In a shocking development, Hunter Biden announces he is now being investigated by the feds for tax issues, YouTube announces it will crack down on videos alleging election fraud, and Trump s last-ditch lawsuit strategy comes down to Texas. Ben Shapiro breaks it all down and explains why you should put some real silver in your loved ones stocking this Christmas! Protect your online privacy today at ExpressVPN. Protect your Online Privacy today at ProtectYourData.gov/ProtectYourData and Ben Shapiro's new book, "The Dark Side of Privacy: How to Protect Your Online Privacy from Online Predators" is available for pre-order now. Get a FREE copy of the book and keep it safe and secure in your possession! If you like what you hear here at The Ben Shapiro Show, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and become a supporter of the show today! You'll get access to all the latest episodes and show-related bonuses, including early-bird pricing, ad-free VIP packages, best deals, and much more! Subscribe today using our podcast's promo code: PODCASTLEPRODUCER. Learn more about your ad choices! Use the promo code POWER10 at checkout to receive 10% off your first purchase when you enter the offer ends on December 31st! FREE PRICING TODAY! To find a list of our sponsorships, go to gimlet.me/TheBen Shapiro's VIP VIPs! Get 10% OFF your first week of the month and receive 20% off the entire month of VIPships, and get 20% OFF OFF-PRICING when you sign up for VIP access to VIPs get a discount of $50 or more? Subscribe to the VIP discount when you shop with discount code: Ben Shapiro starts starting at $99 or more than $99, VIP4 VIP access starts starting on January 1st, VIPREBSYTERRY MURCHARDON VIPREPCARTER? Get all the best deals start getting VIPREPROMO, VIPRY? Subscribe and get 5-only VIPRELLER PRICED TO VIPREVIEW AND VIPREALERPRODELLERPRICED WORLD? FREE FASTEST WEEKEND SUPPORTING THE FASTREAL ESTATION AND VIP REVIEW AND PRODUCED TO BUY A MONTH AND VIP RATE AND VIP PROMOTED TO WIN VIPREALLY SUPPORT THE SHOW?
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00:02:51.000If they start off as blue, their eyes are turning brown.
00:02:53.000They are so full of crap, it is spilling out their ears from boots to the top of their head.
00:02:58.000They're full of absolute unmitigated crap.
00:03:01.000The fact is that if democracy is dying, it is largely due to the effect of people who are turning out the lights.
00:03:07.000If democracy is dying in darkness, the people who are enforcing the darkness are the members of your esteemed journalistic media, your journalistic establishment, these objective news reporters.
00:03:17.000Because as it turns out, yesterday, very late last night, it broke, that Hunter Biden, the president-elect's son, now says that federal prosecutors are probing his taxes.
00:03:28.000Now, I'm old enough to remember when the New York Post was banned from Twitter because they posted a story about Hunter Biden's laptop in which it talks about the fact that he was engaged in nefarious goings-on in foreign countries and that those nefarious goings-on may have had some tax consequences.
00:03:43.000In fact, the New York Post stories talked about his connections with China.
00:03:46.000They talked about the possibility of connections between Joe Biden and his brother and his son.
00:03:51.000The New York Post stories talked about all of this and they were banned from Twitter.
00:03:54.000Facebook preemptively decided to downgrade the stories.
00:03:58.000These haven't been subjected to fact check yet.
00:04:00.000So pending a fact check, we are downgrading them.
00:04:03.000Meanwhile, members of that same established journalistic media, the people who are guarding democracy from the predations of the evil Trump cadre, those same jackasses, they were spending their days suggesting that the New York Post stories were actually Russian disinformation based on nothing, based on literally nothing.
00:04:22.000I mean, if you look at the headlines from the members of the media before the election, here are some of those headlines.
00:04:28.000Hunter Biden's story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.
00:04:32.000More than 50 former intelligence officials signed a letter casting doubt on the provenance of a New York Post story on the former vice president's son.
00:04:39.000Now, at no point did Hunter Biden ever at any point deny that the laptop was his or that the material on the laptop was his.
00:04:45.000At no point did he offer a detailed defense of his activities.
00:04:48.000Nor at any point did he offer a detailed explanation of what his relationship was with Joe Biden and whether Joe Biden knew that he was running around the country and for and abroad basically trafficking in daddy's name.
00:04:59.000Okay, so now here is the political headline today.
00:05:15.000So your entire media spent the last year and a half covering up any allegations of Hunter Biden's corruption or any allegations that that corruption was connected in any way to Joe Biden.
00:05:25.000And they suggested it was Russian disinformation.
00:05:27.000And they had other journalistic outlets like the New York Post downgraded or suspended.
00:05:31.000And they banned the dissemination of the story by Twitter accounts.
00:05:34.000And they did all of these things Just before the election.
00:05:37.000Then the election happens and oh, look at that!
00:05:39.000Politico is now reporting that the Justice Department's interest in Hunter Biden covered more than taxes.
00:05:43.000And these people have the temerity to suggest that the threat to democracy is coming from somewhere else?
00:05:49.000These folks are the threat to democracy.
00:05:51.000When your media, who are charged with providing you information, decide that they are going to be the arbiters of what information you are allowed to see, and not only that, they're going to bully social media companies into ensuring that you can't see the alternative information.
00:06:03.000Because remember, it's not just the places like the New York Times and CBS News and Politico and all these other journalistic outlets refused to report certain facts about Hunter Biden and investigate certain facts about Hunter Biden is that they actively stumped to prevent social media from disseminating information from websites like the Daily Wire.
00:06:21.000The fact of the matter is that the New York Times has several activists on its payroll whose sole job apparently is just to lobby Facebook to downgrade traffic from places like the Daily Wire.
00:06:32.000These are the people who are the threat to democracy.
00:06:33.000You wonder why there's no systemic trust?
00:06:36.000You wonder why the trust in institutions is way down?
00:06:38.000Because it's not just that people don't trust the media anymore.
00:06:40.000It's that anything the media talk about is now tainted.
00:06:44.000If the media say that the election is fraudulent, we don't believe you.
00:06:48.000And if the media say that the election is good, we are also not going to believe you because we don't trust you.
00:06:52.000See, it's not just that the media's disgusting and nefarious partisanship masquerading as objectivity.
00:06:59.000impact how we view the media is that whenever the media says something about another topic, we now no longer believe what they have to say.
00:07:05.000Because after all, our news media are supposed to be our prism into the rest of the world.
00:07:09.000So if we believe that the prism is broken, if we believe that the glasses that the media are providing to us are sunglasses and they're blocking out light, that's going to affect our interpretation of facts across the spectrum.
00:07:20.000It's going to lower our trust in other institutions.
00:07:22.000If the media say, people we don't trust say, you should trust X, we're going to say we don't trust X anymore.
00:07:29.000If there is a decline in institutional trust in America, and there certainly is, it begins with the media, but it doesn't stop there.
00:07:35.000It is now infused into the bloodstream of the American political system.
00:07:41.000Again, just as if you knew you had a friend, okay, and it turns out that your friend was a liar and a cheat, and your friend then came to you, and you knew he was a liar and a cheat, and he said, you know who you should trust?
