The Ben Shapiro Show - Left WEEPS As Bari Weiss FIRES 60 Minutes Host

00:00:00.000 The left's institutional control is falling apart.

00:00:03.000 They thought they had the government, and then President Trump won, and the Republicans won.

00:00:07.000 And they thought they had the media as well.

00:00:08.000 More than anything, they thought they had the media.

00:00:11.000 But last night, that magical world dissolved before their very eyes as CBS News fired longtime 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelly, making clear that no longer would that show be an agiprop outlet for the left.

00:00:22.000 But without institutional control, what happens to the left?

00:00:25.000 What do they do next?

00:00:26.000 The answer?

00:00:27.000 They move even further to the left.

00:00:29.000 We'll get into all of that.

00:00:29.000 Plus, Megyn Kelly on Sean Ryan and Marco Rubio destroys.

00:00:34.000 and a lot more.

00:00:34.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:43.000 Well, folks, it looks like another ex legacy journalist is joining Substack.

00:00:49.000 His lifelong dream is coming true.

00:00:50.000 Scott Pelly is headed over to Substack.

00:00:52.000 So here is the left wing and mainstream media narrative today 60 Minutes was a magical place filled with objective journalism.

00:00:59.000 And then right wing fire breather Barry Weiss and her evil Zionist paymasters arrived.

00:01:05.000 And now they're firing stalwart old style journalist Scott Pelly from 60 Minutes. 0.71

00:01:10.000 How dare they touch this bastion of journalistic integrity?

00:01:15.000 That narrative is not so true.

00:01:18.000 60 Minutes was never objective.

00:01:20.000 It was always a left wing outlet.

00:01:22.000 That's the reason why the left is angry that changes are being made today.

00:01:25.000 If it were objective and Barry Weiss made changes, they would not be so upset.

00:01:28.000 They saw this as their institutional preserve.

00:01:31.000 And now that preserve has been violated.

00:01:34.000 Like a naturally beautiful piece of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is being touched by human hands.

00:01:39.000 It must not be.

00:01:41.000 Also, they've been promoting this notion that Barry Weiss is some sort of flaming right winger.

00:01:44.000 That's crazy.

00:01:45.000 I'm sorry, that's nuts.

00:01:46.000 I'm friends with Barry.

00:01:48.000 Barry is not right wing on a huge number of issues.

00:01:51.000 She is pro LGBT, obviously. 0.96

00:01:53.000 She is pro choice, obviously. 0.99

00:01:55.000 She used to describe herself as a center left person.

00:01:59.000 If you went back about 25 years, she would be a moderate Democrat.

00:02:02.000 Barry Weiss is the person described in the famous Elon Musk, Colin Wright, swipe right chart.

00:02:09.000 You know, the one that shows that in 2008, people who were on the center left were next to the people on the left, and people on the right were far away, and that as the left moved further and further to the left, People who are center left were still close to the center.

00:02:22.000 And then by now, everybody who is center left is now considered right wing because the left is just so far to the left.

00:02:27.000 Barry Weiss and Bill Maher basically have the same political positions.

00:02:31.000 I disagree with both of them a lot.

00:02:33.000 The fact that Barry Weiss is now considered some sort of flaming right winger is nuts.

00:02:38.000 It is crazy towns.

00:02:39.000 It's crazy towns. 0.56

00:02:42.000 The reason that's happened, obviously, is because the left has gone so totally insane.

00:02:45.000 And so people like Barry, who I am sure voted Democrat many times, Is now considered, again, some sort of arch conservative.

00:02:53.000 So, what is the actual story here?

00:02:55.000 The key story here?

00:02:56.000 The real key story here is the Democrats are losing control of a lot of their key institutions.

00:03:00.000 That, if there's any overarching sort of theme to the Trump era, it is that Democrats thought they had undeniable control of basically every key institution in American life.

00:03:09.000 And one by one, that's coming apart for them.

00:03:12.000 So, 60 Minutes, again, was considered sort of the tip of the spear in the objective journalism universe.

00:03:20.000 And I'm using scare quotes there for those who can't see, because And those of us who've been watching mainstream legacy media for a long time recognize that the so called objective media is usually anything but.

00:03:29.000 Usually it is just a liberal leaning group of people who pretend to be objective.

00:03:33.000 In any case, Scott Pelly was fired.

00:03:35.000 And the reason he was fired is because there were changes made over at 60 Minutes.

00:03:40.000 Nick Bilton, who's a tech journalist and filmmaker, he was appointed to shake up 60 Minutes because, again, the ratings were not amazing.

00:03:46.000 And also they'd had some problems in terms of journalistic integrity.

00:03:49.000 Well, at this point, Bilton, who's sort of introducing himself, He was accosted by Scott Pelly publicly at this meeting earlier this week.

00:03:59.000 This was after CBS had fired Tanya Simon, according to the New York Times, the previous executive producer and her deputy, along with Sharon Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega.

00:04:07.000 Those were a couple of the show's correspondents.

00:04:09.000 Pelly referred to these as a Black Thursday.

00:04:12.000 The absolute self centered arrogance of referring to the firing of your colleagues as Black Thursday?

00:04:19.000 Yeah, man.

00:04:20.000 How will the American Democratic experiment survive without Sharon Alfonsi?

00:04:26.000 As an assistant reporter on 60 Minutes.

00:04:30.000 This is why I always said about Jim Acosta when he was over on CNN.

00:04:34.000 Ladies, find you a man who loves you like Jim Acosta loves Jim Acosta.

00:04:37.000 But that's true for an enormous number of journalists in the online space and pseudo journalists in the online space.

00:04:44.000 They are just narcissists.

00:04:45.000 The only thing they regret about the camera is that it is not a mirror.

00:04:50.000 In any case, Bilton was speaking to the crowd, and he said, Broadcast is an ice cube that is melting.

00:04:57.000 He said, Barry loves this institution.

00:04:58.000 She loves 60 Minutes.

00:04:59.000 At this point, Scott Pelly gets up in self righteous mode, knowing, of course, that he's trying to get himself fired.

00:05:07.000 Because let's be clear that's what he wants.

00:05:09.000 He wants to be a martyr.

00:05:11.000 If you're going to have your airtime reduced, better to be a martyr.

00:05:14.000 If you're Colin Kaepernick and you're about to get benched, much better to kneel for the national anthem than to go out quietly.

00:05:19.000 So Pelly, who is very likely to have his role reduced to 60 Minutes, decided this was the moment.

00:05:25.000 It was a moment of bravery and resistance.

00:05:28.000 Maybe they'll make a movie about him, his bravery and resistance.

00:05:31.000 So he got up and he said, She is murdering 60 Minutes. 0.78

00:05:35.000 She does not love this place. 0.99

00:05:36.000 She was brought in to kill it, and she's been doing exactly that. 1.00

00:05:39.000 She has no qualifications for her job.

00:05:41.000 By the way, let me just explain the qualifications for being a reporter is you go and report.

00:05:45.000 It's not as though you're a doctor.

00:05:48.000 It is incredible to me when people talk about qualifications in the journalistic world.

00:05:53.000 Oh, you went to J school.

00:05:54.000 You know what J school is?

00:05:55.000 J school for the vast majority of people is you sit through a bunch of classes where they don't teach you anything to do with journalism.

00:06:01.000 They teach you a bunch of thematic narrative stuff.

00:06:04.000 And then, what are the things you have to learn in J school that make you a journalist?

00:06:08.000 This is why I don't describe people typically as journalists.

00:06:11.000 I say that they do acts of journalism because you can have a normal person who does an act of journalism. 0.86

00:06:16.000 The idea that journalism Is a job for which you require a license or a qualification is ridiculous.

00:06:23.000 By the way, there are very few jobs where qualifications actually matter, like heart surgeon.

00:06:27.000 That's one where a qualification matters.

