The Ben Shapiro Show - Remember Who Becomes President If Trump Loses

00:00:00.000 While the media incessantly focus on Trump, they studiously avoid scrutinizing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, Trump vows to declassify all documents surrounding Russiagate, and the political world goes berserk after Trump vows to kill stimulus talks.

00:00:11.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:11.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

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00:00:26.000 Alrighty, so tonight, the big Biden, well, Harris-Pence debate.

00:00:32.000 And I should say that this debate should take on more significance than normally a VP debate would, considering that Joe Biden is 78 years old.

00:00:38.000 He does not look as though he is all there.

00:00:40.000 And of course, Mike Pence is probably the best defender of the Trump agenda.

00:00:44.000 That the Trump administration has.

00:00:46.000 He's a better defender in many cases of the Trump agenda than Trump himself.

00:00:49.000 So tonight will be an opportunity for Pence to put front and center the fact that Biden-Harris would be very scary for the country.

00:00:57.000 It is pretty incredible, truly, that the entire country has completely ignored the other side of the ticket.

00:01:03.000 It's pretty impressive.

00:01:04.000 Everybody's focused in on Trump.

00:01:06.000 Some of that's Trump's fault because Trump loves being in the spotlight.

00:01:08.000 But if Trump loses, If Trump loses, what is going to happen to the country is going to be something quite radical.

00:01:15.000 It could be a significant change.

00:01:17.000 And we all seem to be ignoring this because all of the focus is on Trump.

00:01:20.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

00:01:22.000 First, let us talk about the fact that right now, things are pretty volatile.

00:01:26.000 You may have noticed that the stock market took a dump yesterday after President Trump started tweeting about relief talks and all of this.

00:01:32.000 Well, the stock market's been up and down like a yo-yo.

00:01:34.000 It may not, in fact, be.

00:01:37.000 The best place to put your money in the short term.

00:01:39.000 In fact, if you're going to have some money in the stock market, which I do, I have lots of money in the stock market, you want to diversify and have at least a little more of your money in something like precious metals.

00:01:47.000 You want to make sure that you are diversified into a bunch of different assets so that when the stock market goes down and precious metals go up, you don't end up losing a lot of money.

00:01:55.000 And right now, again, uncertainty breeds all sorts of craziness in the stock market.

00:02:00.000 It creates the possibility of inflation.

00:02:02.000 I mean, we just blew out the spending to the tune of $7 trillion.

00:02:05.000 Now would be a good time to diversify into precious metals.

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00:02:49.000 If the focus is on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, then Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are going to lose.

00:02:53.000 Trump has a pathological inability to remove himself from the spotlight.

00:02:57.000 He loves the spotlight.

00:02:58.000 He loves being in the center of the spotlight.

00:02:59.000 And that means that he has put himself at a severe disadvantage.

00:03:02.000 Well, tonight is an opportunity for Mike Pence, who really does not love the spotlight in the same way as Trump, to put the Biden-Harris agenda front and center.

00:03:09.000 And this is going to need to happen because the reality is, again, that right now all focus is on Trump, and that has allowed all of us, and I mean like most of the American people, to simply ignore what is happening on the other side of the aisle, a Democratic Party that has moved in a radical direction.

00:03:24.000 I know that we are pretending that the Squad is basically a thing of the past, but what actually happened is that Bernie Sanders' agenda, the Squad's agenda, they've been laundered into the Joe Biden agenda.

00:03:32.000 Bernie Sanders says it himself.

00:03:33.000 He says the Joe Biden agenda is the most radical agenda since FDR.

00:03:38.000 The squad is going to be running things when it comes to things like the Green New Deal.

00:03:41.000 AOC is an advisor on the Biden campaign with regard to the Green New Deal.

00:03:45.000 Joe Biden is not going to be a bulwark against radicalism.

00:03:47.000 There have been no indicators he's going to be a bulwark against radicalism.

00:03:50.000 He won't even answer basic questions like whether he is in favor of killing the filibuster and packing the Supreme Court.

00:03:56.000 And many of the Senate candidates for the Democrats are saying the same thing.

00:03:58.000 They're just refusing to answer questions.

00:04:00.000 They understand that as long as there's this black hole at the center of American politics sucking up all the attention, they can just sit there on the outskirts of American politics and point at Trump and never have to answer tough questions.

00:04:11.000 Mark Kelly.

00:04:12.000 Who's running a winning race right now against Martha McSally in Arizona.

00:04:17.000 He refused to answer a question the other night in debate with McSally on whether he is in favor of the filibuster.

00:04:22.000 Wouldn't that be something you'd want to know if you're voting for a senator whether they actually wish to end minority rights completely in the Senate?

00:04:28.000 Wouldn't that be something that you would want to know?

00:04:30.000 Apparently he doesn't think he has to answer.

00:04:31.000 And the media are not going to press the Democrats on this stuff.

00:04:34.000 So understand that if Trump loses, radical things are going to happen.

00:04:37.000 It's going to be a victory for a bunch of people who you probably don't want to see win.

00:04:41.000 It's going to be a victory for the radicals in the Democratic Party.

00:04:44.000 It is going to be a victory For a media that has turned all of its guns on Trump.

00:04:50.000 As I've said, Trump has cast himself many self-inflicted wounds.

00:04:54.000 But the media have been so overwhelmingly anti-Trump.

00:04:57.000 I mean, it is far more than it was with Bush.

00:04:59.000 It was bad with Bush.

00:05:00.000 It is way worse with Trump.

00:05:01.000 They hate Trump with every fiber of their being.

00:05:04.000 Over 90% of all media coverage of Trump since his inauguration has been negative.

00:05:08.000 It's a victory for a media that is driving the American political narrative.

00:05:12.000 It's a victory for folks inside the bureaucracy of the government who think that they ought to control the power of American government, not the legislature, not the states.

00:05:20.000 It all ought to be done at the federal level.

00:05:22.000 It's a victory for all the forces in America that were temporarily checked by Trump's election in the first place.

00:05:29.000 And that's why this election actually matters an awful lot.

00:05:31.000 It's one of the reasons why I've been critical of Trump's behavior over the last couple of weeks.

00:05:35.000 Because if you would like to see Trump win, then he needs to change his behavior.

00:05:39.000 Something certainly needs to change.

00:05:40.000 And the American people need to be forcibly reminded, forcefully reminded rather, they need to be forcefully reminded of exactly what is going to happen if Trump loses.

00:05:49.000 What's going to be.

00:05:50.000 What comes next?

00:05:51.000 Because no one's thinking beyond the next 10 seconds.

00:05:53.000 People are just thinking, do I like Trump?

00:05:55.000 Do I not like Trump?

00:05:55.000 No one is thinking medium-term, let alone long-term.

00:05:59.000 And right now, the polls are reflecting this.

00:06:01.000 The polls show that this race seems to have broken wide open nationally.

00:06:05.000 According to the RealClearPolitics poll average, Joe Biden is now leading in that RealClearPolitics poll average by 9 points.

00:06:12.000 The last several polls, and this is the last four polls in the RealClearPolitics poll average, have Biden up, respectively, 16, 10, 8, and 10.

00:06:20.000 Those are devastatingly large numbers.

00:06:22.000 Hillary Clinton, even after the Access Hollywood tape, never led by more than about seven points.

00:06:27.000 So these are big numbers for Joe Biden.

00:06:29.000 And people should recognize that those are numbers for Joe Biden, not just against Trump.

00:06:33.000 You actively have to cast your vote, not just against Trump, but in favor of a candidate Who is in thrall to the radical left while he pretends that he's actually a bulwark against the radical left.

00:06:42.000 What's more, if Trump were to lose big, right, not just lose, but lose big, he could take the Senate with him.

00:06:47.000 And this is an arena where if you're a voter, you really should consider the consequences of your actions.

00:06:52.000 A Biden presidency with a Republican Senate looks very different than a Biden presidency with a Democratic Senate.

00:06:57.000 And right now, if there were no toss-ups in the RealClearPolitics poll average, Democrats would control the Senate.

00:07:03.000 They'd have 51 votes in the Senate.

00:07:05.000 Right now, there are a bunch of races that are very, very close.

00:07:08.000 North Carolina is becoming closer and closer.

00:07:10.000 Georgia with Sonny Perdue.

00:07:12.000 I think Perdue wins that race.

00:07:13.000 But Maine is a very close race with Susan Collins up for re-election.

00:07:18.000 In Iowa, Joni Ernst is up for re-election.

00:07:20.000 And her opponent, a person named Greenfield, is apparently winning in the RealClearPolitics poll average by five.

00:07:24.000 Montana is very close.

00:07:26.000 Steve Daines, who's a Republican, probably will hold that seat, but it is a close election.

00:07:29.000 Mark Kelly is winning in fairly large numbers in Arizona over Martha McSally.

00:07:35.000 South Carolina has been moved recently by Cook Political from a lean R to a toss-up, which is insane.

00:07:41.000 Lindsey Graham won his last re-election campaign by 14 points.

00:07:46.000 14 points.

00:07:46.000 Now he's in a toss-up race in South Carolina.

00:07:49.000 Colorado is already leaning against Cory Gardner.

00:07:53.000 Republicans need to hold at least five seats in order for them to maintain the majority in the Senate.

