The Ben Shapiro Show

00:00:00.000 The Super Bowl halftime show features rappers with rap sheets kneeling to protest American racism and the NFL clearing oodles of cash.

00:00:07.000 The Durham investigation reveals that the Clinton campaign paid a tech company to infiltrate Trump Tower and the White House executive office servers to create the Russiagate narrative.

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00:01:44.000 Alrighty, so last night, of course, was the Super Bowl.

00:01:47.000 And I have to say, the power of capitalism to basically use whatever it can, whatever's at hand to make money is truly astonishing.

00:01:56.000 It was kind of bizarre to watch the Super Bowl, particularly the halftime show yesterday.

00:02:01.000 And note that all these people, Who were rebels against the cause.

00:02:05.000 These were folks who were rebelling against the system.

00:02:06.000 Systemic racism.

00:02:07.000 Here they are being paid by the NFL, which is one of the biggest corporations in America, the most powerful entertainment in the country, to sing songs on behalf of these corporate overlords, these rebels against the cause.

00:02:22.000 And meanwhile, the NFL is happy to make money and make ratings off of a group of people who in any sort of normal circumstances would have been canceled years ago.

00:02:34.000 There are a lot of criminal convictions on that particular stage.

00:02:36.000 There are a lot of lyrical violations of sort of social norms on that stage.

00:02:43.000 I'm not talking about right-wing social norms.

00:02:44.000 I'm not talking about Tipper Gore saying that we ought to have warnings on lyrics.

00:02:48.000 I'm talking about left-wing social norms.

00:02:50.000 But the fact is that capitalism can take the piss and vinegar out of pretty much anything.

00:02:56.000 And that's what that halftime show was last night.

00:02:58.000 Honestly, number one, it demonstrates how old our country is because, you know, this is now throwback music for people who are about my age.

00:03:05.000 I'm 38.

00:03:07.000 And I was watching some of the Super Bowl with some friends last night who are early 40s and they were bopping out to music that they were listening to in high school because our entire culture now revolves around the artists of 20 years ago.

00:03:20.000 And these are all a bunch of 50 year old rappers.

00:03:23.000 I mean, Mary J. Blige is 51 years old, and this is the younger crowd now.

00:03:28.000 Remember that for the past couple of Super Bowls, they've gone a little younger.

00:03:31.000 They did Bruno Mars, and then they did The Weeknd, and these are younger folks.

00:03:34.000 But they went back to kind of the old, right, the classic rap gods of the 1990s and early 2000s.

00:03:40.000 And I just want to point out once more that the social standards that the left holds when it comes to culture just do not exist.

00:03:47.000 They do not exist.

00:03:49.000 Violence against women, apparently, totally okay.

00:03:52.000 You don't get cancelled over that anymore, depending on who you are and what kind of art you perform.

00:03:58.000 The lyrics that are overtly anti-gay, totally fine, so long as you also hate Donald Trump.

00:04:04.000 So long as you are seen as a weapon against the system, the left is willing to take you back in, and, hilariously, corporations are willing to use you as their spokespeople, and you're willing to take their money.

00:04:14.000 It's this really corrupt and perverse little tie, but you do have to appreciate the power of money-making to really take any sort of power and edge out of the message and just turn it into pap that you pump into elevators.

00:04:28.000 It really is kind of an amazing thing.

00:04:30.000 Let me just point out who was on the stage last night during the Super Bowl halftime show, because this really did occur to me while I was watching it, is that the NFL has been attempting to get away from the, you know, we are the league that has a lot of criminal convictions routine.

00:04:41.000 They've been attempting to get away from this.

00:04:44.000 And so, on the stage, they had Dr. Dre, who has been accused of multiple instances of violence against women, including assault of Dee Barnes, who's convicted in 1991.

00:04:52.000 Quote, people talk all this bleep, but you know, somebody F's with me, I'm gonna F with them.

00:04:55.000 A woman named Michelle, who was the mother of one of his children, accused him of domestic violence.

00:05:01.000 Another woman named Terry B accused Dre of assaulting her.

00:05:04.000 He was convicted in 1992 of battery of a police officer.

00:05:07.000 He apparently allegedly drove drunk in 1994.

00:05:11.000 Now, he seems to have improved his life pretty dramatically, Dr. Dre, although in 2016, Suge Knight accused Dre of a kill-for-hire plot, but let's just say that these are offenses that, in sort of a normal world, would get cancelled these days, right?

00:05:23.000 Because time is of no limit.

00:05:25.000 When we go back 20, 30 years and find stuff about people and destroy them, But Dr. Dre was leading this off as a great hero of the Republic.

00:05:32.000 And then you had Snoop Dogg, who, of course, has been arrested for everything from cocaine possession to first and second degree murder.

00:05:38.000 He was acquitted on those charges, but arrested for them to drug and firearm possession to implication in a rape case.

00:05:43.000 He wasn't arrested for that, but there was an implication that he was involved.

00:05:46.000 He was last arrested in 2012 for possession.

00:05:49.000 And Snoop Dogg, of course, is now a hero of our culture.

00:05:51.000 And by the way, in January, he cut a song that included the following lyrics.

00:05:56.000 And I know it's always a risk when I read lyrics, so we're gonna take this slowly, okay?

00:05:59.000 This is the following lyric.

00:06:00.000 It was in January of this year.

00:06:02.000 Quote, all you N-words out there, take your guns that you're using to shoot each other and start shooting these bitch-ass MF-ing police.

00:06:09.000 That'll impress a MF-ing N-word like me.

00:06:14.000 That was like January.

00:06:16.000 And here he is, in the biggest cultural event in America, in February, Wrapping at the center of the stage.

00:06:25.000 At the behest of a major American corporation.

00:06:29.000 We got 50 Cent up there who was arrested in 94 for cocaine trafficking in 2003 for criminal possession of a weapon.

00:06:34.000 For battery in 2004 for jumping into a crowd to go after a person who threw a water bottle at him.

