The Ben Shapiro Show - Mr. Shapiro Goes To Washington | The Ben Shapiro Show Ep. 350

00:00:00.000 While ESPN and the NFL cheered the supposed courage of former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who sucked at his job, for failing to stand for the national anthem, it turns out the viewers were less sanguine.

00:00:11.000 According to a new poll from J.D.

00:00:12.000 Power, the number one reason fans decided not to watch the NFL last year was the national anthem protests.

00:00:18.000 Which ended up spreading to several teams and multiple players. 0.95

00:00:21.000 Fully 26% of people who said they watched less NFL content last year said they did so because of the National Anthem crap.

00:00:27.000 Another 24% said that domestic violence and delay of game penalties kept them away.

00:00:32.000 This is the second major poll to confirm that leftist politics drove Americans from watching football.

00:00:36.000 In October 2016, 56% of fans said they believed ratings were down because of the National Anthem protests.

00:00:42.000 They were right.

00:00:43.000 Which means that the left's unwavering desire to infuse politics into even the most apolitical content comes with a cost, alienation of an audience that disagrees.

00:00:52.000 While polls show that the vast bulk of Americans despise the National Anthem protests, those statistics polarize by race.

00:00:58.000 63% of white Americans disliked the protest, a plurality of Hispanics disapproved, 45% to 36%, but fully 74% of black Americans liked the protest.

00:01:04.000 Overall, 54% of Americans opposed the protest, with just 38% approving.

00:01:12.000 That racial polarization that gripped the nation over the last several years, thanks to the rise of Black Lives Matter and President Obama's decision to humor racially divisive politics, it didn't leave football untouched.

00:01:22.000 And the leftists at the sports networks, in an attempt to mirror their political idols of the Democratic Party, celebrated as their own industry imbibed from the intersectional bottle.

00:01:30.000 The cost?

00:01:31.000 Ratings.

00:01:31.000 Mixing politics into sport has withdrawn an essential part of our civic culture from the realm of the universal.

00:01:37.000 And that's going to have larger ramifications than merely a drop in NFL ratings.

00:01:40.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:01:41.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:01:49.000 Some days there is so much news that it is impossible to get through everything.

00:01:53.000 That is why I am now going to speak at three times my normal speed, because there was just so much news that happened yesterday.

00:01:59.000 I was on the Hill.

00:02:00.000 I was testifying about censorship on college campuses.

00:02:03.000 We'll play some tape of that because it was a lot of fun.

00:02:06.000 I testified, Adam Carolla testified, and it was a unique experience that I want to tell you about.

00:02:10.000 I had some thoughts on it.

00:02:11.000 Also, in bigger news, Anthony Scaramucci, who is the soon-to-be White House Chief of Staff, if the rumors are true,

00:02:19.000 Lost his mind in an interview with the New Yorker.

00:02:21.000 And I have to tell you about it because at this point, I am just in it for the amusement.

00:02:25.000 At this point, you know, I'd like to see good policy be made, but if I can't get good policy, then I damn well want to be entertained.

00:02:31.000 And Anthony Scaramucci makes that happen for me.

00:02:33.000 So I will be telling you about that.

00:02:35.000 And speaking of policy that's not getting passed, skinny repeal went down to flaming defeat after John McCain throttled it with his with his old hands.

00:02:43.000 And we'll tell you about what happened there and why it actually

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00:04:32.000 I don't even know where to begin because there is so much entertaining things.

00:04:36.000 So many things!

00:04:37.000 All the things!

00:04:39.000 So I'm actually going to start in a place where I think the media is not covering things.

00:04:42.000 And that is, there's a story that came out yesterday that really does throw a crimp into the style of the Democrats when it comes to this Russian narrative.

00:04:49.000 I talked about this a little bit yesterday.

00:04:50.000 I wanted to give you the update.

00:04:52.000 So, since Hillary's election, the left has been saying that Russia wanted Trump to win, and that's why Trump won, that there was some sort of collusion.

00:04:59.000 So far, there's no evidence of actual collusion.

00:05:00.000 There's willingness to collude from Don Jr.

00:05:02.000 to these Russian lawyers, but there's no actual evidence of collusion, and there's no evidence that the Russians actually wanted Trump to win, as opposed to just screwing with our election cycle.

00:05:11.000 Well, last week, in a little-noticed move, the Senate Judiciary Committee called a guy named Bill Browder to testify.

00:05:16.000 Browder's a financier who's been targeted by the Vladimir Putin regime, and he testified, according to the Weekly Standard, that Fusion GPS, which is a Democrat-linked Apple research firm, arranged the meeting between Donald Trump Jr.

00:05:25.000 and Russian lawyers.

00:05:26.000 And furthermore, Browder stated that these Russian lawyers had hired Fusion GPS to conduct a smear campaign against him.

00:05:33.000 And the reports are that Fusion GPS has contracted the Russians, and maybe they were hired by the Russians.

00:05:41.000 In order to come up with this anti-Trump dossier.

00:05:43.000 The reason this is important is because it does again destroy the Democrat narrative that the reason Trump won is because the Russians wanted him to win.

00:05:50.000 What it looks like more is that the Russians were screwing with all sides. 0.72

00:05:53.000 They were working on the Trump dossier at the same time they were playing the other side of the aisle with Trump.

00:05:57.000 Which means that that's a pretty large confounding factor.

00:06:01.000 When you say, did the Russians hurt Trump or did they help Trump?

00:06:04.000 Well, it's possible that the Russians did both.

00:06:08.000 And so I think that that hurts the Democratic narrative in a pretty significant way, which is one of the reasons why the Democrat media does not want to report all of that.

00:06:16.000 Okay, but what they do, here's the thing.

00:06:17.000 Trump could be saying all of that, right?

00:06:18.000 Trump could be focusing on that.

00:06:20.000 He could also have been focusing in on healthcare.

00:06:22.000 Healthcare went down to flaming defeat yesterday.

00:06:25.000 And I'll talk about that before I get to Scaramucci.

00:06:27.000 I always save dessert for last.

00:06:28.000 Scaramucci is the dessert.

00:06:29.000 Scaramucci is just, it's fantastic. 0.96

00:06:31.000 But, last night, very late at night, I'm on a plane because I'm an idiot and I went to Dulles Airport instead of Reagan National Airport to get home from Washington, D.C., so I had to hop a later flight. 0.90

00:06:39.000 And on the flight home, I'm sitting, there's nothing worse than being in a middle seat watching CNN 0.94

00:06:45.000 We're good to go.

00:07:06.000 What they really repeal are the penalties for the individual mandate and the employer mandate.

00:07:10.000 In reality, the medical device tax was suspended for only three years.

00:07:13.000 Philip Klein had a good breakdown at the Washington Examiner.

00:07:16.000 And the employer mandate penalties would go to zero at first, but would come back actually by 2025.

