction moratorium.

00:28:12.000 You remember that Joe Biden said he didn't have the constitutional power to issue a further eviction moratorium because the Supreme Court had said he didn't?

00:28:18.000 And then he did it anyway?

00:28:20.000 And the reason he did it, knowing the Supreme Court was going to stay that particular order, is because he wanted to be able to say to his people, I did all I could.

00:28:28.000 I did all I could.

00:28:30.000 That's what he wanted to say.

00:28:32.000 Well, I feel like this is very much the same thing.

00:28:35.000 See, Joe Biden has put himself in a box.

00:28:37.000 The box is, he said he could end COVID.

00:28:39.000 He cannot end COVID.

00:28:41.000 The only thing that Joe Biden could do is leave us alone.

00:28:43.000 But he doesn't want to leave us alone.

00:28:44.000 Because he requires COVID in order to ram through these giant spending bills.

00:28:49.000 In order to maintain control.

00:28:50.000 And so now he's stuck between a rock and a hard place.

00:28:52.000 The longer COVID goes on, the worse it is for the economy.

00:28:55.000 The more these crackdowns go on, the worse it is for the economy.

00:28:58.000 And as long as people are dying, COVID is not over from the perspective of Democrats.

00:29:01.000 So long as infections are happening, even if they're happening because you chose not to get vaccinated, Democrats can't just say, well, you know, you made your decision and now it's on you.

00:29:10.000 Instead, they have to say, no, no, no, we said we were going to fix it.

00:29:14.000 And so Joe Biden is kind of stuck.

00:29:15.000 What that means is he needs someone else to blame.

00:29:18.000 So he'll he's going to put this regulation out there.

00:29:20.000 We're going to get it struck down.

00:29:21.000 I have very little fear about that, really.

00:29:24.000 And when that happens, he's gonna throw up his hands and he's gonna say, we did the best that we could. 0.94

00:29:29.000 And by the way, it's not, they're all hypocrites anyway. 0.98

00:29:31.000 They really are. 0.90

00:29:32.000 I mean, the number of Democrats who are vaccinated but unmasking in public places when they've been told by the CDC not to, it's astonishing, right?

00:29:38.000 The rules don't apply to the special people.

00:29:41.000 I mean, Rochelle Walensky, the head of the CDC, was asked yesterday how many CDC employees, employees of the CDC were vaccinated.

00:29:46.000 And she said she had no idea.

00:29:48.000 What percent of CDC employees Um, so yeah, of course she doesn't have that.

00:29:55.000 actively encouraging vaccination in all of our employees and doing a lot of education and outreach in order to get our agency fully vaccinated.

00:30:02.000 But the percent?

00:30:03.000 I don't have that for you today.

00:30:06.000 So yeah, of course she doesn't have that.

00:30:10.000 By the way, I've noticed that the OSHA Vax requirements, the federal government isn't trying to attach, for example, strings to federal aid.

00:30:19.000 So if you are a person who receives food stamps or welfare via the federal government, I'm noticing that they're not forcing you to act.

00:30:25.000 Interesting how that works.

00:30:26.000 Only employers.

00:30:27.000 They're trying to turn employers into essentially the policemen of the state.

00:30:32.000 Which is a complete violation of both private property and state sovereignty.

00:30:36.000 Because this is not a federal issue.

00:30:38.000 This is a state issue.

00:30:40.000 There's nothing in the Interstate Commerce Clause that gives OSHA the power to override the basic health powers of the states.

00:30:49.000 The OSHA?

00:30:50.000 OSHA?

00:30:51.000 Come on.

00:30:52.000 There's nothing in the OSHA regulations that says that they can regulate, literally until the end of time, how you do your work at your business based on a virus that is not going to kill you if you are vaccinated, by all statistics.

00:31:07.000 And by the way, again, everyone's had the opportunity to get vaccinated.

00:31:11.000 Joe Biden used to acknowledge he didn't have the power to do this.

00:31:13.000 Now he just doesn't.

00:31:14.000 Because he's an authoritarian.

00:31:17.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, employers have until January 4th, 2020 to ensure their employees are vaccinated.

00:31:22.000 After that date, employers have to verify that unvaccinated employees test negative for COVID-19 at least once a week.

00:31:29.000 Employers need to show they are fully vaccinated, meaning they either received two doses of Pfizer or Moderna or one Johnson & Johnson shot.

00:31:34.000 Acceptable documents include a record of immunization from a health provider or pharmacy, a copy of a COVID-19 vaccination card, medical records, etc., etc.

00:31:42.000 The agency plans to inspect some workplaces.

00:31:44.000 A former OSHA official said the agency will likely not rely primarily on in-person inspections, but on company recordkeeping and worker reports of potential violations.

00:31:53.000 Businesses that don't comply can face fines, as we say, of up to $14,000, and that is if there is a mistake.

00:31:58.000 If you are found to be unwilling, it can be up to $140,000.

