The Ben Shapiro Show - Media Wars: The Trump Awakens | Ep. 329

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00:00:00.000 Senator Bernie Sanders, loonbag of Vermont, has been the leading voice in the United States for socialized healthcare.

00:00:05.000 His call for such a policy amounts to this tweet he issued last night, quote, This of course has nothing to do with policy, and everything to do with an immature worldview that suggests that government can tame every unfairness in life.

00:00:20.000 Of course,

00:00:21.000 No one deserves to die because they can't afford health care.

00:00:23.000 But no one deserves to die for any reason other than their own evil criminality.

00:00:27.000 People don't deserve to die of cancer.

00:00:29.000 People don't deserve to die in car accidents.

00:00:31.000 People don't deserve to die peacefully in their beds in old age.

00:00:34.000 As Clint Eastwood says in Unforgiven, deserve's got nothing to do with it.

00:00:37.000 The question in public policy isn't one of motivation. 0.57

00:00:40.000 Nobody right or left believes that poor, sick people deserve to die.

00:00:43.000 The question is how to best increase access to healthcare.

00:00:46.000 The right believes that increase in supply is necessary in order to create competition, and therefore lower cost and increase quality.

00:00:53.000 This means deregulation.

00:00:54.000 The left believes that current supply must be redistributed.

00:00:58.000 One of these views in every single area of life has generated more access to wealth and health.

00:01:02.000 One of these views has generated less.

00:01:04.000 If there is a question of morality attendant to healthcare, it isn't whether people deserve death based on cost, but whether healthcare providers can be forced to serve people at a loss, and whether doing so will help more patients in the long run.

00:01:15.000 But Sanders' simplistic kindergarten sloganeering convinces a lot of people who refuse to acknowledge the decent intentions of their ideological opponents.

00:01:23.000 It's not designed to achieve better health care.

00:01:25.000 It's designed to slander people who disagree about the method for achieving better health care without violating the rights of others.

00:01:31.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:01:31.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:01:38.000 Okay, so we have a lot to get to today, up to and including President Trump is now tweeting about Amazon, and we're going to talk about the media fight, and we're going to talk about Trumpcare, so lots and lots of things to talk about.

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00:03:19.000 Okay, so.

00:03:21.000 Yesterday, there was a lot of hubbub over the sort of media fight that took place at the White House.

00:03:25.000 So, Trumpcare and all of its vagaries have now receded into the background because, honestly, who wants to talk about all of the infighting over what amounts to a significant cut to Medicaid's future growth, but accepts Obamacare's central premise.

00:03:40.000 I mean, nobody cares about the details of Obamacare.

00:03:43.000 All they know is that they don't like whoever touches it, which is why the polls today are showing 12% of Americans in favor of the Senate healthcare version of Trumpcare.

00:03:50.000 So we'll get to all of the hubbub surrounding that, but the truth is both the right and the left would much prefer, it's much more entertaining, to talk about the media fights that are currently happening.

00:03:59.000 So Trump keeps saying that the media are fake news.

00:04:02.000 And the news keeps saying that Trump is a fake president.

00:04:05.000 So, uh, both of them are, uh, are equally, well, I wouldn't say they're equally wrong. 0.94

00:04:09.000 I think that the news is more fake than Trump is a fake president.

00:04:11.000 Obviously Trump is the president and the media do sometimes report fake news.

00:04:15.000 But what you really have right now is this piece of Kabuki theater where the only people who benefit are the partisans on both sides.

00:04:21.000 And I'm speaking as someone who is quite partisan, right?

00:04:23.000 I'm a conservative, I'm very partisan on behalf of my viewpoint, but 0.98

00:04:26.000 This whole kind of ridiculous play theater slap fight between the media and Trump is silly. 0.93

00:04:32.000 And the reason it's silly is because the media are going to do what the media are going to do. 0.96

00:04:34.000 Trump's going to do what Trump is going to do.

00:04:36.000 None of this is going to change.

00:04:37.000 Trump wins points from smacking the media around.

00:04:39.000 The media wins points by smacking Trump around.

00:04:41.000 And nothing changes. 0.96

00:04:42.000 And then we just bitch about it.

00:04:43.000 That's basically the way this dynamic works.

00:04:45.000 So yesterday was a perfect example of this.

