The Ben Shapiro Show - TRUMP and MUSK vs. The TYRANTS

00:00:00.000 According to our legacy media, Kamala Harris has all the momentum.

00:00:03.000 And that momentum is showing up in the polling.

00:00:06.000 So, for example, there's a brand new poll that shows that Kamala Harris, for the very first time, is actually leading Donald Trump on the economy.

00:00:13.000 This is according to Axios.

00:00:14.000 For the first time this election cycle, voters trust the Democratic candidate more than the former President Trump.

00:00:19.000 So, in other words, the media have done an amazing job of spinning up Kamala Harris as a candidate.

00:00:22.000 Truly an incredible job, because she has done nothing so far.

00:00:24.000 said that they don't trust either Trump or Harris, fell by nearly half,

00:00:28.000 another example of the disappearing double hater.

00:00:30.000 So in other words, the media have done an amazing job of spinning up Kamala Harris as a candidate.

00:00:36.000 Truly an incredible job, because she has done nothing so far.

00:00:39.000 And we are now on day, gotta update our calendar here, 24 of Kamala Harris not answering a single question, 24

00:00:50.000 days.

00:00:51.000 24 days of Kamala Harris becoming the de facto nominee after defenestrating her former boss.

00:00:55.000 He's still her boss, but he's kind of not alive anymore.

00:00:58.000 And then not taking any questions whatsoever.

00:01:00.000 Zero questions.

00:01:02.000 24 days.

00:01:03.000 And yet, she has zoomed into a polling lead.

00:01:05.000 Now, why is that happening?

00:01:07.000 That is because the media have created an extraordinarily impenetrable echo chamber.

00:01:12.000 An echo chamber that is so strong, it's effectively a cone of silence for the American people.

00:01:17.000 It's Time Magazine.

00:01:18.000 It's like a perfect apotheosis of how the media actually operate.

00:01:23.000 Time Magazine put out a cover of Kamala Harris.

00:01:26.000 And it says, the reintroduction of Kamala Harris.

00:01:29.000 Now, first of all, does she need a reintroduction? 0.98

00:01:31.000 She's been reintroduced for the last 10 years.

00:01:33.000 She was the AG of California.

00:01:34.000 Then she was a senator from California.

00:01:36.000 Then she ran for president. 0.99

00:01:37.000 She lost.

00:01:37.000 Then she was the vice president.

00:01:38.000 She failed.

00:01:39.000 And now she's running again.

00:01:40.000 And it's the reintroduction of Kamala Harris.

00:01:43.000 And it's a picture of her, in grayscale, looking wistfully, but hopefully, off into the future.

00:01:49.000 And it says, her moment, on the cover.

00:01:52.000 Now, this is not just an echo chamber.

00:01:54.000 It's an extraordinarily powerful echo chamber because it turns out that according to Time itself, Kamala refused to engage in an interview with Time Magazine.

00:02:03.000 So Time Magazine puts out that cover of Kamala Harris for a subject who will not deign to speak with them.

00:02:11.000 That is how the media operate.

00:02:13.000 How do the media operate?

00:02:14.000 Well, let's say that Donald Trump makes a policy proposal months ago.

00:02:18.000 And then let's say Kamala Harris steals that policy proposal and just brings it out as her own. 1.00

00:02:23.000 Here are two headlines from CBS News about the exact same policy proposal.

00:02:27.000 First, as presented by President Trump.

00:02:29.000 Second, as presented by Kamala Harris.

00:02:31.000 Here's the headline from CBS News from June 14th, quote, Former President Donald Trump's vow to stop taxing tips would cost the federal government up to $250 billion over 10 years, according to a nonpartisan watchdog group.

00:02:43.000 Fast forward to August 12th, she makes the exact same policy prescription, no taxes on tips.

00:02:48.000 Quote, Vice President Kamala Harris is rolling out a new policy position saying she will fight to end taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers.

00:02:56.000 Did you notice the difference?

00:02:57.000 Could you notice that right there?

00:02:59.000 Again, Time Magazine will put out a cover of Donald Trump as an orange ball melting and Kamala Harris as a hopeful face looking into the future without ever speaking with Kamala Harris and in fact making excuses for Kamala Harris.

00:03:12.000 All of this, of course, does generate some real momentum because the media does have a relationship with reality.

00:03:17.000 They generate a fake reality that many people then buy into.

00:03:22.000 So it's not a huge shock that you are seeing Kamala Harris pulling into a swing state lead.

00:03:28.000 And she's pulled into a swing state lead in Pennsylvania, in Wisconsin, in Michigan, according to multiple polls at this point.

00:03:34.000 And all of this is reliant on the continued spin of the media and her continued silence.

00:03:38.000 Because if she ever has to emerge from the bubble that has been created around her, she will immediately meet with reality and begin to melt.

00:03:46.000 That's what's going to happen right here.

00:03:48.000 That can only happen in a couple ways, however.

00:03:50.000 It can only happen, one, if the media decides to get honest and do their job.

00:03:53.000 Not going to happen.

00:03:54.000 Or two, if there is so much outside pressure on Kamala Harris to actually come out of the bubble that she has to. 0.99

00:04:01.000 And then she meets with reality and it is very bad for her.

00:04:04.000 And so what the media are now attempting to do is protect not just Kamala Harris, but the bubble they have built around her.

00:04:09.000 They can't just protect Harris.

00:04:11.000 They have to protect the bubble.

00:04:12.000 They are the bubble, you understand.

00:04:14.000 So they're really protecting themselves.

00:04:16.000 Well, the biggest threat to the bubble is the possibility of a competitor arising who might, in fact, penetrate human minds to the same extent they do by going around them.

00:04:26.000 And you've seen this for years.

00:04:28.000 There's really nothing new happening under the sun.

00:04:30.000 Since 2016, when Donald Trump won, there has been an overt effort

00:04:33.000 by regulatory agencies in Europe, by Democrats in the United States,

00:04:37.000 by organizations like the Global Alliance for Responsible Media,

00:04:42.000 to shut down alternative sources of information by depriving them of revenue,

00:04:46.000 by declaring them misinformation or disinformation, by telling social media they have to siphon off traffic

00:04:52.000 from anything that is not the legacy media.

00:04:54.000 The bubble must be maintained because if the media lose that bubble, they lose everything.

00:04:58.000 They don't just lose their business, they lose their political influence as well.

00:05:02.000 Well, yesterday, all their guns turned on Elon Musk and X.

00:05:05.000 Now, the real reason they were mad at Elon for buying X in the first place was, of course,

00:05:09.000 Twitter was part of their Praetorian Guard.

00:05:11.000 Twitter was part of the team.

00:05:13.000 Twitter was, run by Jack Dorsey, a place where you could be banned, like Jordan Peterson was, for mentioning that boys are not girls.

00:05:20.000 Twitter was a place where if you took heterodox political positions, Twitter would make moves to shut down your distribution and reach.

00:05:28.000 They would shadow ban you.

00:05:30.000 It happened to me.

00:05:31.000 It happened to many others.

00:05:32.000 Well, Twitter was run by Jack Dorsey.

00:05:35.000 Elon bought it, he opened it up, he made clear to everyone what Twitter was doing, and that's what the media could not stand.

