The Ben Shapiro Show - Yes, We’re Making a Movie With JONATHAN MAJORS

00:00:00.000 Yes, the rumors are true.

00:00:01.000 Jonathan Majors, the massive movie star, is joining a Daily Wire production.

00:00:05.000 I'll have all the details for you in just one moment.

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00:00:42.000 Well, yes, we here at the Daily Wire are doing the things that other companies won't do.

00:00:48.000 Particularly, we are playing in the cultural space.

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00:00:54.000 You've seen us do this over and over and over again.

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00:00:57.000 There were rumors yesterday that the Daily Wire is working with the formal Marvel action star, Jonathan Majors, to make a brand new action movie.

00:01:06.000 Those rumors are true, and we are ecstatic about this.

00:01:09.000 Jonathan Majors is unbelievably talented.

00:01:12.000 Now, there are a bunch of people on Twitter, particularly on the left, who are very upset about this.

00:01:16.000 And let's be clear, they are not upset because Jonathan Majors was canceled back in 2023 over what was, at best, a pretty empty conviction.

00:01:26.000 That is not why they are upset today.

00:01:28.000 The reason they're upset today is because they don't want anyone in the right working with actually talented stars.

00:01:33.000 They don't want that happening, and that's why we are doing it.

00:01:36.000 So for those who are concerned about Jonathan Majors' past and all that, Harry Levin over at TMZ had a good rundown on the case.

00:01:44.000 Here's what he had to say.

00:01:47.000 Congratulations to Jonathan Majors.

00:01:49.000 He is back shooting movies.

00:01:51.000 He is shooting a movie in South Carolina right now.

00:01:54.000 This is after a four-year kind of not self-imposed hiatus, you know, after the trial with his ex-girlfriend.

00:02:05.000 I'm going to say it again.

00:02:06.000 Jonathan Majors got screwed by Hollywood because he won that trial.

00:02:12.000 If you remember, his ex-girlfriend said that Jonathan had assaulted her in a vehicle inside a vehicle in the back seat.

00:02:21.000 I think it was an Uber.

00:02:22.000 And, you know, when they got in the car, you see him kind of push her in.

00:02:28.000 They didn't prosecute him for the little pushing in.

00:02:31.000 That was not what this case was about.

00:02:33.000 It was about whether he assaulted her inside the vehicle.

00:02:36.000 The jury voted unanimously not guilty, that he did not do it.

00:02:42.000 This is after the Uber driver testified.

00:02:44.000 Others testified.

00:02:46.000 And the jury said it didn't happen.

00:02:48.000 They convicted him because he did kind of push her into the cab.

00:02:54.000 That's never why, not at all why he was prosecuted.

00:02:58.000 He won that case, but Hollywood is so skittish that they basically banished him.

00:03:05.000 He's back, and he's a big star.

00:03:08.000 And I got to say, I always thought that Hollywood screwed him.

00:03:12.000 And so he is back shooting this movie.

00:03:13.000 It's really interesting.

00:03:14.000 He's shooting it with the Daily Wire is producing it.

00:03:18.000 And they have produced other movies where people have been kind of in similar situations.

00:03:23.000 Gina Carano, they did a movie with her.

00:03:25.000 The Daily Wire is a conservative outlet.

00:03:28.000 And I think that it's not an accident that the Daily Wire is one of the producers of this film.

00:03:33.000 I think there is kind of a reaction.

00:03:37.000 Well, yes, there is a reaction.

00:03:38.000 And this isn't the first time that we have worked to uncancel someone who is improperly canceled.

00:03:44.000 Obviously, Gina Carano being an obvious example after she was canceled by Disney for the great crime of tweeting something that they didn't like. 1.00

00:03:50.000 And now, obviously, Disney has had to back off of that position and said that they will work with Gina again. 0.64

00:03:55.000 Again, Gina's about to do a fight on Netflix. 1.00

00:03:58.000 So congrats to Gina. 1.00

00:04:00.000 There have been other people that we've worked with in this vein.

00:04:02.000 Roseanne Barr works with us on Bircham.

00:04:04.000 So we're proud to be working with Jonathan.

00:04:06.000 Not just that, folks.

00:04:07.000 This movie that we are producing with Jonathan, it is going to explode brains.

00:04:11.000 It is truly going.

00:04:11.000 I wish I could tell you more.

