The Ben Shapiro Show - Russiagate II: Kamala’s Revenge

00:00:00.000 Well, folks, despite weeks and weeks of joy over Kamala Harris, so much joy, so many vibes, endless media coverage of her innate and unbreakable genius, it turns out that this race remains a dead heat.

00:00:12.000 We have just reverted back to Joe Biden, pre-Joe Biden death status in this race.

00:00:17.000 We get to the latest on the poll numbers and lead up to the big debate.

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00:00:36.000 So, as I say, despite weeks and weeks and weeks of glowing media coverage of Kamala Harris avoiding literally all questions except for one 16-minute interval Well, despite all of that, she is still running a neck-and-neck race with Donald Trump.

00:00:55.000 According to Politico, Vice President Kamala Harris is just barely pulling ahead of former President Donald Trump in the battleground states.

00:01:00.000 That is according to a new CNN SSRS poll released On Wednesday, Harris is slightly above Trump in Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin, but her slight lead is either within or just barely outside the margin of error.

00:01:12.000 The candidates are tied at 47% in Pennsylvania.

00:01:15.000 Trump leads Harris by 5 points in Arizona.

00:01:17.000 When you look at that RealClearPolitics polling average, which again is not just one poll, it is an average of many polls, it shows momentum for Harris, no question.

00:01:24.000 It shows that she is currently leading in the RealClearPolitics polling average.

00:01:27.000 In Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Georgia, but all of those races are within margin of error.

00:01:32.000 And similarly for President Trump, he is running a little bit ahead in North Carolina and Arizona, and they are tied in Pennsylvania.

00:01:39.000 Literally every single one of those states is within the margin of error at this point in time.

00:01:44.000 Not just that, if you look at Nate Silver's prediction for what's going to happen in this election right now, he has Donald Trump at the upper hand.

00:01:51.000 And the reason for that is because Kamala Harris really got almost no bounce from that Democratic National Convention. 1.00

00:01:57.000 She may have hit the high watermark of her campaign. 1.00

00:01:59.000 And the big turning point could happen as early as next week, on Tuesday, when Donald Trump and Kamala Harris finally debate.

00:02:06.000 The rules for that debate have now been set.

00:02:08.000 The mics will be muted.

00:02:10.000 There will be no audience.

00:02:11.000 Now, innately, I think a lot of people thought originally that that sort of rule would hurt Trump because he thrives off the crowd and he likes to throw a punch.

00:02:19.000 But the reality is that it contains that Donald Trump is much better for Donald Trump.

00:02:24.000 Because it turns out that Donald Trump not appearing to be erratic is the key to him winning at this point. 0.97

00:02:30.000 Kamala Harris's entire campaign, Tim Walz's entire campaign, the entire thing is based on the idea that Donald Trump is a crazy man who can't be trusted with power. 0.60

00:02:37.000 So if Donald Trump does not appear to be a crazy person in the debate, He is going to be on solid footing.

00:02:43.000 And really, there are only a few things he has to do in that debate to successfully throw Kamala Harris off of her game.

00:02:49.000 The number one thing he has to do is simply mention her record.

00:02:52.000 Simply point out her flip-flops. 0.88

00:02:54.000 She is a target-rich environment, politically speaking, and she has some real systemic problems in some of the key states. 0.99

00:03:00.000 Nate Silver points out over at his website today that while Kamala Harris is up by three and a half points in the national poll tracker, she has fallen below 50% chance of winning the electoral college.

00:03:13.000 And some of that is because of Pennsylvania.

00:03:16.000 Pennsylvania was widely perceived as the state that matters the most in the presidential election.

00:03:20.000 How goes Pennsylvania?

00:03:22.000 That's how the election goes.

00:03:23.000 Very hard to imagine a scenario where Donald Trump, for example, wins Pennsylvania, but loses, say, Georgia and North Carolina.

00:03:29.000 And similarly, very hard to see a scenario where Kamala Harris wins Pennsylvania but loses Michigan and Wisconsin.

00:03:35.000 Pennsylvania is almost certainly the most important state in this election.

00:03:39.000 And the problem, as Nate Silver points out, is that it's been a while since we've seen a poll showing Harris ahead in Pennsylvania, which is the tipping point state more than a third of the time in their model.

00:03:48.000 In fact, they added one post-DNC model showing Pennsylvania as a tie and another showing either a tie or Trump up plus one.

00:03:54.000 And as we know, the polls tend to undersample Trump voters because Trump has specific appeal for what are called low propensity voters, people who didn't necessarily vote in the last presidential or midterm election.

00:04:05.000 It's very difficult to model what the electorate looks like when Donald Trump is on the ballot.

00:04:09.000 This is one of the problems with the polling.

00:04:10.000 It's not all purposeful skewing of polls.

00:04:13.000 There's a lot of talk about how the pollsters skew the polls and how they are looking for a particular outcome before they even calculate the final number.

00:04:21.000 That isn't really true.

00:04:22.000 Pollsters do have an interest in trying to be accurate, but they have a really tough time trying to measure the nuclear reactor that is Donald Trump in a campaign.

00:04:33.000 Very, very difficult to measure who is part of the electorate, who is not.

00:04:36.000 Who do you reach?

00:04:37.000 How do you actually construct a model of the electorate?

00:04:40.000 Does it look more like 2016 or does it look more like 2020?

00:04:43.000 For example, these are very difficult questions.

00:04:47.000 Now, again, as Silver points out, all this could change quickly with one or two high-quality polls showing Harris ahead in the Keystone State.

00:04:53.000 But, for now, they show a 17% chance Harris wins the popular vote, but not the Electoral College, which remains a very serious possibility.

00:05:03.000 So, again, right now, Kamala Harris does not have this thing secure.

00:05:08.000 Not only does she not have this secure, she did make one giant mistake, and I pointed it out at the time.

00:05:12.000 That was selecting Tim Walz as her vice presidential candidate. 1.00

00:05:14.000 Tim Walz is a black hole of suck. 1.00

00:05:17.000 He is just a terrible candidate. 1.00

00:05:19.000 Tim Walz continues to run from questions.

00:05:21.000 He continues to give off a strange vibe, a weird vibe.

00:05:29.000 Here he was just the other day running from questions.

00:05:34.000 I'm going to look here at the administration what to do about lower prices.

00:05:46.000 Can we ask a question, please?

00:05:48.000 Tim Walz, yes, he's going to answer any policy questions.

00:05:52.000 And that's going to be a big no.

00:05:54.000 That's going to be a big no there from Tim Walz.

