The Ben Shapiro Show - The California Election Is Corrupt, Just Not How You Think

00:00:00.000 Right now, there are a lot of people who believe the election for the mayoralty of Los Angeles is being stolen.

00:00:06.000 They're wrong.

00:00:07.000 It was stolen, like months ago, maybe years ago.

00:00:10.000 I will explain in just one moment.

00:00:12.000 We'll get into that.

00:00:13.000 Plus, why Zarn Mamdani is cosplaying as a Knicks fan, what happened at the TPUSA Women's Conference over the weekend, what the hell is going on in the Middle East, and a short trip to the movies and things I like and things I hate.

00:00:23.000 Welcome to the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:32.000 So, over the weekend, one of these sort of hot news items is that President Trump did a long interview with Kristen Welker, and eventually he got annoyed and left.

00:00:39.000 And one of the reasons that he left, apparently, it was sort of an uncomfortable situation physically.

00:00:43.000 They were interviewing in a tent just outside in the rain, and he'd been there for about an hour.

00:00:49.000 And she later revealed that he said he would do another interview with her, not in the rain.

00:00:52.000 In any case, this was the hot talk over the weekend because the president got up in the middle of the interview because he was annoyed with Welker and took off.

00:00:59.000 He was talking about election integrity at the time.

00:01:01.000 Here's how it went.

00:01:03.000 Your elections in this country, we're like a third world country.

00:01:07.000 Your elections are crooked, and you're crooked, and Meet the Press is crooked, and so is ABC, and CBS, and CNN. 0.87

00:01:16.000 Your one sided, crooked network. 0.93

00:01:18.000 So let's call it quits, because I've had enough.

00:01:20.000 Thank you, darling.

00:01:21.000 Mr. President, let's please.

00:01:21.000 Have a good time.

00:01:22.000 I traveled all the way to Wisconsin.

00:01:24.000 I've sat in the rain.

00:01:26.000 I know.

00:01:27.000 I sat all the way to Wisconsin.

00:01:29.000 On and off in the rain, and I've given you enough time.

00:01:32.000 You ought to straighten out your press because you know what?

00:01:35.000 A country can never be great with a dishonest press.

00:01:38.000 Listen, we traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview.

00:01:44.000 So, obviously, the president was very, very annoyed with Kristen Welker, and he'd sat there for about an hour.

00:01:48.000 But the thing that ticked him off is that he was pushing on the election integrity stuff, and she was pushing back, which brings us to California.

00:01:55.000 So, there was a mayoral election June 2nd in LA.

00:02:00.000 That mayoral election, the initial results showed that the top two finishers were going to be Karen Bass, the current mayor of LA, who is A crazy leftist and Spencer Pratt, who's running as an independent slash Republican, the former reality TV star who'd been running this extremely viral online campaign.

00:02:17.000 And the other person who was in the running was a person named Nithya Raman, who's on the LA city council and is a complete psychotic leftist.

00:02:24.000 So you have Karen Bass, a person who literally trained in Cuba as a revolutionary, and she is the moderate Democrat in that particular race.

00:02:30.000 Well, the initial results came in on June 2nd, the evening of June 2nd, and it looked as though Spencer Pratt and Karen Bass were going to be the people who were going to win.

00:02:42.000 The very early results on election night showed that Pratt was up some 25,000 votes on Rahman.

00:02:48.000 And meanwhile, Karen Bass was up another 30,000 votes on Spencer Pratt.

00:02:54.000 And then, as the election results came in, by June 4th and 5th, basically the voting results for Spencer Pratt had flatlined.

00:03:01.000 And you started to see this fairly significant incremental increase in votes for Nithya Rahman.

00:03:07.000 So, by June 6th, the mayoral counts started to shift radically in favor of Nithya Rahman.

00:03:12.000 Now, one of the things that's fascinating here.

00:03:14.000 Is that you can see that basically the lines for Karen Bass and Nithya Raman start elevating at the same rate between June 4th and 5th and June 6th.

00:03:25.000 And they flatline completely for Spencer Pratt, which means that virtually all of the early votes that were cast on the sort of Raman versus Pratt side were cast in favor of Pratt, or at least heavily biased toward Pratt.

00:03:38.000 And all the late breaking votes, meaning the mail in ballots, were heavily biased toward Nithya Raman.

00:03:45.000 This is not a glitch, it is the blueprint.

00:03:46.000 Now, I know a lot of people right now.

00:03:48.000 Are very upset about the fact that the initial results look more Republican, more conservative.

00:03:54.000 And then, as more results come in, the graphs tend to shift toward Democrats.

00:03:58.000 And we saw this obviously in 2020, most obviously, when the early results seemed to show President Trump in the lead.

00:04:04.000 And everybody had been talking about the fact that mail in ballots, which in many cases were counted after the actual day of election, those would shift toward blue because Democrats were voting significantly by mail.

00:04:16.000 Well, according to state regulations, In California.

00:04:20.000 So when I say that the election was stolen months ago, what I mean is that the state regulations benefit ballot harvesting.

00:04:28.000 I think the way that people think of stolen elections is generally wrong.

00:04:30.000 I don't think that you have a bunch of people who are sitting there falsifying ballots, or you have a ballot tabulator who is sitting there picking up an empty ballot, filling in a fake name or fake ID number, and then writing in the ballot.

00:04:42.000 I don't think that's what's actually happening here.

00:04:44.000 What's actually happening is widespread voter registration and then ballot harvesting.

00:04:49.000 According to state regulations in California, first time voters can register using, I'm not even making this up, a commercial credit card or a health club ID.

00:04:57.000 So that LA Fitness ID that somebody got five years ago and never used because they're fatty, they can use that to register to vote.

00:05:04.000 The law in California explicitly says any doubt must be liberally construed to let a person cast a regular ballot with zero real verification, by the way.

00:05:15.000 Now, when you combine legal ballot harvesting with a total collapse of voter ID, you end up with some pretty shady election practices.

00:05:23.000 And this is why I think people were sort of shocked here.

00:05:25.000 Nithya Raman, the night of the election, gave a speech crying.

00:05:28.000 It looked as though she would basically concede the race.

00:05:30.000 And then it turns out now that she probably will be in the runoff against Karen Bass, decision desk.

00:05:34.000 Called that race last night for Nithya Rahman and Karen Bass and cut Spencer Pratt completely out of the final two.

00:05:41.000 This is a flashback to election night when Rahman thought she was going to lose.

00:05:45.000 I hope you know that everything every person in this room is fighting for in this campaign has been about building a city that's worthy of you and every child in this city.

00:06:03.000 Okay, so it looked as though she was going to lose.

00:06:05.000 Well, Spencer Pratt has reacted.

00:06:07.000 To this 43,000 vote swing from election night.

00:06:09.000 He said a net swing of more than 43,000 votes since Tuesday.

00:06:12.000 43,000, huh?

00:06:13.000 Where have I seen that number before?

00:06:15.000 Probably nothing.

00:06:16.000 Well, that 43,000 is a reference to the fact that the city of LA currently has approximately 43,695 homeless people, including people in temporary shelters.

00:06:27.000 Now, again, what does that mean?

00:06:28.000 Well, it means that ballot harvesters will go to homeless shelters and then they will ask people if they wish to vote and then they will help them mark the ballot in some cases.

00:06:38.000 Or they'll stand over them while they mark the ballot, and then they will take those ballots to a drop box and drop them off.

00:06:43.000 According to California's Vote 411, you can cast a valid vote by mail as long as your ballot is postmarked or dropped off in a drop box on Election Day.

00:06:51.000 And in 2021, California law mandated that every active voter in the state receive a mail in ballot.

00:06:57.000 And so what you've seen since 2016 is a radical increase in not only voter turnout in California, but a radical increase in mail in balloting in California.

00:07:10.000 In the 2024 election cycle, 80% of all Californians voted by mail.

00:07:16.000 72% of LA County voted by mail.

00:07:19.000 Voter turnout in 2024 was 62.1%.

00:07:22.000 That is the second highest turnout in California state history.

00:07:25.000 That is higher than 2008 when Barack Obama was on the ballot and you got this sort of historic voter turnout.

00:07:30.000 In 2020, which of course was a wild outlier election because of COVID, 87% of all Californians voted by mail.

00:07:36.000 78% of LA County voted by mail.

00:07:39.000 And voter turnout was almost 70%, the highest in modern history in California.

00:07:43.000 I mean, that stuff is pretty dicey.

00:07:50.000 Pretty dicey.

00:07:52.000 If you wonder, one of the reasons why President Trump has talked so much about the stolen 2020 election, and again, I think the evidence is scanty that there was voter fraud sufficient to overcome the burden of proof.

00:08:03.000 It is worth saying, however, that 24 states and Washington, D.C. allowed a voter to designate any person to drop off their completed ballot.

00:08:09.000 So, what ballot harvesters do is they go to the houses of the people who they know are registered Democrats, they knock on the door, they say, give me your ballot.

00:08:16.000 I want to make sure that it gets in on time.

00:08:20.000 Some states allowed a designated person to return an unlimited number of ballots, like California.

00:08:24.000 Other states put a cap on the quantity to prevent large scale operations.