00:07:19.000 Taken together,

00:07:21.000 According to health policy analyst Chris Jacobs, the bill would keep 411 out of Obamacare's 419 sections of legislative text intact.

00:07:28.000 So it was not a repeal.

00:07:30.000 That's why they called it a skinny repeal.

00:07:31.000 The biggest problem with skinny repeal, and the reason a lot of people opposed it, is because it left all of the Obamacare regulations in place, but it got rid of the funding mechanism for the Obamacare regulations, which means all the prices are going to immediately begin rising very, very quickly in the individual market.

00:07:45.000 It also didn't make any sort of Medicaid restructuring, so a lot of people would presumably be thrown onto Medicaid, a cost the government would then absorb.

00:07:52.000 So, it's not a good bill.

00:07:54.000 I mean, skinny repeal is not a good bill.

00:07:56.000 It doesn't either fix Obamacare or repeal Obamacare.

00:07:58.000 And those are the two choices.

00:07:59.000 You can either try to fix Obamacare by strengthening a lot of its repercussions, by subsidizing insurance companies, by creating higher taxes on it, because the money has to come from somewhere.

00:08:12.000 This is what Democrats

00:08:13.000 Would presumably like to do, or move to single-payer.

00:08:15.000 Or you can get rid of Obamacare entirely, which is what Republicans were unwilling to do.

00:08:18.000 Instead, they sort of settled for the worst of both worlds.

00:08:21.000 Keep the regulations, get rid of the funding mechanisms, which destroys the insurance companies and forces Republicans to bail out the insurance companies.

00:08:26.000 It's a crappy bill.

00:08:27.000 So here is the process of thought.

00:08:29.000 Republicans wanted to pass something more comprehensive.

00:08:32.000 That was rejected on Wednesday.

00:08:36.000 Then they said, OK, well, how about if we just do repeal only, which would be a broader version of repeal, but it would still leave the regulations in place.

00:08:42.000 That went down to flaming defeat.

00:08:43.000 And finally, he said, we'll do skinny repeal.

00:08:45.000 But we in the Senate don't actually want to pass skinny repeal.

00:08:47.000 We'd like to have some subsidies in there, but we can't pass that through our Senate right now.

00:08:51.000 So what we want to do is pass skinny repeal and make Paul Ryan say that he won't pass skinny repeal in the House.

00:08:56.000 And then we'll go to conference committee, we'll come up with a bill that we can all agree on, and then we'll revote it.

00:09:01.000 And Paul Ryan was not giving a lot of signs that he was going to do that.

00:09:04.000 He sort of kind of committed to the idea that they were going to go to a committee that was going to put together a conference committee that was going to put together a new bill.

00:09:14.000 But in the end, the bill goes down to flaming defeat after John McCain, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski decide they're not going to vote for it.

00:09:20.000 Collins and Murkowski were never going to vote for it because they don't actually believe in repealing Obamacare.

00:09:24.000 McCain didn't vote for it, presumably because McCain was angry at the process.

00:09:28.000 So as we played his speech a couple of days ago, he basically said, I don't like how this is being done.

00:09:32.000 I'm going to vote on a motion to proceed, but I'm not going to vote on any bill.

00:09:35.000 And he fulfilled that promise to the Democrats.

00:09:37.000 That's who John McCain is.

00:09:38.000 That is no great shock.

00:09:40.000 However,

00:09:40.000 I think a lot of the sort of freak out is over the top.

00:09:44.000 I think a lot of the freak out is over the top.

00:09:47.000 Now listen, Ted Cruz was right in 2012.

00:09:49.000 When there was the government shutdown and Ted Cruz said, listen, if we don't defund Obamacare right this instant, it is going to be ensconced in American life.

00:09:56.000 It is going to be enshrined in American life.

00:09:58.000 It's going to be very difficult to get rid of it.

00:09:59.000 He was exactly right when he said that.

00:10:01.000 That has obviously been proved to be true.

00:10:02.000 The Republican Party has been lying for seven years that they actually wanted to get rid of this thing.

00:10:05.000 They clearly do not want to get rid of this thing.

00:10:07.000 Cruz last night, he said, listen, no party can remain in power by lying to the American people and then not fulfilling promises.

00:10:15.000 There's no issue I have fought harder on, devoted more time to, than stopping the disaster that is Obamacare.

00:10:21.000 And mark my words, I am committed to this fight, as long as there is breath in my body.

00:10:28.000 I will be fighting for the working men and women of this country that are being hurt by Obamacare, and I believe

00:10:36.000 It will be repealed.

00:10:38.000 No party can remain in power by lying to the American people, and I hope and pray that our party doesn't try to do that.

00:10:48.000 Okay, and that is what the party is going to try to do.

00:10:51.000 They were lying for a long time.

00:10:53.000 However, the political costs here are not quite as clear-cut as the Democrats are trying to make it.

00:10:57.000 So the Democrats are saying, big victory for us, big win for us.

00:11:00.000 Not quite.

00:11:01.000 So it's a loss for Mitch McConnell, who was supposed to be able to get his caucus together to do something, and he couldn't.

00:11:06.000 It's a loss for Senator Turtle. 0.83

00:11:08.000 It is a loss for Donald Trump, who, unfortunately, his late-game push for healthcare, namely saying that his attorney general is a poophead,

00:11:17.000 Did not actually have the impact that people thought it was. 0.97

00:11:20.000 His closing argument that his attorney general was garbage, that actually didn't, believe it or not, push this bill over the finish line.

00:11:27.000 So tweeting out a couple of times, we can do it, which is basically what he tweeted out, like two minutes before this vote, and then it failed. 0.80

00:11:35.000 That isn't going to do it because, unfortunately, the way the system works, you know, it's not Trump's fault completely, but

00:11:40.000 Trump has to be the spearhead.

00:11:41.000 He has to be the guy who builds up the credibility of the bill.

00:11:44.000 He's got to be the guy who creates public pressure.

00:11:46.000 This is what Obama did on a regular basis.

00:11:47.000 Obama was good at this.

00:11:48.000 Trump is not.

00:11:50.000 And so it is Trump's fault a little bit.

00:11:51.000 But here is the truth.

00:11:52.000 If Republicans had passed the skinny repeal bill, and if that had gone to Trump's desk, and if he had signed it, they would have had a momentary celebration.

00:11:59.000 And then the premiums would have started rising dramatically.

00:12:01.000 It would have been very difficult to get Republicans to vote for subsidies to bail out all the insurance companies.

00:12:05.000 If they did, they would then own the subsidy regime.

00:12:08.000 And, as the insurance premiums continued to rise, and they were now sponsoring subsidies, there would be a call for a single payer from the left, and Republicans would own this thing.

00:12:16.000 Right now, it's unclear who owns this thing.

00:12:18.000 Democrats made it. 0.74

00:12:19.000 All the failures are Democrats' fault.

