The Ben Shapiro Show - The Abortion Issue Explodes

00:00:00.000 As I've talked about on the show for the past several months, Donald Trump is now the centrist candidate in this 2024 political race.

00:00:07.000 And that's being reflected in the numbers.

00:00:08.000 The reason that Joe Biden is not doing well is because the Democrats are perceived correctly as moving toward the radical left.

00:00:14.000 Donald Trump, by contrast, has actually been moving positionally toward the center on nearly every major issue.

00:00:20.000 And that is just one reason why Donald Trump continues To do well in the polls, better than he did, certainly, back in 2020.

00:00:26.000 On this date in history, Joe Biden was up 6.3 points in his election race against Donald Trump in 2020.

00:00:33.000 In 2016, Hillary Clinton was up by nearly 11 points.

00:00:36.000 Today, Donald Trump, in the RealClearPolitics polling average, is up a little less than one point.

00:00:41.000 In the latest Morning Consult poll, he is up one.

00:00:43.000 According to Emerson, he is up one.

00:00:45.000 These are very close polls, but the bottom line is that Donald Trump tends, again, to over produce relative to the polls.

00:00:52.000 When you look at a five-way race, that gap really starts to open for Trump.

00:00:56.000 So you now have a two-point lead because Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is earning almost 10%

00:01:01.000 in all of these polls, and Jill Stein is earning 1.5%,

00:01:05.000 and Cornel West is earning 1.7%.

00:01:07.000 So even if you figure that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s polling numbers are split,

00:01:12.000 some are coming from Trump, some are coming from Biden, probably more are coming from Biden than from Trump,

00:01:16.000 and there's another 2% to 3% outstanding is going to far-left candidates

00:01:20.000 like Jill Stein and Cornel West.

00:01:23.000 Meanwhile, in the battlegrounds, Trump continues to do well.

00:01:26.000 He's currently leading in all the battleground states with the exception of Pennsylvania,

00:01:30.000 where he's behind by.

00:01:31.000 It's a dead heat in Pennsylvania.

00:01:33.000 You look at Wisconsin, he's up by a little bit less than a point.

00:01:36.000 In Arizona, he's up by nearly five.

00:01:38.000 In Georgia, he's up by four.

00:01:39.000 In Michigan, he's up by three.

00:01:41.000 In North Carolina, he's up by five.

00:01:42.000 In Nevada, he's up by three.

00:01:44.000 Nevada, of course, is the wild card in this race.

00:01:45.000 He lost that one.

00:01:46.000 It wasn't even considered a swing state in the last election cycle.

00:01:49.000 And now the map has broadened for President Trump.

00:01:51.000 Not just that.

00:01:52.000 Democrats have historically had a really strong on-the-ground advantage in terms of registered voters across the country.

00:01:57.000 That is disintegrating as well.

00:01:59.000 According to the New York Times, in the run-up to the 2020 election, more voters across the country identified as Democrats than Republicans.

00:02:05.000 But four years into Joseph R. Biden Jr.' 's presidency, the gap has shrunk.

00:02:09.000 The United States now sits almost evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans.

00:02:13.000 Republicans have made significant gains among voters without a college degree, rural voters, and white evangelical voters, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.

00:02:20.000 Remember, that is a group that Donald Trump overperformed with in 2016 and then actually underperformed with in 2020.

00:02:25.000 The great lie of the 2020 election, with regard to demographics, is that Donald Trump did really, really well with rural voters, and he didn't do as well with minorities.

00:02:33.000 He actually did better with minorities than he did in 2016, and not quite as well with rural voters as he did in 2016.

00:02:38.000 At the same time, Democrats have held on to key constituencies like Black voters and younger voters.

00:02:43.000 They've also gained ground with college-educated voters.

00:02:46.000 So according to the New York Times report, right now, about 49% of voters are registered Democrat.

00:02:53.000 About 48% of Republicans are registered Democrat.

00:02:57.000 So, that is basically dead even.

00:03:00.000 The implications of the trend remain uncertain because party affiliation doesn't always predict exactly how you're going to vote, but suffice it to say that if you have the stones to register Republican at this point in time, it is because you are voting for Donald Trump.

00:03:12.000 If you vote Democrat, that used to be sort of just the de facto thing you did.

00:03:16.000 You just do it, even if you're voting Republican.

00:03:20.000 So the fact that you have seen this uptick in voter registration among Republicans is really alarming to Democrats, and it should be.

00:03:29.000 Latino voters also are registering as more Republican than Democrat in terms of their historical performance.

00:03:37.000 Hispanics in virtually every poll are well out polling for Trump at this point where they were in 2016 or 2020.

00:03:45.000 Meanwhile, the Democrats are starting to hit the panic button.

00:03:48.000 According to Politico, former White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain openly questioned President Joe Biden's political strategy on Tuesday night, arguing he was focused on long-term infrastructure projects and not enough on immediate economic needs as he runs for re-election.

00:03:59.000 Klain said, I think the president is out there too much talking about bridges.

00:04:02.000 He does two or three events a week where he's cutting a ribbon on a bridge.

00:04:04.000 Here's a bridge.

00:04:05.000 Like I tell you, if you go into a grocery store, you go to the grocery store, you know, eggs and milk are expensive.

00:04:10.000 The fact that there's an effing bridge is not blank.

00:04:13.000 Speaking at an event hosted by the publication Democracy, a journal of ideas, the longtime Biden advisor went on to say that while the infrastructure being built under the Biden administration was positive, the president was thinking too narrowly and focusing on it.

00:04:23.000 He said he's not a congressman.

00:04:24.000 He's not running for Congress. 0.99

00:04:25.000 I think it's a fool's errand. 0.95

00:04:27.000 I think it doesn't get covered that much because look, it's an effing bridge. 0.99

00:04:30.000 Like, it's a bridge.

00:04:30.000 How interesting is a bridge?

00:04:33.000 In other words, a very frustrated former Chief of Staff to the President of the United States.

00:04:38.000 Once again, this means that Democrats are going to have to run against Donald Trump, not in favor of Joe Biden.

00:04:43.000 Again, Joe Biden's record when it comes to foreign policy is a full-scale disaster area, and not just a full-scale disaster area, a deeply immoral full-scale disaster area, as we'll get to a little bit later on.

00:04:53.000 We'll get some more on this in just a moment.

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00:06:04.000 On the economy, everybody is still holding their breath.

00:06:06.000 The reality is that the tremendous wage erosion that resulted from the inflationary spiral that Joe Biden created, that has not even come close to being made up by the wage increases that we are now seeing relative to inflation.

00:06:19.000 If you inflate, everybody's price is 20%.

00:06:22.000 And then you get like a 4 or 5% wage increase for like a quarter.

00:06:25.000 That ain't gonna make up for that giant gap that still exists in the market.

00:06:30.000 So this means the Democrats have to run on the thing that they think won Joe Biden the presidency in 2020, which is the idea that Donald Trump is an incipient tyrant.

00:06:39.000 The problem with this is that this has been played out.