00:06:38.000 In 2013 for five criminal charges including one count of domestic abuse, domestic violence.

00:06:43.000 Normally this stuff sort of gets you, I thought that this was bad.

00:06:47.000 I thought that even according to the left I thought this stuff was bad.

00:06:49.000 No?

00:06:50.000 Not so much?

00:06:52.000 You have Eminem, right, who famously was sort of pre-canceled because of all of his lyrics, including ones about violence against his ex-wife and about raping his mom and about stabbing gay people.

00:07:02.000 All of that sort of stuff is in his lyrics.

00:07:04.000 But then he said that he didn't like Trump and that that, of course, fixes everything.

00:07:07.000 And of course, he was arrested twice in 2000 on gun charges.

00:07:10.000 So you have to admire the power of the American capitalist system to ingest all of this radical stuff and then just vomit it back out as commercial selling stuff, as the product that normal Americans will consume.

00:07:25.000 It really is an amazing, amazing thing.

00:07:27.000 I thought the best example of this last night was Eminem.

00:07:30.000 So Eminem, he kneels for a full minute in the middle of this halftime show.

00:07:36.000 He just kneels and puts his hand on his head for a full minute to demonstrate that he is in touch with Black Lives Matter movement and with the needs of black people.

00:07:45.000 And it's so funny how the media pretends that this is somehow controversial now.

00:07:50.000 It's so funny.

00:07:51.000 So Eminem does this.

00:07:52.000 And Deadline runs an entire piece.

00:07:54.000 They run this entire piece.

00:07:54.000 Deadline Hollywood.

00:07:55.000 The NFL must have been shocked at this.

00:07:57.000 And then the NFL came out with a statement.

00:07:57.000 Shocked.

00:07:59.000 And their statement was, oh no, he did this during rehearsal.

00:08:02.000 We knew, like, the whole time that he was gonna do this.

00:08:04.000 So, just to understand what the NFL did here.

00:08:07.000 In 2016, Colin Kaepernick, a backup quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers who'd been benched for the immortal Blaine Gabber because he sucks, he knelt for the national anthem.

00:08:15.000 On the basis, by the way, of a police shooting that apparently was justified.

00:08:21.000 And this is after he wore socks that compared police to pigs and all of this.

00:08:25.000 And this created a massive national controversy, right?

00:08:27.000 The NFL got engulfed in it.

00:08:29.000 Now, fast forward six years, And Eminem is kneeling for a full minute on the stage to the NFL's approval.

00:08:37.000 The NFL is making money off the kneeling now.

00:08:40.000 That's the power of capitalism, guys.

00:08:42.000 The left thinks that they own the culture, and to a certain extent they do, because when corporations ingest leftism and then spew it back out in a sort of sanitized form, people still ingest leftism in a sanitized form.

00:08:42.000 It's so funny.

00:08:52.000 But there is something very, very humorous about the NFL, which was targeted with these protests, now taking the protests, spinning them around and making cash off of them.

00:09:01.000 There's something really highly hilarious about that.

00:09:05.000 This is the message, by the way, from, I would say, the mainstream political left.

00:09:09.000 The mainstream political left will take radical messaging, they will ingest it, they will sanitize it, and then they will spew it back out there for money.

00:09:17.000 Which is why you saw in the end zone, and the NFL has been doing this for the last year, really, since the Black Lives Matter stuff cropped up over George Floyd's, almost two years.

00:09:26.000 They started putting at the end zone the words, end racism on one side and it takes all of us on the other, which of course ends racism.

00:09:32.000 I mean, as we all know, if there's one thing that ends racism in the United States, it is putting the words end racism at the back of the end zone in NFL game, because there are tons of just vicious white racists who are watching the NFL game.

00:09:44.000 And until now, they're ready to go burn a cross on their black neighbor's lawn.

00:09:46.000 But now they saw the words end racism at the back of the end zone.

00:09:49.000 They're like, oh man, F racism.

00:09:51.000 Racism is the worst now.

00:09:52.000 I thought it said end racism in the back of the end zone.

00:09:54.000 Roger Goodell tells me it's time to end racism.

00:09:56.000 And not only that, it takes all of us.

00:09:59.000 Racism ended.

00:10:00.000 Or alternatively, these corporations are playing you.

00:10:02.000 If you're a radical leftist and you think that these people are your friends, they are playing you.

00:10:06.000 And by the way, if you're on the right and you think these corporations are your friends, they're not.

00:10:10.000 They're willing to use whatever is at hand.

00:10:11.000 If they feel like they can make a buck off the woke by mirroring woke messaging, they will.

00:10:15.000 They have no principles.

00:10:15.000 They don't care.

00:10:16.000 It's all about just making the money for them.

00:10:19.000 That's all.

00:10:21.000 And the Democratic Party is the same way.

00:10:23.000 So, right before the Super Bowl, Joe Biden went on national TV because we have this dumb tradition where the President of the United States hijacks this giant cultural event and does these interviews.

00:10:32.000 By the way, I love the fact that we are still social distancing.

00:10:34.000 So we've got Joe Biden sitting 83 feet away from Lester Holt before the Super Bowl.

00:10:39.000 Both of them octuple vaxxed.

00:10:42.000 70% of their body weight made up the vax at this point.

00:10:45.000 And by the way, everybody, I'm asking.

00:10:48.000 And and Joe Biden then decides that he's going to rip on the NFL.

00:10:51.000 Now, you think the NFL is upset about this?

00:10:53.000 The NFL isn't upset about this one iota, because the NFL will find a way to make money off of this, which is why you have Roger Goodell saying, oh, yeah, yeah, of course, racist.

00:11:00.000 Also, if black Americans give us more of your money, in fact, we'll have a halftime show featuring many of your favorite artists.

00:11:00.000 Of course.

00:11:05.000 As long as you keep giving us more of your money, if we say we're racist, will you give us more of your money?