00:12:22.000 Are voters going to blame Republicans for not fixing it, or are they going to blame Democrats for creating it?

00:12:26.000 That's not actually clear.

00:12:28.000 Also, when you push a bill that was proposed at lunchtime,

00:12:32.000 And you vote on it by midnight.

00:12:34.000 That's not going to make anybody happy.

00:12:36.000 Process doesn't matter very much.

00:12:37.000 When there's a widespread perception that the process has been corrupt, that does matter.

00:12:41.000 I mean, we should have learned this from the Democrats.

00:12:42.000 In 2010, the Democrats rammed through Obamacare through a crappy process.

00:12:46.000 They hid the text of the bill.

00:12:47.000 Nancy Pelosi said, we'll only know how it works basically once it's implemented. 0.61

00:12:50.000 And the effect of that was that they lost a thousand seats across the country.

00:12:54.000 They lost the House, they lost the Senate, and they lost the White House.

00:12:57.000 So we have a good history of what happens when you pass an unpopular bill through inauspicious means, an unsavory means.

00:13:05.000 It's not good.

00:13:06.000 So, to a certain extent, there's a good possibility that John McCain and Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski actually saved the Republicans from themselves on this thing.

00:13:13.000 Better to pass no bill, in some cases, than to pass a crappy bill that gives you ownership of the entire system.

00:13:19.000 So I'm not completely, you know, you know how cynical I am about politics.

00:13:23.000 I'm not completely sold on the idea that this is a killer for Republicans if they don't pass anything.

00:13:28.000 And I think that Trump is not entirely wrong when he says if this thing continues to fall apart, people are going to look for a fix and they're not going to look to, they may not look to Democrats who built the thing in the first place.

00:13:37.000 So, with all of that happening, it would have been helpful if Trump actually wanted to push something through, which apparently he did. 0.99

00:13:42.000 If he wanted to push something through, it would have been helpful if he weren't distracted by stupidity. 1.00

00:13:47.000 It would be helpful if he wants to fight back on the Russia thing if he weren't distracted by stupidity. 1.00

00:13:50.000 Unfortunately, he's deeply distracted by the stupidity inside his own administration. 1.00

00:13:55.000 It has basically become Game of Thrones. 1.00

00:13:58.000 And it's really quite hilarious.

00:14:01.000 It's like Game of Thrones, but if it were with Muppets.

00:14:04.000 That's sort of what's happening here.

00:14:07.000 So, in just a second, I'll give you the Scaramucci update.

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00:15:19.000 I hesitated to share this with you until later in the show because it is so glorious that I'm going to lose my mind.

00:15:27.000 It's so fantastic.

00:15:28.000 So, we have now initiated the Scaramucci update for as long as he's in the White House.

00:15:33.000 So it is time for the Scaramucci update.

00:15:36.000 Let's play his theme song.

00:15:45.000 Excellent.

00:15:46.000 Okay, so time for the Scaramucci update.

00:15:47.000 So, it all begins yesterday morning.

00:15:50.000 We go back in our time travel machine.

00:15:53.000 Okay, we're back in time.

00:15:54.000 Yesterday morning, Anthony Scaramucci sees that Ryan Lizza, who's a reporter that he called Wednesday night, Ryan Lizza's reporting.

00:16:02.000 You guys know who the leakers are.

00:16:03.000 I respect them for not telling me because I understand and respect journalistic integrity.

00:16:07.000 However,

00:16:28.000 When I put out a tweet, and I put Reince's name in the tweet, they're all making the assumption that it's him, because journalists know who the leakers are.

00:16:37.000 So if Reince wants to explain that he's not a leaker, let him do that.

00:16:42.000 If Reince wants to explain he's not a leaker, let him do that.

00:16:45.000 Yeah, that's- that's a real strong repudiation of the idea that you don't think he's the lea- that you think he's the leaker.

00:16:51.000 Anthony Scaramucci, this dude can do the fandangle like nobody's business.

00:16:54.000 Then, he says- I mean, he's declared war inside the administration against all of these people.

00:16:58.000 Right, he's declared war again in the administration against Reince and against Bannon.

00:17:02.000 Basically, anyone who wants to do conservative policy is on Anthony Scaramucci's poop list because Anthony Scaramucci wants to be Trump's right-hand man and he has somehow parlayed being on national television saying nice things about Trump and ripping CNN into becoming probably the second most powerful man in the country, which is incredible.

00:17:16.000 It's such a great scam.

00:17:18.000 In any case, here he is going after other members of the administration.

00:17:20.000 Again, remember, this is on CNN.

00:17:22.000 He called in to do this.

00:17:23.000 He's like,

00:17:24.000 He is Trump's mini-me.

00:17:25.000 I mean, it's like Trump went out and had a mini-me crafted just like Austin Powers.

00:17:29.000 And now Trump is sitting there, and Scaramucci's performing for him.

00:17:32.000 This is what this is, right?

00:17:33.000 He's performing for Trump.

00:17:35.000 And it's amazing!

00:17:36.000 Here we go.

00:17:38.000 Last night we were having dinner.

00:17:40.000 I told his wife, I looked over to the First Lady and I said, I forgot how much fun I used to have when I hung out with him on the campaign trail.

00:17:47.000 Okay?

00:17:48.000 He's a very interesting and very unique guy.

00:17:50.000 There are people inside the administration that think it is their job to save America from this president.

00:17:57.000 Okay, that is not their job.

00:17:59.000 Their job is to inject this president into America so that he can explain his views properly and his policies so that we can transform America and drain the swamp and make the system fairer for the middle and lower income people.

00:18:14.000 I understand that.

00:18:15.000 You understand that we have to inject Trump like Botox into the buttocks of America. 0.99

00:18:20.000 That's what has to happen here. 0.98

00:18:21.000 We can't contain him in any way.

00:18:23.000 We can't ask him to promote policy in any way.

00:18:25.000 We need more.

00:18:27.000 Let Trump be Trump.

00:18:28.000 And this was always going to happen.

00:18:29.000 I thought it was going to be Bannon, by the way, who pushed this line because Bannon is a sycophant to power.

00:18:33.000 But it turns out that Steve Bannon, at long last, has some principles and actually wants to promote those principles in power.

00:18:39.000 I mean, this is weird for me because I really do not like Steve Bannon personally.

00:18:43.000 But Bannon is one of the people who is now on the poop list for Anthony Scaramucci.

00:18:49.000 And then he decides that it's important for him to go after Reince even more.

00:18:52.000 He says that we're like brothers.

00:18:54.000 Maybe we're like Cain and Abel.

00:18:55.000 Maybe we're not.

00:18:55.000 We don't know.

00:18:57.000 If you want to talk about the Chief of Staff, we have had odds, we have had differences.

00:19:02.000 When I said we were brothers from the podium, that's because we're rough on each other.

