The Ben Shapiro Show - Who Wants To Be Speaker of the House?

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00:00:01.000 We're going to get into the latest on the now open speakers race.

00:00:04.000 A race that is open for no reason I can actually perceive. 0.99

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00:01:09.000 Okay, so, The House race to replace the Speaker is on. 1.00

00:01:15.000 Again, the recriminations have only begun at this point, because the fact of the matter is, this was a stupid fight that achieves nothing. 0.98

00:01:21.000 It's all about incentive structures. 0.98

00:01:23.000 As I suggested yesterday on the show, it is not about Kevin McCarthy being a bad Speaker of the House.

00:01:28.000 The truth is, it wasn't even about Paul Ryan being a bad Speaker of the House.

00:01:31.000 You can make a better case that it was Boehner being a bad Speaker of the House, but the reality is that in all of these situations, these folks have been ousted Largely because of divided government and then unrealistic expectations from other members of the political caucus who either have unrealistic expectations or who are fibbing to their own crowd.

00:01:48.000 See, for politicians, the incentive structure is always to tell your own people the things they want to hear.

00:01:55.000 And what your people want to hear is if they vote for you, they will get the sun, the moon, and the stars.

00:01:58.000 If they vote for you, you will be able to give them everything they possibly have

00:02:01.000 wanted.

00:02:01.000 And then when that doesn't materialize, you have a couple of choices.

00:02:04.000 One is you could be honest with them.

00:02:06.000 You could say, listen, we did the best that we could.

00:02:08.000 We got the most that we can.

00:02:09.000 The problem there is that you're going to be outflanked by someone else

00:02:12.000 who's going to come along and promise them the sun, the moon, and the stars.

00:02:15.000 So you can either rely on the intelligence of your voting base, which you could do.

00:02:18.000 And I think the most honest and best politicians do do that.

00:02:21.000 They say, listen, we were shooting for 100% and instead we got 80%.

00:02:24.000 We got 60%.

00:02:25.000 That's all we could get because that's the reality of life.

00:02:28.000 But it does put you in the political danger of being outflanked by someone who's going to promise you everything in the world.

00:02:35.000 And the way that you were able to keep members in line, to keep them from doing this sort of stuff originally was that the party structures were pretty significant, meaning that they could deny you money, that if you cross the party, the party could punish you in some way.

00:02:47.000 Well, as the parties have become significantly less important in American political life, And by that, I mean the parties exert virtually no pull over their members anymore.

00:02:55.000 That is certainly true in the Republican Party.

00:02:57.000 It's less true in the Democratic Party, where AOC will follow Nancy Pelosi, not because she loves Nancy Pelosi, but because Nancy Pelosi has the power to punish her, or did until very recently. 0.99

00:03:06.000 Well, in the Republican Party, there's no power to punish.

00:03:08.000 In fact, it's precisely the other way around.

00:03:09.000 In order for Speaker McCarthy to have become Speaker of the House, he had to make promises to a very small coterie of members of his own caucus, like the vast minority of his own caucus, that a single person could initiate A vote to take down the Speaker.

00:03:23.000 He had to do that in order to get the Speakership position.

00:03:24.000 Well, that put him in an inherently weak position.

00:03:26.000 So here is the problem.

00:03:27.000 Now when people say, oh, we'll replace McCarthy with someone better.

00:03:30.000 Fine.

00:03:30.000 Let's say that you get Jim Jordan.

00:03:32.000 I love Jim Jordan.

00:03:32.000 Jim Jordan's great.

00:03:33.000 Representative from Ohio.

00:03:34.000 He's on the House Oversight Committee. 0.95

00:03:35.000 He's a real bulldog.

00:03:36.000 I know him personally.

00:03:37.000 He's great.

00:03:38.000 Or let's say you get Steve Scalise.

00:03:39.000 Steve's terrific.

00:03:40.000 I really like Steve a lot.

00:03:41.000 Let's say you get either one of those guys as Speaker of the House.

00:03:44.000 If the same rules apply to them that apply to Kevin McCarthy, it will not matter if they are, quote unquote, better than Kevin McCarthy.

00:03:51.000 Because in the end, let's say it comes down to another continuing resolution.

00:03:55.000 And you are one of these members of Congress who is not beholden to your party, but who does make hay by fibbing to your constituents that the sun, the moon, and the stars are possible.

00:04:03.000 Well, you can just do the same thing to Jim Jordan.

00:04:05.000 You call him a rhino.

00:04:06.000 You say, wait, wait, you weren't willing to shut down the government over spending?

00:04:10.000 That's because you are insufficiently conservative.

00:04:12.000 You, you must be ousted.

00:04:14.000 So the only way this gets better, ironically, is for Matt Gaetz to have all of his power taken away by the new Republican majority speaker.

00:04:22.000 That's the only way this works.

00:04:23.000 The only way this gets better is Jim Jordan, in making the deal to become speaker, basically reneges on all the things that Kevin McCarthy promised, including the ability of people to challenge his speakership with one vote.

00:04:32.000 Because otherwise, this is just going to keep happening.

00:04:35.000 All it takes is one.

00:04:36.000 All it takes is like five, because the House majority for the Republicans is so damn slim.

00:04:40.000 By the way, one of the reasons that it's so unbelievably slim as opposed to what it was supposed to be after the last election cycle, which was, you know, a 30-seat House majority for the Republicans.

00:04:49.000 The reason for that is because Donald Trump backed a bunch of really bad candidates in purple districts and they lost.

00:04:55.000 That is the reason.

00:04:55.000 In fact, moderate Republicans won in New York if they were good candidates.

00:05:00.000 Florida, they did really well.

00:05:02.000 A lot of other places in the country, they lost very tight races.

00:05:06.000 In large part because they were very, very Trumpy.

00:05:08.000 And they offended a lot of those swing voters for the same reason that Republicans did not win Senate seats in, say, Arizona, or in Georgia, or in Pennsylvania.

00:05:16.000 So, the problem is systemic, is the point that I'm making.

00:05:20.000 And so to pretend that this is a principled act by Matt Gaetz and company to oust McCarthy, and that if we get someone better in there, that's going to fix all our problems.

00:05:27.000 Now we'll get spending under control.

00:05:30.000 Not true.

00:05:30.000 It's not true.

00:05:31.000 And if you believe that, then you're just going to keep getting suckered.

00:05:34.000 There's a point made by Representative Claudia Tenney.

00:05:36.000 She is a representative from New York.

00:05:38.000 And again, she's from New York, which means she's vulnerable.

00:05:40.000 Now, you may say, well, she's a rhino. 1.00

00:05:43.000 How could she not want to lower spending?

00:05:44.000 She does want to lower spending. 0.96

00:05:45.000 She's also from New York.

00:05:46.000 And here's the thing.

00:05:47.000 You want a national majority, or do you prefer Hakeem Jeffries to be Speaker of the House?

00:05:50.000 If you would like the Republicans to be in charge of Congress, you need people like Claudia Tenney in Congress.

00:05:55.000 She's in a swing district.

00:05:56.000 Here's Claudia Tenney.