00:04:13.000 I really wish that I could tell you more about what we are doing here, what this movie is going.

00:04:19.000 We will have updates for you over the course of the coming months, but it is audacious and it is radical and it is unbelievable.

00:04:28.000 And so, yes, that is something that Daily Wire is doing.

00:04:30.000 We are very excited to announce that we're working with Jonathan Majors.

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00:05:58.000 And meanwhile, in other entertainment news, Netflix has now backed out of its bid for Warner Brothers.

00:06:03.000 This was a very hotly thought bid for Warner Brothers.

00:06:07.000 Paramount is now set to pick it up.

00:06:09.000 According to the Hollywood Reporter, in a stunning twist, Netflix is declining to raise its bid for Warner Brothers, positioning David Ellison's Paramount as the winner in the battle for the Fabled studio.

00:06:19.000 Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters released a statement Thursday outlining their decision, saying the deal is no longer financially attractive and that it was always nice to have at the right price, but not a must-have at any price.

00:06:30.000 Netflix's stock actually went up in the aftermath of them announcing that they were dropping their bid.

00:06:35.000 Obviously, what had originally happened is that Warner Brothers had accepted Netflix's bid and turned down Paramount's bid, and then Paramount kept upping its bid to the point where finally, there is no way for Warner Brothers to refuse the bid.

00:06:48.000 Apparently, they're leveraging up in order to execute this bid.

00:06:52.000 The price that they are seeking is extraordinary.

00:06:54.000 I mean, this is a very, very high price.

00:06:57.000 Paramount's latest proposal was for $31 per share, which is unbelievable.

00:07:03.000 It had a number of other sweeteners, including a ticking fee payable to shareholders equal to 25 cents per quarter beginning after September 30th, 2027, as well as a $7 billion regulatory termination if the transaction doesn't close.

00:07:16.000 So that means that they're going to shell out $7 billion if this thing somehow falls apart.

00:07:21.000 Paramount even agreed to pay the $2.8 billion termination fee that Warner Brothers would be required to pay to Netflix to terminate the existing merger agreement.

00:07:30.000 Now, there are people on the left who are very upset about this too, because the way that it works, apparently on the left, is that they must have total cultural dominance in every sphere or they get very upset for the same reason.

00:07:41.000 The left is not upset that we are working with Jonathan Majors because they're very upset at Jonathan Majors.

00:07:46.000 They're upset because of us.

00:07:47.000 That's why.

00:07:48.000 Okay, this is the same sort of thing.

00:07:50.000 They're very upset because if Hollywood had said, listen, Jonathan Majors did what he was supposed to do, he did his court-ordered counseling and all the rest, and now we're bringing him back as Kang the Conqueror in Marvel.

00:08:01.000 Everybody would have gone, oh, that's nice, that's good.

00:08:03.000 But because it's us, that's the thing they're upset about.

00:08:06.000 They don't want people who are not radically of the left playing in their spaces.

00:08:11.000 They don't like it at all, which is precisely why we are doing it.

00:08:15.000 You can see the same sentiment now being applied to the Ellisons picking up Warner Brothers.

00:08:22.000 So, Jim Acosta, who, ladies, find you a man who loves you like Jim Acosta, loves Jim Acosta, the former CNN reporter, he put out a statement, quote, as I've been warning, America now has state-compromised media.

00:08:33.000 When 60 Minutes or CNN is in trouble, we're all in trouble.

00:08:36.000 Trump has cracked the code in how to hurt the press.

00:08:38.000 Free speech is now at risk.

00:08:39.000 MAGA corporations must not control the news, support independent media.

00:08:44.000 And so, first of all, let me just point out that the very cozy hand-in-glove relationship between the government and various news outlets was very, very, very cozy during Joe Biden, so much so that they basically covered up the fact that he was no longer functional in the brain.

00:08:59.000 The relationship between Barack Obama and press outlets like CNN at the time was unbelievably warm.

00:09:05.000 They never asked him tough questions.

00:09:07.000 We all know this.

00:09:08.000 So, the sudden shock of, oh my God, somebody who disagrees with us politically sometimes might own a network that I used to work at.

00:09:15.000 Whoa, oh no, what are we going to do?

00:09:18.000 Get over it, Madud.

00:09:19.000 CNN is not going to radically change its programming.

00:09:19.000 Let's be real.