00:07:56.000Maybe your friend, the liar and cheat, is actually right in this one circumstance, but you have no way of telling that.
00:08:01.000And if it turns out that your friend, the liar and cheat, has also restricted your access to other information to verify whether this third party is good or bad, Then you are more likely than not to not believe what he has to say.
00:08:17.000The mainstream media are not merely about not providing you the facts.
00:08:20.000They're about actively covering up the facts, preventing themselves from investigating the facts, throwing journalists like Sheryl Atkinson out of work if they try to investigate particular stories, and then going to social media companies and trying to prevent you from getting another story from another group of people.
00:08:40.000And when I say that the Washington Post is a fake newspaper, I don't mean that there aren't great investigative journalists at the Washington Post.
00:08:47.000A lot of what people do at the Washington Post is useful.
00:08:49.000The same thing is true of many of the reporters at the New York Times.
00:08:53.000But when you overall turn your brand into basically a mouthpiece for the Democratic Party, it makes it impossible for people to distinguish what is true from what is false.
00:09:01.000It makes it impossible for people to trust you on any issue, ranging from how we should act with regard to COVID to how we should believe you with regard to foreign interference in American elections.
00:09:25.000All this stuff was available before the election.
00:09:27.000And don't tell me that it doesn't affect an election when you prevent the public from seeing things.
00:09:31.000What happened is that in 2016, the media actually sort of did their jobs by reporting on Hillary Clinton's emails.
00:09:37.000And then they were so regretful of the fact that Trump was elected, they decided they would never again cover a story that hurt a Democrat in the last month of a campaign.
00:09:50.000You can see it because anytime anybody mentioned anything about Hunter Biden, like when Maggie Haberman tweeted out the Hunter Biden story from the New York Post, she was immediately swamped with a tsunami of other journalists telling her not to do it.
00:10:04.000They are damned liars and they are destroying the basis, the fundamental basis of a democracy.
00:10:09.000Because again, it is one thing to have a variety of news sources you pick from.
00:10:11.000It's another thing to have a dominant establishment media that prevents you from seeing any of the other sources that are available to you.
00:10:18.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:11:01.000You didn't start your business because you wanted to spend time on HR compliance.
00:11:59.000Almost as though he is getting special treatment.
00:12:01.000Hunter Biden said, quote, I learned yesterday for the first time that the US Attorney's Office in Delaware advised my legal counsel also yesterday that they are investigating my tax affairs.
00:12:08.000I take this matter very seriously, but I'm confident a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors. US Attorney for Delaware's Office declined to comment on an ongoing investigation. This news came weeks after an election campaign in which President Donald Trump and his allies made unfounded and baseless claims of corruption regarding Hunter Biden and his father.
00:12:29.000How do you know if they're unfounded and baseless if you refuse to do the basic reporting, NBC News?
00:12:35.000And what exactly are the unfounded, baseless claims?
00:12:38.000Would that be that perhaps Joe Biden knew about what his son was doing?
00:12:42.000Because that was not unfounded and baseless.
00:12:44.000I mean, that's exactly what Hunter Biden's business partner, Tony Bobulinski, was saying publicly.
00:12:50.000But the media treated it as unfounded and baseless because they obviously have a dog in this fight.
00:12:55.000They alleged that Hunter Biden used his father's influence to enrich himself through business deals in Ukraine and China, and that his father not only facilitated, but that he may have benefited financially.
00:13:02.000Trump provided no evidence for these claims.
00:13:04.000OK, even in the story, you can see the absurd, anti-factual bias.
00:13:10.000They allege Hunter Biden used his father's influence to enrich himself through business deals in Ukraine.
00:13:14.000Hunter Biden overtly admitted that in a public interview on national television.
00:13:18.000They asked Hunter Biden, would you have gotten a job on the Burisma board having no experience in natural oil or gas or Ukraine if your dad's name weren't Biden?
00:13:28.000Of course he was using his father's influence.
00:13:31.000Of course he was doing all of these things.
00:13:34.000We know that there are companies founded and in their founding documents it talked about using Hunter Biden's influence with Daddy and in Washington, D.C.
00:13:41.000We know that is the case because we have seen the documents.
00:13:44.000And now we are being told by NBC News that the Trump campaign was making those baseless allegations.
00:13:54.000That's not an allegation that he used his dad's name to get rich in Ukraine.
00:13:57.000That is an actual fact that he has admitted to.
00:14:00.000However, says NBC News, Hunter and his ex-wife Kathleen Buell had an internal revenue service lien against them for taxes not paid, possibly including interest and penalties totaling $112,000 until this past March, according to publicly available documents.
00:14:13.000The documents filed by the IRS show the tax lien was placed on Hunter and Buell in November of 2019.
00:14:18.000It is not immediately clear if the lien has anything to do with the investigation.
00:14:21.000The Biden team then put out this pathetic statement, quote, President-elect Biden is deeply proud of his son, who has fought through difficult challenges, including the vicious personal attacks of recent months, only to emerge stronger.
00:14:36.000He's got a right to be proud of his son.
00:14:39.000I'm not sure what about Hunter Biden would make you proud.
00:14:42.000It's not like there's a lot there that would make you proud of Hunter.
00:14:44.000But with that said, the idea that these were vicious personal attacks, nope, that's just called reporting.
00:14:49.000Especially when it turns out that the entire Biden clan, and this has been widely reported everywhere from the left to the right, including a big New Yorker story just a couple of years ago, the entire Biden clan has used its influence and daddy's name in order to get rich.
00:15:11.000So after months of suggesting that any questions about Hunter Biden were simply made up and we should just ignore them because it was a distraction from Trump's threat to democracy.
00:15:22.000Now we've got Evan Perez and Pamela Brown at CNN reporting.
00:15:25.000After going quiet in the months before the election, federal authorities are now actively investigating the business dealings of Hunter Biden.
00:15:31.000A person with knowledge of the probe said, his father, President-elect Joe Biden, is not implicated.
00:15:36.000Now that the election is over, the investigation is entering a new phase.
00:15:39.000Federal prosecutors in Delaware, working with the IRS Criminal Investigation Agency and the FBI, are taking overt steps, such as issuing subpoenas and seeking interviews, the person with knowledge said.
00:16:08.000That if you had prosecutors who are on the trail of a candidate, or a candidate's family member, and they decide, you know what, we're putting this off until after the election because we just don't want to interfere in the election.
00:16:20.000If Ivanka Trump had committed a crime, and she were under investigation, and the Fed said, you know what, there's an election coming up, we're just gonna put this thing off until like just after the election, that would be election interference.
00:16:31.000The same is obviously true of Hunter Biden.
00:16:34.000In the first three paragraphs of the CNN story, they mentioned the election three times.
00:16:39.000Three times in three paragraphs, the relevance of the election.
00:16:42.000Quote, activity in the investigation had gone covert in recent months due to Justice Department guidelines prohibiting overt actions that could affect an election, the person said.