00:06:41.000 We've heard the story before.

00:06:43.000 They're trying to run on January 6th to say it's a news story, but the reality is that it isn't really.

00:06:48.000 I mean, all of us remember January 6th.

00:06:51.000 The Democrats who perceive it to be an insurrection that put the very fabric of the country in danger are overstating the case.

00:06:58.000 Most people look at January 6th and what they see is an ugly riot that was then brought under control and then Joe Biden became president of the United States.

00:07:04.000 And so when Democrats say the country was this close to tyranny, most people are like, no, it really, really was not.

00:07:10.000 But Democrats can't stop themselves.

00:07:11.000 So, for example, this is the argument being made by Joe Biden.

00:07:14.000 Joe Biden did an interview.

00:07:16.000 It was about a week ago, six to eight days ago, actually.

00:07:18.000 And he did this interview with I believe Unificion, which is, of course, a left-wing Hispanic station.

00:07:26.000 And here he was suggesting that the greatest threat to American democracy is Donald Trump, which is kind of an amazing thing to say when you're the President of the United States who vows continually to overthrow the Supreme Court with regard to, say, student loans.

00:07:39.000 He tries to use your Occupational Safety and Health Administration to cram down vaccines on 80 million Americans.

00:07:46.000 That doesn't seem like the kind of person who I trust when it comes to adjudicating whether tyranny is occurring or not.

00:07:51.000 Here's Joe Biden.

00:07:53.000 What, in your view, constitutes the primary threat to freedom and democracy at home?

00:07:58.000 Donald Trump.

00:08:00.000 Seriously.

00:08:01.000 Donald Trump uses phrases like he's going to eviscerate the Constitution, he's going to be a dictator on day one.

00:08:09.000 I mean, it's just... And think of the things he says.

00:08:12.000 Look at the way he talks about Minority populations, Hispanics, you know, we're talking about them being... Anyway, it's just... I can't think of any other time in my lifetime, in history that's occurred, that you've had somebody who's had this kind of attitude.

00:08:31.000 He says he's going to be a dictator on day one.

00:08:34.000 No one doesn't believe him.

00:08:36.000 Uh, no, actually, what he says is, I'll be a dictator on day one to close the border, meaning he will use executive action to close the border, and then he says I won't be a dictator anymore.

00:08:44.000 By the way, I got a note here.

00:08:46.000 Joe Biden is holding notecards during an interview.

00:08:48.000 Now, I interview people, and that means sometimes I have my questions written down on notecards, because I'm the interviewer.

00:08:53.000 I have never held notecards as an interviewee.

00:08:56.000 That's bizarre.

00:08:57.000 It's weird, and once again speaks to the fact that the President of the United States is no longer with us.

00:09:03.000 Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi is once again trying to push a connection between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

00:09:09.000 They're just going to play the hits here.

00:09:11.000 So, who benefits from it?

00:09:16.000 Donald Trump.

00:09:17.000 Who benefits from Donald Trump?

00:09:19.000 Putin.

00:09:22.000 There's, in my view, a connection there.

00:09:25.000 In my view, there's a connection.

00:09:26.000 You've been saying this for legitimately eight years at this point, and if you still believe that Vladimir Putin is using Donald Trump as an op, I don't even know what to say to you.

00:09:36.000 This is so crazy.

00:09:38.000 First of all, you militarized the entire deep state to promote this lie that was rooted in Hillary Clinton and her campaign, and you've used eight years and laundered it through the media in order to obtain that story, and you're still pushing it, and then you say to me that I'm supposed to worry about Donald Trump's tyranny?

00:09:54.000 In the last election cycle, you literally used the federal government in order to pressure social media to take down a true story about Hunter Biden's laptop, saying that it was Russian disinformation.

00:10:03.000 And you militarized former intelligence associates to go out there and make public statements about how the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation.

00:10:10.000 So no, I don't believe you when it comes to your tyranny pitch.

00:10:14.000 Meanwhile, you have Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority Leader, who's out there saying that, you know, the impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas, we shouldn't do that because that's too political.

00:10:20.000 Impeachment shouldn't be used politically.

00:10:22.000 Again, do these people even own mirrors?

00:10:24.000 Are mirrors illegal in Democratic offices?

00:10:27.000 Your colleagues say you're going to offer a motion to dismiss the impeachment charges on Thursday.

00:10:32.000 Are you at all concerned that some Democrats have tough races over that and you'll come back to block them on

00:10:35.000 campaign trail?

00:10:37.000 Look, we're going to try and resolve this issue as quickly as possible.

00:10:42.000 Impeachment should never be used to settle policy disagreements.

00:10:48.000 Then why did they impeach Donald Trump twice without any criminal charges in the impeaching documents?

00:10:54.000 The people who are promoting the Trump is going to be a tyrant argument It makes it very rough to make that argument when you guys have attempted to impose tyranny on a wide variety of topics yourselves.

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00:12:05.000 And meanwhile, Democrats are going to try to shift the entire election to be about abortion.

00:12:09.000 This is why Donald Trump made what I've said.

00:12:11.000 It's a very savvy political move in dissociating himself from the issue entirely.

00:12:15.000 He says that the federal government should not be involved in the abortion issue.

00:12:18.000 Now, I've made the moral case that the federal government should in fact be involved in the moral issue.

00:12:23.000 With that said, the reality is the most criminal law occurs at the state level.

00:12:26.000 Virtually all criminal law occurs at the state level.

00:12:28.000 The most the President of the United States can do unilaterally without congressional approval is things like end the Mexico City policy, which is funding for abortion overseas, for example, or spending it Planned Parenthood domestically.

00:12:39.000 The reality is that there used to be a fairly wide consensus that the federal government should not involve itself in abortion by funding abortion.

00:12:46.000 Joe Biden is the one who broke that pact by saying that you and I should fund abortions across the country.

00:12:51.000 He's the one who said the Hyde Amendment should go.

00:12:54.000 So Donald Trump has made the move of trying to take the abortion issue off the table, at least for federal elections, by saying, I'm not going to do anything on it.

00:13:00.000 Again, as I say, as a pro-lifer, I wish that he would have said a 15-week position, but that's not what he said.

00:13:06.000 He's making what, again, is a politically moderate move by any stretch of the imagination by saying, let the states take care of it.

00:13:12.000 Well, yesterday, Democrats got a gift in the form of an Arizona State Supreme Court decision that reinstates a 160-year-old abortion ban in the state of Arizona.

00:13:22.000 According to the New York Times, Arizona's highest court on Tuesday upheld an 1864 law that bans nearly all abortions, a decision that could have far-reaching consequences for women's health care and election-year politics in a critical battleground state.

00:13:33.000 The court said in a 4-2 decision, physicians are now on notice that all abortions except those necessary to save a woman's life are illegal.

00:13:39.000 By the way, this gives the lie to the frequently used Democratic narrative that there were no abortion laws and no one cared about it until Roe vs. Wade.

00:13:45.000 There were abortion laws on virtually every state book Dating back centuries in this country.

