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00:01:31.000Alrighty, so yesterday, rocketing around the internet was a video from a Walgreens in San Francisco.
00:01:38.000And for folks who have visited any of our major cities over the course of the last few years, there's a pretty obvious uptick in property crime.
00:01:45.000Not just an obvious uptick in property crime, a complete downturn in quality of life.
00:01:49.000There's a reason that people have been fleeing big cities in favor of more outlying red areas or blue cities in red states.
00:01:56.000Okay, San Francisco has been turned from a gem, a very clean and safe city, into something really quite awful.
00:02:03.000Over the past few years, you've seen reports of feces, human feces, on nearly every corner, open needles on nearly every corner.
00:02:53.000Except that when we see film of people actually engaging in crime, it generally is not people stealing the necessities of life just to get by.
00:03:02.000More often it looks like something like this.
00:03:06.000You're about to see a young black man.
00:03:09.000I point out his race here only because, as we will see, San Francisco has decided that they do not wish people to know the race of the people who are engaging in crime because they want to avoid quote-unquote stereotyping.
00:03:19.000This ties into the whole Black Lives Matter argument that if there is disproportionate arrest of particular people, That is not because disproportionate crime is being committed by particular people.
00:03:29.000It is because of racism inside the system.
00:03:32.000In any case, it's a young black man who is at a Walgreens and he is just literally shoveling stuff.
00:03:39.000He looks like he is in the soap and pharmacy aisle.
00:03:42.000He's literally just shoveling stuff into a garbage bag.
00:04:27.000And crime is generally not... The attempt by the left to suggest that poverty is the great driver of crime ignores the fact that there are impoverished places on earth where people do not engage in crime at nearly the levels that people are engaging in crime, property crime, in San Francisco, for example.
00:04:43.000There are impoverished areas of the United States where people are not engaging in this sort of crime at the same sort of levels.
00:04:49.000Crime tends to be a problem of people who are committing immoral acts, especially in a prosperous country like the United States with a robust social safety net.
00:05:00.000To kind of thrust this off as this is just the downside of the American system, it's just the downside of the American system, of capitalism, of our white supremacist system, is ridiculous on its face.
00:05:13.000Hey, here's how bad the problem has become in San Francisco.
00:05:16.000Again, one of the most left-leaning cities in all of America.
00:05:20.000It's become so bad that 17 Walgreens, and this happened at a Walgreens, 17 separate Walgreens have closed in San Francisco thanks to the shoplifting problem.
00:05:29.000In late May, a guy named Thomas Fuller wrote in the New York Times, quote, at a board of supervisors hearing last week, representatives from Walgreens said that thefts at its stores in San Francisco were four times the chains at national average, and that it had closed 17 stores, largely because the scale of theft had made business untenable.
00:05:46.000So the narrative that you hear from the left, of course, is this is all systemic racism, and that's the reason for the crime.
00:05:51.000And then you see stores like Walgreens, and they're not being built in high-crime, low-income areas.
00:06:07.000And if you wish to make life better for everybody in a community, you have to stop the crime at its source.
00:06:12.000Unfortunately, San Francisco and blue cities like it are not interested in stopping crime at its source.
00:06:16.000They are more interested in blaming America writ large for their own unwillingness to stop the crime that is happening within their borders.
00:06:23.000Employees at Walgreens apparently have been told by the leadership of Walgreens to stand aside while shoplifting takes place.
00:06:29.000Like you're wondering when you watch that video, why isn't that security guard doing something to stop that guy?
00:06:34.000It turns out his job is basically to supervise the shoplifting because Walgreens have been told, Walgreens employees have been told by their supervisors to stand aside because security officers have been assaulted repeatedly inside Walgreens.
00:06:46.000Now the reason for all of this, particularly with regard to shoplifting, is because of a 2014 California ballot measure.
00:06:52.000That ballot measure reclassified nonviolent theft as a misdemeanor so long as the thief took less than $950 worth of material.
00:06:59.000So you just hit up several Walgreens in a row and you take less than $950 worth of material and you're fine.
00:07:03.000Even if you get arrested, you'll get off with a slap on the wrist.
00:07:05.000You'll go right back out on the street.