00:16:51.000So first of all, if there are actual guidelines from the Justice Department saying you can't take overt action, meaning you can't take perfectly legal action because it might affect an election, that affects an election.
00:17:01.000What actually happened here is members of the DOJ decided that they didn't want to get caught in the James Comey trap of 2016, having to publicly investigate one of the candidates or a family member of the candidates.
00:17:24.000And we're supposed to trust the media and we're supposed to trust these legal institutions that apparently are dedicated to not affecting an election by directly impacting an election?
00:17:37.000And then you wonder why there are conspiracy theories blooming.
00:17:39.000You wonder why people are suspicious of election fraud.
00:17:42.000You wonder why people don't trust the system.
00:17:44.000Maybe because if you don't trust the media or the prism to view the system, and if it turns out that members of the system are engaged in corrupt activities, they weren't in 2016 with regard to going after Carter Page with a bad FISA warrant, with regard to pumping the Steele dossier through the federal government via a Hillary Clinton law firm,
00:18:04.000If you don't trust the system because of that, and if you don't trust the system because before the 2020 election, they decided they were not going to investigate Hunter Biden because it was too close to the election, it might be that somebody might draw the perfectly understandable, if incorrect, conclusion that the entire system is just not worth trusting.
00:18:23.000How many times can you go back to the well before people say, you know what, we're done?
00:18:26.000That's one of the things that is happening here.
00:18:29.000So now, CNN contacted Biden's attorney and the campaign this week, seeking comments about the investigation.
00:18:33.000On Wednesday, they released a statement acknowledging the probe.
00:18:35.000Okay, so this is the key, right there.
00:19:27.000When people talk about rigging the election, you know, people talk about voter fraud or voter irregularity.
00:19:32.000No, the way that you rig an election is by taking the entire media infrastructure, using it as cover for the Democratic candidate, hiding all the information, and then, as we will see, trying to mobilize social media to crack down on anybody who would actually report that information.
00:19:46.000The way you rig an election is by preventing the American public from seeing information that they need to see, meanwhile focusing all of your ire on one candidate.
00:20:21.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:21:41.000They say hints of the investigation emerge after President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani helped orchestrate news stories centered on a laptop purporting to belong to Hunter Biden and said to include his business documents and other personal material.
00:21:53.000Again, look how CNN twists the story here, right?
00:21:56.000They don't report the contents of the laptop.
00:21:58.000They don't suggest that the stories were true, because they were.
00:22:01.000Instead, it was that all of these stories were orchestrated by Rudy Giuliani.
00:22:05.000Oh, I look forward to hearing how the entire Russian dossier was orchestrated by Hillary Clinton, because it was.
00:22:10.000Hillary Clinton and her law firm, through which she was laundering the Steele dossier.
00:22:16.000You didn't hear this kind of language from CNN about the Steele dossier.
00:22:18.000The FBI took possession of the laptop in late 2019, according to a computer repairman in Delaware who showed reporters a copy of a subpoena.
00:22:24.000The subpoena is real, according to people briefed on the matter, but the FBI and prosecutors in Delaware have refused to confirm the existence of the investigation.
00:22:31.000It's unclear whether the laptop's contents are relevant to the ongoing federal probe, and whether investigators can even use them given potential chain-of-custody requirements for evidence.
00:22:39.000CNN has previously reported that at least some of the information Giuliani claims came from the laptop appears similar to information that was being shared by others last year in Ukraine.
00:22:47.000Giuliani's efforts to dig up dirt on the Bidens in Ukraine last year were at the heart of Trump's impeachment.
00:22:51.000The current investigation into Hunter Biden appears to predate those efforts.
00:22:55.000And so this is CNN attempting to defend its own shoddy work in suggesting that the entire story was Russian disinformation when it turns out that every element of the story was apparently true.
00:23:05.000The involvement of Trump lawyers in the published news stories on the purported Biden laptop led to a flurry of activity by Republican lawmakers and the Trump campaign, looking to amplify allegations of corruption ahead of the election.
00:23:14.000The FBI met with a former Hunter Biden business associate who publicly made claims about potential wrongdoing.
00:23:19.000The FBI issued a statement at the time saying, quote, as a general matter, when contacted, the FBI reviews information from the public for consideration of any violations of applicable federal laws.
00:23:28.000The political implications of the probe already have been an issue in recent months for William Barr, the AG, who is under public pressure from Trump to make Hunter Biden's business activities an election issue.
00:23:36.000To date, the investigation does not involve any allegations of wrongdoing by the president-elect, according to the two main sources briefed on the matter.
00:23:43.000Okay, but here is the key of the story.
00:23:54.000And the fact is that Hunter Biden was involved in nefarious activity in China, which we all knew because he was taking Air Force Two with dad to China to secure billion dollar loan deals, or at least investments.
00:24:06.000Some of his business dealings in China are publicly known through interviews and documents released in September by Senate Republicans on the Finance Committee and the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, says CNN.
00:24:15.000After his father left office in 2017, Hunter Biden worked on securing a deal with CEFC China Energy to invest in US energy products according to documents released by Republicans.
00:24:24.000At least one of the matters investigators have examined is a 2017 gift of a 2.8 carat Hunter received from CEFC's founder and former chairman, Yi Xiao Ming, after a Miami business meeting. One person briefed on the matter said, in 2019, Biden provided the New Yorker magazine an account of receiving that diamond from Yi. He told the New Yorker he felt uncomfortable receiving it and gave it to other associates. He doesn't know what they did with it. I knew it wasn't a good idea to take it. It just felt weird, he said in his New Yorker interview.
00:24:49.000Apparently, he said, the CEFC deal fell through.
00:24:52.000He didn't consider Yi to be a shady character.
00:24:54.000Chinese authorities later detained Yi amid Chinese media reports of corruption allegations against him.
00:25:00.000Receiving such a gift could have potential tax implications, of course.
00:25:04.000Sources say that investigators have been looking into whether Biden properly reported his income for tax purposes over a period of time.
00:25:12.000Also, Hunter Biden had been involved in an earlier Chinese business venture that drew concerns in the Obama White House and Joe Biden's staff, according to The New Yorker.
00:25:18.000In 2013, Hunter Biden became involved with U.S.
00:25:20.000and Chinese partners who were creating an investment fund called BHR Partners for deals outside of China.
00:25:25.000Hunter Biden was an unpaid member of the BHR board and took an equity stake after daddy left office, according to The New Yorker.
00:25:30.000So now it's okay for the CNN to report all this, right?
00:25:32.000At the time, it was just a big, a big distraction from all the election issues.
00:25:43.000It should give you heartburn how much you have been lied to here.
00:25:46.000It should give you heartburn how much people who claim to be objective have become just mouthpieces for the Democrats and then decide their timing based on elections.
00:25:54.000First, let us talk for a second about the best clothes available.
00:27:28.000According to CNN.com, in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper last week, President-elect Biden pledged to maintain an independent DOJ free of political influence.
00:27:51.000Or, alternatively, Joe Biden's son is corrupt as the day is long.