00:05:56.000 He's just going to wear a camo hat and pretend that he's a man of the people.

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00:07:08.000 Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is also running from questions.

00:07:10.000 She's come up with a new variety of tricks to avoid having to answer questions.

00:07:15.000 So she was walking toward Air Force Two and somebody asked her, how is the debate prep coming?

00:07:20.000 You know, pretty innocuous question.

00:07:21.000 Is it Joint Base Andrews?

00:07:22.000 She just keeps on walking.

00:07:23.000 She can't hear.

00:07:24.000 You know, she's got she's got hearing problems, apparently, like Tim Walz doing a DUI in 1995.

00:07:28.000 1995.

00:07:40.000 She is better walking up the stairs than Joe Biden.

00:07:42.000 I mean, that I'll say for her.

00:07:44.000 At least this time she's not pretending that she's on a phone call as she avoids questions from the press.

00:07:48.000 So, this is a very, very tight race.

00:07:50.000 By the way, the data on Tim Walz being a bad pick is pretty much in.

00:07:55.000 Right now, Tim Walz—remember, she could have picked Josh Shapiro, who's the popular governor of Pennsylvania, and that likely would have tipped over the state in favor of Kamala Harris, or at least provided a significant impetus for that happening.

00:08:06.000 She decided not to pick Josh Shapiro because she was afraid that it would tick off all of the radical Muslims who hate Israel in states like Michigan.

00:08:12.000 And so instead, she picked Tim Walz, who's very close with people like Ilhan Omar.

00:08:16.000 The problem is, of course, she's not only not secured Pennsylvania, It turns out that Walls is not all that popular in the state of Minnesota.

00:08:22.000 Now, she's going to win Minnesota, but there's a brand new KSTP SurveyUSA poll that shows that she has dropped about five points in Minnesota since picking Tim Walls.

00:08:33.000 In fact, the better people know Tim Walls, the less they like him.

00:08:36.000 And this is, I think, the nature of so many Democratic campaigns around the country.

00:08:39.000 So yesterday, I spent the day campaigning with Captain Sam Brown.

00:08:43.000 He is the Republican candidate for the Senate from Nevada.

00:08:47.000 And Sam is truly an American hero.

00:08:49.000 Yesterday was his alive day.

00:08:52.000 Alive day, meaning the day that he should have been killed in Afghanistan 16 years ago. 0.99

00:08:57.000 He was in Afghanistan and his vehicle was hit by an IED.

00:09:01.000 It set him on fire, his face on fire.

00:09:04.000 Obviously you can see the scars, his battle scars.

00:09:06.000 He had to go through three years of intensive recovery.

00:09:11.000 Not only is he an American hero for his service, also he is somebody who believes with a passion in constitutional principles in the United States.

00:09:20.000 These are great candidates.

00:09:21.000 The Republicans, unlike the last go-around, unlike in 2022 when Republicans basically raided the loony bin for candidates, Republicans in many of these states, they are running some pretty good candidates.

00:09:31.000 Mike Rogers is a good candidate in Michigan.

00:09:33.000 Eric Hovde is a good candidate in Wisconsin.

00:09:35.000 Dave McCormick is an excellent candidate In Pennsylvania, and Sam Brown is an excellent candidate in Nevada.

00:09:40.000 Right now the polling is showing Sam Brown down to Jackie Rosen, who's kind of a nothing burger of a senator.

00:09:46.000 But those polls are likely to tighten up very much as we near the final stretch of the campaign.

00:09:52.000 One of the things the media have done is they've blacked out all of the excellent Republican candidates, ignored them, ripped them, They've also blacked out the Democratic candidates.

00:10:01.000 The entire media apparatus is rooted in the idea that if you get to know many of the Republicans, you will like those Republicans more.

00:10:09.000 And also, if you get to know many of the Democrats, you will like the Democrats less.

00:10:13.000 So you're not seeing a lot of Jackie Rosen out there.

00:10:15.000 You're also not seeing a lot of Sam Brown out there.

00:10:17.000 Because the more you see people like Sam Brown, the more you like people like Sam Brown, the more he's likely to win a race.

00:10:21.000 Here I was interviewing him yesterday.

00:10:23.000 Here he was on the Biden administration.

00:10:26.000 This administration has had failed foreign policy from day one.

00:10:30.000 I mean, I think we've got to consider our border policy part of foreign policy at this point.

00:10:35.000 And when Joe Biden went into the White House, literally after coming off the steps of the Capitol, and started signing executive orders attacking our border policy, that just started a domino of other things.

00:10:46.000 And this Senate, led by Chuck Schumer, along with Jackie Rosen has had opportunities to step up and stop the normalization of relationships or the attempt of with Iran.

00:11:00.000 You know, the literal sending of billions of dollars to Iran, the lifting of sanctions against Iran that has funded more terror than probably anything else over decades.

00:11:12.000 And she wants to talk about how, you know, we need to do more again.

00:11:18.000 Words alone are meaningless in the face of no action that allows for the massacre of so many people in Israel, the hostage that are still being held.

00:11:32.000 And it goes beyond that to this new coalition that's forming between China, Russia, Iran, North Korea.

00:11:39.000 Our enemies are afoot.

00:11:41.000 They see a weaker United States of America and we need President Trump back in the White House and we need a strong Republican Senate to ensure that we regain our footing as the strongest nation in the world and we can lead again.

00:11:54.000 And what makes Sam Brown a unique candidate, obviously, is his personal story.

00:11:57.000 I mean, you want to talk about an amazing personal story.

00:11:59.000 Democrats are constantly relying on the narrative of the character of the people they select.

00:12:03.000 So they try and whip everybody into a lather about Kamala Harris once supposedly working at a McDonald's and then clawing her way up in politics with no help at all from people like Willie Brown, for example.

00:12:13.000 But Sam Brown, actually, his story is quite amazing.

00:12:16.000 I asked him at an event yesterday in front of boosters about how he met his wife.

00:12:21.000 And it's a pretty, it's a pretty moving story.

00:12:24.000 So as I was intubated, I was wrapped up.

00:12:26.000 I looked like a mummy. 0.69

00:12:27.000 I mean, literally from head to toe and unconscious, she was part of the care team that was taking care of me.

00:12:33.000 And so by the time I kind of came to and was able to sort of interact with people around, She was now working in the background, and I had no idea who she was for several months.

00:12:43.000 And when I finally got a chance to meet her, I was just stunned with her smile.

00:12:49.000 She just exuded enthusiasm and joy.

