The Ben Shapiro Show - Trump Gives The BEST PRESS CONFERENCE EVER

00:00:00.000 Okay, folks, on today's show, we have a lot to get to because Donald Trump just gave one of the greatest press conferences in American history.

00:00:05.000 He talked more in this press conference than Joe Biden has for four years, and he actually said coherent words, which I know we're not used to it.

00:00:12.000 So I feel kind of spoiled, to be honest.

00:00:14.000 We'll get to that.

00:00:15.000 We'll get to Mark Zuckerberg and all the fallout from his announcement that he's killing the idiotic fact-checking programs that have been used as censorious tools.

00:00:23.000 Look, it's a Middle East policy from the Biden administration.

00:00:25.000 Let's start with this press conference because, man, oh, man.

00:00:28.000 This was a doozy.

00:00:29.000 And it was wonderful in so many ways.

00:00:31.000 So first, I just have to show you a map of what America is going to look like under Donald Trump.

00:00:36.000 It's a map of what America is going to look like.

00:00:38.000 So there you see it.

00:00:39.000 The United States.

00:00:40.000 You also see the Gulf of America.

00:00:43.000 Now you might be thinking to yourself, hold up a second.

00:00:46.000 Isn't that the Gulf of Mexico?

00:00:47.000 No, it isn't.

00:00:48.000 It isn't anymore.

00:00:49.000 Donald Trump is going to instruct the federal government to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.

00:00:56.000 And I am here for it.

00:00:58.000 It's fantastic.

00:00:59.000 If you look at that map, about 65% of the coastline along the Gulf of Mexico is in America.

00:01:05.000 So screw it!

00:01:06.000 That's our Gulf, my friends.

00:01:07.000 That is the Gulf of America.

00:01:08.000 Here's Donald Trump announcing.

00:01:10.000 And we're going to be announcing at a future date pretty soon we're going to change because we do most of the work there and it's ours.

00:01:21.000 We're going to be changing sort of the opposite of Biden where he's closing everything up, essentially getting rid of...

00:01:27.000 50 to 60 trillion dollars worth of assets.

00:01:30.000 We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory.

00:01:41.000 The Gulf of America.

00:01:42.000 What a beautiful name.

00:01:44.000 Yes!

00:01:45.000 Yes.

00:01:46.000 My friend Matt Walsh has suggested that we also rename the moon.

00:01:48.000 To which I say, abso-freaking-lutely we should rename the moon.

00:01:51.000 It's our moon.

00:01:53.000 We put a flag on it.

00:01:54.000 We were there first.

00:01:55.000 Ours!

00:01:56.000 Not China's moon.

00:01:57.000 Not Russia's moon.

00:01:59.000 Our moon.

00:02:00.000 Deal with it.

00:02:01.000 We need to annex the moon immediately. 0.99

00:02:03.000 But actually, like, really, I think it's pretty amazing that we're renaming the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America.

00:02:08.000 I think it's great.

00:02:09.000 And, like, who's gonna stop us?

00:02:11.000 Mexico?

00:02:12.000 Sure.

00:02:13.000 They can't even balance a budget or stop the cartels from running their country.

00:02:16.000 So the answer there is no.

00:02:17.000 But that's not the only thing on the manifest destiny agenda list for the Trump administration that I am loving.

00:02:24.000 I'm loving Donald Trump.

00:02:25.000 has now deployed the Crown Prince, Don Jr., to Greenland because that is the next American territory.

00:02:31.000 Go back to our map there for a second.

00:02:33.000 I just want to show you the map.

00:02:34.000 Look how big the United States is going to be.

00:02:36.000 You see right north of us, there's this country that used to be called Canada.

00:02:39.000 As we know, President Trump has been talking about making it the 51st state.

00:02:43.000 And I know that Justin Trudeau is out there tweeting how it'll never be the 51st state.

00:02:48.000 But he has no say in the matter because when we invade, he will be shipped to the Panama Canal to work the Panama Canal.

00:02:53.000 Don't worry.

00:02:53.000 I'll get to the Panama Canal in just a second.

00:02:56.000 That's right.

00:02:56.000 More America is better.

00:02:58.000 It's as you can see on this map.

00:03:00.000 Trumpland, which is huge.

00:03:02.000 Trumpland used to be called Greenland.

00:03:04.000 It will be renamed Trumpland and it will be made in inherited fiefdom of the Trump family, I would assume.

00:03:11.000 In actuality, we really should actually take Greenland though because Greenland actually is quite a vital place.

00:03:17.000 Territorially, the United States actually spends on the military defense of Greenland.

00:03:21.000 Like right now, we have military bases in Greenland.

00:03:24.000 We use Greenland's northern border in order to protect Arctic shipping.

00:03:28.000 Right now, it is supposedly and officially Danish territory.

00:03:32.000 It is home to the U.S. military's Pitufik space base.

00:03:36.000 And of course, it's very important because as it melts in the Arctic Circle, their brand new North Atlantic shipping lanes.

00:03:42.000 They've drawn interest from Russia and China, and Denmark ain't doing a thing about it.

00:03:46.000 So either Russia and China are going to have an impact there, or we are going to have an impact up there.

00:03:50.000 Arctic shipping has increased, according to Forbes, 37% over the past decade.

00:03:55.000 Also, the island is part of the strategically important Greenland-Iceland-UK gap, a choke point.

00:04:00.000 Russian ships actually have to transit to travel from the Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic.

00:04:06.000 Also, Greenland has a bunch of untapped mineral resources.

00:04:08.000 Those include...

00:04:10.000 Coal, zinc, copper, iron ore, diamonds and oil.

00:04:13.000 And a lot of the island has not been explored.

00:04:16.000 There are only about 60,000 people on the island in total.

00:04:21.000 And actually, the United States, believe it or not, does have a pretty good historic claim to Greenland.

00:04:25.000 I'm going to go through the history.

00:04:26.000 I know you weren't expecting a history of Greenland, but you're going to get a potted history of America-Greenland relations because actually, quite seriously, we should purchase Greenland.

00:04:35.000 Here's President Trump on this matter.

00:04:37.000 We need Greenland for...

00:04:38.000 National security purposes.

00:04:40.000 I've been told that for a long time, long before I even ran.

00:04:43.000 I mean, people have been talking about it for a long time.

00:04:46.000 You have approximately 45,000 people there.

00:04:49.000 People really don't even know if Denmark has any legal right to it.

00:04:54.000 But if they do, they should give it up because we need it for national security.

00:04:58.000 That's for the free world.

00:04:59.000 I'm talking about protecting the free world.

00:05:01.000 You look at, you don't even need binoculars.

