The Ben Shapiro Show - The Slow Wave | Ep. 657

00:00:00.000 Democrats gain late, seriously late, ground on Republicans.

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00:01:31.000 OK, so on Tuesday night, it seemed as though the blue wave did not materialize.

00:01:36.000 It was more like a slight blue tide.

00:01:39.000 But as the votes have been tallied, it looks more and more like a slow-moving blue wave.

00:01:45.000 Just to be completely honest about the status of the election, the reality is that early on Tuesday night, there were a couple of races that surprised everybody.

00:01:52.000 The Ohio governor's race, the Ron DeSantis race in Florida, the Rick Scott race in Florida.

00:01:56.000 And because of those surprises, it sort of colored everybody's perception of what had happened in the election.

00:02:03.000 It looked like Democrats would pick up 30, 31, maybe 34 seats at the outside.

00:02:08.000 Now it's looking like by the end of this election, because the votes are still being tallied in some places like California, Democrats could have picked up as many as 40 seats, which is a wave, and that seats that looked like Republicans had won, including in Florida and Arizona, could still be up in the air.

00:02:23.000 Right now, if you had to guess, you would suggest that Kyrsten Sinema, who is a radical leftist, Insane person is going to be the new senator from Arizona over Martha McSally, the first female Air Force pilot to fly in combat. 0.97

00:02:37.000 So the Arizonans apparently picked Kristen Sinema, who in 2003 suggested that she should be okay with Americans joining the Taliban.

00:02:47.000 Over Martha McSally, which means that that Republican margin, plus three in the Senate, goes down to plus two. 0.53

00:02:52.000 Now it also seems that Rick Scott, Rick Scott in Florida, his race is now being upended by late vote counting. 0.98

00:02:59.000 When I say late vote counting, I mean seriously late vote counting, because it turns out that Broward County is just a crap show. 0.98

00:03:05.000 Broward County, of course, the site of the Parkland shooting, and it turns out that Broward law enforcement Well, it turns out that the Broward County electioneering officials, those guys are also terrible. 0.97

00:03:16.000 The election officials also don't know what they are doing.

00:03:19.000 Rick Scott has now filed a lawsuit against those election officials, according to Fox News.

00:03:24.000 Accusing Democrats of conducting a coordinated effort to steal elections in a campaign of possible rampant fraud, Republican Senate candidate Rick Scott filed explosive lawsuits late Thursday against the top election officials in two heavily Democratic counties as they continue to report new votes and three major races in the state appear headed The official in question is named Brenda Snipes.

00:03:43.000 The gubernatorial race also with Ron DeSantis and Andrew Gillum could be headed for a recount.

00:03:48.000 What exactly is the problem?

00:03:49.000 Well, in Broward County, it turns out the officials in Broward County are refusing to even update folks on how many outstanding votes there are or how exactly they are being counted.

00:03:57.000 The official in question is named Brenda Snipes.

00:04:00.000 She is the person who is the supervisor.

00:04:03.000 She and another woman named Susan Butcher.

00:04:05.000 And Rick Scott says it has been over 48 hours since the polls closed and Broward and Palm Beach counties are still finding and counting ballots.

00:04:12.000 And the supervisors, Brenda Snipes and Susan Butcher, cannot seem to say how many ballots still exist or where these ballots come from or where they have been.

00:04:19.000 And so this looks like a blatant attempt to change the results of an election.

00:04:23.000 For example, Brenda Snipes.

00:04:25.000 Again, she's a supervisor in Broward County, whose job it is to oversee these elections. 0.99

00:04:29.000 She's finding votes after the statutory period for vote announcements has already been made.

00:04:34.000 She's still finding votes. 0.99

00:04:36.000 It's just like Florida 2000.

00:04:37.000 Democrats are saying, we don't have to obey any of the rules with regard to counting of votes.

00:04:41.000 Instead, what we're going to do is we're going to say, count every vote and then we'll just find new votes in the back room, Ms.

00:04:47.000 Snipes, can you talk to us at all?

00:04:49.000 You can't speak to us this evening?

00:04:50.000 somewhere.

00:04:51.000 Here's Brenda Snipes dodging questions about how many votes there actually are outstanding. 1.00

00:04:55.000 Miss Snipes, can you talk to us at all?

00:04:58.000 Can you talk, you can't speak to us this evening?

00:05:00.000 Dr. Snipes, why did early voting take so long to count?

00:05:09.000 Okay, now Snipes, if you say that I'm being a little bit too suspicious, it would be worth noting here that Brenda Snipes has been under serious scrutiny as well as she should have been for years because she has been, I think she was actually fired for incompetence under I think she was actually fired for incompetence under Jeb Bush.

00:05:29.000 A long time ago.

00:05:30.000 She is just, she's a terrible official.

00:05:33.000 She's been a terrible official for a long time.

00:05:36.000 In May 2018, she was under fire for gaffes.

00:05:39.000 She vowed that the election would be safe from hackers, but she has a long history of stinking at her job. 1.00

00:05:44.000 On May 11th, a circuit court judge ruled, this is of this year, Brenda Snipes broke federal and state law by too quickly destroying ballots from the August 2016 primaries, even though there was a pending lawsuit seeking access to those ballots. 1.00

00:05:57.000 You understand?

00:05:58.000 The courts told her, don't destroy those ballots because we need to look at the results of primaries there. 0.99

00:06:02.000 She went ahead and destroyed the ballots anyway. 0.82

00:06:04.000 That's not the only problem with Brenda Snipes. 1.00

00:06:06.000 In November 2016 general election, a small number of mailed out ballots were missing the state's medical marijuana referendum.

00:06:12.000 The office attempted to contact voters who returned ballots did not include the referendum question so they could revote.

00:06:19.000 Okay, well, you can't do that.

00:06:21.000 In August 2016, early results were posted online a half an hour before the polls closed.

00:06:26.000 You can't start posting poll results before the polls close.

00:06:30.000 That violates state law.

00:06:32.000 In 2016, the American Civil Rights Union sued Snipes for not doing enough to remove ineligible voters from the county rolls, increasing the potential for voter fraud.

00:06:42.000 Snipes is just, she's a terrible official, she's been a terrible official for a long time. 0.83

00:06:46.000 Rick Scott went after her on Sean Hannity's show, talked about it yesterday.

00:06:50.000 Florida law says that all absentee early voting numbers must be reported within 30 minutes of the polls closing, correct?

00:07:01.000 Absolutely.

00:07:02.000 And those numbers have gone 71,000 votes.

00:07:06.000 Sean, they've found 78,000 new votes since election day two days ago in Broward County and 15,000 more votes in Palm Beach.