00:06:30.000 Scott Pelly standing on his qualifications while Barry Weiss, who is an editor at the New York Times, before she started the Free Press, one of the most successful independent journalistic endeavors in America, and somehow she has no qualifications.

00:06:43.000 But Scott Pelly, who reads stuff from a teleprompter on camera, that he is captain qualifications is absurd.

00:06:49.000 He says she has no qualifications for her job.

00:06:52.000 You have slender qualifications for this job.

00:06:54.000 The changes that she's made at the evening news have been catastrophic.

00:06:56.000 So, why should we expect that any of this is going to be any better?

00:07:00.000 Well, Bilton tried to be nice.

00:07:01.000 He said, I will show you.

00:07:02.000 That's what I have to say.

00:07:02.000 That's my plan over the next two weeks.

00:07:03.000 I'll be meeting with everyone.

00:07:05.000 I'm very excited to meet with everyone, yourself included.

00:07:07.000 My only regret here is that Bilton didn't respond with, Show yourself out.

00:07:11.000 The door is that away.

00:07:12.000 Are you coming up?

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00:08:29.000 He was, in fact, fired.

00:08:30.000 He received a letter from Nick Bilton.

00:08:33.000 And here is what the letter said Dear Mr. Pelly, I meant what I said in my letter last week to the 60 Minutes team.

00:08:38.000 Joining 60 Minutes is the honor of my career.

00:08:40.000 I am grateful to be working alongside the people who have contributed to the most important television journalism brand this country has ever produced.

00:08:46.000 While I'm new to 60 Minutes, I've devoted my career to investigative journalism and storytelling.

00:08:51.000 I started this job excited to collaborate and to benefit from the wisdom and experience of the 60 Minutes veterans with you among them.

00:08:57.000 For that reason, one of the first things I did in my new role was call you to talk and invite you to dinner.

00:09:01.000 It is a profound disappointment you rejected that overture and chose Ambush instead.

00:09:05.000 Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt.

00:09:12.000 I welcome a diversity of viewpoints and respectful debate among the team.

00:09:15.000 This was nothing of the sort.

00:09:16.000 Yesterday's performative display of hostility, enacted in front of the staff instead of in a civil, private conversation, demonstrated you have no interest in contributing to the future success of the show or approaching my new tenure with a mind open to collaboration and progress.

00:09:28.000 I am here to deliver first in class news programming, not to make headlines about newsroom drama.

00:09:32.000 I'm eager to work alongside those who share this goal.

00:09:34.000 Despite yesterday's misconduct, I'd hoped in sitting down with you today we could find a path forward together.

00:09:38.000 You made clear you are not interested in such a path.

00:09:40.000 Your antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear, and I have heard you.

00:09:44.000 I therefore write on behalf of CBS News to inform you that your employment with CBS is terminated for cause, effective immediately, and closes your formal termination letter.

00:09:53.000 Which is great.

00:09:54.000 That is a great letter.

00:09:55.000 Nick Bilton's first courageous act as executive producer of 60 Minutes.

00:09:59.000 Applause for Nick Bilton.

00:10:01.000 This alone means that his tenure has been worth it because that letter is fabulous.

00:10:05.000 By the way, this is how you should treat insubordination.

00:10:08.000 That is precisely what he should do.

00:10:11.000 I've said it before.

00:10:12.000 I think that when Barry was made head of CBS News, the only mistake I think that Barry made was not firing more people.

00:10:20.000 Because she had a bunch of people, the CBS News deep state, shall we say, who are deeply, deeply invested in her failure.

00:10:28.000 Well, apparently, Pelly then responded.

00:10:32.000 He said, Mr. Pelly, this is the New York Times, Mr. Pelly, in a telephone interview on Tuesday evening, shortly after he was fired, said he had devoted decades of his life to 60 Minutes, which he said he still cared about deeply.

00:10:41.000 I have been in combat in Afghanistan, Mr. Pelly said.

00:10:44.000 I have been in combat in Iraq.

00:10:45.000 I've been in a war zone in Ukraine multiple times, risking my life and the happiness of my family because of my devotion to the broad.

00:10:50.000 Oh, man.

00:10:52.000 Give him a medal.

00:10:52.000 Wow.

00:10:54.000 You mean the reporter went to the war zone because he reports on wars?

00:10:54.000 Hero time.

00:10:58.000 Whoa.

00:11:00.000 Wow.

00:11:01.000 I guess he's basically like a veteran.

00:11:03.000 We should give him a purple heart or something.

00:11:04.000 Maybe he should be buried at Arlington when he goes.

00:11:08.000 Honestly, he needs to grow extra arms to pat himself on the back that hard.

00:11:12.000 He's going to break his back from patting himself on the back that hard.

00:11:15.000 Then he put out a full statement There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

00:11:19.000 The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history.

00:11:23.000 For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world.

00:11:28.000 Actually, we can count them.

00:11:29.000 It turns out they have ratings.

00:11:31.000 This spring, at the end of our 58th season, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

00:11:40.000 60 has been the number one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity.

00:11:44.000 Quality and humanity in our stories.

00:11:46.000 When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects.

00:11:56.000 Ah, the values your audience expects.

00:11:58.000 That's the big one right there.

00:12:00.000 What are the values he's talking about?

00:12:02.000 Is it journalistic integrity, as we will talk about in a moment?

00:12:05.000 No, it is not.

00:12:06.000 The values that the audience expects, according to Scott Pelly, are left wing aligned values.

00:12:11.000 Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

00:12:17.000 The waste is heartbreaking.

00:12:19.000 Last month, says Scott Pelly, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause.

00:12:27.000 Cruel!

00:12:28.000 Cruel!

00:12:29.000 The highly paid members of the CBS News staff have to go find other jobs, which they will.

00:12:36.000 Oh, the heartbreaks.

00:12:37.000 Can we send money to the families?

00:12:41.000 I mean, really.

00:12:43.000 Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience.

00:12:46.000 Silenced.

00:12:49.000 I'm getting a little tired of hearing from people in America that if you lose your job, you are somehow silenced.

00:12:54.000 I feel like he's not so silent.

00:12:57.000 The conflation of getting fired. 1.00

00:13:00.000 With First Amendment type censorship is stupid. 1.00

00:13:03.000 It's dumb. 1.00

00:13:03.000 It was always dumb. 1.00

00:13:05.000 They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias. 0.99

00:13:08.000 They stood for professionalism against caste.

00:13:09.000 Is that what it is, professionalism?

00:13:11.000 When you have a new boss and you immediately rip into him as unqualified?

00:13:14.000 Is that professionalism?

00:13:16.000 For my part, he says, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story.

00:13:22.000 I've been told to include assertions that are unverified.

00:13:25.000 To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them.

00:13:29.000 I would love examples.

00:13:30.000 What is the thing he's actually alleging?

00:13:32.000 Because probably what happened here is that his boss has told him, you cannot inject your own bias into a story.

00:13:38.000 You have to present both sides of an issue.

00:13:43.000 He says, At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon.

00:13:47.000 We owed that to our millions of viewers.

00:13:50.000 The collapse of values at the top has become untenable.

00:13:52.000 The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable.

00:13:55.000 The principles I hold dear are gone.

00:13:58.000 And so I must leave as well.

00:14:04.000 Single tear.

00:14:06.000 And then he says, I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work.

00:14:14.000 Very often at the risk of their own lives, I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again, a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

00:14:24.000 By the way, this letter alone means he never should have been the anchor on a major news network.

00:14:29.000 Truly, because what the letter betrays is not only overweening arrogance and self obsession, but a belief in his own politics.

00:14:38.000 That overtakes anything remotely like objective fact.

00:14:41.000 There is a reason why Ben Rhodes, known as Hamas in the Obama administration, that was literally his nickname.

00:14:46.000 I don't know what your nickname is, dear friends.

00:14:49.000 Usually it's not Hamas.

00:14:51.000 He wrote some guy named Nick Bilton serving an audience of one, Barry, service in audience of one, Ellison serving in audience of one, Trump.

