The Ben Shapiro Show - The Not-So-Secret SOROS MACHINE

00:00:00.000 Well, with Kamala Harris flailing in the polling data, she is now headed down to the southern border today, part of the most consequential election of our lifetime, which is just 38 days away. 0.95

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00:00:21.000 So as we say, the polling data at this point, it remains absolutely conflicting.

00:00:25.000 We have a new poll that is from Bloomberg News and Morning Consult, and it shows her with a solid lead in Pennsylvania.

00:00:33.000 5% lead in Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona.

00:00:35.000 It says that she has a 3% lead in North Carolina. 0.70

00:00:38.000 It shows a 2% lead for her.

00:00:39.000 And it shows that she is tied in Georgia.

00:00:41.000 The morning consult poll tends toward Kamala Harris.

00:00:44.000 It has for quite a while at this point.

00:00:45.000 But the same day that morning consult poll shows her with a durable lead in Arizona of three points, there's another poll from Suffolk USA Today that shows Donald Trump up six points in Arizona.

00:00:57.000 So that is a nine point delta.

00:00:58.000 In other words, I have no idea You have no idea.

00:01:01.000 Nobody has any idea.

00:01:02.000 At this point, this is a jump ball election, about as much as it is possible for an election to be a jump ball.

00:01:08.000 And, again, Kamala Harris is not a good candidate.

00:01:11.000 Even the New York Times admitted yesterday that that awful interview she did with MSNBC Was awful.

00:01:16.000 Now, there are only a couple of reasons why the New York Times would say that.

00:01:19.000 One is, they believe that she is so far ahead, that she's doing such an amazing job, that they can afford to get on the record that she's not very good at this, and thus shore up their credibility.

00:01:28.000 That's possibility number one.

00:01:30.000 You saw that logic apply after the debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, where the entire legacy media, humiliated, decided they had to briefly tell the truth about Joe Biden before going back to sleep.

00:01:40.000 So that's possibility number one.

00:01:41.000 They think that she is durably winning and so they can afford to kind of ding her.

00:01:44.000 The other possibility is that they are sounding the alarm and getting on record now that she is not very good at this.

00:01:51.000 And I gotta say, I think it might be the second.

00:01:53.000 The New York Times yesterday reports, Harris has a lot of strengths.

00:01:56.000 Giving interviews isn't one of them.

00:01:58.000 That's a very nice way of putting that.

00:02:01.000 Name her strengths.

00:02:03.000 What are they?

00:02:04.000 According to Rebecca Davis O'Brien, In her dizzying ascent to the top of the Democratic ticket, Ms. 0.99

00:02:09.000 Harris has proved to be a disciplined and effective debater, and a tireless campaigner nimble and energetic in rallies.

00:02:15.000 But one-on-one televised interviews with journalists have long been a weakness in her political arsenal.

00:02:19.000 She often winds her way slowly toward an answer, leaning on jargon and rehearsed turns of phrase using language that is sometimes derided as word salad, but might be better described as meringue.

00:02:28.000 Wow, that's, again, a nice way of putting it that she has no idea what she's talking about literally any of the time.

00:02:35.000 So, with her election basically having reached peak brat and then sort of receding back to the mean, she now is forced to move beyond platitudes and actually go places that are sort of uncomfortable for her.

00:02:48.000 Again, she keeps trying the platitudes.

00:02:49.000 She tweeted out yesterday, quote, I want Americans to be able to save for their child's education, take a nice vacation from time to time and buy Christmas presents for their loved ones without feeling financial stress.

00:02:59.000 That's what my economic plan will build toward.

00:03:01.000 That's the thing she actually tweeted.

00:03:03.000 And I want world peace.

00:03:05.000 She's the miscongeniality of presidential candidates. 1.00

00:03:09.000 I'm looking forward to building an economy where everybody has a great time. 0.99

00:03:13.000 What is this garbage? 0.95

00:03:14.000 So, she's headed down to the border today. 1.00

00:03:16.000 She's trying to close the gap with Donald Trump on the border issue. 0.97

00:03:20.000 When it comes to the economy, she's closed some of the gap that was left by Joe Biden.

00:03:25.000 And part of that is that the Federal Reserve has been lowering those interest rates.

00:03:29.000 Part of it is that we haven't had a sort of full-scale unemployment crisis in the United States.

00:03:34.000 Everybody just feels kind of uncomfortable about the embedded inflation that's happened over the course of the last three and a half years.

00:03:40.000 The wage declines.

00:03:41.000 But it's not as though the economy is truly in the toilet.

00:03:44.000 We're not talking about like a 2008 level economy here.

00:03:47.000 So because of that, she's been able to disconnect from Joe Biden's policies just enough That she's been able to gain a little bit of ground on the economy, even though she still trails Donald Trump on the economy.

00:03:56.000 Where she really trails is on immigration.

00:03:58.000 And so she has headed down to the border today to try and pretend that she's actually a hardcore border hawk.

00:04:04.000 Not even joking.

00:04:05.000 After presiding over the worst administration in the history of the southern border, she's going to now pretend that she's a border hawk who wants law and order on the border. 1.00

00:04:14.000 So Kamala is going to go down to the border to lie. 0.99

00:04:16.000 She and the administration are also taking the worst possible position in the Middle East right now.

00:04:22.000 Right now there is a war going on in the Middle East.

00:04:23.000 Israel is attacking Hezbollah.

00:04:25.000 They are in southern Lebanon doing amazing work, but it's not just the Israeli army doing that.

00:04:29.000 It's also the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.

00:04:31.000 They're not just talking, they're acting.

00:04:33.000 They're on the ground providing bomb shelters, emergency supplies, and financial relief to families in distress, but they're not stopping there.

00:04:38.000 As we approach the one-year mark of October 7th, the fellowship is launching something extraordinary.

00:04:42.000 They're partnering with over 230 organizations across America for the Flags of Fellowship campaign.

00:04:47.000 Here's what's happening.

00:04:48.000 On October 6th, thousands of Americans will plant Israeli flags in their churchyards.

00:04:52.000 Each flag represents a victim, a life cut short.

00:04:54.000 It's a powerful visual tribute that sends a clear message.

00:04:57.000 We remember, and we'll never forget.

