The Ben Shapiro Show - The Worst Day In Modern American Political History | Ep. 1168

00:00:00.000 Rioters stormed the Capitol building to try to stop the Electoral College vote count for Joe Biden.

00:00:04.000 The left blames all Republicans for the insurrection.

00:00:06.000 And Twitter suspends Trump.

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00:01:19.000 The most horrifying thing that I have seen in American politics in my lifetime.

00:01:22.000 It was absolutely horrific on every possible level.

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00:01:28.000 Okay, so yesterday was one of the, was, no, bar none, not one of the, the most horrifying thing that I have seen in American politics in my lifetime.

00:01:34.000 It was absolutely horrific on every possible level.

00:01:37.000 And we're gonna go through today, the entire, the entire string of events.

00:01:42.000 We're going to go through the reaction to the events, which also has been quite terrible.

00:01:45.000 So I guess the synopsis of today's show is that everything is terrible.

00:01:49.000 That's the synopsis.

00:01:50.000 But what we saw yesterday is inexcusable, unjustifiable, awful on every level, disgusting on every level.

00:01:57.000 Just terrible.

00:01:58.000 Terrible.

00:01:58.000 When you have rioters taking over the U.S.

00:02:01.000 building, the seat of American democracy.

00:02:04.000 And when you have those rioters saying that they are doing so in the name of the president of the United States, and when you have them doing that to the legislative branch of the government, and when you have those people, they are rioters, they are not protesters, okay?

00:02:16.000 As soon as you commit an act of vandalism or violence, you are no longer in the category of protester, you are now a rioter.

00:02:20.000 And unlike some folks who have justified riots based on the perspective of the rioters.

00:02:26.000 If you're a criminal, you're a criminal, and you should go to jail.

00:02:28.000 You should go to jail.

00:02:29.000 And this was an attempted act of insurrection.

00:02:32.000 I mean, technically speaking, that's what it was, considering that the reason that this happened is because Congress was simply there doing their constitutional duty and tabulating the state-certified electoral count.

00:02:42.000 That's all they were doing.

00:02:44.000 They do not have the power.

00:02:45.000 Congress does not have the power, as I have been saying all week long.

00:02:47.000 Congress does not, and never did, have the power to simply overturn state electoral college certified results.

00:02:53.000 That is not a legal thing for them to do.

00:02:55.000 Vice President Pence did not have that power.

00:02:57.000 Congress did not have that power.

00:02:58.000 It was not going to happen anyway, even if you thought they had that power, because Democrats control the House of Representatives.

00:03:03.000 So all of that was tomfoolery.

00:03:05.000 It was nonsense.

00:03:06.000 And folks who believed that it wasn't nonsense and decided that they were going to commit an evil act.

00:03:12.000 It is an evil act to invade the seat of government and do violence to people.

00:03:15.000 It turns out we now have over a dozen police officers who are injured.

00:03:18.000 There are four people who are dead.

00:03:19.000 One person was shot.

00:03:20.000 Three people died in medical emergencies yesterday.

00:03:23.000 That's as bad an event as I've ever seen in American public life.

00:03:27.000 Frankly, I think that in many ways, it's the worst thing to happen to the United States of America since 9-11.

00:03:33.000 It was cataclysmically awful.

00:03:36.000 Cataclysmically awful.

00:03:37.000 Obviously, a very different sort of thing, considering that 9-11 was a foreign terror attack ending with mass carnage and mass death.

00:03:44.000 But the grave damage done to the sense of democracy, to the propriety of a republic, and to the functional workings of our government yesterday, It was pretty awful.

00:03:54.000 It was pretty awful.

00:03:55.000 Now, the American system is robust and bounced back within hours, thank God. 0.55

00:03:59.000 But that does not diminish the importance of what happened yesterday, which, again, was bad on every single level.

00:04:06.000 So, let's start from the very beginning, because that's a very good place to start, as Julie Andrews might say.

00:04:10.000 So, yesterday, there was a lot of lead up.

00:04:13.000 There's a lot of lead up to yesterday.

00:04:14.000 Remember, the big news story in the morning was that the Republicans had lost the Senate and the Democrats now had unified control of the government.

00:04:21.000 And there had been lead up for weeks to the January 6th vote by Congress to simply count the votes.

00:04:27.000 Again, there is no legal basis.

00:04:29.000 There is not.

00:04:30.000 There is not a legal basis for the Vice President of the United States To overturn electoral vote counts.

00:04:35.000 There is not a legal basis for Congress to simply throw out electoral vote counts it doesn't like in the absence of overwhelming evidence of voter fraud or voter irregularity, especially because all of these states had already certified their vote counts within the statutorily provided safe harbor provisions.

00:04:50.000 If you were going to make the arguments, you had to make them in court.

00:04:53.000 The Trump team did not make those arguments in court.

00:04:54.000 In fact, the Trump team repeatedly refused to make fraud arguments in, for example, Pennsylvania, which was the most hotly fraught of the states.

00:05:00.000 And as it turns out, pretty much nobody in Congress yesterday was even willing to challenge the vote count in Georgia, right, after all of the hubbub and after all the to-do.

00:05:09.000 But in the lead-up, President Trump was suggesting publicly, openly, and repeatedly that the January 6th vote was going to overturn the results of the Electoral College and the results of the election itself, and that he was going to be reinstalled as president if only, if only the Republicans in Congress could find the guts to do so.

00:05:25.000 It was not going to happen.

00:05:27.000 It was a myth.

00:05:28.000 It was not true.

00:05:29.000 Hey, so President Trump led a rally yesterday in which he told people that the election was stolen from now.

00:05:36.000 He is an American.

00:05:37.000 He has the right to say his piece.

00:05:39.000 He has the right to believe whatever he wants to believe about whether the election was stolen or whether the election was not stolen.

00:05:45.000 However, the President of the United States should not be doing this, obviously, especially when he has not provided the evidence to back his move.

00:05:52.000 He has not provided the overwhelming evidence the election was stolen.

00:05:55.000 The reality is the certified vote counts from a wide variety of states, including two that were traditionally red states, Arizona and Georgia, went for Joe Biden.

00:06:04.000 The electoral vote count here was the same as the electoral vote count Trump against Hillary Clinton, which he himself called the landslide.

00:06:10.000 In that case, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. 0.99

00:06:12.000 Here, Trump lost the popular vote by some 7 million votes.

00:06:16.000 I know that there are a lot of questions about voter irregularity.

00:06:18.000 I know there are real serious questions about voter procedures, right?

00:06:21.000 Voter ID and universal mail-in balloting.

00:06:23.000 I fully agree with the latter.

00:06:25.000 A lot of the voting procedures are really bad and need to be redone.

00:06:28.000 I am not comfortable with people voting months in advance in universal mail-in balloting without serious examination of the voter rolls, to purge people who have moved out of state, et cetera.

00:06:39.000 But that is not what Trump was talking about.

00:06:40.000 Trump kept saying over and over and over, the president, he kept saying over and over and over that the election had been stolen from him.

00:06:47.000 And also, he had refused repeatedly to commit to a peaceful transition of power.

00:06:52.000 This goes all the way back to 2016, when he had refused to say that he would concede if he lost.

00:06:57.000 Now, as you'll see, yesterday he actually did say that there would be a peaceful transition of power, but that should have been, obviously, the first word out of his mouth after the election.

00:07:05.000 It should have been, I'm gonna go through all the legal challenges, I believe I won, but of course, if the Electoral College votes, we have a process in this country, there will be a peaceful transition of power.

00:07:12.000 In any case, President Trump gave a speech to a very, very large march, tens of thousands of people gathering in Washington, D.C., to what they call Stop the Steal.

00:07:21.000 Here was President Trump yesterday saying he would never concede under any circumstances.

00:07:26.000 All of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by emboldened radical left Democrats, which is what they're doing, and stolen by the fake news media.

00:07:37.000 That's what they've done and what they're doing.

00:07:40.000 We will never give up.

00:07:41.000 We will never concede.

00:07:42.000 It doesn't happen.

00:07:43.000 You don't concede when there's theft involved.

00:07:49.000 Our country has had enough.

00:07:51.000 We will not take it anymore.

00:07:53.000 And that's what this is all about.

00:07:56.000 Okay, now obviously those sorts of vague inflammatory statements, they're not good for the Republic.

00:08:00.000 So let me just say this right from the outset.

00:08:02.000 There are a lot of people today saying that Trump is responsible for the actual riot that happened at the Capitol building.

00:08:07.000 So I have a very strict standard.

00:08:08.000 You can go back in time, you can look at how I've applied this standard.

00:08:11.000 Okay, it's a very, very strict standard when it comes to saying that someone is directly responsible for violence done by another adult human being.

00:08:18.000 And that is, if you didn't tell somebody to do the violence, you're not Technically responsible for the violence, right?

00:08:22.000 I said this about Barack Obama when a Black Lives Matter supporter shot six police officers in Dallas after months of Obama suggesting that the police were systemically racist.

00:08:31.000 I said that is not on Barack Obama.