00:05:04.000 You look outside, you have China ships all over the place.

00:05:09.000 You have Russian ships all over the place.

00:05:11.000 We're not letting that happen.

00:05:13.000 We're not letting it happen.

00:05:15.000 And if Denmark wants to get to a conclusion, but nobody knows if they even have any right title or interest, the people are going to probably vote for independence or to come into the United States.

00:05:26.000 He is correct about that.

00:05:28.000 He is correct about that.

00:05:29.000 The people of Greenland have been talking about independence for a very long time.

00:05:32.000 If that were to happen, they would realign with the United States in a heartbeat.

00:05:35.000 First of all, it's better to live in the United States than it is to live in a principality of Denmark.

00:05:40.000 Second, as far as security concerns with Russia and China, Denmark ain't going to defend those Arctic Straits.

00:05:46.000 You think Denmark is going to go up against the Russians or the Chinese?

00:05:49.000 If that is a matter of national security for the United States, why not sell Greenland to the United States if you are Denmark? 0.80

00:05:56.000 And by the way, the United States discovered like half of Greenland.

00:05:59.000 I'm just going to point that out here.

00:06:01.000 When he says it's not clear what the historic...

00:06:03.000 Sort of preserve of Denmark is in Greenland.

00:06:06.000 He is actually correct about this.

00:06:09.000 So back in 1775, to give you the potted history of Greenland, Denmark and Norway declared Greenland a colony.

00:06:16.000 Greenland was then formally transferred from Norway to Denmark by a treaty of 1814. Denmark started trying to colonize the island in the 1880s.

00:06:24.000 But here is the thing.

00:06:26.000 A huge chunk before the 1880s was actually discovered by, wait for it, Americans.

00:06:31.000 It was American Charles Francis Hall, who was the first to see Northwest Greenland during the Polaris Expedition, which was 1871 to 1873. And another explorer named Robert Peary actually claimed much of the North.

00:06:43.000 The only reason that Denmark has any claim whatsoever to Greenland as far as the United States is concerned is because when the United States was interested in purchasing the Danish West Indies during World War I, Denmark required the country to recognize its claim over the whole island of Greenland at the time.

00:07:00.000 Piri, the explorer who discovered much of it and claimed much of it, opposed the U.S. giving up the claim because he said, hey, the Monroe Doctrine says no European interference in the Western Hemisphere.

00:07:09.000 Instead, he suggested correctly that we should have purchased the island outright.

00:07:13.000 And then, as it turns out, by the way, we basically had to do it anyway in terms of defending the island because, as you will recall, if you remember your world history, by the early 1940s, Denmark had been conquered by, wait for it, the Nazis.

00:07:25.000 And so once that happened, the United States basically had to defend Greenland As its own principality.

00:07:32.000 Because it was the only known significant source of a material called cryolite.

00:07:40.000 And because Germany was attempting to use the North Atlantic as a base during the war, during World War II, the United States actually did apply the Monroe Doctrine on European colonies in the North Atlantic Ocean.

00:07:52.000 By 1946, the Joint Chiefs of Staff had listed Greenland and Iceland as essential international locations for American bases.

00:07:59.000 In fact, when NATO was in its heyday, Greenland was seen as more important to both American and Canadian defense than some of the Western European countries.

00:08:08.000 Because again, if you take a look at a map, when you get up to the very, very north of Canada, which is the North American continent, it starts to get pretty close to territory that is controlled by Russia.

00:08:21.000 In 1951, Greenland and the United States signed a treaty that gave the United States exclusive jurisdiction.

00:08:28.000 Over defense areas within Greenland.

00:08:31.000 So again, there's a very, very solid case that the United States actually ought to buy Greenland.

00:08:36.000 Okay, but we're not stopping there, folks.

00:08:38.000 Again, let's go back to our map.

00:08:39.000 So, on this map, I did not label Panama.

00:08:43.000 Panama's actually to the south of that territory there that's called the other side of the wall.

00:08:47.000 And, you know, it's west of the territory that I've labeled there, the anti-European moat.

00:08:52.000 Used to be called the Atlantic Ocean.

00:08:54.000 It will now be known as the anti-European mode to prevent the Europeans from coming over here and bringing their terrible economic and social ideas.

00:09:00.000 In any case, President Trump has made clear that he does not want the Panama Canal to be controlled by the Chinese.

00:09:06.000 And this is a real concern.

00:09:07.000 People are making fun of this sort of stuff, but actually it's a real concern.

00:09:10.000 Yeah, he's half joking when he's making fun of Justin Trudeau and talking about making Canada the 51st state and all of that sort of stuff.

00:09:16.000 But the Greenland thing is actually a fairly serious proposal.

00:09:18.000 And when it comes to the Panama Canal, there really is a serious problem with the Panama Canal.

00:09:23.000 The Panama Canal was built with American labor.

00:09:27.000 It was built with American money.

00:09:28.000 It was turned over idiotically by one of our worst presidents, Jimmy Carter.

00:09:32.000 During the Carter administration, that was a stupid move.

00:09:35.000 The Panama Canal has run significantly worse since the turnover to Panama.

00:09:39.000 But it's not just that.

00:09:41.000 The Panamanians have actually turned over both ends of the canals to Chinese companies.

00:09:48.000 If you've ever visited Panama, I have been down there.

00:09:50.000 I have visited the Panama Canal.

00:09:52.000 It's not all that wide.

00:09:53.000 It's relatively narrow, particularly at the entrance and exit.

00:09:56.000 And so it'd be very easy for those companies, these Chinese companies, to shut off the entrances and exits to the Panama Canal. 0.54

00:10:04.000 And 40% of all American container traffic goes through the Panama Canal.

00:10:09.000 That's a lot of American commerce that's moving through the Panama Canal.

00:10:12.000 That's the reason we built it in the first place.

00:10:15.000 Which would mean that if the United States were ever to get into a conflict with China, pretty much all shipping would stop dead because China would try to take control of the Taiwan Strait.

00:10:23.000 They would try to take control of the Strait of Malacca, which is sort of the tip of the South China Sea.

00:10:28.000 That would shut off another shipping route. 0.58

00:10:30.000 And if they could shut off shipping in the Western Hemisphere, they could absolutely cripple the American economy.

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00:12:42.000 Gordon Chang.

00:12:44.000 An author writing for Newsweek points out the serious risks over at the Panama Canal.

00:12:49.000 He says, it's true there are no Uniform People Liberation Army soldiers now stationed in the canal zone.

00:12:53.000 That's not the end of the story.

00:12:55.000 Almost certainly there are Chinese operatives and military personnel in civilian garb there.

