The Ben Shapiro Show - MELTDOWN: BBC Leadership Resigns After SLANDERING Trump!

00:00:00.000 The British Broadcasting Corporation is in real trouble melting down after serious allegations of lying, misconduct, and all the rest.

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00:00:40.000 Well, folks, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC is in dire straits.

00:00:45.000 This is a state-funded enterprise in much the same way that NPR is a state-funded enterprise.

00:00:50.000 And the BBC has been the dominant broadcast platform in the United Kingdom for legitimately decades, going all the way back to World War II.

00:00:59.000 And for the last several decades, they have just been a left-wing agitprop organization.

00:01:04.000 Well, now they are absolutely falling apart.

00:01:06.000 And they are falling apart thanks to their extraordinary, dishonest attacks on President Trump.

00:01:11.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, President Trump has now threatened to file a $1 billion lawsuit against the BBC over the way the UK state broadcaster edited one of his speeches in a documentary last year.

00:01:21.000 The BBC chairman, a person named Samir Shah, had to apologize on Monday for the controversy, which has plunged the broadcaster into crisis.

00:01:27.000 That apology came one day after BBC Director General Tim Davey and BBC News chief executive Deborah Turnitz said they were leaving the organization following criticism from the White House.

00:01:36.000 Now, what exactly happened here?

00:01:38.000 Well, there was a news program.

00:01:40.000 It's their flagship investigative news program over at the BBC.

00:01:43.000 It's called Panorama, and it ran one week before the 2024 United States election.

00:01:47.000 Now, you can say to yourself, did that affect the election?

00:01:49.000 President Trump won.

00:01:50.000 Doesn't matter.

00:01:51.000 The job of the BBC is to actually cover the news, not make the news up.

00:01:55.000 So what did they do?

00:01:56.000 Well, one week before the election, they ran a piece in which they spliced together things that President Trump said on January 6th, 2021, to make it look as though he himself personally was leading an armed insurrection at the Capitol building.

00:02:11.000 And that, of course, was not true.

00:02:12.000 In order to achieve this effect, they had to cut out full-on 24 pages of material.

00:02:19.000 They cut from one part of the speech and then they fast-forwarded 50 minutes, five zero minutes, and cut together the last part of the speech and clipped those together and then basically put an ellipses in order to make it seem as though President Trump himself was personally calling on people to follow him to the Capitol building and then to assault the Capitol building.

00:02:37.000 Here is the BBC panorama edit compared with the original clip.

00:02:42.000 We're going to walk down to the Capitol and I'll be there with you.

00:02:47.000 And we fight.

00:02:49.000 We fight like hell.

00:02:50.000 And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.

00:02:54.000 We're going to walk down to the Capitol and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.

00:03:09.000 Fast forward for five zero minutes.

00:03:11.000 We fight like hell.

00:03:13.000 And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. 0.94

00:03:18.000 Okay, well, again, that is insane.

00:03:23.000 And if you watch that original clip, as you can see, they did it in edit.

00:03:26.000 It looks as though Trump said those things directly, one after another, and they had a music bed underneath, which connects the first part of the statement to the last part of the statement.

00:03:34.000 It is not as though they had some sort of interpolation from a narrator explaining that much later in the speech, President Trump said this.

00:03:40.000 They didn't do any of that.

00:03:43.000 Well, in a letter from Trump's lawyers, they are asking for $1 billion unless the documentary is retracted, an apology published, and compensation paid to the president.

00:03:53.000 The broadcaster said in a statement, it would respond in due course.

00:03:56.000 This followed hard on a 19-page memo that was put out by a top staffer at the BBC.

00:04:05.000 His name was Michael Prescott.

00:04:08.000 He was an independent advisor to the BBC's editorial guidelines and standards board.

00:04:12.000 And he wrote a 19-page memo pushing the idea that the BBC had become a biased and ridiculous organization.

00:04:20.000 And here's what he wrote: Dear board members, you may know that I have been one of the two independent external advisors working alongside the EGSC.

00:04:28.000 I held this role for three years and stood down in the summer.

00:04:31.000 I departed with profound and unresolved concerns about the BBC since leaving.

00:04:34.000 I thought long and hard about what, if anything, to do about this.

00:04:37.000 My conclusion is that these concerns are serious enough for me to draw them to your attention in your oversight role of the BBC.

00:04:43.000 What follows is a summary of what were, in my view, some of the most troubling matters to come before the EGSC during my term.

00:04:50.000 My view is that the executive repeatedly failed to implement measures to resolve highlighted problems and, in many cases, simply refused to acknowledge there was an issue at all.

00:05:00.000 So he points out that there has been tremendous bias with regard to the U.S. election.

00:05:04.000 He specifically points out that edit in the Panorama program.

00:05:09.000 He said, quote, this was one of the most shocking sets of issues uncovered during my time with the EGSC.

00:05:14.000 If BBC journalists are allowed to edit video in order to make people say things they never actually said, then what value are the corporation's guidelines?

00:05:20.000 Why should the BBC be trusted?

00:05:23.000 Where will all this end?

00:05:25.000 And yet, top members of the staff said, quote, there was no attempt to mislead the audience about the content or nature of Mr. Trump's speech before the riot at the Capitol.

00:05:33.000 It is a normal practice to add speeches into short-form clips.

00:05:38.000 Now, again, this was a repeated thing.

00:05:41.000 So they did this with comments that President Trump made about Liz Cheney.

00:05:47.000 There are reports in which the BBC routinely ignored its own guidelines, giving excessive coverage, for example, to that rogue Iowa poll.

00:05:55.000 You remember right before the election, Anne Seltzer suggested that Kamala Harris was going to win the state by 97 points.

00:06:00.000 And of course, President Trump won the state pretty easily. 0.77

00:06:03.000 The coverage was ridiculous.

00:06:07.000 This whistleblower said, quote, during my time as an advisor to the EGSC, it became clear the BBC fell too easily for putting out ill-research material that suggested issues of racism when there were none.

00:06:16.000 And then he just lists chapter and verse across the BBC in which they basically manufactured a bunch of racial issues where no racial issue existed.

00:06:29.000 They went out of their way to promote idiocies about biological sex and gender, for example.

00:06:36.000 Quote, the desk had been captured by a small group of people promoting the stonewall view of the debate and keeping other perspectives off the air.

00:06:45.000 Individual programs had come to lack their own reporters as a counterweight.

00:06:50.000 There was a constant drip feed of one-sided stories, usually news features, celebrating the trans experience without adequate balance or objectivity.

00:06:57.000 One example of this, by the way, might be a report that happened in 2024 from the BBC, in which the BBC reported that actually male breast milk was just as nutritious for babies as female breast milk.

00:07:09.000 Now, you may be asking yourself, what is male breast milk?

00:07:11.000 And the answer is that if you pump men full of estrogen, then you will get some secretions from the nipples. 1.00

00:07:18.000 That is not actually like female breast milk. 1.00

00:07:21.000 But the BBC had an interest in pretending that males can become females.

00:07:24.000 And so they ran with this report. 0.95

00:07:27.000 Now, a transgender woman's milk is just as good for babies as breast milk. 0.98

00:07:32.000 That's according to a letter from the medical director at University Hospital Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.

00:07:39.000 The claim was made as part of a response against campaign groups.

00:07:42.000 The trust referred to studies and the World Health Organization guidance, including one case which found what it called no observable effects in babies fed by induced lactation.

00:07:54.000 Well, to discuss this in a bit more detail, I'm joined now by Kate Loxian, who is a research fellow in creative global health at the University College London and a lactation consultant trainee.

00:08:06.000 I wanted to begin by getting your reaction to what we've heard from the hospital about this.

00:08:12.000 Of course, and it's actually not very new in terms of a concept or an idea.

00:08:16.000 It's something as someone who works in LGBT pregnancy and reproduction that we've known for quite a while.

00:08:22.000 There's studies back in the 90s that talk about the sameness of milk from the birth mother and then the co-lactating mother in terms of 10 days after birth.

00:08:33.000 There's no dissonance seen there.

00:08:37.000 Now, again, this was then passed around all over the media: the Sunday Times, the Telegraph, the Daily Mail.

00:08:44.000 Hey, the evidence, shall we say, that male quote-unquote milk, which are just secretions produced by pumping men filled with estrogen, that this is somehow comparable to female milk, is based on one study of one man who pumped himself full of hormones.

00:09:03.000 And the BBC just ran with that.

00:09:06.000 It's ridiculous, but this is what the BBC was, and that's what it is.

00:09:09.000 And that's what so much of legacy media across the water and in the United States is that that's true on a wide variety of issues.

00:09:17.000 It's particularly true about the Hamas-Israel war.

