Former Vice President Joe Biden has a big lead in the polls, and he s gaining ground. Is he more like John Kerry? Is he like Howard Dean? Or does he have a better chance of beating Donald Trump in 2020 because of his name recognition and name recognition? Or because he s running for re-election because he has 100% name recognition like Hillary Clinton did in 2008 and 2012? Or is Joe Biden more like Joe Biden than John Kerry or Joe Biden? Ben Shapiro breaks it all down and explains why Joe Biden is more likely to win the 2020 Democratic nomination than John McCain was in 2008 or John Kerry in 2004, and why he s better than either of them at this point in their respective presidential campaigns. Plus, Ben explains why he thinks Joe Biden s name recognition is more important than Hillary Clinton s in 2016 and why she should have been the favorite to win in 2016, not Donald Trump. Subscribe to Ben Shapiro's new show, The Ben Shapiro Show, wherever you get your shows. Use the promo code "UPLEVEL" to receive 20% off your first month with discount code UPLEVEL at checkout. If you like the show and want to become a supporter, you can become a patron for future episodes of the show, use discount code: BONUS at checkout to get 20% OFF the entire month, plus free shipping, plus a 4-week free trial, plus an additional 4-month free shipping when you sign up for the next month, and a FREE VIP membership when you buy a VaynerMedia membership, and get an ad discount when you enter the site. You get 5% off the entire site gets the offer starts starting at $99, they begin shipping $99.99 and get 5GB and they start shipping free, they also get the service starts shipping free in two months, plus they get $5, they get you an ad-free version of the site gets you 4GB and you get an extra $99 and they get 5 GBPC, they'll get $49,99 a month, you get 4GB of the ad starts starting in two weeks, and they'll also get a discount on the site only get the deal starts starts starting, they can run the entire service starts after they get the ad begins shipping the service, they receive the deal, they start two months they get a complimentary rate, they will also get $29,99 and you'll get a $24,99,99 they get two months of the deal.
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00:02:04.000Well, obviously because he was Barack Obama's vice president.
00:02:06.000That means he has 100% name recognition.
00:02:08.000Now, it is worthwhile noting that vice presidential candidates, the people who come back from the vice presidency and then run again, it doesn't go great for them historically.
00:02:18.000It doesn't go great for them right off the bat historically.
00:02:21.000In 2003, in 2003, Joe Lieberman was the actual Democratic frontrunner in early polling data from April 2003.
00:02:45.000At this point in the race, Howard Dean was ahead by most national polling, and then, of course, Howard Dean imploded.
00:02:51.000Joe Lieberman, as I say, was ahead as of 2003, and then Joe Lieberman started to fade, and then Howard Dean took over in late 2003, early 2004, and then he fell apart.
00:03:02.000In 2008, at this point, Hillary Clinton was the prohibitive favorite.
00:03:07.000Hillary Clinton was by far the prohibitive favorite.
00:03:09.000And then, of course, Barack Obama came out of nowhere and stole her nomination.
00:03:14.000In 2012, Mitt Romney was the leader at the very beginning.
00:03:18.000He ended up being the leader in the clubhouse.
00:03:20.000But in the middle of 2012, he lost the lead several times.
00:03:23.000Newt Gingrich jumped into the lead at one point.
00:03:25.000There are a bunch of people who had the lead for a brief little while in 2012.
00:03:29.000Herman Cain had the lead for a brief little while in 2012.
00:03:32.000In 2016, Donald Trump was not the wire-to-wire leader.
00:03:35.000Jeb Bush had the lead for a little while.
00:03:37.000Trump eventually spiked into the lead and then stayed there because of that 100% name recognition and because all of his negatives had already been priced in.
00:03:45.000So is Joe Biden more like Joe Lieberman?
00:04:01.000A well-established establishment pick with some pretty high negatives when he gets out on the campaign trail.
00:04:06.000The reason that Biden has flamed out repeatedly in presidential races is because he's not actually a very good campaigner.
00:04:11.000He's good when he's campaigning for somebody else, because if he's campaigning for Barack Obama, you're like, oh, there's old jokey Joe campaigning for the much more serious Barack Obama.
00:04:20.000When Joe Biden campaigns on his own behalf, he is not seen as a particularly serious fellow.
00:04:25.000Now, maybe the age, maybe the fact that he has served as vice president for eight years, militates against that.
00:04:30.000But I've been saying for a while, I will continue to maintain, I think that he is a weaker candidate than most people believe he is at this point.
00:04:36.000If you are taking the polls for granted at this point, I think that you're getting a little bit bamboozled.
00:04:40.000That said, he might be more desirable than I think, and it's also possible that his name recognition carries him to victory in a field that has one million candidates.
00:04:49.000Well, right now, here's what the polls are showing.
00:04:51.000So, Biden did get a significant bounce out of his campaign rollout.