00:08:28.000 So, Colorado, for example, caps at 10 ballots per person.

00:08:31.000 But in California, you can go pick up 100 ballots.

00:08:33.000 Like you're a Democratic state representative, a party worker.

00:08:37.000 You go out and you pick up 500 ballots from addresses that you know are registered Democrats, boosting your voter turnout.

00:08:45.000 That's the reason why President Trump is very sketchy on the 2020 election.

00:08:51.000 Because again, the combination of mail in voting and ballot harvesting meant that two thirds of Americans turned out to vote in 2020.

00:09:00.000 If you wonder why people are suspicious about our elections, this would be the reason.

00:09:04.000 Again, the question is not whether or not the ballots that are coming in are quote unquote legit or not.

00:09:09.000 The question is who's doing the voting?

00:09:10.000 Are these people who would normally show up to vote?

00:09:13.000 Are these people who are basically the equivalent of 19th century drunk voters?

00:09:17.000 So, back in the 19th century, balloting, shall we say, was a little bit loose.

00:09:22.000 And so, what you would do is you would have people to an election party, you'd get them unbelievably drunk, you'd give them a keg, and then you'd have them vote once, sometimes twice, because there was no way to actually police it.

00:09:34.000 Well, if you're going to a homeless shelter for voting, I understand there are a lot of people who believe that drug addicts and paranoid schizophrenics have a right to vote.

00:09:46.000 I will say it's a little strange if all those votes turn out to be Democrat.

00:09:51.000 And so if you're wondering why people in LA are frustrated, this would be the reason why.

00:09:55.000 And it doesn't help that you have the results that tend to change over time.

00:10:00.000 And California is almost built for this because by law, you are supposed to count the mail in ballots because you can mail in your ballot until the day of the election.

00:10:08.000 Because of that, the ballots, the mail in ballots, aren't counted until the day of election votes have been counted.

00:10:13.000 And so you see a major change in election results.

00:10:16.000 In Florida, by contrast, your mail in ballot has to be sent in advance, and it's all tabulated before Election Day.

00:10:22.000 And that means that Election Day results are available basically the minute the polls close.

00:10:26.000 California, that is not the case.

00:10:28.000 But the bottom line is this it is hard to think of a better case for the Republican Save Act than what has been going on in states like California for years.

00:10:37.000 Ballot harvesting is the enemy of good voter policy.

00:10:41.000 It is a recipe for corruption.

00:10:43.000 It is a recipe for the sort of, again, drunk voter type model.

00:10:47.000 It is quite bad.

00:10:48.000 And I'd be fascinated to find out what is the voter turnout percentage for people living in homeless shelters in LA who can't be bothered to find a place to live and aren't helped by the state in terms of finding a place to dry out or get treatment, but somehow find the time to vote, I would imagine, in kind of shockingly high percentage.

00:11:08.000 All right, coming up, Zar Mamdani is cosplaying as a Knicks fan.

00:11:11.000 So is AOC. 0.50

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00:12:31.000 And meanwhile, speaking about places that are horribly governed, all eyes on New York tonight for game three of the NBA Finals.

00:12:38.000 I have to say, one of the things that annoys me more than almost anything in politics is when people pretend to be fake sports fans.

00:12:44.000 It drives me up a wall.

00:12:46.000 I hate it.

00:12:47.000 I hate it with the fiery passion of a thousand suns. 1.00

00:12:50.000 I despise it.

00:12:51.000 I'm a diehard, lifelong Chicago White Sox fan.

00:12:54.000 My great consternation.

00:12:55.000 It's a horrible fate, although they're playing well this year.

00:12:58.000 Barack Obama famously was a quote unquote White Sox fan, by which I mean he pretended he was a White Sox fan.

00:13:05.000 I'm annoyed by one million things about Barack Obama. 0.70

00:13:08.000 One of the most ridiculous things Barack Obama ever said, he was at Kaminsky Park, which he called Kaminsky Park. 0.91

00:13:15.000 And he suggested, he was asked, Who is your favorite White Sox player? 0.94

00:13:18.000 He's wearing a Sox cap.

00:13:20.000 And he said, I like all of them, which is the same answer my wife could give, and she doesn't understand baseball.

00:13:25.000 Well, we're seeing that play out in New York right now as Zoran Momdani cosplays as a diehard Knicks fan. 0.96

00:13:31.000 First of all, we should point to the Kalshi odds.

00:13:34.000 So 54% of people believe that the Knicks are going to win tonight compared to 46% for San Antonio.

00:13:39.000 I have to say, I will be very, very, very upset if the Knicks sweep the Spurs.

00:13:46.000 My son will be even more upset.

00:13:48.000 My son is really annoyed.

00:13:49.000 There are a lot of New York fans down here in Florida, and apparently they annoy him at school.

00:13:54.000 Our sponsor, Kalshi, again says 54% for New York, 46% for San Antonio.

00:14:00.000 And man, San Antonio totally blew that game Friday night.

00:14:04.000 Ugh.

00:14:04.000 Just a heartbreaking, horrible end of game for Victor Wembanyanama.

00:14:09.000 Just terrible all the way through.

00:14:10.000 Ugh.

00:14:12.000 It'll be interesting to see what happens.

00:14:13.000 I cannot allow Brent Schur, our editor in chief, to win this bet that he has with me because then I'll have to continue to employ him.

00:14:18.000 I think that was the bet.

00:14:21.000 I will say that my son was so upset by all of the Knicks fans down here who are nasty and they taunt people and they're just the worst. 0.98

00:14:27.000 The Knicks fans are the worst. 0.97

00:14:28.000 They're just, ugh, insufferable.

00:14:31.000 So, what I told him to make him feel better is that I'll lay a little money on the Knicks.

00:14:34.000 And that way, if the Knicks win, I'll buy him some extra basketball cards.

00:14:38.000 And if the Knicks lose, then he can taunt his friends from New York.

00:14:40.000 Anyway, both President Trump and Zoran Momdani plan to be at the Knicks game tonight.

00:14:47.000 Now, Trump is a longtime Knicks fan.

00:14:48.000 I mean, you can find him at Knicks games going back decades.

00:14:51.000 Zoran Momdani discovered he was a Knicks fan about the time he wanted to run for mayor.

00:14:55.000 This drives me up a wall.

00:14:57.000 He famously showed up wearing like a brand new Knicks jersey in the middle of the mayoral election, and he showed up in the nosebleed seats because Eric Adams was mayor of New York.

00:15:04.000 He was down on the floor.

00:15:06.000 And Mondani wanted to cosplay as a blue collar New Yorker.

00:15:09.000 So he went up into the rafters and pretended he was a Knicks fan.

00:15:13.000 Well, now, Smarmy McSmarmalot is claiming that he and Trump share a love for New York City. 0.81

00:15:20.000 He loves New York City so much that he wants to kill it. 0.81

00:15:24.000 If you love something, never let it go, strangle it to death. 0.92

00:15:28.000 Here is Zorn Mondani.

00:15:29.000 Again, the Smarm factor on this dude is so high, it's astonishing.

00:15:34.000 It is unfair in that.

00:15:36.000 I have an advantage in that we are both from New York City and we share a love of this city amidst many disagreements that we have, whether about the country or about the city.

00:15:44.000 And one thing that the president said to me, as well as to the public, is the better the city does, the happier he is.

00:15:51.000 And in that, I ensure that our conversations are focused on how we can do better for this city.

00:15:56.000 And that doesn't mean shying away from disagreement.

00:15:58.000 You know, I've sat directly with the president and I've spoken to him about the fact that I believe that ICE raids are cruel and inhumane.

00:16:04.000 I believe they do nothing to serve the interests of public safety.

00:16:07.000 It just means being honest and ensuring that.

00:16:10.000 It isn't a conversation around personality or the two people who are there, but rather around the people of New York City and how we can deliver for them.

00:16:18.000 Now, the Shah of Smarm apparently is also going to attend the game, but he says he's going to be in a very different section because, of course, the president will be sitting near the floor.

00:16:26.000 Those tickets are going for something insane, like $150,000 a ticket to be on the floor.

00:16:31.000 Mom Dhani says that he's going to pay for it himself, which, again, is a rich people problem because the tickets up in the rafters are going for $7,000, $8,000.

00:16:38.000 Mom Dhani's spokesperson says the mayor is paying his own way, which, again, is not a poor person thing.

00:16:42.000 Just going to point out if you're a true blue collar person in New York, you are watching this game at home.

00:16:48.000 Because those tickets are going for a lot of money.

00:16:51.000 He is not the only politician cosplaying as a diehard Knicks fan.

00:16:54.000 AOC got a henna tattoo for the Knicks.

00:16:57.000 Just going to point out that I believe the first documented showing that AOC is a Knicks fan, like really a Knicks fan, was like 2022, four years after she was elected to Congress.

00:17:08.000 I hate this stuff so much.

00:17:09.000 I really hate it. 0.98

00:17:10.000 It's so phony and fake.

00:17:11.000 Now, here is AOC, suddenly a Knicks fan.

00:17:16.000 Thank you.

00:17:26.000 She is.

00:17:29.000 The Knicks have also enacted a no bag policy, TSA style security.