00:11:09.000 So Joe Biden, is this for the Democratic Party?

00:11:12.000 His policies can be as bad for black Americans as he wants them to be.

00:11:15.000 And his policies are indeed crappy for black Americans.

00:11:17.000 His inflation is hitting black Americans harder than it is hitting white Americans.

00:11:21.000 The unemployment that will likely follow, an increase in the interest rate, will be worse for black Americans than it will for white Americans.

00:11:27.000 He doesn't care about that.

00:11:28.000 He cares about making a buck, which is why he goes around on the road saying that all of his political opponents are people who would have been Jim Crow racists back in the day.

00:11:36.000 Because just keep if he mirrors the messages you want him to mirror, will you love him?

00:11:41.000 So here is Joe Biden ripping on the NFL for its supposed racism and not having more black coaches, says Joe Biden, who goes around bragging about how he worked with segregationists in the 60s and 70s.

00:11:51.000 Like, really, it's amazing stuff.

00:11:53.000 Here's the president of the United States, Lester Holt.

00:11:56.000 A league that is made up of so many athletes of color, as well as so diverse, that there's not enough African American qualified coaches to manage these NFL teams.

00:12:14.000 It just seems to me that it's a standard that they'd want to live up to.

00:12:20.000 An old white man is telling you that the NFL is super-duper racist.

00:12:23.000 Yeah, that's great.

00:12:24.000 By the way, Roger Goodall doesn't care.

00:12:25.000 He doesn't care.

00:12:26.000 As long as you keep pumping that money into his pocket, he does not care.

00:12:30.000 And neither does Joe Biden.

00:12:31.000 Joe Biden doesn't care about any of this stuff.

00:12:32.000 Just vote for him and give him your money.

00:12:34.000 And keep voting for him as 90% black if you're black, and he'll be a happy camper.

00:12:38.000 He doesn't care about any of these messages.

00:12:40.000 It's ridiculous.

00:12:42.000 It's really, really stupid.

00:12:43.000 By the way, I'm just going to point out this as well.

00:12:45.000 Remember, Donald Trump was very, very bad.

00:12:47.000 He was very bad.

00:12:47.000 He commented on Colin Kaepernick.

00:12:49.000 He said he shouldn't kneel for the national anthem.

00:12:50.000 And that made him terrible.

00:12:52.000 Why would he even comment on cultural events like this?

00:12:54.000 Why would he get involved in the culture wars, Donald Trump?

00:12:57.000 Democrats have been there for 50 years in the middle of the culture wars.

00:13:01.000 There's Joe Biden commenting on the NFL.

00:13:03.000 No one seems to care.

00:13:04.000 After all, he's a Democrat.

00:13:04.000 It's fine.

00:13:05.000 He's allowed to say whatever he wants about the NFL.

00:13:07.000 He's allowed to criticize the NFL.

00:13:09.000 He's allowed to criticize NFL players or NFL coaches.

00:13:11.000 He can do whatever he wants because he's saying the things that the left wants him to say.

00:13:14.000 And they know this.

00:13:15.000 Meanwhile, final note on the Super Bowl.

00:13:15.000 They know this.

00:13:17.000 So they still have a mask mandate for children in California.

00:13:21.000 Every kid in L.A.

00:13:22.000 County is going to go to school today with a mask on.

00:13:25.000 Here is a compendium of some of the celebrities at the Super Bowl not wearing masks.

00:13:29.000 By the way, no one was wearing a mask yesterday at the Super Bowl.

00:13:32.000 The LA County put out a big list, a big ad, like, you should all put on masks.

00:13:35.000 Well, there's Jay-Z not wearing a mask.

00:13:37.000 There's Matt Damon not wearing a mask.

00:13:38.000 You see, can you spot a single person in any of these?

00:13:40.000 There's Charlize Theron.

00:13:41.000 Anyone wearing a mask?

00:13:42.000 Anyone surrounding these people wearing a mask?

00:13:44.000 There's LeBron.

00:13:44.000 Anything?

00:13:45.000 Is he wearing a mask?

00:13:46.000 No, of course he's not wearing a mask.

00:13:48.000 There's JLo and Ben Affleck, the awkwardest celebrity couple of all time.

00:13:52.000 There they are.

00:13:53.000 There's Emmitt Smith.

00:13:54.000 Not a mask.

00:13:55.000 Anywhere in sight.

00:13:56.000 Nowhere.

00:13:57.000 Because they are the special people.

00:13:57.000 There are no masks.

00:13:59.000 They are so special.

00:14:00.000 The science changed magically right before the Super Bowl.

00:14:03.000 Not for the kids, of course.

00:14:04.000 The kids are going to go to school today, and they're going to be masked up in L.A.

00:14:06.000 County.

00:14:07.000 But at least Jay-Z did not have to wear a mask.

00:14:09.000 And that's really the important thing, I think.

00:14:12.000 The elites who create your culture and ingest your messages and spew them back out to you for money and are the richest among us.

00:14:19.000 Remember, all the people on the stage who have spent their lives rapping about the evils of the American system are some of the richest people in America.

00:14:26.000 Eminem is worth $230 million by last estimate.

00:14:29.000 Dr. Dre is worth way the hell more than that.

00:14:31.000 He's a billionaire, Dr. Dre.

00:14:34.000 Rapping about the terrors and horrors of evil racist America.

00:14:37.000 It's all about the Benjamins, you might say.

00:14:41.000 That's what you might say.

00:14:42.000 We'll get into an unbelievable story about the special investigation by John Durham in just one second.

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00:15:55.000 Meanwhile, an incredible story emerging from the investigation of special counsel John Durham, who's been working on this case, this investigation into the origins of the Russiagate scandal for quite a while.

00:16:07.000 And people are saying, why is he moving so slow?

00:16:08.000 Because legal processes move slowly.

00:16:10.000 If you've ever been involved in a lawsuit, they can take you two, three, four years to work it out.