00:09:21.000 Already coming up more on the BBC, plus the government shutdown and all the rest.

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00:11:28.000 According to the UK Telegraph, the BBC was forced to correct two stories every single week about the Gaza conflict since the October 7th attacks on Israel.

00:11:39.000 Two stories a week, okay, which is insane.

00:11:43.000 It's like, how many stories can you retract before you finally lose all credibility?

00:11:48.000 BBC Arabic had to make 215 corrections and clarifications over the past two years on stories that were found to be biased, inaccurate, or misleading.

00:11:56.000 According to the UK Telegraph, the figures follow a week of revelations by the Telegraph of one-sided reporting at the BBC disclosing in an 8,000-word dossier compiled by a whistleblower that BBC Arabic was choosing to minimize Israeli suffering in the war in Gaza to paint Israel as the aggressor.

00:12:13.000 I mean, why did this happen?

00:12:15.000 Well, the answer is because the BBC despises Israel, despises Israel.

00:12:19.000 And they can't make this any clear.

00:12:20.000 It's not possible for them to make it any clearer.

00:12:22.000 For example, here is the BBC editor, Jeremy Bowen.

00:12:26.000 This is in November 2023.

00:12:28.000 He falsely reported that Israel had blown up the Al-Akhli hospital in the Gaza Strip.

00:12:32.000 And it was just not true.

00:12:33.000 It was not true at all.

00:12:34.000 He admits he got it wrong, but says he doesn't feel bad at all that he got it wrong.

00:12:38.000 Like at all.

00:12:40.000 He did a great job.

00:12:41.000 Here we go.

00:12:43.000 Tell us what happened that night.

00:12:46.000 And, you know, bluntly, where were you getting your information?

00:12:50.000 And do you regret anything that you said that night?

00:12:54.000 So it broke in, I suppose, mid-evening.

00:12:57.000 And to answer your question, no, I don't regret one thing in my reporting because I think I was measured throughout.

00:13:04.000 I didn't raise the judgment.

00:13:06.000 But you said that building had been flattened.

00:13:09.000 Oh, yeah.

00:13:09.000 Well, I got that wrong because I was looking at the pictures and what I could see was a square that appeared to be flaming on all sides.

00:13:21.000 And there was a, you know, sort of a void in the middle.

00:13:25.000 And it was, I think it was a picture taken from a drone.

00:13:29.000 And so, you know, we have to piece together what we see.

00:13:35.000 And I thought, well, that looks like the whole building's gone.

00:13:38.000 And that was my conclusion from looking at the pictures.

00:13:40.000 And I was wrong on that.

00:13:44.000 But I don't feel particularly bad about that.

00:13:49.000 He doesn't feel bad.

00:13:51.000 It doesn't feel bad at all because this is the way the BBC operates.

00:13:53.000 They start with the conclusion and then they backfill the news in order to reach that particular conclusion.

00:13:59.000 So is it any surprise that the BBC is a disaster area or that they're in serious trouble now?

00:14:05.000 No, it is not.

00:14:06.000 And it is long past time for the BBC to admit what it is, which is an agitprop organization on behalf of the political left.

00:14:12.000 They have been for decades.

00:14:14.000 Nothing has changed.

00:14:15.000 And this latest brouhaha is just more evidence that actually, actually, the government should not be subsidizing media organizations like an NPR or like a PBS or in Britain, like the BBC, because you just end up with left-wing media sponsored by taxpayers.

00:14:30.000 Okay, meanwhile, closer to home, it appears that the shutdown is basically done.

00:14:36.000 According to the Washington Post, the Senate passed a bill to reopen the federal government on Monday evening, taking the next step toward ending the longest shutdown in American history.

00:14:43.000 The chamber had already agreed to speed up the process to pass a bipartisan agreement struck over the weekend.

00:14:48.000 Senate Majority Leader Thune said, I could spend an hour talking about all the problems we've seen, which have snowballed the longer the shutdown has gone on.

00:14:54.000 But all of us, Democrat and Republican who voted for last night's bill are well aware of the facts.

00:14:58.000 I'm grateful that an end is in sight.

00:15:00.000 The bill passed 60-40, with seven Democrats plus Angus King, who's an independent, who caucuses with the Democrats from Maine, joining Republicans to pass it.

00:15:07.000 Senator Rand Paul, who votes no on literally everything, also voted no.

00:15:11.000 President Trump is expected to sign the bill into law.

00:15:14.000 It will not extend the ACA subsidies, the Obamacare subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year.

00:15:18.000 And let's be clear: the Obamacare subsidies are the only thing, basically, that keeps Obamacare solvent.

00:15:23.000 Obamacare relies on these subsidies because Obamacare itself is kind of a bleep show.

00:15:29.000 Very few people are ever going to reach their full deductible under Obamacare.

00:15:34.000 They're just going to pay in tens of thousands of dollars to these Obamacare systems. 1.00

00:15:39.000 Many doctors don't even take Obamacare, so you don't get the doctor that you want.

00:15:43.000 You're paying too much money unless you have the federal government subsidizing you.

00:15:46.000 It was always a backdoor nationalization of the health care system scheme, Obamacare. 0.83

00:15:50.000 And when Republicans say no, Democrats complain.

00:15:53.000 They created the system, but somehow it's Republicans who are to blame.

00:15:56.000 Well, President Trump celebrated the end of the shutdown yesterday.

00:15:59.000 Here he was approving of the deal.

00:16:02.000 Do you personally approve of the deal that's happening right now, Capitol Mill, to end the Republican?

00:16:06.000 Well, it depends what deal we're talking about.

00:16:07.000 But if it's a deal I heard about, that's certainly, you know, they want to change the deal a little bit, but I would say so.

00:16:13.000 I think based on everything I'm hearing, they haven't changed anything.

00:16:17.000 And we have support from enough Democrats, and we're going to be opening up our country.

00:16:22.000 It's too bad it was closed, but we'll be opening up our country very quickly.

00:16:27.000 Yesterday, the president put out a statement about air traffic controllers who are not showing up to work because presumably they're not being paid.

00:16:33.000 Maybe they're afraid they won't get paid.

00:16:34.000 He said all air traffic controllers must get back to work now.

00:16:37.000 Anyone who doesn't will be substantially docked.

00:16:39.000 He said that he would recommend air traffic controllers who didn't take off time during the shutdown receive a $10,000 per person bonus, according to the Wall Street Journal.

00:16:47.000 When he was asked where the money would come from by Fox News's Laura Ingram, he said, I don't know.

00:16:51.000 I'll get it someplace, which, you know, not my favorite answer when it comes to funding of government-based programs.

00:16:57.000 By the way, just another case that we actually should privatize our airports.

00:17:01.000 I see no reason why the taxpayer should be on the dime for airports, which are eminently privatizable.

00:17:07.000 You could absolutely privatize the airports, could have airlines chip in for their own security and work with a system together to ensure the planes don't hit each other in the sky.

00:17:17.000 In any case, that's another issue.

00:17:19.000 The bottom line is that the Democrats caved here pretty clearly, and President Trump wins.

00:17:25.000 And you can see that President Trump wins because Democrats are really ticked at each other.

00:17:28.000 Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, he applauded Democrats voting to end the shutdown yesterday.

00:17:32.000 Here he was.

00:17:34.000 This is genuine.

00:17:36.000 I mean this sincerely.

00:17:37.000 We applaud the seven Senate Democrats and one independent senator who did the right thing.

00:17:43.000 They decided to put principle over their personal politics.

00:17:48.000 And my urgent plea of all my colleagues in the House, and that means every Democrat in the House, is to think carefully, pray, and finally do the right thing and help us to bring an end to the pain of the American people.

00:18:05.000 So, yeah, again, he's right about all of that.

00:18:08.000 Democrats are stuck between a rock and a hard place because basically the only concession they got from Republicans was a commitment to do a vote on Obamacare subsidies.

00:18:16.000 They will lose that vote, by the way.

00:18:19.000 And that was offered by John Thune very early on in the shutdown, actually.

00:18:23.000 So now Dick Durbin, Senate Minority Leader's Deputy, is the number two in the Senate for the Democrats.

00:18:29.000 He's out there saying the GOP must keep their word.

00:18:30.000 Well, the GOP can keep their word and they can still win.

00:18:34.000 I've served in the Senate for 29 years, and I've never seen that kind of offer from a Senate majority.

00:18:41.000 During the historic roll call last night, I walked across the aisle and met with Senator John Thune, the Republican leader.

00:18:50.000 I told him that I was counting on him to keep his word on this agreement.

00:18:56.000 He assured me he would.

00:18:59.000 Okay, now, again, that's not a big win.