00:13:51.000 The court, whose justices are all Republican appointees, also put the ruling on hold for the moment and sent the matter back to a lower court for additional arguments about the law's constitutionality.

00:13:59.000 Abortion providers said they expected to continue performing abortions through May as their lawyers and Democratic lawmakers search for new legal arguments and additional tactics to delay the ruling.

00:14:08.000 Okay, so the Arizona legislature, at this point, the governor, as you know, is not, in fact, Carrie Lake.

00:14:13.000 The governor is Katie Hobbs.

00:14:14.000 Carrie Lake lost to her, despite all of the rumors to the contrary. 0.97

00:14:17.000 She lost to the wet dish rag, who is Katie Hobbs. 1.00

00:14:19.000 Katie Hobbs is a Democrat.

00:14:21.000 Here is Katie Hobbs lamenting the decision.

00:14:25.000 It is a dark day in Arizona.

00:14:28.000 Just now, the Arizona Supreme Court issued its opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Mays, upholding one of the most extreme abortion bans in the country.

00:14:39.000 The Republican majority in the legislature has time and again refused to act to protect our freedoms.

00:14:45.000 They have refused to repeal this civil war, extreme civil war, near-total abortion ban.

00:14:51.000 In fact, the Senate President and House Speaker fought in this very case to keep this extreme ban in place.

00:14:58.000 and as it stands, they might have their way. They have refused to act to protect IVF and

00:15:03.000 contraception. Instead, they tell women to put aspirin between their knees. 0.78

00:15:08.000 No one says that. I'm proud to be a backstop to their extremism.

00:15:12.000 Arizona women should never have to fear the next court decision. 0.97

00:15:16.000 Yeah, first of all, you shouldn't have to fear a court decision because you shouldn't go get

00:15:22.000 an abortion.

00:15:23.000 Just as a moral matter, you should not pursue abortion and believe that the court is the imposition to you.

00:15:29.000 Because abortion is immoral, and wrong, and sinful. 0.94

00:15:33.000 But, put all of that aside.

00:15:35.000 The politics here are very good for Democrats because what Democrats want is for pro-lifers to move really fast and really hard in a wide variety of battleground states, hoping that they will then get the Michigan-Kansas response.

00:15:46.000 So as you recall, Kansas put a ballot measure on the ballot calling essentially for the ability to change the state constitution to allow for abortion legislation.

00:15:56.000 And opponents said they were going to ban all abortions in the state.

00:15:58.000 So instead, Kansas ended up enshrining abortion in the state constitution. 0.97

00:16:02.000 Same thing happened in Michigan.

00:16:04.000 So, this is an argument that I've had with many of my pro-life colleagues.

00:16:08.000 We all have the same exact position when it comes to life.

00:16:11.000 That life should be protected, ideally, from point of inception.

00:16:16.000 How you reach that in a durable manner, such that the law does not end up being reversed and allowing millions of abortions over the course of time, that is a pragmatic question.

00:16:25.000 And not every state is going to approach it the same.

00:16:27.000 Mississippi, Alabama, deep red states can pass very, very strict abortion bans, and things will be fine because the vast majority of the population supports that sort of thing.

00:16:38.000 When you go to Arizona, that is a very split state. 0.97

00:16:40.000 Right now, it has a Democratic governor, it has two Democratic senators, thanks to the stupidity of the Arizona Republican Party, and it has an extremely evenly split legislature in Arizona. 0.99

00:16:50.000 The legislature in Arizona is bicameral. 0.97

00:16:54.000 The Senate is split 16-14 in favor of Republicans, and the House is split 31-29 in favor of Republicans.

00:17:01.000 So a very, very close split.

00:17:03.000 Presumably, there are some quote-unquote moderate Republicans in the state who would vote with Democrats in order to get rid of the 1864 law.

00:17:09.000 If they got rid of the 1864 law, then a 2022 law that was passed when a Republican governor, Doug Ducey, was in office, provided for a 15-week ban.

00:17:18.000 My guess is that that is what Katie Hobbs is going to be able to get away with unless she were to veto a repeal of the law, which makes no sense. 1.00

00:17:25.000 So I wouldn't be surprised if she actually gets her repeal in the state of Arizona with a few dodgy Republicans signing off on that. 0.96

00:17:32.000 Politically speaking, Democrats are hoping to elevate this to the federal level.

00:17:35.000 Now, that would be very silly because the reality is the President of the United States, if he were Donald Trump, would have nothing to say about abortion law in Arizona.

00:17:43.000 The reason the Democrats are elevating this, not just on the state level, but on the national level, is because they are hoping that they're going to be able to pin the full pro-life position on Donald Trump federally, even though this is happening in the state of Arizona.

00:17:54.000 So Margaret Hoover, for example, she's out there, sort of moderate left-wing Republican, out there saying that Donald Trump is going to lose Arizona now because of all of this.

00:18:03.000 I have spoken to state electeds in the last hour.

00:18:07.000 Republican state electeds.

00:18:09.000 And they believe that this will absolutely flip the legislature.

00:18:12.000 This will absolutely impact the presidential election.

00:18:15.000 This has Republicans now on their back feet.

00:18:17.000 There is no way Donald Trump is going to carry this state.

00:18:20.000 Well, Trump has said, Trump has said that he put it to the states.

00:18:25.000 So, well, they put it to the states.

00:18:27.000 That's what you get in Arizona.

00:18:28.000 Well, how's it going?

00:18:29.000 It's not going to go so well for him in Arizona.

00:18:32.000 Well, I mean, but it may if people see that he actually has no impact.

00:18:36.000 In other words, even if some people vote for, say, Democrats in the state legislature because they really like abortion, that doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to vote for Joe Biden because Donald Trump is going to provide for Arizona to do kind of what it wants to do.

00:18:50.000 That is why Trump did what he did, politically speaking.

00:18:52.000 He actually preempted the Arizona Supreme Court decision by taking it off the federal table.

00:18:57.000 Democrats are insistent on putting it back on the table.

00:18:59.000 That's why Senator Mark Kelly, Democrat from Arizona, He suggests that Donald Trump is now going to go after contraception.

00:19:05.000 Can you explain why the Arizona Supreme Court would rule this way?

00:19:09.000 Well, Jake, let me start by saying this is a disaster for women in Arizona. 1.00

00:19:14.000 Arizona women deserve the right to make their own decision about abortion, and now they can't because of Donald Trump. 1.00

00:19:21.000 I think what I'm more worried about is what's next.

00:19:24.000 I mean, if Donald Trump, I don't believe he's going to be re-elected, but is his next thing on his agenda to take away other rights?

00:19:32.000 I mean, is it to take away the right to contraception from women? 1.00

00:19:38.000 Okay, this is ridiculous. 0.79

00:19:39.000 Donald Trump appointed justices who kicked it back to the states. 0.77

00:19:42.000 His current position on all of these issues, I would assume, is they belong in the states.

00:19:46.000 I love how federalism is now being conflated with tyranny.