00:05:39.000 And ever since that day, they've been scared of Elon, and they've been scared of anybody who's willing to provide a counter to that bubble.

00:05:47.000 Well, yesterday that broke all out into the open because Donald Trump came back on Twitter, he started tweeting again, to his own financial non-benefit, by the way, because he runs a rival service called Truth Social, which has pretty much no users except for Donald Trump.

00:05:59.000 It's sort of a meme stock at this point.

00:06:02.000 But regardless, he comes back on Twitter and he does so in advance of a big meet with Elon Musk on Twitter Spaces, on X Spaces.

00:06:12.000 Donald Trump back on Twitter in expectation of a big Twitter Spaces with Elon Musk last night.

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00:07:23.000 Now, that X-Spaces is going to be seen by a couple hundred million people.

00:07:27.000 It went for a couple of hours.

00:07:29.000 It was very lengthy.

00:07:31.000 It was an in-depth conversation between Elon Musk and Trump.

00:07:34.000 Obviously, Elon is a Trump supporter at this point.

00:07:36.000 He has come out and said that he's voting for Donald Trump.

00:07:38.000 He has pledged money to PACs associated with Donald Trump.

00:07:41.000 He wants Trump to win.

00:07:43.000 So it's not like Trump was walking into a super unfriendly space. 0.97

00:07:46.000 Kamala Harris won't even walk into a friendly space because that's how incompetent she is. 1.00

00:07:50.000 Donald Trump can speak for two hours on the subject.

00:07:53.000 You may not like him, you may not agree with him, but he can speak to these subjects without doing serious damage to himself. 0.52

00:07:58.000 Everyone understands that if Kamala Harris gets off the teleprompter for 37 seconds at a time, she's screwed. 0.92

00:08:04.000 And so the entire bubble, the entire media Democrat apparatus, the human centipede that is Democratic politicians and their press offices and the media, That entire apparatus is threatened by things like what happened last night between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, which is the only way to explain why they went off their rocker.

00:08:22.000 Now, in a normal scenario, they might say, okay, well, fine, so he didn't interview, who cares?

00:08:25.000 That's not what they did.

00:08:26.000 They called out the big guns.

00:08:27.000 They started freaking out.

00:08:29.000 And I'm not just talking about Democrats.

00:08:30.000 I'm talking about members of the media, regulators in Europe.

00:08:34.000 This could not be.

00:08:35.000 It threatened the informational monopoly that they have created over the course of decades.

00:08:42.000 That can't be threatened by Elon, and they're going to come after him.

00:08:45.000 So in advance of the interview yesterday, Thierry Breton, who is a European commissioner for the European Commission, a member of the commission, he wrote a letter to Musk in advance of the interview saying, quote, Dear Mr. Musk, I'm writing to you in the context of recent events in the United Kingdom and in relation to the planned broadcast on your platform X of a live conversation between a US presidential candidate and yourself, which will also be accessible to users in the EU.

00:09:10.000 I understand that you are currently doing a stress test of the platform.

00:09:13.000 In this context, I am compelled to remind you of the due diligence obligations set out in the Digital Services Act, as outlined in my prior letter.

00:09:21.000 As the individual entity ultimately controlling a platform with over 300 million users worldwide, of which one-third are in the EU, that has been designated as a very large online platform, you have a legal obligation to ensure access compliance with EU law and, in particular, the Digital Services Act in the EU.

00:09:36.000 This notably means ensuring, on one hand, that freedom of expression and of information, including media freedom and pluralism, are effectively protected.

00:09:43.000 And on the other hand, and this is the hand that they're all really concerned with, that all proportionate and effective mitigation measures are put in place regarding the amplification of harmful content in connection with relevant events, including live streaming, which, if unaddressed, might increase the risk profile of X and generate detrimental effects on civic discourse and public security.

00:10:01.000 This is important against the background of recent events of public unrest brought about by the amplification of content that promotes hatred, disorder, incitement to violence, or certain instances of disinformation.

00:10:10.000 It also implies informing EU judicial and administrative authorities without undue delay on the measures taken to address their orders against content considered illegal according to national and or EU law, taking timely, diligent, non-arbitrary, and objective action upon receipt of notices by users considering certain content illegal, informing users concerning the measures taken upon receipt of the relevant notice, and publicly reporting about content moderation measures.

00:10:33.000 In this respect, I note the DSA obligations apply without exceptions or discrimination to the moderation of the whole user community and content of X, which is accessible to EU users and should be fulfilled in line with the risk-based approach of the DSA.

00:10:46.000 And then he threatens, right?

00:10:47.000 As you know, formal proceedings are already ongoing against X under the DSA.

00:10:52.000 We cannot exclude potential spillovers in the EU, so we are monitoring the potential risks in the EU associated with the dissemination of content that may incite violence, hate, and racism in conjunction with major political or societal events around the world, including debates and interviews in the context of elections.

00:11:08.000 And he concludes, my services and I will be extremely vigilant to any evidence that points to breaches of the DSA and will not hesitate to make full use of our toolbox, including by adopting interim measures should it be warranted to protect you citizens from serious harm.

00:11:19.000 Okay, so that is a lot of talk for a pretty short message, which is shut the hell up or we are going to come after a company and destroy you.

00:11:27.000 That's the European commissioner.

00:11:29.000 In advance of the Elon Musk, Donald Trump interview.

00:11:32.000 That's how threatened they are.

00:11:34.000 That's how scared they are of the possibility that the legacy media, Applecart, gets upset.

00:11:41.000 It's totally insane.

00:11:44.000 So, President Trump's campaign put out a statement in response to all of this.

00:11:50.000 Yaccarino, Linda Yaccarino, who runs the Ad Services Act, she replied in a tweet, quote, denouncing Britain's unprecedented attempt to stretch a law intended to apply in Europe to political activities in the United States, because that's what he's doing.

00:12:01.000 This person is not just saying that you can't have an interview with, say, Nigel Farage in the UK, which would be bad enough.

00:12:06.000 I mean, talk about violations of free speech principles.

00:12:08.000 But the EU is saying Elon Musk, an American citizen, cannot have a conversation with President Trump, a former president of the United States, on X for fear that it might trigger EU laws.

00:12:21.000 Elon Musk was more himself.

00:12:23.000 as European citizens, suggesting they are incapable of listening to a conversation 0.87

00:12:26.000 and drawing their own conclusions.

00:12:28.000 Elon Musk was more himself.

00:12:30.000 He replied with a meme from the movie, Tropic Thunder of Tom Cruise,

00:12:35.000 as a Hollywood super agent saying, take a big step back and literally F your own face.

00:12:41.000 Which is the most Elon thing ever.

00:12:45.000 The Trump campaign issued the following statement, quote, the European Union should mind their own business

00:12:49.000 instead of trying to meddle in the US presidential election.

00:12:52.000 Only in Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' America can an undemocratic foreign organization feel emboldened enough to tell this country what to do. 0.91

00:12:58.000 They know a President Trump victory means America will no longer be ripped off because he will smartly utilize tariffs and renegotiated trade deals that put America first.

00:13:04.000 Let's be very clear, the EU is an enemy of free speech and has no authority of any kind to dictate how we campaign.

00:13:10.000 But here's the thing.

00:13:11.000 It is not just the Europeans. 0.54

00:13:14.000 So of course it's the Europeans. 0.99

00:13:15.000 Of course.