00:07:58.000 Because remember, if Kamala Harris becomes vice president, she would be the tiebreaker in the Senate in case of a 50-50 tie in the Senate.

00:08:05.000 Right now, it doesn't look like Republicans are going to hold those five seats.

00:08:07.000 In fact, it looks like Republicans, of the eight seats that are really contested, it looks like Republicans could easily lose five of those seats.

00:08:14.000 So that's why the margin of victory for Trump or margin of loss, that margin is actually going to matter an awful lot.

00:08:22.000 And the emboldening of all the forces in American life that are making American life significantly worse will grow worse, not better, with Trump losing.

00:08:30.000 I know that people have personal problems with Trump.

00:08:33.000 I share many of the concerns about Trump's personality.

00:08:36.000 But if you're talking about the deep, abiding problems in American life, they are far worse than Trump's personality foibles and flaws and his stupid tweeting.

00:08:44.000 If we're talking about serious problems in America, problems that are going to be exacerbated over the course of time, the glorification of a media that has gone completely left-partisan while claiming to be objective, The justification of that media, the strengthening of that media apparatus, the strengthening of the radical left wing of the Democratic Party under the auspices of Joe Biden's moderation.

00:09:04.000 I mean, the man is a facade at this point, and we all know that he is a facade.

00:09:07.000 He's a Potemkin village of a candidate.

00:09:10.000 The bureaucracy that has kicked back against Trump in harsh measures, we'll see.

00:09:16.000 All those forces will be strengthened.

00:09:18.000 And all those forces are, in fact, rather anti-democratic.

00:09:21.000 They are not in favor of your individual rights.

00:09:23.000 They are not forces who are in favor of truth or in favor of objectivity.

00:09:28.000 There is another side to this election.

00:09:29.000 We've all neglected it for too long, and it's time to cast a light on that.

00:09:33.000 Here's a perfect example.

00:09:35.000 Okay, so right now, the Senate majority may rest on this election in North Carolina.

00:09:41.000 So in North Carolina, Tom Tillis, who is a solid Republican, is running for re-election against Cal Cunningham, who's a former state senator, a Democrat.

00:09:51.000 Well, Cal Cunningham has started to drop a little bit in the polls now that now it's basically straight up even.

00:09:56.000 One of the reasons that it is straight up even is because Cal Cunningham has admitted to now sending romantic texts to a woman who is not his wife.

00:10:02.000 He said in a statement to CNN, I've hurt my family, disappointed my friends, I'm deeply sorry.

00:10:06.000 The first step in repairing those relationships is taking complete responsibility, which I do.

00:10:10.000 I ask that my family's privacy be respected in this personal matter.

00:10:14.000 He backed out of a town hall scheduled for Monday night.

00:10:16.000 The messages are, this is CNN's coverage, right?

00:10:20.000 This is when I say that you are being treated to the worst of media bias.

00:10:25.000 is Chris Chaliza over at CNN.

00:10:26.000 The messages are far from taughty.

00:10:28.000 They read like 1950s letters, but the very fact that they exist does throw a major X factor into the Senate race.

00:10:34.000 Okay, well, actually it turns out that now the news seems to be breaking that Cal Cunningham was having romantic assignations with this particular person.

00:10:42.000 So they weren't 1950s texts, actually.

00:10:44.000 There's an actual sex scandal that has been going on in this particular race.

00:10:49.000 There were new texts that were revealed.

00:10:52.000 In a new report from the Associated Press, Arlene Guzman-Todd, a woman from California, confirmed that she and Cunningham had been intimate in July.

00:10:58.000 So it turns out it wasn't just a texting scandal or sexting scandal.

00:11:01.000 And additional text messages between Guzman-Todd and a third unidentified individual further described the details of their relationship.

00:11:07.000 The AP report is the first corroboration of a physical consensual relationship between Cunningham and Guzman Todd.

00:11:12.000 It was previously reported they'd exchanged sexually suggestive text messages.

00:11:16.000 But CNN originally tried to paint this as 1950s-style romantic language via text.

00:11:22.000 Uh-huh.

00:11:23.000 So, yes.

00:11:24.000 Well done, media.

00:11:25.000 This is the same media.

00:11:25.000 Again, we are strengthening these folks.

00:11:27.000 And we are strengthening these folks.

00:11:29.000 These are the same media who are now glorifying Katie Hill.

00:11:32.000 Now, you may remember the name Katie Hill because she was, of course, the representative from California who had to resign her seat after it turns out she was banging the help.

00:11:39.000 Katie Hill, who is having an affair with a male staffer, and she was also having an affair with a female staffer, And she's just at a light.

00:11:46.000 Now, imagine if she had been a man.

00:11:48.000 Imagine that she were a male member of Congress and she were nailing the help.

00:11:51.000 She would have not only been forced to resign, she would never come back.

00:11:53.000 There'd be no career for her in the future.

00:11:55.000 Now, Katie Hill is having a movie made about her by Hollywood.

00:12:00.000 Elizabeth Moss is now attached to play former Congresswoman Katie Hill in an adaptation of her memoir.

00:12:05.000 So she wrote a memoir about how she was the true victim of her own inability to control her loins.

00:12:09.000 And now we are supposed to believe that she is actually the victim because Hollywood is going to write an entire story around her with her as the hero.

00:12:18.000 Code Black creator Michael Sykesman, who wrote the feature film North Country, will write the screenplay.

00:12:23.000 It comes after the producer Blumhouse Television optioned the rights to She Will Rise, becoming a warrior in the battle for true equality, which was published earlier this summer.

00:12:31.000 The book tells of Hill's experience as a young woman with no prior political experience whose charm and common sense won over the people in her district and thrust her into the halls of power in Washington.

00:12:39.000 While her brash confidence won her powerful allies and infuriated her enemies, it was privately concealing a cycle of domestic abuse she was trapped in at home, infamously culminating in the release of intimate photos and the revelation of her own admitted personal mistakes that would eventually result in her stunning fall from grace.

00:12:57.000 Along with Moss and Lindsay McManus.

00:12:59.000 Imagine they got a Republican male congressperson banging the help.

00:13:03.000 You think they get a movie deal where they get to executive produce their own story about how they were truly a victim of right-wing predation?

00:13:09.000 What do you think?

00:13:10.000 Katie Hill said, I wrote She Will Rise to try and take back my story from those who have exploited and twisted it.

00:13:15.000 I also wanted to shine a light on the stories of women whose resilience and bravery gave me strength when I needed it most.

00:13:20.000 Okay, well, hilariously enough, the former staff of Katie Hill hijacked her Twitter account last night.

00:13:25.000 They logged into her Twitter account because it turns out that she was not smart enough not only not to nail the help, but also to prevent the help from hacking her Twitter account without two-factor identification.

00:13:35.000 Turn on the two-factor identification.

00:13:37.000 Lady.

00:13:38.000 So they hijacked her Twitter account.

00:13:40.000 And here's what they wrote on her Twitter account.

00:13:42.000 Katie's former staff here, disappointed in so many folks, including Elizabeth Moss, Blumhouse, and Michael Seitzman regarding today's announcement.

00:13:50.000 Katie took advantage of her subordinates.

00:13:52.000 She caused immense harm to the people who worked for her, many of whom were young women just beginning their careers in politics.

00:13:56.000 Katie Hill can be both a victim and a perpetrator, and staff can experience severe consequences for speaking out against their powerful bosses.

00:14:03.000 But this is your media, right?

00:14:05.000 This is your Hollywood apparatus.

00:14:06.000 These are the people who created tsunami of misinformation.

00:14:09.000 And if Biden wins, then that point of view has been vindicated.

00:14:14.000 This media apparatus, this Hollywood, that has all been vindicated.

00:14:18.000 So the goal right now, politically speaking, of the Biden campaign is to declare the campaign over.

00:14:23.000 The campaign's over.

00:14:24.000 We still have a month to go.

00:14:25.000 Doesn't matter.

00:14:26.000 Campaign is dead.

00:14:27.000 Yesterday, Joe Biden said that if Trump has COVID, by the time of the debate, then we still shouldn't debate.

00:14:32.000 Okay, well, first of all, theoretically, he could take precautions.

00:14:36.000 Second of all, by the time they have the debate, that's gonna be October 15th is the next debate.

00:14:40.000 That is eight days away.

00:14:41.000 And Trump, according to his doctors, is already asymptomatic.

00:14:44.000 He's already post symptomatic, rather.

00:14:46.000 So assuming no actual change in his health status, he's going to be perfectly capable of debate.

00:14:52.000 Here is Biden trying to set the predicate for saying there won't be any more debates.

00:14:56.000 I don't know what exactly what the rules are going to be.

00:15:00.000 And I'm not sure that what President Trump is all about now.

00:15:06.000 I don't know what his status is.

00:15:08.000 I'm looking forward to being able to debate him, but I just hope all the protocols are followed, which is necessary at the time.

00:15:21.000 Well, I think if he still has COVID, we shouldn't have a debate.

00:15:27.000 Okay, so there it is.

00:15:29.000 If you still have COVID, we shouldn't have a debate.

00:15:30.000 This is already setting the groundwork.

00:15:32.000 Over at the New York Times, the editorial board says in-person debates are too dangerous.