00:04:48.000 You have Sarah Huckabee Sanders who is in for Sean Spicer. 1.00

00:04:51.000 Sean Spicer has been relegated to the outhouse.

00:04:53.000 He's been locked there actually by President Trump after Sean Spicer didn't do a good enough job.

00:04:58.000 First he relegated him to the bushes, then he relegated him to the outhouse.

00:05:00.000 So Sarah Huckabee Sanders has now taken his place in the White House press briefing room.

00:05:05.000 And they actually were allowed to tape this press briefing, which is

00:05:07.000 Which is nice.

00:05:08.000 I mean, it's nice to be able to see this stuff visually.

00:05:09.000 So Sarah Huckabee Sanders is doing this, and she's asked about a story we discussed at length yesterday, the CNN story that accused Anthony Scaramucci, who's a Trump associate, of associating with e-e-e-e-e-evil Russian banks. 0.98

00:05:23.000 And it turned out that that story was complete crap. 0.97

00:05:25.000 There was nothing of substance to it. 0.99

00:05:27.000 CNN had to retract the story.

00:05:28.000 They fired the reporters who were involved in the story.

00:05:31.000 And so Sarah Huckabee Sanders is asked about this and she just uses it as an opportunity, a legit opportunity, to go after the press with both barrels.

00:05:40.000 Here she goes.

00:05:42.000 I don't know that it's that the response isn't good enough for the president.

00:05:47.000 I think it's the constant barrage of fake news directed at this president, probably, that has garnered a lot of his frustration.

00:05:56.000 You point to that report.

00:05:58.000 There are multiple other instances where that outlet that you referenced has been repeatedly wrong and had to point that out or be corrected.

00:06:07.000 There's a video circulating now, whether it's accurate or not.

00:06:11.000 I don't know, but I would encourage everybody in this room and, frankly, everybody across the country to take a look at it.

00:06:18.000 I think it's a disgrace to all of media, to all of journalism.

00:06:25.000 I think that we have gone to a place where if the media can't be trusted to report the news, then that's a dangerous place for America.

00:06:37.000 She's totally right about all of this, right?

00:06:38.000 She's totally right about all of this.

00:06:39.000 Everything Sarah Huckabee Sanders says right here about the media's coverage of Trump is exactly right.

00:06:43.000 They've put forward a bunch of fake news.

00:06:45.000 They've violated their own journalistic standards in order to do so.

00:06:48.000 They're out to attack Trump.

00:06:49.000 They're out to get Trump.

00:06:50.000 They've been pushing this Trump-Russia collusion hoax.

00:06:52.000 For a year now.

00:06:53.000 Even if Russia interfered in the election, which they probably did.

00:06:56.000 And when I say probably, I mean they almost certainly did because I haven't seen the underlying evidence, but I believe our intel community, which says that they did.

00:07:02.000 But even if that happened, there's no suggestion evidentiarily that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.

00:07:08.000 At least we haven't seen anything yet.

00:07:09.000 So it's a year of hubbub for ratings.

00:07:11.000 And then, of course, she's referring back to the James O'Keefe video of a CNN producer talking about how CNN had been pumping up the Trump-Russia stuff in order to generate

00:07:22.000 Thank you.

00:07:29.000 If we make the slightest mistake, the slightest word is off.

00:07:34.000 It is just an absolute tirade from a lot of people in this room.

00:07:40.000 But news outlets get to go on day after day and cite unnamed sources, use stories without sources.

00:07:51.000 You mentioned the Scaramucci story where they had to have reporters resign.

00:07:57.000 OK, so again, this part is now a little bit crazy because it's one thing to say that they report stuff, violate their own ethical standards and all that.

00:08:04.000 I totally agree.

00:08:05.000 Totally agree.

00:08:05.000 The media is wildly biased.

00:08:06.000 They hate Trump and they're out to get Trump.

00:08:08.000 All true.

00:08:09.000 All true.

00:08:09.000 But then when she says, well, if we get anything a little bit wrong, everybody goes crazy.

00:08:13.000 Well.

00:08:13.000 You are the White House.

00:08:15.000 You are the President.

00:08:16.000 I mean, not to try to be too fair-minded here, but there were those of us on the right who were pretty critical of President Obama.

