Prince Harry releases his new memoir, and we explore all the sordid details and what it says about the next generation of Western leadership. House Republicans pass a bill preserving the lives of those born in botched abortions, but Democrats scream about it. And another batch of Biden-classified documents is uncovered. This is The Ben Shapiro Show, and it's sponsored by Express VPN. It s time to stand up against big tech. Protect your data at ExpressVPN.com/TheBenShapiroShow. Ben Shapiro is the host of the popular podcast and is a regular contributor to the New York Times, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal. He is also the author of several books, including Spare, a memoir about his time in the British royal family, written in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He is married to Meghan Markle, who was born in 1981, and they have a 2-year-old son and 2-month old daughter, who were adopted by the royal family at the age of 4 months old. This is the story of Prince Harry and Meghan s early life in the UK, and how they became a royal couple, and what their relationship means to the modern world, and why they are so important to the British public, especially in the 21st century. The story of Harry s new book, Spare is also a clip from Queen Elizabeth II s 1947 address to the world, written by Queen Elizabeth, when she was just 21 years old, calling herself The Great Empress of the realm . The Queen s dedication to the whole empire in her birthday address to her own daughter, I shall not have strength to carry out this resolution, unless you do it alone, unless it be alone, I shall be a solemn act of dedication to which we all belong to carry this alone, or a whole family, a whole resolution, or so alone, and so on, etc., etc., et c. etc. And what we are watching right now in real time, is the clip from the Queen s birthday address? Here s the link to the clip: This show is sponsored by by ExpressVPN, a free, unedited version of the show on this show on my website on my Insta story on this episode on this is a link to a free and unfiltered version of this podcast on the entire thing here.
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00:00:28.000Well, there is a lot of news going on, but it is rare when you have a piece of cultural news that is so big, it sort of eats everything else.
00:00:36.000And that is what is happening with the release of Prince Harry's new book, Spare.
00:00:39.000Now, as I've said before, I'm not big into the Royals.
00:00:41.000I don't really follow the Royals all that much.
00:00:43.000I haven't followed their various scandals because frankly, we fought an entire revolution, so we don't have to care about the Royals.
00:00:48.000There is something deeper going on with the battle over whether Prince Harry is a good guy or a bad guy, whether the royal family are villains or heroes and all the rest.
00:00:56.000And something obviously is happening here because Prince Harry's book sold 1.4 million copies in the US, UK and Canada on its very first day, which means this is going to be one of the biggest bestsellers of all time, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:01:09.000This is a performance the publisher Penguin Random House said was the largest first day sales total for any non-fiction book it has ever published.
00:01:16.000The first day sales totals for Spare included pre-orders as well as the sales of print books, digital books, and audiobooks.
00:01:21.000Penguin Random House, a unit of Bertelsmann S.E., said Wednesday.
00:01:24.000The publisher said it printed 2 million hardcover copies of Spare for the United States and has already gone back to press.
00:01:31.000So this book was officially released Tuesday.
00:01:33.000It was mistakenly leaked a little bit last week, but the demand for spare has been so strong that Barnes & Noble, the largest bookstore chain in the United States, said on Tuesday the memoir looks certain to set record-breaking day one sales at the bookseller is expected to be one of the biggest books of 2023.
00:01:49.000It will end up being one of the biggest books of all time.
00:01:51.000The reason I say this is because some of the other big books that have been sold recently sold 725,000 copies in the in the first day.
00:01:57.000That would be Michelle Obama's Becoming, for example, or Mary Trump's ridiculous tell-all book about Donald Trump.
00:02:07.000That thing sold a little bit less than a million.
00:02:10.000So this thing is selling 40 to 50% higher and sometimes 100% higher than the biggest bestsellers of our time, which says something about what this book is really about now.
00:02:20.000Some of this is just pure furience, right?
00:02:22.000People want to know what's going on behind the walls of an institution that is historically incredibly tight-lipped about what is happening.
00:02:28.000People are very hungry for this sort of news.
00:02:30.000This is why, of course, Princess Di was always big press in the UK, but also in the United States.
00:02:35.000But there's something else going on here, and that is the cultural battle that has broken out around Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and the royal family.
