The Ben Shapiro Show - June 07, 2024


Poopin’ Joe


Episode Stats

Length

47 minutes

Words per Minute

192.96283

Word Count

9,259

Sentence Count

619

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

16


Summary

Joe Biden's trip to Normandy, France on the anniversary of D-Day, left him looking like he might need a medical degree, and his wife, Jill Biden, looks like she might need to get one, too. The White House suggests that the president did not poop, but the fact that it's an open question is not ideal for the President of the United States, who has now been the subject of a giant Wall Street Journal piece pointing out the obvious to all of us which is that the President is no longer functional. Meanwhile, President Trump has said that as President, Joe Biden is not an amazing man, and all the rest of us should be thankful that he is not in a wheelchair. Joe Biden appeared to be lost at times during the ceremony, and some have suggested that he may have even defecated upon himself, but that's a topic for another day, when Joe Biden goes to the Normandy beaches to honor World War II veterans, and instead of paying tribute to them, he just stumbles around in his moon shoes, and does a weird dance, and then can't seem to figure out whether to sit down or get on a chair, or whether he should sit down, or stand up, or if he needs to be helped by his wife to finish the ceremony and then walk over to a chair. . Good luck to Joe Biden, and good luck to Dr. Jill, because she's probably going to need a doctor's degree soon. And good luck, too, because Joe Biden's wife, because that's not going to be able to keep him in control of his faculties, is going to keep Joe Biden in check, is she's going to make it all right, is it? or is she going to help him stay that long enough to do that, you know, right? . . . or is he s going to get there, you're not? ? Thank you for listening to this episode of Morning Joe? - Caitlin Durante and Good Morning America, Caitlin? Caitlin's new book is out now? Subscribe to Morning Joe's newest episode is out in the new place on the Apple Podcasts! Subscribe? Subscribe, Subscribe, Like, and Share, and Good Luck! Subscribe, Share, Share and Retweet, and Subscribe to our new podcast, and Don't Tell Me What's Good Morning Joe is out there! Subscribe and Share it!


