The Ben Shapiro Show - October 23, 2020


The Final Debate: Trump’s Big Comeback | Ep. 1122

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Trump brings Hunter Biden s former business partner to the final debate as the media studiously avoid the story. Trump shows up for the debate, mostly, and Joe Biden pledges to end the oil industry. Ben Shapiro breaks it all down and explains why the story is so important and why the media should be paying attention to it. The Ben Shapiro Show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. You get an extra 3 months of ExpressVPN service for FREE. That makes your activity more difficult to trace and sell to advertisers. Instead of using ExpressVPN, you are now protected from hackers and internet bad guys. Voila! ExpressVPN also encrypts 100% of your data to protect you from hackers. It s finally time to say no to censorship. Take back your online privacy at ExpressVPN! Ben Shapiro is a writer, comedian, and podcaster. His work has appeared on Comedy Central, HBO, and the New York Times. He is a regular contributor on the radio show and hosts a podcast called with his wife, Rachel Maddow. and his daughter, Maddie, who is a frequent guest on the podcast . He has been married to his long-term girlfriend, Amy Poehler, and they have a son, Joe Biden, who also happens to be a good friend, too. And he has a dog named Hunter Biden, too, and he's a great friend, which you should listen to this episode of if you do not miss it. He's a good one. If you don t get it? - listen to it on the episode of the Ben Shapiro show on The Late Night Show with Ben Shapiro did it on his podcast on The Daily Mail? and it's also on Jimmy Seinfeld on The Good Morning After Show with him on on the Good Morning Thing with or the Good Thing Podcast on on The Good Thing on The Bad Thing on Good Thing with Good Thing and Good Thing On Good Thing on Good Things on Good And Bad And Good Things On Good And The Good And Good And So Much More on Good And Great Things on That's That s That's a Fact Check It Out on It's Out on That s Good And That s All That s Out on This Is It on It s Good and Good On That's Good And They Say It's That's It on Good and That s Not That on It On That And That's Not That On That s Also Good And This Is That on That And More On That and That's Also That And This And That And They Have It on That

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00:00:00.000 Trump brings Hunter Biden's former business partner to the final debate as the media studiously avoid the story.
00:00:05.000 Good Trump shows up for the debate, mostly, and Joe Biden pledges to end the oil industry.
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00:01:29.000 Okay, so last night represented the final presidential debate.
00:01:37.000 We are reaching the end of the road here.
00:01:39.000 We are less than a week and a half out from the presidential election of 2020, and so the pressure was on for President Trump.
00:01:45.000 And he showed up.
00:01:46.000 He showed up and he performed.
00:01:48.000 To understand exactly how this debate went, however, we have to backtrack a little bit.
00:01:51.000 We have to do the run-up to the debate.
00:01:53.000 So, late yesterday afternoon, just before the debate, there was a press conference called by the Trump campaign.
00:01:58.000 This press conference was very much reminiscent of the press conference that President Trump held with accusers against Bill Clinton.
00:02:06.000 Back in 2016, he brought a bunch of women who had accusations against Bill Clinton and suggested that Hillary Clinton had covered all of that up and all that sort of thing.
00:02:15.000 This was very reminiscent of that.
00:02:16.000 He brought forth a guy named Tony Bobulinski.
00:02:17.000 Bobulinski was a former would-be business partner of Hunter Biden.
00:02:22.000 And he alleges that it wasn't just that Hunter Biden was going around the globe picking up bags of cash.
00:02:27.000 He alleges that he was doing so on behalf of the Biden family.
00:02:30.000 He says he has the receipts to prove it, that Joe Biden actually knew what was going on, that Joe Biden was involved.
00:02:35.000 Now, as we will see, it is not clear at all from the documentary evidence that has been thus far presented that Joe Biden was deeply involved in his son Hunter's business.
00:02:44.000 However, there are certainly implications in the Hunter Biden emails that suggest it.
00:02:48.000 As far as money actually changing hands, again, there's no actual documentary implication that money has actually changed hands and has been funneled directly to Joe Biden.
00:02:56.000 We'll get to that in a second, right?
00:02:57.000 Because the media are studiously avoiding the story, except for maybe the Wall Street Journal, which is now reporting on it.
00:03:02.000 But Tony Bobulinski did this press conference, and again, this was right before The debate and suddenly made this story a lot more serious because before it had just been all of these emails that had sort of been dripped out via the New York Post.
00:03:14.000 It had been put out a little bit via Fox News.
00:03:16.000 Well, now you actually had a face of a person who worked with Hunter Biden saying that Joe was intimately involved with the business.
00:03:22.000 So Bobulinski gets up in basically a spare room in Nashville, Tennessee, and he says, I was told earlier this week that if I reveal what I know, it's going to bury all of us, meaning the Biden family as well.
00:03:35.000 I was told this past Sunday by somebody who was also involved in this matter that if I went public this information, it would bury all of us, man.
00:03:44.000 The Bidens included.
00:03:45.000 I have no wish to bury anyone.
00:03:49.000 I've never been political.
00:03:51.000 The few contributions I've made have been to Democrats.
00:03:55.000 But what I am is a patriot and a veteran.
00:03:58.000 Okay, Bobulinski also suggested that he had privy inside knowledge to everything that was going on in Hunter Biden's business.
00:04:06.000 He spoke deliberately of a May 13, 2017 email in which it was discussed how much of an interest in a Chinese company would be held by H, H meaning Hunter Biden.
00:04:16.000 Apparently it's 20% and some 10% going to the big guy.
00:04:19.000 So Bobulinski said the big guy here was Joe Biden, which of course would take this from the realm of Joe kind of knew and patted his son on the head as his son went around picking up bags of cash, which is extremely plausible and in fact probable.
00:04:30.000 There's a line between that and Joe Biden actually received money from these sort of corrupt goings on.
00:04:35.000 Again, if Biden did this after he was vice president, it is not a violation of the law.
00:04:39.000 He's allowed to do it after he is vice president.
00:04:41.000 It does certainly look like influence peddling, however.
00:04:44.000 And Joe Biden apparently was in contact with Hunter about this stuff, according to Bobulinski, as early as 2015, 2016, when he actually was vice president.
00:04:52.000 In any case, here was Bobulinski saying that the H in that email stood for Hunter, and Biden was the big guy.
00:04:58.000 On May 13, 2017, I received an email concerning allocation of equity, which says 10% held by H for the big guy.
00:05:08.000 In that email, there's no question that H stands for Hunter, big guy for his father, Joe Biden.
00:05:18.000 Yeah, he says he came forward, Bobulinski did, because he was tired of hearing Joe Biden suggest that he had never discussed business with Hunter when Bobulinski says, I know firsthand that that is false.
00:05:32.000 I've been at dinners where they have discussed business.
00:05:35.000 I've heard Joe Biden say that he's never discussed business with Hunter.
00:05:40.000 That is false.
00:05:42.000 I have firsthand knowledge about this because I directly dealt with the Biden family, including Joe Biden.
00:05:49.000 I was introduced to Joe Biden by Jim Biden and Hunter Biden.
00:05:53.000 At my approximately hour-long meeting with Joe that night, we discussed the Biden's history, the Biden's family business plans with the Chinese, with which he was plainly familiar, at least at a high level.
00:06:08.000 Okay, and then Bobulinski held up some cell phones and he said, all the evidence of what I'm saying is on these phones.
00:06:13.000 I've turned these over to the proper authorities.
00:06:15.000 Here was Bobulinski yesterday.
00:06:18.000 Tomorrow, I will be meeting with the Senate committee members concerning this matter, and I will be providing to the FBI the devices which contain the evidence corroborating what I have said.
00:06:29.000 The evidence sits on these three phones.
00:06:31.000 I don't want to go into anything any further.
00:06:33.000 This will all be discussed with Senator Johnson and his committee, and the American people can decide what's fact.
00:06:40.000 OK, so that is where things stood until just before the debate.
00:06:43.000 Finally, the Biden campaign put out what seems to be a pretty comprehensive statement denying the story.
00:06:49.000 According to the Biden campaign, quote, as Chris Wallace said on air about this very smear, Vice President Biden has actually released his tax returns, unlike President Trump.
00:06:55.000 And there is no indication he ever got any money from anybody in these business deals.
00:06:59.000 Joe Biden has never even considered being involved in business with his family, nor in any overseas business whatsoever.
00:07:04.000 He has never held stock in any such business arrangements, nor has any family member or any other person ever held stock for him.
00:07:10.000 What is true is that Tony Bobulinski admitted on the record to Breitbart that he is angry he was not able to go into business with Hunter and James Biden.
00:07:15.000 What is also true is that in contrast to Vice President Biden, Donald Trump has a secret Chinese bank account and pays more in taxes in China than he pays in federal income tax in the United States.
00:07:23.000 And this is a desperate, pathetic farce executed by a flailing campaign with no rationale for putting our country through another Okay, so that is a pretty comprehensive denial by the Biden campaign.
00:07:33.000 There are ways to spin it where it looks as though maybe there's some hair splitting. 0.57
00:07:37.000 So, for example, you could say, well, maybe the stock isn't stock.
00:07:41.000 Maybe it's some other form of asset, right?
00:07:43.000 Not all ownership in a company comes in the form of actual stock.
00:07:46.000 I could say that.
00:07:47.000 Maybe you could say that Joe Biden didn't have to be involved with the overseas business.
00:07:51.000 He could have just been sort of a passive partner in the overseas business.
00:07:54.000 There are ways to parse this in which theoretically Biden couldn't be denying the story, but it looks mostly overall like Biden is denying the story and the denial is blanket enough that if any of that ended up being true, Biden would get excoriated for it.
00:08:06.000 So the Wall Street Journal has a couple of pieces further explicating the story itself.
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00:09:20.000 Okay, so the Wall Street Journal has a couple of reports detailing the rest of the sort of Bobulinski story.
00:09:26.000 One, the headline says, Hunter Biden's ex-business partner alleges father knew about venture.
00:09:30.000 However, corporate records reviewed by the Wall Street Journal show no record for Joe Biden.
00:09:35.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the Biden campaign denied that Joe had any involvement in this Chinese venture with this oil company or stood to gain by it.
00:09:44.000 Bobulinski said he was rankled by Joe Biden's public statements he never discussed the international business activities of Hunter and other family members.
00:09:50.000 He also cited nearly $5 million in payments.
00:09:52.000 A Senate Republican report last month said that CEFC made to Hunter Biden's law firm as another reason to come forward.
00:09:59.000 Bobulinski said he took part in a meeting with Hunter, Joe Biden, and Joe Biden's brother James Biden in L.A.
00:10:03.000 in 2017 when they discussed the Biden family business plans with the Chinese, of which Joe Biden was plainly familiar, at least at a high level.
00:10:10.000 A Biden campaign spokesman didn't immediately respond to a question about the alleged meeting with Bobulinski.
00:10:14.000 James Biden and an attorney for Hunter Biden didn't respond to requests for comment.
00:10:18.000 And then they, of course, issued from the campaign this blanket denial.
00:10:22.000 Text messages and emails related to the venture that were provided to the journal by Bobulinski, mainly from the spring and summer of 2017, don't show either Hunter Biden or James Biden discussing a role for Joe in the venture.
00:10:32.000 Which sounds like maybe, just maybe, the project was on the road and then it sort of fell apart.
00:10:35.000 up any speculation that former VP Biden was involved with the 2017 discussions about our potential business structure. I'm unaware of any involvement at any time of the former VP.
00:10:42.000 The activity in question never delivered any project revenue. And which sounds like maybe, just maybe, the project was on the road and then it sort of fell apart.
00:10:52.000 Kimberly Strassel has a report over at the Wall Street Journal on this.
00:10:55.000 She says that Bobulinski's text messages show he was recruited for the project by that James Gilear character, a Hunter associate.
00:11:04.000 Gilear explains in a December 2015 text there will be a deal between the Chinese and quote, one of the most prominent families from the United States.
00:11:10.000 A month later, he introduces Rob Walker, also a partner of Biden.
00:11:13.000 In March 2016, Gilear told Bobulinski the Chinese entity was CEFC, which was shaping up to be the Goldman's of China, meaning Goldman Sachs.
00:11:21.000 Gilear promised that same month to develop the terms of a deal with Hunter.
00:11:24.000 At this point, Joe Biden, of course, was still vice president.
