The Ben Shapiro Show - The Trump Indictment Looms

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00:00:06.000 Well, it is highly unlikely that Donald Trump is actually going to be arrested today.

00:00:09.000 Donald Trump suggested over the weekend that he was likely to be arrested or at least indicted on Tuesday.

00:00:14.000 But apparently the grand jury in Manhattan only closed testimony on Monday night.

00:00:19.000 And that means that they're probably going to consider it today.

00:00:21.000 And then even if an indictment is brought, it's going to take a little while to work out the details of the arrest because the chances that You're going to send federal authorities down to Florida, for example, to just grab Donald Trump and rip him out of Mar-a-Lago in handcuffs.

00:00:34.000 That's not what's going to happen.

00:00:35.000 What is likely to happen if Donald Trump is indeed arrested is that he's going to work out the details of the arrest with his lawyers that he can present himself for the arrest.

00:00:43.000 And you saw the same thing with Steve Bannon.

00:00:44.000 When Steve Bannon was arrested, he presented himself at the courthouse with his lawyers and the sort of more dramatic photos that the left is looking for.

00:00:51.000 Donald Trump crying on his way to the police vehicle or something like that is not what's going to happen here.

00:00:56.000 According to Forbes, Truth said on Truth Social on Saturday that he'd be arrested on Tuesday and called for protest, but his attorneys later confirmed that that was speculation and that they'd had no information suggesting that today would be the big day.

00:01:06.000 The grand jury hearing the case will vote on whether or not to approve the charges against Trump meets on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

00:01:12.000 They're not even meeting on Tuesday.

00:01:14.000 There's no indication that they voted on Monday.

00:01:15.000 So that means that Probably they'll be considering tomorrow whether or not to arrest Donald Trump or put out an indictment for arrest for Donald Trump.

00:01:24.000 Fox News actually reported that the grand jury is going to hear from another witness on Wednesday, which suggests, again, that this may go on a little bit.

00:01:30.000 It's unclear if their work would wrap up then or continue all the way until Friday.

00:01:35.000 One thing is pretty clear at this point, which is that the possibility of Donald Trump being arrested is now very, very high.

00:01:41.000 And that possibility is going to grow as time goes on here.

00:01:45.000 Remember, there are multiplicity of cases against Donald Trump.

00:01:48.000 The one that we're talking about in Manhattan, the one that is most likely to result in the soonest arrest, is not the only case that's ongoing.

00:01:53.000 There's another one in Georgia over the possibility of, for example, obstruction of justice in calling a bunch of election officials in Georgia.

00:02:00.000 That case is still ongoing.

00:02:01.000 Also, there's also a politically motivated prosecutor who's at work in Georgia on that particular score.

00:02:06.000 The important thing to understand about what's going on in the Manhattan DA case, in this particular Stormy Daniels Campaign finance fraud case or whatever it is, is that it's extremely sketchy and everyone understands that it's extremely sketchy.

00:02:17.000 In fact, everybody sort of knew that this thing was dead as of 2019.

00:02:23.000 According to Politico, in 2021, inside the Manhattan DA's office, then run by Cyrus Vance, again, a dedicated opponent of Donald Trump, the Daniels saga, the Stormy Daniels saga, was known as the zombie case.

00:02:32.000 It was dead and brought back to life by Mark Pomerantz, who led the Manhattan DA's Trump investigation when he started that job in early 2021.

00:02:38.000 Pomerantz first dug into the hush money payments because he later wrote it was interesting and easy to understand, unlike the complex financial investigation of the Trump Organization that he would later bring some prosecutions on, for example, Ellen Weisselberg.

00:02:51.000 In 2018, prosecutors in STNY, the Southern District of New York, unraveled the entire affair.

00:02:55.000 They charged Michael Cohen with making illegal federal campaign contributions.

00:02:58.000 And in the sentencing memorandum written after Cohen pled guilty, the Fed said that Cohen acted in coordination with and at the direction of Trump.

00:03:04.000 When all this was disclosed, there was a lot of speculation that Donald Trump would be brought up on charges even as of 2019.

00:03:10.000 But SDNY never moved forward with it.

00:03:13.000 Pomerantz wrote a book about the case, and he surmised that there were probably two factors.

00:03:17.000 One, the DOJ had guidance that they shouldn't actually indict a sitting president.

00:03:20.000 And two, they had a really difficult relationship with Michael Cohen, who was never offered a formal cooperating witness deal, and they didn't want to rely on him as a witness.

00:03:28.000 Apparently Alvin Bragg has no such qualms.

00:03:30.000 He's happy to use Michael Cohen as a witness, despite the fact that Michael Cohen is, in fact, a convicted liar.

00:03:37.000 And that is what Trump is counting on, is that Michael Cohen is not exactly the world's best witness.

00:03:42.000 And those two big potential weaknesses of the case remain, according to Politico.

00:03:45.000 One, can prosecutors overcome the ambiguity of the statute to ensure a felony charge?

00:03:49.000 And two, how much will prosecutors' needs rely on Michael Cohen?

00:03:53.000 So, again, the possibility of an arrest today?

00:03:56.000 Very, very unlikely.

00:03:57.000 The possibility of an arrest going forward?

00:03:59.000 Likely, because Alvin Bragg would love to get his name in neon light.

00:04:03.000 And this is true for a lot of these DAs.

00:04:04.000 Alvin Bragg happens to be a Soros-backed DA who is very soft on crime in the city of New York.

00:04:09.000 It's something that Donald Trump has pointed out.

00:04:11.000 He put out a full ad yesterday talking about Alvin Bragg being soft on crime and then suddenly getting very, very rough and tough.

00:04:17.000 On a supposed crime that happened all the way back in 2016.

00:04:20.000 He's not wrong about all of that.

00:04:22.000 But one of the weird aspects of this particular case is obviously that it's a bombshell in the middle of the presidential race.

00:04:28.000 So the I think the weirdest thing that's happening right now is a shift of focus from Team Trump From Joe Biden, Democratic administration, Alvin Bragg, you know, the people that the Republican base really should be angry at, a shift of focus to his other primary opponents.

00:04:44.000 And this is really kind of gross.

00:04:46.000 I mean, to be honest with you, it's really gross that Donald Trump, I'm sorry, but Ron DeSantis, any other candidate on the Republican side of the aisle is not responsible for what is happening here. 0.79

00:04:56.000 That's galaxy brain kind of stuff.

00:04:59.000 There are a bunch of people who theoretically you could blame for the situation that Donald Trump now finds himself in.

00:05:03.000 You could blame, at least in part, Donald Trump for allegedly having stooped Stormy Daniels while he was a married man, and then having paid hush money in order to cover it up.

00:05:13.000 You can blame Stormy Daniels for having shot that story around endlessly. 1.00

00:05:16.000 You can certainly blame Alvin Bragg for bringing what appears to be a frivolous case against Donald Trump.

00:05:21.000 How that turns into Other Republican candidates are on the hook for Donald Trump's activities or the targeting of Donald Trump is beyond me.

00:05:30.000 And by the way, the other Republican candidates who have been asked about it have universally sided with Trump against Alvin Bragg.

00:05:35.000 But I guess the idea is that Donald Trump has the capacity to call on all other Republicans to defend every aspect of his behavior while simultaneously Donald Trump tries to take a knife to all the other Republicans in the race, which is a very, very strange dynamic.

00:05:47.000 We'll get to more on that in just one second.

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00:06:52.000 Okay, so.

00:06:53.000 Donald Trump yesterday decided to focus his fire, not really on Alvin Bragg, but on Ron DeSantis, which again is a very, very weird take.

00:07:02.000 So Ron DeSantis had been pressured over the weekend to sound off about Donald Trump's claim that he was about to be arrested.

00:07:06.000 And I said yesterday on the show, I do not think that it is the responsibility of any sitting politician, including members of Congress, by the way, to sound off on an indictment that has not yet happened.

00:07:16.000 Typically, you don't actually sound off on an indictment until it comes down.

00:07:19.000 Like what happens exactly if you come out and you suggest that the indictment is garbage and hooey if you're an elected politician and then there is no indictment?

00:07:26.000 The grand jury says we're not interested in prosecuting Donald Trump and now you've put yourself out over the line for a case that was never real based on rumors that Donald Trump tweeted into the ether.

00:07:36.000 That's kind of a weird situation.

00:07:37.000 But OK, if you are going to comment, you probably are going to say precisely what all the politicians have said at this point, which is we're waiting to see all of the details.