00:32:02.000 What will happen to unvaccinated workers who object to getting vaccinated or tested?

00:32:06.000 It's possible employers would fire them.

00:32:08.000 Some workers may choose to quit.

00:32:10.000 About 40% of workers who are unvaccinated say they will leave their jobs rather than do this sort of stuff. 0.99

00:32:17.000 So the entire OSHA rule here is being promulgated in idiotic fashion. 0.90

00:32:23.000 It is not designed to be upheld, but it's going to have some pretty significant downstream effects. 0.91

00:32:27.000 This is why I don't think that it's actually ever going to be implemented.

00:32:30.000 I think what it's going to be done, what's going to happen here is that it's going to be used as an excuse by big businesses to say that they have to do it.

00:32:37.000 And then Biden is just going to lose his court case and that's going to be the end of it.

00:32:42.000 Because here's the problem for Democrats.

00:32:43.000 If this thing actually goes into effect, it's going to absolutely cripple the economy.

00:32:46.000 I mean, it's just going to be horrible for the economy.

00:32:49.000 For example, truckers are not exempted from this.

00:32:52.000 Truckers are not exempted from these regulations.

00:32:55.000 If you lose 20% of truckers, you think you've got supply chain problems right now?

00:32:59.000 Just wait.

00:33:00.000 The White House Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, she says, don't worry, the VAX mandate isn't going to affect the supply chain.

00:33:05.000 Yeah, you're just forcing people to fire their employees.

00:33:07.000 That's not going to affect the supply chain at all.

00:33:10.000 If you're asking, like, if we think the rules impact supply chain, the answer is no, we don't think that it will.

00:33:16.000 First of all, vaccine requirements work.

00:33:18.000 We have talked about that.

00:33:20.000 We've given examples, like earlier adopters have seen strong compliance, 99%.

00:33:25.000 At United Airlines, 99% at Houston Methodist, 99.5% at Rutgers University.

00:33:32.000 Recently, Tyson's Food announced that 96% of its workers got vaccinated ahead of its deadline.

00:33:40.000 So the emergency temporary standard is an even playing field across all employers with 100 or more workers.

00:33:48.000 Okay, one of the reasons, by the way, these percentages are so high is because when you fire everyone or force them to quit, if they're not vaccinated, your percentages go up.

00:33:55.000 Amazing how that works.

00:33:56.000 When somebody is no longer an employee, they don't get counted in your percentage.

00:33:59.000 Governors or attorneys general from more than a dozen states have begun filing legal challenges already.

00:34:03.000 This includes the Iowa governor who vowed immediate legal action on Thursday.

00:34:08.000 Kristi Noem in South Dakota, she says that they're joining a lawsuit as well.

00:34:12.000 Today, I'm announcing to you that we are joining several other states In filing litigation against this unconstitutional mandate, we will be taking actions to ensure that the federal government remembers that the Constitution does not give them the authority to take this type of action.

00:34:29.000 And that people have freedoms, and they have personal responsibility over their health, and that here in South Dakota, that will be protected and defended.

00:34:37.000 Okay, now, here's the thing.

00:34:38.000 This is all gonna kick in in January.

00:34:40.000 Can we now have this Pfizer pill, which, it's apparently just an oral pill you take after you get diagnosed, and it takes your hospitalization and death rate down 90%.

00:34:46.000 It was already down 90% if you took the vaccine.

00:34:50.000 So if you do that, and then you get a breakthrough, and then you take the pill, then basically you're immortal, I think, is the way that the math works there.

00:34:56.000 And even if you don't take the vaccine, we now have a therapeutic that is effectively as effective as the vaccines.

00:35:01.000 The vaccines are about 90% effective against hospitalization and death.

00:35:04.000 Pfizer says you can now take a pill and that is just as effective as a vaccine in terms of preventing hospitalization and death.

00:35:11.000 So what in the world are they doing here?

00:35:13.000 Again, it is not about stopping the COVID pandemic.

00:35:17.000 It is simply about control.

00:35:18.000 It's simply about control.

00:35:20.000 And the backlash is coming, man.

00:35:21.000 The backlash is absolutely coming for the Democrats.

00:35:24.000 It's going to come hard.

00:35:25.000 We'll get to that in just one moment because it's already begun.

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00:37:07.000 As you may or may not be aware, the Daily Wire filed a lawsuit against the federal government yesterday.

00:37:10.000 Well, because this is an authoritarian, anti-American move.

00:37:14.000 We have to stop it.

00:37:15.000 The Biden administration now ordering that any employer with over 100 employees has to require employees to be vaxxed against COVID-19 or submit to regular testing.

00:37:23.000 Our lawsuit was filed by Dillon Law Group, Inc.

00:37:25.000 and Alliance Defending Freedom in the U.S.

00:37:27.000 Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

00:37:29.000 The lawsuit alleges that the Biden administration lacks the constitutional and statutory authority to issue the employer mandate and that the mandate fails to meet the requirements for issuing a rule taking effect immediately without the normal process of considering public comments.