00:04:54.000Yesterday, I had suggested that he had not.
00:04:56.000It turns out that the new polls show I was wrong.
00:05:00.000Biden announced his bid last Thursday.
00:05:02.000He held his first rally on Monday in Pittsburgh.
00:05:04.000He is now the first choice of more than a third of those who plan to participate in their state's Democratic primary or caucuses, according to the Morning Consult.
00:05:12.00036% of Democratic voters say they prefer Joe Biden as the party's nominee.
00:05:16.000That is a six-point increase That gives him a 14-point lead over Senator Bernie Sanders, who maintains at 22% overall.
00:05:24.000Elizabeth Warren is starting to see a little bit of a boost.
00:05:27.000She is following at 9%, followed closely by Mayor Pete Buttigieg at 8%, Kamala Harris at 7%, and Beto O'Rourke at 5%.
00:05:34.000Basically, that grouping is well behind both Biden and Bernie.
00:05:39.000And then, of course, you have all of the sort of fringe contenders.
00:05:52.000All of these polls will show that only Kirsten Gillibrand's immediate family wants Kirsten Gillibrand to be president.
00:05:58.000There are interesting cleavages in these polls.
00:06:01.000So Biden's lead among white voters, 34% to 26%, is much smaller than his overall advantage.
00:06:07.000He has a commanding lead with black voters, 44% to 20%, 44% for Biden, 20% for Bernie, and Harris at 10%.
00:06:16.000Among Hispanic voters, Biden is leading Sanders by a slim margin, only 30 to 27%.
00:06:21.000So basically, the entire lead for Joe Biden, or a great majority of the lead for Joe Biden, is with black voters.
00:06:27.000That's deeply important because obviously it's how Barack Obama won the nomination in 2008 over Hillary Clinton.
00:06:32.000Hillary won white voters running away.
00:06:34.000Barack Obama won black voters running away as well.
00:06:36.000The difference is that 60% of the Democratic base in a lot of southern states is black voters.
00:06:41.000So Joe Biden is heavily relying on that minority vote.
00:06:44.000Now, if Barack Obama came out and endorsed Joe Biden, it's a foregone conclusion he's the nominee in all likelihood.
00:06:49.000But if he doesn't endorse Joe Biden, then there's going to be a lot of talk about Joe Biden's various racial quandaries.
00:06:56.000The fact is that Joe Biden has a long record.
00:06:58.000That record will become the subject of Kamala Harris's attacks and Cory Booker's attacks in particular.
00:07:02.000They are hoping to steal away that 44% of black support that Joe Biden has in those polls.
00:07:08.000Biden also has the support of nearly half of seniors, 65 and older, with 48 percent.
00:07:13.000Sanders is doing very poorly with those older voters.
00:07:15.000Those older voters tend to be a little bit more moderate, which is why Sanders is even running behind Buttigieg among seniors 65 and older.
00:07:22.000So basically, old people and black folks really like Joe Biden and everybody else Sort of favors Bernie, or is at least very close to favoring Bernie.
00:07:30.000Biden leads Sanders by 9 points among men, 33 to 24.
00:07:33.000He has an 18 point lead among women, 38% to 20%.
00:07:36.000In other words, it looks like the Democratic Party base is not the Twitter base.
00:07:42.000But the question is, who is going to be running the show when it comes to the actual primary voting?
00:07:47.000Who's going to be running the show when it comes to the campaign?
00:07:49.000Is it going to be all the moderates who supposedly were going to show up and put Hillary Clinton over the top in 2008?
00:07:55.000Remember, Bernie Sanders did not pull nationally on a comparable level with Hillary Clinton in 2016.
00:08:03.000And yet, he won an enormous number of primaries, he won an enormous number of delegates.
00:08:07.000That's because, number one, Hillary was not a good candidate, and number two, because the people who tend to show up to the polls in outsized numbers are the most excited people, and those excited people tend to be young, white millennials.
00:08:18.000Those are the people who tend to show up in primary voting for Democrats.
00:08:21.000Older folks don't tend to show up as much in primary voting, and black folks don't tend to show up as much in primary voting.
00:08:27.000Biden had a six point balance that tied Sanders for the largest bump that Morning Consult has measured around a candidate's announcement.
00:08:33.000Immediately after Sanders launched his campaign, he vaulted six points and trailed Biden narrowly 29% to 27%.
00:08:42.000That Morning Consult weekly White House poll has a slight drop for Pete Buttigieg who may be maxing out.
00:08:47.000It may be that Pete Buttigieg's momentum has stalled a little bit and that Biden jumping in is picking up all of the moderate momentum at this point.
00:08:55.000That Biden pickup of six is coming from Sanders who lost two, Buttigieg who lost one, Harris who lost one, O'Rourke who lost one.
00:09:07.000With black women he is doing exceedingly well.