00:17:33.000 So apparently, it's only bad for us to have this in our, you know, actually having law enforcement check security, only appropriate in Knicks games.

00:17:42.000 Everywhere else, bad.

00:17:45.000 They are putting forward a strict no bag policy.

00:17:49.000 JLo had a hot take.

00:17:50.000 She says you have to be born in New York to be a New Yorker.

00:17:54.000 Interesting, interesting take.

00:17:55.000 That means that Zar Mamdani is not a New Yorker since he was born in Uganda.

00:18:00.000 So, what's your take?

00:18:01.000 You have to be born in New York to be a New Yorker.

00:18:04.000 Yes!

00:18:06.000 Okay, okay.

00:18:07.000 I know everybody wants to claim the city.

00:18:09.000 No, I know why.

00:18:10.000 Everybody wants to claim our city, but you have to be born in New York.

00:18:14.000 You have to be born in one of the five boroughs to be a New Yorker.

00:18:21.000 Well, you should have a conversation with the mayor.

00:18:21.000 Hmm.

00:18:24.000 You know, Zar Mamdani is conflating poverty and being black in New York, you know, as one would do if one were a tacit racist.

00:18:32.000 And when we talk about a focus on the cost of living crisis, we know that for black New Yorkers, that's not an intellectual concern.

00:18:40.000 The city has lost 200,000 black New Yorkers over the last few decades alone.

00:18:44.000 From 2010 to 2019, we saw a 19% drop in the population of black children and teenagers.

00:18:50.000 So, in focusing on the affordability crisis, in delivering on that crisis, we are finally bringing the struggles.

00:18:57.000 Of black New Yorkers and New Yorkers across the five boroughs to the heart of our politics and not just to the footnotes of it.

00:19:05.000 So, again, apparently being poor and being black, same thing. 0.73

00:19:09.000 Also, Mamdani says it's time to develop a new vision for the Democratic Party. 0.98

00:19:12.000 That new vision, presumably, will be being psychotic socialists.

00:19:17.000 What do you say to people who say language, and there's Democrats in DC who say language like abolish ICE are unhelpful for the political health of the Democratic Party?

00:19:28.000 I think if we've listened to them before and look where we are, I think it's time to develop a new vision for this party, one that is unflinching in its beliefs and also uncompromising in its principles.

00:19:41.000 Well, by the way, the new vision for the Democratic Party looks like Zoram Amdani, meaning unapologetically anti Semitic and socialist, which brings us back to Graham Platner, who, let's hope for everyone's sake, there were no home invaders at Graham Platner's house last night or anytime, actually, because once again, it was reported last week in his campaign to not deny it.

00:20:01.000 That Graham Plattner, the Democratic senator candidate for Maine, has said that if someone tried to invade his home, he would rape them out of a desire for dominance, not because he's gay. 0.95

00:20:14.000 Never going to get over that one. 0.98

00:20:16.000 It's been days.

00:20:17.000 I'm not going to get over that one. 0.80

00:20:18.000 But Graham Plattner, another part of the Zorn Momdani wing of the Democratic Party.

00:20:24.000 Here he was preaching his socialist nonsense from his perch atop an oyster farm that feeds his mommy's restaurant, saying, Hard work isn't enough anymore.

00:20:34.000 Graham Plattner, go.

00:20:38.000 When I was a kid growing up in Sullivan, I remember guys who you could stern in the summer, plow in the winter, do some carpentry, do some wreaths, and that was enough.

00:20:50.000 That was enough to live a small but decent life.

00:20:54.000 Enough to own your home.

00:20:56.000 Enough to send your kid to a decent school.

00:20:58.000 Enough to maybe even save a little bit for retirement. 1.00

00:21:02.000 I knew clam diggers that put their kids through college. 1.00

00:21:07.000 It's not enough anymore. 1.00

00:21:10.000 You do that seasonal work, you're also taking on an extra shift at Home Depot or at Walmart.

00:21:16.000 Or you're not fishing.

00:21:18.000 Because instead of being able to go out and make a living on the sea, You've got to take some shoreside jobs just so you can get health insurance for your family.

00:21:27.000 That clam digger, that guy's kids now taking on a lifetime of debt just to go to school.

00:21:35.000 And that changed in my lifetime. 0.83

00:21:41.000 Again, this guy is blue collar, hard scrabble clam digger is a hell of a pitch. 0.68

00:21:45.000 But this is the Democratic Party.

00:21:48.000 All right, coming up, Graham Plattner. 0.96

00:21:49.000 You know, when he's not trying to rape home invaders.

00:21:52.000 He's blaming everybody else for noticing that he said that kind of stuff. 0.99

00:21:55.000 Well, mostly he's just blaming the Jews.

00:21:57.000 We'll get to that in a moment.

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00:23:14.000 Great video emerged from Maine of a Graham Plattner supporter suggesting, as I said last week, as not really a joke, but kind of a joke, that a tattoo of the flag of Israel would get him removed from the Senate race.

00:23:25.000 Whereas if you have a tattoo, you know, of the Nazis, then apparently not.

00:23:29.000 Well, don't worry. 0.54

00:23:30.000 Graham Plattner has his defenders, including Ro Khanna.

00:23:32.000 Who's out there saying that all the allegations from last week, including him grabbing Lindsay Fifield and throwing her in a bathroom and locking the door, or him sharpening into acts while watching TV, or him saying that he wanted to rape home invaders, actually, that's not evidence of violence, actually.

00:23:47.000 It's all good.

00:23:47.000 It's all good, says Rokhana.

00:23:51.000 There's nothing credible at this point.

00:23:54.000 My view is that even according to the New York Times piece, they said there was no harm, no injury, there was toxicity, and there was verbal intimidation, which I condemn.

00:24:07.000 Graham has made it clear that there was no evidence of violence.

00:24:09.000 That to me is a red line.

00:24:12.000 Oh, the red line would be like if he's, if what he admitted to it, that would be the red line.

00:24:17.000 So he doesn't admit to it because alleged.

00:24:19.000 But if he admitted to it, that would apparently be the red line.

00:24:23.000 John Fetterman, the last honest Democrat in the Senate, he points out that there are all of these sex from Graham Plattner to various women.

00:24:31.000 And also that he was on the grooming site Kik, that he had a profile there.

00:24:35.000 And Fetterman says to Plattner, listen, I wear a hoodie, but I will put on a suit every single day if you can prove that none of your sex were to underage people.

00:24:43.000 Yeah, well, no, of course, I never heard from P. Hustle.

00:24:46.000 But what's strange with P. Hustle is back in April, he was doing an interview on that pro Hamas Zedio network or whatever that thing is.

00:24:55.000 And he said that I am the bane of his existence and really was angry how I dressed too.

00:25:02.000 And now I said, now P. Hustle, here's a great chance. 0.98

00:25:05.000 You know, you can just prove that all these people that you're dropping those dick pics and saying these things to were over 18. 0.97

00:25:13.000 And now I will wear a suit every day in the Senate. 0.88

00:25:17.000 And now you can set the record clear and provide all those texts and all those conversations that you were having as a newlywed just before you were going to run for the Senate.

00:25:28.000 Well, Fetterman's honesty has not endeared him to Platner. 0.76

00:25:30.000 And Platner, as a Nazi would, immediately goes to it's the Jews. 0.79

00:25:35.000 So Fetterman, who is not Jewish, the idea is that Fetterman is going after Platner because of, wait for it, the Jews. 0.98

00:25:42.000 Of course, of course, because this is where every dumb online conversation ends. 0.88

00:25:47.000 Platner put out a statement. 0.94

00:25:48.000 John Fetterman seems to genuinely think the reason no one likes him is because he refuses to wear a suit.

00:25:51.000 It's not the hoodie, dude.

00:25:53.000 It's because you've become a stooge for AIPAC and the Republican Party.

00:25:55.000 Well, that's weird since he votes 90% of the time with the Democrats.

00:25:59.000 And then it turns out that apparently it's not just Fetterman, it's also Susan Collins.

00:26:03.000 It turns out everyone is in the pay of the nefarious Uden, according to Graham Platner.

00:26:10.000 You can take the Nazi tattoo off the Nazi, but he remains.

00:26:14.000 You know.

00:26:15.000 Anyway, he put out a tweet.

00:26:16.000 Susan Collins' latest financial report just came out.

00:26:18.000 A staggering one third of her money raised this quarter came directly from AIPAC.

00:26:21.000 Susan Collins is bought and paid for by Benjamin Netanyahu, and she votes accordingly.

00:26:24.000 I will point out at this point that AIPAC is not run by Benjamin Netanyahu, AIPAC is a bunch of Jewish and Christian Americans who like Israel.

00:26:33.000 And then, naturally, Abdul El Sayed, who himself is a terror supporter, put out a statement AIPAC is going to spend $30 million to try and buy a U.S. Senate seat from the people of Michigan.

00:26:43.000 $30 million.

00:26:44.000 Okay, how much are the Democrats and their anti Semitic allies going to spend to buy a Senate seat in Michigan? 0.90

00:26:51.000 It's just wonderful. 0.87

00:26:52.000 And then Hakeem Jeffries was asked.

00:26:54.000 Do Democrats have an anti Semitism problem?