00:37:41.000 The mandate's unconstitutional.

00:37:43.000 We're not standing for it here at Daily Wire.

00:37:45.000 Our employees, and yours, by the way, deserve to keep their medical histories private, have autonomy over their bodies, and honor any of their religious beliefs.

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00:37:54.000 This isn't about that.

00:37:55.000 We stand with our employees' rights, as we do with the rights of every single American.

00:37:58.000 The Biden administration has warned that any companies that don't comply with this federal overreach could be fined as much as $136,000 per violation.

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00:38:23.000 The blowback to Democrats' command and control beliefs about the United States.

00:38:33.000 That blowback is strong and it already has teeth. 1.00

00:38:36.000 And the Biden administration knows it.

00:38:37.000 And they are flailing around over it.

00:38:39.000 So, honestly, the best story of election night was not even what happened in Virginia.

00:38:43.000 It was the fact that a truck driver defeated the New Jersey State Senate leader.

00:38:47.000 Like, that is hysterical.

00:38:48.000 A truck driver named Ed Durr.

00:38:51.000 He spent, I kid you not, about $153 on his campaign.

00:38:57.000 $153 on his campaign.

00:39:00.000 $66.64 of that went to Dunkin' Donuts.

00:39:04.000 That's a campaign, my friends.

00:39:06.000 Yes.

00:39:07.000 $153 spent on the campaign.

00:39:10.000 $66 to Dunkin' Donuts.

00:39:12.000 And he defeated one of the most powerful people in New Jersey, the state senate president.

00:39:20.000 Steven Sweeney.

00:39:21.000 He beat him by about 2,000 votes.

00:39:24.000 And so it turns out that the reason that the guy ran for office in the first place is he was denied a concealed carry permit in a may-carry jurisdiction.

00:39:32.000 Meaning that if the government allows you, you may carry.

00:39:35.000 And then he was denied a permit, which is perverse.

00:39:37.000 I mean, I lived in a may-carry jurisdiction in Los Angeles. 0.99

00:39:40.000 And basically, unless you knew somebody, you weren't getting a concealed carry permit. 0.77

00:39:43.000 So it's a ridiculous law. 0.52

00:39:44.000 New Jersey has those kinds of laws. 0.93

00:39:46.000 He got rejected, so he ran for office.

00:39:48.000 And here is what he said about what he plans to do.

00:39:52.000 Ed, what's the first thing you're going to do when you get to the Capitol in Trenton?

00:39:59.000 I really don't know.

00:40:01.000 That's the key factor.

00:40:02.000 I don't know what I don't know, so I will learn what I need to know.

00:40:07.000 And I'm going to guarantee you one thing.

00:40:11.000 I will be the voice and people will hear me.

00:40:14.000 Because if there's one thing people will learn about me, I got a big mouth and I don't shut up.

00:40:20.000 When I want to be heard, I'm going to be heard.

00:40:22.000 Okay, so honestly, I wish more of our legislators had this feeling.

00:40:25.000 What's the first thing you're gonna do?

00:40:26.000 I have no idea, because I don't know what is going to confront me when I get to this place.

00:40:30.000 Like, it's not bad that regular people are part of our legislature.

00:40:34.000 In fact, I think that most of the experts in our legislature suck at their jobs. 0.97

00:40:38.000 They're doubling down on the idea that all Republicans are racist. 0.99

00:40:40.000 We got this.

00:40:40.000 It's sort of a microcosm of what happened right after Trump won.

00:40:42.000 lacking, everybody knows that leading up to 2022, their prospects are really, really poor.

00:40:46.000 So what are they doing?

00:40:47.000 They're doubling down on the idea that all Republicans are racist.

00:40:50.000 We got this, it's sort of a microcosm of what happened right after Trump won.

00:40:53.000 So right after Trump won, there was a brief moment in time where Democrats in the media were like, who are these Trump voters?

00:40:59.000 Maybe we should go and talk to them. 0.61

00:41:00.000 And then after about 32 seconds, they said, oh, they're a bunch of racists. 0.62

00:41:04.000 We don't need to talk to them. 0.90

00:41:05.000 It's about Russia and racism, of course. 0.53

00:41:06.000 Well, they just skipped right over that 32 seconds of self-reflection over at the White House and then went right to, yeah, everybody's a racist. 0.99

00:41:13.000 It's because the Republicans are racist.

00:41:14.000 So here is Karen Jean-Pierre talking about Kareem Jean-Pierre, the deputy White House press secretary, talking about how Republicans only won in Virginia because they lied about critical race theory. 0.94

00:41:23.000 Good luck with this one.

00:41:25.000 Republicans are lying.

00:41:26.000 They're not being honest.

00:41:27.000 They're not being truthful about where we stand.

00:41:31.000 And they're cynically trying to use our kids as a political football.

00:41:36.000 They're talking about our kids when it's election season, but they won't vote for them when it matters.