00:15:36.000 We should cancel the in-person debates.

00:15:39.000 They say, with the coronavirus continuing to spread through the White House and among others close to Trump, the risk of infecting debate participants and staff is unacceptably high.

00:15:46.000 The involved media outlets and the Commission on Presidential Debates need to immediately shift the events to a virtual format, which of course radically changes all of the optics of a particular debate and changes it into a Zoom meeting, which is not exactly what you want from a presidential debate.

00:16:01.000 There's no shock here.

00:16:02.000 The media are already trying to declare the election over.

00:16:06.000 They're also trying to declare Kamala Harris the preliminary winner of a debate that has not yet taken place.

00:16:11.000 Again, these are the same media.

00:16:13.000 Trump has campaigned against the media.

00:16:15.000 When he said to Chris Wallace, I'm campaigning against you and Joe Biden, what he meant, broadly speaking, is correct.

00:16:19.000 That he has been campaigning against both the media and the Democrats.

00:16:22.000 And that is a heavy burden for anyone.

00:16:23.000 And it was a heavy burden for Bush, McCain, Romney.

00:16:26.000 It's a particularly heavy burden for Trump because Trump has been absolutely excoriated by the press every waking moment since 2015.

00:16:33.000 There's no question about that.

00:16:35.000 And that carries over for the New York Times today.

00:16:38.000 Wait until you hear their take on the debate between Pence and Harris tonight.

00:16:42.000 And then we'll get to the actual consequences of electing somebody like Joe Biden, which is something Americans should have to stare straight in the face of, considering that that will be the result of voting against Trump.

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00:18:13.000 Okay, so here is the New York Times.

00:18:16.000 Here is how they are covering the Harris-Pence debate.

00:18:21.000 Okay, this is pretty impressive.

00:18:22.000 First of all, there is no unique challenge.

00:18:23.000 work. Her team is deeply cognizant of the unique challenges facing her as the first black woman ever to win a place on a presidential ticket. Okay, first of all, there is no unique challenge. There's only unique benefit.

00:18:34.000 Seriously, there's only unique benefit.

00:18:35.000 Kamala Harris has experienced no challenge in being a black woman in a position of high power in American politics.

00:18:41.000 Not since she was a DA in California.

00:18:44.000 The fact is, it has only been an asset to her.

00:18:45.000 Because if she were a white lady, she would not be on the ticket right now.

00:18:48.000 She would be Amy Klobuchar and she'd be off in Minnesota doing Zoom sessions for DNC little crowds.

00:18:55.000 She would not be a famous person right now were she not a black woman.

00:18:58.000 Kamala Harris.

00:18:59.000 She'd just be like any other rote Democratic politician because she is not good at this.

00:19:04.000 She's not Michelle Obama.

00:19:05.000 She's not uniquely talented.

00:19:07.000 She's actually kind of bad at this, as we're going to explore in just a second.

00:19:10.000 But again, this is New York Times media coverage, right?

00:19:13.000 This is Sydney Ember and Lisa Lerer.

00:19:15.000 This is their reporting, okay?

00:19:16.000 This is not an opinion piece.

00:19:18.000 Her team is deeply cognizant of the unique challenges facing her as the first black woman ever to win a place on a presidential ticket.

00:19:24.000 While many Democrats view Ms.

00:19:25.000 Harris as a barrier-breaking hero, Fox News hosts and conservative media outlets have mounted racist and sexist assaults on her reputation, painting her as a radical leftist.

00:19:34.000 Well, there it is.

00:19:35.000 I mean, if the New York Times says so.

00:19:38.000 How dare conservative media outlets paint her as a radical leftist after she embraced Medicare for All, racial reparations, And killing the filibuster and spent her days during the Kavanaugh hearings attempting to claim that she had evidence that he was secretly in league with the Russians.

00:19:54.000 Now, she's not a radical leftist.

00:19:55.000 You know, only somebody who's racist could say that Kamala Harris is on the radical left.

00:19:58.000 Only somebody... By the way, she has one of the most left-wing voting records in the entire United States Senate.

00:20:02.000 And by some measures, she's left of Bernie Sanders in her voting record.

00:20:05.000 But don't worry, it's only crazy right-wingers who are painting her as a radical leftist according to your very objective media.

00:20:12.000 All of the attacks on her.

00:20:13.000 That paragraph is so... that encapsulates everything that the media are.

00:20:17.000 It really does.

00:20:18.000 Right?

00:20:19.000 That she faces unique challenges as a black woman.

00:20:21.000 And also, if you say anything bad about Kamala Harris, it's because you're a racist.

00:20:26.000 So, what you're telling me is that her unique challenge is that every time somebody says something accurate about her, the media are going to malign that person as a bigot.

00:20:35.000 That doesn't seem like a challenge.

00:20:36.000 That seems like a benefit.

00:20:38.000 This doesn't seem like she's having a hard time.

00:20:39.000 It sounds like she's having a really easy time, specifically because she's a black woman, particularly in the media.

00:20:45.000 And then who do they quote in this article, the New York Times, about Kamala Harris?

00:20:48.000 Hillary Clinton!

00:20:49.000 There you go.

00:20:49.000 They go back to the last victim, Hillary Clinton, one of the least victimized people in the history of American politics.

00:20:54.000 Because remember, Hillary Clinton was a non-entity, no name, who married the President of the United States, right?

00:21:00.000 She was married to Bill Clinton.

00:21:01.000 That is how she became famous.

00:21:02.000 Otherwise, she was just another lawyer from Yale, right?

00:21:06.000 She had a sterling record as a lawyer from Yale, and she'd be working in corporate law right now.

00:21:10.000 Or she might be, you know, a state senator In New York, but now Hillary Clinton is a nationally known name because she married the guy who would become president of the United States.

00:21:17.000 And then on the basis of that name, if her name were Hillary Rodham, she would not have been a senator from New York, and she certainly would not have been secretary of state or a presidential candidate.

00:21:26.000 But we're going to go back to another victim of the American system, Hillary Clinton, one of the least victimized people in the history of American politics.

00:21:33.000 She said at a fundraiser with Harris last month, what Mike Pence will try to do is somehow subtly undercut Kamala.

00:21:38.000 She has to modulate her responses because we know there still is a double standard alive and well when it comes to women in politics.

00:21:43.000 So the debate has already been settled, according to the media.

00:21:47.000 According to the media, the debate between Pence and Harris, no matter what Pence says, it's sexist.

00:21:51.000 If he just disagrees with her, that is sexist.

00:21:54.000 If at any point during the debate she interrupts him, that's stand up women and roar.

00:21:58.000 And if Pence interrupts her, that is him mansplaining.

00:22:03.000 Remember, if Trump loses, the media are the people who are most emboldened by this because they have taken down the sitting president of the United States, despite the fact that he defeated them last time.

00:22:15.000 All right, so as to the actual debate, what is that going to look like?

00:22:18.000 So apparently there was some argument over whether to use plexiglass barriers at this debate with Harris.

00:22:24.000 They will put up these plexiglass barriers apparently.

00:22:27.000 After the Commission on Presidential Debates announced plans for Kamala Harris and Vice President Pence to debate Wednesday while sitting more than a dozen feet apart and behind plexiglass dividers to prevent viral transmission, aides to Pence said they felt the barriers were unnecessary.

00:22:39.000 We don't think it's needed, said Mark Short. There's no science to support it. The tables are 12 feet apart. Each participant is tested. It's important for the American people the debate go forward. If she's more comfortable with plexiglass, then that's fine.

00:22:49.000 The Biden campaign was on board with the precautions.

00:22:51.000 Senator Harris will be at the debate respecting the protections the Cleveland Clinic has put in place to promote safety for all concerned, said Sabrina Singh, spokeswoman for Harris, if the Trump administration's war on masks has now become a war on safety shields.

00:23:02.000 That tells you everything you need to know about why their COVID response is a failure.

00:23:06.000 Okay, well, if indeed they are sitting 12 feet apart, I am not sure that the plexiglass barriers, which extend only like just above their heads, I'm not sure that that provides the kind of protection you need.

00:23:15.000 Because presumably, if what you're deeply worried about is the aerosolization of particles, for example, particles from your mouth do not travel 12 feet.

00:23:23.000 Unless you were to like sneeze and just projectile.

00:23:26.000 Then really what you're worried about is aerosolization.

00:23:28.000 If you're worried about aerosolization, then presumably they need to both perform this debate like John Travolta and the Boy from the Bubble will actually get some plastic bubbles that can sit in them like a hamster ball.

00:23:37.000 And that's how they can do the debate.

00:23:40.000 Chris Wallace, the Fox News anchor who moderated the first presidential debate, said last week Trump was not tested by the Cleveland Clinic before taking the stage.

00:23:46.000 Organizers relied on an honor system.

00:23:48.000 For the vice presidential debate, the commission said Harris and Pence will be COVID-tested prior to the debate.

00:23:53.000 Unclear which entity will oversee that testing.

00:23:55.000 Susan Page, the Washington bureau chief of USA Today, will not announce her question topics ahead of time, and Page is expected to be seated 12 feet 3 inches from both of the candidates.

00:24:04.000 Okay, so what are we likely to see tonight?