00:26:56.000 And he was like, No, everything's fine.

00:26:58.000 Everything's fine.

00:26:59.000 Just ask the guy with the Nazi tattoo, or maybe our terrorist supporting mayor in New York, or maybe our terrorist supporting candidate in Michigan, or maybe the actual guy who testified on behalf of a terrorist running for Congress in New Jersey.

00:27:09.000 We don't have an anti Semitism problem at all.

00:27:09.000 No, no, no.

00:27:13.000 Blaming the Jews seems like a risky defense for a guy with a Nazi tattoo who's trying to convince people that it was just an innocent mistake and it doesn't mean anything.

00:27:24.000 Are you concerned that your party has an anti Semitism problem?

00:27:30.000 He's going to have to speak for himself, and that's what any candidate, particularly in a high profile race, is going to be called upon to do.

00:27:38.000 Listen, the effort to crush anti Semitism in America shouldn't be a partisan issue.

00:27:45.000 It can't be a red or blue issue.

00:27:47.000 It's a red, white, and blue issue.

00:27:50.000 It's an American issue, and we should all be committed to crushing anti Semitism and all other forms of hatred into the ground, bury it, and make sure it can never rise again. 0.61

00:28:02.000 Unless you need to beat the nefarious, horrible, right wing zealot Susan Collins, in which case the guy with the Nazi tattoo, maybe he's okay.

00:28:09.000 And maybe so is the terrorist supporter in Michigan and the terrorist supporter in New York and the terrorist supporter in New Jersey and various other terrorist supporters around the country who are running as Democrats.

00:28:17.000 Yeah, it's going well for the left and the Democratic Party when it comes to anti Semitism. 0.82

00:28:22.000 All right, over to the Middle East. 0.88

00:28:23.000 So things got hot again over in the Middle East over the weekend.

00:28:27.000 So the quick update in terms of timing is that over the weekend, Israel had made clear that if Hezbollah, which is a terrorist group, an Iranian backed terror group located in Lebanon, that if they fired into northern Israel, that Israel would strike at leadership of Hezbollah in Beirut.

00:28:43.000 Now, remember, the Lebanese government is not Hezbollah.

00:28:45.000 The Lebanese government is actually on the side of disarming Hezbollah.

00:28:49.000 So Israel and the Lebanese government are on the same side of this particular thing.

00:28:55.000 In fact, the Lebanese president, Joseph Ayoun, said to the IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which again is Hezbollah, it is not your country.

00:29:05.000 And he's going to point out that when Israel is doing stuff in Lebanon, they are not targeting the Lebanese government, they are targeting Hezbollah.

00:29:11.000 According to the Lebanese president, Joseph Ayoun, It's not your country.

00:29:17.000 It's our country.

00:29:18.000 It's our obligation.

00:29:20.000 It's not your job to interfere in our country.

00:29:22.000 I reject the statement totally because our people are being killed, our house is being destroyed.

00:29:29.000 They are using Lebanon as a bargaining chip in their negotiation with the United States.

00:29:37.000 It's unacceptable. 0.96

00:29:39.000 And here also, Hezbollah must understand that. 0.96

00:29:42.000 Hezbollah must understand that no other way but To sit and talk. 0.60

00:29:48.000 No other way to solve this problem and to save what's left except through negotiation and diplomacy. 0.51

00:29:57.000 Okay, so Hezbollah, the Iranian terror group located in Lebanon, has been panicking.

00:30:01.000 And so they've been firing into Israel in an attempt to get Iran to defend them.

00:30:05.000 So Abbas Araki, who's the foreign minister of Iran, is similarly attempting to reconstruct the Iranian axis of terror.

00:30:14.000 So Iran has a bunch of terror groups that it supports all over the region, ranging from Hamas.

00:30:18.000 To the Houthis in Yemen, to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

00:30:20.000 So Abbasarrahi put up a tweet, this demonstrates, showing that they are trying to tie together Iran and Lebanon.

00:30:26.000 So his entire tweet is just the Iranian flag and the Lebanese flag.

00:30:29.000 And so Iran and Lebanon are basically the same thing.

00:30:32.000 Okay, so Netanyahu had said if Hezbollah fires on Israeli citizens in Israel, then we are going to attack in Tahiyah, which is a segment of Beirut that everyone knows is run by Hezbollah.

00:30:45.000 And Iran said, if you do that, then we are going to strike Israel. 0.61

00:30:48.000 So Iran, again, Has been trying to tie together Hezbollah and Iran.

00:30:52.000 They've been trying to tie together Lebanon and Iran for a while because they're afraid of losing their allies over in Lebanon.

00:30:58.000 They're afraid that their most powerful ally, Hezbollah, is going to be defenestrated by the Israeli military and now by the Lebanese as well.

00:31:04.000 And so they say, if you do this, then we're going to fire missiles at Israel. 0.75

00:31:07.000 That is their whole goal. 0.98

00:31:09.000 That's their whole goal. 0.96

00:31:10.000 So on Sunday, the Iranians fired some 10 missiles at Israel because Israel hit Tahiyah. 0.99

00:31:20.000 And the Iranians fired 10 missiles.

00:31:22.000 And when they fired these 10 missiles, the question was, would Israel strike back?

00:31:25.000 Now, no self respecting country on planet Earth can have missiles fired at it by another country and not respond.

00:31:31.000 That would be absurd.

00:31:33.000 All of these missiles were cruise missiles capable of killing hundreds, maybe thousands of people.

00:31:36.000 They were all shot down by the IAF and the American military or fell in open areas. 0.61

00:31:42.000 And so the question was, would Israel fight back? 0.90

00:31:44.000 Now, obviously, they have to. 0.62

00:31:46.000 They have to because otherwise, they have now given Iran the ability to basically veto any self defense action Israel takes. 0.59

00:31:52.000 At any point, Hezbollah has been taking, again, offensive action that has killed dozens of Israelis over the course of the last couple of months because Israel had to move into southern Lebanon, and they moved into southern Lebanon because Hezbollah was firing over the border into northern Israel. 0.50

00:32:07.000 And the reason Iran is doing this right now is that Iran is basically in its death row.

00:32:10.000 The Iranian regime is on very, very thin ice.

00:32:13.000 The blockade has been working.

00:32:14.000 Their economy is toast.

00:32:16.000 And so now they are lashing out and they're going to attempt to use any piece of leverage they possibly can.

00:32:21.000 That is the goal to use any piece of leverage that they possibly can. 0.80

00:32:25.000 And the biggest piece of leverage that the Iranians think they have right now is the American and Western desire to open the Strait of Hormuz. 0.88

00:32:32.000 That is the whole game right now. 0.57

00:32:34.000 The whole game in the Middle East is who can stand the pain? 0.90

00:32:36.000 That's true for any war. 0.99

00:32:39.000 It's the princess bride to the pain, right?

00:32:41.000 Any war is about which side has the leverage, which side can stand more pain.

00:32:48.000 And it's not about the absolute amount of pain inflicted, it is about which side can stand it.

00:32:53.000 This is true for any war.

00:32:55.000 For example, the Vietnam War, the United States on a raw level inflicted far more pain on the Viet Cong than the Viet Cong inflicted on the United States.

00:33:02.000 In economic terms, in military terms, in military terms, the United States had a kill ratio far higher than the Viet Cong had against the United States. 0.52

00:33:10.000 But the United States was unwilling to suffer a certain amount of pain, and so the United States gave up the ghost. 0.95

00:33:17.000 This is true in any war.

00:33:19.000 And so, if you wish to win a war, you have to show one, invulnerability, and two, a willingness to inflict pain.

00:33:25.000 Right on the defensive side, you have to show that if you hit me, you can keep hitting me, I'm not going anywhere.

00:33:29.000 And second, I'm going to inflict so much pain on you that you will stop what you're doing.

00:33:32.000 That is the goal of every war. 0.87

00:33:35.000 That is the goal of every single war, which is why I have been saying since March, since the war was actually active, that we should seize Karg Island or blow it up. 0.96

00:33:44.000 That is the Iranian refinery center responsible for the distribution of 90% of their oil and natural gas, because that is an infliction of tremendous pain on the Iranian regime that probably they could not stand. 0.95

00:33:54.000 It would put them on their last legs.

00:33:56.000 There'd be no way for them to recover.

00:33:58.000 And so I would like to see the United States inflict significantly more pain on the regime because they are not giving up the ghost.

00:34:04.000 They are not.

00:34:05.000 On the other hand, the United States also has to show invulnerability because it doesn't matter if we break their legs, if they're willing to have their legs broken, and if we are unwilling, To deal with the pain of a hangnail, they can still seize some form of diplomatic victory out of the jaws of defeat. 0.66

00:34:23.000 So, Iran has been trying for a while to find America's pain point.

00:34:27.000 So, our pain point is oil prices.

00:34:29.000 That's what the president has shown.

00:34:31.000 Now, what the president has done that is really brave, and I've given him tremendous political credit for it, is he says, listen, we'll stay there forever, right?

00:34:38.000 We will just put our aircraft carriers right there.