00:12:59.000 The Panama Canal is a choke point that Beijing seeks to control and undoubtedly close off in the moments before the next global war.

00:13:06.000 For instance, C.K. Hutchison Holdings, through its stake in Panama Ports Company, The Panama Maritime Authority renewed Hutchinson's 25-year concession to the two ports in June of 2021. Now, Hutchinson is supposedly a private company in Hong Kong, but as you'll recall, the Chinese took over Hong Kong, which means that every company that is being operated from Hong Kong is under the thumb of the Chinese Communist Party.

00:13:36.000 In times of war, those facilities would be controlled by the People's Liberation Army.

00:13:41.000 General Laura Richardson, who is the head of the U.S. Southern Command in July 2022, said in Aspen, quote, I was just in Panama about a month ago, flying along the Panama Canal, looking at all the state-owned enterprises from the PRC on each side of the Panama Canal.

00:13:53.000 They look like civilian companies or state-owned enterprises that could be used for dual use and could be quickly changed over to a military capability.

00:14:01.000 R. Evan Ellis, professor of Latin American Studies at the U.S. Army War College, said, quote, there are numerous ways a knowledgeable actor liked the PRC, its companies and agents, Could temporarily shut down the canal.

00:14:11.000 The risk does not come so much from the physical control of ports on both sides of the canal, but the knowledge and access that comes from China's significant commercial and other activities across Panama.

00:14:20.000 That gives China bases from which to act. 0.92

00:14:23.000 Also, China is embedded into the zone's infrastructure, including telecom systems that were supplied by, wait for it, Huawei, which is the Chinese official telecom association that basically embeds all sorts of intelligence apparatus inside the internet.

00:14:37.000 Surveillance cameras and other equipment has been provided by Hikvision, which again is a Chinese company.

00:14:43.000 There's another bridge over the canal and China's building that one as well.

00:14:47.000 So, serious problems in the Panama Canal.

00:14:49.000 Here's President Trump talking about the Panama Canal.

00:14:53.000 The Panama Canal was built for our military.

00:14:57.000 I'm not going to commit to that now.

00:14:59.000 It might be that you'll have to do something.

00:15:02.000 Look, the Panama Canal is vital to our country.

00:15:06.000 It's being operated by China.

00:15:09.000 China.

00:15:10.000 And we gave the Panama Canal to Panama.

00:15:12.000 We didn't give it to China.

00:15:14.000 And they've abused it.

00:15:16.000 Yes!

00:15:17.000 This!

00:15:19.000 Yes!

00:15:22.000 Very good Trump.

00:15:23.000 Very, very good Trump.

00:15:24.000 This is best Trump.

00:15:25.000 This is excellent.

00:15:26.000 It is just an added benefit, by the way, that's taking off the entire left-wing media.

00:15:30.000 Like, no!

00:15:31.000 No, there can't be more America.

00:15:33.000 We can't talk about expanding America.

00:15:35.000 We have to talk about contracting American territory.

00:15:37.000 We have to do land acknowledgments.

00:15:39.000 That's the most important thing.

00:15:40.000 This is crazy.

00:15:41.000 We can't do this stuff.

00:15:43.000 This is bad.

00:15:43.000 Here is CNN whining.

00:15:44.000 One of the biggest things that stood out to me from that press conference, from CNN, Moments when Trump got out there before he even started taking questions is the level of anger.

00:15:53.000 He's really agitated.

00:15:55.000 Well, we know why.

00:15:56.000 He made it quite clear a few moments in.

00:15:57.000 It's two things.

00:15:58.000 It's his legal issues overall, but it's the sentencing that he is facing on Friday that so far is still Judge Mershon has denied efforts to delay it.

00:16:06.000 His attorneys are still working to do so.

00:16:08.000 And two, it's this report by Jack Smith that we are told is imminent and is going to come out.

00:16:13.000 It is remarkable somebody who is two weeks.

00:16:16.000 From resuming the presidency of the United States, who, whether you voted for him or not, whether you like him or not, just engineered a remarkable historical political comeback is so whiny and so full of grievances.

00:16:27.000 Now, that is Donald Trump's trademark.

00:16:29.000 That has been his trademark since he came down that escalator.

00:16:31.000 He uses grievance to keep his people together, to keep his base together, and to keep his team loyal.

00:16:37.000 Ugh, you want to talk who's whining?

00:16:39.000 You guys are whining.

00:16:40.000 I'm sorry you lost, but you did.

00:16:42.000 Meanwhile, by the way, over at the Washington Post, Philip Bump.

00:16:45.000 It has an entire column titled, Trump takes America first to its expansionist endpoint.

00:16:50.000 Oh no!

00:16:52.000 No, we must never talk about the Gulf of America.

00:16:55.000 That's bad, because you see, America's bad. 0.70

00:16:57.000 And the more things we name after America, the worse it is.

00:16:59.000 Quote, the Gulf of Mexico has been named the Gulf of Mexico since before the United States of America was named the United States of America, says Philip Bump.

00:17:06.000 Since, that is, before there was a United States of America.

00:17:08.000 You can see that name used on old maps, like the one produced in France in 1717. George Washington wasn't born until more than a decade after that map was made.

00:17:16.000 And yet in a few months, the Gulf might carry a new name, at least in the eyes of a U.S. officialdom, the Gulf of America.

00:17:22.000 This isn't a reorienting of geography, akin to when Trump, during his first term in office, drew a black line on a map of the southeastern United States.

00:17:29.000 It is instead part of a much less innocuous pattern, one that has Trump extending his America First mantra to suggest that this nation has dominion over territory it doesn't currently control.

00:17:40.000 Oh, no.

00:17:41.000 No!

00:17:42.000 No!

00:17:42.000 It said no.

00:17:44.000 Okay, let's be clear about this.

00:17:46.000 America's manifest destiny was a good thing.

00:17:48.000 It is very good that America spans coast to coast.

00:17:50.000 That is a wonderful thing.

00:17:52.000 If America were to buy Greenland, that would also be a wonderful thing.

00:17:55.000 If America were to either convince Panama to better control the Panama Canal, to take it out of Chinese hands, or to give it over to American control, that would be a very good thing. 0.95

00:18:05.000 If Canada were to get rid of Justin Trudeau and elect Pierre Poliev, Then I suppose all the threats of invasion go away.

00:18:12.000 But let's be real about this.

00:18:15.000 The reason Canada is great is because America is great.

00:18:17.000 That is the reality.

00:18:18.000 They're completely dependent on the American economy.

00:18:20.000 They're completely dependent on America's force of arms.

00:18:23.000 Again, that doesn't mean we have to annex every place that's near us.