00:12:53.000 And Ben, I talked about the struggle of recovery.

00:13:00.000 There was only one thing that really kind of broke my heart and made me sad, and I didn't know how I was going to deal with it.

00:13:08.000 And it was the disfigurement of my face.

00:13:12.000 I mean, I kind of joke, and I've had more surgery than a Kardashian, and I look a lot better now than I did then.

00:13:17.000 But what that translated into was, I thought, as a 24-year-old man, now 25 by that point, someone who was watching my professional career go up in smoke, quite literally and figuratively, That I wanted to be a husband one day.

00:13:36.000 I wanted to be a dad one day.

00:13:37.000 And I could not reconcile to myself if I was being honest and I looked in the mirror, how would anyone see past these scars and love this man?

00:13:46.000 And Amy Brown saw through the scars and she loved this man.

00:13:54.000 It's an inspirational story.

00:13:55.000 He's a terrific candidate.

00:13:56.000 There are a lot of good Republican candidates all across the country.

00:13:59.000 So again, the media are deeply reliant on burying the Republican candidates behind either lies or just ignoring them.

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00:15:14.000 Meanwhile, President Trump seems to have regained some of his footing in this race.

00:15:18.000 It felt for weeks and weeks as though he had lost that footing because obviously his head was in the Biden race.

00:15:23.000 And then, of course, the Democrats pulled one of the great switcheroos of all time.

00:15:26.000 They took their candidate for whom they had rigged all the primaries.

00:15:28.000 They made sure that no Democrat could run a serious race against senile Joe in the primaries.

00:15:34.000 And then, once he had won, and then they realized that he actually was not only senile, but that he was going to demonstrate to the public that he was full-scale senile.

00:15:41.000 At that point, they decided to dump him over in favor of Kamala Harris. 0.97

00:15:45.000 So you can imagine why Donald Trump was thrown by that for several weeks.

00:15:48.000 And he's been sort of struggling to find his footing, struggling to figure out attack lines on Kamala Harris.

00:15:53.000 But he gave a very good performance last night at a town hall event.

00:15:56.000 With Sean Hannity on Fox News and the town hall event was actually pretty good Trump.

00:16:02.000 He finally seems to be digging down into our policy positions because that's the thing he needs to attack.

00:16:06.000 The thing is Kamala Harris was picked because she's an empty vessel. 1.00

00:16:10.000 She was picked because she's a big nothing burger of a candidate. 1.00

00:16:14.000 She looks good on TV and she says nice things off a teleprompter.

00:16:18.000 And then when it comes to her actual politics, they are just as poisonous as anything the Democratic Party has ever put forward at the national level.

00:16:24.000 And Trump seems to be finally, finally concentrating on that, as opposed to all the kind of spurious attacks that are not going to do any good attacks on.

00:16:33.000 Her code switching, for example, is not going to do much or attacks on her intelligence. 0.97

00:16:38.000 People can see that and they'll make their own decision about that.

00:16:40.000 Attacking her policy is going to be the thing that Trump really can do and do with alacrity.

00:16:44.000 He did a lot of that last night.

00:16:46.000 Here was President Trump pointing out that if Kamala Harris is in fact elected president of the United States, you will see the biggest tax increases in American history.

00:16:54.000 And he is correct about this because he passed the biggest tax cuts in modern American history.

00:17:00.000 If you let the Trump tax cuts expire, which he wants to do, she wants to terminate them.

00:17:06.000 If you do that, you will suffer the biggest tax increase in history.

00:17:11.000 There's never been a tax increase like it.

00:17:15.000 He is correct.

00:17:15.000 He also pointed out her failures on foreign policy and making her own those failures is going to be the key to his campaign success.

00:17:23.000 We have things going on in the world right now with Israel and with the Middle East is blowing up. 1.00

00:17:29.000 It's blowing up.

00:17:31.000 We have Ukraine and Russia. 0.74

00:17:32.000 That would never happen.

00:17:33.000 The whole world was a safe place.

00:17:35.000 That was the question they asked Viktor Orban, who's really considered a very strong... They said, he's a strong man.

00:17:42.000 Sometimes you need a strong man.

00:17:44.000 He's a strong man.

00:17:45.000 He's the prime minister of Hungary.

00:17:48.000 And he said, you bring back Trump, everybody... Now, I'm not saying it.

00:17:53.000 But he said it, because I'd rather say respect.

00:17:56.000 But he said, everybody was afraid of Trump.

00:17:59.000 You bring him back, you're not going to have any problems.

00:18:02.000 It's all going to go away.

00:18:05.000 Trump also went after Kamala Harris over her border failures, of course.

00:18:10.000 They're coming in at levels that nobody's ever seen.

00:18:13.000 They're coming from prisons.

00:18:14.000 They're allowing prisoners to come out of all countries.

00:18:18.000 They had almost 180 countries represented over the last number of months.

00:18:23.000 They're emptying out the sickest people, and they're emptying all into the United States. 1.00

00:18:30.000 And you said it better than anybody.

00:18:32.000 More terrorists have come into the United States in the last three years than, I think, probably 50 years.

00:18:38.000 There's never been anything like it.

00:18:42.000 He is right about all of those things.

00:18:44.000 And he concluded, listen, you don't have to like me, but you do have to understand that if you don't vote for me, what you're going to get is her.

00:18:51.000 That is the best pitch for Trump.

00:18:53.000 It's actually a self-effacing pitch.

00:18:54.000 He says, listen, you don't have to love me.

00:18:55.000 You don't have to believe all the things that I say about myself.

00:18:58.000 What you do have to understand is, you know, my presidency looked like, and you know what her presidency would look like.

00:19:04.000 If she won, you're not going to have any fracking in Pennsylvania. 0.99

00:19:07.000 You have 500,000 jobs.

00:19:09.000 Think of that.

00:19:10.000 It's your biggest business.

00:19:11.000 And you get a big majority of your income from fracking.

00:19:17.000 And you have somebody that's not going to allow fracking.

00:19:19.000 She's not going to allow it.

00:19:20.000 You can't take the chance.

00:19:21.000 You have no choice.

00:19:22.000 You've got to vote for me.

00:19:24.000 You've got to vote for me.

00:19:28.000 And he is right about that.

00:19:30.000 He is.

00:19:30.000 He also sideswiped Tim Walz.

00:19:32.000 There's a bit of a story that came out yesterday when extended members of Tim Walz's family said that they were not going to vote for Tim Walz, they were instead going to vote for Donald Trump.