00:07:47.000 But there appears to be no rationale other than political motivation and targeting for Alvin Bragg to be going after Donald Trump.

00:07:54.000 And every politician has said this, right?

00:07:55.000 Speaker McCarthy has said this in the House.

00:07:57.000 We've had various senators say this.

00:07:58.000 And now finally, Ron DeSantis, who is being pressured by Team Trump.

00:08:01.000 Again, the game that Trump is playing campaign-wise, forget about the legal, because the legal is going to handle itself.

00:08:06.000 Team Trump is going to win that case, I think, because again, that case is extremely weak.

00:08:10.000 But the political here is somehow to refocus the Republican public, the conservatives who are voting in the 2024 primaries, on his opponents.

00:08:20.000 And that's such a weird take.

00:08:21.000 Again, it's such a weird.

00:08:22.000 This whole thing is about Donald Trump.

00:08:24.000 It really is not about any of the other Republicans.

00:08:26.000 The only thing the other Republicans should be pointing out, just in terms of national politics, is that this appears to be political targeting and political targeting has become part and parcel of Democratic politics.

00:08:37.000 And it's really ugly.

00:08:38.000 And it is, in fact, authoritarian to be selectively prosecuting people that you do not like, right?

00:08:42.000 That's the only thing that Republican politicians should be saying.

00:08:45.000 So finally, Ron DeSantis commented on this yesterday.

00:08:47.000 And here are the things that Ron DeSantis said.

00:08:49.000 He started by saying that he's not gonna get directly involved in a crisis manufactured by the Manhattan DA.

00:08:55.000 So like, I'm not gonna follow the bouncing ball just because the Manhattan DA wishes for us to follow the bouncing ball.

00:09:01.000 You have a prosecutor who is ignoring crimes happening every single day in his jurisdiction, and he chooses to go back many, many years ago to try to use something about porn star hush money payments.

00:09:18.000 You know, that's an example of pursuing a political agenda and weaponizing the office. 1.00

00:09:24.000 And I think that that's fundamentally wrong.

00:09:26.000 And in terms of, we are not involved in this, won't be involved in this.

00:09:32.000 I have no interest in getting involved in some type of manufactured circus by some Soros DA.

00:09:41.000 Right, so he's saying, I'm not going to get involved in some sort of bleep fight with the Manhattan DA over what appears to be a frivolous prosecution.

00:09:49.000 And then he went on along these lines.

00:09:51.000 And the reason that Team Trump is upset with DeSantis today, because everything that he says right there is identical with what Trump says, is because they are angry that DeSantis mentioned the actual reason for the case, which is that Donald Trump stripped everything in sight while his wife was pregnant in 2006.

00:10:05.000 DeSantis is apparently not allowed to mention that.

00:10:06.000 You're not allowed to mention the actual underlying peccadillo that led to this.

00:10:10.000 And by the way, he did it very kind of subtly.

00:10:13.000 He kind of just mentioned it and moved on.

00:10:15.000 It wasn't like he sat there and stewed in it or something.

00:10:18.000 He basically just said, I don't know how this went down.

00:10:19.000 I don't know how hush money payments to porn stars work, but this is not an issue that I think ought to be prosecuted.

00:10:25.000 So Team Trump is angry on two counts.

00:10:27.000 One, that, and two, they've now manufactured a narrative where it is the governor of Florida's job to stop the extradition of Donald Trump.

00:10:34.000 First of all, there is no extradition of Donald Trump.

00:10:36.000 No extradition has been requested, nor is an extradition necessary.

00:10:39.000 Donald Trump's lawyers say he will present himself for arrest in Manhattan.

00:10:42.000 Two, the governor of a sovereign state does not actually have the ability to deny extradition on the conditions that Donald Trump is currently undergoing extradition.

00:10:50.000 If there were an extradition, which there isn't.

00:10:52.000 Anyway, here's what DeSantis had to say yesterday.

00:10:55.000 I've not seen any facts yet, and so I don't know what's going to happen.

00:10:59.000 But I do know this.

00:11:00.000 The Manhattan District Attorney is a Soros-funded prosecutor.

00:11:05.000 And so he, like other Soros-funded prosecutors, they weaponize their office to impose a political agenda on society at the expense of the rule of law and public safety.

00:11:18.000 He has downgraded over 50% of the felonies to misdemeanors.

00:11:23.000 He says he doesn't want to even have jail time for the vast, vast majority of crimes, and what we've seen in Manhattan is we've seen the crime rate go up.

00:11:32.000 I also think it's important to point out when you're talking about these Soros-funded prosecutors, yes, they may do a high-profile politicized prosecution, and that's bad, but the real victims are ordinary New Yorkers, ordinary Americans in all these different jurisdictions, that they get victimized every day.

00:11:55.000 So, again, he's ripping on Brad, the same guy who's currently prosecuting Trump.

00:11:59.000 And Donald Trump's response is to attack Ron DeSantis.

00:12:02.000 I'm not kidding.

00:12:02.000 yesterday he put out on Truth Social this ridiculous message quote Randa Sanctimonious will probably find out about false accusations and fake stories sometime in the future as he gets older wiser and better known and he's unfairly and illegally attacked by a woman even classmates that are under age or possibly a man I'm sure he will want to fight these misfits just like I do so this is typical Trump now suggesting that there will be

00:12:29.000 allegations of sexual mis-impropriety against right and then by the way that's not where the link ended It ended with a link from Midas Touch, which is like a left-wing interest group.

00:12:40.000 To a bullcrap story about Ron DeSantis going to some sort of party when he was a high school teacher with recent graduates of the high school at which alcohol was served.

00:12:49.000 There was no actual accusation of any sexual impropriety of any sort at that party.

00:12:54.000 Nothing.

00:12:54.000 But Trump links to it anyway.

00:12:55.000 So he starts to smear. 0.58

00:12:56.000 I mean, in there, he he tries to smear Ron DeSantis as possibly homosexual, right? 0.71

00:13:01.000 Even classmates that are underage are possibly a man like.

00:13:04.000 What what is wrong?

00:13:05.000 Why are you attacking the governor of Florida when it's the D.A.

00:13:09.000 in Manhattan who is coming after you?

00:13:11.000 You're aiming your fire in the wrong place.

00:13:12.000 And it's this kind of stuff that honestly doesn't do Trump any justice in terms of his own candidacy.

00:13:17.000 I don't understand what he is doing here.

00:13:18.000 I mean, I do, because he throws the kitchen sink at everything.

00:13:21.000 And that's all he is.

00:13:22.000 He's just the wildest kid in your high school class, the one you never want to get into a fight with, because it might start off as a fight, and then you never know, the guy might just pull a knife and start trying to cut you.

00:13:30.000 That's who Donald Trump is.

00:13:32.000 He does not fight like anybody else.

00:13:33.000 He has no limits whatsoever.

00:13:34.000 But then he insists that everybody else use the Marquess of Queensbury rules.

00:13:37.000 This is the game that Donald Trump plays in terms of his campaigning.

00:13:40.000 He insists that Ron DeSantis never mention The underlying rationale for any of what's going on right now.

00:13:45.000 You can't mention storming down.

00:13:47.000 You can't mention the fact that he was shipping these.

00:13:49.000 You can't you can't mention hush payments, which is the entire issue here.

00:13:52.000 Legal or not, that was the original issue.

00:13:53.000 You're not allowed to mention that because that would be that would be improper.

00:13:57.000 That is violating the rules of propriety.

00:13:58.000 Also, Ron DeSantis, you might be a person who is grooming youngsters.

00:14:01.000 They might be men like what? 0.99

00:14:03.000 It's just it's so kind of gross and silly. 0.98

00:14:06.000 And again, there is a real issue here that is worthy of of the conservative public coming to Trump's defense. 0.95

00:14:13.000 Namely, Donald Trump has, in fact, been targeted by the left since the first day that he announced he has been targeted for improper reasons.

00:14:19.000 And the mechanisms of law enforcement have been militarized against him and weaponized against him.

00:14:24.000 They have been whether you're talking about the garbage Russia collusion investigation or whether you're talking about this Alvin Bragg prosecution.

00:14:30.000 But you know who's been saying that?

00:14:31.000 Ron DeSantis, the guy he's currently attacking.

00:14:34.000 It's an absurdity.

00:14:35.000 In just a second, we'll get to the question of whether Ron DeSantis could quote unquote block extradition.