00:02:43.000And in order to understand that cultural battle, I'm going to play you two clips.
00:02:47.000One is a clip from Prince Harry's new book, and the other is a clip from Queen Elizabeth back in 1947, aged 21, when she assumed the monarchy.
00:02:57.000And what we are watching right now in real time, because what I really think is that Prince Harry is a metaphor for the new generation of Western leadership.
00:03:07.000And a new generation in the West that believes that the institutions that bore it are fundamentally evil, and that the way you demonstrate that you are good is by breaking with those institutions without any other sense of morality or decency, and that everything you do is justified by your need for quote-unquote freedom, your need for liberty, your need to be free and fly, little bird.
00:03:27.000Literally, this book ends, as we will see, with a bird flying away.
00:03:54.000I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and to the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
00:04:10.000But I shall not have strength to carry out this resolution alone unless you join in it with me as I now invite you to do.
00:04:20.000I know that your support will be unfailingly given.
00:04:24.000God help me to make good my vow And God bless all of you who are willing to share in it.
00:04:33.000Okay, so this is how leadership used to work.
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00:08:05.000And Prince Harry obviously experienced tremendous tragedy when he was young.
00:08:10.000And because he blames that tragedy on the press and the British royal family simultaneously, really his own father, he sort of blames it on.
00:08:16.000Because he blames the tragedy of Princess Di's death on these institutions.
00:08:21.000The institutions are bad and he is a hero for breaking free from those institutions.
00:08:25.000And so what results is not a heroic portrait of a person doing a heroic thing.
00:08:30.000Well, result is a man in search of his authenticity.
00:08:33.000And so the book reads incredibly small.
00:08:37.000The book reads unbelievably narcissistic and self-serving, which is why it also has some very bizarre moments.
00:08:46.000And one of the so the clip that I actually want to play here is going to be clip 30.
00:09:54.000The role that he has been given, which is to be essentially backup for his brother, who is going to be the king, or to be a member of the broader royal family.
00:10:40.000In other words, So what this as listen, I mean, you listen to what Queen Elizabeth says right upon her 21st birthday that she's dedicating herself to the realm.
00:10:49.000And then you hear Harry complain about a role that does not actually require all that much of him.
00:10:54.000He's given tremendous freedom within that role to go and do whatever humanitarian work he wants to do as he makes clear in the book is a pretty solid budget.
00:11:04.000And yet, it's not enough because, again, what this comes down to is personal peek at his own life and the status of his own life.
00:11:11.000And he's going to dump on his family and the institutions that make him an important person in the first place.
00:11:16.000And in doing so, he's going to make himself more important, which, by the way, is why, as others have observed, there will be no second act for Prince Harry.
00:11:22.000Once you already dumped the dirt on your family, there's nothing more you have to offer to the public.
00:11:26.000Once you've ripped on the institution, you're no longer of relevance.
00:11:30.000You have actually destroyed the thing that you were standing on.
00:11:35.000Okay, so to understand what exactly Harry is doing in this book, you have to understand that he's ripping down these institutions and he's tearing away at his own family and at the crown and he's doing all of this stuff.
00:11:47.000Specifically, because he feels personally hurt.
00:11:51.000And the theme running throughout the book, and of course he's an unreliable narrator because everybody's an unreliable narrator.
00:11:54.000He's a particularly unreliable narrator because he has a ghostwriter.
00:11:58.000And the ghost in this book, the ghostwriter in this book, is the same guy apparently who wrote Andre Agassi's Open and wrote Film Night's Shoe Dog.
00:12:05.000So he's a very good writer, the ghostwriter.
00:12:06.000The ghostwriter, I won't say, captures Harry particularly well in many places.
00:12:11.000So my favorite personal example of this is that Harry is consistently saying throughout the book, I never read books.
00:12:34.000So Harry literally says about his own father, what troubled him most was how I went out of my way to avoid books.
00:12:41.000And then randomly you'll have clip, you'll have sections of the book where he says stuff like, ours is not to reason why, as Flea's great granddad said, or Tennyson, whoever.
00:12:49.000The ghostwriter will insert a literary illusion and then have to buy it back because you recognize that Harry would never make that literary illusion.