00:16:15.000 According to the Washington Examiner, Special Counsel John Durham says he is building a case to show the technology executive with whom an indicted Democratic lawyer on the payroll of Hillary Clinton's campaign was working to build a Trump-Russia collusion narrative gained access to internet traffic at the White House to try and obtain dirt on former President Donald Trump.

00:16:32.000 Left-wing lawyer Michael Sussman was indicted last year for allegedly concealing his clients, among them, Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign from the FBI, when he volunteered since debunked claims of a secret backchannel between the Trump Organization and Russia's Alpha Bank.

00:16:45.000 So there was a left-wing lawyer named Michael Sussman, and he went to the FBI, and he said, you know, there's a backchannel between Trump and Russia, and they're having all sorts of corrupt secret meetings and communiques and all of this.

00:16:57.000 And he hid from the FBI that he was working for Hillary Clinton at the time.

00:17:00.000 Durham revealed in a Friday court filing he has evidence that Sussman's other client, dubbed Technology Executive One, but known to be former Newstar Senior Vice President Rodney Joffe, exploited domain name system internet traffic at a particular healthcare provider, likely Spectrum Health, Trump Tower, Trump's Central Park West apartment building, and the Executive Office of the President of the United States.

00:17:19.000 They continued doing this after Trump was elected president.

00:17:22.000 The revelations made as part of a motion for the Washington, D.C.

00:17:25.000 federal court to look into possible conflicts of interest related to Sussman's defense gave allies of Trump more reason to believe the former president was spied upon, as evidenced by an upsurge in tweets about the latest solve in his so-called Russiagate scandal.

00:17:38.000 They didn't just spy on Donald Trump's campaign.

00:17:41.000 They spied on Donald Trump as sitting president of the United States.

00:17:43.000 It was worse than we thought, tweeted Mark Meadows, the Trump White House chief of staff.

00:17:47.000 Kash Patel, intelligence and defense official in the Trump administration, chief Russiagate investigator under then House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, said the filing shows that the Hillary Clinton campaign directly funded and ordered its lawyers at Perkins Coie to orchestrate a criminal enterprise to fabricate a connection between President Trump and Russia.

00:18:04.000 Durham says that Internet Company One accessed dedicated servers for the executive office of the president as part of a sensitive arrangement whereby it provided DNS resolution services to the EOP and that Jaffe and his associates exploited this arrangement by mining the EOP's DNS traffic and other data for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Trump.

00:18:24.000 So apparently there was a company that simultaneously was working with Sussman and also working with the EOP The executive office of the president, and was using that arrangement to funnel information from the EOP about the traffic, about their DNS traffic, to Hillary Clinton's team and lawyers.

00:18:44.000 Jaffe alerted Sussman about the Alpha Bank claims by July 2016, Durham said last year.

00:18:48.000 Over the ensuing weeks, as part of their lawyer-client relationship, Sussman and Jaffe engaged in efforts with Hillary Clinton's lawyers.

00:18:55.000 Durham said Friday Sussman provided an updated set of allegations, including the Russia Bank One data and additional allegations relating to Trump, to another U.S.

00:19:02.000 government agency, which is reportedly the CIA.

00:19:05.000 Durham said the allegations Sussman passed along during a February 9, 2017 meeting relied partly on the purported DNS traffic Tech Executive One and others had assembled pertaining to Trump Tower, Trump's New York City apartment building, and the EOP.

00:19:19.000 So he's already been elected president and they're still jitting up this Russiagate narrative by trying to monitor traffic inside the EOP and then hand that over to the FBI and the CIA.

00:19:31.000 That's full-scale insane.

00:19:33.000 I mean, if nobody goes to jail over that, I, honest to God, don't know what you would go to jail over.

00:19:37.000 If you're an internet company and you're using your access to the executive office of the presidency in order to funnel that to the political opponents of the President of the United States, and then funnel that back to the FBI and CIA in order to initiate action that you know is not true against the President of the United States, That's insanity.

00:19:56.000 I mean, imagine if the situation were reversed.

00:19:58.000 Imagine if Barack Obama had been elected president, and it turns out that there had been a largely ginned up scandal about how Barack Obama was actually working closely with the Iranians, for example.

00:20:09.000 How the Iranians were actually backing Barack Obama actively.

00:20:12.000 They wanted him to win.

00:20:13.000 And it was important that everybody knew.

00:20:16.000 And they went to the FBI, and they went to the CIA, and they had a dossier full of false information, and they passed that along to the FBI and the CIA.

00:20:23.000 And then they had an internet company that was working with the executive office of the presidency.

00:20:28.000 And they're monitoring the DNS traffic between the EOP and the Iranian government.

00:20:28.000 And it's January 2009.

00:20:33.000 And then they're turning that information over to the FBI and CIA, which then initiate a four-year-long quest into the supposed connections between the Obama administration and Iran.

00:20:41.000 You think that isn't like an earth-shaking scandal?

00:20:45.000 You think that wouldn't end not only political careers, but some lives of freedom?

00:20:49.000 People would end up in prison?

00:20:50.000 Of course they would.

00:20:52.000 But it's Trump, so of course it's all justified.

00:20:54.000 Durham's team has charged Sussman with lying to the FBI while pushing the Alphabank claims.

00:20:58.000 Sussman allegedly told FBI General Counsel James Baker in 2016 he was not working for any particular client despite doing the bidding of Clinton's campaign, billing his services to her as well as working on behalf of Jaffe.

00:21:09.000 Sussman has pled not guilty.

00:21:10.000 Durham says Sussman repeated the lie in 2017.

00:21:12.000 This is all according to the Washington Examiner and filings now by John Durham.

00:21:17.000 The special counsel said Friday Sussman quote provided data which he claimed reflected purportedly suspicious DNS lookups by these entities of internet protocol addresses affiliated with a Russian mobile phone provider during the February 2017 meeting.