00:19:40.000 Now normally I would say that sort of stuff really isn't fair game because who cares?

00:19:42.000 Who cares what the relatives of presidential candidates have to say?

00:19:46.000 But, turnabout is in fact fair play, and we've had years of people surfacing every obscure Donald Trump relative to write pieces for the Atlantic about what Uncle Donald was like way back when.

00:19:55.000 So, this seems fair game.

00:19:57.000 Here was Donald Trump going after Tim Walz for the fact that his family isn't voting for him.

00:20:02.000 I was so honored today.

00:20:03.000 His brother endorsed me.

00:20:04.000 And his whole family.

00:20:04.000 His brother endorsed me.

00:20:06.000 I saw it.

00:20:07.000 And his whole family.

00:20:08.000 I saw the picture.

00:20:09.000 And honestly, it was a very nice looking family.

00:20:16.000 Thank you.

00:20:17.000 But his brother endorsed me, and the whole family endorsed me.

00:20:21.000 I said, who are all the people?

00:20:25.000 Let me tell you, there's something weird with that guy.

00:20:29.000 He's a weird guy.

00:20:31.000 JD is not weird.

00:20:33.000 He's a solid rock.

00:20:34.000 I happen to be a very solid rock.

00:20:37.000 We're not weird.

00:20:38.000 We're other things, perhaps, but we're not weird.

00:20:44.000 That is what Trump is returning to.

00:20:47.000 That's the best that Trump has been in a while, and he showed it last night.

00:20:51.000 Well, you know, it's probably a little bit insulting for Tim Walz that members of his family are not endorsing him.

00:20:57.000 But he is running around the world talking about how he knows how to order a donut.

00:20:59.000 It's an actual thing that he did for the Kamala Harris campaign.

00:21:02.000 He's been ordering donuts, and then he's bragging about it.

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00:22:08.000 Meanwhile, again, Kamala Harris is just running away.

00:22:09.000 She's running away from all questions.

00:22:12.000 She's running away from her own policies, as we'll see in just a moment. 1.00

00:22:16.000 She is trotting out Liz Cheney. 0.99

00:22:17.000 So Liz Cheney, who you'll recall was the Republican who was on the impeachment committee for Donald Trump over January 6th and all the rest of this sort of stuff.

00:22:24.000 And then who lost her seat to Harriet Hageman in Wyoming. 1.00

00:22:28.000 Well, she has now come out and said that she's going to vote for Kamala Harris.

00:22:32.000 She said, Now, again, I don't even understand the logic here.

00:22:33.000 of writing in candidates' names, particularly in swing states.

00:22:36.000 As a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution,

00:22:39.000 I have thought deeply about this.

00:22:41.000 Because of the danger Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump,

00:22:43.000 I'll be voting for Kamala Harris. 0.66

00:22:45.000 Now, again, I don't even understand the logic here.

00:22:47.000 But your logic is that in order to preserve conservatism, you need to vote for a person that Liz Cheney called,

00:22:55.000 this is a direct quote from Liz Cheney, August 11th, 2020, quote, a radical liberal who had raised taxes, 1.00

00:23:00.000 take away guns and health insurance, and explode the size and power of the federal government.

00:23:04.000 She wants to recreate America in the image of what's happening on the streets of Portland and Seattle.

00:23:08.000 We won't give her the chance.

00:23:11.000 So she went from she's a radical liberal who's going to destroy the country to I need to vote for her because Donald Trump is such a grave threat. 0.95

00:23:17.000 And I get that Liz Cheney doesn't like Donald Trump.

00:23:19.000 Obviously, I get that Liz Cheney became sort of the point of the spear for Democrats coordinating with Democrats on the January 6th committee and all that.

00:23:26.000 And then she was targeted and she lost her primary.

00:23:28.000 In Wyoming.

00:23:29.000 I understand all of those things.

00:23:30.000 Also, you can't turn over the country to a person who has pledged that if she gets a triumvirate, meaning a Democratic presidency, a Democratic Senate, and a Democratic House, she's going to radically rewrite the Constitution of the United States.

00:23:41.000 They're going to eliminate the filibuster in the Senate. 0.99

00:23:43.000 So as to pack the Supreme Court, so as to add at least two states to the United States Senate, presumably both Democrat voting states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., thus rigging the Senate for the foreseeable future in favor of the Democrats.

00:23:56.000 They're talking about changing all of the voting rules.

00:23:59.000 Through the John Lewis Act, which would essentially make ballot harvesting a thing across the entire nation, while cracking down on voter ID.

00:24:08.000 They'd radically revise how immigration is done in the United States to the benefit of open borders.

00:24:12.000 I mean, all of these things are right on the table.

00:24:15.000 How you vote for that just because you don't like Donald Trump is beyond me.

00:24:18.000 And again, all this talk about how Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, a threat to democracy.

00:24:22.000 The big question I have to all the threat to democracy folks is, please explain in detail the threat to democracy.

00:24:28.000 Like, in detail, what is the thing he is going to do that is going to threaten the democracy itself more than all the things I just mentioned that Kamala Harris is absolutely going to attempt if she achieves a triumvirate, and if she doesn't, by executive order as much as humanly possible?

00:24:42.000 Who abused executive power more, Donald Trump or Joe Biden?

00:24:47.000 The answer there is perfectly obvious.

00:24:48.000 Joe Biden used the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in order to try to cram down vaccines on 80 million Americans.

00:24:55.000 And only because people like us, we here at The Daily Wire, actually sued the Biden administration was that stopped.

00:25:01.000 Joe Biden has repeatedly attempted to defy the Supreme Court by simply alleviating student loan debt, by simply waiving it.

00:25:08.000 Joe Biden has used executive power in order to open up the southern border, and then he has attempted to sue states to prevent them from enforcing immigration law.

00:25:19.000 Joe Biden's abuse of executive power, his DOJ going after his presidential rival, his chief opponent, For jaywalking.

00:25:28.000 It's astonishing.

00:25:29.000 And yet we're supposed to believe that Donald Trump, because he said and did bad things between November and January of 2021, and then there was in fact a peaceful transition of power.

00:25:38.000 See, it's called the peaceful transition of power when the transition of power is supposed to happen on January 20th, and then it happens, and the army doesn't intervene, and there's no actual coup.

00:25:46.000 That's what a peaceful transition of power is.

00:25:48.000 Whether or not the former president shows up at the inauguration, or whether he's happy with it, or not.

00:25:54.000 So what is the going theory?

