The Ben Shapiro Show - August 05, 2026


Tucker's New Interview Is Even Worse Than the Last One


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00:00:00.000 The war in Iran is continuing. 0.91
00:00:01.000 We look at all the latest from the administration to the treasonous leakers who are feeding military plans to Iran. 0.82
00:00:06.000 Yes, that is a real story.
00:00:08.000 The wisest and most prestigious historian in all of America, according to Tucker Carlson, one Daryl Cooper, who said that the Holocaust was kind of a big boo-boo.
00:00:14.000 It was just an accident.
00:00:15.000 Maybe a kindness for people who didn't have enough to eat. 1.00
00:00:17.000 Joined Tucker Carlson, of course, to make all sorts of idiotic claims about the war in Iran. 0.99
00:00:23.000 And the horseshoe is completed as the communist kingmaker, Hassan Piker, echoes Tucker's sentiments precisely. 1.00
00:00:29.000 Don't let your friends get into Jew-hating brainworms, gang. 1.00
00:00:33.000 It turns you really stupid. 1.00
00:00:35.000 Daryl Cooper, America's greatest and most well-known pro-Nazi historian. 1.00
00:00:42.000 He appeared with Tucker Carlson yet again.
00:00:44.000 Because, again, Tucker.
00:00:48.000 Anyway, Daryl Cooper showed up to explain that actually the reason that you have Islamophobia is because of Wade Freight.
00:00:53.000 You're not going to believe it.
00:00:54.000 You definitely won't believe it. 1.00
00:00:56.000 It's the Jews. 1.00
00:00:57.000 Oh, no. 1.00
00:00:58.000 Really?
00:00:59.000 Really?
00:01:00.000 I can't believe that they're talking about the Jews and the Israelis yet again on the Tucker Carlson show.
00:01:05.000 I cannot believe it.
00:01:06.000 It is a shock to me.
00:01:08.000 I am so.
00:01:08.000 This is my shocked face.
00:01:10.000 I'm so shocked.
00:01:12.000 Here is Daryl Cooper, who is supposedly somehow an intellectual because he wears dork glasses. 0.91
00:01:20.000 As Israel has lost support, they have really, really, you know, they've almost lessened the propaganda that comes from the direction of sort of justifying and explaining and building up support for what they're doing and directed it instead toward just building up more and more hatred of Muslims. 0.86
00:01:38.000 And Islam in general.
00:01:39.000 I mean, you see this from people like Laura Loomer and other types who their whole thing is just we need to get Christians to hate Muslims because if they do that, then their enemies are our enemies and we don't have to think past that.
00:01:49.000 And that's very unfortunate.
00:01:51.000 Yeah, I never thought I would be the defender of Muslims.
00:01:54.000 It never occurred to me. 1.00
00:01:59.000 Yeah, I mean, I think it didn't occur to any of us because it's crazy. 0.61
00:02:05.000 Yeah, probably the opposition to Islam is probably rooted in Israeli propaganda, not in the, you know, Almost 1,400 year history of Muslims trying to eviscerate Christians from the planet.
00:02:17.000 Or maybe it has nothing to do with the long history of Islamic terrorism or the long history of Islamic oppression or the 57 Muslim countries, none of which were Muslim originally, or the fact that Constantinople once existed and now is Istanbul.
00:02:31.000 Probably has nothing to do with the vast swath of mass Muslim migration into the West.
00:02:36.000 But it turns out, by the way, as we'll see, Tucker's going to claim that was the Jews too. 1.00
00:02:40.000 Pretty incredible stuff there. 0.99
00:02:42.000 Well, the good news is that Tucker Carlson.
00:02:44.000 Well, when Abdullah Sayyid runs for president, Tucker Carlson knows who he will support, presumably.
00:02:49.000 Meanwhile, speaking of the Middle East, on the Iran front, the Wall Street Journal is now reporting that Iran is going to make a deal.
00:02:58.000 What's the deal, according to the Wall Street Journal?
00:03:00.000 Iran has signaled it will reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
00:03:03.000 That'll be great.
00:03:03.000 That's nice, isn't it?