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Yesterday, Joe Biden went to Normandy on the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, the largest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare, and he attempted to channel Ronald Reagan.
00:00:11.000 Ronald Reagan, of course, was there for the 40th anniversary of D-Day and gave an incredibly famous and wonderful speech about the boys of Pointe du Hoc and all the rest of it.
00:00:21.000 Joe Biden showed up and proceeded to maybe poop.
00:00:26.000 Now, that's under dispute.
00:00:28.000 The White House suggests that the President did not, in fact, poop.
00:00:32.000 But the fact that it's an open question is not ideal for the President of the United States, who has now been the subject of a giant Wall Street Journal piece pointing out the obvious to all of us, which is that the President is no longer functional.
00:00:44.000 According to the New York Times, the aging American president facing a re-election campaign came to the Normandy coast of France to pay tribute to the daring army rangers who scaled the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, offering a pain to democracy for which they sacrificed and perhaps even wrapped himself a little bit in their reflected glory.
00:01:00.000 That was 1984.
00:01:01.000 The president was Ronald Reagan, who delivered an ode to heroism and patriotism that would become
00:01:05.000 one of the most iconic moments of his presidency. Forty years later, another aging president facing
00:01:09.000 re-election plans to return to the same spot on Friday to honor the same heroes and effectively
00:01:14.000 align himself with Mr. Reagan's legacy of leadership against tyranny. Well, let me just say,
00:01:19.000 good luck to Joe Biden if he is hoping to mirror the performance of Ronald Reagan in 1984 in
00:01:27.000 I mean, first off, the timeline doesn't really work.
00:01:31.000 It doesn't really work.
00:01:32.000 It turns out that in 1984, Ronald Reagan, who is considered aging, was 73 years old, younger than both of the major party candidates this year.
00:01:43.000 Joe Biden is currently 81 and no longer in control of his faculties.
00:01:48.000 And so the clips that were going viral around social media yesterday were not the clips of Joe Biden appearing stalwart in defense of democracy.
00:01:55.000 They were clips of the president doddering around, being guided by his handlers, being led by the hand by Dr. Jill, who's going to need a medical degree before all of this is over, given the way that Joe Biden is medically slipping.
00:02:07.000 Here was Joe Biden arriving at Omaha Beach and staggering around in his moon shoes.
00:02:13.000 Yes, they have him in these moon shoes because they are afraid he is going to trip.
00:02:16.000 In orthopedic shoes with giant soles that look as though he's going to go bouncing around.
00:02:22.000 Well, they're really just to prevent him from keeling over.
00:02:24.000 Here's what that looked like.
00:02:25.000 He gets out of the car, doesn't know where to go.
00:02:34.000 Just kind of standing there looking bewildered, his mouth slack-jawed.
00:02:39.000 Well, this is a beach.
00:02:41.000 What do I do here?
00:02:43.000 Then of course, he went on stage with all the other world leaders, all of whom are probably
00:02:47.000 half his age, and he had this particularly odd moment in which he was not sure whether
00:02:53.000 to sit down on a chair or not to sit down on a chair.
00:02:55.000 Nobody else seems confused up there, by the way.
00:02:57.000 Everybody else is standing there.
00:02:58.000 And you got to feel a little bit for Dr. Jill, except for the fact that she's the one who's
00:03:02.000 keeping him in power.
00:03:05.000 Dr. Jill has some ambitions of her own.
00:03:07.000 And the fact that Dr. Jill is standing there, she just looks awkward.
00:03:11.000 She has kind of a poker tell, which you will see in this particular video, where she starts sort of touching her face as she becomes uncomfortable with her husband's obviously senile behavior.
00:03:22.000 He gets up there, doesn't know what to do.
00:03:24.000 Looks older than the 100-year-old veterans of Normandy who are sitting behind him and proceeds to kind of do a weird dance.
00:03:32.000 This is the clip that had everybody suggesting that the president had perhaps defecated upon himself.
00:03:42.000 Distinguished guests, please welcome the Honorable Lloyd J. Austin III, Secretary of Defense of the United States of America.
00:03:52.000 Then finally, everybody sits.
00:03:55.000 But that hesitation, that what do we do?
00:03:58.000 And you can see that Jill is annoyed with him.
00:04:00.000 That's when she starts scratching her lip.
00:04:02.000 You can see it all.
00:04:04.000 And then of course, Joe Biden had to be led away, tottered away by Dr. Jill before everybody else.
00:04:10.000 Here's what the end of the ceremony looked like for the Bidens as everybody stays behind to greet the World War II veterans.
00:04:19.000 And we will catch you later.
00:04:20.000 Again, the fact that he walks, as President Trump has said, as though he is stepping over a bed of thumbtacks constantly, is not an amazing look.
00:04:32.000 Meanwhile, pan back, and there are all the rest of the world leaders who are still greeting all of the members of the greatest generation.
00:04:40.000 But Joe is gone.
00:04:41.000 He is out.
00:04:44.000 Biden during the ceremony appeared to be lost.
00:04:46.000 He appeared at some times to be closing his eyes, which again has become a common occurrence for him.
00:04:50.000 The Wall Street Journal reported that during meetings, it's not clear whether he's fallen asleep or not.
00:04:54.000 Here's what that looked like.
00:04:57.000 I think of Leon Gauthier and the others.
00:05:00.000 Everybody else seems to be wide awake.
00:05:02.000 There is Joe.
00:05:04.000 I'm not sure what he is doing here.
00:05:09.000 Don't worry folks, he is just resting his eyes.
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00:06:16.000 It matters because this is a president who is not in command.
00:06:19.000 He clearly is not in command.
00:06:20.000 Now, people keep asking, if he's not, then who is?
00:06:23.000 And the answer is, whoever's in command that day.
00:06:25.000 There's no one consistent answer.
00:06:27.000 It is not as though there's a shadow president like Barack Obama sitting in the background, manipulating all the strings.
00:06:32.000 At least then you would get a bad but coherent policy.
00:06:35.000 From Joe Biden, all you get is whether, is he awake this moment?
00:06:39.000 What does he decide to do?
00:06:40.000 You're getting an extraordinary level of volatility and eccentricity in Joe Biden's policymaking, which makes it feel as though he's ping-ponging off the walls, because he kind of is.
00:06:50.000 And that, of course, is not unusual in a case when you have somebody who's approaching senility.
00:06:54.000 On some days, they are better than on others.
00:06:56.000 Everybody knows this who has ever dealt with an aging family member.
00:06:59.000 On some days, maybe they're with it.
00:07:01.000 On some days, maybe they can get it together.
00:07:03.000 On some days, maybe those drugs hit differently on State of the Union Day.
00:07:06.000 And on some days, you walk in, they barely know who you are.
00:07:09.000 They don't appear to be able to keep up with you.
00:07:12.000 And that is Joe Biden.
00:07:14.000 The bottom is falling out for Joe Biden on this particular issue.