00:25:56.000 Is the going theory here that if Donald Trump were to be re-elected in 2024, that he would somehow attempt to stay in office in 2029?

00:26:03.000 Is that really the going theory?

00:26:04.000 That Donald Trump is going to run for a third term illegally in violation of the Constitution?

00:26:08.000 You have to be high on your own supply.

00:26:10.000 But all of this is just excuse-making for the fact that people don't like Trump, and excuse-making for the fact that Kamala Harris is actually underperforming.

00:26:18.000 It turns out that many of the doubts about Kamala Harris as a candidate, they were not all for naught.

00:26:23.000 They were not all nonsense.

00:26:25.000 A lot of people doubted her ability on the stump.

00:26:28.000 And she's been able to hold it together for, you know, six weeks here.

00:26:31.000 But she was able to hold it together for six weeks in 2019.

00:26:34.000 People forget that the first few weeks of her campaign were not a total disaster area.

00:26:38.000 It took a few weeks for the shine to wear off.

00:26:41.000 Well, now all of it is beginning to wear.

00:26:43.000 And it's wearing really, really thin.

00:26:45.000 Which, presumably, is why we are now activating Operation Russiagate 2.

00:26:50.000 Yes, yes.

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00:28:11.000 So, here's the thing.

00:28:12.000 Nefarious powers try to interfere in American elections.

00:28:15.000 That is just a reality.

00:28:16.000 China has repeatedly attempted to interfere in American elections.

00:28:18.000 We know that Iran is attempting to interfere in the American election. 0.60

00:28:22.000 So it's not a surprise that Russia will try to interfere in the American election.

00:28:27.000 The difference is that when China does it, it is not a national news story.

00:28:30.000 When Iran does it, it's pretty much buried. 0.95

00:28:32.000 When it's Russia, because the supposition is that the Russians support President Trump for the presidency because he is not a stalwart on Ukraine or something, despite the fact that, by the way, Donald Trump in practice was harsher on Russia than Joe Biden was prior to the invasion of Ukraine.

00:28:48.000 Despite all of that, the basic idea is that Russia is going to intervene in the election in such deep and nefarious ways that you will be deceived.

00:28:58.000 You will be deceived.

00:29:00.000 And again, this feels like them setting up the predicate for a crackdown on social media, for a crackdown on tech companies that allow free speech, for a crackdown on, say, X, or a crackdown on right-wing media.

00:29:11.000 Now, as we will see, there's some right-wing media have opened the door to that.

00:29:14.000 Which is really disgusting and terrible.

00:29:16.000 We'll get to that in a moment, but the Biden administration is going to play this to the hilt.

00:29:21.000 Yesterday, the Biden administration prepared to publicly accuse Russia of launching a sustained campaign to influence the 2024 presidential elections using Kremlin-controlled media and online platforms to spread disinformation, according to Mediaite.

00:29:34.000 That accusation was to be part of a broader set of actions expected to be announced on Wednesday, including law enforcement efforts aimed at curbing the alleged Russian operation.

00:29:41.000 Now, this only makes sense in the context of 2020, when you had the American defense and intelligence apparatus warning people like Mark Zuckerberg that they needed to shut down the Hunter Biden story because it might be Russian disinformation.

00:29:55.000 They're setting the groundwork for that right now.

00:29:57.000 If there are bad stories to break about Kamala Harris before the campaign, Ends, what you are going to see is the Biden administration claim that it's Russian disinformation again.

00:30:05.000 It is a convenient excuse to siphon off any sort of viewership of that information.

00:30:11.000 According to four sources who talked exclusively to CNN, Russian state media outlet RT is the central focus of the US response.

00:30:18.000 With officials viewing it as a key tool in the Kremlin's propaganda machine, with disinformation being funneled through both American and foreign voices.

00:30:25.000 And again, that would not be a particular shock.

00:30:27.000 RT obviously has a vested interest in particular points of view being elevated.

00:30:32.000 The question is, how much real impact is that going to have on the election?

00:30:35.000 Well, the reason the media are covering this updoisoo is because they are basically saying the only way Donald Trump can win is if the Russians somehow manipulate Americans into voting for him.

00:30:47.000 John Kirby, national security spokesperson, he says the Russians are now using AI to try and manipulate the election.

00:30:54.000 It's much more sophisticated than what we've seen out of the Russians in the recent past, certainly than what we saw in 2016.

00:30:59.000 Yes, they're using social media, but they're much more pervasive at it.

00:31:03.000 They're creating false persona, using artificial intelligence to help drive content and distribute content.

00:31:11.000 And they're much more resourced and organized.

00:31:13.000 Using RT, what was formerly just a propaganda organ for the Kremlin, now has turned into a full covert influence activity with full funding to do this kind of work by funneling resources and organizing editorial content in actual media outlets.

00:31:32.000 They're going to play this up and play this up and play this up.

00:31:34.000 Now, of course, they're going to ignore the things like, you know, Kathy Hochul's top aide, the governor of New York, her top aide being an actual Chinese spy.

00:31:40.000 They'll ignore that kind of stuff because it doesn't cut in their benefit.

00:31:43.000 They are going to play up Russiagate 2.0 as hard as they can.

00:31:47.000 Yesterday, the Attorney General Merrick Garland, he announced indictments and seizures of internet domains related to Russian interference in the election.

00:31:55.000 The Justice Department is seizing 32 internet domains that the Russian government and the Russian-sponsored actors have used to engage in a covert campaign to interfere and influence the outcome of our country's elections.

00:32:13.000 And meanwhile, NBC's Ryan Reilly, he reported that Russia, this is really the narrative they're pushing, Russia is going to be the deciding factor they are attempting to push Trump into office.

00:32:26.000 The way this indictment sort of lays out some of the documents that they laid out here, they of course redact the names of the actual parties that they're speaking to here.

00:32:35.000 So they're not saying explicitly that Russia is trying to help Republicans, but really that's what the documents allege here.

00:32:43.000 They say, you know, they say party B or party A. They don't identify Republican or Democrat, but if you just read the context of it, it's extremely easy to figure out what we're talking about here and what the U.S.

00:32:53.000 government The Justice Department is alleging that Russia was doing really to booster Donald Trump's efforts.

00:33:00.000 The reality is that Russia and its ability to interfere through disinformation in the American election is extremely, extremely limited.

00:33:08.000 In just one second, we'll get to the third part, which is what is actually happening?

00:33:11.000 What is Russia actually doing?

00:33:12.000 Because it's not as though Russia is doing nothing.

00:33:14.000 Russia is actually doing something.