00:05:58.000 We wouldn't have subpoenaed the documents.

00:06:00.000 We wouldn't have had Jason Smith as chair of the House Ways and Means Committee who opened a whistleblower portal.

00:06:06.000 We would never have known what these whistleblowers brought forth under duress, under threat of their jobs.

00:06:13.000 We would not know any of these things.

00:06:15.000 None of this would have McCarthy hadn't been speaker.

00:06:17.000 And it's not about Kevin McCarthy.

00:06:19.000 These people are going to hold hostage whoever the next speaker is.

00:06:22.000 And that is right.

00:06:23.000 That is right.

00:06:24.000 So I would hope that whether it's Jim Jordan or Steve Scalise, whoever becomes the next Speaker of the House, the dictate is, I need, I'm not going to even allow a motion to hit the floor unless a majority of the Republican caucus wants it.

00:06:38.000 I'm not going to do it.

00:06:39.000 I'm not going to have a motion to get rid of me as Speaker unless there's a large contingent, even if it's not a majority, a significant minority, that doesn't want me to be here.

00:06:47.000 I'm not going to do it for one vote.

00:06:48.000 I'm not going to do it for four votes.

00:06:50.000 And that, by the way, should be the same thing offered by every Speaker of the House candidate.

00:06:54.000 Now, the problem is you have a collective action problem there.

00:06:56.000 So let's say Steve Scalise and Jordan decide that they are going to say, listen, neither of us is going to take the Speakership position unless we claw back some of the powers that McCarthy gave to Gaetz and Crewe.

00:07:05.000 Well, all it's going to take at that point is for someone to swing in from the right and say, no, I'll give you whatever you want.

00:07:11.000 I'll give you whatever you want.

00:07:12.000 And all it takes, again, is for Gates and crew to say, well, they are going to give us more power, so we'll go with them.

00:07:17.000 The incentive systems here are completely misaligned.

00:07:21.000 Even RNC chairwoman, Ronna McDaniel, who I think has done overall a pretty horrific job. 0.98

00:07:26.000 And the reason I say that is because when you lose consistently election after election, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, I don't know how you maintain your job, but apparently this is the new way Republicans do things.

00:07:35.000 The more you lose, the more we are loyal to you or something.

00:07:38.000 In any case, here's Ronna Romney McDaniel talking about all of this.

00:07:42.000 You blame Matt Gaetz and the rebels on the conservative side?

00:07:47.000 Should they have not taken this step in their frustration?

00:07:51.000 I'm going to be a happy warrior like Kevin McCarthy and I'm going to say, let's just get the business of the American people done.

00:07:57.000 Let's get this speaker vote done. 0.77

00:07:59.000 Let's make sure we don't have this motion to vacate so we don't have chaos again.

00:08:03.000 We can't do this next year.

00:08:04.000 We cannot do this and win.

00:08:06.000 If this happens again, we are jeopardizing a very small house majority.

00:08:11.000 Okay, and she's right about that.

00:08:13.000 But the problem is all of these incentives have now been created.

00:08:15.000 You're better off being the free radical than you are being the person who actually cares about the party achieving victories.

00:08:21.000 And whether or not you like it, this was a pattern set by Donald Trump in 2016.

00:08:26.000 He ran directly against the Republican Party.

00:08:28.000 I understand there are a lot of people who are very upset with the quote-unquote establishment Republican Party.

00:08:32.000 I'm upset with them too.

00:08:33.000 I think they spent too much money.

00:08:34.000 I think they caved on social issues.

00:08:36.000 I think a lot of their foreign policy is bad.

00:08:38.000 However, this notion that you can simply buck the entire system and that this somehow benefits the entire system, I have yet to see that bear real results.

00:08:46.000 What are the real results of that?

00:08:49.000 Where are they, by the way?

00:08:51.000 I'd like to see them.

00:08:52.000 Victory is promised, so let's see some victories achieved.

00:08:56.000 In a second, we'll get to the democratic part in all of this, plus the blowback first.

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00:10:03.000 OK, so McCarthy pointed out yesterday as he was leaving that Democrats had pledged that they would basically bail him out with the with the Matt Gaetz crew if they brought this votion to replace the speaker.

00:10:16.000 He mentioned this yesterday.

00:10:19.000 After we had won the majority, I had became speaker last and Nancy Pelosi came to me.

00:10:23.000 She was speaker at the time on the way out.

00:10:26.000 I told her I was having issues with getting enough votes.

00:10:29.000 She said, what's the problem?

00:10:30.000 I said, they want this one person who can rule you out.

00:10:34.000 She was the only speaker to have changed that rule.

00:10:36.000 I had the power to call the vote on her, but I never would.

00:10:39.000 I lost some votes because of it.

00:10:41.000 And she said, just give it to them.

00:10:44.000 I'll always back you up.

00:10:46.000 I made the same offer to Boehner, and same thing to Paul, because I believe in the institution.

00:10:53.000 I think today, Was a political decision by the Democrats.

00:10:57.000 I think the things they have done in the past hurt the institution.

00:11:03.000 Okay, he happens to be right about this.

00:11:09.000 Now, is it a smart idea to place your trust in Nancy Pelosi? 1.00

00:11:15.000 Of course, it's a very stupid idea to place your trust in Nancy Pelosi. 0.95

00:11:18.000 And today I'm seeing a lot of hue and cry from the right side of the aisle that supports McCarthy saying, well, why didn't Nancy, why didn't the Democrats step in? 0.99

00:11:25.000 The Democrats could have saved McCarthy.

00:11:27.000 Because this entire vote, for all the talk about rhinos, it was eight Republicans who voted along with all the Democrats to remove McCarthy.

00:11:34.000 And yes, Nancy Pelosi could have carved off, you know, five votes, and she could have saved McCarthy, and then the institution would have continued to move on as normal.

00:11:42.000 But why would you trust Democrats to do that?

00:11:44.000 Like, what in your record makes you think that Nancy Pelosi was ever going to bail you out?

00:11:47.000 Well, the predictable result of this is that, again, more norms are broken.

00:11:51.000 So there are certain norms in the House of Representatives that have just gone by the wayside, as McCarthy mentioned right there.

00:11:55.000 One of them is that you don't remove members of the other party from their committees just because you don't like them.

00:11:59.000 You recall that they actually did this.

00:12:01.000 The Democrats removed certain Republican members from their committees, even though they really did not have power to do so.

00:12:08.000 And so Republicans have now threatened to do the same to Democrats.

00:12:13.000 As they should.

00:12:13.000 Like, Eric Swalwell should not be on the Indel Committee, for example.

00:12:16.000 Ilhan Omar should not be on the Foreign Affairs Committee.

00:12:19.000 Okay, but the rule was you didn't do that, and then Democrats broke that rule, and now Republicans are gonna break that rule in kind.

00:12:23.000 Well, now, Republicans are taking their revenge on the Democrats by evicting them from their hideaway offices.

00:12:28.000 According to CBS News, two longtime Democratic leaders, Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, have been evicted from their so-called hideaway offices in the Capitol in the aftermath of Kevin McCarthy's ouster at the House Speaker.

