The Ben Shapiro Show - The DOJ And FBI Are Endangering The Country | Ep. 1556

00:00:00.000 Speculation about the FBI's search on Mar-a-Lago continues as Donald Trump asks how he can bring down the heat.

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00:01:27.000 Well, I'm glad to be back here in the United States.

00:01:30.000 Unfortunately, in my absence, it seems as though things have gotten a lot worse here, largely because of the weaponization of the FBI and DOJ.

00:01:37.000 And it's hard for me at this point to read what is going on with the FBI and DOJ and see it as anything other than weaponization.

00:01:45.000 The reason I say this is because they've now released the search warrant on Donald Trump's of residents at Mar-a-Lago.

00:01:51.000 They've released some of the underlying legal materials.

00:01:55.000 Merrick Garland has then emerged to explain in front of the cameras that he, in fact, ordered the code red.

00:01:59.000 It was he who signed off on this FBI search on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property.

00:02:05.000 And here is the problem.

00:02:06.000 We still don't know what exactly they are looking for.

00:02:09.000 And we're learning every day about more stuff that they took from Donald Trump.

00:02:12.000 Here's the thing.

00:02:13.000 If you are going to search the residence of the former president of the United States and the probable next nominee for the opposing political party, you'd best have an incredibly clear and convincing case as to why you are doing so.

00:02:25.000 You can't just do so as a deep sea fishing expedition.

00:02:28.000 And that's what this appears to be.

00:02:29.000 Now, you might be able to find something with the fishing expedition.

00:02:32.000 What you find better be absolutely outsized.

00:02:34.000 You cannot go on a deep-sea fishing expedition here and come up with a minnow and then say, ah, it was all justified because we came up with this minnow right here.

00:02:40.000 You see this tiny little fish?

00:02:41.000 We came up with this.

00:02:42.000 Sure, we weaponized the DOJ and the FBI to go after our political opponents.

00:02:46.000 And what we came up with was this small fish.

00:02:48.000 No, you're going to have to come up with Moby Dick here.

00:02:50.000 You're going to have to come up with an actual white whale spouting oil.

00:02:53.000 I mean, that is really what we're going to have to come up with here.

00:02:55.000 And that is not in evidence so far.

00:02:58.000 Every other minute, it seems, we are learning that they took something else from Mar-a-Lago, according to the UK Daily Mail.

00:03:04.000 The Justice Department is hit back at Donald Trump's claim the FBI stole his passports during the raid on his Mar-a-Lago mansion.

00:03:10.000 An insider told CBS the agency does not have the documents, but added whatever was seized that was not on the warrant will, in fact, be returned.

00:03:15.000 It comes after the former president on Monday claimed his passports were taken, which would mean that he could not leave the country.

00:03:21.000 And this led to all sorts of speculation.

00:03:22.000 Of course, on the left, the way that this works is the minute you find out what sort of documents they seized, Then they go, oh, well, obviously he's guilty.

00:03:28.000 If they took his passports, it means they don't want him to flee.

00:03:31.000 Donald Trump is a flight risk from the United States.

00:03:34.000 Yeah, sure.

00:03:35.000 Or they seized secret classified documents.

00:03:38.000 Probably it was the nuclear launch codes and he was about to hand them over to the Russians or to the Saudis because, you know, Jared Kushner has some sort of money deal with the Saudis.

00:03:46.000 The speculation on the left is always and forever that whatever people are searching for on Donald Trump, they must have something.

00:03:53.000 They must have something.

00:03:54.000 And here's the thing.

00:03:55.000 If you are a rational human being and you watch the FBI and DOJ go after Donald Trump while he was president for four years over Russiagate, You start to wonder if they really do have something, or is it just true that everyone is incompetent all the time?

00:04:08.000 And so the combination of incompetence and gradual malevolence on the part of some people in the FBI and DOJ has some really dire consequences.

00:04:18.000 As I said when this news first broke, in order for you to raid, and you know, you can say it's a raid, you can say it's a search, it doesn't really matter.

00:04:24.000 In order to search the residence of the former President of the United States and current leader of the opposition to the President of the United States, in order to search his residence, You have to have high institutional trust in the so-called nonpartisan aspects of the American government.

00:04:38.000 You have to trust that the FBI actually is not politicized.

00:04:40.000 You have to trust the DOJ is not politicized.

00:04:43.000 But it's hard to think of a time in modern American history when there's been less trust in these institutions.

00:04:49.000 And so what you are doing is you are staking The possibility of faith in the institutions on a claim that appears to be slim as a reed.

00:04:57.000 And I say this because I've now looked at the search warrant and it cites three separate parts of the United States legal code.

00:05:03.000 It cites 18 U.S.

00:05:04.000 Code 793, that's the Espionage Act, talking about the gathering, transmitting, or losing of defense information.

00:05:11.000 And particularly, it is talking about important classified information.

00:05:15.000 It cites also U.S.

00:05:16.000 Code 18, Section 2071, concealment, removal, or mutilation generally of materials, and it cites also 18 U.S.

00:05:23.000 Code 1519.

00:05:26.000 Which is about the destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations and bankruptcy.

00:05:32.000 So we were originally told that the search on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property was about classified documents he still had in his possession.

00:05:39.000 And this raised a bunch of questions.

00:05:40.000 It raised question number one.

00:05:42.000 Were these actually classified documents?

00:05:44.000 Because the President has plenary power to declassify documents while he is still in office.

00:05:49.000 So if the day before he took all of this stuff to his residence, he said just out loud, this stuff is now declassified.

00:05:56.000 It is totally unclear, legally speaking, whether he has to go through any sort of procedure to declassify.

00:06:01.000 Because again, the power to declassify lies in the President of the United States.

00:06:05.000 And there's no actual procedure for declassification.

00:06:07.000 It doesn't say by statute or under the Constitution that he has to Sign some sort of form saying this stuff is declassified.

00:06:13.000 He can basically just do a Michael Scott, perhaps walk into the middle of the off, say, I hereby declare bankruptcy.

00:06:19.000 I declare that this is declassified and now all of it is declassified.

00:06:23.000 So he's now said, by the way, that this is what he did.

00:06:25.000 And Donald Trump is sort of a defense mechanism here.

00:06:28.000 He has said that this is precisely what he did.

