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00:01:32.000So as we know, the Democrats have been pushing the narrative that Attorney General William Barr engaged in a cover-up when he released a four-page letter, which we read word-for-word on the air, in which he talked about the bottom-line findings of the Mueller Report.
00:01:44.000And what he said in that letter, effectively, is that the Mueller Report found that there was no collusion.
00:01:48.000There was no collusion between either Trump or the Trump campaign and the Russian government to affect the 2016 election.
00:01:54.000And also that Mueller had not actually made a determination on obstruction of justice.
00:01:58.000He had presented evidence on both sides and Barr had decided not to prosecute.
00:02:03.000That was basically the entirety of the letter.
00:02:05.000And then he said, you know, in the next couple of weeks, I'm going to release as much as I legally can.
00:02:10.000Under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 6E, I'm not allowed to release information that wrongly implicates people or that creates the perception of implication without any sort of evidentiary support.
00:02:22.000I'm not allowed to release that sort of stuff, for example, unverified witness testimony, because all that does is slanders people without us having any intent to prosecute.
00:02:30.000Well, the Democrats have seized upon that to say that this is a big cover-up.
00:02:34.000That in reality, the Mueller Report, which is about 400 pages, and should apparently be released sometime in the next couple of weeks, that the Mueller Report, in truth, secretly, is actually a damning indictment of the Trump campaign and the Trump administration, and that it really is going to put out in public view all sorts of stuff we didn't know.
00:02:51.000Now, I have been doubtful for a very long time that this is the case.
00:03:03.000He just tweeted out the Trump Tower meeting.
00:03:05.000We know about President Trump telling people that he would like to fire Robert Mueller repeatedly because Trump sort of said this stuff openly.
00:03:14.000And there were lots of stories about him going to Don McGahn, who's the White House counsel, and saying to him, I would like to end this investigation.
00:03:31.000Nonetheless, the media are now ferreting out information, supposedly from Team Mueller, about how William Barr is not properly representing the results of the Mueller report.
00:03:42.000In other words, the Mueller report is really, really bad for Trump, and Barr has downplayed how bad it is for Trump.
00:03:47.000By the way, we'll know all of this in the next two weeks, because Barr has said he's going to release a lot of this stuff, and Congress could just change the law.
00:03:53.000If Congress really cared about this, all they could do is just change the law and say that we do not require redactions when we are talking about a secret report handed over to the Judiciary Committee.
00:04:06.000According to the New York Times, however, there is a cover-up in place.
00:04:09.000They say some on Mueller's team say a report was more damaging than Barr revealed.
00:04:13.000Well, it would be hard for it to be more damaging than Barr revealed because Barr didn't reveal very much.
00:04:16.000Again, Barr said no evidence of collusion.
00:04:20.000Also, we were provided evidence on both sides of the obstruction question.
00:04:23.000We didn't have enough evidence to prosecute.
00:04:25.000That's what the letter actually said, so not sure how it's going to be significantly more damning than that, but here is the New York Times reporting.
00:04:32.000Some of Robert Mueller's investigators have told associates that Attorney General William Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated, according to government officials and others familiar with their simmering frustrations.
00:04:47.000Okay, so let's break down that paragraph just in terms of where the sourcing is coming from.
00:04:52.000It is not coming direct from Mueller's team.
00:04:54.000It is coming from people who talked, supposedly, to members of Mueller's team.
00:04:58.000So this is now a second-hand account being reported to the New York Times, which makes it a third-hand account.
00:05:03.000Because it's government officials and others familiar with simmering frustrations.
00:05:08.000At stake in the dispute, the first evidence of tension between Mr. Barr and the special counsel's office is who shapes the public's initial understanding of one of the most consequential government investigations in American history.
00:05:18.000Some members of Mr. Mueller's team are concerned that because Mr. Barr created the first narrative of the special counsel's findings, Americans' views will have hardened before the investigation's conclusions become public.
00:05:28.000But the investigation's conclusions are already public.
00:05:31.000They were made public in the Barr report.
00:05:33.000What Democrats are talking about are not the conclusions.
00:05:36.000I mean, this is pretty bad media coverage, honestly.
00:05:38.000What the Democrats are talking about is not the conclusions of the Mueller team, but the underlying evidence that the Mueller team provided to William Barr.
00:05:49.000And as far as our perceptions having hardened, what the polls actually show is that people's perceptions were hardened long before the Barr report actually came out.
00:05:57.000In fact, the vast majority of Republicans thought this was a witch hunt.
00:06:00.000Most Americans thought this was overblown.
00:06:03.000Still, a plurality of Americans think that the Trump team was guilty of something, even if they can't say what.
00:06:08.000So, opinions have basically been shaped already, and not universally in favor of President Trump.