00:34:41.000 We will just put our shipping right there, and we will stop. 1.00

00:34:43.000 We'll put our boats there, and we'll stop any Iranian oil from coming out. 0.96

00:34:46.000 And if the price of oil sticks around $100 a barrel, Then we'll just stay there until you guys collapse pretty much forever. 0.99

00:34:53.000 We have shown a willingness to absorb that economic pain. 0.89

00:34:58.000 So, what Iran is now trying to do is to up the pain. 0.86

00:35:02.000 Iran is trying to increase the amount of pain. 0.93

00:35:04.000 It's why they closed the strait and now why they are threatening. 1.00

00:35:07.000 They're looking for an excuse. 1.00

00:35:08.000 It's not that they care deeply about what happens in Lebanon, although they do. 1.00

00:35:12.000 They care about Hezbollah. 0.99

00:35:12.000 But what they are trying to do right now is increase the pain of the hangnail. 0.99

00:35:16.000 They're trying to threaten that they're going to radically increase the price of oil.

00:35:20.000 Now, the president's behavior since the ceasefire.

00:35:23.000 In April, has been to talk down the oil markets, right?

00:35:26.000 We're now in the middle of June, and the president has been talking down oil prices for two months at this point.

00:35:31.000 He's been keeping it hovering somewhere between $95 a barrel and $110 a barrel.

00:35:36.000 That's why he keeps talking openly about the negotiations.

00:35:38.000 Well, what the regime is doing, the regime is trying to increase the pain.

00:35:42.000 They believe that they have found the pain point.

00:35:44.000 They believe that if they threaten further economic pain on the oil front, that they can win back concessions from the United States, that they can get, for example, the president to pressure Israel not to respond to missile attacks on it.

00:35:57.000 Or can pressure Israel to somehow stop action against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

00:36:00.000 Israel, of course, will not do that, nor should they.

00:36:03.000 And the president, to his credit, apparently did not tell Israel not to hit Iran last night.

00:36:10.000 He suggested the shooting should stop, but, and maybe, I would assume, he told the Israelis not to hit the people he is negotiating with.

00:36:18.000 But the reality is that either, if you want to end this, if you want to get to the end of this, there are basically three options.

00:36:25.000 There are basically three options. 1.00

00:36:27.000 You let the Iranians sit there and threaten, they threaten and threaten and threaten, and you just stay there. 1.00

00:36:32.000 Basically, forever. 1.00

00:36:34.000 And the oil prices continue to go up, and the Strait of Hormuz continues to be closed, and the Iranian government continues to fracture.

00:36:42.000 That is possibility number one.

00:36:44.000 If that is a pain point the United States does not want to actually undergo, then the United States has a couple of choices.

00:36:52.000 The United States could blow up the oil fields in Iran, destroy the South Pars oil field, blow up Kharga Island. 0.95

00:36:58.000 They could do that, and we'd inflict tremendous pain on the Iranians. 0.94

00:37:02.000 The Iranians are threatening that if we do that, which would basically be taking them out completely, I mean, it would do tremendous damage to them, they would then blow up the oil fields. 1.00

00:37:09.000 And that is the thing that is preventing us from getting to the end of this. 0.98

00:37:12.000 The Iranians are assuming that our pain point is not $100 a barrel oil, it is $200 a barrel oil. 0.74

00:37:17.000 And so if they pressure us by threatening to blow up oil fields in Saudi, Qatar, UAE, and Iraq, then we'll cut some sort of crappy deal. 0.92

00:37:28.000 Right?

00:37:29.000 That is the game that they are playing right now.

00:37:32.000 Now, If the president does cut that crappy deal, that would be a huge, huge historic error of massive proportions.

00:37:39.000 I don't think the president's going to do that.

00:37:40.000 He keeps saying he's not going to do that, so I have faith that he won't.

00:37:43.000 But if he does cut that crappy deal, let's just be clear.

00:37:45.000 He is listening to all the people who hate him.

00:37:47.000 He's listening to all the people who have been yelling at him this entire time.

00:37:50.000 He'd be listening to the Tucker Carlson's and the Candace Owens's and the Megyn Kelly's and all those people if he cuts a crappy deal that allows Iran to rebuild its nuclear weaponry, allows Iran to rebuild its ballistic missiles, allows Iran to rebuild its terror axis.

00:38:04.000 And so the question here is really one of time.

00:38:06.000 How long can the United States take the pain of elevated oil prices, and how high can those oil prices go before the United States does something?

00:38:14.000 Now, if we wanted to get to the end of a negotiation quickly, what we should be doing is we should not be talking about.

00:38:19.000 If I were advising the president, I'd tell him, Mr. President, do not talk about the negotiations publicly. 0.91

00:38:23.000 Every time you talk about the negotiations publicly, the Iranians take that as a sign of weakness. 0.96

00:38:28.000 They take it as a sign that they have found leverage. 0.95

00:38:30.000 And they're unlikely to actually give you more things.

00:38:32.000 They are likely to figure that you want the deal more than they want the deal.

00:38:36.000 And therefore, they are going to continue to press and up the ante and put pressure on Israel to make military strikes on Iran or in Zakhia.

00:38:46.000 They're going to attempt to divide you off from your allies and force you to cut a bad deal.

00:38:52.000 So, talking about negotiations openly, I advise the president to stop doing that. 0.57

00:38:57.000 And if the president does want to get to a deal, if it's not just a matter of stringing out the negotiations so that the blockade continues and Iran is weak, If he actually does want to get to an end deal, you have to up the pain on Iran and you have to show that you are willing to undergo pain on your side. 0.77

00:39:11.000 Again, that is the formula for victory in war.

00:39:13.000 The formula is up the pain on the other side, demonstrate your invulnerability on your own side.

00:39:18.000 That's the entire formula. 0.59

00:39:20.000 Okay, so the president over the weekend did an interview in which he suggested that Iran has already conceded they would not have nuclear weapons.

00:39:26.000 Again, Iran has denied this.

00:39:27.000 This is the Meet the Press interview that concluded with him walking out on Kristen Welker.

00:39:33.000 Are we talking about days, weeks, months, Mr. President?

00:39:35.000 I think we're very close.

00:39:36.000 We have.

00:39:37.000 A couple of points.

00:39:38.000 They don't even seem like big points.

00:39:39.000 They've conceded the fact that they will not have nuclear weapons.

00:39:43.000 We had a clause in there that we will not develop nuclear weapons, and everybody was very happy with it except me.

00:39:49.000 And said, well, what happens if they not develop, but they go out and purchase, they acquire?

00:39:58.000 I want to put the word if they buy or purchase or acquire, you know, you've got to have that in there too, because that's not developing.

00:40:06.000 So they don't have the right to develop or purchase, acquire, or buy.

00:40:12.000 Okay, and the president said in this interview that he would not lift any sanctions up front, that he would have to actually get the concession.

00:40:16.000 So, again, no bad deal.

00:40:20.000 Would you unfreeze any Iranian assets or lift any sanctions up front as a part of any deal?

00:40:26.000 No.

00:40:27.000 So that would come after.

00:40:28.000 It comes after, yeah.

00:40:29.000 If they turned over their nuclear material.

00:40:33.000 Unlike Obama.

00:40:36.000 And the president pointed out that we have blockaded them.

00:40:39.000 We are damaging them far more than they're damaging us.

00:40:44.000 Is this a war as long as there's a naval blockade in place?

00:40:48.000 Well, we have a blockade.

00:40:49.000 It's been extremely effective.

00:40:50.000 And the reason we have it is they tried to blockade and now we blockaded them.

00:40:54.000 And as you know, they're losing four to five hundred million dollars a day.

00:40:58.000 It's not sustainable for them.

00:41:00.000 They have an economy that's shot in addition to everything else.

00:41:03.000 Their leaders are gone.

00:41:04.000 Their generals are gone.

00:41:05.000 Their first tier and second tier are gone.

00:41:08.000 Much of their third tier is gone.

00:41:10.000 But they put up a blockade, and so we blockaded them, and we have the ultimate blockade.

00:41:15.000 I don't consider that a war, but if you want to define it as such, I guess you can.

00:41:21.000 And the president said, listen, this has not been endless.

00:41:22.000 It's been three months.

00:41:23.000 Now, this is again the president doing the right thing.

00:41:25.000 It is him showing.

00:41:26.000 That he is willing to undergo a certain amount of pain in order to get to the objective.

00:41:32.000 What changed?

00:41:33.000 Because you insisted no new wars.

00:41:35.000 First of all, I didn't guarantee no war.

00:41:39.000 Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?

00:41:41.000 I built our military.

00:41:42.000 I inherited a terrible military.

00:41:44.000 We had no equipment, we had nothing.

00:41:45.000 I built a tremendous military.

00:41:48.000 Biden gave a lot of it away, but it's still a relatively small portion compared to what I built.

00:41:52.000 But you said it over and over again, Mr. President.

00:41:54.000 Why would I build a military?

00:41:57.000 I didn't want to use this, but I'm doing you and everybody else a big favor.

00:42:03.000 Now, here is the question.

00:42:05.000 The question is Is there really a good deal on the table?