00:09:10.000He has 47% of the black female vote as compared with 18% for Bernie Sanders and 17% for other But it's still, as I say, extremely early in the game.
00:09:22.000Extremely early in the game at this point.
00:09:25.000So for all the people who are already saying, well, you know, Biden's got this thing locked up, I don't really see that.
00:09:30.000So Joe Biden did his campaign launch yesterday.
00:09:33.000He was in Pittsburgh and he was speaking at a union hall.
00:09:35.000This is going to be his chief argument.
00:09:37.000His chief argument, as the International Association of Firefighters guy who announced him said, his chief argument is I'm the guy who's most likely to beat Trump.
00:09:44.000Now, I have said for years, I think that's true.
00:09:47.000I think Joe Biden is the candidate most likely to defeat President Trump because he is a guy who has a blue collar feel, a long record.
00:09:54.000He's a person who is perceived as more moderate and more comfortable.
00:09:56.000He can run a back to normalcy 1920 Warren G. Harding style campaign.
00:10:03.000People have a level of familiarity with him that they don't have with Bernie Sanders.
00:10:06.000Bernie Sanders is kooky and scary, whereas Joe Biden is kooky and not nearly as scary.
00:10:11.000So in a general election, that's the case.
00:10:12.000If Joe Biden makes it through the primaries, I think he is a formidable challenger for President Trump.
00:10:17.000My big question is, does he make it through the primaries, considering that the excitement in the primaries is everything?
00:10:23.000That excitement in the primaries, the ability to mobilize people in Iowa and New Hampshire, for example, that means an awful lot.
00:10:30.000There are new polls out of New Hampshire, by the way, that show Biden vaulting into the lead in New Hampshire.
00:10:34.000Elizabeth Warren is picking up no new support in New Hampshire, which means that she's got a problem on her hands.
00:10:41.000But Biden, according to the latest poll in New Hampshire, the Boston Globe Suffolk poll, shows that Biden has 20 percent, followed by Bernie Sanders at 12 and Buttigieg at 12.
00:10:52.000Elizabeth Warren is still stuck at 8 percent.
00:10:55.000None of these numbers are prohibitive, however.
00:10:58.000Because remember, the national polls don't matter nearly as much as the primary polling.
00:11:01.000In the primary polling, Biden has a very narrow lead over Bernie Sanders in Iowa.
00:11:05.000In New Hampshire, he has a slight lead over Bernie Sanders in the poll average.
00:11:11.000In the poll average, he's got maybe one point on Bernie Sanders.
00:11:16.000In South Carolina, he seems to have opened it up.
00:11:19.000South Carolina is where Biden has an advantage, again, because Iowa and New Hampshire are disproportionately white, and South Carolina is disproportionately black in terms of the voting delegations.
00:11:28.000So the real question of the election is going to be, do you start to see black support wane for Joe Biden as his record is reviewed and as Barack Obama doesn't endorse him?
00:11:36.000We'll get to Joe Biden actually jumping in, what he had to say and what his campaign looks like in just a second.
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00:12:53.000All right, so Joe Biden launches his campaign, and one of the chief problems for Joe Biden is that he happens to be quite old.
00:12:59.000And because he is quite old, he's 77 years old, come the time of the election.
00:13:04.000That means that he's kind of slurring his words out there.
00:13:08.000Donald Trump wants to label Joe Biden Sleepy Joe, which frankly I think is bad branding because Joe Biden's entire campaign is, I'm a normal guy you can trust.
00:13:17.000Labeling him Sleepy Joe, like Trump being high energy versus Biden being low energy is actually not something that cuts in Trump's favor because I think that Biden's basic appeal right now is, guys, we need a breath.
00:13:31.000It would have been much better if he had gone with Obama-Joe, something that labels Joe Biden as part of the Obama team, but he's not doing that.
00:13:39.000In any case, it is true that Joe Biden is an old dude, and that is something that is likely to come up in this election cycle, particularly in the primaries where he's running against a bevy of younger candidates, and even Bernie Sanders, who seems more energetic than Joe Biden.
00:13:52.000Here is Joe Biden yesterday at the Teamsters Temple No.
00:14:46.000So stock up on tennis balls to make sure that those walkers move smoothly across the floor.
00:14:51.000I'm very much looking forward to old people clubbing each other to death for the presidency of the United... When will the boomers leave us alone?
00:15:04.000In any case, so Joe Biden then launches his campaign.
00:15:08.000And the launch of his campaign is old themes.
00:15:11.000And the question for Americans is going to be, do we want to go back to the Obama era?
00:15:14.000Now, the way that the Democrats are going to play the Obama era is a time of peace and prosperity where we had a popular president and people came together.
00:15:21.000And then there's going to be a lot of folks who say, no, that's not what it was like at all.
00:15:25.000So I think that you are going to see footage from President Trump of Ferguson on a loop.