00:24:06.000 The media have already decided, preemptively, that Harris has won the debate.

00:24:09.000 They've already decided that she, because she's a woman, hear her roar, she has won the debate.

00:24:13.000 The New York Times reports she is a barrier-breaking hero.

00:24:16.000 Now, here is my prediction for the debate tonight.

00:24:19.000 I don't think that Harris is going to do well.

00:24:20.000 I don't think she's good at debate.

00:24:22.000 I think Harris had one moment in a debate and she literally could not back it up.

00:24:25.000 It turns out that her strategy, typically, Is to make some sort of wild, unverified allegation.

00:24:31.000 The media cheer because they think that maybe she has something to verify it, and then it turns out she's got nothing.

00:24:35.000 She did this with Brett Kavanaugh.

00:24:37.000 She suggested that he had been meeting with the Cassowitz law firm.

00:24:39.000 Ooh, Trump's law firm.

00:24:41.000 To somehow do something bad.

00:24:43.000 She never really specified what.

00:24:44.000 And then she sort of dropped that line of inquiry.

00:24:46.000 She went out there, she sort of implied maybe that Brett Kavanaugh is a rapist.

00:24:49.000 Maybe.

00:24:50.000 Just a little rapey.

00:24:52.000 And then it turns out she had nothing to back it up.

00:24:53.000 And of course, you'll recall that in her first debate with Joe Biden, she dropped an allegation on him that she then backed off of immediately.

00:25:00.000 Kamala Harris is a very bad politician.

00:25:02.000 And I expect that Mike Pence will actually have the opportunity... Like, I'm looking forward to the debate tonight, as opposed to some of the presidential debates, which I thought, and I've been saying for years, were going to be Chewbacca versus the Swedish chef.

00:25:11.000 We wouldn't get to any content.

00:25:13.000 We certainly wouldn't get any clarification of how the candidates actually thought about issues.

00:25:17.000 I think that you will get some clarification tonight, and I think Pence is going to do a good job.

00:25:20.000 He did a good job last time against Tim Kaine.

00:25:22.000 We'll get into more of this in a second.

00:25:24.000 And we'll get into the Harris agenda, because remember, the chances that Kamala Harris becomes president are very, very high if Joe Biden becomes president.

00:25:31.000 Joe Biden is 78 years old.

00:25:33.000 He's obviously doddering.

00:25:34.000 He's obviously on his last legs.

00:25:36.000 The chances he's going to leave office at the age of 86 are pretty low, right?

00:25:40.000 If he wins, you think he's running for re-election at 82?

00:25:44.000 Maybe he is, but if he is diminished, if the difference, if the, if the, the diminishment between, if the delta between 2000 And 2016 and 2020 for Joe Biden is the same as the Delta, the same as the change.

00:25:59.000 Between 2020 and 2024, he's not going to be able to speak by the time we hit 2024.

00:26:03.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

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00:27:29.000 So, let's just flash back to Kamala Harris' performance thus far, and what you will get with a President Kamala Harris.

00:27:35.000 The only question with Kamala Harris, who's an extraordinarily opportunistic politician, and she is somebody who will say literally anything in order to get ahead in her career.

00:27:44.000 Anything.

00:27:45.000 The only question is whether, if she were president, she would be pragmatic, like Bill Clinton, meaning that if she felt the wind was blowing in favor of moderation, she would pursue that wind.

00:27:54.000 Or, whether as president, she would feel liberated from her shackles, and she could finally do the ideological things she has always wanted to do.

00:28:00.000 And it's really unclear with Kamala Harris, because she's taken every position it is possible to take.

00:28:04.000 Like, all of them.

00:28:05.000 Every single position.

00:28:07.000 She also happens to be deeply dishonest.

00:28:10.000 She would be a deeply dishonest president in a different way than the media say Trump is dishonest.

00:28:14.000 The media will say, oh, look at Trump, he's lying again.

00:28:16.000 He's saying something that's untrue again.

00:28:18.000 Donald Trump speaks, he's bilingual.

00:28:21.000 He speaks English, but his first language is hyperbole.

00:28:25.000 Donald Trump is, he speaks hyperbole.

00:28:28.000 And so what the media like to do is they take his hyperbolic statements and then they treat them as though they are non-hyperbolic.

00:28:33.000 This is something that apparently has become very common in the media.

00:28:35.000 I've noticed it the last few days where I'll tweet an obvious joke And then the media will treat it as though I'm not saying a joke at all.

00:28:42.000 I'll say something that is absolutely 100% a joke.

00:28:44.000 It is clear to anyone who has a sentient part of their brain that it is a joke.

00:28:48.000 And then members of the media are like, oh, he's probably not joking.

00:28:50.000 Let's take it seriously.

00:28:51.000 Trump gets that treatment all the time.

00:28:54.000 So they say he is dishonest because he's hyperbolic.

00:28:57.000 And it is also true that Trump says things that sometimes are just blatantly not true.

00:29:01.000 Kamala Harris is much more subtle.

00:29:03.000 She makes claims that are Kind of true and kind of not, but she has no real substantiation.

00:29:09.000 And then she waits for people to draw inferences from them.

00:29:11.000 So she's a clever liar.

00:29:13.000 She's not an obvious liar.

00:29:14.000 She's a clever liar.

00:29:16.000 So how would you like to have Kamala Harris as your president?

00:29:18.000 Because again, remember, I said this the day she was nominated.

00:29:21.000 By nominating Kamala Harris, Joe Biden was making himself secondary to the campaign.

00:29:25.000 And if the Trump campaign had not been so focused in on whatever it is Trump wanted to do that day, they would have focused in on Kamala Harris, who is a deeply unlikable radical, who was so bad at her job that she dropped out of the Democratic primaries before they even hit California because she knew she was going to get skunked in her home state.

00:29:40.000 So as president, Kamala Harris would be dishonest, like Clintonian dishonest.

00:29:45.000 The presumption is she would be radical because she has been radical in her actual voting record.

00:29:50.000 And she would be deeply vicious because she has insulted huge swaths of Americans as racist for not supporting her, for not supporting Joe Biden.

00:29:58.000 She is like Barack Obama without any of the charm, basically.

00:30:02.000 So if you liked the Obama administration, particularly what it did to America, you would love a Harris administration.

00:30:07.000 And conversely, if you didn't like Barack Obama's administration, if you thought that Barack Obama was radical enough for you and divisive enough for you, then get ready, because Kamala Harris will double down on that to the nth degree.

00:30:17.000 She's a more obvious politician.

00:30:18.000 She's less subtle.

00:30:19.000 She does not use a stiletto.

00:30:20.000 She uses a machete.

00:30:22.000 Okay, so here, let's just, let's walk down memory lane with Kamala Harris in preparation for the debate tonight.

00:30:27.000 So you'll remember, this was the moment when we all learned that Kamala Harris was supposedly a great debater.

00:30:31.000 This is where Kamala Harris called her running mate a racist, essentially.

00:30:36.000 It's personal and it was actually very, it was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country.

00:30:53.000 And it was not only that, but you also worked with them to oppose busing.

00:31:00.000 And, you know, there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day.

00:31:11.000 And that little girl was me.

00:31:13.000 So much emotion in her voice.

00:31:14.000 And then her campaign had a t-shirt up on her campaign website within moments.

00:31:18.000 I said, by the way, I said this at the time that he was being unfairly maligned here.

00:31:22.000 That opposing federal forced busing was not in fact the wrong policy in the 1970s, nor is it wrong policy today.

00:31:29.000 And Kamala Harris would never in fact stand in favor of federally forced busing.

00:31:33.000 But she attacked Joe Biden as a racist.

00:31:35.000 And then, of course, she backed off of it.

00:31:36.000 You'll remember that Kamala Harris suggested that Joe Biden was, in fact, a sexual abuser.

00:31:40.000 And then she backed off of this as well, right?

00:31:41.000 This kind of disappeared into the ether when there were accusers who came out and suggested that Joe Biden had touched them inappropriately or against their consent.

00:31:48.000 She said, I believe the accusers.

00:31:49.000 In fact, after this, she even went on to say maybe Joe Biden should drop out of the race.

00:31:52.000 Here was Kamala Harris way back when.

00:31:54.000 I believe them and I respect them being able to tell their story and having the courage to do it.

00:32:02.000 Do you believe that the vice president should enter this race?

00:32:05.000 Oh, he's going to have to make that decision for himself.

00:32:07.000 I wouldn't tell him what to do.

00:32:09.000 Now she was asked about this, right?

00:32:10.000 She has been asked about this.

00:32:12.000 And her answer was, I'm focusing on Trump right now.

00:32:14.000 And this is the answer of every single Democrat.

00:32:16.000 Don't let that be the answer.

00:32:18.000 They should have to answer basic questions about whether they believe, whether she believes that her running mate is a racist or a rapist, right?

00:32:25.000 She ought to have to answer those particular questions since she threw out there those implications.

00:32:30.000 She didn't overtly call him a racist.

00:32:31.000 All she did was suggest that he would have stopped little girls like her, meaning a black little girl, from going to an integrated public school.

00:32:37.000 That's what she suggested on an open debate stage, and then backed off of it.

00:32:40.000 She suggested that she believed the accusers of Joe Biden, and then she backed off of it.