00:12:57.000He invokes Wordsworth, and then he's like, that old guy.
00:13:00.000He says, Wordsworth, for one, I'd managed to avoid reading that old gent's stuff in school, but now I thought he must be pretty damn good if he spent time around these parts.
00:13:09.000But put aside the gap between the ghostwriter and the actual narrator of the book, Prince Harry.
00:13:15.000And you get to the underlying seething discontent that Harry has at his own role and at the royal family itself.
00:13:23.000And his baseline justification for his seething discontent is the death of his mother, Princess Diana, in 1997 in a car crash in which the driver had a blood alcohol level that was like three times the legal limit and spun out of control and ended up killing Princess Di and others in the car.
00:13:41.000So Prince Harry blames this on pretty much everybody.
00:13:45.000He blames this on his family in some ways, kind of his father and Camilla.
00:13:49.000But most of all, what he basically says is this is the original sin.
00:13:54.000Now, the problem is that if you say that the original sin of the royal family is Princess Di's death, this leads to a pretty stark contrast because there's another brother, right?
00:14:01.000And that older brother, William, is going to be the king.
00:14:05.000And William does not blame the institution for his mother's death.
00:14:08.000William is not a person who's trying to undermine the institution.
00:14:13.000And so what that means is that Harry has to somehow draw some sort of excuse as to why he is not taking the role that he is given in stride the same way that William is.
00:14:23.000And that is one of the themes running throughout the book.
00:14:25.000So as we say, this whole thing begins with Princess Di, and it gets very weird because the ghostwriter is a fan of Jung and Freud.
00:14:32.000He starts inserting very odd allusions throughout the book that are somewhat creepy.
00:14:38.000Harry sort of makes himself out to be the only legitimate heir of Diana in the book.
00:14:42.000He says stuff like this, I'd inherited this from her, I thought, along with her nose, her blue eyes, her love of people, her hatred of smugness and fakery and all things posh.
00:16:21.000We learned some things, aside from the word Todger, in that particular clip.
00:16:26.000So, if the original sin of the royal family is the death and treatment of Princess Di, a sin for which Prince Harry never forgives anybody, and again, there's some of this stuff that does seem Fairly, I wouldn't say unforgivable, very difficult.
00:16:38.000I mean, the fact that you had a 12-year-old walking behind his mother's coffin at a state funeral in front of millions of people watching, that's brutal.
00:16:44.000I mean, that's brutal stuff, no question.
00:16:46.000However, does that provide the excuse for your new moral system being dissociation from your family and yelling at your family publicly and going on television and essentially saying that they are racist and then buying it back?
00:16:58.000Because your wife, who seems like somewhat of a harpy, as we'll get to in just a moment, has taken advantage of you, which is really the story of the book as well.
00:17:06.000It's about a young man who is very troubled in search of some sort of safe haven, and he finds it in a woman who is pretty clearly seeking to take advantage of his position.
00:17:17.000So much of the book is wrapped up in this sort of narcissistic, small-minded, petty sort of grievance.
00:17:23.000If Queen Elizabeth had written a memoir, it wouldn't read anything like this.
00:18:42.000Again, this sense of peculiar victimization when you make a pretty obviously terrible decision to wear a Nazi uniform to a Halloween party.
00:18:52.000And again, one of the running themes here is that it's not that Harry makes bad decisions, which he does throughout the book.
00:18:58.000The theme is that people notice that he makes bad decisions and cover him making the bad decisions.
00:19:02.000And he blames presumably Camilla specifically for his own press coverage.
00:19:10.000So in this book, the evil stepmother is the one who is leaking to the press nearly the entire time.
00:19:15.000That is the story that he is trotting out there.
00:19:18.000So he doesn't just go after After the press.
00:19:22.000I mean, he goes after the press really hard.
00:19:24.000In fact, his language about the press is really kind of shocking.
00:19:28.000He actually compares the press to Islamic terrorists, which is quite a statement considering that in the book he brags about killing 25 members of the Taliban.
00:19:36.000He says, the Paps, the paparazzi, had always been grotesque people.