00:14:58.000 This is how oligarch authoritarian takeover of media happens.

00:15:02.000 Ben Rhodes literally said, I believe in an article with The Atlantic, he literally said that he manipulated people using friendly journalistic outlets while he was at the Obama administration.

00:15:12.000 Ben Rhodes literally said that. 0.97

00:15:13.000 He said, We retail crap and people will just pick it up. 0.99

00:15:16.000 Ben Rhodes. 0.98

00:15:18.000 So, just a quick review of problems with 60 Minutes.

00:15:21.000 Because, again, if you don't watch this stuff closely, or if you only watch network news and you only watch 60 Minutes, in the same way that people have a, shall we say, very halo ridden view of what network news was in the era of Edward R. Murrow or in the era of. Walter Cronkite,

00:15:45.000 in the same way that people have a very, very starry eyed view of that, because the truth is that Cronkite had his own political biases, very clear political biases.

00:15:52.000 In some cases, biases that helped us lose the Vietnam War.

00:15:55.000 But because people have this sort of starry eyed view of what journalism used to be, and it was never that, they have that view of 60 Minutes too.

00:16:01.000 But just a brief review of some of the problems 60 Minutes has had over the years.

00:16:05.000 And again, any journalistic outlet can make mistakes.

00:16:08.000 We here at Daily Wire, we've made mistakes.

00:16:10.000 We've reported things and we've had to retract reporting.

00:16:12.000 That happens.

00:16:13.000 We, however, are an openly conservative institution.

00:16:17.000 It means that when we make a mistake, you know where the mistake is coming from.

00:16:17.000 What does that mean?

00:16:21.000 60 Minutes pretends that it is an openly journalistic, objective institution.

00:16:27.000 Every mistake, every mistake that 60 Minutes made before the Ellis and Barry Weiss era, every single mistake was a mistake that helped the left.

00:16:37.000 Every single one.

00:16:38.000 Why?

00:16:38.000 Because 60 Minutes was oriented toward the left.

00:16:40.000 Again, it wasn't that there's some sort of newsroom mandate.

00:16:43.000 You got to bury everything that helps the Republicans.

00:16:45.000 It's not that.

00:16:46.000 It's that when 99% of your newsroom votes Democrat, you are completely blind.

00:16:52.000 To all of the areas in which you are biasing your stories.

00:16:55.000 So, just a few examples.

00:16:57.000 October 2023, Scott Pelly sitting there with Joe Biden and actively attempting to massage him through an interview.

00:17:04.000 And I wonder what is your message to Hezbollah and its backer, Iran? 0.85

00:17:10.000 Don't, come across the border.

00:17:16.000 Don't escalate this war.

00:17:17.000 That's right.

00:17:20.000 No, I mean, any other answers you'd prefer to hand them, Mr. Pelly?

00:17:25.000 In the middle of that interview, by the way.

00:17:26.000 Pelly tried to excuse Biden's ineptitude by saying that his stutter crept back in when he was tired.

00:17:35.000 This is all part of the bigger media cover up of the fact that Joe Biden was no longer sentient for half of his presidency at least.

00:17:41.000 Here is Scott Pelly, 60 minutes.

00:17:46.000 Late Thursday, we met President Biden at the White House.

00:17:49.000 It had been a rough week, and we could see it on him.

00:17:52.000 Mr. Biden will be 81 next month, and he has said that when he's tired, his lifelong stutter can creep back in.

00:18:01.000 But he wedged us into his schedule.

00:18:05.000 Wow, that's kind of him.

00:18:06.000 Wow, wow.

00:18:09.000 Again, this is the same 60 Minutes that October 2024 cut apart Kamala Harris's actual answers in order to make her look a little bit better.

00:18:18.000 Here she was with Bill Whitaker.

00:18:19.000 You remember this, it was a big scandal at the time.

00:18:23.000 Not listening.

00:18:24.000 We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.

00:18:32.000 But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.

00:18:38.000 The Wall Street Journal said that your administration has repeatedly been blindsided by Netanyahu.

00:18:47.000 And in fact, he has rebuffed just about all of your administration's entreaties.

00:18:54.000 Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were.

00:19:06.000 Very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.

00:19:15.000 And we're not going to stop doing that.

00:19:17.000 We're not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.

00:19:26.000 Okay, that first segment was what was actually aired.

00:19:29.000 The second segment is what she said, where she completely word saladed the thing.

00:19:33.000 Legacy, again, 60 Minutes does this kind of stuff all the time.

00:19:36.000 They did all this kind of stuff.

00:19:37.000 I remember the worst segment I think I ever saw 60 Minutes run.

00:19:40.000 Is they ran a segment about how Ron DeSantis was essentially rolling out the vaccine in biased fashion.

00:19:48.000 So they ran an entire segment suggesting that the vaccine rollout in Florida via Publix, which is the biggest grocery chain in Florida, right?

00:19:58.000 I'll go to Publix.

00:19:59.000 That he used Publix to roll it out because some members of the family associated with Publix had been making donations to DeSantis' reelection bid.

00:20:09.000 The story by Sharon Alfonsi, who's no longer with 60 Minutes for good reason, suggested a possible link between the donation and the state's partnership with Publix, which of course is unbelievably stupid because the reason that you were distributing the vaccine via Publix, regardless of what you think of the vaccine, is because it is a common point of entry for pretty much everyone in the state of Florida. 0.97

00:20:28.000 It's idiocy, but here's how 60 Minutes ran it. 0.92

00:20:32.000 But the biggest challenge for residents of the Glades wasn't just making appointments, it was getting to them. 0.98

00:20:38.000 That's because back in January, the governor made another game changing move.

00:20:43.000 He announced he was partnering with Publix grocery stores across the state to distribute the vaccine in their pharmacies.

00:20:51.000 But as part of the program in Palm Beach County, most seniors could no longer get vaccine appointments through their public health departments, they had to go to Publix instead.

00:21:02.000 So, why did the governor choose Publix?

00:21:05.000 Campaign finance reports obtained by 60 Minutes show that weeks before the governor's announcement, Publix donated $100,000 to his political action committee, Friends of Ron DeSantis.

00:21:17.000 Julie Jenkins Fancelli, heiress to the Publix fortune, has given $55,000 to the governor's pack in the past.

00:21:25.000 And in November, Fancelli's brother in law, Hoyt R. Barnett, a retired Publix executive, donated $25,000.

00:21:35.000 Okay, and then what they did?

00:21:36.000 In this clip, there is an exchange where DeSantis fully explained this and they totally edited it out.

00:21:41.000 They chopped it apart to make DeSantis look bad.

00:21:44.000 So, again, this notion that 60 Minutes was a bastion of objective journalism is not true.

00:21:49.000 We go all the way back for those old enough to remember.

00:21:51.000 It was Dan Rather on CBS News who was apologizing for this fake National Guard letter on Bush.

00:21:56.000 Remember this?

00:21:57.000 He put out, in the run up to the election of 2004, a letter that supposedly suggested that George W. Bush, back when he was in the National Guard, went AWOL.

00:22:06.000 And it was untrue.

00:22:07.000 The letter was completely fake.

00:22:09.000 And then he had to go on and apologize for it, and he ended up getting fired over it.

00:22:09.000 And he aired it.

00:22:13.000 Here was Rather Apologizing Back in 2004.

00:22:17.000 The documents purported to show that George W. Bush received preferential treatment during his years in the Texas Air National Guard.

00:22:25.000 At the time, CBS News and this reporter fully believed the documents were genuine.

00:22:30.000 Tonight, after further investigation, we can no longer vouch for their authenticity.

00:22:35.000 The failure of CBS News to do just that, to properly, fully scrutinize the documents and their source, Led to our airing the documents when we should not have done so.

00:22:45.000 It was a mistake.

00:22:47.000 CBS News deeply regrets it.