00:06:30.000 Apparently, a statement was put out to John Solomon, a reporter at Just the News, in which Donald Trump says this, quote, as we can all relate to everyone ends up having to bring home their work from time to time.

00:06:41.000 American presidents are no different. President Trump, in order to prepare the work the next day, often took documents, including classified documents to the residence. He had a standing order that documents removed from the Oval Office and taken to the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them.

00:06:54.000 The power to classify and declassify documents rests solely with the President of the United States.

00:06:57.000 The idea that some paper-pushing bureaucrat with classification authority delegated by the President needs to approve the declassification is absurd.

00:07:05.000 So the claim here is no one can tell the president that stuff is actually still classified if he declares it declassified.

00:07:12.000 Maybe he's doing this post-hoc.

00:07:13.000 Maybe he didn't actually say at the time it's declassified.

00:07:16.000 But it's going to be very hard to prove that in a court of law.

00:07:18.000 And again, when it comes to classification and declassification, generally speaking, these are not statutes like the Espionage Act that have significant criminal penalties attached.

00:07:27.000 They've largely been used with regard, well, the Espionage Act does.

00:07:30.000 Rather, when you talk about, for example, the presidential archives, Anything having to do with the National Archives and the taking home of materials that belong in the National Archives, that's not stuff that really has criminal penalties attached.

00:07:42.000 The Espionage Act does. 0.58

00:07:43.000 But the Espionage Act also suggests that you have to have some level of intent, generally speaking, or gross negligence in order to be charged under the Espionage Act, which is exactly why Hillary Clinton was not.

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00:09:10.000 And so what exactly is the DOJ and the FBI doing here?

00:09:13.000 This is the major question.

00:09:14.000 So Andy McCarthy over at National Review, he has a good breakdown.

00:09:17.000 And here's what he says.

00:09:17.000 He says, we can see the investigation is far broader than just the mishandling of classified information.

00:09:22.000 Remember, this was the original case.

00:09:23.000 The original case was he has classified information at his residence.

00:09:26.000 And as I say, this raises a number of questions.

00:09:28.000 Number one, the president of the United States can declassify.

00:09:31.000 Number two, If this classified information was so all-fired important, why are they going to get it by claiming that the National Archives is missing it using the non-criminal statute?

00:09:42.000 And then they released the search warrant.

00:09:43.000 It says, oh, no, no, it's not just the National Archives stuff.

00:09:45.000 It's also the Espionage Act stuff.

00:09:47.000 It's also these other aspects of American law.

00:09:49.000 But what this really looks like in the end, as Andy McCarthy explains, is grab every paper you can find at Mar-a-Lago because maybe we'll come up with something.

00:09:56.000 Here's what Andy McCarthy says.

00:09:58.000 While the Espionage Act offense relates to defense secrets, the other two offenses are not limited to classified information.

00:10:03.000 Section 2071 relates to the removal or concealment of any government record, not just classified information.

00:10:09.000 Section 1519 applies to any item at all.

00:10:12.000 It need not be a government record, for the point is to protect government investigations, not government property.

00:10:17.000 And then it looks like the search warrant prioritizes classified information crimes, but less so than it first appears.

00:10:23.000 One of the subsections of the attachment to the search warrant authorizes agents to seize documents marked classified, but the license is much, much broader.

00:10:31.000 The warrant allows seizures of not only containers in which classified documents are found, along with their other contents, even if they're not classified, but also of other containers found proximate to the first containers.

00:10:40.000 Again, regardless of whether the contents are classified.

00:10:42.000 So, if the agent's found a box.

00:10:44.000 And inside that box, there was a low-level classified document, and that was stored next to 10 other containers of non-classified documents.

00:10:50.000 The warrant would allow the FBI to simply grab all of those things.

00:10:54.000 And the warrant also permits the seizure of communications in any form regarding classified information.

00:10:59.000 So, in other words, if I write a note, and I make reference to classified information, but don't actually state the specified classified information, that could also have been grabbed by the FBI.

00:11:09.000 And all of this precedes one of the subsections that Anne McCarthy correctly says is really elastic.

00:11:14.000 This permits the seizure of any government and or presidential records created throughout the four years of Trump's presidency.

00:11:20.000 This has nothing to do with classified information.

00:11:22.000 It's mainly designed to use the criminal law, the search warrant, to enforce the Presidential Records Act, which again, as I say, is not a criminal statute.

00:11:29.000 The National Archives, Presidential Records Act stuff, that is not criminal statute.

00:11:34.000 So maybe they can get away with this sort of search warrant, but to pretend that this is a very specific, targeted, laser-like approach to finding specific documents that are a national security threat, that is not what this looks like in any way, shape, or form.

00:11:46.000 It is far broader than that, and that raises serious political questions.

00:11:50.000 But it seems like the strategy by the DOJ and the FBI here is basically throw everything against the wall, see what sticks, toss a bunch of lines in the deep sea, hope to come up with a really big fish.

00:12:02.000 And so, when people say this looks like political targeting, it does.

00:12:04.000 It looks like an action in search of a crime.

00:12:07.000 It looks very much like the AG of New York State, Letitia James, targeting Trump.

00:12:13.000 I mean, she said this when she went into New York's AG office.

00:12:15.000 She said, Donald Trump is the target, now we just have to find the crime.

00:12:18.000 When you have prosecutors, investigative agencies, the Attorney General of the United States, the DOJ, saying, we want this guy, and so we are now going to put in place procedures to get this guy, and then later we'll see if we came up with a crime, That's the sort of stuff that scares the living hell out of Americans and it should scare the living hell out of Americans.

00:12:35.000 You're supposed to identify the crime first.

00:12:37.000 The search warrant does not specify what the crime was.

00:12:39.000 And when Merrick Garland goes out there and he says, how dare anyone attack the FBI?

00:12:44.000 Listen, I'm not blaming the FBI agents.

00:12:45.000 I don't think it's right to reveal, for example, the names of the FBI agents.

00:12:49.000 They're the ones who are being given orders by the higher ups at the FBI to go do their jobs.

00:12:49.000 It's not their fault.

00:12:54.000 And that sort of stuff should remain confidential.

00:12:56.000 However, when we're talking about the institutional credibility of the FBI, that has been shredded, absolutely shredded.

00:13:01.000 And this does nothing to prop it up.

00:13:02.000 I'm sorry, the media is just fawning benevolent Suck upage to Merrick Garland, who literally just went on TV last week and was like, and whining about, well, you know, everybody's very mean to the FBI.