00:27:55.000Republicans in Congress and CNN are almost certain to seize on the existence of the probe to further their argument that Hunter Biden's activities in China are a sign of his father's conflict of interest when it comes to dealing with foreign policy with Beijing.
00:28:05.000Well, I mean, that would seem to be an issue, would it not?
00:28:07.000Considering that we now have information that not only have the Chinese deployed spies that successfully infiltrated the offices of both Eric Swalwell, and apparently the bed, allegedly, of Eric Swalwell, as well as the office of Senator Dianne Feinstein, we know from intelligence reports the Chinese desperately wanted Joe Biden to win this election.
00:28:23.000So maybe some suspicion would be warranted.
00:28:26.000Funny, because we got four years of suspicion that Trump was a Russian agent.
00:28:29.000Now, of course, we're supposed to just dismiss all possibility that perhaps Joe Biden could be influenced by the fact that the Chinese were so sweet to his son.
00:28:38.000It's likely going to be an issue that Biden's AG nominee will have to face during a Senate confirmation hearing, according to CNN.
00:28:44.000Biden's likely attorney general candidate will probably not be recusing themselves in the same way that Jeff Sessions did because he was a member of the campaign.
00:28:57.000And Jerry Dunleavy of the Washington Examiner reporting back in October that Hunter Biden was aiming to avoid violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in pursuit of Chinese business deals.
00:29:06.000So it's not like this stuff wasn't known months ago before the election.
00:29:11.000It just wasn't reported by any of the sources that Facebook wanted you to see.
00:29:15.000According to the Washington Examiner, again this is late October, Hunter Biden made it clear one of his goals was for him and his associates to avoid violating the anti-bribery Foreign Corrupt Practices Act or having to register as foreign agents as he pursued potentially lucrative deals with a Chinese Communist Party connected company.
00:29:30.000According to newly released text from ex-business partner Tony Bobulinski.
00:29:33.000James has very particular opinions about this, so I would ask him about the foreign entity.
00:29:37.000Biden texted Bobulinski on May 1st, 2017.
00:29:38.000make bids on federal and state funded projects.
00:29:39.000Also, we don't want to have to register as foreign agents under the FCPA, which is much more expansive than people who should know, choose not to know.
00:29:46.000James has very particular opinions about this, so I would ask him about the foreign entity.
00:29:49.000Biden texted Bobulinski on May 1st, 2017.
00:29:52.000Regardless, we should have a Delaware corporation called CEFC America and ownership should be 50 me, 50 them.
00:29:59.000We then cut up our 50 in a separate entity between the four of us, create that company, call it BWBG or whatever.
00:30:32.000Speaking of which, it is not merely that your establishment media have decided that it is important that you view only what they allow you to view.
00:30:39.000They've decided that you are not allowed to view things that they don't want you to view.
00:30:43.000So this is an amazing, amazing clip that I'm about to play for you.
00:30:50.000Steve Cole is the Dean of Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
00:30:55.000Right, this is Captain Journalism over here, Steve Cole.
00:30:57.000He was on MSNBC the other day, and this really does explain where your journalistic betters lie.
00:31:02.000It is not merely that they wish to provide you a filter, it's that they wish to prevent you from accessing other sources of information.
00:31:09.000So he literally says, this is the Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, perhaps the most prestigious journalism school in America.
00:31:17.000Suggesting that freedom of speech is itself a problem.
00:31:21.000Freedom of speech is a problem because then you might not get the sort of journalism you're used to from your objective news sources.
00:31:27.000All the people who are journalism-ing all over the place.
00:31:29.000All the people pleasuring themselves Jeffrey Toobin style to pictures of the Democratic campaign.
00:31:35.000All of those people wouldn't be your only source and that's bad.
00:31:37.000We don't want that to happen, says the Dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
00:31:41.000Here is Steve Cole summing up the position of so many of our journalistic betters.
00:31:45.000Those of us in journalism have to come to terms with the fact that free speech, a principle that we hold sacred, is being weaponized against the principles of journalism.
00:31:57.000I just say, you know, as reporters, we kind of march into this war with our facts nobly shouldered as if they were going to win the day.
00:32:06.000And what we're seeing is that Because of the scale of this alternate reality that you've been talking about, our facts, our principles, our scientific method, it isn't enough.
00:32:24.000This is something we've been experiencing with Facebook for the last several months.
00:32:27.000Right before the election and then right after the election, it turns out that according to the New York Times, Facebook changed its algorithm to elevate news sources that they deemed to be high quality.
00:32:35.000What were those high quality news sources?
00:32:54.000And then Facebook magically changes its algorithm right before the election and right in the aftermath of the election to downgrade the news sources that you like in favor of news sources you're trying to avoid by going to Facebook in the first place.
00:33:29.000I think they're wrong to cover things the way they cover them, but they have absolutely that right.
00:33:33.000I've never called for the downgrading of a journalistic source or an opinion news source.
00:33:38.000On places like Facebook or YouTube or Twitter.
00:33:40.000I've defended people from exactly that sort of stuff.
00:33:43.000Hell, I've defended people that I think have horrible evil views from being fired from their jobs if their horrible evil views have nothing to do with their jobs.
00:33:52.000And that is the way that you should act if you're a First Amendment advocate.
00:33:54.000But that's not the way the Democrats act.
00:33:56.000That's not the way members of the media act.
00:33:57.000Members of the media are interested in changing your mind about the issues.
00:34:00.000And the best way to change your mind is to close your mind.
00:34:02.000And the best way to close your mind is to prevent you from seeing any alternative sources of information.
00:34:07.000Which is why we should see it as somewhat dangerous that the Biden team has now appointed Rick Stengel As the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, he had that job actually under Obama in 2013.
00:34:23.000And now, apparently, Stengel is on Biden's transition team to head the U.S.
00:34:27.000Agency for Global Media, an agency that oversees, quote, public service media networks that provide unbiased news and information in countries where the press is restricted.
00:34:37.000So he's very much in favor of open journalism and free speech and news reporting, except for the fact that in 2011, he wrote a Time cover piece featuring a picture of the Constitution and a headline saying, Does It Still Matter?
00:34:48.000In that piece, he said, quote, But we cannot let the Constitution become an obstacle to the U.S.' 's moving into the future with a sensible healthcare system, a globalized economy, an evolving sense of civil and political rights.
00:35:01.000The Constitution does not protect our spirit of liberty.
00:35:03.000Our spirit of liberty protects the Constitution.
00:35:13.000Here's what he argued in an op-ed for the Washington Post, quote, As a government official, traveling around the world championing the virtues of free speech, I came to see how our First Amendment standard is an outlier.
00:35:24.000Even the most sophisticated Arab diplomats that I dealt with did not understand why the First Amendment allows someone to burn a Quran.
00:35:29.000Why, they asked me, would you ever want to protect that?
00:35:33.000Okay, so the supposed defenders of free speech inside the Biden team are openly saying that they don't like free speech, that they think free speech is bad, that free speech ought to be quashed.
00:35:44.000Not, by the way, just to affect American elections, apparently, but also to avoid offending the sensibilities of people in other countries.