00:12:39.000 Pelosi confirmed on Tuesday night that Representative Patrick McHenry, the new Speaker pro tem, has ordered she immediately vacate my office in the Capitol.

00:12:46.000 This eviction is a sharp departure from tradition, said Pelosi.

00:12:48.000 Oh my god, like, listening to Nancy Pelosi caterwaul about tradition is laughable. 0.98

00:12:53.000 This lady who was kneeling in kente cloth In the halls of Congress.

00:12:57.000 As Speaker, I gave former Speaker Hastert a significantly larger suite of offices for as long as he wished.

00:13:01.000 Office space doesn't matter to me, but it seems to be important to them.

00:13:04.000 Now that the new Republican leadership has settled this important matter, let's hope they get to work on what's truly important for the American people.

00:13:11.000 Now again, the hideaway offices, they vary in size and location.

00:13:13.000 Some are windowless rooms on the basement level.

00:13:15.000 Others have high ceilings, chandeliers, big windows.

00:13:18.000 The hideaway office of the late Senator Robert Burt was this really, really nice office.

00:13:23.000 It's not clear why they were tossed, but the evictions were probably in revenge by the Republican caucus for the Democrats basically allowing Gaetz to hold up the entire process.

00:13:32.000 Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, for her part, she doesn't care about the institution of Congress. 1.00

00:13:37.000 She tweeted out, Does anyone believe for one minute McCarthy would help

00:13:40.000 elect a Dem speaker quote unquote for the institution?

00:13:42.000 McCarthy's hubris is a theme.

00:13:44.000 He loudly stated he would not negotiate with Democrats called virtually none,

00:13:46.000 trash those who helped with DCR, and then expected Dem votes for free?

00:13:50.000 Well, and then she continues, If McCarthy cared so much for the institution,

00:13:55.000 he wouldn't have opened a baseless impeachment without a House vote.

00:13:57.000 If he cared for the institution, he wouldn't have voted to overturn election results.

00:14:00.000 He would have honored his debt limit deal with the president and all the rest.

00:14:04.000 Again, I understand hard-nosed politics, but what goes around comes around, and that's the way that it's going to be.

00:14:09.000 I mean, this is the era in which we live.

00:14:11.000 Any rule that Democrats break is going to be met with equal and opposite fire by the Republicans.

00:14:15.000 And frankly, I'm totally fine with that.

00:14:17.000 I'm totally fine with that.

00:14:18.000 Democrats broke the tradition in terms of judicial nominees suggesting that they could ram people through with a 51-vote majority, Mitch McConnell, and put three of Donald Trump's nominees on the Supreme Court with just over 50 votes.

00:14:30.000 Democrats decided to break all the rules with regard to committee assignments.

00:14:32.000 Republicans will respond in kind.

00:14:34.000 It's just going to be this.

00:14:35.000 This is going to be the way that it is.

00:14:37.000 Because all trust between the parties is gone.

00:14:40.000 In just one second, we'll get to what comes next.

00:14:41.000 Who exactly even wants to be Speaker of the House?

00:14:43.000 Seems like a really crappy job.

00:14:45.000 We'll get to that in just one moment.

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00:16:01.000 Okay, so who even wants this garbage job? 0.99

00:16:03.000 Well, there are at least three people who have entered the fray. 0.98

00:16:07.000 One is the House Majority Leader, Steve Scalise.

00:16:09.000 He announced his candidacy.

00:16:11.000 So did Ohio Representative Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

00:16:14.000 Here's Jim Jordan yesterday announcing.

00:16:17.000 Let's suppose the conference does get together and makes that decision as you just described, and comes together, and hypothetically they say the person we need to lead us now is Jim Jordan.

00:16:26.000 Would you accept that leadership?

00:16:29.000 Again, yeah, if the conference decides, that's their decision.

00:16:34.000 And that's how I think it has to be.

00:16:36.000 When you only control the House of Representatives in the legislative branch, and the Democrats have control of the White House and the Senate, Um, and you got a four vote majority in the house.

00:16:48.000 You got to have everyone on board with this is the person we want to lead us.

00:16:51.000 And so it's got to be a kind of a bottom up conference decides who that individual is going to be.

00:16:58.000 So Scalise's job has been as the house majority leader, his decision, his job has been to sort of bring everybody together.

00:17:06.000 And that's the case that he's making is that he's trying to quote unquote build consensus where others thought it impossible.

00:17:12.000 He has good relationships across the conference.

00:17:13.000 He wasn't particularly close with Kevin McCarthy.

00:17:16.000 One problem is that he is being treated currently for blood cancer, so that is a serious concern.

00:17:21.000 Jim Jordan is considered a real firebrand.

00:17:23.000 He is very closely allied with Donald Trump, but unclear if the left wing of the party is going to support Jim Jordan.

00:17:29.000 He ended up being close with McCarthy and was upset when he got tossed.

00:17:33.000 Jordan has some early endorsements from Daryl Issa of California, Thomas Massey of Kentucky, Jim Banks of Indiana.

00:17:39.000 All of which are good endorsements, obviously.

00:17:42.000 And then there is a third member, Oklahoma Representative Kevin Hearn.

00:17:46.000 He also is running for the position.

00:17:49.000 He's the chair of the Conservative Republican Study Committee.

00:17:51.000 He said he hadn't made an official announcement.

00:17:52.000 Also, Chip Roy might get in.

00:17:55.000 Again, unclear how all of this is going to shake out at this point.

00:17:58.000 None of this matters if they don't actually change the rules.

00:18:02.000 There needs to be a change in the rules in terms of who can actually just get rid of somebody.

00:18:06.000 The motion to vacate the chair, as the Wall Street Journal points out, used against McCarthy is going to hang over the head of the next speaker.

00:18:11.000 McCarthy-allied representative Don Bacon of Nebraska said, whoever gets to 18, if they can get to a tune with these eight ungovernable people, they'll always hold this over their head.

00:18:18.000 They'll demand what they just did to Kevin.

00:18:20.000 I don't believe he can govern with these eight people.

00:18:23.000 Others say that changing the rule will be a condition for their support.

00:18:26.000 Representative Carlos Jimenez of Florida, he said the person who wants my vote for Speaker has to commit to reforming the motion to vacate because nobody can actually govern under these particular circumstances.

00:18:37.000 Now, the truth is that McCarthy, again, represented kind of the center of the Republican Party, if you could say that there is one.

00:18:44.000 He was very Trumpy, but at the same time, he was in favor of increased aid to Ukraine.

00:18:49.000 But if the party didn't want the aid to Ukraine, who's going to carve it out of the CR?

00:18:52.000 He's actually pretty representative of what the Republican caucus wanted.

00:18:56.000 All these other people have pretty strong positions.

00:18:59.000 Scalise has been working behind the scenes to replace McCarthy as Speaker, trying to shore up support, according to Fox News Digital.

00:19:06.000 After House Majority Whip Tom Emmer suggested Scalise make a good speaker, Scalise told reporters that he didn't have anything to announce.

00:19:12.000 So we'll see how all of this moves forward.

