The Ben Shapiro Show - June 12, 2026


The FBI's Confidential UFO Briefing (And My Absolute Skepticism)

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birth tourism UFC fight at White House
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The Truth About the Downed US Apache Helicopter In Iran Jimmy Kimmel, MSNBC, and the Total Meltdown Over White House UFC

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Dailywire's White House correspondent Mary Margaret Olihan reports on a confidential briefing she received from the FBI on UFOs, and discusses her latest reporting on the cottage industry of immigrant birth tourism to the US, plus her latest updates on the pending U.S. Iran deal, and the preparations around the White House for an epic America 250 UFC fight.

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00:00:00.000 Are aliens real?
00:00:01.000 I'm admittedly the company's skeptic on this topic, but the Daily Wire's White House correspondent Mary Margaret Olihan reports on a confidential briefing she received from the FBI yesterday.
00:00:10.000 She does her best to convince me.
00:00:12.000 Speaking of aliens, Mary Margaret also discusses her latest reporting on the cottage industry of immigrant birth tourism to the U.S., plus her latest updates on the pending U.S. Iran deal and the preparations around the White House for an epic America 250 UFC fight.
00:00:24.000 A lot going on at the White House.
00:00:26.000 As always, Mary Margaret, thanks for the time.
00:00:28.000 Really appreciate it.
00:00:29.000 Thanks, Pat.
00:00:30.000 It's great to be here.
00:00:33.000 So, a lot of kind of serious stuff going on in the news, but also some bizarre stuff going on in the news.
00:00:38.000 There's a new UFO data dump today by the Trump administration, which includes a mysterious glowing orb, not the orb that was touched by the president and the leadership of Saudi Arabia during his first term.
00:00:48.000 That was a different glowing orb.
00:00:49.000 This is a different sort of.
00:00:51.000 Explain the orb and what's going on with the aliens.
00:00:53.000 And is this all being dumped in coordination with Steven Spielberg and Disclosure Day?
00:00:59.000 Well, Ben, there's actually a lot of orbs involved in this disclosure.
00:01:02.000 And I received a briefing yesterday.
00:01:05.000 On these unidentified aerial phenomena, UAP, it's the fancy new way of saying UFO.
00:01:12.000 I received a briefing by senior administration officials ahead of the documents released today, and what they told us was very shocking.
00:01:19.000 And we found the contents of these documents to contain all of it.
00:01:24.000 The major things that we're learning, and I'm not trying to sound like I'm talking about signs, the Mel Gibson movie, or Independence Day, but people have seen orbs all over the United States, according to these files.
00:01:37.000 They've talked to the FBI.
00:01:38.000 They've been deemed credible.
00:01:40.000 They are eyewitness accounts of orbs being spotted in the Northeastern United States on a number of occasions.
00:01:47.000 And in these situations, they'd see two glowing orbs.
00:01:50.000 There's videos that I shared on my social media or on dailywire.com of two glowing orbs up in the sky moving along.
00:01:58.000 In one case, they were red, a very bright colored red.
00:02:02.000 In another case, they were white, moving through the sky.
00:02:05.000 They also spotted these orbs in two other scenarios.
00:02:09.000 Out in Colorado and then in the Western United States.
00:02:13.000 They didn't specify where.
00:02:15.000 But in a lot of these cases, these orbs were spotted by intelligence officials, military type people who gave credible eyewitness accounts to the FBI.
00:02:25.000 And these accounts are now under investigation by the United States.
00:02:29.000 Now, I should note up front, Ben, that obviously NASA has said, the administration has said they haven't found evidence of aliens.
00:02:37.000 But that being said, a UAP is something that the government doesn't know what it is.
00:02:43.000 They've ruled out that it's by causes or technology that they understand.
00:02:48.000 So, this is very interesting.
00:02:50.000 It's a little scary, and it is absolutely a huge development.
00:02:55.000 I'm only smiling because when people describe seeing two glowing orbs in the sky, I'm just flashing to airplane jokes.
00:03:03.000 In any case, that is, I have to say, whenever I hear these reports, I'm the skeptic at the company about UFOs and about aliens.
00:03:11.000 I know that Matt Walsh is the far more credible host and credulous host.
00:03:15.000 When it comes to these matters, Matt is fully convinced that the aliens are real.
00:03:19.000 Again, I think that people see things all the time.
00:03:23.000 They maybe think that they saw a thing that they didn't see, or they saw a thing and it looked like a thing.
00:03:27.000 In any case, it'll be interesting to see what comes out from it.
00:03:30.000 But I'm not holding my breath.
00:03:35.000 F it.
00:03:35.000 I'm just going to prejudge it.
00:03:35.000 You know what?
00:03:36.000 They're not aliens.
00:03:37.000 Let's stop with this now.
00:03:38.000 Anyway, okay.
00:03:39.000 Let's go to the other story because obviously this one was not made for me.
00:03:43.000 So we need to discuss another type of aliens.
00:03:45.000 And that, of course, is the State Department uncovering.