00:13:16.000 But it's not just the Europeans.

00:13:18.000 It's the American media.

00:13:19.000 Apparently only the media and the press get to reap the benefits of free speech.

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00:14:28.000 And one of the great astonishing things about the American media is that no one clamors more loudly about the importance of the First Amendment.

00:14:34.000 The First Amendment.

00:14:35.000 But you have to understand, for American media, the First Amendment only applies to them.

00:14:40.000 When they see freedom of the press being protected, they do not see freedom of the press.

00:14:45.000 as a subsection of an amendment dealing more broadly with freedom of speech.

00:14:48.000 They see themselves as a special elite who have been elected by the fates in order to express free speech.

00:14:55.000 You don't get to, but they are members of the press.

00:14:58.000 They're members of the press, and that means that they have exorbitant and magical abilities to engage in free speech.

00:15:03.000 But you don't.

00:15:04.000 Elon Musk doesn't.

00:15:05.000 President Trump doesn't, because you are not members of the press.

00:15:08.000 You have not been stamped from above with the journalism label.

00:15:12.000 And thus, free speech does not really apply to you.

00:15:15.000 That is the only way to explain the massive double-think that they apply when it comes to the free speech rights of others.

00:15:21.000 So, for example, the Washington Post ran a news piece yesterday titled, quote, Elon Musk's ex-feed becomes megaphone for his far-right politics.

00:15:31.000 And the entire article is just about how Elon Musk is right-wing, and that's bad, and he's far-right, and misinformation, and disinformation, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:15:39.000 Why are they so concerned about that?

00:15:41.000 Obviously, Elon is an important person in American public life, but I've never seen them suggest that anyone on the left is a font of misinformation and disinformation.

00:15:51.000 Quote, if you follow Elon Musk on Twitter in November 2021, you would have been bombarded with posts about Tesla and SpaceX, his two most valuable companies.

00:15:58.000 Nearly three years later, with Musk at the helm of the site he renamed X, the billionaire's feed often reads more like right-wing activist account, with alarmist posts about immigration and missives against woke ideology.

00:16:08.000 Musk's openly partisan participation on the site he bought in October 2022 reflects a broader evolution in his public persona, from business-minded tech prodigy to right-wing firebrand.

00:16:17.000 It has also raised questions about Musk's intentions for the social networking site, which he said he purchased to promote free speech and a more open exchange of ideas.

00:16:24.000 In some ways, the site has become a personal megaphone for his provocative political views.

00:16:28.000 OK, first of all, that is a lie, given the fact that Joe Biden announced that he wouldn't be running for president again on X via a PDF letter.

00:16:36.000 So it is, in fact, the town square.

00:16:38.000 Second of all, The Washington Post is owned by, wait for it, wait for it, Jeff Bezos.

00:16:42.000 So if the idea here is that billionaires don't get to play in the journalistic sandbox, or in the free speech sandbox, I have some bad news for the Washington Post.

00:16:51.000 But, honestly, these journalists take this to the ultimate extreme.

00:16:54.000 So here, for example, is a Washington Post pseudo-journalist.

00:16:59.000 His name is Cleve Woodson.

00:17:01.000 He's in the White House press room.

00:17:02.000 And he literally asks the White House about why Elon Musk is allowed to interview Donald Trump and about misinformation and disinformation.

00:17:09.000 Now this is truly Orwellian stuff.

00:17:12.000 Here you have a journalist for the Washington Post owned by rival billionaire Jeff Bezos, who also happens to own a giant space company.

00:17:19.000 And he is asking this journalist, the White House, if they can please help shut down alternative viewpoints.

00:17:26.000 Remember, the First Amendment only applies to the specials.

00:17:30.000 It doesn't apply to you, it doesn't apply to me, it doesn't apply to other people across the broad aisle.

00:17:34.000 Here is Cleve Woodson, Jr., of the Washington Post, to cringe Jean-Pierre and listen to her answer.

00:17:40.000 Elon Musk is slated to interview Donald Trump tonight on X. I don't know if the president is going to do it.

00:17:47.000 Feel free to say if he is or not.

00:17:49.000 But I think that misinformation on Twitter is not just a campaign issue, it's an America issue.

00:17:59.000 What role does the White House or the president have in stopping that or stopping the spread of that

00:18:06.000 or intervening in that?

00:18:09.000 Some of that was about campaign misinformation, but it's a wider thing, right?

00:18:13.000 Yeah, no, and you've heard us talk about this many times from here about the responsibilities

00:18:18.000 that social media platforms have when it comes to misinformation, disinformation.

00:18:24.000 Don't have anything to read out from here about specific ways

00:18:28.000 that we're working on it, but we believe that, that they have the responsibility.

00:18:32.000 Uh, these are private companies, so we're also mindful of that too.

00:18:36.000 Uh, but, um, look, it is, uh, I think it is incredibly important, uh, to call that out as you are, you're doing.

00:18:44.000 I just don't have any specifics on, on what we've been doing internally.

00:18:50.000 My goodness.

00:18:51.000 Have you ever seen better evidence of the Democrat media human centipede than what just happened right there?

00:18:55.000 The media rebelling against free speech, rebelling against Elon Musk interviewing Donald Trump on a space he owns.

00:19:02.000 Remember, he owns that space.

00:19:05.000 And here you have a supposed First Amendment enjoying advocate like Cleve Woodson, who no one's ever heard of until this moment, from the Washington Post, declaring that the White House should maybe do something about it.

00:19:17.000 Can you do something about it?

00:19:17.000 Can you please do something about it?

00:19:19.000 And the entire media are in the bag on this thing.

00:19:22.000 Why?

00:19:22.000 Because it's not just that they have to protect Kamala Harris.

00:19:25.000 It's about something much bigger than Kamala Harris.

00:19:26.000 The entire apparatus of informational dissemination that they have built, that human centipede, it must be maintained at all costs.

00:19:33.000 It provides a bubble in which left-wing messages can always be protected, in which the American people will never hear the downsides, in which you can have a candidate who does not speak to anyone for 24 days and no one seems to give a bleep.

00:19:46.000 That can only be maintained with informational monopoly.

00:19:50.000 And again, it's not just Cleveland.

00:19:51.000 I don't want to call him out as the only person who is like this.

00:19:54.000 It is, for example, Sarah Fisher from Axios, who says the big problem is that Musk is going to let Trump spread disinformation.

00:20:00.000 Why?

00:20:01.000 I mean, it might be terrible.

00:20:01.000 You know, it might be absolutely terrible if you had entire networks like, say, CNN or entire websites.

00:20:07.000 Like, say Axios.

00:20:08.000 That just takes stenography from the Biden administration.

00:20:10.000 And they were just, you know, echo chambers for an entire political view.

00:20:13.000 That would be quite terrible.

00:20:14.000 That would be just awful.

00:20:15.000 You would never want a friendly interviewer, for example, to sit with a presidential candidate for two hours.

00:20:20.000 That would be quite awful.

00:20:22.000 Not that it's ever happened with, you know, the media and Democrats or anything.

00:20:26.000 Not that that's their entire business model.

00:20:28.000 Here is Sarah Fisher.