00:33:15.000 And it says something nefarious about some parts of the right that Russia has been able to actually achieve that. 0.71

00:33:20.000 First, if you missed it in the headlines, Matt Walsh pulled off the troll of the century at the 2024 DNC.

00:33:25.000 It is absolutely hilarious.

00:33:27.000 Matt actually strolled through a sea of confused liberals handing out cards for Project2025.com.

00:33:32.000 But Project2025.com wasn't quite what they thought it was.

00:33:36.000 The highlight, Walsh actually got Don Lemon, yes you know Don Lemon, to promote Project2025.com on camera.

00:33:43.000 So you have to imagine Don's face when he realizes he just gave free publicity to Matt's new movie, Am I Racist?

00:33:48.000 The movie that's about to turn his whole worldview upside down.

00:33:50.000 Speaking of which, Am I Racist hits theaters in eight days, September 13th.

00:33:54.000 Head on over to amiracist.com for tickets and showtimes.

00:33:57.000 Okay, meanwhile.

00:33:59.000 Now, it's not as though there is nothing there in terms of Russia's interference in America's informational environment.

00:34:04.000 The big story of the day, on the right, was the fact that the DOJ has put out an indictment accusing a content company, a conservative content, pseudo-conservative content company, out of Tennessee, called Tenet Media, of taking a bunch of Russian money.

00:34:20.000 The indictment doesn't identify the company by name, but it is clearly Tenet Media.

00:34:27.000 The founders of Tenet Media are Lauren Chen and her husband, Lauren, who started off as sort of a mainstream conservative, has moved into some pretty fringy circles of late, hanging out with sort of the Nick Fuentes crowd of the world and mirroring a lot of those perverse worldviews.

00:34:41.000 But people who work for Tenet Media, which of course is a larger media company, include people like Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson, Tim Pool, Lauren Southern, Tyler Hansen, Matt Christensen.

00:34:51.000 Apparently, there are two Russian nationals named Konstantin Kalishnikov and Elena Afanasyeva, and they were charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering.

00:35:01.000 They were employed by RT, according to the indictment.

00:35:05.000 And apparently, the indictment alleges the defendants have deployed nearly $10 million laundered through a network of foreign shell entities to covertly fund and direct tenant media.

00:35:14.000 Comments from top DOJ and FBI officials sharply denounced the alleged criminal scheme as, quote, And this, again, is something that happens on the regular.

00:35:19.000 Americans into unwittingly consuming foreign propaganda and to illegally

00:35:23.000 manipulating American public opinion by sowing discord and division by co-opting

00:35:27.000 online commentators by funneling them nearly 10 million dollars to pump pro-Russia propaganda

00:35:31.000 and disinformation across social media to U.S. audiences.

00:35:34.000 And this again is something that happens on the regular. I mean TikTok is a Chinese-owned 0.99

00:35:37.000 app and they absolutely rigged the algorithms in terms of what sort of stuff you see and

00:35:42.000 what sort of stuff you don't.

00:35:44.000 So it's not a shock that Russia was doing this.

00:35:46.000 The bigger shock is that pretty obviously, according to the indictment, Lauren Chen took the cash.

00:35:54.000 And not only did she take the cash, it sounds like, it sounds like she then effectively lied to all of the people who were working for her company By never telling them that she was taking Russian cash.

00:36:06.000 So Tim Pool, again, one of the people who was not named in the indictment, but pretty obviously

00:36:11.000 referred to in the indictment, he said, should these allegations prove true, I, as well as the

00:36:14.000 other personalities and commentators, were deceived. I can't speak for anyone else at

00:36:18.000 the company as to what they do or what they are. Another statement was put out by Benny Johnson.

00:36:22.000 He said, a year ago, a media startup pitched my company to provide content as an independent contractor.

00:36:26.000 Our lawyers negotiated a standard arms length deal, which was later terminated.

00:36:29.000 We were disturbed by the allegations in today's indictment, which made clear that me and other influencers

00:36:34.000 were victims in this alleged scheme.

00:36:35.000 My lawyers will handle anyone who states or suggests otherwise.

00:36:38.000 So it appears that many of sort of these popular media commentators, including some with whom I'm friendly,

00:36:42.000 including some with whom I'm friendly, that they were not aware that money was being passed

00:36:43.000 that they were not aware that money was being passed from Russia to Loren Chen and company.

00:36:47.000 from Russia to Loren Chen and company.

00:36:49.000 Now there's great irony to Loren Chen taking foreign cash on all of this, because she has accused pretty much

00:36:50.000 Now there's great irony to Loren Chen taking foreign cash on all this

00:36:52.000 because she's accused pretty much everyone she disagrees with of being a foreign agent,

00:36:53.000 everyone she disagrees with of being a foreign agent, particularly anybody who's pro-Israel.

00:36:56.000 particularly anybody who's pro-Israel.

00:36:57.000 Anybody who's pro-Israel, Loren Chen suggests is on the payroll of the Israeli government

00:36:57.000 Anybody who's pro-Israel, Loren Chen suggests is on the payroll

00:37:00.000 of the Israeli government or is doing something deeply corrupt

00:37:03.000 because of Jewish money or because of AIPAC or AIPAC is a foreign front.

00:37:06.000 So while accusing everybody else of actually being in the pay of foreign parties,

00:37:09.000 it sounds like Loren allegedly was in the pay of foreign parties,

00:37:13.000 which does speak to something that is in fact somewhat perverse that has risen on the right.

00:37:18.000 And that is a generalized warmth toward Russia, toward Vladimir Putin.

00:37:25.000 This obviously has been, I think, a fringe of the right.

00:37:28.000 I do not think this is the mainstream of the right.

00:37:31.000 I think there are a lot of good reasons to doubt the American strategy with regard to Ukraine.

00:37:35.000 And since early on in the Ukraine war, I've been suggesting the sort of Henry Kissinger idea, which is you have to fund Ukraine sufficient to prevent them from being overrun by the Russians and then seek an off-ramp. 0.70

00:37:44.000 That seems to be the reasonable solution that everybody has come to except for the Biden administration.

00:37:49.000 With that said, the warmth toward Vladimir Putin that has been evidenced by people like, say, Warren Chen, is bizarre in the extreme.

00:37:58.000 It is bizarre in the extreme.

00:38:00.000 Vladimir Putin is not a friend to the United States.

00:38:02.000 He does not share priorities with the United States, pretty obviously.

00:38:06.000 Again, that's not a geopolitical argument about what exactly your position should be with regard to American involvement in the war in Ukraine.