00:13:15.000 Here I am.

00:13:16.000 You should trust us.

00:13:16.000 I did it.

00:13:18.000 Why?

00:13:19.000 Trust is earned.

00:13:20.000 Show me what you've done to earn that trust.

00:13:22.000 Truly.

00:13:23.000 And particularly with regard to Donald Trump, because again, you guys went after Donald Trump for four long years.

00:13:28.000 And as somebody who's open to the idea that you guys were good at your jobs and that eventually you would show evidence, and then you showed no evidence, you got to the end of it, you got to nothing, it was just a big nothing burger that took tens of millions of dollars, four years of time, endless media coverage, ripping away at Trump personally and the Trump administration, generally undermining his presidency, you have for four long years.

00:13:47.000 And as somebody who at the beginning was open to the idea that maybe at the root of this, there would be something, when you keep doing it over and over, I'm far less sanguine about the possibility that you actually have something on Donald Trump.

00:13:58.000 This feels much more like you're going to keep digging and keep digging and keep digging, and you're going to keep assuring us, like Adam shifted for four years, that you actually have the underlying evidence.

00:14:07.000 Show it to us!

00:14:08.000 Show it!

00:14:09.000 Show me the evidence that he did something wrong, and that is why you are activating the search warrant.

00:14:13.000 And when you say he did something wrong, don't give me that he took a classified document home to Mar-a-Lago and stored it in a box somewhere.

00:14:20.000 And when people, by the way, compare that to Hillary Clinton and storing emails on her server, I'd like to point out two things.

00:14:26.000 One, Hillary Clinton never had the power of declassification. 0.99

00:14:28.000 Number two, if you're talking about the possibility of somebody grabbing a classified document and using it to their own advantage, which is more dangerous?

00:14:35.000 Just on a pure level, taking home what appears to be printed sheets of paper in a box or having an email address that is not protected by the U.S.

00:14:43.000 government and that is hackable by foreign operations.

00:14:46.000 How do you hack Donald Trump's closet?

00:14:48.000 Just going to point out right here, there is no way, unless you actually have an agent inside Mar-a-Lago, searching through the boxes, because they didn't seize any digital materials so far as we are aware, right?

00:14:57.000 They seized boxes of papers.

00:14:58.000 A box of papers sitting in Donald Trump's third bedroom somewhere, like 58 bedrooms in Mar-a-Lago.

00:15:04.000 That box of papers is significantly less dangerous to national security than classified materials being trafficked online, which is what Hillary Clinton was doing. 0.80

00:15:12.000 So if you're talking about, as the media are talking, well, it was espionage.

00:15:15.000 Now you have to prove that Donald Trump was, what, going to take the nuclear codes and send them to Vladimir Putin?

00:15:19.000 This is all part of the broader conspiracy theory that Donald Trump is actually a traitor to the country, rather than a guy who's incredibly sloppy and egocentric about the way that he does his job, or his post job, as the case may be.

00:15:30.000 And without the actual evidence, I'm not sure exactly why we are supposed to believe the FBI and the DOJ.

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00:16:44.000 And so the real rap on Donald Trump that the media are now coming up with is that he's not explaining himself.

00:16:49.000 Well, he hasn't explained himself properly.

00:16:52.000 So the New York Times has a piece today on the front page titled Trump's shifting explanations follow a familiar playbook.

00:16:58.000 The former president and his allies have often given conflicting defenses of his retention of classified documents without addressing why he had kept them.

00:17:05.000 Okay, well, it's your job to explain where the crime is that is so dire that it requires the FBI and DOJ to search his residence and perhaps then arrest him and prosecute him.

00:17:16.000 That is your job.

00:17:18.000 It is not his job to explain why the documents are at his house.

00:17:21.000 As it turns out, again, he has the plenary power as the President of the United States to take stuff home and also to declassify the stuff.

00:17:29.000 So maybe you're going to bring that in court.

00:17:30.000 Maybe you're going to say, well, he didn't really do that.

00:17:32.000 There's no evidence.

00:17:32.000 You're going to have to prove that.

00:17:34.000 But again, the burden of proof for the media is always on Trump.

00:17:37.000 We make an accusation about Russiagate and now it's Trump's job for four years to explain why he wasn't involved in Russiagate.

00:17:42.000 We never actually have to prove that he was involved.

00:17:44.000 We'll just sit over here and say, well, you know, we have the secret.

00:17:46.000 We have a secret.

00:17:47.000 And later we'll tell you the secret.

00:17:48.000 Well, it turns out you didn't have the secret.

00:17:49.000 You had nothing.

00:17:51.000 But if the media just treat it as though Trump has to explain away everything, and Trump is particularly bad at explaining himself when it comes to this sort of stuff, because again, he engages in all sorts of sloppy and weird activity, to put it at the very mildest.

00:18:03.000 Well, but the burden isn't on him.

00:18:05.000 The burden is on you.

00:18:06.000 In this country, when you are going to be searched by the police, they have to not get a rote warrant signed typically by some rubber stamping judge, particularly if you're a prominent figure with political implications.

00:18:18.000 You kind of need more than that.

00:18:20.000 And yet the New York Times is like, well, you know, he isn't explaining himself very well.

00:18:24.000 I don't even know what the charge is yet.

00:18:25.000 How is he supposed to explain himself?

00:18:27.000 Like what?

00:18:28.000 Explain to himself about what?

00:18:30.000 You haven't charged him with anything.

00:18:32.000 In order for him to bring a defense, you have to know what the prosecution is saying about him, don't you?

00:18:35.000 Here's the New York Times quote.

00:18:37.000 First, he said he was working and cooperating with government agents who he claimed had inappropriately entered his home.

00:18:42.000 Then, when the government revealed the FBI during its search had recovered nearly a dozen sets of documents that were not classified, he suggested the agents had planted evidence.

00:18:48.000 Finally, his aides claimed he had a standing order to declassify documents that left the Oval Office for his residence and that some of the material was protected by attorney-client and executive privilege.

00:18:56.000 Those are the ever-shifting explanations that former President Donald Trump and his aides have given regarding what the FBI agents found last week in a search of his residence in Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.

00:19:05.000 Mr. Trump and his allies have cast the search as a partisan assault, while amplifying conflicting arguments about his handling of sensitive documents and failing to answer a question at the center of the federal investigation.