00:15:29.000You're going to see footage from President Trump of the Dallas police shootings.
00:15:33.000You're going to see footage from President Trump of people who are impoverished during the Obama administration.
00:15:40.000He's going to talk about how the economy is much better.
00:15:45.000I don't think that Trump can make the case that he has been a radically unifying president, because I don't think that that's true, but the disunity started under Barack Obama, so any idea that Joe Biden is a unifying figure, I think is simply not the case.
00:15:57.000Like, he should be running with ads of Joe Biden suggesting that Mitt Romney was going to put black people back in chains.
00:16:03.000He should be running ads of Joe Biden saying that Obamacare was a big effing deal, combined with ads of Bernie Sanders saying that Obamacare is a disaster area.
00:16:11.000But Joe Biden's real appeal, it's really funny, So Donald Trump's great appeal, when he said, make America great again, is that he was appealing to an ideal.
00:16:19.000So Democrats, people on the left, they said, America was never great.
00:16:22.000How can you say America, make America great again?
00:16:24.000When there was segregation, when there was slavery, when was America greater than it is now?
00:16:28.000That's not what he meant by make America great again, as everybody intuitively understood.
00:16:33.000What Donald Trump meant is that there is a generalized feeling in the United States that we are more disunified than we have been any time in recent history, and that there used to be at least a common sense of purpose in the United States, and that common sense of purpose was moving toward integrating everyone properly, and that America was based on fundamentally good principles.
00:16:53.000And that we had left that during the Obama era.
00:16:56.000Well, now Biden is basically running Trump's campaign from 2016.
00:17:00.000He's now saying the Obama era was the apotheosis of unity.
00:17:28.000There are three basic reasons why I'm running for president of the United States.
00:17:32.000The first is to restore the soul of the nation.
00:17:35.000And the second is to rebuild the backbone of this nation.
00:17:39.000And the third is to unify this nation.
00:17:42.000We always do better when we act as one America.
00:17:45.000Yeah, well, I'm, again, old enough to remember when you were suggesting to Mitt Romney, the most anodyne, most antiseptic candidate in American history, you called that guy an incipient slave owner.
00:17:56.000So don't give me the unity routine, old Joe.
00:17:59.000But again, that's what he's going to be running on, because when you are running a unity campaign against somebody as divisive as President Trump, you don't have to be the full unifier.
00:18:07.000All you have to do is be less divisive than President Trump, which actually is not all that hard a job.
00:18:12.000Remember, Hillary Clinton was divisive for years, long before she did this.
00:18:15.000Joe Biden is perceived as sort of doltish and cloddish, maybe accidentally un-unifying.
00:18:21.000But I think that actually plays in his favor.
00:18:24.000Then Trump gets to policy and Trump's policy is more moderate than the Democratic base.
00:18:28.000And so Joe Biden will be attacked not only on his history in terms of race, but he will be attacked in terms of his own policy.
00:18:35.000So Joe Biden has sort of a bizarre combination of policies.
00:18:40.000He is running an old school Democratic campaign at the same time suggesting that Donald Trump's tax cuts should be repealed, but also it's time to start rewarding work, which is an odd thing since Some 80% of Americans received a tax cut under President Trump's tax cuts.
00:20:48.000Everybody still agrees that you get to share in the profits.
00:20:51.000That is why everyone in the private sector has left unions.
00:20:54.000Because they felt like the better chance of getting a raise was not to be part of a union that was going to drive down the profit margins of these various businesses, which is why the biggest businesses in America are not unionized.
00:21:04.000And it's not all that hard to get a union started under the National Labor Relations Act.
00:21:09.000The fact is the government benefits unions.
00:21:13.000And if companies try to quash unions, that is punishable by law.
00:21:16.000Joe Biden, however, is making the same sort of case that Donald Trump made.
00:21:20.000I wonder if that works in the current economy.
00:21:22.000Now, maybe it does, because the media have been lying about the economy and suggesting that the economy is not all that good and that there's a huge number of Americans who are going without.
00:21:30.000Still, I think that that is I wonder if that's going to be a convincing case.
00:21:35.000Finally, there is Joe Biden making the defense of Obamacare.
00:21:39.000And we'll get to in a second what Joe Biden's special vulnerabilities here are.
00:21:42.000Here is Biden saying we have to save Obamacare.
00:21:46.000Affordable health care was a huge step forward, the ACA in our country.
00:21:57.000We have to stop this administration's effort to gut it first and then we have to move on and finish the job and make health care, make health care a right.
00:22:08.000Health care is a right, not a privilege.
00:22:11.000We have to give everybody the peace of mind they deserve.
00:22:15.000He's now defending the ACA and he's calling it a step along the way.
00:22:18.000So the Obama administration was lying all those years.
00:22:21.000I'll explain in a second why this makes Joe Biden vulnerable.