00:19:01.000 They're going to try and play it as a big win for their constituents.

00:19:03.000 It probably won't work.

00:19:05.000 Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, who voted also to end the shutdown, he's trying to claim that now they'll really be able to put the screws to the Republicans on more Obamacare subsidies.

00:19:14.000 So now we're going to pay federal workers.

00:19:16.000 We're going to untangle the chaos in air traffic.

00:19:19.000 We're going to make sure SNAP beneficiaries get what they desperately need every day.

00:19:25.000 And then we'll have a fight, Katie, about health care on the main stage in the spotlight without the background noise of all the shutdown effects and consequences drowning out the high stakes of the health care fight.

00:19:37.000 I think it's a fight we could win.

00:19:40.000 Now, again, Democrats don't even believe this.

00:19:42.000 So they are ticked.

00:19:43.000 They are really ticked, especially those who have 2028 aspirations.

00:19:47.000 According to Axios, many congressional Democrats are not on board with that Senate deal.

00:19:51.000 Democrats are once again divided.

00:19:53.000 The shutdown deal didn't extend health care subsidies, of course.

00:19:57.000 The Senate ultimately settled for nothing more than a promise of a vote.

00:20:01.000 They got an extension of government funding through January 30th, funding for food stamps through fiscal year 2026, and the reversal of those federal worker layoffs that President Trump had done during the shutdown.

00:20:12.000 Democrats are ticked.

00:20:15.000 House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffrey is against the deal.

00:20:18.000 Many are calling for Schumer to step down. 0.96

00:20:21.000 Here's Bernie Sanders, who, again, has the luxury of being able to be wrong about everything because he's never been in power to implement his garbage policies. 0.51

00:20:28.000 And basically, his popularity rests on his policies never being dried.

00:20:32.000 Here's Bernie Sanders yelling at the shutdown being ended.

00:20:36.000 Look, I think it was a terrible, terrible vote at a time when we have a broken healthcare system.

00:20:42.000 This is going to make our health care system even worse.

00:20:45.000 And that vote last night paves the way for 15 million people to be thrown off Medicaid.

00:20:50.000 What are they going to do?

00:20:51.000 Many of them are going to die.

00:20:52.000 So that was a really bad vote that took place last night.

00:20:57.000 Speaking of Medicaid and healthcare outcomes, I asked our sponsors at Comet, a new web browser by Perplexity, aren't there studies suggesting Medicaid has not actually improved healthcare outcomes?

00:21:07.000 And what Comet says is mixed findings from research.

00:21:11.000 The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment found Medicaid improved self-reported health and reduced depression, but did not show statistically significant improvements in key clinical outcomes like blood pressure, blood sugar control, or cholesterol levels.

00:21:22.000 Some long-term analyses suggest Medicaid expansion produced temporary gains in self-reported and mental health, but these improvements diminished over several years, leading to little durable difference in direct health metrics between recipients and non-recipients.

00:21:36.000 So, again, the question of whether Medicaid has actually translated into sustained improvement in physical health, that is a very hot topic.

00:21:44.000 There is no clear evidence that it does.

00:21:47.000 Yeah, this is not an argument Medicaid shouldn't exist, but the idea that Medicaid as a general proposition has been wildly beneficial to the health of Americans is unsubstantiated by the actual data.

00:21:57.000 When Bernie Sanders keeps saying things like tens of thousands will die, that is precisely the sort of catastrophic language that leads to people, you know, chanting Bernie Sanders slogan while they shoot up congressional baseball games in Virginia.

00:22:10.000 That happened just a few years ago.

00:22:11.000 Bernie hasn't stopped one moment to think about that.

00:22:14.000 Meanwhile, Pete Buttigej, who continues to try to make himself a thing, he failed Secretary of Transportation, who's mostly famous for, you know, doing nothing about a train crash in East Palestine, Ohio, as well as, you know, planes having their wings fall off and such.

00:22:28.000 Well, now he's back because he wants to run for president.

00:22:31.000 Quote, it's a bad deal.

00:22:32.000 Everyday life, making it better and more affordable must always be our bottom line.

00:22:35.000 For months, I've been hearing from people bracing for their health insurance bills to skyrocket so much that some will lose coverage altogether.

00:22:41.000 Some say they simply haven't even opened their letter yet, dreading the bad news.

00:22:44.000 Any deal that fails to address this directly is a bad deal.

00:22:46.000 Now, again, this was Democrats holding up the government, not running on this basis.

00:22:51.000 By the way, this would be probably a solid political line for them to run on.

00:22:55.000 But that's not what they did.

00:22:56.000 They decided to hold up the government and make people suffer in order to achieve absolutely nothing to elevate a talking point.

00:23:02.000 That's what actually just happened over the course of the last six weeks or so.

00:23:06.000 All righty, coming up, Chuck Schumer under fire for caving to the Republicans.

00:23:10.000 What does that mean for the future of the Democratic Party?

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00:25:34.000 Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer under Sirius Fire Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona was asked directly about Chuck Schumer's handling of all of this, and he bobbed and weaved like Ali in his prime.

00:25:45.000 I wonder if, as a result, you believe Chuck Schumer's leadership is in jeopardy and should it be?

00:25:54.000 Well, as I've said, Chris, we are dealing with an irrational president.

00:26:02.000 I know people are frustrated.

00:26:04.000 You know, people could be frustrated with leadership in the Senate and the House.

00:26:09.000 I'm frustrated with the White House.

00:26:13.000 Okay, well, congrats, dude.

00:26:14.000 Meanwhile, Hakeem Jeffries, who opposes the deal, still says that Chuck Schumer is effective.

00:26:19.000 And again, here is the problem: Democrats are in the unenviable position of having to pander to their extremely radical base, while at the same time, trying to fend off that radical base from taking control of the party.

00:26:30.000 And that's where Hakeem Jeffries is.

00:26:33.000 Some Democrats in your own caucus are suggesting Schumer is ineffective as a Democratic leader and should be replaced.

00:26:39.000 You, of course, are great love of this deal.

00:26:42.000 Do you view him as effective and should he keep it?

00:26:45.000 Yes, and yes.

00:26:48.000 Meanwhile, Congressman Seth Moulton, who's attempting to outflank Senator Ed Markey in Massachusetts, he's been moving pretty steadily to the left, Seth, in order to presumably garner the love of progressive base.

00:27:00.000 He says it's time for Chuck Schumer to move on.

00:27:04.000 I'm not going to run for it on a new generation of leadership platform here in Massachusetts and then go down to Washington and vote for the status quo.

00:27:11.000 And so I've been very public about that.

00:27:14.000 Again, you know, respect his service, but time to move on.

00:27:18.000 And, you know, my opponent has not.

00:27:20.000 He keeps dodging the question.

00:27:24.000 So, you know, again, I think that this is the battle inside the Democratic Party pretty clearly, pretty clearly.

00:27:30.000 And it's being egged on from outside by geniuses like Whoopi Goldberg and the Ladies of the View. 0.96

00:27:35.000 Here was Whoopi Goldberg crashing the compromise last night.

00:27:37.000 Of course, it doesn't matter to her.

00:27:38.000 She's not a person who's reliant on food stamps.

00:27:41.000 She's not a person who's reliant on being paid as a member of the TSA.

00:27:45.000 She has really generous health care, I would assume, from ABC's The View.

00:27:49.000 And of course, she has millions and millions of dollars in the bank. 0.99

00:27:51.000 Here's Whoopi Goldberg doing the virtue signaling thing.

00:27:55.000 50-50 chance of negotiating health care subsidies.

00:27:58.000 I just remember all of the people who are coming in and hoping that people would vote them in and say, Yes, you can be this person or you can be a judge or you can be this.

00:28:09.000 And they all said, No, we're not going to mess with anything.

00:28:12.000 No, we're going to leave everything as it was.

00:28:14.000 I have no faith that they're going to negotiate and come back to the table.

00:28:19.000 And, you know, I'm glad that folks may be because, again, we have seen you say this is going to happen and then it doesn't happen.

00:28:28.000 And, you know, people will get rehired, supposedly, federal workers and reinstate snap benefits, but a 50-50 chance of extending the subsidies.

00:28:36.000 I don't believe it.

00:28:40.000 So, you know, again, we will see whether the Democratic Party decides to cave to all of this.

00:28:44.000 You're seeing this battle break out into the open in New York, of course, where Kathy Hochul has been slamming the brakes on Zorhan Mamdani's insane proposals.

00:28:51.000 So, again, she is in a neck and neck battle with Elise Stefanic for governorship of New York. 0.96

00:28:56.000 And she is very much afraid that if she does what Zorhan Mamdani wants, it'll absolutely crater her gubernatorial chances in her re-elect effort.