00:42:08.000 I am skeptical. 1.00

00:42:09.000 I think the Iranians are trying to play Trump. 0.98

00:42:11.000 I think they're trying to play Jared Kushner and Steve Witkopf, who are the ones who are negotiating this deal. 0.74

00:42:16.000 The fact you have Steve Witkopf trying to analyze what a nuclear negotiation looks like, he would not be my pick for a person to negotiate a nuclear deal, given his, shall we say, lack of historic acumen in doing such things.

00:42:30.000 So, again, over the weekend, Iran fired these missiles.

00:42:32.000 Israel went after some targets in Tehran, mainly drone and missile factories, and a petrochemical complex in Mashar, which is in southwestern Iran.

00:42:41.000 And the president immediately came out and he said, Trump and Iran must immediately stop shooting.

00:42:47.000 This is the president's statement.

00:42:49.000 He put it up on Truth Social.

00:42:52.000 And then he put up a follow up statement.

00:42:54.000 That was at 4 36 a.m.

00:42:56.000 And he put up a follow up statement that said, Israel and Iran are looking for an immediate ceasefire, which I have questions.

00:43:02.000 He said both sides, Israel and Iran, are looking to do an immediate ceasefire. 0.98

00:43:05.000 Final negotiations on peace are proceeding, subject to ignorance or stupidity getting in its way. 0.97

00:43:09.000 The blockade will remain in place and in full force and effect until a final deal is reached. 0.99

00:43:12.000 Things should move quickly.

00:43:13.000 Thank you for your attention to this matter.

00:43:16.000 Enron has already announced that they've ended their wave of strikes toward Israel.

00:43:21.000 Again, Israel should have fired back.

00:43:22.000 They had no choice but to fire back. 1.00

00:43:23.000 Here's Marco Rubio pointing this out just a few days ago that you'd be a moron not to shoot back when you're shot at. 0.99

00:43:31.000 If you fire at a U.S. Navy ship, What are we supposed to do? 0.99

00:43:33.000 Say, oh, there's a ceasefire.

00:43:34.000 We're not going to shoot down your drone. 1.00

00:43:35.000 That's a stupid question. 1.00

00:43:37.000 That's a stupid position to take. 1.00

00:43:39.000 Of course, we fired back at them. 1.00

00:43:40.000 They were shooting at us.

00:43:41.000 That's what I would expect to do. 1.00

00:43:43.000 Only stupid countries don't shoot back when you're shot at. 1.00

00:43:45.000 And we're not a stupid country. 1.00

00:43:47.000 Well, that's correct. 1.00

00:43:49.000 Neither is Israel. 0.87

00:43:50.000 Now, the question is going to be what exactly comes next? 0.59

00:43:55.000 Now, if it's a bad deal, the president needs to walk away from it.

00:43:58.000 A good deal, we've drawn this before, a good deal looks like full scale verification of nuclear disarmament.

00:44:05.000 It means shipping out the so called nuclear dust.

00:44:07.000 It means no more rebuilding of ballistic missiles.

00:44:09.000 It means no more terror support across the region.

00:44:12.000 It means freeing up the Strait of Hormuz.

00:44:13.000 That is what a good deal looks like.

00:44:15.000 Anything short of that would be what we call a bad deal.

00:44:18.000 And at that point, we're advising the president, I would tell him, Mr. President, You need to up their pain and you need to demonstrate durability against their threats.

00:44:27.000 That is what needs to happen next.

00:44:29.000 Because if you demonstrate any sort of vulnerability to them, if you show that you want to deal more than they want to deal, they'll continue to play you. 0.71

00:44:38.000 Iran is out there making the case that they have a new strategic doctrine that basically anytime Israel does anything, they're going to fire missiles at Israel. 0.54

00:44:46.000 The only reason they believe they can get away with that is if they believe that the president is going to put pressure on Israel not to respond. 0.52

00:44:53.000 Which, of course, would be insane and would actually put Iran in a stronger position than they were prior to this war.

00:44:59.000 I don't believe the president is going to do that.

00:45:01.000 We'll have to see how all of this plays out.

00:45:04.000 You were taught that the Civil Rights Act was about equality.

00:45:06.000 Full stop.

00:45:07.000 But what if the full story is a lot more complicated than your textbook ever let on?

00:45:11.000 Today, on Daily Wire, Matt Walsh is back with episode five of The Real History of the Civil Rights Movement, part two The Looting of America.

00:45:18.000 He's laying out exactly how a law sold as liberation became the blueprint for the modern nanny state government mandated outcomes, affirmative action, DEI.

00:45:26.000 It all traces back to that same playbook.

00:45:28.000 This is the series a lot of folks on the left do not want you to take seriously.

00:45:32.000 New episodes every month.

00:45:33.000 Next month, Matt covers communism.

00:45:35.000 If you're not a Daily Wire subscriber, now would be the time.

00:45:37.000 Head on over to dailywire.com and watch episode five, The Looting of America.

00:45:41.000 Understand what really happened to our cities and our country.

00:45:45.000 Okay, meanwhile, on the media front.

00:45:48.000 So, President Trump, in that Kristen Walker interview, he went after Kristen Walker.

00:45:51.000 He said, I know you're a big lib and a big progressive, which, of course, is true.

00:45:55.000 Because, as you know, in the last term, we were dead country, Kristen.

00:45:58.000 I know you.

00:45:59.000 You're a big liberal or a big progressive?

00:46:01.000 No, I'm just a journalist.

00:46:03.000 We were a dead country.

00:46:06.000 Okay, so she says she's just a journalist.

00:46:08.000 Yeah.

00:46:11.000 The journalists at places like Meet the Press, they are not actually just objective journalists, obviously.

00:46:19.000 And it's always funny.

00:46:20.000 In the post journalistic life of every one of these pseudo objective journalists, they demonstrate exactly what they are five seconds later.

00:46:26.000 So years and years and years ago, it was like 2012 at the RNC.

00:46:31.000 I remember walking around and Sam Donaldson was there.

00:46:33.000 Sam Donaldson had, of course, been one of these pseudo objective news journalists for one of the major networks.

00:46:39.000 And Sam Donaldson, at this point, was doing a show for ABC Radio.

00:46:43.000 And I walked over to him and I asked him, you know, Mr. Donaldson, I noticed that your show is extremely political and extremely left wing.

00:46:49.000 Did you hold those same views while you were pretending to be an objective reporter for ABC all those years?

00:46:57.000 And he got very upset and he said, Do you think you're better than I am?

00:47:00.000 And I said, Well, I mean, at this I do because I'm honest about my own politics.

00:47:04.000 I'm pretty honest about exactly where I come from on every issue, but you guys are not.

00:47:08.000 Well, the same thing is true of Scott Pelly.

00:47:09.000 So, Scott Pelly, apparently doing a reboot of Lonely Islands, I'm on a boat, went on a boat, showed himself gazing off into the distance with an American flag on the back of his boat.

00:47:23.000 Real man of the people, Scott Pelly.

00:47:25.000 The self aggrandizing nature of the people in journalism is truly an astonishing thing.

00:47:30.000 Well, he did an interview over the weekend, of course, with the New York Times, in which This humble journalist explained that he has never seen political bias before.

00:47:42.000 Only Barry Weiss is politically biased.

00:47:47.000 There was a thumb on the scale for the president's version of events that I felt was a level of political influence that I had never seen in 37 years at CBS News.

00:48:05.000 Yeah, CBS News, perfectly objective.

00:48:07.000 For 37 years, perfectly objective.

00:48:09.000 Never any pressure, nothing.

00:48:10.000 Well, it's weird because it turns out that Americans do not trust mass media and it's been sinking consistently for decades.

00:48:15.000 This is a Gallup poll taken from 1972 on.

00:48:21.000 And it shows confidence in media at an all time high, basically after Watergate in the low 70s, dives by the year 2000 all the way down to the mid 50s, and then just continues to plummet down to 28% today.

00:48:35.000 A great deal or a fair amount of faith in the news media.

00:48:39.000 That is not because the news media has been traditionally objective.

00:48:43.000 Well, Scott Pelly says, by the way, that the That these people need adult supervision.

00:48:50.000 Apparently, he's going to be the adult supervision because he has glasses that he sometimes chews.

00:48:54.000 Scott Pelly, CBS News.

00:48:59.000 It was doing great.

00:49:02.000 So, why are we making these changes?

00:49:07.000 We need adult supervision.

00:49:10.000 And at the moment, we don't have it.

00:49:13.000 We have people who have been installed in these jobs who, through no fault of their own, have no experience in television.

00:49:19.000 It's not their fault.

00:49:22.000 But they don't know what they're doing.

00:49:25.000 They don't know what they're doing.

00:49:26.000 Only he knows what he's doing because he's been reading off a teleprompter for years.

00:49:29.000 He's the king of 60 minutes.

00:49:30.000 He's a talking head, guys.

00:49:32.000 That's what he does.

00:49:33.000 He is a head who reads the news off of a teleprompter.

00:49:36.000 That is what he does for a living.

00:49:39.000 And then he gets choked up because news is a life threat.

00:49:41.000 He's a hero, guys.

00:49:42.000 He's an unappreciated hero, Scott Pelly.

00:49:46.000 There are people in that room who go to war zones when they are pregnant.

00:49:53.000 Oh, God.

00:49:55.000 Ah, boy.