00:22:49.000 Also, I want to say personally and directly, I'm sorry.

00:22:53.000 CBS News President Andrew Hayward has ordered an independent investigation to examine the process by which the report was prepared.

00:23:01.000 The results of that investigation will be made public.

00:23:05.000 Again, the point that I'm making here is that 60 Minutes as objective journalism was never true.

00:23:10.000 It was always a place that leaned left, always.

00:23:13.000 And the reason the left is mad is because they understand that's no longer the case.

00:23:15.000 So this is actually an existential problem for the Democratic Party.

00:23:18.000 It is not 60 minutes per se, but the reality that Democrats and their popularity with their own base rests in control of institutions.

00:23:27.000 All right, coming up, we'll talk about why it is that Democrats are spinning out into radicalism.

00:23:32.000 First, producer savvy.

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00:23:37.000 Wait, why?

00:23:38.000 I'm a little curious.

00:23:39.000 I feel like everybody has at least one oddly specific thing that they're shopping for at any given moment.

00:23:45.000 I almost just bought that nose breathing mouse tape.

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00:23:48.000 And I always thought that you were going for that elf alarm clock.

00:23:51.000 See, that's the thing.

00:23:52.000 Modern life is basically a series of highly targeted online purchases.

00:23:55.000 You need one thing.

00:23:56.000 You find it, you add it to the cart, get all the way to the checkout, and then you're asked to remember a password that you created sometime during the Obama administration.

00:24:03.000 And at that point, a lot of people simply give up until you see it.

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00:26:14.000 This is a historic gallop showing what Americans of each party feel about their own party.

00:26:20.000 What you see here is that traditionally speaking, Democrats are very warm toward their own party.

00:26:25.000 Very, very warm toward their own party.

00:26:26.000 So if you look at this Republican line, which is percentage of Republicans, the favorable opinion of the Republican party, it varies between, say, 63% in 2009.

00:26:39.000 up to a high in 2021 of some 95%.

00:26:44.000 Right now it's at 91% because of course Trump is winning.

00:26:48.000 But the blue line is almost always above the red line.

00:26:52.000 That blue line for Democrats never from 2008 onward sinks below the mid 80s for Democrats.

00:26:59.000 For Republicans, it's routinely in the low 70s, sometimes even the high 60s.

00:27:02.000 For Democrats, their traditional party approval is very, very high.

00:27:06.000 Why is that?

00:27:08.000 The reason is Because Democrats see the Democratic Party as an action committee for power.

00:27:14.000 Democrats want the Democratic Party to do things, right?

00:27:16.000 If you're a member of the Democratic base, you want the Democratic Party to make more legislation, to tax more, to spend more, to regulate more, to do things.

00:27:25.000 And so Democrats might be disappointed that the Democratic Party isn't doing more stuff, but typically they get a lot of stuff that they want when Democrats are in power because Democrats ram through big things.

00:27:37.000 Republicans traditionally don't like the Republican Party nearly as much.

00:27:40.000 Because it is harder to be a Republican legislator than a Democratic legislator.

00:27:44.000 Democrats have virtually no limits on the stuff that they are willing to pass and ram into law.

00:27:48.000 That is their job, that is what they are there to do.

00:27:50.000 Republicans are there to stop government overreach and then roll things back.

00:27:55.000 That's a much harder job.

00:27:56.000 Stopping and rolling back when it comes to growth of government is very, very difficult.

00:28:00.000 Expanding government is super easy.

00:28:03.000 And so Democrats are traditionally pretty happy with the Democratic Party, and Republicans traditionally are more dissatisfied with the Republican Party.

00:28:11.000 That only lasts so long as Democrats win.

00:28:13.000 When Democrats start to lose power, the base starts to get antsy because then the base looks at the Democrats and they say, You're not doing the things we want.

00:28:22.000 If you're not winning, then you can't tell us you're getting us 80% of the pie because there's no pie.

00:28:27.000 And so the base starts demanding radical change.

00:28:29.000 And that's what's happening right now.

00:28:30.000 There is a gigantic left wing civil war that's taken place.

00:28:34.000 The entire Democratic Party, by the way, has moved significantly to the left since the mid 2000s, way further to the left on pretty much every policy.

00:28:43.000 Bill Clinton's platform in 1996 is unrecognizable as a Democratic platform today.

00:28:48.000 If Bill Clinton were running for higher office today using his platform in 1996, he would be considered a Susan Collins Republican.

00:28:56.000 That is where he would be.

00:28:58.000 That's how far left the Democratic Party has moved.

00:29:00.000 But even with that Democratic Party move to the left, there's an even further splinter wing of the Democratic Party that's making strong moves.

00:29:08.000 You can see all of this breaking out loose across the country.

00:29:13.000 So, according to Politico, it's really funny.

00:29:14.000 There are a bunch of elections last night, primary elections.

00:29:18.000 And according to Politico, the Democratic establishment is roaring back.

00:29:21.000 No, it's not.

00:29:22.000 No, it's not.

00:29:24.000 What is there evidence that the Democratic establishment is roaring back?

00:29:27.000 Well, they picked an establishment backed candidate named Josh Turek to take on GOP Representative Ashley Hinson for an open Senate seat in Iowa.

00:29:38.000 And they are putting up moderate military veteran Rebecca Bennett against Republican Representative Tom Keene Jr. in a competitive House district.

00:29:47.000 But that's not the whole story.

00:29:50.000 The whole story is that overall, the Democratic Party has moved to the left and the splinter faction is gaining power.

00:29:57.000 Great example, by the way, is New Jersey.

00:30:00.000 Where, according to Politico, progressive Adam Hamawi, a U.S. Army veteran with a complicated personal history who has been sharply critical of Israel's war in Gaza, emerged from a 12 candidate primary.

00:30:12.000 Okay, that is a very, very flattering portrait of Adam Hamawi.

00:30:16.000 Who the hell is Adam Hamawi who won the New Jersey 12th primary with 18% of the vote?

00:30:21.000 Well, he was, in fact, an ally and spokesperson for Sheikh Omar Abdulrahman. 0.70

00:30:29.000 That would be the blind Sheikh who preached in New Jersey and was convicted in 1995 of inspiring terror attacks, including the first World Trade Center bombing, which killed six people. 0.56

00:30:39.000 He was called to testify by the Sheikh's defense. 0.84

00:30:43.000 Also, he apparently traveled to Bosnia, according to the Washington Free Beacon, and worked with a group that was basically a front group for Al Qaeda.

00:30:51.000 And now he's probably going to go to Congress in New Jersey. 0.52

00:30:57.000 He says, of course, that all of this is guilt by association innuendo infused with Islam. 0.70

00:31:01.000 I feel like you'd find some Muslims in the United States.

00:31:01.000 I don't know.

00:31:04.000 States to run for higher office who are not radical terrorism supporters, like openly associated with terrorism.

00:31:10.000 Again, that Politico description that he's a progressive who's just critical of Israel is an astonishing cover up.

00:31:15.000 More objective journalism from our great journalistic sources.

00:31:18.000 You know, it's fun to watch the left versus far left action break out in California.

00:31:24.000 So the California gubernatorial primary results are not all in at this point.

00:31:29.000 That's because California has the worst electoral counting system in America.

00:31:32.000 Truly horrifying.

00:31:33.000 They have their mail in ballots that are going to come in over the course of the next eight years or so.

00:31:37.000 So By the time Marco Rubio is finishing his second term, presumably we will find out whether Steve Hilton actually made the runoff.

00:31:45.000 So, right now, Hilton is leading in the runoff.

00:31:48.000 Xavier Becerra is in second.

00:31:49.000 Tom Steyer, who you have to have a sort of bizarre sympathy for Tom Steyer that every couple of years he just blows a couple hundred million dollars trying to make himself popular.

00:32:01.000 He's the rich kid in school who no one likes.

00:32:03.000 But if he buys you a really cool pack of baseball cards, then maybe you'll be his friend.