00:19:07.000 Some brothers are like Cain and Abel.

00:19:09.000 Other brothers can fight with each other and get along.

00:19:12.000 I don't know if this is repairable or not, that will be up to the President, but he's the Chief of Staff, he's responsible for... The literacy at this administration is so high.

00:19:21.000 Cain murdered Abel. 0.97

00:19:24.000 Okay, so if you're on national TV suggesting that you might be like Cain and Abel, you might also just be like brothers who fight a little bit and then get along, but I might murder him and bury him in the backyard.

00:19:32.000 I mean, basically, Scaramucci is Joe Pesci from Casino.

00:19:35.000 It's incredible.

00:19:36.000 I love it.

00:19:37.000 And then, Sarah Huckabee Sanders is out there, and it's pretty clear that this is now Scaramucci's administration, so far as Trump is concerned.

00:19:43.000 Huckabee Sanders is out there saying that she won't commit to saying whether Trump supports his own chief of staff. 0.63

00:19:47.000 Remember, this is in the same week that Trump has been tweeting out about how his own AG's a poophead.

00:19:52.000 You can't say right now if the president has full confidence in Chief of Staff Mike Spriggs?

00:19:56.000 I think I just answered that.

00:19:57.000 Look, I think what we have, this is a White House that has a lot of different perspectives because the president hires the very best people.

00:20:05.000 They're not always going to agree.

00:20:06.000 There are going to be a lot of different ideas.

00:20:09.000 Unlike previous administrations, this isn't groupthink.

00:20:12.000 It's not groupthink?

00:20:14.000 It's not groupthink? 1.00

00:20:14.000 If you don't kiss Trump's ass enough, then he starts yelling at you on Twitter. 1.00

00:20:19.000 At one point yesterday, Scaramucci said he doesn't hire yes-men. 1.00

00:20:22.000 Literally, Scaramucci's only job is to say yes to Trump.

00:20:25.000 That is his only job.

00:20:26.000 It's amazing.

00:20:27.000 Okay, so, that's not even the good part, guys.

00:20:29.000 I didn't even get to the good part yet.

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00:21:55.000 Okay, so now the good stuff.

00:21:56.000 So, last night, after Scaramucci goes on CNN, and things seem to have calmed down a little bit because now we're all going to focus on the healthcare stuff, and now we're all going to focus on what Trump is doing about sessions, and we're all going to focus on some of the Russia stuff, and we'll go about our daily business.

00:22:11.000 No, we won't.

00:22:12.000 Because the magic happened.

00:22:14.000 Ryan Lizza releases a piece about what Scaramucci had said to him on Wednesday night.

00:22:19.000 Scaramucci apparently does not know, this is what Scaramucci basically says, he does not know the difference between on the record and off the record.

00:22:26.000 So, for those who don't understand how this works, when you're speaking with a journalist,

00:22:31.000 And you're a source for a journalist.

00:22:33.000 The person who you are speaking to, the journalist, has to agree that something is off the record in order for it to be off the record.

00:22:37.000 So if I'm on the phone with a journalist and I say, hey, this is off the record, and the guy doesn't agree, it's not off the record.

00:22:42.000 It's all an honor system, essentially, because journalists don't want to burn sources, because then they can never use the sources again.

00:22:48.000 So off the record means what I'm saying to you can never be printed in any circumstances.

00:22:51.000 On background means that you can print it, but you're going to quote me as, say, you know, an unnamed Daily Wire employee, right?

00:23:01.000 That would be on background.

00:23:02.000 And then finally, there is on the record, which is you can quote me as it stands.

00:23:06.000 Anybody who has done one iota of media knows this.

00:23:09.000 Anthony Scaramucci is the head of White House Communications, and he did not know this.

00:23:13.000 At least that's his excuse.

00:23:15.000 Then he said, no, it's kind of on purpose that I did this.

00:23:17.000 OK, so why does that matter?

00:23:19.000 Because he did an interview with Ryan Lizza, and I'm going to tell you about this interview.

00:23:23.000 So he started off by threatening to fire everyone on the White House communications staff.

00:23:28.000 He said, the Mooch said, first of all, every time I see him, all I am reminded of, I mean, he's like a cross between, he's like some perverse cross between Christian Bale from American Psycho, Leonardo DiCaprio from The Wolf of Wall Street, and Ellis from Die Hard. 1.00

00:23:47.000 You know, Hans, Boobie, I'm Your White Knight, that guy.

00:23:49.000 So anyway, the Mooch 1.00

00:23:51.000 I love it so!

00:23:52.000 I love it so!

00:23:53.000 Like Patton, I love it so.

00:23:55.000 He says, I asked these guys not to leak anything and they can't help themselves.

00:23:58.000 You're an American citizen.

00:23:59.000 He's talking to a reporter now.

00:24:00.000 You're an American citizen.

00:24:01.000 This is a major catastrophe for the American country.

00:24:04.000 So I'm asking you as an American patriot to give me a sense of who leaked it.

00:24:08.000 So he's asking the reporter now to tell him who the leakers are, which is not what reporters do.

00:24:12.000 And then when Liz has said no, the mooch said, okay, I'm going to fire every one of them. 1.00

00:24:15.000 And then you haven't protected anybody.

00:24:16.000 So the entire place will be fired over the next two weeks. 1.00

00:24:19.000 Okay, this is like the stupidest threat ever. 1.00

00:24:23.000 He's basically saying, if you don't do this, I'm gonna punch myself directly in the nuts. 1.00

00:24:28.000 That's what I'm gonna do. 0.99

00:24:29.000 I'm just gonna fire everyone around me.

00:24:30.000 And then we'll see how you like it.

00:24:33.000 Okay, go ahead.

00:24:35.000 I'd be like, alright, I suppose you could do that.

00:24:38.000 Yeah, but it gets better!

00:24:39.000 He says they'll all be fired by me.

00:24:40.000 I fired one guy the other day.

00:24:41.000 I have three to four people I'll fire tomorrow.

00:24:43.000 I'll get to the reason who leaked that to you.

00:24:45.000 Reince Priebus, if you want to leak something, he'll be asked to resign very shortly.

00:24:48.000 And this is all on the record, guys.

00:24:49.000 This is on the record, meaning he wanted it to be printed. 0.98

00:24:52.000 Reince is an effing paranoid schizophrenic. 0.99

00:24:54.000 A paranoiac. 0.99

00:24:56.000 And then, imitating Reince's voice, he goes, Oh, Bill Shiney's coming in!

00:25:00.000 Let me leak the effing thing and see if I can bleep-block these people the way I bleep-blocked Scaramucci for six months.

00:25:07.000 This is all on the record.

00:25:08.000 Okay, so he's ripping the Chief of Staff for the President of the United States at the White House, and he's saying that he clock-blocked him.

00:25:16.000 I mean, that's insane!

00:25:18.000 And it gets better!