00:11:27.000 As the deal began to take shape in 2017, Bobulinski began to question what Hunter would contribute besides his name and worried he was, quote, kicked out of the U.S.
00:11:33.000 Navy for cocaine use.
00:11:35.000 Gilear acknowledged skill sets missing and observed that Hunter has a few demons.
00:11:38.000 He explained that in brand, Hunter is imperative, but right now he's not essential for adding input.
00:11:45.000 Hunter was hardly visible through most of the work until final negotiations ramped up in mid-May.
00:11:48.000 He brought in his uncle, Jim Biden, for a stake.
00:11:51.000 Hunter, in texting emails, wanted offices in three U.S.
00:11:53.000 cities, significant travel budgets, a stipend for Jim, a job for an assistant, and more frequent distributions of any gains.
00:11:59.000 And of course, he explained that he wanted a hell of a lot more than $850,000 per year because his ex-wife would nearly take all of it.
00:12:06.000 Hunter repeatedly made clear that his contribution was his name.
00:12:09.000 He railed at Bobulinski that the CEFC heads are, quote, coming to be my partner, to be partners with the Bidens.
00:12:15.000 He then reminds him that in this instance, only one player holds the Trump card, and that's me.
00:12:18.000 May not be fair, but it's the reality because I'm the only one putting on and putting an entire family legacy on the line.
00:12:24.000 Joe Biden claims he had never discussed his son's business, but of course, there was that May 2017 expectations letter, including that 10% for, quote, unquote, the big guy.
00:12:31.000 In one text, Hunter said, quote, my chairman gave an emphatic no to a version of the deal.
00:12:36.000 Bobulinski suggested that the chairman referred to Joe Biden.
00:12:40.000 The deal fell through on the Chinese end in the summer of 2017.
00:12:43.000 So, is it possible that Hunter was freelancing?
00:12:46.000 That he was going around, that Joe had spent years basically patting him on the head, telling him to go pick up bags of cash if it could help him, and that now Joe is out of office and Hunter wanted to help him out, so he was freelancing, and every so often he would run something by Joe.
00:12:58.000 Certainly possible.
00:12:59.000 Certainly plausible.
00:13:01.000 Is it true that Joe Biden, while he was VP, probably knew what Hunter was up to?
00:13:05.000 Yeah, that is probably true.
00:13:07.000 Okay, so here's the problem.
00:13:08.000 Nobody in the media wants to talk about this story at all.
00:13:11.000 They don't find it interesting or fascinating at all that Joe Biden has, throughout his career, engaged in sort of the low-level corruption that many public officials do, right?
00:13:19.000 Getting sweetheart mortgages and that sort of thing.
00:13:21.000 Well, or at least a sweetheart land deal from people who are interested in some of the legislation on the table when he was in the Senate.
00:13:28.000 And NPR put out an actual statement before the denial, before the denial from the Biden campaign.
00:13:34.000 Here's what NPR's public editor said, quote, we don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories.
00:13:39.000 And we don't want to waste listeners and readers time on stories that are just pure distraction.
00:13:43.000 That is unbelievable.
00:13:44.000 That is a taxpayer funded journalistic institution openly declaring that they simply will not engage, that they are not interested whatsoever in the story preemptively.
00:13:55.000 So the media, I mean, so all of this is the lead up to the debate, right?
00:13:57.000 The media are obviously and clearly on the side of Joe Biden, which means that the debate, the stakes are really high because now this is basically the last chance for Trump to set the table, for Trump to change the topic, and for Trump to shift the course of the race.
00:14:11.000 Now, members of the media, again, it wasn't just NPR, many members of the media were over and over declaring that the Hunter Biden story was not, in fact, a story.
00:14:19.000 They kept declaring without any evidence whatsoever that it was Russian disinformation.
00:14:22.000 So NBC's Hallie Jackson, she actually just continued to say that this is Russian disinformation.
00:14:26.000 There is no information this is Russian disinformation at this point.
00:14:29.000 The DNI, John Ratcliffe, has openly denied that the Hunter Biden emails are Russian disinformation.
00:14:33.000 By the way, no one has yet suggested that the Hunter Biden emails and texts are fake because they are not, as it turns out.
00:14:39.000 It doesn't matter.
00:14:40.000 The great journalists over at NBC are declaring this stuff Russian disinformation.
00:14:45.000 You also have the president focusing, it seems, on Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's son, and his dealings overseas, these unverified emails.
00:14:53.000 Many intelligence experts have said those emails carry all the hallmarks of a foreign disinformation campaign, essentially.
00:15:02.000 That is absolutely wrong.
00:15:04.000 And again, it is not just the media with regard to the Hunter Biden story.
00:15:08.000 It's with regard to everything.
00:15:10.000 Leslie Stahl did the 60 Minutes episode with Trump.
00:15:12.000 And it sounds like she was pretty adversarial toward Trump, like over and over and over.
00:15:17.000 Trump said to Stahl, you won't ask Biden tough questions.
00:15:19.000 That, of course, is exactly true. 0.60
00:15:21.000 The interview went so poorly that Trump decided to basically Your first statement to me, this is going to be tough questions.
00:15:27.000 Well, I don't mind that.
00:15:28.000 By the way, this is not a bad idea.
00:15:29.000 He took his own public tape and then he just threw it out there.
00:15:31.000 Here was Trump saying to Stahl, you're not going to ask Biden any tough questions.
00:15:33.000 Your first statement to me, this is going to be tough questions.
00:15:38.000 Well, I don't mind that.
00:15:41.000 But when you set up the interview, you didn't say that.
00:15:43.000 You said, oh, let's have a lovely interview.
00:15:46.000 And here's what I do say.
00:15:48.000 You don't ask Joe Biden.
00:15:48.000 So what?
00:15:50.000 I saw your interview with Joe, the interview with Joe Biden.
00:15:53.000 I never did a Joe Biden.
00:15:54.000 It wasn't Joe.
00:15:55.000 The interview, 60 minutes.
00:15:57.000 I see Joe Biden giving softball after softball.
00:16:01.000 I've seen all of his interviews.
00:16:03.000 He's never been asked a question that's hard.
00:16:06.000 Okay, and then Leslie Stahl went out of her way to defend Hunter Biden and suggest there was nothing to any of the allegations, like in the middle of the interview with Trump, which is, you know, heavy journalism in here.
00:16:15.000 I think it's one of the biggest scandals I've ever seen, and you don't cover it.
00:16:20.000 You want to talk about... Well, because it can't be verified.
00:16:22.000 You want to talk about insignificant things.
00:16:25.000 I'm telling you.
00:16:25.000 Of course it can be verified.
00:16:27.000 Excuse me, they found the laptop.
00:16:29.000 Leslie, Leslie.
00:16:30.000 It can't be verified.
00:16:31.000 What can't be verified?
00:16:32.000 The laptop.
00:16:33.000 Why do you say that?
00:16:35.000 Even the family hasn't...
00:16:37.000 Trump is exactly right here, of course.
00:16:38.000 Okay, so this is the burden for Trump going into the debate, is that he has to fight not just Joe Biden, who really has been able to hide out in his basement the entire campaign.
00:16:46.000 He has to fight a media that overtly wishes to see him lose.
00:16:49.000 They're very obvious that they don't wish to cover anything that has to do with Joe Biden.
00:16:52.000 So that was the setup.
00:16:53.000 Now, Kristen Welker, who was the moderator last night, From NBC.
00:16:58.000 She was widely expected by people on the right not to be very good.
00:17:00.000 It turns out that she actually did a fairly good job last night.
00:17:03.000 Yes, her questions were biased from the left, but overall, she did a pretty fair job as Trump himself acknowledged, which was good.
00:17:09.000 It gave Trump an opportunity to actually ask some tough questions.
00:17:12.000 And Trump did show up to play.
00:17:13.000 It was a very different Trump who showed up to the debate last night than the first debate.
00:17:17.000 In the first debate, he wanted to be aggressive, but because, I think, as I had mentioned in the past week and a half, Ever since the Commission on Presidential Debate announced they were going to mute the mics, I thought that was actually very good for Trump because it essentially cudgeled him into doing what he should have been doing anyway, which is let Joe Biden talk and then pick him apart after Joe Biden talks.
00:17:35.000 And that happened repeatedly last night.
00:17:37.000 This is a much better debate for President Trump.
00:17:39.000 I thought the first debate was basically a disaster area for him.
00:17:42.000 I thought it underscored all the worst things about him.
00:17:43.000 The debate last night allowed him to highlight aspects of his record that were good.
00:17:46.000 It allowed him to really badger Joe Biden when he needed to badger Joe Biden about the fact that Joe Biden is a career politician who happens to be low-level corrupt and has been for a very, very long time.
00:17:57.000 It allowed him to point out that Joe Biden has been useless for five decades in the Senate and then as Vice President.
00:18:03.000 It was a good showing for Trump.
00:18:05.000 Now, it would have been better if the moderator had actually allowed there to be talk of foreign policy, because foreign policy has actually been Trump's strong suit.
00:18:11.000 There were a few aspects of foreign policy that got touched on, but overall, a much, much better showing for Trump.
00:18:16.000 Every memorable moment of the debate last night was a Trump moment.
00:18:19.000 Every single one.
00:18:20.000 In the last one, that was true too.
00:18:21.000 But that's just because he was talking over Biden the whole time.
00:18:24.000 And the most memorable moment of that debate was probably Biden telling him to shut up.
00:18:28.000 In this debate, the memorable moments all came from Trump, and they all left Biden wrong-footed and on the defense.
00:18:34.000 So, the first question to be asked about the debate is number one, whether it could possibly make a difference.
00:18:38.000 The polls after the debate, for what they are worth, showed not a lot of movement.
00:18:42.000 That's not a great shock, but I don't think that the debate for Trump was really so much about getting independents to vote for him rather than to Biden.
00:18:49.000 I think what it was about was making Republicans more comfortable voting for him.
00:18:54.000 So I put out this video a week ago now, talking about why I was going to vote for Trump.
00:18:59.000 And I laid forth three reasons why I was going to vote for Trump.
00:19:01.000 The first reason was because Trump has governed much more conservative than I thought he was.
00:19:06.000 The second reason, which is the one under dispute, is I said that most of the damage or all of the damage that I think Trump has done to the public discourse and to the social fabric through his personality, the damage is already done and it can't be undone.
00:19:17.000 So there is no point in not voting for him.
00:19:19.000 It's not going to worsen.
00:19:20.000 Trump is the same every day. 0.99
00:19:21.000 And then there's point number three, which is the Democrats have gone damned crazy. 0.99
00:19:24.000 They've lost their mind. 0.98
00:19:25.000 Well, I think that last night, All three of those points were proved.
00:19:29.000 Trump was very conservative last night.
00:19:31.000 He said a lot of very good conservative things.
00:19:33.000 Second, Trump contains himself, right?
00:19:35.000 And this was the big one.
00:19:36.000 Trump contained himself because as Guy Benson, my friend Guy Benson over at townhall.com and Fox News has said, my second point was the one that people, some people on the right quibble with, right?
00:19:45.000 Some of the people have not yet quote unquote come home for Trump.
00:19:48.000 They'll say, well, yeah, but I'm still too uncomfortable with Trump to vote for him.
00:19:50.000 Yeah, I know that you're right.
00:19:51.000 He's more conservative and that Biden and the Democrats have gone wild left.
00:19:55.000 But I'm still really uncomfortable.
00:19:56.000 Trump made people feel more comfortable on the right last night.
00:20:00.000 Independents are still going to feel uncomfortable with him.
00:20:02.000 But overall, Trump's personality last night.
00:20:05.000 His willingness to discuss his own record last night, it was so much better.
00:20:09.000 And it made people, I think, who are hesitant to vote for Trump, but were going to vote for Trump if forced to the choice.
00:20:14.000 They'd vote for Trump over Biden, but they were hesitant to actually go out to the polls.
00:20:17.000 I think now they will be more enthusiastic about going out to the polls.
00:20:19.000 And that may make a huge difference in a lot of these very, very tight swing states.
00:20:23.000 Again, the swing states right now are still extremely tight.
00:20:25.000 The national race seems like it is a quote unquote runaway, although it looks like the numbers are starting to drop a little bit.
00:20:31.000 For Joe Biden, the RealClearPolitics national average has now dropped below 8% for the first time in several weeks.