00:09:22.000 And again, you've seen the left go insane over Barry Weiss taking over CBS News.

00:09:26.000 Barry Weiss is not a flaming right-winger.

00:09:29.000 I know Barry. 0.99

00:09:30.000 That's ridiculous. 0.77

00:09:30.000 I'm friends with Barry. 0.77

00:09:31.000 Barry is pretty much dead center.

00:09:35.000 Barry is not some sort of radical right-wing voice.

00:09:39.000 The attempt to turn her into one is a reactionary response to the fact that the left has had complete monopolistic dominance in these spaces for a super long time.

00:09:48.000 And now that is ending.

00:09:49.000 And that ending is a very, very good thing.

00:09:52.000 What's the actual outcome going to be in terms of Paramount now being in charge of HBO or in charge of CNN?

00:09:58.000 We don't know yet.

00:09:59.000 We'll have to see how all of that plays out.

00:10:02.000 And frankly, were it I, the amount that is being paid out for Warner Brothers seems exorbitant to me.

00:10:10.000 The sales price is insane.

00:10:15.000 It's like $111 billion.

00:10:18.000 That's a lot of money.

00:10:19.000 I feel like I could make a lot of content for $111 billion.

00:10:23.000 But they wanted the IP.

00:10:25.000 They wanted particularly things like the Harry Potter IP and the Batman IP and all the rest.

00:10:30.000 Do I think that Netflix is in serious trouble now?

00:10:33.000 No, I don't.

00:10:34.000 Do I think that Paramount is better off?

00:10:36.000 We'll have to see.

00:10:38.000 But the actual resistance to the thing, the reason people are angry, once again, has nothing to do, nothing to do with the sort of idea that entertainment is somehow going to be made worse by all of this.

00:10:50.000 They're just angry that someone that they disagree with politically made a move.

00:10:54.000 That's all.

00:10:56.000 Well, speaking of people making moves, apparently in California, it has now been decided that it is worthwhile for a registered sex offender to run for city council.

00:11:10.000 This is a move.

00:11:15.000 I guess the end of the road for Democratic politicians is to normalize sex offenses as some sort of resistance against the paternalistic state. 0.98

00:11:26.000 Okay.

00:11:27.000 Rene Campos, a Fresno native, requires you to register as a sex offender, has now announced plans to run for District 7 seat on the Fresno City Council.

00:11:36.000 He was charged in 2018 with possession of child sex abuse material.

00:11:44.000 Here's the explanation.

00:11:46.000 Oh, I believe Fresno deserves leaders that are honest from the very beginning, not the end.

00:11:51.000 So going into this, I'm putting my life out there.

00:11:55.000 So I say, let's choose somebody outside the box, somebody who knows the system from inside out.

00:12:01.000 Because me, I've experienced the laws that we are trying to reform right now.

00:12:08.000 Well, I mean, that's a hell of an argument.

00:12:10.000 So you experienced the law because you are convicted of child sex abuse material possession.

00:12:18.000 So now you should make the law.

00:12:21.000 Okay.

00:12:23.000 But of course, California is indeed a crazy place, which brings us to Gavin Newsom.

00:12:23.000 Okay.

00:12:28.000 So Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, he is constantly trying to swim in every pond simultaneously.

00:12:35.000 Gavin Newsom has more political positions than the Comma Sutra.

00:12:38.000 Gavin Newsom has taken every position it is possible to take.

00:12:42.000 When I do a podcast with Gavin Newsom, then he tries to play moderate on a wild variety of issues.

00:12:47.000 But when he is in left-wing circles, then all of a sudden he's left of Karl Marx.

00:12:52.000 So yesterday, the governor of California said that California was born of genocide.

00:13:00.000 This is so tiring.

00:13:01.000 It's so tiring.

00:13:02.000 Guys, just be normal.

00:13:04.000 Just be somebody, somewhere, some, please, on the left, on the right, like, can we all just be normal a little bit?

00:13:09.000 Like a little normal, please?

00:13:11.000 I know it's a lot to ask in our crazy social media era and in the era when the nuttiest people control the primaries, but like seriously, some normality, like just a little.

00:13:21.000 Here's Gavin Newsom explaining that he runs a genocide state or something.

00:13:26.000 I begin the book talking about looking out over the American River where Eureka, Eureka was yelled and yellow gold and how we were born of genocide in California.

00:13:39.000 I try to paint a picture that is about California.