00:29:03.000 So, yesterday, she tried to slam the brakes on Zorhan Mamdani's nonsense.

00:29:08.000 According to the New York Post, Hochul, speaking during a press conference at the Somos political retreat in Puerto Rico on Saturday, argued she's already put vast sums of money into the perpetually cash-strapped MTA for major projects.

00:29:19.000 She said, We're spending a lot of money, so I can't set forth a plan right now that takes money out of the busing system that relies on the fares of the buses and the subways.

00:29:26.000 Can we find a path to make it more affordable for people who need help?

00:29:29.000 Of course, we can.

00:29:31.000 Meanwhile, Zorhan Mamdani tried to avoid direct conflict with Hochul because he's going to lose.

00:29:35.000 He said, I continue to be excited at the work of making the slowest buses in America fast and free, and I appreciate the governor's continued partnership in delivering on that agenda of affordability.

00:29:43.000 Again, one of my bugaboos here is that in our politics, if you just say the problem over and over and over, people then give you credibility, which is ridiculous.

00:29:51.000 If you have bad solutions, you labeling the problem does not help in any way, shape, or form.

00:29:57.000 Meanwhile, by the way, the downstream effects of the Mamdani election are being felt, according to the Daily Wire.

00:30:02.000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement is now recruiting NYPD officers disgruntled by the election of Zorhan Mamdani.

00:30:09.000 With a flood of cash from President Trump's one big beautiful bill, the agency has set a goal to recruit 10,000 new officers to turbocharge the historic deportation campaign.

00:30:17.000 New York City officers, already hamstrung by local sanctuary policies, are expected to face new hurdles with Mamdani in charge.

00:30:23.000 So ICE put out a tweet yesterday, and it said, NYPD officers, defend your family, defend your city, defend the homeland, join ICE.

00:30:31.000 ICE is already offering retired law enforcement officers up to $50,000 in recruitment bonuses, and they've received, apparently, at the DHS more than 200,000 applications already.

00:30:42.000 It'll be interesting to see what happens as the New York City Police Department empties out in favor of greener pastures.

00:30:48.000 Meanwhile, the Democratic Party, again, there is no too radical for the Democratic Party.

00:30:54.000 One of the hilarious internacine wars that is currently happening inside the Democratic Party is a war that happened in Minneapolis between Jacob Frey, who is the insanely left-wing mayor of Minneapolis.

00:31:07.000 You remember him from kneeling in front of the George Floyd casket.

00:31:10.000 You remember the masking and the riots and all that from 2020.

00:31:14.000 And he was taking on Omar Fateh.

00:31:16.000 Omar Fateh, of course, is Somali in origin and came very close to beating Jacob Frey.

00:31:22.000 Apparently, one of the reasons that Jacob Frey won is that he actually identified inside the Somali community Klans that didn't like other Kansas and then proceeded to target them for voting, which led Ilhan Omar, another person elected by the Somali community, to suggest that Somalis who didn't support her or Fateh should be expelled.

00:31:45.000 I mean, you want to talk about tribal politics happening inside the Democratic Party?

00:31:48.000 Here we go.

00:31:52.000 She says when a Somalian person becomes an enemy, they become a serious one.

00:31:58.000 There are people like that living right here in our city.

00:32:01.000 We all see them.

00:32:03.000 Some of us try to dismiss it, saying, oh, that person just talked too much.

00:32:06.000 It doesn't mean anything.

00:32:07.000 Or leave them alone.

00:32:08.000 That's my relative.

00:32:10.000 You probably met them in coffee shops.

00:32:11.000 You know exactly the kind of people I'm talking about.

00:32:13.000 We sat with them at Starbucks.

00:32:16.000 Maybe you've seen them once in a while at the mosque.

00:32:18.000 Maybe you've gone to parties together.

00:32:20.000 You know who I mean.

00:32:20.000 You've seen them.

00:32:24.000 We need to get rid of these people.

00:32:27.000 Man, politics here in the United States is going so well.

00:32:32.000 I'm glad that we imported vast populations of people who are so tribal that Ilhan Omar is able on the basis of tribal identity alone, not even some sort of broader religious or ideological rubric, to sort of separate them out. 1.00

00:32:48.000 Pretty impressive stuff right there happening in Minnesota.

00:32:52.000 Meanwhile, it's not as though the infighting is not happening on the right as well.

00:32:55.000 Marjorie Taylor Greene is attempting to lead an insurgency to take away control of MAGA from President Trump.

00:33:00.000 Good luck with that to the congresswoman from Georgia, who would be a complete unknown were it not for President Trump and some media figures who have touted her beyond all intellectual capacity.

00:33:11.000 President Trump yesterday went after MTG, who has spent the last several weeks on a slam Trump tour with mainstream media voices.

00:33:19.000 So when somebody like Marjorie Taylor Greene, who's now catering to the other side, I don't know what, you know, I guess she's, you know, got some kind of vernacular, but I'm surprised at her.

00:33:28.000 But when somebody like Marjorie goes over and starts making statements like that, it shows she doesn't know.

00:33:34.000 I don't devote a lot of my time.

00:33:38.000 Okay, so, you know, again, the president is right about this.

00:33:41.000 The only thing the president is missing is that it is obviously planned and it is also malign.

00:33:45.000 The reason that Marjorie Taylor Greene is doing this is not because she has lost her way.

00:33:50.000 It's because she has found her way and her way is to undermine President Trump's coalition on behalf of her own parochial interests. 1.00

00:33:56.000 That is what she is doing.

00:33:58.000 She's been doing it for literally months.

00:34:01.000 There's already a game that is being played by people like Marjorie Taylor Greene to try and seize control of the MAGA movement away from President Trump and redefine it in a direction that she chooses. 1.00

00:34:10.000 It is a thing that is clearly going on.

00:34:13.000 And the president should know that because that is what is happening here.

00:34:17.000 Marjorie Taylor Greene then responded by telling Caitlin Collins of CNN, I haven't lost my way.

00:34:22.000 I'm 100% America first and only.

00:34:24.000 Again, there are rumors that she wants to run for president, to which I say absolutely she should.

00:34:27.000 And we will find out how popular her program is.

00:34:31.000 I would suggest not all that popular.

00:34:33.000 Meanwhile, the president continues to be battered around on issues of affordability because affordability, of course, is the word of the day.

00:34:41.000 And yes, Americans are deeply concerned about affordability.

00:34:44.000 As the New York Times points out, President Trump has mentioned the word affordability as much in the last week as he has in the past nine months.

00:34:49.000 His renewed attention to the issue comes after weeks in which he faced mounting criticism for appearing out of touch with everyday Americans.

00:34:57.000 So Democrats have been trying to make the case that President Trump is not paying attention to affordability.

00:35:03.000 President Trump has fought back by claiming that inflation is way down under his presidency, which of course is true, is way up under Joe Biden.

00:35:10.000 It is reduced, but it is not ended by any stretch of the imagination.

00:35:16.000 A Washington Post ABC News Ipsos poll recently found that a majority of Americans say they are currently spending more on groceries and utilities than they were a year ago.

00:35:24.000 Only 30% of voters believe President Trump has lived up to their expectations for tackling inflation and the cost of living.

00:35:31.000 And of course, it is Marjorie Taylor Greene who's leading the charge, not because she cares about affordability, but because she wishes, again, to attack the president. 0.97

00:35:38.000 She said, I go to the grocery store myself. 0.64

00:35:40.000 Groceries prices remain high.

00:35:41.000 Energy prices are high.

00:35:42.000 My electricity bills are higher here at Washington, D.C., at my apartment.

00:35:45.000 They're also higher at my house in Rome, Georgia, higher than they were a year ago.

00:35:51.000 Now, again, the ways that you actually bring affordability into view for your trade, less regulation, lower taxes, that makes things more affordable.

00:36:01.000 But the president, again, seems very wedded to his tariff regimen.

00:36:05.000 And the tariffs are not particularly hitting tech.

00:36:08.000 Tech, because tech is transnational and it is less wedded to location than many other businesses in the United States.

00:36:15.000 The tariffs just don't hit NVIDIA in the same way.

00:36:18.000 They don't hit Tesla in the same way because Tesla's valuation is not as much predicated on the number of cars that it sells as it is on the expectation that Elon Musk is using all the data that he's gathering to build new types of robotics and new types of AI.

00:36:33.000 It means all the gains are going to the tech companies at the top of the market and all these sort of mainstream American companies that actually rely on inputs and then being able to export.

00:36:33.000 So what does that mean?

00:36:43.000 Those are the ones that are being hurt.