00:03:04.000 Oh, there are conditions.
00:03:05.000 There are some conditions, apparently.
00:03:07.000 Here are some of the conditions the right to collect transit fees.
00:03:09.000 So, you know, like a toll.
00:03:11.000 Security guarantees against future attacks.
00:03:13.000 So, we have to never attack them again while they rebuild their missile and nuclear supply.
00:03:18.000 An end to the blockade so they can just ship things in and out, and also a relief from all sanctions.
00:03:25.000 I don't feel like that's a deal so much.
00:03:27.000 I don't know.
00:03:28.000 I don't feel like that's a deal.
00:03:29.000 But honestly, like Iran proposing the 97th straight deal and the president saying for the 97th time that we are one day away from a deal.
00:03:37.000 And that's not the surprise.
00:03:38.000 There is a bigger issue inside the administration.
00:03:40.000 Okay, there's a real serious issue, and the administration should take it seriously.
00:03:44.000 So Trey Yangst at Fox News reports that there are people high level in the U.S. government who have been leaking President Trump's military plans to Iran. 0.86
00:03:53.000 That seems noteworthy.
00:03:54.000 It seems like probably that should be investigated and people should go to jail for it.
00:04:01.000 These leaks can be substantial.
00:04:03.000 And when you're looking at a situation with 50,000 U.S. service members, destroyers, refuelers, fighter jets across the region, the operational security is very significant whenever there are plans being made to strike Iran.
00:04:17.000 And the president indicated he called off the planned strikes at the request not only of Iran, but also of Gulf allies like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE.
00:04:25.000 What was interesting, though, Lawrence, we spoke with senior Israeli intelligence officials over the weekend who said they weren't even aware of the details of the plan.
00:04:33.000 And that's how close the administration was holding these details to the chest because of how sensitive it is in the region.
00:04:44.000 So it seems like someone should go to jail now.
00:04:47.000 And this is not the only, like, the leaks are just nonstop.
00:04:50.000 They're nonstop.
00:04:51.000 Now, Reuters is reporting that the United States has used up much of its global stockpile of highly accurate long range missiles during its five month war with Iran.
00:04:58.000 According to three people familiar with the data, the missiles are principally the Army's surface to surface weapons, known as Army Tactical Missile Systems, ATTACMs, and precision strike missiles.
00:05:09.000 The U.S. has used virtually all of these weapons, according to two of the sources.
00:05:13.000 The sources declined to say how many of each munition the U.S. had left.
00:05:16.000 And apparently, the leaky leakers are so leaky that Darrell Cooper knew full well about the stockpile issues, which again, I wonder who could be doing the leaks, who's on Darrell Cooper's texting list.
00:05:26.000 Who?
00:05:27.000 These are mysteries.
00:05:28.000 These are mysteries that no one can solve.
00:05:30.000 Who possibly in the administration would be.
00:05:33.000 You know, so aligned with Darrell Cooper and his people that they would be leaking presumably classified information about the status of American stockpiles.
00:05:41.000 Who in the world would.
00:05:43.000 The mystery is beyond me.
00:05:44.000 We can never identify it.
00:05:46.000 So many enigmas, so many mysteries.
00:05:49.000 Here is Darrell Cooper, the greatest and wisest historian in America, who also thinks that Hitler accidentally killed all the Jews, talking about his friends in the Pentagon who were telling him about the stockpiles. 0.66
00:06:01.000 Honestly, I was surprised that it lasted as long as it did, especially since I know from.
00:06:07.000 People that I speak to on a regular basis, good friends of mine who work in the Pentagon, that at the highest levels on the uniform military side, at least, they were perfectly aware of the problems.
00:06:18.000 That even from the earliest days, we were going to have issues with ammunition stockpiles.
00:06:25.000 We were going to have issues defending all of the things that we had committed ourselves to defending. 0.67
00:06:30.000 And you saw very quickly that we essentially abandoned a lot of places that probably, you know, a lot of Arab countries who have spent a lot of money, a lot of. 0.96
00:06:41.000 Credibility with their own people.
00:06:43.000 A lot of, you know, they've spent a lot building up their relationship with the United States for this eventuality.