00:07:08.000Thieves quickly hit on the strategy, hit up a bunch of different stores for less than $950 worth of stuff.
00:07:13.000Then, last year, amid the Black Lives Matter protests suggesting again that all crime in the United States was truly due to systemic American racism and that the police were the real problem, amid that ridiculous Notion.
00:07:26.000The city of San Francisco decided to double down on its soft-on-crime policies.
00:07:30.000Mayor London Breed announced that booking photos would no longer be released, lest the prevalence of black and brown faces among the booking photos lead to stereotypical reactions inside stores.
00:07:39.000It shouldn't want to lead to racial profiling, so instead what we will do is we'll just obscure who exactly is committing the crime.
00:07:44.000That way, if a disproportionate number of black and brown people are arrested, because a disproportionate number of black and brown people actually happen to be committing these sorts of shoplifting crimes in San Francisco, that must mean that the police are racist.
00:07:55.000And you'll never know any different because we've never seen the booking photos in the first place.
00:07:59.000Also, London Breed announced a $120 million cut to the police and sheriff's department over the next two years in the interest of, quote, prioritizing investments in the African-American community.
00:08:08.000In the first six months of 2020 alone, 23 officers resigned from the force.
00:08:12.000Naturally, property crime has skyrocketed, and it's not just shoplifting.
00:08:15.000Burglaries increased nearly 50% year on year in 2020 in San Francisco.
00:08:19.000Car theft jumped 34% in San Francisco.
00:08:24.000Meanwhile, of course, San Francisco has been in a state of slow motion decline for the past several years.
00:08:31.000The streets are littered with garbage.
00:08:34.000In 2018, there was a survey of 153 blocks in downtown San Francisco.
00:08:38.000It showed trash, like open trash out on every single block, 41 blocks, quote, dotted with needles, and 96 blocks of the 153 blocks, 96 with open human feces.
00:08:49.000And again, this sort of stuff is not rare in major cities around the United States.
00:08:53.000As I mentioned, Los Angeles, the quality of life has become truly awful.
00:08:58.000The slogan for For the Herbert Hoover campaign in 1932 is a chicken in every pot.
00:09:04.000The slogan in Los Angeles is a homeless person on every bench.
00:09:07.000And presumably on your driveway as well.
00:09:09.000And again, that is not compassion toward the homeless.
00:09:12.000Treating severely mentally ill people and drug addicts as though they have a right to sleep on the street and use open needles in front of your children is not compassion to either the children or to the homeless people.
00:09:23.000San Francisco, by the way, is now facing its worst drug epidemic ever, according to Amy Graff of the San Francisco Chronicle.
00:09:30.000She says, a physician, two nurses, a professional athlete, a drug dealer, and a lawyer who had nodded off in court.
00:09:35.000Teenagers, specifically a 14 and a 15-year-old, and a 7-year-old who got into a stash in her mother's purse.
00:09:40.000These are some of the types of people Dr. Christopher Caldwell, the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, has recently seen in the emergency room for medical issues related to fentanyl use and overdoses.
00:09:49.000A 7-year-old who got into a stash in her mother's purse.
00:09:54.000But apparently it's all about white supremacy, gang.
00:09:55.000Caldwell said, that's just in the last couple of weeks.
00:09:58.000It's really remarkable because it runs the entire spectrum.
00:10:00.000This affects all walks of life, all folks.
00:10:02.000It's hard to overstate how impactful it can be to anyone.
00:10:04.000It doesn't seem to care about race or background or gender or anything.
00:10:07.000Caldwell said on average, about 10 to 15 people who have taken fentanyl are treated in the San Francisco General Emergency Room a day, sometimes more.
00:10:16.000And that's at just one hospital in the city.
00:10:18.000So San Francisco, which is famous for being a drug haven, has been for decades, is now experiencing its worst drug upsurge ever, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
00:10:29.000Meanwhile, in New York, Massive outbreaks on subway cars of filth and feces, apparently, is according to Fox New York.
00:10:37.000As people return to the subway system in New York City, they're finding more trash and filth, according to a new report.
00:10:41.000There's been a rise in soiled train cars this year, according to the Daily News, including cases of feces, vomit, and blood.