00:07:17.000 You know that when even his greatest allies, people who perform That wasn't the only nerve-wracking flight of the day.
00:07:24.000 President Biden today, touchdown in Paris.
00:07:27.000 Careful.
00:07:27.000 to make jokes about the fact that Joe Biden does not appear to be in control of himself.
00:07:32.000 Here is Jimmy Kimmel, lackey par excellence to the Biden administration. Even he is mocking Joe
00:07:38.000 Biden descending stairs now. That wasn't the only nerve wracking flight of the day.
00:07:44.000 President Biden today, touchdown in Paris. Careful, go easy.
00:07:48.000 Take it one, good, good, good.
00:07:55.000 And okay.
00:07:56.000 Very good.
00:07:56.000 We did it.
00:07:57.000 It's already a success.
00:08:02.000 Okay, well that's always a great look, is when even the people who love you the most are making fun of the fact that you might fall down the stairs at any moment.
00:08:08.000 As I've said, I would be absolutely flabbergasted if we make it all the way to the election without a serious fall by Joe Biden.
00:08:16.000 I don't mean just like him tipping over on a bicycle, or him tripping on a stage, we've already seen both of those, or him falling up the stairs multiple times, we've seen that as well.
00:08:23.000 I mean like an actual real health problem.
00:08:26.000 God forbid it should happen, but I would be kind of shocked if given the rigors of the job and the fact that the president is expected to campaign, that does not happen at some point.
00:08:33.000 So how are Democrats fighting off the perception that this president is not only incompetent at his job, he's just non-compos mentis?
00:08:40.000 That he is not with it?
00:08:41.000 Well, the answer is they're ratcheting up the rhetoric against Donald Trump.
00:08:45.000 Because again, if they can make the election a referendum on Donald Trump, then Trump has some troubles.
00:08:49.000 If the election is a referendum on Joe Biden, the current president of the United States, then Joe Biden has some troubles, which is why the chief goal of the Trump administration is stay out of the line of fire.
00:08:59.000 The Trump campaign needs to stay out of the line of fire.
00:09:02.000 Quiet Trump is best Trump.
00:09:03.000 If Trump were to actually pursue Joe Biden's strategy from 2020, namely go into a basement and stay there until November, Donald Trump will be President of the United States again.
00:09:13.000 It is the job of Democrats, however, to pull the panic alarm, push the panic button, with regard to Donald Trump.
00:09:19.000 And they are really ratcheting it up.
00:09:21.000 So yesterday, Hillary Clinton sent off what is one of the most egregious tweets I have ever seen in my life.
00:09:27.000 It was about Normandy and here is what she, she limited the replies by the way, quote, 80 years ago today, thousands of brave Americans fought to protect democracy on the shores of Normandy.
00:09:36.000 This November, all we have to do is vote.
00:09:38.000 Yes, that's right.
00:09:39.000 According to Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump is Hitler.
00:09:42.000 And when you vote against Donald Trump, that is the same as you storming the beaches of Normandy.
00:09:47.000 Yes, you, you fatso, carrying your Pepsi.
00:09:51.000 You're slurpy, both of them, and you're Cheetos, in line, at the polling place, you voting against Donald Trump.
00:09:59.000 It's like when your great-grandfather stormed the beaches of Normandy while his friends got killed by mortars, according to Hillary Clinton.
00:10:06.000 I mean, there are a few things that are insulting about this.
00:10:08.000 One, the idea that voting is in any way equivalent to military service is absurd.
00:10:11.000 Two, the idea that Donald Trump is Orange Hitler is absurd on its face.
00:10:15.000 We know he isn't.
00:10:16.000 He was president of the United States already, and guess what didn't happen?
00:10:19.000 The Hitler stuff.
00:10:21.000 By the way, if anybody were to blame for the rise of Orange Hitler, it would be Hillary Clinton, who was the candidate who somehow lost to him because she wouldn't visit Wisconsin.
00:10:32.000 But this has become a Democratic talking point over the course of the last 24 hours.
00:10:36.000 Nothing says true tribute to the heroism of D-Day quite like comparing your political opponents to Hitler.
00:10:44.000 Here was Mitch Landrieu.
00:10:47.000 I feel very, very confident that this is going to be a very hard-fought race, but when the chips are down, the American people are going to show up just like those kids did 80 years ago.
00:11:04.000 Just like the kids did 80 years ago.
00:11:06.000 Exactly like that.
00:11:07.000 Like they're gonna storm off of amphibious landing craft onto a beach pocked by machine gun fire.
00:11:15.000 And then they're gonna vote for the old man who may have actually pooped upon himself at Normandy.
00:11:22.000 Hot rumor on Capitol Hill is that they do carry a second suit, just in case, for the President of the United States.
00:11:29.000 Meanwhile, the entire media have decided that the problem is not actually Donald Trump, it's Donald Trump supporters.
00:11:34.000 Half the country, according to the mainstream media, according to legacy media, half the country are effectively brown shirts.
00:11:41.000 So here is MSNBC's Nicole Wallace making the case that Trump supporters have to be fixed with Anthony Scaramucci.
00:11:49.000 The Mooch.
00:11:50.000 You remember him from his extraordinarily short tenure as a White House press secretary.
00:11:54.000 For five hot seconds.
00:11:56.000 And again, it is amazing how easily you become a hero of the day over on MSNBC.
00:12:00.000 All you have to do is be a Republican for five seconds, turn around and crap on Republicans, and you will be hero of the day over at MSNBC.
00:12:07.000 Including Anthony Scaramucci.
00:12:09.000 Here we go.
00:12:12.000 But how do you fix them?
00:12:13.000 I mean, I don't think, I don't recommend that we hate those people, but how do you help people that must hate themselves to want someone to serve as commander-in-chief who thinks they are suckers and losers if they get injured or die serving the country?
00:12:28.000 Listen, it's an absolutely terrible thing.
00:12:31.000 I think that the President, President Biden, has actually done a great job for these people.
00:12:37.000 President Trump may identify their grievances and may push buttons of their anger, but if you think of the reshoring of manufacturing, the infrastructure deal, you think of the microprocessor foundries that are going into the United States, he has such a case to make for these people coming back to the Democratic Party.
00:13:01.000 Yes.
00:13:02.000 Let's listen to the words of a man who lasted for 11 days in the Trump administration.
00:13:08.000 11 days.
00:13:09.000 Honest to goodness.
00:13:11.000 I mean, I have vegetables in the fridge that have lasted longer than Anthony Scaramucci.
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00:14:20.000 Meanwhile, again, if the entire case here is that Donald Trump is the incipient tyrant, it makes it kind of awkward that you guys keep jailing your political opponents.
00:14:27.000 So yesterday, Steve Bannon, a person for whom I have no personal love, I've said before that Steve Bannon is one of the worst people I personally know, but Steve Bannon being sent to jail for the great crime of contempt of Congress is an absurdity.