00:32:08.000 That's Tom Steyer.

00:32:09.000 He is coming in third right now, which is hilarious.

00:32:13.000 We'll see where all of this stacks up at the end.

00:32:15.000 Right now, Steve Hilton is in first place with about 1.4 million votes, and Becerra at 1.3 million votes, and Steyer in third place with a little under a million votes.

00:32:24.000 Okay, but one of the things that's hilarious is that, again, in Democratic California, the big rap on Xavier Becerra is that Becerra is not left wing enough.

00:32:34.000 We need to point out how psychotic this is. 0.94

00:32:37.000 Truly crazy.

00:32:38.000 Becerra was one of the most liberal members of Congress, a true left winger.

00:32:45.000 By roll call measures, I believe 86 percentile in terms of liberalism in Congress.

00:32:51.000 And then he was AG of California.

00:32:54.000 Where he routinely pursued far left activism, including, you will remember, the prosecution of pro life activist David DeLayton, filed 120 lawsuits against the Trump administration, defended California's sanctuary state policies, and then he was over at HHS under Joe Biden, where he imposed policies endorsing transing the kids and trying to expand the availability of abortion after the overruling of Roe versus Wade.

00:33:17.000 That guy is too right wing for the left.

00:33:19.000 Hassan Piker, terrorist supporter and Chinese cutout, says that Xavier Becerra is awful. 0.71

00:33:25.000 He's far too right wing. 0.76

00:33:28.000 Tom Steyer is the only candidate that has said he would protect trans youth in the state.

00:33:33.000 He speaks fluent woke.

00:33:37.000 He speaks fluent woke, but people don't trust him.

00:33:37.000 Okay.

00:33:39.000 Javier Becerra, on the other hand, Javier Becerra, on the other hand, is dog. 0.96

00:33:46.000 Okay.

00:33:48.000 Javier Becerra is a representation of all of the billionaires, not in California, but across the nation and all the mega corporations. 1.00

00:33:58.000 God, he's a moron. 1.00

00:33:59.000 Xavier Becerra is a representative of the billionaires. 1.00

00:34:02.000 Tom Sire is a billionaire, spending his own money to elevate himself.

00:34:06.000 But again, this demonstrates how the splinter left faction is trying to eat even the normal radical left faction. 0.98

00:34:13.000 That's how crazy people are.

00:34:14.000 Same thing in LA.

00:34:15.000 So the mayoral results are still coming in.

00:34:18.000 At this point, two thirds of the votes have been tallied or so.

00:34:21.000 Karen Bass is leading, Spencer Pratt is in second.

00:34:25.000 So it looks like he is likely to make the runoff.

00:34:27.000 Karen Bass is now somehow considered moderate because she was standing next to Nithya Raman, who is a full scale socialist.

00:34:35.000 So, Karen Bass, who again is as left as left can be, is somehow perceived to be the mainstream of the Democratic Party at this point.

00:34:42.000 I mean, congrats to Spencer Pratt.

00:34:45.000 He says that God wanted five more months of him exposing Karen Bass. 0.80

00:34:48.000 I agree with that.

00:34:51.000 What are you feeling tonight?

00:34:52.000 Well, obviously, God wanted five more months of me exposing all the failures of our mayor.

00:34:58.000 So, it's going to be a fun ride.

00:35:00.000 I hope she's ready.

00:35:02.000 Are you ready?

00:35:03.000 I mean, I was born for this, clearly.

00:35:09.000 Okay, but.

00:35:09.000 Bottom line is, is Karen Bass favorite?

00:35:11.000 Of course. 1.00

00:35:12.000 Karen Bass is far and away the leader in the clubhouse to, again, return to her mayoralty after half of her city burned to the ground. 1.00

00:35:20.000 That's how far left the Democratic Party is, that she is now considered the moderate wing of the Democratic Party.

00:35:26.000 You see a very similar race that is now breaking out with regard to a 13th House district race in New York.

00:35:36.000 So, Zorhan Mamdani, the far left socialist who is very fond of Islamist terror groups, well, he has launched a democratic civil war by endorsing a DSA, Democrat Socialist of America insurgent named Daria Liza Avia Chevalier.

00:35:55.000 Great.

00:35:57.000 According to the New York Post, he has launched a civil war in the Democratic Party with his controversial endorsement of a fellow socialist bid to oust incumbent representative Adriano Espayat, insiders said on Monday.

00:36:09.000 Mom Dhani's decision to support fellow DSA insurgent Chevalier in the June 23rd primary for the Northern Manhattan Bronx House, 13th House District, is part of a long term effort by him and fellow socialists to take control of the Democratic Party.

00:36:24.000 Here is Mom Dhani appearing on MS Now to introduce this person.

00:36:30.000 You know, I am so excited to be sitting here with Daria Lisa.

00:36:34.000 And I'm so excited to be endorsing her in her run for Congress. 0.96

00:36:37.000 She is the daughter of a single mom caseworker.

00:36:40.000 And she grew up with a commitment to the harm people in politics have left behind.

00:36:45.000 And what I see in her is that commitment fulfilled.

00:36:47.000 This is a New Yorker who has not only secured the release of our neighbors from undue ICE custody, also someone who has been on the front lines of that fight for affordability.

00:36:57.000 And I can't wait for her to be introduced to so many across the city and across this country as we fight for that affordability agenda from New York City to DC.

00:37:08.000 So, who is this crazy person? 0.86

00:37:09.000 So, this crazy person had to delete a bunch of tweets. 0.94

00:37:13.000 Of course, he's endorsing the crazy person. 0.72

00:37:15.000 So, August 2020, Israel doesn't exist. 0.87

00:37:19.000 Israel very much does exist.

00:37:23.000 Okay, abolishing police, she says, means ending policing, full stop.

00:37:29.000 No more police, June 2020.

00:37:30.000 She had to delete it.

00:37:32.000 No more police at all, ever.

00:37:34.000 She has a lot of clappy emojis. 1.00

00:37:36.000 It's very harmful to the work black abolitionists have been doing for decades to dilute this movement. 0.95

00:37:43.000 September 2021, reposting that a world without borders is possible. 0.98

00:37:49.000 Imagine if you try.

00:37:51.000 These are the people Democrats are now pursuing.

00:37:54.000 Zar Mamzani, man, you guys bought the ticket.

00:37:56.000 Now you get to take the ride.

00:37:59.000 September 2019, saying that it was time to seize the means of production.

00:38:03.000 Don't worry.

00:38:03.000 The media will portray her as just a progressive, not a communist.

00:38:07.000 Quote, pay for therapy, lead healthier lifestyles, become bad bleeps, seize the means of production. 1.00

00:38:13.000 Seize the means of production.

00:38:15.000 Just, just communism.

00:38:19.000 Hey, so who, this is the funny part.

00:38:21.000 Who is she running against?

00:38:23.000 Okay, so she is running against Adriano Espallad.

00:38:27.000 I may be mispronouncing the name.

00:38:29.000 I apologize if so. 0.95

00:38:31.000 Who the hell is this representative? 0.67

00:38:33.000 Well, this person is so radical that Espallad was in front of Delaney Hall over the weekend, stirring up the fake controversy over the supposedly inhumane conditions over there. 0.75

00:38:46.000 Espallad is in favor of abolishing ICE, Medicare for All, opposes voter ID, defends sanctuary city policies.

00:38:54.000 Espayat is in the top 5% most progressive members of Congress, according to Progressive Punch.

00:38:59.000 So, why is the DSA opposing him?

00:39:01.000 Why?

00:39:03.000 Well, because it turns out he doesn't hate the Jews enough. 0.77

00:39:06.000 That's why. 0.72

00:39:08.000 And that's why.

00:39:10.000 Because they're accusing Espayat of being bankrolled by AIPAC and the real estate lobby.

00:39:16.000 This is always the all purpose accusation now.