00:32:44.000 She's deeply dishonest, and Pence should press on this tonight.

00:32:48.000 She's deeply dishonest on the issues.

00:32:49.000 You have no idea where she stands.

00:32:51.000 Originally, at the beginning of the campaign, she tried to hijack Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All shtick, and then she ran directly away from the Medicare for All shtick.

00:32:58.000 In fact, she told Axios on HBO, quote, I have to tell you, honestly, I knew it.

00:33:02.000 I said to my team, we need to do a better plan.

00:33:03.000 This is not good enough.

00:33:04.000 I said to my team, I know we're going to take a political hit for it.

00:33:07.000 I knew that.

00:33:07.000 I knew we were.

00:33:08.000 I knew I'd be called a flip-flopper for that.

00:33:10.000 Well, if you knew you were going to be called a flip-flopper for that, then why did you embrace Medicare for All in the first place?

00:33:14.000 And the answer is because she is such a political animal.

00:33:16.000 I mean, she is just a chameleonic politician with tendencies toward the radical left.

00:33:23.000 Harris was asked specifically, for example, about the price tag of the Green New Deal.

00:33:26.000 So she was a Senate co-sponsor of the Green New Deal.

00:33:28.000 Now, the Green New Deal would cost, according to AOC's plan, some $93 trillion.

00:33:36.000 $93 trillion, which is crazy.

00:33:39.000 She was asked about the price tag of what the Green New Deal would cost, and she just elided the question completely.

00:33:44.000 $3 trillion a year for Medicare for All by some studies.

00:33:47.000 Depending on which portions of the Green New Deal you pick to do first, that's money.

00:33:52.000 You know what the Republicans are going to say, tax and spend liberals, pie in the sky.

00:33:55.000 One of the things that I admire and respect is the measurement that is captured in three letters, ROI.

00:34:02.000 What's the return on the investment?

00:34:04.000 People in the private sector understand this really well.

00:34:07.000 It's not about a cost, it's about an investment.

00:34:10.000 And then the question should be, is it worth the cost in terms of the investment potential?

00:34:15.000 Are we going to get back more than we put in?

00:34:17.000 Okay, so this is the line that Biden has been using as well, and Bernie Sanders, which is, it doesn't matter how much money you spend on the Green New Deal ever, because there will be green jobs at the end of it.

00:34:25.000 Just like there were shovel-ready jobs at the end of Barack Obama's stimulus that never materialized.

00:34:29.000 Just like the green jobs are.

00:34:30.000 Van Jones produced zero green new jobs while he was on staff at the Obama administration.

00:34:36.000 Kamala Harris was asked about whether she would be in favor of packing the Supreme Court.

00:34:40.000 She refused to answer that question as well.

00:34:41.000 So where the hell does this lady stand on anything?

00:34:43.000 You don't know.

00:34:44.000 All you know is her voting record, which is radically leftist.

00:34:46.000 And you know her personality, which is deeply dishonest.

00:34:48.000 And this lady will probably be president of the United States if Joe Biden is elected.

00:34:52.000 Here she was, failing to explain where she stands on expanding the Supreme Court.

00:34:57.000 If Judge Barrett is confirmed and the Democrats have control of the Senate next year and the White House and the House of Representatives, should the Supreme Court be expanded?

00:35:11.000 I think that, first of all, Joe's been very clear that he is going to pay attention to the fact, and I'm with him on this 1,000%, pay attention to the fact that right now, Lawrence, people are voting.

00:35:28.000 What the F is that?

00:35:28.000 What is that?

00:35:29.000 Right now, people are voting.

00:35:30.000 So she won't answer whether she's packing the court.

00:35:32.000 She won't answer Green New Deal questions on cost.

00:35:34.000 She won't answer Medicare for All.

00:35:35.000 She will not answer any serious policy question at all.

00:35:38.000 Same thing with Joe Biden.

00:35:39.000 They're all just going to point at Trump, and the media will let them get away with it.

00:35:42.000 And so if Joe Biden wins, here's who will be emboldened.

00:35:44.000 The radical left, who have never had to answer a simple question.

00:35:46.000 The media, who have dishonestly covered for the radical left.

00:35:50.000 And members, as we will see, of the so-called Deep State, meaning members of the regulatory bodies of the American executive branch, who acted in terrible fashion, as it turns out, in 2016, and who will be put back in positions of power if Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were to gain the presidency.

00:36:07.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden is providing that facade for Democrats, right?

00:36:10.000 The facade is that he is moderate old Joe, slow old Joe.

00:36:13.000 So he gave another one of these generic speeches yesterday in Gettysburg.

00:36:17.000 So Gettysburg, he decried extremist groups again.

00:36:19.000 Right now, this is the shtick for Joe Biden, is that when he says extremist groups, what he really means is like people who don't like him.

00:36:29.000 I don't mean, like, it's one thing if he wants to condemn white supremacists.

00:36:31.000 We all condemn white supremacists, okay?

00:36:33.000 Let's just be straight about this.

00:36:34.000 Statistically speaking, white supremacists are a dangerous, very, very, very small subsection of the American body politic.

00:36:41.000 They're extremely dangerous when it comes to individual attacks on synagogues, for example.

00:36:45.000 When it comes to mass movements burning down cities, it's not white supremacists who are doing that.

00:36:49.000 It is Antifa and it is Black Lives Matter.

00:36:51.000 Joe Biden is first to the barricades when he's talking about so-called right-wing militias, by which apparently he means people like Kyle Rittenhouse, who was apparently going to Kenosha in order to protect private property before he got basically cut off from his crowd and ended up defending himself in the middle of a riot by all available evidence.

00:37:09.000 So Joe Biden is always willing to condemn people who he thinks are not on his side.

00:37:12.000 See, the real test for Joe Biden should have been, months ago, whether he was willing to have a sister-soldier moment, as it was called when Bill Clinton condemned sister-soldier, who was sort of an anonymous black lady who was speaking about violence against the cops, and he condemned it, and it was considered like his big moment to stand up against the hard left.

00:37:31.000 Joe Biden has never had to do that.

00:37:32.000 Instead, he just goes out there and he says generic things about how violence is bad.

00:37:35.000 And this is supposed to be enough of a pasteboard that you feel good about electing him.

00:37:38.000 You're not supposed to look behind that curtain.

00:37:41.000 Because behind that curtain, Joe Biden is not the Wizard of Oz.

00:37:44.000 He's Kamala Harris with Joe Biden's face.

00:37:46.000 And Kamala Harris has many faces, as it turns out.

00:37:49.000 Some of them are radical.

00:37:50.000 Some of them are simply politically expedient.

00:37:53.000 We'll get to Joe Biden and his Potemkin Village campaign in just one second.

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00:39:13.000 Okay, in just a second, we're going to get to Joe Biden and his unifying message, which apparently is...

00:39:18.000 I'm not a bad person, so vote for me.

00:39:19.000 That is Joe Biden's unifying message.

00:39:22.000 I will condemn all sorts of extremism so long as those extremists don't support me.

00:39:26.000 If they do support me, then I don't recognize them and I don't know who they are.

00:39:29.000 And sure, they're standing right there, but they don't exist.

00:39:31.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

00:39:33.000 First, let us remind you That tonight is the vice presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris.

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00:40:25.000 So Biden has been, you know, basically counting on the fact that you're gonna forget that he was vice president of the United States when Barack Obama was president, but also remember that he was vice president of the United States when Barack Obama was president.

00:40:41.000 By which I mean, he doesn't want to be tied to any real aspect of the Obama record.

00:40:44.000 He just wants you to have this warm, glowy feeling about him the same way that many Americans have a warm, glowy feeling about Barack Obama.

00:40:50.000 Because when it comes to his actual record, it sucks.

00:40:52.000 So the other night, he did an NBC News town hall.

00:40:55.000 Now it turns out, by the way, that this NBC, and just another indicator of how crappy our media are, That NBC News town hall, it turns out, was stacked with Biden supporters.

00:41:04.000 Not kidding.

00:41:05.000 Okay, this is according to the Washington Free Beacon.

00:41:08.000 The Washington Free Beacon flagged that there were two voters who were supposedly undecided voters at this town hall event for NBC News.

00:41:17.000 One's name was Peter Gonzalez, the other was Ismael Llano.

00:41:20.000 They both questioned Biden at the October 5th town hall conducted by NBC in Miami.

00:41:24.000 They were identified as undecided Florida voters.

00:41:27.000 Gonzalez, who said he was an attorney in Coral Gables, used his slot to ask Biden what he could say to make people more comfortable voting for him.

00:41:34.000 He said Cuban-American and Venezuelan voters here in South Florida are being targeted with messages by the Trump campaign claiming a vote for Biden is a vote for the radical left and socialism and even communism.

00:41:43.000 What can you tell people in my family, my friends, that would make them feel more comfortable voting for Biden and Harris?

00:41:48.000 Gonzalez, by the way, did appear on MSNBC August 21st as a Republican for Biden.

00:41:54.000 He was not an undecided voter.

00:41:56.000 He was a Biden voter.

00:41:58.000 Explaining his position that day, Gonzalez said, if we get four more years of Trump, good luck.

00:42:02.000 Good luck with the future attracting younger voters.