00:08:23.000 I remember because I was one of them, right?

00:08:25.000 I mean, we were on top of President Obama as well.

00:08:27.000 We should have been.

00:08:28.000 The President of the United States deserves scrutiny.

00:08:31.000 And then she says news outlets go on day after day and they cite unnamed sources.

00:08:34.000 They use stories without sources.

00:08:35.000 Okay, again, the White House does this too.

00:08:37.000 The White House leaks routinely to the press.

00:08:39.000 The White House uses anonymous sources. 0.94

00:08:41.000 This is a little bit hypocritical.

00:08:43.000 And then she says that the CNN story, they had to have reporters resign. 0.70

00:08:47.000 Well, that conflicts with the idea that news outlets don't see any ramifications for what they do, right?

00:08:52.000 I mean, if news outlets have to fire their reporters because of the blowback after they write a bad story, that is a ramification, that is a form of accountability.

00:09:01.000 You may not think it's enough, you may think they're pressured into it, but it doesn't really matter.

00:09:04.000 Bottom line is, to pretend the media is not being held accountable by people like me, people like you who watch the show, people like the president, is just 0.99

00:09:12.000 Silly. 0.93

00:09:12.000 Okay, so, but Sarah Huckabee Sanders is into scoring points because the Trump administration would rather score points off the media than actually promulgate good policy, at least openly. 0.93

00:09:21.000 Like, some good policy is happening, but it's all happening behind the scenes.

00:09:25.000 So, what does this do?

00:09:26.000 This prompts a guy named Brian Karam of Sentinel Newspapers, who I guess is a Playboy reporter.

00:09:30.000 He's a reporter for Playboy.

00:09:32.000 And I would make a joke about a Playboy reporter

00:09:34.000 Being in the White House briefing room asking questions, except that we've had a number of weird people in the White House briefing room asking questions, and President Trump has a picture of himself on the cover of Playboy in his office, so I can't really mock that too much.

00:09:46.000 Anyway, Brian Kerr of Sentinel Newspapers, he then pipes up and he goes on just this rant against Sarah Huckabee Sanders in the White House.

00:09:54.000 Come on.

00:09:55.000 You're inflaming everybody right here, right now with those words.

00:09:58.000 This administration has done that as well.

00:10:00.000 Why in the name of heavens?

00:10:02.000 Any one of us, right, are replaceable.

00:10:05.000 And any one of us, if we don't get it right, the audience has the opportunity to turn the channel or not read us.

00:10:12.000 You have been elected to serve for four years at least.

00:10:14.000 There's no option other than that.

00:10:16.000 We're here to ask you questions.

00:10:18.000 We're here to provide the answers.

00:10:20.000 And what you just did is inflammatory to people all over the country who look at it and say, see, once again, the president is right and everybody else out here is fake media.

00:10:29.000 And everybody in this room is only trying to do their job.

00:10:33.000 Okay, so he says this, and this, of course, goes viral.

00:10:36.000 The entire media says, yes!

00:10:37.000 He's our champion now!

00:10:38.000 He's our champion!

00:10:39.000 Yeah, except for the fact that when he says, everybody's just here trying to do their job.

00:10:42.000 We're all just trying to do our job.

00:10:44.000 Yes, but what you consider your job to be is getting Trump, right?

00:10:46.000 I mean, your job is not just to cover the news for a lot of the media.

00:10:49.000 The job is to get Trump, to get that moment where he can finally fulfill that leftist fantasy that Trump is going to be thrown out on his ample posterior right out of the White House and into prison, right?

00:11:00.000 Who does this benefit?

00:11:01.000 Okay, who does this benefit?

00:11:02.000 Well, first and foremost, it benefits this reporter who gets to become a hero on MSNBC.

00:11:06.000 He goes on MSNBC right after this and he talks about how brave he was.

00:11:10.000 Now, again, I think that this is not particularly brave because bravery entails undergoing some sort of risk.

00:11:17.000 Okay, saying things to Sarah Huckabee Sanders is not exactly like Martin Luther King and Selma Brave.

00:11:23.000 It's mostly like you mouthing off and then getting celebrated on MSNBC, which is virtue signaling.

00:11:29.000 Anyway, here he is being feeded.