00:39:22.000 Insane.

00:39:23.000 Hakeem Jeffries, again, trying to hold the fort against the total psychotics.

00:39:30.000 Well, listen, the voters are ultimately going to decide this primary election, and Adriano Espallat, in my view, is going to win.

00:39:37.000 Adriano Espallat has been a tremendous leader.

00:39:40.000 He's leading in terms of battling Donald Trump.

00:39:43.000 He's leading as it relates to battling and pushing back against ISIS's violent mass deportation machine.

00:39:49.000 And he's been one of the leaders in pushing back against Donald Trump's reckless and costly war of choice.

00:39:55.000 Again, the new wave in the Democratic Party taking on the old far left wave, very, very far left wave.

00:40:01.000 Like, they're making Bernie Sanders look traditional by comparison.

00:40:05.000 The new left wave is people who are openly associated with actual convicted terrorists, people with Nazi tattoos, people who believe that Israel doesn't exist and that we should have no borders.

00:40:18.000 That is the new wave in the Democratic Party.

00:40:19.000 Why?

00:40:20.000 Well, because this is what happens to frustrated Democrats when they lose institutional power.

00:40:25.000 And you can see that the traditional Democratic Party is starting to line up behind all of this.

00:40:31.000 So, for example, Roh Khanna, who considers himself part of the new wave.

00:40:35.000 He is praising Morris Katz, who is a political strategist for Graham Platner.

00:40:39.000 Graham Platner is the Senate Democratic candidate in Maine. 0.56

00:40:43.000 Yeah, Nazi tattoo guy. 0.94

00:40:44.000 Yeah, touches himself in porta potties guy.

00:40:47.000 The guy who's sexting, somewhere between six and 12, number indeterminate women, basically as soon as he was married.

00:40:55.000 That guy, his campaign manager is a derelict named Morris Katz, a Skidmore College dropout.

00:41:01.000 He was born and raised in lower Manhattan to a children's book publisher.

00:41:07.000 And apparently, he wrote a book called Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Puberty and Shouldn't Be Googling for Curious Boys. 0.84

00:41:15.000 On page 17 of that book, next to a chart of fruit and animals symbolizing different stages of puberty, Katz wrote, At first, we were going to use images of my penis to get this point across, but the publisher said it was inappropriate, so here we are. 0.92

00:41:28.000 Wow. 0.98

00:41:30.000 Seems like a charmer.

00:41:32.000 Well, now he's being endorsed, of course, by Ro Khanna.

00:41:37.000 Who is, again, Zorhan Mamdani, but slightly less threatening in affect?

00:41:44.000 Morris Katz is one of the most brilliant political strategists of his generation.

00:41:48.000 You know why young folks are turned off by politics?

00:41:50.000 They hate that the establishment plants dirt on folks like Morris just because his candidates speak out on genocide or taxing billionaires.

00:41:58.000 The political class is so out of touch with where the energy and the passion of our party is.

00:42:02.000 I can't wait until Morris' generation leads, and it's happening in 26 and 28.

00:42:06.000 This is the battle inside the Democratic Party.

00:42:09.000 The DSA has momentum, the Democratic Socialists of America.

00:42:13.000 As of early 2026, they surpassed 104,000 dues paying members nationwide.

00:42:18.000 In 2015, they had 6,000 members.

00:42:21.000 There are now 250 DSA members holding public office across the local, state, and federal levels.

00:42:27.000 And the traditional Democratic Party is surrendering to all of this.

00:42:32.000 Senator Adam Schiff of California was asked about Graham Plattner.

00:42:37.000 Again, that's a Nazi tattoo guy.

00:42:38.000 And he's like, oh, I don't know.

00:42:40.000 You know, our Nazi tattoo.

00:42:44.000 Senator, are you still supporting Graham Platner after the sexting scandal that's going on with him?

00:42:52.000 Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Senate Minority Leader, was asked about Graham Platner.

00:42:56.000 He got very annoyed with the question, which is somewhat ironic from a guy who wrote a book about how terrible anti Semitism is.

00:43:03.000 As I said at the time when he released that book, it was the political equivalent of O.J. Simpson's If I Did It.

00:43:08.000 Anyway, here was Senator Schumer.

00:43:19.000 I met with Graham Plattler today.

00:43:21.000 We're going to beat Susan Collins and take back the Senate. 0.74

00:43:26.000 So, you're saying that Janet Mills, your preferred candidate, has been rattling that she should get back in.

00:43:31.000 You're standing behind Graham Plattner, to be clear here? 0.61

00:43:34.000 We're going to beat Susan Collins and take back the Senate.

00:43:44.000 Yes.

00:43:45.000 We're going to beat Susan Collins and take back the Senate.

00:43:48.000 Any other subject you got? 0.99

00:43:50.000 What a truly trashy person he is. 1.00

00:43:52.000 What a trashy person. 1.00

00:43:53.000 Senator Tim Kaine. 0.96

00:43:55.000 Who you'll remember is the guy who you don't remember because he was VP candidate for Hillary Clinton.

00:43:59.000 He says he's not going to say anything right now, or maybe ever, on Graham Plattner.

00:44:03.000 These are these stalwarts you need standing against the real Nazis out there.

00:44:07.000 I mean, aside from the guy with the actual Nazi tattoo. 0.81

00:44:11.000 Do you think, considering everything on the line, control of the Senate that could come down to that race in Maine, is he the right person for Democrats to put forward?

00:44:20.000 Casey, here's my thought about this.

00:44:22.000 I almost never get involved in primaries outside of Virginia.

00:44:26.000 Here's my thought.

00:44:27.000 I think Maine Democrats should pick their.

00:44:29.000 Candidates, and I don't think nationalists are going to be.

00:44:33.000 Well, yeah, there's three candidates on the ballot next week, and I am not going to say a word that will tilt it one way or another.

00:44:41.000 Maine Democrats are going to make the decision.

00:44:43.000 Once they make the decision, I may have some things to say about it, but I'm not going to say anything now because Maine Democrats need to pick who they think would be their best representative.

00:44:54.000 That guy was almost vice president of the United States.

00:44:57.000 Bernie, of course, is not rethinking his endorsement because everything that is wrong with Graham Plattner is a feature, not a bug to Bernie.

00:45:02.000 Everything.

00:45:06.000 Go look up Bernie's personal history when he was young.

00:45:09.000 It looks very much like Graham Plattner's in terms of his personal life.

00:45:12.000 He was a disaster area.

00:45:14.000 And now he's just a political disaster area.

00:45:15.000 So, of course, he's not.

00:45:16.000 Of course, I'm not rethinking my endorsement.

00:45:18.000 I mean, sure, he has a Nazi tattoo, but communists have sided with Nazis in the past, created prosperity in Poland.

00:45:26.000 Here we go.

00:45:30.000 60% of our people are living paycheck to paycheck.

00:45:34.000 People can't afford health care.

00:45:37.000 They can't afford groceries.

00:45:38.000 They can't afford to fill up their gas tanks.

00:45:41.000 The oligarchs are planning to spend, I believe, some $90 million in a small.

00:45:47.000 I'm sorry.

00:45:47.000 I can't even listen to him.

00:45:48.000 When I hear the schmuck talk about oligarchy, okay, when I listen to a person who has never done a productive thing in his entire life, and that man is twice my age, meaning he's in his 80s, and that dude has never done a single productive thing for decades, a lifelong loser who is only in the Senate because he represents a state that has deer and seven white people. 0.98

00:46:11.000 Hey, Vermont. 0.96

00:46:12.000 The fact that that guy is an ideological thought leader and he talks about oligarchy while claiming that he wants to seize the means of production and run it himself.

00:46:22.000 Every accusation from this guy is an admission.

00:46:24.000 He wishes he were the head of an oligarchy.

00:46:26.000 That's his deep desire.

00:46:27.000 There's only, of course, one sane Democrat left in the Senate, Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, for that crime.