00:14:42.000 It is an absurdity.
00:14:43.000 And yet that's what happened yesterday.
00:14:46.000 According to Politico, a federal judge has now ordered Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, to report to prison by July 1st for his conviction for defying a subpoena from the January 6th committee.
00:14:55.000 U.S.
00:14:56.000 District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, previously paused Bannon's four-month sentence while he appealed his conviction.
00:15:01.000 On Thursday, Nichols, who ruled the original reasons for the postponement, no longer apply because the D.C.
00:15:05.000 Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled strongly and unanimously last month against Bannon's position.
00:15:10.000 Bannon had claimed executive privilege in his statements with President Trump.
00:15:14.000 That's why he wouldn't appear in front of the January 6th committee.
00:15:16.000 The D.C.
00:15:17.000 Circuit Court of Appeals said, no, that's not how this works.
00:15:20.000 Now, that is a different question as to whether you go to jail for actual contempt of Congress.
00:15:25.000 Typically, contempt of Congress does not result in a jail sentence.
00:15:29.000 In fact, we know this from past members of, say, the Obama administration, who did not go to jail for contempt of Congress.
00:15:36.000 Lois Lerner, who is famously the IRS director for tax-exempt organizations and presided over the IRS scandal under Barack Obama, under which it was clear that the IRS had, in partisan fashion, been going through and using keywords to prevent conservative and pro-Israel organizations from obtaining 501c3 tax-exempt status.
00:15:54.000 She was called before Congress With a subpoena.
00:15:58.000 She ignored the subpoena, and she was found in contempt by Congress.
00:16:01.000 The Department of Justice, run by Barack Obama, then refused to prosecute her for contempt of Congress.
00:16:06.000 So nothing happened to her.
00:16:08.000 She was given a nice fat pension, and she was shuttled off to wherever it is old IRS officials go to retire.
00:16:14.000 Eric Holder himself, former Attorney General of the United States under Barack Obama in 2012, refused to comply with the congressional subpoena in what was called the Fast and Furious scandal, which was a scandal about effectively the federal government and the DOJ in particular, allowing for the illegal sale of weapons to members of the Mexican drug cartels to be taken back across the borders into Mexico in order, presumably, so that those guns would then be used in crimes identified with American manufacturers, and then that would serve as some sort of bootstrapped operation to oppose Second Amendment manufacture of arms in the United States.
00:16:52.000 Eric Holder was called in front of Congress about all of this.
00:16:55.000 He refused the subpoena.
00:16:56.000 No prosecution, nothing ever happened, despite being found in contempt by a vote of 255 to 67.
00:17:00.000 Now there are two separate Trump-era officials who are going to jail or have gone to jail for contempt of Congress.
00:17:09.000 According to Politico, if Bannon heads to prison on July 1st, it would put him behind bars until just before the November election.
00:17:16.000 Nichols' decision would also effectively pardon-proof Bannon's jail sentence.
00:17:20.000 Because, obviously, he's going to be out of jail before Donald Trump would take office.
00:17:24.000 Trump had already pardoned Bannon on the final day of his presidency on federal fraud charges.
00:17:28.000 There are now state fraud charges that are being brought against Bannon on a separate question as to whether he and some of his friends were basically fraudulently getting Americans to give money to quote-unquote build the border wall with private funding and then the money just disappeared.
00:17:40.000 That's a separate case against Bannon ongoing right now.
00:17:44.000 Bannon was convicted in July 2022 of two misdemeanor counts of contempt of Congress for stonewalling a subpoena from the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th, 2021 attack on the Capitol.
00:17:51.000 Nichols said, Now, this is not Nichols' fault.
00:17:53.000 He is a lower court judge.
00:17:53.000 the original basis for my state of Mr. Bannon sentence exists anymore. Now this is not Nichols'
00:17:58.000 fault. He is a lower court judge. It is actually demanded that he follow higher court rulings.
00:18:05.000 Bottom line here though is that the fact that the prosecutors are attempting to
00:18:10.000 send him to jail over all of this is an absurdity.
00:18:12.000 Here is Bannon's response.
00:18:15.000 All of this is about one thing.
00:18:17.000 This is about shutting down the MAGA movement, shutting down grassroots conservatives, shutting down President Trump.
00:18:24.000 Not only are we winning, we are going to prevail, and every number and every poll shows that.
00:18:29.000 There's nothing that can shut me up and nothing that will shut me up.
00:18:33.000 me up. There's not a prison, there's not a prison, there's not a prison built, there's
00:18:37.000 not a prison built or a jail built that will ever shut me up. All victory to MAGA.
00:18:42.000 We're going to win this.
00:18:43.000 We're going to win at the Supreme Court.
00:18:44.000 And more importantly, we're going to win on November 5th.
00:18:49.000 I mean, honestly, for Steve Bannon, big political win in the same way that it's a big political win for Donald Trump to have been convicted in the New York courts in corrupt fashion.
00:19:00.000 He's the second person they've done this to, by the way.
00:19:02.000 Remember that they sentenced former Donald Trump advisor Peter Navarro also to a jail sentence, a four-month jail sentence at a federal Bureau of Prisons facility in Miami.
00:19:12.000 And that, of course, was, again, based on his unwillingness to comply with the subpoena from the House Committee investigating January 6th.
00:19:19.000 As I say, Democrats get away with this stuff all the time.
00:19:21.000 In fact, the current Attorney General Merrick Garland is defying a congressional subpoena.
00:19:25.000 According to Breitbart, Attorney General Merrick Garland said this week he will defy subpoenas from congressional Republicans he does not agree with.
00:19:32.000 That was after congressional leaders among Republicans threatened to hold him in contempt because he refuses to hand over recordings of Joe Biden speaking with the special counsel Robert Herr.
00:19:43.000 You'll recall that there's a transcript of that particular interview that made Poopin' Joe sound not particularly sentient.
00:19:50.000 And it turns out that now the DOJ directly intervened to prevent the release of the tape.
00:19:56.000 Garland this week said, quote, that the Republicans were seeking contempt as a means of obtaining for no legitimate purpose sensitive law enforcement information that could harm the integrity of future investigations.
00:20:06.000 This effort is only the most recent in a long line of attacks on the Justice Department's work.
00:20:12.000 Again, defying congressional subpoena.
00:20:13.000 If the new rule is you defy a congressional subpoena, you go to jail.
00:20:17.000 Merrick Garland should go to jail.
00:20:18.000 Do not pass go.
00:20:19.000 Do not collect $200.
00:20:19.000 That is how this should work.
00:20:23.000 But this is now part of a pattern of the Biden administration, its DOJ, and its connected law enforcement arms across the country doing the Democratic Party's dirty work.