00:03:47.000 Massive birth tourism networks.
00:03:48.000 And this is actually a serious story.
00:03:50.000 This has been going on for a very long time in the United States. 0.58
00:03:52.000 People who are coming into the U.S. and they are having babies specifically in order to make them United States citizens because of birthright citizenship.
00:03:59.000 Obviously, the story is correlative with the administration's efforts to end birthright citizenship more broadly.
00:04:05.000 What's going on with this?
00:04:07.000 Yeah, so we scooped this story this week that the State Department had uncovered evidence of birth tourism networks all over the country or all over the world, actually, in West Africa, in Europe, in North Africa.
00:04:19.000 They found plans, multiple plans, actually, to produce fraudulent documents and facilitate individuals traveling from.
00:04:26.000 These countries to the United States to give birth within our borders.
00:04:31.000 In West Africa, a U.S. embassy found one of these sophisticated birth tourism networks where more than 100 foreign nationals were using these documents to get visas, secure U.S. citizenship for their children.
00:04:45.000 And the State Department told me they're shutting this down.
00:04:48.000 They're looking into these individuals, they're coordinating with local authorities to arrest and identify the people involved.
00:04:55.000 Similarly, in Europe, they found more than 400 suspected.
00:04:59.000 Birth tourism cases that occurred since 2024.
00:05:03.000 And in North Africa, one embassy revoked more than 100 visas for birth tourism parents who came to the United States.
00:05:10.000 Now, obviously, Ben, we've been talking about birthright citizenship a lot in the United States.
00:05:15.000 The president just truthed about it.
00:05:17.000 I want to say two days ago, he's very, very invested in the outcome of the Supreme Court case on this matter.
00:05:24.000 But the State Department has really steadily messaged that a USA visa is a privilege, not a right.
00:05:31.000 And they're taking action.
00:05:32.000 All over the world to stop these birth tourism explorations and activities as the president has promised that they would since the beginning of this administration.
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00:06:46.000 Mary Margaret, I would be remiss if I did not ask if there have been any updates from the White House about the content.
00:06:51.000 Obviously, there's been a lot of discussion of a memorandum of understanding with Iran.
00:06:55.000 No real details from the White House at this point.
00:06:57.000 Iran is putting out its own version of an agreement that, frankly, would look absurd on its face. 0.98
00:07:01.000 The president himself has said this morning via Truth Social that the stuff that's being circulated by the Iranian government is just trash. 0.97
00:07:07.000 It's not real. 0.77
00:07:08.000 Have you heard anything as to the contents of some sort of memorandum of understanding?
00:07:12.000 Yeah, Ben, the truth that you just referenced is probably the latest we have from the president on this topic, where he blasts the fake news media for sharing a plan that he's saying is not accurate and is not the real deal of what he has going on.
00:07:27.000 So that's straight from the horse's mouth, as it were, from the president's mouth.
00:07:32.000 And we'll have to wait to hear from him next on what the details of that plan are.
00:07:37.000 We would love to know.
00:07:38.000 We would love to hear.
00:07:38.000 We don't always get all the details.
00:07:40.000 On this stuff as the negotiations continue.
00:07:45.000 So, also, the big story of the weekend over at the White House is the UFC fight that's going to happen.
00:07:50.000 What's the kind of mood over at the White House, given all the controversy that has sort of attended the event?
00:07:56.000 Yeah, I mean, look, Ben, even the legacy media is excited about this.
00:07:59.000 It is quite large.
00:08:01.000 If you head over there, you can see the whole UFC structure.
00:08:05.000 Kabak Phillips corrected me on my description of what this UFC structure is yesterday because apparently I described it like a girl.
00:08:12.000 But it is the octagon that is set up in the backyard of the White House.
00:08:18.000 It is massive.
00:08:20.000 The press got a good look at it yesterday morning.
00:08:23.000 And this is going to be a huge event.
00:08:25.000 We saw one of the fighters at the White House yesterday.
00:08:27.000 All the press were running after him, trying to get photos, trying to chat with him.
00:08:31.000 And it's just, it's jubilant.
00:08:33.000 The White House is excited.
00:08:34.000 The president is excited.
00:08:36.000 Like I said, even the legacy media is excited.
00:08:39.000 The traffic in the city is really, really, truly atrocious, which is probably partially due to the World Cup.
00:08:45.000 Soccer games will be happening around the country, too.
00:08:48.000 But it's exciting.
00:08:49.000 Aside from the 100 degree heat, it's a great place to be right now.
00:08:55.000 That's Mary Margaret Olihan, straight from the White House.
00:08:57.000 Thanks so much for your time, Mary Margaret.
00:08:59.000 And it sounds like you have a bit of a cold, so I hope you feel better over the weekend.
00:09:03.000 Thank you.
00:09:03.000 Thank you.
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