00:49:57.000 Newsrooms are sort of like the military or the police or the beautiful people at the FDNY down the street.

00:50:05.000 It is a life-threatening job in many instances.

00:50:13.000 And very strong bonds, very emotional bonds are found or developed in that kind of setting.

00:50:26.000 Running CBS News, who don't know that, have never felt that, and don't understand it, is a tragedy I never expected to see.

00:50:42.000 It's a tragedy.

00:50:44.000 Because probably the prior editors at CBS News, they're like soldiers or something, right?

00:50:48.000 They're all American heroes.

00:50:51.000 We are now just doing outtakes from broadcast news with William Hurt.

00:50:54.000 For those who don't know the reference, Go watch the movie.

00:50:57.000 William Hurt plays a broadcast news anchor who's vying for sort of the chief anchor job.

00:51:02.000 And one of the things that he does, he cuts an interview with a woman who's been victimized and he cries in the interview.

00:51:09.000 And this gets him the job.

00:51:10.000 And it turns out later there was only one camera in the room, which means that he actually had to flip the camera around and later splice in himself crying.

00:51:17.000 That's what he's an actor.

00:51:18.000 He's an actor.

00:51:19.000 Hey, give me a break.

00:51:21.000 I just weep for all the other journalists and their stalwart heroism.

00:51:26.000 And then he says he didn't expect to get fired.

00:51:28.000 I don't know.

00:51:28.000 I feel like if you walk into an all company meeting and rip into your bosses as tools of the president and talk about how they're totally unqualified, you may be figuring you're going to get fired.

00:51:37.000 I mean, how else is he going to get some sort of interview with the New York Times interview podcast?

00:51:43.000 But it really didn't occur to you that you could be fired after so many of your colleagues had been let go, after you'd had this very contentious interaction with your new boss?

00:51:55.000 You know, some reporter I turned out to be.

00:51:57.000 I just didn't connect the dots.

00:52:00.000 I mean, was this meeting contentious?

00:52:02.000 Yes, but 60 Minutes is known for two things a ticking stopwatch and hard questions.

00:52:09.000 And we ask ourselves those hard questions in the shop because.

00:52:13.000 Because they sharpen us and make us better.

00:52:18.000 Oh, so emotional.

00:52:20.000 This interview itself demonstrates why Pelly should have been fired.

00:52:24.000 Anybody who has this level of self involvement should not be the person who is covering the news in pseudo objective fashion.

00:52:32.000 And again, he went out there, he said he had no idea who Barry Weiss was when she was hired.

00:52:37.000 And he said that when he did that ridiculous display in front of all of his colleagues, it was behind closed doors.

00:52:43.000 I was with my family in a closed room. 0.84

00:52:45.000 No, no, no, no.

00:52:47.000 If we have an all company meeting at our company and somebody gets up and rips into the executives and says they're stooges and all this kind of stuff, you can pretty fairly expect that you're not going to have a job the next day. 0.92

00:52:57.000 This is really, really, really silly.

00:52:59.000 But, you know, our objective news media are doing their best. 0.84

00:53:01.000 All right.

00:53:02.000 Well, the actual award for ideological heroism of the day goes to my friend Dana Lash.

00:53:10.000 So, Dana Lash was speaking at the TPUSA Women's Leadership Conference over the weekend.

00:53:17.000 And she was pointing out that it turns out that there are a lot of people who have been ripping into Erica Kirk for, you know, what, almost a year at this point?

00:53:25.000 We're getting close to a year.

00:53:27.000 Here is Dana Lash going after people like Candace Owens and, yes, Tucker Carlson for spewing conspiratorial nonsense about Erica Kirk and the death of Charlie.

00:53:37.000 Our Lord God defines himself as a, quote, father to the fatherless and a defender of widows.

00:53:50.000 God has ordered his church to care for widows, that widows be included so they are not isolated, to protect widows, to care for widows, to not persecute a widow in the most ungodly of ways because you're jealous that you are not the one controlling an organization that that widow's husband built.

00:54:10.000 Okay, so why is this relevant?

00:54:15.000 Well, it turns out that people who are supposed allies of TPUSA, Charlie's organization, they spent the weekend.

00:54:22.000 Humor and conspiracy theories about Erica Kirk and Charlie Kirk.

00:54:26.000 So the pseudo comedian Jimmy Doar, who's basically just turned into an online conspiracy theorist, he, of course, was on Tucker Carlson's show because as long as you hate Israel and spew anti Semitic conspiracy theories, you are always welcome to Tucker's fake cabin in Maine.

00:54:41.000 And Jimmy Doar then just jumped into a nine and a half minute monologue about how Charlie was killed by a wide variety of people.

00:54:53.000 Of conspiratorial forces, this comedian Jimmy Doar.

00:54:58.000 Here he was, and you can hear Tucker Carlson laugh at the end, loving every second of it.

00:55:03.000 Takes the gun apart, leaves the screwdriver there, puts it under a towel.

00:55:08.000 Spider Man's his way off the top of a building, runs across campus with the gun apparently under a towel.

00:55:13.000 Nobody sees this.

00:55:14.000 He runs into the woods, puts the gun back together again without the screwdriver. 0.99

00:55:17.000 He's a regular MacGyver, this guy, and then he hides the gun in the backyard of a house owned by Palantir. 0.99

00:55:23.000 And if you think anything else besides that, you're a crazy. 0.99

00:55:27.000 Jew hating conspiracy nut. 1.00

00:55:34.000 That guy is, man, the things Alp does to your brain. 1.00

00:55:39.000 Same episode.

00:55:40.000 Here's Jimmy Doar mocking Erica Kirk for grieving wrong to Tucker Carlson.

00:55:44.000 Remember, great friends to Charlie Kirk, great friend to TPUSA.

00:55:48.000 Again, I don't think that you have to be friends with somebody to defend their widow.

00:55:53.000 I don't think you actually have to be close to that person or any.

00:55:53.000 I really don't.

00:55:57.000 I think that actually you can just defend the widows of people who get shot from conspiracy theories about how they did the shooting.

00:56:05.000 But if you are going to pretend to be close to that organization, then this is how to do it wrong.

00:56:13.000 This is obviously a setup, and you're not allowed to ask questions about it.

00:56:16.000 And if you are, you are attacking a grieving widow.

00:56:20.000 And that's again, when did Jackie O ever say, Quit looking in, stop, quit looking into who killed my husband?

00:56:26.000 That's not what happens.

00:56:26.000 Never.

00:56:27.000 And that's not how you grieve, by the way.

00:56:29.000 I remember when my dad died, my mom immediately bought a gold sequin pants outfit, started carrying sparklers around and selling t shirts.

00:56:36.000 And my friends are like, Jimmy, what's with your mom?

00:56:38.000 I'm like, She's grieving.

00:56:43.000 Unbelievable.

00:56:44.000 Well, that was on Tucker Carlson's show.

00:56:47.000 Some people need to do a better job of identifying who, at least, the people who hate them are.

00:56:51.000 They should probably do a better job with that. 0.96

00:56:54.000 Speaking of people who hate America, Candace Owens was out there posting the magic of Russian Starbucks. 1.00

00:56:59.000 Intellectual property theft. 0.71

00:57:00.000 It's good times now.

00:57:03.000 She put up a tweet We told Russia they couldn't have Starbucks, and they really said, okay, now we own it, and we call it Star's Coffee.

00:57:08.000 Same great taste.

00:57:09.000 No American demands met.

00:57:10.000 They did this for virtually every brand that got sanctioned, by the way, just made it their own.

00:57:13.000 Oh, you mean they engaged in intellectual property theft?

00:57:16.000 That's the thing that they did?

00:57:18.000 What wonderful people.

00:57:20.000 And then she talks about how Russia is amazing.

00:57:22.000 Quote If by you mean everything in their society is exactly the same, but somehow cheaper, cleaner, and more inspiring than we can import some of that Russian to America, gas is cheaper, food is cheaper, and they have less debt.

00:57:36.000 Our media lies day in and day out and pretends Russia's on the brink of collapse to justify our own citizens struggling to afford basic necessities. 0.77

00:57:42.000 Keep playing up to the Western delusion that Russia is failing because we punish them with sanctions for their moral sins while they roll out the red carpet for the genocidal state of Israel. 0.84

00:57:50.000 Keep applauding the same dumb foreign policy initiatives which brought us. 0.89

00:57:52.000 We can overtake Persia in two weeks, Mr. President. 1.00

00:57:55.000 Everything we are doing and have done is stupid, and we owe it to a bunch of geriatric ball worshippers, which means Jews, who think that if they kill enough Palestinian children, they'll prove themselves chosen for Satan. 0.99

00:58:04.000 Reality the Eastern Hemisphere is now on the rise, and you can't gatekeep that reality forever. 1.00

00:58:09.000 Okay, so, I mean, when she goes, she goes. 0.53

00:58:12.000 I will say that if you're going to go full fifth columnist, like Russian stooge, points for honesty there.

00:58:19.000 Should point out that outside of Moscow, indoor plumbing is uncommon.

00:58:23.000 In Russia.

00:58:25.000 But Candace loves it over there, so they should probably just give her a dasha.

00:58:28.000 She can live with the richy riches.