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00:21:33.000 Another thing I don't buy, by the way, is Joe Biden saying he's not going to pardon Hunter.
00:21:36.000 Yeah, I don't buy that for one hot second.
00:21:38.000 If Hunter Biden ends up with a 10-year prison sentence, the chances that Joe leaves him in prison to rot are zero.
00:21:44.000 But here is Joe Biden trying to maintain that he's going to be hands-off with his Justice Department, presumably just as hands-off as he was when the Justice Department tried to cut an absolute sweetheart deal with Hunter Biden to let him off on all of the charges.
00:21:56.000 A sweetheart deal only negated by a federal judge going, what in the hell is this deal?
00:22:01.000 Here is Joe Biden proclaiming he's not going to pardon Hunter.
00:22:04.000 Sure.
00:22:06.000 As we sit here in Normandy, your son Hunter is on trial, and I know that you cannot speak about an ongoing federal prosecution.
00:22:16.000 But let me ask you, will you accept the jury's outcome, their verdict, no matter what it is?
00:22:21.000 Yes.
00:22:22.000 And have you ruled out a pardon for your son?
00:22:24.000 Yes.
00:22:25.000 You have.
00:22:26.000 Uhhhh.
00:22:30.000 Uhhhh.
00:22:31.000 He chose poorly.
00:22:33.000 you When it came to drinking from the... His choice for the Holy Grail was wrong, as it turns out.
00:22:39.000 And he's been aging in real time, like the end of Indie.
00:22:44.000 In any case, I don't believe that.
00:22:45.000 Also, by the way, I will point out that his love for his family is quite selective.
00:22:48.000 When it comes to one granddaughter, she has no contact whatsoever with Joe Biden.
00:22:52.000 According to ex-stripper and Hunter Biden's ex-lover, London Roberts, she has now told Piers Morgan that President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, the most caring members of the Biden family, have yet to even meet their five-year-old granddaughter.
00:23:05.000 Which is, that is how you treat family.
00:23:07.000 Just really, really solid stuff here.
00:23:11.000 There's been several articles sent to me that people have told me that he's not acknowledged Navy and things like that.
00:23:21.000 That was during a time that I think the paternity suit had happened and the child support thing had not yet, and Hunter and I had not come to terms with things yet.
00:23:31.000 And the advice that, honestly, I've been given From my attorney was that, you know, grandparents don't normally step into a child's life until their child does.
00:23:42.000 The father, you know, steps in first.
00:23:44.000 And I think that, you know, Joe is set back and waited for that to happen for Hunter before he was, you know, feels comfortable enough to step forward.
00:23:57.000 So, Hunter, who had an unfortunate habit of schtupping hookers and strippers, it turns out that he impregnated one of them, then he tried to deny the paternity for literally years, and then finally he acknowledged the paternity.
00:24:07.000 Joe Biden did not acknowledge this particular grandchild publicly for years and years and years.
00:24:12.000 Now has done so, but still has not contacted this particular grandchild, but is there to defend Hunter Biden in the dock as he faces down federal gun charges that could land him in prison.
00:24:22.000 By the way, it's gonna be a moot point.
00:24:24.000 My prediction, as always, Hunter Biden is going to get a hung jury.
00:24:27.000 He's going to get a hung jury.
00:24:27.000 This is happening in Wilmington, Delaware.
00:24:29.000 That jurisdiction is a totally Biden-dominated area.
00:24:33.000 Again, Joe Biden won something like 88% of the vote in Wilmington, Delaware.
00:24:38.000 The Biden team owns that state.
00:24:40.000 This would be the same as if you were actually to try Donald Trump, not in New York, but you were going to try him in West Palm Beach.
00:24:48.000 Like right, but just the area of Mar-a-Lago.
00:24:51.000 Like, it's an absurdity.
00:24:53.000 And meanwhile, Joe Biden is struggling politically.
00:24:55.000 And this, of course, is the great, the great story of the Biden presidency is not his senility.
00:25:00.000 His senility is merely one of the rationales for why he's so bad at the presidenting.
00:25:04.000 But the problem for Joe Biden is that Joe Biden fundamentally lied to his supporters and people who voted for him in 2020.
00:25:12.000 He promised stability.
00:25:14.000 He promised moderation.
00:25:15.000 And what he delivered was a program that looks very much like Bernie Sanders.
00:25:19.000 And Elizabeth Warren combined.
00:25:21.000 His policy program is the bizarre and hideous love child of Bernie Sanders' policy program and Elizabeth Warren's policy program, with a little sprinkling of pro-Hamas protest mixed in.
00:25:33.000 That is not a good recipe for re-election.
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00:26:49.000 So, earlier this week, Joe Biden tried to trot out an executive order that would supposedly crack down on illegal immigration.
00:26:55.000 As it turns out, it's not doing anything of the sort.
00:26:57.000 But, he's infuriated his progressive wing, which means the walk back is starting.
00:27:03.000 Which is a dangerous thing, because Joe Biden can barely walk forwards, let alone walk back.
00:27:07.000 According to Politico, President Biden enraged progressives this week when he clamped down on asylum at the southern border.
00:27:13.000 Now he's looking at policies that may appease them.
00:27:14.000 They need to, by the way, because the top two issues in this election are the economy, where he is losing by 20 points, and immigration, where he is losing by all the points.
00:27:20.000 come after Biden officials have spent months crafting Tuesday's new border restrictions
00:27:24.000 with top aides fixated on beating back GOP criticism over the president's handling
00:27:28.000 of immigration.
00:27:29.000 They need to, by the way, because the top two issues in this election
00:27:31.000 are the economy, where he is losing by 20 points, and immigration, where he is losing by all the points.
00:27:35.000 There are points that have not yet been created he is losing to Donald Trump on immigration.
00:27:40.000 According to Politico, White House officials privately pointed
00:27:42.000 frustrated advocates to a part of Biden's remarks on Tuesday, when he said in the weeks ahead,
00:27:46.000 he would speak on how we can make our immigration system more fair and more just.
00:27:51.000 A spokesperson for Senator Alex Padilla in California has heard directly from administration officials the president is exploring options.
00:27:57.000 Apparently, they are looking at parole in place for undocumented spouses of U.S.
00:28:01.000 citizens, which would shield them from deportation and allow them to work legally while they pursue a path to citizenship.
00:28:07.000 And this is always one of the big issues.
00:28:08.000 So there's been a lot of talk about, is Joe Biden opening the southern border so as to allow future voters into the United States?
00:28:13.000 And one of the talking points has been, no, no, no, no.
00:28:16.000 Those people can't vote anyway.
00:28:17.000 They're illegal.
00:28:17.000 It's not like they're just going to be given citizenship tomorrow.
00:28:20.000 Well, one way that you get citizenship in the United States is to marry a legal citizen of the United States and then apply for citizenship.