00:07:16.000 We don't know how many more votes they're going to come up with.

00:07:19.000 And amazingly, as soon as people started making a fuss about this, including Senator Marco Rubio, suddenly Broward County stopped finding votes.

00:07:26.000 It's just incredible.

00:07:28.000 Marco Rubio tweeted this out yesterday.

00:07:29.000 He tweeted, Florida law requires counties report early voting and vote by mail.

00:07:34.000 That obviously is wildly inappropriate.

00:07:35.000 polls closed.

00:07:36.000 43 hours after polls closed, two Democrat strongholds, Broward County and Palm Beach County, are still counting and refusing to disclose how many ballots they have left to count.

00:07:46.000 That obviously is wildly inappropriate.

00:07:48.000 A mandatory recount now appears imminent not only in Rick Scott race, but also in the Agricultural Commissioner contest and Florida's high-profile gubernatorial brawl between Democrat Andrew Gillum and Republican Ron DeSantis based on new vote totals, even though Gillum has already conceded.

00:08:02.000 He says that he wants the recounts, although he is not unconceded.

00:08:06.000 Scott says, we have no idea how many votes they're going to come up with, but they're going to try and keep counting until they win the election, basically.

00:08:11.000 We're just going to keep finding votes.

00:08:14.000 In random places.

00:08:15.000 The National Republican Senatorial Committee specifically alleges that Snipes is in violation of the Florida Constitution and the Florida Public Records Act.

00:08:22.000 It demands an emergency hearing as well as a court order requiring Snipes to turn over information about ballots in Broward County.

00:08:29.000 Scott's complaints against Palm Beach County Supervisor of Election Susan Butcher, meanwhile, alleges first that officials there illegally refuse to allow Republicans or any witnesses to monitor the county's handling of damaged absentee ballots.

00:08:42.000 According to Scott, the officials there failed to allow the Palm Beach County Canvassing Board to determine which damaged or improperly filled out absentee ballots were valid and how the voters of those ballots had intended to vote.

00:08:54.000 Instead, Butcher and her staff simply did what we remember from 2000, where they were basically looking into their heart to determine how people voted.

00:09:02.000 Well, if a Democrat looks into a Democrat's heart to determine how a possible Democrat voted, I think we can all determine what exactly that vote will look like.

00:09:10.000 The lawsuit that Scott has filed against Butcher requires an injunction, demands an injunction requiring Butcher to make and compare duplicate copies of all damaged absentee ballots in the presence of Scott's representatives, which seems totally fair, and to allow the Palm Beach County Canvassing Board to determine voters' intent when counting those ballots.

00:09:26.000 I mean, this is amazing, amazing stuff.

00:09:28.000 Rubio has pointed to the slow drip of tens of thousands of additional ballots that were reported throughout the day Thursday, most of which were favorable to several Democratic candidates.

00:09:37.000 Isn't it weird how every recount, every recount always seems to favor the Democrats?

00:09:42.000 Isn't that very weird?

00:09:43.000 How every single recount, it's like across the country, it always seems to favor Democrats in counties where Democratic officials are in charge of the elections.

00:09:52.000 Weird.

00:09:52.000 Just weird.

00:09:54.000 So obviously, all of this should be deeply troubling to Republicans.

00:09:58.000 With all of that said, it is pretty obvious that the 2018 message is that Republicans have a problem.

00:10:05.000 If Rick Scott loses that seat in Florida, that means the Republicans end up with a net gain of just one in the Senate, leaving them with 52 senators.

00:10:12.000 Which would be a serious, serious, serious problem.

00:10:16.000 If they end up with 52 senators, that is not enough to provide a bulwark against the 2020 senatorial elections, in which case the Democrats could theoretically sweep all three chambers of Congress.

00:10:27.000 All three chambers.

00:10:28.000 The House, the Senate, the Presidency.

00:10:30.000 They could sweep all of them in 2020 if Republicans don't have enough of a buffer zone. 0.99

00:10:35.000 And this does lead us to have to recapitulate some of our analysis about the 2018 election, about the midterms.

00:10:41.000 Because the sort of comfortable analysis was that it had not been a wave, that Democrats had not scored wins across the board, people like Beto O'Rourke.

00:10:51.000 In Texas had gone down.

00:10:52.000 The Republicans don't really have as much of a problem as people are suggesting because they retained the governor's house in Ohio as well as in Florida.

00:10:59.000 But if it turns out that by the end of all of this Democrats won more seats than they did in 2006, and they were able to only hold the Republican wins to plus one, and they were able to take a couple of formerly Republican seats in the Senate, In Nevada and in Arizona?

00:11:17.000 That it should be a wake-up call to Republicans.

00:11:19.000 Will it be a wake-up call to Republicans?

00:11:21.000 Maybe not.

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00:12:34.000 Okay, with all of the talk...

00:12:37.000 about the shift in the senatorial election in Arizona, where, again, it is astonishing that Kyrsten Sinema could be sitting in the Senate.

00:12:42.000 She is as far left as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in every possible way. 0.81

00:12:47.000 She's a true, deep blue progressive.

00:12:50.000 She takes that seat from Martha McSally in all likelihood. 0.66

00:12:53.000 That means that we have to reevaluate again where we stand in this election.

00:12:57.000 If this was a blue wave, that should be a wake-up call to Republicans.

00:12:59.000 Is it going to be a wake-up call to Republicans?

00:13:02.000 Probably not.

00:13:03.000 Probably not, because everyone has sort of Locked into their narrative about what American politics is right now.

00:13:09.000 The right has locked into the narrative that President Trump is a magical, magical man who can simply conjure victory out of the jaws of defeat, thanks to 2016.

00:13:16.000 And so it doesn't matter what the data says.

00:13:18.000 It doesn't even matter what the elections say.

00:13:20.000 All that matters is that we rely on President Trump to save us.

00:13:23.000 I don't think that President Trump would want you to rely on President Trump to save us.

00:13:26.000 I think the fact is that if Republicans want to win, they're going to have to shift strategy.

00:13:30.000 That doesn't mean shift policy, but it does mean That Martha McSally would have won that seat in Arizona, in all likelihood, if it had not been for President Trump demagoguing immigration in the last three weeks of the campaign.

00:13:42.000 The Republican losses in the House would have been mitigated if President Trump hadn't made himself unpalatable in suburban Republican districts like the Georgia 6th.

00:13:49.000 These are actual problems for Republicans, and if they fail to recognize these as actual problems because they're too ensconced in the magical thinking that President Trump can suddenly conjure victory out of defeat out of thin air, they're likely to feel the effects of that.