00:19:39.000But as I reached maturity, they were worse.
00:19:41.000You could see it in their eyes, their body language.
00:19:42.000They were more emboldened, more radicalized, just as young men in Iraq had been radicalized.
00:19:46.000Their mullahs were editors, the same ones you'd vowed to do better after mummy died.
00:19:52.000And of course, he also characterized Rupert Murdoch personally as a Taliban-like person.
00:19:57.000Quote, I was around this time I began to think Rupert Murdoch was evil.
00:20:08.000OK, so he hates the press and he blames the press for his mother's death, obviously.
00:20:13.000But really, what a lot of this is about is his despise, his deep sense of anger at his own family.
00:20:21.000Which is what makes the book particularly ugly.
00:20:22.000When you air dirty laundry like this, particularly when your family seems to have gone out of its way to publicly avoid criticizing you despite you making a series of bad decisions, them warning you over and over and over.
00:20:31.000In the book, they warn Harry over and over and over that Meghan Markle is bad news and just ignores them completely.
00:20:36.000Despite the fact that they were very much on board with him getting psychiatric help after his military service, apparently he had PTSD.
00:20:42.000Despite the fact that they seem to facilitate a lot of his events.
00:20:45.000that he wanted to do, including very praiseworthy things like Olympic Games for people who'd been wounded in action.
00:20:51.000But his language with regard to his family is really quite ugly.
00:20:56.000And he says, at the very beginning of the book, he's talking about a confrontation that he has with his father, the king, who he treats really poorly in the book.
00:21:08.000And his brother, William, who he also treats really poorly in the book.
00:21:10.000He says, at last I saw them, shoulder to shoulder, striding towards me.
00:21:43.000I didn't complain about it, but I didn't need to dwell on it either.
00:21:45.000Far better in my mind not to think about certain facts, such as the cardinal rule for royal travel.
00:21:49.000Pa and William could never be on the same flight together because there must be no chance of the first and second in line to the throne being wiped out.
00:21:55.000But no one gave a damn whom I traveled with.
00:22:11.000Why am I less important than my brother?
00:22:14.000There's a lot of Cain and Abel in this particular book, for sure.
00:22:16.000It says, no matter how much you might love someone, you could never cross the chasm between, say, monarch or child, or heir and spare, physically, but also emotionally.
00:22:26.000And this carries forward into the way that he talks about the members of his family.
00:22:28.000That's what makes the book pretty despicable.
00:22:31.000When you dump on your family this way publicly, specifically for lots and lots of money, and Harry is making a boatload of money off of ripping on his family.
00:22:40.000He's making a boatload of money off of that.
00:22:48.000He's got deals from some major networks.
00:22:50.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:24:08.000And he says this, quote, So you're talking about your father, the king, and you're talking about how he drags around a teddy bear from his childhood.
00:24:26.000Isn't that kind of victimizing your father by revealing it to public view?
00:24:29.000His father, by the way, throughout the book is very considerate of the fact that Harry makes a bunch of dumb mistakes, ranging from drug use to dating quote-unquote page three girls.
00:24:38.000I mean, this is a book where Harry admits to going to like Courtney Cox's house and eating mushrooms out of the fridge, like magic mushrooms out of the fridge.
00:24:46.000I mean, this is not a book where Harry's behavior is particularly worthwhile.
00:24:51.000And as it turns out, even his actual worthwhile behavior, his service in the military, he then talks down, which makes no sense to me.
00:24:57.000He sort of undercuts his own military service in a couple of different ways, which truly is heroic when you serve in the military on behalf of your country.
00:25:04.000But the sort of veil through which Harry sees his dad, again, is indicative of how he sees the institution of the monarchy in general.
00:25:11.000He is standing on top of the monarchy to be rich and famous, and he is ripping on that institution.
00:25:16.000And this is what makes him rich and famous in the modern world of young leadership.
00:25:21.000And so he's talking about his dad at one point in the book, and how he had been caught Naked, at a party, on camera, which again, this stuff just keeps happening to Harry.
00:25:41.000But he quickly went on to say it was the foolishness of youth that he remembered being publicly vilified for youthful sins.