00:04:58.000 This isn't just about remembering the victims.

00:05:00.000 It's about honoring the heroes, praying for those still held hostage, showing the world the unwavering support of Christians for Israel and the Jewish people.

00:05:06.000 Now, I know many of you are asking, Ben, how can I help?

00:05:08.000 Well, let me tell you.

00:05:09.000 You can be part of the Flags of Fellowship, too.

00:05:11.000 There's a tremendous need for food and basic supplies for evacuated families trying to survive in communities impacted by the ongoing war.

00:05:17.000 A missile from Yemen just fell in Tel Aviv last night.

00:05:19.000 That's why I'm asking 1,200 of my listeners today to make a gift of $100 to help provide emergency food boxes for a displaced family in Israel.

00:05:26.000 Israel needs our support now more than ever.

00:05:28.000 So here's what I need you to do right now.

00:05:29.000 Go to BenForTheFellowship.org.

00:05:30.000 That's BenForTheFellowship.org.

00:05:32.000 Let's show the world that when Israel is under attack, we don't back down, we step up.

00:05:35.000 Remember, BenForTheFellowship.org.

00:05:37.000 God bless and thank you.

00:05:38.000 This administration has let in somewhere between seven and 10 million illegal immigrants into the country.

00:05:45.000 Just let them, willy-nilly into the country. 1.00

00:05:48.000 And somehow, she is now going to play the game that she is the tough one on the border.

00:05:53.000 According to Politico, VP Harris will make her first visit to the US-Mexico border, traveling to the small town of Douglas, Arizona.

00:06:00.000 What she's expected to say while there is a reflection of the political reality she faces.

00:06:04.000 Tough border talk in an attempt to dull Donald Trump's attack on the issue while laying blame for the status quo at his feet.

00:06:09.000 Well, again, good luck with that.

00:06:10.000 The fact is that laying the status quo at his feet ignores the fact she's the current vice president of the United States.

00:06:15.000 I don't know how many times I have to say this.

00:06:17.000 She's the vice president of the United States right now. 1.00

00:06:22.000 Joe Biden has said over and over and over she is the last person in the room.

00:06:26.000 He said on The View just two days ago that she was delegated power on every issue of this administration. 0.51

00:06:33.000 How does she turn around then and claim that Donald Trump is responsible for the border crisis that is entirely the creation of this administration?

00:06:40.000 Apparently, Harris is going to argue that American sovereignty requires setting rules at the border and enforcing them.

00:06:45.000 Oh, you think?

00:06:46.000 That might have been nice to know while you were literally telling Border Patrol that their number one job was facilitating illegal entry into the country.

00:06:53.000 That's what she told them.

00:06:55.000 That's what she and Joe Biden told them.

00:06:57.000 I know because I went down to the border to investigate it.

00:07:00.000 We literally did a ride-along with the Border Patrol.

00:07:04.000 And what they showed us is that there was no one staffed at the border.

00:07:08.000 Because the way that it now works is that the Mexican drug cartels are in control of the border.

00:07:12.000 They drive up with truckloads of illegal immigrants. 0.99

00:07:15.000 They release them at the border.

00:07:16.000 And then, the part of the border I was at, which was an Indian reservation in an American, Native American reservation in Arizona.

00:07:25.000 There was a literal button you pushed to call for Border Patrol help.

00:07:28.000 They would arrive, you would shout asylum, and then they would take you to a processing facility.

00:07:33.000 And within 72 hours, you were being released into the country.

00:07:36.000 Why were the Mexican drug cartels doing that?

00:07:38.000 Because they understood that if they put a magnet that was a giant group of illegal immigrants there, and the first priority was processing those illegal immigrants, then the Border Patrol, like iron filings to the magnet, would have to go there, leaving the rest of the border completely unoccupied so as to allow for the gigantic scale smuggling of fentanyl, trafficking, and other criminal activities across the border.

00:08:03.000 That is Kamala Harris's policy. 1.00

00:08:05.000 She's apparently going to call for more resources for Border Patrol agents to do their job. 0.98

00:08:09.000 But again, I've spoken with the Border Patrol.

00:08:11.000 The question is not one of resources.

00:08:12.000 The question is one of the legal structures under which they operate.

00:08:17.000 The question is whether they have to immediately treat people who claim asylum as actual asylum possibilities, or whether they can turn them away at the border.

00:08:28.000 She's gonna propose new detection machines for fentanyl at border entry points.

00:08:31.000 That's not where most of the fentanyl is crossing.

00:08:33.000 The vast majority of fentanyl that is coming into the country is coming in undetected, not through ports of entry.

00:08:39.000 It is coming in across, for example, this Native American reservation at the border between Mexico and Arizona.

00:08:46.000 She apparently will decry Trump's failure as president to address this challenge and his recent efforts to kill bipartisan solutions to it, and say the American people deserve a president who cares more about border security than playing political games.

00:08:57.000 She doesn't care about border security. 0.79

00:08:59.000 This is a joke, and we all know it.

00:09:03.000 But, again, she's been able to sort of swing the media behind her to push this false narrative.

00:09:10.000 We'll see if that lasts.

00:09:11.000 The thing is, it's all a lie.

00:09:13.000 It's all a lie.

00:09:14.000 The actual ideological predilection of the Democratic Party and of Kamala Harris is the George Soros program that I'm trying to hide anymore.

00:09:23.000 So, a couple years ago, George Soros decided that he was going to hand over the running of the Open Society Foundation, which is his deeply left-wing, really ugly 501c3.

00:09:36.000 It's responsible for the appointment and election of extraordinarily radical DAs in major cities across America, fostering the BLM riots. 1.00

00:09:45.000 They're responsible for a bunch of open border policy.

00:09:49.000 The Open Society Foundation has been a blight on the West since its launch.

00:09:55.000 But George Soros has handed control of that Open Society Foundation over to his son, Alex Soros, who is now married to Huma Abedin.

00:10:05.000 Who you remember as the buddy-buddy friend of both Anthony Weiner and his wife and Hillary Clinton.

00:10:13.000 Relationship unspecified.

00:10:15.000 In any case, yesterday, photos were released of Alex Soros with Tim Walz at his apartment overlooking the proletariat.