00:11:18.000The governor said there needed to be more NYPD officers in the subway system.
00:11:22.000All of which is why, according to a new study from the North American Moving Services, the top outbound states for people who are leaving states in America.
00:11:29.000Illinois, New York, California, New Jersey, and Maryland.
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00:13:07.000Okay, so, all of this is tied to ideology.
00:13:11.000It's tied to ideology in a couple of ways.
00:13:13.000Number one, it's tied to ideology because the left has decided that crime is to be overlooked, and that if there is a major uptick in crime, particularly in minority communities, that has to do with America's system of white supremacy.
00:13:24.000It has to do with America's deep-seated cultural racism.
00:13:28.000That in the end, you can always remove one level and then blame America writ large.
00:13:32.000So if you say, okay, well, you know, I've noticed that a disproportionate number of people in minority communities are engaging in crime.
00:13:38.000I'll say, right, because of historic American racism.
00:13:40.000And you say, yes, but those people like right now, they are committing crimes in the moment, not because of historic American racism.
00:13:45.000Somebody made the decision to go to that Walgreens and fill a garbage bag with stuff and then just take off.
00:13:49.000And they'll say, right, because of systemic injustices.
00:13:55.000Atheists are constantly accusing religious believers of using the quote-unquote God-of-the-gaps argument.
00:13:59.000The God-of-the-gaps argument is, I can't have any explanation for this, you don't have any explanation for this thing happening in the universe, this phenomenon, therefore God.
00:14:08.000We don't understand how the universe was created, therefore God.
00:14:11.000And atheists say, well that's not a good argument, because obviously at some point that gap could be filled.
00:14:15.000We could gain further knowledge, and just because there's a gap, that doesn't mean that God fills the gap.
00:14:19.000It's a fairly good argument by the atheist.
00:14:22.000The left uses the exact same God-of-the-gaps argument when it comes to systemic American racism.
00:14:27.000If there is an imbalance in the crime rates between communities, instead of looking to why people are actually committing crimes, or looking to the ideology of people who are committing crimes, or looking to the ideology of the people who govern the cities where the crimes are being committed, instead, they just go systemic American racism, they wave their hands, and that's the big problem in American life.
00:14:45.000Well, the reality is, if you want to stop crime, if you want to make quality of life better, you need a zero-tolerance policy with regard to crime.
00:14:52.000You need to say, it doesn't matter what you think the legacy of hundreds of years of slavery was, you don't get to go to the Walgreens and knock it over.
00:15:03.000Nor does it make your community better.
00:15:06.000Beyond that, an ideology that suggests that there's an excuse for crime based on systemic American racism is an ideology that promotes crime and that promotes degradation and quality of life.
00:15:19.000And you can see how this works, right?
00:15:22.000Folks on the left will suggest all the time that it's right-wing ideology that drives right-wing extremism, which drives violence.
00:15:29.000And then they can't actually connect the dots.
00:15:31.000Because what is the connection between, I want smaller government and individual liberty, and a white supremacist goes and shoots up a synagogue?
00:16:21.000It's why last year, all of last year, we saw people making excuses for people doing two billion dollars in property damage.
00:16:27.000Based on the myth that police officers are disproportionately attempting to kill black people and that there is a quote-unquote genocide against black Americans.
00:16:35.000You remember that just last year, my friend Ami Horowitz, he went over to Minneapolis and he asked many of the protesters about destroying businesses because the media, particularly white members of the media, kept saying, well, you know, there's a huge difference between the protesters and the rioters and the looters, right?
00:16:52.000They have completely different ideologies.
00:16:53.000Okay, and that was true for a lot of people.
00:16:55.000A lot of the protesters who are out there, Black Lives Matter protesters, they weren't interested in the looting or the rioting.
00:16:59.000They just were protesting in favor of, quote-unquote, police reform.
00:17:02.000Now, they seem to have a pretty vague idea of what that constituted, but there was some separation.
00:17:06.000But it is certainly true that the rioters and looters believed the same things as the BLM advocates.
00:17:13.000And many of the BLM advocates were making active excuses for rioting and looting, including the current vice president of the United States, who is offering bail funds for people who are engaged in property crime.