00:35:52.000We're supposed to believe that these people stand for American values.
00:35:55.000By the way, that was from a David Harsanyi's piece in National Review, November 11th, 2020.
00:36:02.000The fact of the matter is this, your media are trying to shut you down, which brings us to YouTube.
00:36:06.000So we'll come to YouTube in just one second, because YouTube has now set a brand new magical standard on what sort of videos they are going to take down.
00:36:15.000First, let us talk about your sleep quality.
00:36:17.000So I will admit to you, I'm in a bad mood, not just because of the news today and the fact that you're being lied to on a regular basis by people who are not supposed to lie to you, but also because my kids woke me up like a thousand times last night.
00:36:27.000So, my baby daughter woke us up at 11.30, then she woke us up at 2.30, then she woke us up at 5.30.
00:36:32.000Well, in those fleeting moments between being woken up, I needed to sleep.
00:36:35.000And this is why I relied on my personalized mattress from Helix Sleep.
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00:37:42.000Alrighty, we're gonna get to YouTube's new restrictions on what sort of content they will allow to be posted.
00:38:24.000And one of the ways you join the fight is by helping companies like this one bring you the information that you need.
00:38:29.000Because I promise you, they're going to try, they have been, they're going to try to shut off the spigots that you actually cannot see our information.
00:38:56.000We're building a new investigative journalism team so you don't have to rely on these jokers who will suppress information prior to an election.
00:39:38.000Remember, the New York Post was banned from Twitter.
00:39:41.000Their account was shut for trying to report the Hunter Biden story.
00:39:44.000If you tried to tweet out that story, they suppressed your tweet.
00:39:48.000Remember that Facebook preemptively shut down the Hunter Biden story.
00:39:51.000They said pending a fact check before there was even a fact check, before there was a fact check, they shut down the distribution of the information.
00:40:09.000OK, well, now YouTube has announced that it's changing its policies.
00:40:13.000OK, so here is what they just released.
00:40:15.000They released this statement yesterday, quote, We just shared an update on YouTube's election efforts, including how we're handling community guidelines pertaining to election-related misinformation.
00:40:24.000Our policies disallow content alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of a historical U.S.
00:40:38.000States need to resolve contested elections by then, and enough states have now certified their election results to determine a president-elect.
00:40:44.000Okay, so just to be fair, We should note at this point that the election date, the date in which the election is essentially over, is not December 8th.
00:40:54.000Court challenges could still overturn safe harbor provisions.
00:40:57.000December 14th, when the Electoral College votes, that is when this sucker is over.
00:41:01.000Okay, so they're preemptively declaring it over, obviously, because if we're going to just talk about legal dates, December 8th does not mean nearly as much as December 14th, when the Electoral College actually meets to vote.
00:41:10.000And even that doesn't mean as much as, I believe, January 6th, when that final Electoral College vote is certified, I believe, by the House of Representatives, is the way the process works.
00:41:17.000But, YouTube is taking preemptive action.
00:41:21.000As such, starting today, we will remove new content uploaded on or after December 9, 2020, alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S.
00:41:31.000For example, we will remove videos claiming that a presidential candidate won the election as a result of widespread software glitches or counting errors.
00:41:38.000This is in line with our approach toward historical U.S.
00:41:42.000Content that includes sufficient context may remain on YouTube, similar to how we allow COVID-19 medical misinformation that violates our policies to exist in videos with other context that debunks it, for example.
00:41:51.000If your content is impacted, you will receive automated emails from our system regarding this content.
00:41:55.000As we ramp up our enforcement, we'll initially remove violative videos without giving a strike.
00:41:59.000After Inauguration Day, we'll start giving strikes and taking down accounts, basically.
00:42:09.000Not one of those is going to come down.
00:42:12.000So it's only a certain type of election fraud.
00:42:15.000It's only a certain type of claiming an election was illegitimate they're going to take down.
00:42:18.000So if you say that this election was fraudulent because of vote counts or because of voter fraud or irregularity... By the way, all claims I'm skeptical of, as you know, If you say that, YouTube will take down the video.
00:42:31.000If, however, you say Georgia's non-governor, Stacey Abrams, is actually the governor of Georgia thanks to voter suppression, that stays up.
00:42:38.000I mean, hell, that was part of the DNC.
00:42:42.000If you say that Donald Trump was the illegitimate president of the United States because the Russians interfered in the election, are they gonna leave that up?
00:42:50.000What if you allege that Donald Trump was made president because of Russian interference in the election, not indirectly, but directly, like they messed with the vote counts?
00:43:00.000This is your social media betters deciding what you can and cannot see.
00:43:04.000By the way, it's not going to kill conspiracy theories.
00:43:06.000Do you really think that the way that you are going to kill dissemination of information like this, theories about the stealing of the U.S.
00:43:13.000election, you think that you are going to kill those theories by having liberals who all gave money to Joe Biden suppress the information?
00:43:45.000And now we're supposed to believe they're gonna restrict it to no well-verified claims?
00:43:49.000By the way, they've even gamed that system.
00:43:51.000The way that Facebook works this thing is that they actually allow left-wing fact-checkers to ding particular news sites in order to downgrade their content on Facebook.
00:44:03.000And then they claim, oh, well, we're not in control of that.
00:44:04.000I mean, obviously, listen, we have our factcheck.org folks over there, and they say Daily Wire is not as credible as CNN, and we believe them because their name is Fact Check.
00:44:26.000Now does that mean that the solution is going to be federal regulation?
00:44:31.000I have doubts about that because I think that Democrats are likely to take over the auspices of running these companies.
00:44:36.000I think that if you create a media oversight watchdog, right, a social media oversight watchdog in the federal government, sooner or later, Elizabeth Warren ends up running it.
00:44:44.000And then they just restrict it from government as opposed to the sort of social restriction outside.
00:44:48.000But should there be liability for companies that effectively promised their consumers that they were going to have free and open access to information so long as it was not defamatory?
00:45:00.000I don't see why there shouldn't be some sort of liability from customers who are promised something and given something else.
00:45:08.000The main theme here is that you gotta find alternative sources of information.
00:45:11.000It sounds self-serving, but it happens to be true.
00:45:13.000So I'm gonna make it broader than this.
00:45:15.000You need to go subscribe, not just to Daily Wire, to Blaze TV.
00:45:18.000You need to go subscribe over to Daily Caller.
00:45:20.000You need to go subscribe over to Breitbart.
00:45:21.000Like any place that you want alternative sources of information, you need to go subscribe today, because the bottom line is that they are going to try to shut down all dissemination of information.
00:45:47.000So there's a lot of media coverage right now of the fact that many Americans are skeptical of COVID regulations.
00:45:53.000One of the reasons we are skeptical of COVID regulations is because the media got this thing wrong from the beginning.
00:45:57.000They botched it every way it was possible to botch it.
00:46:00.000First, they said the thing was not particularly dangerous in February when they were saying that Donald Trump was xenophobic for shutting down the borders.
00:46:05.000Then they suggested that masks were really not important and you shouldn't wear them.