00:06:50.000 And they found out what that was worth very quickly when we started moving a lot of our resources over to honestly much less strategically critical areas of defense around Israel.
00:07:02.000 Well, actually, we left our resources around Saudi like a lot.
00:07:02.000 Okay.
00:07:06.000 We've expended tremendous.
00:07:07.000 I mean, Iran's not been firing at Israel for weeks on end here because they're afraid of what happens if they do.
00:07:12.000 The Israelis are kind of waiting for it because they would like to strike, presumably.
00:07:16.000 Okay, but that's not the issue here. 0.80
00:07:17.000 The bigger issue here is who's leaking and why and how and to whom.
00:07:21.000 This should not be particularly hard to discern or find.
00:07:23.000 It should not.
00:07:24.000 Perhaps the president, if he actually would like a stronger negotiating position, should stop allowing top members of his administration to leak to Iran or to Axios or to the people at Politico or to friends like, you know,
00:07:37.000 the greatest historian and wisest historian who hates Winston Churchill but is sort of, you know, some as sympathetic to Hitler.
00:07:43.000 Daryl Cooper, maybe, I don't know.
00:07:45.000 I'm putting it out there.
00:07:47.000 Maybe if you're an administration that takes your bleep seriously, you might want to look into the people who keep leaking classified information that endangers America's bargaining position and therefore America's troops in the region and our allies.
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00:08:57.000 Well, speaking of people who like to blame the Udin, here is Hassan Piker.
00:09:03.000 What an unserious, honestly, what an unserious political people we are that people like Hassan Piker are even given the time of day, truly.
00:09:12.000 Earlier, you mentioned Morocco. 0.84
00:09:13.000 What do you mean Israel caused it?
00:09:15.000 Israel and America got the Moroccan government to send like 40,000 people into Spanish administered territory.
00:09:29.000 It's not even on some conspiracy either.
00:09:31.000 Like the New York Times is openly covering it as such.
00:09:34.000 You know what I mean?
00:09:34.000 It was so.
00:09:35.000 No, they're not. 0.99
00:09:36.000 It was classic Israel. 0.86
00:09:38.000 This is yet another circumstance where Israel and America are aligned because they have the same opposition, they have the same international enemies. 0.88
00:09:46.000 It has a lot to do with Spain's relationship with Algeria, and it has a lot to do with Spain's attitude against America, against NATO, against America's actions in Iran.
00:09:59.000 And also Spain's statements against Israel as well.
00:10:06.000 What the actual?
00:10:07.000 What?
00:10:08.000 Does he provide a shred of evidence?
00:10:09.000 Of course he does not.
00:10:10.000 Neither does his friend from the Young Turks, Anna Kasparian, who went online and decided to start screaming hysterically, which is apparently her new mode.
00:10:19.000 She tweeted at me because I pointed out that this kind of conspiracy theorizing is insane.
00:10:23.000 She tweeted, Get a load of the guy who bit and moaned about the media accurately reporting that our military has a depleted inventory of missile interceptors because he wants those very same soldiers to go to war with Iran unprepared on behalf of Israel.
00:10:33.000 Not for Americans.
00:10:35.000 Um, well, actually, I don't want American soldiers to go unprepared.
00:10:37.000 I would prefer that we not leak out our military readiness to our enemies.
00:10:42.000 That's what I would prefer.
00:10:44.000 Not because it's necessary for our survival, but for a disgusting, loathsome, genocidal terrorist state that's been a deadly liability for the U.S., says Anna Kasparian. 0.61
00:10:51.000 You want to talk about evil, Ben?
00:10:53.000 You cream your pants at the thought of war.
00:10:55.000 You defend the slaughter of innocents and you seek only to deceive anyone willing to listen to you.
00:10:58.000 You don't get to lecture a soul about evil when you personify it.
00:11:02.000 I'm sorry this happened to Anna, honestly.
00:11:03.000 Anna used to be kind of a nice person, like we disagreed on a lot of things.
00:11:06.000 She came on the show.
00:11:08.000 You know, I did a debate with her in Pennsylvania.