00:10:25.000 This picture is pretty glorious.

00:10:27.000 It's Alex Soros.

00:10:28.000 He looks exactly like you would think he would look.

00:10:30.000 He looks like he's a Namby Pamby Tech Bro from San Francisco.

00:10:35.000 And he's standing above the New York skyline, showing Tim Walz, who is again, once again, always in subservient position.

00:10:44.000 He's showing him what it means to be an elite, helping to run the world.

00:10:48.000 I mean, I'm not sure you could possibly create a more conspiratorial looking photo than this.

00:10:53.000 He's supplicant politician, slightly bent, slightly prone toward The scion and heir of the billionaire financier promoting wild left-wing policy.

00:11:06.000 It really is pretty incredible.

00:11:08.000 Now again, the Open Society Foundation has spent billions on American politics.

00:11:15.000 Literal billions.

00:11:17.000 Over the course of three decades, the Open Society Foundations have spent, across the West, some $22 billion.

00:11:24.000 An enormous amount of money.

00:11:28.000 According to CNBC, back in January 2023, the Open Society Foundation put $140 million into politically charged groups in the buildup to the 2022 midterm elections.

00:11:39.000 So of course they're going to Alex Soros for more money.

00:11:43.000 And again, Alex Soros is a big Kamala Harris backer.

00:11:46.000 Soros took this photo with Kamala Harris and tweeted out, as soon as she became the nominee, that he was in support of her.

00:11:56.000 This is a flashback to July.

00:11:58.000 He said, it's time for us all to unite around Kamala Harris and beat Donald Trump.

00:12:03.000 She is the best and most qualified candidate we have.

00:12:06.000 Long live the American dream.

00:12:08.000 Alex Soros does not know much about the American dream, since he was literally just handed everything he has ever had.

00:12:13.000 Everything.

00:12:16.000 So there they are, buddy-buddy.

00:12:17.000 Alex Soros and Kamala Harris.

00:12:20.000 Now, whenever you mention Soros, I understand that there is a cadre in the media who have a relationship with Jewishness that, shall we say, is fraught, that suddenly decides that it's anti-Semitic to point out that Alex Soros and George Soros have spent literally billions of dollars on promoting far-left policy across the West.

00:12:37.000 That's just a reality.

00:12:39.000 That is not anti-Semitic in any way, shape, or form.

00:12:41.000 I feel like I have some of the bona fides to speak to this.

00:12:45.000 Alex Soros pouring money behind the Democrats, having the Democratic candidates come, not to, he's not meeting them in a fundraiser, coming to his apartment on bended knee to ask what they can do for him.

00:12:59.000 is a pretty impressive show of force by the Alex Soros wing of the party.

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00:14:10.000 So what exactly does Alex Soros actually believe?

00:14:14.000 What exactly does he believe?

00:14:16.000 He believes the most left-wing things it is possible for him to believe.

00:14:21.000 So, for example, on immigration, if we're going to talk about Kamala Harris being some sort of border hawk, we should point out at this point there's a reason the Open Society Foundations are finding a way to support Harris walls with such alacrity and enthusiasm.

00:14:34.000 For example, November 1st, 2021, this is a press release from the Open Society Foundations.

00:14:40.000 The Open Society Foundations today announced $1.3 million to support frontline organizations working to aid Haitian and Black migrants dislocated, detained, and expelled as they sought asylum and safety at the U.S.

00:14:50.000 southern border this fall.

00:14:52.000 This funding will help provide legal services to Haitian asylum seekers arriving at the southwest border and support advocacy to protect their rights.

00:14:59.000 It will further enable Black-led organizations to champion more broadly the humane treatment of all Black immigrants seeking safety and stability in the United States.

00:15:07.000 And then, of course, the Open Society Foundation, in this press release, promoted the lie that the Border Patrol was whipping Haitian migrants with horse reins, which, of course, was not true.

00:15:19.000 Open Society Support is an emergency response to an ongoing humanitarian and human rights crisis, including the dehumanizing abuse at the Del Rio Ciudad Acuna International Bridge, where thousands of Haitians had gathered in search of protection and the chance for a better life.

00:15:34.000 U.S.

00:15:34.000 Border Patrol agents met them with violence, some on horseback, wielding the reins on their horses like whips, a grim reminder of the racial oppression marking some of the most shameful chapters of America's past.

00:15:44.000 Alexander Soros said, quote, the treatment of Haitian migrants at the southern border is unconscionable and a stain on our country standing across the region and among black Americans.

00:15:53.000 The damage done by these policies will last long after the headlines fade.

00:15:56.000 These policies must change.

00:15:57.000 Accountability must be served.

00:15:59.000 And the basic dignity and rights of the tired and poor yearning to be free are honored here.

00:16:03.000 We are proud to support organizations working on overdrive to help thousands through this crisis.

00:16:10.000 And again, this is what the Open Society Foundation is.

00:16:12.000 The Open Society Foundation, led by Alex Soros, is a far-left organization.

00:16:17.000 It is impossible to think of any cause that is far-left that they do not support, in fact.

00:16:24.000 They do everything from supporting extraordinary COVID-19 lockdowns To supporting open borders, to pushing for quote-unquote criminal justice reform, which is designed to defund the police, to push Democratic voting groups, and to push for censorship via social media.

00:16:48.000 That's what the Open Society Foundations do.

00:16:51.000 And those are the people that Kamala Harris is cultivating each and every single day.

00:16:56.000 It's not just Kamala Harris, of course, it's the Biden administration in total.

00:17:00.000 According to the Washington Examiner's Gabe Kaminsky, excellent reporter, Alex Soros has visited Joe Biden's White House at least two dozen times since 2021.

00:17:07.000 He has visited 25 times between October 2021 and May 2024.

00:17:16.000 His latest appearance was for a state dinner.

00:17:19.000 The White House visits illustrate how Alex Soros has gained influence in the Biden-Harris administration and likely would continue to have the ear of top officials in a Harris-Walls administration.

00:17:28.000 He was widely photographed attending meetings with Democrats at the DNC in Chicago in August.

00:17:32.000 Of course, so was Huma Abedin.

00:17:37.000 Again, these are the people that have the ear of Kamala Harris.