00:36:45.000 Nonetheless, President Trump is out there warning of a national security disaster if the Supreme Court should stay on the tariffs.

00:36:50.000 Here he was yesterday.

00:36:52.000 We have AI factories.

00:36:54.000 We're leading China by a lot.

00:36:56.000 We have cars and car plants coming in by more than we've ever had built before.

00:37:03.000 All of that would go away if we lose the tariff case.

00:37:06.000 So all of it would go away.

00:37:08.000 So they're not giving the right numbers.

00:37:10.000 It would be an economic disaster.

00:37:13.000 It would be a national security disaster if we lost the case in the Supreme Court.

00:37:18.000 Okay, now I think the markets would react a very different way than President Trump suggests.

00:37:22.000 If the Supreme Court were to strike down the tariffs, yeah, there would be another round of uncertainty, but at least the president wouldn't be able to sort of just blanket tariff the entire world.

00:37:30.000 So my guess is the economy would actually rebound in the face of such a decision by the Supreme Court.

00:37:36.000 All righty, time for some fast facts.

00:37:42.000 We begin with more on the Supreme Court.

00:37:44.000 So the Supreme Court has now rejected a call to overturn Oberzfeld.

00:37:48.000 Oberzfeld, of course, is the Supreme Court case that established essentially a national right to same-sex marriage.

00:37:54.000 That case is wrongly decided.

00:37:55.000 It is an egregious violation of the constitutional text, but the Supreme Court did not want to take it up.

00:38:01.000 That is not a surprise.

00:38:02.000 Even in the Dobbs case, which overthrew Roe versus Wade, there was a footnote from Justice Kavanaugh in which he explicitly said, basically, we're not going to take up Oberjfeld.

00:38:10.000 The reason those two cases were supposedly linked is because the right to abortion that theoretically existed under Roe versus Wade was predicated on a broader right to privacy and that same right to privacy, which was, again, based in a notion known as substantive due process, which, again, is a nonsensical notion.

00:38:30.000 That entire concept is also the basis for the idea that there is a right to same-sex marriage implicit in the Constitution of the United States, which is totally insane.

00:38:37.000 There is no such right implicit in the Constitution of the United States.

00:38:40.000 Now, that does not mean that on a public policy level, that there should be laws against gay people living together or people doing what they want in the privacy of their own homes.

00:38:50.000 That is a pragmatic and moral consideration that each state should go through at its own behest. 0.91

00:38:55.000 But the idea that there's a federal right, a federal right for a man to marry a man is, of course, ridiculous and violates the Constitution.

00:39:01.000 The Supreme Court, however, does not want to touch it.

00:39:03.000 That is not a particular shock since same-sex marriage has been embedded into the fabric of the society for 10 years and probably 20 if you go back to Massachusetts starting to perform these sorts of marriages.

00:39:16.000 Her lawyers, the lawyers for Kim Davis, are the ones who sued.

00:39:20.000 She, of course, was the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after that 2015 ruling in Obergefell.

00:39:28.000 She'd been trying to get the court to overturn a lower court order for her to pay $360,000 in damages and attorneys fees to a couple denied a marriage license. 0.97

00:39:36.000 Her lawyers repeatedly invoked the words of Justice Clarence Thomas, who has called for erasing the same-sex marriage ruling on the basis of, you know, the thing called the Constitution.

00:39:47.000 So, again, there's probably some support on the court for overthrowing Oberzfeldt, but certainly not enough.

00:39:54.000 For example, Justice Amy Coney Barrett has said that same-sex marriage might not be in the same sort of category with regard to right to privacy as abortion because people have relied on the decision when they married and then had kids.

00:40:06.000 And the bottom line here is that, again, the chances the Supreme Court was going to touch this were always extremely, extremely low.

00:40:14.000 Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is poised to hear a major challenge to mail-in ballot laws, according to the New York Times.

00:40:20.000 They will hear a challenge to Mississippi's counting of mail-in ballots received after Election Day.

00:40:24.000 So, first of all, if you mail in your ballot and it is received after Election Day, tough luck. 0.92

00:40:29.000 This is ridiculous. 0.83

00:40:32.000 This notion, first of all, that we should be doing vast mail-in balloting in the United States weeks in advance of an election is totally crazy. 0.93

00:40:38.000 It used to be called Election Day.

00:40:39.000 It is now election season.

00:40:41.000 And if you waited until Election Day to mail your ballot because you were too lazy to go to a polling place and then it's received three days later, tough luck.

00:40:49.000 There are lots of reasons we invalidate ballots in this country.

00:40:51.000 You marked them improperly.

00:40:52.000 You wrote your name down wrong.

00:40:54.000 Like, there are lots of reasons why your ballot might not count.

00:40:57.000 If you don't abide by the rules, then that is what it is.

00:41:02.000 If you don't abide by the rules, I'm not sure why the rules have to change to accommodate you. 0.93

00:41:06.000 That's silly.

00:41:07.000 Because otherwise, you are opening the door to widespread voter intimidation and voter fraud.

00:41:12.000 The case is a potential blockbuster, according to the New York Times, that asks the justices to determine the meaning of Election Day.

00:41:19.000 The challenge to the Mississippi law reflects political fights over the increased use of mail-in ballots, which exploded during the COVID pandemic.

00:41:26.000 In 2024, the RNC, along with the Mississippi Republican Party and individual voters, challenged Mississippi's mail-in ballot rules.

00:41:33.000 The challengers argued Congress had intended voting take place on a single election day and allowing ballots to arrive days later and still be counted undermined election integrity and the public's trust in the vote.

00:41:42.000 I mean, obviously, that's true.

00:41:43.000 Obviously, that's true.

00:41:46.000 Now, again, they're claiming that as long as the ballot was postmarked by election day, you should be okay.

00:41:50.000 That is the counterclaim.

00:41:52.000 The problem is, do you want your elections to carry on for days on end?

00:41:56.000 Is that a thing that we want to incentivize?

00:41:58.000 And the answer is pretty clearly no.

00:42:01.000 And meanwhile, on the foreign policy front, we have now been treated to the bizarre spectacle of a terrorist who put on a suit.

00:42:09.000 And now we're supposed to pretend that he's no longer a terrorist in any way.

00:42:12.000 I understand that relations with Syria are complex.

00:42:15.000 After the fall of Bashar Assad, which again, I said at the time was going to open a huge number of problems, as well as the possibility of future opportunities.

00:42:25.000 Well, both those things have been true.

00:42:26.000 The person who ended up taking over was a former al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorist.

00:42:32.000 That person, whose name is Ahmed Al-Shara, he decided to visit the White House yesterday.

00:42:41.000 Syria, the United States is trying to broker some sort of deal between Syria and Israel.

00:42:46.000 The Turks basically run Syria at this point.

00:42:49.000 It's a great unmentioned elephant in the room in the Middle East right now is not Iran.

00:42:53.000 It's not Saudi. 0.88

00:42:53.000 It's not Israel. 0.88

00:42:54.000 It's Turkey.

00:42:55.000 Turkey has been spreading its wings, attempting to extend the range of its neo-Ottoman empire through Syria.

00:43:01.000 There's no question that's what Turkey has been doing. 0.98

00:43:02.000 Erdogan is, in fact, a radical Islamist who supports terrorism throughout the region. 0.97

00:43:07.000 The fact that Turkey is a member of NATO is insane, totally insane. 0.55

00:43:12.000 And so the matter in Syria has become complicated because militias, largely backed by the Syrian government, or at least with the Syrian government looking the other way, those militias have been going in and slaughtering Druze in the south of Syria.

00:43:24.000 The state of Israel, which of course has a large Druze population, has been attempting to defend the Druze because the Druze, again, being quite tribal, are willing to literally walk over the border to Syria and just start fighting on behalf of their brothers. 0.82

00:43:38.000 And so things are pretty complicated over in Syria.

00:43:40.000 With that said, there are possible openings in Syria if the United States is willing to tell the Turks to back down.

00:43:47.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Syria has now joined the U.S.-led mission to defeat ISIS.

00:43:52.000 They move marks a significant turnaround in the U.S. relationship with Syria.

00:43:57.000 The decision is a sign of Syria's transition from a driver of Middle East instability as a result of former President Bashar al-Assad's violent crackdown on his own people, which allowed ISIS to flourish into an ally aiding an American-led military operation to keep ISIS at bay.

00:44:10.000 There's talk about opening embassies in the capital of Damascus or Syria reopening its embassy in Washington, D.C.

00:44:19.000 The president met with this person who, again, was a terrorist and has terrorist sympathies.

00:44:25.000 Can he be turned around?

00:44:26.000 We're going to find out in very, very short order.