00:21:29.000 Sussman claimed these lookups demonstrated that Trump and or his associates were supposedly using rare Russian made wireless phones in the vicinity of the White House and other locations.

00:21:37.000 Durham said this assertion was likely highly misleading or outright false.

00:21:41.000 He says the special counsel's office has identified no support for these allegations.

00:21:45.000 Indeed, more complete DNS data that the special counsel's office obtained from a company that assisted Tech Executive One in assembling these allegations reflects that such DNS lookups were far from rare in the United States.

00:21:56.000 Derm pointed to the indictment of Sussman, which alleged, beginning in July 2016, that Jaffe worked with Sussman and Fusion GPS and numerous cyber researchers and employees at multiple internet companies to put together the Alphabank claims.

00:22:07.000 While doing this, Derm said Jaffe exploited his access to non-public and or proprietary internet data.

00:22:14.000 Apparently.

00:22:16.000 So this is all deeply damning.

00:22:19.000 And the fact that the Clinton team was ginning all of this up and then using the FBI and CIA as basically a cutout to air their narratives is totally crazy.

00:22:30.000 That's totally crazy, and people should end up in jail over this.

00:22:33.000 No question.

00:22:34.000 We'll get into President Trump responding to all of this in just one second.

00:22:37.000 First, as you know, Justice Breyer recently announced that he was retiring from the Supreme Court, handing Joe Biden the opportunity to get the most left-wing person he can find to fill that seat.

00:22:45.000 What you might not know is there is a lot of money.

00:22:48.000 Money front unnamed sources put into getting Justice Breyer to retire.

00:22:52.000 In fact, we talked about this on the show, that there was all sorts of pressure being brought to bear to get Breyer to step down before the 2022 election.

00:22:58.000 Our friends over at the Judicial Crisis Network are raising the alarm about the role these dark money groups are playing in the effort to get a radical appointed to the Supreme Court.

00:23:05.000 At the very top is a group called Arabella Advisors.

00:23:08.000 They fund a lot of far left groups, including Demand Justice.

00:23:11.000 The New York Post reported that Demand Justice ran a bullying campaign against Breyer, using their considerable resources to force him into retirement.

00:23:17.000 They even went so far as to drive a mobile billboard around the Supreme Court that said, Breyer, retire.

00:23:21.000 It's time for a black woman Supreme Court justice.

00:23:23.000 There's no time to waste.

00:23:24.000 Well, obviously it worked.

00:23:25.000 Now they're pouring tons of money into getting a radical leftist Supreme Court nominee who's going to serve as a rubber stamp for their unpopular far left agenda.

00:23:33.000 The Judicial Crisis Network is calling them out with a big ad campaign designed to shine a light on liberal dark money groups and their plans to transform America.

00:23:39.000 You can find out more on Twitter at Judicial Network or at JudicialNetwork.com.

00:23:45.000 Okay, so President Trump has responded to all of this and he put out a statement.

00:23:49.000 His statement is pure Trump.

00:23:52.000 He says, the latest pleading from special counsel Robert Durham provides indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidents who were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia.

00:24:02.000 Okay, that's true.

00:24:04.000 He says, this is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate.

00:24:07.000 Also, by the way, kind of true.

00:24:10.000 Okay, Watergate was about how Richard Nixon was using the people at the RNC to bug his political opponents.

00:24:18.000 Here you have Hillary Clinton bugging, apparently, the President of the United States at the EOP, essentially, and monitoring traffic from the EOP for the elected President of the United States, and then funneling that to the intelligence services in order to create an entirely false narrative designed to sink that presidency.

00:24:33.000 That is worse than Watergate by any objective level.

00:24:37.000 In a stronger period of time in our country, says Trump, this crime would have been punishable by death.

00:24:42.000 Well, I mean, now I feel like we've gone in a different direction.

00:24:45.000 There's an addition.

00:24:46.000 Reparations should be paid to those in our country who have been damaged by this.

00:24:50.000 I don't know.

00:24:51.000 Well, I mean, certainly they should have a legal case against Sussman and against the Hillary Clinton campaign.

00:24:55.000 But it does go to show you that all the talk about Trump, Russia, Trump so corrupt, Trump so terrible.

00:25:00.000 Hillary Clinton was corrupt and terrible and deserved to lose the presidency in 2016.

00:25:05.000 She absolutely did.

00:25:06.000 No question.

00:25:08.000 OK, meanwhile, things continue to get uglier and uglier with regard to Ukraine.

00:25:13.000 U.S.

00:25:14.000 officials are now saying that Putin could invade Ukraine at any time, according to the New York Times.

00:25:18.000 Jake Sullivan, President Biden's national security advisor, said on Sunday U.S.

00:25:21.000 officials still believed that President Vladimir Putin of Russia could invade Ukraine at any time despite continuing diplomatic efforts.

00:25:27.000 He appeared with Jake Tapper on CNN's State of the Union.

00:25:30.000 And Tapper, for his part, he did ask him, he was like, you know, you keep saying that there are false flag operations and you keep saying that Russia is going to launch an attack at any time.

00:25:37.000 Do you have like actual evidence you want to show us about this at any point?

00:25:41.000 Honestly, points to Jake Tapper for at least some skepticism from the mainstream media, which is usually not what you see here.

00:25:47.000 You've been warning about the Russians using a false flag operation to justify invading Ukraine.

00:25:53.000 That's a strong claim to make without presenting a shred of evidence.

00:25:55.000 Is there anything more you can tell the public, a public that might be justifiably rather skeptical of claims about intelligence?

00:26:06.000 Well, let me make three points on this.

00:26:07.000 First, we're not putting forward this intelligence to start a war, which has happened in the past, Jake.

00:26:13.000 We are putting forward this intelligence to stop a war.

00:26:18.000 Okay, but you haven't put forward any intelligence.

00:26:20.000 So a lot of people are still doubtful as to whether the intelligence exists or whether you are just doing this in order to ramp up attention on Ukraine.