00:58:29.000 It'll be nice for her.

00:58:30.000 I feel like she'll do better over there. 0.67

00:58:32.000 America should be more like Russia, is a hell of a take. 0.90

00:58:34.000 It's a hell of a take.

00:58:35.000 But, you know, so many smart people, so many smart people in the online space.

00:58:40.000 Geniuses.

00:58:43.000 Wow.

00:58:44.000 All righty.

00:58:44.000 Time for a thing I like and then a thing that I hate.

00:58:47.000 So, things that I like. 0.99

00:58:50.000 So, Gwyneth Paltrow has now been reduced to saying that her husband thinks she's a Republican just because she's not a psycho.

00:58:55.000 Now, again, this is funny because, of course, Gwyneth Paltrow is not a Republican.

00:58:58.000 Gwyneth Paltrow is basically a down the line liberal.

00:59:02.000 But just because she is not mimicking the most crazy excesses of the left, this now means she's a Republican.

00:59:08.000 This is the Elon Musk chart in real life here.

00:59:13.000 You know, I noticed with my own husband, who's the best person ever in the world.

00:59:19.000 And he is so progressive.

00:59:22.000 Like, he has such a sweet heart and he wants to make sure everybody's looked after.

00:59:28.000 And I think in this climate, you know, sometimes I'm like, can you, I'm like, can you just listen to this?

00:59:34.000 Like, can you, what, you know, can, you know, it is very triggering for people.

00:59:38.000 Like, they've become, it's become so binary, I think.

00:59:42.000 And, and, and I, I am trying to, in my journey through being an American right now, trying to, I don't know, I guess sort of weave together lots of different points of view and also to get out of that place of like righteousness and, and anger and fear.

01:00:00.000 And I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm pretty centrist and my husband thinks I'm a Republican.

01:00:08.000 Um, But I think it's, which I'm not a Republican.

01:00:12.000 I mean, I don't feel anything right now, to be totally honest with you.

01:00:15.000 I feel like I'm completely an independent.

01:00:19.000 Now, again, this is what's happened.

01:00:20.000 The left has gone so crazy that Gwyneth Paul throws politically homeless.

01:00:23.000 Great job, guys.

01:00:24.000 And now I've been told by producer Justin that this new Masters of the Universe movie, I know that the right is somehow putting out the idea that it's a left wing movie.

01:00:33.000 I've not seen the movie.

01:00:34.000 So I'm going to take producer Justin's word for it because, you know, producer Justin is very conservative.

01:00:38.000 He says, That essentially, the movie is actually pretty right wing.

01:00:42.000 He says that the movie actively makes fun of human resources culture.

01:00:45.000 It mocks the Blue Hair Brigade and it goes after the empathy and feelings crowd.

01:00:52.000 He says that the film is actually a massive, thinly veiled mockery of the modern corporate grievance complex.

01:00:58.000 Apparently, in the final battle, Skeletor refuses to negotiate and refuses to stop and keeps coming for He Man's home and family because he says he's a villain and he loves it.

01:01:08.000 And so He Man is forced to fight him.

01:01:12.000 And also, there's a character called Man at Arms, played by Idris Elba.

01:01:17.000 And he actually has to teach a young Adam about courage and strength.

01:01:21.000 And he says that there comes a time when the time for talking is over.

01:01:24.000 So I haven't seen the movie.

01:01:26.000 I'll have to see it now.

01:01:28.000 On the other hand, we have some things that I hate.

01:01:30.000 So Lewis Hamilton, who is dating a woman worth $2 billion and is himself worth a fortune, he was on the Jay Shetty podcast and he says that there is a limit to how much wealth you can have.

01:01:42.000 Okay, dude, let's start with you.

01:01:44.000 Let's start with you.

01:01:47.000 I'm always amused when people who are extraordinarily wealthy suddenly try to buy their way back into the good graces of people who hate their wealth by claiming that we need a redistributionist.

01:01:55.000 Okay, you've got, there's a thing called charity.

01:01:56.000 You can do it right now.

01:01:58.000 You can do it right this very instant, actually. 0.98

01:01:59.000 But here's Lewis Hamilton doing this dumb routine.

01:02:03.000 The one of the things that I'm like, I struggle with every day is, and it's just how life is, and it's been the way for thousands of years, that there is such a disparity between wealthy and the poor.

01:02:14.000 You know, you still, when you drive around LA, there's still so many people living on the streets.

01:02:19.000 There should, you shouldn't be able to have billions, right?

01:02:23.000 I think there should be a limit to how much you can have because there's enough to go around to everyone.

01:02:26.000 So somehow creating a law that creates more equality.

01:02:31.000 Yeah.

01:02:32.000 And equal access for everyone, you know.

01:02:35.000 I don't know how that you would implement that law.

01:02:38.000 That's all good.

01:02:39.000 But like, geez, man, I've met kids that are starving.

01:02:42.000 Yeah, same.

01:02:44.000 And you think, oh, God, like, How we are so, so lucky, so many of us.

01:02:50.000 And knowing that and not taking advantage of your everyday is so, so important.

01:02:59.000 His girlfriend is Kim Kardashian.

01:03:00.000 He's one of the richest people on earth.

01:03:01.000 She is one of the richest people on earth.

01:03:03.000 There's a thing called charity, guys.

01:03:05.000 You can do it.

01:03:06.000 I do a lot of it.

01:03:07.000 You can do it.

01:03:08.000 It's really, really easy.

01:03:09.000 You sign a check to a charitable organization, you can do it right now.

01:03:12.000 You can even give them some of your stock.

01:03:14.000 You can do whatever you want with your money.

01:03:16.000 I love when everybody, these richy rich, Socialists come out like, you know what we should really do?

01:03:24.000 I wish that we would redistribute.

01:03:26.000 I'm not going to give any charity, you understand, but I think that everyone should truly, truly.

01:03:31.000 I don't even know how this would be achieved, but what if I could take my money and give it to someone poorer?

01:03:36.000 No, I'm not going to do that, you understand, but I feel like if there are a system to do that, then maybe I would want to do that.

01:03:43.000 I mean, I wouldn't want to do that, but maybe I would.

01:03:45.000 Come on, come on.

01:03:47.000 Well, again, the socialist culture is on the uptick right now.

01:03:51.000 There's a trailer out for a new movie called How to Rob a Bank.

01:03:54.000 There have been a spate of movies recently that are just overtly anti capitalistic, overtly so.

01:04:01.000 The idea in these movies is that if you are rich, you must be the thief, and therefore people stealing from you is totally fine.

01:04:07.000 So here's the trailer for how to rob a bank.

01:04:12.000 They're going to rob this bank because this one's personal.

01:04:16.000 I don't worry about the ambitions of thieves.

01:04:20.000 Didn't your bank just get bailed out and screw over a lot of people?

01:04:23.000 Just also kind of seems like Thievery.

01:04:25.000 No.

01:04:27.000 I love you guys.

01:04:30.000 Who's robbing the thieves?

01:04:31.000 They're making a point.

01:04:36.000 The system's corrupt.

01:04:36.000 Are we in a car chase?

01:04:43.000 We just need to get there fast.

01:04:46.000 Get out of the car.

01:04:50.000 Yeah.

01:04:50.000 Is this tunnel fast?

01:04:51.000 There you go.

01:04:52.000 I love your show.

01:04:52.000 Dope.

01:04:53.000 Thanks for watching.

01:04:54.000 This is why you'll get.

01:04:59.000 We've got Pete Davidson and John C. Riley and Nicholas Holt.

01:05:07.000 Oh, yeah, Christian Slater's in it too.

01:05:08.000 Zoe Kravitz. 0.57

01:05:09.000 It's a big cast.

01:05:11.000 And the idea is that robbing people is fine because they took a government bailout.

01:05:15.000 So, first of all, you guys didn't disagree with the government getting.

01:05:19.000 Why is it that you are not angry at the government for giving the bailout?

01:05:22.000 You're angry at the bailout recipient.

01:05:24.000 I noticed that that is not a logic you ever apply to anyone else.

01:05:28.000 It's never applied to people who are recipients in any other way of government largesse.

01:05:32.000 I'm angry at the government.

01:05:33.000 I don't think the government should have done the bank bailouts.

01:05:36.000 I don't.

01:05:37.000 I think the government created a ridiculous incentive structure whereby banks made risky bets on subprime mortgages at the behest of the federal government, and then the federal government bailed them out with our money. 0.54

01:05:46.000 And I think it sucked all the way around.

01:05:48.000 But the idea that this somehow is now making robbery morally righteous, the next wave in American politics is clearly economically left unless people get their heads right.

01:06:02.000 And the reality is, I think that given the propagandistic nature of our news media and our entertainment culture, that is very, very.

01:06:07.000 When's the last time you saw a robust defense of free markets?

01:06:11.000 In a film, ever?

01:06:12.000 Has it ever happened?

01:06:14.000 Even when that happens, it happens by accident.

01:06:17.000 Truly, it's usually the villain who somehow ends up a breakout figure because he's speaking logic.

01:06:22.000 Alrighty, folks, the show continues for our members right now.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - June 08, 2026

The California Election Is Corrupt, Just Not How You Think

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