00:41:41.000 You know, Republicans did not vote for the American Rescue Plan.

00:41:44.000 The American Rescue Plan, in that plan, it had funding to make sure that schools were open.

00:41:50.000 To make sure that our kids got back to school.

00:41:52.000 Okay, this is a joke.

00:41:52.000 This is a joke.

00:41:54.000 It's ridiculous. 0.92

00:41:54.000 One of my favorite things Democrats are saying right now, it's actually a headline over at the Huffington Post right now. 0.92

00:42:00.000 And I want to read it verbatim because it really speaks to what Democrats believe about how politics are supposed to work.

00:42:07.000 Quote, Republicans want parents to be angry.

00:42:10.000 Democrats are trying to give them money.

00:42:13.000 That's what Democrats think about politics.

00:42:14.000 That all parents want is just to be handed money by the government.

00:42:18.000 They don't want control over their kids' lives. 0.65

00:42:18.000 That's all they want. 0.65

00:42:20.000 They don't want control over their kids' education. 0.81

00:42:22.000 They just want to sit down and shut up and be paid off.

00:42:24.000 Good luck with that message.

00:42:25.000 It turns out that most parents are concerned mainly with raising their children.

00:42:29.000 And if there are strings attached to the cash, or we're supposed to sit by and let crappy school boards decide what our kids learn in schools about racial essentialism, the answer is no.

00:42:38.000 So Democrats, instead of saying maybe we should move away from this critical race theory nonsense, instead they're doubling down.

00:42:43.000 They're saying they're lying about critical race theory.

00:42:45.000 It doesn't exist.

00:42:46.000 It's a bugaboo.

00:42:47.000 Simultaneously, they're saying it's super important and your kids have to be taught it.

00:42:51.000 You can see this conflict between, for example, Stephen Colbert and Michael Eric Dyson.

00:42:54.000 So, here is Stephen Colbert last night, mimicking the White House, saying that CRT doesn't exist, it's a figment of your imagination.

00:43:01.000 Claims about what's being taught in history classes have become the latest racist dog whistle.

00:43:07.000 For instance, on Monday, Youngkin made this promise.

00:43:10.000 Let me be clear, on day one we will not have political agendas in the classroom and I will ban critical race theory.

00:43:18.000 Here's the thing.

00:43:19.000 Critical race theory is not taught at the K-12 level in Virginia.

00:43:25.000 Wow, that was fast.

00:43:26.000 Promises made, promises kept.

00:43:28.000 It doesn't exist.

00:43:29.000 Okay, obviously this is a semantic game that people on the left like to play.

00:43:32.000 So what they do is they say critical race theory.

00:43:34.000 Really, it doesn't exist, critical race theory.

00:43:37.000 It's just that when you dumb it down and you turn it into Ibram X. Kendi racial essentialism about how Privilege exists in all the institutions of American life, and white kids should know that they benefit from that privilege, and black kids are inherently victims. 0.74

00:43:48.000 That does make it into the classroom.

00:43:49.000 It makes it into the classroom all the time.

00:43:51.000 So they'll simultaneously say CRT doesn't exist, and then they will say that CRT is deeply vital to teach to kids.

00:43:57.000 So here is Michael Eric Dyson yesterday saying, we have to make kids uncomfortable.

00:44:00.000 We must make kids uncomfortable.

00:44:03.000 We gotta face some uncomfortable truths, and the white comfort cannot be the predicate for making sure that race is not a strategy that shouldn't be used. 0.53

00:44:11.000 Discomfort is a critical tool to make people learn.

00:44:15.000 Agreed, yeah.

00:44:15.000 When I go to class, I'm talking about my white students, my black students, my Latino students, my Asian students, across the board. I am trying to make you uncomfortable enough with the ignorance that you've inherited so that you can begin to engage in some serious thinking about the way the world works.

00:44:28.000 We have to make kids uncomfortable. And what he means by that, Michael Eric Dyson, is pretty clear, because Michael Eric Dyson is a proponent of Abram X. Kendi-style anti-racism, which is an offshoot of critical race theory.

00:44:37.000 I mean, this is the same guy who's telling you that he wants to teach your kids is also saying that the brand new black lieutenant governor of the state of Virginia is actually secretly white.

00:44:47.000 She's secretly white. 0.90

00:44:49.000 So he wants to teach racial essentialism to your kids.

00:44:51.000 That's who this is.

00:44:51.000 This is the person saying that he wants to teach your kids to feel uncomfortable.

00:44:55.000 What kind of stuff do you think he's teaching?

00:44:57.000 Why don't we ask him?

00:44:58.000 Here's Michael Eric Dyson.

00:45:00.000 The problem is here, they want white supremacy by ventriloquist effect.

00:45:04.000 There is a black mouth moving, but a white idea through the running on the runway of the tongue of a figure who justifies and legitimates the white supremacist practices. 0.77

00:45:17.000 We know that we can internalize in our own minds, in our own subconscious, in our own bodies, the very principles that are undoing us.