00:19:13.000 Meanwhile, the knives are out for Gaetz.

00:19:16.000 And, you know, on a pure karmic level, he deserves it. 0.56

00:19:20.000 Because what he is doing here is absolute grandstanding, as I've mentioned over and over again. 1.00

00:19:24.000 It is stupid, counterproductive. 1.00

00:19:26.000 It does not actually achieve anything. 1.00

00:19:28.000 Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma went after Matt Gaetz in a kind of different way yesterday.

00:19:34.000 He talked a little bit about Matt Gaetz, the personality.

00:19:38.000 You gotta think about this guy.

00:19:40.000 This is a guy that didn't have, that the media didn't give a time of day to after he was accused of sleeping with an underage girl.

00:19:46.000 There's a reason why no one in the conference came and defended him because we had all seen the videos he was showing on the house floor that all of us had walked away of the girls that he had slept with.

00:19:57.000 He'd brag about how he would A crush ED medicine and chase it with an energy drink so he could go all night.

00:20:05.000 This is obviously before he got married.

00:20:07.000 And so when that accusation came out, no one defended him and then no one on the media would give him a time of the day.

00:20:12.000 All of a sudden he found fame because he opposed the Speaker of the House back in November and he's always stayed there.

00:20:19.000 And he was never going to leave until he got this last moment of fame by going after a motion to vacate.

00:20:28.000 It's important to know Congressman Gates has never been charged with any sex trafficking crime and he gave this

00:20:33.000 statement to CNN in response I don't think Mark Wayne Mullen and I have said 20 words to

00:20:37.000 each other on the house floor This is a lie from someone who doesn't know me and who's

00:20:41.000 coping with the death of the political career of his friend Kevin

00:20:43.000 thoughts and prayers So things are gonna get uglier and things are also gonna

00:20:48.000 get stupider One of the big suggestions that came out once the speaker 0.84

00:20:51.000 was vacated was that Donald Trump for the speaker of the house 0.99

00:20:55.000 I'm, sorry. This is clown show stuff This is just clownish. It's clownish and ridiculous Donald 0.98

00:20:59.000 Trump for speaker of the house Now technically you don't have to be a member of the house 1.00

00:21:02.000 to be speaker of the house Donald Trump Are you kidding me?

00:21:07.000 You think he's going to whip votes?

00:21:08.000 Donald Trump is going to fundraise on behalf of members of the House?

00:21:11.000 That dude gave no money during the last election cycle to anyone who was not named Donald Trump.

00:21:15.000 What are you even talking about?

00:21:18.000 Have we had enough sufficient shows of sycophantic bootlicking from members of the Republican caucus yet that we have to actually talk about this kind of nonsense? 0.68

00:21:26.000 Like, seriously?

00:21:27.000 You can vote for Trump for president.

00:21:29.000 That's fine.

00:21:29.000 Donald Trump did a lot of good things as president.

00:21:32.000 Speaker of the House?

00:21:33.000 Like, anybody who suggests this should be summarily laughed at. 0.99

00:21:36.000 It's ridiculous. 0.88

00:21:36.000 I'm sorry. 0.88

00:21:37.000 It's just stupid on its face. 1.00

00:21:38.000 It has no governing experience in the Congress. 1.00

00:21:40.000 It doesn't know how a single legislative procedure works.

00:21:42.000 He has spent his entire career basically dividing Republican against Republican.

00:21:46.000 He achieved a massive victory against Hillary Clinton.

00:21:47.000 He did wonderful things as president.

00:21:49.000 And he also would be like the worst Speaker of the House.

00:21:52.000 Like, what are we even talking about?

00:21:53.000 This is like, come on!

00:21:54.000 Be serious for five seconds.

00:21:57.000 Would you take the job?

00:21:58.000 A lot of people have asked me about it.

00:21:59.000 I'm focused.

00:22:01.000 You know, with leaving, I don't know, I'm sure you don't know me too much.

00:22:04.000 I'm a bankruptcy.

00:22:04.000 Great, enjoy now say they're going to back Trump for speaker.

00:22:09.000 He did weigh in on that this morning.

00:22:12.000 Take a listen.

00:22:13.000 Would you take the job?

00:22:14.000 A lot of people have asked me about it.

00:22:15.000 I'm focused, you know, with leading.

00:22:16.000 I don't know.

00:22:17.000 I'm sure you don't read too much in the papers, but with leading my life, 50 points for president.

00:22:28.000 My focus is totally on that.

00:22:29.000 If I can help them during the process, I would do it.

00:22:33.000 Trump then promptly went on Truth Social and tweeted a picture of himself holding the speaker's

00:22:38.000 You know, there are people in the United States who actually rely on the federal government.

00:22:44.000 I'm not talking about people who are on welfare.

00:22:45.000 I'm talking about, like, people who are in business and want a predictable regime.

00:22:48.000 I'm talking about people who don't want to see the national debt blown out.

00:22:51.000 I'm talking about people who would like just to go about their daily lives without worrying about the Chaos clown circus that is Congress.

00:22:59.000 And is this helpful?

00:23:00.000 Marjorie Taylor Greene, again one of our brightest lights, she tweeted out that she would only support Donald Trump.

00:23:05.000 The only candidate for Speaker.

00:23:06.000 I'm currently supporting as President Donald Trump.

00:23:08.000 He will end the war in Ukraine.

00:23:09.000 He will secure the border.

00:23:10.000 He will end the politically weaponized government.

00:23:11.000 By the way, he didn't do any of these things as President of the United States.

00:23:14.000 Just going to point that out.

00:23:15.000 He didn't secure the border.

00:23:16.000 He didn't end the politically weaponized government.

00:23:18.000 He'll make America energy independent again.

00:23:19.000 He'll pass my bill to stop transgender surgeries on kids and keep men out of women's sports. 0.99

00:23:23.000 He'll support our military.

00:23:24.000 I'm wondering how he's going to do this as Speaker.

00:23:26.000 He's not gonna run the Senate.

00:23:27.000 So that's weird.

00:23:28.000 He's not gonna be president, if he's the speaker, and so much more.

00:23:30.000 He has a proven four-year record as president of the United States of America.

00:23:33.000 He received a record number of Republican votes of any Republican presidential candidate.

00:23:37.000 We can make him speaker and then elect him president.

00:23:39.000 He will make America great again, says Marjorie Taylor Greene.

00:23:42.000 Marjorie, he's not gonna date you.

00:23:44.000 Like, seriously, what in the, what? 0.99

00:23:47.000 Stop being clowns for five seconds. 0.99

00:23:49.000 Just stop it. 1.00

00:23:50.000 Just stop being clowns. 0.99

00:23:52.000 I know it's too much to ask. 0.99

00:23:52.000 First party to sanity wins. 0.99

00:23:55.000 First party to Sandy wins.

00:23:56.000 Meanwhile, President Trump, on the presidential level, continues to be bogged down with this ridiculous fraud case in New York.

00:24:03.000 Again, this fraud case is based on specious assertions that because Donald Trump inflated the value of his real estate assets in negotiations with banks, and then banks didn't actually rely on those inflated values in order to make loans, that somehow this amounts to fraud.