00:20:36.000 And there are several polls showing this thing very close.
00:20:39.000 There's an IBD-TIPP poll that came out yesterday showing Biden up only four.
00:20:45.000 There's a Rasmussen report poll that came out the day before showing Biden up only three.
00:20:49.000 There are other reports from Economist and Reuters that still have Biden up nine or ten.
00:20:53.000 But you're starting to see more of these sort of outline polls.
00:20:55.000 There's a Hill-Harris poll that showed Biden up only four.
00:20:58.000 There are a few outline polls that are starting to show just glimmers, just glimmers, that perhaps Trump isn't down all that far nationally.
00:21:05.000 And in the States, he is not down all that far.
00:21:08.000 If you look at North Carolina, it's basically within margin of error.
00:21:11.000 Ohio is within margin of error.
00:21:13.000 Florida is within margin of error.
00:21:16.000 If you look at Arizona, Arizona, there's a poll yesterday that showed that essentially it was a one point race in Arizona, meaning within margin of error instead, even in Arizona.
00:21:26.000 I had on poster Kristen Soltis Anderson on the radio show yesterday, and she sort of laid forth the various scenarios by which Trump could win.
00:21:35.000 She said there's basically two sets of states to watch.
00:21:38.000 There's the Sun Belts and then there's the Rust Belt states.
00:21:41.000 I'll explain what to watch in just one second.
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00:22:45.000 Okay, so in those state polls again, you've got the Sunbelt states and you've got the Rust Belt states.
00:22:50.000 The Sunbelt states are Arizona, Florida, North Carolina.
00:22:54.000 Trump needs to win all three.
00:22:55.000 He won all three last time.
00:22:56.000 Then you have the Rust Belt states.
00:22:57.000 Those are Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania.
00:23:00.000 If Trump wins the Sunbelt states, he needs to win at least one of the Rust Belt states.
00:23:05.000 Right now, Michigan looks like it's getting away from him.
00:23:07.000 The polls in Michigan look pretty broad at this point.
00:23:10.000 If you look at Wisconsin, Wisconsin is about a five point Biden lead.
00:23:14.000 So it's within kind of vision.
00:23:17.000 And Pennsylvania is also within about five.
00:23:19.000 So both of those are maybes for Trump.
00:23:22.000 If you really stretch, right?
00:23:23.000 If things really change, just three points maybe, then you could see Trump picking that up and then you can see poll error playing with the rest.
00:23:30.000 So Trump needs to make a move in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
00:23:33.000 In Arizona, as I've said, he's running very close.
00:23:35.000 In Florida, very close.
00:23:36.000 In North Carolina, very close.
00:23:37.000 Okay, so that marginal change could make a huge difference for Trump.
00:23:42.000 This is why that debate mattered.
00:23:43.000 Now, people are going to point out that not a lot of people change their mind.
00:23:46.000 Again, not about people changing their mind.
00:23:47.000 It's about the level of enthusiasm for Trump.
00:23:50.000 And I'm not talking about the hardcore Trump base.
00:23:52.000 I'm talking about people who look at Trump, cringe a little, and think, do I really need to vote for that guy?
00:23:57.000 Well, last night, he made them a little more comfortable voting for him, as I've always said.
00:24:01.000 The art of politics is making it very difficult to vote for your opponent and very easy to vote for you.
00:24:04.000 Trump has generally been pretty good at the former and very bad at the latter.
00:24:07.000 Last night, he was much better at the latter.
00:24:10.000 And that was a big, big thing.
00:24:11.000 Okay, so now finally, we reach the debate.
00:24:14.000 The stakes were quite high.
00:24:16.000 The debate opened with talk about COVID.
00:24:19.000 So this is always a topic that is going to be a problem for Trump, simply because no matter who's president of the United States, if a bunch of people die while you're president of the United States, people tend to blame you.
00:24:28.000 We have this very paganistic view in the United States of what the president can do.
00:24:30.000 If the economy is bad, it's the president's fault.
00:24:32.000 If the economy is good, it's the president's credit.
00:24:34.000 If people die, it's the president's fault.
00:24:36.000 If people don't die, it's to the president's credit.
00:24:38.000 It's this bizarre sort of And this is where Biden really looked to make hay early on in the debate.
00:24:44.000 So the truth is that Trump's first answer on COVID was pretty good, right?
00:24:46.000 make everything better at a moment's notice. So if there is a pandemic and it kills 200,000 people, obviously that's not going to redound to the benefit of the president. And this is where Biden really looked to make hay early on in the debate. So the truth is that Trump's first answer on COVID was pretty good, right? He could have expressed it more smoothly, but his general take was, listen, this has been bad.
00:25:08.000 It's also a global pandemic and pretending that we did anything that is sort of an outlying policy or that we blew it in some serious way.
00:25:14.000 I mean, I need to see some evidence of that.
00:25:16.000 Here was Trump yesterday.
00:25:19.000 2.2 million people modeled out were expected to die.
00:25:23.000 It's a worldwide pandemic.
00:25:25.000 It's all over the world.
00:25:26.000 You see the spikes in Europe and many other places right now.
00:25:29.000 I can tell you from personal experience that I was in the hospital.
00:25:34.000 I had it.
00:25:35.000 And I got better, and I will tell you that I had something that they gave me.
00:25:40.000 A therapeutic, I guess they would call it.
00:25:42.000 Some people could say it was a cure.
00:25:44.000 But I was in for a short period of time, and I got better very fast, or I wouldn't be here tonight.
00:25:49.000 It will go away, and as I say, we're rounding the turn, we're rounding the corner.
00:25:53.000 It's going away.
00:25:54.000 Okay, so that sort of language is what Joe Biden has historically pounced on.
00:25:58.000 So Joe Biden has been telling one lie on COVID.
00:26:00.000 It's a lie the media wished to reflect.
00:26:02.000 And that is that if Donald Trump had handled this wildly differently, then hundreds of thousands of people would be alive today.
00:26:08.000 Hundreds of thousands of people.
00:26:09.000 If you got an empty chair at your table, that is Donald Trump's fault.
00:26:13.000 If Jason from the Halloween thrillers is in the closet, that is Donald Trump's fault.
00:26:18.000 If the dog crapped the carpet, that's Donald Trump's fault.
00:26:21.000 COVID, which again, has killed literally hundreds of thousands of people all across the world.
00:26:21.000 Right?
00:26:27.000 If Donald Trump had not been president, everything would have been hunky-dory here in the United States, which is weird because it turns out that a lot of places where Democrats are in charge, lots and lots of people died.
00:26:35.000 In fact, on a death-per-million basis, virtually all of the worst states, in terms of who was hardest hit, were Democratic states.
00:26:42.000 OK, but Joe Biden has this narrative.
00:26:44.000 He's going to run with it.
00:26:45.000 And the narrative is it's all doom and gloom.
00:26:47.000 Of course, the moment that Biden is elected, it won't be doom and gloom anymore is the idea.
00:26:50.000 But here was Joe Biden overtly suggesting that Donald Trump is responsible for every American who died of COVID, which is just crazy.
00:26:56.000 I mean, I'm sorry.
00:26:57.000 It's a crazy, immoral statement.
00:26:59.000 It is immoral to suggest this.
00:27:00.000 It's absolutely immoral.
00:27:02.000 It's it's.
00:27:04.000 I can't express how immoral I think it is to suggest that the President of the United States is responsible for every single person who dies while they are President of the United States from a global pandemic that has taken hundreds of thousands of lives all across the world.
00:27:15.000 But here is Joe Biden making that suggestion anyway.
00:27:17.000 220,000 Americans dead.
00:27:20.000 If you hear nothing else I say tonight, hear this.
00:27:25.000 Anyone who's responsible for not taking control In fact, not saying I take no responsibility initially.
00:27:34.000 Anyone who's responsible for that many deaths should not remain as President of the United States of America.
00:27:39.000 If we just wore these masks, the President's own advisors have told him, we could save 100,000 lives.
00:27:46.000 This is the same fellow who told you this is going to end by Easter last time.
00:27:49.000 This is the same fellow who told you that, don't worry, we're going to end this by the summer.
00:27:53.000 We're about to go into a dark winter, a dark winter.
00:27:57.000 And he has no clear plan and there's no prospect that there's going to be a vaccine available for the majority of the American people before the middle of next year.
00:28:05.000 OK, so if Trump ends up winning the election in a week and a half, one big reason is going to be because people don't want the doom and gloom.
00:28:11.000 They don't want to hear the doom and gloom.
00:28:13.000 That is doom and gloom stuff there from Joe Biden.
00:28:15.000 There's not going to be a vaccine until the middle of next year.
00:28:19.000 He's lying about the vaccine.
00:28:20.000 If everybody just wore the mask, it would have saved 100,000 lives, which, again, I have serious doubts as to whether that is in fact the case, considering that if you look at the actual data, what you see is that when there were spikes, people put on the masks.
00:28:32.000 Virtually everywhere in the United States, red states, blue states, as soon as there were spikes, people put on the masks.
00:28:36.000 And by the way, in Italy, the masking is really heavy and they're seeing a second surge in cases anyway.
00:28:40.000 And so Joe Biden is preaching doom and gloom, right?
00:28:44.000 Trump is not preaching doom and gloom.
00:28:46.000 And so this is where I think Trump started to make, hey, he started to turn the tide, I thought, about 15 minutes into this discussion when he started talking about lockdown policy.
00:28:56.000 And Biden didn't wanna hear anything about it, right?
00:28:59.000 Biden doesn't wanna hear that we're gonna reopen.
00:29:01.000 Biden doesn't wanna hear any of that.
00:29:02.000 He wants to keep talking us back into the basement.
00:29:04.000 He wants to keep talking us back into COVID depression.
00:29:06.000 He believes that if we're depressed about COVID, we vote for him.
00:29:09.000 So believe it or not, Trump is the candidate of optimism on COVID.
00:29:12.000 It is Biden who is the candidate of pessimism, doom and gloom, eternal nuclear winter.
00:29:17.000 Here was Trump versus Biden on this issue.
00:29:20.000 We're learning to live with it.
00:29:21.000 We have no choice.
00:29:22.000 We can't lock ourselves up in a basement like Joe does.
00:29:26.000 He has the ability to lock himself up.
00:29:29.000 He's obviously made a lot of money someplace.
00:29:29.000 I don't know.
00:29:31.000 But he has this thing about living in a basement.
00:29:34.000 People can't do that.
00:29:35.000 By the way, I, as the president, couldn't do that.
00:29:38.000 I'd love to put myself in the basement or in a beautiful room in the White House and go away for a year and a half until it disappears.
00:29:44.000 I can't do that.
00:29:45.000 I caught it.
00:29:46.000 I learned a lot.
00:29:47.000 I learned a lot.
00:29:48.000 Great doctors, great hospitals.
00:29:51.000 And now I recovered.
00:29:52.000 Ninety nine point nine of young people recover.
00:29:56.000 Ninety nine percent of people recover.
00:29:59.000 We have to recover.
00:30:00.000 We can't close up our nation.
00:30:02.000 We have to open our school and we can't close up our nation or you're not going to have a nation.
00:30:07.000 And of course, the CDC has said young people can get sick with covid-19 and can pass it.
00:30:12.000 People are learning to die with it.
00:30:14.000 You folks home will have an empty chair at the kitchen table this morning.
00:30:18.000 That man or wife going to bed tonight and reaching over to try to touch their, out of habit, where their wife or husband was, is gone.
00:30:25.000 Learning to live with it.
00:30:26.000 Come on.
00:30:27.000 We're dying with it.
00:30:28.000 Because he has never said, you see, you said it's dangerous.
00:30:31.000 When's the last time?
00:30:32.000 Is it really dangerous still?
00:30:33.000 Are we dangerous?
00:30:35.000 You tell the people it's dangerous now?
00:30:36.000 What should they do about the danger?
00:30:38.000 And you say, I take no responsibility.
00:30:41.000 OK, I don't know what the hell Biden is talking about at the end there, but that is the contrast in vision, right?
00:30:46.000 Trump saying correctly, we have to learn to live with it, which, by the way, is the exact same thing European leaders are saying.
00:30:50.000 Emmanuel Macron has said this.
00:30:51.000 Boris Johnson has said this.
00:30:53.000 Everyone in Europe is saying the exact same thing.