00:06:13.000Nonetheless, the New York Times is trying to push the theory that the media didn't blow this entire story from top to bottom, that really, secretly, there will be some sort of magical elixir in the Mueller report that will allow them to claim that they did a great job covering this thing, even though it didn't result the way they wanted it to.
00:06:29.000According to the New York Times, Mr. Barr has said he will move quickly to release the nearly 400-page report But needs time to scrub out confidential information.
00:06:36.000The special counsel's investigators had already written multiple summaries of the report.
00:06:40.000Some team members believe that Mr. Barr should have included more of their material in the four-page letter he wrote on March 24th laying out their main conclusions according to government officials familiar with the investigation.
00:06:49.000Again, this is third-hand reporting because it is not actually people who are on Mueller's team.
00:06:55.000It is people who are familiar with people who are on Mueller's team being reported by the New York Times.
00:07:00.000And if the complaint is that Barr should have cited more stuff in the original letter, well, again, the American public, I'm sure, is going to be curious about what exactly is in that Mueller report.
00:07:08.000I mean, we've spent $25 million on it.
00:07:46.000The Justice Department quickly determined that the summaries contained sensitive information, like classified material, secret grand jury testimony, and information related to current federal investigations that must remain confidential, according to two government officials.
00:07:58.000Barr was also wary of departing from Justice Department practice not to disclose derogatory details in closing an investigation, according to two government officials familiar with Barr's thinking.
00:08:07.000They pointed to the decision by James Comey, the former FBI director, to harshly criticize Hillary Clinton in 2016.
00:08:13.000Well, announcing that he was recommending no charges in the inquiry into her email practices.
00:08:19.000James Comey never should have given that press conference in which he laid out all of the Hillary flaws and why she should be indicted, and then reached the conclusion that she shouldn't have been indicted.
00:08:28.000If he had reached the conclusion, no indictment, he should have just said, no indictment, I didn't find evidence necessary to prosecute here.
00:08:36.000And he ended up really hurting Hillary Clinton pretty badly in that campaign because of it.
00:08:40.000The officials and others interviewed declined to flesh out why some of the special counsel's investigators viewed their findings as potentially more damaging for the president than Mr. Barr explained, although the report is believed to examine Mr. Trump's efforts to thwart the investigation.
00:08:55.000Buried down in paragraph number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, all the way down in paragraph 6, we find out that even the sources for the New York Times are not explaining what material exactly they think Barr is hiding.
00:09:09.000So all they're saying is that Barr hasn't revealed all the material, which we know, since Barr already said so.
00:09:15.000But those officials are not saying what is the completely damaging material they are afraid that Barr is going to cover up.
00:09:21.000It was unclear, according to the New York Times, how much discussion Mueller and his investigators had with senior Justice Department officials about how their findings would be made public.
00:09:29.000It was also unclear how widespread the vexation is among the special counsel team, which included 19 lawyers, about 40 FBI agents, and other personnel.
00:09:36.000So in other words, here is the real story, right?
00:09:38.000When you boil it down, there is one dude who is part of Mueller's team who talked to a person, supposedly, and that person talked to the New York Times.
00:09:46.000And there's a front-page story in the New York Times.
00:09:48.000Not sure that that is particularly solid journalism, particularly given the fact that we are going to know all of this stuff in the next week and a half.
00:09:56.000Legitimately, it is already April 4th.
00:09:58.000This is supposed to be released by the middle of April.
00:10:01.000It's like a week and a half before we find out.
00:10:03.000So, why is the media pre-writing the narrative?
00:10:06.000It's funny, they're accusing Trump of pre-writing the narrative by having Barr release the findings.
00:10:11.000But then they are pre-writing the narrative, which is the cover-up, without any evidence of an actual cover-up at this point.
00:10:18.000The Washington Post is doing the same thing.
00:10:21.000According to the Washington Post, limited information Barr has shared about Russia investigation frustrated some on Mueller's team.
00:10:28.000This is according to Ellen Nakashima, Carol Lennig, and Rosalind Helderman.
00:10:32.000Members of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team have told associates that they are frustrated with the limited information Attorney General William Barr has provided about their nearly two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether President Trump sought to obstruct justice.
00:10:46.000According to people familiar with the matter.
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00:12:04.000Okay, so the Washington Post continues here.
00:12:06.000And they say that the displeasure among some who worked on a closely held inquiry has quietly begun to surface in the days since Barr released a four-page letter to Congress.
00:12:15.000In his letter, Barr said the special counsel did not establish a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia.
00:12:20.000And he said that Mueller did not reach a conclusion one way or the other as to whether Trump's conduct in office constituted obstruction of justice.
00:12:26.000Absent that, Barr told lawmakers he concluded the evidence was not sufficient to prove that the president obstructed justice.