00:42:04.000 Yano was introduced by Lester Holt as someone who, quote, voted for Hillary Clinton four years ago, but has voted Republican in the past.

00:42:10.000 He also appeared on MSNBC that same day.

00:42:13.000 He praised Biden's message as, quote, what defines America is possibility.

00:42:17.000 Holt also introduced another attendee of the town hall, Mateo Gomez, as a first-time voter.

00:42:22.000 MSNBC featured Gomez as recently as September 30th, where he told a correspondent, Alison Barber, that he would probably vote for Biden.

00:42:29.000 So in other words, they had three undecided voters on that NBC news panel, all three of whom were open Biden voters, which just shows you where our media are.

00:42:37.000 Anyway, Joe Biden was asked specifically about Cuba and about Russia.

00:42:42.000 And Joe Biden was like, remember that time that my boss, Barack, whatever his name was, remember that time he was really hard on Cuba and Putin?

00:42:50.000 And I like oatmeal.

00:42:52.000 Here's Joe Biden.

00:42:55.000 I have taken on the very people that, in fact, we're worried about.

00:42:59.000 I've taken on the Castros of the world.

00:43:01.000 I've taken on the Putins of the world.

00:43:03.000 I've taken on all these dictators.

00:43:05.000 I haven't cozied up to them.

00:43:07.000 I'm the guy that's been straightforward with them.

00:43:09.000 I'm the guy that's let them know it stops here.

00:43:12.000 It stops with me.

00:43:13.000 It stops with me as president.

00:43:15.000 I am no more a socialist or a communist than Donald Trump is.

00:43:20.000 Well, I won't say it.

00:43:21.000 Anyway.

00:43:22.000 Is it?

00:43:22.000 I mean, that is just it's a lie.

00:43:24.000 It's an overt lie.

00:43:25.000 Right.

00:43:25.000 When you actually look at his policy, Barack Obama was making cozy with like literally making physically cozy with Raul Castro in non-COVID style.

00:43:33.000 I mean, like really getting up in his grill.

00:43:36.000 And they were best friends at a baseball game in Cuba.

00:43:39.000 And they're holding hands.

00:43:40.000 He was real weird.

00:43:42.000 It was Barack Obama and Joe Biden who made room for Vladimir Putin to take over Crimea and Syria.

00:43:47.000 But don't worry.

00:43:48.000 You're not supposed to remember that.

00:43:49.000 You're supposed to just believe what Joe Biden is telling you now, because after all, he's the nice old man who's going to tell you that he doesn't like when people are mean to each other, even though he is one of the meanest players in partisan politics for the last, you know, several decades.

00:44:01.000 Here was Joe Biden at Gettysburg yesterday decrying extremist groups.

00:44:03.000 He'll never mention Antifa here, right?

00:44:05.000 Antifa is an idea.

00:44:05.000 It's not a movement.

00:44:08.000 We have no need for armed militias roaming America's streets.

00:44:12.000 And we should have no tolerance for extremist white supremacy groups menacing our communities.

00:44:19.000 If you say we should trust America's law enforcement authorities to do the job as I do, then let them do their job.

00:44:28.000 God, he's such a liar.

00:44:31.000 He's just such an unbelievable liar.

00:44:33.000 He's such an unbelievable liar.

00:44:35.000 He hates the cops, okay?

00:44:37.000 He says things like the cops are nice people, but also they're systematically racist.

00:44:40.000 The entire policing system is systemically racist.

00:44:42.000 Either he doesn't know what the term systemically racist means, which is possible because he's an idiot, or he knows exactly what it means and he's just a liar about his affinity for the police.

00:44:51.000 Maybe the only effective debate moment for Trump was when he said, name a police group that supports you.

00:44:55.000 And Biden couldn't.

00:44:56.000 Because of course, he doesn't have police supporting him.

00:44:58.000 And when he talks about people menacing American streets, are you kidding me right now?

00:45:02.000 It's the white supremacists menacing the streets of Portland, menacing the streets of Chicago, and LA, and New York.

00:45:08.000 Literally two nights ago, BLM was breaking windows in downtown LA.

00:45:12.000 In Portland, the idiot leftists are about to elect a self-declared member of Antifa to the mayoralty.

00:45:19.000 But don't worry, Joe Biden is definitely going to be a bulwark for moderation.

00:45:23.000 So just remember, again, this is the message of today's show.

00:45:26.000 Remember that when you elect Joe Biden, you're not just electing someone who isn't Trump.

00:45:30.000 You're electing Joe Biden.

00:45:31.000 You're electing Kamala Harris.

00:45:33.000 These are the people who are going to be in charge of the country.

00:45:35.000 And you know who else is going to be put back in charge of the country?

00:45:38.000 All the folks like John Brennan.

00:45:40.000 So, according to Fox News, the Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, on Tuesday declassified documents that revealed former CIA Director John Brennan briefed former President Obama on Hillary Clinton's purported plan to tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia as, quote, a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

00:46:00.000 Ratcliffe declassified Brennan's handwritten notes, which were taken after he briefed Obama on the intelligence the CIA received, and a CIA memo, which revealed that officials referred the matter to the FBI for potential investigative action.

00:46:11.000 The Office of the DNI transmitted the first declassified documents to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees on Tuesday afternoon.

00:46:17.000 A source familiar with the documents explained Brennan's handwritten notes were taken after briefing Obama on the matter.

00:46:22.000 Brennan's notes said, quote, we're getting additional insight into Russian activities from redacted.

00:46:28.000 Cite summarizing material.

00:46:29.000 Alleged approval by Hillary Clinton, a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service.

00:46:39.000 The notes state on July 28th.

00:46:41.000 In the margin, Brennan writes POTUS.

00:46:42.000 That section of the notes is redacted.

00:46:45.000 Any evidence of collaboration between Trump campaign and Russia, the notes read.

00:46:50.000 The remainder of the notes are redacted, except in the margins, which read J.C., Dennis, and Susan.

00:46:54.000 Presumably, this would refer to James Comey, Susan would be Susan Rice, and Dennis would be Dennis McDonough, Obama's chief of staff.

00:47:02.000 So the CIA memo, I mean, that is really ugly stuff.

00:47:07.000 I mean, what that looks like, what it looks like is that the Obama team was being informed in real time by John Brennan of laundered Hillary Clinton dirt on Donald Trump with regard to Russia.

00:47:21.000 And by the way, they knew it was false because Christopher Steele was interacting with, as it turns out, a person who's suspected of being a Russian agent for all of his bad intel.

00:47:29.000 And it was being laundered through America's intelligence services.

00:47:32.000 I mean, this is like devastating stuff.

00:47:35.000 My supposition throughout Russiagate was that it was founded in good faith and that people then took it too far because I always attribute to stupidity as much as I can without attributing it to malice.

00:47:43.000 When you have John Brennan writing in his handwritten notes that we know Hillary Clinton is attempting to stir up crap and then he's feeding it directly so Obama knew about it also and then the intelligence services investigated it anyway and decided to falsify FISA warrants in order to go after people like Carter Page.

00:47:59.000 This starts to look a lot like the worst of the theories.

00:48:02.000 The worst of the sort of dark conspiratorial theories about America's intelligence services.

00:48:09.000 Ratcliffe said, to be clear, this is not Russian disinformation.

00:48:11.000 It has not been assessed as such by the intelligence community.

00:48:15.000 A source familiar with the documents told Fox News the allegation was not disinformation.

00:48:19.000 The source said this is not Russian disinformation.

00:48:21.000 Even Brennan knew, or he wouldn't be briefing the President of the United States on it.

00:48:24.000 There's a high threshold to orally brief the President of the United States.

00:48:28.000 He clearly felt this met the threshold.

00:48:31.000 Another source familiar with the documents told Fox News this information has been sought by hundreds of congressional requests for legitimate oversight purposes and was withheld for political spite and the belief they would never be caught.

00:48:42.000 So this is really disturbing stuff.

00:48:45.000 The Clinton campaign and DNC through the law firm Perkins Coie hired Fusion GPS and ex-intelligence officer British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to author and compile information in that Trump dossier, the anti-Trump dossier.

00:48:58.000 And of course, that was used as the basis for that FISA warrant against Carter Page.

00:49:01.000 And now it looks like Brennan was informing Barack Obama the entire time, not only that this investigation was underway, but also that they knew that there was a proposal from Hillary Clinton to vilify Trump by stirring up the scandal.

00:49:17.000 If they were complicit in that, that is insane.

00:49:20.000 That is insane.

00:49:22.000 Paul Sperry, the former DC Bureau Chief for Investors Business Daily, who's been on top of this stuff, he says, when all documents are finally declassified and all the redactions are removed from reports, the nation will see that the FBI and CIA not only knew the Russian collusion allegations against Trump were a political dirty trick, but that they were in on the trick.

00:49:38.000 In other words, that Brennan and company fully knew that this was a trick, and they decided to activate America's intelligence services on behalf of Hillary Clinton, which is just, I mean, that is a breathtaking scandal, if that turns out to be true.

00:49:49.000 So yesterday, Donald Trump released a tweet.

00:49:52.000 He said, I fully authorized the total declassification of any and all documents pertaining to the single greatest political crime in American history, the Russia hoax.