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00:25:02.000People have said they're inherently racist.
00:25:04.000Never mind the fact that 1994 criminal sentencing reform actually resulted in the single greatest decline in American crime in history.
00:25:12.000It's actually something you should be proud of, but Biden has been running away of his own record.
00:25:17.000If you don't think Kamala Harris and Cory Booker are going to eat him alive on this, you're wrong.
00:25:21.000Which is why back in January, Biden was saying, I haven't always been right.
00:25:24.000I know we haven't always gotten things right, but I've always tried.
00:25:27.000He said that decisions about criminal justice reform trapped an entire generation.
00:25:31.000It was a big mistake when it was made.
00:25:33.000That's a pretty large change from 2016 when Biden told CNBC he wasn't ashamed at all for supporting criminal justice reform and bragged, quote, I drafted the bill.
00:25:43.000So if you don't think those will be campaign commercials directed against old Joe, you got another thing coming.
00:25:47.000And then, of course, weeks ago, as Biden prepped his presidential run, he approached Anita Hill.
00:25:51.000That's the woman who accused Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment.
00:25:54.000Now, at the time, most Americans didn't believe Anita Hill in the same way most Americans did not believe Christine Blasey Ford and her meritless and baseless or evidence-free, at least, allegations against Brett Kavanaugh.
00:26:07.000Joe Biden didn't even believe Anita Hill at the time.
00:26:09.000He told Arlen Specter, quote, It was clear to me from the way she was answering the questions, she was lying.
00:26:16.000Now, however, Biden has told Hill that he was sorry for what happened to you.
00:26:20.000That's because the left-wing agitprop over on HBO has suggested that Anita Hill is actually a martyr to the women's cause, despite the fact that she followed Justice Thomas from job to job, despite the fact that she had told, apparently, according to her friends, that she had told them that Justice Thomas was a good man and a legal scholar, and that she had left him all sorts of messages soliciting his well-being, seeing how he was doing and all of this over the years.
00:26:43.000Now, Joe Biden is going around apologizing to Anita Hill, but Anita Hill says, why would I accept your apology?
00:27:07.000So here's the big problem for Joe Biden.
00:27:09.000All the things that make him attractive to moderates are all the things he's going to be apologizing for.
00:27:13.000This puts him between a rock and a hard place.
00:27:15.000If he had the courage not to apologize, he'd probably be better off.
00:27:19.000But the media are going to insist he apologize so that he is considered sufficiently woke.
00:27:22.000And that's why the New York Times has an entire piece today from Lucy Flores.
00:27:26.000Flores is the former state assemblywoman Who was running for lieutenant governor of the state of Nevada and accused Joe Biden of smelling her hair.
00:27:34.000She has a huge piece in the New York Times today called, Joe Biden and the Apologies that Warrant.
00:27:40.000And she says, the act of atoning may be difficult and complicated, but the concept is simple enough.
00:27:45.000You did something bad and it caused harm.
00:27:47.000A basic sense of decency urges you to take measures to, at worst, express how sorry you are, and at best, do something to right the wrong.
00:27:54.000On the other side of atonement, we find forgiveness.
00:27:56.000One does not happen without the other.
00:27:58.000History has shown us that both of these acts are difficult, and yet both are necessary to maintain a cooperative and functioning society.
00:28:04.000And then she talks about the Me Too movement and how women are still being put under the thumb.
00:28:10.000She says powerful, rich and famous men who acted with impunity, some for decades, were finally brought to some version of justice.
00:28:21.000But also, as Anita Hill recently found out, not exactly sorry either.
00:28:25.000I wrote about my own experience with Mr. Biden last month, about the time in 2014 he grabbed my shoulders, smelled my hair, kissed the back of my head, and soon after, other women came forward about their own experiences with uninvited and unwanted intimate behavior in professional settings.
00:28:37.000Even though his defenders reduced the behavior to hugging, it was not, and shifted the focus to his intent, it was good intent, and made up false political motives to shift the attention to me, She endorsed Bernie Sanders in 2016.
00:28:47.000Most reasonable people understand that this kind of behavior with women violates not just their bodily autonomy, but also demonstrates a lack of basic understanding of social norms.
00:28:55.000Most people acknowledge men don't usually kiss, smell, rub noses with, place their hands on the thighs of, or touch foreheads with random women they don't know.
00:29:02.000Yet some men do, especially powerful men, who are protected by privilege and a crew of self-interested enablers who don't want to lose their access to power by calling out the obvious.
00:29:10.000If you don't think Kamala Harris or Elizabeth Warren Or Amy Klobuchar or Kirsten Gillibrand are going to hit Biden with this?
00:29:18.000He'll be hit with all of these things.
00:29:21.000Lucy Flores concludes by suggesting he needs to seek atonement.