00:12:32.000But members of the Mueller team have complained to close associates that the evidence that they gathered on obstruction was alarming and significant.
00:12:38.000It was much more acute than Barr suggested, said one person, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the subject's sensitivity.
00:12:45.000So again, this is third-hand reporting.
00:12:48.000I don't know why they would imply that Barr was trying to cover something up.
00:13:25.000Quote, The special counsel's decision to describe the facts of his obstruction investigation without reaching any legal conclusions leaves it to the Attorney General to determine whether the conduct described in the report constitutes a crime.
00:13:38.000Over the course of the investigation, the special counsel's office engaged in discussions with certain department officials regarding many of the legal and factual matters at issue in the special counsel's obstruction investigation.
00:13:48.000After reviewing the Special Counsel's final report on these issues, consulting with department officials, including the Office of Legal Counsel, and applying the principles of federal prosecution that guide our charging decisions, Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein and I have concluded that the evidence developed during the Special Counsel's investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction of justice offense.
00:14:13.000But there is no actual implication that there's no evidence that could be construed as obstruction of justice that's not present in the bar letter.
00:14:19.000So ripping the bar letter as itself a form of obstruction is really over-the-top and inaccurate.
00:14:26.000According to the Washington Post, some members of the office were particularly disappointed that Bard did not release summary information the special counsel team had prepared, according to two people familiar with their reactions.
00:14:35.000There was immediate displeasure from the team when they saw how the attorney general had characterized their work instead.
00:15:26.000Now, again, if people are unhappy and they want more information out there, congratulations to them.
00:15:31.000We're going to be finding out in the next couple of weeks what exactly was in there.
00:15:34.000But the preemptive move to suggest that obstruction is taking place or a giant cover-up is taking place, I just don't see the evidence of it yet.
00:15:40.000Now, again, maybe it will turn out that there's evidence that Barr covered something up.
00:15:43.000But as I've been saying all along, every step of the way, how about we just wait?
00:15:53.000Meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden basically doused himself in gasoline and lit a match yesterday politically.
00:15:59.000There are a lot of people who think that this is going to get Joe Biden off the hook.
00:16:01.000Joe Biden, of course, has been accused by multiple women who are coming out basically from the woodwork to proclaim that he makes them uncomfortable, which, of course, he does.
00:16:11.000I mean, like, yeah, that's what Joe Biden does.
00:16:13.000He makes people feel weird and uncomfortable.
00:16:15.000That's pretty much a description of his career.
00:16:17.000Three more women, according to the New York Post, have come forward with accounts of inappropriate touching.
00:16:23.000Involving former Vice President Joe Biden, according to a report in the Washington Post.
00:16:28.000The women, Sophie Karasek, Vail Conner-Yount, and Allie Cole, told the Washington Post stories similar to those of four other women who have already described unwanted touching by Vice President Joe Biden.
00:16:41.000These accounts are somewhat varied, but they carry a similar tang.
00:16:45.000Bail Conor Yount said she was a White House intern in the spring of 2013 and one day tried to exit the basement of the West Wing when she was asked to step aside so Biden could enter.
00:16:52.000After she moved out of the way, she said, Biden approached her to introduce himself and shake her hand.
00:16:56.000He then put his hand on the back of my head and pressed his forehead to my forehead while he talked to me.
00:17:00.000I was so shocked that it was hard to focus on what he was saying.
00:17:03.000I remember he told me I was a pretty girl, Conor Yount said in a statement to the Post.
00:17:08.000She described feeling uncomfortable and embarrassed that Biden had commented on her appearance in a professional setting, even though it was intended as a compliment.
00:17:14.000I do not consider my experience to have been sexual assault or harassment, she stated, adding she believes Biden's intentions were good, but it was the kind of inappropriate behavior that makes many women feel uncomfortable and unequal in the workplace.
00:17:26.000Now, again, is this sexual harassment or assault?
00:17:30.000He did it in front of an entire team of people.
00:17:32.000Al Franken was surreptitiously grabbing women's asses, not the same thing.
00:17:37.000And I will point out to a lot of Republicans who are pretending to be upset about Joe Biden's behavior, there's a difference between pointing out the wild inconsistencies in the Democratic position about touching and sexual assault and standards of evidence and suggesting that Joe Biden is guilty of a deep, dark crime here.
00:17:54.000Remember, President Trump has admitted to behavior significantly worse than anything That Joe Biden is accused of doing here.
00:18:02.000So before we go off on the well, you know, Biden is really he's not fit to be president.
00:18:06.000If you're a Republican and you're like, well, he's not fit to be president because he's a creeper.
00:18:10.000I urge you to go back and look at all the allegations against President Trump and All the rest and stuff that President Trump has said publicly on Howard Stern about peeking at the women in his Miss USA contest and what he said in the Billy Bush tape.