00:14:06.000 And where you're really seeing this is with regard to young people.

00:14:09.000 I've been warning about this on this program for literally years.

00:14:12.000 We have the largest young audience of conservatives and probably non-conservatives who listen to conservative shows in America.

00:14:21.000 We have literally hundreds of thousands of young people who listen to this show every single day.

00:14:24.000 70% of our audience is under the age of 35.

00:14:28.000 With all of that said, I talk to young people probably more than anybody else in the conservative movement.

00:14:33.000 Young people do not like President Trump.

00:14:35.000 Young people are off-put by his antics.

00:14:37.000 Young people are forming a larger and larger percentage of the electorate.

00:14:41.000 And that is a serious problem for Republicans.

00:14:43.000 I'm going to show you a bizarre poll.

00:14:45.000 One that you would not expect.

00:14:47.000 This one comes from Texas.

00:14:49.000 And here's a question.

00:14:50.000 It's from CNN's exit polls.

00:14:51.000 How long have you lived in Texas?

00:14:53.000 People who were born in Texas, people who have moved to Texas.

00:14:56.000 Among people who were born in Texas, which is 58% of the people polled, 51% voted for Beto O'Rourke, 48% voted for Ted Cruz.

00:15:01.000 percent voted for Beto O'Rourke.

00:15:02.000 Forty eight percent voted for Ted Cruz.

00:15:04.000 Among those who moved to Texas, only 42 percent voted for Beto O'Rourke.

00:15:10.000 Fifty seven percent voted for Ted Cruz.

00:15:11.000 This is sort of counterintuitive, isn't it?

00:15:15.000 You would have thought that it is all of the outsiders coming from LA and San Francisco and blue areas around the country moving to Texas that are turning the state purple.

00:15:23.000 That's not what's happening.

00:15:24.000 What's happening is that people who are older and are sick of doing business in California are moving to Texas.

00:15:29.000 People who are in New York and don't want to pay those taxes, those people are moving to Texas.

00:15:33.000 Those people are voting for Ted Cruz.

00:15:35.000 They're expatriates from leftism.

00:15:37.000 The people who are born in Texas, namely the younger contingent, those people, those people are voting for Beto O'Rourke.

00:15:43.000 There is a generational problem for Republicans here, and that is a generational problem that is only going to grow if they don't look reality in the face.

00:15:51.000 So in a second, we'll talk about how Democrats could still blow this because there is that possibility.

00:15:56.000 So here's the thing.

00:15:58.000 Republicans can blow this by ignoring the problem that's looking them right in the face, namely a generational shift in which a lot of Americans do not like President Trump and they think that Republicans are character free.

00:16:08.000 It's a serious problem for Republicans.

00:16:09.000 If they fail to recognize this, they're going to keep getting shellacked.

00:16:12.000 By the same token, Folks on the left who are suggesting that they can win simply by calling Republicans racist, that is not true either.

00:16:21.000 Whichever party realizes first that the battle is in suburbia is going to win the 2020 election and will have a shot at consolidating gains in the other chambers of Congress.

00:16:30.000 If Republicans realize they need to make some outreach efforts toward the suburbs, they'll be okay.

00:16:35.000 If they don't, they'll get swamped.

00:16:37.000 If Democrats continue to run radical leftists, they will lose.

00:16:41.000 If they start running folks who are more moderate in purple areas, they will win.

00:16:45.000 And Republicans will lose.

00:16:47.000 Now, here's where there could be a theoretical silver lining to what is happening in Arizona, where again, I'm devastated that Martha McSally is probably going to lose to Kristen Sinema. 0.99

00:16:57.000 The silver lining there is that maybe it'll be a wake-up call to Republicans that they can't just bank on the magic.

00:17:03.000 And maybe it'll be deceptive Democrats who believe they can run candidates like Kyrsten Sinema all across the country and somehow pull out victory.

00:17:10.000 Now, if Democrats were smart, looking forward to 2020, Democrats would be looking to candidates who are more moderate in orientation.

00:17:17.000 They would be looking, for example, to theoretically Joe Biden, right, because he has sort of a blue-collar appeal and is considered more moderate, even though he's not politically moderate.

00:17:25.000 They would be looking at folks like Amy Klobuchar over in Minnesota, the only Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee who acquitted herself at all well during the Kavanaugh hearings and who just won a blowout election in Minnesota, which is a hotly contested state.

00:17:38.000 Klobuchar would be a pretty good 2020 candidate for Democrats. 0.90

00:17:41.000 In all likelihood, they are going to be deceived by the fool's goal that is progressive victory. 0.96

00:17:46.000 They think that if they run a serious progressive, then they are going to win again, simply by shouting about how mean President Trump is. 0.95

00:17:51.000 That's why there is still a lot of focus on Beto O'Rourke.

00:17:54.000 It turns out that Democrats are trying to push Beto O'Rourke for the national spotlight, even though he lost in the state of Texas.

00:18:02.000 And remember, Trump wasn't on the ballot in Texas, okay?

00:18:04.000 If Trump had been on the ballot versus Beto O'Rourke, that is not a 51-48 election.

00:18:07.000 That is a 55-45 election.

00:18:10.000 In any case, CNN reports that Beto O'Rourke's closer-than-expected loss Tuesday has fueled optimism among his friends and allies, as well as Democratic admirers around the country, that he will run for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

00:18:22.000 O'Rourke smashed online fundraising records, and he huddled with senior campaign aides Wednesday in El Paso, offered them no indication of future political plans.

00:18:30.000 But there have been very initial discussions with O'Rourke in recent weeks about the prospect of a 2020 bid.

00:18:35.000 This is the one area where Democrats did come up short.

00:18:37.000 They don't have a national candidate in 2020.

00:18:39.000 They were hoping O'Rourke would win in Texas, and then he'd be the de facto frontrunner in 2020.

00:18:43.000 He didn't.

00:18:44.000 They're hoping Andrew Gillum would win in Florida.

00:18:46.000 He'd be the de facto frontrunner in 2020.

00:18:47.000 He didn't.

00:18:49.000 So, they've been left a little bit leaderless at the top, but that is not necessarily a problem for them if they select somebody who actually is moderate.

00:18:57.000 Chances are, however, that they will not.

00:18:58.000 That they are going to double down on simple hatred of Trump as the only talking point for getting rid of Trump.

00:19:04.000 Now, the thing about that is that it's effective where it's effective.

00:19:08.000 Dislike for President Trump was very effective in the suburbs because Trump makes himself disliked.

00:19:14.000 And you can see Democrats are already trotting out their talking points for 2020 on this score.