00:20:30.000 Because Elon Musk has come out and endorsed Donald Trump, I expect this to be like a bromance type of an interview where they're supporting each other.

00:20:37.000 I think that Elon Musk will let Donald Trump speak all the falsehoods and misinformation that he wants.

00:20:41.000 I mean, he's not a journalist.

00:20:42.000 It's not his job necessarily.

00:20:44.000 Does he want to be fact-checking all the information?

00:20:46.000 So I think it's just a platform for Donald Trump to come out and say whatever he wants.

00:20:50.000 But the thing to remember, Cassie, is like the Interview audience here is what Donald Trump needs.

00:20:55.000 You see JD Vance going on Face the Nation, right?

00:20:58.000 Sunday shows, traditional media.

00:20:59.000 Because he needs to get his name out there.

00:21:01.000 Donald Trump's going the opposite route, right?

00:21:03.000 He's talking to streamers and podcasters.

00:21:05.000 He's going on X. He wants to rally up that sort of fringe online base.

00:21:09.000 That's what Donald Trump is doing here tonight.

00:21:13.000 Okay, so again, it's just misinformation, disinformation, oh my gosh, and that would never happen on CNN.

00:21:19.000 You would never have all of the networks in unison Screaming to the heavens orgasmically about the magic of Kamala Harris or anything.

00:21:28.000 You would never have all of the legacy media mobilizing in her favor to lie about her record and allow her to lie about her record.

00:21:34.000 And then mobilizing in counter-formation in order to stop the dissemination of any countervailing information.

00:21:41.000 You'd never see that at all.

00:21:41.000 Here's CNN's Casey Hunt doing the same routine.

00:21:45.000 Musk's rise as a Trump backer comes as X has turned into a haven for the spread of misinformation.

00:21:52.000 Since buying the site almost two years ago, Musk's site has struggled to control it on topics ranging from the election to the assassination attempt against Trump.

00:22:01.000 Sometimes that information has been boosted by Musk himself, who posted a conspiracy regarding the attack on Paul Pelosi in October of 2022 before deleting it.

00:22:14.000 How's that Covington Catholic lawsuit coming over there, CNN?

00:22:16.000 How about that whole Russiagate thing that you did for like four years for ratings?

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00:23:37.000 The amazing projection here.

00:23:38.000 The only we can do it from the legacy media.

00:23:41.000 Only we can create a Praetorian guard in favor of our favorite candidate.

00:23:45.000 And anything that breaks the monopoly is bad and must therefore be destroyed.

00:23:49.000 It's amazing.

00:23:50.000 It's amazing.

00:23:51.000 And they're all, I mean, the mask is off for the media.

00:23:53.000 Anybody who has trust in the legacy media at this point, I don't know how to even diagnose you if you have trust in the legacy media's veracity and objectivity at this point.

00:24:01.000 Here's what I want.

00:24:02.000 They're all saying, well, Elon Musk has said that he is a Trump donor.

00:24:05.000 He has said that he is going to back Donald Trump.

00:24:07.000 I want to see how every one of these anchors voted.

00:24:10.000 I want to see who they donated to if they were allowed to donate.

00:24:14.000 That's what I want to see. 0.92

00:24:15.000 I want to know their own political bona fides because they're hiding behind the quote-unquote mask of objectivity while simply doing Kamala Harris's bidding like a bunch of lapdogs. 0.88

00:24:26.000 So how about this?

00:24:26.000 If they're going to say that Musk is a threat because he's being honest about his own politics, what if they were honest about their own politics for five seconds flat?

00:24:34.000 And all of this is designed simply to hide who Kamala Harris is, to hide the fact that she has flipped every single one of her positions, to hide her radicalism and all the rest. 0.94

00:24:43.000 Okay, so the Musk-Trump ex-space begins about 40 minutes late.

00:24:48.000 Now, I don't know what's going on technically over there.

00:24:50.000 Obviously, they've had these sorts of problems before.

00:24:52.000 They had this with Ron DeSantis' campaign launch when Elon Musk interviewed Ron DeSantis on an X-Base and it just fritzed out for the first 20 minutes or so.

00:25:03.000 It fritzed out for like 40 minutes last night.

00:25:05.000 Probably that was because there were over a million people who were simultaneously trying to listen to this very, very long conversation.

00:25:12.000 And it was Musk freewheeling and Trump freewheeling and it was pretty enjoyable.

00:25:15.000 It was very long.

00:25:17.000 Now for people who love Trump, I'm sure that it Sort of reinforced why you love Trump.

00:25:22.000 But beyond that, it also exposed the fact that Donald Trump is willing to talk with anyone at length for two hours, which Kamala Harris will not do.

00:25:30.000 Not even with friendlies.

00:25:31.000 Kamala Harris won't sit down with Casey Hunt for two hours. 1.00

00:25:34.000 Kamala Harris will not sit down with even her own donors for two hours and explain her positions because she'll break into the awkward laughter By the way, recommendation, when Donald Trump actually debates Kamala Harris, he can't just say that she laughs awkwardly. 0.99

00:25:46.000 What he should say when he debates Kamala Harris is the truth, which is every time she's caught in a question she doesn't like, her tell is that she laughs awkwardly.

00:25:53.000 And then when she does it, he should say, because she just got caught not knowing what the hell she's talking about.

00:25:57.000 That's what he should, in any case, I digress.

00:26:00.000 Here was Donald Trump with Elon Musk last night talking about Kamala Harris on immigration.

00:26:06.000 Now she's trying to say she had nothing to do with it, and she's such a liar, because she was called the Bordezar the first day, and it was on the headlines of every newspaper.

00:26:14.000 She's the Bordezar, and she never even went there.

00:26:17.000 She went to one location, which had nothing to do with where the problem is.

00:26:21.000 You know, she went in and out, I guess, because she was getting a lot of press, but had nothing to do with the problem.

00:26:26.000 But she was the Bordezar, and people can't allow them to get away with their disinformation campaign. 1.00

00:26:33.000 Now she's trying to say that Uh, she wasn't, uh, she wasn't really involved.

00:26:38.000 And the whole thing is horrible.

00:26:40.000 She was totally in charge.

00:26:43.000 She could have shut the border down without him.

00:26:45.000 He didn't know what he was doing anyways.

00:26:46.000 He wouldn't have even known what happened.

00:26:50.000 He is right about all of that.

00:26:52.000 He then points out that Kamala Harris is more incompetent than Joe Biden. 1.00

00:26:54.000 Again, as I've been saying, and it's pretty much everybody's been saying, Donald Trump's sole responsibility for the rest of this campaign is making the American people get to know Kamala Harris.

00:27:04.000 Because no one knows who she is.

00:27:06.000 She is a chameleon. 0.85

00:27:07.000 She lies about every position she has ever held. 0.99

00:27:10.000 She lies about herself routinely.

00:27:12.000 Here is Donald Trump.

00:27:15.000 Yeah, three and a half years.

00:27:16.000 And by the way, they have another five months that they can do something, but they won't do anything.

00:27:21.000 It's all talk. 0.99

00:27:23.000 He's incompetent and he's incompetent. 1.00

00:27:25.000 And frankly, I think that he's more incompetent than he is. 0.99

00:27:28.000 And that's saying something because he's not too good.

00:27:32.000 Well, it is a fact that Kamala Harris is not with us, but not in the same way as Joe Biden.