00:18:23.000Like, let's not get over our skis, guys.
00:19:06.000There are guys who are like this, but it's not super-duper common.
00:19:08.000It's not common that older men randomly grab women by the back of the head and kiss them, or that they grab them and put their foreheads to their own, or rub noses with people.
00:19:22.000There are two other allegations that have come forward as well.
00:19:26.000The Democratic mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms, on Wednesday evening tweeted a photo of herself and Biden standing forehead to forehead.
00:19:33.000She says everyone experiences their own.
00:19:35.000As for mine, I found my introduction and interaction with Joe Biden to be genuine and endearing.
00:19:39.000Six other women have shared stories similar to Flores's.
00:19:42.000DJ Hill and Kaitlyn Caruso told the New York Times on Tuesday Biden had made them feel uncomfortable during their encounters with him.
00:19:50.000Sophie Karasek was part of a group of 51 sexual assault victims who appeared on stage at the Oscars with Lady Gaga that year Biden had introduced at the singer's performance.
00:19:58.000Karasek said as she met Biden after the ceremony, she was thinking about a college student who'd been sexually assaulted and recently died by suicide.
00:20:04.000She decided to share the story with the VP, and Biden responded by clasping her hands and leaning down to place his forehead against hers, a moment captured in a widely circulated photograph.
00:20:13.000Karasek said she appreciated Biden's support, but also felt awkward and uncomfortable that his gesture had left their faces suddenly inches apart.
00:20:19.000She didn't know how to respond to Biden crossing the boundary into her personal space at a sensitive moment.
00:20:31.000And now she's complaining that it was something terrible.
00:20:34.000Now she's complaining that it's something terrible.
00:20:36.000The wildly differing standards that are obviously based on a political attempt to nail Joe Biden to the wall I have to say, from a Republican perspective, it's amusing.
00:20:45.000From an honest American perspective, it's really nasty.
00:20:48.000Like, if someone takes a picture of you in an uncomfortable position, if you were really that uncomfortable, would you print it out, frame it, and put it on your shelf?
00:20:56.000I don't remember that ever being the case, where I was in a really uncomfortable situation, someone snapped a photo, and I was like, you know what?
00:21:05.000Ali Cole said she was a young Democratic staffer helping run a reception of about 50 people when Biden entered the room.
00:21:10.000She said she was then introduced to Biden, who she said leaned in, squeezed her shoulders, and delivered a compliment about her smile, holding her for a beat too long.
00:21:17.000She said she felt that his alleged behavior was out of place and inappropriate in the context of a work situation.
00:21:23.000She said there's been a lack of understanding about the way that power can turn something that might seem innocuous into something that can make somebody feel uncomfortable.
00:21:30.000Honestly, if we are now in the realm of not the reasonable person standard, but the fully subjective standard, there is no way for anyone to know if their behavior crosses the line, legitimately.
00:21:39.000I think that on an objective level, without us having to know how these women felt, Joe Biden crosses lines of personal space.
00:21:47.000I didn't need to hear these women's accounts to say that from a reasonable perspective, going up to random women and putting your forehead to theirs is a weird thing to do.
00:21:55.000But we were told that that was endearing by the press.
00:21:58.000We were told that that was endearing by Democrats.
00:22:00.000We were told that that was merely tactile politics.
00:22:03.000That's how the Washington Post described it.
00:22:41.000I mean, chances are much larger that I've felt uncomfortable shaking somebody else's hand than the opposite.
00:22:47.000And there are famously photos of me doing a hover hand, because I don't want to put my hand on somebody's shoulder.
00:22:51.000But still, this sort of subjectivity, which is politically driven, where one moment you feel like, I'm going to print this photo out and put it on my shelf, and the next moment you feel like, you know what?
00:23:02.000That was some sort of brutal assault on my individual space.
00:23:07.000Now, still, Joe Biden has not handled this the proper way.
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00:24:42.000Option number one is he can simply say, listen, I don't think I ever did anything wrong.
00:24:48.000If these women feel a particular way, I'm sorry they feel that way, but all of these actions were done in public.
00:24:52.000There's never been an allegation of sexual assault or harassment against me, nor should there be because I have never done any of those things.
00:25:42.000I shake hands, I hug people, I grab men and women by the shoulders and say, you can do this.
00:25:48.000And whether they're women, men, young, old, it's the way I've always been.
00:25:53.000It's the way I've tried to show I care about them and I'm listening.
00:25:56.000And over the years, knowing what I've been through, the things that I've faced, I've found that scores, if not hundreds of people have come up to me and reached out for solace and comfort.
00:26:08.000Something, anything that may help them get through the tragedy they're going through.
00:26:51.000If people felt uncomfortable, I'm sorry about that.