00:19:18.000 Michelle Obama, for example, has a new book out in which she savages President Trump.

00:19:23.000 She says in her new book that Donald Trump sends the message, I can hurt you and get away with it.

00:19:28.000 There's been some kind of soft patter about Michelle Obama running for president herself in 2020.

00:19:33.000 Truth be told, she'd be a very dangerous candidate.

00:19:35.000 The AP reports that Michelle Obama denounced Trump for bragging in 2005 on the infamous Hollywood tape about sexually assaulting women, and she accuses him of using body language to stalk Hillary Clinton during an election debate. 1.00

00:19:45.000 That was idiotic. 0.99

00:19:46.000 That was not a thing that happened. 1.00

00:19:47.000 And she writes of Trump following Clinton around the stage, trying to diminish her presence.

00:19:51.000 Trump's message, according to Obama, in words which appear in the book in darkened print, I can hurt you and get away with it.

00:19:58.000 So this is going to be the pitch for Democrats come 2020.

00:20:01.000 Now, the way to cut back against all of that, obviously, is for President Trump to not feel particularly threatening, for him to be aggressive where he needs to be aggressive, but to be less than aggressive where he does not need to be aggressive.

00:20:11.000 Unfortunately, the president's aggressive streak is not confined to areas in which it helps him.

00:20:17.000 And that's a problem for him.

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00:21:36.000 Okay, so President Trump is making himself more polarizing, not less polarizing.

00:21:41.000 He did this in the lead up to the election and he is now doing it in the aftermath of the election.

00:21:45.000 He's obviously irritated with the press.

00:21:47.000 There's been some fallout from his willingness to go after Jim Acosta. 0.99

00:21:52.000 Now, as I said yesterday on the show, Jim Acosta is a schmuck. 0.99

00:21:56.000 No, find you somebody who loves you, like Jim Acosta loves Jim Acosta. 0.98

00:21:59.000 Like Jim Acosta, while maintaining that his First Amendment rights have been deeply violated, he's flown to Paris to cover the White House.

00:22:06.000 So he's like taking selfies outside the Eiffel Tower.

00:22:09.000 That's, I mean...

00:22:11.000 This is obviously Nazi Germany.

00:22:12.000 He obviously has a very rough life, does Jim Acosta.

00:22:17.000 Well, President Trump has decided that he is angry at the entire press corps right now, which, again, is not unfitting.

00:22:22.000 The press corps has been terrible to President Trump.

00:22:24.000 President Trump has responded in kind, but President Trump Do you expect Matt Whitaker to be involved in the Russia probe?

00:22:32.000 He did a press scrum as he was on his way to the helicopter today.

00:22:37.000 And he was walking out to the helicopter.

00:22:39.000 The press starts asking him questions.

00:22:40.000 And here is how it went.

00:22:42.000 You expect Matt Whitaker to be involved in the Russia probe.

00:22:46.000 Do you want him to...

00:22:47.000 It's up to him.

00:22:48.000 Do you want him to rein in Robert Mueller? 1.00

00:22:50.000 What a stupid question that is. 1.00

00:22:55.000 What a stupid question. 1.00

00:22:56.000 But I watch you a lot. 1.00

00:22:57.000 You ask a lot of stupid questions. 1.00

00:23:01.000 Yes, and Trump obviously has about had it with the questions he's getting from the press. 1.00

00:23:05.000 That is not the same thing, by the way, as him being a person cracking down on the First Amendment or we're in the throes of fascism or something. 0.99

00:23:13.000 It's not that stupid a question, honestly. 0.92

00:23:15.000 Like, people are wondering whether Attorney General, Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker is going to crack down on Mueller. 0.98

00:23:21.000 I don't think he is.

00:23:22.000 There's no evidence that he is.

00:23:24.000 With that said, that's the natural consequence of firing Jeff Sessions, who had recused himself from the Russia probe, where Whitaker will not.

00:23:30.000 And then it gets even better.

00:23:31.000 President Trump goes after April Ryan, so he's talking about Jim Acosta from CNN.

00:23:38.000 I mean, I do this on a regular basis, right?

00:23:39.000 I speak publicly.

00:23:40.000 I'm on the radio.

00:23:41.000 I'm on Twitter. 0.94

00:23:41.000 April Ryan deserves to be blasted by President Trump. 0.94

00:23:44.000 The problem is whenever you speak, I mean, I do this on a regular basis, right?

00:23:48.000 I speak publicly.

00:23:49.000 I'm on the radio.

00:23:50.000 I'm on Twitter.

00:23:51.000 I write for a variety of websites and outlets.

00:23:54.000 You have to consider your audience, right?

00:23:56.000 When President Trump does this stuff, is his audience the press?

00:23:58.000 Is his audience the base?

00:23:59.000 Or is his audience those people in suburbia?

00:24:01.000 If the president directed his mind toward the people in suburbia, what do I need to do to win those people over?

00:24:06.000 I think that he'd be a lot more effective than directing his mind toward the people he is talking to right in front of him.

00:24:12.000 Talking to his base, talking to any other group of people.

00:24:16.000 The only people in America who matter politically right now, because everybody else is locked into their position.

00:24:20.000 The only people who matter politically right now are those folks in suburbia.

00:24:23.000 The question is, does this stuff help or hurt for President Trump?

00:24:27.000 So here's President Trump going after April Ryan.

00:24:29.000 The same thing with April Ryan. 0.88

00:24:31.000 I watch her get up. 0.99

00:24:33.000 I mean, you talk about somebody that's a loser. 0.99

00:24:36.000 She doesn't know what the hell she's doing. 0.98

00:24:38.000 She gets publicity, and then she gets a pay raise, or she gets a contract with, I think, CNN. 0.97

00:24:44.000 But she's very nasty, and she shouldn't be. 1.00

00:24:48.000 She shouldn't be. 0.87

00:24:49.000 Okay, fact check true on all of that, right?

00:24:51.000 I mean, he also said about Jim Acosta that Jim Acosta isn't very bright, but he is very loud.

00:24:54.000 Also, fact check true.

00:24:56.000 All of this is true.

00:24:57.000 The only question is whether it is effective.

00:25:00.000 True and effective are not necessarily the same thing.

00:25:01.000 That doesn't mean lie, but it does mean that sometimes you don't say everything that comes through your head, because it provides fodder for the other side.

00:25:11.000 Now, to be fair, the Democrats are obviously being dishonest about everything that is going on with the Mueller probe.

00:25:16.000 The Mueller probe is moving forth with speed.

00:25:18.000 They're going to issue a report probably in the near future.