00:18:26.000 Doesn't mean that we have to take every place over.

00:18:27.000 And we won't.

00:18:28.000 But if a country like Greenland is willing to allow itself, and Denmark is willing to allow it, to be used as a thoroughfare by the Russians and the Chinese, what exactly are we supposed to do?

00:18:38.000 Sit there for that?

00:18:39.000 If the Panama Canal is going to be used as a choke point by the Chinese, are we just supposed to sit there and do nothing about it? 0.97

00:18:44.000 What exactly is the plan, my dude?

00:18:47.000 What is the plan, guys?

00:18:49.000 And the answer is there is no plan.

00:18:50.000 It's just to just whine about America.

00:18:52.000 Whine about America.

00:18:55.000 Justin Trudeau, by the way, is very angry at the suggestion that he would become governor of the 51st state.

00:19:00.000 At this point, by the way, that is his best political path forward since he's not going to be prime minister for much longer.

00:19:06.000 He tweeted out.

00:19:07.000 There isn't a snowball's chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States.

00:19:10.000 Workers and communities in both our countries benefit from being each other's biggest trading and security partner.

00:19:15.000 Well, I mean, that actually is a pretty solid case for why we should annex you.

00:19:18.000 But in any case, even if we were to annex you, don't worry.

00:19:20.000 You wouldn't end up in Canada.

00:19:21.000 We'd ship you down to Panama so you can work that canal. 0.99

00:19:23.000 We need somebody who's going to be working the canal.

00:19:26.000 And Justin Trudeau isn't going to have anything better to do.

00:19:29.000 That wasn't all that Trump had to say at this magnificent press conference.

00:19:32.000 I loved it.

00:19:32.000 It was just great.

00:19:34.000 So on foreign policy, he was asked about What he is going to do if the hostages are not freed by Hamas by the time he takes office in just 13 days.

00:19:42.000 And here was President Trump's answer.

00:19:45.000 All hell must be paid if they don't release the hostages.

00:19:49.000 Do I have to define it for you?

00:19:50.000 All hell will break out.

00:19:52.000 If those hostages aren't back, I don't want to hurt your negotiation.

00:19:56.000 If they're not back by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East. 1.00

00:20:02.000 And it will not be good for Hamas. 0.73

00:20:05.000 And it will not be good, frankly, for anyone.

00:20:07.000 All hell will break out.

00:20:08.000 I don't have to say anymore, but that's what it is.

00:20:10.000 And they should have given him back a long time.

00:20:12.000 They should have never taken him.

00:20:14.000 They should have never been the attack of October 7th.

00:20:16.000 People forget that.

00:20:18.000 But there was.

00:20:19.000 And many people are killed.

00:20:22.000 They're no longer hostages.

00:20:24.000 I have people from Israel and others calling, begging me to get...

00:20:29.000 You know, we had also people there from the United States, just so you know.

00:20:32.000 They're holding some...

00:20:38.000 This.

00:20:39.000 This.

00:20:41.000 Joe Biden never had any moral clarity about this because he's a fool.

00:20:44.000 Donald Trump has moral clarity about this.

00:20:46.000 And this is the correct approach.

00:20:48.000 If Hamas is not afraid, they're not releasing the hostages.

00:20:50.000 It is that simple.

00:20:51.000 There's nothing else that is going to make them release the hostages other than dire threats and action and allowing Israel to do exactly what it needs to do in the Gaza Strip. 0.81

00:21:01.000 Okay, and then Trump was asked.

00:21:03.000 About the possibility of a preemptive strike on the Iranian nuclear facilities if they were to ramp up their nuclear production.

00:21:08.000 And Trump gave the correct answer on this one, too.

00:21:10.000 Again, he gave more answers in this one press conference than Joe Biden has given in four years and said more intelligent things in this press conference than Joe Biden has ever said his entire career because Joe Biden was, is, and will be a dullard.

00:21:23.000 And here is President Trump explaining that if Iran were to attempt a nuclear weapon, he's not going to tell you what he would do because he's the president.

00:21:31.000 And he's not going to tell some dumb reporter what he's going to do because it's a stupid question.

00:21:35.000 That is correct.

00:21:37.000 That is right.

00:21:38.000 The U.S. launching a preemptive strike on Iraq's nuclear facilities.

00:21:42.000 I said I don't talk about it.

00:21:44.000 It's a military strategy.

00:21:46.000 But it is a legitimate question.

00:21:48.000 Well, it's not really because only a stupid person would answer it.

00:21:51.000 Look, it's a military strategy and I'm not answering your questions on military strategy.

00:21:57.000 Yes!

00:21:58.000 Correct.

00:21:59.000 Correct.

00:22:00.000 This is good.

00:22:01.000 This is good.

00:22:02.000 And speaking of other good things, President Trump also had some words about Joe Biden's attempts to shut down drilling for oil off pretty much all of America's eastern seaborne on his way out.

00:22:11.000 And Trump says, look, in America, we like to produce energy.

00:22:14.000 American energy independence has made us less dependent on some of the worst places in the world.

00:22:19.000 That is a good thing.

00:22:20.000 And Joe Biden is throttling America's energy independence.

00:22:23.000 Here was President Trump on this.

00:22:25.000 He wants all gas heaters out of your homes and apartments.

00:22:32.000 He wants them to be replaced by essentially electric heaters.

00:22:36.000 I don't know what it is with electric.

00:22:37.000 This guy loves electric.

00:22:39.000 We're going to be ending the electric car mandate quickly, by the way.

00:22:41.000 This guy loves electric.

00:22:44.000 And we don't have enough electricity.

00:22:46.000 And then we have AI where we need more.

00:22:48.000 And he wants everybody to have an electric heater instead of a gas heater.

00:22:52.000 Gas heater is much less expensive.

00:22:54.000 The heat is much better.

00:22:56.000 It's a much better heat.

00:22:58.000 As the expression goes, you don't itch.

00:23:01.000 Does anybody have a heater where you go and you scratch and that's what they want you to have?

00:23:06.000 They don't want you to have gas where you don't have the problems of the electric.

00:23:11.000 It's the best.

00:23:12.000 It's so good.

00:23:14.000 It's just the best.

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00:25:28.000 Among other things the Trump administration will be doing, Tom Homan, who again, straight out of Central Casting, he's going to be in charge of making sure that the border is closed and that illegal immigrants are deported.

00:25:38.000 He's the border czar.

00:25:39.000 He was on Fox News, or Fox Business rather, yesterday.

00:25:43.000 And he says, listen, I'm perfectly willing to talk with the press about what it is that I do.

00:25:47.000 I'm going to be more transparent.