00:30:55.000 Joe Biden is saying we can't learn to live with it.
00:30:57.000 We have to learn.
00:30:57.000 We're learning to die with it, right?
00:30:59.000 It's all like apocalyptic doomsaying from Joe Biden over and over and over.
00:31:03.000 And then he went on to say we're going to lose another 200,000 people by the end of the winter.
00:31:08.000 Right.
00:31:09.000 OK, that's.
00:31:10.000 I mean, If you're trying to scare the living crap out of people so they'll vote for you, good luck.
00:31:15.000 I mean, I think there may be a secret backlash to this, right?
00:31:19.000 And I'm not saying the polls are wrong, because I tend to be much more of a poll believer than most other people.
00:31:19.000 If the polls are wrong.
00:31:23.000 But if the polls are wrong, it's because they're underestimating the amount that Americans are sick and tired of hearing from Democrats how many Americans are going to die at Trump's hands, and that we can never go back to regular life, and that we will be wearing masks for the rest of eternity, and that our businesses will be locked down.
00:31:39.000 If there is a brewing underground against lockdown culture, it's going to manifest in the election.
00:31:47.000 So we'll see whether that happens.
00:31:50.000 Joe Biden, for his part, he denied he was going to shut down the country, but then he suggested he's going to shut down the virus, not the country.
00:31:56.000 He said, I'm going to shut down the virus, but he's made no actual plan as to how he's going to shut down the virus.
00:32:01.000 I understand he can hold up a little cloth mask, but guess what?
00:32:04.000 Again, masking is really prevalent in Europe.
00:32:06.000 At least in France, Germany, Italy, they're experiencing a second wave.
00:32:10.000 There are blue areas that were hit really hard the first time that are experiencing a second wave.
00:32:15.000 So Biden's plan to quote unquote shut down the virus, it's not a plan at all.
00:32:19.000 It's not even close to a plan.
00:32:21.000 Everything that he says is his plan is actually Trump's plan.
00:32:23.000 Here is Biden saying that he's going to shut down the virus, not the country, but then admitting that he has not ruled out more shutdowns.
00:32:30.000 I'm going to shut down the virus, not the country.
00:32:33.000 It's his ineptitude that caused the country to have to shut down in large part.
00:32:38.000 Why businesses have gone under, why schools are closed, those other concerns are real.
00:32:42.000 That's why he should have been, instead of in a sand trap in his golf course, he should have been negotiating with Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democrats and Republicans about what to do about the acts they were passing for billions of dollars to make sure people had the capacity.
00:32:56.000 But you haven't ruled out more shutdowns?
00:33:00.000 No, I haven't.
00:33:01.000 No, I haven't ruled out more shutdowns.
00:33:03.000 And Trump immediately comes back at him.
00:33:05.000 And again, this is good from Trump.
00:33:06.000 He says all he does is talk about shutdowns.
00:33:08.000 It's literally all the guy does.
00:33:09.000 All day long, he just talks about shutdowns.
00:33:10.000 Democrats keep talking about shutdowns.
00:33:12.000 We have to open everything, is what Trump says.
00:33:14.000 That may be a vision that Americans are going to embrace, particularly if you have kids.
00:33:17.000 And Democrats keep talking about shutting down the schools.
00:33:20.000 I can tell you on a first-hand level, My kids were in Zoom school from March all the way until like the last two weeks.
00:33:26.000 The radical difference in their lives, in our life, since they've been able to go to school because we are now in Florida, it's a radical difference.
00:33:33.000 It is not even close.
00:33:34.000 Their life is much better.
00:33:35.000 They are learning.
00:33:36.000 They are enjoying their life.
00:33:38.000 Okay, there are a lot of people out there who are not on board with the lockdown culture.
00:33:41.000 Here was Trump fighting back against Biden on this.
00:33:44.000 All he does is talk about shutdowns, but forget about him.
00:33:47.000 Democrats, Democrats all, they're shut down so tight and they're dying.
00:33:52.000 We're not going to shut down and we have to open our schools.
00:33:55.000 People are losing their jobs.
00:33:57.000 They're committing suicide.
00:33:58.000 There's depression, alcohol, drugs at a level that nobody's ever seen before.
00:34:03.000 There's abuse, tremendous abuse.
00:34:06.000 We have to open our country.
00:34:07.000 You know, I've said it often, the cure cannot be worse than the problem itself.
00:34:12.000 And that's what's happening.
00:34:14.000 And he wants to close down, he'll close down the country if one person in our massive bureaucracy says we should close it down.
00:34:23.000 Okay, so that was, again, I thought that the conversation, which turned quickly from Trump's rhetoric to what's going to happen from here on in, that conversation certainly benefits Trump.
00:34:33.000 And then you got to a very weird Biden statement to sort of conclude that conversation, in which Biden suggested, I mean, now he's not just cribbing from Neil Kinnock, like back in the 1980s.
00:34:42.000 Now he's just cribbing from his boss's playbook, right?
00:34:44.000 He's just ripping off Barack Obama's playbook. 0.99
00:34:47.000 He does this, there are no blue states, there are no red states, but also the red states suck. 0.96
00:34:51.000 It was very weird. 0.98
00:34:52.000 Here was Joe Biden saying that there are no blue states or red states, but the red states are terrible.
00:34:57.000 Take a look at what New York has done in terms of turning the curve down in terms of the number of people dying.
00:35:02.000 And I don't look at this in terms of the way he does blue states and red states.
00:35:06.000 They're all the United States.
00:35:08.000 And look at the states that are having such a spike in the coronavirus.
00:35:13.000 They're the red states.
00:35:14.000 They're the states in the Midwest.
00:35:15.000 They're the states in the upper Midwest.
00:35:17.000 That's where the spike is occurring significantly.
00:35:19.000 But they're all Americans.
00:35:21.000 They're all Americans.
00:35:22.000 And what we have to do is say, wear these masks, number one.
00:35:26.000 Make sure we get the help that the businesses need.
00:35:29.000 OK, so I'm just enjoying him saying there's no blue states and there's no red states, but the red states are really botching this thing.
00:35:36.000 But it's bad when Trump says the blue states botched this thing.
00:35:39.000 OK, in just a second, we're going to get to the second message that Trump was promoting.
00:35:42.000 So first message that he was promoting in the early going is that Biden is Captain Lockdown.
00:35:46.000 Which is true.
00:35:47.000 The second message that he was promoting was a character message, and that was, Joe Biden is not this clean and pristine politician. 0.94
00:35:54.000 Joe Biden is a typical corrupt politician.
00:35:56.000 We'll get to that message in just one second, because I do think that Trump successfully made some headway there.
00:36:01.000 We'll get to that in one second.
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00:37:10.000 So they know that we sent you.
00:37:12.000 Okay, so then we move to Trump's second line of attack. 0.85
00:37:16.000 And the second line of attack for Trump is that Joe Biden is corrupt.
00:37:19.000 The Joe Biden has portrayed himself as this nice elderly gentleman who is pure as the driven snow.
00:37:23.000 And that ain't true.
00:37:24.000 Joe Biden has been spending 47 years picking up little bennies on the side, which is not uncommon, but it is kind of gross.
00:37:32.000 And so Trump did a good job of redirecting this conversation.
00:37:35.000 So Biden suggested That Trump had lied to the American people about COVID, which, again, the evidence is just not there for that.
00:37:42.000 Even Bob Woodward didn't really believe that Trump knew the thing was airborne in early February.
00:37:46.000 Nobody!
00:37:47.000 The CDC didn't say it was airborne until, like, July.
00:37:49.000 In any case, Joe Biden suggested that Trump somehow concocted this bizarre Wall Street scheme where he knew that COVID was going to be really bad.
00:37:58.000 And so he told all of his Wall Street buddies, but not the American people, so they could short sell the market.
00:38:02.000 And Trump came right back at him pretty strong.
00:38:04.000 Here was the Trump versus Biden exchange.
00:38:07.000 He didn't want to tell us because he didn't want us to panic.
00:38:10.000 He didn't want us- Americans don't panic.
00:38:12.000 He panicked.
00:38:13.000 But guess what?
00:38:14.000 In the meantime, we found out in the New York Times the other day that, in fact, his folks went to Wall Street and said, this is a really dangerous thing.
00:38:21.000 And a memo out of that meeting, not from his administration, but from some of the brokers, said, sell short.
00:38:27.000 You're the one that takes all the money from Wall Street.
00:38:29.000 I don't take it.
00:38:30.000 I have.
00:38:30.000 You have raised a lot of money.
00:38:32.000 Tremendous amounts of money.
00:38:34.000 And every time you raise money, deals are made, Joe.
00:38:36.000 I could raise so much more money as president and as somebody that knows most of those people.
00:38:41.000 I could call the heads of Wall Street, the heads of every company in America.
00:38:45.000 I would blow away every record, but I don't want to do that because it puts me in a bad position.
00:38:50.000 And then you bring up Wall Street.
00:38:52.000 You shouldn't be bringing up Wall Street because you're the one that takes the money from Wall Street, not me.
00:38:56.000 Okay, and Joe Biden looking a little awkward there because that is the fact.
00:38:58.000 I mean, Joe Biden is out raising Trump on Wall Street, something like 5 to 1.
00:39:01.000 He's out raising him in Silicon Valley, like 99 to 1.
00:39:04.000 So the notion that Joe Biden is somehow not corrupt and that Trump is corrupt with regard to Wall Street is a pretty rich one.
00:39:13.000 And then it went further, right?
00:39:14.000 Then we finally got to the Hunter Biden stuff.
00:39:16.000 OK, so you knew that Trump was going to bring this up.
00:39:19.000 He didn't tell the story wonderfully.
00:39:21.000 In fact, some of the stuff that he said was an overestimation of the truth, to put it kindly.
00:39:26.000 That is particularly true when he was talking about business deals in which Hunter engaged.
00:39:30.000 He kind of corrected himself as he went on.
00:39:32.000 He said that it went to the Biden family, which is a vague way of sort of implying that Joe was involved without overtly saying that Joe was involved.
00:39:38.000 At one point, he actually said that Joe had received direct cash from the Russian government, for example.
00:39:42.000 That was not true.
00:39:44.000 If the goal here was to throw as much mud as possible at Joe Biden in an attempt to get people to be a little bit less enthusiastic about Biden, feel like he's just kind of, you know, maybe this was aimed at the Bernie bros a little bit.
00:39:56.000 Trump did this to Hillary last time too. 0.95
00:39:58.000 It was like she was taking Wall Street speeches and she was a corruptocrat and all of this.
00:40:02.000 He did some of the same stuff to Joe Biden yesterday.
00:40:07.000 So this this particular conversation started off with Joe Biden saying that he was going to take on Putin, which is just absurd on its face.
00:40:14.000 I mean, he was part of an administration that overtly allowed Russia to take over policymaking in Syria that allowed Russia to invade Crimea.
00:40:23.000 He was part of an administration that removed some of the defense capabilities of Eastern European countries.
00:40:29.000 And he was the Biden and Biden.
00:40:32.000 Obama administration was awful with regard to Russia.
00:40:33.000 But here was Joe Biden just lying about that because he did tell an awful lot of lies last night.
00:40:39.000 Everything that's going on here about Russia is wanting to make sure that I do not get elected the next president of the United States because they know I know them, and they know me.
00:40:50.000 I don't understand why this president is unwilling to take on Putin.
00:40:54.000 Okay, again, the Trump administration policy is significantly harsher on Russia than anything Obama ever did. 0.91
00:41:00.000 In just one second, we'll get to Trump's counterattack, which again was this line, which is, Joe Biden is corrupt. 0.91
00:41:05.000 He's a longtime corrupt politician.
00:41:08.000 Again, the fact checkers are gonna have a field day with some of the claims that Trump made here, because again, some of the claims that Trump made here are just not right.
00:41:14.000 But the overall implication, right, which Trump was trying to make here, which is that the Bidens have been trading on the family name to enrich members of the Biden family, that is certainly true.
00:41:22.000 Okay, we'll get to that in one second.
00:41:24.000 Biden did not really have a good defense for it, and Trump hammered it a lot last night.
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00:43:21.000 2020, as you may have noticed, has been a crazy year.
00:43:24.000 It feels like America is coming apart because it kind of is.
00:43:27.000 There are underlying ideological and philosophical differences in the United States.
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00:44:27.000 It was a great conversation.