00:29:25.000She says, if a candidate has taken some questionable positions or done or said some questionable things, we must ask, what have they done to show they've actually learned and evolved?
00:29:33.000Ultimately, the easiest way to fairly assess whether or not someone has truly learned, evolved and atoned is to watch their actions.
00:29:38.000Because when people show you who they are, then we should believe them.
00:29:42.000And this is why Biden is going out there and trying to claim that he has apologized to Anita Hill, and Anita Hill is saying, I'm not interested in your apology.
00:29:49.000Here is Joe Biden on The View, suggesting just that.
00:29:52.000He said, I take responsibility for how Anita Hill was treated.
00:29:54.000This is actually on Good Morning America.
00:30:08.000And I committed that I am determined To continue the fight, to see to it that we basically change the culture in this country where a woman is put in a position where she is disbelieved.
00:30:21.000As the committee chairman, I take responsibility that she did not get treated well.
00:30:53.000And so he is widely perceived as the most selectable.
00:30:55.000And when it comes to areas of, for example, if it comes to areas of his treatment of women in a general election, he will be able to point at Donald Trump and say, well, at least I'm not that.
00:31:06.000So I'm not sure he's super vulnerable in a general to all of that.
00:31:08.000But when it comes to his treatment of Anita Hill.
00:31:11.000When it comes to his racial history, when it comes to his own history of demonizing his opposition, when it comes to his own history of lying, the fact is that Joe Biden lies with a straight face as well as any politician I've ever seen.
00:31:23.000I remember in 2012 when he was debating Paul Ryan.
00:32:50.000If you should plot in a car accident tomorrow, make sure that your family is taken care of and you're not tossed into a pauper's grave like Mozart.
00:32:56.000Make sure That you are taken care of and your family has the money necessary to survive.
00:33:01.000It's part of being a responsible adult.
00:34:06.000We always appreciate that because that's what makes us the top conservative podcast in America, the fastest growing podcast in America, the fastest growing radio show in America.
00:34:25.000out we are the largest fastest growing conservative podcast and radio show in the nation so as i say better much better for a candidate not to have a record than to have a record This is what we find out from Barack Obama in 2008.
00:34:42.000Having a record means you get attacked over that record.
00:34:44.000So here is Bernie Sanders who has no record.
00:34:46.000The nice thing about Bernie Sanders for Democrats, dude doesn't have a record.
00:34:49.000He's said a lot of stuff, but he's never done anything ever.
00:36:00.000And you want to say that you gave us a transition?
00:36:01.000You said Obamacare was the final step.
00:36:03.000In other words, there is a lot of dirt on Joe Biden, and none of it has yet really seen the light of day because it was all it was all glossed over by the beautiful candidacy of Barack Obama.
00:36:14.000Joe Biden is not a beautiful, inspiring candidate.
00:36:40.000The first primaries are not going to happen for nearly a year.
00:36:44.000That is a long time for Joe Biden to fall apart on the stump.
00:36:48.000So for all of the talk about Joe Biden being a prohibitive or formidable front runner, I do not think that is correct.
00:36:54.000OK, meanwhile, over in Venezuela, things are heating up again.
00:36:57.000So people sort of forgot about Venezuela after Juan Guaido, who is the Venezuelan opposition leader, declared himself the president of the country.
00:37:05.000And Nicolas Maduro, who's a dictator, declared, no, not so much.
00:37:08.000And Juan Guaido has been under danger of arrest.
00:37:11.000Members of the military have refused to join Juan Guaido's side.
00:37:14.000Well, now he is pushing toward the endgame, is Guaido.
00:37:18.000On Tuesday, he appeared with troops at a Caracas military base announcing a final phase to remove Nicolás Maduro from office.
00:37:24.000It would be great, by the way, for Venezuela, for Nicolás Maduro and his corrupt socialist evil regime to go.
00:37:29.000Juan Guaido is not a right-winger by any stretch of the imagination, but at least he is not a full-on socialist who is attempting to steal all the wealth for a privileged few while impoverishing the entire people.
00:37:41.000So here's what we know for now, according to the Washington Post.
00:37:44.000Vice President Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, National Security Advisor John Bolton have expressed U.S.
00:37:50.000Maduro says that the military has remained loyal.
00:37:52.000Government leaders denounced a coup attempt by a reduced group of military officials and warned of a counterattack.
00:37:58.000So that is them saying we're going to come in and maybe we'll slaughter our own troops.
00:38:02.000Guaido has urged supporters to take to the streets for non-violent action and claims to have a list of names of military officials who support him.
00:38:08.000So we're about to find out whether or not the people of Venezuela will rise up and whether the military is willing to fire on those people en masse.
00:38:16.000The one thing Maduro has done is ensured that his top levels are secure by bribing them effectively.