00:46:32.000 They'll try to primary him, I am sure. 0.91

00:46:34.000 Senator Fetterman called Graham Platner a creeper, which, of course, he is.

00:46:40.000 Why is it so hard for Democrats?

00:46:41.000 Why?

00:46:42.000 Well, you know the answer.

00:46:43.000 You know the answer.

00:46:47.000 A creeper has been on a decade on a platform like Kik and send a dozen explicit kinds of messages and who knows what else. 0.58

00:46:56.000 Would it be better for Democrats if he was not the candidate here?

00:47:00.000 All I'm saying, it's like, you know, when I was growing up, if someone had a clear Nazi tattoo on them, you probably could conclude that there's a Nazi sympathizer.

00:47:16.000 Why is this difficult?

00:47:17.000 It is not difficult at all.

00:47:18.000 But for Democrats, it is because there are no limits to the left wing tilt of the Democratic Party.

00:47:23.000 Now, on the right, obviously, there is a similar problem.

00:47:28.000 That problem is similar, but not the same.

00:47:30.000 The reason I say this is because there is a splinter faction in the Democratic Party that is taking over the Democratic Party wholesale.

00:47:36.000 I mean, the Adam Hamauis of the party, the Zoramamdanis of the party, the Graham Platners of the party are taking over the party.

00:47:43.000 And the traditional Democrats are just caving to them, they're bowing before them.

00:47:46.000 The same thing is actually not happening on the right.

00:47:48.000 You have a splinter faction of pseudo Republicans who.

00:47:52.000 Supported Trump in 2024, and now they're making common cause with Democrats.

00:47:57.000 This is the thing, right? 0.80

00:47:58.000 The woke right, which is rooted in grievance politics or click whoring like Megyn Kelly, just chasing those clicks. 0.93

00:48:04.000 Got to get them clicks. 0.78

00:48:06.000 The goal here is to form a new alliance with the left.

00:48:11.000 So the woke right is just the new left, they're the same thing. 0.99

00:48:15.000 So Megyn Kelly appeared with Sean Ryan.

00:48:20.000 So Sean Ryan is a conspiracy ridden podcaster for those who don't know.

00:48:26.000 He's kind of one of these podcast bros who doesn't know anything, but purports to have conspiratorial knowledge over world events, despite the fact that his political takes are, shall we say, that they have the informed maturity of a potato?

00:48:41.000 In any case, Megyn Kelly, who is just seeking the clicks, always and forever.

00:48:48.000 She's the weather vane of politics. 1.00

00:48:50.000 Whichever way the wind blows, that is the direction that Megyn Kelly will move. 1.00

00:48:53.000 Never has a political parade begun with Megyn Kelly at the front that has ended without Megyn Kelly at the front, twirling a baton. 1.00

00:49:00.000 Well, now the lady who was campaigning with Trump, Ra Ra Trump, right? 0.74

00:49:05.000 She went from Trump is the worst thing in the world, literally the worst in 2016 to he is the greatest.

00:49:11.000 You remember, I don't have to retell the story, the sordid tale.

00:49:15.000 She went from I'm a defender of women and young women, young mothers to still checking my clock here, checking the watch.

00:49:23.000 It is June 3rd.

00:49:25.000 Charlie Kirk was assassinated nine months ago.

00:49:29.000 Still nothing on the Will Megyn Kelly condemn Candace Owens for slandering Erica Kirkwatch?

00:49:34.000 Still nothing there.

00:49:36.000 In any case, here she was on Sean Ryan saying, now she, the new wave, the new wave, the way she believes the wind is blowing is toward the woke right slash new left.

00:49:44.000 They're the same.

00:49:45.000 She says she hasn't been a Republican in over 20 years. 0.53

00:49:50.000 The line between left and right is merging.

00:49:52.000 You know, like there's something rising out of the middle of that that is.

00:49:56.000 Not for some of us.

00:49:57.000 You're talking about Anna Kasparian.

00:49:59.000 Yeah, I love her.

00:50:00.000 It's awesome.

00:50:01.000 I love her.

00:50:02.000 I do too.

00:50:03.000 She's awesome.

00:50:04.000 People think of me as a Republican, but I haven't been a Republican in over 20 years.

00:50:08.000 I was a registered Democrat when I was fresh out of school, and then I was a registered Republican for a few years when I was like right around when I joined Fox News.

00:50:18.000 And then I quickly realized I don't want to wear either of these team jerseys.

00:50:22.000 I'm against both of these guys.

00:50:23.000 Mm.

00:50:26.000 Yes.

00:50:28.000 The weather vane for sloppulous nonsense.

00:50:30.000 So Megan Kelly and Sean Ryan, who again are making cause with Anna Kasparian.

00:50:35.000 Anna is as pro abortion as it is possible to be, as pro anti American regimes as it is possible to be. 0.67

00:50:41.000 But at least she hates Israel, which is the real thing that Meghan is doing right here because she believes that that is the future wave. 0.76

00:50:48.000 They're all going to make common cause. 0.74

00:50:49.000 They will form a new, when they say middle, they mean a new fringe.

00:50:53.000 How do I know this?

00:50:54.000 Because she literally says it. 0.85

00:50:55.000 Here are Megyn Kelly and Sean Ryan declaring that core MAGA, meaning the people who support President Trump, are pedophiles who support Israel.

00:51:05.000 You know, what's core MAGA now?

00:51:07.000 I have no idea.

00:51:09.000 I think I know.

00:51:11.000 Trump has said from the beginning.

00:51:12.000 On a file supporting Israeli lobby?

00:51:15.000 I have no idea.

00:51:17.000 Need a different acronym. 0.95

00:51:22.000 Just vile and disgusting. 1.00

00:51:24.000 Cormaga is pedophile supporting the Israeli lobby. 1.00

00:51:28.000 The only thing I will say is that I'm very glad that President Trump won in 2024 because now it can say the word retarded. 0.98

00:51:34.000 And it would be impossible to describe these exchanges without use of that very specific word. 1.00

00:51:40.000 This is retardation at an almost unparalleled level. 1.00

00:51:43.000 Truly. 1.00

00:51:45.000 And then, of course, The idea here is that it's all about Israel.

00:51:50.000 It's always and forever all about Israel because this is the thing that gets them clicks. 0.74

00:51:53.000 Go get them clicks, girl. 0.97

00:51:55.000 You got to get them clicks.

00:51:56.000 And now, the point that I'm making here, the reason that I bring this up is not just to rip on Megan, although, frankly, it's, I will say, I told you so.

00:52:05.000 But the reason that I bring this up is because you know what hasn't happened?

00:52:11.000 Meghan Kelly's politics here, or Tucker Carlson's, or Candace Owens, fresh from Moscow, those politics have not infused the Republican Party.

00:52:19.000 The Republican Party.

00:52:20.000 Has divided itself off from that.

00:52:22.000 They are not following these people down the primrose path.

00:52:25.000 You are not seeing Tucker Carlson's favorite candidates win wide scale across America.

00:52:30.000 You are not seeing that happen. 0.99

00:52:32.000 You are not seeing the Republican Party embrace the politics, the bizarre, conspiratorial, anti Israel bullshit. 0.98

00:52:40.000 You're not seeing that happen from the Republican Party. 0.99

00:52:44.000 You're seeing them excise.

00:52:46.000 Now they're out there making common cause with Anna Kasparian.

00:52:50.000 I think that we are moments away from the Meghan Kelly Hassan Piker crossover episode.

00:52:53.000 I think that's where we're going here.

00:52:54.000 I mean, there is a reason why Russia Today is reposting Megan.

00:53:00.000 If you want to, it's not as though the Russian op here is particularly subtle.

00:53:04.000 Russia Today literally reposted that clip quote, MAGA will feel the way I want them to feel.

00:53:04.000 It is not.

00:53:09.000 Megan Kelly on Trump pivot.