00:27:35.000 Joe Biden may be dead. 0.52

00:27:36.000 Kamala Harris is just not all that mentally healthy. 0.81

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00:28:41.000 President Trump also went off on the inflationary record of Kamala Harris.

00:28:45.000 Here he was on her handling of the economy.

00:28:49.000 The election's coming up and the people want to hear about the economy and the fact that they can't buy groceries because they don't have enough money to buy groceries.

00:28:57.000 The inflation has killed them.

00:28:59.000 Food prices are up 50, 60, even 100% in some cases. 1.00

00:29:03.000 And this stupid administration allowed this to happen. 1.00

00:29:07.000 And it's a shame. 1.00

00:29:10.000 He of course is correct about that.

00:29:12.000 By the way, now the inflationary stats, apparently the new PPI came in, and what it shows is a year-over-year 2.2% increase in the inflation, which is going to be just in time for the Fed to come in and try and rescue the Biden-Harris economy.

00:29:24.000 Isn't that exciting?

00:29:25.000 They're going to come in in the next few weeks, and they are presumably going to lower the interest rates, boost spending, and make everybody feel better just in time for the election.

00:29:33.000 Don't worry.

00:29:34.000 It's all stats.

00:29:35.000 It's all math.

00:29:35.000 It has nothing to do with the politics of the situation.

00:29:38.000 In any case, President Trump went on to attack Kamala Harris and Joe Biden over their Iran record, which, of course, he is correct about. 0.99

00:29:45.000 Extremely correct about.

00:29:48.000 They knew not to mess around.

00:29:50.000 Iran was broke because they told China, if you buy from Iran oil, it's all about the oil.

00:29:55.000 That's where the money is.

00:29:56.000 But if you buy oil from Iran, you're not going to do any business with the United States.

00:30:03.000 He is right.

00:30:03.000 He is right about all of that.

00:30:05.000 He also talked about why it was that Putin didn't invade Ukraine.

00:30:08.000 This is probably the most amusing part of the interview.

00:30:10.000 United States. And they were at a point where they were, they had no money for Hamas. They

00:30:14.000 had no money for Hezbollah. They had no money for any of these instruments of terror. 0.85

00:30:19.000 He is right. He is right about all of that. He also talked about why it was that Putin

00:30:23.000 didn't invade Ukraine. This is probably the most amusing part of the interview. I have

00:30:27.000 a feeling this conversation did not go word for word exactly how President Trump relates

00:30:30.000 it. But it is funnier the way he tells it.

00:30:34.000 I said to Vladimir Putin, I said, don't do it.

00:30:37.000 You can't do it, Vladimir.

00:30:38.000 You do it.

00:30:39.000 It's going to be a bad day.

00:30:41.000 You cannot do it.

00:30:42.000 And I told him things that what I do.

00:30:46.000 And he said, no way.

00:30:48.000 And I said, way.

00:30:50.000 And, you know, it's the last time we ever had the conversation.

00:30:56.000 I hope that's how the conversation went.

00:30:57.000 Vladimir Putin was sitting there, he goes, No ve, Mr. President.

00:31:00.000 He said, Ve.

00:31:01.000 I hope that's how it went.

00:31:04.000 And President Trump also went off on the energy record of Biden-Harris, pointing out that they have been radically anti-fracking.

00:31:10.000 By the way, the fracking transformation of the energy industry of the United States has not only transformed the economy of the United States, it's transformed the entire geopolitics of the planet.

00:31:19.000 Because it meant that OPEC was no longer ruling the roost economically.

00:31:23.000 Here's President Trump talking about it.

00:31:26.000 The gasoline, Elon, is the cost of energy.

00:31:30.000 Not only gasoline, it's the cost of heating your house and cooling your house.

00:31:33.000 That has to come down.

00:31:36.000 It's gone up 100 percent, 150 and 200 percent.

00:31:40.000 And that has to come down.

00:31:42.000 When that comes down and we're going to drill, baby, drill.

00:31:45.000 You know, they stopped drilling and then they went back to drilling because they went back to the Trump policy.

00:31:54.000 He's right again about that.

00:31:55.000 Finally, the one headline, media were looking for some sort of policy headline to take away, and so the policy headline they took away was that President Trump said that we should do away with the Department of Education and we should move education back to the state, which is obviously true.

00:32:07.000 The Department of Education is a large-scale waste of money.

00:32:09.000 It is basically there to please Randy Weingarten and her friends over at the American Federation of Teachers.

00:32:14.000 Here he was.

00:32:16.000 What I'm gonna do, one of the first acts, and this is where I need an Elon Musk, I need somebody that has a lot of Strength and courage and smarts.

00:32:24.000 I want to close up Department of Education, move education back to the states where states like Iowa, where states like Idaho, you know, not every state will do great because states that basically aren't doing good now.

00:32:39.000 You look at Gavin Newsom, the governor of California.

00:32:43.000 He's terrible.

00:32:45.000 He does a terrible job.

00:32:46.000 So he's not going to do great with education.

00:32:51.000 Well, he's right about all that.

00:32:52.000 Finally, Elon responds to all of this.

00:32:54.000 He commends Donald Trump on his bravery.

00:32:56.000 He actually opened the interview by commending Donald Trump on his bravery when he was shot in the ear.

00:33:02.000 What I found admirable there was that you can't fake bravery under such circumstances.

00:33:06.000 The courage is instinctual or it is not.

00:33:09.000 It's not a rehearsed action.

00:33:10.000 And so I just want to say that I think a lot of people admire your courage under fire there.

00:33:16.000 Elon also lent his weight to the campaign, suggesting that he would join President Trump in doing a government efficiency commission to look into the efficiency of government.

00:33:26.000 I think it would be great to just have a government efficiency commission that takes a look at these things and just ensures that the taxpayer money, the taxpayers hard-earned money, is spent in a good way.

00:33:38.000 And I'd be happy to help out on such a commission.

00:33:42.000 I'd love it.

00:33:46.000 Okay, and finally, he suggested correctly that President Trump has to win for the good of the

00:33:50.000 country. He says, listen, everyone is trying to paint me as some sort of rabid right winger.

00:33:54.000 He said, I stood in line for six hours to meet Barack Obama at one point. I voted Democrat many

00:33:59.000 times. The country has moved in a different direction because Democrats have governed poorly.

00:34:03.000 I think we're in massive trouble, frankly, with the Kamala administration, and that's my honest

00:34:10.000 opinion. And...

00:34:12.000 And I think really it's essential that you win for the good of the country this election.

00:34:21.000 I mean, that's understating my opinion.

00:34:25.000 Okay, that right there, that is the reason they hate Elon.

00:34:28.000 It's because he's being open about what he thinks.

00:34:31.000 And it is because he's offering a platform to President Trump.

00:34:34.000 Remember, Twitter literally kicked Donald Trump off the platform.

00:34:39.000 And now, X is back and Donald Trump is being featured by the owner of X on the platform.

00:34:44.000 That's the thing they hate.

00:34:45.000 They loved the fact that after January 6th, Donald Trump was summarily booted from all major social media.

00:34:51.000 They loved it.

00:34:51.000 It was their favorite thing.

00:34:53.000 What they hate is when the monopoly is threatened.