00:44:28.000 I think that you will enjoy it.
00:44:29.000 Here is just a little bit of it.
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00:45:14.000 Okay, so Trump had a couple of messages.
00:45:21.000 First message, Biden is Captain Lockdown.
00:45:24.000 He's never going to let you out of lockdown.
00:45:24.000 He's going to lock you down.
00:45:26.000 And honestly, Given how Democrats are governing, not super wrong.
00:45:30.000 They're still talking about school shutdowns when the data on school shutdowns is available and it demonstrates school shutdowns are a very bad idea.
00:45:35.000 Second message Trump was trying to promote last night is that Biden is a longtime corrupt politician.
00:45:40.000 So he went directly after Biden.
00:45:42.000 As I say, it is worth noting here that Some of these claims are just not true.
00:45:46.000 And I think that for the sake of honesty, we should point out that they are not true.
00:45:50.000 However, some of these claims are in fact true.
00:45:52.000 They're not all false.
00:45:53.000 Here's Trump, clip 23, talking about Joe Biden and receiving money from foreign sources, or at least his family doing so.
00:46:02.000 Joe got $3.5 million from Russia, and it came through Putin because he was very friendly with the former mayor of Moscow, and it was the mayor of Moscow's wife.
00:46:12.000 And you got $3.5 million.
00:46:14.000 Your family got $3.5 million.
00:46:16.000 And, you know, someday you're going to have to explain, why did you get 3.5?
00:46:19.000 I think you have to clean it up and talk to the American people.
00:46:22.000 Maybe you can do it right now.
00:46:24.000 I have not taken a penny from any foreign source ever in my life.
00:46:29.000 We learned that this president paid 50 times the tax in China, has a secret bank account with China, does business in China, and, in fact, is talking about me taking money?
00:46:41.000 I have not taken a single penny from any country whatsoever, ever.
00:46:46.000 Number one.
00:46:47.000 Number two.
00:46:48.000 This is a president.
00:46:49.000 I have released all of my tax returns.
00:46:52.000 The foreign countries are paying you a lot.
00:46:54.000 Russia's paying you a lot.
00:46:56.000 China's paying you a lot.
00:46:57.000 I don't make money from China.
00:46:59.000 You do.
00:46:59.000 I don't make money from Ukraine.
00:47:01.000 You do.
00:47:02.000 I don't make money from Russia.
00:47:05.000 You made three and a half million dollars, Joe.
00:47:07.000 And your son gave you... They even have a statement that we have to give 10% to the big man.
00:47:13.000 You're the big man, I think.
00:47:15.000 I don't know, maybe you're not.
00:47:16.000 But you're the big man, I think.
00:47:18.000 Your son said we have to give 10% to the big man.
00:47:21.000 Joe, what's that all about?
00:47:22.000 Okay, so Trump is conflating a bunch of different claims right here.
00:47:25.000 It is true that Hunter Biden picked up three and a half million dollars from the wife of Moscow's mayor.
00:47:29.000 It is not true.
00:47:30.000 There's no evidence to suggest that Joe Biden benefited from that, at least not directly.
00:47:35.000 Okay, it is true that Hunter Biden was picking up enormous checks in Ukraine based on the Biden family name.
00:47:40.000 It is not true, or at least there is no evidence to the effect, that Joe Biden was picking up any of that cash.
00:47:44.000 It is true that Hunter Biden was picking up bags of cash in China.
00:47:47.000 And this is where things have gotten a little dicey for Biden.
00:47:50.000 There are emails suggesting that perhaps Joe Biden had something to do with it.
00:47:53.000 Joe Biden has denied all of that.
00:47:54.000 But here's the bottom line.
00:47:55.000 If you're watching this debate, and this is the first time you're hearing any of this, This does change your impression of Joe Biden just a little bit.
00:48:02.000 Because it turns out that Joe Biden actually overstated his defense of all of this.
00:48:06.000 And there is something deeply suspicious about the fact that in American politics, and it is more typical of all politicians, that in American politics, you enter office, middle class or poor, and you leave office rich.
00:48:16.000 That is a weird thing.
00:48:18.000 Joe Biden does own a bevy of extremely expensive houses.
00:48:22.000 This is a man who entered office really worth nothing.
00:48:26.000 His net worth right now, Joe Biden's, is not particularly low.
00:48:32.000 According to Marie Claire, Joe is worth about $9 million.
00:48:35.000 Okay, so that's a nice thing.
00:48:39.000 That's according to Forbes.
00:48:40.000 It's based on a total portfolio of $4 million in real estate, cash investments worth $4 million, and a federal pension worth more than a million bucks.
00:48:47.000 So that seems like a pretty good living for somebody who spends his entire career in government.
00:48:52.000 Now, some of that is fairly typical.
00:48:54.000 You know, kind of nice deals that you get from your neighbors, people who have business before you and just do you a favor here or there.
00:49:00.000 That's not atypical.
00:49:02.000 But that's kind of the point is that Joe Biden is a typical swamp creature and he has been a swamp creature for a very long time.
00:49:06.000 Right here is and is also true, by the way, that there is very solid evidence that all of Joe Biden's family members have made an awful lot of money off of Joe Biden's name over the course of Joe Biden's career.
00:49:16.000 Here was Trump going after Biden again on this.
00:49:18.000 I was put through a phony witch hunt for three years.
00:49:24.000 It started before I even got elected.
00:49:28.000 They spied on my campaign.
00:49:30.000 No president should ever have to go through what I went through.
00:49:33.000 Let me just say this.
00:49:35.000 Mueller and 18 angry Democrats and FBI agents all over the place spent 48 million dollars.
00:49:43.000 They went through everything I had, including my tax returns, and they found absolutely no collusion and nothing wrong.
00:49:51.000 $48 million.
00:49:52.000 I guarantee you, if I spent $1 million on you, Jill, I could find plenty wrong.
00:49:56.000 Because the kind of things that you've done and the kind of monies that your family has taken, I mean, your brother made money in Iraq.
00:50:04.000 Millions of dollars.
00:50:05.000 Your other brother made a fortune.
00:50:07.000 And it's all through you, Joe.
00:50:09.000 And they say you get some of it.
00:50:10.000 And you do live very well.
00:50:12.000 You have houses all over the place.
00:50:14.000 And again, Joe Biden kind of laughing that one off, but he is worth $9 million.
00:50:14.000 Okay.
00:50:18.000 Now, some of that I'm sure is book money.
00:50:21.000 I'm sure a lot of that is pension.
00:50:23.000 But again, there are serious questions to be asked about why it is that every member of our public coterie goes into office poor and leaves office rich.
00:50:32.000 This did lead Joe Biden to actually overtly say something that is not true.
00:50:32.000 That is a real thing.
00:50:36.000 And that was, he didn't just claim that he had done nothing unethical, which again, he can claim.
00:50:41.000 And he can claim that he never violated the law.
00:50:43.000 And frankly, I sort of believe that.
00:50:45.000 I don't see any evidence that Joe Biden violated the law.
00:50:47.000 When he says that Hunter never did anything unethical, there you start to really... I mean, Hunter admitted on national TV that he used his daddy's name to traffic in Ukraine so that he could make a buttload of money.
00:50:56.000 I mean, that is overtly... When he says Hunter never did anything unethical, now Joe Biden has linked himself with Hunter.
00:51:02.000 He's tied himself to Hunter.
00:51:03.000 And this is a huge political error.
00:51:05.000 It also happens to be a lie that Hunter never did anything unethical.
00:51:09.000 Nothing was unethical.
00:51:10.000 Here's what the deal.
00:51:11.000 His son didn't have a job for a long time, was sadly no longer in the military service.
00:51:17.000 I won't get into that.
00:51:19.000 And he didn't have a job.
00:51:20.000 As soon as he became vice president, Burisma, not the best look, not the best reputation in the world.
00:51:27.000 I hear they paid him 183,000.
00:51:30.000 a month. Listen to this. 183. And they gave him a $3 million upfront payment. All right.
00:51:36.000 And he had no energy. I'm going to let the vice president get to a question to you. Very low basis for that. Everybody investigated that. No one said anything he did was wrong in Ukraine. Nobody said that anything Hunter Biden did in Ukraine was wrong. There's a difference in legally wrong. And I'm using my VP daddy's name to make bank on a natural gas company in Burisma while my dad is in charge of Ukraine policy.
00:51:57.000 In fact, there were members of the... I mean, that's overtly false.
00:52:00.000 The State Department warned the Obama administration that this looked corrupt, and people were told, don't talk to Joe about it because he's too concerned about what's going on with Beau, because Beau at the time was suffering from brain cancer.
00:52:10.000 So, no, that's just not true.
00:52:12.000 That's just not true.
00:52:14.000 And Trump kept hammering this home.
00:52:16.000 Like, over and over, he kept hammering this home.
00:52:18.000 And finally, Biden responded.
00:52:20.000 And this was, I thought, maybe the best moment of the night for Donald Trump.
00:52:24.000 Joe Biden finally got tired of all of this, and he pivoted to what was obviously a pre-planned response.
00:52:30.000 Before a debate, you always write a few responses, knowing exactly what's coming.
00:52:33.000 Biden knew this was going to come up, and he was waiting to deploy it.
00:52:36.000 And finally, he deployed his pre-planned response.
00:52:39.000 There's only one problem.
00:52:40.000 Trump absolutely walloped him over it.
00:52:42.000 This is the worst moment of the debate for Biden, bar none.
00:52:46.000 This is clip 27.
00:52:48.000 He doesn't want to talk about the substantive issues.
00:52:51.000 It's not about his family and my family.
00:52:53.000 It's about your family.
00:52:54.000 And your family's hurting badly.
00:52:56.000 If you're making less than, if you're a middle class family, you're getting hurt badly right now.
00:53:02.000 That's a typical political statement.
00:53:04.000 Let's get off this China thing, and then he looks. 0.85
00:53:06.000 The family, around the table, everything.
00:53:08.000 Just a typical politician when I see that.
00:53:10.000 Let's talk about North Korea.
00:53:11.000 I'm not a typical politician.
00:53:12.000 That's why I got elected.
00:53:15.000 Okay, so that is a great debate tactic, okay?
00:53:18.000 He just Chris Christie'd him.
00:53:19.000 Do you remember back in 2016?
00:53:20.000 Chris Christie, Marco Rubio, they were in a debate, and Christie committed the world's first political murder-suicide.
00:53:26.000 He was already basically done with the race, and so he just took out Rubio.
00:53:29.000 Rubio had a shot at taking out Trump in New Hampshire, and Christie looked at Rubio and said, What you're going to say right now is that, make no mistake, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:53:36.000 And then Rubio came back and said, make no mistake, blah, blah, blah.
00:53:39.000 And everyone, oh, boom, Christie called you up.
00:53:42.000 OK, that tactic is the most obnoxious tactic.
00:53:44.000 When somebody goes faux sincere, when a serious issue is being discussed and then suddenly the candidate turns to the camera and says, the American people don't want to hear this.
00:53:53.000 The American people want to hear about the things that affect them. 1.00
00:53:56.000 For Trump to call that out and be like, Joe, you're so full of crap. 0.99
00:53:58.000 I mean, honestly, you wrote like we're in the middle of a conversation about family corruption, and now you're going to do the kitchen table. 1.00
00:54:04.000 Yeah, you're a typical politician.
00:54:06.000 It's why I got elected.
00:54:07.000 It was the best moment for Trump.
00:54:08.000 It was very, very funny.
00:54:09.000 It was the best moment for Trump all night.
00:54:11.000 And again, highlight the fact that Trump is not your typical politician, which in many cases is not ideal.
00:54:17.000 But in this case, It's kind of ideal.
00:54:19.000 That's kind of a good thing.
00:54:21.000 Okay.
00:54:22.000 That is not where the debate ended.
00:54:23.000 And thus we continue.
00:54:25.000 So the debate then turned to foreign policy.
00:54:27.000 Biden put out one of the weirder lines of the night.
00:54:30.000 He invoked Godwin's law, which really, I mean, he just brought up Hitler randomly in the middle of the debate.
00:54:35.000 So Trump was talking about North Korea and how he has a good relationship with Kim Jong-un.
00:54:39.000 And then Biden started dropping weird historical references that just don't make any sense.
00:54:44.000 So here's a bit of that.
00:54:47.000 They tried to meet with him.