00:08:33.000 Barack Obama is responsible for raising the temperature to the point where people do bad things.

00:08:38.000 That he is responsible for.

00:08:39.000 He is not responsible for the actual shooting.

00:08:41.000 I said the same thing about Bernie Sanders.

00:08:42.000 Bernie Sanders claimed for months, for years on end, that Republicans were killing old people.

00:08:47.000 And that Republicans were attempting to have people die for lack of health care.

00:08:50.000 And then, a Bernie Sanders supporter went and shot a bunch of Congress people, including Steve Scalise, who almost died.

00:08:55.000 I did not say that Bernie Sanders was responsible for that, because Bernie Sanders was not responsible for that.

00:08:59.000 Bernie Sanders did not tell the guy to go shoot members of Congress.

00:09:02.000 I have a very strict standard, and I have applied it on every single side of this particular issue.

00:09:07.000 With that said, when you raise the temperature, when you keep raising the temperature, when you keep boiling the pot, then eventually it's going to bubble over.

00:09:15.000 And when you keep saying over and over that the election is stolen and that we, and he makes big statements, we are not going to stand for it.

00:09:20.000 We're not going to let this happen in our country.

00:09:22.000 Right?

00:09:23.000 When you suggest that members of Congress are acting treasonously, I mean, it is, it is an accusation essentially of acting seditiously.

00:09:29.000 If you know that the election was stolen and you vote for it anyway, then it is not entirely unpredictable that people are going to act out in this way.

00:09:37.000 So two things can be true at once, as always.

00:09:39.000 One, you are not guilty of somebody else's direct violent conduct unless you directed them to do that direct violent conduct, but you are guilty for the language that you speak.

00:09:48.000 You are responsible for the promulgation of untruths.

00:09:51.000 You are responsible for the raising of the temperature.

00:09:55.000 You're responsible for misleading people about the proper response to something like this.

00:10:00.000 We do have legal processes.

00:10:01.000 And the president eventually came around to the legal processes last night, at least publicly, But we'll get to more of this in just one second, because obviously, that was just the beginning of the day, yesterday, and much more happened from there.

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00:11:40.000 Okay, well, now that we've gotten beyond happy thoughts, we'll get back to Less happy events happening in the United States.

00:11:45.000 As President Trump continued his speech yesterday, again this is in front of tens of thousands of people, fairly early yesterday morning.

00:11:51.000 Here is President Trump slamming his own Supreme Court appointees who he said he was disappointed in for not overruling the state electoral counts in these various areas.

00:12:00.000 And again, there is no indicator that the Supreme Court saw any evidence sufficient to overturn election results.

00:12:06.000 They turned down the Pennsylvania case on the basis that there was a serious problem with the federal court adjudicating what was, in fact, a state legislative matter.

00:12:16.000 But even there, I believe it was a 7-2 ruling, even there, the two who voted in favor of taking the case suggested pretty openly that does not mean that they would have voted in favor of overturning the electoral results from Pennsylvania.

00:12:29.000 In any case, President Trump slammed his own Supreme Court appointees in front of this very large crowd yesterday.

00:12:34.000 I'm not happy with the Supreme Court.

00:12:36.000 They love to rule against me.

00:12:38.000 I picked three people.

00:12:40.000 I fought like hell for them.

00:12:42.000 One in particular I fought.

00:12:44.000 They all said, sir, cut him loose. 0.99

00:12:46.000 He's killing the senators. 0.85

00:12:47.000 You know, very loyal senators.

00:12:48.000 They're very loyal people.

00:12:50.000 Sir, cut him loose. 0.99

00:12:51.000 He's killing us, sir. 1.00

00:12:52.000 Cut him loose, sir. 0.99

00:12:53.000 I must have gotten half of the senators. 0.75

00:12:56.000 I said, no, I can't do that.

00:12:57.000 It's unfair to him and it's unfair to the family.

00:13:00.000 He didn't do anything wrong.

00:13:02.000 They're made up stories.

00:13:03.000 They're all made up stories.

00:13:05.000 He didn't do anything wrong.

00:13:06.000 Caught him loose, sir.

00:13:07.000 I said, no, I won't do that.

00:13:08.000 We got him through.

00:13:10.000 And you know what? 0.53

00:13:11.000 They couldn't give a damn. 0.86

00:13:13.000 They couldn't give a damn. 0.70

00:13:14.000 Let him rule the right way.

00:13:16.000 But it almost seems that they're all going out of their way to hurt all of us and to hurt our country.

00:13:21.000 I mean, this is honestly, it's really bad stuff.

00:13:21.000 Okay.

00:13:24.000 It's, it's, it's gross.

00:13:25.000 I mean, when the president suggests that the Supreme Court is going out of the way to rule against him, even though I got them through and they owe me an oath of personal loyalty, that's not how the government works.

00:13:33.000 That is not how the government was ever designed to work.

00:13:35.000 It is a government of laws, not of men.

00:13:36.000 It is not a personal loyalty test to any one person.

00:13:38.000 It never should be a personal loyalty test to any one person, Democratic, Republican, black, white, or green.

00:13:43.000 Okay, so then President Trump finishes this rally by saying that he's going to lead all these people on a march down to the Capitol building.

00:13:51.000 Okay, so as this is happening, by the way, Congress is meeting to discuss the state electoral results.

00:13:58.000 And again, the way that process works, as we'll discuss, is the vice president opens the votes, he counts the votes, he does not have the power to throw out the votes.

00:14:04.000 The Congress of the United States, if you get one congressperson and one senator, they can then challenge any state electoral result on the basis of either illegal certification, or they can say there was bribery that happened, something like that.

00:14:17.000 Okay, then there is a separate debate for each house of Congress.

00:14:20.000 They come back together, they vote on it.

00:14:22.000 It was a foregone conclusion that that tactic was going to be a failure.

00:14:26.000 The Congress is just not given the sort of responsibility.

00:14:28.000 The federal government does not have the ability to simply overrule state electoral college results for the 1000th time.

00:14:33.000 And it's just not a legal reality.

00:14:35.000 In any case, President Trump says, I'm going to lead you on a march.

00:14:37.000 Here's the conclusion of his speech.

00:14:39.000 And after this, we're going to walk down and I'll be there with you.

00:14:44.000 We're going to walk down.

00:14:47.000 We're going to walk down anyone you want.

00:14:49.000 But I think right here, we're going to walk down to the Capitol.

00:14:53.000 Thank you.

00:14:56.000 And we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.

00:15:03.000 And we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them.

00:15:08.000 Okay, so he says he's going to lead a march on the Capitol.

00:15:10.000 He, in fact, did not lead a march on the Capitol.

00:15:11.000 He went back to the White House.

00:15:12.000 The march on the Capitol then proceeded.

00:15:14.000 Okay, so while all of this is happening, I mean, it's like something out of a horrible B-film.

00:15:19.000 While all of this is happening, the Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, releases a statement saying, no, I'm not going to simply overthrow an election and simply hand the election to my boss.

00:15:29.000 Like, that's not a thing that I'm going to do.

00:15:31.000 He put out a letter earlier yesterday In which he said, our founders created the electoral college in 1787.

00:15:35.000 It first convened in 1789.

00:15:37.000 With the advent of political parties, the electoral college was amended in 1804 to provide that electors vote separately for president and vice president.

00:15:43.000 Congress spent a decade after 1876, establishing rules and procedures to govern the counting of electoral votes and the resolution of any objections.

00:15:50.000 During the 130 years since the Electoral Count Act was passed, Congress has, without exception, used these formal procedures to count the electoral votes every four years.

00:15:58.000 Given the controversy surrounding this year's election, some approach this year's quadrennial tradition with great expectations, others with dismissive disdain.

00:16:05.000 Some believe that as vice president, I should be able to accept or reject electoral votes unilaterally.

00:16:09.000 Others believe electoral votes should never be challenged in a joint session of Congress.

00:16:13.000 After a careful study of our Constitution, our laws, our history, I believe that neither view is correct.

00:16:18.000 The presidency belongs to the American people and to them alone. 0.96

00:16:21.000 When disputes concerning a presidential election arise under federal law, writes Vice President Pence, it is the people's representatives who review the evidence and resolve the disputes through a democratic process.

00:16:32.000 And then he continues, vesting the vice president with unilateral authority to decide presidential contests would be entirely antithetical to that design, which of course is exactly right.

00:16:42.000 He said that he would gather, he would do his duty, and then he would do it in a manner consistent with our Constitution laws and history, so help me God.

00:16:50.000 So Pence announces that I am not going to be overturning the results of the election.

00:16:55.000 And the debate begins in the Senate.

00:16:57.000 Senator Ted Cruz is one of the leaders of the efforts to challenge electoral results.

00:17:03.000 And Senator Cruz gets up and he explains why he is doing this.

00:17:07.000 We have seen and no doubt will continue to see A great deal of moralizing from both sides of the aisle.

00:17:16.000 But I would urge to both sides, perhaps, a bit less certitude and a bit more recognition that we are gathered at a time when democracy is in crisis.