00:25:19.000 Yes!

00:25:20.000 So then, Scaramucci was very upset because there was a release of his public disclosure forms.

00:25:24.000 He was working at the Export-Import Bank, and you have to fill out all these forms.

00:25:28.000 Those are public record after a certain period of time.

00:25:30.000 So those were released this week.

00:25:31.000 He thought that Reince leaked them to the media and accused Reince of committing a felony.

00:25:34.000 He said, quote, I've called the FBI and the Department of Justice.

00:25:37.000 The swamp will not defeat him.

00:25:39.000 They're trying to resist me, but it's not going to work.

00:25:41.000 I've done nothing wrong on my financial disclosures, so they're going to have to go F themselves.

00:25:46.000 And then it got even better.

00:25:48.000 It's so good.

00:25:49.000 It's like Inception, Layers of Awesome.

00:25:51.000 Scaramucci, he finishes by saying this, I'm not Steve Bannon. 0.98

00:25:56.000 I'm not trying to suck my own clock. 0.98

00:26:00.000 Except he didn't say clock. 0.98

00:26:01.000 He said, I'm not trying to build my own brand off the effing strength of the president.

00:26:04.000 I'm here to serve the country.

00:26:06.000 So now he's attacking the White House chief strategist as a guy who is in love with the media and wants to be in front of the cameras and also wants to perform anatomically impossible acts on himself.

00:26:16.000 I know Steve Bannon.

00:26:17.000 He's not that physically flexible.

00:26:18.000 There's just no way.

00:26:19.000 There's just no way.

00:26:21.000 I could say other things about this, but I'm going to leave it at that.

00:26:24.000 So he has now accused the White House chief of staff of being a paranoid schizophrenic. 0.99

00:26:29.000 And accused Steve Bannon, the White House strategist, of trying to suck his own thing. 0.99

00:26:38.000 And then he continued, Okay, the mooch showed up a week ago. 1.00

00:26:45.000 This is gonna get cleaned up very shortly, okay?

00:26:47.000 Because I nailed these guys.

00:26:49.000 I've got digital fingerprints on everything they've done through the FBI and the effing Department of Justice.

00:26:52.000 Well, the felony?

00:26:53.000 They're gonna get prosecuted, probably, for the felony.

00:26:56.000 Which felony?

00:26:57.000 Nobody knows.

00:26:57.000 Also, how did he get a hold of the FBI and DOJ records?

00:27:01.000 Why does he have fingerprints?

00:27:02.000 No one knows.

00:27:04.000 So all of this is going swimmingly.

00:27:06.000 And then, he says, you know what?

00:27:08.000 Let me go. 0.96

00:27:09.000 I gotta start tweeting some bleep to make this guy crazy.

00:27:12.000 A minute later he sent that tweet, directed at Reince Priebus, in which he accused Priebus of being a leaker, and then the next morning he went on CNN and said that's not what I meant by that tweet.

00:27:20.000 Just unreal.

00:27:22.000 So good.

00:27:22.000 So, here is the question for everyone.

00:27:24.000 I'm wildly entertained, okay?

00:27:25.000 If I had my druthers right now, the only person in the administration I care about maintaining is Anthony Scaramucci.

00:27:30.000 I don't care if they fire everyone.

00:27:32.000 I don't care if they fire Pence.

00:27:33.000 All I want from life right now is Anthony Scaramucci in front of the camera every minute of every day.

00:27:38.000 I don't think Trump feels the same way.

00:27:40.000 The reason is because Trump wants to be in front of the camera every minute of every day, which is why Steve Bannon did the clever thing of going to his old friends at Breitbart.

00:27:46.000 He went to Tony Lee, who's a reporter very friendly to Trump.

00:27:49.000 I mean, and to Bannon, who was very friendly when Bannon was there.

00:27:52.000 And Tony Lee ran a long piece about how Scaramucci was stealing the spotlight from Trump, which is, of course, the smartest way to appeal to Trump is to say, someone is stealing your spotlight.

00:28:01.000 And Trump goes, no, no one steals my spotlight. 0.99

00:28:04.000 Hit him with a hammer and bury him in the desert. 0.99

00:28:06.000 So that's, that's Bannon's take. 1.00

00:28:07.000 So they're both trying, it's great.

00:28:08.000 Scaramucci's trying to accuse Bannon of trying to steal the spotlight, and Bannon's trying to accuse Scaramucci of stealing the spotlight, all in a battle to try and be second in command to Trump. 0.99

00:28:16.000 But Scaramucci has no principles and doesn't care about what Trump pushes, and Bannon has some principles, but some of them suck.

00:28:22.000 So all of this is just going awesome, as I think the short story here. 0.94

00:28:26.000 Also, Jeff Sessions, who's the Attorney General, he's just got to be relieved that now he's out of the spotlight, because earlier this week, all Trump cared about was ripping on Jeff Sessions.

00:28:33.000 Jeff Sessions was talking to Tucker Carlson, and he said Trump's tweets have been very hurtful this week.

00:28:38.000 You've seen the President's criticism of you.

00:28:41.000 Do you think it's fair?

00:28:43.000 Well, it's kind of hurtful, but the President of the United States is a strong leader.

00:28:50.000 He is determined to move this country in the direction he believes it needs to go to make us great again, and he has had a lot of criticisms, and he's steadfastly determined to get his job done, and he wants all of us to do our jobs, and that's what I intend to do.

00:29:07.000 The president, that's sort of the latest.

00:29:09.000 So even as Sessions is trying to be the loyal soldier here and saying it's kind of hurtful, it's basically turned into a dating show.

00:29:15.000 Will Trump and Sessions make up?

00:29:18.000 Will Scaramucci and Reins get into a clawing match?

00:29:20.000 I mean, there's basically, this is reality housewives of Washington, D.C.

00:29:25.000 It's incredible.

00:29:26.000 I mean, one of these people could end up replacing Melania. 0.99

00:29:29.000 I mean, you just don't know.

00:29:30.000 It's wildly entertaining now.

00:29:32.000 Does it forward any policy?

00:29:33.000 Of course not!

00:29:34.000 It doesn't do anything to forward policy, okay?

00:29:36.000 We haven't had any policy except for Gorsuch in, like, six months.

00:29:39.000 But at least this part of it's ramping up.

00:29:42.000 At least this part is entertaining, so...

00:29:44.000 What you're starting to see is that it undermines Trump's entire agenda because Trump's personnel is policy, and he's not selected the best people, and not only has he not selected the best people, he's treated his own employees like the Joker treats people in The Dark Knight.

00:29:56.000 He's basically said, I'm hiring, here's a pool cue.

00:29:59.000 There's one pool cue in two of you.

00:30:01.000 One of you comes out alive and gets hired.

00:30:03.000 This is not the way to run an administration.

00:30:04.000 And this is why you're seeing senators beginning to buck Trump.