00:54:48.000 He wouldn't do it.
00:54:49.000 North Korea? 0.67
00:54:50.000 We're not in a war.
00:54:51.000 We have a good relationship.
00:54:52.000 You know, people don't understand.
00:54:54.000 Having a good relationship with leaders of other countries is a good thing.
00:54:57.000 We have a lot of questions to get to.
00:55:00.000 We had a good relationship with Hitler before he, in fact, invaded Europe. 0.74
00:55:05.000 The rest of Europe.
00:55:06.000 Come on.
00:55:07.000 Come on.
00:55:08.000 Okay, so as you will see at the end of this particular debate, we're going to do a montage of how many times Joe Biden said come on.
00:55:14.000 If Joe Biden keeps going back to come on, that is to tell he is not doing well in the debate.
00:55:17.000 He was not doing well in the debate.
00:55:19.000 In fact, the United States did not have a good relationship with Hitler in the lead up to World War II.
00:55:24.000 Joe Biden later said he was joking.
00:55:25.000 There's no evidence that he was joking.
00:55:26.000 That was not a joke.
00:55:27.000 OK, he actually the joke doesn't even make any sense if he thinks that we had a bad relationship.
00:55:31.000 Like that doesn't make any sense at all.
00:55:33.000 Like it just undercuts what he's trying to say right there.
00:55:37.000 Then the debate turned to health care.
00:55:39.000 So this is where I thought Kristen Welker, who I thought was pretty good all night. 1.00
00:55:42.000 She asked a question about health care, but channeled it through the prism of Amy Coney Barrett.
00:55:46.000 It was really weird.
00:55:47.000 She was like, Amy Coney Barrett is being nominated for the Supreme Court.
00:55:50.000 There's an Obamacare case before the Supreme Court.
00:55:52.000 This is why Democrats oppose Amy Coney Barrett. 0.53
00:55:53.000 It's like, no, that is not why Democrats oppose Amy Coney Barrett.
00:55:56.000 Nonetheless, the conversation turned to health care.
00:55:59.000 And as the debate went on, Biden started to drop more and more whoppers.
00:56:02.000 So the whopper of the night was this one.
00:56:04.000 So Biden was talking about Obamacare and his new plan, which is a public option.
00:56:09.000 Now, let it be known, a public option only works.
00:56:12.000 So the public option is not just for people who are not able to obtain private health insurance.
00:56:16.000 You're allowed to opt into the private option, into the public option, which means that one of two things has to happen with the public option in order for people to want to opt into it.
00:56:24.000 One, you have to undermine public insurance, private insurance rather, or two, you have to subsidize public insurance.
00:56:30.000 So either you have to mandate the doctors take the public insurance, You have to mandate that doctors take a crappier form of insurance and reimbursement, or you have to subsidize the public option insurance such that it is actually better than private insurance, but you're doing it with taxpayer dollars and you run private insurance out of business.
00:56:46.000 Everybody who takes this seriously understands the public options are generally designed to run private industry into the ground.
00:56:54.000 They allow for the possibility of supplemental insurance, specialty insurance.
00:56:57.000 You see this in some areas of Europe.
00:57:00.000 But when it comes to overall private health insurance, everybody understands that a public option is designed as a first step toward getting rid of your private health insurance plans.
00:57:09.000 Because either you have to restrict doctors so that they must take public insurance, in which case it's cheaper for me not to pay for my private insurance through my employer and just take the public option, or they have to subsidize the public option, in which case it is cheaper for me to go and take the public option.
00:57:23.000 Right.
00:57:24.000 The purpose of a public option is not to provide competition.
00:57:27.000 It is not competition.
00:57:28.000 It is a monopoly.
00:57:29.000 A government public option is a monopoly.
00:57:31.000 OK, so all of that happens to be the case.
00:57:34.000 But Joe Biden issued a whopper last night of cataclysmic proportions.
00:57:38.000 He said that nobody lost their private insurance under Obamacare.
00:57:43.000 This is just a lie, okay?
00:57:45.000 In 2013, the left-wing fact-checking site PolitiFact declared it was their lie of the year when Barack Obama said that nobody would lose their health insurance plan under Obamacare.
00:57:53.000 And yet here is Joe Biden repeating it, nonetheless.
00:57:56.000 As you will see, the fact-checkers after the debate, they assured us that Joe Biden is just, he's a nice old guy who barely ever lies.
00:58:01.000 This is just, here he is repeating maybe the great lie of the decade.
00:58:04.000 Here is Joe Biden.
00:58:06.000 What I'm gonna do is pass Obamacare with a public option.
00:58:12.000 The public option is an option that says that if you in fact do not have the wherewithal to be, if you qualify for Medicaid and you do not have the wherewithal in your state to get Medicaid, you automatically are enrolled, providing competition for insurance companies.
00:58:27.000 That's what's going to happen.
00:58:28.000 Secondly, we're going to make sure we reduce the premiums and reduce drug prices.
00:58:33.000 by making sure that there's competition that doesn't exist now by allowing the Medicare to negotiate drug prices with the insurance companies.
00:58:43.000 Thirdly, the idea that I want to eliminate private insurance.
00:58:47.000 The reason why I had such a fight for with 20 candidates for the nomination was I support private insurance.
00:58:56.000 That's why I did not one single person with private insurance So he's lying about his own policy and he's lying about Obamacare.
00:59:08.000 His policy does not merely relegate public option to people who cannot obtain private insurance.
00:59:13.000 It allows anybody to opt into the public option.
00:59:16.000 Okay, this opened up the final line of attack for Trump.
00:59:20.000 So there were three lines of attack for Trump last night.
00:59:22.000 One is that Joe Biden is lockdown king. 0.98
00:59:24.000 Second is that Joe Biden is corrupt.
00:59:26.000 And third is that Joe Biden never got anything done. 0.82
00:59:28.000 He's been in government his entire life and he's never gotten anything done.
00:59:31.000 He points this out last night.
00:59:34.000 He was there for 47 years.
00:59:36.000 He didn't do it.
00:59:37.000 He was now there as vice president for eight years, and it's not like it was 25 years ago.
00:59:42.000 It was three and three quarters.
00:59:45.000 It was just a little while ago, right?
00:59:47.000 Less than four years ago.
00:59:49.000 He didn't do anything.
00:59:50.000 He didn't do it.
00:59:51.000 He wants socialized medicine, and it's not that he wants it, his vice president.
00:59:55.000 I mean, she is more liberal than Bernie Sanders.
00:59:59.000 You're going to have socialized medicine, just like you went with fracking.
01:00:03.000 We're not going to have fracking.
01:00:04.000 We're going to stop fracking.
01:00:05.000 We're going to stop fracking.
01:00:06.000 He's talking about destroying your Medicare, totally destroying, and destroying your Social Security, and this whole country will come down.
01:00:14.000 You know, Bernie Sanders tried it in his state.
01:00:16.000 He thinks he's running against somebody else.
01:00:18.000 He's running against Joe Biden.
01:00:20.000 I beat all those other people because I disagreed with them.
01:00:24.000 OK, well, I'm enjoying Joe Biden face planting Bernie Sanders, like giving him the swirly, sticking his face in the toilet and flushing it, which is exactly what Biden is doing right there.
01:00:31.000 He's saying, I don't agree with Bernie.
01:00:33.000 I don't like Medicare for all.
01:00:34.000 That's why I'm here.
01:00:34.000 And Bernie isn't.
01:00:36.000 Recognize that the public option is, again, step one on the road towards socialized medicine.
01:00:40.000 Pretty much everybody understands that is the reality.
01:00:43.000 Okay, the debate next turned to stimulus packages and the economy.
01:00:47.000 And Biden suggested, this is a very weird Democratic talking point, that when the stock market goes up, it doesn't help people.
01:00:52.000 That's just a lie.
01:00:53.000 About half of Americans have some sort of stock in the market.
01:00:55.000 And pretty much everybody's 401k is invested in the market.
01:00:58.000 Largely union members, right?
01:00:59.000 I mean, there are huge union pension funds that are relegated, that are heavily invested in the stock market.
01:01:05.000 Trump said the stock market is booming, and Biden was like, well, you know, nobody cares about the stock market.
01:01:10.000 Well, no, actually, a lot of people care about the stock market, as it turns out.
01:01:15.000 They say the stock market will boom if I'm elected.
01:01:18.000 If he's elected, the stock market will crash.
01:01:21.000 The idea that the stock market is booming is his only measure of what's happening.
01:01:25.000 Where I come from in Scranton and Claymont, the people don't live off of the stock market.
01:01:29.000 Just in the last three years during this crisis.
01:01:34.000 The billionaires in this country made, according to Wall Street, 700 billion more dollars.
01:01:42.000 700 billion more dollars.
01:01:43.000 Because that's his only measure.
01:01:45.000 What happens to the ordinary people out there?
01:01:48.000 What happens to them?
01:01:49.000 Let's talk about what's happening on Capitol Hill.
01:01:51.000 We're going to move on, gentlemen.
01:01:53.000 401Ks are through the roof.
01:01:54.000 We're going to move on.
01:01:55.000 The stock are through the roof.
01:01:56.000 All right.
01:01:56.000 And he doesn't come from Scranton.
01:01:58.000 That's like one of the... He lived there for a short period of time before he even knew it.
01:02:02.000 Okay, we're going to move on.
01:02:03.000 And he left.
01:02:03.000 Okay, again, people think that sort of stuff doesn't matter, and it probably doesn't, but it's a little bit.
01:02:07.000 It matters a little bit that Joe Biden is consistently telling these kind of little lies about his past.
01:02:12.000 OK, and then they talked about stimulus and the fact that Democrats have been obstructing the stimulus package.
01:02:16.000 That happens.
01:02:17.000 Independents believe that Nancy Pelosi is the obstructive factor who will not allow stimulus to go forward.
01:02:22.000 Kristen Welker finally asked a good question of Joe Biden.
01:02:24.000 She said, OK, you keep declaring you're the head of the Democratic Party and you're pushing nobody to get any deal done.
01:02:29.000 And here is Joe Biden just lying about what the stimulus deal is.
01:02:34.000 Why have you not pushed the Democrats to get a deal for the American people?
01:02:37.000 Well, I have, and they have pushed it.
01:02:39.000 Look, they passed this act all the way back in the beginning of the summer.
01:02:42.000 The bill that was passed in the House was a bailout of badly run, high-crime Democrat All run by Democrats, cities and states. 0.59
01:02:52.000 It was a way of getting a lot of money, billions and billions of dollars to these states.
01:02:57.000 It was also a way of getting a lot of money from our people's pockets to people that come into our country illegally. 0.94
01:03:04.000 I'm running as a proud Democrat, but I'm going to be an American president.
01:03:07.000 I don't see red states and blue states.
01:03:09.000 What I see is American, United States.
01:03:12.000 And folks, every single state out there finds themselves in trouble.
01:03:16.000 Okay, Captain, turn to the camera here.
01:03:18.000 Okay, that is not true.
01:03:20.000 Red states have not run up anything like the deficits that New York and California have run up.
01:03:24.000 This is a bailout for blue states.
01:03:26.000 Everybody understands that.
01:03:27.000 Basically, whenever blue states do badly, Joe Biden says he doesn't see red states or blue states.
01:03:31.000 The minute that red states do badly, suddenly he's talking about the evils of red states.
01:03:34.000 Weird.
01:03:35.000 Weird how that works.
01:03:36.000 OK, then the debate turned to illegal immigration.
01:03:40.000 And there are a lot of people last night who started to put out misinformation on what Trump actually said on the stage.
01:03:45.000 So there is a lot of talk about the story of some 500 kids who were separated from their parents at the border because the way the law works is that either you have to release the entire family into the interior of the United States, or you have to separate the kids from the parents, right?
01:03:59.000 That is according to Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals law.
01:04:01.000 So when they talk about forced family separation, the idea, I mean, there was an actual settlement, it's called the Flores Settlement, and it was put into place years and years and years ago.
01:04:09.000 The basic idea is that you were not allowed to hold parents and children in custody, right?
01:04:13.000 You either had to separate the two by allowing the kids to be placed with other adults outside of custody and you keep the parents there, or you have to release everybody into the interior.
01:04:24.000 So, this came up last night because it turns out that it's been difficult to reunify these kids with their parents.