00:19:49.000 Remember, Donald Trump is a threat to you. 0.98

00:19:51.000 Donald Trump is a tyrant, according to Democrats. 0.98

00:19:53.000 He is such a tyrant that he's going to let you vote in your states on what you want to do, which is what all tyrants do. 0.99

00:19:57.000 They delegate power back to the states. 0.94

00:19:59.000 Incredible tyranny there from Donald Trump.

00:20:01.000 Meanwhile, Democrats are like, we need full-scale abortion legislation at the top level that enshrines abortion to point to birth, basically.

00:20:08.000 We'll do that at the federal level, but we're not the tyrants.

00:20:10.000 Donald Trump is the tyrant.

00:20:11.000 He's the one who wants control. 0.99

00:20:14.000 Carrie Lake is doing the same thing that Donald Trump did. 1.00

00:20:16.000 She put out a statement.

00:20:16.000 She's running for Senate in Arizona.

00:20:18.000 She's the presumptive Republican nominee in the state, quote, In addition to covering the state of Arizona as a fair and honest journalist for 27 years, I've traveled to every corner of the state on the campaign trail.

00:20:26.000 I speak to more Arizonans than anyone.

00:20:27.000 It is abundantly clear the pre-statehood law is out of step with Arizonans.

00:20:30.000 I'm the only woman and mother in this race.

00:20:32.000 I understand the fear, anxiety, and joy of pregnancy and motherhood.

00:20:34.000 I wholeheartedly agree with President Trump.

00:20:36.000 This is a very personal issue that should be determined by each individual state.

00:20:39.000 And for people, I oppose today's ruling.

00:20:41.000 I'm calling on Katie Hobbs and the state legislature to come up with an immediate common-sense solution that Arizonans can support.

00:20:46.000 So, Carrie Lay, because she's a candidate for federal Senate, not for the state legislature in Arizona, has the capacity to basically say, okay, we're just going to avoid this issue altogether. 0.96

00:20:58.000 So Republicans are clearly on the federal level trying to avoid the issue altogether, which by the way, is kind of the way the federalist system works, right?

00:21:05.000 The reality is that on a state-by-state level, Criminal law gets decided.

00:21:09.000 And it's not the same in every state.

00:21:11.000 Now, I'll make the moral case that Republicans on the federal level should do something.

00:21:14.000 That doesn't mean they're going to have the power to do any of those things.

00:21:17.000 And by the way, it's not very clear.

00:21:18.000 According to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court would even let them do something that goes beyond, say, a 15-week ban on the federal level.

00:21:25.000 Right now, the only abortion legislation that is on the books on the federal level is partial birth abortion, which is extraordinarily late abortion bans on the federal level.

00:21:36.000 And again, even when it comes to those federal abortion laws, how they apply in the states is always sort of a matter of weirdness.

00:21:43.000 Because the reality is, again, that intrastate crime is prosecuted intrastate.

00:21:46.000 So whenever you have a piece of federal legislation that criminalizes an activity, the question is whether it has any nexus with intrastate activity.

00:21:54.000 It actually has to have some sort of activity that crosses state borders or impacts the federal government in some way.

00:21:59.000 So, the Democrats, Have a bit of a conundrum.

00:22:02.000 The conundrum is that Donald Trump is more moderate than they are on this issue by every available metric.

00:22:07.000 Joe Biden is abortion to point of birth.

00:22:09.000 Donald Trump is I'm not going to touch this thing.

00:22:11.000 Send it back to the states.

00:22:13.000 That's the actual position.

00:22:14.000 Good news for Democrats. 0.90

00:22:15.000 They have the media who are willing to lie for them.

00:22:17.000 We'll get to more on this in just a moment.

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00:23:10.000 So yesterday, this is an incredible and undercover story.

00:23:13.000 Basically, the Democrat media complex is so unbelievably strong, like unbelievably strong.

00:23:16.000 faster, smoother, more efficiently, that's ramp.com slash Shapiro.

00:23:20.000 So yesterday, this is an incredible and undercovered story.

00:23:23.000 Basically, the Democrat media complex is so unbelievably strong, like unbelievably strong.

00:23:30.000 So yesterday, USA Today ran a headline about President Trump's abortion position.

00:23:36.000 And the original headline said, quote, the will of the people.

00:23:39.000 Trump opposes national abortion ban, says states should decide.

00:23:43.000 That's accurate.

00:23:44.000 That is, in fact, what Donald Trump said.

00:23:46.000 He said, I don't want any federal legislation.

00:23:48.000 This is something that needs to be decided by the people in the states.

00:23:51.000 And then he used the phrase will of the people.

00:23:53.000 We talked about it and criticized it a little bit yesterday on a moral level.

00:23:56.000 So what happened?

00:23:58.000 The Biden campaign got on a conference call with the press.

00:24:02.000 Trump is proudly responsible for the nightmare women like Caitlyn Cash are living through.

00:24:05.000 Communications Director Brooke Gorin and Caitlin Cash in response to Trump's announcement.

00:24:11.000 And then Gorin went off on USA Today. So here's what she had to say.

00:24:15.000 Trump is proudly responsible for the nightmare women like Caitlin Cash are living through.

00:24:22.000 Trump kept his word to overturn Roe in his last term, and he will not rest until he has banned

00:24:28.000 abortion across the entire country, period. We all know this, and the coverage needs to reflect it.

00:24:35.000 Yet today, we're still reading headlines that say Trump, quote, declines to endorse a national abortion ban.

00:24:41.000 That Trump, quote, rebuffed pressure to the campaign on a national limit.

00:24:46.000 That Trump, quote, decided to punt the politically fraught issue to the states.

00:24:51.000 and not back a national abortion ban.

00:24:54.000 One particularly egregiously false headline even said Trump quote opposes a national abortion ban and will leave it and will leave it up to the quote the will of the people.

00:25:05.000 Trump didn't decline anything all he did was take credit again for the nightmare he created.

00:25:10.000 That's the news that's important here.

00:25:14.000 Okay, that's a lie!

00:25:15.000 He did, in fact, rebuff Republican pressure to push for a national abortion ban in, say, 15 weeks.

00:25:20.000 That's why Mike Pence is angry at him.

00:25:21.000 That's why many pro-lifers, including me, are upset with his moral position on this particular issue.

00:25:27.000 But what happened?

00:25:28.000 The Biden campaign gets on and they lie.

00:25:31.000 They say that all of these perfectly accurate headlines, the headline that Trump decided to punt the politically fraught issue to the states, they say that those are false.

00:25:38.000 And the media hopped to immediately.

00:25:40.000 USA Today takes down the accurate headline and then proceeds to promote a non-accurate headline.

00:25:47.000 The new headline from USA Today is, Donald Trump says states should decide abortion policy, avoids talk of a national ban.

00:25:53.000 He didn't just avoid talk of a national ban.

00:25:55.000 He said he wasn't gonna do it.

00:25:57.000 We played the video like two days ago.

00:25:59.000 He said, I am not going to engage with this issue.

00:26:02.000 That's not avoiding talk of it.