00:25:46.000It wasn't fair, because youth is the time when you are by definition unfinished.
00:25:51.000And that, by the way, is the picture of Charles throughout the book, is him being very conciliatory and solicitous of his ne'er-do-well son.
00:25:58.000Like his dad going out of his way for his son, but he's still the bad guy.
00:26:01.000Now, the true villain here is, of course, Camilla.
00:26:04.000He suggests that Camilla, because obviously Charles was having an affair with Camilla, had known Camilla before he knew Diana.
00:26:09.000Diana emerges from this book completely unscathed, as you would imagine.
00:26:12.000I mean, Harry is, in fact, the son of Princess Di, but let's just say the Princess Di's own history was somewhat unwonderful in terms of her Marital activities or extra marital activities or whatever.
00:26:27.000He blames Camilla for going to the press and suggests that all the bad press coverage is coming from inside the house, essentially.
00:26:33.000Again, this is all really about the victimization of Harry.
00:26:35.000Thershey began to play the long game, a campaign aimed at marriage and eventually the crown with Paz blessing, we presumed again, this is all really about the victimization of Harry.
00:26:43.000As I say, all of this opposition to the family, to the royalty, to the institution, to the role, to the monarchy, all of this is given the lie by the fact that his brother, his older brother, who's actually the heir is acting well within the boundaries of the role that he's expected to perform.
00:27:00.000And so Harry has to come up with some excuse.
00:27:02.000And the excuse is that William is mean.
00:27:05.000The excuse is that William is cruel and malevolent and uncaring and nasty.
00:27:10.000And therefore, William, the reason he buys into all of this is not because Harry has it wrong and Harry really ought to be somewhat grateful for the position that he's been put in.
00:27:20.000Not with regard to the press, obviously, no one likes the paparazzi, but with regard to having the opportunity to do all the things that you, I mean, how many people would like to be born a prince of England?
00:27:31.000And so he has to come up with some reason why William is wrong and Harry is right.
00:27:35.000And the answer is because William is a bad, malevolent person.
00:27:40.000He basically says, throughout our entire childhood, William was very mean and cruel to me.
00:27:43.000Now, that neglects the fact that, as he admits in the book, William actually spent an awful lot of time with him, that William roomed with him at a certain point, that William boarded with him, that William went out of his way to back him on multiple occasions.
00:28:34.000And then he goes back through their history.
00:28:35.000He says that William pretended not to know him at boarding school, which again, you know, siblings treating each other not amazing when they're kids.
00:28:41.000Generally, that doesn't become the topic of memoirs.
00:28:44.000He talks about how they would go out and they would shoot fireworks at each other.
00:28:51.000He says, behind us, I could just make out the future King of England plotting his revenge.
00:28:56.000Yes, this isn't Harry's revenge against William.
00:28:58.000Really, it's all about William's revenge against Harry.
00:29:03.000And he takes glory, there's a certain point where he serves in the military, and Harry is allowed to serve, and William's been prevented in some ways.
00:29:10.000He says, for one brief moment, spare outranked heir.
00:29:13.000And near the end of the book, he basically just says it right out.
00:29:16.000He says, William is a bad person, I'm a very good person, and William doesn't care about me.
00:29:19.000Quote, Willie wasn't quite ready to accept defeat.
00:29:22.000I felt properly sick and ill after everything that's happened, and I swear to you now on mummy's life that I just want you to be happy.
00:29:28.000My voice broke as I told him softly, I really don't think you do.
00:29:32.000So again, it's William who's the problem.
00:29:33.000Now, remember, William isn't the one who's tattletaling to the press.
00:29:36.000It's not William who's going on Oprah Winfrey and calling his brother a ne'er-do-well idiot.
00:29:41.000It's not William who's going on national television and explaining that Meghan Markle is kind of a harpy.
00:29:47.000It is Harry who's doing all of those things.
00:29:49.000And he's doing so, presumably, in the bizarre apprehension that the family that has supported him his entire life is really nasty and mean to him.
00:29:58.000Again, the reason that I'm spending so much time on this, folks, is because it is indicative of an entire worldview of at least two generations in the West right now.