00:26:53.000But here is where he gets into dicey territory, because now what he is saying is that the boundaries have changed, and I'm an old man, and now I recognize that my entire life I violated the boundaries.
00:27:14.000The theme against him is that he is old and that he is behind the times and that he has to constantly be racing to adjust to the new woke left and that he is out of touch.
00:27:23.000And here's where he's going to make himself seem out of touch.
00:27:25.000Instead of just doubling down and saying, listen, this is how I am.
00:27:28.000Sorry if people felt offended by that.
00:27:31.000I will try to do better in the future.
00:27:32.000Instead, now he is saying, well, you know, the times have changed and we have to listen to all stories and I'm an old man.
00:27:39.000And this is where it starts to get dicey for him.
00:29:46.000Instead, it's, we have to listen to their stories.
00:29:48.000We have to talk about how women are made to feel uncomfortable.
00:29:50.000Why do we have to talk about women generally being made to feel uncomfortable?
00:29:53.000Really, I don't understand why everything turns into a generalized conversation about women being made to feel uncomfortable when this was a specific conversation about a specific guy doing specifically weird things.
00:30:03.000Like, I'm not doing any of these things.
00:30:05.000And there's this tendency in the media, whenever a Democrat does something bad, it requires us to do a generalized conversation that reinforces their narrative.
00:30:13.000Notice which incidents require a generalized conversation.
00:30:18.000It's all the incidents that reinforce a particular Democratic narrative, a particular left-leaning progressive narrative.
00:30:24.000If we were talking about something that didn't reinforce that narrative, we wouldn't be pushing it very hard.
00:30:28.000Here's Beto O'Rourke reinforcing the narrative in the hopes of winning over suburban women in the primaries.
00:30:33.000I think we need to listen to those who are raising their stories, who have the courage to come forward, to share their experience, and also to be part of the conversation about either his candidacy or how he fares as a contender for the nomination if he jumps in.
00:30:53.000So I think ultimately that's going to be a decision for him to make.
00:30:57.000Okay, um, yeah, the idea that we're gonna push him out of the race because we have to listen to everybody's stories.
00:31:04.000Okay, how about if we listen to somebody's story and then we go, yeah, I think that you're not really suffering very much.
00:31:10.000Because if you printed out a photo of a person doing something so terrible to you and then framed it and put it on your desk, I'm gonna go with you didn't suffer all that much.
00:31:18.000Can we not pretend that this is some sort of sexual assault survival story?
00:31:43.000Stealing data from unsuspecting people on public Wi-Fi was one of the simplest, cheapest ways for hackers to make money.
00:31:49.000When you leave your internet connection unencrypted, you might as well be writing your passwords and credit card numbers on a huge billboard for the rest of the world to see.
00:33:20.000And our Sunday specials become Saturday specials.
00:33:23.000I'm particularly excited about this week's Sunday special, which features the Democratic presidential candidate, Andrew Yang, who had the bravery to actually walk in a studio and have, you know, a normal conversation with someone who disagrees with some of the things he says.
00:33:50.000We had about a two and a half hour conversation on everything ranging from social media, censorship, to gay marriage, to pot, to the use of psychedelic drugs and the burning bush in the Bible.
00:34:44.000Because the truth is that Barack Obama is out to protect Barack Obama.
00:34:47.000He's not out there to protect his former VP.
00:34:51.000The hits against the 76-year-old are designed to make him seem past his prime and done.
00:34:56.000The only person who could save him at this point is Obama.
00:34:59.000Obama saluted Biden as a brother in his farewell address, as the Washington Free Beacon points out, but it's more like, see you later, brother, than, oh look, my brother is running for president of the United States.
00:35:09.000So Barack Obama is sitting this one out as honestly I sort of expected he would.
00:35:14.000And I think most observers expected him to do.
00:35:16.000Meanwhile, Democrats like I have such trouble with the Democratic Party that finds it significantly more troubling and offensive that Joe Biden publicly was was putting his forehead to other women's and men's foreheads.
00:35:30.000They find that more troubling than the fact that every single major Democrat showed up to pay homage to one of the worst racial hoaxers in American history.
00:35:37.000I'm speaking, of course, about Al Sharpton, who is just a bag of human debris.
00:35:42.000I mean, he's just a terrible person, Al Sharpton.
00:35:44.000Al Sharpton, in 1987, completely fabricated a rape hoax about Tawana Browley.
00:35:50.000It was significantly worse, by the way, than Jussie Smollett.
00:35:54.000He actually fingered an individual human being named Stephen Pagones.
00:36:01.000He suggested that he was responsible for raping, kidnapping, writing racial slurs in feces on the body of a 15-year-old black girl.
00:36:09.000Pagones ended up winning a slander lawsuit against Sharpton, Sharpton, Sharpton never paid what he owed.