00:17:42.000 So do you believe that she's going down to the border to shut it down?

00:17:44.000 She's taking money from the most open borders organization in the United States. 0.99

00:17:49.000 By the way, when you go down to the border, one of the things that you will see is that there are organizations that set up near the border to facilitate illegal entry.

00:17:56.000 They put signs saying, If you want to get in, basically come this way.

00:18:00.000 If you want to avoid border patrol, come this way.

00:18:03.000 Now maybe they're good-hearted.

00:18:05.000 Or maybe they're actually facilitating illegal activity.

00:18:07.000 Because it turns out that, again, the Biden administration's policy has been so open-door that the only people who are avoiding ports of entry for the first three years of the Biden administration are actual criminals.

00:18:17.000 But you will see signs.

00:18:18.000 There are actual signs.

00:18:19.000 We have footage of it.

00:18:20.000 Saying, go to this house, go to this place, and our organization will meet you there.

00:18:26.000 Facilitating actual illegal activity.

00:18:28.000 And many of these types of organizations are funded by organizations like the Open Society Foundation.

00:18:36.000 It's not just, by the way, that they are radically open border, they also happen to, by the way, Alex is even more far leftist than George, probably.

00:18:46.000 But it's not just that they are radically open border, they're also radically anti-Western generally.

00:18:51.000 They've stood in favor of, for example, pretty much every front group for Palestinian terror that exists.

00:18:59.000 The Open Society Foundations.

00:19:02.000 Have promoted ridiculous left-wing anti-Israel groups like J Street, the Open Societies Foundation, and the Foundation to Promote an Open Society, which is the same thing.

00:19:12.000 Those organizations support the so-called Tides Foundation.

00:19:14.000 The Tides Foundation is then used as a sort of pass-through for anti-Semitic groups like Students for Justice in Palestine.

00:19:23.000 The Open Society Organizations also gave money to the Education for Just Peace in the Middle East, the overarching organization for the U.S.

00:19:30.000 campaign for Palestinian rights, which of course is another one of these radical pro-Hamas groups.

00:19:37.000 Open Society Foundation has been a thorn in the side of the pro-Israel side for a very long time.

00:19:45.000 So it is no wonder, of course, that the Democratic Party, which has become increasingly anti-Israel and openly anti-Semitic in many ways, that they are seeking the support of somebody like Alex Soros.

00:19:54.000 And it's also no surprise that the White House continues to foster awful policy in the Middle East.

00:20:02.000 Many of the groups that are out there protesting are supported by groups that are in turn supported by people like Alex Soros.

00:20:08.000 That's how the money flows.

00:20:10.000 So when you see protesters who are getting arrested by the cops last night in New York because they're getting violent, understand that this stuff doesn't generally happen for free.

00:20:20.000 Somebody is paying for this.

00:20:21.000 Now, some of it is actually paid for by, like, Iranian front groups.

00:20:23.000 There have been full-scale investigations into that.

00:20:25.000 But some of it is just paid for by left-wing interest groups.

00:20:28.000 People like Alex Soros, if not Alex Soros' groups themselves.

00:20:32.000 Those are the people to whom the Harris Walls campaign is in hock.

00:20:36.000 And these are the other people that the Alex Soros ideologues are paying.

00:20:42.000 Here, for example, is some footage last night of NYPD officers taking on anti-Israel protesters.

00:20:48.000 In this video, you can hear people screaming at the cops, and the people who are attempting

00:21:05.000 to crowd the cops are pretending that they are victims of the police, of course.

00:21:09.000 And then this breaks into some open violence.

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00:22:17.000 Meanwhile, the pro-Hamas, pro-Hezbollah protesters all over New York City last night, literally unleashing smoke, and marching around with flags of actual honest-to-god terror groups.

00:22:29.000 Whenever you hear from the Kamala Harris campaign that they are moderate in any way, understand the people they are taking money from are not in any way moderate and they expect something in return.

00:22:39.000 Alex Soros standing above the New York skyline with Tim Walz in supplicant fashion is the story of the Harris-Walz campaign.

00:22:45.000 When she goes down to the border and she says that she's pro a strong border, understand the people who are signing her checks are people like Alex Soros who want an open border.

00:22:54.000 It is an actual goal for them to have an open border, ideologically speaking. 0.97

00:23:00.000 Now, meanwhile, the Biden administration continues to play its own idiotic part in fostering conflict across the globe.

00:23:07.000 The White House continues to promote the idea that there's going to be a 21-day ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon that will allow a space for negotiations with Hamas and Hezbollah. 0.72

00:23:14.000 First of all, who are you negotiating with?

00:23:16.000 Hezbollah's leadership has been reduced to Hassan Nasrallah in a room alone with a mirror.

00:23:21.000 Hamas's leadership may be dead.

00:23:23.000 Yahya Sinwar has been missing for weeks at this point.

00:23:28.000 Plus, there's been no movement whatsoever from Hezbollah to say we're going to pull back of the Latani River.

00:23:32.000 We're going to pull back north and leave southern Lebanon unoccupied with rockets and missiles aimed at Israeli cities and Israeli civilians.

00:23:40.000 And yet the Biden administration, as always, they just keep shouting ceasefire, ceasefire, ceasefire without any actual plan to achieve anything.

00:23:49.000 The White House pretends to be befuddled.

00:23:51.000 The only thing that is befuddling is why the White House would think that magically saying ceasefire would achieve a ceasefire with terrorists.

00:23:57.000 National Security Spokesperson John Kirby told reporters, a lot of care and effort was put into that statement.

00:24:03.000 Remember the statement that we read yesterday on the show?

00:24:05.000 The one that suggested that Israel and Lebanon should both pull back, neglecting the fact Lebanon is not the party to the conflict.

00:24:11.000 Hezbollah is the party to the conflict.

00:24:14.000 It's absurd.

00:24:15.000 We wouldn't have made that statement if we didn't have reason to believe the conversations we were having with the Israelis in particular were supportive of that goal.

00:24:21.000 The statement wasn't just drawn up in a vacuum, said John Kirby.

00:24:24.000 It was done after careful consultation not only with the countries that signed on to it, but Israel itself.