00:25:48.000 than you have ever had before.

00:25:49.000 Here he was yesterday.

00:25:51.000 You're planning to hold weekly White House press briefings.

00:25:55.000 What will be in those briefings?

00:25:57.000 I mean, they put the border right at the very center of the White House and the administration.

00:26:03.000 What will you be doing in the briefings?

00:26:05.000 List of deportees?

00:26:09.000 We'll be doing what the current administration isn't doing.

00:26:11.000 We're going to be transparent with the American people.

00:26:14.000 Well, good.

00:26:16.000 Good.

00:26:16.000 And here's the thing.

00:26:17.000 Trump is not hiding the ball.

00:26:18.000 Nobody was hiding the ball.

00:26:19.000 What you saw with President Trump is what you're going to get with President Trump.

00:26:23.000 And the American people, by the polling data, like it.

00:26:25.000 President Trump's approval ratings are in positive territory for probably the first time in his entire political career.

00:26:31.000 Meanwhile, the House passed a bill on Tuesday that would target undocumented immigrants charged with nonviolent crimes for deportation, according to the New York Times, an opening salvo from a Republican majority that has vowed to deliver on President-elect Donald J. Trump's promised crackdown at the border.

00:26:46.000 The measure, by the way, drew unanimous Republican support and also 48 Democrats.

00:26:51.000 This measure was named after Lakin Riley, the 22-year-old nursing student who was killed last year in Georgia by an illegal immigrant who had crossed into the United States and was arrested and charged with shoplifting but was not detained.

00:27:01.000 The idea being, if you come here and you commit a nonviolent offense, you still shouldn't be here.

00:27:06.000 You shouldn't be here.

00:27:07.000 You should go away.

00:27:08.000 You should not be in the country.

00:27:10.000 This is very commonsensical.

00:27:11.000 The fact that...

00:27:12.000 More than two-thirds of Democrats voted against this demonstrates where the Democratic Party is, and they are totally disconnected from the American people.

00:27:19.000 The American people are not interested in illegal immigrant shoplifters remaining in the country. 1.00

00:27:24.000 To what end, precisely?

00:27:27.000 In the Senate, by the way, John Fetterman is joining as a co-sponsor because Fetterman is the only Democrat who has his head screwed on straight, and that was after I had a stroke.

00:27:35.000 Representative Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the number three Republican, said, quote, This bill is more than just a piece of legislation.

00:27:39.000 It's a return to common sense American values.

00:27:42.000 Under President Trump's leadership, there will be a lot more where that came from.

00:27:45.000 And again, bipartisan vote, 264 to 159, is because the Democrats have run themselves right off the reservation.

00:27:52.000 The Democrats are so far away from the common sense center that Donald Trump has claimed all of it.

00:27:57.000 Now, meanwhile, I want to point out that President Trump is going to be quite pragmatic in how he approaches all of these issues.

00:28:03.000 That includes things like spending.

00:28:04.000 So if you are expecting, here's the downside of a pragmatic Republican administration.

00:28:09.000 If you are expecting massive spending cuts to happen under Donald Trump, It's not going to happen.

00:28:13.000 The reason it's not going to happen is because the American people don't like massive spending cuts.

00:28:17.000 They don't.

00:28:18.000 The American people have always wanted to have it both ways.

00:28:20.000 On the one hand, they don't like the national debt.

00:28:22.000 On the other hand, they don't like cuts to any of the programs that they like.

00:28:25.000 So if you ask them if the government spends too much, they'll tell you yes.

00:28:29.000 And if you ask them what they'd want to cut, the answer is like around the edges.

00:28:33.000 So Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, who is at root a fiscal conservative, he is saying the true thing out loud.

00:28:39.000 Which is that the GOP is not going to cut benefits or restructure any of the major entitlement programs.

00:28:44.000 Which, again, was not only highly likely with a very slim majority, it was a guaranteed certainty.

00:28:48.000 So, I'm putting that on the map right now.

00:28:50.000 Because one of the things that's going to happen is when this whole thing is wrapped up into one big beautiful bill, as Johnson and Trump have said.

00:28:57.000 Or even two big beautiful bills.

00:28:59.000 The border bill and a tax bill.

00:29:00.000 When all this stuff gets wrapped up together in one big bill and spending is not decreased, understand.

00:29:06.000 There was never any real taste in Congress or unfortunately, it is unfortunate by the way, or with the American people in serious steep cuts in the spending.

00:29:13.000 There isn't.

00:29:15.000 That's just the reality.

00:29:16.000 And you can either yell at the reality or you can deal with the fact that that is the reality and work to convince your neighbors that everybody needs to rethink this whole giant spending thing.

00:29:24.000 But it ain't going nowhere.

00:29:25.000 Here is Speaker of the House Johnson.

00:29:27.000 The Republican Party is not going to cut benefits, okay?

00:29:31.000 We've made that very clear over and over and over, and that's the commitment of the White House and the commitment of this Republican conference.

00:29:36.000 We do know, however, at the same time, there are many, many areas of fraud, waste, and abuse.

00:29:41.000 The government is too large.

00:29:42.000 The agencies are too many.

00:29:44.000 They have too many divisions and employees and all the rest, and there will be a very deliberate auditing of all of that in various aspects as we go through the process.

00:29:52.000 Now, there will be a big battle among Republicans over the debt limit, and let's be real.

00:29:56.000 Raising the debt limit is generally a useful tool in clawing back some of the spending.

00:30:03.000 And I'm up for the battle.

00:30:04.000 I think it'll be good for there to be an internal Republican firefight, paring away some of the provisions.

00:30:09.000 But overall, if you are expecting a massive reduction in the curve of spending under a Republican administration, just be prepared.

00:30:16.000 It is not going to happen.

00:30:17.000 There is not a majority for that.

00:30:19.000 Among Republicans, there's not a majority for that.

00:30:22.000 That's just the reality.

00:30:23.000 All righty, meanwhile.

00:30:24.000 The left is so frustrated today.

00:30:27.000 They are so frustrated with Mark Zuckerberg.

00:30:29.000 Wildly frustrated with Mark Zuckerberg.

00:30:31.000 As we discussed at length on yesterday's show, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook have now completely rewritten the censorship rules on their social media network, which is a good thing.

00:30:40.000 To be completely frank, they actually structured pretty much all of their censorship rules to shut down the Daily Wire specifically because we were the number one news publisher on their platform.

00:30:50.000 And this gave no end of heartburn to the legacy media as well as to the Biden White House.

00:30:54.000 And Facebook fell for it, and Facebook fell to the pressure, and now Facebook is reversing all of that.