00:11:30.000 They basically give him a medal over on MSNBC, this guy.

00:11:33.000 Are they truth tellers?

00:11:35.000 That's why we're here, is to try and find out.

00:11:38.000 And there have been, what got me, when you ask about what got me rankled, it's the fact that they sit there and say, we're dishonest in the media, and we're being dishonest.

00:11:49.000 Well, there's consequences, but I have yet to hear anyone from this administration even admit a mistake.

00:11:55.000 And so it's a little hard to take because the people in that room I have a healthy respect for.

00:12:00.000 I've been coming and going in this room off and on since the Reagan administration.

00:12:05.000 Those people I held up as heroes, some of the people that were here.

00:12:10.000 In addition, there are reporters who have given their lives to get news to the public and to be just labeled as dishonest and fake media.

00:12:19.000 Wrinkles me and I you know maybe I lost my temper at that moment but

00:12:49.000 I'm not concerned about that.

00:12:51.000 And then Chris Matthews, oh yeah, hero!

00:12:52.000 Unbelievable!

00:12:53.000 I'm gonna have a say!

00:12:54.000 Chris Matthews, I'm gonna have a say!

00:12:55.000 I love it!

00:12:56.000 Look at this guy!

00:12:57.000 I think we should give him an honorary burial pod in Arlington National Cemetery!

00:13:01.000 Ah!

00:13:01.000 Hero!

00:13:02.000 Hero!

00:13:02.000 Okay, so this is, so who benefits?

00:13:04.000 First of all, the media benefit from this perception that they are speaking truth to power, right?

00:13:09.000 This goes all the way back to Sam Donaldson doing the same thing with Ronald Reagan back in the 80s.

00:13:13.000 And then who else benefits?

00:13:14.000 Well, Trump benefits, obviously, because we on the right, we hate the media! 1.00

00:13:17.000 We think the media are totally full of crap. 0.98

00:13:19.000 But does anyone benefit in terms of policy? 0.98

00:13:21.000 Well, not really, because it turns out all the acolytes of the media don't trust Trump, all the acolytes of Trump don't trust the media, and so we have nothing to talk about, really.

00:13:28.000 And the fact is that bad media performance happens on both sides.

00:13:32.000 It does happen on both sides.

00:13:34.000 Like, I would prefer, I said this before, I've said this many times, I would prefer a left media to cover Trump and a right media to cover Obama.

00:13:41.000 Because whoever is most in opposition to the president seems to me the person who is most likely to actually

00:13:47.000 Keep that president being held responsible.

00:13:50.000 Like, I would rather have tough questions being asked than this question from Lifeset.

00:13:53.000 Lifeset is a Laura Ingram's publication.

00:13:55.000 Here's a Lifeset reporter asking a question yesterday.

00:13:58.000 Given the news about CNN's erroneous story about Anthony Scaramucci, does the White House believe there are other Russia-related stories from major outlets that have not been retracted and are just as false, including the February 14th story in the New York Times about collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, which James Comey called into question, which many believe the CNN story was based upon?

00:14:21.000 Does the White House now believe the news media have an obligation to review stories on the Russian

00:14:26.000 Okay, I mean, it's ridiculous. 0.82

00:14:32.000 Here's a softball, Sarah, just enjoy, right? 0.58

00:14:35.000 Name all the stories you think have been bad over the past year.

00:14:39.000 Again, what we have to understand as consumers of media is the media have an agenda, Trump has an agenda, and their real agenda here is to play this slap fight game where both of them win points off of each other.

00:14:49.000 That doesn't mean you should trust the media over Trump.

00:14:51.000 It doesn't mean you should trust Trump over the media.

00:14:52.000 It means you should trust the facts.

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00:16:32.000 There are areas where I think that the media bias is a little more insidious, believe it or not, than even in politics.

00:16:36.000 I am an advocate of the position that Andrew Breitbart used to take, which is that culture is upstream of politics, meaning that more people are impacted by their views

00:16:59.000 on politics by culture than they are by actual politics.

00:17:02.000 Like, there's a select group of people who listen to this show and it's, thank God, big and growing.

00:17:06.000 But it is not nearly the number of people who watch sports, for example, or the number of people who watch entertainment TV.