00:19:13.000 Why was he keeping documents, some still marked classified, at an unsecured Florida resort when officials had sought for a year to retrieve them?

00:19:20.000 Okay, well, here's the hilarious thing about that.

00:19:22.000 Why was Hillary Clinton keeping lots of classified documents on her personal server and then hit it with bleach bit as soon as she was subpoenaed? 1.00

00:19:29.000 Why?

00:19:30.000 You know, they never wanted to answer that question.

00:19:33.000 Because, again, the point was that you have to prove the criminality.

00:19:37.000 In fact, the FBI came up with the explanation that Hillary Clinton had not acted in criminal ways.

00:19:40.000 She was just really, really sloppy.

00:19:42.000 But apparently that explanation no longer suffices for Trump.

00:19:44.000 So there's two issues here.

00:19:46.000 Did Trump break the law?

00:19:47.000 And the answer is, maybe.

00:19:48.000 We don't know.

00:19:49.000 Did Hillary Clinton break the law? 1.00

00:19:50.000 It appeared to me, yeah.

00:19:52.000 Did that mean that she was going to go to jail?

00:19:54.000 Apparently not.

00:19:54.000 Does it mean that Donald Trump is going to go to jail?

00:19:56.000 Well, it can't.

00:19:57.000 They haven't hit him with a criminal charger yet.

00:19:59.000 And if the idea is that you have to treat similarly situated people similarly, and Trump has available to him defenses that Hillary Clinton never did, the burden of proof is on you.

00:20:09.000 The often contradictory and unsupported defenses perpetuated by Trump and his team since the FBI search follow a familiar pattern and playbook of the former president.

00:20:16.000 He's used it over the decades, but most visibly when he was faced with the investigation into whether his campaign in 2016 conspired with Russians and during his first impeachment trial.

00:20:23.000 In both instances, he claimed victimization and mixed some facts with a blizzard of misleading statements or falsehoods.

00:20:29.000 The funny thing here is that the New York Times, this is such a perfect example.

00:20:31.000 So the New York Times says, right, Donald Trump uses this pattern of obfuscation and confusion and sloppiness to cover up what he did with Russia.

00:20:39.000 So shouldn't at this point you be asking yourself, so what did he do with Russia?

00:20:43.000 Because the answer was nothing.

00:20:45.000 And in the end, the answer was nothing. 0.99

00:20:48.000 I've always said that you try to attribute to stupidity everything you can without attributing it to malice when it comes to politics. 0.98

00:20:57.000 When it comes to Trump's defenses of himself, I think that is particularly true. 0.99

00:21:01.000 It is very difficult not to read malice into what the FBI and DOJ are doing without knowing what exactly, again, maybe they'll come up with the white whale here, but it better be a damned white whale because otherwise all they have done is continue to undermine trust in an institution that already is lacking it in extraordinary and severe ways.

00:21:19.000 And I'm not made sanguine by the fact that people like Peter Strzok are now appearing on mainstream television and mourning Joe to defend the FBI.

00:21:25.000 Peter Strzok is, you'll remember, the FBI agent who was married and with his married lover was exchanging messages before the 2016 election talking about how they had insurance against Trump in the form of Russiagate materials.

00:21:38.000 And eventually he had to leave the FBI in a state of disgrace, but now he's being brought back to talk about the veracity of the institution of the FBI.

00:21:46.000 I'm not sure you could pick somebody who I have less faith to talk about the institutional trust in the FBI than Peter Strzok.

00:21:52.000 And now MSNBC is trotting him out.

00:21:53.000 Why?

00:21:54.000 Because for people on the left who watch MSNBC, Peter Strzok is a valuable figure.

00:21:58.000 In other words, they trust the FBI when the FBI does the work of the left.

00:22:01.000 So Peter Strzok is still somebody they have respect for.

00:22:03.000 So here's disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok, who's at the top of Hurricane Crossfire, which was the investigation into Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and all the rest of it.

00:22:13.000 Here he is on MSNBC talking about why we should trust the FBI.

00:22:18.000 It's not that the FBI is targeting any one side or the other.

00:22:22.000 What you see is the FBI going out on a day-in-day-out basis, objectively investigating allegations of law.

00:22:29.000 It just so happens that the only thing that tends to come up in the right-wing ecosphere, whether in the media or on the Hill or from President Trump, are those things where they take a personal affront because it directly impacts them.

00:22:40.000 There's absolute silence when the FBI is investigating former Secretary Clinton.

00:22:45.000 There's absolute silence when the FBI is doing things that isn't targeting them.

00:22:50.000 So I think this is a one-sided narrative that has been developed and amplified, particularly by President Trump, going back to 2015 and 2016.

00:23:01.000 I mean, it's just amazing.

00:23:03.000 Of all the people you're trotting out to try to rectify faith in the institution of the... Peter Strzok?

00:23:09.000 This one?

00:23:10.000 This is who you bring out?

00:23:12.000 Seriously?

00:23:13.000 And then Strzok says, you know, he really should be held accountable for holding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.

00:23:17.000 It's very important that he be held accountable for that.

00:23:20.000 Peter Strzok was one of the key agents overseeing Hillary Clinton's server.

00:23:25.000 Did she end up Doing any sort of jail time for that?

00:23:29.000 Of course not!

00:23:30.000 The answer is no.

00:23:31.000 But here's Peter Strzok saying that Trump should be punished as Hillary Clinton apparently was not.

00:23:36.000 Donald Trump, he has spent the entirety of his adult life living on the margins of the law, pushing up to the edge, seeing what he can get away with, and then taking a step or two beyond that.

00:23:47.000 When we look at what he did over the course of his administration, but certainly right now, the things that were at Mar-a-Lago, whether withheld initially from the National Archives, whether later withheld from the FBI, there comes a point where no man is above the law.

00:24:01.000 There comes a point that there are things that you do if you are holding these highly, highly classified documents.

00:24:08.000 These things that if they fell into the hands of an unauthorized party, let alone a Russian intelligence officer, a Chinese intelligence officer, would cause massive damage to the national security.

00:24:19.000 And if you hold on to that, after countless requests through the National Archives, through the FBI, you should be held accountable for that.

00:24:30.000 I mean, just to point out here, when Hillary Clinton was not prosecuted, James Comey said, in the exact same statement, James Comey said that there was a high probability that somebody had gotten access to the classified information on her server.