00:36:17.000Pagonis said, quote, I view Al Sharpton as being nothing more than an opportunist and a race baiter.
00:36:21.000What I hope the networks and advertisers would push for would be for Sharpton to admit that he now knows that Pagonis and other individuals he lied about had nothing to do with whatever happened to Braly.
00:36:29.000Braly, it turns out, had not actually been raped or kidnapped or anything like that.
00:36:34.000Al Sharpton is the guy who helped initiate the Crown Heights riots in 1991.
00:36:39.000There's a Hasidic Jew who accidentally killed a young black kid in a car accident.
00:36:43.000So Sharpton headed on over to Crown Heights, a heavily Jewish neighborhood, where he spoke at the funeral.
00:36:47.000And there, he said that diamond merchants had the blood of innocent babies on their hands and said, quote, if the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin back their yarmulkes and come over to my house.
00:36:56.000Then there were riots that ended with the death of Yonkel Rosenbaum, an Orthodox Jewish student.
00:37:01.000Rosenbaum's brother said he has never apologized, he has never offered any sincere remorse for the atrocious things he has done by way of terrible racist behavior and lies for inciting racial events.
00:37:11.000In 1995, Al Sharpton helped initiate an actual arson attack at Freddy's Fashion Mart.
00:37:18.000Freddie's Fashion Mart had raised its own rent on a black-owned music store that was in the Fashion Mart because it had had its own rent raised by a black landlord in Harlem.
00:37:29.000That did not stop Sharpton from blaming Freddie's Fashion Mart and accusing them of racism.
00:37:33.000He said, quote, we will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business.
00:37:39.000Protesters at that particular event were shouting, burn down the Jew store.
00:37:43.000One of the protesters then shot four employees of Freddie's Fashion Mart and set the store on fire.
00:37:49.000And then, of course, you'll recall that after the Duke Lacrosse players were accused of raping a stripper named Crystal Mangum, Sharpton showed up ready to battle.
00:37:57.000He said, I think when you look at the racial atmosphere, when you look at the fact that there again were the allegations of racial statements, when you look at a lot of the people feeling they have been treated differently, where this girl has basically had a character charged in the media, there's a lot of racism that's in the air.
00:38:10.000Mangum was not only lying, she was later convicted of murdering her boyfriend.
00:38:15.000I mean, Sharpton is one of the worst racial actors in America and all he does is shake down companies.
00:38:20.000He accuses them of racism and then if they give a donation to the National Action Network, from which he pays himself a nice salary, then he says, oh look, they've been cured of racism.
00:38:44.000They wouldn't show up at the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee.
00:38:47.000Because if they did, if they showed up at that public affairs conference and spoke in front of the Jews, then too many members of the progressive base would be upset.
00:38:55.000But if they show up and speak in front of Al Sharpton, as they have been doing every year for years, then this is seen as some sort of woke intersectionality off.
00:39:03.000A dozen Democratic candidates for president showed up at the National Action Network, where the smartest of these folks pandered directly to Al Sharpton with race-based appeals.
00:39:15.000This is why I think Beto O'Rourke is still a sleeper, guys.
00:39:17.000You know, I keep dismissing Beto because, I mean, he's a joke.
00:39:20.000I mean, Beto rides around on a skateboard with the bangs in his eyes and is all weird and eats New Mexican dirt and all that.
00:39:26.000But the truth is that O'Rourke is more astute a politician, at least in terms of straightforward Retail politics than a lot of his associates.
00:39:35.000Here's Beto O'Rourke yesterday at the National Action Network standing alongside Al Sharpton and explaining he wants a commission on reparations.
00:39:42.000Your fellow Texan, Sheila Jackson Lee, has proposed a commission to study reparations.
00:39:53.000If that passes and you are President of the United States, would you sign that Yes.
00:40:04.000Foundational to reparations is the word repair.
00:40:09.000And until all Americans understand that civil rights are not just those victories that I began with at the outset of my comments, but the injustices that have been visited and continue to be visited on people, we will never get the change that we need to live up to the promise of this country.
00:40:25.000So absolutely, I would sign that in the law.
00:40:26.000He's such a middle school debater, Beto O'Rourke.
00:40:30.000Did you know that the foundation of reparations is repair?
00:40:34.000Wow, thank you, Beto O'Rourke, for that insightful etymology of the word reparations.
00:40:38.000That is clear from the actual word reparations.
00:40:41.000And the foundation of repairing is the truth.
00:40:55.000He also suggested that mass incarceration was a huge problem in the United States.
00:41:00.000Now, I'm not a big fan of the mass incarceration argument because I keep wondering who are the guilty, who are the innocent people who have been jailed for no reason at all?
00:41:08.000Now, you can say that you want to change the drug laws, but And very frankly, I'm in favor of changing a lot of the drug laws.