00:24:29.000 Well, actually, what Israel apparently said is, we'd be willing to sign on to a ceasefire if Nasrallah and Hezbollah do the things that they are supposed to do. 0.92

00:24:37.000 The White House then blasted out that statement as though Israel was supportive of a ceasefire without any preconditions.

00:24:43.000 They played this game, as you'll recall, with the Hamas ceasefire negotiations just a few months back.

00:24:48.000 Israel said, listen, if Hamas hands over the hostages, and if they go into exile, and if we retain control over the border between Gaza and Egypt, then we'll talk about a ceasefire.

00:25:00.000 And the Biden administration just cut off the entire statement and just said they've agreed to a ceasefire.

00:25:04.000 And Israel's like, well, no, we didn't actually, those were not the terms.

00:25:07.000 And then they blame Israel.

00:25:09.000 And that's the predicate that's being set up, is Israel is the problem, as always. 1.00

00:25:14.000 That, of course, is being promoted by absolute moral clowns like Bernie Sanders, a career useless human being. 0.98

00:25:22.000 It is a wonder to me that in the West people like Bernie Sanders are treated with any level of respect at all. 0.99

00:25:26.000 He'd be digging ditches in the Soviet Union if he had his way.

00:25:31.000 Until they realized that he was actually useless at digging ditches and then he would have been gulagged.

00:25:35.000 In any case, Senator Bernie Sanders has now called for a block on all arms sales to Israel.

00:25:43.000 In his statement, he says Israel clearly had the right to respond to Hamas' horrific terrorist attack, but Prime Minister Netanyahu's extremist government has not simply waged war against Hamas.

00:25:51.000 It has waged an all-out war against the Palestinian people.

00:25:54.000 That, of course, is a lie.

00:25:55.000 It is not true.

00:25:57.000 And now he's claiming that Israel's activities against Hezbollah are somehow also bad.

00:26:05.000 This is the shtick.

00:26:07.000 And again, the Biden administration continues to sort of follow this pattern.

00:26:11.000 They're not doing a full-scale arms block because they understand that that would be unpalatable politically.

00:26:16.000 But Kamala Harris has threatened to do these things. 1.00

00:26:19.000 Kamala Harris is having talks with pro-Hamas parties in the United States and they're happening behind closed doors and you don't know exactly what she is promising.

00:26:27.000 Here's what Kamala Harris said this week about what we should do when the war is over.

00:26:31.000 Kamala Harris, he's made that clear, does not like Donald Trump. But even Bill Maher on HBO was like,

00:26:35.000 this is ridiculous at this point. How many times can you say Israel has a right to defend itself, 0.54

00:26:39.000 and then the minute Israel defends itself, you immediately turn around and tell them not to do it.

00:26:42.000 Here's what Kamala Harris said this week about what we should do when the war is over.

00:26:50.000 No reoccupation of Gaza, no changing of the territorial lines of Gaza,

00:26:57.000 and an ability to have security in the region for all concerned in a way that we create stability.

00:27:05.000 I feel like if that's what you have to say, don't say anything. 0.99

00:27:07.000 Just shut up. 1.00

00:27:08.000 I mean, everybody who talks about Israel these days is just so full of shit. 1.00

00:27:12.000 I mean, or just not, you know, I don't want children to die. 1.00

00:27:15.000 Duh, who does?

00:27:17.000 None of us want children to die.

00:27:18.000 None of us want this war to go on.

00:27:20.000 But it's not addressing what the problem is.

00:27:23.000 The problem is that one side He wants a two-state solution, or at least always did.

00:27:29.000 It's a little more right-wing now, I'm talking about Israel, but that still has been their position.

00:27:33.000 One side never did, and still doesn't.

00:27:35.000 One side uses terrorism to get their goals.

00:27:39.000 One side retaliates against terrorism.

00:27:42.000 One side is accused of genocide, but doesn't do it.

00:27:45.000 The other side actually would love to do it.

00:27:49.000 People keep saying Israel has the right to defend itself.

00:27:52.000 And then, whenever Israel does, they object to it.

00:27:58.000 So, he is right about all of that.

00:28:00.000 But that is not the position that's taken by the Harris-Wallace campaign, and everybody knows that, of course.

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00:29:12.000 Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is also mirroring the positions of the Open Society Foundation and Alex Soros with regard to Ukraine.

00:29:19.000 Now, again, I'm not claiming that Kamala Harris is being bribed to believe all these things.

00:29:22.000 I'm pointing out that she's aligned with this entire agenda.

00:29:26.000 She is.

00:29:27.000 That's the reason the money is passing hands.

00:29:29.000 The reason that people give money to politicians in general is for one of two reasons.

00:29:33.000 One, to either buy influence, or two, to back a candidate who already backs the point of view they're fostering.

00:29:39.000 Either one of those means that she is in alignment with Alex Soros, one of the most left-wing people in the West, period.

00:29:47.000 So, Kamala Harris, the Open Society Foundation, they're all on the same side with regard to Ukraine.

00:29:53.000 It is totally unclear to me exactly what the investment is that George Soros has in Ukraine.

00:29:59.000 And it's always been a very weird issue, Ukraine. 0.95

00:30:02.000 It's become left-coded, the issue of Ukraine resisting a Russian invasion.

00:30:07.000 Honestly, I think the reason it became so left-coded is almost as a response to what happened in the United States with Russiagate.

00:30:13.000 At the right, because they were so pissed off at Russiagate, was like, well, is Russia that bad?

00:30:17.000 And the left, because they were so pissed off at Russia, because they think that Russia stole the 2016 election, decided that they were finally going to become anti-Russian. 0.85

00:30:24.000 But I'm old enough to remember when it was Barack Obama who was making kiss-ass moves toward Vladimir Putin and his allies.

00:30:31.000 So it's all very puzzling.

00:30:33.000 However, for whatever reason, Ukraine has become a left-coded issue in the United States and abroad.

00:30:39.000 And because of that, Kamala Harris is out there actively campaigning using Vladimir Zelensky.

00:30:46.000 This is an amazing thing.

00:30:47.000 It really is.

00:30:47.000 I mean, imagine, imagine if during the 2020 election, Donald Trump had personally had Bibi Netanyahu to the White House, and then had basically cudgeled Netanyahu into ripping on Democrats.