00:17:11.000 The fact is that if you look at views, even among Republicans, from the time that Modern Family premiered on Gay Marriage to now,

00:17:17.000 There's like a 30 point drop in the number of people who disapproved of gay marriage in the Republican community between modern family premiering and now, because people tend to follow culture.

00:17:26.000 People tend to imitate culture and imbibe culture.

00:17:29.000 This is where the media bias is really the worst.

00:17:30.000 Because in politics, there are some checking mechanisms, right?

00:17:33.000 I am a check and balance on the media.

00:17:35.000 President Trump is a check and balance on the media.

00:17:36.000 Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a check and balance on the media. 1.00

00:17:39.000 You, yourself, as a consumer, you are aware of media bias, so you are now a check and balance on the media.

00:17:44.000 This is not true when it comes to cultural areas.

00:17:47.000 When it comes to cultural areas, there is no check and balance because most of us don't even want to think about the fact that the left is infiltrating all of the areas of culture that we inhabit and trying to twist them to their own viewpoint.

00:17:57.000 So for me, one of my pet peeves is sports.

00:18:00.000 So I am a huge sports fan.

00:18:02.000 I particularly enjoy baseball and basketball, although I do like football as well.

00:18:06.000 But the three big sports are my sports.

00:18:08.000 I wish I knew more about hockey, because I've been to a couple hockey games and they're wonderful, but I don't know enough about it to be a big fan.

00:18:13.000 I don't know enough of the players.

00:18:14.000 I'd really have to sort of engross myself in it.

00:18:16.000 But in any case, I'm also a tennis fan, so I like tennis. 0.99

00:18:20.000 And there's been a controversy that is now broken out that is just ridiculous and stupid over Serena Williams. 0.97

00:18:26.000 So we talked about this a little bit yesterday. 0.98

00:18:27.000 John McEnroe is, of course, one of the great men's players of all time.

00:18:31.000 He came out and he said, Serena Williams is a great player, but Serena Williams is not as good as men, right?

00:18:36.000 Serena Williams is a girl.

00:18:38.000 And that prompted Serena Williams to begin tweeting about it, because she was now very, very, very, very, very, very offended.

00:18:43.000 This just demonstrates, again, how things work in the sports media.

00:18:47.000 Everything has to be politicized.

00:18:49.000 So, she tweets out,

00:19:00.000 I don't understand what her having a baby has to do with the question.

00:19:03.000 He was asked a direct question.

00:19:04.000 We played it yesterday.

00:19:05.000 He was asked a direct question about where Serena would rank because he said she is the best female player of all time and people said, why not the best player of all time?

00:19:12.000 And then the media asked him to apologize.

00:19:14.000 So here are the CBS anchors who are angry at McEnroe asking him to apologize for it.

00:19:19.000 I felt the need.

00:19:21.000 However, unfortunately, I'm probably to defend myself.

00:19:25.000 I don't know.

00:19:26.000 Just say what I really felt.

00:19:28.000 I mean, which is about what I think she would be.

00:19:31.000 I think you're referring to the fact that I said she'd be about 700 in the world.

00:19:34.000 Yeah.

00:19:36.000 I've got a solution, Gail, though, because I know that you're friendly with Serena, and I think, at least until yesterday... I'm just waiting.

00:19:42.000 Would you like to apologize?

00:19:44.000 Uh, no.

00:19:45.000 You really do need to answer Charlie's question.

00:19:47.000 What was it?

00:19:47.000 I didn't... You're right, I wasn't paying attention.

00:19:49.000 Why did you do this?

00:19:50.000 It wasn't necessary.

00:19:51.000 It was not necessary.

00:19:52.000 You knew it would create... I didn't know it would create... You didn't?

00:19:56.000 No.

00:19:56.000 John, has anybody ever- I've said this a thousand- Did Bobby Riggs say anything?

00:20:00.000 No apology to Serena, really?

00:20:02.000 Uh, listen, I would be happy to apologize to Serena, Gail, if that makes you feel better.

00:20:07.000 Anyone, I think Serena's incredible.

00:20:09.000 I don't want anything to go wrong with Serena because she's pregnant. 0.99

00:20:14.000 I don't want to upset her, or whatever it was.