00:11:10.000 I was on CNN, like, this is our Mondani election night with Anna. 0.93
00:11:14.000 Man, the anti Israel, anti Semitic conspiracy theorizing, it's just brainworms and it destroys people.
00:11:20.000 It really, really does. 0.99
00:11:23.000 It's just crazy.
00:11:24.000 It's just crazy talk.
00:11:25.000 But again, the horseshoe is complete. 0.98
00:11:27.000 Tucker Carlson, along with the greatest and wisest historian in American history, Daryl Cooper, who does not know his ass from his elbow, they also agree it must have been Israel in the United States. 0.72
00:11:41.000 In the days following, it became really clear that this was not organic at all.
00:11:47.000 That the Israeli government and the U.S. government, well, obviously knew this was happening, and basically both governments were using mass migration as a weapon against a government that they don't like for various reasons,
00:12:00.000 mostly because it's anti Israel.
00:12:03.000 And people were shocked to discover this.
00:12:05.000 Were you shocked to discover that?
00:12:09.000 Again, kind of.
00:12:10.000 I shouldn't.
00:12:16.000 Man, when those demons clawed him, I think they made their way in.
00:12:19.000 It is good times over on the horseshoe right and horseshoe left.
00:12:24.000 The alliance of people who really are perfectly happy to uphold enemies of our civilization.
00:12:29.000 Pretty strong stuff. 0.85
00:12:30.000 Now, it is the anti Jewish aspect of this, the conspiratorial aspect of this that glues the coalition together.
00:12:37.000 It's indicative of a broader coalition that really does despise the West.
00:12:40.000 Because again, the idea here is that America must be torn down, that America itself has been fundamentally subverted by some sort of nefarious power.
00:12:48.000 So, The left likes to believe that that nefarious power is capitalism.
00:12:52.000 People like Tucker Carlson like to believe that that nefarious power is capitalism as well, individual rights, perhaps a hawkish foreign policy.
00:13:01.000 And all of them like to chalk up all of those changes to you know who, to you know who.
00:13:07.000 And that's the fun and games of the whole thing.
00:13:09.000 The reason that Anna Kasparian and Tucker Carlson are now on the same side is because they have feelings about the West.
00:13:15.000 And those feelings are not good.
00:13:16.000 These are not people who believe that the West is a good place, they believe that the West is inherently sinful.
00:13:21.000 I mean, Tucker has said this openly.
00:13:23.000 He says that basically the United States robbed itself of its soul during World War II, which is an incredible claim. 0.94
00:13:29.000 Anna Kasparian would go earlier. 0.67
00:13:31.000 She would say that the West robbed itself of a soul long before that.
00:13:33.000 But now they all agree that the West has no soul.
00:13:36.000 And so to whom is that attributable?
00:13:38.000 Must be some nefarious cadre of people who somehow twisted history and continue in their own peculiar ways to spin world events right now. 0.89
00:13:46.000 And when there's a counterpiece of evidence that actually there are nefarious forces targeting the West, say like radical Islam.
00:13:51.000 Then you have to come up with some alternative explanation because it tends to falsify your theory.
00:13:55.000 And what you come up with is well, actually, it's you.
00:13:58.000 You know who it is?
00:13:59.000 You know, you know, you do. 0.99
00:14:02.000 It's the Jews, of course. 1.00
00:14:03.000 It's the Jews, always and forever. 1.00
00:14:05.000 It must be the Jews behind Ceuta. 1.00
00:14:07.000 It must be the Jews behind 9 11. 0.99
00:14:09.000 It must be the Jews behind the war in Iran. 0.99
00:14:11.000 It must be the Jews behind everything. 1.00
00:14:13.000 It must be the Jews who made your milk go sour in the fridge. 1.00
00:14:16.000 It must be the Jews who cursed us with this horrible capitalist system that has robbed us all of our natural birthright. 0.99
00:14:23.000 That sort of conspiratorial thinking that is the anti Semitism. 0.98
00:14:26.000 Again, anti Semitism is a conspiracy theory about the power of Jews in the world that is unrooted in evidence. 0.99
00:14:32.000 And there are people who are doing this crap every single day. 0.97
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