00:17:32.000 Recent polling shows that 39% of Americans believe the election that just occurred, quote, was rigged.

00:17:43.000 You may not agree with that assessment, but it is nonetheless a reality for nearly half the country.

00:17:51.000 I would note it is not just Republicans who believe that.

00:17:56.000 31% of independents agree with that statement.

00:18:02.000 17% of Democrats believe the election was rigged.

00:18:07.000 Okay, this is a very, very, very poor argument.

00:18:10.000 It is a bad argument that because a lot of people believe a thing, therefore we are going to misuse the legal process in order to, in order to what?

00:18:19.000 Make excuses for the thing that's not going to end with anything changing?

00:18:22.000 Okay, the reality is, as I've said again, I have very consistent standards when it comes to this sort of stuff.

00:18:27.000 Allegations must be substantiated by evidence.

00:18:29.000 We have over 50 court cases in which these allegations were not properly substantiated by evidence.

00:18:34.000 We have had open legislative hearings in a variety of purple states, in states that went from Trump to Biden.

00:18:45.000 We have we've had a series of hearings in which the evidence presented has been has been put forth.

00:18:45.000 Right.

00:18:51.000 It has not been particularly convincing.

00:18:53.000 Hey, just because a lot of people believe a thing does not mean that you should grant legitimacy to the thing they believe when the evidence is simply not there.

00:18:59.000 So Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, he gets up and he says exactly this.

00:19:03.000 And frankly, good for McConnell.

00:19:04.000 Good for McConnell.

00:19:05.000 So here's Mitch.

00:19:06.000 I've had many problems with Mitch McConnell over the years.

00:19:08.000 This is not one of them.

00:19:09.000 Here's Mitch McConnell yesterday saying that, listen, regardless of what you believe, the evidence of fraud is not honest.

00:19:14.000 It has not been substantiated to the scale where it would overturn the presidential election.

00:19:17.000 This is obviously true based on the evidence that has been examined at this time.

00:19:22.000 All rumors to the contrary.

00:19:24.000 They did several recounts of the vote in Georgia.

00:19:28.000 They investigated all the allegations in Georgia, up to and including the allegations that dead people were voting, up to and including the allegations at the State Farm Arena.

00:19:36.000 Here's Mitch McConnell saying the evidence is not there.

00:19:40.000 Nothing before us proves illegality anywhere near the massive scale, the massive scale That would have tipped the entire election.

00:19:56.000 And McConnell then continued, he said, you know, one of the things that's happening in this country, and it's pretty egregious, is we cannot have separate sets of facts that are being put forth.

00:20:02.000 We cannot keep drifting apart into two separate tribes with a separate set of facts and separate realities.

00:20:15.000 With nothing in common except our hostility towards each other and mistrust for the few national institutions that we all still share.

00:20:27.000 And then finally McConnell concludes and he says if the election were actually overturned, if some of these folks got what they wanted, we would basically be in a civil war, which is of course correct.

00:20:27.000 Okay.

00:20:35.000 Let's say the Congress decided they were just gonna throw out all of the state votes.

00:20:39.000 They were gonna disenfranchise tens of millions of people in these various states and simply enshrine Donald Trump for a second turn.

00:20:46.000 You really think there wouldn't be mass, not what we saw yesterday, mass violence in the streets, like open chaos in civil war?

00:20:52.000 There would be.

00:20:53.000 It would also be morally wrong.

00:20:54.000 You don't get to overthrow state certified electoral college results on the congressional level because you don't like the result.

00:20:59.000 Here was McConnell yesterday.

00:21:02.000 This election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side.

00:21:10.000 Our democracy would enter a death spiral.

00:21:12.000 I'm going to go.

00:21:14.000 you We'd never see the whole nation accept an election again.

00:21:23.000 Every four years would be a scramble for power.

00:21:26.000 at any cost.

00:21:27.000 Okay, so McConnell was right about all of that.

00:21:30.000 So as this is happening, President Trump tweets out against Mike Pence.

00:21:35.000 We now know, by the way, that the president apparently has banned Mark Short, the vice president's chief of staff, from even entering the White House at this point.

00:21:43.000 So this is, the fit of peak has not yet ended.

00:21:44.000 So Trump tweeted out Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution giving states a chance to certify a corrected set of facts not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify.

00:21:56.000 USA demands the truth. Okay well this is where again are you responsible for raising the You damn sure well are when you do that sort of stuff.

00:22:06.000 I mean, what exactly does he think the remedy is at this point?

00:22:08.000 He's taken it to every court in the land.

00:22:10.000 All the courts have said he didn't provide the evidence.

00:22:12.000 He took it to state legislatures.

00:22:13.000 They said, you're not providing enough evidence for us to overturn the will of the people.

00:22:19.000 The vice president isn't going to break the law.

00:22:21.000 Congress isn't going to break the law.

00:22:23.000 And then when he says the USA demands the truth, in what way?

00:22:28.000 What is the practical way in which this is true?

00:22:28.000 In what way?

00:22:31.000 Right, how is that going to happen?

00:22:33.000 What is that supposed to mean?

00:22:35.000 Now again, that doesn't mean he is calling for violence.

00:22:38.000 It does mean that he is responsible for radically raising the temperature, as he has been for the last couple of months, based on allegations that have been unverified and unproven and in many cases overtly debunked.

00:22:49.000 And none of this is to say voter fraud and voter irregularity didn't take place or that we shouldn't have investigations into criminally serious criminal allegations.

00:22:55.000 I said that every single day since the election.

00:22:58.000 None of this means that we shouldn't take a look at the voter laws that govern in a lot of these states, which in fact are not good.

00:23:05.000 But the president has been making unverified, unverifiable, and in some cases overtly falsified allegations about the nature of this election.

00:23:11.000 And he has whipped people up into such a fervor By suggesting over and over and over again that there are remedies available to them that are simply not available to them.

00:23:20.000 And then what happens when they run out of remedies?

00:23:23.000 What happens when there are no more remedies available?

00:23:26.000 So, in a second we'll get to what then happened, what happened next, which of course is the dramatic event of yesterday and one of the worst things that I have seen in my political life.

00:23:34.000 And downplaying it is not worthy of conservatives.

00:23:37.000 Downplaying it is not worthy of people who call themselves protectors of the Constitution, protectors of civil liberties and civil rights.

00:23:43.000 It is not worthy of that.

00:23:45.000 And by the way, the sort of whataboutism that is now applying, the reason that it is bad when the left greenlit Antifa and BLM riots during the summer is because that is bad.

00:23:56.000 And it's just as bad if you are greenlighting stuff like that from people that you have sympathy for.

00:24:03.000 Double standards apply both ways.

00:24:06.000 And we'll get to all of that and more in just one second.

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00:25:11.000 Okay, so all of this culminates In a riot at the Capitol building and Congress itself being put under siege.

00:25:18.000 Congress has to go into recess.

00:25:21.000 I spoke to several Congress people yesterday who were rushed into safe spots in the Capitol building.

00:25:25.000 Senators were all being housed together.

00:25:27.000 Various Congress people were being sheltered in their offices, protected by Capitol police, and in some cases, Secret Service.

00:25:34.000 Lawmakers, staff members, according to the AP, were hiding under tables, hunkered in lockdown, saying prayers, seeing the fruits of the country's divisions up close and violent.

00:25:40.000 Guns were drawn.

00:25:42.000 The images are absolutely stunning.

00:25:44.000 The guns were drawn in the Capitol chamber.

00:25:46.000 They're barbarians, literally people dressed as barbarians, taking over the Capitol chamber, sitting in the vice president's seat. 0.79

00:25:51.000 You can see this image, Secret Service agents pointing guns at one of the doors as people try to break into the doors of the Capitol building.

00:25:59.000 One woman was shot dead.

00:26:02.000 The footage of that is too gruesome for me to show you.

00:26:05.000 She was unarmed.

00:26:06.000 She was attempting to climb up into the chamber in criminal fashion. 1.00

00:26:10.000 And she was shot by a Capitol Police officer.

00:26:13.000 And she died.

00:26:14.000 The three other people apparently died in various medical emergencies around the periphery of the riot.

00:26:23.000 According to the AP, the pro-Trump mob took over the presiding officer's chair in the Senate, the offices of the House Speaker, and the Senate dais, where one yelled, Trump won the election.

00:26:30.000 They mocked its leaders.

00:26:31.000 They posed for photos in the office of House Speaker Pelosi, one with his feet propped on a desk in her office, another sitting in the same seat Vice President Pence had occupied only moments before during the proceedings to certify the electoral college vote.

00:26:44.000 The rioters began by mobbing the media, right?

00:26:46.000 So they actually just started tearing away cameras.

00:26:50.000 All these people should spend time in jail. 0.88

00:26:50.000 This is criminal activity. 0.88

00:26:53.000 You can see the video.

00:26:54.000 They literally just went up to members of the media and they started mobbing them and destroying their cameras.

00:27:00.000 Criminal activity is called criminal activity.

00:27:02.000 This is criminal activity.