00:14:39.000 The answer, by the way, quick answer is no.

00:14:41.000 We'll get to that in a moment.

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00:15:42.000 Okay, so the Team Trump has also suggested that it's DeSantis' job to block extradition.

00:15:50.000 Now, there has been, number one, no actual contested extradition request from New York.

00:15:56.000 The way it works under Florida law is let's say that Trump's defense team was like, listen, we don't think this extradition request is proper.

00:16:01.000 Well, the governor can then intervene only to the extent necessary in order to investigate whether the extradition request is properly fulfilled.

00:16:11.000 The only times under federal law.

00:16:13.000 So first of all, federal law is very clear on this.

00:16:15.000 You do in fact have to extradite people who have committed crimes in other states.

00:16:18.000 Article four, section two of the constitution explicitly requires this.

00:16:21.000 So this is not exactly a gray area of the law.

00:16:24.000 The only conditions under which you do not have to extradite is if the extradition request documents are not in order, right?

00:16:30.000 So they don't have the person's right name on them or something, but the person has been charged with a crime in the United States.

00:16:34.000 They were just required for extradition, but there was no actual allegation of a crime that was committed.

00:16:39.000 Whether the person named in the extradition request is the person charged with the crime.

00:16:42.000 So again, wrong name on the forms.

00:16:44.000 Or whether the petitioner is in fact a fugitive from the requesting state.

00:16:47.000 So New Jersey cannot seek extradition of a person who is a fugitive from Connecticut or something.

00:16:53.000 But the notion that DeSantis has the unilateral ability to stand in the doorway of Mar-a-Lago and prevent the extradition of Trump, if that were to happen, is just silly.

00:17:02.000 I mean, number one, it's not coming up according to Trump's own attorneys.

00:17:06.000 And two, he doesn't actually have the power to do any of that stuff.

00:17:10.000 But this is also part of the game, is where is it?

00:17:13.000 Why won't people defend Trump?

00:17:14.000 Where are they?

00:17:14.000 Why won't they stop this?

00:17:16.000 Maybe they don't have the power to magically violate the law.

00:17:19.000 Maybe there's that. 0.98

00:17:22.000 It's, it's just, it's very silly.

00:17:25.000 The fact that Trump's supporters, some of them, a small coterie of Trump supporters are trying to attack the other Republican candidates on the basis of a story that does not involve any of the other Republican candidates.

00:17:33.000 Involves Donald Trump, involves Alvin Bragg. 0.90

00:17:35.000 That's silly. 0.97

00:17:35.000 And the fact that the person they're attacking has explicitly come out in favor of Trump not being prosecuted makes it even more silly. 0.97

00:17:42.000 Again, Florida is part of the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act.

00:17:45.000 Under state law, it is the Santa's duty to quote, have arrested and delivered up to the executive authority of any other state of the United States, any person charged in that state with treason, felony, or other crime who has fled from justice and is found.

00:17:56.000 So literally the only thing that he could do is order his law enforcement to figure out whether an extradition request is valid.

00:18:03.000 But valid means facially valid.

00:18:04.000 It doesn't mean that he actually has to go and then investigate the underlying crime.

00:18:09.000 The reason I'm focusing in on this is, again, the politics here is so perfectly obvious.

00:18:14.000 And I suspect the Democrats know that the politics are perfectly obvious, which is why they're double happy about Trump's possible arrest.

00:18:21.000 I think on the one hand, they're very happy about Trump's possible arrest because they would love the idea of Donald Trump with a mugshot.

00:18:26.000 That would be the Sonny Hostin perspective.

00:18:28.000 And then I think they're also kind of happy about Trump's arrest because they actively would like for Donald Trump to be the nominee.

00:18:32.000 They think he's going to be easier to beat.

00:18:34.000 Here was Sonny Hostin on The View yesterday cheering the possibility of Donald Trump's arrest.

00:18:39.000 So, son, how serious are these potential charges?

00:18:46.000 Look, I think the severity matters a little less than how easy it's going to prove.

00:18:54.000 Many of the charges that they're looking at are falsifying business records.

00:19:00.000 We know he's done that for a really long time.

00:19:02.000 He's claimed to be a gazillionaire.

00:19:05.000 He's provided these records.

00:19:07.000 His chief financial officer is actually in prison right now at Rikers serving time for falsifying business records.

00:19:14.000 This whole situation is unprecedented, let's face it, right?

00:19:18.000 But one possibility is that prosecutors could assert that the payment itself, that Michael Cohen says he- The one he went to jail for?

00:19:26.000 Yeah.

00:19:27.000 Banking?

00:19:27.000 Okay.

00:19:27.000 And we see Trump's signature on some of these documents, that that payment itself violated state campaign finance law.

00:19:36.000 She's so excited about this.

00:19:38.000 Oh my gosh, it's so serious.

00:19:39.000 It's going to be so easy to prove.

00:19:40.000 No, it isn't.

00:19:41.000 No, it isn't.

00:19:42.000 But they've been so eager to get Trump forever that, of course, they're pumped up about this.

00:19:45.000 The real salient point was made by comedian Chris Rock here.

00:19:48.000 So Chris Rock was like, quote, that apprehending Trump is going to make him more popular.

00:19:52.000 It's like arresting Tupac.

00:19:53.000 He's just going to sell more records. 1.00

00:19:55.000 Are you stupid? 1.00

00:19:55.000 He slept with a porn star and paid off someone so his wife wouldn't find out. 1.00

00:19:58.000 That's romantic. 0.72

00:20:00.000 So we've all been cheated on.

00:20:01.000 Don't you wish the person that cheated on you paid off somebody so you wouldn't find out?

00:20:06.000 So yeah, he's not totally wrong.

00:20:07.000 I mean, I think there are a lot of people who believe that this is going to help.

00:20:11.000 Help Donald Trump, certainly in the primaries, because there is a rally around the Trump effect when it comes to unfair attacks on Donald Trump.

00:20:16.000 Now, is that going to help him in general election?

00:20:18.000 I have serious doubts.

00:20:19.000 I'm not sure that there are any independent voters who are going to be like, man, you know, now that people are going after Trump in unfair ways, I think I'm switching my vote.

00:20:25.000 Like everybody knew that back in 2020.

00:20:26.000 So it's not like that would be a new revelation.

00:20:29.000 And it's not like the new revelation that he's being gone after over porn star hush money payment, that that exactly, you know, jogs the suburban women into voting for him.

00:20:39.000 But, is it going to help Trump in the primaries?

00:20:41.000 Yeah, it's certainly going to help Trump in the primaries, and I do wonder whether Democrats know that.

00:20:45.000 By the way, this is not going to be the only prosecution that Trump is likely to undergo.

00:20:49.000 Right now, according to the Washington Post, lawyers for Trump filed a motion in Georgia court Monday seeking to quash the release of the final report of an Atlanta-area special grand jury that investigated whether Trump and his allies broke the law when they sought to overturn Trump's 2020 election loss in the state.

00:21:01.000 Now, again, I think that this case is also really, really flimsy.

00:21:04.000 This is the idea that Trump violated election law when he called up the Secretary of State of Georgia and said, I want you to find me 11,270 votes or whatever it was.

00:21:11.000 Right now people are saying that on the prosecution side that that is him trying to essentially manufacture fake votes.

00:21:18.000 But the reality is that Trump could have convinced himself that he won Georgia.

00:21:21.000 I mean, he obviously has.

00:21:23.000 And so he's like, well, all I need to actually win the state is that number of votes.

00:21:27.000 And I know that number of votes exist.

00:21:28.000 So just go find them.

00:21:29.000 That wouldn't be illegal.

00:21:30.000 It might not be something that you like.

00:21:31.000 It might not be something pretty, but it certainly wouldn't be illegal.

00:21:34.000 The motion filed in Fulton County Superior Court also seeks to preclude the use of any evidence derived from a special grand jury investigation claiming it was conducted under an unconstitutional statute and through an illegal and unconstitutional process that violated Donald Trump's due process rights.

00:21:49.000 Now again, they're attempting to essentially make sure that Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis, a Democrat, Can't prosecute Trump.

00:21:56.000 It is very, very likely that Fannie Willis will attempt to prosecute Trump.

00:22:01.000 They're trying to recuse Willis's office.

00:22:02.000 Willis is a Democrat.

00:22:03.000 So this is not going to be the first or this is not going to be the last case.