00:25:21.000 That's not stopping the Democrats from claiming that Trump is trying to quash the Mueller probe.

00:25:24.000 That's because, originally, their claim was that the Mueller probe was going to uncover terrible wrongdoing between the Trump campaign and the Russians.

00:25:31.000 As hopes of that have faded, it has moved into, well, maybe the Mueller probe will uncover obstruction.

00:25:36.000 Maybe what they'll uncover is President Trump trying to stop a full investigation.

00:25:40.000 As those hopes faded, it turned into, well, maybe Trump will try to obstruct the Mueller investigation, and then we can get him for obstruction of the investigation of his obstruction into a collusion that did not occur.

00:25:51.000 Right?

00:25:52.000 This is where Democrats are going.

00:25:53.000 Now, Nancy Pelosi tried to make that case. 1.00

00:25:55.000 She says that President Trump fired Jeff Sessions to interfere with Robert Mueller.

00:25:59.000 Well, I think the latter is the primary purpose, is to interfere with the Mueller purpose.

00:26:04.000 The timing of the Mueller investigation, the timing of it was, of course, to distract from the big defeat that the President suffered in terms of our taking the House.

00:26:15.000 Okay, so she says that she thinks that the president is apparently going to interfere with Mueller.

00:26:20.000 Again, this is a pipe dream for Democrats, but... And it is a lie.

00:26:23.000 There has been not a... Seriously, there is no evidence whatsoever, none, that President Trump has somehow hamstrung the Mueller investigation.

00:26:31.000 James Comey said as much.

00:26:33.000 Mueller has said as much.

00:26:34.000 There is no evidence of that.

00:26:36.000 Comey said this in open testimony.

00:26:37.000 He was asked, OK, do you think that President Trump shut down the investigation in any effective way?

00:26:41.000 He said no.

00:26:42.000 He said no.

00:26:43.000 That's not stopping the Democrats from jumping on this bandwagon, though.

00:26:46.000 Richard Blumenthal, who's just terrible, the senator from Connecticut, he says that democracy is under attack because Jeff Sessions was fired.

00:26:53.000 Now, I do love that the same Democrats who say that Jeff Sessions is evil That Jeff Sessions is a neo-confederate?

00:26:59.000 These same Democrats are very, very upset that Jeff Sessions would be fired by President Trump.

00:27:04.000 Here's Richard Blumenthal, who like five minutes ago was ripping on Sessions, now ripping on Trump for firing Sessions.

00:27:10.000 It is a break-the-glass moment, an attack on our democracy, and it should precipitate exactly the kind of firestorm that we saw in the wake of the Saturday Night Massacre under Richard Nixon.

00:27:22.000 It is, in effect, a slow-motion Saturday Night Massacre.

00:27:25.000 No, it isn't.

00:27:26.000 The Saturday Night Massacre was a deliberate and open attempt to fire the special prosecutor in the case.

00:27:32.000 A Saturday Night Massacre here would be Trump firing Mueller.

00:27:35.000 That would be a Saturday Night Massacre.

00:27:36.000 Him firing Jeff Sessions is not a Saturday Night Massacre.

00:27:39.000 And unless you can come up with any evidence to the contrary, you're just fibbing.

00:27:42.000 The funniest part of this is, I do love this, thousands of protesters showed up on the streets in New York City, and it's like they have nothing better to do in New York.

00:27:49.000 And I don't know what they do at night.

00:27:51.000 It seems like there's a good nightlife in New York, right?

00:27:52.000 There are things to do.

00:27:53.000 They go to Broadway.

00:27:54.000 Madison Square Garden still has Knicks games.

00:27:56.000 There are things happening in New York, but apparently, Not so much, because if you drop a hat in New York, people will gather and protest.

00:28:04.000 Last night, I kid you not, they were actually protesting against the firing of Jeff Sessions, a man they despise.

00:28:11.000 All President Trump really has to do to gain their love is President Trump has to fire President Trump.

00:28:17.000 Democrats will turn him into a hero, and then President Trump will be able to run against President Trump in 2020 on the Democratic ticket, and he will win.

00:28:26.000 That should be the actual strategy.

00:28:30.000 I love this.

00:28:30.000 They're wandering around shouting, let's go Mueller.

00:28:36.000 And there are pictures of Trump being arrested with signs that say, just do it.

00:28:41.000 And people carrying the baby Trump balloon.

00:28:43.000 Thousands of people marching in New York City for no apparent reason.

00:28:46.000 So well done, everybody.

00:28:47.000 As I say, President Trump should fire President Trump and then run on the Democratic ticket as somebody who was fired by President Trump.

00:28:54.000 He can run against himself and then he'll win, presumably.

00:28:56.000 So that I think is best strategy.

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00:32:42.000 Now, just before we get to the mailbag, I do want to make one note.

00:32:51.000 There is a hot topic out there right now about whether, in fact, there is a reason that the current acting AG, Matt Whitaker, should not be allowed to be the acting AG.

00:33:05.000 There's a... there's...

00:33:08.000 A lawyer named John Yoo, who served under the Bush administration.

00:33:11.000 There's another lawyer named George Conway, who of course is the husband of Kellyanne Conway.

00:33:15.000 They have read, they've written a piece for the Washington Post, in which they talk about Matt Whitaker not having been subjected to confirmation by the Senate, and so him taking a position for which he has not been confirmed is probably illegal.

00:33:27.000 Clarence Thomas has felt the same.

00:33:29.000 John Yoo says, quote, the Constitution says that principal officers must go through appointment with the advice and consent of the Senate.

00:33:36.000 In Morrison v Olson, the Supreme Court made clear that the Attorney General is a principal officer.

00:33:40.000 Therefore, Whitaker cannot serve as acting AG despite the Vacancies Act, which does provide for him to be acting AG.

00:33:46.000 The statute is unconstitutional when applied in this way.

00:33:48.000 The reason that it was okay for, for example, the, the after, uh, after Well, originally, there have been a couple of cases where acting AGs have taken over, obviously.

00:34:00.000 But those cases in which acting AGs took over, they had already been confirmed by the Senate in a different capacity.

00:34:05.000 That has not actually happened with Matt Whitaker.

00:34:07.000 So this is an actual serious, it's an actual serious issue.

00:34:11.000 Does it really mean anything for the long haul, though?

00:34:13.000 Because the president does have a majority in the Senate, which means that he is going to get his AG pick.

00:34:17.000 There's been a lot of talk about Chris Christie, which will just be a blast.

00:34:19.000 So, good times.

00:34:21.000 Okay, let's do a little bit of mailbagging it up.

00:34:23.000 It's been a long week.

00:34:23.000 Let's do some mailbagging.