00:27:05.000 You can see them stealing and or wrecking the equipment.

00:27:05.000 And you can hear the chaos.

00:27:10.000 These folks are a delight.

00:27:11.000 Then the mob took over the Capitol.

00:27:14.000 You can actually see the footage of the moment that the mob took over the Capitol building, injuring police officers in the process.

00:27:20.000 They simply push right through the gates.

00:27:22.000 So the police officers are standing there.

00:27:24.000 They were lined up on the steps.

00:27:25.000 Here you can see this man dressed as a barbarian.

00:27:28.000 The writers of this season are really too on the nose, I think.

00:27:31.000 When you have actual people dressed as actual barbarians trying to break into the U.S.

00:27:35.000 Capitol building, the seat of the most long-lasting and powerful democracy in the history of the world, having the guy dressed as a barbarian is a little bit on the nose. 0.84

00:27:44.000 So people simply just bust through the gates and move their way into the Capitol.

00:27:49.000 People waving Trump flags, people shouting, carrying American flags.

00:27:52.000 A couple carrying Confederate flags, which is always a great look.

00:27:56.000 So folks, you know, breaking in.

00:27:59.000 The footage is pretty stunning.

00:28:01.000 There are people who are chasing down police officers.

00:28:04.000 There are pictures of blood on the floor.

00:28:07.000 There are rioters who are attempting to... Yeah, you can see the footage there, blood on the floor.

00:28:13.000 You can see riders attempting to bust through the doors using some of the gates as battering rams. 0.99

00:28:20.000 Naturally, these idiots festooned the battering rams which they were trying to break into the halls of democracy with a Trump flag. 1.00

00:28:32.000 It was egregious. 1.00

00:28:34.000 And this lasted for hours.

00:28:34.000 It was egregious.

00:28:36.000 Okay, and this did, this did raise serious questions, which we'll get to in a moment, about the nature of the Capitol Police response, and where the hell were they, and where was the National Guard, and how was this, like if terrorists had known it would be this easy to take over the U.S. 0.99

00:28:47.000 Capitol building, ISIS had to be sitting there going, man, what morons are we? 0.98

00:28:51.000 Why had we not tried this before? 0.99

00:28:52.000 Okay, so the Republican, so the response across the board is absolute shock, horror, and it should be shock and horror, because I've never seen anything like this.

00:29:01.000 Have you ever seen anything like this?

00:29:03.000 I haven't.

00:29:04.000 The only things that I've seen that are remotely like this, even in any remote way, there's a situation back in 2011 when some protesters took over the Capitol building in Wisconsin during a union fight.

00:29:17.000 There were Kavanaugh protesters who banged on the doors of the Supreme Court, but the full-scale takeover of the Capitol building, and the destruction of property wholesale, and the wounding of police officers, two are in the hospital, the shooting of a rioter in the halls of Congress, Egregious, egregious stuff.

00:29:36.000 Okay, so Vice President Pence tweets his response to all of this.

00:29:42.000 Vice President Pence tweeted out, Okay, so strong condemnation, of course.

00:29:44.000 taking place at the U.S. Capitol must stop and it must stop now.

00:29:46.000 Anyone involved must respect law enforcement officers and immediately leave the building.

00:29:50.000 Okay, so strong condemnation, of course. Kevin McCarthy, the House Minority Leader, Republican leader in the House, he said yesterday, this is un-American, which of course it absolutely is.

00:30:02.000 This is so un-American. 0.93

00:30:05.000 I condemn any of this violence that's happening in the Capitol right now.

00:30:09.000 I could not be fatter or more disappointed with the way our country looks at this very moment.

00:30:15.000 People are getting hurt.

00:30:17.000 Anyone involved in this, if you're hearing me, you're hearing very loud and clear, this is not the American way.

00:30:23.000 This is not protected by the First Amendment.

00:30:25.000 This must stop now.

00:30:28.000 Okay, then Joe Biden gets up, they activate him from the basement in Wilmington, and he gets up and he gives what I thought honestly was a fairly decent statement.

00:30:37.000 The president-elect, he gets up and he says, the democracy is under assault, which again, it was.

00:30:42.000 I mean, these were people overtly attempting to disrupt democratic procedures from taking place in an attempt to prevent him from being president in some addle-brained way.

00:30:50.000 This was never going to work. 1.00

00:30:51.000 It was idiotic in the extreme. 1.00

00:30:52.000 It's illegal, it's criminal, and it's gross. 1.00

00:30:54.000 There was vice president, well, now president-elect Biden condemning this.

00:30:59.000 At this hour, our democracy is under unprecedented assault.

00:31:04.000 Thank you.

00:31:06.000 Unlike anything we've seen in modern times.

00:31:09.000 An assault on the Citadel of Liberty.

00:31:13.000 The Capitol itself.

00:31:17.000 An assault on the people's representatives.

00:31:21.000 And the Capitol Hill police sworn to protect them.

00:31:27.000 And the public servants who work at the heart of our Republic.

00:31:34.000 An assault on the rule of law like few times we've ever seen it.

00:31:39.000 Okay, and then he continued.

00:31:41.000 He said that he called on President Trump to go on TV and call for an end to this, because while this was going on, President Trump had not gone on TV.

00:31:48.000 As we'll see, Trump had tweeted a couple of times.

00:31:49.000 We'll get to Trump's response in just one moment.

00:31:51.000 Here was the president-elect.

00:31:54.000 The words of a president matter, no matter how good or bad that president is.

00:32:02.000 At their best, the words of a president can inspire.

00:32:08.000 At their worst, they can incite.

00:32:15.000 And therefore, I call on President Trump to go on national television now to fulfill his oath and defend the Constitution.

00:32:30.000 And demand an end to this siege.

00:32:34.000 Okay, so then Biden made a statement about how this wasn't about him.

00:32:38.000 It was really about democracy.

00:32:39.000 And regardless of what you think of his characterization of Trump's remarks, the reality is that these folks were proclaiming themselves Trump followers.

00:32:47.000 Trump needed to do something, and Trump did a couple of things.

00:32:49.000 So here's what Trump did.

00:32:50.000 So Trump tweeted out a couple of things.

00:32:52.000 He tweeted out originally that the violence should stop.

00:32:56.000 He said, I'm asking for everyone at the U.S.

00:32:57.000 Capitol to remain peaceful, no violence.

00:32:59.000 Remember, we are the party of law and order.

00:33:00.000 Respect the law and our great men and women in blue.

00:33:03.000 Thank you.

00:33:04.000 And then he tweeted out also, please support our Capitol Police and law enforcement.

00:33:07.000 They are truly on the side of our country.

00:33:09.000 Stay peaceful.

00:33:10.000 And so he did tweet those two things out.

00:33:12.000 Then, maybe a couple of hours later, hour and a half later, he released a video.

00:33:17.000 Okay, in this video, he had two messages, which don't have to be in conflict, but are somewhat in conflict.

00:33:25.000 One is that he doubts the outcome of the election.

00:33:27.000 And the other is that all these people should go home and stop being violent.

00:33:31.000 As I say, it's a free country.

00:33:32.000 You're allowed to do whatever you want.

00:33:34.000 When the President of the United States keeps raising the temperature by suggesting that the election was stolen and that every avenue of legal recourse has been closed, that does create the impetus for people to do some pretty nasty things.

00:33:47.000 But here is the President's statement.

00:33:48.000 He did, in fact, call for people to stand down and stop this.

00:33:52.000 Here is the statement.

00:33:55.000 I know you're pained.

00:33:56.000 I know you're hurt.

00:33:58.000 We had an election that was stolen from us.

00:34:02.000 It was a landslide election, and everyone knows it, especially the other side.

00:34:08.000 But you have to go home now.

00:34:10.000 We have to have peace.

00:34:11.000 We have to have law and order.

00:34:13.000 We have to respect our great people in law and order.

00:34:17.000 We don't want anybody hurt.

00:34:19.000 It's a very tough period of time.

00:34:21.000 There's never been a time like this, where Such a thing happened where they could take it away from all of us.

00:34:28.000 From me, from you, from our country.

00:34:30.000 This was a fraudulent election.

00:34:33.000 But we can't play into the hands of these people.

00:34:38.000 We have to have peace.

00:34:40.000 So go home.

00:34:41.000 We love you.

00:34:42.000 You're very special.

00:34:44.000 You've seen what happens.

00:34:45.000 You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil.

00:34:51.000 I know how you feel.

00:34:53.000 But go home and go home in peace.

00:34:55.000 Okay, go home in peace is a good message.

00:34:57.000 The election was stolen from me.

00:34:58.000 It was a landslide election.

00:34:59.000 There's no legal recourse for us to reclaim that. 0.96

00:35:02.000 No one has ever been screwed like I've been screwed. 0.99

00:35:03.000 No one's being screwed like you're being screwed. 0.98

00:35:05.000 You saw how they treated everybody with kid gloves when they rioted back during the summer, and now how they're treating you and they're gonna use it as an excuse. 0.94

00:35:11.000 There are some mixed messages there.