01:04:31.000 Well, in some cases, it's difficult to reunify them with their parents because some of the people who are bringing them over were not, in fact, their parents, right?
01:04:36.000 They're brought with adults.
01:04:38.000 Not all of them were brought with their parents.
01:04:40.000 Because Trump correctly pointed out that coyotes bring people across the border.
01:04:44.000 Adults bring kids across the border.
01:04:46.000 And then the kids have no adult to actually be with.
01:04:49.000 It's not as though their parents came across with them.
01:04:51.000 In some cases, apparently the parents were deported and the government is trying to find the parents so the kids can be reunified with the parents in the first place.
01:04:58.000 But the kids are living presumably with family members or in conditions provided by the American federal government.
01:05:03.000 That's bad.
01:05:04.000 It's terrible.
01:05:05.000 It's very, very sad.
01:05:06.000 But you have a couple of choices.
01:05:08.000 One is you can either release everybody into the interior of the country and the other is you can engage in this forced family separation policy.
01:05:14.000 The Trump administration has started releasing people into the interior of the country more because they didn't like the bad press.
01:05:19.000 This issue came up.
01:05:22.000 And it started to look bad for Trump here because whenever there's a human issue that tugs at the heartstrings and it looks like you're on the wrong side, people start to get very angry at you.
01:05:33.000 But Trump immediately flipped this and it was a bad moment for Joe Biden because the reality is that Joe Biden and Barack Obama initiated family separation policy during their administration.
01:05:42.000 Here was Donald Trump going after Joe Biden.
01:05:47.000 Children are brought here by coyotes and lots of bad people, cartels.
01:05:53.000 And they're brought here, and they used to use them to get into our country. 1.00
01:05:57.000 We now have as strong a border as we've ever had.
01:06:00.000 We're over 400 miles of brand-new wall.
01:06:03.000 You see the numbers.
01:06:04.000 And we let people in, but they have to come in legally, and they come in through America. 1.00
01:06:07.000 But how will you reunite these kids with their families, Mr. President?
01:06:10.000 Let me just tell you.
01:06:11.000 They built cages.
01:06:11.000 You know, they used to say, I built the cages.
01:06:14.000 And then it was determined they were built.
01:06:16.000 In 2014, that was him.
01:06:18.000 A lot of these kids come out without the parents.
01:06:20.000 These 500 plus kids came with parents.
01:06:24.000 They separated them at the border.
01:06:26.000 Who built the cages, Joe?
01:06:28.000 Let's talk about what we're talking about.
01:06:29.000 Who built the cages, Joe?
01:06:30.000 Okay, and that was the big question, right?
01:06:32.000 And Joe couldn't answer it because the fact is that it was the Obama administration that built the cages.
01:06:36.000 And then Biden kept going on about all the things he was going to do with regard to illegal immigration, and Trump went back to, again, that third theme, which is that Joe Biden has been in government forever and never did anything about any of this stuff.
01:06:48.000 He had eight years to do what he said he was going to do.
01:06:52.000 And I've changed without having a specific.
01:06:56.000 We got rid of catch and release.
01:06:57.000 We got rid of a lot of horrible things that they put in and that they lived with.
01:07:02.000 But he had eight years.
01:07:03.000 He was vice president.
01:07:05.000 He did nothing except build cages to keep children in.
01:07:10.000 He has no understanding of immigration or the laws.
01:07:14.000 Catch and release is a disaster.
01:07:16.000 A murderer would come in. 0.68
01:07:18.000 A rapist would come in. 1.00
01:07:20.000 A very bad person would come in. 0.97
01:07:22.000 We would take their name.
01:07:24.000 We have to release them into our country. 1.00
01:07:27.000 And then you say they come back.
01:07:29.000 Less than 1% of the people come back.
01:07:32.000 We have to send ICE out and Border Patrol out to find them.
01:07:36.000 We would say, come back in two years, three years, we're going to give you a court case.
01:07:41.000 You need Perry Mason.
01:07:42.000 We're going to give you a court case.
01:07:44.000 When you say they come back, they don't come back, Joe.
01:07:46.000 Those with the lowest IQ, they might come back.
01:07:49.000 What he's telling you is simply not true.
01:07:51.000 Okay, so, it isn't true that only 1% of people show up for their court date.
01:07:54.000 Most people, apparently, about 50% of people, 75% of people, by various estimates, show up for that initial court date.
01:08:01.000 The problem is, there's a secondary court date that is set, and usually that never comes to pass.
01:08:05.000 So, the 1% statistic is not coming from a place that I can verify, for sure.
01:08:10.000 But, it is true, the catch and release policy is a garbage policy, and it has released not 11 million illegal immigrants into the center of the country, it has released many, many more illegal immigrants Probably closer to 15 or 20 million illegal immigrants in the country at this point.
01:08:24.000 But again, Trump's main point here, which is that Joe Biden, he keeps promising things and he's been in the government forever.
01:08:30.000 He's not wrong. 0.53
01:08:31.000 And again, Trump kept hammering this home.
01:08:33.000 They turned to the issue of race and Trump kept hammering it home right there.
01:08:37.000 Here was Trump clip 38 saying that, you know, you keep talking about how you're going to heal all the racial wounds of the country.
01:08:42.000 Where have you been for the past several decades?
01:08:45.000 I do.
01:08:46.000 And again, he's been in government 47 years.
01:08:49.000 He never did a thing, except in 1994, when he did such harm to the black community. 0.92
01:08:56.000 And they were called, and he called them, super predators.
01:08:59.000 Nobody has done more for the black community than Donald Trump.
01:09:04.000 And if you look, with the exception of Abraham Lincoln, possible exception, but the exception of Abraham Lincoln, nobody has done what I've done.
01:09:14.000 Okay, this culminated with a very, very weak exchange for Joe Biden, right?
01:09:21.000 All of this, this third line of attack that Biden's been in government forever and never done anything.
01:09:25.000 This culminated in a really terrible moment, I thought, for Joe Biden.
01:09:29.000 This would be clip 41.
01:09:30.000 Okay, this is where Biden tries to explain how he was wrong about all of his criminal justice policies.
01:09:37.000 Now, what's hilarious about this is that he actually was not wrong about all of his criminal justice policies.
01:09:40.000 One of his only signal career accomplishments was actually lowering the crime rate via the 1994 crime bill and via some of the drug bills in the 1980s.
01:09:46.000 The crack epidemic was horrible in the 1980s.
01:09:49.000 The crime epidemic was horrible in the early 90s.
01:09:51.000 But he has to run directly away from that because his own party hates it.
01:09:54.000 So here was Joe Biden explaining what he's going to do now.
01:09:57.000 And Trump again hammers him with, OK, so why didn't you do it?
01:10:00.000 You've been here for 50 years.
01:10:02.000 Why didn't you do it?
01:10:03.000 And Biden's answer is so stunningly and blindingly bad that it actually stops the debate dead.
01:10:09.000 In the 80s we passed 100%, all 100 senators voted for it, a bill on drugs and how to deal with drugs.
01:10:18.000 It was a mistake.
01:10:20.000 I've been trying to change the sense and particularly the portion on cocaine.
01:10:23.000 That's why I've been arguing that in fact we should not send anyone to jail for a pure drug offense.
01:10:31.000 They should be going into treatment.
01:10:33.000 Why didn't you do it in the eight years, a short time ago?
01:10:38.000 Why didn't you do it?
01:10:39.000 You just said, I'm going to do that, I'm going to do this.
01:10:42.000 You put tens of thousands of mostly black young men in prison.
01:10:47.000 Now you're saying you're going to get, you're going to undo that.
01:10:50.000 Why didn't you get it done?
01:10:51.000 You had eight years with Obama.
01:10:53.000 You know why, Joe?
01:10:54.000 Because you're all talk and no action.
01:10:56.000 All right, Vice President Biden, and then we're going to move on to the next section.
01:10:58.000 We had a Republican Congress.
01:11:04.000 That's the answer.
01:11:06.000 You got to talk him into it, Joe.
01:11:07.000 Sometimes you got to talk him into it.
01:11:09.000 We're going to move on to our next section, which is climate change.
01:11:11.000 Like I did with criminal justice reform.
01:11:13.000 I had to talk Democrats into it.
01:11:15.000 Gentlemen, we're running out of time, so we got to get on to climate change, please.
01:11:19.000 Okay, so Joe Biden stops absolutely dead after he says, we had a Republican Congress.
01:11:24.000 No, you didn't.
01:11:26.000 For the first two years of the Barack Obama administration, not only did Democrats have a majority in the House, they had a super majority in the Senate.
01:11:33.000 They had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.
01:11:35.000 For the first two years of the Obama administration, that's how they got Obamacare done.
01:11:39.000 They didn't lose the House until 2010 and they didn't lose the Senate until 2014.
01:11:43.000 So it's just not true.
01:11:45.000 What he is saying there is overtly untrue.
01:11:47.000 The bottom line is that he is all talk.
01:11:49.000 He doesn't do anything.
01:11:51.000 Trump is right about that.
01:11:53.000 The final bad point for Joe Biden happened late in the debate.
01:11:57.000 They're talking about environmentalism and Biden has this very Weird take that climate change is going to kill all humanity.
01:12:03.000 And so he has pledged all of these radical policies that he actually probably doesn't like very much.
01:12:08.000 And this culminated in what was probably the biggest boo-boo of the entire debate.
01:12:11.000 And it will be in all of the campaign ads leading up to election day, particularly in Pennsylvania.
01:12:17.000 This is clip 45.
01:12:19.000 So Trump is hammering him on fracking.
01:12:21.000 Trump is just saying, you said that you want to ban fracking.
01:12:24.000 And Biden's like, no, I said I want to ban it on federal lands.
01:12:25.000 He's actually said, Broadly speaking, that he does want to ban fracking.
01:12:29.000 And then he said, oh, yeah, by the way, I only meant federal lands.
01:12:32.000 But there's I mean, there's tape of him saying over and over and over again that he would like to transition away from fracking or ban fracking or end fracking.
01:12:38.000 Then he'll say, well, I'll just do it on federal lands.
01:12:40.000 OK, fine.
01:12:41.000 Trump gets him to admit in this clip that he wants to end the oil industry, that he wants to destroy the entire oil industry in the United States that is responsible for millions and millions of jobs.
01:12:53.000 If you don't think this is going to be an issue in Pennsylvania, wrong you are.
01:12:55.000 Here was Trump getting Biden to admit that he wishes to kill the entire oil industry of the United States.
01:13:00.000 By the way, we just became energy independent because of fracking in the oil industry.
01:13:05.000 Would you close down the oil industry?
01:13:06.000 I would transition from the oil industry, yes.
01:13:09.000 Oh, that's a big statement.
01:13:10.000 It is a big statement.
01:13:11.000 That's a big statement.
01:13:12.000 Because I would stop.
01:13:13.000 Why would you do that?
01:13:14.000 Because the oil industry pollutes significantly.
01:13:18.000 I see.
01:13:18.000 Here's the deal.
01:13:19.000 But you can't do that.
01:13:20.000 That's a big statement.
01:13:21.000 Well, if you let me finish the statement, because it has to be replaced by renewable energy over time.
01:13:27.000 Over time.
01:13:28.000 And I'd stop giving to the oil industry, I'd stop giving them federal subsidies.
01:13:33.000 He won't give federal subsidies to the gas, excuse me, to solar and wind.
01:13:40.000 Why are we giving it to oil industry? 0.97
01:13:41.000 We actually do give it to solar and wind.
01:13:43.000 That's maybe the biggest statement in terms of business.
01:13:46.000 That's the biggest statement.
01:13:47.000 Because basically what he's saying is he is going to destroy The oil industry.
01:13:52.000 Will you remember that, Texas?
01:13:54.000 Will you remember that, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma?
01:13:56.000 Vice President Biden, let me give you 10 seconds to respond and then I have to get to the final question.
01:14:00.000 Vice President Biden.
01:14:02.000 He takes everything out of context.
01:14:03.000 No, you literally just said it one second ago.
01:14:05.000 He did not, in fact, take it out of context.
01:14:07.000 That was you one second ago declaring that you were going to end the oil industry in the United States of America.
01:14:12.000 OK, so no, that one's on you.
01:14:14.000 And that's going to be in every campaign ad and it should be in every campaign.
01:14:17.000 And there were a couple of indicators, by the way.