00:34:26.000 My husband got me hooked on your podcast.

00:34:27.000 I don't miss a day.

00:34:28.000 My kids ask me if I'm listening to Ben Shapiro when you're on.

00:34:31.000 I have three kids, five, four, 15 months.

00:34:33.000 My two oldest girls love classical music.

00:34:35.000 They've watched The Little Einsteins, a show that teaches about different composers, as well as listen to the classical kids' CDs.

00:34:40.000 They know many composers just by hearing a piece.

00:34:42.000 My question is, what else can I do to expose them to the classics?

00:34:44.000 Well, number one, if you have a five-year-old, then you should get your kid into actually taking lessons.

00:34:49.000 My four-and-a-half-year-old Is taking violin lessons right now.

00:34:52.000 The hard part is getting her to practice because she does not like practicing, but she does love her lessons.

00:34:57.000 And so if I tell her that she has to practice or there will be no lessons, then she practices.

00:35:01.000 My two and a half year old son can't wait to take music lessons.

00:35:04.000 I think that the best way to engage with classical music is not only to engage directly by listening, but also by playing classical music.

00:35:11.000 What else can you do to expose them?

00:35:12.000 Well, I mean, my four and a half year old has been with me to actual concerts.

00:35:16.000 Like I took her to the Hollywood Bowl.

00:35:18.000 For Star Wars Night, as well as for a Grieg concert.

00:35:20.000 She was really great.

00:35:21.000 She sat through the entire thing.

00:35:22.000 So, you can do that as well.

00:35:25.000 I should come up with a list of sort of classical-friendly pieces.

00:35:28.000 Honestly, another great way, if they watch TV, is the old cartoons have a lot of classical music.

00:35:32.000 We played one, or a couple of them last week, in which, like, there's a Tom and Jerry cartoon that has Liszt.

00:35:37.000 There's a Bugs Bunny cartoon that has Rossini.

00:35:40.000 There are a bunch of different old cartoons that have classical music, because they're a little too young to watch Amadeus.

00:35:45.000 Melanie says, Yeah, I do think that it is driving people toward a more polarized view of their neighbors, and that makes them more susceptible to racism on both left and right.

00:36:04.000 So I think that what you're seeing is, on the left, openly racist talk about, for example, the shortcomings of white women.

00:36:11.000 Which has become an actual talking point on the left.

00:36:13.000 And on the right, what you're seeing is a bunch of folks who are responding to the intersectionality of left by saying, well, why can't we have an identity politics of our own?

00:36:20.000 And there are black folks who say we need to vote like black folks. 0.96

00:36:23.000 And there are brown folks who say we need to vote like brown folks. 0.98

00:36:25.000 Well, why can't we say we need to vote like white folks? 0.96

00:36:28.000 Because that's racist.

00:36:29.000 So I do think that reactionary politics has made things a lot more racially polarized, if not outright racist.

00:36:35.000 Well, Clarence Thomas, how old is Clarence Thomas right now?

00:36:37.000 Trump will get the chance to replace his president.

00:36:39.000 Many are watching for Ginsburg.

00:36:40.000 I've heard Clarence Thomas may take an early retirement.

00:36:42.000 What are your thoughts?

00:36:43.000 Well, Clarence Thomas, how old is Clarence Thomas right now?

00:36:46.000 So he is 70 years old.

00:36:49.000 I think he's a little young to retire.

00:36:51.000 I don't think that he's going to retire in the next couple of years.

00:36:54.000 I think more likely that he tries to hold out.

00:36:57.000 The justices who are most likely to retire right now are Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer.

00:37:03.000 They are the oldest.

00:37:04.000 So Ruth Bader Ginsburg, of course, is now 85 years old, and Stephen Breyer is the second oldest justice on the Supreme Court.

00:37:12.000 He is 80 years old.

00:37:14.000 So those would be the two who are most likely to have health problems, just based on age.

00:37:18.000 I think that President Trump, if he's lucky, will get one more, and that may be Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but she's going to hold on by the skin of her teeth because she doesn't want to be replaced by a Republican, obviously. 0.87

00:37:27.000 Scott says, hey, man, love the show.

00:37:28.000 I'm a proud Tumblr owner.

00:37:29.000 Do you think the left will ever be successful in getting rid of the Electoral College?

00:37:32.000 What do you think is the best argument in favor of the Electoral College?

00:37:34.000 Well, the best argument in favor of the Electoral College is that it doesn't allow urban areas to completely dominate rural areas in the same way that the Senate of the United States doesn't allow urban areas to completely dominate rural areas of the country.

00:37:45.000 And the Constitution was, in fact, a pact between the states as well as of the people more broadly, as we've explained in our Federalist paper series, uh, So the states are never going to approve of this, okay?

00:37:56.000 Because in order for there to be an amendment to the Constitution getting rid of the Electoral College, you need two-thirds of states to approve.

00:38:02.000 If you think that states like Montana are going to approve of California simply being able to outvote the rest of the country based on population, not a thing that is going to happen.

00:38:14.000 I'm not sure there's ever a way to prevent mass shootings.

00:38:16.000 Even in heavily gun-controlled countries where basically there's been gun confiscation, mass shootings are still present.

00:38:21.000 Look to places like Norway.

00:38:23.000 Look to places like Denmark.

00:38:26.000 There have been some mass shootings, I believe.

00:38:27.000 In France, obviously, there have been a bunch of mass shootings.

00:38:30.000 The best solution, honestly, is that highly trafficked areas must have armed security.

00:38:35.000 They must have armed security guards.

00:38:37.000 In fact, I've been urging some friends over at the NRA to start a fund to help not only protect schools, but also protect churches, synagogues, mosques from the possibility of mass shooting.

00:38:49.000 Well, my favorite place to vacation is Hawaii, just because everybody speaks English, so I don't actually have to work to try and communicate with the locals.

00:39:01.000 It has American standards of living, so you don't actually have to worry about the water, for example.

00:39:06.000 And Hawaii is paradise, man.

00:39:08.000 Hawaii is just spectacular.

00:39:09.000 And I've been on most of the islands over there.

00:39:11.000 It's pretty amazing.

00:39:13.000 If I could visit anywhere in the world, where would it be?

00:39:15.000 Yeah, I've been thinking about this a lot lately.

00:39:18.000 There are a lot of places I'd like to visit.

00:39:19.000 I'd actually like to visit Austria because I'd like to see Salzburg and Vienna.

00:39:25.000 I would like to visit the Far East.

00:39:28.000 I'd like to visit Japan.

00:39:29.000 I think that'd be really interesting.