00:24:42.000 So, again, the double standard here is very telling.

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00:26:01.000 Now, the media's response to all of this is, well, there's got to be something.

00:26:04.000 It always comes back to this.

00:26:05.000 There's got to be something because they're just so all fired mad that Trump was ever president.

00:26:09.000 They're very, very upset at the possibility that Trump could be president again.

00:26:11.000 That's a political question, not a legal one.

00:26:13.000 And so they tried out Sam Donaldson of all humans to talk about, well, they've got him this time.

00:26:18.000 They sure got him this time.

00:26:19.000 It's Lucy and the football over here.

00:26:21.000 Here's Sam Donaldson talking about how this is now they've got now they for sure they totally they're going to get him this time.

00:26:29.000 I thought about Capone.

00:26:31.000 Now Al Capone was a great big gangster in the 1920s and 30s.

00:26:35.000 Bootlegged millions of gallons of whiskey.

00:26:38.000 That was illegal.

00:26:39.000 But more than that, a lot of credible evidence that he had ordered the murder of many people.

00:26:44.000 But they never brought him to justice on that.

00:26:47.000 But wait a moment.

00:26:48.000 The IRS discovered that Al Capone was cheating on his income taxes.

00:26:53.000 And so, they brought him to justice on that.

00:26:55.000 He went to prison.

00:26:56.000 That's where he died.

00:26:58.000 If the Attorney General cannot bring himself because of lack of evidence or belief that the country is not ready to bring a president on charges of insurrection or obstruction of justice, how about violation of laws which keep this country safe, like the Espionage Act?

00:27:15.000 If there's credible evidence, I think more of the American public would say, well, yeah, he shouldn't have done that.

00:27:21.000 Let's see what the jury of his peers provides for.

00:27:26.000 Jim Acosta just sitting there, nodding along to a man, the only man in America with thicker eyebrows than I have, Sam Donaldson.

00:27:34.000 By the way, Sam Donaldson at one point was a quote-unquote objective news reporter for ABC News.

00:27:38.000 He is now on the air calling for the President of the United States to be prosecuted on the basis of what we don't know.

00:27:43.000 So really, well done.

00:27:44.000 Well done, everybody.

00:27:45.000 So Donald Trump, for his part, he's saying he wants to bring down the tensions.

00:27:48.000 The left is reading his comments as an insincere way of ratcheting up tensions.

00:27:52.000 The right is reading Donald Trump's comments as an attempt to actually settle the waters here.

00:27:56.000 Here's what Trump actually said.

00:27:58.000 He did an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital on Monday morning.

00:28:03.000 And he said he had his representatives reach out to the DOJ to offer to help amid outrage over the FBI's unprecedented raid on his private residence last week.

00:28:10.000 He said the country is in a very dangerous position.

00:28:12.000 There's tremendous anger, like I've never seen before, over all of the scams in this new one, years of scams and witch hunts, and now this.

00:28:18.000 If there's anything we can do to help, I and my people would certainly be willing to do that.

00:28:21.000 There's never been a time like this where law enforcement has been used to break into the house of a former president of the United States, and there's tremendous anger in the country at a level that has never been seen before other than during very perilous times.

00:28:31.000 He said that his team has not yet heard from the Justice Department on whether they will accept his offer for help.

00:28:34.000 He said, I think they would want the same thing.

00:28:36.000 I've never seen anything like this.

00:28:37.000 I think it's a very dangerous time for our country.

00:28:39.000 I'll do whatever I can to help the country.

00:28:42.000 And then he reflected on the quote, years of fake witch hunts and phony Russia, Russia, Russia schemes and scams.

00:28:46.000 He said, nothing happens to those people who perpetuate that.

00:28:48.000 Nothing happens with them.

00:28:49.000 And then they break into a president's house, a sneak attack where it was totally, no one ever thought a thing like this would happen.

00:28:54.000 And he told Fox News the FBI agents break in and take whatever they want to take.

00:28:58.000 He said the FBI agents told his team at Mar-a-Lago to turn off the camera and said no one can go through the rooms.

00:29:03.000 Trump said they could take anything they want and put anything they want in, right?

00:29:06.000 So he's now claiming they planted evidence, which again, there's no evidence of that and it's typically a Trumpian flourish.

00:29:11.000 He went on to suggest the FBI could have planted anything they wanted during the raid.

00:29:15.000 And that's because, honestly, Trump reads memes online, and we're like, sure, why not that?

00:29:19.000 So people are so angry at what is taking place, whatever we can do to help, because the temperature has to be brought down in the country.

00:29:24.000 If it isn't, terrible things are going to happen.

00:29:26.000 So again, I see the plausible read on the left, that what he's actually saying here is, if you don't stop this, terrible things are going to happen.

00:29:33.000 But on the other side, maybe it's plausible that Donald Trump actually doesn't want the terrible things to happen, and he wants the FBI and DOJ to explain themselves and settle whatever it is they want to settle, so that he's not in any legal danger.

00:29:45.000 Well, whatever the case may be, the tensions in the country have been ratcheted up.

00:29:49.000 And here's the thing.

00:29:49.000 Merrick Garland had to know this was going to happen, right?

00:29:51.000 And the FBI had to know that this was going to happen. 0.98

00:29:54.000 That when you raid the house of the former president of the United States and the likeliest nominee for 2024, when that sort of thing happens, people are going to get rather upset, which is just another reason why you better have the damned goods. 0.96

00:30:06.000 I'm not talking about if he committed a crime, don't prosecute him. 0.89

00:30:09.000 Or if he did something truly egregious, don't investigate him.

00:30:11.000 I'm talking about why can't you explain what in the world you are doing?

00:30:14.000 I'm sorry, Merrick Garland getting on my TV and telling me to trust him is not going to work.

00:30:18.000 This is a person who tried to weaponize the DOJ to go after parents in Virginia.

00:30:23.000 This is a person who's weaponized the DOJ to go after police departments all over the country on the basis of no evidence suggesting they are systemically racist.

00:30:29.000 Why would I trust Merrick Garland?

00:30:32.000 I don't know why I'm supposed to trust the FBI, given the fact that, again, high-ranking public officials in the FBI were the people who were at the head of Russiagate in the first place.

00:30:41.000 So they had to know this.

00:30:43.000 That doesn't mean they're to blame for people who then act insane and threaten FBI agents or threaten FBI offices.