00:45:25.000 So to have a black face, Speaking in behalf of a white supremacist legacy is nothing new. 0.64

00:45:33.000 Don't worry. 0.84

00:45:33.000 They're not teaching critical race theory. 0.84

00:45:34.000 They just have to make your kids uncomfortable.

00:45:36.000 Also, critical race theory doesn't exist.

00:45:38.000 And if you oppose it, too bad.

00:45:40.000 We want to give you money. 0.87

00:45:40.000 And Republicans are bad. 0.87

00:45:42.000 Good job, guys.

00:45:44.000 It's gonna be a winning message.

00:45:45.000 I can see how this is gonna work out real well for you.

00:45:47.000 The other winning message Democrats are pushing, of course, is what if we spend more money?

00:45:50.000 Now, there are a few problems with this.

00:45:51.000 Number one, Americans are not clamoring for more government spending at this point.

00:45:55.000 Build Back Better is not popular.

00:45:57.000 Even the Bipartisan Infrastructure Plan, it might be sort of like, okay, but it's not blowing the doors off.

00:46:02.000 Nobody's clamoring for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Plan to pass at this point.

00:46:06.000 CNN did report, but the disconnect is that if you complain about inflation, Then this means that you are out of touch with the people.

00:46:13.000 So this is kind of an incredible story.

00:46:15.000 So yesterday, Brianna Keillor over at CNN, she did a report about a family.

00:46:20.000 Okay.

00:46:20.000 This family is a family of 11.

00:46:24.000 They have nine kids.

00:46:25.000 They're feeding nine kids.

00:46:26.000 Seven of those kids are adopted or fostered.

00:46:28.000 Okay.

00:46:29.000 So honestly, these people sound like saints.

00:46:31.000 I mean, to adopt or foster seven kids and you have two of your own.

00:46:35.000 Pretty incredible behavior.

00:46:36.000 Okay, so Brianna Keeler does a report on them, and she talks about how inflation is really taking a chunk out of their pocketbook.

00:46:41.000 Here's what the report said.

00:46:44.000 We have two biological kids, and then my wife and I have a big heart for adoption, so we adopted a sibling group of two, then three, then one, and then we have a kid living with us right now who's kind of in a foster situation.

00:46:59.000 It feels like money isn't going as far as it used to.

00:47:01.000 Okay.

00:47:03.000 Let's see what we can do.

00:47:05.000 I think probably in June, it was about a dollar is worth a dollar.

00:47:09.000 So now that dollar is worth about 70 cents.

00:47:11.000 All right.

00:47:12.000 Now we're moving on to dairy, which is right there.

00:47:15.000 We started seeing everything going up.

00:47:17.000 Grocery prices went up.

00:47:18.000 Gallon of milk was $1.99.

00:47:19.000 Now it's $2.79.

00:47:22.000 Well, when you buy 12 gallons a week times four weeks, you know, that's a lot of money.

00:47:26.000 Okay, and what did this prompt?

00:47:28.000 Did this prompt anybody on the left side of the aisle, the blue checks on Twitter, to say, actually, that sounds pretty damaging, right?

00:47:34.000 I mean, she's right.

00:47:35.000 No, instead, you got Jamel Bui, a man who's in touch with the people.

00:47:40.000 He tweeted out, I'm sorry, 12 gallons of milk?

00:47:44.000 Well, yes, I mean, there are 11 people in the house, including nine kids, many of whom apparently are teenagers.

00:47:50.000 He says, like, if every member of a family of six had one 8-ounce glass of milk for every meal on every day of the week, you'd still only need about 8 gallons of milk a week.

00:48:00.000 They have 12 people in the house.

00:48:01.000 He says, fair enough.

00:48:02.000 Even then, this is an exceptional family.

00:48:04.000 Not sure they should be used as emblematic.

00:48:07.000 Well done there, Jamel Bouie.

00:48:08.000 Just massive self-own right there.

00:48:12.000 And Jonathan Chait does the same thing.

00:48:14.000 Blue check.

00:48:15.000 12 gallons of milk a week may sound like a lot, but they've actually had to cut out their milk baths on alternate days.

00:48:20.000 They're not taking milk baths.

00:48:21.000 I love this.

00:48:23.000 So just sneer at people who are hurting at the checkout counter.

00:48:28.000 Just sneer at them.

00:48:29.000 Because who needs 12 gallons of milk a week?

00:48:31.000 Now again, basic math suggests they need 12 gallons of milk a week, right?

00:48:34.000 I have three kids.

00:48:35.000 We certainly go through at least three gallons of milk a week.

00:48:38.000 And these are little kids.

00:48:39.000 So the notion that a bunch of teenagers, like a family of 11, they're not going to go through 12 gallons of milk a week.

00:48:46.000 It's crazy.

00:48:47.000 But then you got the whole blue checkmarks going, milk doesn't even cost $1.99 anywhere.