00:22:06.000 The one in New York that Trump is likely to face along legal lines.

00:22:11.000 The current filing includes seven pages of citations, nearly 40 media interviews given by Willis.

00:22:15.000 This is the filing from Trump's team saying that Willis should be essentially recused from the case.

00:22:19.000 We'll get to more on the Georgia case in just one second because, of course, all of this tends to upend the presidential race.

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00:23:28.000 Okay, so, Donald Trump again, facing down the possibility of charges in Fulton County.

00:23:35.000 Willis, Fannie Willis, the prosecutor there, has indicated publicly and in court filings that her office's investigation has now expanded to include a bunch of other lines of inquiry, including false claims of election fraud that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and other Trump associates made to the Georgia state lawmakers, threats and harassments targeting Georgia election workers, the creation of an alternative slate of Republican electoral college electors who met at the Georgia Capitol in December of 2020, and Willis and her team are said to be closely examining not only Trump's phone calls, but what knowledge he had and role he played in efforts, including the fake electors effort.

00:24:04.000 If it had about 75 witnesses appear, including Giuliani, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Senator Lindsey Graham, and other top Trump allies.

00:24:13.000 So Willis would have to present her case to a regular grand jury.

00:24:15.000 There's still a little bit of ways away before a possibility of targeting Trump legally here.

00:24:20.000 But what's going on once the seal of targeting Trump has been broken by Alvin Bragg?

00:24:25.000 You can imagine there will be more prosecutions on the way, all of which presumably are going to help Donald Trump with the base.

00:24:30.000 Because again, regardless of the fact that Trump is misdirecting to DeSantis and it's weird and it's strange and it's ugly, the reality is that when he says he's being targeted and that he's being targeted because he was the Republican president, he is not wrong about that.

00:24:41.000 And meanwhile, the Biden White House is filled with only the most serious people, the most serious people.

00:24:47.000 I bring to you as exhibit A of the most serious people, the fact that Joe Biden featured at the White House the cast of Ted Lasso.

00:24:55.000 Really important stuff.

00:24:57.000 So Ted Lasso went to the White House.

00:24:59.000 Ted Lasso, for folks who are not familiar, is a show on Apple TV.

00:25:02.000 And that show on Apple TV, that was kind of cute the first season, kind of declined in quality.

00:25:07.000 The second season, third season so far is not particularly good.

00:25:10.000 In any case, the entire brand of Ted Lasso is sort of like this can-do optimistic spirit.

00:25:15.000 And so they brought in the Hollywood stars to apparently try to pitch Mental health.

00:25:23.000 Now, again, I'm all for people taking care of their mental health.

00:25:27.000 I think that that is very important.

00:25:28.000 But bringing in Jason Sudeikis and the other cast members from Ted Lasso to meet Joe Biden and Jill Biden at the White House to discuss the importance of mental health.

00:25:36.000 These are the most serious people.

00:25:38.000 The Biden administration has made mental health a priority, according to the White House.

00:25:41.000 The president's, quote, strategy is focused on training more providers, making care more affordable and accessible, and creating healthier and safer communities.

00:25:49.000 And all of this obviously requires you to bring in the stars of a show that has just had its latest season released on Apple TV.

00:25:55.000 It was necessary.

00:25:57.000 I mean, if you're going to promote mental health, what you do is you go get one of the biggest shows on TV and then you bring in all the stars and you put them in the White House briefing room.

00:26:04.000 It's real weird.

00:26:06.000 Again, it's it's just it's strange.

00:26:09.000 Biden on Sunday tweeted a photo of the Oval Office with the word Believe taped above an entryway, which is a nod to the show Ted Lasso above Ted Lasso's office.

00:26:17.000 He's a coach of an English soccer team.

00:26:18.000 He's an American football coach who ends up as a an English soccer coach.

00:26:21.000 And he tapes the sign Believe above his office.

00:26:23.000 So Joe Biden actually tweeted a photo of the word believe above the Oval Office and then the and then the word tomorrow.

00:26:31.000 Wow. Just amazing, amazing stuff. They're so serious, guys.

00:26:37.000 You should take them so seriously.

00:26:38.000 Here was Ted Lasso, Jason Sudeikis at the White House speaking about mental health, not somebody who's like an expert in mental health, an actor who plays somebody who's not even an expert on mental health. It is sincerely an honor to visit the White House and I have the opportunity to speak to the president and the first lady about the importance of mental health. So like no matter who you are, no matter where you live, no matter who you voted for, we all probably, I assume, we all know someone who has or have been that someone ourselves actually that's struggled, that's

00:27:07.000 felt isolated, that's felt anxious, that has felt alone.

00:27:11.000 I mean, all of that is perfectly fine.

00:27:13.000 Also, why is Jason Sudeikis at the White House along with the entire cast of Ted Lasso flanking him?

00:27:18.000 I'm just, I'm very confused as to what this has to do with the elected government of the United States.

00:27:22.000 Remember that time that the elected government of the United States was supposed to be humble, small, non-celebrity oriented?

00:27:29.000 And this is always what's driven me crazy, is that everybody on the left is like, you elected a celebrity president in Donald Trump.

00:27:35.000 You took a guy from The Apprentice and you made him president.

00:27:36.000 Yeah, you guys elected a first-term senator from Illinois because he was good on TV.

00:27:41.000 That's what you guys did.

00:27:41.000 You decided that he was good on TV, and then you turned him into a celebrity.

00:27:44.000 And now he has a Netflix deal, and a deal from Spotify, and all the rest.

00:27:49.000 You Hollywood-edited the entire White House process to the extent that now we're supposed to just take it as a matter of course that Hollywood actors show up to lecture the American people on mental health from the podium.

00:28:00.000 It doesn't matter what they're saying.

00:28:02.000 The very imagistics here are absurd.

00:28:03.000 It became even more absurd, however, when Corinne Jean-Pierre, world's most untalented press secretary, then took the podium.

00:28:10.000 And again, behind her are a bunch of actors.

00:28:13.000 A bunch of professional, good-looking people who say words that other people write for them.

00:28:18.000 Which, I mean, Corinne Jean-Pierre is kind of a, that's what she is, right?

00:28:22.000 She's a professional, good-looking person who says words that other people write for her, but we're supposed to pretend that she's a great intellectual.

00:28:28.000 Anyway, she is then, Harangued by a White House reporter from News Africa.

00:28:34.000 The guy's name is Simon Atiba.

00:28:37.000 And he starts haranguing her, why won't you answer my questions?

00:28:39.000 And she gets more and more angry at this.

00:28:43.000 Because how dare you humiliate the White House press secretary in front of the actors?

00:28:48.000 So first of all, let me just explain something to you.

00:28:50.000 Actors are some of the most confused, weird, strange, egotistical, and least serious people on planet Earth.

00:28:59.000 I lived in Hollywood for years.

00:29:00.000 I know many, many actors.

00:29:02.000 They are, as a class, not the most serious human beings.

00:29:05.000 You'd be hard-pressed to find anybody who would argue otherwise, including actors.

00:29:09.000 But apparently, we're supposed to be just abashed and ashamed that a reporter would dare to demand that Corine Jean-Pierre call on him at a White House press conference in front of the actors.

00:29:19.000 How dare you humiliate this White House in front of the greatest people in our society, the actors from Apple TV's Ted Lasso.

00:29:27.000 We are now beyond parody, folks.

00:29:28.000 There is no more.

00:29:29.000 And by the way, this will never appear on SNL, because even though it's hysterically funny and absurd on its face, SNL only makes fun of Republicans.

00:29:35.000 So the fact that you now have a White House press secretary who's acting ashamed that a White House press person is asking her a question, and she doesn't want to be asked a question, and how dare you humiliate me in front of these very important actors on a sitcom?

00:29:52.000 Yeah, man.

00:29:53.000 It's just amazing stuff here.

00:29:56.000 Right, right.

00:29:57.000 You're here for me.

00:29:57.000 No, no, no, no, no.

00:29:59.000 We're not doing this. We're not doing this. We're not doing this. We're not doing this.

00:30:03.000 Yes.

00:30:04.000 You've been discriminating against me and discriminating against some people in the briefing room.

00:30:05.000 You've been discriminating against me and discriminating against some people in the briefing room.

00:30:10.000 And I'm saying that this is the U.S., this is not China, this is not Russia.

00:30:14.000 This is not Russia. 0.66

00:30:17.000 What you are doing, you are making a mockery of the First Amendment.