00:38:12.000 It is a simple fact. 1.00

00:38:13.000 Vladimir Putin is a murderer. 1.00

00:38:15.000 Vladimir Putin is a tyrant. 1.00

00:38:16.000 Vladimir Putin is a dictator. 0.99

00:38:18.000 And he does not have America's best interests at heart or anything like overlapping interests with the United States.

00:38:22.000 The fact that he has found fertile ground with a particular wing Of the right in the United States says something pretty negative about that segment of the right in the United States.

00:38:32.000 And so that's the underlying message.

00:38:33.000 But the generalized attempt by the Biden administration or by a media that is very, very hot on this story to suggest that Russian interference is going to decide the election or that a huge base of Trump support is coming from Russian election interference.

00:38:46.000 That's absolute nonsense. 0.99

00:38:47.000 That's trash. 0.99

00:38:49.000 Even the amount of money they're talking about here, $10 million being spent on YouTube videos, presumably, being put out or promoted by tenant media, that ain't gonna do it. 0.98

00:38:58.000 It really is not.

00:38:59.000 In the same way that in 2016, it was not going to make a huge difference that there were a bunch of pretty badly put together Facebook pages that were telling grandma that voting day was the wrong day or something.

00:39:10.000 The reality is that the opposition to Kamala Harris is driven by the fact that Joe Biden's an unpopular president and she's a terrible candidate.

00:39:16.000 Support for President Trump is the same as it ever was.

00:39:18.000 It is driven by personal like for Trump.

00:39:20.000 And also a reality for people like me, which is that his first presidency had a lot of really good policy attached to it.

00:39:27.000 Speaking of which...

00:39:29.000 Kamala Harris, if she loses, a lot of that is going to be because of Joe Biden's policies. 0.99

00:39:32.000 The biggest problem she has is that it is very difficult for her to disconnect from Joe Biden's policies.

00:39:37.000 This is a point made, amazingly enough, by CNN's Erin Burnett.

00:39:39.000 Here she was saying, you know, she keeps trying to shift her policies, but she is the vice president of the United States. 0.97

00:39:46.000 People want change.

00:39:48.000 And obviously, I understand the change that Kamala Harris in so many ways just embodies by her existence, right, and who she is. 0.52

00:39:54.000 But on policy, you know, she's been the Vice President for three and a half years.

00:39:59.000 How do you make a change argument there?

00:40:00.000 Or does it even matter?

00:40:01.000 I mean, today we were highlighting, you know, that she was going to raise capital gains taxes by slightly less than Joe Biden was going to raise capital gains taxes, as if that was some sort of a massive break in tax policy, right?

00:40:13.000 I mean, good for Erin Burnett for pointing out the obvious here.

00:40:16.000 And that is true.

00:40:17.000 Kamala Harris is now saying that she's going to be the candidate who raises capital gains taxes, but slightly less than Joe Biden.

00:40:23.000 Is that going to do it?

00:40:24.000 Is that going to do it?

00:40:24.000 Or is she still the candidate of higher taxes?

00:40:27.000 Everyone knows she's the candidate of higher taxes. 1.00

00:40:29.000 Everyone also understands she's doing that in the middle of a slowing economy.

00:40:32.000 According to Axios, the labor market is cooling rapidly, increasing the odds of an aggressive interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve in just two weeks.

00:40:39.000 New data out Wednesday morning bolstered that case.

00:40:42.000 Employers slashed the number of job openings in July and fired more workers, according to the Job Opening and Labor Turnover Survey data from the Labor Department.

00:40:49.000 The number of job openings fell by 237,000 in July.

00:40:52.000 That brings the number of openings as a share of total employment down to 4.6% from 4.8%, that is the lowest rate since December 2020.

00:41:00.000 That means that fewer open jobs, more people getting fired, so a seriously slowing labor market at this point.

00:41:06.000 Presumably, it's going to be used again as the launching off point for the Federal Reserve lowering the interest rates again.

00:41:11.000 But, you know, if they do that, they do run the risk of reinflating the currency, given the fact that we are not, in fact, at the 2% rate that everyone seeks year on year in terms of the inflation rate.

00:41:25.000 So Kamala Harris, looking at raising taxes and regulations in the middle of a not particularly good economy. 1.00

00:41:31.000 She's reversing herself on every position, but it's very hard for her to do that. 0.98

00:41:34.000 I mean, none of it washes. 0.92

00:41:36.000 Kamala Harris, changing all of her positions, changing all of her policies. 0.96

00:41:39.000 She will make a terrible president, but let me tell you about a great president. 1.00

00:41:42.000 And actually about a movie about a great president that you need to see in theaters this week.

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00:41:47.000 Trust me, the film will make you laugh, cry, it will give an unprecedented look into the life and presidency of one of America's greatest leaders, Dennis Quaid.

00:41:55.000 He turns in like an all-time awesome performance as President Ronald Reagan from basically the time he's 40 till the time that he leaves the presidency.

00:42:02.000 The charm, wit, steely resolve of the Cold Warrior, it's all in there.

00:42:05.000 Penelope Ann Miller is fantastic as Nancy Reagan.

00:42:08.000 Their love story is beautifully portrayed, reminding everybody of a time when dignity and class actually resided in the White House.

00:42:13.000 It's been a while.

00:42:14.000 Here's what really struck me about the film.

00:42:16.000 The eerie parallels to what's going on right now.

00:42:18.000 Inflation spiraling out of control, skyrocketing gas prices, Russian aggression, and more.

00:42:22.000 It's basically the 1980s, they called, and their foreign policy is here again.

00:42:26.000 Seeing how Reagan navigated those challenges and led America to triumph is not just entertaining, it is inspiring.

00:42:31.000 At a time when our country needs strong leadership and inspiration, this movie serves as a poignant reminder of what presidential material looks like.

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00:42:51.000 So yesterday, Kamala Harris put out an ad in which she is literally walking next to Donald Trump's border wall.

00:42:56.000 Remember, she called that thing a medieval contraption. 0.99

00:42:59.000 A medieval-era contraption.

00:43:01.000 Here she was, now putting out an ad, walking next to Donald Trump's border wall.

00:43:08.000 Kamala Harris has spent decades fighting violent crime. 1.00

00:43:12.000 As a border state prosecutor, she took on drug cartels and jailed gang members for smuggling weapons and drugs across the border.

00:43:20.000 As vice president, she backed the toughest border control bill in decades.

00:43:25.000 And as president, she will hire thousands more border agents and crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking. 0.93

00:43:31.000 Fixing the border is tough.