00:48:51.000 Okay, well, in certain parts of the country, it used to.

00:48:54.000 Like it did.

00:48:56.000 But these are, they are all George, remember they said in 1992 that George H.W.

00:49:00.000 Bush didn't know how to use one of those, one of those checkout guns at the, at the checkout counter, and they mocked him for it.

00:49:06.000 He didn't know how they worked.

00:49:07.000 And it really wasn't true.

00:49:09.000 These people are that.

00:49:10.000 They actually are that.

00:49:11.000 They don't, they're all the old lady from Arrested Development. 0.99

00:49:16.000 What does a banana cost?

00:49:17.000 Like $7?

00:49:18.000 That's what they are.

00:49:20.000 And then they're telling you how they're going to fix the economy?

00:49:23.000 Good luck with this, guys.

00:49:25.000 I mean, this is what you really want to run, but apparently they do.

00:49:28.000 Apparently they do. 1.00

00:49:28.000 Apparently they think more cowbell, as always, doubling down on stupid. 1.00

00:49:32.000 We're going to talk racism. 1.00

00:49:33.000 We're going to pretend that the American people don't know what they're talking about.

00:49:35.000 We have to boss them around in every possible way. 1.00

00:49:39.000 Our elites are just morons. 1.00

00:49:41.000 OK, speaking of which, I have to bring you this because it's just astonishing. 1.00

00:49:45.000 So there is some tape that has now emerged from a presentation for Microsoft.

00:49:50.000 Hey, all of your intellectual betters, all the people who run the world, who design the products that you use, who want to run your political life.

00:49:59.000 These people have been indoctrinated in woke tropes, and then they're cramming them down on you. 1.00

00:50:04.000 And they sound like idiots. 1.00

00:50:06.000 They sound like morons. 1.00

00:50:07.000 And if I were going to have somebody babysit my kids, it would certainly be the couple that adopted the nine and have to buy 12 gallons of milk a week, and not the people who are acting as project managers for these particular sections at Microsoft. 1.00

00:50:20.000 And I will show you why.

00:50:21.000 So a couple of clips from this Microsoft session.

00:50:23.000 Again, it shows you who the elites are in our society.

00:50:25.000 They are completely out of touch with everyday Americans.

00:50:27.000 Completely out of touch with everyday Americans.

00:50:29.000 So, here is a Microsoft project manager introducing herself to all the people who are interested in learning about what Microsoft is doing, their new products.

00:50:37.000 Okay, here we go.

00:50:39.000 My name is Allison Wines.

00:50:41.000 I'm a senior program manager in our developer tools division.

00:50:45.000 I'm an Asian and white female with dark brown hair wearing a red sleeveless top.

00:50:51.000 Okay, and it continued along these lines.

00:50:54.000 Here are a couple of marketing managers introducing themselves.

00:50:57.000 Hello everyone, I'm Nathalie Godilla.

00:50:59.000 I'm a Caucasian woman with long blonde hair and I go by she-her. 0.97

00:51:03.000 I'm a product marketing lead here at Microsoft and co-host of the podcast Security Unlocked with this guy.

00:51:08.000 Yes, that would be me.

00:51:09.000 Hello everyone, I'm Nick Fillingham.

00:51:11.000 I'm a Caucasian man with glasses and a beard.

00:51:13.000 I go by he-him and I'm a security evangelist here at Microsoft.

00:51:16.000 I go by he-him. 0.84

00:51:17.000 And she her.

00:51:18.000 Okay, so apparently the reason they were describing their races is for the blind people.

00:51:22.000 Really, for the visually impaired in the audience.

00:51:24.000 So I have a question.

00:51:25.000 You're literally saying to the literally colorblind that color matters.

00:51:30.000 This is your pitch.

00:51:31.000 Your pitch is that people who are literally incapable physically of seeing color must be told what your race is.

00:51:40.000 Why, exactly?

00:51:42.000 Unclear.

00:51:43.000 Also, we can't just assume from your voice whether you're a she-her or a he-him.

00:51:47.000 Instead, you have to name it.

00:51:49.000 Honestly, that wasn't even the worst part of this.

00:51:51.000 That Alison Wines lady, she actually began her little riff by explaining that Microsoft's headquarters sat on stolen Native American land. 0.98

00:52:00.000 I kid you not.

00:52:01.000 First, we want to acknowledge that the land where the Microsoft campus is situated was traditionally occupied by the Sammamish, the Duwamish, the Snoqualmie, the Suquamish, the Muckleshoot, the Snohomish, the Tulalip, and other Coast Salish peoples since time immemorial.

00:52:23.000 So, if Microsoft wants to, they could just surrender their headquarters to the local tribe. 0.91

00:52:28.000 They could do that.

00:52:28.000 They could just give the building over.

00:52:29.000 It's worth a lot of money.