00:26:27.000 Now, I happen to think that the intelligence probably does exist.

00:26:29.000 And I happen to think that Russia is not putting 130,000 troops around the borders of Ukraine just for fun.

00:26:35.000 I mean, there are other nations that are responding to this as though the threat is very, very real, obviously.

00:26:39.000 For example, Israel has now removed all of its diplomats from Ukraine, or is apparently in the process of doing so.

00:26:46.000 People are evacuating their own citizens.

00:26:47.000 The United States, for its part, is also evacuating its citizens at this point.

00:26:51.000 The US has now evacuated most of its embassy staff, according to Breitbart.

00:26:55.000 And the Associated Press.

00:26:56.000 The AP says the United States is evacuating almost all of its staff from its embassy in Kiev as Western intelligence officials warn a Russian invasion of Ukraine is increasingly imminent.

00:27:04.000 A senior State Department official said on Saturday, a very limited number of staff will stay to keep communications open with the government, but all consular options will be suspended, which is a real problem.

00:27:12.000 Because if you're an American citizen trying to get out, how the hell do you get out at this point?

00:27:16.000 Because the only people who are there are just to keep options open with the Ukrainian government.

00:27:19.000 The official, citing security concerns, would not say how many personnel would remain.

00:27:23.000 As of December, there are about 180 Americans working at the embassy.

00:27:26.000 Some of those had already left.

00:27:27.000 The majority will be returning to Washington, according to the official.

00:27:30.000 The official said the step was taken due to the potential for major Russian attacks on Kiev in the event of an invasion, and repeated the warning that private American citizens should immediately leave.

00:27:38.000 So again, I'm not one of the folks who tends to think this is a wag the dog scenario in which Joe Biden is attempting to ratchet up tensions with Russia in order to claim victory at the end.

00:27:48.000 I don't think Biden can control himself.

00:27:50.000 I don't think he has that much control over world affairs.

00:27:52.000 And I don't see what the win is for Vladimir Putin in doing that.

00:27:56.000 Biden over the weekend did speak with the Ukrainian president As well, Vladimir Zelensky apparently on Sunday told Ukraine's leader the U.S.

00:28:04.000 and its allies would respond rapidly to any further Russian aggression against his country.

00:28:09.000 Meanwhile, Russia was deploying some of its most powerful weapons and best trained battalions around Ukraine.

00:28:13.000 The prospect of imminent war loomed in Europe, according to The Wall Street Journal.

00:28:17.000 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told Biden that American support would allow Ukraine to prevent panic among its population, according to a statement from his office.

00:28:23.000 He also asked for concrete guarantees of Ukraine's security, saying European security is impossible without the security of Ukraine.

00:28:30.000 He said, we're not yet a member of NATO, so that means that only a strong Ukrainian army ensures the security of our state.

00:28:35.000 The United States has been shipping weaponry to Ukraine.

00:28:39.000 If, however, the Russians decide to go in full force, they would crush the Ukrainian military.

00:28:43.000 It could turn into a guerrilla war, but that'd be best-case scenario for the Ukrainian military at this point.

00:28:50.000 Sullivan reiterated calls for any Americans in Ukraine to move out by air, rail, or road as rapidly as possible.

00:28:57.000 Seeking to dispel any notion there would be U.S.

00:28:59.000 military action to extract anyone in the case of Russian action, Sullivan said there was a big difference between the U.S.

00:29:03.000 deployment of thousands of soldiers to Afghanistan and its current effort to prevent a war in Ukraine.

00:29:08.000 So if you thought that abandonment of Americans in Afghanistan was bad, wait until the Russians invade Ukraine and nobody can get out, is basically what he is saying.

00:29:15.000 Also, flights over Ukraine are now being suspended en masse because everyone is afraid that the Russians are going to invade Ukrainian airspace at this point.

00:29:24.000 Again, it turns out that there are far reaching consequences to the United States pulling out of Afghanistan and putting its neck out there for the world to see.

00:29:33.000 When the United States demonstrates that it is a paper tiger, the rest of the world takes notice, and that is what I promise you.

00:29:39.000 If the United States had not pulled out of Ukraine precipitously, the chances that Russia was now on the scale, on the verge of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine would be a lot lower.

00:29:46.000 Same thing with China and Taiwan.

00:29:49.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Ukrainian officials say that Russia is now stepping up a destabilization campaign involving cyberattacks, economic disruption, and hundreds of fake bomb threats.

00:29:58.000 Russian forces and their proxies already control portions of Ukraine and frequently skirmish with government forces.

00:30:03.000 The aim of Moscow's intensifying hybrid campaign, according to Ukrainian officials, is to weaken their country and sow panic, potentially provoking discontent and protests of the kind Russia fomented in eastern Ukraine in 2014 to justify its interventions there.

00:30:15.000 U.S.

00:30:16.000 and U.K.

00:30:16.000 officials said last month they uncovered coup plots intended to install a puppet pro-Russian government.

00:30:23.000 Oleksii Danilov is the top national security advisor to Ukraine.

00:30:28.000 He said the number one task for Russia is to undermine us from inside.

00:30:31.000 So the Ukrainian government is simultaneously trying to keep people from panicking and also basically saying that everybody should kind of be panicking right now because the Russians are just getting deeper and deeper into this.

00:30:43.000 Meanwhile, the German leaders are warning of serious threats to peace.

00:30:46.000 This is why, again, there are a lot of people on the right who are very skeptical that anything serious is happening.

00:30:50.000 All of Europe is basically saying something serious is happening here.

00:30:52.000 So I really don't think that this is just manufactured.

00:30:55.000 I don't think it's a manufactured distraction.

00:30:58.000 I think that the possibility of Russia invading Ukraine is quite real.

00:31:02.000 And again, America allowing Russia to full-scale invade Ukraine and take it over.

00:31:07.000 Heightens the chances that China goes after Taiwan pretty dramatically.