00:34:56.000 Because when the monopoly is threatened, it might force them to defend themselves.

00:34:59.000 It might force their favorite candidates to defend themselves.

00:35:01.000 And they have this lukewarm, urine-filled kiddie pool that they have been bathing in for the last several decades.

00:35:07.000 They do not like when somebody upsets the apple cart.

00:35:10.000 They really don't like it at all.

00:35:11.000 And Elon has done that?

00:35:13.000 So have all sorts of other insurgent media, and they cannot handle it.

00:35:16.000 We will get to what exactly they are protecting.

00:35:18.000 The answer, of course, is Kamala Harris's lies and more lies and more lies. 0.90

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00:36:00.000 Well, what exactly are Democrats protecting?

00:36:02.000 And what are the media protecting?

00:36:03.000 Well, the biggest thing right now that they are protecting is Kamala Harris.

00:36:06.000 It's the reason why they could, for years, pretend that Joe Biden was sentient.

00:36:11.000 And then, at the drop of a hat, when he exposed himself, they could dump him off the side of a cliff.

00:36:16.000 That's how they could do that.

00:36:17.000 Because, protect the machine.

00:36:19.000 Protect the machine.

00:36:20.000 Well, the Harris campaign sent a crazy email out, fundraising after the Musk-Trump interview, quote, Because see what rebels they are?

00:36:33.000 They're not calling it X. It's not enough that Musk has pledged to donate millions of dollars to help re-elect Trump.

00:36:38.000 He's using his purchased platform, one of the largest social media sites in the world, to spread Trump's unhinged and hateful agenda to millions of users.

00:36:45.000 How dare Donald Trump's wor- He's the most famous person maybe in the history of Earth at this point.

00:36:50.000 How dare Donald Trump be given a platform to say things, says Kamala Harris.

00:36:57.000 If that's all you need to hear, chip in 25 bucks now to help Kamala and Tim have the resources to respond to their lies.

00:37:02.000 Otherwise, let me remind you why this is a big deal.

00:37:04.000 The richest person in the world is a lackey for Team MAGA.

00:37:10.000 Well, I noticed that many of the other richest people in the world are lackeys for Team Kamala and actively intervened in the presidential race by forcing Joe Biden out of the race.

00:37:18.000 I mean, that was clearly stated that the donor class forced Biden out of the race by drying up all of his money.

00:37:24.000 So spare me the crocodile tears here.

00:37:27.000 Musk already ruined Twitter by allowing hate speech and disinformation to flood the platform, says the Harris-Wallace campaign.

00:37:32.000 Now Musk is using his vast fortune and broad reach to try to control our democracy.

00:37:36.000 Because nothing says controlling the democracy like allowing people to speak in front of other people.

00:37:40.000 That is control of the democracy.

00:37:42.000 You see, free democracy, true democracy, is when we shut down all dissenting points of view, kick them off the platform, and then elevate the legacy media to holy writ.

00:37:52.000 That is true democracy.

00:37:55.000 And that's the thing, that's what they actually think.

00:37:56.000 That's what they actually think.

00:37:58.000 They think true democracy can only be effectuated if they control the means of media production.

00:38:03.000 Elon Musk threatens that, and so they don't like it.

00:38:05.000 And of course, they have to maintain this.

00:38:07.000 They have to.

00:38:08.000 Because this campaign, in the absence of the Praetorian Guard, is a bleep show.

00:38:13.000 They flipped every single position.

00:38:14.000 So, as we mentioned earlier, Kamala Harris trotted out the Donald Trump campaign position, there should be no tax on tips. 1.00

00:38:20.000 A smart position for Trump to take, particularly in Nevada, where there's a lot of people who make a living off of tips.

00:38:26.000 So, Karine Jean-Pierre over at the White House was asked about whether Joe Biden supports no tax on tips, considering that Kamala Harris has now said that she supports that policy.

00:38:34.000 And if so, why haven't they tried to effectuate anything like that?

00:38:36.000 And so now they're going to flip in real time and pretend that Joe Biden was always in favor of no tax on tips.

00:38:43.000 He's been president for three and a half years.

00:38:45.000 He's never mentioned the thing at any point.

00:38:47.000 His IRS has been staffed up to go after low-level waiters to grab their taxes on tips.

00:38:54.000 But don't worry, says Kareem Jean-Pierre.

00:38:56.000 Actually, he was always in favor of exempting tips from tax.

00:39:01.000 He was always.

00:39:02.000 It turns out that we were always at war with East Asia. 0.95

00:39:05.000 Here we go.

00:39:07.000 Following up on eliminating taxes on tips, is that an idea that the Biden administration considered at any point in the past three and a half years?

00:39:15.000 What I can say is the President supports it.

00:39:18.000 And what I can say is obviously the President and the Vice President very much what I just how I answered the earlier question is that we have always put at front and center making it easier, giving American families a little bit more breathing room, something the President says very often.

00:39:35.000 Uh, and so, and we've shown that.

00:39:36.000 We've shown that in the policies that we've laid out.

00:39:39.000 And, you know, not going to go into what the former president said, but, you know, if, if Republicans truly cared about that, truly cared about hardworking Americans, they would have joined us on a lot of these proposals that we put forward.

00:39:57.000 You're joining Trump on his proposal.

00:40:00.000 And now you're pretending that it was always your proposal.

00:40:02.000 It's amazing.

00:40:03.000 The only way you can get away with this is when you know the media will defend you no matter what.

00:40:06.000 Okay, then, apparently, Kareem Jean-Pierre went a step further.

00:40:11.000 And this is going to be a problem for Kamala Harris, because this should be every campaign ad that Donald Trump runs from here to the election. 1.00

00:40:17.000 She says that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are always in sync, that they think the same things, they breathe the same air, they feel the same feelings.

00:40:25.000 It's like E.T.

00:40:26.000 and Elliot.

00:40:27.000 They have a heart connection.

00:40:29.000 He's going to turn her heart light on.

00:40:30.000 Here we go.

00:40:31.000 Here is Kareen Jean-Pierre.

00:40:32.000 Is it safe to say that anything that she would put forward along these lines that also would have the backing of the president?

00:40:42.000 You can certainly say, or I can say, that they are partners in this.

00:40:46.000 So they believe, and certainly on the same page, when we think about the economy, when we think about health care, They have to work through what their policies ideas are but the last three and a half years they've been in sync.

00:41:00.000 They have been certainly on the same page and I presume that that will continue from here.

00:41:08.000 So they are fully in sync and they have been and they will be.

00:41:11.000 Okay, so that means Harris owns everything that Biden did and Biden owns everything Harris does.

00:41:16.000 All righty then.

00:41:17.000 Flashback, Kamala 2020.

00:41:19.000 She says that she would close detention centers.

00:41:21.000 Remember, she is not an open border.

00:41:23.000 Borders are.

00:41:24.000 She's a tough on-crime prosecutor and the astonishing attempt to swivel Kamala Harris into something she manifestly is not can only be effectuated by a monopolistic media. 1.00

00:41:34.000 It's the only way to do it.

00:41:35.000 Here she was in 2020.

00:41:36.000 This is not long ago.

00:41:39.000 Hi, my name's Sally Hartman.

00:41:41.000 I'm a volunteer with the Center for Worker Justice.