00:17:24.000I mean, you saw people like Nikole Hannah-Jones bragging openly online that her 1619 Project ideology was connected to the riots that were happening in cities across the United States.
00:17:33.000She wasn't trying to hide the ball there.
00:17:36.000So, as we will see, the left has been attempting to connect, quote-unquote, conservative right-wing ideology to violence for a long time.
00:17:44.000But the more obvious tie between crime and violence and ideology exists on the left.
00:17:49.000And it is affecting cities to the extent that thousands of people are leaving these left-wing governed cities in favor of safer, better places to live.
00:17:58.000And it's because there are, yes, a lot of criminals out there who believe that they are fully morally justified in doing what they are doing.
00:18:04.000One amazing thing about human beings, very few human beings believe they're the villain of their own story.
00:18:09.000Now, the truth is that most human beings are kind of the villain of their own story.
00:18:13.000Most of the mistakes that I make in my life are my own mistakes, right?
00:18:20.000But most people have very little capacity to see that when they do something wrong, they're actually doing something wrong.
00:18:26.000Very few people own their own acts of evil.
00:18:29.000Instead, most people blame it on somebody else.
00:18:31.000And they see their act of evil as acts of heroism.
00:18:34.000And so if you're going to burn down a business, you see that as an act of resistance against a powerful hierarchy.
00:18:39.000So, as I mentioned, my friend Ami Horowitz went to Minneapolis and he asked some of the protesters what they thought of the riots and the looting.
00:19:18.000And the left has been making excuses for this sort of idea for a very long time.
00:19:23.000Again, the LA riots, when LA uprising, the violence and looting that we saw last summer was completely not worthy of note because after all, it was just a sort of reparative justice, a restorative justice.
00:19:36.000This ideology is damaging to not just thousands, millions of Americans.
00:20:01.000Hey, the reason for that is, again, when you make excuses for this, and when you suggest that all the problems of American society can be attributed to the society writ large and white supremacy broadly, and you make excuses for this stuff, you get an uptick in this.
00:20:13.000You get a real surge in the destruction of quality of living in America's major cities.
00:20:20.000You know, the reason that I bring this up is not just because of this Walgreens video.
00:20:23.000It's also because what you have seen from the Biden administration is a tremendous focus these days on quote-unquote white supremacy.
00:20:30.000So yesterday, the Biden domestic terror plan suggested that they were going to focus on militia extremists and white supremacy and would include anti-radicalization training for retiring military.
00:20:41.000Now, listen, there are white supremacists out there who do commit terrorist acts.
00:20:46.000Now, statistically, they are quite rare.
00:20:48.000According to the Anti-Defamation League, in the year 2020, there were a grand total of 16 murders committed by white supremacists in the United States.
00:20:55.000Now, every one of those murders is terrible and horrible.
00:20:57.000This is a country of 330 million people.
00:20:59.000And I'm not a person who's downplaying white supremacist terror, considering that the FBI has arrested people who are white supremacist terrorists threatening my family.
00:21:08.000I was not very far away from the Poway shooting of the Chabad just a few years ago.
00:21:13.000I mean, they're like, they're members of the Jewish community who've been targeted by white supremacist terror.
00:21:17.000So I'm not downplaying the threat of white supremacist terror.
00:21:20.000But if we are talking about ideologies that are truly threatening to the American way of life, if we're talking about ideologies that are deeply connected to endemic violence in American society, there are like 11 white supremacists in the United States, true white supremacists in the United States.
00:21:35.000Meanwhile, you have an ideology that says that all of American life is racist, and therefore crime is okay.
00:21:39.000And that is held by one of the major parties in the United States, and it governs major cities across the United States, and it has real-life ramifications, not just for non-minority members of the United States population, but for all law-abiding Americans who have to live in these cities and experience the crime waves, and watch as the institutions that have facilitated the greatest upswing in prosperity and freedom in history Are undermined.
00:22:00.000You want to talk about dangerous ideologies that actually have an impact on American life?
00:22:04.000White supremacy is a super dangerous ideology that has very little impact on American life.