00:31:02.000 That's effectively what Kamala Harris has done here. 1.00

00:31:05.000 She's not even the President of the United States right now.

00:31:06.000 She's the Vice President of the United States. 1.00

00:31:08.000 So what is she even doing in a meeting with Vladimir Zelensky?

00:31:10.000 There weren't a lot of, like, Mike Pence, Bibi Netanyahu public events, for example.

00:31:17.000 Or even Mike Pence, Vladimir Zelensky public events.

00:31:19.000 You'd have to go as far as Israel. 0.69

00:31:22.000 Anyway, Kamala Harris decides that she is going to do a campaign event because everything is now a campaign event. 0.99

00:31:26.000 She's the one running for president. 1.00

00:31:27.000 So she does a campaign event with Vladimir Zelensky in which she uses the opportunity to meet with Zelensky to basically say that Donald Trump cannot be elected president of the United States, which is pretty incredible.

00:31:42.000 So she starts off by saying that she's going to continue to stand with Ukraine.

00:31:45.000 Again, the administration standing with Ukraine has meant slow walking aid sufficient to prevent The full-scale takeover of Kiev, but certainly not enough to push the Russians to the table, apparently.

00:31:55.000 Here is Kamala Harris.

00:31:58.000 As I have made clear on our six previous meetings and throughout Putin's brutal aggression and war against Ukraine, my support for the people of Ukraine is unwavering.

00:32:10.000 I've been proud to stand with Ukraine.

00:32:12.000 I will continue to stand with Ukraine and I will work to ensure Ukraine prevails in this war.

00:32:22.000 Now, of course, she didn't stop there.

00:32:23.000 She then went on to obliquely smack Trump and Vance while standing next to Zelensky. 1.00

00:32:30.000 Now, honestly, I gotta feel a little bad for Zelensky.

00:32:32.000 Zelensky is the leader of a country that is currently under assault from a predator country. 0.96

00:32:38.000 Russia is the predator in Ukraine. 0.78

00:32:40.000 Whatever you think the rationale for the war was, I'm not sure whether you think that it's reasonable for Vladimir Putin to simply walk into Kiev or not.

00:32:48.000 I think very few people believe that, in reality.

00:32:50.000 That Vladimir Putin is the good guy in this particular conflict.

00:32:54.000 So if you're Vladimir Zelensky, and you're leading a besieged country, with all of the flaws of his leadership, and all of the problems with the measures that he's taken, and you're basically being forced by the current administration to do campaign events for the Vice President, I fail to see how this is in any way different from what Donald Trump was impeached over.

00:33:15.000 Truly.

00:33:16.000 Donald Trump was supposedly impeached for forcing Vladimir Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, to do campaign activities by targeting Joe Biden and Hunter Biden in Ukraine in order to receive aid.

00:33:28.000 This is even more direct.

00:33:29.000 This is Kamala Harris and Joe Biden flying Vladimir Zelensky in so she can do campaign events where she rips her political opponent standing next to Vladimir Zelensky. 0.88

00:33:38.000 And the tacit threat is obvious, which is if you don't do this, then we will look askance at your own efforts.

00:33:44.000 Right, you wanna do us a solid?

00:33:45.000 Wink wink.

00:33:46.000 You're gonna have to show up, and you're gonna have to do what Kamala Harris needs you to do.

00:33:52.000 Now normally, a foreign leader in a time of war tries to appeal to both sides.

00:33:56.000 It may fail.

00:33:57.000 Even Netanyahu has tried to appeal to Democrats and Republicans.

00:34:00.000 Some Democrats are up for it, many Democrats are not.

00:34:03.000 But he at least attempts.

00:34:05.000 Zelensky is trying to do the same thing.

00:34:07.000 He's actually gonna meet with Donald Trump, despite all of their various problems between one another.

00:34:12.000 Zelensky is apparently meeting directly with Trump.

00:34:14.000 But that's not what Harris is doing.

00:34:16.000 Harris and the White House, Harris and Biden, are bringing in Vladimir Zelensky to the White House to do a campaign event for Kamala Harris.

00:34:24.000 And this clip makes that clear.

00:34:25.000 She's literally standing next to Zelensky, who's only there to obtain more aid from the United States to continue the war.

00:34:31.000 And she is using him as a prop, as a human prop, in order to suggest that her political opponent wants Russia to win.

00:34:38.000 There are some in my country who would instead force Ukraine to give up large parts of its sovereign territory, who would demand that Ukraine accept neutrality, and would require Ukraine to forego security relationships with other nations.

00:34:59.000 These proposals are the same of those of Putin.

00:35:05.000 And let us be clear.

00:35:07.000 They are not proposals for peace.

00:35:10.000 Instead, they are proposals for surrender, which is dangerous and unacceptable.

00:35:20.000 Zelensky is standing there trying, you know, not to react because he understands that Donald Trump may very well be the president, and that's the person who he's going to have to deal with.

00:35:29.000 Really disgusting stuff.

00:35:31.000 If this were a Republican vice president running for president, impeachable stuff, perhaps.

00:35:36.000 But don't worry, the White House says the real problem here is that Republicans are pouncing.

00:35:40.000 It's that you're politicizing the thing that we're politicizing.

00:35:43.000 We politicized the thing and now you're noticing, which is politicization.

00:35:46.000 Here's Karine Jean-Pierre, world's worst press secretary, explaining it's a political stunt to investigate Vladimir Zelensky's visit to the swing state of Pennsylvania to go to a munitions factory to hang out with Kamala Harris surrogate Josh Shapiro.

00:35:59.000 I would encourage, we would encourage the House Republicans to drop this.

00:36:03.000 This is a political stunt.

00:36:05.000 They need to drop this.

00:36:07.000 And anything else, I think I gave a lot here.

00:36:10.000 A lot of good layout of how this all occurred.

00:36:16.000 But anything else specific, I would certainly refer you to the DOD. 0.98

00:36:21.000 Ridiculous people. 1.00

00:36:22.000 Ridiculous, ridiculous people. 1.00

00:36:24.000 It has nothing to do with politics. 1.00

00:36:25.000 You just ended up in a swing state.