00:26:03.000 He's saying he's not doing it.

00:26:05.000 But the reality is the Biden campaign wants to paint Donald Trump's position as Mike Pence's position or my position.

00:26:12.000 And it's not.

00:26:13.000 It's a different position.

00:26:14.000 It's why he's receiving flack from right-wing pro-lifers.

00:26:17.000 And what does the media do?

00:26:18.000 They immediately start just mimicking whatever the Biden administration wants them to say.

00:26:22.000 There's nothing wrong with the original headline.

00:26:25.000 The Democrats just launder their own perspectives right into the headlines.

00:26:28.000 So how are they able to do this?

00:26:29.000 The answer is everybody who works for the media is a Democrat.

00:26:32.000 Literally everyone.

00:26:34.000 If you go to the halls of the news offices at the New York Times, there are no registered Republicans who voted for Donald Trump.

00:26:42.000 At least not publicly.

00:26:45.000 In the New York Times, that probably includes even their editorial page.

00:26:47.000 Even their quote-unquote right-wing columnists.

00:26:49.000 People like David French over at the New York Times.

00:26:54.000 Did not vote for Trump and will not vote for Trump in 2024.

00:26:57.000 There's literal, maybe Ross do that.

00:26:59.000 Well, maybe, but he hasn't made that clear.

00:27:01.000 If you go over to the Washington Post and you go over to their news pages, the news reporting angles, the news pages are less balanced than the editorial side.

00:27:09.000 The editorial side at least has Hugh Hewitt and Mark Thiessen who sometimes write for them.

00:27:12.000 But the actual news side?

00:27:14.000 Zero Republicans.

00:27:14.000 Zero.

00:27:15.000 And that's particularly true at NPR.

00:27:16.000 We'll get to more on this in a moment.

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00:28:18.000 So, fascinating piece by Uri Berliner, who's a veteran at NPR.

00:28:22.000 And he, over at the Free Press, Barry Weiss' outlet.

00:28:25.000 He says, you know the stereotype of an NPR listener, an EV-driving, whirl-playing, tote-bag-carrying coastal elite.

00:28:31.000 It doesn't precisely describe me, but it's not far off.

00:28:33.000 I'm Sarah Lawrence, educator, was raised by a lesbian, peace activist mother, I drive a Subaru, and Spotify says my listening habits are most similar to people in Berkeley.

00:28:40.000 I fit the NPR mold, I'll cop to that.

00:28:42.000 So when I got a job here 25 years ago, I never looked back.

00:28:45.000 As a senior editor on the business desk, where news is always breaking, we've covered upheavals in the workplace, supermarket prices, social media, and AI.

00:28:51.000 It's true, NPR has always had a liberal bent.

00:28:53.000 But during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed.

00:28:56.000 We were nerdy, but not knee-jerk activists or scolding.

00:28:58.000 In recent years, however, that has changed.

00:29:00.000 Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different.

00:29:04.000 The distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S.

00:29:06.000 population.

00:29:08.000 If you're a conservative, you'll read this and say, duh, it's always been this way, but it hasn't.

00:29:11.000 For decades, since its founding in 1970, a wide swath of America tuned into NPR for reliable journalism and gorgeous audio pieces with birds singing in the Amazon.

00:29:19.000 Millions came to us for conversations that exposed us to voices around the country and the world radically different from our own.

00:29:25.000 Back in 2011, although NPR's audience tilted a bit to the left, it still bore resemblance to America at large.

00:29:30.000 26% of listeners described themselves as conservative, 23% as moderate, 37% as liberal.

00:29:33.000 By 2023, the picture was different.

00:29:34.000 11% said conservative, 21% moderate, 67% liberal.

00:29:35.000 Why?

00:29:35.000 By 2023, the picture was different.

00:29:37.000 11% said conservative, 21% moderate, 67% liberal.

00:29:42.000 Why? Because of Donald Trump.

00:29:45.000 As Ari Berliner says, like many unfortunate things, the rise of advocacy took off with Donald Trump.

00:29:51.000 As in many newsrooms, his election in 2016 was greeted at NPR with a mixture of disbelief, anger, and despair.

00:29:57.000 But what began as tough, straightforward coverage of a belligerent, truth-impaired president veered toward efforts to damage or topple Trump's presidency.

00:30:04.000 At NPR, we hitched our wagon to Trump's most visible antagonist, Representative Adam Schiff.

00:30:10.000 It's one thing to swing and miss on a major story.

00:30:12.000 It happens.

00:30:13.000 What's worse is to pretend it never happened, but Russiagate was not NPR's only miscue.

00:30:19.000 And he points out the Hunter Biden laptop story, where NPR literally said they would not cover it.

00:30:23.000 Or the lab leak theory, which they said they would not cover.

00:30:27.000 The point is that NPR is completely, completely dominated by Democrats.

00:30:31.000 It's an assembly line mentality.

00:30:33.000 So, of course, they are just taking stenographic dictation from the Biden administration.

00:30:39.000 That's all they do.

00:30:40.000 That's all the editors at USA Today are doing.

00:30:42.000 That's all the editors of the Washington Post are doing, or the New York Times.

00:30:44.000 They are just creating an echo chamber in which their columnists speak directly to Joe Biden in the same way that people accused Donald Trump of taking his cues from Fox and Friends.

00:30:54.000 Joe Biden takes his cues from the New York Times editorial board.

00:30:56.000 He gets his foreign policy from Thomas Friedman.

00:30:58.000 He gets his domestic policy from, like, Nikole Hannah-Jones on race.

00:31:02.000 And he gets his economic policy from Thomas Edsel.

00:31:06.000 Maybe. 0.96

00:31:08.000 It's ridiculous. 0.89

00:31:10.000 And this little echo chamber acts as a propagator of falsehood on behalf of Democrats, which is why they were perfectly happy to switch all of their headlines in a false way with regard to Trump's abortion position. 0.82

00:31:22.000 So once again, you're gonna see Arizona magnified.

00:31:24.000 Now, here's the reality of how things are gonna go in Arizona, as I said earlier.

00:31:26.000 They have a Democratic governor.

00:31:28.000 They have an incredibly closely split House and Senate in Arizona.

00:31:32.000 There's a very good shot that Democrats will be able to peel off a couple of Republicans to vote for the repeal of an 1864 law on abortion, whether or not I like it, whether or not I think it's morally right.

00:31:42.000 And then, the 15-week abortion ban that was passed by Doug Ducey will be the law of the land in Arizona, and everybody will go about their merry way.

00:31:48.000 That is the likelihood of what's going to happen here.

00:31:50.000 In the same way that in Alabama, a huge deal was made out of an Alabama state Supreme Court case with regard to the discarding of embryos against the will of one of the parents, suggesting that they had some rights to embryos.

00:32:02.000 And this was supposed to cause all sorts of issues for IVF.

00:32:04.000 And the Alabama state legislature immediately gathered and passed a law that protected IVF.

00:32:09.000 It turns out that the states are in fact good laboratories for this sort of stuff.