00:30:07.000This belief that the people who brought you into the world and who take care of you and the roles that you are given are actually bad and they hem you in and the best way for you to be a hero is to fight those roles and break free of them and then to tattletale about them and talk about how terrible they are.
00:30:44.000You see, now, what's weird about that is, again, the way that he portrays the military as something he wants to keep going back to because it gives him a sense of belonging.
00:30:50.000But then he has to rip on the military because, again, the people who he's appealing to, the sort of Meghan Markle crowd, those people don't like the military very much.
00:30:56.000And they think that the military is a repository of colonialist bigotry.
00:31:00.000OK, so finally, this brings us to Meghan Markle.
00:31:02.000And this is really where sort of Harry's break happens with the royal family.
00:31:06.000And it happens pretty obviously because Harry, throughout the entire book, is searching for someone to love him.
00:31:12.000He is searching for someone to take care of him.
00:31:14.000He is searching for someone to make him feel better about himself.
00:31:17.000Here he is, one of the most famous, rich people on earth.
00:31:20.000And he's going around, gallivanting around, staying with Hollywood friends, and dating starlets, and dating models, and going out to places in Africa to watch the beautiful animals and all the rest of this sort of stuff.
00:32:31.000He's gullible because, again, she makes him feel very special, which you get.
00:32:35.000I mean, this is presumably what people who are in love do for one another is they make each other feel special, but his gullibility is very extreme.
00:32:43.000When I say that, I mean, this is a person who says in this book no less than twice that he believes that Meghan Markle never Googled him.
00:33:04.000And he seems to be under the odd misapprehension, Prince Harry, that Meghan Markle simply picked him out of a lineup, that if he'd been walking through the supermarket, they would have ended up together.
00:33:13.000Which, you know, that's a very romantic notion and all, but I do not think that it is borne out by any of the available evidence.
00:33:19.000And so his behavior, like the way that he writes about this, is so Frankly, thick.
00:34:36.000Because he's so taken with her and because she fills all these longings that he has and because she provides him with a sense of mission, which is, of course, that the monarchy is bad and must be torn down.
00:34:44.000Because of all that, he refuses to hear from all of the blaring red warnings that his family is providing about what Meghan Markle is.
00:34:53.000So at one point, William warns her and he says, Meg's difficult.
00:36:13.000So this is why this book is important.
00:36:16.000The reason this book is important, again, is because what we have in Western civilization is a true battle.
00:36:21.000And this is true for pretty much all historic cultures.
00:36:23.000A battle over whether you as a human being ought to respect and conform to roles and rules that have been established over generations, acknowledging the benefit of those institutions, or whether what makes you a hero is rebelling against those rules, flying away, violating all of those rules, ripping on your family, ripping on these institutions, while living off their benefits, by the way, because if it had not been for those benefits, there wouldn't be a single human reading Prince Harry's memoir.
00:36:46.000He certainly couldn't have afforded to pay this ghostwriter to write the memoir, and I highly doubt that Prince Harry is nearly as articulate or Be stirring, as this particular memoir is.
00:36:58.000What do we wish our leadership class to look like?
00:37:01.000This is why the whole Prince Harry, Meghan Markle thing crosses the water and has become so political.
00:37:06.000It's why you see so many conservatives in the United States who are angry with Prince Harry, even though they have really no stake in the monarchy.
00:37:11.000And why you see so many people on the left who are very, very happy with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and see them as real fighters.
00:37:16.000Now, one of the things that is notable about this book is that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle went on Oprah and basically said that members of the royal family were racists.
00:37:24.000That does not appear anywhere in the book.
00:37:26.000All of the allegations of racism are attributed to the press.
00:37:29.000With that said, I think that if you see Prince Harry as sort of a sad human who has made for himself a sad life and now feels a mission in destroying that which made him sad, that is a better read on this.
00:37:46.000And if you see that as heroic, then that says something about what you think of institutions and whether they are worthy of preserving, generally speaking.
00:37:55.000There's a lot here to be sad about, obviously.
00:38:05.000And the fact that he has decided to essentially rip down an institution that provided him with all of his fame and all of his fortune, and yes, his wife, because if you were not a prince, you would not have given him a second look.