00:36:26.000 In the final weeks of an election.

00:36:29.000 Touring with Josh Shapiro.

00:36:31.000 Weird how that worked.

00:36:32.000 Super duper duper weird.

00:36:34.000 Meanwhile, by the way, Trump is going to visit with Zelensky today.

00:36:37.000 It's their first meeting since 2019.

00:36:39.000 He said that in a news conference.

00:36:42.000 Apparently, Zelensky confirmed the meeting as well.

00:36:48.000 Trump, for what it's worth, has not said that he's going to withdraw aid from Ukraine.

00:36:51.000 He has not.

00:36:52.000 J.D.

00:36:52.000 Vance has said things like that, but Trump has not said anything like that.

00:36:55.000 Trump has actually made the case pretty obviously that he's going to continue to aid Ukraine, sufficient to get Russia to the table, even if he wants Russia to come to the table with a better deal for Russia than, say, Zelensky wants.

00:37:06.000 Meanwhile, the President of the United States, remember that guy?

00:37:08.000 Remember him?

00:37:09.000 He's still wandering the Earth.

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00:38:11.000 This is something I did not know until the COVID outbreak.

00:38:14.000 70% of physicians are employees.

00:38:16.000 I didn't know that.

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00:38:24.000 And so people just shut the hell up.

00:38:26.000 And you had hospital administrators dictating how doctors treated patients and telling patients to go home, come back when you're O2 sat at 60%.

00:38:34.000 This was astonishing to me.

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00:38:53.000 Well, meanwhile, you remember Joe Biden.

00:38:54.000 He's the president of the United States.

00:38:56.000 It is amazing to me that we've totally forgotten about this.

00:38:58.000 I'll never get over this.

00:38:59.000 I'll never get over the fact that because the Democratic Party wanted you to forget that he is the president, while simultaneously keeping him in place so that she's not the president, Everybody just went along with it.

00:39:09.000 Everybody just forgot that this dead person is the President of the United States.

00:39:12.000 The most powerful person on Earth is a walking corpse.

00:39:15.000 And everyone is just treating that as normal. 0.67

00:39:17.000 It's totally insane.

00:39:19.000 I understand it's all about the campaign.

00:39:20.000 Republicans are focused on Kamala, and Kamala is focused on separating off from Biden.

00:39:24.000 But this guy is still the President.

00:39:25.000 So, Joe Biden yesterday, he did some sort of presser about gun violence.

00:39:30.000 And this is one of his favorite topics to be totally wrong on.

00:39:32.000 So he trotted out many of his favorite lies.

00:39:34.000 He suggested that back at the time of the revolution, it wasn't an unlimited right to have arms.

00:39:39.000 No one could own a cannon.

00:39:40.000 Well, actually, you could.

00:39:41.000 Because he doesn't understand how the Second Amendment was supposed to work in the first place.

00:39:45.000 And then he just lied some more.

00:39:46.000 So he suggested that Secretary Vance, that would be Senator Vance, He's not secretary of anything.

00:39:51.000 Senator Vance, he said that J.D.

00:39:54.000 Vance suggested school shootings are facts of life.

00:39:57.000 This is a lie.

00:39:58.000 This is a lie.

00:39:59.000 J.D.

00:40:00.000 Vance suggested that school shootings have become a fact of life that needs to change.

00:40:04.000 So the opposite of what Joe Biden is suggesting here.

00:40:06.000 But, honest to God, every time you look at Joe Biden, he looks about half a second of development of that last scene of Indiana Jones.

00:40:17.000 And the last crusade.

00:40:19.000 And he's just, he's actively aging before our eyes into a skeleton.

00:40:23.000 When he leaves office, he's just going to be a skeleton that crumbles into, he's not actually going to leave.

00:40:28.000 They're just going to scoop him up off the floor.

00:40:30.000 Here we go.

00:40:32.000 I'm going to be very blunt.

00:40:34.000 Secretary of Defense of Ohio has called these shootings facts of life. 0.89

00:40:39.000 Who the hell do these people think they are?

00:40:40.000 I'm going to get somebody out of Tennessee to take my tank aside. 0.97

00:40:47.000 It is!

00:40:48.000 Who do they think they are?

00:40:50.000 Where's the fact check?

00:40:51.000 Where's Daniel Dale on this one?

00:40:52.000 Over at CNN.

00:40:53.000 Gone?

00:40:53.000 Yeah, I figured.

00:40:55.000 Also, he then did his usual routine.

00:40:57.000 I can't imagine why they replaced him on the ticket.

00:40:59.000 Then he did his usual routine.

00:41:00.000 He tried to trot out Beau Biden's death from brain cancer as somehow akin to gun violence or something. 0.73

00:41:10.000 He's so awful. 0.95

00:41:11.000 He really is. 0.87

00:41:12.000 I mean, I think it's easy to forget how awful he is because he's no longer relevant to our electoral conversation. 0.99

00:41:17.000 He's truly an awful man and an awful president. 0.67

00:41:21.000 I've been to a lot of Shiva houses. 0.99

00:41:22.000 Shiva houses are places you go when somebody has died.

00:41:25.000 It's a house of mourning.

00:41:26.000 When you go there, you know what people who have had people close to them die don't want to hear?

00:41:31.000 About your experiences with how rough your life is when you lost somebody.

00:41:35.000 They don't actually want to hear that.

00:41:37.000 They want you to sit and listen.

00:41:38.000 But every time Joe Biden meets somebody whose family member has died, in any circumstance whatsoever, he starts jabbering about how it's just like Beau.

00:41:48.000 And I gotta tell you, at a certain point, I don't think that it's sincere.

00:41:52.000 I don't think it's been sincere for quite a while.

00:41:54.000 He treats it like any other campaign line at this point.

00:41:57.000 Here it is.

00:41:57.000 I know from experience of other losses that this is bittersweet.

00:42:07.000 We want us to be doing this, but it brings back the very moment it happened.

00:42:12.000 No matter how long since this occurred.

00:42:16.000 You're here, and you remember.

00:42:19.000 Remember the first time you heard my son, my daughter, my mother, my father, my brother, my sister?

00:42:25.000 Somebody.

00:42:27.000 You lost.