00:30:07.000 Ben Sasse has openly said now that if Trump is going to fire Sessions and then try to make a recess appointment of a new Attorney General, that we're going to stop him in the Senate.

00:30:16.000 In 2014, the U.S.

00:30:17.000 Supreme Court ruled that the Obama administration had made unconstitutional appointments when it declared this body to be in recess, when the U.S.

00:30:26.000 Senate was not, in fact, in recess, and it functionally claimed power, that is, the administration functionally claimed power that belonged to the Senate under our Constitution.

00:30:37.000 So today, I've come to the floor to keep my promise and to offer a word of humble advice to the president.

00:30:44.000 If you're thinking of making a recess appointment to push out the Attorney General, forget about it.

00:30:51.000 The presidency isn't a bull, and this country isn't a china shop. 0.82

00:30:57.000 Okay, so even the senators are starting to buck him.

00:30:59.000 Lindsey Graham came out and he said,

00:31:01.000 That any effort to go after the special counsel would basically finish Trump.

00:31:05.000 You know, the senators are beginning to be fed up with this, and they're not getting any policy.

00:31:09.000 So, you know, I hope that everybody's enjoying the reality show.

00:31:12.000 I hope they are.

00:31:12.000 But this is an F week for Trump, okay?

00:31:14.000 I grade him every week.

00:31:15.000 The last two weeks have been Fs.

00:31:16.000 He needs to do better than this.

00:31:17.000 Get back on your policy horse. 1.00

00:31:19.000 Shut up on Twitter. 0.99

00:31:20.000 Stop attacking your own employees. 1.00

00:31:22.000 If you don't like Sessions, get rid of him.

00:31:23.000 If you don't like Reince, get rid of him.

00:31:25.000 Be a man.

00:31:26.000 Man up.

00:31:26.000 Clean up your administration, okay?

00:31:28.000 You know, I keep hearing that Trump's this master businessman, okay?

00:31:30.000 I run a business.

00:31:31.000 If somebody here is bad at their job, we fire them.

00:31:34.000 That's how it works.

00:31:35.000 If you don't do your job, you get laid off.

00:31:37.000 And then you get somebody else who replaces you, who presumably does a better job.

00:31:40.000 And then if the business fails, that's my fault, because I'm the head of the business.

00:31:44.000 Okay, that's the same thing at the head of the government.

00:31:45.000 The executive branch is an executive branch that are supposed to execute.

00:31:48.000 Are you seeing anything executed except some random staffers?

00:31:51.000 I mean, at this point, Sean Spicer is just sitting around, basically... Sean Spicer is sitting around on a beach in San Juanto, sipping a beer and going, thank God I escaped.

00:32:00.000 He crawled through 300 yards of foul-smelling, I can't even imagine, and came out clean on the other side.

00:32:06.000 Sean Spicer.

00:32:07.000 I mean, it's just... that's what it's become now.

00:32:10.000 You know, good things!

00:32:11.000 How about some good things?

00:32:12.000 Okay, so, um, now I want to, uh, I want to take a moment and talk about what happened in Washington, D.C.

00:32:17.000 yesterday.

00:32:17.000 So I had the privilege of speaking before the, uh, Government Oversight Committee, a subcommittee on the, uh, a subcommittee on, uh, education, as led by, um, Representative Jim Jordan, uh, from 4th District of Ohio.

00:32:30.000 A bunch of people stopped by.

00:32:31.000 Dave Brat stopped by from Virginia, and, um, and, uh, Representative DeSantis stopped by from Florida.

00:32:36.000 Eleanor Holmes Norton stopped by from District of Columbia.

00:32:40.000 And there were a couple of moments that I thought was worthwhile, so here was my opening statement.

00:32:43.000 We won't play the whole thing, we'll play a little bit of it in just an Easter egg.

00:32:46.000 That is God-King of the Daily Wire, Jeremy Boring, sitting behind me to my right, wearing the three-piece suit, looking glorious, of course.

00:32:54.000 Here is some of my opening statement.

00:32:56.000 It's an honor to testify before you here today.

00:32:58.000 The reason that I'm with you is that I speak on dozens of college campuses every year, so I have some first-hand experience with the anti-First Amendment activities that have been taking place on the college campuses.

00:33:08.000 I've encountered anti-free speech measures, administrative cowardice, even physical violence at campuses ranging from California State University at Los Angeles to University of Wisconsin at Madison, which is driving

00:33:18.000 We're good.

00:33:37.000 And the impetus for administrators who all too often humor these protesters.

00:33:42.000 Free speech is under assault because of a three-step argument made by the advocates and justifiers of violence.

00:33:47.000 The first step is they say that the validity or invalidity of an argument can be judged solely by the ethnic, sexual, racial, or cultural identity of the person making the argument.

00:33:57.000 The second step is that they claim those who say otherwise are engaging in what they call verbal violence.

00:34:01.000 And the final step is they conclude that physical violence is sometimes justified in order to stop such verbal violence.

00:34:09.000 Okay, so I went on from there, but I slapped out at intersectionality.

00:34:13.000 I said that intersectionality was the root of the modern Democratic Party, which set off some of the Congress people.

00:34:18.000 I thought the best exchange was there was a representative named Plaskett, who's actually from the Virgin Islands.

00:34:24.000 She's not technically a congresswoman.

00:34:25.000 She's a representative who sits with Congress. 1.00

00:34:28.000 And she came after me because she was upset that I had said that the arguments about white privilege on campus are a way to shut down debate and provide impetus

00:34:36.000 for a lot of the protesters who simply think that nobody else should be able to speak.

00:34:39.000 Here is our exchange.

00:34:41.000 I had a conversation with Rachel Lazar, who's done some work, a Jewish American woman who's done some work on this area, as well as having extensive conversations with Dr. Greg Parks of Wake Forest University, who's also talked quite a bit about critical race theory.

00:35:02.000 And it's my understanding that white privilege is not telling individuals that they cannot

00:35:08.000 But it is a term for societal privilege.

00:35:11.000 that individuals have as a benefit of their white skin.

00:35:16.000 And I don't think that, and I think universities would be remiss to then say that because you're white, you're not allowed to say anything that's critical of white people.

00:35:27.000 I didn't know that white privilege actually went into that sphere.

00:35:31.000 My understanding is it's just, and the issue is, is that white privilege makes people uncomfortable to talk about the societal privilege that they have.

00:35:39.000 Well, to me, what I say on campuses all the time is if you want to cite instances of racism that we can all find and fight together, that's something that I'm more than willing to stand next to you and fight because that's obviously stuff that we should fight together.

00:35:53.000 But when you just say that there is a white privilege out there in the ether and that by dint of birth your skin color generates for you an advantage, what you're really saying to people

00:36:01.000 Is that your view is less valuable because you have not experienced what I've experienced.

00:36:06.000 And that is an identity argument, that's a character argument, that's not a rational political argument that can actually be taken on in any way.