00:43:33.000 So is Kamala Harris.

00:43:36.000 I'm Kamala Harris and I approve this message.

00:43:39.000 Welcome to the Republican Party, Kamala.

00:43:41.000 I mean, it's just absurd.

00:43:41.000 It's an absurdity, and everybody knows it's an absurdity, particularly because the stats demonstrate that it's an absurdity.

00:43:46.000 The Wall Street Journal has an entire piece out today titled, How Immigration Remade the U.S.

00:43:51.000 Labor Force.

00:43:52.000 And what it shows is the insane level of net immigration into the United States.

00:43:57.000 Look at the spike between 2021 and 2024.

00:44:00.000 You're talking about net immigration into the United States in the year 2023 exceeded 3 million.

00:44:08.000 Probably almost three and a half million.

00:44:10.000 Since the start of 2021, net immigration to the United States has totaled roughly 9.3 million people.

00:44:16.000 That's three times the net number of people that entered the country over the prior four years.

00:44:21.000 The vast bulk of those people are illegal immigrants.

00:44:23.000 Vast bulk.

00:44:25.000 They try to make this about, you know, generalized immigration, but the truth is that lawful permanent resident numbers, green card holders, have actually been fairly stagnant since the George W. Bush era.

00:44:37.000 That really has not changed in terms of numbers.

00:44:39.000 In fact, it's a little lower under Joe Biden than it was under Barack Obama.

00:44:42.000 Donald Trump lowered it, and then Joe Biden kept it at fairly low levels.

00:44:47.000 When you look at the non-immigrant group, which are temporary workers and student visitors and officials of foreign governments, that non-immigrant group is actually quite small.

00:44:58.000 Very, very small.

00:44:59.000 Because a lot of people left the United States, there were changes in status and all the rest.

00:45:02.000 The place where it absolutely exploded is illegal immigration.

00:45:05.000 The illegal immigration numbers are insane under Joe Biden and everybody knows it.

00:45:10.000 This is not a giant secret.

00:45:12.000 Joe Biden's illegal immigration numbers dwarf the combined entirety of the last three administrations.

00:45:20.000 And yet, we're somehow supposed to believe that she's tough on the border and she's going to walk alongside that border wall?

00:45:25.000 By the way, she's not even good at walking back her own positions. 1.00

00:45:28.000 So apparently, according to Axios, Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign won't say whether she supports requiring automakers to build only electric or hydrogen vehicles by 2035.

00:45:36.000 That was a position she took during her 2020 campaign for president. 0.83

00:45:40.000 Harris's campaign has been trying to walk that back, right?

00:45:44.000 Get rid of the EV mandate.

00:45:46.000 Well, the problem is Axios asked Harris to clarify her position because she said, I am no longer in favor of an EV mandate.

00:45:52.000 So Axios asked a pretty obvious question.

00:45:54.000 OK, let's say you have a Democratic Senate and they pass it.

00:45:55.000 You going to veto it if you're president of the United States?

00:45:59.000 On Tuesday afternoon, Harris's campaign ultimately declined to comment.

00:46:03.000 So she keeps saying that she switched her position, but the real question is going to be, if they simply pass the stuff she wanted in 2019-2020, is she going to veto any of it?

00:46:12.000 Who believes she's going to veto any of it?

00:46:14.000 You'd have to be insane to believe she's going to veto any of it, because she's not going to veto any of it.

00:46:19.000 And again, if she becomes the president and she has a Democratic Senate and a Democratic House, she's going to change the Supreme Court. 1.00

00:46:24.000 In fact, even current members of the Supreme Court—remember, we're only supposed to worry about the politicization of the Supreme Court by the so-called right-wingers on the court—Katanji Brown-Jackson was on The View yesterday, and she literally suggested openly that democracy means that we need to change the Supreme Court.

00:46:39.000 I guess I think about all of this as democracy at work, public engagement, these ideas of reforms are the kinds of things that have been around since the beginning of our republic.

00:46:52.000 In the book, I mention Alexander Hamilton and debating with the anti-federalists over term limits for the Supreme Court.

00:47:01.000 So this is something that has been around for a long time.

00:47:05.000 As a justice, we try not to participate in those debates.

00:47:09.000 You know, it's very interesting to note that this is what democracy calls for.

00:47:16.000 Democracy calls for changes to the Supreme Court.

00:47:18.000 Remember, Liz Cheney, it is only Donald Trump who's a threat to the institutions of the United States.

00:47:22.000 Coming up, there was a major school shooting at a Georgia high school.

00:47:26.000 And of course, this means calls for gun control.

00:47:28.000 There's only one problem, as always.

00:47:29.000 We'll get to that momentarily.

00:47:30.000 If you're not a member, become a member.

00:47:32.000 Use code SHAPIRA at checkout for two months free on all annual plans.

00:47:34.000 Click that link in the description and join us. 0.95

00:47:37.000 Republicans or Nazis, you cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people. 0.91

00:47:42.000 Growing up, I never thought much about race. 0.95

00:47:43.000 It never really seemed to matter that much, at least not to me.

00:47:46.000 Am I racist?

00:47:47.000 I would really appreciate it if you left.

00:47:49.000 I'm trying to learn.

00:47:49.000 I'm on this journey.

00:47:51.000 I'm gonna sort this out.

00:47:52.000 I need to go deeper undercover.

00:47:56.000 Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert.

00:48:00.000 Here's my certification.

00:48:01.000 What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness. 0.71

00:48:03.000 There's more for you in this field.

00:48:05.000 Is America inherently racist?

00:48:06.000 The word inherent is challenging there.

00:48:08.000 You want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument?

00:48:11.000 America is racist to its bones.

00:48:13.000 So inherently? 0.98

00:48:14.000 Yes. 1.00

00:48:14.000 This country is a piece of shit. 1.00

00:48:17.000 White. 1.00

00:48:18.000 Folks.

00:48:18.000 White.

00:48:18.000 Trash.

00:48:19.000 White supremacy. 1.00

00:48:19.000 White woman. 1.00

00:48:20.000 White boy.

00:48:21.000 Is there a black person around here?

00:48:22.000 There's a black person right here.

00:48:23.000 Does he not exist?

00:48:24.000 Hi, Robin.

00:48:26.000 Hi.

00:48:27.000 What's your name?

00:48:28.000 I'm Matt.

00:48:28.000 I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.

The Ben Shapiro Show - September 05, 2024

Russiagate II: Kamala’s Revenge

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