00:52:30.000 And it seems like they're sitting on stolen land, from what I've been told. 1.00

00:52:33.000 Okay, so these woke idiots are the people who run our society. 1.00

00:52:36.000 They're the elites who believe they should control every institutional area of American life. 1.00

00:52:41.000 And the predictable outcome of this is that even when the people speak up, they will just ignore them.

00:52:46.000 This holds true in the Democratic halls of power.

00:52:47.000 So Nancy Pelosi, right now, as we speak, is attempting to ram through a Build Back Better plan that they ran out the bill like late last night. 1.00

00:52:58.000 It's 2,000 pages.

00:52:59.000 No one has read this thing.

00:53:01.000 They're trying to run this out despite the fact that the American people, again, are not clamoring for it.

00:53:05.000 And the Democrats just took a massive fist to the jaw, electorally speaking. And what's her excuse for doing this? Her excuse is, well, I haven't seen the election analysis. I don't know. I don't know.

00:53:16.000 Do you think Democrats were penalized for having not gotten these things done?

00:53:22.000 I again, I haven't seen that and all of the analysis. And I know from my own experience that I've said to you before, the plural of anecdote is not data.

00:53:36.000 Let's see what the data is as it comes out.

00:53:39.000 Oh, she doesn't know the data.

00:53:40.000 I'm pretty sure that she knows the data.

00:53:42.000 She just doesn't care because she has to ram this through.

00:53:46.000 Now, the problem for her, of course, is that the politics don't actually favor ramming it through. 0.96

00:53:51.000 It looks as though the Democratic Party is split almost revocably at this point between the Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema wing of the party and the AOC wing of the party.

00:54:01.000 AOC's takeaway yesterday from the Virginia loss, by the way, is that they weren't progressive enough in Virginia.

00:54:07.000 Which is a hell of a takeaway considering that the candidate she endorsed in Buffalo, India Walton, was the only Democrat actually on the ballot and proceeded to lose by 20 points to a writing candidate.

00:54:15.000 So yeah, clearly Americans are desperate for more progressivism.

00:54:19.000 But Democrats keep hunting for the votes.

00:54:21.000 They keep trying to cram this thing through.

00:54:22.000 What's amazing about this, by the way, is that basically it is kind of incredible that the progressives are caving this way.

00:54:28.000 Truly.

00:54:29.000 So what the progressive plan was, was we are going to hold up infrastructure until Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema sign off on Build Back Better.

00:54:36.000 Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are not signing on to anything that the House is going to pass today.

00:54:40.000 It's not happening.

00:54:42.000 They have no interest in passing this thing.

00:54:44.000 The actual number on the bill is not $1.85 trillion.

00:54:46.000 It is more like $4 trillion, according to Wharton Business School.

00:54:49.000 is they're not signing on to it.

00:54:50.000 And the House Democrats know this in the progressive caucus.

00:54:53.000 So they could hold up infrastructure or they could just vote for infrastructure and surrender.

00:54:58.000 It looks like they're about to do the latter.

00:54:59.000 Nancy Pelosi, for her part, she keeps saying that Build Back Better is not going to increase inflation. 0.99

00:55:04.000 Weird, because I think that it probably is.

00:55:07.000 The other piece was about inflation and we had the expert opinions and in fact, very recent today from Moody's that the bill was paid, since it is paid for, it would not increase inflation.

00:55:26.000 And in fact, it would add to our economy because of childcare enabling many more women to fully participate. 1.00

00:55:34.000 Oh, so it's gonna it's gonna be better.

00:55:35.000 It's getting better.

00:55:36.000 So again, they took a they took a hit right to the jaw and they just keep they keep trucking because they know better than you.

00:55:41.000 They know more than you.

00:55:43.000 And that's all that matters because they are the specials and you are not one of the specials.

00:55:47.000 They are the specials.

00:55:48.000 According to Politico's playbook.

00:55:50.000 Democratic leaders are still facing resistance from centrists who have raised procedural concerns, such as a lack of cost analysis with the push for a vote on the sprawling social policy package this week.

00:55:59.000 Pelosi circulated a letter Thursday night that included budgetary details from White House staff.

00:56:03.000 Several Democrats say they want the details from Congress's independent scorekeepers, not a partisan one.

00:56:09.000 Now, Democrats are going to try and ram this thing through today. 1.00

00:56:12.000 One of the problems, of course, is that the caucus goes on vacation next week.

00:56:16.000 Members of the caucus are set to embark on overseas trips ahead of next week's recess, so they're hitting a deadline.

00:56:21.000 But party leaders failed to corral the votes they needed on Thursday.

00:56:25.000 So it's going to be interesting to see how they accomplish ramming this thing through, if they can even do it.

00:56:32.000 Joe Manchin, for his part, he's like, you can pass whatever the hell you want.

00:56:34.000 I didn't say I'm going to vote for it.

00:56:36.000 People are concerned.

00:56:37.000 They're concerned about inflation.

00:56:39.000 They're concerned about the debt.

00:56:41.000 We don't talk about it, but they are concerned.