00:31:11.000 Historian Neil Ferguson has been suggesting that China is going to go after Taiwan in the next couple of years pretty much guaranteed just because Joe Biden is president and is that weak.

00:31:20.000 And that's particularly true given the fact that Joe Biden continues to pretend that everything he did in Afghanistan was right.

00:31:24.000 Jake Tapper who again did a good job over the weekend on CNN credit where credit is due.

00:31:28.000 Jake was slamming Biden over his rejection of a new army report that talks about all the flaws in the Afghanistan withdrawal plan.

00:31:35.000 It's difficult to overstate how insulting Biden's sweeping rejection is to so many service members and veterans.

00:31:42.000 I don't doubt President Biden cares, but I do not understand why he would not manifest that care into taking this investigation more seriously.

00:31:52.000 Absorbing the tragic details, contemplating the obvious failures of his administration.

00:31:59.000 Failures that cost lives.

00:32:01.000 Isn't that how you demonstrate how much you care?

00:32:05.000 Otherwise, isn't it just words?

00:32:08.000 I mean, the answer is, of course, it's just words.

00:32:11.000 But for the Biden administration, it's always been just words.

00:32:13.000 And here's the thing, our enemies know it.

00:32:14.000 And that's the part that actually matters.

00:32:16.000 And meanwhile, the bridge between the United States and Canada has now been reopened, the Ambassador Bridge.

00:32:22.000 The police say that it's going to need to be plowed before it can totally reopen.

00:32:25.000 But they arrested a few truckers who had remained on the bridge.

00:32:27.000 They sort of saw it coming, a lot of the truckers.

00:32:29.000 And so they have instead retrenched in Ottawa, where they continue to snarl the traffic in Ottawa in an attempt to get Justin Trudeau, who is definitely, definitely not Fidel Castro's son.

00:32:37.000 Stop that right now.

00:32:38.000 Not Fidel Castro's son.

00:32:39.000 Not Fidel Castro's son continues to maintain that the truckers need to be vaccinated, despite the fact that a huge percentage of Canada's population is vaxxed already.

00:32:48.000 If you take a look at the actual statistics right now, the population share of vaccination in Canada 84% of the Canadian population has received at least one dose.

00:33:00.000 79% has received the full vaccination.

00:33:04.000 And about 40% has received the vaccination with additional booster.

00:33:07.000 So that is a largely vaccinated country.

00:33:10.000 And the fact that Justin Trudeau keeps shutting things down is sort of insane.

00:33:13.000 He should just declare victory and then be done.

00:33:16.000 But that's not going to happen.

00:33:18.000 According to the New York Times over the weekend, the Canadian authorities appeared to be making inroads Sunday to end the large-scale protests that have roiled the nation for weeks, arresting demonstrators who had blocked a critical border bridge to Detroit, suggesting they had negotiated a deal with the truckers.

00:33:30.000 By Sunday night, the police in Windsor said they had arrested several people and towed a pair of pickup trucks that had been parked in an intersection leading to the Ambassador Bridge.

00:33:37.000 The bridge reopened late on Sunday just before midnight.

00:33:40.000 The protest at the bridge was only one of several that has unsettled the country.

00:33:43.000 In the capital, a pair of letters released by Jim Watson, the mayor of Ottawa, and Tamara Lich, a protest organizer, suggested the truckers had agreed to a deal in which the truckers would move their vehicles from residential neighborhoods.

00:33:53.000 Instead, they're going to continue parking in the center of Ottawa near a parliament, snarling traffic, disrupting businesses.

00:34:00.000 The truckers here in Ottawa have always been about peaceful protests, said the protest organizer.

00:34:03.000 Many of the citizens and businesses in Ottawa have been cheering us on, but we are also disturbing others.

00:34:07.000 That was never our intent.

00:34:10.000 So Ottawa remains a scene of paralysis, and that's going to last presumably as long as Justin Trudeau continues to try and cram all of this down.

00:34:16.000 This is peaceful protest, by the way.

00:34:18.000 And what you're watching in Ottawa is... Has there been widespread reports of violence at this point in Ottawa?

00:34:26.000 Now, listen, I don't like people blocking traffic.

00:34:28.000 As a general rule, as I've said before, when you block traffic and you stop people from going to work and all of this, that is law violation.

00:34:34.000 You shouldn't do it.

00:34:35.000 With that said, peaceful protest is peaceful protest.

00:34:37.000 And it seems like most of what is happening in Ottawa is in fact peaceful protest.

00:34:40.000 And what they are protesting for is absolutely correct.

00:34:45.000 And meanwhile, it is amazing to watch the American left, which is supposedly the party of the workers.

00:34:49.000 And the American left, they're the people who care the most about the blue collar workers, right?

00:34:52.000 The Teamsters Union.

00:34:53.000 You know the Teamsters Union came out against the Ottawa truckers?

00:34:56.000 The Teamsters Union, which is supposed to stand for the truckers.

00:34:59.000 They're like, no, no, no, these ones are bad.

00:35:01.000 Because as it turns out, the unions actually work for left-wing government actors, not the people who pay their dues.

00:35:01.000 Why?

00:35:06.000 The people who pay their dues are just a means and methodology for people at the top of these unions to get rich.

00:35:11.000 And they can't get rich unless they've got the politicians in their pocket.

00:35:14.000 So the Teamsters Union in Canada has already come out in favor of the government, not in favor of its own truckers.

00:35:19.000 Which is insane.

00:35:20.000 Meanwhile, Al Franken, for some reason, is still considered a relevant voice in American politics, despite being ousted years ago.

00:35:26.000 He was on MSNBC, a repository of all stupidity.

00:35:28.000 He was on Joy Reid's idiotic show, suggesting it's terrible for Republicans to support the Canadian truckers.

00:35:33.000 Ah, the power of the party of the people right here.

00:35:36.000 They're just awful.

00:35:38.000 And I mean, don't get me started on like Ted Cruz.