00:41:14.000But the vast majority of people in prison are not in prison for mere possession of marijuana.
00:41:18.000This mass incarceration argument that the police are going around willy nilly arresting innocent people is just nonsense.
00:41:24.000Beto O'Rourke says it at the National Action Network, though, because, you know, that's what he's doing.
00:41:28.000In a kindergarten classroom where those children are five years old, a child of color is five times as likely to be disciplined, suspended or expelled as a white child in the same classroom in front of the same teacher.
00:41:43.000So this schoolhouse to jailhouse pipeline and this problem of mass incarceration is much deeper than police, than our courts.
00:41:53.000It is our country and we absolutely must face it.
00:42:13.000I'll tell you who's going to have trouble, though.
00:42:14.000The person who's going to have a little more trouble than she thinks she's going to have is Kamala Harris.
00:42:18.000Andrew Krasinski at CNN has been doing really solid work digging up material on some of these Democratic candidates because it's actually newsworthy.
00:42:26.000He has a piece today about Kamala Harris.
00:42:27.000It says, Kamala Harris as district attorney fought public defenders in push for higher bails for gun crimes.
00:42:33.000The problem for Kamala Harris is that, in the perspective of many in the progressive woke base, she's too much of a narc to win.
00:42:40.000As District Attorney of San Francisco, Kamala Harris supported higher bail amounts on gun-related charges, sparking a fight with the city's public defender and defense attorneys who argued that the measures would disproportionately affect the poor.
00:42:51.000But in her career on the national level, Harris has sought to address the disproportionate impact of cash bail on poor defendants.
00:42:58.000She has made reducing the burden of bail a part of her 2020 Democratic presidential campaign and Senate tenure.
00:43:04.000In July 2017, she introduced legislation with Rand Paul to encourage changes or replacement of the cash bail system.
00:43:11.000She said it was long past time to address bail reform across the country, but that was not the case when she was actually a district attorney.
00:43:18.000She says that she once viewed higher bail amounts as a way to fight what she said was a public safety issue.
00:43:23.000She argued that San Francisco's low bail meant that criminals traveled to the city to commit crime because the punishment there was cheaper than the surrounding counties.
00:43:31.000Harris's presidential campaign spokesperson, Ian Sams, told K-File that Harris was responding to an increase in gun homicides and illegal guns in the city, and that her efforts today still take into account the threat a defendant poses when considering bail.
00:43:44.000Well, if that's the case, if the idea is that when crime accelerates that Kamala Harris is going to step in and raise cash bail, that she's in favor of actual law and order, that isn't going to play.
00:43:53.000That isn't going to play all that well.
00:43:56.000This is why I think that Kamala Harris may be in trouble as a candidate, too.
00:43:59.000A lot of talk early on about Kamala Harris being the sort of de facto Democratic frontrunner.
00:44:04.000I'm not sure that's going to play out the way that Kamala Harris thinks it is.
00:44:07.000She doesn't have that same progressive support that Beto O'Rourke does.
00:44:11.000And she's not raising the kind of money, frankly, that Beto O'Rourke is.
00:44:13.000I mean, Kamala Harris has raised something like $12 million so far.
00:44:16.000Beto O'Rourke raised that in about one-third the time.
00:44:18.000He raised $9.4 million in about one-third the time.
00:44:23.000So I'm not sure that this is going to play out exactly how Kamala Harris wants it to play out.
00:44:29.000Suffice it to say, one of the uglier aspects of our electioneering is the sort of pandering that you are seeing at the National Action Network, where you can say things that are patently untrue so long as they please the audience.
00:44:40.000This, by the way, is not unique to the National Action Network, of course.
00:44:43.000This is true for virtually every political crowd.
00:44:47.000The bravest politicians are the ones who actually go to places and then say things that are unpopular to the crowd.
00:44:52.000Well Stacey Abrams wasn't doing that yesterday.
00:44:54.000She continues to maintain that she might run for president herself on the basis of her losing a Georgia gubernatorial race.
00:45:00.000Beto O'Rourke has never held an office higher than House of Representatives.
00:45:04.000That's a step higher than Stacey Abrams who's never held an office outside the Georgia House of Representatives.
00:45:09.000Now she says she might run for president over at the National Action Network and she is still claiming that she won her election in Georgia despite losing by 50,000 votes in Georgia.
00:45:17.000I know you've heard from a lot of folks.
00:45:20.000And I think some of you know what I'm going to say.
00:45:24.000We had this little election back in 2018.
00:45:28.000And despite the final tally and the inauguration and the situation we find ourselves in, I do have one very affirmative statement to make.
00:45:43.000Again, it's very convenient to go to two different places around the country to your supporters and just say what they want to hear.
00:45:49.000The fact that people are doing that for Al Sharpton is pretty astonishing.