01:14:19.000 There are three real indicators that Biden lost this debate.
01:14:23.000 Two of these indicators came from Biden directly.
01:14:25.000 So again, his tell is when he says, come on.
01:14:27.000 He said, come on 1,000 times last night.
01:14:29.000 Because when he gets tired and he doesn't have anything to say, he just kind of throws up his hands and goes, come on, come on.
01:14:35.000 Here's a montage of Joe Biden's come ons last night.
01:14:38.000 This is clip 12.
01:14:38.000 It's all going to be over soon.
01:14:42.000 Come on.
01:14:43.000 Learning to live with it.
01:14:44.000 Come on.
01:14:45.000 Not that many of you are going to die, so don't worry about it.
01:14:48.000 So don't worry about it.
01:14:49.000 Come on.
01:14:50.000 I know how to game the system.
01:14:52.000 Come on.
01:14:53.000 Come on, folks.
01:14:54.000 And we had a good relationship with Hitler before he, in fact, invaded Europe, the rest of Europe. 0.91
01:15:00.000 Come on.
01:15:01.000 Is lecturing me on Social Security and Medicare?
01:15:04.000 Come on.
01:15:05.000 Let him go bankrupt.
01:15:07.000 Come on.
01:15:08.000 I told him to stand down and stand ready.
01:15:10.000 Come on.
01:15:12.000 That is nine come ons.
01:15:15.000 Nine.
01:15:15.000 In the course of the debate.
01:15:17.000 Okay?
01:15:17.000 That is how you know he's losing.
01:15:18.000 Other way you know he's losing?
01:15:19.000 He actually starts glancing at his watch in the middle of the debate.
01:15:22.000 He's like, when is this over?
01:15:23.000 I really have to pay.
01:15:25.000 When is this over?
01:15:26.000 Here is some footage of Joe Biden glancing at his watch pretty overtly in the middle of the debate.
01:15:31.000 There he was.
01:15:32.000 Good look there from Slow Joe.
01:15:34.000 Okay.
01:15:34.000 The final way that you know that this debate did not go well for Joe Biden is the media reaction.
01:15:38.000 So the media were apoplectic over this.
01:15:41.000 Apoplectic over this.
01:15:44.000 They reveal themselves each and every day, and it really is incredible.
01:15:47.000 How bad was Joe Biden?
01:15:49.000 Basically, everybody on the Democratic side had to start reversing their own positions and or lying.
01:15:53.000 Okay, so Frank Luntz had a focus group last night.
01:15:58.000 That focus group described I feel like a lot of that is accurate.
01:16:02.000 According to Frank Luntz's focus group, the words to describe Trump were controlled, reserved, poised, con artist and surprisingly presidential.
01:16:09.000 The words to describe Biden were vague, unspecific, elusive, defensive and grandfatherly.
01:16:14.000 I feel like a lot of that is accurate and those are not words that really bear in Joe Biden's favor.
01:16:22.000 OK, so how do you know that Biden lost?
01:16:25.000 Because number one, when the media declared a draw, that means Biden lost.
01:16:28.000 Number two, you have people like Joy Reid suddenly flipping and defending the 1994 crime bill.
01:16:32.000 So Joy Reid hates the 1994 crime bill on MSNBC, but she recognizes that she must defend the precious Joe Biden.
01:16:38.000 And so here she was defending the 1994 crime bill all of a sudden.
01:16:42.000 Yes, he did spearhead the crime bill.
01:16:46.000 But let's just remember that there are a lot of African American elected officials, including in Congress, who voted for the crime bill and who wanted the crime bill.
01:16:54.000 The context was the crack epidemic was tearing through black communities and black pastors were demanding a bill. 0.76
01:17:01.000 He put that bill together that also included an assault weapons ban.
01:17:05.000 It also included the Violence Against Women Act.
01:17:07.000 Let's just remember the context.
01:17:09.000 Oh, the context now.
01:17:11.000 And this is the key.
01:17:12.000 When the media have to contextualize Biden, he lost. 0.98
01:17:14.000 Hey, Daniel Dale, the garbage fact checker for CNN. 0.99
01:17:17.000 You know, he he is. 0.98
01:17:20.000 He has this habit of reeling off every inaccuracy that Trump makes in a row.
01:17:25.000 And he's good at that.
01:17:25.000 And then completely downplaying anything that Joe Biden says.
01:17:28.000 He tweeted out last night after the debate.
01:17:30.000 Biden was again imperfect from a fact-checking perspective.
01:17:34.000 He made at least a few false, misleading, and or lacking in context claims. 0.99
01:17:38.000 Trump was, as usual, a serial liar! 0.92
01:17:42.000 This is what the fact-checking industry is designed to do. 1.00
01:17:45.000 It is designed to excuse Democrats while clobbering Republicans.
01:17:47.000 That is what it is designed to do.
01:17:49.000 Daniel Dale is a partisan hack.
01:17:51.000 He's a hack of hacks.
01:17:51.000 The biggest lie of the night belonged to Joe Biden, suggesting that Obamacare didn't force anybody off their private insurance.
01:17:57.000 That is nuts.
01:17:58.000 Okay, Daniel Dale downplayed that because, you know, Trump says things that are inaccurate.
01:18:02.000 Yeah, no bleep.
01:18:03.000 Have you ever met the guy?
01:18:04.000 Have you ever seen him?
01:18:05.000 Of course that's true.
01:18:06.000 Jake Tapper was beside himself last night on CNN.
01:18:09.000 He said it was the dirtiest campaign ever.
01:18:12.000 He is running the single most negative, sleazy campaign in American history for a major party candidate.
01:18:21.000 The campaign that Trump and his allies in the media and members of his family and the Trump-allied websites and such are leveling with charges so heinous I'm not even going to say them.
01:18:33.000 Just nonsense. 1.00
01:18:34.000 Crap. 1.00
01:18:35.000 Tied into QAnon. 1.00
01:18:36.000 Tied into Pizzagate.
01:18:37.000 Tied into the worst things you could say about a person.
01:18:40.000 With no evidence.
01:18:41.000 Just completely made up. 0.98
01:18:42.000 Is so disgusting. 0.97
01:18:44.000 And so beneath what this election should be.
01:18:49.000 All right, so bottom line, is this gonna make a huge difference in the future of the presidential campaign?
01:18:54.000 I don't think it'll make an enormous difference to the future of the presidential campaign.
01:18:57.000 I do think that marginal differences, particularly in swing states, are gonna matter an awful, awful lot.
01:19:03.000 If the polls tighten in the last week, as you would generally expect them to, then it will be seen that this debate mattered.
01:19:10.000 It didn't necessarily matter to people who were partisans.
01:19:14.000 There aren't a lot of people who are on the fence, but if it made some people less uncomfortable about voting Trump, then it did him a world of good and it shifted the terms of the debate because the last week is going to be all about Joe Biden declaring that he wants an end to the oil industry.
01:19:25.000 I mean, that is going to be the Trump campaign because they need Pennsylvania. 0.94
01:19:29.000 That is going to be the Trump campaign for the next week.
01:19:32.000 Okay, quick Bible note since it is a Friday and I feel like ending on an up note.
01:19:36.000 We've gone back to doing Bible sections here on The Ben Shapiro Show because we restarted the reading of the Torah every year we do this.
01:19:43.000 So, this week's Parsha, this week's Torah portion, is the Parsha of Noah.
01:19:48.000 It's the Parsha about Noah. 0.99
01:19:49.000 So, we all know the Noah story, right? 0.99
01:19:51.000 God looks at humanity, He's like, you guys suck. 0.99
01:19:53.000 Here's a flood. 1.00
01:19:54.000 Bam! 0.98
01:19:55.000 He says to Noah, why don't you preserve your family and preserve all the animals and Noah builds the ark and the animals come in two by two and all of that.
01:20:04.000 So there's one particular verse that's kind of fascinating because it does have a lot of relevance to how we think of ourselves and what our mission is today.
01:20:11.000 So it says, this is Genesis 6-9.
01:20:14.000 These are the generations of Noah. 1.00
01:20:15.000 Noah was a righteous man.
01:20:17.000 He was perfect in his generations.
01:20:18.000 Noah walked with God.
01:20:21.000 So there's a big debate among Jewish commentators about what it means when it says that Noah was perfect in his generations.
01:20:26.000 Why does it say he was perfect in his time?
01:20:29.000 Why?
01:20:30.000 Because theoretically, if he was perfect, it wouldn't just be in his time.
01:20:34.000 So is that a compliment or is that a derogatory?
01:20:37.000 If you say that somebody is great in their time, that can mean one of two things.
01:20:41.000 One, the time is really awful, so the fact that they were great in that awful time means they were even greater than they normally would be.
01:20:46.000 You're a great person living in Nazi Germany? 0.98
01:20:48.000 Well, by contrast, you're even greater because you were living in an awful, awful time.
01:20:52.000 Or does it mean that you were great compared to the other people of your time, and since they sucked, you were better than they were, but if you put them in like a normal time, they'd be kind of normal.
01:20:59.000 There's actually a debate among Jewish commentators.
01:21:02.000 I tend to come down on the side that suggests that it is better to be great overall than to be great in your time.
01:21:08.000 So God tells Noah, I'm destroying all of humanity, right?
01:21:10.000 It's over.
01:21:10.000 in your time. What separates Noah from the other characters of the Bible? So God tells Noah I'm destroying all of humanity, right? It's over. Here comes the flood. And Noah does not respond the same way that Abraham or Moses do.
01:21:22.000 So Abraham is told by God that he's going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah.
01:21:26.000 And Abraham's first response is, let me argue with you.
01:21:28.000 Let's think this one out a little bit, right?
01:21:30.000 Let's try and identify, are there any good people who are living in Sodom and Gomorrah?
01:21:33.000 Is it 100 men?
01:21:34.000 Is it 50 men?
01:21:35.000 Is it 10 men?
01:21:35.000 Can we find anybody there who's good, for whose sake it's worth preserving the entire city?
01:21:39.000 He argues with God, he has a moral debate with God.
01:21:42.000 Moses is informed by God at one point that God is so angry he's going to destroy the entire Jewish people and he's going to make a nation of Moses and his kids.
01:21:49.000 And Moses argues against that and he says, if you do that, I want you to blot me out of your book.
01:21:52.000 Like literally don't have me in your book.
01:21:54.000 I'm not interested in what you're talking about here, God.
01:21:57.000 Those are great men for the ages.
01:21:59.000 Noah, when he is confronted with the possibility of an entire generation being blotted off the face of the earth, he does exactly what God tells him and he doesn't protest.
01:22:07.000 So that is the distinction, right?
01:22:10.000 That's the distinction.
01:22:11.000 If you're going to be a great person for all time, it's not just about being great for yourself or being great for your family or preserving your family or removing yourself from the grid.
01:22:19.000 It is about attempting to save the people around you.
01:22:22.000 It's about attempting to convince the people around you.
01:22:24.000 And this has ramifications for today's politics on the right.
01:22:27.000 There's a lot of debate on the right.
01:22:28.000 We live in a time where our culture is extraordinarily degraded.
01:22:33.000 Our culture has moved wildly to the left.
01:22:35.000 Our public institutions have been taken over by people who don't believe in American founding principle. 0.99
01:22:40.000 It's been taken over by people who openly scorn Judeo-Christian ideology and ideas.
01:22:45.000 So, we have a couple of choices.
01:22:46.000 One is we can take the sort of Roderick Benedict option.
01:22:48.000 That is an option.
01:22:49.000 In our personal lives, I think sometimes you have to go off the ground.
01:22:52.000 I don't think Rod is completely wrong.
01:22:55.000 But that is being a good person in your generation.
01:22:59.000 Being a good person in all generations means fighting back in the public sphere in order to retake those values and convince people of the...
01:23:07.000 The veracity of those values and the reality of those values and the importance of those values.
01:23:10.000 That's what makes you a good person for all time.
01:23:12.000 So we should all strive to be a good, we should strive to be more than Noah was.
01:23:17.000 Not just to build the ark and preserve that, which we have, but also to go forth, to shine a light, to be like Abraham, not like Noah, to open our tents to everybody and to try and draw people in to a better way of life and a better philosophy.
01:23:30.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here next week for the final week of the presidential campaign of 2020.
01:23:35.000 We're almost there, guys.
01:23:36.000 It's getting pretty exciting.
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