00:28:27.000 So shielding all those people from deportation would in fact create a massive new class of citizens, particularly because a wildly disproportionate number of people coming across America's southern border are single young men, who then end up pairing off with somebody in the United States already.
00:28:42.000 Ed Markey of Massachusetts, who is a socialist, said, quote, I love it when people suggest things like they're caught in unconscionable circumstances.
00:28:47.000 It is your choice to enter the country.
00:28:48.000 for families who are caught in unconscionable circumstances.
00:28:51.000 I love it when people suggest things like they're caught in unconscionable circumstances.
00:28:54.000 It is your choice to enter the country, you're not caught in anything.
00:28:59.000 The lack of agency the Democrats constantly suggest for individual human beings is not
00:29:05.000 only stupid, but deeply counterproductive on every possible level.
00:29:08.000 Everyone who fails in the United States or who's in a bad circumstance in the United States, according to Democrats, has no agency and is quote-unquote caught in an unconscionable circumstance as opposed to making a decision that they regret because there are consequences.
00:29:23.000 Well, there's an illegal immigrant who Bill Malujian of Fox News saw coming across the border, asked him about whether he knew it was illegal to come across the border.
00:29:30.000 The dude's like, well, yeah, I mean, of course.
00:29:31.000 I know exactly where I am and what I am doing.
00:29:35.000 Jordan.
00:29:36.000 Yeah.
00:29:36.000 Jordan.
00:29:37.000 Yeah.
00:29:37.000 Why'd you come to Egypt?
00:29:39.000 Why'd you come to America?
00:29:41.000 For a job.
00:29:42.000 For a job?
00:29:43.000 Yeah.
00:29:44.000 You know it's illegal to cross the border like this, right?
00:29:46.000 Yeah.
00:29:48.000 You don't care?
00:29:49.000 Yes, I don't care.
00:29:53.000 I mean, why would he care, exactly?
00:29:55.000 By the way, that's a long place to go for a job.
00:29:59.000 Turns out there are a lot of places between Jordan and, you know, the Mexican border.
00:30:03.000 That is a country that is next to Israel in the Middle East, for those who don't know.
00:30:06.000 It's like 8,000 miles away.
00:30:07.000 That's a long way to go for a job, as it turns out.
00:30:11.000 There's no place to stop.
00:30:12.000 No place, literally.
00:30:15.000 You want to know why Donald Trump is winning on this issue?
00:30:17.000 It's because he's clear about this issue.
00:30:18.000 Donald Trump says the border closes day one.
00:30:21.000 On day one, I will seal the border, I will stop the invasion, and we will begin the largest domestic deportation operation in the history of our country.
00:30:34.000 I have no choice.
00:30:35.000 We have no choice.
00:30:35.000 Biden has given us no choice.
00:30:39.000 Well, I mean, that is why he's winning on immigration.
00:30:43.000 It turns out that Joe Biden's wild progressive policies are popular with a very, very small percentage of the base.
00:30:49.000 Even administrators at college campuses The ones who are basically playing an inside-outside game with the protesters on college campuses.
00:30:56.000 And Joe Biden, meanwhile, patting those protesters on the head.
00:30:58.000 We don't like that you're breaking the law, says Joe, but your viewpoints are totally legit.
00:31:03.000 University of Pennsylvania is now banning protest encampments from its campus for the very first time.
00:31:09.000 Why?
00:31:09.000 Well, because it turns out that's real unpopular with the donors and generally the American people.
00:31:14.000 Penn's new rules say, quote, to ensure the safety of the Penn community and to protect the health and property of individuals, encampments and overnight demonstrations are not permitted in any university location.
00:31:23.000 Meanwhile, UC Berkeley's leader has advice for the students is Carol Christ.
00:31:28.000 She says, just because you have the right to say something doesn't mean it's right to say.
00:31:33.000 So yeah, as it turns out, even the leaders of America's most left-wing institutions are realizing how deeply unpopular their garbage is.
00:31:40.000 The same is happening at major Ivy League universities that are starting to move away from so-called DEI statements.
00:31:47.000 According to the New York Times, For years, conservatives condemned the use of diversity statements by universities, which asked job applicants to detail their commitment to improving opportunities for marginalized and underrepresented groups.
00:31:58.000 Critics called such statements dogmatic, coercive, and in one lawsuit seeking to end the practice in California, a modern-day loyalty oath that recalled when professors were required to denounce the Communist Party.
00:32:08.000 Use of diversity statements continued to grow, but that seems to be changing.
00:32:11.000 Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences and MIT have each recently announced they will no longer require diversity statements as part of their hiring process for faculty posts.
00:32:20.000 The switch has flipped, as of now, said Jeffrey Flier, the former dean of Harvard Medical School.
00:32:26.000 Many professors on hiring committees may have been reluctant to voice their concerns about mandatory DEI statements before now, but I think the large, silent majority of faculty who question the implementation of these programs, and in particular these diversity statements, these people are being heard.
00:32:39.000 It turns out the left-wing agenda is deeply unpopular, even with so-called moderate liberals.
00:32:43.000 But Joe Biden can't pull himself out of the tailspin.
00:32:45.000 He cannot.
00:32:46.000 And that is particularly true in the Middle East, where it continues to pursue an absolutely discombobulated policy.
00:32:52.000 We'll get to that in just one second.
00:32:54.000 First, there's some clear signs summer is quickly approaching.
00:32:57.000 Kids are out of school, including my own, the temperature is rising, and of course, season finales this Sunday.
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00:33:38.000 Also, don't miss my most recent episode of the Sunday Special with Pastor John MacArthur that drops this Sunday.
00:33:44.000 In this episode, we discuss the decline of religious life in the West, the degradation of biblical teachings in America's churches, and the challenges of convincing the upcoming generation to live a life of faith.
00:33:52.000 Here's a little bit of what it sounded like.
00:33:55.000 It just so happens that the politicians have basically co-opted sin and turned it into their platform, which forces people who understand a biblical definition of sin to be the enemy.
00:34:11.000 It's not that we're trying to take over the world.
00:34:13.000 It's not we're trying to take over the United States.
00:34:16.000 It's we're just trying to uphold righteousness.
00:34:24.000 Again, that drops this Sunday.
00:34:25.000 It's an awesome conversation.
00:34:26.000 You're not going to want to miss it.
00:34:28.000 Meanwhile, the discombobulated Biden administration foreign policy is most obvious in the Middle East.
00:34:33.000 It is truly amazing how the Biden administration has downplayed the most obvious moral conflict in the world, literally on planet Earth.
00:34:40.000 So Joe Biden, of course, was in Normandy, and he suggested that the fight against the Russians in Ukraine is an extension of the fight that was fought On D-Day, here he was talking about the linkage between those two conflicts.