00:24:16.000 Which is like every single person engaged in real estate in New York, if you want to go about it this way.

00:24:20.000 Here is Donald Trump correctly saying they've weaponized justice, and also, You notice that we're talking about Donald Trump in the context of his own legal troubles and not in the... You know a name that hasn't been mentioned so far this entire show?

00:24:30.000 Joe Biden.

00:24:31.000 You know why?

00:24:31.000 Because when Republicans set themselves on fire and then jump through circus hoops, it turns out everyone talks about them and not Joe Biden, while Joe Biden is busy pummeling the American economy.

00:24:40.000 Anyway, here is Donald Trump going off about the weaponization of justice, which of course, he's right.

00:24:45.000 And also, this isn't about Joe Biden.

00:24:48.000 He's right.

00:24:49.000 He's right.

00:24:50.000 me, the former president, the leading candidate, I'm leading Joe Biden by a lot, which is probably

00:24:56.000 why this is all happening. Not probably, but it's definitely they're coordinating with Washington

00:25:01.000 100 percent. But without that, none of these cases would be going on.

00:25:07.000 They've weaponized justice in our country. This trial is a disgrace.

00:25:12.000 He's right. He's right. And also, again, what are we not talking about?

00:25:17.000 We are not talking right now about Joe Biden.

00:25:20.000 Meanwhile, again, Trump continues to be by far, far and away the poll leader in the clubhouse right now for the Republicans.

00:25:27.000 The latest national average has Donald Trump at 57% and the closest competitor, Ron DeSantis, at 14.

00:25:33.000 The latest Economist YouGov poll that just came out yesterday has Trump at 58 and DeSantis at 13.

00:25:38.000 If you look at the state levels, it's a little bit Closer.

00:25:41.000 They haven't had enough state polling in Iowa, frankly, at this point.

00:25:44.000 DeSantis has gotten about a $15 million infusion.

00:25:46.000 He's putting it all into Iowa.

00:25:47.000 He's moving his entire staff into Iowa.

00:25:49.000 The current polling in Iowa still has Donald Trump up on the field by 30 points.

00:25:53.000 In New Hampshire, Donald Trump is still up on the field by 30 points.

00:25:57.000 The latest USA Today Suffolk poll actually has Nikki Haley jumping into second place against Ron DeSantis.

00:26:02.000 That poll does have a margin of error.

00:26:05.000 Of 4.5% or so.

00:26:08.000 In the RealClearPolitics polling average, it's basically Trump and then a group of people.

00:26:11.000 Haley at 14%, DeSantis at 10%, Christie at 9%.

00:26:14.000 Bottom line is, there is no one challenger to Trump at this point.

00:26:18.000 Which means, we're going to be talking about these issues, as I say over and over again, if this is your bet, this is your bet.

00:26:23.000 I don't think it's a great strategy, but apparently strategy is of no impact at this point, which is really exciting.

00:26:28.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden is running this economy into the ground like a plane without wings.

00:26:33.000 We'll get to that momentarily.

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00:26:44.000 Let's say he also goes absent for long periods of time with no explanation.

00:26:49.000 And let's say that at a certain point you decide, you know, we actually need a person on the Matt Walsh show.

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00:27:42.000 Also, if you've been watching Convicting Murder, you've already seen many instances where making a murder skillfully curated information to align with their preferred narrative.

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00:28:06.000 They got Brendan down at the police station.

00:28:08.000 Brian, something to do with you.

00:28:09.000 The police did not have Brendan Dassey on their radar at all.

00:28:12.000 Kayla brings up that they should talk to her cousin Brendan.

00:28:17.000 They initially went down to that high school because they were worried about him because his cousin made some comments about him losing weight.

00:28:22.000 She mentioned things like staring off in his face and weight loss.

00:28:25.000 She estimated to be about 40 pounds.

00:28:28.000 They thought that maybe he had seen something and he was having trouble dealing with what he had witnessed.

00:28:33.000 You should have said to them, I want my mom in there. 1.00

00:28:37.000 Yeah.

00:28:37.000 You definitely can see how someone like him was easily manipulated.

00:28:42.000 I really feel sorry for Brendan.

00:28:44.000 Getting roped into some scheme that Steven decided he was gonna come up with.

00:28:48.000 We did not expect what he was telling us.

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00:29:06.000 Important to note that there is a brand new Rasmussen Reports survey previewed exclusively by DailyWire.

00:29:12.000 It is about Disney.

00:29:12.000 So Disney, of course, is a company that I have long had tremendous admiration for, or at least I did up until a few years ago.

00:29:20.000 When we lived in California, we were annual pass holders over at Disneyland.

00:29:23.000 It was the best place to go with your kids.

00:29:25.000 I have pictures of myself with my own parents when I'm a small kid at Disneyland.

00:29:29.000 My fourth date with my wife was at Disneyland.

00:29:32.000 Love Disney product.

00:29:33.000 Big Disney fan.

00:29:34.000 Up until they decided a few years back that they were going to go completely woke.

00:29:37.000 They were going to move to the left.

00:29:38.000 They were going to start injecting a bunch of LGBTQ+. 1.00

00:29:41.000 Well now, this Rasmussen Report's survey shows that 60% of Republicans have an unfavorable opinion of Disney, including 35% who say they have a very unfavorable opinion.

00:29:45.000 because you're taking legacy properties and you're still making your money off your legacy properties

00:29:49.000 while simultaneously promoting a woke left-wing agenda that targets children. That is what Disney

00:29:54.000 has been doing. Well now this Rasmussen Reports survey shows that 60% of Republicans have an

00:29:59.000 unfavorable opinion of Disney, including 35% who say they have a very unfavorable opinion.

00:30:05.000 That survey was conducted in late September. Only 32% of Republicans have a favorable view.

00:30:10.000 For Democrats, the results are precisely the opposite.

00:30:12.000 Because, of course, for a lot of Democrats, they are perfectly happy with spoon-feeding a bunch of leftist tropes into children's programming.

00:30:20.000 And again, this is no surprise.

00:30:21.000 There's another study that came out just yesterday from GLAAD.

00:30:24.000 GLAAD is the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

00:30:27.000 Pretty much all the big Hollywood studios pre-screen their films.

00:30:29.000 I kid you not, this is a thing they actually do.

00:30:31.000 They pre-screen their films and TV shows for GLAAD's board of censors.

00:30:35.000 And GLAAD actually goes through and determines whether or not this is acceptable to GLAAD.

00:30:39.000 Well now, GLAAD has put out a report rating major Hollywood studios on how much LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign content they are squeezing into their films and TV content.

00:30:49.000 And here's what they found.

00:30:50.000 They found that Disney is the top company, along with Netflix, that is what they call LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign inclusive.

00:31:01.000 In fact, according to their statistics, they give them a 41% rating, which is a good rating.

00:31:06.000 They made 59 total films.

00:31:07.000 24 of them were LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign inclusive. 0.60

00:31:12.000 41%, which is next to Warner Brothers Discovery, the highest rate They are one of only three studios that received a good rating from GLAAD.