00:32:14.000 And it also turns out that the predominant power in criminal law, once again, lies with the state.

00:32:19.000 That's why Donald Trump is doing what Donald Trump is doing.

00:32:21.000 But the media have to somehow launder Arizona into a federal story when it is a state story.

00:32:25.000 They have to launder Alabama into a federal story when it is a state story.

00:32:29.000 Meanwhile, we are supposed to pretend that crime problems in Portland are a state story and not a federal story, so we can't impute any of the crime problems in the country to Joe Biden.

00:32:37.000 That's how this works.

00:32:38.000 In the same way that the media decide what's a local news story and what's a national news story based on the narrative. 0.91

00:32:43.000 White guy shoots black man, national news story. 0.97

00:32:45.000 Black guy shoots white man, local crime story. 0.98

00:32:47.000 The same thing happens with regard to pretty much every political lens.

00:32:51.000 The state Supreme Court in Arizona goes back to an 1864 pro-life law, national news story, everyone worry, you gotta freak out if you're in California.

00:33:00.000 Meanwhile, if the state of Kansas passes a law that basically enshrines abortion to point of birth, State news story just about how the people of Kansas have found moderation.

00:33:09.000 Not a national news story that implicates Joe Biden in abortion radicalism in any way, shape, or form.

00:33:15.000 Incredibly corrupt media coverage.

00:33:17.000 Again, they are a reality distortion field, our legacy media.

00:33:20.000 And that reality distortion field is in fact run by the Democrats.

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00:34:10.000 Now, all of what's happening in Arizona underscores something that is fundamentally wrong with American politics, and that is what Americans most want.

00:34:17.000 This has been true for years.

00:34:18.000 What Americans most want is stability.

00:34:21.000 That's what most Americans want.

00:34:22.000 They want something that is stable and predictable and non-radical.

00:34:25.000 And so it is in the interest of both parties to Interpret the other party's action as radical while attempting to position themselves as moderate.

00:34:34.000 Instead, what has happened is that both parties are successfully calling the other radical.

00:34:39.000 Also, both parties are falling hostage to their actual radical base because there is this move that's been happening inside both parties to suggest that you need the passionate, the most passionate.

00:34:48.000 Those are the people who are going to drive the bus.

00:34:49.000 Let's put the passionate people in charge of the bus. 0.63

00:34:51.000 Now, in no other industry do you actually want the most passionate people in charge of the bus.

00:34:57.000 In most other industries, what you want is passionate people who are going to do the difficult work, the difficult on-the-ground work that needs to be done, and they have the passion to actually do it.

00:35:07.000 You don't actually want the doctor who is emotionally unhinged performing the surgery.

00:35:13.000 What you want is people who are very passionate about the thing to do a lot of the sort of on-the-ground door-knocking, if you're in a political campaign, for example.

00:35:20.000 What you don't want them to do is define policy.

00:35:22.000 Well, both parties have decided that they are basically going to surrender to their fringes.

00:35:27.000 And that is a real problem.

00:35:28.000 It's a real problem.

00:35:29.000 This problem is cropping up, as I've talked about all this week, with regard to Marjorie Taylor Greene.

00:35:33.000 Marjorie Taylor Greene is not a responsible legislator. 0.99

00:35:36.000 She has attempted to position herself as more of one since she, a couple of years ago, sort of burst onto the scene by saying incredibly silly things.

00:35:43.000 Well now, Marjorie Taylor Greene is saying that she is going to follow through on her threat to force a vote to unseat Mike Johnson, who is a significantly more conservative legislator than Marjorie Taylor Greene has ever been.

00:35:54.000 Marjorie Taylor Greene's positions are heterodox on a wide variety of issues.

00:35:59.000 She also happens to say things that really make it difficult for Republicans to retain power, which does raise the question as to whether these fringe Republicans actually want to retain power, or be in power, or do anything, or what they really want is to be in the opposition.

00:36:13.000 Because when you're in the opposition, you can yell at the moon, and you can get on TV yelling at the moon.

00:36:17.000 When you're in the majority, just act like you're in the opposition.

00:36:20.000 So Marjorie Taylor Greene did an event the other day in Rome, Georgia, where she said that the House Republicans had quote-unquote failed completely Which is weird, because they've actually done more to restrict the spending habits of Joe Biden than the Democrats did.

00:36:36.000 There's not much you can do when the Senate is dominated by Democrats and the President's a Democrat.

00:36:41.000 And then, she calls Mike Johnson a Democrat, which is an insane proposition.

00:36:45.000 By every possible permutation, that's crazy.

00:36:47.000 Mike Johnson is a down-the-line conservative.

00:36:50.000 He's typically conservative.

00:36:51.000 He's hawkish on foreign policy, he's fiscally conservative, and he's socially conservative.

00:36:56.000 He's much more consistently conservative than anybody like Marjorie Taylor Greene.

00:36:59.000 And then she adds that she regrets that January 6th was not successful.

00:37:02.000 The big failing is that Donald Trump didn't retain the presidency after January 6th.

00:37:06.000 If you think this is the pathway back to the majority, oust the Speaker and follow Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to minority permanently.

00:37:13.000 Because that's the kind of tactics she is aiming for.

00:37:15.000 It has nothing to do with the benefit of the Republic and everything to do with the magnification of Marjorie Taylor Greene as a famous person.

00:37:22.000 Here she was yesterday saying a pretty solid combination of things that will wind the Republicans up with a minority in the House, and then you get to watch and see what a Joe Biden presidency dominated by Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer looks like.

00:37:36.000 Here we go.

00:37:38.000 We should be prepared to hold on and do what is right.

00:37:43.000 To do what our voters sent us to do.

00:37:47.000 But that has not happened this Congress.

00:37:51.000 As a matter of fact, our Republican House majority has failed completely.

00:37:56.000 He's not our Republican Speaker of the House.

00:37:58.000 He's the Democrat Speaker of the House.

00:38:01.000 And he's doing a better job than Hakeem Jeffries.

00:38:04.000 Actually, if I had it my way, we would have been successful in our objection on January 6th, and he wouldn't even be

00:38:11.000 president.

00:38:11.000 Okay, so if you had magically had your way and overthrown the Constitution of the United States and how state

00:38:18.000 certification efforts work, Donald Trump...

00:38:21.000 Forget about whether people in our district like this.

00:38:23.000 Maybe they do.

00:38:25.000 Do you think this is not going to be a national issue for Republicans?

00:38:28.000 Democrats make it the focus of their campaign to find the most radical Republican and then smear every Republican with that person.

00:38:33.000 And you know what helps in that effort? 0.87

00:38:35.000 A dumbass rule negotiated by Kevin McCarthy to allow for one person to challenge the Speaker. 0.83

00:38:42.000 So Marjorie Taylor Greene has done that. 0.86

00:38:44.000 And she's setting up the math such that if she challenges him that he will have to rely on the votes of Democrats in order to get him over the hump.

00:38:54.000 To which I say, he should do it anyway.