00:46:09.000Then they suggested the masks were the most important thing that ever was and that lockdowns were excellent.
00:46:12.000Now they say, well, lockdowns are still kind of excellent, but they're not so excellent if they apply to Democrats.
00:46:17.000Also, they suggested in the middle of the summer that millions of people protesting in the streets and spitting on each other over George Floyd, suggesting that America was systemically racist, which is a lie.
00:46:35.000It's an Olympic-level triple lie there from the media.
00:46:37.000One, America is systemically racist, and that's why there are disparities between black and white, particularly in policing.
00:46:42.000Two, if you go out and protest for George Floyd in the street, that is riskier than if you go to an outdoor church service, and more important, because it's a public health problem.
00:46:51.000And three, if you disagree with any of that, it's because you're a COVID denier.
00:46:54.000So the rare triple lie, it's like a triple axel.
00:46:56.000It's amazing how the media could twist themselves into pretzels.
00:46:58.000And then they wonder, why don't they trust us?
00:47:06.000Chris Cuomo on there every night doing buddy comedy with his bro, holding up giant, weird props to talk about the size of his brother's nose while tens of thousands of people died in his brother's state because his brother was shipping old people with COVID back into nursing homes.
00:47:22.000Okay, well now, now we're supposed to trust Andrew Cuomo again.
00:47:28.000If you feel like you are being swiveled around, like your head is now being moved all the way around, exorcism style, while you vomit in all directions, that's because that's what the media have driven everybody to.
00:47:47.000And here he is explaining he does not trust a vaccine developed under the Trump administration.
00:47:52.000I'm not that confident, but my opinion doesn't matter.
00:47:55.000I don't believe the American people are that confident.
00:47:58.000You're going to say to the American people now, here's a vaccine, it was new, it was done quickly, but trust this federal administration and their health administration that it's safe?
00:48:10.000And we're not 100% sure of the consequences.
00:48:14.000I think it's going to be a very skeptical American public about taking the vaccine, and it should be.
00:48:19.000They should be skeptical about the vaccine.
00:48:21.000OK, fast forward until after the election.
00:48:23.000And now what is Andrew Cuomo, the most beloved governor of the media, the greatest governor in world history, saying about the vaccine?
00:48:54.000population vaccinated for the vaccine to be effective. 75 to 85 percent. 50 percent of the population says right now they don't want to take the vaccine. They don't trust the approval process.
00:49:11.000They're worried about vaccines in general, but 50% are now saying they don't want to take the vaccine.
00:49:16.000You cannot get to 75% if 50% don't take it.
00:49:51.000Nobody believes you when you say that your opinion is separate from the facts.
00:49:53.000And nobody really believes you when you say that you're any different than the folks over at The Daily Wire because you are objective while we are biased.
00:50:00.000Of course we're biased because we're honest.
00:50:06.000You lie to project any damned narrative you want.
00:50:10.000You will suggest that Joe Biden has cured this thing by the time we hit the end of January, that we're on the road to recovery using a vaccine developed under the Trump administration and a distribution plan developed under the Trump administration.
00:50:20.000You'll suggest that Joe Biden has fixed everything.
00:50:26.000You will suggest that you guys were just the reason that so many people voted for Joe Biden is because you were just so honest.
00:50:34.000You did the sort of journalistic work that you should have been doing.
00:50:37.000And you will continue to pretend that your back rub of Joe Biden, which will continue for as long as Joe Biden is in office, and then any Democrat is in office, that that back rub is really just hard-hitting journalism.
00:51:03.000The authoritarians in your media don't want you to see certain information, and so you didn't see it.
00:51:09.000The authoritarians in the media thought that you were not capable of processing information and making complex decisions, and so they simply prevented you.
00:51:15.000And your authoritarians in the media were just upset at themselves, because in 2016, they accidentally covered the Hillary Clinton emails, and it may have cost Hillary Clinton the election, and so they regret it.
00:51:24.000And you're starting to see, I mean, the backlash on this sort of stuff to members of the media who actually try to be honest is astonishing.
00:51:28.000The other day, Joe Biden completely blew the name of his nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary, Xavier Becerra.
00:52:34.000But first, I would say that he's, you know, I know a lot of 78-year-olds who are in better mental shape than Joe Biden.
00:52:40.000But I know a lot of 78-year-olds who are in worse mental shape than Joe Biden.
00:52:42.000But there's no question that Joe Biden now is not what Joe Biden was even 10 years ago.
00:52:45.000And Joe Biden 10 years ago was nothing to write home about.
00:52:48.000Joe Biden 10 years ago was still an incompetent buffoon who could barely get a paragraph out of his mouth.
00:52:53.000Now he's an even more incompetent buffoon who can barely get a sentence out of his mouth.
00:52:58.000But if you mention that, then this is because you are apparently an ageist or because you are not taking into account the fact that he had a childhood stammer, which of course, this is not about stammering.
00:53:06.000I've said before, anybody who overcomes a stammer has engaged in an act of tremendous courage, and Joe Biden has helped out so many people who have stammered with advice and comfort and all of that.
00:53:17.000It's about the fact that if you believe, as the Democrats do, that he's president-elect of the United States, it sort of matters that the man literally cannot say the names of the members of his own cabinet without stumbling over them.
00:53:28.000If you mention that for the entirety of the election cycle, or now, then it is suggested that you are just, you're age-shaming people.
00:53:35.000Which brings us to a piece by Jane Mayer in The New Yorker.
00:53:40.000Diane Feinstein's missteps raise a painful age question among Senate Democrats.
00:53:44.000See, you're not allowed to mention that Joe Biden is 78 years old, because that's ageism.
00:53:49.000But if you talk about Diane Feinstein this way, that's fine.
00:54:05.000Dianne Feinstein, who is a rabid, militant Democrat, She went after Brett Kavanaugh with pretty much everything she had, and she engaged in really corrupt activities to do so, bringing forth narratives that simply had no factual basis.
00:54:18.000But she had the temerity during the Amy Coney Barrett hearings to turn to Republicans and say, you know what?
00:54:23.000We actually had like a normal judicial hearing, and that was kind of nice.
00:54:26.000And then she gave Lindsey Graham, with whom she's been in the Senate for 1,000 years, a hug.
00:54:30.000This means she is senile and must be booted from her positions in top positions of committee power.
00:54:35.000According to Jane Mayer reporting for The New Yorker, In a hearing on November 17th, Dianne Feinstein, the senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, who at 87 is the oldest member of the Senate, grilled a witness.
00:54:46.000Reading from a sheaf of prepared papers, she asked Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, whether his company was doing enough to stem the spread of disinformation.
00:54:52.000Elaborating, she read in full a tweet President Trump had disseminated on November 7th, falsely claiming to have won the presidential election.
00:54:58.000She then asked Dorsey if Twitter's labeling of the tweet as disputed had adequately alerted readers that it was a bald lie.
00:55:21.000Feinstein looked and sounded just as authoritative, seemingly registering no awareness that she was repeating herself verbatim.
00:55:26.000Dorsey graciously answered the question all over again.