00:31:23.000 And again, all of this is designed for a purpose.

00:31:27.000 And the purpose is, particularly when it comes to a kids' company like Disney, to target children.

00:31:30.000 It's one thing for Netflix to do this sort of stuff.

00:31:32.000 Netflix is largely designed not for children.

00:31:34.000 But Walt Disney is designed explicitly for children.

00:31:37.000 It has films like Lightyear, which bombed at the box office, largely due to the fact that one of the major storylines was about a lesbian couple.

00:31:46.000 It's about the fact that Disney has decided that they wish to, in the words of one of their own animators...

00:31:52.000 Sledgehammer you with the not-at-all-secret gay agenda. 1.00

00:31:55.000 Okay, meanwhile, Joe Biden is doing a horrific job again. 0.96

00:31:57.000 We have now been through most of today's show and not mentioned Joe Biden.

00:32:01.000 How is that possible when the President of the United States is running this economy into a ditch?

00:32:06.000 How is that possible? 0.99

00:32:06.000 The answer is when Republicans, once again, kick themselves in the balls repeatedly. 0.99

00:32:10.000 Everyone points and laughs at the guy kicking himself in the balls, even if the building behind that guy is completely on fire and children are running and screaming. 0.99

00:32:18.000 Like, that's how it works. 0.92

00:32:19.000 That's how it works.

00:32:20.000 In any case, Joe Biden continues to be terrible at his job.

00:32:23.000 He was asked yesterday how to confront family members who are MAGA family members, and here was Joe Biden at his most convincing and charismatic.

00:32:31.000 How would you advise those people who do share your concerns, but may be wary about talking to a MAGA parent, neighbor, coworker, how would you advise them to do that?

00:32:45.000 Vote.

00:32:46.000 Vote.

00:32:47.000 But I also think that we should be engaging people more and not be worried about our neighbor.

00:32:57.000 Talk to them.

00:32:57.000 Sit down and say, what do you think?

00:33:01.000 And not get into arguments, but say, this is what you say this, but how about this?

00:33:06.000 Force people to get in a two-way conversation.

00:33:10.000 Wow, that is riveting stuff there from the dead president of the United States.

00:33:14.000 When they used to say dead presidents, they meant, you know, the guys on dollar bills. 0.69

00:33:17.000 Now we actually mean the president of the United States, who is a walking zombie at this point.

00:33:21.000 Meanwhile, the economy headed for disaster.

00:33:24.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, The U.S.

00:33:26.000 has long been the lender of last resort to the world.

00:33:28.000 During the emerging market panics of the 90s, the global financial crisis of 2007-2009, and the pandemic shutdown of 2020, it was Treasury's unmatched capacity to borrow that came to the rescue.

00:33:37.000 Now, the Treasury itself is a source of risk.

00:33:39.000 No, the United States isn't about to default or fail to sell enough bonds at its next auction, but the scale and upward trajectory of U.S.

00:33:44.000 borrowing in the absence of any political corrective now threatens markets and the economy in ways they have not for at least a generation.

00:33:51.000 That is the takeaway from a sudden sharp rise in treasury yields in recent weeks.

00:33:54.000 The usual suspects can't explain it.

00:33:56.000 The inflation picture has gotten marginally better.

00:33:57.000 The Federal Reserve has signaled it's nearly done raising rates.

00:34:00.000 Instead, most of that increase is due to the part of yield, called the term premium, which has nothing to do with inflation or short-term rates.

00:34:06.000 Numerous factors affect that term premium.

00:34:08.000 Rising governments' deficits are a prime suspect.

00:34:11.000 Deficits have been wide for years now, so why should they matter right now?

00:34:14.000 The better question is, what took so long?

00:34:16.000 That larger deficits push up long-term rates had long been economic orthodoxy.

00:34:20.000 But for the past 20 years, interest rate models that incorporated fiscal policy didn't work.

00:34:24.000 Noted Ricardo Trezzi, former Fed economist.

00:34:27.000 That's understandable.

00:34:27.000 Central banks had kept interest rates around zero while buying up government bonds.

00:34:30.000 That was inflation.

00:34:31.000 It was quantitative easing.

00:34:32.000 They just pumped money into the system.

00:34:34.000 Private demand for credit was weak.

00:34:35.000 This trumped any concern about deficits.

00:34:38.000 Mark Weidman, Senior Managing Director at BlackRock, says we had 25 blissful years of not having to worry about this problem.

00:34:43.000 But today, central banks are worried about inflation being too high.

00:34:46.000 They've stopped buying.

00:34:47.000 In some cases, they're shedding their bond holdings.

00:34:49.000 Suddenly, fiscal policy matters again.

00:34:51.000 So again, as I've said a thousand times, whatever goes up starts to come down.

00:34:55.000 And that is true when it comes to the American economy.

00:34:57.000 When you inflate things, they tend to burst.

00:34:59.000 When you inflate a bubble, it tends to burst.

00:35:01.000 Right now, no one wants to buy U.S.

00:35:03.000 debt.

00:35:03.000 Why does no one want to buy U.S.

00:35:04.000 debt?

00:35:05.000 Well, the answer is because there are a bunch of answers.

00:35:07.000 One reason is because if the Fed, to fight inflation, has to continue increasing rates, that means that the bond that you bought yesterday is no longer worth money.

00:35:15.000 Why?

00:35:15.000 Well, because the bond that's coming out tomorrow has a higher face yield.

00:35:19.000 That is why the yields on bonds are increasing.

00:35:21.000 Bond yield, by the way, when I say the yield on bonds, what I mean is the price of bonds is dropping.

00:35:26.000 So typically speaking, interest rates and price of bonds work in inverse proportion.

00:35:31.000 So as interest rates go up, the price of bonds drops.

00:35:34.000 Why?

00:35:34.000 It seems counterintuitive.

00:35:35.000 The answer is because people are worried that the next interest rate increase makes the last bond worthless.

00:35:41.000 This is what happened to Silicon Valley Bank, right?

00:35:43.000 They banked on a certain facial rate of interest on the bonds they bought, and then the Fed started issuing bonds at a much higher rate.

00:35:51.000 And so, all the bonds that Silicon Valley Bank was banking on were now worthless.

00:35:54.000 You couldn't sell them in the open market.

00:35:56.000 Meanwhile, at the same exact time that the Federal Reserve is increasing those interest rates, they're trying to sell bonds into the market.

00:36:03.000 I mean, they're trying to sell tons of bonds into the market, which also undercuts the price.

00:36:07.000 Why are they selling bonds in the market?

00:36:08.000 Because of the deficit.

00:36:09.000 Because of the debt.

00:36:12.000 So, this is going to be a serious problem.

00:36:15.000 The federal deficit was over 7% of GDP in fiscal 2023 after adjusting for accounting distortions related to student debt.

00:36:21.000 That is larger than any deficit since 1930, outside of wars and recessions.

00:36:25.000 This is occurring at a time of low unemployment and strong economic growth, suggesting that in normal times, when things are actually worse, deficits are going to be a lot higher.