00:35:13.000 There are some mixed messages there.

00:35:14.000 Those mixed messages were exacerbated by one more tweet that President Trump sent, which, as we will see, resulted in him being suspended from Twitter entirely.

00:35:22.000 Which, of course, is the wrong response by Twitter.

00:35:24.000 Trump tweeted out, these are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously and viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly and unfairly treated for so long.

00:35:33.000 Go home with love and in peace.

00:35:35.000 Remember this day forever.

00:35:38.000 That does not sound like the opposition to criminals committing acts of vandalism and violence against federal buildings that he had against Antifa or BLM back during the summer.

00:35:49.000 We passed executive orders.

00:35:51.000 He promulgated an executive order looking to prosecute anybody who destroyed a federal monument for 10 years in prison.

00:35:58.000 I mean, this was a major issue during the summer.

00:36:00.000 Regardless of whether he whipped Remember this day?

00:36:02.000 into a frenzy. I mean, the fact is, if he wants to say that he is not responsible for the violence, which I don't think that he is, then why exactly is he saying that? Well, why exactly? He should not be. Remember this day? These are great patriots who are committing acts of vandalism and violence, and they're doing so because they're angry.

00:36:23.000 Okay, it is wrong when...

00:36:25.000 So Barack Obama did some of this stuff during the Ferguson riots.

00:36:28.000 He would say, well, you know, people don't feel like this out of nowhere.

00:36:31.000 You have to understand their feelings.

00:36:32.000 Yeah, the rioting is bad, but, and I ripped Obama at the time.

00:36:35.000 And this, that statement is, that is not a good statement.

00:36:38.000 It is not a good statement.

00:36:39.000 And people who are trying to twist that into, well, he's just calling for peace there.

00:36:43.000 Calling for peace at the same time that you suggest overtly and repeatedly that the election was stolen, a landslide election was overtly stolen, which is a subversion of the democratic process.

00:36:54.000 That is not likely to fall on ears that are likely to hear that as, oh yeah, what you're doing is really bad right now.

00:37:00.000 Okay, so.

00:37:02.000 President Trump finally, this morning, came out and pledged an orderly transfer of power, which this should have happened again literally the day before the- It should have happened years ago, right?

00:37:11.000 He said, even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election and the facts bear me out, nevertheless, there will be an orderly transition on January 20th. I've always said we would continue our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it's only the beginning of our fight to make America great again. So he says there will be an orderly transition.

00:37:31.000 Would have been nice if he had been saying that repeatedly and overtly and over and over and over again for the last two months, minimum, even as he pursued his legal recourses, which again, I said he had the right to pursue.

00:37:43.000 I said every day on this program, every legal recourse is open to him.

00:37:46.000 Once those are exhausted, the process has played out and it's over.

00:37:49.000 Okay, we'll get to the narratives that are gonna be drawn from this because the narratives are gonna be what you have to live with after this, right?

00:37:56.000 After this horrible, horrible day is over, And it is, after the tear gas has dissipated, after the Senate is put back in working order, and all the papers are restored, and all the desks are rebuilt.

00:38:10.000 After the mourning is done for the woman who was shot and killed at the Capitol building?

00:38:13.000 After all that is over, then we're going to have to deal with the fallout.

00:38:17.000 And the narratives are the fallout.

00:38:19.000 So we'll get to the narratives in just one second, because the ramifications for conservatives and for the Republic are pretty dire.

00:38:26.000 I don't have a lot of trust that this is going to be the beginning of a reunification of the country in any serious way.

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00:39:36.000 Alrighty, so in just one second, we'll get to the narratives that are gonna be drawn from this, and that's the stuff you're gonna have to live with.

00:39:42.000 It's gonna shape the country for the next several years minimum.

00:39:45.000 And these narratives are wrong, thoroughly wrong.

00:39:49.000 In many cases, they are extraordinary, like factually wrong, quite ugly, and they're gonna have real consequences for the way that we live politically and live with each other in the country.

00:40:01.000 We'll get to that in a second.

00:40:02.000 First, as you'll see, a lot of this is going to be tied into the narratives that the left has about conservatives.

00:40:08.000 The big point that they are going to make coming out of this is that all conservatives are responsible for the actions of an egregious few who have committed an act that is roundly condemned by every conservative of any size, scope, or following.

00:40:20.000 They're going to try and label it.

00:40:21.000 But that's what the media do.

00:40:22.000 That's what the left's grip on the institutional culture means.

00:40:26.000 They try to cram down visions of conservatives that turn conservatives into the barbarians who storm the gates.

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00:41:18.000 ♪♪ Alrighty, so there are three narratives and one set of overt actions that are gonna be taken now that are really, truly horrifying for the republic.

00:41:30.000 So there are three narratives that started to make the rounds around Twitter and then of course filtered their way into the media and now will become part of the broad public debate.

00:41:36.000 One was the attempt to make this about race, which is unbelievable.

00:41:39.000 I mean, literally you had A white woman who was shot to death, right?

00:41:43.000 I mean, she died at the hands of the Capitol Police in the United States Capitol Building after rioting and entering that building illegally.

00:41:51.000 And the takeaway from the media is that if these were black protesters or rioters, that everyone would have been shot, right?

00:41:56.000 This is the take of Jemele Hill, who can reliably make anything into a racial comment.

00:42:00.000 So, Jamel Hill says, let's just be clear about something.

00:42:02.000 The reason the Capitol Police were slow to respond is because they gave these white people the benefit of the doubt and treated it like a joke. 0.98

00:42:07.000 The reaction isn't the same because they see black people as a threat that needs to be eliminated.

00:42:11.000 Well, I'm gonna go through exactly why Capitol Police responded the way they did in just one second. 0.93

00:42:16.000 Dwayne Wade said the same thing.

00:42:18.000 Basketball player black people get pulled over and don't make it out alive. 1.00

00:42:21.000 Okay, first of all, it's on a statistical level that is not true.

00:42:26.000 Millions of people every year are pulled over in the United States of America.

00:42:29.000 The number of people who are shot unarmed by the police is in the low double digits to single digits.

00:42:35.000 Black Americans.

00:42:37.000 But says Dwayne Wade, we can't sleep in our own beds without being killed. 1.00

00:42:40.000 Again, a lie. 0.79

00:42:41.000 We can't jog without being killed. 0.98

00:42:42.000 Again, a lie. 0.87

00:42:43.000 We can't walk down the street with our hoodies up without being killed, but they can do this.

00:42:47.000 That of course, this is the case that's made, is that because the Capitol Police and National Guard didn't put this thing down with prejudice, that that is an indicator of generalized American white supremacy.

00:42:59.000 First of all, the Capitol Police should have put this thing down with prejudice.

00:43:03.000 Second of all, the National Guard should have been there, and they should have been doing something.

00:43:06.000 As we will see, it was local politicians and federal politicians who decided and federal bureaucrats who decided they didn't want enough law enforcement there, partially as a response to criticism that they received back in the summer that they were too harsh with the protesters. And you have Joy Reid, a reliable source of insanity who says the exact same thing. Here is Joy Reid.

00:43:24.000 White Americans aren't afraid of the cops. White Americans are never afraid of the cops. 0.82

00:43:29.000 Even when they're committing insurrection.

00:43:32.000 Even when they're engaged in attempting to occupy our capital to steal the votes of people who look like me.

00:43:39.000 Because in their minds, they own this country.

00:43:41.000 They own that capital.

00:43:42.000 They own the cops.

00:43:43.000 The cops work for them. 0.72

00:43:44.000 And people like me have no damn right to try to elect a president.

00:43:49.000 Because we don't get to pick the president.

00:43:51.000 They get to pick the president.

00:43:52.000 They own the president.

00:43:53.000 They own the White House.

00:43:54.000 They own this country.

00:43:56.000 The white people own the country. 0.99

00:43:58.000 What kind of sick, perverse notion is this? 0.99

00:44:01.000 To turn this into a racial issue is beyond insane. 0.99

00:44:05.000 Beyond insane.

00:44:06.000 Especially because you know why this happened.

00:44:08.000 According to The Federalist, Washington D.C.

00:44:11.000 Mayor Muriel Bowser, a black woman who Let people, and actually mandated, that they turn an entire plaza into Black Lives Matter plaza. 1.00

00:44:20.000 They painted Black Lives Matter on an entire city street in Washington, D.C.

00:44:23.000 She told federal law enforcement to stand down just one day before a mob of Trump supporters breached the U.S.

00:44:28.000 Capitol on Wednesday, smashing windows, entering chambers, forcing lawmakers and congressional staff inside into lockdown.

00:44:34.000 Bowser wrote in a letter to U.S.

00:44:36.000 Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller, and Secretary of the Army Ryan D. McCarthy to be clear, the District of Columbia is not requesting other federal law enforcement personnel and discourages any additional deployment without immediate notification to and consultation with MPD if such plans are underway.

00:44:54.000 According to Bowser, DC's Metropolitan Police Department, in coordination with Park Police, Capitol Police, and Secret Service, were well-equipped to handle whatever problems could come up during the Trump rallies planned for Wednesday.