00:55:29.000And this has led to serious questions.
00:55:33.000Serious questions about whether Dianne Feinstein has lost it.
00:55:36.000Okay, now, it may be possible that Dianne Feinstein has lost it.
00:55:39.000I'm just going to note that the only way that you are allowed to talk about this now is because Dianne Feinstein has fallen out of favor with the left wing of her party.
00:55:49.000Many others familiar with Feinstein's situation describe her as seriously struggling, say it has been evident for several years.
00:55:55.000Speaking on background and with respect for her accomplished career, they say her short-term memory has grown so poor, she often forgets she has been briefed on a topic, accusing her staff of failing to do so just after they have.
00:56:04.000They describe Feinstein as forgetting what she has said and getting upset when she can't keep up.
00:56:08.000One aide to another senator described what he called a kabuki meeting in which Feinstein's staff tried to steer her through a proposed piece of legislation that she protested was just words which made no sense.
00:56:17.000Feinstein's staff has said she sometimes seems herself, other times unreachable.
00:56:22.000The staff is in such a bad position, a former Senate aide who still has business in Congress said they have to defend her and make her seem normal.
00:56:29.000So, this means that it's time to get rid of her, obviously.
00:56:32.000Obviously, Dianne Feinstein is buried in this piece.
00:56:35.000The internal criticism grew more intense this fall over Feinstein's handling of Amy Coney Barrett.
00:56:39.000Feinstein had bungled the question about abortion during Barrett's 2017 appeals court confirmation hearing, provoking conservative indignation by casting it clumsily as a question about Barrett's extreme religious beliefs.
00:56:49.000The backlash over her question about Coney Barrett effectively indemnified Barrett from further questions about how her faith affected her judicial rulings.
00:56:57.000According to several sources, Chuck Schumer, Democratic minority leader, was so worried Feinstein would mismanage Barrett's confirmation hearings, he installed a trusted former aide, Max Young, to embed in the Judiciary Committee to make sure the hearings didn't go off the rails.
00:57:09.000He did the same during the Kavanaugh confirmation.
00:57:11.000Schumer brought Young in from the gun control group Everytown to handle strategy and communications and serve as Schumer's eyes and ears on Feinstein, as one source puts it.
00:57:23.000To Democrats' dismay, Feinstein instead hugged the Republican chairman of the committee, Lindsey Graham, thanking him for his fairness and for running one of the best set of hearings that I've participated in.
00:57:32.000So clearly, this was a failure, and this means that she's crazy, right?
00:57:36.000It can't just be that she handled it how it was actually supposed to be handled, you know, in normal bipartisan fashion, like most judicial nominees.
00:57:42.000It was that she was bad, and she was senile, and now she became senile.
00:57:45.000So you have Brian Fallon, the executive director of the progressive advocacy group Demand Justice.
00:57:49.000He says it's time for Senator Feinstein to step down from her leadership position on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
00:57:54.000If she won't, her colleagues need to intervene.
00:57:56.000And apparently, Schumer then chided her.
00:57:59.000Overtures were made to enlist the help of Feinstein's husband, Richard Blum.
00:58:18.000You think the media would be like, oh, probably she's senile.
00:58:20.000Or do you think the media would be more like, I can't believe they're trying to pressure this person who is a bipartisan hero into giving up her positions.
00:58:28.000Look at these extreme right-wingers and their militarization of age.
00:58:36.000But you know, our media, perfectly consistent across the board on this.
00:58:39.000Dianne Feinstein's great, her great sin here is that she wasn't sufficiently woke, she wasn't sufficiently radical.
00:58:46.000Speaking of the sufficiently woke and sufficiently radical, that wing of the Democratic Party is in the ascendancy.
00:58:52.000Raphael Warnock running for Senate in the state of Georgia.
00:58:55.000Every day a new clip from Raphael Warnock who is a Marxist, a Marxist crazy person.
00:58:59.000So this one is from Raphael Warnock describing Castro's Cuba as very much like America.
00:59:05.000You know, except for the fact that all dissidents are thrown in prison and the fact that people literally get on 1950s Chevys and try to float their way from Cuba to Florida.
00:59:12.000That sort of stuff happens in the United States all the time.
00:59:14.000Let me tell you, the way that I got to Cal, the way I got to Florida from California is I actually took a tire and I jumped I did that because, you know, America's so oppressive and terrible.
00:59:22.000would sort of carry me all the way through the Gulf, you know, go through the Panama Canal and everything, and then I would end up in Florida.
00:59:27.000I did that because, you know, America's so oppressive and terrible.
00:59:31.000Alternatively, Cuba is nothing like the United States, which is one of the reasons why Cuban Americans vote Republican.
00:59:36.000To the great consternation of all the Democrats who think that if they say latinks, that a bunch of Latinos are gonna vote for them.
00:59:42.000Just a side note here, I was talking to a couple of the Latina members of the Daily Wire staff before the show, and we were all laughing at the stupidity of this Latinks nonsense.
00:59:50.000I had to be informed, my producer Savvy, who is indeed a Latina woman, that Latinks was supposed to be a gender neutral thing because apparently Democrats are afraid that if they say Latino, Latino is used as the
01:00:05.000plural right latinos is used as the plural masculine but it's also it covers the feminine also when you say latinos it covers masculine and feminine it's sort of like in in in hebrew right a language i know much better than than spanish in hebrew when you say jews you say yehudim right the im at the end is a masculine suffix okay but it covers everybody when you say people you say anashim right im is the masculine suffix right ot would be the female suffix not to get into linguistics here but im covers Male and female, right?
01:00:33.000Apparently the same holds true in Spanish.
01:00:36.000Okay, so Democrats were so afraid that this would piss off Latina women that they made up Latinx.
01:01:26.000Kind of like America's legacy is complex.
01:01:33.000No, actually his legacy is not complex.
01:01:36.000He took over an island nation with a few hundred people, and then he proceeded to ram down a communist dictatorship on generations of human beings, impoverishing them and turning one of the richer countries in the entire Latin American sphere into basically a hellhole for people to live in.
01:01:53.000Again, You don't try to escape great places by getting on an old Chevy and trying to float 90 miles to the coast of Florida.
01:02:54.000Considering the historical moment that we're in post-George Floyd, where people finally in the United States understand that the issue of policing is a question of systemic racism.
01:03:04.000We understand because of COVID, the underlying health conditions.
01:03:08.000And so we have real issues in this country.
01:03:11.000And what we saw over the last few months is that maybe we can address some of these issues.
01:04:01.000Well, according to Emily Zanotti, Portland, Oregon Mayor Ted Wheeler sent the city's police force to evict a new autonomous zone that cropped up around an anti-eviction protest on Tuesday, reversing a months-long policy of tolerating ongoing demonstrations even when they turn violent.
01:04:14.000Protesters have been camping out for months to prevent the eviction of the Kinney family.
01:04:19.000Protesters used fences and barricades set up by law enforcement officials to surround the home, which has been renamed the Red House on Mississippi due to its location on Mississippi Avenue, according to Newsweek.