00:44:28.000 Trump's special envoy for Syria, Tom Barrick, has traveled to Damascus twice in the past six weeks.

00:44:34.000 Andrew Tabler, an expert on Syria at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said Trump went all in with Shara. 0.67

00:44:40.000 They see it as an opportunity to reorient Syria away from U.S. adversaries like Iran and toward Washington, the Arab Gulf, and Turkey.

00:44:47.000 This is big stuff.

00:44:49.000 Well, I mean, again, that is treating Turkey, I think, with a little more respect than Turkey deserves at this point, given its support for, again, Hamas in the Gaza Strip and its openly Islamist attempts to turn its regime from a secularist regime into a Sharia regime under Erdogan.

00:45:08.000 This is complicated stuff.

00:45:10.000 I do not envy the president attempting to work things out in Syria.

00:45:15.000 We'll have to see, again, whether Syria turns into yet another failed terrorist state or whether they're held to account by the West.

00:45:23.000 And meanwhile, in a piece of salutary news, the IOC has now decided to ban transgender women, meaning men, from all female Olympic events.

00:45:31.000 That would be the International Olympic Committee.

00:45:33.000 This has become, of course, a very hot issue given the fact that last time at the Olympics, men were fighting women in boxing.

00:45:39.000 According to the New York Post, the International Olympic Committee is reportedly set to ban trans women from competing in all female categories.

00:45:45.000 The change is set to be officially announced early next year.

00:45:48.000 The decision to overhaul the current policy was made after the sporting committee carried out a science-based review of a biologically born male's physical advantages.

00:45:56.000 The report claimed there were clear advantages with the athletes who had disorders of sexual development, which is essentially people who have intersex conditions, for example.

00:46:06.000 So now the idea is that women will be competing with women, which, of course, is a good thing. 1.00

00:46:11.000 It is unbelievable that it took an entire cultural revolution in the United States in order to say what is perfectly obvious.

00:46:19.000 Again, that's sort of the way that things work here in the United States these days, is that saying the perfectly obvious has now become a matter of serious controversy.

00:46:27.000 Meanwhile, Michelle Obama is out there and she is complaining about life.

00:46:32.000 It is amazing.

00:46:33.000 Again, the number of people in this country who complain about the United States, like Kwa United States, lives the most privileged lives imaginable, is really an amazing, amazing thing.

00:46:41.000 Whether it is Zara Mamdani, who has lived a life of tremendous privilege here in the United States, or whether it is Michelle Obama, the capacity of the left to be utterly ungrateful about the virtues of America is pretty incredible.

00:46:55.000 So, Michelle Obama, she has been complaining about a couple of things.

00:46:59.000 One, she's complaining about the tearing down of the East Wing, which, again, like the fact that Democrats keep trying to make this an issue is beyond me.

00:47:07.000 There were a whole standard of norms and rules that we followed to a T that we painstakingly tried to uphold because it was bigger than us.

00:47:18.000 That East Wing, that's not my feelings about that.

00:47:21.000 It's not mine.

00:47:23.000 It is ours.

00:47:26.000 But we have to get, as a country, decide what rules are we following and who is to abide by them and who isn't.

00:47:38.000 I am lost.

00:47:40.000 And I hope that more Americans feel lost in a way that they want to be found.

00:47:47.000 Okay, I mean, like, really, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:47:50.000 Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:47:51.000 Man.

00:47:53.000 Mom, if she wasn't complaining about the East Wing, she's just complaining generally about how hard her life is. 0.99

00:47:57.000 Because if you think of a person who's had a hard life in America, Michelle Obama definitely comes to mind if you're an insane person. 0.76

00:48:03.000 I didn't really have that choice this first thing.

00:48:06.000 Of course.

00:48:07.000 Every day, every time I was up, as we called it, you know, I was up for the public.

00:48:13.000 Yes.

00:48:13.000 And the days were long.

00:48:15.000 So as you mentioned, to save time, you know, I know having a glam team, a trifecta, it feels like a luxury, but it was a time necessity.

00:48:28.000 There was absolutely no way that I would be able to do my hair and makeup and have clothes ready that fit, you know, because rare is the woman that can live off the rack. 1.00

00:48:42.000 Well, probably we need socialism then.

00:48:44.000 I mean, I guess that's simultaneously socialism good.

00:48:47.000 And also, I need my glam team.

00:48:49.000 That is definitely, again, the sort of limousine liberalism we used to condemn.

00:48:54.000 It is very much alive and well.

00:48:57.000 Apparently, the Kimmel family is now going around complaining about their life as well.

00:49:01.000 Jimmy Kimmel's wife, Molly McNearney, she appeared on a podcast recently with Jimmy Kimmel talking about how hard it was to be temporarily fired. 0.94

00:49:11.000 And he was temporarily fired again, as you recall, because he made a really stupid and terrible reference about Charlie Kirk suggesting, of course, that the right had been responsible for Charlie's murder. 0.58

00:49:21.000 And then places like Sinclair Broadcasting said that they didn't want any part of it. 0.90

00:49:25.000 And then eventually he came back after a quasi apology.

00:49:28.000 Well, apparently they had to talk a lot to this podcaster about how rough it was.

00:49:34.000 There's helicopters over our house and madness outside.

00:49:38.000 And Jimmy said, well, we're going to have to tell them because our daughter's in fifth grade and kids talk.

00:49:46.000 And so we sat them down on the couch and we told them.

00:49:49.000 We said, I believe Jimmy started the conversation.

00:49:52.000 And we realized in that moment that any other time we've sat them down to talk about something, I guess it's been good because Jimmy said, we want to talk to you guys about something.

00:50:03.000 And Jane, our 11-year-old, went, oh, oh my gosh, Julie, they have to talk to us about something.

00:50:07.000 And she's like, get in here, get in here.

00:50:08.000 And I think the last time we had done that, we surprised them with Disneyland or something.

00:50:13.000 So they seemed like it was going to be good.

00:50:16.000 And it occurred to me, oh boy, this is not going to be good.

00:50:19.000 And Jimmy let them know.

00:50:22.000 He said, our show has, my show has been suspended.

00:50:25.000 And our daughter immediately burst into tears.

00:50:29.000 And she said, I'll sell my laboo boos. 0.83

00:50:34.000 And we told her, yeah, you should.

00:50:36.000 No, we did not.

00:50:37.000 We told her, no, you don't need to do that.

00:50:38.000 You don't need to sell laboo boos. 0.99

00:50:40.000 And our son asked if the president had done this.

00:50:44.000 And we looked at each other and we didn't quite know how to answer that question.

00:50:50.000 So I have a general rule, okay?

00:50:52.000 As a politically active person, shall we say, who comes under a lot of fire, don't do this to your kids.

00:50:57.000 Like, really, don't do this to your kids.

00:51:00.000 It sounds like their kids.

00:51:01.000 If your kid is young enough to ask whether the Laboo Boos should be sold, you should not be having these conversations with your kids.

00:51:06.000 Here's a piece of parental advice.

00:51:07.000 As someone with 24-7 security all the time, with an enormous amount of this kind of stuff going on in my life, just don't, your kids don't need to know this is for you and your spouse.

00:51:18.000 Again, because the reality is we all have vicissitudes in our life, but people in my place, people in Jimmy's place, you know, we're some of the most privileged people on the planet in history of humanity.

00:51:31.000 And so, trying to, you know, create angst with your kids is a mistake, shall we say, or giving the ability for your kid, creating angst in your kids this way, I would say, I would suggest that that's not the proper way of handling this sort of stuff.

00:51:47.000 Okay, I do want to take a moment to note, of course, that it is Veterans Day.

00:51:52.000 We are so grateful to everyone who is serving and who has served in the United States Armed Forces.

00:51:58.000 An unbelievable sacrifice made by so many and continuing to be made by so many people.

00:52:04.000 And in honor of Veterans Day, I want to make a cultural recommendation.

00:52:06.000 It is my favorite series of all time, probably the best thing that has ever aired on television or on movie screen for that matter.

00:52:12.000 Go watch Band of Brothers.

00:52:14.000 If you've never seen Band of Brothers, which is the story of the 101st Airborne, it's available on HBO, starring Damian Lewis and a bunch of other character actors who you will recognize when you see their faces.

00:52:23.000 It is the best thing that's ever been on TV.

00:52:25.000 It follows the 101st Airborne all the way from training through the liberation of Germany.

00:52:30.000 It is a fabulous piece of work.

00:52:32.000 It is absolutely spectacular.

00:52:34.000 It is worth every moment.

00:52:36.000 Your kids probably need to be about 14 to watch it.

00:52:40.000 It's got the same level of carnage, maybe a little bit less than Saving Private Ryan, but it is beautifully shot.