00:42:29.000 I know the feeling in a different context.

00:42:33.000 And it's heartbreaking.

00:42:35.000 So thank you for the courage to be here.

00:42:38.000 I know, I know the intensity of your feelings.

00:42:43.000 But thank you, because it really does require to relive the moment it occurred.

00:42:49.000 And that's tough.

00:42:51.000 Oh man, I can't imagine why they defenestrated this guy.

00:42:53.000 Can't imagine at all.

00:42:55.000 Okay, in other news, Eric Adams, it turns out the charges against him are quite severe.

00:43:01.000 The charges are all about him taking about $100,000 in secret benefits, including free flights on a Turkish airline and luxury hotel stays for about a decade.

00:43:10.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, he tried to cover up the perks, including by creating fake paper trails and deleting messages with staffers involved in conduct.

00:43:16.000 The prosecutor said he faces five felony counts, including for bribery, fraud, and soliciting a contribution by a foreign national.

00:43:23.000 Well, the DA, in this case, Damien Williams, U.S.

00:43:25.000 Attorney for the Southern District of New York, he said it was a multi-year scheme to buy favor with a single New York City politician on the rise, Eric Adams.

00:43:32.000 Here was the U.S.

00:43:33.000 Attorney explaining.

00:43:35.000 But as we allege, year after year after year, he kept the public in the dark.

00:43:41.000 He told the public he received no gifts, even though he was secretly being showered with them.

00:43:49.000 Now, obviously, the real problem here is that Eric Adams did it the wrong way.

00:43:53.000 If you're gonna do it the right way, you have your son go to foreign countries and shower him with, like, millions and millions of dollars, and then you have him pay half your family's bills according to his text messages, and then it's totally untraceable, and uncoverable, and nobody notices, and it's all fine, and you're the President of the United States right now.

00:44:11.000 So he just did it wrong, Eric Adams. 0.96

00:44:12.000 He did it the dumb way. 0.98

00:44:14.000 Now, the reality is, I do wonder about the valuation of these gifts. 0.98

00:44:18.000 And they were suggesting that he was staying at hotels in Turkey that cost like tens of thousands of dollars a night.

00:44:23.000 Are there tons of hotels in Turkey that cost tens of thousands of dollars a night?

00:44:26.000 Eric Adams makes the case this is a targeted prosecution, that basically he's being singled out.

00:44:31.000 And two things can be true at once.

00:44:32.000 One, he can have engaged in some bribery, some light bribery.

00:44:37.000 And two, it's also true that probably half the politicians in America have engaged in precisely the same thing.

00:44:41.000 Here's Eric Adams.

00:44:44.000 I think you need to ask the federal prosecutors who gave the directive and the orders.

00:44:49.000 I don't know.

00:44:50.000 We should ask them who gave the directive and orders that we're going to take on and create this group of lies.

00:45:00.000 They have to answer to that question.

00:45:04.000 Apparently, at the request of a Turkish official who helped provide luxury travel, Adams in 2021 helped facilitate the opening of a 36-story Turkish consular building without a fire inspection.

00:45:13.000 That's a biggie.

00:45:14.000 He also stopped associating with a community center affiliated with a political movement that was hostile to the Turkish government.

00:45:21.000 Apparently, the relationship with Turkish officials dates back to 2015 when he took two official trips to the country that were paid for by the Turkish consulate and others.

00:45:28.000 Unlike subsequent travel by Adams, both of those trips were properly reported in mandatory financial disclosure forms as an elected city official.

00:45:35.000 And he enjoyed free perks and at least seven trips overseas, according to prosecutors.

00:45:39.000 He accepted three free business class tickets and a heavily discounted stay at the Bentley Suite at the St.

00:45:44.000 Regis Istanbul.

00:45:46.000 Apparently he'd fly the Turkish airline because of the free tickets, even when it wasn't convenient.

00:45:49.000 I mean, this is the dirty secret about politicians.

00:45:51.000 Very often the corruption is, in fact, penny-ante stuff. 0.99

00:45:54.000 Like, truly penny-ante.

00:45:55.000 Which is why it's so breathtaking what Joe Biden did with Hunter Biden.

00:45:58.000 The only thing that could make the story of Eric Adams' scandal funnier is if Matt Walsh had been there to document it.

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00:46:30.000 Now it turns out there are a bunch of funny things in this particular indictment.

00:46:33.000 Apparently, There was an exchange, a text exchange, between one Turkish entrepreneur, who is referred to in the indictment as the promoter, who spoke with one of Eric Adams' staffers about a scheme to funnel money from that person to the Adams campaign.

00:46:49.000 The staffer was skeptical and thought it could cause a problem.

00:46:51.000 Apparently, Adams then surprised him by giving him the go-ahead.

00:46:55.000 Apparently, also, he agreed with a staffer that their communications should be for their eyes only and they should delete all messages that were sent.

00:47:04.000 It's pretty penny-ante amateur kind of stuff.

00:47:07.000 That doesn't mean, however, that it's not damaging to Eric Adams, which, of course, it absolutely is.

00:47:13.000 All I will say is that if we are going to ferret out corruption in the halls of power, I think we should probably also take a look at Nancy Pelosi's sale of stock.

00:47:22.000 How many times can Nancy Pelosi make a killing on the stock market based on the inside information, allegedly, she has in Congress? 1.00

00:47:29.000 According to Fox Business, Nancy Pelosi is receiving attention once again due to her husband's stock trading, this time over her spouse unloading Visa shares a few months before the federal government sued the company.

00:47:40.000 Apparently, Paul sold 2,000 shares of Visa on July 1st for at least $500,000.

00:47:44.000 And then a few months later, the DOJ filed a lawsuit against Visa.

00:47:52.000 The amount of corruption, the sort of casual corruption that goes on at the highest levels of government in the United States, it's pretty astonishing.

00:47:58.000 I mean, I will say it's less than other countries, but it's still pretty, pretty bad.

00:48:03.000 Alrighty, folks, coming up, we'll get to California, where Gavin Newsom, I don't know what he's running for.

00:48:07.000 Is he running for president of the Socialist Republic of China?

00:48:12.000 I'm not sure exactly what he's doing.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - September 27, 2024

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