00:13:42.000 It's about America.

00:13:43.000 It's the journey.

00:13:43.000 It's my family.

00:13:45.000 And so I do think there's aspects of this that people can connect to in a very meaningful way, I hope.

00:13:52.000 Oh, boy.

00:13:54.000 I mean, by the way, there was not a genocide.

00:13:58.000 That is not a thing.

00:13:59.000 Disease is not a genocide.

00:14:02.000 What killed an enormous part of the population of Native Americans in the United States was not violent war.

00:14:07.000 It was actual disease.

00:14:09.000 Disease not purposefully spread, like in a concentration camp, is not a genocide.

00:14:17.000 Again, Gavin Newsom told me right now, he doesn't even know the definition of the word genocide.

00:14:22.000 This is like two months ago.

00:14:25.000 What is your opinion of this?

00:14:27.000 My opinion is I understand the tendency for people to make that, to assert that.

00:14:36.000 On the basis of the images and the proportionality.

00:14:36.000 Why?

00:14:42.000 It doesn't mean genocide.

00:14:43.000 No, no.

00:14:44.000 And by the way, I agree with you. 0.89

00:14:45.000 And international and internationality doesn't mean that if you kill my child and I then kill seven criminals, that I've been disproportionate.

00:14:53.000 I'm not disagreeing with you, but I think the but I understand that tendency on the basis of trying to reconcile the proportionate nature of how the war was ultimately conducted.

00:15:07.000 Why do you feel the need to create a permission structure for that sort of stuff?

00:15:13.000 I mean, meaning it's not true.

00:15:16.000 Why not just say it's not true?

00:15:17.000 Yeah, look, I don't know the definition.

00:15:19.000 I don't know the legal threshold.

00:15:20.000 That's not my opinion.

00:15:21.000 So I don't share that opinion as it relates to genocide.

00:15:25.000 I do not agree with that notion.

00:15:28.000 Okay, so he doesn't know what a genocide is, but also California is built on genocide or some such nonsense.

00:15:33.000 Why can't people just be normal?

00:15:34.000 Just be normal.

00:15:34.000 Just tell the truth and be normal.

00:15:37.000 I will say that Gavin Newsom is better than the other Democrats who are running because he's more Clintonian than anything else.

00:15:42.000 He's super, he's super squirrely on pretty much every issue, which I will admit is better than the ideological rigor that is usually demanded inside the Democratic Party.

00:15:52.000 Someone who's perfectly consistent, Representative Ayanna Presley.

00:15:56.000 And she represents a huge chunk of the Democratic Party, at least in her ideology.

00:16:00.000 And she says that ICE, like the KKK, cannot be reformed.

00:16:04.000 Someone who's been calling for the defunding and abolishing of it since 2018, it cannot be reformed.

00:16:10.000 This is not about training, in my opinion.

00:16:13.000 This is not about new standards or protocols.

00:16:15.000 If the KKK cannot be reformed, then ICE certainly cannot be because this is just another group of masked white militia.

00:16:30.000 Oh, boy.

00:16:32.000 Oh, boy.

00:16:34.000 So, again, this is the heart of the Democratic Party.

00:16:38.000 We're finding that out anew over in Texas, where Jasmine Crockett is running against James Tallarico.

00:16:42.000 So, James Tallarico was supposed to be the new Beto O'Rourke.

00:16:46.000 He was going to be the hot new Democrat running in Texas, who's going to defeat the Republicans and walk away with the Senate seat.

00:16:53.000 And a lot of elite coastal money was pouring into James Tallarico.

00:16:56.000 He was appearing on late night television.

00:16:59.000 He was sort of a straight Pete Buddijej.

00:17:03.000 And it turns out that actually in the Democratic primaries in Texas, the person leading is certifiable nutjob Jasmine Crockett, who has spent her career cosplaying as a sort of low-rent demagogic politician, switching her accent, speaking differently, using extraordinarily evocative language.

00:17:25.000 Well, right now, according to a brand new poll, the Texas Tribune Reporting, Crockett has garnered the support of 56% of voters.

00:17:34.000 Tallarico is stuck at 44%.

00:17:37.000 She has a massive advantage with black voters. 0.97

00:17:39.000 She has 87% support with black voters.

00:17:42.000 Tallerico only has a narrow advantage with white voters.

00:17:45.000 He only wins them by six.