00:52:46.000 It is beautifully written.

00:52:47.000 It is beautifully acted.

00:52:48.000 And it is an amazing window into what it was like to serve in World War II.

00:52:54.000 Again, probably the best thing in the history of television and a good way to remember our veterans on Veterans Day.

00:53:02.000 And speaking of Veterans Day, one of our sponsors here at the Bench Ferris show, of course, you've heard us talk about them before, is Legacy Box.

00:53:08.000 And they are doing something amazing.

00:53:10.000 They have been giving out for free their resources to veterans that veterans can actually preserve their legacies, preserve their memories.

00:53:17.000 We had the opportunity to sit down with a few veterans yesterday and talk about it.

00:53:22.000 Joining me online is Tina Kiprios.

00:53:24.000 She served in the Army for 10 years.

00:53:27.000 Tina, thanks so much for taking the time.

00:53:28.000 I really appreciate it.

00:53:30.000 Thank you very much for having me.

00:53:33.000 So, how did you decide that you wanted to be in the military?

00:53:36.000 What inspired you to serve?

00:53:40.000 My dad had served in the Army, and I always thought that was very cool.

00:53:46.000 He was in right after the Korean War, so he missed combat there.

00:53:52.000 And then when I was getting to college and I learned that ROTC would cover my college, that was a pretty big inspiration.

00:54:01.000 And it was, you know, the idea of following in my dad's footsteps and having my education covered definitely sealed the deal for me.

00:54:11.000 So, what about serving in the military really changed you, changed your life?

00:54:17.000 My family wasn't typically very disciplined growing up at all.

00:54:23.000 And so, certainly, that was a first wake-up call for me: actually, being required to follow orders and meeting a particular standard.

00:54:35.000 And that's not the house that I grew up in.

00:54:39.000 So, it was a pretty big transformation in terms of not only the necessity, but the value of meeting higher standards at the get-go.

00:54:54.000 Were there any specific experiences that stick out to you from your time serving?

00:54:59.000 There's certainly plenty.

00:55:03.000 And I think probably one that sticks is really very early.

00:55:09.000 When I, right after my officer basic course, I was assigned to a unit in Germany.

00:55:15.000 And this it was sort of a U.S. Army customs unit.

00:55:21.000 And they're the folks that pack people out when they're going and when they're going anywhere, you know, whether they're going back to stateside or through combat missions or whatever.

00:55:32.000 And when it's one of the things that made this unit unique, this company unique, a company of about 200 soldiers, was there were actually only two officers.

00:55:44.000 And when I arrived in country at my unit, it turned out that my company commander, the other officer, was actually on emergency leave because his dad had just passed away.

00:55:57.000 So as a brand new second lieutenant, literally right off the bus, I was made a company commander.

00:56:04.000 So in this unit, the company commander was an 04 position, an officer of the fourth.

00:56:11.000 It was a captain major position.

00:56:12.000 I was a brand new second lieutenant.

00:56:15.000 And so what it taught me pretty quickly is you don't know what you're going to be asked or expected to do.

00:56:23.000 And so in this case, you know, I was in charge and my company commander was gone for just over a week.

00:56:32.000 But in that week, I was responsible for everything in that unit.

00:56:39.000 So when you look back now, when you look forward to the future, what does your legacy mean to you?

00:56:43.000 What's the legacy you hope to leave?

00:56:47.000 First is love of this country.

00:56:52.000 You know, I think one of the things that I learned, you know, in Germany, and I got to go to England and Spain in my service as well, plus throughout the U.S.

00:57:04.000 It's a special country.

00:57:05.000 And we operate differently, I think, than every other country throughout history.

00:57:12.000 And we take great care of not only taking care of our soldiers, but of fighting and winning wars in a way that we can be proud of ourselves for.

00:57:25.000 And so on the global level, that's probably the first thing.

00:57:31.000 And then, you know, just on an individual level, the idea of discipline, I think my girls, I think, would definitely affirm that I ran a much more disciplined house than I grew up in.

00:57:45.000 And I think that learning to work together, learning to be an individual as well as working together as a team.

00:57:55.000 I think those are probably the three top things for me that I take away.

00:58:01.000 Well, thank you so much for stopping by and sharing your story.

00:58:04.000 Thank you so much for your service as well.

00:58:07.000 Thank you for the privilege.

00:58:08.000 Have a great day.

00:58:10.000 Happy to welcome to the program Jake Huff, Sergeant Major.

00:58:14.000 Thanks so much for taking the time, Sergeant.

00:58:15.000 Oh, thank you for having me.

00:58:16.000 This was great.

00:58:17.000 Appreciate it.

00:58:18.000 Let's talk about your background.

00:58:19.000 Where are you from?

00:58:20.000 How did you come to join the military?

00:58:23.000 So I was, my dad was in the military, so I was born in Germany, lived there for about eight years.

00:58:27.000 And then my dad was stationed in Wyoming, F.A. Warren Air Force Base.

00:58:32.000 And we stayed there for the rest of growing up.

00:58:36.000 I joined the military when I was 17 in the junior and high school.

00:58:39.000 I knew I needed a way to get to college, and the National Guard was a way to do it.

00:58:44.000 So I went to basic training between my junior and senior year of high school.

00:58:47.000 And then I graduated high school.

00:58:48.000 I left and went to Fort Rucker, Alabama to learn what my job was going to be.

00:58:53.000 I did six years in the National Guard to include a deployment to Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

00:58:59.000 And then I was a local sheriff's deputy, still hadn't finished all the education I wanted to get.

00:59:04.000 So I came to the active Army just to finish my degree off and I enjoyed it and stayed for the next 28 years.

00:59:12.000 And I retired in 2025.

00:59:15.000 Can you describe what you think of as maybe some of your defining moments while you were in uniform that really changed your life, changed you?

00:59:22.000 Yeah, so I think the biggest thing that changed me and had an effect not just only on me, but on our family, was assignment into special operations.

00:59:30.000 I was assigned to 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, assessed and was selected for that unit.

00:59:37.000 And that was an organization that just holistically took care of not only the soldier, but the family.

00:59:44.000 And it truly every day demonstrated what servant leadership is, which is what I thought I'd had.

00:59:49.000 I'd seen through my dad's career.

00:59:51.000 But this was the first time I'd seen it embraced wholly as a unit.

00:59:55.000 And that changed the way I looked at leadership, the way it took care of our family.

01:00:01.000 And even now, though we've been out of the regiment for quite some time and retired, we still have great ties back to that organization and great friends there and still have family members who serve in that organization.

01:00:12.000 So when you tell your story to your kids, your family, what do you hope your legacy is?

01:00:18.000 How do you want to be remembered?

01:00:18.000 What do you legacy to be?

01:00:21.000 I think when a lot of people look at legacy, they look at kind of tangibles, what you leave behind, businesses and money and things like that.

01:00:28.000 When I think of legacy, I think of how we impacted others, particularly my military career.

01:00:33.000 How did we help those around us, the organization do its mission, but those around us lift them up so that they can reach their goals?

01:00:40.000 It's not something that's tangible.

01:00:42.000 I can look at a picture and see soldiers I served with and then the opportunities we got them, the help that we did with them and where they're at in their careers today and seeing that type of servitude leadership continue. 0.78

01:00:56.000 And so for me, that's my legacy.

01:00:58.000 And that's what I hope my family sees and my family does is helping their community, helping those around.

01:01:05.000 Well, I really want to thank you for sharing your story and, of course, for your service.

01:01:09.000 And thanks to Legacy Box for helping us preserve those memories for you and your family as well.

01:01:14.000 Really appreciate it.

01:01:16.000 Thank you.

01:01:17.000 And thank you for doing this.

01:01:18.000 Greatly appreciated.

01:01:20.000 Joining us online is Robert Hickish.

01:01:22.000 He served in the Navy for 20 years.

01:01:23.000 Robert, thanks so much for the time.

01:01:24.000 Really appreciate it.

01:01:26.000 Awesome.

01:01:26.000 Thank you so much for having us.

01:01:28.000 So, Robert, why don't you start by explaining what got you into the Navy in the first place?

01:01:33.000 Well, probably it was back in 1982.

01:01:35.000 I was just out of high school and looking for a job and actually went to go look into the Air Force first, walked into the recruiter's office.

01:01:44.000 This was in September of 82 and they said, yeah, I want you to come back in May.

01:01:50.000 So I walked out of the Air Force recruiter, straight in the Navy recruiter, and actually went in that night.

01:01:57.000 And when you served in the military, and obviously you were there for a very long time.

01:02:00.000 What were some of your defining moments, things that changed you as a human being?

01:02:04.000 Gosh, just the training, the, you know, just the discipline, the job discipline, camaraderie, the travel.