00:22:09.000The ideology of the hardcore left is a super dangerous ideology that has a massive impact on American life.
00:22:16.000And yet one of these things is being played up and one of these things is being radically ignored.
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00:23:31.000All right, so the Joe Biden domestic terror plan is now focused like a laser on white supremacy.
00:23:37.000Joe Biden said in a press conference, quote, the National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism lays out a comprehensive approach to addressing the threat while safeguarding bedrock American civil rights and civil liberties, values that make us who we are as a nation.
00:23:48.000We cannot ignore this threat or wish it away.
00:23:50.000The outlet noted that the National Security Council has now defined domestic terrorism as, quote, activities that involve dangerous acts to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any state, appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion.
00:24:08.000Or to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping.
00:24:11.000And occur primarily within the jurisdiction of the United States.
00:24:15.000Domestic terrorism is both persistent and evolving and requires an overarching approach.
00:24:21.000All of this is worth targeting, right?
00:24:23.000I mean, anybody who's trying to engage in violence on behalf of a political ideology ought to be targeted by this.
00:24:29.000But you'll notice that the focus has honed in specifically on white supremacy.
00:24:33.000Now, again, this doesn't mean that there is no threat from white supremacist terrorists.
00:24:37.000It means that if we're going to focus on the threats to everyday Americans coming from people who are fomenting violence on behalf of a political ideology, and we're going to rank those threats, white supremacist terrorism is not at the top of the list.
00:24:51.000All these threats, we can walk and chew gum at the same time, but I've noticed that we are not walking and chewing gum at the same time.
00:24:56.000We are chewing gum and not walking at all.
00:24:59.000Although domestic terrorism can focus on a wide range of ideas, racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists and militia violent extremists are assessed as presenting the most persistent and lethal threats, the NSC said, adding many domestic terrorists unite around anger with, quote, the same segment or segments of the American community, including persons of color, immigrants, Jews, Muslims, other religious minorities, women and girls, LGBTQI plus individuals or others.
00:25:23.000The NSC does include anarchist violence extremists who violently oppose all forms of capitalism within its pantheon of potential domestic terrorists to address.
00:25:30.000But apparently they are focused really strongly on the white supremacist terror threat.
00:25:36.000Now, again, if we were just sort of looking at terror threats generally, and then assessing each terror threat, and then fighting all terror threats, that'd be one thing.
00:25:43.000Because again, terrorism, unlike just regular everyday crime, is deeply intertwined with ideology.
00:25:49.000But as I am saying, there's one ideology that the left wishes to ignore when it is tied to violence.
00:25:58.000Merrick Garland, who's the new Attorney General, yesterday was testifying, and he said that the top domestic violence extremist threat comes from white supremacists, which is kind of an amazing statement, given the fact that we've seen an uptick in murder across the nation, numbering thousands of murders across the nation over the course of the last year, connected to a deeper root belief in the systemic nature of American racism.
00:26:20.000We have seen $2 billion of damage done last year alone in the vast spate of rioting connected to ideology.
00:26:26.000These were outgrowths of the actual protests.
00:26:29.000And yet apparently the only threat that is worth talking about is the white supremacist terror threat.
00:26:34.000Again, you don't have to downplay one to talk up the other.
00:26:55.000According to an unclassified summary of the March Intelligence Assessment, the two most lethal elements of the domestic violent extremist threat are racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists and militia violent extremists.
00:27:09.000In the FBI's view, the top domestic violent extremist threat comes from racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists, specifically those who advocated for the superiority of the white race.
00:27:24.000Okay, so that is the greatest domestic violence threat in America.
00:27:27.000Not just terrorist threat, domestic violence threat in America.
00:27:37.000The greatest domestic violence threat that is tied to ideology in America is not coming from white supremacists.
00:27:41.000It's coming from people who believe that there's an excuse for violence across the nation rooted in America's history of racism.
00:27:48.000It is the group of people in governance, in the halls of power, And yes, on the ground, committing acts of violence right now, committing crimes, who blame that on American racism and suggest that the violence is justified because, you know what, America sort of deserves it.