00:45:52.000I think that the there is something humorous about some of these fringe candidates trying to do this routine.
00:45:56.000Bill de Blasio continues to pretend that people want him to run for president, despite the fact that legitimately no one wants him to run for president.
00:46:02.000There's something perverse about the mayor of New York standing in front of Al Sharpton while talking about redistributing wealth.
00:46:40.000If we could just give the money to Al Sharpton, you know, through payoffs, if we could just ensure that Al Sharpton got more money at the National Action Network, if we could just make sure that the city government of New York was leveraged to investigate every allegation made by Al Sharpton, but never to investigate Al Sharpton himself, that would probably be the best way to do all of this.
00:47:02.000The fact that Al Sharpton is still considered a mainstream figure is perfect evidence of that.
00:47:06.000If Al Sharpton were a white guy who pulled the same kind of crap that Al Sharpton has pulled over his career, there's a high likelihood that not only would he not be in politics, he would be facing significant criminal liability for all the stuff that he's done over the course of his career.
00:47:19.000Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:47:27.000It's with Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson.
00:47:29.000And it's about the cops, the Texas Rangers, who hunted down and killed Bonnie and Clyde.
00:47:35.000And the movie is really great, specifically because it shows that Bonnie and Clyde were actually evil sociopaths, which they were.
00:47:42.000And there are a lot of critics who are angry at The Highwaymen.
00:47:45.000They were angry because it blew up the mythos of Bonnie and Clyde that was created By a film that was made back in the 1970s, 1960s, I believe, 1970s, early 70s, which was called Bonnie and Clyde with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, in which crime was romanticized as a sort of redistributionist socialism.
00:48:03.000I mean, the tagline for the film was, they're young, they're in love, they rob banks.
00:48:08.000And there were these young, beautiful people in love, happy, and society was sort of just harming them.
00:48:14.000And so they decided to randomly murder people and shoot cops and rob banks.
00:49:13.000The movie was deeply effective in romanticizing crime and suggesting that crime was actually just a romantic socialist redistributionist scheme.
00:49:23.000And so there are a lot of critics who are very angry at The Highwaymen because The Highwaymen disabuses people of this notion and points out, I mean, it really just...
00:49:31.000I mean, it really destroys the narrative of Bonnie and Clyde.
00:49:34.000There's a line where this gas station attendant says something to Kevin Costner about how Bonnie and Clyde are just robbing banks, and banks are the ones who have hurt me.
00:49:44.000And Kevin Costner says, they shot a gas station attendant over $4 in the face.
00:49:50.000So, that's really who Bonnie and Clyde were, but it's an important movie in sort of the history of cinema.
00:49:55.000Also, the use of violence is romanticized and made, and it's slow motion and very graphic.
00:50:00.000At the time, it was extraordinarily controversial.
00:50:03.000It did lead to this wave of new movies that made crime into something glorious in the late 60s and early 70s.
00:50:08.000It was part of the cultural zeitgeist.
00:50:09.000And so for that reason, it's sort of an important film, even though it is a pack of lies about who Bonnie and Clyde actually were.
00:50:14.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:50:21.000So Chelsea Clinton is now explaining how she explains global warming to her five-year-old.
00:51:10.000They're two and four, but they can carry cardboard boxes to the recycling bin.
00:51:13.000Our daughter now helps us when we're changing the light bulbs, and we talk about why we're using energy-conscious light bulbs.
00:51:18.000and they may not understand all those words megan but i hope that by talking about these kind of big issues in a way they hopefully do understand excuse me at home early on they'll not only appreciate why we're making those choices but make those choices themselves like as they grow up okay so here's here's my only problem with all of this does this shade over like this this what What she's actually saying here is not terrible, right?
00:51:44.000I mean, the idea that we make certain choices at home, we have to explain to our kids why we're doing that, don't really have a problem with that.
00:51:50.000My problem is when the media shades stuff like that over into something broader, which is we have to indoctrinate five-year-olds in the Green New Deal, and then those kids show up in Dianne Feinstein's office and harass them.
00:52:00.000So my problem is not with Chelsea Clinton, who it seems, by the way, Chelsea Clinton seems like a perfectly reasonable and somewhat charming young person.
00:52:07.000I know this is an unpopular point of view, but I mean, she will speak truth sometimes to people in her own party, which is something that I admire.
00:52:14.000With that said, the kind of push that we are supposed to indoctrinate our children in political matters that really have no relevance to home life, That's something I'm uncomfortable with, even if I think Chelsea Clinton is not doing anything particularly wrong right there.
00:52:26.000Okay, we'll be back a little bit later today with two more hours of The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:52:31.000I mentioned in the Roadmap to 2020 episode yesterday that Donald Trump had to win two of the following three states, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, or Michigan, plus all the states he won last time in order for him to win the election.