00:45:04.000 She said the District of Columbia government has not requested personnel from any other law enforcement agencies. To avoid confusion, we ask that any additional requests for assistance be coordinated using the same process and procedures.

00:45:14.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the Capitol Police were not prepared for the rioters. Apparently, federal authorities had planned to deal with the protests this week with a relatively small, minimally visible presence, according to law enforcement officials, hoping to avoid inflaming tensions as a show of force had done during the unrest last year in Portland, Oregon and other cities.

00:45:32.000 So remember, the entire left suggested that the violence in Portland was due to federal authorities being in Portland.

00:45:38.000 So now, in response, the feds were like, we're not going to put people at the Capitol.

00:45:41.000 Great idea, everyone.

00:45:42.000 It worked out fantastically well.

00:45:44.000 But apparently, this is all a race thing.

00:45:46.000 It's because the protesters were white yesterday. 0.71

00:45:50.000 Beyond that, can we remember back to the BLM protests?

00:45:53.000 Can we remember the fact that there were 16 to 25, by polling data, 16 to 25 million protesters across the country.

00:45:58.000 There were a grand total of 14,000 arrests during the months-long BLM protests.

00:46:04.000 Entire cities were shut for weeks in terms of curfew.

00:46:07.000 LA was shut down for a week in terms of curfew.

00:46:09.000 Melrose Avenue was allowed to burn So don't give me that. 0.98

00:46:14.000 Don't give me this bullcrap that this is about how America is a white supremacist country. 0.96

00:46:19.000 So they allow this. 0.96

00:46:20.000 They let this go on in L.A., in D.C., in New York, in Seattle, in Portland. 0.94

00:46:24.000 Regardless of Antifa, white Antifa, jackasses or BLM rioters, they let it go on. 0.96

00:46:32.000 Making it about race is crappy narrative number one. 0.96

00:46:34.000 Crappy narrative number two is, of course, the media spending months and months and months declaiming that rioting was fine so long as they agreed with the rioters.

00:46:42.000 Antifa didn't exist.

00:46:43.000 Joe Biden said that Antifa was just a philosophy.

00:46:45.000 Chris Cuomo went on national television.

00:46:47.000 He said, who says that protests have to be peaceful?

00:46:50.000 Why should they have to be peaceful?

00:46:52.000 This is just a couple of months ago.

00:46:53.000 It was back in June.

00:46:54.000 Here was Chris Cuomo of CNN.

00:46:57.000 Too many see the protests as the problem.

00:47:00.000 No, the problem is what forced your fellow citizens to take to the streets.

00:47:05.000 Persistent and poisonous inequities and injustice.

00:47:10.000 And please, show me where it says that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful.

00:47:14.000 Because I can show you that outraged citizens are the ones who have made America what she is and led to any major milestones.

00:47:22.000 Oh, weird.

00:47:22.000 Be honest.

00:47:23.000 This is not a tranquil time.

00:47:26.000 How magical.

00:47:27.000 I mean, it's almost as though there's a massive double standard that the media will apply to rioting and looting.

00:47:31.000 Why, it's incredible.

00:47:33.000 By the way, if you're on the right and you are now looking at this and going, well, it's okay what happened at the Capitol, you're doing the same thing in reverse.

00:47:38.000 Okay, but the left did this across the entirety of the media.

00:47:40.000 It wasn't rioting.

00:47:41.000 It was mostly peaceful protests.

00:47:42.000 Mostly peaceful, right?

00:47:43.000 For months. 0.99

00:47:44.000 Don't gaslight us with this garbage where you suggest that you're always against political violence. 0.99

00:47:48.000 You're not. 0.99

00:47:48.000 You're just not. 0.99

00:47:49.000 Okay, like that's not the case.

00:47:51.000 So you don't have a lot of legs to stand on when it comes to this.

00:47:53.000 So that's narrative number two, right?

00:47:55.000 Which is the media suggesting that riots are okay for the left, but very bad for the right.

00:48:01.000 When the answer is riots are very bad for everyone.

00:48:03.000 They're a violation of law.

00:48:04.000 They are evil. 0.90

00:48:04.000 They are criminality. 0.90

00:48:06.000 You don't get to do that in a Democratic Republic.

00:48:07.000 I mean, AOC tweeted out back during the early days of BLM.

00:48:13.000 She tweeted out that protests are supposed to make you uncomfortable.

00:48:17.000 That's the goal of protests.

00:48:18.000 Why is everybody so upset about protests making people... There were full essays about why rioting and looting were justified back during the summer.

00:48:25.000 So that's narrative number two, is that when pro-Trump people riot, that it's uniquely bad, as opposed to BLM people rioting.

00:48:32.000 The answer is, it's all really bad.

00:48:35.000 You want to live in a republic together?

00:48:36.000 We're going to have to acknowledge that political violence is terrible, horrible.

00:48:40.000 It cuts directly against the grain of the democratic republics.

00:48:43.000 That's narrative number two.

00:48:44.000 And by the way, that double standard does fuel an enormous amount of rage by folks who are on the right.

00:48:51.000 That rage should never end in violence.

00:48:52.000 But you can see why people are upset about the double standard.

00:48:55.000 Okay.

00:48:55.000 And then there is narrative number three.

00:48:57.000 And this is the one that is going to be the big takeaway.

00:49:01.000 This is the big takeaway that the left is pushing the hardest after everything that happened yesterday.

00:49:06.000 And that is every conservative is responsible for what happened yesterday.

00:49:09.000 This is the takeaway.

00:49:10.000 It doesn't matter.

00:49:11.000 Every single, every single major Republican politician, every single conservative commentator looked at what happened yesterday in absolute horror.

00:49:21.000 The takeaway from the media and from the left, and I repeat myself, is that every conservative is responsible for this.

00:49:29.000 That's absurd.

00:49:30.000 That is absurd.

00:49:31.000 Just as not every Democrat is responsible for BLM riots.

00:49:36.000 Just as not every Democrat is responsible for the congressional baseball shooting.

00:49:40.000 Just as people who voted for Joe Biden are not responsible for people who burn down storefronts. 0.91

00:49:48.000 To suggest that every single one of the 73 million people who voted for Donald Trump is responsible for a bunch of violent jackass thugs taking over the Capitol building. 0.98

00:49:59.000 To suggest that is patently absurd, offensive, ridiculous, and deliberately motivated. 0.99

00:50:04.000 Because the left constantly does this, right? 0.97

00:50:06.000 This is the constant suggestion.

00:50:07.000 The constant suggestion is when a bad thing happens, it is attributable to conservatives speaking their minds freely.

00:50:14.000 And this is where the rubber is going to meet the road.

00:50:15.000 This is going to be the culture for the next few years, is that everybody on the right is going to be cuddled into silence based on them pointing at somebody who does something clearly violative of conservative principles, like storming the Capitol building.

00:50:27.000 So once again, I quote the id of the Democratic Party, Joy Reid.

00:50:31.000 She says, no, no, all conservatives are responsible.

00:50:33.000 Doesn't matter if you condemned it.

00:50:34.000 Doesn't matter if you think this is crazy.

00:50:36.000 Doesn't matter if you even stood If you stood against the attempts to overturn the election, if you stood against what some of the members of Congress were doing in their election challenges, right?

00:50:48.000 Everybody is complicit, right?

00:50:50.000 If you voted for Trump, if you considered voting for Trump, then you are complicit.

00:50:54.000 This is the goal.

00:50:55.000 It's not to heal.

00:50:57.000 Here's the reality. 0.87

00:50:58.000 95% of the country looks at jackasses on the fringes and thinks, hey, look, jackasses on the fringes. 1.00

00:51:03.000 But, not the members of the Democratic media. 0.92

00:51:06.000 For them, the jackasses on the fringe, those are used to paint every Republican, and this has been the constant practice of the media for literally years on end.

00:51:13.000 The constant practice of the media has been, find a Republican saying something bad, then ask every single Republican in America what they think about the person saying something bad. 0.87

00:51:21.000 Meanwhile, no Democrat has ever had to answer for anything radical ever said by any Democrat.

00:51:26.000 Ever.

00:51:27.000 But every Republican will be made responsible for something that, it doesn't matter if you overtly condemned it, Doesn't matter if you thought it was horrifying what happened yesterday?

00:51:35.000 None of that matters.

00:51:36.000 According to Joy Reid, you're complicit too.

00:51:38.000 The elected officials who had a job today that's in the Constitution that they were supposed to do, to officially and ceremonially install the new president, to show that we believe in this peaceful transfer of power, were completely thrown over today.

00:51:52.000 Josh Hawley should resign in ignominy.

00:51:54.000 It is absolutely ignominious what he did, sparking this.

00:51:58.000 Ted Cruz as well.

00:51:59.000 But honestly, Mitch McConnell too, they've all played a role.

00:52:04.000 Conservative media has played a role.

00:52:05.000 They've all played this game because they thought that there was no downside.

00:52:11.000 Okay, so there it is.

00:52:12.000 Everyone's responsible.