00:20:16.000 I think she was doing it tongue-in-cheek as well, and I think the deep down... Okay, so the whole thing's ridiculous. 0.91

00:20:20.000 This whole thing is just ridiculous and insane, okay? 0.99

00:20:23.000 It's totally nuts. 0.98

00:20:24.000 You've got the CBS anchors berating him, badgering him over something that is obvious, perfectly obvious.

00:20:29.000 Again, Serena Williams did play a practice match with a guy who's ranked like 203rd in the world to win one game off of him.

00:20:36.000 One.

00:20:36.000 Okay?

00:20:37.000 Like, no.

00:20:38.000 I'm sorry.

00:20:39.000 She is not as good as the men because she is a girl. 1.00

00:20:42.000 And that is just... She's amazing. 0.99

00:20:44.000 She'd kick my ass, but that has nothing to do with whether she would be on the professional men's tour. 0.99

00:20:48.000 In fact, you know who has said this in the past? 1.00

00:20:50.000 You know who has said this?

00:20:51.000 Some woman named Serena Williams.

00:20:53.000 Here's Serena Williams on David Letterman a couple of years ago.

00:20:56.000 Actually, it's funny because Andy Murray, he was been joking about myself and him playing a match.

00:21:02.000 And I'm like, Andy, seriously, like, are you kidding me?

00:21:05.000 Because for me, tennis and men's tennis and women's tennis are completely almost two separate sports.

00:21:10.000 So I'm like, if I were to play Andy Murray, I would lose 6-0, 6-0 in five to six minutes, maybe 10 minutes.

00:21:19.000 No, it's true.

00:21:19.000 It's a completely, it's a completely different sport.

00:21:23.000 The men are a lot faster.

00:21:25.000 We're good.

00:21:44.000 Okay, so there she is admitting it, okay, because it's true, because it's true, but that doesn't stop those CBS anchors from going after Mac.

00:21:50.000 How dare you suggest biological reality?

00:21:53.000 That's just terrible.

00:21:54.000 Actually, my favorite thing of the night last night is Christina Hoff Summer, the factual feminist friend of mine.

00:22:00.000 She was tweeting out, she was tweeting out,

00:22:04.000 I guess it was book segments from some feminist queer theory book.

00:22:09.000 And there was a segment from some woman who thinks she's a man, a transgender man, talking about how she had given birth.

00:22:20.000 And the whole piece was, a man gives birth.

00:22:23.000 And so I tweeted back,

00:22:24.000 What, via the urethra?

00:22:25.000 Like, how would that work?

00:22:26.000 I mean, that's passing a hell of a kidney stone right there, because the fact is that men can't give birth, gang! 0.96

00:22:30.000 Only women can give birth. 1.00

00:22:31.000 But you speak basic biological truths now, and suddenly, it's a problem.

00:22:36.000 Like, I'm up in Canada right now, I'm over in Toronto because I'm gonna give a speech tonight, and Jordan Peterson, who we're gonna have to have on the show when the studio is finally set up totally, Jordan Peterson has basically been reamed out by his own university, by the government, for having the temerity to say things like men are men and women are women.

00:22:53.000 This is the way that we are moving.

00:22:55.000 And in the media, the media are pushing that as hard as they possibly can.

00:22:59.000 And then, of course, they are firing every conservative they can get their hands on.

00:23:02.000 Britt McHenry, who was a controversial figure because there was a video of her getting angry at some sort of car attendant at one point.

00:23:09.000 She was fired and she came out yesterday and she said, ESPN fired me because I'm conservative, which is perfectly plausible.

00:23:15.000 She said, I mean, I've been openly conservative.

00:23:18.000 Look how that ended up, is what she tweeted out yesterday, which is correct.

00:23:23.000 Okay.

00:23:23.000 ESPN will fire people who are openly conservative, whether you're talking about Mike Ditka or Curt Schilling, it doesn't seem to matter.

00:23:29.000 Curt Schilling's great sin, you recall, was that Curt Schilling at one point had said,

00:23:33.000 No, sports should be left to sports.

00:23:35.000 They should not turn into the political whims of the radical left. 1.00

00:23:38.000 It's really stupid. 1.00

00:23:38.000 Okay. 1.00

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The Ben Shapiro Show - June 29, 2017

Media Wars: The Trump Awakens | Ep. 329

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