00:28:03.000And again, it's amazing how people on the left will actively downplay this threat because it is so closely tied to some of the things that they promote.
00:28:11.000So Merrick Garland says, don't worry guys, we're not focused on ideology.
00:28:14.000This is not an attempt to crack down on ideology.
00:28:16.000We're just focused on violence purely and specifically.
00:28:20.000We are focused on violence, not on ideology.
00:28:25.000In America, espousing a hateful ideology is not unlawful.
00:28:30.000We do not investigate individuals for their First Amendment-protected activities.
00:28:37.000We do not prosecute people for their beliefs.
00:28:41.000Across the world, extremist or terrorist labels have at times been affixed to those perceived as political threats to the ruling order.
00:28:52.000But there is no place for partisanship in the enforcement of the law.
00:28:59.000Okay, so he's saying at least we're going to preserve free speech in all of this, right?
00:29:35.000That does not mean that they don't have rights.
00:29:37.000But again, there is a political motivation to ignoring one problem here that is much larger than the other problem in terms of size and scope and depth of effect on everyday American life.
00:29:50.000And again, I just keep pointing this out.
00:29:52.000The disparity in what the left is willing to acknowledge about ideologies that are closely tied with its own and their connection to violence and what they're willing to focus on is pretty astonishing.
00:30:07.000Andrew McCabe, of course, was one of the, he was the former FBI agent who was tied into the Russia investigation and he engaged in ridiculous acts that ended up basically, I believe, losing him his pension.
00:30:20.000Anyway, Andrew McCabe was on CNN yesterday talking about this.
00:30:23.000And he said, well, you know, we still don't know what motivated the congressional baseball shooting.
00:30:29.000He brought the other side of the equation into it by referring to the shooting of the congressional baseball practice.
00:30:37.000And he did it very carefully by saying a shooting by someone only who committed the shooting only after he confirmed that the players were Republican.
00:30:46.000So I think that reflects the fact that the FBI still doesn't exactly know what that shooter was up to.
00:30:53.000They never really uncovered the sort of detailed evidence that laid out a specific plot or an objective.
00:30:59.000But it is undeniable that he was targeting Republicans.
00:31:02.000Okay, again, Andy McCabe suggesting there that the FBI still doesn't know what exactly motivated this.
00:31:18.000But the temptation by folks on the left to downplay violence, so long as it is linked with their side, continues to astonish and dismay because that does have some really negative impact.
00:31:29.000I got an email the other day from a member of our military.
00:31:33.000So the military right now is undergoing all sorts of violent extremist training, violent extremist threat training.
00:31:40.000So that means that they're sat down and they're put through PowerPoint presentations about the evils of white supremacy and be on the lookout for people who are being recruited into white supremacist groups.
00:31:50.000And this member of the military raised his hand and he asked the training commanding officer, he asked him, okay, what about BLM and Antifa?
00:31:57.000And the training commanding officer said, no, those are not extremist groups.
00:32:06.000All righty, coming up, we're gonna get into Joe Biden facing off with Vladimir Putin.
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00:33:25.000Alrighty, in just a second we'll get to Joe Biden facing off with Vladimir Putin first.
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00:34:54.000All righty, meanwhile, Joe Biden is meeting with Vladimir Putin today, and it is going exactly as you would have thought.
00:36:06.000Then Kate Bedingfield, the White House comms director, had to walk it back.
00:36:11.000She says it was a chaotic scrum with reporters shouting over each other.
00:36:13.000The president was very clearly not responding to any one question, but nodding in acknowledgement to the press, generally.
00:36:18.000He said just two days ago in his presser, verify then trust.
00:36:21.000Oh, so he had to walk it back in real time.
00:36:23.000By the way, many, many, many reporters reported exactly what Yamiche Alcindor reported.
00:36:30.000Meanwhile, Caitlyn Collins, the CNN chief White House correspondent, tweeted, It was very hard to hear, but President Biden referred to U.S.
00:36:35.000and Russia as two gray powers in the opening of his summit with Putin.
00:36:39.000He mentioned areas of mutual interest where they can cooperate and noted being quote-unquote predictable and rational when they don't agree.
00:36:45.000So just crap all over Trump is really the theme of this thing.