01:04:30.000Videos of the autonomous zone appeared on Twitter showing a shantytown made of cardboard boxes and pilfered public fencing with warning signs posted on the outside.
01:04:38.000Reports indicated that a few dozen protesters plan to take up residence in the autonomous zone surrounding the Red House.
01:04:47.000Protesters believed that the family should not be forced out during a pandemic and that the bank was seeking a swifter eviction because the property next to the home recently sold for more than seven figures.
01:04:55.000When the city refused to honor protesters' demands, they organized an autonomous zone like Chaz Shop in Seattle.
01:05:01.000And even this was a little too humiliating for Mayor Ted Wheeler, so he authorized Portland Police to break the thing up.
01:05:07.000on Wednesday morning, the Portland Police and the Multnomah County Sheriff began their property mission, reclaiming the land on which protesters had set up the autonomous zone.
01:05:15.000They said it was not simply a protest they were dismantling.
01:05:18.000Apparently, there was a stockpile of weapons and the presence of firearms.
01:05:22.000Well, I'm glad that they finally realized that there was one bridge that was too far for them.
01:05:24.000the threats of the community to media and to police.
01:05:27.000The Portland police will enforce the law and use force if necessary to restore order to the neighborhood." Well, I'm glad that they finally realized that there was one bridge that was too far for them.
01:05:36.000But you literally have to get to the point for Democrats of threatening violence before people are like, oh, maybe this person shouldn't be like a mainstream part of our coalition.
01:05:44.000Now, I do have to bring you an update on the 2020 election.
01:05:49.000A lot of focus being put on this final sort of Texas bid.
01:05:52.000It's sort of a last-ditch bid by Team Trump to stop the certification of the election.
01:05:57.000According to CNBC, 17 states whose elections were won by President Trump told the Supreme Court on Wednesday they support a Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's bid to file a lawsuit that could effectively reverse Biden's projected Electoral College victory.
01:06:09.000The filing backing Paxton by the states came a day after he asked the Supreme Court for permission to sue Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, all of which Biden purportedly won, over their voting processes.
01:06:19.000Later on Wednesday, Trump filed a motion to intervene in the case in his personal capacity as a presidential candidate.
01:06:24.000These states are basically saying that if other states vote unfairly, they are being deprived of equal protection under the law.
01:06:30.000So Texas is basically saying, for example, that if Pennsylvania screws up its voting procedure, it outweighs our ability to vote fairly.
01:06:36.000So we voted fairly, they voted unfairly, therefore Democrats stole that, and therefore we have a stake in the national election.
01:06:47.00017 former officials and lawmakers filed their own brief supporting the four swing states.
01:06:53.000They said the Constitution does not make the Supreme Court the multi-district litigation panel for trials of presidential election disputes.
01:06:59.000So in other words, states get to make their own voting procedures and other states cannot sue those states for their voting procedures.
01:07:04.000This was actually just an attempt to elevate this thing to the Supreme Court.
01:07:09.000Because again, under the Constitution, then controversies between states are typically adjudicated by the Supreme Court or can be adjudicated by the Supreme Court.
01:07:18.000But for a controversy to arise between the states, you actually have to make a plausible federal claim.
01:07:23.000Most legal experts think that this thing is basically doomed to failure.
01:07:27.000Andy McCarthy, who is an ally of President Trump and has been a big defender of Trump throughout his administration, has a piece over at National Review pointing out that this lawsuit is unlikely to go anywhere.
01:07:37.000He says, the first thing to notice about Texas's lawsuit is what does not appear on the front page, the name of the state's solicitor general, Kyle Hawkins.
01:07:45.000The lawsuit is brought against four other states.
01:07:48.000Thus Attorney General Ken Paxton invokes the original jurisdiction of the US Supreme Court to hear disputes between the states, but the brief is not signed by the lawyer who typically represents Texas when there is a Supreme Court case.
01:07:57.000That's because this thing has no prospect of winning, according to Andy McCarthy.
01:08:01.000He says there's a lot to be said for Texas's complaint as a political polemic.
01:08:04.000It's true Democrats labor mightily to undermine election integrity.
01:08:07.000The only rational reason for that is to make it easier for legally unqualified people to cast ballots and to cast them in bulk.
01:08:12.000The ballots of people who would not otherwise have voted.
01:08:15.000Mail-in voting on a massive scale creates tremendous potential for fraud.
01:08:18.000This potential is inevitably realized in at least some fraud when coupled with other policies that Democrats like, like getting rid of ID or signature verification, witness requirements, ballot harvesting.
01:08:27.000All of these matters should be addressed by Congress and by state lawmakers, says Andy McCarthy.
01:08:30.000But none of them give state, Texas, the standing to sue other states over the manner in which they do elections.
01:08:36.000Again, in order to have a case or controversy.
01:08:51.000Says Annie McCarthy, this does not mean the flouting of election laws by officials in Pennsylvania and other states is not a serious issue.
01:08:56.000It means that if Texas wants to raise that issue, the Supreme Court is not the right forum.
01:09:00.000To repeat a point I've made before, the court did not grant review of a case from Pennsylvania it should have taken involving a narrow critical issue of constitutional law pertaining to elections.
01:09:08.000When that issue is raised by parties in the Commonwealth who were directly affected, the justices are not going to have interest in entertaining a sprawling lawsuit brought by an unaffected third party state.
01:09:18.000He says he thinks that, in all likelihood, they're just gonna throw this thing out.
01:09:23.000It's also a problem because it actually creates the legal predicate.
01:09:27.000If the Supreme Court were to take it, it would actually create the legal predicate for any state suing another state for any supposed impact on the first state.
01:09:34.000So, for example, California could sue Alabama over Alabama's abortion laws, saying that California provides abortion, Alabama does not provide abortion, and therefore, that affects California.
01:09:44.000Because people are traveling from Alabama to California to have abortions and it is creating strain on their system, right?
01:09:48.000You can see people making those sorts of claims.
01:09:50.000This is why you have pretty strict rules in terms of what is a case or controversy and what standing constitutes.
01:09:57.000So, it's unlikely that this is going to go anywhere.
01:10:01.000According to Annie McCarthy, federal law provides a procedure under which, on January 6th, Congress will convene to count the electoral votes.
01:10:06.000If Texas's elected representatives object to the counting of any state's electoral votes, Congress will heard debate and vote on those objections at that point.
01:10:13.000There's no way, however, the Supreme Court will entertain that Texas lawsuit.
01:10:16.000So it's important that you know that going in, so that we know exactly what is coming down the road.
01:10:21.000There's still one outstanding lawsuit in Georgia.
01:10:23.000That one has plausible claims to make.
01:10:26.000I'll be fascinated to see how Georgia's Secretary of State responds to very specific allegations that are made in the Georgia lawsuit about not only the violation of election protocol, but also About specific voters who should not have voted.
01:10:38.000I mean, there's like giant lists of them included in this Georgia lawsuit.
01:10:41.000So that one is the one to watch in terms of lawsuits that have a chance of going anywhere.
01:10:45.000OK, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
01:10:48.000Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.
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