00:38:23.000According to the Washington Post, Guaido appeared early Tuesday to be staging a military-backed challenge to Maduro, issuing a video with troops that he said was recorded at a base in Caracas, urging other soldiers to join the final stage of Operation Liberty, meant to force the socialist leader from power.
00:38:38.000In a second we'll get to more details.
00:38:40.000So, Juayot said, "People of Venezuela, the end of usurpation has arrived.
00:38:43.000At this moment, I am with the main military units of our armed forces starting the final phase of Operation Liberty.
00:38:48.000People of Venezuela will go to the street with the armed forces to continue taking the streets until we consolidate the end of usurpation, which is already irreversible." Meanwhile, Maduro's communications minister tweeted that the government was moving to confront a coup and was attempting to deactivate a reduced group of military officials who are traitors.
00:39:05.000So, this could theoretically break into open warfare in the coming hours.
00:39:09.000Outside the La Carlota military base in the eastern district of Altamira, where Guaido has asked supporters to assemble, people started to join Guaido's call to protest.
00:39:38.000They're trying to suggest that Juado is touching off violence with peaceful marches.
00:39:43.000The question is, who's going to fire the first shot?
00:39:45.000And if the first shot is fired, how this goes?
00:39:47.000And then the question becomes, what American involvement should be?
00:39:53.000Should America be involved in this at all?
00:39:55.000Should they be writing armed support to Guaido's military backers?
00:40:01.000Guaido has called for non-violent action.
00:40:02.000The video has the hallmarks of a significant military challenge.
00:40:07.000His claim has been recognized, Guaido's claim has been recognized by nearly 60 nations, including the United States.
00:40:12.000The Russians have been pushing support into the country as well.
00:40:16.000Vice President Pence had tweeted, of course, to Juan Guaido, the National Assembly, and all of the freedom-loving people of Venezuela who are taking to the streets today in Operation Libertad.
00:40:33.000And of course Pompeo has expressed his support for it as well.
00:40:38.000So if violence breaks out, how much support?
00:40:40.000We should be providing as much support, in my view, as necessary, the same way we have provided support to the rightful opposition in Ukraine to Russian usurpation.
00:40:50.000Marco Rubio, the senator who has strongly backed Guaido and been very vocal, says this is the moment for those military officers in Venezuela to fulfill their constitutional oath and defend the legitimate interim president Juan Guaido.
00:41:00.000In this effort to restore democracy, you can write history in the hours and days ahead.
00:41:06.000It's, you know, this is coming to a head, we'll keep tabs on it, but the United States should provide whatever covert support short of actual head-on military intervention is necessary to preserve Guaido and help this opposition take power in Venezuela.
00:41:23.000Because Maduro is not only illegitimate, he is one of the worst dictators on the planet.
00:41:28.000He has reduced one of the most oil-rich nations on Earth to a group of citizens eating dogs in the streets.
00:41:35.000And by the way, one of the reasons that you have, along with many other regimes in South America that have done a terrible job of governing, a citizen in an immigration crisis moving toward South and Central America up through the American border.
00:41:49.000Meanwhile, Democrats continue to target President Trump The incoming New York Attorney General has declared basically that she wants Trump.
00:43:17.000It would be evil if a Republican prosecutor decided to investigate Barack and Michelle Obama just out of animus for Barack and Michelle Obama.
00:43:24.000Again, if you want to target the crime, that is one thing.
00:43:28.000But the fact is that when you have state prosecutors who are targeting individual human beings and then trying to find a crime, that is an abuse of power.
00:43:38.000And it's something that everybody should consider, right, left, and center.
00:43:41.000How would you feel if the government came after you and decided to pin a crime on you or to uncover a crime that you may have committed in the past, not based on them uncovering the crime, but based on their dislike for you?
00:43:51.000This is incredibly, incredibly dangerous stuff.
00:43:55.000People will suggest that when Donald Trump says, lock her up about Hillary Clinton, that's out of animus for Hillary Clinton, and that's terrible and horrible.
00:44:15.000And this is the problem with the government having this sort of power generally.
00:44:19.000You have to think about the sort of power that you hand to government because it could, in fact, be used against you.
00:44:24.000I mean, Trump should be, frankly, Trump should sue her for violation of civil rights based on these sorts of statements.
00:44:33.000Meanwhile, Deutsche Bank is already providing documents on Trump's financing to the New York state authorities.
00:44:39.000They're investigating and demanding records related to loans and lines of credit granted to the Trump organization.
00:44:44.000Trump is trying to sue Deutsche Bank to prevent Deutsche Bank from handing over those documents, saying this is outside the scope of the prosecution.
00:44:52.000Opposition Democrats are doing the same thing.
00:44:54.000This is unfair targeting, unless they actually have some evidence of a crime.
00:45:01.000It is not illegal, but it demonstrates that the American voters need to get serious about how they implement their principles.