00:38:56.000 Because either Mike Johnson is going to run the house, or Marjorie Taylor Greene is going to run the house. 0.99

00:39:00.000 And then, if Marjorie Taylor Greene runs the house, then Hakeem Jeffries is going to run the house.

00:39:05.000 That's just how this is going to go.

00:39:07.000 If the Chaos Caucus decides that they are the ones in charge, if they are the captain now, then this ship is sinking, and it's sinking right quick.

00:39:14.000 She says that he's the Democrat Speaker of the House.

00:39:16.000 He's worse than Akeem Jeffries.

00:39:17.000 We're going to find out if she has her way, because Akeem Jeffries will be Speaker of the House if she has her way, which is why I've been encouraging all week long the Speaker of the House to simply nuke this rule.

00:39:26.000 This rule needs to go away.

00:39:27.000 You cannot allow yourself to be held hostage by a group of people who have no interest in governing, who do not know what the role of the legislature actually is, who seem to think that they are up for a slot On R-S-B-N?

00:39:42.000 Like a nighttime guest slot every night?

00:39:44.000 Their entire M.O.

00:39:46.000 is to just get on networks and say things?

00:39:50.000 Again, the job of people like me is to say where Republicans stray from principle and where they meet principle.

00:39:56.000 The job of Republican legislatures is to get the best deal they can.

00:39:59.000 That is not the same job. 0.96

00:40:01.000 The fact that Republican caucuses decided to cave to a bunch of social media faux-legislators is incredibly silly. 1.00

00:40:07.000 It's really dumb. 0.99

00:40:08.000 Now, of course, that's not universal to the Republican side. 0.99

00:40:10.000 Democrats have done this too.

00:40:11.000 They've decided they're basically going to let the squad drive the boat.

00:40:14.000 The Hamas squad is now driving the boat in the Democratic Party. 0.97

00:40:17.000 This is why Joe Biden, once again, clean up on aisle Biden.

00:40:22.000 So Joe Biden did an interview, as you mentioned earlier in the show, with Unificion.

00:40:25.000 That was last week.

00:40:28.000 This interview was done immediately in the aftermath of the World Central Kitchen tragedy in which Israel accidentally struck a World Central Kitchen convoy and killed seven people.

00:40:38.000 In the middle of the war.

00:40:40.000 And Joe Biden, in this interview, says that the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, is quote-unquote, making a mistake on Gaza, and then he says he wants a six- to eight-week ceasefire without any hostage release.

00:40:50.000 There are five American hostages still being held. 0.91

00:40:52.000 I know that we're supposed to not give a crap about that for some odd reason.

00:40:55.000 I know we're supposed to care deeply about Evan Gerskowitz, the journalist from the Wall Street Journal, being held in captivity by the Russians. 0.95

00:41:02.000 I know that we're gonna spend... We're gonna let actual...

00:41:06.000 Terror masters go free in order to regain the possession of Brittany Griner, a WNBA player.

00:41:14.000 But these are five American hostages who happen to be Jewish, so apparently Joe Biden didn't care about that, and he's not going to mention it in any way, shape, or form.

00:41:20.000 Or at the very least, Gershkowitz is Jewish, but he's being held by Russia.

00:41:23.000 So he hates Russia because he thinks Russia is linked to Donald Trump or some such.

00:41:28.000 In any case, here is Joe Biden basically just taking Hamas's position.

00:41:32.000 The wingnuts have captured the Democratic Party.

00:41:37.000 I think what he's doing is a mistake.

00:41:39.000 I don't agree with his approach.

00:41:40.000 I think it's outrageous that those three vehicles were hit by drones and taken out on a highway where it wasn't like it was along the shore, it wasn't like there was a convoy moving here, etc.

00:41:55.000 So what I'm calling for is for the Israelis to just call for a ceasefire Allow for the next six, eight weeks total access to all food and medicine going into the country.

00:42:12.000 I've spoken with everyone from the Saudis to the Jordanians to the Egyptians.

00:42:18.000 They're prepared to move in.

00:42:19.000 They're prepared to move this food in.

00:42:22.000 And I think there's no excuse to not provide for the medical and the food needs of those people.

00:42:32.000 They should be done now.

00:42:34.000 Okay, so in other words, he wants Israel to simply cease fire and not kill any more Hamas terrorists, not go into Rafah, not do anything for six to eight weeks.

00:42:41.000 And in return, Israel would get nothing. 0.50

00:42:44.000 That is what he is saying.

00:42:46.000 Hamas would be left in place.

00:42:47.000 Hamas could get aid.

00:42:48.000 Hamas steals that aid, of course. 0.55

00:42:50.000 We'll get to more on this in a second.

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00:43:54.000 The White House had to clean this up yesterday.

00:43:56.000 They flatly denied a shift in policy after Biden called on Israel to agree to a six to eight week ceasefire.

00:44:01.000 According to a White House official, quote, there is no change in our position.

00:44:04.000 The president was reiterating our longstanding position.

00:44:06.000 We are calling for an immediate ceasefire that would last for at least six weeks as part of a hostage deal.

00:44:10.000 And now, of course, he didn't say anything about the hostages there because they're lying.

00:44:13.000 He's been captured by his radical left, and they don't want to admit that he's been captured by his radical left, so they're trying to walk that back to suggest that actually the White House wants this as part of a hostage deal.

00:44:22.000 There's only one problem.

00:44:23.000 When you say this sort of stuff, Hamas knows it has you by the short hairs, which is why they are refusing every ceasefire deal offered to them right now.

00:44:31.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Israel and Hamas on Tuesday were considering a new U.S.

00:44:34.000 proposal for a ceasefire in the war on Gaza and the freeing of some hostages still held by the militant group.

00:44:39.000 But mediators cautioned the two sides remain far from a deal.

00:44:41.000 And in fact, every time the media report that they're close to a deal, Hamas then kills the deal.

00:44:45.000 Why?

00:44:45.000 Because they know that if they just retain pressure on Joe Biden, Joe Biden will cave.

00:44:49.000 His entire party continues to clamor for him to cave to Hamas and leave them in place.

00:44:54.000 Here is Senator Tim Kaine, former forgotten vice presidential candidate under Hillary Clinton, saying that the United States should cease all offensive aid to Israel.

00:45:02.000 They should just give them defensive weaponry like Iron Dome or something.

00:45:05.000 But they shouldn't give them enough ammunition to, you know, kill members of Hamas.

00:45:10.000 I have also urged the president in delivery of aid to Israel to restrict it to defensive weapons.

00:45:16.000 Israel has to defend itself against Hamas, against Iran, against Hezbollah, against the Houthis, against militias.

00:45:22.000 Let's help them defend themselves. 0.60

00:45:23.000 But there are weapons that are primarily offensive in nature and we should hold those back.

00:45:28.000 We should hold back offensive weaponry.

00:45:31.000 Great strategy against the terror group.

00:45:32.000 Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi, she's doing this routine. 0.88

00:45:35.000 The usual Democratic routine when it comes to legislation on anything is, there has to be an answer.

00:45:40.000 There has to be a better way.