00:39:31.000 When I actually have time, right, when my wife and I retire in, what is it now, 35 years, then...

00:39:38.000 Then I guess that we'll probably be doing a fair bit of traveling because we really do like traveling together, obviously.

00:39:43.000 But there are so many great places to visit, and I feel like I'm not well-traveled enough.

00:39:46.000 Joe says, Well, the first thing you have to do is you have to come up with an actual chapter-by-chapter outline and figure out what you're going to say within each chapter, including subsections within each chapter.

00:40:00.000 Now, I've written fiction.

00:40:01.000 I've written nonfiction.

00:40:02.000 Nonfiction is a lot easier for me than fiction.

00:40:04.000 For some people, it's the opposite.

00:40:06.000 I know that I've talked to Andrew Klavan, my friend and colleague here over at The Daily Wire about this.

00:40:10.000 He writes fiction for a living and he spends an awful lot of time outlining, creating character profiles, really trying to map everything out in advance that by the time you sit down, it's really about execution and not about necessarily just going wherever the story takes you.

00:40:24.000 I think that's true in nonfiction too.

00:40:26.000 You should be trying to map out what you think before you actually start putting pen to paper.

00:40:30.000 And then when you get good enough, when you've done it enough times, then your brain sort of starts structuring things automatically like that before you even sit down.

00:40:37.000 Dan says, I'm currently a college student at St.

00:40:39.000 Louis Community College.

00:40:41.000 This is my first time managing a political campaign.

00:40:43.000 I'm moving to the capital of Missouri to work as my representative's legislative assistant.

00:40:47.000 Any advice for a young woman in my position to help me continue climbing the ladder without straying from my own values?

00:40:51.000 My boss is Republican.

00:40:52.000 Any advice on some issues we should focus on?

00:40:54.000 This next year, obviously, the life issue in Missouri, I think, would be supremely useful.

00:40:59.000 I think that in Missouri, protecting religious freedom would be really useful.

00:41:06.000 That's beyond sort of getting out of the crony capitalism that all state governments are involved in.

00:41:10.000 Anything you can do to cut the budget would be useful as well, though those are broad priorities.

00:41:14.000 But as far as keeping your principles, this is what I said to a bunch of staffers on the Hill in Washington, D.C.

00:41:19.000 a few months ago.

00:41:20.000 We interviewed Speaker of the House Ryan back a few months ago, and it was a snow day, so I was supposed to speak at Georgetown.

00:41:26.000 The speech got canceled, so we had a little extra time.

00:41:28.000 So we called sort of an impromptu, an impromptu basically get-together with all the congressional staffers who wanted to come.

00:41:34.000 Several hundred showed up.

00:41:34.000 It was really fun.

00:41:36.000 And what I said to all the congressional staffers is that they have a harder job than I do.

00:41:39.000 My job is to come here and tell you what I think on a pure intellectual and philosophical level, and tell you where particular policies stray from that purity.

00:41:48.000 The job of a lot of folks in Congress is to try and get the best deal they can in line with that philosophy.

00:41:53.000 Well, making a deal always means straying from that philosophy a little bit.

00:41:55.000 The best thing that you can do to keep your soul is to recognize where you are straying from your core ideology and core philosophy, be honest about it, say, yeah, I'm getting the best deal that I can, but I understand this isn't the best deal that is necessarily possible in the greatest of all possible worlds where I control everything.

00:42:11.000 Now, understanding where you stray and not making excuses for that straying, but simply saying, listen, things have to get done.

00:42:16.000 It's a much more practical and a much more honest way of doing politics than simply saying this is the best deal that ever was.

00:42:22.000 Christy says, Hi Ben.

00:42:23.000 Thank you for being a reliable source of sane insight on an insane world.

00:42:26.000 An insane world.

00:42:26.000 I'm wondering what your opinion is on flu shots specifically for my children.

00:42:29.000 Do your kids get flu shots?

00:42:31.000 Every source I find recommends it, yet my husband doesn't want our kids to get it.

00:42:33.000 He claims the benefits don't outweigh the risks.

00:42:35.000 We've both done a fair amount of research.

00:42:36.000 We have come to a stalemate.

00:42:37.000 We could use some words of wisdom from a guy with a doctor for a wife.

00:42:40.000 Thanks.

00:42:41.000 Indeed.

00:42:41.000 So we do get the flu shot.

00:42:43.000 The flu shot is one of the less effective shots.

00:42:46.000 In the United States, simply because it only controls for one strain of the virus, and they sort of bet on what they think is going to be the most prominent virus, and then other flus go around.

00:42:55.000 Now, there is serious danger in people not getting flu shots, because it turns out that sometimes, in many cases, the government is right in the flu shot that they determine is going to be the most necessary.

00:43:06.000 And the number of people who have been dying of the flu on a year-over-year basis has been increasing.

00:43:10.000 Specifically because people are not getting flu shots.

00:43:12.000 So I'm very much in favor of vaccines generally.

00:43:15.000 I'm very much in favor of the flu vaccine.

00:43:18.000 But recognize the flu vaccine is not a cure-all because it is not actually a flu shot.

00:43:21.000 It is a particular strain of the flu shot.

00:43:23.000 William says, Well, I think that's probably true that Ohio is moving in the direction of a non-swing state.

00:43:37.000 That is because Ohio has a heavy rural population and because a lot of the people who'd be heading to urban populations are actually heading out of state in Ohio.

00:43:44.000 Ohio's an interesting state because the population in some ways is getting more rural.

00:43:48.000 It is still heavily blue-collar.

00:43:49.000 Fewer people, on average, are going to college in Ohio than are going to college in other surrounding states.

00:43:55.000 And education tends to correlate highly with voting Democrat because you go to college, you tend toward the left, and then you move to a big city.

00:44:01.000 Well, Ohio seems to be moving in many areas in the opposite direction.

00:44:06.000 Well, Ohio is indeed trending red in a pretty significant way, just as Indiana is trending red, just as Missouri is trending red.

00:44:12.000 There are a bunch of states that are trending red.

00:44:13.000 Nobody's talking about that because everybody is focusing on the states that are trending blue because they're more populous.

00:44:18.000 Antonio says, Does this mean Trump is posturing for the firing of Robert Mueller?

00:44:24.000 If so, do you stand by your statement on the Bill Maher show that if he quashes the Mueller investigation, impeachment should be on the table?

00:44:29.000 I know Nancy Pelosi has made a strong indication the course of action isn't in the best interest of her party.

00:44:33.000 You still see impeachment as a real threat for Trump.

00:44:35.000 Thanks, Ben.

00:44:36.000 Well, yeah, I stand by that.