00:36:13.000 It's more of a cudgel in a club than it is an attempt to open a discussion.

00:36:19.000 Okay, so you can see it got a little bit heated from time to time in the hearing.

00:36:23.000 It was really worthwhile.

00:36:25.000 Because I want to get to things I like, things I hate in the mailbag, we'll cut it short there, but it's worthwhile.

00:36:29.000 You should go and watch, I think somebody's put together a compilation of all the sections where I'm talking, if that's the part you want to watch.

00:36:34.000 A lot of the other people who were speaking had interesting things to say, but a really fascinating hearing, and it was kind of a kick.

00:36:40.000 I mean, thanks to all of the kids who came.

00:36:42.000 A bunch of college students who showed up, filled the audience.

00:36:46.000 It felt like a movie.

00:36:47.000 We were walking through the hallways and everybody was cheering.

00:36:49.000 It was pretty hilarious.

00:36:50.000 I wanted to have Jeremy behind me start a slow clap after I finish his stuff.

00:36:55.000 But we didn't actually do that.

00:36:56.000 I was also deeply tempted to just open my testimony by saying, it's me.

00:37:00.000 I'm the leaker.

00:37:01.000 Just to see what would happen, but I did not, in fact, do that.

00:37:03.000 Okay, time for some things I like, and then some things I hate in mailbag.

00:37:06.000 So, we'll do only one thing I like today, because I want to get to the mailbag.

00:37:09.000 The thing that I like, we've been doing all week, music that you've heard from movies.

00:37:14.000 This one is really overused, but it is, of course, super famous.

00:37:17.000 This is Rachmaninoff's Pair.

00:37:19.000 It's a...

00:37:22.000 On a theme of Paganini.

00:37:23.000 It's the... The Rhapsody.

00:37:26.000 Thank you.

00:37:26.000 On a theme of Paganini.

00:37:28.000 This is the orchestral version.

00:37:29.000 It's been used in a number of films.

00:38:08.000 That's beautiful music, obviously.

00:38:09.000 This is used in movies ranging from Dead Again, which is a little-known Kenneth Branagh film, to Somewhere in Time, which is the most famous use.

00:38:16.000 This is with Christopher Reeve, and what's her name?

00:38:20.000 I can't

00:38:39.000 It is a great piece of music.

00:38:40.000 Rachmaninoff is great in short sections.

00:38:41.000 I'm not sure I like Rachmaninoff that much overall, but this is the best of his, the best of Rachmaninoff.

00:38:45.000 Okay, the other thing that I like, I lied, there will be one more thing I like.

00:38:49.000 Representative DeSantis, who's just a hilarious fellow from Florida, he's a big fan of the show, and his wife is a sweetheart, and he had me FaceTime with her a little bit beforehand, and he actually asked me, Ben Shapiro Thug Life is now part of the congressional record.

00:39:05.000 This is a thing that happened.

00:39:07.000 Ben Shapiro, who came up with the thug life Ben Shapiro?

00:39:12.000 I have no idea.

00:39:14.000 What me?

00:39:15.000 I have never listened to a complete rap song in my entire life.

00:39:20.000 It's funny and it's well done and has some of your greatest hits.

00:39:24.000 So I'm sure the Thug Life guy, he gets a pat on the back for all of that. 0.99

00:39:28.000 Whoever you are, well done.

00:39:30.000 I can't believe, in retrospect, I really missed the opportunity to say the Thug Life chose me and put that in the congressional record. 0.95

00:39:36.000 That would have been so epic and I'm really pissed at myself.

00:39:39.000 Okay, so... Okay, so time for a thing that I hate.

00:39:48.000 So the thing that I hate today is I hate when the left pretends that Trump is doing something that he's not.

00:39:52.000 So, President Trump's DOJ has told businesses that the Civil Rights Act does not cover sexual orientation.

00:39:58.000 That's because the Civil Rights Act does not cover sexual orientation.

00:40:01.000 Laws mean things, okay?

00:40:02.000 They mean the things that they said when they were written.

00:40:05.000 And the Civil Rights Act does not cover discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

00:40:08.000 So there's a headline that says, from Mediaite, Trump's DOJ tells businesses it's now totally cool to discriminate against LGBT.

00:40:15.000 No, that's not what Trump's DOJ says.

00:40:17.000 Trump's DOJ says there is no legislation on the books on the federal level that prevents discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, which is true. 1.00

00:40:25.000 Okay, the law is still the meaning of the law.

00:40:28.000 And this is how the left likes to twist things.

00:40:29.000 What they do is they like to take the most egregious misuses of freedom, and they say, well, you're for that.

00:40:36.000 Therefore, we should quash the freedom.

00:40:38.000 And that's really disgusting, right?

00:40:39.000 You see this with free speech all the time.

00:40:41.000 They say, well, free speech, on campus a lot.

00:40:43.000 They say, well, free speech, that means that you're in favor of people saying the N-word, aren't you?

00:40:46.000 It's like, no, I'm in favor of the right for people to say the N-word, but I think saying the N-word's a terrible thing.

00:40:51.000 I think that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is a bad thing, unless you're talking about in a religious context or in some context where it might be values-laden and relevant.

00:41:01.000 But this idea that the federal government has a role to play in jumping on this, number one, I think is anti-freedom, and number two,

00:41:09.000 I don't think that the government at all should be involved in issues of this order, but it is certainly not covered by the Civil Rights Act.

00:41:17.000 You don't just get to rewrite law because you wish that the law said something that it doesn't say.

00:41:21.000 So that needs to stop.

00:41:23.000 Okay, so let's jump right into the mailbag. 0.80

00:41:25.000 We have a little bit of time for the mailbag, so let's do it.

00:41:26.000 So Andrew says, Dear Ben, you seem like a ladies' man. 0.99

00:41:29.000 How can I use my conservative beliefs to attract women? 1.00

00:41:32.000 Do I start off with light discussion on religious liberty or go in confident with my line-by-line analysis of the Declaration of Independence?

00:41:37.000 So far, neither method has been successful.

00:41:39.000 Andrew.

00:41:40.000 So, I am not, in fact, a ladies' man.

00:41:43.000 I know.

00:41:43.000 I'm highly attractive to women.

00:41:45.000 But, the first long-term girlfriend that I had, I married.

00:41:50.000 So I was not a ladies' man.

00:41:54.000 And I think a lot of that had to do with the fact that

00:41:58.000 Not only am I an abrasive human being from time to time, but also I think that I was a couple years younger than everyone else wherever I went ever.

00:42:06.000 So there was that.

00:42:08.000 Listen, I am not into the ladies man lifestyle also.

00:42:11.000 So that really is the real answer.

00:42:12.000 I'm not into the sleeping around.

00:42:14.000 I'm not into the... I don't think men should do this.