00:31:00.000 One of their new policy executives, Joel Kaplan, explained some of these changes that are being made to the censorship policies on Fox News yesterday.

00:31:10.000 So, Joel, why now?

00:31:12.000 I know you said it's a change, but did you feel restricted over the last four years?

00:31:16.000 And this is the first time you have, it's in your business interest to express this quest for freedom?

00:31:22.000 Well, there's no question that there's an opportunity here with a new president taking office, as I said, who really believes in free expression.

00:31:30.000 And that's just going to give us the space to get back to those values that Mark has talked about for a long time.

00:31:36.000 Mark gave a big speech six years ago at Georgetown about free expression, about these values.

00:31:41.000 Unfortunately, you know, there's been a lot of political and societal pressure here and around the world that have pushed away from those values.

00:31:49.000 We've got a real opportunity to reset, get back to them.

00:31:54.000 Okay, so this is the take.

00:31:57.000 President Trump was asked at this press conference about Mark Zuckerberg and the changes in policy at Facebook.

00:32:03.000 Here was his answer.

00:32:05.000 Honestly, I think they've come a long way.

00:32:07.000 Meta.

00:32:08.000 Facebook.

00:32:08.000 I think they've come a long way.

00:32:10.000 I watched it.

00:32:10.000 The man was very impressive.

00:32:11.000 I watched it.

00:32:12.000 Actually, I watched it on Fox.

00:32:13.000 I'm not allowed to say that.

00:32:16.000 Say it.

00:32:16.000 Do you think he's directly responding to the threats that you have made to him in the past?

00:32:20.000 Probably.

00:32:21.000 Probably.

00:32:24.000 You're not going to get Trump sugar going now.

00:32:27.000 You're really not.

00:32:27.000 And by the way, if that's true, I would hope that it's not.

00:32:31.000 I would hope that when Zuckerberg says that he has changed his mind back to what it was in 2019, that he would like this to be the rule all the way out, I hope that's true.

00:32:41.000 Regardless, there's no question that Trump's election is what got this done over at Meta.

00:32:45.000 Now, the media are fighting mad about this.

00:32:47.000 I mean, they are losing their ever-loving minds over this, which leads to one of the great headlines I've seen.

00:32:52.000 This is from the New York Times.

00:32:53.000 Quote, Meta says fact-checkers were the problem.

00:32:57.000 Fact-checkers rule that false.

00:33:01.000 What the ever, what the, what the F? Meta says fact-checkers were the problem.

00:33:06.000 Fact-checkers rule that false.

00:33:08.000 Well, so the hell what?

00:33:10.000 That's because fact-checkers are constantly political.

00:33:13.000 What do you think they're going to say?

00:33:14.000 No, it's true.

00:33:15.000 We were the problem.

00:33:16.000 What exactly did you think they were going to say?

00:33:18.000 What a joke.

00:33:19.000 This headline should have been from the Babylon Bee.

00:33:21.000 Absolutely ridiculous.

00:33:23.000 So the fact checkers are all really mad.

00:33:25.000 They're mad because Mark Zuckerberg said we're no longer using your fact checking resources because you're too politicized.

00:33:29.000 He said, quote, fact checkers have been too politically biased and they've destroyed more trust than they created.

00:33:34.000 That is 100% true.

00:33:36.000 100% true.

00:33:37.000 And they are mad as hell.

00:33:38.000 They are so mad.

00:33:39.000 They're mad for a couple reasons.

00:33:40.000 One, somebody called them on their bull.

00:33:42.000 And two, they're really, really mad because other money's going away and they need the subsidies of big social media companies.

00:33:50.000 Don't you see?

00:33:50.000 The Democrats cudgeled social media into paying their friends at the fact-checking organizations to fact-check on behalf of Democrats, to help out Democrats, and to hurt Republicans.

00:33:59.000 And now the gravy train is going away and these people are going to have to get real jobs where they, you know, earn a living doing useful things as opposed to being leeches on the ass of society.

00:34:12.000 These are the patronage friends of Democrats given top-level jobs outside social media companies in order to police speech.

00:34:21.000 That's what these fact-checkers were, and they are mad as hell.

00:34:24.000 Neil Brown, president of the Poynter Institute, a global nonprofit that runs PolitiFacts, said, quote, I don't believe we were doing anything in any form with bias.

00:34:31.000 There's a mountain of what could be checked, and we were grabbing what we could.

00:34:35.000 Uh-huh.

00:34:37.000 Sure, sure.

00:34:38.000 Yeah, no bias at all.

00:34:40.000 None.

00:34:41.000 You did an amazing job, guys.

00:34:42.000 So when you fact-checked the same statement by Trump and Biden, but for Trump it was false and for Biden it was true, no problem whatsoever.

00:34:50.000 No problem.

00:34:51.000 When you treated every Joe Biden lie as a slip of the tongue and every Donald Trump generality as an overt lie, no, no, that was unbiased, totally unbiased.

00:35:04.000 Meta's fact-checkers, by the way, have called an emergency meeting, according to Business Insider.

00:35:09.000 The International Fact-Checking Network has convened an emergency meeting of its members.

00:35:13.000 Following Meta's announcement on Tuesday will end its third-party fact-checking partnerships in the U.S. and replace them with a form of community notes.

00:35:19.000 In an interview with Business Insider, the IFCN's director, Angie Holin, confirmed that the meeting scheduled for Wednesday was organized in direct response to Meta's decision.

00:35:27.000 We hold these meetings monthly, but we call this one specifically because of today's news.

00:35:31.000 The meeting is expected to draw between 80 and 100 attendees from the IFCN's network of fact checkers, which spans 170 organizations worldwide.

00:35:39.000 The IFCN has long played a crucial role in Meta's fact checking ecosystem.

00:35:43.000 Certification from the IFCN signal to fact checking organization met rigorous editorial and transparency standards.

00:35:49.000 By the way, we actually at one point attempted to set up a fact checking organization that would meet the standards for Meta.

00:35:54.000 And Meta said no.

00:35:56.000 The social media companies said no.

00:35:58.000 You know how many hoops you had to jump through in order to do this?

00:36:00.000 And those hoops were all being set by places like the IFCN. Heads of this organization.

00:36:10.000 She put out a statement, quote, This decision will hurt social media users who are looking for accurate, reliable information to make decisions about their everyday lives and interactions with friends and family.

00:36:18.000 Fact-checking journalism has never censored or removed posts.

00:36:21.000 It's added information and context to controversial claims.

00:36:23.000 It's debunked hoax content and conspiracy theories.

00:36:26.000 The fact-checkers used by Meta follow a code of principles.

00:36:29.000 It's a capital C and a capital P for code of principles.