00:30:21.000 It's been seven months, you've not called on me.

00:30:24.000 I'm saying that does not right.

00:30:28.000 Sometimes welcome guys.

00:30:30.000 Welcome to the press briefing room.

00:30:32.000 Okay.

00:30:33.000 Well, I mean, um, I do love all the white actors up there. 0.98

00:30:40.000 There's one black guy and there's a bunch of white actors and they're like, man, I can't, I can't deal with this black reporter. 1.00

00:30:45.000 He's Cameroonian.

00:30:46.000 I can't, I can't believe that he's actually asking her a question.

00:30:48.000 It's just, it's so terrible.

00:30:49.000 It's so terrible.

00:30:50.000 And then the AP's Zeke Miller got up and apologized to Corinne Jean-Pierre for the incident.

00:30:56.000 Apologized on behalf of the press for the incident in which she was humiliated in front of the actors, in front, oh my, in front of the actors, guys.

00:31:06.000 Okay, can I just explain something?

00:31:07.000 She is a taxpayer-funded employee.

00:31:10.000 We pay her salary.

00:31:11.000 I do not pay her salary so that she can stand up there and be fettered by a variety of actors. 1.00

00:31:17.000 That is not her job.

00:31:19.000 Or so that she can present a comedy cavalcade behind the podium. 1.00

00:31:24.000 We pay her so that she can lie on behalf of the President of the United States, because that's what she does professionally. 1.00

00:31:28.000 And so that she can answer, more seriously, questions from actual reporters.

00:31:31.000 So why is it suddenly a crime for the reporter to say, you have not allowed me to ask a question in a long time?

00:31:39.000 But he did it in front of actors, and so it's real bad.

00:31:43.000 First, a quick moment of personal privilege here.

00:31:45.000 I just want to express our apologies to the press corps, to the folks watching at home for explaining this earlier.

00:31:51.000 Our responsibility is to them.

00:31:53.000 We're here to ask questions on their behalf, to hold their government accountable, because they can't all be here.

00:31:58.000 This isn't about us.

00:32:01.000 Beyond parody, we're here to hold the government accountable.

00:32:04.000 And the way that we hold the government accountable, says Zeke Miller of the Associated Press, is by not asking you any questions in front of the actors.

00:32:10.000 That's how we hold you accountable, is by yelling at the reporter who is actually trying to get a question answered. 0.97

00:32:14.000 That's how we hold you accountable, is by kissing your ass because we would never want the ugly spectacle of you having to answer a question in front of Jason Sudeikis and a bunch of rando no-name actors that nobody's ever heard of inside the United States until Head Lasso premiered about a couple of years ago. 0.97

00:32:31.000 Slow clap for both the Press Corps and for Corinne Jean-Pierre and our entire federal government. 0.99

00:32:35.000 They are just amazing at everything.

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00:33:41.000 Also, There are some recent, very alarming statistics that show that more than one-third of millennials approve of communism.

00:33:47.000 Well, that's for one of a couple reasons.

00:33:49.000 One, they may not know actual history.

00:33:50.000 Or two, they believe that communism wasn't really ever tried.

00:33:54.000 But it has been tried.

00:33:55.000 If you watch the first two episodes of the new Daily Wire Plus series called, What We Saw Cold War, you'll see just how horrific it really was.

00:34:01.000 Here's a clip from our brand new show, Cold War.

00:34:04.000 Russia was cluttered with dots marking each of these places, which looked like ants scurrying across the map of the world's largest country.

00:34:14.000 423 of these dots would eventually be built, and here's what they would be called.

00:34:19.000 In Wikipedia, the Russian is gulag.

00:34:21.000 It means main administration camps.

00:34:24.000 It's an acronym.

00:34:26.000 That acronym for the series of what were called main administration camps, the Gulag, was strung out like an island chain in what one of their residents, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, would refer to as the Gulag Archipelago.

00:34:41.000 One of these dots, just one, was located in Kolyma.

00:34:47.000 Nobody knows how many people actually died in the gold mines of Colima.

00:34:52.000 All agree that in wintertime, the temperature in and around the camp was the only place where, by coincidence, both Fahrenheit and Celsius scales happened to converge, and that is at 40 degrees below zero for each of them.

00:35:06.000 Initial estimates of 3 million people killed at Colima alone were no doubt too high.

00:35:12.000 The lowest well-researched figure is about 500,000.

00:35:15.000 And the actual total, most likely, was around 800,000 human souls.

00:35:22.000 Now that means that Colima is almost certainly tied for second place with Treblinka at 800,000 dead on the leaderboard from hell.

00:35:33.000 It's unlikely, but it's entirely possible.

00:35:36.000 That the total death in this worst single island of the 423 islands in the Gulag archipelago exceeded the 1.1 to 1.6 million people killed at Auschwitz.

00:35:49.000 No one's ever heard of Kolyma, because unlike with Auschwitz and Treblinka and Belzec and Sobibor, there are no pictures that survive from these death camps In Cold War, storyteller and writer Bill Whittle will take you back to the beginning just after World War II, when the struggle between communism and freedom began in earnest.

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00:36:23.000 Meanwhile, our White House is very, very serious.

00:36:25.000 Again, the most serious people, not only are they inviting Ted Lasso's cast to the White House, And then really, really pumping that up to the extent that the press secretary is supposed to not answer questions.

00:36:33.000 I mean, come on, guys.

00:36:35.000 Ted Lasso is here.

00:36:36.000 You can't expect her to answer questions while Ted Lasso is here.

00:36:39.000 Well, the vice president also has spent her week doing something very important.

00:36:44.000 She sent a letter to the most marginalized hero in American life.

00:36:48.000 You guessed it.

00:36:49.000 Dylan Mulvaney, a dude who says he's a lady.

00:36:52.000 On March 13, the vice president of the United States sent to Dylan Mulvaney I kid you not, the Miss Dylan Mulvaney.

00:37:02.000 Dylan Mulvaney is a dude.

00:37:03.000 Quote, Dear Dylan, I send you my warmest greetings as you celebrate your 365th day of living authentically.

00:37:09.000 See, before that, Dylan Mulvaney was not living authentically.

00:37:10.000 Before that, Dylan Mulvaney was living a lie. 0.97

00:37:13.000 Before that, everyone just thought that Dylan Mulvaney was a really gay dude. 0.95

00:37:15.000 And now, it turns out that Dylan Mulvaney is a woman, and was a woman all along.

00:37:19.000 If only Dylan Mulvaney had discovered this sooner.

00:37:22.000 Quote, thank you for courageously sharing your story and your journey, writes the Vice President of the United States.

00:37:26.000 I appreciate your continued advocacy for transgender equality, including during your visit to the White House last year.

00:37:31.000 Through your work as an activist and advocate for the LGBTQI plus minus divided by sign community, you continue to break barriers and inspire young people across our nation and around the world.

00:37:40.000 So inspirational.

00:37:42.000 I think the most inspirational thing is when Dylan Mulvaney dressed up as Eloise from the children's book and then gallivanted around in the Plaza Hotel.

00:37:49.000 That is a thing that actually happened.

00:37:50.000 Here's what it looked like.

00:37:51.000 I am six.

00:37:52.000 I'm a city chap.

00:37:53.000 I live at the Plaza Hotel, which is huge and wonderful and trice elegant, especially at Christmas time.

00:38:03.000 Yeah, it's not creepy and weird at all.

00:38:06.000 It's totally normal.

00:38:08.000 Just a normal woman being super womanly. 1.00

00:38:10.000 Right there.

00:38:11.000 The vice president continues, quote, while we have made incredible progress from advancing marriage equality to enacting historic protections for trans people, the fight is far from over.

00:38:20.000 Administration stands with the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign, happy face emoji, poop emoji community in the ongoing struggle for true equity and equality and against hate and discrimination in all forms.

00:38:30.000 I'm grateful for your dedication and courage, and I hope you continue to use your platform to spread positivity and create change.

00:38:36.000 I look forward to seeing all that you will accomplish in the future.

00:38:39.000 Sincerely, Kamala Harris.

00:38:41.000 Wow, to be so marginalized.

00:38:42.000 Oh, margin.

00:38:43.000 Oh, the victimization device.

00:38:45.000 Dylan Mulvaney has been pretending to be a woman figure and got a letter from the VP.

00:38:49.000 It turns out that we have in the United States approximately 170 million people who don't just pretend to be women, they actually are women.