00:52:13.000 Mitch McConnell, who condemned this, who stood against the Electoral College attempts, Mitch McConnell is responsible.

00:52:21.000 And by the way, here was Mitch McConnell on the floor yesterday after they reconvened, right?

00:52:24.000 Remember, he is overseeing the electoral vote count.

00:52:28.000 He's one of the people overseeing this because he's the Senate Majority Leader.

00:52:31.000 And he's counting into the presidency Joe Biden, a person he opposed.

00:52:35.000 Here was Mitch McConnell yesterday, apparently responsible for what happened when he was thrown out of his own chamber by a bunch of thugs and rioters.

00:52:41.000 But Joy Reid says he's responsible, too.

00:52:44.000 The United States Senate will not be intimidated.

00:52:49.000 We will not be kept out of this chamber by thugs, mobs, Or threats.

00:52:58.000 They tried to disrupt our democracy.

00:53:02.000 They failed.

00:53:04.000 They failed.

00:53:06.000 They failed to attempt to obstruct the Congress.

00:53:08.000 This failed insurrection only underscores how crucial the task before us is for our Republic.

00:53:17.000 Okay, but he's responsible, right?

00:53:18.000 Joiri, you're responsible.

00:53:19.000 I'm responsible.

00:53:20.000 We are all responsible.

00:53:21.000 Anyone who voted for Trump, anyone who considered voting for Trump, you're all responsible.

00:53:24.000 If you're in conservative media and you said, as I did, that Trump has all available legal challenges to him, but everything has a legal process and you have to show proof of allegation, you're still responsible.

00:53:33.000 Everyone's responsible, right?

00:53:34.000 This is the slander, okay?

00:53:35.000 Because understand, this is part and parcel of a broader agenda point for the political left.

00:53:39.000 The broader agenda point is to treat you as a threat if you disagree with them.

00:53:44.000 You're just as bad as the people who stormed the US Capitol.

00:53:47.000 You must be silenced. 1.00

00:53:48.000 You have to be shut up. 1.00

00:53:49.000 Because you are responsible for that. 0.99

00:53:51.000 Doesn't matter if you condemned it.

00:53:53.000 You're responsible.

00:53:53.000 That's the perspective of Joy Reid.

00:53:55.000 If you think that I'm exaggerating this, let me just point out that Cori Bush, a member of Black Lives Matter, that's how she started off, was an activist at Black Lives Matter.

00:54:04.000 She introduced a resolution calling for the expulsion of any Republican member of Congress Who challenged any of the Electoral College results.

00:54:13.000 Now, I disagreed with their challenges to the Electoral College results.

00:54:16.000 I don't believe they had a legal basis for their challenges to the Electoral College results.

00:54:20.000 But you cannot expel members of Congress for voting a particular way on a particular question.

00:54:26.000 That is not how any of this works.

00:54:27.000 That is a violation of the First Amendment.

00:54:29.000 It is a violation of basic principles of free speech.

00:54:32.000 I disagree with Cori Bush on everything.

00:54:34.000 I can't vote to... She shouldn't be expelled from Congress. 1.00

00:54:37.000 I mean, what in the hell are we talking about?

00:54:40.000 But again, understand that for a lot of people, what happened yesterday is a brick bat to be used against anyone they disagree with.

00:54:47.000 Chuck Todd in the media doing the same thing.

00:54:48.000 So Chuck Todd yesterday, he was pointing out that a lot of Republicans who were on board for the electoral challenge were also condemning the violence.

00:54:54.000 You could do both.

00:54:56.000 You could do both.

00:54:57.000 Again, this is coming from somebody who disagreed with the electoral vote challenge.

00:55:01.000 But to say that Josh Hawley is somehow responsible for people climbing into the US Capitol building Because he was promulgating what I think are untruths about voter fraud and the legitimacy of the election?

00:55:16.000 Or beyond that?

00:55:17.000 I mean, it's not just Josh Hawley, right?

00:55:19.000 I mean, they're trying to extend this to every single Republican.

00:55:21.000 To everyone.

00:55:22.000 Right?

00:55:23.000 Here was Chuck Todd yesterday.

00:55:25.000 Marco Rubio now calling for the president to say something.

00:55:31.000 They're pleading with him on Twitter.

00:55:34.000 Isn't that just the picture of the past four years?

00:55:39.000 Please, Mr. President, I have to talk to you on Twitter to try and restore order.

00:55:46.000 I don't know.

00:55:46.000 There's a lot of empty rhetoric.

00:55:47.000 There's a lot of empty concern.

00:55:49.000 You know, this is one of those things.

00:55:51.000 I think a lot of people are having their I told you so moment, unfortunately, right now.

00:55:55.000 A lot of people have.

00:55:56.000 So basically, anybody, anybody who worked with Trump over the past four years is responsible for this.

00:56:02.000 Anyone!

00:56:02.000 You voted for him.

00:56:03.000 You liked his judicial picks.

00:56:04.000 You liked what he did in terms of foreign policy.

00:56:06.000 You're responsible for this.

00:56:08.000 This is going to be the end goal.

00:56:09.000 Right?

00:56:09.000 So we've had these three narratives.

00:56:10.000 Those were the three narratives.

00:56:11.000 The three narratives were, one, this is racial because America is white supremacist. 1.00

00:56:15.000 Incredibly ridiculous narrative. 0.97

00:56:17.000 Two, that riots are okay when the left does it, but they're very bad when people on the right do it. 0.80

00:56:21.000 And three, that all conservatives are responsible for stuff they overtly condemn.

00:56:26.000 Hate and despise, because after all, conservative rhetoric, this has a long history, okay?

00:56:31.000 Going all the way back to like the assassination of JFK, when the media tried to blame right-wingers for JFK's assassination, despite the fact that he was killed by a communist.

00:56:38.000 I mean, this goes all the way back to the media trying to blame Rush Limbaugh for the Oklahoma City bombing.

00:56:42.000 So this is just part and parcel of a Democratic talking point, but now it has picked up significant momentum.

00:56:48.000 Barack Obama, of course, complicit in this.

00:56:49.000 So Obama put out a statement saying pretty much this, right?

00:56:52.000 He says, Let me find the exact verbiage because it's pretty incredible.

00:56:58.000 says, history will rightly remember today's violence at the Capitol incited by a sitting president who has continued to baselessly lie about the outcome of a lawful election as a moment of great dishonor and shame for our nation. But we'd be kidding ourselves if we treated it as a total surprise. For two months now, a political party and its accompanying media ecosystem has been largely unwilling to tell their followers the truth.

00:57:16.000 truth that this was not a particularly close election and that President-elect Biden will be inaugurated on January 20th.

00:57:21.000 Their fantasy narrative has spiraled further and further from reality and it builds upon years of sown resentments.

00:57:27.000 Now we're seeing the consequences whipped up into a violent crescendo.

00:57:30.000 First of all, that's not what a crescendo is, but that's a side point.

00:57:33.000 Right now, Republican leaders have a choice made clear in the desecrating chambers of democracy.

00:57:40.000 They can continue down this road and keep stoking the raging fires, or they can choose reality and take the first steps toward extinguishing the flames.

00:57:46.000 They can choose America.

00:57:47.000 Right.

00:57:47.000 It's the entire political party.

00:57:49.000 It's the entire accompanying media ecosystem.

00:57:51.000 It's everyone you watch.

00:57:52.000 It's Fox News.

00:57:53.000 It's every podcast you listen to.

00:57:53.000 It's Daily Wire.

00:57:55.000 They are all part of the problem.

00:57:57.000 Weird, because it seems like that was the preconceived notion of Democrats all the way through.

00:58:00.000 It's always Republicans who are the problem.

00:58:02.000 All of them.

00:58:03.000 Okay, by the way, this is how you get more polarization.

00:58:06.000 This is how you get more division.

00:58:08.000 By labeling people responsible for activities they are not responsible for.

00:58:11.000 This is how it is done.

00:58:13.000 And it is horrifying and it is disgusting.

00:58:15.000 Chuck Schumer jumped on this yesterday.

00:58:16.000 Okay, so Chuck Schumer in the Senate chamber, the Senate minority leader, after comparing this to Pearl Harbor, which again, that was a sneak attack by a military power against the United States, ending with thousands of American deaths.

00:58:28.000 But Chuck Schumer, Now January 6th will go down as one of the darkest days in recent American history.

00:58:35.000 A final warning to our nation about the consequences of a demagogic president.

00:58:39.000 who voted for Trump. This is on you. Way to bring the country together here, Senate Minority Leader.

00:58:43.000 Now, January 6th will go down as one of the darkest days in recent American history.

00:58:50.000 A final warning to our nation about the consequences of a demagogic president, the people who enable him, the captive media that parrots his lies, and the people who follow him as he attempts to push America to the brink of ruin.

00:59:13.000 Okay, so again, the idea here, this could be a unifying moment, right?

00:59:16.000 There was this kind of wonderful moment for America.

00:59:18.000 After all this horror happened yesterday, after all these terrible images went out to the world, it's disgraceful, disgraceful stuff.