00:45:07.000If you are happy with prosecutors, whether they are in Congress or whether they are state prosecutors, like Letitia James, the New York AG, abusing their power to target individuals just because they don't like their politics, this is dangerous, dangerous stuff.
00:45:20.000Okay, time for some things that I like and then some things that I hate.
00:45:26.000So, there was a video yesterday that emerged of Amag Peretz, who's a 34-year-old uncle who saved his niece during the Chabad of Poway shooting.
00:45:37.000He picked her up, ran her in the other room.
00:46:26.000All right, so things that I hate today.
00:46:33.000This is just an awful story and demonstrates that when you are a nutcase driven by partisanship alone, you should... I mean, this is jailable stuff.
00:46:46.000There was somebody who tried to put up a story suggesting that Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana had sexually assaulted a man in February.
00:46:54.000It turns out that this story was just a lie, and it was put together, allegedly, by Jacob Wohl, who is just a gross human being, and Jack Berkman, another gross human being.
00:47:03.000In the aftermath of the Brett Kavanaugh saga, they tried to suggest that certain Democrats were responsible for sexual assault.
00:47:10.000They wanted to leverage the allegations and then suggest that, well, if you don't back this allegation even baselessly, then this just shows you're a hypocrite.
00:47:17.000And so they tried to come up with apparently false allegations against Democratic figures.
00:47:21.000Now they've tried the same thing with Pete Buttigieg, according to the Daily Beast, quote, a pair of right wing provocateurs are being engaged, are being accused of attempting to recruit young Republican men to level false allegations of sexual assault against Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg.
00:47:34.000The details of the operatives attempt emerged as one man suddenly surfaced with a vague and uncorroborated allegation that Buttigieg had assaulted him.
00:47:41.000The claim was retracted hours later on a Facebook page appearing to belong to the man.
00:47:46.000A Republican source told the Daily Beast that lobbyist Jack Berkman and internet troll Jacob Wohl approached him last week to try to convince him to falsely accuse Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, of engaging him sexually while he was too drunk to consent.
00:47:59.000The source said their goal was to kneecap Buttigieg's momentum in the 2020 presidential race.
00:48:05.000The man asked to remain anonymous out of a concern the resulting publicity might imperil his employment.
00:48:09.000And because he said Wohl and Berkman have a reputation for vindictiveness, which, of course, Is true.
00:48:15.000The source did provide the Daily Beast with surreptitious audio of the meeting, which corroborates his account in it.
00:48:19.000Wohl appears to refer to Buttigieg as a terminal threat to President Donald Trump's re-election next year.
00:48:24.000On Monday, a separate individual using the name of Hunter Kelly published a post on the site Medium, on which he alleged that Buttigieg sexually assaulted him in February.
00:48:32.000That post was tweeted out by David Wohl, Jacob's father, and quickly rewritten by the site Big League Politics, which is known as a landing ground for right-wing conspiracy theories.
00:48:41.000Kelly's supposed Medium and Twitter accounts both say they were created this month.
00:48:45.000His Facebook page included several posts lauding Trump and criticizing Hillary Clinton.
00:48:48.000And then it turns out that Kelly, when he was identified, said, Again, this is an act of evil.
00:49:00.000Trying to drum up criminal allegations against innocent people for political purposes is evil.
00:49:28.000The fact that he has been able to maintain any level of credibility whatsoever with any group of people in the United States demonstrates the gullibility of people who are willing to believe anything so long as it serves a partisan purpose.
00:50:12.000I think you should be able to wear whatever dumb swimwear you want.
00:50:14.000I think you should be able to wear a bikini or a burkini.
00:50:17.000If you're a free human being, you get to choose what you wear.
00:50:20.000But Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition is not a sales line for swimsuits.
00:50:26.000It is, it is a, it is, let's be frank about this.
00:50:29.000It is softcore pornography for the uninitiated.
00:50:31.000That's what Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition is, was, and always will be.
00:50:35.000And this attempt to pretend that it's all about female choice, that's really what Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition is, it's really stupid.
00:50:43.000I'm one of the few people in America... I subscribed to Sports Illustrated for years until they became so overtly political I could no longer read their magazine.
00:50:50.000I used to read it cover to cover every single week for years.
00:50:52.000I was a subscriber for probably a decade.
00:50:54.000I was one of the few people who actually called up their number and unsubscribed from the swimsuit edition.
00:50:58.000You could do that and then get an extra issue.
00:51:00.000I'm one of the people who took advantage of that because it was obvious what the swimsuit edition was.
00:51:04.000I love that they're now recasting it as female empowerment.
00:51:07.000So it's it's women in body paint, hot women in body paints, and then just a lady wearing a wet suit, which is an interesting take.
00:51:15.000If you're gullible enough to believe the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition was ever about anything other than excitable teenage boys or men who are trying to have an excuse to look at women in lingerie or body paint, then you are out of your mind.