00:38:56.000 How many of them received a letter from the Vice President of the United States on their not birthday?

00:39:03.000 It's really just spectacular stuff.

00:39:06.000 Very, very spectacular stuff there from the White House.

00:39:09.000 Well, when the White House isn't promoting a bunch of pop culture nonsense, They're promoting actual bad policy.

00:39:15.000 So yesterday, Joe Biden took to the airwaves to lie about his first veto.

00:39:18.000 So he issued his first veto yesterday.

00:39:20.000 Now, first thing to notice, if he had to issue a veto, it must have been that a bill passed with bipartisan support, right?

00:39:28.000 The Republicans don't control the Senate.

00:39:29.000 They haven't controlled the Senate the entirety of Joe Biden's presidency.

00:39:32.000 So that means that the first veto that he signed is overruling a bipartisan bill.

00:39:38.000 What was the bill?

00:39:40.000 Well, the bill Removed a Labor Department regulation that would have allowed retirement plans to consider ESG in their investment decisions.

00:39:52.000 So before, the idea was that retirement plans were supposed to take into account the interests of shareholders.

00:39:57.000 And then the Labor Department was like, you know what?

00:39:58.000 They should take into account a bunch of left-wing policy priorities.

00:40:03.000 That won't hurt the retirees at all. 0.99

00:40:04.000 We will do things that are economically idiotic. 0.85

00:40:08.000 But we'll do them in the names of environmentalism and social justice and all the rest. 0.97

00:40:11.000 And the Labor Department was promoting that.

00:40:13.000 So, the House, on a bipartisan basis, and the Senate, on a bipartisan basis, actually passed that bill to remove the Labor Department regulation.

00:40:22.000 And then Joe Biden vetoed it.

00:40:23.000 So here's his statement about the veto yesterday, and he's just lying.

00:40:26.000 I mean, he's straight up lying.

00:40:28.000 I just signed this veto because the legislation passed by the Congress would put at risk the retirement savings of individuals across the country.

00:40:37.000 They couldn't take into consideration investments that wouldn't be impacted by climate, impacted by overpaying executives, and that's why I decided to veto it.

00:40:47.000 It makes sense to veto it.

00:40:49.000 Okay, no, it is not making your investments less lucrative. 0.92

00:40:52.000 It's making them more lucrative is what the actual bill would have done because it would have prevented idiotic, woke managers at these hedge funds from essentially dictating to the 401k programs that they have to take into account global warming when they make their investment choices. 0.94

00:41:09.000 So he's lying. 0.98

00:41:11.000 And you know who thinks he's lying?

00:41:12.000 Joe Manchin.

00:41:13.000 Joe Manchin yesterday came out, he blasted Joe Biden's radical policy agenda.

00:41:16.000 Of course, he's up for re-election soon.

00:41:18.000 So he put out a statement.

00:41:19.000 It's absolutely infuriating.

00:41:27.000 West Virginians are under increasing stress as we continue to recover from a once-in-a-generation pandemic, pay the bills amid record inflation, and face the largest land war in Europe since World War II.

00:41:35.000 The administration's unrelenting campaign to advance a radical social and environmental agenda is only exacerbating these challenges.

00:41:41.000 This ESG rule will weaken our energy, national, and environmental security while jeopardizing the hard-earned retirement savings of 150 million West Virginians and Americans.

00:41:49.000 Despite a clear and bipartisan rejection of the rule from Congress, Biden is choosing to put his administration's progressive agenda above the well-being of the American people.

00:41:56.000 But don't worry, he is doing it because he wants your...

00:42:00.000 He wants your investments to be better, says Joe Biden, because, you know, he's lying.

00:42:04.000 Among other lies that the Biden administration is telling, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, who has no actual expertise in the area of energy, well, she suggests that her Inflation Reduction Act, that the Democrats' Inflation Reduction Act is going to be amazing for low-income Americans if they want to go green.

00:42:20.000 Well, actually, the Inflation Reduction Act is going to be very, very good for people who wish to buy electric vehicles, which does not include most low-income Americans.

00:42:28.000 Where will our viewers see the results in their own lives, and how can they take advantage of it?

00:42:35.000 Yeah, it's a great question because there are huge opportunities for individuals, especially as they consider perhaps retrofitting their homes to be more energy efficient.

00:42:46.000 So, for example, if you wanted to install a heat pump in your home or replace your HVAC system, perhaps it's gone out, you can get significant tax credits to be able to do that.

00:42:57.000 And the more moderate or low income you are, the greater the benefits are.

00:43:04.000 Oh, so it's really about the low-income people, is the Inflation Reduction Act.

00:43:08.000 They spend, you know, like a trillion dollars on random nonsense, including a bunch of green junk. 1.00

00:43:14.000 Sure. 0.97

00:43:15.000 Ah, the Biden agenda.

00:43:16.000 Winning friends and influencing people every single day.

00:43:20.000 When you watch the experts at the Biden administration be expert, you know, Kamala Harris sending letters to Dylan Mulvaney and Joe Biden and Jill Biden meeting in the Oval Office with the cast of Ted Lasso, you think to yourself, man, these people should probably have more power.

00:43:31.000 And that becomes, you know, even more clear when you watch the people with this much power interact with the commoners.

00:43:37.000 So there is a show on PBS A documentary that followed Muriel Bowser, the Washington, D.C.

00:43:45.000 mayor, and Anthony Fauci, the greatest of all doctors.

00:43:48.000 Well, second greatest, Dr. Jill, obviously.

00:43:50.000 Medical doctor par excellence, Dr. Jill.

00:43:53.000 They went door-to-door in Washington, D.C.

00:43:55.000 to promote the vaccine in 2021.

00:43:57.000 And PBS followed them along with cameras as part of their American Masters series, which aimed to help viewers discover insightful profiles of important figures in America's artistic and cultural life.

00:44:07.000 Unfortunately for Dr. Fauci, he and Muriel Bowser then got randomly schooled by a bunch of what appeared to be low-income residents of Washington, D.C.

00:44:17.000 over the vaccine.

00:44:21.000 Oh, the greatest doctors being schooled by people who I will assume are not epidemiologists.

00:44:27.000 Here is one D.C.

00:44:28.000 resident just destroying Dr. Fauci to his face.

00:44:32.000 Nine months is definitely not enough for nobody to be taking no vaccination that you all came up with.

00:44:37.000 The only reason I'm talking to you right now, as close as we are, is that I've been vaccinated.

00:44:42.000 Right.

00:44:42.000 But if it allowed thousands of people like you don't get vaccinated, you're going to let this virus continue to percolate in this country and in this world.

00:44:50.000 Something like the common flu then, right?

00:44:52.000 It's much more serious than the flu.

00:44:55.000 Well, the flu kills a lot of people, ain't it?

00:44:57.000 You know how many people died of the flu the last year?

00:45:00.000 I mean, not this year, virtually none.

00:45:03.000 But the previous year, about 20 to 30,000.

00:45:05.000 You know, how many people have died from COVID-19 in the United States?

00:45:10.000 600,000 Americans.

00:45:12.000 Well, the number that you all are giving that died, that's, once again, that's you all's number.

00:45:17.000 You gotta pay us.

00:45:18.000 Yeah, definitely.

00:45:20.000 Because when you start talking about paying people to get vaccinated, when you start talking about incentivizing things to get people vaccinated, there's something else going on with that.

00:45:32.000 Didn't go amazing for Dr. Fauci.

00:45:34.000 And more DC residents, as it turns out, were schooling Dr. Fauci on his vaccine.

00:45:39.000 You know, the fact that he is, you know, skeptical of vaccine.

00:45:42.000 By the way, this is the stuff that the media would not feature in 2021, because every person who was skeptical of the vaccine in 2021, after it had been shown not to actually reduce transmission in any serious way, and that the preventative effects in terms of death and serious disease were basically relegated to people who had serious underlying conditions and the elderly.

00:45:59.000 Once that had been proved, the media continued to trot out this line because Biden was pushing it, that there would be a winter of death and despair and it would be entirely relegated to low-income white Trump voters.

00:46:10.000 It was those people who were going to die.

00:46:11.000 So this kind of footage never got shown on national TV.

00:46:13.000 You have to wait until 2023 to see this kind of footage.

00:46:16.000 And if you mention the fact that vax rates in the black community in low-income black areas were really, really low, well then, they blame systemic racism. 0.84

00:46:23.000 So the way that it worked is if poor white people in red areas didn't want the vaccine, that was because of systemic racism because they were the racists.