00:50:00.000 Likewise, the Hillary Clinton email scandal.

00:50:02.000 No redactions.

00:50:04.000 So could that redirect all of this stuff?

00:50:08.000 Could that change the nature of the race?

00:50:10.000 Theoretically, if it turns out that the DNI has now declassified, has now declassified information suggesting that the entire intelligence apparatus knew that this was a Hillary dirty trick and decided to take part in the dirty trick, that is astonishing stuff.

00:50:25.000 So we will see if that is, we will see if that is backed up in the coming days, because if so, That's not only is that bad.

00:50:32.000 Those are the people who will be back in power.

00:50:34.000 Those are the people who you will put back in power.

00:50:37.000 The John Brennans of the world to again militarize America's intelligence services, which is deeply disturbing and troubling stuff.

00:50:44.000 OK, meanwhile, the media prefer to focus in on President Trump.

00:50:48.000 And as usual, President Trump tries to take center stage.

00:50:51.000 As I've said, I said this yesterday.

00:50:53.000 I said that if Trump loses by double digits to this doddering old fool and his radical comrade vice presidential candidate, then that is, if you lose by, if you lose a little bit, I understand.

00:51:04.000 That's just, you have overwhelming forces arrayed against you, right?

00:51:08.000 If there are overwhelming forces that are arrayed against Trump in the media, in the Democratic Party, in Hollywood, those are very difficult forces for anybody to overcome.

00:51:16.000 John McCain, Mitt Romney, doesn't matter.

00:51:18.000 Anybody to overcome if you're a Republican, particularly.

00:51:21.000 But if he loses by double digits to Joe Biden as the incumbent president, then at a certain point, you're going to have to say this is on Trump.

00:51:28.000 That was not meant to be like a concession of the election.

00:51:32.000 What that is meant to do is convince Trump there's still a month left and he needs to change tax right now.

00:51:37.000 He needs to change tacks.

00:51:39.000 Because here's the reality.

00:51:40.000 If you believe that Donald Trump is the only person who can win, and if Donald Trump is not to blame for losing, what you're really suggesting is no Republican will ever be president ever again.

00:51:48.000 Now, maybe that's true.

00:51:49.000 And maybe that's not.

00:51:50.000 But that seems like a rather pessimistic message.

00:51:53.000 I don't believe that.

00:51:54.000 I don't think that's true.

00:51:55.000 I think that Trump can win this election.

00:51:57.000 I think a Republican who plays this right can win the election in spite of all of those various allied forces.

00:52:04.000 And I mean, none of that is to downplay the power of those forces.

00:52:07.000 But if you want Trump to win, he needs to do a better job, obviously.

00:52:10.000 And what that means is not making the kinds of mistakes that he made yesterday.

00:52:14.000 The fact is that putting back in power the Obama team would be disastrous.

00:52:18.000 Barack Obama was a deeply divisive president.

00:52:22.000 I think that he fundamentally transformed America.

00:52:23.000 I think he did succeed in his quest.

00:52:25.000 And I don't think it was through Obamacare.

00:52:27.000 I don't even think it was through DACA.

00:52:28.000 I think he fundamentally transformed America by taking a country that was ready for racial reconciliation and then tearing it apart for his own political benefit.

00:52:35.000 By creating an intersectional coalition that he believed would radically change the nature of how American politics was performed, in which we would pit the races against one another again on behalf of Barack Obama, and then we would hope that the new majority-minority America in terms of voting Doesn't really exist yet, right?

00:52:54.000 I mean, the fact is the vast majority of the voting base is still white, but basically white liberal allies combined with the intersectional coalition, that they would be the new majority in American politics, and you could simply ignore the wants and desires of the rest of America.

00:53:05.000 It was all about base turnout from now on.

00:53:08.000 Barack Obama fundamentally shifted the nature of American politics, and then Donald Trump was sort of a reaction to that.

00:53:14.000 Well, you know, as we move toward the election, you need to be reminded that Barack Obama's team would be back in power.

00:53:20.000 Michelle Obama, who continues to be portrayed by the media as a non-political figure.

00:53:23.000 She's deeply political, and she was always deeply radical.

00:53:26.000 I mean, it's easier to forget, but before she became the second coming of Oprah, Michelle Obama was the lady who said in 2008 that she had only been proud of her country one time, and that was when they nominated her husband for president.

00:53:40.000 Well, now Michelle Obama's out there saying that Trump is a racist, divisive failure, and that he has created, he's sowed division.

00:53:47.000 The Obama administration sowed an awful lot of division, an awful lot of division.

00:53:54.000 Right now, the president and his allies are trying to tap into that frustration and distract from his breathtaking failures by giving folks someone to blame other than them.

00:54:08.000 So what the president is doing is once again patently false.

00:54:13.000 It's morally wrong.

00:54:16.000 And yes, it is racist.

00:54:19.000 Okay, again, putting these people back in power, saying that everything is racist, that's going to be a big mistake.

00:54:24.000 And this is why it's so important that Trump shift, that he shift strategy and that he swivel this boat.

00:54:29.000 He's got to turn the boat.

00:54:30.000 If the boat doesn't turn, then those people are going to be back in power.

00:54:33.000 The John Brennans, the Michelle Obamas, the Barack Obamas, the Joe Bidens, the Kamala Harrises, your mainstream media, who have been Who have been twisting the narrative every minute of every day.

00:54:45.000 They will be weaponized to a degree you have never seen before.

00:54:48.000 They really will.

00:54:49.000 They're trying it on social media right now.

00:54:51.000 They're trying to leverage the power of the media in order to pressure social media to shut down conservative messages.

00:54:55.000 That power is out there every single day.

00:54:58.000 They're angry that shows like this one are successful.

00:55:01.000 They're pissed off that anybody on the right deigns to have a media outlet that doesn't repeat the narratives of the New York Times.

00:55:07.000 They're going to leverage every aspect of that power should Trump lose.

00:55:10.000 And this is why Trump needs to get it together.

00:55:14.000 He does.

00:55:14.000 This is encouragement for Trump.

00:55:15.000 This is not a critique.

00:55:16.000 This is encouragement.

00:55:17.000 Dude, turn it around.

00:55:19.000 And what you can't do is what Trump did yesterday.

00:55:21.000 So yesterday, Trump made a bizarre move.

00:55:25.000 He tweeted out that he was going to end negotiations over additional COVID-19 stimulus.

00:55:30.000 So he first tweeted out that he was basically done.

00:55:35.000 Which is really dumb, okay?

00:55:36.000 This was 2.48 p.m.

00:55:38.000 This is 2.48 p.m.

00:55:40.000 Eastern Time yesterday.

00:55:42.000 He said that he had told his administration's negotiators to end the coronavirus stimulus talks with Democrats until after the November 3rd elections.

00:55:49.000 He said, I've instructed my representatives to stop negotiating until after the election, when immediately after I win, we will pass a major stimulus bill that focuses on hardworking Americans and small business.

00:55:58.000 He added that he had asked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to focus full time on confirming Amy Coney Barrett in the Senate, which of course is going to happen anyway.

00:56:07.000 This is political malpractice.

00:56:09.000 It is so bad.

00:56:10.000 Okay, the reason it is so bad is because the fact is that Nancy Pelosi had owned the failure here.

00:56:15.000 Nancy Pelosi has been holding up a relief package for months at this point for no reason whatsoever.

00:56:21.000 The Republicans have proposed a clean relief package in which American families got $1,200.

00:56:26.000 Republicans proposed spending $1.4 trillion.

00:56:29.000 That is a lot of money.

00:56:31.000 $1.4 trillion in another relief package.

00:56:33.000 And Democrats turned it down because they wanted the states bailed out.

00:56:35.000 They wanted localities bailed out.

00:56:37.000 They wanted Andrew Cuomo's bills paid in New York.

00:56:40.000 And Republicans said, no, we need a relief package.

00:56:42.000 We don't need an Andrew Cuomo bailout package.

00:56:44.000 That's not the same thing.

00:56:45.000 And Nancy Pelosi had basically walked away from the table.

00:56:47.000 The failure of the relief package could have been one of Trump's talking points over the past couple of months.

00:56:51.000 You forgot about it because Trump was busy tweeting about whatever.

00:56:54.000 But the fact is that that should have been a chief point, right?

00:56:57.000 Is that the Democrats want to shut down the economy and then not provide you the relief you need.

00:57:00.000 They want to lock down everything, not allow you to go to work, and then block any relief bill in the House.

00:57:06.000 And that's egregious.

00:57:08.000 That should have been the narrative.

00:57:09.000 Instead, Trump yesterday tweets out that he's gonna end the relief negotiations before they even hit the election, like until the election.

00:57:16.000 It's just a complete blunder.

00:57:17.000 It's a complete unforced error, obviously.

00:57:19.000 Well, about a few hours later, four hours later, Trump reversed himself, and then he tweeted out, the House and Senate should immediately approve $25 billion for airline payroll support, $135 billion for a paycheck protection program for small business.

00:57:31.000 Both of these will be fully paid for with unused funds from the CARES Act.

00:57:34.000 Have this money.

00:57:35.000 I will sign now.

00:57:36.000 So he realized about four hours later he'd made a boo-boo and that unilaterally declaring that you were not going to sign a relief package or negotiate for one right now is a bad move four weeks before an election.