00:36:34.000 By the way, it is worth noting at this point that China and Japan are not buying our debt in the way that they were.

00:36:40.000 According to Reuters, foreign holdings of U.S.

00:36:42.000 Treasuries rose in July, rising for a second straight month despite an uncertain interest rate outlook muddied by a mixed set of economic figures.

00:36:49.000 China's stash of Treasuries, however, dropped to $821.8 billion, the lowest since May of 2009.

00:36:56.000 Analysts said that China has been under pressure to defend its weakening currency and the selling of U.S.

00:37:00.000 debt may have been used for intervention purposes to prop it up.

00:37:02.000 So they're putting more of our bonds, old bonds, on the market, which floods the market with American debt, which means it's harder to raise the debt, which means that we have to increase those interest rates that we are giving people in order to get them to buy the debt, which means we're going to have to pay off those new interest rates at a higher rate of interest. 0.99

00:37:18.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden keeps spending into this because he is a moron. 0.90

00:37:22.000 Yesterday, President Biden announced student debt forgiveness for another tranche of Americans on Wednesday, months after the Supreme Court blocked the administration's most ambitious borrower relief plans. 0.98

00:37:31.000 This is unconstitutional.

00:37:32.000 It's already been declared he can't unilaterally simply get rid of student loan debt.

00:37:35.000 He's doing it anyway, because this is what he does.

00:37:38.000 The string of politically advantageous announcements comes thanks to the administration's use of existing programs that allow the government to waive debt for certain borrowers.

00:37:45.000 The moves are separate from the administration's troubled attempt to cancel as much as $20,000 in student debt for any borrower earning less than $125,000 a year struck down by the Supreme Court.

00:37:53.000 Wednesday's announcement of $9 billion in student debt cancellation for 125,000 borrowers, the latest in a string of sizable discharges, helps just a small slice of the more than 40 million people who own debt.

00:38:03.000 But again, this is part of the inflationary policy of this administration, is to basically blow money into the system by relieving debt.

00:38:11.000 The administration is touting those cancellations.

00:38:13.000 On the same week, most borrowers returned to making payments for the first time since they were paused in March 2020 as part of the COVID-19 pandemic relief.

00:38:21.000 The piecemeal approach to debt cancellation adds up.

00:38:23.000 The administration has now wiped out $127 billion in student debt, nearly one-third of the projected cost of the failed mass cancellation plan.

00:38:31.000 So the Supreme Court says you can't do it.

00:38:32.000 Joe Biden just finds another way to do it.

00:38:34.000 That's the way this works.

00:38:35.000 Meanwhile, mortgage rates are hitting 7.5%.

00:38:38.000 The real estate market is beginning to tank because, again, there's no one out there to buy up the real estate that's being put on the market.

00:38:43.000 And right now, there's no inventory.

00:38:45.000 It's a weird, sticky situation.

00:38:46.000 You're not going to sell your house to get into an 8% mortgage when you have a 4% mortgage on your house right now.

00:38:52.000 So there's not a lot of inventory.

00:38:53.000 So the prices aren't really dropping because there's not a lot of inventory.

00:38:55.000 But if there were inventory, the prices would be dropping because nobody can afford to buy this stuff.

00:39:00.000 That's gonna come unglued at a certain point.

00:39:01.000 At a certain point, people aren't gonna be able to make their mortgage on the 4% house.

00:39:04.000 They're not gonna be able to pay that, and they're gonna be forced to sell the house.

00:39:09.000 And once that starts happening, then you're gonna see a real estate crash.

00:39:12.000 Mortgage applications, by the way, are plummeting for just this reason.

00:39:15.000 At the exact same time that all of this is happening, Joe Biden is presiding over massive strikes affecting the American economy.

00:39:21.000 The autoworker strike has still not been resolved.

00:39:23.000 Meanwhile, Kaiser Permanente is now on strike.

00:39:26.000 This is the largest U.S.

00:39:27.000 healthcare walkout on record.

00:39:29.000 That's just what we need right now, in a time of rising cost, is we need all of the healthcare workers walking out. 0.89

00:39:34.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, more than 75,000 nurses, pharmacists, and other employees of Kaiser Permanente walked off the job Wednesday in the largest U.S.

00:39:40.000 healthcare strike on record.

00:39:42.000 The workers struck after contracts expired and their unions couldn't reach an agreement with Kaiser on how much a new deal would increase wages and staffing.

00:39:48.000 Kaiser has brought on thousands of temp workers to fill some vacancies.

00:39:52.000 They're starting to postpone appointments, I mean, what a disaster area.

00:39:57.000 Acting U.S.

00:39:57.000 Secretary of Labor Julie Hsu has met with both sides to help resolve the strike and is seeking to move the talks forward to reach a resolution.

00:40:04.000 The strike, which is scheduled to last as long as three days, adds hospitals, pharmacies, and clinics to workplaces ruled by labor action this year.

00:40:10.000 Why do you think this is happening?

00:40:12.000 Why is this happening?

00:40:13.000 Well, people say it's the tight labor market. 0.90

00:40:14.000 It's not the tight labor market.

00:40:16.000 The tight labor market automatically drives up the price of labor. 0.99

00:40:19.000 The reason they're striking is because Joe Biden is in the White House and his entire administration is in hock to the labor unions.

00:40:24.000 That is why they know that the Secretary of Labor is going to jet on in and cram something down on Kaiser.

00:40:30.000 Kaiser, by the way, serves almost 13 million members at 40 hospitals and more than 620 medical offices.

00:40:37.000 The work stoppage involves Kaiser workers in five states and Washington, D.C.

00:40:42.000 It's the largest action by healthcare workers since 1993.

00:40:46.000 Kaiser Union said inflation has eroded employee wages.

00:40:48.000 Whose fault is that?

00:40:48.000 Joe Biden's.

00:40:49.000 Staff shortages are burning out workers while compromising the quality of care.

00:40:53.000 Workers are demanding that Kaiser do more to boost hiring and keep workers, such as offering better raises.

00:40:58.000 The cost of living is not matching the current wages we are losing in people.

00:41:01.000 Kaiser said its compensation leads its markets and the company has already increased hiring.

00:41:05.000 The reason these strikes are happening, again, is because Joe Biden is President of the United States.

00:41:10.000 That is the reason that Joe Biden is presiding over all of this.

00:41:13.000 He owns this economy.

00:41:14.000 Bidenomics is all of this.

00:41:15.000 It is healthcare strikes.

00:41:16.000 It is UAW strikes.

00:41:17.000 It is a failure to be able to sell American bonds at the rates that are necessary to even be able to sustain our debt.

00:41:24.000 Economic stagnation is the real threat of the Biden administration.

00:41:27.000 I've said this for at least a year and a half at this point.

00:41:30.000 The threat is not inflation.

00:41:32.000 Inflation is bad.

00:41:33.000 Inflation is terrible.

00:41:33.000 The real threat is economic stagnation built off inflation, higher interest rates, regulatory strictness, labor unions.

00:41:41.000 All of that is just sand in the mill.