00:41:44.000 I want to know, when you become president, would you be committing to close the immigration detention centers?

00:41:55.000 Absolutely, on day one.

00:41:56.000 On day one.

00:42:00.000 She would close the detention centers on day one, she says.

00:42:03.000 Now she's campaigning as a tough-on-crime prosecutor. 0.95

00:42:06.000 It's absolutely astonishing.

00:42:08.000 Peter Doocy asked a pretty hilarious question at the White House press conference yesterday.

00:42:13.000 He said, you know, Kamala Harris is now running as a tough on-the-border prosecutor. 0.93

00:42:17.000 She is saying that she wants to increase the number of border patrol.

00:42:22.000 She's saying that she wants to deport more people.

00:42:24.000 She is now all of a sudden swiveling into a border hawk. 0.69

00:42:27.000 So does it feel weird that she's repudiating Biden?

00:42:30.000 And Karine Jean-Pierre's like, what?

00:42:31.000 What now?

00:42:34.000 How long have you guys known that Vice President Harris does not think that President Biden is effective with his border policy?

00:42:40.000 I mean, you're making a huge jump.

00:42:42.000 She did not say this.

00:42:43.000 This is something that you are assuming.

00:42:45.000 I don't understand why you would assume that.

00:42:47.000 It's not true.

00:42:48.000 She has a campaign ad where she is saying they need more border patrol agents.

00:42:53.000 If President Biden's doing such a good job, why do they need any more border agents?

00:42:56.000 We might believe that.

00:42:57.000 The President does want more border patrol agents.

00:42:59.000 You know who's getting in the way?

00:43:01.000 You know who's getting in the way?

00:43:02.000 Republicans in Congress.

00:43:03.000 They're getting in the way.

00:43:04.000 You know who else is getting in the way?

00:43:05.000 The former president.

00:43:09.000 It's just unbelievable.

00:43:10.000 It's just unreal.

00:43:12.000 Bernie Sanders at least points for honesty.

00:43:14.000 The nice thing about Bernie is that Bernie is not a very bright egg.

00:43:17.000 And so Bernie will just say the quiet part out loud.

00:43:20.000 So here is Bernie Sanders who is quickly morphing into a Muppet of Bernie Sanders in real time.

00:43:26.000 Not sure what's going on with Bernie, but I guess he gets older.

00:43:29.000 He just turns into like a Muppet of himself.

00:43:31.000 In any case, he says that, he's asked on CNN, she keeps reversing her positions.

00:43:35.000 And he's like, well, you know, reversals are normal when you are lying so you can become president.

00:43:40.000 Talking about some of the policies that you care most about, she has reversed herself, rather, on some, like Medicare for All, on some parts of immigration policy, fracking.

00:43:52.000 Does that give you cause for concern?

00:43:56.000 Well, look, she has to run her campaign, and I'm sure she is, you know, talking to all kinds of people to come up with an agenda that will lead to victory in November. 0.98

00:44:08.000 Oh, she's running her campaign, and she has to win, and so she's allowed to lie. 1.00

00:44:11.000 Okay, it's all out there, right in the open. 1.00

00:44:14.000 She's a liar. 1.00

00:44:15.000 The media are liars. 1.00

00:44:16.000 The Democrats are lying to you. 0.99

00:44:18.000 They will lie about her.

00:44:19.000 They will pretend that she's a moderate. 0.73

00:44:20.000 They'll pretend she didn't hold positions that she clearly held five seconds ago. 1.00

00:44:23.000 They will pretend that she is a border hawk now, or that she fought inflation, or that she's in favor of a stable Middle East, that she's a moderate all across the spectrum. 0.99

00:44:33.000 They will do all of that because they assume you're stupid and they assume that the echo chamber they have created is absolutely impenetrable. 0.99

00:44:39.000 And if you ever attempt to penetrate the echo chamber, if you ever attempt to crack the seal on the cone of silence they've created around the American people, they react with the rage of the mad. 0.99

00:44:50.000 That is what we are seeing over the course of the last 24 hours.

00:44:52.000 It's what we're going to see from here all the way up until the election.

00:44:55.000 Meanwhile, things continue to heat up in the Middle East.

00:44:57.000 Presumably there's supposed to be some sort of ceasefire summit that happens in Egypt on Thursday.

00:45:02.000 The Biden White House is really trying to broker this thing because they are hoping to forestall some sort of Iranian attack.

00:45:08.000 What the ceasefire negotiation really is about at this point is not the ceasefire.

00:45:11.000 It's really about providing some sort of face-saving measure so that Iran doesn't have to launch an attack large enough that Israel destroys its oil fields and nuclear facilities.

00:45:19.000 Or so that Hezbollah can climb down from the tree upon which it's been sitting so that they don't have to launch a major attack in retaliation for the death of their number two in Lebanon. 0.70

00:45:27.000 So basically, the Biden administration is trying to force the Israelis into some sort of ceasefire deal that allows all of these parties to climb down from the tree and pretend that everything is hunky-dory again, and that they got some sort of victory out of Israel conceding something.

00:45:42.000 Meanwhile, Israel's like, listen, we'll make concessions if it's in our interest to make the concessions. 0.95

00:45:47.000 Iran continues to mouth off. 0.80

00:45:49.000 So there was widespread suggestion that today was going to be the big day for an Iranian or Hezbollah attack on Israel that apparently has not materialized.

00:45:57.000 Today is Tisha B'Av, which is a big fast day in the Jewish calendar. 0.89

00:46:00.000 Pretty much everybody, including me, is fasting right now.

00:46:02.000 No food, no water for 25 hours.

00:46:04.000 It's a commemoration of the destruction of the first temple in Jerusalem, as well as the second temple in Jerusalem.

00:46:10.000 And it's sort of become a catch-all date for Human tragedy among the Jewish people. 0.99

00:46:14.000 So a lot of mourning of October 7th is happening on Tisha B'Av.

00:46:17.000 There is an expectation that because the holiday is about the exile of the Jewish people from their historic homeland, that because of that, Iran would take advantage of that and attack because the way that the logic of radical Muslims works, no one can touch them during Ramadan. 0.93

00:46:32.000 It's like putting your hand on the tree while you're playing tag.

00:46:37.000 However, if it's a Jewish holiday or a Christian holiday, that's actually the best time to attack because obviously those are not the true religions, according to Radical Islam. 0.86

00:46:44.000 In any case, that was supposed to materialize.

00:46:46.000 It didn't.

00:46:47.000 One of the reasons it didn't is because Iran is deeply fearful of what comes next if they actually go hard.

00:46:52.000 Israel, for its part, according to the Wall Street Journal, put its military on high alert.

00:46:55.000 The Pentagon said it is sending a guided missile submarine to the region and speeding up the arrival of the second aircraft carrier amid heightened concerns about a possible Iranian and Hezbollah response to the killing of militant leaders in Tehran and Beirut.

00:47:07.000 Israel set the high alert level for its military for the first time this month after observing preparations by Iran and Hezbollah.

00:47:12.000 Now, there's some good satellite data showing that Iran is gearing up some sort of rocket fire. 0.66

00:47:17.000 One of the big questions is why Israel doesn't preemptively hit it.

00:47:20.000 And the answer is because the Biden administration is telling them not to.