00:45:41.000 They say this about guns all the time.

00:45:43.000 Well, you know, I don't know how to solve it, but there has to be something we can do.

00:45:47.000 So now she's doing this with regard to war-making policy.

00:45:51.000 The United States and the West will never win another war with this kind of logic.

00:45:54.000 Ever, ever, for the rest of time.

00:45:56.000 Because it turns out, when it comes to war, there is no better way.

00:45:59.000 There is no clean way to wage war.

00:46:01.000 There is no clean way to wage war, particularly when you are granting an incentive to the enemy to hide among women and children, because the minute they do, they are calling safety.

00:46:09.000 Here is Nancy Pelosi.

00:46:11.000 Look, October 7th was barbaric.

00:46:15.000 It was horrible, what they did to the Israeli people and the rest. 0.99

00:46:21.000 Hamas is a terrorist organization.

00:46:23.000 We need to free the hostages, all of the hostages.

00:46:27.000 But nearly 33,000 people dying, people starving, hydration, famine, and the rest.

00:46:37.000 There has to be a better way.

00:46:39.000 Israel has the best record of terrorist to civilian kill ratio, because they don't want to kill civilians, they're trying to minimize it, of any modern army in the history of warfare. 0.56

00:46:50.000 It doesn't matter.

00:46:51.000 Nancy Pelosi is still calling for this. 0.72

00:46:52.000 And Joe Biden is captured by the swing of his party.

00:46:54.000 Meanwhile, the Biden administration has to straddle this peculiar line, because as it turns out, it actually is not in America's interest to watch Hamas win. 0.98

00:47:01.000 So Lloyd Austin, our rather dull Secretary of Defense, He even said yesterday there's no evidence Israel is committing a genocide because Israel is of course not committing a genocide contrary to idiots on all sides of the aisle who seem to not understand the meaning of words. 0.91

00:47:18.000 I swear every time we talk about people who say that Israel is committing a genocide I feel like Inigo Montoya in Princess Bride. 0.93

00:47:25.000 I do not think that word means what you think it means.

00:47:28.000 Words have definitions.

00:47:29.000 You don't care about the definitions.

00:47:30.000 You're just looking to hit Israel with the slander that they are doing to others what was done to them during the Holocaust. 0.99

00:47:36.000 There's some such absolute tripe and garbage. 0.98

00:47:38.000 Here is Tom Cotton questioning the Secretary of Defense. 0.99

00:47:40.000 I want to address what the protesters raised earlier.

00:47:44.000 Is Israel committing genocide in Gaza?

00:47:47.000 Senator Cotton, we don't have any evidence of genocide being created.

00:47:53.000 That's a no.

00:47:54.000 Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza.

00:47:56.000 We don't have evidence of that.

00:47:57.000 Thank you.

00:47:59.000 Again, this is not a hard answer.

00:48:01.000 The fact that he has to kind of struggle for the words is pretty incredible.

00:48:04.000 Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, he points out that Joe Biden has indulged his radical base.

00:48:11.000 America cannot afford to lose moral clarity about the conflict.

00:48:16.000 But I'm afraid that too many of our leaders are.

00:48:21.000 President Biden expressed outrage at last week's deadly accident, an event his own administration acknowledged was a tragic accident, which begs the question of whether he's also outraged at the way Israel's terrorist aggressors violate international law by turning hospitals and schools into fighting positions.

00:48:46.000 Instead of welcoming Israel's swift Investigation and efforts to hold personnel accountable for their mistakes, accountability that has been sorely lacking during President Biden's own administration, the President caved further to domestic political pressure.

00:49:07.000 He indulged his radical base and called for an immediate ceasefire.

00:49:13.000 That, of course, is exactly correct, which is why Iran is just holding steady at this point.

00:49:17.000 They figure, why do anything?

00:49:19.000 We've got Biden exactly where we want him. 1.00

00:49:22.000 I mean, well, again, I have a hard time knowing whether to attribute Democrats' moral blindness to true moral corruption or just stupidity. 1.00

00:49:29.000 It makes it harder when many of the morally blind are also just plain stupid. 1.00

00:49:32.000 Sheila Jackson Lee had the quote of the day yesterday and probably for the month. 0.99

00:49:38.000 This is the quality of person that we elect to Congress now.

00:49:42.000 Sometimes you've heard the word full moon.

00:49:43.000 over the place. This is the quality of person representative Sheila Jackson Lee.

00:49:45.000 She's been in Congress by the way for a very long time, Sheila Jackson Lee.

00:49:50.000 She is from Texas, the 18th district over there. Here she was explaining the moon.

00:49:56.000 Sometimes you've heard the word full moon. Sometimes you need to take the

00:50:00.000 opportunity just to come out and see a full moon is that complete rounded

00:50:04.000 circle which is made up mostly of gases. And that's why the question the question

00:50:11.000 is why or how could we as humans live on the moon.

00:50:16.000 Are the gases such that we could do that?

00:50:19.000 The sun is a mighty powerful heat that is almost impossible to go near the sun.

00:50:28.000 The moon is more manageable and you will see in a moment, or not a moment, you'll see in a couple of years that NASA is going back to the moon.

00:50:44.000 Oh, she's putting on her glasses.

00:50:46.000 Having some trouble here putting on those glasses.

00:50:47.000 Oh, wow.

00:50:48.000 Okay, she can't get the glasses on.

00:50:51.000 She's trying, she doesn't have them over her eyes.

00:50:52.000 She's got them over, like, the bottom of her nose.

00:50:54.000 It's like watching my four-year-old trying to put on glasses.

00:50:56.000 My goodness.

00:50:58.000 Like, that's not where glasses go, lady. 0.98

00:50:59.000 They're not over your nose.

00:51:00.000 And then she's looking up in the sky with the glasses over her nose.

00:51:03.000 What is happening right now?

00:51:05.000 Glasses are, they're not...

00:51:07.000 They're not supposed to block the sun from hitting your smell sense.

00:51:10.000 She just cannot get this on her face.

00:51:12.000 I mean, this is continuing, by the way.

00:51:15.000 Okay, this clip is continuing.

00:51:16.000 She cannot get the glasses on her eyes.

00:51:19.000 She put it on her nose.

00:51:21.000 No, you think it's on?

00:51:22.000 Wrong.

00:51:23.000 You think that she's got it on her eyes?

00:51:24.000 Wrong.

00:51:25.000 She actually then ends up walking away from the podium, still with the glasses not on her eyes.

00:51:30.000 This is the level of intelligence that we have staffing our country.

00:51:33.000 She's been in Congress since 1995, gang.

00:51:35.000 She's been in Congress for almost 20 years.

00:51:38.000 Sorry, she's been in Congress for almost 30 years. 1.00

00:51:41.000 Clearly, her constituents love this level of stupidity. 1.00

00:51:44.000 Yeah, our country might get what it deserves. 1.00

00:51:47.000 Alrighty, coming up, we'll get into the White House commenting on the Pope being a Catholic.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - April 10, 2024

The Abortion Issue Explodes

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