00:30:49.000 It does mean that, of course, the tensions are rising.

00:30:52.000 Trump isn't wrong about that when he says that Americans are pissed.

00:30:55.000 Well, yeah, I mean, I was in Israel when this broke.

00:30:58.000 I can't tell you the number of calls I received from people in the United States who said that suddenly they were extraordinarily worried about the workings of law enforcement.

00:31:05.000 I'm not talking about people on the right.

00:31:06.000 I'm talking about people in the center.

00:31:07.000 Some people on the left saying, I mean, this is unprecedented.

00:31:11.000 We can pretend this is precedented.

00:31:12.000 It is not.

00:31:14.000 The only time that I can remember a person in power using his authority to go after the political opposition in the middle of a campaign, which we're always in the middle of a campaign now, is Watergate, right?

00:31:26.000 I mean, that's when Richard Nixon had the Watergate Hotel bug.

00:31:32.000 He wasn't using the FBI and DOJ for that.

00:31:34.000 The fact that the FBI and DOJ are Investigating the house of the former president of the United States.

00:31:41.000 And then they say, trust us, trust you.

00:31:43.000 What in the world are you talking about?

00:31:46.000 And then they say that the threat level is like nothing that they've ever.

00:31:49.000 I'm sure that's right.

00:31:50.000 And there is no justification for threats of violence or violence.

00:31:52.000 It is not the FBI agent's fault that they are doing their job.

00:31:55.000 It is the fault of Merrick Garland and the head of the FBI if they signed off on something that had very little predicate so far as we know.

00:32:02.000 Their lack of transparency is utterly unhelpful.

00:32:04.000 The fact that you don't get your dominoes in a row on this sort of thing is totally insane to me.

00:32:08.000 If you're gonna make a major move like this, shouldn't you be out there explaining what exactly you are doing?

00:32:13.000 Merrick Garland didn't bother to do that.

00:32:15.000 So yes, I would imagine that tensions in the country are going up.

00:32:19.000 Again, I don't blame politicians for people attacking other people unless they actually call for those attacks to happen.

00:32:25.000 I don't blame Donald Trump when a violent Trump supporter attacks a Cincinnati FBI office.

00:32:29.000 I don't blame Barack Obama when Dallas police officers get shot in the middle of Black Lives Matter in 2015-2016. 0.84

00:32:37.000 I don't blame Bernie Sanders for a Bernie Sanders supporter attempting to shoot up Congress people.

00:32:41.000 I don't even blame the Biden administration for somebody attempting to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh.

00:32:45.000 I don't blame anybody for that sort of stuff.

00:32:46.000 Unless you call for violence, you're not guilty of the violence yourself.

00:32:50.000 However, if you raise the temperature, you're raising the temperature and pretending that Merrick Garland didn't know that when he raised the temperature. 0.95

00:32:56.000 Are they really that ignorant at the FBI and DOJ?

00:32:58.000 Did they really believe that they would be able to put out a search warrant on the former president and then suggest that no big deal, nothing is happening here, we're just doing a normal investigation? 0.93

00:33:08.000 Is that really what they thought?

00:33:10.000 And well, this has resulted, of course, in the FBI doing this sort of passive-aggressive routine where they do something incredibly aggressive and then when people get angry about the aggressive thing, they complain about the threat levels.

00:33:21.000 Again, totally fair to complain about the threat levels, but just recognize that that is part and parcel of raising the temperature in the United States.

00:33:28.000 There's a difference between explanation and justification.

00:33:31.000 There's no justification for people getting violent or threatening violence. 0.96

00:33:34.000 But to pretend that there is no relationship between doing an unprecedented thing and getting an unprecedented response is silly.

00:33:39.000 Here's Andrew McCabe, former FBI member, close to the head of the FBI actually, suggesting that the threat level is higher than he has ever seen it.

00:33:49.000 How do you describe the threat level right now against the FBI?

00:33:52.000 Unprecedented.

00:33:54.000 Never seen anything like this in my 21 years with the Bureau.

00:33:56.000 You know, it's not completely crazy for individuals in the FBI to be subject of threats as a result of cases they're working, but this is a first time I've ever seen a broadside.

00:34:08.000 All FBI personnel are considered a part of this reporting.

00:34:13.000 It's just terrifying.

00:34:17.000 And by the way, Andrew McCabe, again, they're trotting him out to talk about this.

00:34:20.000 The former FBI officials they keep trotting out are all people who have left in disgrace.

00:34:23.000 Andrew McCabe was fired one day before his scheduled retirement.

00:34:27.000 He was fired because he was leaking material without the permission of James Comey.

00:34:31.000 He was the deputy director of the FBI at the time.

00:34:33.000 He was leaking material to the Wall Street Journal about the investigation into the Clinton Foundation.

00:34:36.000 These are the people they are trotting out to talk about the institutional veracity of the FBI.

00:34:41.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:34:42.000 We have seen nothing remotely like this reaction, for example, to investigations into, say, Rudy Giuliani.

00:34:49.000 So right now, it is being reported by the New York Times that legal pressures on Donald Trump and his closest allies intensified further on Monday as prosecutors informed his former personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, that Giuliani was a target in a wide-ranging criminal investigation into election interference in Georgia.

00:35:02.000 The notification came on the same day a federal judge rejected efforts by another key Trump ally, Senator Lindsey Graham, to avoid giving testimony before the special grand jury hearing evidence in the case in Atlanta.

00:35:12.000 One of Giuliani's lawyers said in an interview he was notified on Monday his client was a target.

00:35:16.000 That doesn't mean the person is going to be indicted.

00:35:18.000 It usually means the prosecutors believe an indictment is possible based on the evidence they've seen up to that point.

00:35:23.000 Giuliani, who is Trump's personal lawyer, spearheaded efforts to keep Trump in power, emerged in recent weeks as a central figure in the inquiry being conducted by Fannie Willis, the District Attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, which encompasses most of Atlanta.

00:35:34.000 Earlier this summer, prosecutors questioned witnesses before the special grand jury about Giuliani's appearances before state legislative panels in December 2020, when he spent hours peddling false conspiracy theories about secret suitcases of Democratic ballots and corrupted voting machines.

00:35:48.000 Giuliani is scheduled to appear before the special grand jury on Wednesday at a downtown Atlanta courthouse.