00:57:47.000 The stock market, by the way, plummeted like 300 points as soon as Trump tweeted that because people were automatically assuming that Congress was not going to, they couldn't, no one could be foolish enough to stop a relief package permanently here.

00:57:57.000 So Trump made an unforced error there.

00:57:58.000 It was a big boo-boo.

00:57:59.000 How big a boo-boo was it?

00:57:59.000 Susan Collins, who's running a rough re-election campaign in Maine.

00:58:02.000 She said, this is a huge mistake.

00:58:04.000 She said, waiting until after the election to reach an agreement on the next COVID-19 relief package is a huge mistake.

00:58:09.000 I've already been in touch with the Secretary of the Treasury, one of the chief negotiators, with several of my Senate colleagues.

00:58:13.000 When the pandemic began, Republicans and Democrats in Congress worked together successfully to take quick sweeping action, allocating nearly $3 trillion since March to respond to the crisis.

00:58:23.000 Passing the bipartisan Paycheck Protection Program I co-authored that has provided more than $2 billion to 28,000 Maine small businesses helping to sustain 250,000 Maine jobs.

00:58:35.000 That's the same approach we need to take now to continue to provide support for the health and safety of all Americans.

00:58:40.000 Mitch McConnell immediately came out.

00:58:41.000 He said, no, no, no, we're still negotiating here.

00:58:44.000 Nancy Pelosi, for her part, she was so excited.

00:58:46.000 I mean, that grin that is normally stuck on her face simply because of the Botox, now it's stuck on there because she was actually happy.

00:58:54.000 She apparently told Democratic lawmakers that she thought that it was because Trump was high on steroids.

00:58:59.000 According to two sources on a DNC phone call, she said Trump's thinking might be affected by steroids he's taken to treat his coronavirus infection.

00:59:07.000 Pelosi said in a statement, clearly the White House is in complete disarray.

00:59:10.000 Walking away from COVID talks demonstrates that Trump is unwilling to crush the virus as is required by the HEROES Act.

00:59:16.000 McConnell said he stood by the president's position.

00:59:19.000 He said, I think his view is that they were not going to be able to produce a result.

00:59:21.000 We needed to concentrate on what's achievable.

00:59:23.000 It's because McConnell doesn't want to draw too much daylight.

00:59:25.000 But, you know, Trump got it right later in the afternoon.

00:59:28.000 Then he tweeted in favor of COVID relief.

00:59:30.000 It was a brief boo-boo.

00:59:31.000 And now look for the media to play that brief boo-boo into a giant overarching policy change with regards to a relief package.

00:59:37.000 It's an unforced error by Trump, and the media will undoubtedly double down and turn it into a major issue day in and day out from here until the election, even though it's very, very clear that Nancy Pelosi is the person who's been holding up the relief package.

00:59:49.000 Now, speaking of COVID, Speaking of COVID, worth noting that the NYPD last night, under the tutelage of Bill de Blasio, they broke up a Sukkot celebration in New York.

00:59:59.000 So as you know, I am not a fan of the fact that so many Orthodox Jews have been out in the streets getting together.

01:00:05.000 I care about all American life.

01:00:08.000 I care about Orthodox Jewish life as well.

01:00:10.000 I have many friends in the Orthodox Jewish community since I'm a member of the Orthodox Jewish community.

01:00:14.000 People who are gathering together in large crowds and shuls, it's a mistake.

01:00:18.000 That does not mean that it is not wildly hypocritical for Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio to simply target the Jews in New York.

01:00:24.000 It's pretty amazing, actually.

01:00:26.000 Okay, so here was video last night of the NYPD trying to break up a Sukkot celebration.

01:00:29.000 There are a bunch of people out in the streets celebrating the Festival of Booths.

01:00:32.000 Again, don't do this, guys.

01:00:34.000 But the NYPD breaks this up.

01:00:36.000 They should have brought their Black Lives Matter signs.

01:00:37.000 then the NYPD would have been forced to back off by Bill de Blasio clearly.

01:00:40.000 So this was a bunch of chassidim who were dancing in the streets.

01:00:55.000 And the NYPD is actually pushing them together.

01:00:58.000 Like, I feel like this is a bad strategy.

01:01:00.000 They're pushing them closer together, the celebration in the middle of the street.

01:01:05.000 And again, I actually don't have a problem with the police breaking up large-scale gatherings without masks at this point.

01:01:10.000 My question is, why didn't they do this for months when it was a Black Lives Matter protest?

01:01:14.000 Was it okay when there was a giant crowd painting Black Lives Matter on Fifth Avenue?

01:01:18.000 So Bill de Blasio and Andrew Cuomo, it's the selectivity that's really the problem.

01:01:22.000 Jimmy Vilkind, who is a Wall Street Journal reporter covering New York politics and government, He put out a statement.

01:01:30.000 This is a statement from various different members of the Brooklyn political establishment.

01:01:36.000 New York Senator Felder, Eichenstein, Yeager, and Chaim Deutsch.

01:01:40.000 They said they were appalled by Governor Cuomo's words and actions because Governor Cuomo came out and said basically the Orthodox Jews have to be stopped.

01:01:46.000 He said, we are appalled by Governor Cuomo's words and actions today.

01:01:49.000 He has chosen to pursue a scientifically and constitutionally questionable shutdown of our communities.

01:01:53.000 His administration's utter lack of coordination and communication with local officials has been an ongoing issue since the start of the pandemic, and particularly recently, as we face this uptick.

01:02:01.000 Though we are representatives of the hotspot neighborhoods, we have been disincluded from conversations with the governor.

01:02:06.000 They say what occurred today can only be described as a duplicitous bait-and-switch.

01:02:09.000 The governor informed Jewish community leaders in a conference call synagogues in quote-unquote red zones would be permitted to operate at 50 percent.

01:02:16.000 He requested a community cooperation.

01:02:17.000 And then outrageously, he announced a draconian return to restrictions that would shutter thousands of New York businesses, limit houses of worship to a maximum capacity of 10, no matter the capacity of the building.

01:02:27.000 Even worse, his rhetoric has been irresponsible and pejorative, particularly to a community of Holocaust survivors and their descendants, for whom his language was reminiscent of past verbal attacks on Jewish communities.

01:02:37.000 Okay, so again, it is not wrong to break up.

01:02:41.000 Large-scale gatherings to prevent COVID.

01:02:44.000 It is definitely wrong to target Jews while you are perfectly willing to blame systemic American racism for upticks in COVID.

01:02:50.000 It is demonstrative of the intersectional coalition's viewpoint on politics.

01:02:54.000 And when there's a significant uptick in a black community and then video emerges from that community of people holding giant parties in indoor spaces.

01:02:59.000 I remember early on in the pandemic, there was a video that came out of Chicago of a giant thousand person house party in Chicago.

01:03:05.000 Everyone there was a person of color.

01:03:08.000 This was not covered by the media at all.

01:03:10.000 When Jews gather in a synagogue in large numbers, that of course is a big story.

01:03:13.000 When Christians gather in a church, that of course is a large story.

01:03:15.000 The double standard is absolutely telling.

01:03:18.000 I have a single standard, which is be responsible and don't spread COVID if you can avoid it.

01:03:22.000 From a public service point of view, 210,000 people died.

01:03:23.000 the Democratic Party, however, have a deep and abiding double standard.

01:03:26.000 The double standard is that you should be afraid of covid if you are an Orthodox Jew.

01:03:32.000 But apparently, if you're protesting for Black Lives Matter, you should not. Andrew Cuomo yesterday, he came out and he said that when Trump says don't be afraid of you should be afraid of covid, it can kill you.

01:03:39.000 But apparently not if you're protesting for the right things.

01:03:41.000 Here was Andrew Cuomo yesterday.

01:03:42.000 From a public service point of view, 210,000 people died.

01:03:50.000 More people die in this country than countries around the world that were doing much worse than we were.

01:04:03.000 Thank you.

01:04:04.000 From a public service point of view, don't be afraid of COVID.

01:04:08.000 No, be afraid of COVID.

01:04:11.000 It can kill you.

01:04:13.000 Don't be cavalier.

01:04:15.000 Don't be cavalier unless of course you are protesting for the right reasons.

01:04:18.000 Again, I agree, don't be cavalier.

01:04:20.000 But two things.

01:04:22.000 One, Democrats are simultaneously promoting panic about the virus, which is not justified.

01:04:27.000 Concern about the virus is justified.

01:04:29.000 Precautions about the virus, those are justified.

01:04:31.000 Panic about the virus is not justified.

01:04:32.000 And simultaneously, if you protest for the right reasons, then we should just pretend that racism is a quote-unquote public health problem, and that's totally okay.

01:04:39.000 It's the double standard that's driving many Americans up a wall.

01:04:41.000 Okay, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.

01:04:44.000 And of course, tune into Daily Wire tonight to watch Matt Walsh be forced to suffer through the Kamala Harris-Mike Pence debate.

01:04:50.000 We'll be back here to recap all of it tomorrow.

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01:05:20.000 Liberals don't get why masks are political, because they don't understand politics.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - October 07, 2020

Remember Who Becomes President If Trump Loses | Ep. 1110

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