00:46:30.000 And if it was poor black people who didn't want it, it was because of systemic racism.

00:46:33.000 It couldn't have been that there were just a bunch of poor black people who didn't trust the government on these issues because the government has not been, you know, super forthcoming on these issues. 0.60

00:46:40.000 Here is again Muriel Bowser and Dr. Fauci being schooled by yet another D.C. 0.58

00:46:44.000 resident.

00:46:45.000 No, not at all.

00:46:46.000 In fact, we got to get you vaccinated so that if you were to get infected, you could pass it on to them.

00:46:50.000 So you're actually protecting your family by getting it vaccinated.

00:46:52.000 Okay, that way you won't give it to them. I thought I thought I would give it to him if I get it No, no, not at all In fact, we got to get you vaccinated so that if you were to get infected you could pass it on to them So you're actually protecting your family by getting him vaccinated. Well, I heard that it doesn't Cure it and it doesn't Stop you from getting no so on the very very very rare chance that you do get it

00:47:20.000 Which, as it turns out, was not correct.

00:47:22.000 You don't even feel sick.

00:47:23.000 Okay, so the case that she's making, which is that it does, I mean, he's literally encouraging small children to get it, not to pass it, which as it turns out was not correct.

00:47:33.000 It just wasn't.

00:47:35.000 But you know, amazing job by the federal government as always.

00:47:39.000 My favorite part here is that Dr. Fauci, in the middle of this particular special, then says it's the red states that are keeping the pandemic smoldering. 0.71

00:47:45.000 There's literally footage of them going around a poor area in Washington, D.C., where the residents are all like, nah, not interested.

00:47:50.000 And he's like, you know who's doing this?

00:47:52.000 White Americans in Kentucky.

00:47:54.000 Weird, because I'm spotting a lot of people of a lot of various races and demographics who weren't super hot on Dr. Fauci's advice.

00:48:02.000 What are we going to do about those other states?

00:48:04.000 Oh, my God.

00:48:05.000 They're going to keep the outbreak smoldering in the country.

00:48:09.000 It's so crazy.

00:48:10.000 I mean, they're not doing it because they say they don't want to do it.

00:48:14.000 They're Republicans.

00:48:15.000 They don't like to be told what to do.

00:48:17.000 Right.

00:48:17.000 And we've got to break that, you know, unpack that.

00:48:21.000 We gotta break that and unpack that, he says, right before talking to a poor black resident of Washington, D.C., who is almost certainly a Democrat, saying, I don't wanna take it, and my family's not getting it either.

00:48:31.000 There's no politics whatsoever, guys.

00:48:34.000 No politics whatsoever, it's just the science.

00:48:36.000 It's just the science.

00:48:37.000 Speaking of just the science, the UN has a brand new report out.

00:48:40.000 They've updated it because it's 10 years later and we have not yet seen the world completely implode.

00:48:46.000 The UN has another report saying, world is on brink of catastrophic warming.

00:48:50.000 The best meme on this that I saw was the meme of Matthew McConaughey from Dazed and Confused.

00:48:55.000 You know, the famous line from Dazed and Confused where he says, the thing I like about high school girls is I keep getting older, but the high school girls, they keep staying the same. 0.97

00:49:03.000 Right, so this is how it works with the UN.

00:49:05.000 Right, that we keep getting older, but the headline just keeps staying the same.

00:49:08.000 10 years till end of world.

00:49:10.000 And then it's like 10 years later, like 10 years till end of world.

00:49:13.000 So according to the Washington Post, the world is likely to pass a dangerous temperature threshold within the next 10 years, pushing the planet past the point of catastrophic warming, unless nations drastically transform their economies and immediately transition away from fossil fuels.

00:49:25.000 Well, bad news, it ain't gonna happen.

00:49:28.000 Sorry!

00:49:29.000 I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings here for the environmentalist left, but the reality is the mass transition away from fossil fuels, that is not going to happen because the alternatives to fossil fuels simply are not nearly as effective.

00:49:40.000 And that is particularly true in the developing world, but it happens to be true pretty much everywhere.

00:49:44.000 The report released Monday by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found the world is likely to surpass its most ambitious climate target, limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

00:49:54.000 By the early 2030s, beyond that threshold, scientists have found climate disasters will become so extreme that people will not be able to adapt.

00:50:01.000 Basic components of the Earth's system will be fundamentally irrevocably altered.

00:50:05.000 Heat waves, famines, infectious diseases could claim millions of additional lives by century's end.

00:50:09.000 Now, what they don't say in that part of the report is that those kind of specific predictions are very, very low confidence predictions.

00:50:17.000 So they have kind of broad, whenever you read the IPCC reports, they have various levels of confidence that they announce.

00:50:24.000 They talk about assessed confidence.

00:50:27.000 Very low, low, medium, high, and very high.

00:50:31.000 And so the way that they assess their various predictions is with these particular labels.

00:50:35.000 So for example, if something is virtually certain, that would be a 99 to 100% probability.

00:50:40.000 Very likely is 90 to 100%.

00:50:40.000 Likely is 66 to 100%.

00:50:41.000 More likely than not would be 50 to 100%.

00:50:42.000 About as likely as not would be 33 to 66%.

00:50:44.000 66 to 100% more likely than that would be 50 to 100% about as likely as now would be 33 to 66% unlikely would be 0 to 33%.

00:50:54.000 There's some additional terms like extremely likely or high levels of confidence, right?

00:50:59.000 These sort of terms, again, they have sort of percentages attached to them.

00:51:02.000 Basically, the most scary, the most scary sort of predictions are all the very low confidence predictions, right?

00:51:12.000 Those are the ones that actually are the ones that the media tend to focus on because whenever they say that there is something terrible that's going to happen in the future, Of course they can only say that with very low confidence.

00:51:25.000 They have no clue.

00:51:26.000 They can kind of tell general trend lines, but they can't tell you that there's going to be a giant heat wave in the American Midwest in 2045 with high confidence.

00:51:36.000 You can't really say that sort of stuff.

00:51:38.000 Which is why that's not the sort of stuff that the media tend to The report is the confidence level.

00:51:44.000 So for example, here's a very, here's a low confidence report from the IPCC.

00:51:49.000 Over the next 2000 years, global mean sea level will rise by about 2 to 3 meters if warming is limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius and 2 to 6 meters if limited to 2 degrees Celsius.

00:51:57.000 That is a low confidence assessment.

00:52:00.000 That sort of stuff is going to feature very, very prominently in the reports.

00:52:03.000 You'll see a lot of medium confidence assessments.

00:52:06.000 Again, medium confidence is not a high confidence.

00:52:09.000 But all the stuff that is truly catastrophic is in the medium to low confidence area.

00:52:14.000 All the high confidence stuff is like, the world will get warmer.

00:52:16.000 Okay.

00:52:18.000 But that's not going to stop the media from essentially using this as an excuse to restructure the entire global economy.

00:52:24.000 It is not a shock that yesterday, Joe Biden warned that climate change could upend all the federal spending programs.

00:52:29.000 According to the New York Times, a chapter in the new economic report of the president focuses on the growing risks to people and businesses from rising temperatures and the government's role in adapting to them.

00:52:38.000 Administration economists said that reassessment should include a new look at climate adaptation implications of aid to farmers, wildland firefighting, and wide swaths of Medicare and Medicaid.

00:52:47.000 So we're going to have to spend more money on Medicare and Medicaid because of global warming. 0.90

00:52:52.000 I noticed that what you're doing is doing the thing you want to do and then claiming that global warming is the rationale for that thing.

00:52:58.000 That is what I'm noticing.

00:52:59.000 And you're doing it all in the name of to science, as per our usual arrangement.

00:53:03.000 And these are the experts and they are so expert.

00:53:05.000 They're probably, they have an appointment with Ted Lasso.

00:53:07.000 So probably should, you know, leave their afternoon free.

00:53:09.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:53:12.000 So things that I like, as I told you, I've now gotten into British TV because I've sort of exhausted the possibilities of American TV.

00:53:17.000 Excellent show from about a decade ago.

00:53:21.000 It's called Line of Duty.

00:53:22.000 It's from BBC One.

00:53:23.000 It's really, really good.

00:53:25.000 I've only seen season one, but apparently all the seasons are good.

00:53:25.000 It's really good.