00:41:46.000 It is sticking up all of the wheels of the economy.

00:41:49.000 And Joe Biden is responsible for every single part of that.

00:41:51.000 And meanwhile, Joe Biden is in such serious political trouble that he's starting to just implement Donald Trump's plans right now.

00:41:56.000 According to the Associated Press, the Biden administration announced it waived 26 federal laws in South Texas to allow border wall construction on Wednesday, marking the administration's first use of a sweeping executive power employed often during the Trump presidency.

00:42:07.000 Wait, are you saying now there's a crisis on the border?

00:42:09.000 Are you saying that people are just rushing the border?

00:42:11.000 Are you now saying that maybe it's a good idea to build the wall, Joe Biden?

00:42:14.000 I thought it was really bad.

00:42:15.000 Where's AOC crying at the border?

00:42:17.000 Where is she in her white outfit crying at empty parking lots? 1.00

00:42:20.000 Where is she?

00:42:20.000 The Department of Homeland Security posted the announcement on the U.S.

00:42:23.000 Federal Registry with few details outlining the construction in Starr County, Texas, which is a busy border patrol sector seeing high illegal entry.

00:42:30.000 According to government data, about 245,000 illegal entries have been recorded so far this fiscal year in just the Rio Grande Valley sector, which contains 21 counties.

00:42:40.000 Alejandro Mayorkas, who should absolutely be impeached, he's not doing his job, he said there is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States in the project areas.

00:42:52.000 I love how far they are going to just not say the word wall.

00:42:56.000 Pretty amazing, right?

00:42:57.000 Construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border.

00:43:02.000 Do you mean a border wall?

00:43:04.000 Is that what you are trying to say?

00:43:06.000 Star County's hilly ranchlands sitting between Zapata and McAllen, Texas is home to about 65,000 residents.

00:43:12.000 Although no maps were provided in the announcement, CBP announced the project in June and began gathering public comments in August when it shared a map of the additional construction that can add up to 20 miles to the existing border barrier system in the area.

00:43:24.000 So now, it is Joe Biden who is building the wall.

00:43:29.000 During the Trump administration, about 450 miles of wall were built along the southwest border between 2017 and January of 2021.

00:43:36.000 Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been doing it himself.

00:43:39.000 The DHS's decision on Wednesday contrasts the Biden administration's posturing when a proclamation to end the construction on January 20, 2021.

00:43:46.000 Quote, building a massive wall that spans the entire southern border is not a serious policy solution.

00:43:52.000 So, good to see that Joe Biden has been clocked in the face by reality.

00:43:56.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:43:59.000 So, things that I like.

00:44:02.000 William Lane Craig, I've recommended his books on the program before.

00:44:05.000 He writes a lot about logical proofs of God.

00:44:08.000 I have an entire video in my series debunked where I talk about plausible logical proofs for God.

00:44:13.000 Do I think any of them are dispositive or inarguable?

00:44:16.000 Of course not.

00:44:17.000 I don't think that you can logically prove that there is a God.

00:44:20.000 I do think that you can suggest that there are very logical arguments to suggest a God.

00:44:24.000 I think that you can say that there is a prevalence of the evidence that suggests that there is a God.

00:44:29.000 And again, I actually don't think that most people come to God by being argued into it.

00:44:32.000 With that said, one of the best expositors of these sorts of arguments is William Lane Craig, who's a Christian apologist.

00:44:38.000 He has a great book called The Kalam Cosmological Argument.

00:44:40.000 It's actually based on ancient Islamic sources.

00:44:44.000 It's discussed in Maimonides.

00:44:45.000 The Kalam Cosmological Argument is all about the idea that there is a first cause to the universe.

00:44:51.000 And William Lane Craig gets very detailed in this.

00:44:53.000 This is one of his more sophisticated books.

00:44:54.000 He also has a bunch that are directed at the more general reader.

00:44:57.000 Totally worth the read.

00:44:59.000 William Lane Craig's The Kalam Cosmological Argument.

00:45:01.000 Go check it out today.

00:45:02.000 Okay, time for some things that I hate.

00:45:09.000 So, Pope Francis seems wildly unconcerned about human sin, but he's very concerned about climate change.

00:45:15.000 Again, I'm not a Catholic, so I don't have a dog in this fight.

00:45:19.000 Other than, as a member of Western civilization, I think that the Catholic Church moving away from its traditional roots in terms of morality is a massive mistake that is going to lead to extraordinary societal consequences.

00:45:31.000 Pope Francis is putting outsized impact on what he terms social justice, which is to say redistributionist economics.

00:45:38.000 And then he is adding on to that climate change, and these are like his top priorities.

00:45:41.000 Meanwhile, he's talking about how maybe, maybe, maybe, priests should be able to give blessings to same-sex unions, which of course is weird since homosexual activity in the Bible is a sin. 0.91

00:45:52.000 And the Catholic Church has always said that.

00:45:54.000 By now, Pope Francis is focusing laser-like on climate change.

00:45:56.000 Pope Francis on Wednesday, according to the New York Times, once again implored the world to protect the suffering planet, lamenting in a major new document that scant progress had been made in the eight years since he refocused the Roman Catholic Church more fully on environmental issues in a landmark treatise that catapulted him to the forefront of climate activism.

00:46:13.000 In the near decade since global fanfare plaudits from leaders and talk of a game-changing shift for the church greeted France's first call to confront climate change, things have only gotten worse.

00:46:20.000 Well, yeah, because as it turns out, you have a massive collective action problem when it comes to climate change.

00:46:24.000 China ain't signing on.

00:46:25.000 India ain't signing on. 1.00

00:46:27.000 It is unclear what level of actual mitigation of the amount of carbon moving into the atmosphere would result in what amount of actual lowered climate over time.

00:46:40.000 Those are pretty systemic barriers.

00:46:43.000 Also, you're the Pope.

00:46:44.000 Shouldn't you really be worried a lot about, you know, saving souls and human sin?

00:46:47.000 Shouldn't that be like the biggest thing that you're focused on?

00:46:50.000 While Francis' message remained the same, his voice has faded, Wednesday's document, an apostolic exhortation called Laudate Deum, or Praise God, amounted to a tacit acknowledgement that Francis' initial appeal to save the planet has gone largely unheeded.

00:47:03.000 He says, once and for all, let us put an end to the irresponsible derision that would present this issue as something purely ecological, green, romantic, frequently subject to ridicule by economic interests.

00:47:12.000 Well, I mean, it is green and romantic if you don't actually have a plan to effectuate the thing.

00:47:16.000 Or if the plan to effectuate the thing means people in developing countries have to live in abject poverty.

00:47:21.000 Or if your idea is let's just wreck the Western economy.

00:47:23.000 None of that stuff's gonna happen.

00:47:25.000 So again, Pope Francis, let's just say not my favorite pope.

00:47:29.000 Alrighty guys, the rest of the show continues right now.

00:47:31.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

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00:47:35.000 Apparently his wife struck and killed the dude while driving in 2018.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - October 05, 2023

Who Wants To Be Speaker of the House?

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