00:36:48.000But I mean, Putin is just eating Biden's lunch, basically, because Biden is not with us anymore.
00:36:56.000It is fairly incredible that we are supposed to just ignore the fact that Joe Biden is being softer on Russia than Donald Trump.
00:37:16.000Reporters again asked Putin, why do you fear Alexei Navalny, who's this dissenter in Russia who's been in prison and is probably going to die in prison?
00:37:22.000And what did you do if Ukraine joined NATO?
00:38:44.000And we're supposed to ignore the fact, of course, that Joe Biden is not with us.
00:38:49.000It's very important that we ignore this.
00:38:51.000According to the Washington Post, Vladimir Putin's first interview with an American television news outlet in three years was, perhaps strategically so, a big hit for Russia's networks.
00:39:01.000The Russian president's one-on-one with NBC has been widely aired and much discussed across state media platforms.
00:39:05.000In it, Putin dropped a Russian schoolyard rhyme in response to one question and alluded to the satirical Soviet novel, The Little Golden Calf and Another, references for a Russian audience rather than an American one.
00:39:15.000As Putin was pressed on issues including Moscow's cyber attacks against the United States and whether he orders the killings of his political opponents, his tone was dismissive, at times nonchalant.
00:39:25.000It mirrored the Kremlin messaging at home ahead of Putin's planned summit with President Biden in Geneva on Wednesday.
00:39:29.000Putin agreed to this meeting at the request of the Americans, but will not be ceding anything.
00:39:33.000Russian officials and propagandists have repeatedly said they do not expect the summit to produce any big breakthroughs for a U.S.-Russia relationship that has hit a post-Cold War low.
00:39:42.000They've worked to portray Putin as going into it from a position of strength because he has little to lose or gain.
00:39:48.000So what exactly are we even doing at this meeting?
00:39:53.000The answer, of course, is to pretend that Joe Biden is a world leader who is still sentient, but he is not.
00:39:59.000There's a reason why Tom Cotton, the senator from Arkansas, said this sit-down is a very bad idea, because it is a very, very bad idea.
00:40:06.000I would not be going into this summit tomorrow.
00:40:08.000I think it was ill-advised for the president to make one of his first major bilateral summits overseas with Vladimir Putin, especially after this string of weak actions towards Russia.
00:40:21.000The President should have spent more time this weekend focused on China and the threat that China poses and bringing our European allies along with us to see that threat as opposed to talking so much about things like climate change.
00:40:34.000Russia remains a threat, but China is the threat that the United States and really the free world faces in the decades ahead.
00:40:43.000Meanwhile, the Biden administration is doing nothing about China either.
00:40:46.000So lest you think that it's just about Russia, they're doing nothing about China either.
00:40:49.000They continue to promote public statements made by the Europeans that don't actually have any teeth to them.
00:40:55.000In fact, the left is too busy being angry at anybody for mentioning the Wuhan lab leak theory.
00:40:59.000Remember Joe Biden started taking it seriously last week and then said, maybe we should have like an intelligence committee investigation on all that.
00:41:05.000We'll get our intelligence people together.
00:41:08.000This was It just seemed like a lot of people wanted to squelch any idea that there was another hypothesis.
00:41:12.000such an investigation that had been begun under the Trump administration.
00:41:16.000Meanwhile, Robert Redfield, the former CDC director, he says the scientific community acted to squelch the Wuhan lab leak theory while I was over at the CDC.
00:41:24.000It just seemed like a lot of people wanted to squelch any idea that there was another hypothesis.
00:41:32.000And I think that's what I find the most disappointing because I would expect that from politicians.
00:41:43.000I would never expect that from the scientific community.
00:41:47.000And yet, what we witnessed was the scientific community went on heavy to try to stop any open debate about the origin of this virus.
00:41:56.000And I find that very sad, very disconcerting, and very anti-science.
00:42:05.000According to Redfield, by the way, Anthony Fauci was one of the people who was less than interested in investigating the lab leak theory in the first place.
00:42:13.000I think Tony is holding on to this hypothesis tightly.
00:42:27.000I guess if I'm disappointed about anything about the early scientific community is that there seemed to be lack of openness to pursue both hypotheses.