00:36:31.000 So you know they're super principled in their code.

00:36:34.000 Because they used capital letters requiring non-partisanship and transparency.

00:36:39.000 It's unfortunate this decision comes in the wake of extreme political pressure from a new administration.

00:36:44.000 Man, the gaslighting is so strong.

00:36:46.000 It is so strong.

00:36:47.000 The gaslighting, which is, you guys were only put in place because of pressure from Democrats, because of pressure from the legacy media on Zuckerberg and Mehta.

00:36:54.000 That is the only reason you had your jobs in the first place.

00:36:56.000 And now, those jobs are going away.

00:36:58.000 Because all the pressure went away.

00:36:59.000 And now, you're blaming Trump.

00:37:01.000 You're blaming the Daily Wire.

00:37:03.000 You're blaming the evil right for you losing your job.

00:37:05.000 Well, fine.

00:37:06.000 You want to blame us?

00:37:06.000 Fine.

00:37:07.000 You know what?

00:37:07.000 I'll take it.

00:37:08.000 You should lose your job.

00:37:09.000 You were terrible at your job.

00:37:10.000 You were trash at your job.

00:37:12.000 Your job was to be unbiased fact-checkers, and instead you decided to be tools of censorious oppression and repression.

00:37:18.000 That's what you were.

00:37:19.000 Good on Meta for getting rid of you, for tossing you out on your ass. 1.00

00:37:22.000 Go get a real job.

00:37:24.000 Seriously, learn to code.

00:37:25.000 All right, in just one second, we'll get to the latest with Joe Biden.

00:37:28.000 I know these last...

00:37:29.000 13 days, they feel interminable.

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00:37:32.000 When will he go?

00:37:33.000 When will he go?

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00:38:02.000 Meanwhile, President Biden just won't go.

00:38:04.000 Remember that guy when he was president?

00:38:05.000 He's still president.

00:38:06.000 I know it's a mystery to all of us.

00:38:08.000 Why isn't he?

00:38:08.000 Why is he still there?

00:38:10.000 Like he's been dead for years and there he is still doing things.

00:38:13.000 It's kind of amazing.

00:38:15.000 I guess just proving one of Newton's laws of motion that an object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion.

00:38:22.000 What if the object is technically at rest, but seems like it's in motion?

00:38:26.000 That's sort of the story of President Biden.

00:38:28.000 Well, I guess this is as his final farewell, he's going to release as many terrorists as humanly possible into the world political sphere.

00:38:36.000 On Monday, the Biden administration announced the transfer of 11 Yemeni detainees, including two former bodyguards for Osama bin Laden, to Oman, which has agreed to help resettle them amidst steps to reduce the population at Gitmo.

00:38:47.000 Yes, it was such a big deal.

00:38:48.000 Oh, no, we can't hold terrorists at Guantanamo Bay because then bad things might happen to them at Guantanamo Bay.

00:38:54.000 Oh, no, terrorists.

00:38:55.000 at Guantanamo.

00:38:56.000 Oh, no.

00:38:56.000 It was always stupid to be upset that we were holding terrorists at Guantanamo.

00:39:01.000 It was always dumb.

00:39:02.000 I never cared.

00:39:03.000 I'm not sure why anyone cared.

00:39:05.000 They're terrorists.

00:39:06.000 In any case, the idea here is that all these people are now going to be released The Defense Department said, quote, The United States appreciates the willingness of the government of Oman and other partners to support ongoing U.S. efforts focused on responsibly reducing the detainee population and ultimately closing Gitmo.

00:39:21.000 The 11 detainees were identified as Uthman Abd al-Rahim Mohammed Uthman, Moth Hamza Ahmed al-Alui, Khaled Ahmed Hasim, Suhail Abdul Anem al-Sharabi, This is just an exercise in seeing how many Arabic names I can read.

00:39:36.000 Hani Saleh Rashid Abdullah, Talfik Nasir Awad al-Bihani, Omar Mohammed, Ali al-Rahma, Sanad Ali Islam al-Kazimi, Hassan Muhammad, Ali Biv Atash, Sharkawi, Abdu Ali al-Haj, So if I named one of your friends, come on down and collect your winnings.

00:39:53.000 In any case, All these people are terrorists.

00:39:55.000 We are now going to release them to Oman.

00:39:57.000 Certainly, they won't go back to, you know, doing terrorism.

00:39:59.000 That would be crazy if they did that.

00:40:01.000 You know, like every other terrorist, seemingly, that we release.

00:40:04.000 They certainly won't do that.

00:40:05.000 But, wait, there's more.

00:40:07.000 Biden is also attempting to trade some of the Gitmo prisoners for hostages being held by the Taliban.

00:40:11.000 Wait, I thought the Taliban were our friends now. 1.00

00:40:14.000 After all, this schmuck decided to turn over all of Afghanistan to the Taliban, saying that they had helped us in the transitional process.

00:40:21.000 Now, it turns out that they're just as evil as they ever were.

00:40:24.000 And they've gone right back to beheading their enemies, and they've gone right back to oppressing women and stuffing them into bags and basements and marrying off children and all the rest. 0.71

00:40:33.000 The Taliban, the world's best people, so glad we decided to get 13 American service people killed and hand them billions of dollars in military technology. 1.00

00:40:40.000 The only good news being only China got that military technology because the Taliban have no idea how to use a helicopter. 0.95

00:40:46.000 In any case...

00:40:47.000 The Biden administration is now negotiating with the Taliban to exchange Americans detained in Afghanistan for at least one high-profile prisoner alleged to be an Osama bin Laden associate, held at Gitmo.

00:40:56.000 Why, it's almost as though because the United States keeps trading away terrorists for Americans, people keep taking Americans hostage.

00:41:04.000 It's totally crazy.

00:41:06.000 Now, I interviewed the incoming National Security Advisor, Mike Walls, about specifically hostage issues.

00:41:12.000 And he said, listen, if anyone takes an American hostage, While we are in office, they should know one thing.

00:41:18.000 They are going to be dead.

00:41:19.000 All their friends are going to be dead.

00:41:22.000 That is the way that you treat with hostage takers.

00:41:24.000 But that is not the way Joe Biden has.

00:41:25.000 He's just been trading away as many terrorists as he can find in favor of people like Brittany Griner.

00:41:30.000 The administration has been discussing a deal with the Taliban since at least July.

00:41:35.000 Apparently, the U.S. will release Mohammed Rahim al-Afghani, who the U.S. government alleges was a senior al-Qaeda aide.

00:41:40.000 If the Afghan rulers released George Glesman, Ryan Corbett...