00:44:37.000 I mean, I've always said that if he quashes the Mueller investigation, then he is obviously attempting to shield himself.

00:44:43.000 What he should be doing is allowing the Mueller investigation to go forward and then he can fight back against it.

00:44:48.000 Now, those of us who are intellectually honest are willing to defend the president when we think that he is being unfairly maligned and targeted.

00:44:54.000 Now, I've done that.

00:44:55.000 I think that the Mueller investigation will come up with far less than the Democrats think.

00:44:59.000 I've been as honest as I can be on the Mueller investigation.

00:45:01.000 When I think that there is evidence that the Trump campaign did things wrong, like the Trump Tower meeting with Don Jr., I've said so.

00:45:08.000 And when I think the Democrats are overplaying their hand by suggesting collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians that took place and affected the election, I've said that too.

00:45:17.000 So, I don't think President Trump is going to quash the Mueller investigation.

00:45:20.000 I've heard nothing like that from anyone in the White House, and I know a fair number of folks in the White House.

00:45:25.000 So, you know, I think the media are getting their skirts in a bunch over all of this, but I don't think that that's actually the reality of what's going on here.

00:45:33.000 Okay, time for a quick thing I like, and then a quick thing I hate, and then we'll get out of here for the weekend.

00:45:37.000 At long last, my goodness, this week has been 87 years.

00:45:40.000 So, things I like.

00:45:42.000 So there's this great video of Saints quarterback Drew Brees throwing footballs to his four kids.

00:45:48.000 And all I can say is this basically looks like what I do in my house.

00:45:52.000 So here's Drew Brees with his four kids throwing footballs to them.

00:45:57.000 Now, they are running around in circles and he is throwing football after football to them.

00:46:01.000 He's basically running a football drill.

00:46:03.000 They throw the footballs back to him, he throws them to the kids.

00:46:05.000 Okay, now, the reason that this reminds me so much... Okay, so, things that young parents should know...

00:46:12.000 Kids love running in circles.

00:46:14.000 OK, it's just a thing.

00:46:16.000 Try to find an area of your house where there is a circle so kids can run around in circles.

00:46:19.000 It is their favorite thing to do.

00:46:20.000 Now, I don't have the skill set that Drew Brees does.

00:46:24.000 So my version of kids running around in circles has taken two forms in recent weeks.

00:46:27.000 Form number one is that I lie down on the floor with my head on a pillow and then my kids run around our large den in a giant circle and take turns jumping on my stomach.

00:46:37.000 Uh, and this is both dangerous and apparently highly rewarding for them.

00:46:42.000 They love it.

00:46:43.000 Um, my, uh, my daughter is, she's like macho man Randy Savage from the top rung. 1.00

00:46:47.000 I mean, she actually comes in and she jumps in the air and she goes knees first into the stomach.

00:46:52.000 So it's, it's challenging.

00:46:53.000 I got to kind of grab her in the air before she kills me. 1.00

00:46:56.000 My son is, is much more funny.

00:46:57.000 He kind of runs up to me and then just sort of falls over on me.

00:47:00.000 So, that's version number one.

00:47:02.000 Version number two is, for some reason that I can't explain, we have some extra mattresses in the den right now.

00:47:08.000 I guess there's some folks staying over, in-laws, a few weeks ago.

00:47:11.000 We have some extra mattresses in the den.

00:47:12.000 They're sort of piled up there.

00:47:13.000 And my daughter, for some reason, she likes to make what she calls doggy beds. 1.00

00:47:18.000 So, she gets pillows and blankets and she just makes beds around the house for no reason. 1.00

00:47:22.000 And this particular, you know, kind of Princess and the Pea mattress stack.

00:47:28.000 She has fallen in love with, she calls it the Toto.

00:47:30.000 I don't know why.

00:47:31.000 And she, and so what we do is I put my son on my shoulders and then I chase her around the room and then I take him and I throw him onto the mattress stack and then I take her and I put her on my shoulders and run around the room.

00:47:42.000 And this tires me out and them out, me more than them.

00:47:45.000 But the good news is that this is pretty, you can see these kids are in their PJs with Drew Brees.

00:47:50.000 That's precisely the time to do this.

00:47:51.000 You tire your kids out by running them around in a circle as fast as humanly possible until they collapse in exhaustion, and then you throw them in bed as fast as possible.

00:47:58.000 Okay, so, you know, a little unwarranted parenting advice and unsolicited parenting advice for you there.

00:48:04.000 Okay, time for a thing that I hate.

00:48:10.000 So great moral voice, Snoop Dogg, went to the White House.

00:48:13.000 Now, I will remind you that Snoop Dogg actually was inside the White House with President Trump, then went on national TV and bragged about smoking pot inside the White House because, as we all know, President Obama was a man of deep personal dignity and conviction when it came to the honor of the White House.

00:48:28.000 So now, Snoop Dogg has been relegated to the lawn outside the White House.

00:48:32.000 And so here is Snoop Dogg standing around outside the White House, smoking a blunt, and saying, F the President.

00:48:39.000 So I'm glad that, this is why it's so astonishing.

00:48:42.000 People are like, oh, Trump, he has these celebrities to the White House.

00:48:44.000 You know, he has people like Sarah Palin to the White House, people who said terrible things about President Obama.

00:48:49.000 Snoop Dogg went to the White House while Barack Obama was there and smoked pot in the White House and bragged about it nationally.

00:48:56.000 And now he's out front of the White House doing the same thing.

00:48:58.000 Like, it's just... Come on.

00:49:00.000 Dignity left American politics a long time ago.

00:49:02.000 Here's Snoop Dogg contributing to that.

00:49:04.000 So beautiful stuff there from Snoop Dogg.

00:49:22.000 So glad that he is an icon of our national culture as well.

00:49:25.000 Very, very exciting stuff.

00:49:27.000 All right.

00:49:27.000 So we will be back here next week.

00:49:30.000 Obviously, we are expecting the Mueller report to come out sometime in the next couple of weeks.

00:49:33.000 I will be on the road.

00:49:34.000 I will still be there.

00:49:35.000 So you're going to want to actually Follow us.

00:49:38.000 I think we're at Ohio State University, University of Pittsburgh, and University of Wisconsin, so we are making the rounds next week.

00:49:43.000 If you're in any of those areas, check out the tickets.

00:49:45.000 Should be a lot of fun.

00:49:47.000 And if not, then I believe we are streaming some of those, so check that out as well.

00:49:51.000 We'll have all the latest news then, all the fallout from the midterms, all the rest.

00:49:54.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - November 09, 2018

The Slow Wave | Ep. 657

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