00:34:55.000 Make no mistake, the autocrats of the world are watching closely to see what happens in Ukraine, to see if we let this illegal aggression go unchecked.
00:35:07.000 We cannot let that happen.
00:35:10.000 To surrender to bullies, to bow down to dictators, is simply unthinkable.
00:35:15.000 Were we to do that, it means we'd be forgetting what happened here in these hallowed beaches.
00:35:28.000 Make no mistake, we will not bow down.
00:35:32.000 We will not forget.
00:35:33.000 Okay, again, that was a point that was then echoed by the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, suggesting a powerful parallel between D-Day and the Ukraine war.
00:35:44.000 You know, there's a really powerful parallel, too, between what we're commemorating today and what we're doing now.
00:35:50.000 Back then, it wasn't just the United States.
00:35:52.000 Here in Normandy, 12 countries came together.
00:35:56.000 160,000 men coming to this beach, coming to start the final fight that ultimately, 11 months later, led to victory in World War II.
00:36:03.000 In Ukraine, we have more than 50 countries standing up, standing together, making sure that Ukraine has what it needs to defend itself and to push back this aggression.
00:36:11.000 And that's the power of our alliances.
00:36:13.000 And that's the biggest difference maker we have in the world.
00:36:15.000 Okay, so just to get the moral conflict here straight, the suggestion is that Vladimir Putin is like Adolf Hitler, and the allies in Ukraine are like the allies in World War II.
00:36:25.000 Well, can I think of a- let me think if I can think of a conflict somewhere on Earth where there is an organized military group that believes in literally all of the principles of Adolf Hitler.
00:36:36.000 Like, it's not a controversy about what exactly they're doing.
00:36:39.000 Like, they want to kill all the Jews.
00:36:40.000 Like, let's say it was in their founding charter document that they wanted to kill all the Jews.
00:36:44.000 Kind of like, you know, the Nazis.
00:36:46.000 In fact, if you trace the lineage of this group back far enough, what you would find is that they were openly allied with the Nazis during World War II.
00:36:55.000 Let's imagine that that group was currently in conflict with an army of a Jewish state trying to defend itself on multiple fronts.
00:37:04.000 I mean, that might be linked, you might say, to, you know, some of the conflicts that were at issue on D-Day.
00:37:09.000 You know, given the fact that you did have a genocidal Nazi regime that was dominating the European continent.
00:37:13.000 And today, you have a genocidal, Nazi-esque group that in some ways is less apologetic about their anti-Semitism than the Nazis ever were.
00:37:23.000 And they're fighting an existential battle with Jews.
00:37:26.000 You might mention that, but no, because again, the Biden administration is absolutely unwilling to recognize the moral components of the conflict in the Middle East at all, at all.
00:37:34.000 And so the Biden administration continues to put a weird pressure on Israel to make a deal with that is literally non-existent.
00:37:43.000 It's truly amazing.
00:37:44.000 I did an interview with Piers Morgan the other day, and Piers and I are pretty friendly, obviously.
00:37:48.000 And, you know, I like Piers, but Piers kept saying over and over, why doesn't Israel take a ceasefire?
00:37:54.000 And the answer is because the precondition to any ceasefire would be the terrorist group that committed October 7th dominates the Gaza Strip, kills all of its opposition, and turns that place into a terror haven the likes of which the world has never seen.
00:38:09.000 Why don't you just accept a peace proposal?
00:38:18.000 Don't you want peace?
00:38:19.000 Don't you care about your people?
00:38:21.000 It's so pathetic.
00:38:22.000 It's very reminiscent of the Obama administration when a group called Boko Haram, which was a terrorist group, in Africa, kidnapped a bunch of girls.
00:38:32.000 And all of the Westerners, including the State Department and Michelle Obama held up signs that hashtag
00:38:36.000 bring back our girls.
00:38:37.000 And the terrorists, it turns out, were not intimidated by the hashtag.
00:38:40.000 Well, hashtag diplomacy is the way of democratic administrations apparently.
00:38:44.000 Here's Matthew Miller, spokesperson for the State Department, begging to take a deal.
00:38:49.000 Good luck with that.
00:38:50.000 Secretary Blinken has been speaking to his counterparts in the region
00:38:55.000 and around the world the last few days with a clear message.
00:38:58.000 We should accept the deal now.
00:39:01.000 The proposal that the president outlined on Friday is nearly identical to one that said it would accept just a few weeks ago.
00:39:08.000 The only thing standing in between the people of Gaza and an immediate ceasefire is... It's time for... to accept this deal and alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people.
00:39:19.000 Hashtag accept the deal, please.
00:39:21.000 You need to alleviate the suffering in the past.
00:39:23.000 I love that the State Department keeps pretending that gives any about the Palestinian people.
00:39:28.000 They literally launched this war in order to get Palestinians killed.
00:39:32.000 They openly say it.
00:39:33.000 They want the war to continue in order to maximize civilian casualties because they believe that the West is so stupid and weak minded that if enough Palestinian civilians die because it's hiding among them and there will be pressure for Israel to surrender to That basically they'll get their asses kicked, but when?
00:39:49.000 Because the West will stop Israel from continuing to kick their asses.
00:39:53.000 That is the proposal of the State Department.
00:39:56.000 How do I know this?
00:39:56.000 Because he's literally saying it out loud.
00:39:59.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Hamas's leader in Gaza told Arab negotiators he would accept a peace deal only if Israel commits to a permanent ceasefire, affirming the militant group's position in his first response to a proposal introduced by Biden to end the eight-month war.
00:40:11.000 Quote, Hamas will not surrender its guns or sign a proposal that asks for that.
00:40:15.000 Arab mediators said Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar told them in a brief message they received on Thursday.
00:40:22.000 Biden, for his part, keeps trying to push forward a proposal that does not exist.
00:40:26.000 Israel will not agree to a proposal that leaves in place, nor should they, nor should the West want them to.
00:40:32.000 And Huxley isn't going to accept a proposal that doesn't leave them in blaze.
00:40:35.000 But Biden's going to go to the UN Security Council and pass a resolution saying, you know what would be amazing is if there was a peace deal where maybe Huxley laughed and maybe they didn't, but everybody stops firing at each other so maybe I can win re-election.
00:40:46.000 It's the most pathetic crap I've ever seen from an American administration in the Middle East.
00:40:50.000 And I'm not saying a lot.
00:40:50.000 There have been a lot of pathetic administrations in the Middle East during my lifetime.
00:40:55.000 Meanwhile, the Biden administration is issuing warnings to Israel that they shouldn't go north and attack Lebanon.