00:35:42.000 He's like encouraging this thing in Canada.

00:35:45.000 But it's hurting our economy.

00:35:48.000 So now, you know, the whole point about, oh, well, we don't want these mandates because it hurts our economy to close the economy.

00:35:56.000 This is really hurting people in Michigan and in the upper Midwest.

00:36:00.000 And it's really, really hypocritical and awful.

00:36:04.000 But that's what you expect from these guys.

00:36:07.000 No, what you expect from them is hypocritical and awful.

00:36:09.000 I love this.

00:36:10.000 So the truckers are hurting the economy.

00:36:12.000 The mass shutdowns that we have had of hundreds of thousands of businesses across the world because of idiotic vax mandates and mask mandates and business shutdown mandates and social distancing mandates, that hasn't hurt the economy or hurt people.

00:36:24.000 These truckers are the ones who are the real danger.

00:36:26.000 Where was Al Franken when they were shutting down all the small businesses?

00:36:28.000 By the way, Joy Reid in that clip is wearing a shirt that says, I'm vaccinated, but I still want you to stay away from me because she's a crazy person.

00:36:35.000 This, by the way, is the philosophy of the left.

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00:39:50.000 Speaking of the continuing radical left's disconnect with the rest of America on COVID issues in particular, again, I point you back to the Super Bowl where the only people who were masked the entire time was the youth orchestra during the national anthem.

00:40:08.000 All the singers, unmasked.

00:40:09.000 All the audience, unmasked.

00:40:10.000 The youth orchestra, the kids, have to be masked because kids always come last.

00:40:13.000 Meanwhile, You have Mehdi Hassan over at MSNBC, straight from Al Jazeera, who tweeted this out over the weekend.

00:40:21.000 And honestly, I hope to God that all Democrats run on this quote.

00:40:24.000 Keep mask mandates, especially in schools.

00:40:26.000 Keep vaccine mandates where possible.

00:40:28.000 Bring in a damn vaccine mandate for domestic air travel via executive order.

00:40:32.000 Send out more high quality masks and rapid tests on a monthly basis.

00:40:35.000 Tie opening up to booster uptake.

00:40:36.000 Expand the Supreme Court.

00:40:38.000 Yeah, go for it, man.

00:40:39.000 Do all of these things.

00:40:40.000 Democrats do it.

00:40:41.000 Do it!

00:40:43.000 Seriously.

00:40:44.000 Many of them will.

00:40:44.000 And you know what?

00:40:45.000 Many of them will.

00:40:46.000 That's the part that's incredible.

00:40:47.000 The media are still pushing this crap.

00:40:49.000 Now, here is the thing.

00:40:51.000 All of this is having an impact on Biden.

00:40:52.000 So I think that this is all basically over by March.

00:40:55.000 I think that you'll still have the kind of last gaspers, the Joy Reads and Mehdi Hassan screaming about this in a couple of weeks.

00:41:01.000 But I think Joe Biden has to know that his presidency is basically finished unless this crap stops immediately.

00:41:07.000 There's brand new polling out from CNN.

00:41:10.000 Conducted by SSRS over the weekend.

00:41:12.000 And what it found is that right now, 51% of Democrats and Democrat-leaning voters want to see a different candidate from Joe Biden in 2024.

00:41:21.000 Those numbers are unprecedented for a sitting president.

00:41:23.000 Only 45% of Democrats want Joe Biden to run for re-election in 2024.

00:41:27.000 A minority, 51%, want to see somewhere else.

00:41:32.000 Apparently only 52% of voters age 45 and over want to see Biden again, which that's a terrible number for him.

00:41:37.000 Even old Democrats are like, who's this geezer who can't seem to handle his bowels anymore, who seems to be constantly losing control of himself?

00:41:45.000 Can he go away?

00:41:48.000 Apparently there's still support for Biden among voters of color, 55% inside the Democratic Party.

00:41:53.000 That's actually his best subgroup, which is probably why he's spending his days going on Lester Holt and talking about the racism of the NFL.

00:41:59.000 As we mentioned before, Joe Biden and the NFL, basically the same.

00:42:02.000 Bunch of old white people trying to make money off of black people by pandering to the most radical policies.

00:42:08.000 That's what this is.

00:42:09.000 Without actually having to, you know, carry anything forward in any serious way.

00:42:15.000 In other interesting news, actually, the same poll shows that the Republicans are pretty much split.

00:42:19.000 Same numbers about nominating Trump again.

00:42:21.000 Only 50% want Trump nominated again.

00:42:23.000 49% want somebody different.

00:42:26.000 Those numbers have slipped, particularly For Trump.

00:42:29.000 And they're very different, by the way, with regard to past presidents.

00:42:32.000 In March 2018, Republicans were behind Trump 77%, behind his re-nomination.

00:42:37.000 In 2010, 79% of Democrats wanted Obama re-nominated.

00:42:41.000 So those numbers are really scary for Joe Biden.

00:42:43.000 So he has to change tack and he has to change tack really fast.

00:42:46.000 You're starting to see this from Democrats, by the way, is this attempt to change tack.

00:42:49.000 Nancy Pelosi, for example, she's attempting to disown and defund the police branch of her party.

00:42:54.000 And she sort of has to, because if she doesn't, her party is just toast.

00:42:58.000 Make no mistake, community safety is our responsibility.

00:43:03.000 And I quote one of my colleagues from New York, Richard Torres, a brand new member of Congress, way on the left, saying that defund the police is dead.

00:43:16.000 That causes a concern with a few in our caucus.

00:43:20.000 But public safety is our responsibility.

00:43:26.000 Uh, yeah.

00:43:27.000 So, that's fun to watch.

00:43:28.000 The Democrats running away from their own most radical proposals.

00:43:32.000 I mean, they're on a knife's edge and they know it.

00:43:33.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

00:43:36.000 In the meantime, go check out The Michael Knowles Show.

00:43:37.000 That's available right now.

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