00:56:43.000 I can tell you back home in West Virginia, gas prices are enormous.

00:56:46.000 People are having a hard time driving to work and paying $20 or $30 more to fill up.

00:56:50.000 They're going to the grocery stores and getting 30% less.

00:56:53.000 They're about ready to face a very bad winter, we're told, at much higher prices.

00:56:58.000 So yes, I think we should be upfront, honest, and transparent with American people and do what we can afford to do.

00:57:04.000 Okay, so here's the problem.

00:57:05.000 The Biden administration has every incentive never to be upfront and transparent with the American people.

00:57:10.000 Because if they were, they'd have to acknowledge that they've lied to the American people since the election.

00:57:14.000 The election was all about Joe Biden being moderate.

00:57:16.000 He lied.

00:57:16.000 He's not a moderate.

00:57:18.000 End of story.

00:57:18.000 So he continues to lie.

00:57:19.000 The lies just come fast and furious.

00:57:21.000 Yesterday, Joe Biden ripped Peter Doocy over him asking a question about paying off illegal immigrants to the tune of $450,000 a pop.

00:57:30.000 And now this was a report from the Wall Street Journal that the DOJ was going to sign a settlement with families who had been separated to pay families, each member of the family had been separated, $450,000.

00:57:38.000 So like almost a million bucks.

00:57:40.000 If you're an illegal immigrant dad and you crossed with your kid and then you were separated because you illegally immigrated and under the Flores settlement, if we held you, we had to separate your kid from you, we're going to pay them nearly a million bucks. 0.99

00:57:50.000 Thanks to the ACLU and the Biden DOJ.

00:57:53.000 Here was Biden ripping on Peter Doocy for even asking the question.

00:57:58.000 As you were leaving for your overseas trip, there were reports that were surfacing that your administration is planning to pay illegal immigrants who are separated from their families at the border up to $450,000 each, possibly a million dollars per family.

00:58:13.000 Do you think that that might incentivize more people to come over illegally? 0.97

00:58:18.000 If you guys keep sending that garbage out, yeah. 0.90

00:58:21.000 But it's not true. 1.00

00:58:22.000 So this is a garbage report? 0.98

00:58:24.000 Yeah. 0.95

00:58:24.000 Okay. 0.95

00:58:25.000 $450,000 per person.

00:58:25.000 Is that what you're saying?

00:58:29.000 That was separated from a family member at the border under the last administration.

00:58:34.000 That's not going to happen.

00:58:35.000 That's not going to happen.

00:58:37.000 The ACLU then put out a statement and said, it's already happening.

00:58:39.000 And then CNN, CNN was like, yeah, that's not true.

00:58:43.000 Daniel Dale making a rare appearance on CNN these days to critique a Democrat.

00:58:46.000 And he's like the man on the side of the milk carton that that that family of 11 is buying.

00:58:50.000 He just he completely disappeared from CNN's airwaves for large swaths of time.

00:58:55.000 Remember, he used to go out there and fire hose how much Trump was lying. 0.99

00:58:58.000 And now only occasionally does he does he come out and note that Joe Biden is a horrible liar. 0.97

00:59:04.000 The Wall Street Journal was correct not reporting garbage when it reported that the Biden administration is in discussions to settle lawsuits brought on behalf of families affected by the family separation policy. 0.97

00:59:15.000 And the Wall Street Journal was correct in reporting that these settlement discussions include talks of possible financial compensation.

00:59:22.000 In fact, White House Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said today at the White House briefing that President Biden is comfortable with financial compensation as long as it ends up saving taxpayers money and helps people turn the page from the horrors Okay, so that means Biden was lying.

00:59:37.000 And by the way, the White House acknowledged it.

00:59:39.000 Like, he's so out of it.

00:59:40.000 He's not even a part of his own administration.

00:59:42.000 Here's Corine Jean-Pierre saying this.

00:59:45.000 The president is perfectly comfortable with the Department of Justice settling with the individuals and families who are currently in litigation with the U.S.

00:59:52.000 government.

00:59:53.000 You know, DOJ can obviously speak more to that process. 0.59

00:59:56.000 The president was, what he was reacting to was the dollar figure that was mentioned, that you mentioned to him yesterday.

01:00:03.000 As press accounts to date indicate, there's been press accounts on this, DOJ made clear to the plaintiffs that the reported figures are higher Okay, so there is the White House basically acknowledging that Joe Biden is full of it.

01:00:21.000 Man's not in control of his own administration, but these are the elites, and so they must be in control of you.

01:00:26.000 So a man who's not in control, as I've said, of his own bowels is going to be in control of every aspect of your life.

01:00:31.000 And then you're supposed to trust the institutions, because they've demonstrated such fealty to principle over the past several years.

01:00:37.000 Yeah, the blowback is coming and it's coming hard.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - November 05, 2021

Kyle Rittenhouse Shouldn’t Even Be On Trial | Ep. 1370

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