00:35:52.000 His lawyer says that Giuliani will probably invoke attorney-client privilege if he is asked about dealings with Donald Trump.

00:35:59.000 Meanwhile, the rejection of Senator Graham's effort to avoid testifying came in a written order from a federal district court judge in Atlanta.

00:36:06.000 Graham is now scheduled to testify on August 23rd.

00:36:11.000 So apparently prosecutors want Graham's testimony for a number of reasons.

00:36:14.000 Among them are two phone calls Graham placed just after the 2020 election to Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia Secretary of State, in which Graham inquired about ways to help Trump by invalidating certain mail-in votes.

00:36:24.000 So here's the thing.

00:36:25.000 The difference here between, for example, Free speech and just sounding off about the election and attempt to obstruct justice.

00:36:34.000 There's an intent component.

00:36:35.000 If people knew that the election was lost and they just started making stuff up, then you could in fact have an obstruction of justice case.

00:36:42.000 You could have attempts to suborn perjury.

00:36:45.000 You could have attempts to Prevent the counting of votes, attempts to suborn voter fraud, all the rest of it.

00:36:51.000 Those could be actual charges.

00:36:52.000 You're not seeing people get all hot and bothered about that because, again, the evidence is still coming.

00:36:56.000 But shouldn't you get all of your ducks in a row before you raid Donald Trump?

00:36:59.000 I mean, isn't that the big thing?

00:37:03.000 What's happening right now is all these investigations seem to be sort of convening on Trump at the same time.

00:37:08.000 But the last step there is if you're a prosecutor, forget all of your political priors here, right, left, doesn't matter.

00:37:13.000 If you're a prosecutor, the way that you typically do this, and I've worked in a prosecutor's office, I've worked with prosecutors before, If you are a prosecutor, what you typically do is you get all the ducks in a row before you knock down that final door.

00:37:24.000 Knocking down the final door first is a very weird thing to do.

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00:39:15.000 Meanwhile, speaking of other Trump members of the team who are in possible legal peril, according to the New York Times, a senior executive at Donald Trump's family business who is charged with participating in a years-long tax scheme is nearing a deal with Manhattan prosecutors but will not cooperate with the broader investigation into Mr. Trump, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.

00:39:31.000 If it becomes final, a plea deal for the executive, Allen Weisselberg, would bring prosecutors no closer to indicting the former president but would nonetheless brand one of his trusted lieutenants a felon.

00:39:40.000 I love the way that the New York Times reports that.

00:39:42.000 So he's not going to turn on Trump.

00:39:43.000 He's not going to give any evidence on Trump.

00:39:45.000 But, well, you know, one of Donald Trump's employees and friends is now a felon.

00:39:49.000 So I guess that reflects on Trump in some way.

00:39:52.000 Once again, guys, Lucy and the football.

00:39:54.000 On Monday, Weisselberg's lawyers and prosecutors met with the judge overseeing the case.

00:39:57.000 According to a court database, the judge scheduled a hearing for Thursday, a possible indication that a deal has been reached and a plea could be entered by then.

00:40:04.000 While Weisselberg, 75, is facing financial penalties as well as up to 15 years in prison.

00:40:08.000 A plea deal would avoid a high-profile trial and spare him a lengthy sentence.

00:40:12.000 And again, the terms of his deals are not clear, including whether he had made additional concessions to prosecutors in order to receive it.

00:40:18.000 But there is no evidence that he is going to be testifying against Trump or that he's going to be turning on Trump in any way, shape, or form here.

00:40:25.000 The notion that Trump is about to go down, which is what the left is continuously promoting here, whether it is via Rudy Giuliani's case in Georgia, or whether it is the Trump search, or whether it is Weisselberg.

00:40:36.000 When you guys have the goods, let us know.

00:40:38.000 When you have the goods, let us know.

00:40:39.000 But what you can't do is not have the goods and then tell us to trust you because, again, the trust does not exist.

00:40:44.000 Speaking of the trust not existing, it is fun to watch as the media suddenly realize that the so-called Inflation Reduction Act passed by the Democrats does not, in fact, reduce inflation. 0.96

00:40:52.000 This is just one aspect of the unbelievable stupidity of our media, who are in fact partisan hacks.

00:40:59.000 The Democrats called a thing an Inflation Reduction Act. 0.99

00:41:01.000 It has nothing to do with inflation.

00:41:03.000 It is hundreds of billions of dollars spent on green boondoggle nonsense, raising your taxes, and hiring thousands of additional FBI, IRS agents in order to come after tons of people and audit them and make their life an actual misery.

00:41:16.000 That is the goal of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act.

00:41:19.000 Having nothing to do with inflation.

00:41:20.000 And for weeks, we kept hearing, why are the Republicans voting against the Inflation Reduction Act?

00:41:24.000 Why are they doing that?

00:41:25.000 Don't they want to reduce inflation?

00:41:27.000 Well now, apparently, now that it's passed, it's okay for them to admit the truth.

00:41:30.000 This is a typical pattern in the media.

00:41:31.000 They lie for a while about a thing.

00:41:33.000 And then, after the thing is over, they report on how the thing that they said was a lie, and they say, see how honest we are?

00:41:39.000 Now we're honest.

00:41:39.000 Yeah, you covered it, like, well after it was important to cover it.

00:41:43.000 That's called covering your ass, guys. 0.98

00:41:44.000 Anyway, CBS News is now reporting, quote, The Inflation Reduction Act is aimed at tackling a host of problems, from climate change to catching tax cheats. 0.97

00:41:51.000 There's one issue it may not solve.

00:41:52.000 Reducing inflation.

00:41:54.000 Oh, you think?

00:41:55.000 Oh, you think?

00:41:56.000 That is the conclusion of the Penn-Wharton Budget Model, a group of economists and data scientists at University of Pennsylvania who analyze public policies to predict their economic and fiscal impact.

00:42:05.000 Its analysis, published on Friday, comes as inflation remains near a 40-year high, crimping the budgets of consumers and businesses alike.

00:42:12.000 The Inflation Reduction Act would invest nearly $400 billion in energy security and climate change proposals aimed at reducing carbon emissions by approximately 40% by 2030.

00:42:21.000 But the impact on inflation is statistically indistinguishable from zero, the Penn-Wharton budget model said on Friday.

00:42:28.000 Well, it would have been amazing if you guys had reported that like when there was an actual debate happening over the so-called Inflation Reduction Act.