00:42:16.000 I don't think that being a ladies man is a worthwhile goal. 1.00

00:42:18.000 I think you should try to find the person who's going to make you a better human being and you should

00:42:24.000 Create a family with that human being and create children with that human being.

00:42:27.000 And that means that you should lead with values.

00:42:28.000 On my first date, I've said this before, my first date with my wife, we talked about free will versus determinism.

00:42:33.000 Legitimately, this was a three-hour first date on which we talked about free will and determinism.

00:42:37.000 And it's not like my wife was deeply into philosophy.

00:42:40.000 It was just that we were talking about religion and free will and all this stuff.

00:42:43.000 And that's because values matter.

00:42:44.000 Values matter when you're trying to determine with whom you should partner in life.

00:42:48.000 Okay, Robert says,

00:42:49.000 Hey Ben, I know you aren't against birth control.

00:42:51.000 This is true.

00:42:51.000 As an Orthodox Jew, what is your opinion on sterilization like tubal litigation and vasectomies?

00:42:57.000 So, I am not in favor of irreversible surgeries that prevent you from having children.

00:43:04.000 I am, you know, I'm going to separate my own religious viewpoint here because, you know, I'm not going to speak for Orthodox Judaism.

00:43:10.000 You can ask a rabbi if you want the Orthodox Jewish perspective on these things.

00:43:13.000 I don't like the idea of sterilizing yourself unless you are attempting to, you know,

00:43:19.000 Unless you're... If you really, really don't want to have kids, which I think has a moral component to it, if you really don't want to have kids.

00:43:25.000 I think you need to be a better person if you don't want to have children.

00:43:27.000 But if you really, really don't want to have kids, then I don't have a problem with you doing what you want to do.

00:43:32.000 It's a free country.

00:43:33.000 On a moral level, I think that taking...

00:43:36.000 Permanent steps to cure a transitory issue is not the smartest thing to do.

00:43:42.000 I think there is a secular case in the sense that you don't have to mention the Bible or God, but I do think that eventually you're going to have to fall into a Judeo-Christian history that's a little bit vague, and this is the problem with natural rights theory as a general theory.

00:44:00.000 It's all well and good to say that it is self-evident that there are natural rights, but it is clearly not self-evident that there are natural rights.

00:44:06.000 That springs from a particular Judeo-Christian ideology that goes back to the foundations of Christianity and Greek thought and Judaism.

00:44:12.000 And to pretend that you can just sit there in a room and come up with life, liberty, and property as the fundamental principles, I think that's a little bit misguided.

00:44:21.000 There's a reason that not every society on planet Earth, in fact most societies for the majority of history,

00:44:26.000 Did not believe that life, liberty, and property were inherent rights.

00:44:28.000 It required a Judeo-Christian civilization developing toward an Enlightenment freedom to believe that.

00:44:34.000 Okay, Rachel says, Hey Ben, this week in my sociology class at Brooklyn College, we mentioned the idea of being woke, and there was a debate about whether awareness is enough to help invoke change.

00:44:43.000 First of all, I hate the phrase being woke because it suggests that everybody else is asleep, and also it's improper grammar, okay?

00:44:48.000 It's being awakened.

00:44:49.000 You're not woke.

00:44:51.000 Maybe I'm aware of your argument and I think it blows.

00:45:09.000 That's a possibility.

00:45:10.000 But that's never taken into account when you say that I'm not woke.

00:45:14.000 Being woke is basically saying you're not part of the club, man.

00:45:16.000 You're not cool. 1.00

00:45:18.000 Like I give a crap. 1.00

00:45:19.000 Ian says, 0.99

00:45:24.000 Humility, which is why I'm so damn humble.

00:45:27.000 But I actually think the single greatest quality a person can have, like the president, actually.

00:45:34.000 I believe in loyalty, but I don't believe in loyalty to humans.

00:45:37.000 I believe in loyalty to God and to values.

00:45:40.000 I think if you're loyal to those things, then it's hard to go wrong.

00:45:42.000 Jackson says, Hey Ben, do you believe people that come into this country legally and don't speak English should be given a choice to attend free classes to learn English?

00:45:52.000 I mean, I don't believe in friggy anything.

00:45:54.000 I believe that if you come here, it's your obligation to learn English, and that's on you.

00:45:57.000 That's an affirmative obligation on you.

00:45:59.000 Now, I think that Israel makes a smart move. 0.99

00:46:01.000 If you want people to assimilate, there's a case to be made that you should attempt to facilitate that, but I'm not sure that that is... I'm not sure that you should have to pay for it. 0.96

00:46:09.000 Okay, final question.

00:46:10.000 Hi, Ben.

00:46:11.000 Well, I go home and I separate.

00:46:12.000 This is the beauty of the Sabbath.

00:46:13.000 I was talking with God King of the Daily Wire, Jeremy Boren, just yesterday about this.

00:46:29.000 If I have to turn off my phone from Friday night to Saturday night and not turn on my computer from Friday night to Saturday night and then on Sundays I spend the time with my children and I don't do politics, you need that break because it returns you to what is truly valuable.

00:46:41.000 It also reminds you what you're fighting for, which is a social fabric that is worth upholding and a freedom from government intrusion that is worth fighting.

00:46:49.000 And the freedom is worth upholding, obviously.

00:46:52.000 I think you need to take breaks.

00:46:53.000 You need to take breaks. 0.99

00:46:54.000 Being ensconced in politics, there's a tweet that came out today from this idiot Democrat, Chris Murphy, where he said, Last night proved once again there's no anxiety or sadness or fear you feel right now that cannot be cured by political action. 1.00

00:47:05.000 Only a fascist says crap like that. 1.00

00:47:07.000 Anxiety, fear, or sadness can only be cured, not by political action and changing the world, but by you 0.98

00:47:13.000 Creating a safe place for yourself, surrounded by people that you love and who you want to protect, and that also gives you a rationale for fighting in the first place.

00:47:21.000 Okay, we'll be back here next week with more entertainment, more wildness, more joy.

00:47:26.000 Sunday, if you're out in California, make sure that you come out to Politicon.

00:47:31.000 I am debating Cenk Aiger. 0.99

00:47:33.000 I think that's how his name is pronounced.

00:47:34.000 I know his first name, Cenk, right? 0.75

00:47:35.000 Oh, the Young Turks dude. 0.96

00:47:37.000 It should be entertaining and informative, or at least I hope it is.

00:47:40.000 And so if you come out on Sunday, you can come and watch that.

00:47:42.000 I'd be glad to meet you and see you over at Politicon on Sunday.

00:47:45.000 And we will be rehashing all of that come Monday morning.

00:47:48.000 So lots to get to already by Monday.

00:47:50.000 We'll talk about all of it.

00:47:51.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:47:51.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - July 28, 2017

Mr. Shapiro Goes To Washington | The Ben Shapiro Show Ep. 350

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