00:47:22.000 As always, Joe Biden and his team at the State Department and Kamala Harris and this entire team are holding the chain because the only thing they care about is the fake Peace that prevails in the absence of the victory of our allies.

00:47:36.000 They prefer slow moving disaster to outright victory by our allies.

00:47:40.000 Even the White House is admitting at this point that U.S.

00:47:42.000 intelligence indicates it's increasingly likely Iran will attack Israel this week.

00:47:46.000 Now again, what they're hoping is that they can broker some sort of deal that will allow Hezbollah and Iran to claim victory and Hamas to claim victory. 0.94

00:47:53.000 Israel, of course, is not going to allow that, especially because Israel now has the military upper hand not only in the Gaza Strip, but with regard to Iran itself.

00:48:01.000 Hamas, for its part, has been sending some mixed signals.

00:48:04.000 A couple of days ago, they rejected all compromise, despite the fact that the Biden administration has been putting heavy pressure on Israel and announced a negotiating summit scheduled for Thursday.

00:48:16.000 Hamas came out and said that they weren't going to engage.

00:48:20.000 So now they're trying to put extra pressure on Hamas to engage, which again, is incredible. 0.97

00:48:23.000 Hamas is basically down to Yahya Sinwar, a few of his buddies holding Israeli women in captivity.

00:48:30.000 That's what the Hamas leadership is down to. 1.00

00:48:32.000 It's pathetic. 0.88

00:48:33.000 And the United States is trying to save them under Joe Biden in order to forestall some sort of flare up that might require allied intervention to prevent missiles from hitting Israel and starting a more general regional war. 0.92

00:48:45.000 Meanwhile, you want to know something about Kamala Harris' campaign?

00:48:48.000 You wonder how anti-Israel they're going to be?

00:48:50.000 Well, we now know.

00:48:51.000 We have two indicators, actually.

00:48:53.000 So first off, we have the indicator that Kamala Harris has now appointed a person named Nasrina Bargsy to deputy counsel for her.

00:49:03.000 She's deputy counsel to Vice President Kamala Harris.

00:49:04.000 This is according to Daniel Greenfield reporting for FrontPageMag.

00:49:09.000 Who is she? 0.99

00:49:09.000 Well, after 9-11, she was interviewed by law enforcement over troubling comments on the war on terror reported by her friends. 0.99

00:49:15.000 After coming to America from a wealthy family in Kandahar, later a stronghold of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, Nasreena Bargzi was raised in Concord, California, one of the state's hubs for Afghan migrants, and quickly got involved in anti-American and pro-terrorist activism.

00:49:26.000 In 2001, while attending college, she was interrogated by the FBI about comments she'd made to her friends.

00:49:33.000 Then she received a law school scholarship intended for women who had suffered persecution under the Taliban, even though she had left long before they came to power.

00:49:40.000 She became a legal fellow at the ACLU and joined its lawfare machine to dismantle national security defenses against Islamic terrorism. 0.92

00:49:46.000 In 2008, she posted about wearing orange at the Today Show in solidarity with Al Qaeda, Taliban, and other terrorists being held at Gitmo.

00:49:55.000 She has ridiculed the idea that calling for the destruction of Israel was threatening and co-signed a petition claiming that a lawsuit by Jewish students was threatening the speech of Berkeley Muslim Student Association.

00:50:05.000 So in other words, this radical, and her record is incredibly radical, is now Deputy Counsel to Vice President Harris.

00:50:12.000 But don't worry, she's also appointing liaisons to the Jewish community.

00:50:16.000 For example, she has now appointed a person named Elon Goldberg, her liaison, to the Jewish community.

00:50:22.000 What do we know about Elon Goldberg?

00:50:24.000 We know that he's a J Street anti-Israel radical.

00:50:27.000 He supported the Obama abstention.

00:50:30.000 David Milstein reporting this.

00:50:31.000 Council Resolution 2334, which basically suggested that the old city of Jerusalem does not belong

00:50:36.000 to Israel, including the Western Wall, the Kotel, and the Temple Mount.

00:50:41.000 David Milstein reporting this.

00:50:43.000 A former staffer for Ron DeSantis and David Friedman, as well as Ted Cruz.

00:50:50.000 Elon Goldberg opposed the Trump administration's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital

00:50:55.000 and moving the embassy to Jerusalem is consistent with U.S.

00:50:58.000 law, and said that if these actions were taken, the U.S.

00:51:01.000 should also unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state, opposed the U.S.

00:51:06.000 recognition of Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, supported the disastrous Iran deal, opposed the Taylor Force Act, which is simply an act saying that no party can be paid, that has facilitated terrorism and the murder of American citizens. 0.53

00:51:20.000 Supported restoring funding to the UNRWA.

00:51:24.000 Supported reopening the PLO mission in DC that was closed because the PA has been supporting the ICC.

00:51:32.000 Worked in the Biden-Harris administration to implement some of the most anti-Israel policies in American history, including some of the sanctions on various groups in Israel.

00:51:40.000 So that is the new liaison from Kamala Harris to the Jewish community.

00:51:44.000 And yet she's going to pose as some sort of moderate. 1.00

00:51:47.000 Obviously, the Democrats need the media.

00:51:48.000 Without the media, they're nothing.

00:51:50.000 Without them, they're nothing.

00:51:51.000 And to be fair, without the Democrats, the media are probably nothing, since it is the Democrats who give them special access.

00:51:57.000 Alrighty, folks, coming up, Nate Silver, pollster extraordinaire, analyst extraordinaire, and author of the brand new book, On the Edge, The Art of Risking Everything, is on.

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00:52:08.000 Click that link in the description and join us. 0.93

00:52:11.000 Republicans or Nazis, you cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people. 0.91

00:52:16.000 Growing up, I never thought much about race. 0.95

00:52:17.000 It never really seemed to matter that much, at least not to me.

00:52:20.000 Am I racist?

00:52:21.000 I would really appreciate it if you left.

00:52:23.000 I'm trying to learn.

00:52:23.000 I'm on this journey.

00:52:25.000 I'm gonna sort this out.

00:52:26.000 I need to go deeper undercover.

00:52:31.000 Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert.

00:52:34.000 Here's my certification.

00:52:35.000 And what you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness.

00:52:38.000 This is more for you than this for you.

00:52:39.000 Is America inherently racist?

00:52:40.000 The word inherent is challenging that.

00:52:42.000 I want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument.

00:52:46.000 America is racist to its bones.

00:52:47.000 So inherently? 0.98

00:52:48.000 Yes. 1.00

00:52:48.000 This country is a piece of s***. 1.00

00:52:52.000 White. 1.00

00:52:52.000 Folks. 1.00

00:52:53.000 Trash. 1.00

00:52:53.000 White supremacy. 1.00

00:52:54.000 White woman. 1.00

00:52:54.000 White boy. 1.00

00:52:55.000 Is there a black person around here?

00:52:56.000 What's a black person right here? 0.86

00:52:57.000 Does he not exist?

00:53:00.000 Hi, Robin.

00:53:01.000 Hi.

00:53:01.000 What's your name?

00:53:02.000 I'm Matt.

00:53:03.000 I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.

The Ben Shapiro Show - August 13, 2024

TRUMP and MUSK vs. The TYRANTS

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