00:42:33.000 John Carl over at ABC News, again, now he's allowed to say it, he asked a White House spokesperson over the weekend, isn't Inflation Reduction Act Orwellian since it doesn't actually reduce inflation?

00:42:42.000 It's called the Inflation Reduction Act.

00:42:45.000 But the Congressional Budget Office, which is nonpartisan, said that there would be a negligible impact on inflation this year and barely impact inflation at all next year.

00:42:56.000 I mean, isn't it almost Orwellian?

00:42:58.000 How can you call it Inflation Reduction Act when the nonpartisan experts say it's not going to bring inflation down?

00:43:02.000 So I appreciate that.

00:43:03.000 I appreciate the question.

00:43:04.000 We've actually addressed this, the CBO.

00:43:06.000 It was the top line number.

00:43:07.000 There's more in there that shows that it will have the money.

00:43:14.000 No, no.

00:43:15.000 Man, I will say that the Biden administration getting rid of Jen Psaki or Jen Psaki retiring and being replaced with Karine Jean-Pierre. 0.95

00:43:22.000 Wow.

00:43:22.000 Giant fail.

00:43:23.000 Giant fail.

00:43:24.000 Karine Jean-Pierre is extraordinarily untalented at trying to explain the fibs that her boss tells. 0.73

00:43:30.000 Meanwhile, Jamie Raskin, Democrat from Maryland, he was asked how inflation will be lowered by the Inflation Reduction Act.

00:43:37.000 And he's like, um, I don't know.

00:43:40.000 As soon as the act goes into effect, I hope that all of the provisions will begin to work.

00:43:47.000 I know that those who've been blaming President Biden for the inflation going up are now giving President Biden all the credit for inflation going down.

00:43:55.000 So we're moving things in the right direction already.

00:43:57.000 And what parts of the bill do you think will quickly work on that specifically?

00:44:02.000 Next question.

00:44:05.000 Next question. 0.99

00:44:07.000 This giant ass bill worth hundreds of billions of dollars. 0.97

00:44:11.000 You have any like thing in there that's going to reduce? 0.98

00:44:13.000 Nope.

00:44:14.000 Well, you know, next, next question.

00:44:17.000 This administration and the compliance of the media is what they rely upon in order to push forward all of their points.

00:44:22.000 And then again, only later do you find out just how bad things are.

00:44:27.000 Which is, for example, what you're about to see with regard to the Iran deal.

00:44:30.000 So, over the course of the last few days, Iran has continued its campaign to literally murder all of its opponents. 0.95

00:44:36.000 Now remember, the entire media has been absolutely apoplectic for several years at this point over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, who's a guy who wrote a couple of pieces for the Washington Post and also happened to be a Muslim Brotherhood-aligned thinker.

00:44:49.000 He was apparently a U.S.

00:44:50.000 visa holder.

00:44:51.000 He was killed by the Saudi government in Bonesaw.

00:44:54.000 I mean, it's really egregious and gruesome.

00:44:55.000 And this was supposed to be the predicate for all of American foreign policy with regard to Saudi Arabia.

00:44:59.000 Meanwhile, Iran is literally attempting to murder high-level American officials, as well as some of their longstanding political opponents.

00:45:07.000 And the Biden administration continues to negotiate with them about giving them billions of dollars and giving them a free pathway to a nuclear bomb.

00:45:14.000 Apparently, over the course of the last few days, in case you missed it, Salman Rushdie, the famous author of the Satanic Verses, he was stabbed up to 10 times at an event in New York.

00:45:27.000 The person who stabbed him, a 25-year-old, was apparently, according to the UK Independent, communicating with members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

00:45:36.000 That's the IRGC in Iran.

00:45:38.000 So he was communicating with them.

00:45:40.000 Salman Rushdie has had a fatwa on his head for decades based on his book, The Satanic Verses, which talks about verses supposedly excised from the Quran.

00:45:48.000 And finally, they stabbed him to the point where he lost an eye.

00:45:52.000 And he was communicating openly with the IRGC, which is an aspect of the Iranian government.

00:45:56.000 One of the things Iran has been attempting to push in its nuclear negotiations with the United States is the delisting of the IRGC from international terrorism organization lists.

00:46:06.000 So the Biden administration is listening on that.

00:46:07.000 Meanwhile, the IRGC is literally telling people, if you could just go stab this elderly author in the face, that would be amazing and wonderful.

00:46:14.000 Iran, for its part, blamed Salman Rushdie and its political opponents for Rushdie's stabbing.

00:46:20.000 According to Reuters, Iran's foreign ministry said on Monday, no one had the right to level accusations against Tehran over Friday's attack on Salman Rushdie.

00:46:27.000 Only he and his supporters were worthy of reproach and condemnation for denigrating the world's Muslims.

00:46:33.000 Which is a hell of a take. 0.96

00:46:34.000 So it's his fault that he got stabbed in the face because he pissed us off. 0.98

00:46:37.000 And so we had to stab him in the face. 0.86

00:46:39.000 Meanwhile, of course, the Biden administration continues to negotiate with the Iranians. 0.96

00:46:42.000 We've been told incessantly by the media that an Iran deal is necessary.

00:46:46.000 It's the only way to moderate this regime.

00:46:48.000 By the way, the Iranian state media is openly now calling for the assassination of Donald Trump, as well as the former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

00:46:54.000 And that comes shortly after there was the arrest of a of a person associated with the Iranian government who's plotting to murder John Bolton, the former National Security Advisor to Trump.

00:47:07.000 So, I guess we'll find out a year from now that the Iran deal is really bad, after the Biden administration signs it.

00:47:13.000 Because again, that is the pattern.

00:47:14.000 The Biden administration does a thing, and then we find out well after the fact that the thing was bad.

00:47:18.000 The Inflation Reduction Act, or what is happening right now with the Iran deal.

00:47:22.000 And also, by the way, it has been one year since Afghanistan.

00:47:26.000 Well, if you want to hear me talk about that, you're actually going to have to go listen to the rest of the show over at dailywireplus.com. 0.72

00:47:33.000 We'll be getting into the one-year anniversary of Afghanistan, plus Kamala Harris making one of the dumbest statements I've ever heard in my entire life. 0.93

The Ben Shapiro Show - August 16, 2022

The DOJ And FBI Are Endangering The Country | Ep. 1556

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