00:38:15.000He would have been a non-college graduate who served in the military, dating the Star of Suits.
00:38:23.000I will let you wonder whether that is a thing that normally happens.
00:38:26.000You know, all of that is worthy of consideration as we move forward and decide which institutions are worth preserving and which people we ought to treat as heroes.
00:38:34.000Okay, we'll get to more news in just one second.
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00:39:16.000Okay, so meanwhile, a second batch of classified documents has now been found by Biden aides at a new location associated with Joe Biden.
00:39:24.000According to NBC News, aides to President Joe Biden have discovered at least one additional batch of classified documents in a location separate from the Washington office he used after leaving the Obama administration, according to a person familiar with the matter.
00:39:34.000Since November, after the discovery of documents with classified markings in his former office, Biden aides have been searching for any additional classified materials that might be in other locations he used, said the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide details about the ongoing inquiry.
00:39:46.000The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
00:39:50.000The Justice Department similarly had no comment.
00:39:52.000The initial discovery of classified documents in an office used by Biden after his vice presidency was first reported on Monday by CBS News.
00:39:59.000It is not clear exactly what the classification level was or what these classified documents were.
00:40:03.000The first batch apparently included documents related to both Ukraine and Iran.
00:40:08.000And, um, Joe Biden continues to maintain he has no idea what exactly is happening, which is maybe the most plausible thing that he's ever said because he never knows what exactly is happening.
00:40:17.000But it is worth noting that back in 2018, Joe Biden said he did not have access to classified information anymore, which is weird since we found all of these documents that, you know, places he controlled.
00:40:26.000Look, here's my understanding, and I don't know, I don't have access to classified information anymore.
00:40:31.000I don't get briefed every morning by the agency.
00:40:37.000So, Peter Doocy of Fox News questioned World War Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about all of this yesterday, saying, you know, the president said that it was irresponsible to keep classified documents outside of classified places.
00:42:45.000inflation rate has now eased to 6.5% in December compared with one year earlier.
00:42:51.000That is the 6th straight month of deceleration since a mid 2022 peak.
00:42:55.000Deceleration meaning that last month the year over year inflation rate was at like 7% and now it's at like 6.5% which is still way too high.
00:43:04.000The year over year annual inflation rate is supposed to be at 2%.
00:43:08.000Now, it has been declining over the past 6 months.
00:43:11.000On an absolute level, the inflation rate is lower over the past six months than it was over the prior six months before that.
00:43:17.000On a monthly basis, the CPI fell 0.1% in December due to sharply falling energy prices, food prices increased, and those also slowed last month.
00:43:25.000That compared with a gain of 0.1% in November and 0.4% in October.
00:43:29.000The Federal Reserve increased interest rates aggressively in 2022 to combat inflation.
00:43:33.000Officials indicated in December they expected to raise rates further in 2023.
00:43:37.000CEOs are expecting a sort of short recession at this point.
00:43:41.000I would not be surprised if it goes a little bit further than that.
00:43:45.000Still, with all of this said, The peak rate that the Federal Reserve is likely to raise the interest rate to is not going to be 5%.
00:43:52.000It'll probably be higher than 5.5% in order to really tame inflation.
00:43:57.000So you're seeing a lot of preemptive celebration, I think, at this point.
00:44:01.000But wage gains, hiring gains suggest That it is going to be very difficult for the Fed to achieve a full soft landing where we don't hit any recession at all.
00:44:08.000We just bring down that inflation and tame it.
00:44:10.000We're starting to feel the pain already.
00:44:12.000You've seen major tech companies laying off large numbers of people.
00:44:16.000So while the Biden administration celebrates at the moment, because those unemployment numbers are quite solid.
00:44:21.000And the inflation rate is in fact coming down.
00:44:23.000What we are going to end up with on the other end is going to be recession and stagnation.
00:44:26.000And then it's just a question of how much of Biden's agenda actually gets implemented as to how long that stagnation is in fact going to last.
00:44:34.000All righty, guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.
00:44:42.000Plus, we'll be getting into House Republicans trying to protect the unborn after they are actually born, botched abortions, and Democrats screaming and shouting about it.
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