00:59:27.000 After all that happened, there was this moment of unification.

00:59:29.000 It really felt unifying, right?

00:59:30.000 All the senators were ushered back into the chamber.

00:59:32.000 There was video of them being accompanied by the FBI and members of the police brigade and SWAT.

00:59:39.000 They were being sent back to the Senate chambers to complete their work.

00:59:44.000 And they were just being paraded back in.

00:59:47.000 And then, the Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, who has served with Donald Trump, who refused Trump's request that he violate the law by decertifying electoral college votes.

00:59:57.000 Mike Pence gave a brief statement to the applause of everyone in the chamber saying that we need to get back to work and do our constitutional duty because this is a constitutional republic, it is not a mobocracy.

01:00:08.000 This could have been a moment when everybody, left, right, and center, said, that's true.

01:00:12.000 We have a system.

01:00:14.000 The system held.

01:00:15.000 Jackasses storming the Capitol building did not stop the system from working.

01:00:18.000 Here was Mike Pence's statement yesterday.

01:00:21.000 As we reconvene in this chamber, the world will again witness the resilience and strength of our democracy.

01:00:31.000 For even in the wake of unprecedented violence and vandalism at this Capitol, The elected representatives of the people of the United States have assembled again on the very same day to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.

01:00:53.000 So may God bless the lost, the injured, and the heroes forged on this day.

01:01:01.000 May God bless all who serve here and those who protect this place.

01:01:08.000 And may God bless the United States of America.

01:01:12.000 Let's get back to work.

01:01:14.000 OK, so there is this uniquely kind of wonderful moment for just a second and then.

01:01:19.000 Chuck Schumer got up and said that everybody on the right was responsible for this and we are back where we were.

01:01:26.000 And I don't think it's going to move forward.

01:01:28.000 I don't.

01:01:28.000 Because here's where things are going to end.

01:01:30.000 Here's where things are going to move.

01:01:32.000 This is the natural outcome after all this is over.

01:01:34.000 And you can see it happening.

01:01:36.000 So Twitter suspended Trump yesterday.

01:01:38.000 He put up that video that we played a little bit earlier.

01:01:40.000 He put up that video.

01:01:41.000 He claimed that you've got to remember this day.

01:01:43.000 I don't like the video.

01:01:44.000 I don't like the tweet.

01:01:45.000 I don't think they did nearly enough in tamping down what was happening or in telling his followers the truth, which is that the election has been called.

01:01:51.000 It is now over.

01:01:53.000 And that, frankly, the allegations that he made have been largely unsubstantiated and almost entirely debunked when they have been actually pegged down to anything specific.

01:02:02.000 So Twitter announced yesterday that they had suspended Trump for 12 hours.

01:02:07.000 This is precisely the wrong move.

01:02:08.000 You don't suspend the sitting president of the United States.

01:02:10.000 Frankly, I don't think that Twitter should be suspending people based on their promulgation of data that Twitter doesn't like.

01:02:16.000 Or that is untrue, even.

01:02:17.000 I think that the answer to bad speech is more speech.

01:02:21.000 I thought this used to be a basically American principle.

01:02:23.000 That we don't throw people off of platforms for saying things that we think are untrue.

01:02:28.000 So Twitter said it would lock Trump's Twitter account.

01:02:30.000 That is not going to convince any of his followers, any of them, the ones who are doing this sort of stuff, that he is wrong.

01:02:37.000 It's not gonna do any of that.

01:02:39.000 Then, Facebook took down Trump's video.

01:02:43.000 Facebook suggested that Trump's video, the actual statement is that they were taking down Trump's video specifically because they thought it did more harm than good, which is a judgment call, right?

01:02:55.000 I mean, I may even agree with that judgment, but that doesn't matter.

01:02:58.000 It's a judgment call.

01:02:59.000 He did call for peace in the video, even though he was saying a bunch of other stuff that I really disagree with.

01:03:03.000 Guy Rosen is the VP of integrity at Facebook.

01:03:07.000 He tweeted out, this is an emergency situation.

01:03:08.000 We are taking appropriate emergency measures, including removing President Trump's video.

01:03:12.000 We removed it because on balance, we believe it contributes to, rather than diminishes the risk of ongoing violence.

01:03:17.000 So let me just point out, how many videos went around on Facebook during the BLM riots that actively encouraged the violence, justified the violence and said that it was okay?

01:03:27.000 Hundreds of thousands?

01:03:27.000 Tens of thousands?

01:03:29.000 Everybody can see the double standard.

01:03:31.000 Everybody can see how this is eventually going to morph into the banning of pretty much all wrong think.

01:03:39.000 Facebook announced it will now remove all photos and videos posted from the protest, all of them.

01:03:43.000 I said first, we've been searching for and removing the following content.

01:03:45.000 Praise and support of the storming of the U.S. 0.75

01:03:47.000 Capitol.

01:03:48.000 Calls to bring weapons to locations across the U.S., not just in Washington, but anywhere in the United States, including protests.

01:03:53.000 Incitement or encouragement of the events at the Capitol, including any video or photo from the protesters.

01:03:58.000 At this point, they represent promotion of criminal activity, which violates our policies.

01:04:01.000 Did they do any of that with the BLM riots?

01:04:03.000 I don't recall them doing any of that with the BLM riots.

01:04:06.000 At all.

01:04:06.000 Like, none.

01:04:08.000 Calls for protests, even peaceful ones, if they violate the curfew in D.C.

01:04:12.000 That certainly did not happen with the BLM riots and protests.

01:04:16.000 Not for a second, not for a heartbeat.

01:04:17.000 Facebook didn't say, okay, you know what, curfew's 6 p.m., we're taking down all the calls and organizational efforts for a peaceful protest in a park.

01:04:24.000 They never did that, ever.

01:04:26.000 As part of this, we removed from Facebook and Instagram the recent video of President Trump speaking about the protests and his subsequent posts about the election results.

01:04:32.000 We made that decision that, on balance, the posts contribute rather than diminish the risk of ongoing violence.

01:04:37.000 Okay, so this is going to be the talking point going forward.

01:04:40.000 As your speech is diminished, right, what happened yesterday is terrible.

01:04:44.000 What's going to happen in the future, if you start seeing an overt attempt to shut down free speech on the basis of what the Germans call strait-bared democracy, right, the protection of democracy requires that you not allow certain rhetoric, You bring that to the United States, you expand the definition of incitement, you expand the definition of damaging speech, and pretty soon, you have a complete shutdown of free speech and dissenting points of view.

01:05:06.000 Because the left has a real tendency to expand the definition of harm.

01:05:11.000 The speech that is free and does not call for violence, it could be incitement, it could be harmful, it could be damaging.

01:05:19.000 The microaggression culture cultivated by the left Suggests that anything the right-wingers say, anything conservatives say, anything that Americans who simply are not woke say, is damaging in the extreme.

01:05:29.000 It's an attack on identity.

01:05:31.000 If this becomes part and parcel of a broader attack on free speech, which it absolutely could, and there is every indicator that it will, That's a tremendous danger to the future of the Republic.

01:05:41.000 The solution to all of this was, is, will continue to be the rebuilding of the social fabric.

01:05:47.000 That has always meant the same thing.

01:05:49.000 It has always meant the same thing.

01:05:50.000 You condemn, in the strongest possible terms, actual violations of law.

01:05:55.000 You condemn riots, no matter if you agree with the cause people are rioting for or you don't.

01:06:00.000 You condemn rioting, you condemn violence.

01:06:02.000 You say that it's disgusting because it is disgusting.

01:06:05.000 You provide solidarity for people who are exercising their rights, but no solidarity for people who are violating the rights of others and violating the law.

01:06:14.000 This is so not hard.

01:06:16.000 And yet all the political incentives are aligned in precisely the opposite direction.

01:06:20.000 There are a lot of people who make bank off of telling you that things that are bad are good.

01:06:25.000 There are a lot of people out there who make bank telling you that all of the people who you dislike politically, they're actually on the side of the devil.

01:06:33.000 That they are morally evil, and that all the people who you like politically are actually on the side of the angels, no matter how bad they actually are.

01:06:41.000 That has to stop.

01:06:43.000 Look at your friends, look at your neighbors, look at your social groups.

01:06:45.000 Realize that all of them, if they are good people, look at what happened yesterday with horror and shock.

01:06:51.000 And that if we're all Americans, at least that much we should agree upon, and it doesn't matter if we're talking about violence done at the Capitol building or violence done in Kenosha, This kind of activity cannot go on in the United States of America.

01:07:01.000 Yesterday was an egregious symbol of the state to which our republic has sunk.

01:07:06.000 We need to pick ourselves up.

01:07:07.000 Remember that we are still members of the same country.

01:07:10.000 Look to the Constitution as our guide.

01:07:12.000 Follow the law and recognize that we are still citizens of the greatest republic in the history of the world.

01:07:17.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of The Ben Shapiro Show.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - January 07, 2021

The Worst Day In Modern American Political History | Ep. 1168

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