01:02:15.000 Had the opportunity just to live in all parts of the United States and as well as overseas in Japan.

01:02:22.000 Just all-around, just awesome experience to experience different cultures.

01:02:29.000 Were there any experiences that specifically stood out to you?

01:02:32.000 Like when you think back on your service, anything that sort of jumps out at you?

01:02:35.000 I had an awesome time in Japan.

01:02:37.000 The Japanese people were very welcoming and just couldn't wait to get off work and just get on our mountain bikes and travel around town in Ilakuni, Japan.

01:02:51.000 What do you think that your legacy should be?

01:02:53.000 What do you hope that your legacy is, you know, for your kids, for your grandkids?

01:02:57.000 You know, just raising the kids in the military with the good work discipline, living in different parts of the United States, as well as Puerto Rico as kids were growing up, getting them exposed to different parts of the country, different things going on.

01:03:13.000 Just give them an opportunity just to, you know, know themselves better.

01:03:18.000 And of course, I know that you have all those home videos, which are still on VHS tape.

01:03:21.000 So Legacy Box is going to help you get those transferred over so that we can make sure that those stories and that legacy can be preserved forever.

01:03:28.000 Really appreciate your time.

01:03:29.000 Thanks so much for stopping by.

01:03:30.000 Absolutely, Ben.

01:03:31.000 Thank you so much.

01:03:32.000 I'm joined on the line by Emmanuel Morgado.

01:03:35.000 He served in the Navy during Vietnam.

01:03:37.000 Manuel, thanks so much for taking time.

01:03:38.000 Really appreciate it.

01:03:40.000 Welcome.

01:03:41.000 Thanks for asking us.

01:03:42.000 So why don't we start by talking about how you got in the military in the first place?

01:03:47.000 Well, it was during the draft.

01:03:50.000 This was 65.

01:03:51.000 I was in college and I was more interested in fooling around than I was going to college.

01:04:02.000 So at the time, they had the lottery and my lottery number came in and it was, I think, under 20.

01:04:09.000 So I knew that I was going to be drafted.

01:04:14.000 And my heritage is Portuguese.

01:04:19.000 So I figured they're seamen.

01:04:22.000 So I joined the Navy.

01:04:25.000 And what were some of the experiences, sort of the formative experiences that you think really changed your life and who you were?

01:04:31.000 Well, I mean, I'd never been on an airplane before.

01:04:33.000 So right away when I went to basic training, and they make a man out of you. 0.95

01:04:42.000 You have to do everything yourself.

01:04:43.000 You don't have anyone to fall back on.

01:04:47.000 And the experience, I think, changed my life.

01:04:53.000 I grew up on a farm and became, got to be a little more social because I got to meet a lot of people, people that were different than me.

01:05:06.000 And it was a great experience.

01:05:08.000 I think that was probably the biggest thing.

01:05:10.000 Well, when you look back now and you look at where your life has gone, what do you hope your legacy is moving forward?

01:05:17.000 Well, first of all, I would like to make sure that everybody knows that war is terrible.

01:05:24.000 And the thing is that the thing I'm most proud about is that, you know, my country asked me to go to war and I responded.

01:05:36.000 I didn't back out and I'm a better person for it.

01:05:43.000 Well, obviously, we are so grateful for your service.

01:05:46.000 Thank you so much for your time.

01:05:47.000 Thanks for stopping by.

01:05:49.000 Thank you.

01:05:51.000 Joining me on the line is Andrew Malafas.

01:05:53.000 He's a West Point graduate.

01:05:54.000 Andrew, thanks so much for taking the time.

01:05:55.000 Really appreciate it.

01:05:57.000 This is a great thing you're doing here.

01:05:59.000 Thank you very much for having me.

01:06:01.000 So let's talk about your military service and what you've been doing.

01:06:04.000 How did you get involved in this in the first place?

01:06:06.000 In the military?

01:06:09.000 Well, I had an opportunity presented to you.

01:06:10.000 I was 17 years old when I entered West Point.

01:06:13.000 Initially didn't want to go, but my mom kind of said, hey, this is an opportunity and what you should really consider it.

01:06:21.000 And I did.

01:06:22.000 I went for it.

01:06:22.000 And again, initially, I went in as the opportunity for laying out the rest of my life, which it did.

01:06:28.000 But, you know, after a year at West Point, you're not in it for the opportunity.

01:06:32.000 You're in it for the service.

01:06:36.000 And since then, you've joined the hospice industry.

01:06:39.000 You work especially with families that have unique needs because veterans often have unique needs at the end of their lives.

01:06:44.000 Talk a little bit about that.

01:06:46.000 Yeah, veterans always have unique needs at the end of life.

01:06:49.000 I don't think that the public knows the kinds of things that the VA offers to veterans that Medicare does not, even veterans who are not Medicare age.

01:07:02.000 So my last 14 years was primarily spent helping facilitate benefits for veterans and their families.

01:07:11.000 But also, I listened to a lot of veterans who have a lot of stories at end of life.

01:07:16.000 Andrew, you've done an amazing amount for veterans.

01:07:19.000 What do you think makes this country so special?

01:07:22.000 Well, the Constitution.

01:07:26.000 And we have to treat the Constitution as something sacred.

01:07:33.000 The last 10 years, I was very active in the veteran community in the Chicago area.

01:07:39.000 In my little town of St. Charles, where I was a member of three posts, we initiated Constitution Day.

01:07:46.000 And it happened right at the time when a lot of the riots were going on, the Summer of Love.

01:07:51.000 And we said we needed something else.

01:07:53.000 So I was a big part of facilitating that.

01:07:55.000 And it's been something that they've done every year since.

01:07:59.000 And I think that Constitution Day should be just as significant as Independence Day.

01:08:04.000 Well, Andrew, what would you want your legacy to be, you know, with your family, with your grandkids?

01:08:11.000 Well, legacy means leaving something for the future, sort of like planting a fruit tree and the people that come after you get to bear the fruit.

01:08:21.000 And you see that in industry, I was in food manufacturing for almost 20 years.

01:08:25.000 You want to put processes in place that live beyond you.

01:08:29.000 And so in the Army, you'd be like mentoring somebody and them being a good leader forever.

01:08:34.000 Me personally, I hope I'm remembered as a good father, a good husband.

01:08:39.000 I'm a Catholic.

01:08:41.000 I'd like to achieve salvation, and I would like to be known as someone who set the example for that.

01:08:47.000 Well, thank you so much for everything that you've done.

01:08:49.000 And really, thanks for taking the time.

01:08:51.000 Thank you, Ben.

01:08:52.000 It's a pleasure talking with you and meeting you.

01:08:55.000 Joining us on the line is George Aspel.

01:08:57.000 He's a U.S. Navy Vietnam veteran.

01:08:59.000 George, thanks so much for taking the time.

01:09:00.000 Really appreciate it.

01:09:02.000 Thank you, Ben.

01:09:02.000 So how did you end up in the military in the first place?

01:09:05.000 What drew you to it?

01:09:08.000 I had a fight with my girlfriend, who's currently my wife, and had a few extra drinks that night, and the next morning jumped up and went and joined the Navy.

01:09:19.000 And what were your experiences in the military?

01:09:22.000 How did that shape you as a human being?

01:09:25.000 It took me a long time to realize that the Navy did for me something that I never thought about.

01:09:30.000 It taught me how to be a leader.

01:09:32.000 It taught me how to treat people properly and to apply myself in a way that allowed me to end up with a good career.

01:09:41.000 Are there any experiences that you specifically recall that really kind of stick out in your memory?

01:09:49.000 I don't have a lot of just single experiences.

01:09:54.000 What the Navy did for me was to tell me or show me that if I wanted to do anything with my life, I was going to have to get an education.

01:10:01.000 So after my four years in the Navy, I got out in July, went back to school starting in September and graduated three years later and went on to have a reasonably good career.

01:10:12.000 So when you look back and you figure you define your legacy as a human being, what does your legacy mean to you?

01:10:20.000 A couple of things.

01:10:21.000 One, that I serve my country well.

01:10:25.000 Number two, I think the best legacy I could ever have is that my grandchildren would say he was a good granddaddy.

01:10:33.000 Well, I really want to thank you so much for your service and thank you so much for taking the time.

01:10:38.000 Thanks, Ben.

01:10:39.000 Appreciate it.

01:10:39.000 Have a great day.

01:10:41.000 We want to thank all of our veterans.

01:10:43.000 And whether it's a loved one in uniform or your family's holiday mornings, preserve the stories that shaped you.

01:10:48.000 Head over to legacybox.com slash Shapiro today to preserve your family's history.

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