00:41:43.000 And Mahmoud Habibi, American citizen seized in Afghanistan in 2022. Rahim is currently being held in Gitmo.

00:41:51.000 Biden had yet to decide on the Taliban's proposal, apparently.

00:41:55.000 So, that's great.

00:41:57.000 We need to let more Gitmo prisoners go and incentivize more hostages to be taken.

00:42:02.000 By the way, I am so glad that we decided to engage in the most ignominious surrender to a bunch of 7th century cavemen.

00:42:10.000 It worked out well for everybody.

00:42:13.000 Well, the good news is Democrats are really at the top of their game right now.

00:42:16.000 They've decided that it's very important to give AOC, the venerable AOC, the inimitable AOC, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, she, of the three names and three IQ points, they've decided to give her a plum spot on the steering and policy panel, the Energy and Commerce Committee.

00:42:35.000 So they decided to let her skip a few more senior people and instead give her a spot on that Energy and Commerce Committee. 0.88

00:42:43.000 That committee is responsible for jurisdiction over healthcare, energy, technology, and other policy areas.

00:42:49.000 That will be in the spotlight in the new Congress.

00:42:51.000 There are a lot of more senior Democrats who are mad because given that this is the Energy and Commerce Committee, the Energy and Commerce Committee, you know, they might want to take a more moderate position than the Biden administration has historically taken on things like the Green New Deal.

00:43:04.000 Nope, they decided to hand that over to AOC. So we'll see how that goes for them.

00:43:09.000 Bold move, Cotton.

00:43:10.000 We'll see how well all of that works.

00:43:15.000 Meanwhile, with the Trump administration coming in, the end of the war in Ukraine is going to be on the table.

00:43:21.000 President Trump has made very clear that he wants to get to the end of the war in Ukraine as fast as humanly possible.

00:43:25.000 And everybody knows what the outline of a deal looks like.

00:43:27.000 Now, I don't believe that President Trump is going to force Ukraine into a situation where Ukraine will be invaded again in a year or two or three.

00:43:35.000 I don't think that would be in President Trump's interest as President of the United States.

00:43:38.000 And it's not in his interest for Vladimir Putin to go strolling through Kyiv.

00:43:42.000 That would look quite bad for the...

00:43:43.000 The most likely scenario here is keep up the military pressure on Russia, sufficient to get Vladimir Putin to come to the table.

00:43:54.000 So Vladimir Zelensky did an interview with Lex Friedman over the course of the last 48 hours or so, in which he called out to President Trump for enough continued aid to at least continue the battle.

00:44:05.000 I think that President Trump not only has will, he has all these possibilities.

00:44:12.000 And it's not just talk.

00:44:14.000 I really count on him.

00:44:15.000 And I think that our people really count on him.

00:44:18.000 Now, I have to say, points to Vladimir Zelensky.

00:44:22.000 He was asked by Lex Friedman.

00:44:23.000 So Lex is a super nice guy.

00:44:25.000 I know Lex.

00:44:25.000 But one of Lex's big things is sort of this emotional sensitivity where he asks if people can find common ground with their enemies and all the rest.

00:44:33.000 And so he asks Vladimir Zelensky if Ukrainians can find it in their heart to forgive Putin.

00:44:38.000 He's like, no.

00:44:40.000 No.

00:44:41.000 That's going to be a no from me, dog.

00:44:45.000 The reality is that a compromise is needed in order to reach an agreement.

00:44:48.000 So, in your understanding the fact that he is no in jail after all the murders, he is not in jail assuming all the murders, and no one in the world is able to put him in his place, send him to prison, do you think this is a small compromise?

00:45:03.000 This is not a small compromise, and to forgive him will...

00:45:07.000 Not be a small compromise.

00:45:09.000 To forgive.

00:45:09.000 No one will forgive.

00:45:10.000 This is absolutely impossible to forgive him.

00:45:13.000 We cannot get into the head and soul of a person who lost their family.

00:45:17.000 Nobody never will accept this.

00:45:19.000 They simply took away the most precious thing from you, will you ask?

00:45:23.000 Who ruined your life before going to rip their head off?

00:45:27.000 I'm just curious.

00:45:28.000 They took your child away.

00:45:29.000 Are you going to ask who did this?

00:45:31.000 And they will answer that that dude did this.

00:45:33.000 You will say, oh, well, then there are no questions.

00:45:35.000 No.

00:45:36.000 No, no, you will go hell and bite their head off.

00:45:40.000 And it will be fair.

00:45:43.000 He ain't wrong.

00:45:44.000 He ain't wrong.

00:45:45.000 Vladimir Putin is a bad guy.

00:45:46.000 He's a very, very bad man, Vladimir Putin.

00:45:48.000 He is a brutal, vicious dictator who kills his enemies and runs his country with iron control via a network of oligarchs he pays using monies and resources that actually should be in the hands of the citizens of Russia or not.

00:46:04.000 In the crop pay of the current regime in Russia.

00:46:07.000 All that said, President Trump is looking for a practical off-ramp here.

00:46:11.000 What's amazing here is the Washington Post take.

00:46:12.000 So the Washington Post actually put out an editorial.

00:46:14.000 And the Washington Post editorial is amazing.

00:46:16.000 It says, quote, Ukraine risks losing the war.

00:46:19.000 A Trump-imposed bad deal would be worse.

00:46:21.000 Then losing the war?

00:46:23.000 How?

00:46:24.000 You don't have to explain that one.

00:46:26.000 You don't have to explain.

00:46:27.000 The great fear for the Washington Post is that Trump might cut a deal.

00:46:30.000 So whatever Ukraine does, they must never take the deal.

00:46:34.000 Never, ever take the deal.

00:46:36.000 If you take the deal, then, you know, Trump might get a win, and this war might end.

00:46:40.000 Instead, you have to have the war continue, even though there is no hope that Ukraine is going to outright win the war by pushing Russia completely out of the Donbass region or Crimea.

00:46:50.000 The war is going to come to an end because it has to come to an end, because there is not an endless supply of men in Ukraine, nor is there an endless supply of desire in Russia for a continued war that ends in stalemate due to Technical inferiority on the battlefield.

00:47:06.000 So the most likely scenario here is, once again, a stalemate.

00:47:10.000 The lines get drawn pretty closely where they are in place.

00:47:12.000 Security guarantees to Ukraine to prevent future invasions by Russia.

00:47:17.000 Everyone knows this is the most likely end to the war, and that's why everyone's getting more realistic as President Trump comes closer to the office of the presidency day by day.

00:47:26.000 Already coming up, there is yet more good news for Republicans.

00:47:29.000 We're going to take a look at a magical map.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - January 08, 2025

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