00:53:28.000 Here's a little bit of the trailer.

00:53:31.000 No sweat lads. What have we got?

00:53:34.000 Hijack of a transport by armed men wearing balaclavas.

00:53:38.000 Three police officers murdered in cold blood.

00:53:41.000 The hijack required a police insider.

00:53:44.000 My team will get to the root of anything.

00:53:46.000 The root being what, sir?

00:53:49.000 For too long, the extent of police corruption has been covered up.

00:53:52.000 Someone's pulling the strings.

00:53:54.000 There's a code name.

00:53:55.000 Didn't think it was real.

00:53:56.000 It's a really good series.

00:53:57.000 This is actually the preview, I believe, for Season 5.

00:53:59.000 But Season 1 is well worth the watch.

00:54:02.000 It's really well written, it's well acted, and it's worth the time.

00:54:07.000 So you should go check it out.

00:54:08.000 Line of Duty.

00:54:09.000 I believe it's available on Amazon Prime.

00:54:11.000 Or you have to get that Brit Box.

00:54:13.000 Subscription that I was telling you about.

00:54:14.000 Okay.

00:54:15.000 Other things that I like.

00:54:15.000 So I do like it when members of the left say the quiet part out loud.

00:54:18.000 So they did that a little bit yesterday.

00:54:19.000 There is a Georgia state representative and this Georgia state representative named Lydia Glaze. 0.99

00:54:24.000 She was talking about why it is that basically parents should have no impact on their kids' education. 0.99

00:54:30.000 Now she admitted in the course of explaining that she has been sending her own kids to private school, but she says basically parents are too stupid to decide what to do with their kids. 0.99

00:54:37.000 You need the experts to do it. 0.99

00:54:40.000 I see access as a problem.

00:54:42.000 I see parents being able to direct their child's education and they are already in the lower 25 percentile, meaning a lot of those parents did not finish high school and could not finish their own education.

00:54:57.000 I am extremely concerned that we would put money in their hands and that entire piece of life in the hands of parents who are not qualified to make those decisions.

00:55:11.000 So, let me just get this straight.

00:55:13.000 Parents are not qualified to make decisions about the education of their children, but we should definitely spend tens of thousands of dollars on social welfare programs where we put cash directly in their hands to make financial decisions.

00:55:22.000 And also, we should make sure that every one of them votes.

00:55:25.000 Okay, you're going to need to explain why all those things are true at the same time. 1.00

00:55:28.000 Parents are too stupid to take care of their kids in terms of deciding where they go to school, but they're not too stupid to vote or to spend federal taxpayer and state taxpayer money. 1.00

00:55:36.000 You can't have it both ways. 1.00

00:55:39.000 Either parents are capable of agency, particularly when it comes to their children and the educations they receive, or parents are too stupid to basically function in society. 1.00

00:55:46.000 But this is the entire schtick. 0.99

00:55:48.000 The entire schtick is, we like their votes, because their votes empower people apparently, like this person, Lydia Glaze. 0.97

00:55:54.000 And we like to spend money on them because essentially we think that if we spend money on them, then they'll vote for us.

00:55:58.000 But we don't want them to be able to move their kids around because if they do that, maybe they might get this taste for this thing called freedom and responsible decision making. 0.84

00:56:05.000 We wouldn't want that at all.

00:56:07.000 There are a lot of people out there who would like to keep citizens of the United States in thrall to the government and would like to use them as tools toward their own reclamation of power.

00:56:13.000 Meanwhile, not abiding by any of the rules themselves.

00:56:15.000 Again, Lydia Glaze says in this same clip, actually, that she sends her own kids and sent her own kids to private school. 0.87

00:56:21.000 OK, time for some quick things that I hate.

00:56:28.000 So, things that I hate today.

00:56:30.000 You know, I've talked about this before.

00:56:31.000 I obviously spend a significant amount of time in Israel.

00:56:35.000 I tend to go by the Jewish holidays every year.

00:56:37.000 And as I've pointed out, the media never ever cover the simple fact that if you are a Jew or perceived as an outsider and you drive into a Palestinian-controlled area, there's a high likelihood that you will be beaten or killed.

00:56:49.000 And that that is a very serious security risk.

00:56:51.000 And if an Arab accidentally drives into the middle of Jerusalem, nothing happens. 0.97

00:56:54.000 But if a Jew accidentally drives into the wrong area of East Jerusalem, that person could be murdered.

00:56:59.000 And I've talked about this before.

00:57:00.000 I've talked about the fact that when you drive into the so-called West Bank, into Judea and Samaria, that you are greeted by red signs that say, on the side of the freeway, if you are a Jew or an Israeli citizen, do not enter this area.

00:57:13.000 It's Palestinian authority controlled.

00:57:15.000 If you enter this area, we can't guarantee your life.

00:57:17.000 So, there was an amazing incident that happened in Israel.

00:57:20.000 There's a city called Shechem.

00:57:22.000 Shechem, or Shechem, as it's pronounced in English, is now an Arab city.

00:57:27.000 It's a Palestinian Arab city.

00:57:29.000 Entirely controlled by the Palestinian Authority.

00:57:32.000 And these German tourists had rented a car in Tel Aviv.

00:57:36.000 Because they had rented a car in Tel Aviv, it had an Israeli license plate.

00:57:39.000 They're not Jewish. 0.99

00:57:40.000 They drove into Shrem and they were promptly beset by a group of young thugs who attempted to beat the living hell out of them.

00:57:49.000 Here is the clip and then you can hear the German tourist explaining what happened.

00:57:54.000 We felt very, very afraid.

00:57:56.000 I felt really, really endangered.

00:57:58.000 I did not know if I would go out there alive, because they had so much hate against us.

00:58:05.000 Suddenly came out of the taxis and kind of surrounded us, and we tried to explain in English that we are tourists, that we are from Germany, we are both not Jewish, so we are not a target for them.

00:58:16.000 But they didn't understand.

00:58:18.000 They didn't even listen, really, to us.

00:58:20.000 They just screamed at us.

00:58:22.000 And they started first to bump with their fists against our car.

00:58:29.000 And then they took some traffic signs and rocks that they were throwing against us.

00:58:35.000 Okay, so just to see, for those who can't see the footage, it's literally just a group of young Arab men who are grabbing rocks and stones and throwing them, smashing windshields, attempting to break windows to get at the people inside and physically harm them. 0.80

00:58:46.000 Okay, now, the key line there is, we tried to tell them in English, we weren't Jews.

00:58:51.000 We were just tourists.

00:58:53.000 Like, let's just be real about this.

00:58:55.000 The level of anti-Semitism in sort of commonplace Palestinian society is extraordinary.

00:59:01.000 Like the tacit kind of acceptance of the world that if you are a Jew and you drive into an Arab area in the Palestinian Authority that you will very high likelihood be murdered or at least physically harmed.

00:59:12.000 And the rest of the world just kind of goes, oh, okay.

00:59:14.000 And then has the gall to suggest that Israel is an apartheid state with a 20% Arab population, Arab parties sitting in the Knesset, Arab judges on the Supreme Court and all the rest.

00:59:21.000 The goal is really, really astounding.

00:59:23.000 And of course, that's not going to get shown on the nightly news because it's not newsworthy.

00:59:28.000 It's not newsworthy.

00:59:29.000 The bigotry of low expectations, the soft bigotry of low expectations that extends to Members of a population that will pull people out of a car and beat them for being Jews is extraordinary.

00:59:39.000 Again, that's not all Palestinians.

00:59:40.000 It may not be a majority of Palestinians.

00:59:41.000 We don't know.

00:59:42.000 By polling data, it may be a majority of Palestinians.

00:59:45.000 We don't know that either.

00:59:46.000 What we do know is that it is not safe to be a Jew in these areas.

00:59:49.000 It is safe to be an Arab if you aren't in Israel. 1.00

00:59:52.000 And yet that imbalance is never shown in the media.

00:59:54.000 The idea is that there's some sort of moral equivalent.

00:59:57.000 There isn't.

00:59:58.000 There just isn't.

00:59:59.000 As my friend Dennis Prager is fond of saying, when it comes to the Israeli-Arab dispute, if the Arabs put down their guns, there'd be a Palestinian state tomorrow.

01:00:05.000 If the Israeli put down their guns, there'd be 7 million dead Jews.

01:00:09.000 Alrighty, guys. 0.94

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The Ben Shapiro Show - March 21, 2023

The Trump Indictment Looms

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