00:53:11.000 But now he's defined MAGA as agreeing with Mark Levin, meaning your main issue is what's best for Israel.

00:53:15.000 You must be a neocon.

00:53:16.000 MAGA is dying. 0.99

00:53:18.000 MAGA equals pedophile supporting Israeli lobby. 0.94

00:53:20.000 All of that being put out by Russia Today because they love this stuff. 0.90

00:53:23.000 This is their favorite.

00:53:24.000 This is their op.

00:53:26.000 Again, the politics of Megan Kelly.

00:53:29.000 And Sean Ryan and Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens are indistinguishable from the politics of Hassan Piker at this point.

00:53:37.000 It's not that shocking that these guys are saying like this because they're the current manifestation of Adolf Hitler.

00:53:43.000 Every single one of them is a little Adolf Hitler in their own way. 1.00

00:53:46.000 What's shocking to me is that people still get mad at me when I say these motherfuckers are Nazis. 1.00

00:53:51.000 They are. 1.00

00:53:52.000 Just because they're Jewish doesn't change that dynamic. 0.99

00:53:55.000 And it goes on and it goes on and it goes on. 1.00

00:53:57.000 I don't want to. 0.99

00:53:58.000 I'm a fascist homophobe. 0.95

00:53:59.000 Israel's new finance minister, Bezalos Monthard, said. 0.96

00:54:01.000 They're just. 0.69

00:54:02.000 Nazis, of course, it's a Nazi parade. 0.68

00:54:04.000 And you, as a Democrat, participated in the Nazi parade. 0.95

00:54:08.000 That's it, because Israel's a Nazi country. 0.99

00:54:10.000 It's just objectively true. 0.95

00:54:13.000 That's the horseshoe common party that people want to put together.

00:54:16.000 Well, as people like the Hassan Pikers and the Zoran Amdani stick over to the Democratic Party, people who are members of the quote unquote woke right, they will move over to the Democratic Party.

00:54:16.000 What does that really mean?

00:54:24.000 That is the thing that will happen.

00:54:25.000 But here's the thing as I say, the traditional Republican Party, meaning the vast majority of Republicans, do not buy this nonsense.

00:54:32.000 They don't.

00:54:33.000 Good evidence of this.

00:54:34.000 So, Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared before the Senate yesterday, and he was tremendous.

00:54:40.000 What's hilarious to me is that Marco Rubio saying perfectly obvious, normie Republican things feels just fresh, doesn't it?

00:54:47.000 It feels just kind of like clean and nice.

00:54:50.000 Isn't it kind of great?

00:54:52.000 Just hearing normalcy from people, non psychotic stuff from politicians, it's kind of delightful.

00:54:59.000 Here is Marco Rubio talking about the foreign policy of the United States.

00:55:06.000 I just want to remind everybody, you know, our foreign policy is one that's solely focused on the national interests of the United States of America, on the defense of our country, both its military defense and our security, but also our economic security and the vibrancy of our economy, our sovereignty, and our future.

00:55:25.000 We believe that America should lead the world, and I believe that we are, and it will have a very good story to tell about that.

00:55:30.000 American leadership, however, should always be on behalf of the American interests.

00:55:34.000 I say this because I think over a period of time in our foreign policy, we lost focus on that.

00:55:40.000 Again, this is very, very basic stuff, but it feels kind of refreshing.

00:55:44.000 Here's Rubio talking about how the United States is the global superpower.

00:55:48.000 Yes, yes, we are.

00:55:51.000 We remain the world's sole global superpower, the most powerful country on earth.

00:55:55.000 We have the largest economy.

00:55:57.000 We have the most formidable and powerful military ever known to man, by the way.

00:56:01.000 Our dollar remains the reserve currency of the world.

00:56:03.000 Our language is used extensively throughout the world.

00:56:07.000 To transact all sorts of business and many of our engagements.

00:56:10.000 But all of this means very little if that power is not used to protect the people who built it, the people who it is meant to protect.

00:56:18.000 Now, I know that there are a lot of black pillars out there saying that all of this is, that people don't like this.

00:56:23.000 It's not true.

00:56:24.000 It's not true.

00:56:25.000 Brand new Harvard Caps Harris poll.

00:56:28.000 And it shows 75% of Americans believe that stopping Iran's nuclear ambitions and countering China and Russia are in America's interests.

00:56:39.000 75% for stopping Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

00:56:42.000 67% for restraining the global influence of China and Russia.

00:56:48.000 People generally agree with that, including a majority of Democrats.

00:56:52.000 Marco Rubio also testified about how the war is going.

00:56:56.000 He said, We're not begging them, they might be begging us.

00:57:01.000 We are the strongest nation on the planet Earth, and we're in a stalemate with Iran.

00:57:06.000 And now we're begging to get back into a deal. 1.00

00:57:09.000 That you all trashed in the first place.

00:57:11.000 There's no one begging.

00:57:12.000 I don't know.

00:57:12.000 Clearly, this is a.

00:57:13.000 Senator Booker, your time's up.

00:57:15.000 Senator Rubio, since he's talking about some of these points, because they go to the heart of the matter.

00:57:19.000 No one's begging for anything here.

00:57:20.000 The Iranians might be begging because their economy's losing hundreds of millions of dollars a day.

00:57:25.000 Okay, so I will also point out, same poll.

00:57:30.000 Seven in 10 voters think the United States is currently winning the war with Iran, 72% of voters.

00:57:35.000 Because, I mean, we are.

00:57:36.000 There's no metric by which Iran is winning.

00:57:38.000 The only way that Iran wins, as I said yesterday, is if the United States randomly gives up the ghost. 0.75

00:57:43.000 If we release all sanctions on Iran without them giving up their nuclear program or their ballistic missile program or stopping their support for terror, if we allow Iran to link, relink all of their terrorist activities from their proxy groups all over the Middle East to a United States release of sanctions money, right? 0.82

00:58:02.000 If we do that, we could lose. 0.57

00:58:03.000 Other than that, not so much. 0.91

00:58:05.000 Iran is losing. 1.00

00:58:06.000 That doesn't mean that both sides don't suffer some. 0.97

00:58:09.000 The United States obviously having some economic issues because of the blockade.

00:58:12.000 But if it's a comparative matter, Iran is clearly losing.

00:58:17.000 Rubio also talked about where we are in terms of the Western Hemisphere, and he says the Western Hemisphere is being made free for American interests. 0.72

00:58:24.000 This, of course, is true.

00:58:27.000 We now have in this hemisphere a coalition of friendly countries, over a dozen, who have aligned to work on not just the issues of security that we all have in common, but also economic prosperity that go hand in hand.

00:58:38.000 It's an amazing story that basically, other than Nicaragua, other than Cuba, obviously, other than Venezuela, remains with some challenges, and of course, Brazil, although they're in the midst of an election cycle.

00:58:50.000 And to some extent, the current government in Colombia as well, at least the president's been problematic.

00:58:54.000 But generally speaking, it is now a region filled with American allies, American friendly leaders, and an America friendly direction.

00:59:01.000 Now, obviously, we have to operationalize that into action after 20 years of neglect in which China and other global powers have intruded in our Western hemisphere to the detriment not just of American national interests, but to the detriment, in our view, of the people of those countries as well.

00:59:15.000 So these are important achievements and one that I'm very happy about.

00:59:22.000 Man, isn't hearing just normie stuff kind of comforting and calming?

00:59:26.000 Isn't it just a little bit, like just a little bit?

00:59:29.000 All righty.

00:59:30.000 Coming up, we'll get into a bizarre appointment by President Trump.

00:59:34.000 He's appointing somebody to replace Tulsi Gabbard at DNI.

00:59:36.000 As you know, I was not a fan of Tulsi Gabbard at DNI.

00:59:38.000 I was hoping for someone better as the replacement.

00:59:41.000 I do have some questions.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - June 03, 2026

Left WEEPS As Bari Weiss FIRES 60 Minutes Host

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