00:42:38.000Okay, now what's amazing about all of this?
00:42:39.000Again, you got Joe Biden not being able to face up to Vladimir Putin.
00:42:42.000Things are going very poorly over there.
00:42:44.000Joe Biden, who literally glitched in the middle of the EU meetings.
00:42:47.000And he was over there at the G7, and he just glitched for a second time.
00:42:52.000We played a clip yesterday of Joe Biden answering a question.
00:42:56.000His gap in thinking was so long that I had to go back and re-insert myself saying, wait for it, wait for it, for radio, because otherwise there was so much dead air that they would have taken the show off the air.
00:43:09.000That's how bad the glitching is from Joe Biden.
00:43:12.000Meanwhile, what is the left focused on?
00:43:13.000They're not focused on the fact that Joe Biden is not really with us or the fact that Joe Biden is busily ramping up the inflation.
00:43:19.000They're not worried about the fact that Joe Biden is about to have Russia eat his lunch.
00:43:22.000Now, they're worried about the fact that Jon Stewart said some true things about the Wuhan lab leak.
00:43:25.000So yesterday, Jon Stewart was on Stephen Colbert, and he said some funny and true things about the Wuhan lab leak situation.
00:43:31.000And the media's response was, how dare Jon Stewart do this thing?
00:43:36.000I think we owe a great debt of gratitude to science.
00:43:42.000Science has in many ways helped ease the suffering of this pandemic, which was more than likely caused by science.
00:43:54.000Stewart went off on this a little bit more, and again, it was not well taken by the left.
00:44:06.000I If there's evidence, I'd love to hear it.
00:44:58.000Because five seconds ago, you were telling us that every celebrity in America needed to be relied upon for a COVID-19 theory so long as it was anti-Trump.
00:45:08.000Because bottom line is, for the media, whatever effectuates the agenda of the Biden administration is worth promoting.
00:45:15.000Anything that does not effectuate that agenda is not worth promoting at all.
00:45:19.000Now, this is leaving some fairly large openings for Joe Biden's political opponents.
00:45:24.000Because it turns out that you can only hide the truth for so long and then people start to get a little bit skeptical of what you are telling them.
00:45:32.000The left is trying to shut Donald Trump out of politics.
00:45:35.000And meanwhile, by creating this bubble around Joe Biden, it just makes it easy for Trump to bust through that door like the Kool-Aid man and just pop that bubble.
00:45:45.000Donald Trump is now going to head down to the US-Mexico border because Kamala Harris won't.
00:45:49.000According to the Daily Wire, Ryan Saavedra reporting.
00:45:53.000Former President Donald Trump announced Tuesday he is traveling to the U.S.-Mexico border as President Joe Biden's border crisis has continued to worsen and Vice President Kamala Harris has repeatedly avoided traveling to the area.
00:46:01.000I have accepted the invitation of Texas Governor Greg Abbott to join him on an official visit to our nation's decimated southern border on Wednesday, Trump said in a statement.
00:46:09.000The Biden administration inherited from me the strongest, safest, most secure border history.
00:46:13.000In mere weeks, they turned it into a single worst border crisis in U.S.
00:46:19.000If this weren't bad enough, Biden and Harris won't even tour the scenes of the wreckage they created or come down and visit with the Border Patrol and ICE heroes risking their lives to defend our nation at a time when the White House is doing everything it can to make their job totally impossible, said Trump.
00:46:31.000What Biden and Harris have done and are continuing to do on our border is a grave and willful dereliction of duty.
00:46:37.000So yeah, they're just pushing that door wide open for Trump or frankly any other Republican with half a grain of sense to walk right through it.
00:46:43.000So I guess the good news here is that in their blind attempt to cover for their own ideology, to cover their failures with their own ideology, they are opening the door wide to the blowback and the blowback is most definitely coming.
00:46:56.000Alrighty, we'll be back here today with an additional hour of The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:47:01.000In the meantime, go check out the Michael Knowles show today.
00:47:03.000He's discussing the Senate making Juneteenth a federal holiday.
00:47:05.000You can hear more details about that story over on Michael's show that is available right now.
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