00:41:02.000 Okay, Lebanon is not an occupied area.
00:41:05.000 There's no argument about it being a quote-unquote open-air prison.
00:41:07.000 There's no humanitarian control of southern Lebanon by Israel.
00:41:11.000 Israel abandoned southern Lebanon years ago.
00:41:13.000 It is part of a sovereign state called Lebanon, and it is being used as a base of attack against northern Israel to the point where 100,000 Israeli citizens are now living in their homes.
00:41:22.000 And the Biden administration's response to that is to warn Israel.
00:41:25.000 Not Lebanon and the terror groups that they should get out of the way before Israel mashes them.
00:41:29.000 But Israel, according to Biden stenographer Barak Ravid.
00:41:34.000 Barak Ravid says the Biden administration has cautioned Israel in recent weeks against the notion of a limited war in Lebanon and warned it could push Iran to intervene.
00:41:41.000 Two U.S.
00:41:41.000 officials and one Israeli official told Axios.
00:41:44.000 The exchange of fire between Israel and Qatar that has been ongoing since the October 7 terrorist attack by Qatar dramatically escalated in the last two weeks, prompting some inside the IDF and the Israeli cabinet to call for significantly expanding the fighting against Qatar.
00:41:57.000 U.S.
00:41:57.000 officials told Axios the Biden administration told Israel it doesn't think a limited war in Lebanon or a small regional war is a realistic option.
00:42:04.000 You know what would stop it from escalating?
00:42:06.000 Putting back the two aircraft carriers that Biden put there in the first place, but then removed.
00:42:10.000 Giving the fighters every opportunity to fire on Northern Israel.
00:42:15.000 It's absolute incompetence, and here's the thing.
00:42:17.000 Everyone in the Middle East knows it.
00:42:19.000 Everyone in the Middle East knows it.
00:42:21.000 The Biden administration only now, apparently, is starting to use some levers against, according to CNN, U.S.
00:42:28.000 officials have not only publicly called on Trump to accept previous ceasefire proposals on the table, but there has never been an all-out pressure campaign marked by specific asks to individual countries as part of the Biden administration's push.
00:42:39.000 Now, apparently, the White House went to Qatar in the hopes of adding traction to the negotiations.
00:42:46.000 Suggestions include shutting off Now, I have a question.
00:42:58.000 Why didn't the United States do that from day one?
00:43:00.000 If the United States had the pressure to leverage Qatar into forcing them to surrender, why didn't they do that literally the very first day?
00:43:07.000 Why did not the United States say to Qatar, where America has a taxpayer-funded airbase, we will move our airbase out of Qatar and leave you to the whims of your unfriendly neighbors?
00:43:17.000 If you do not expel the leaders of... to American or Israeli custody, we will shut off all of their bank accounts.
00:43:24.000 By the way, the leaders of... are richer than pretty much everyone on earth.
00:43:29.000 They have billions of dollars in net wealth that they've robbed from their own people and from the international community.
00:43:34.000 Everybody knows this.
00:43:35.000 This is the part that's astonishing.
00:43:37.000 The American foreign policy establishment is so stupid that they're being told by the Arab parties That and the Palestinian Authority cannot be trusted and should not be left in charge.
00:43:46.000 And meanwhile, they're like, but what if they get left in charge?
00:43:48.000 We'll get to more on this in a second.
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00:44:49.000 Apparently, according to Axios, a meeting between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and a group of Arab officials about a month ago flew off the rails after an unusual shouting match between the UAE foreign minister and a senior advisor to the Palestinian president, according to five sources with knowledge of the incident.
00:45:04.000 So what exactly happened?
00:45:05.000 There was an April 29th meeting in Riyadh.
00:45:07.000 In addition to Blinken, the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, and the UAE attended, as well as the Palestinian minister, Hussein al-Sheikh, who is the deputy of the Mahmoud Abbas, who is the titular head of the Palestinian Authority.
00:45:21.000 According to sources, during the meeting, al-Sheikh said the Palestinian Authority is conducting reforms and creating a new government.
00:45:27.000 Toward the end of the meeting, the Emirati Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed pushed back and said he'd seen no significant reform.
00:45:33.000 Apparently, he called the Palestinian leadership Alibaba and the 40 thieves and claimed senior officials in the PA are useless and, quote, replacing them with one another will only lead to the same result.
00:45:44.000 Why would the UAE give assistance to the Palestinian Authority without any real reforms?
00:45:50.000 So, again, that happens to be correct.
00:45:53.000 That, of course, is true.
00:45:55.000 And yet the Biden administration, because they're discombobulated, and also because they're paid off, continue to try and work both sides of the aisle here.
00:46:02.000 The most astonishing story with regard to the Middle East today comes courtesy of the Daily Mail, apparently.
00:46:07.000 The International Criminal Court, they brought out this ridiculous, insane, and disgusting report suggesting that the Prime Minister of Israel ought to be arrested for crimes against humanity, for fighting a defensive war against in urban terrain.
00:46:22.000 This report was co-authored by Amal Clooney, George Clooney's wife.
00:46:27.000 And the President of the United States, Joe Biden, was like, we don't like this report.
00:46:30.000 So what happened?
00:46:31.000 George called up the White House.
00:46:34.000 George, that wooden acting terrible director, called up the White House and shredded a Biden aide after the president attacked that particular ICC attempt.
00:46:46.000 Apparently, the Oscar-winning actor vented his fury after being put through to Biden's senior counselor, Steve Reschetti, the Washington Post reported.
00:46:53.000 His high-profile wife remains unrepentant about her role.
00:46:57.000 That is not a shock, of course.
00:47:00.000 The row cast doubt over whether he would take part in one of Biden's biggest fundraising efforts.
00:47:04.000 Well, then the House passed a bill saying they'd impose sanctions on the court.
00:47:07.000 And then the White House said, no, you know what?
00:47:09.000 We don't want you to do that.
00:47:10.000 We don't think you should go after the ICC.
00:47:12.000 And now, shockingly, the fundraiser is back on.
00:47:16.000 Why, what a shock.
00:47:17.000 Now it's a little corrupt, no?
00:47:19.000 So just to get that timeline straight, ICC, led by Amal Clooney, celebrity wife of Dullard actor, writes a dumb, terrible, immoral report about the Israel-Israel conflict.
00:47:31.000 The United States says no.
00:47:33.000 George Clooney calls up the White House, the United States White House, then walks back its initial comment a little bit on the ICC and tries to stop there from being consequences.
00:47:42.000 And then that actor holds a fundraiser for the current president of the United States.
00:47:46.000 Slow clap for the geniuses of the White House, as always, as always.
00:47:50.000 Alrighty, guys.
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