00:17:46.000 Hispanic voters are a virtual toss-up with Crockett leading by four points.

00:17:52.000 That same poll, by the way, shows Attorney General Ken Paxton and John Cornyn running neck and neck.

00:17:58.000 Paxton's at 36, Cornyn at 34.

00:18:00.000 There will likely be a runoff because the way that it works in Texas is that if nobody hits 50%, there's a runoff between the top two candidates.

00:18:08.000 Jasmine Crockett, man, Democrats are so, this is so crazy. 0.98

00:18:11.000 Just stop being crazy. 0.99

00:18:13.000 Why are you all being crazy? 0.52

00:18:14.000 I mean, seriously, better for Republicans if Jasmine Crockett's the nominee. 1.00

00:18:17.000 So I guess I'm not complaining, but I am a little complaining because I would like for both major parties to stop nominating and electing nut jobs to high office. 1.00

00:18:25.000 That would be awesome.

00:18:26.000 Seriously.

00:18:28.000 How do you know that this is going poorly?

00:18:29.000 Cardi B is out there stumping for Jasmine Crockett.

00:18:33.000 Here she was.

00:18:35.000 All right, man.

00:18:37.000 Listen up, y'all.

00:18:38.000 Early primary voting is happening right now in Texas, and we need Jasmine Crockett to win. 1.00

00:18:44.000 She is running for U.S. Senate.

00:18:46.000 And if you want somebody that's going to fight for your right, if you want somebody to fight for your community, if you want somebody that's going to go up there and represent you and represent your issues, please vote for my sister, Jasmine Crockett.

00:19:00.000 Because one thing about it, she's going to fight her best.

00:19:03.000 She's going to fight whoever she has to. 0.95

00:19:05.000 So your voice and your problems could be heard.

00:19:08.000 Vote right now.

00:19:09.000 This counts so much.

00:19:11.000 Vote right now.

00:19:15.000 Well, if it seems as though Cardi B is unbalanced, it's because she is a little unbalanced.

00:19:22.000 But I mean, like, physically, I don't mean mentally unbalanced.

00:19:24.000 She might be that, but she is actually physically unbalanced. 0.97

00:19:28.000 I mean, a couple of clips of her recently falling over.

00:19:33.000 I assume due to disproportionality.

00:19:43.000 I love that then just to play it into more pornographic action.

00:19:47.000 She falls off the chair and immediately starts acting even more pornographic than normal. 1.00

00:19:52.000 I mean, that fellow is close upon an incident just a few weeks ago in which she tried to get all up on a robot and then fell over.

00:20:01.000 So I guess AI for the win.

00:20:05.000 Here she was giving her lap dance to a robot.

00:20:07.000 The photographers boom.

00:20:09.000 Oh, down she goes.

00:20:11.000 Down she goes.

00:20:13.000 The robot made an aggressive move on her. 0.99

00:20:16.000 Our politics are so everyone's health.

00:20:18.000 Everything is healthy.

00:20:19.000 Everything is going perfectly well.

00:20:20.000 Well, over at the Oval Office, it seems to me that the president should not be normalizing people on the left who are, in fact, radicals.

00:20:28.000 And yet the president did precisely that yesterday in New York City, taking happy pictures with Zorhan Mamdani, our Marxist, stealth jihadist supporting mayor of New York. 0.67

00:20:39.000 Momdani keeps visiting, and as long as he is nice to Trump, Trump is nice to him.

00:20:43.000 This is the very basic rule of President Trump.

00:20:45.000 I do not think it is a good rule, but it happens to be the reality.

00:20:48.000 Mayor Mamdani went there.

00:20:50.000 He put out a tweet saying, I had a productive meeting with President Trump this afternoon.

00:20:53.000 I'm looking forward to building more housing in New York City.

00:20:55.000 So how exactly did Momdani woo Trump?

00:20:58.000 He brought him a fake newspaper that said, I'm not even kidding you.

00:21:03.000 He brought him a fake newspaper, juxtaposed to a real one.

00:21:06.000 So there was a newspaper, the New York Daily News, back during the Ford era, the Gerald Ford era, there was a headline that said Ford to City dropped dead.

00:21:16.000 That's when he rejected aid to New York.

00:21:19.000 So now Momdani brought a fake New York Daily News headline that said, Trump to City, let's build.

00:21:25.000 And there's Trump grinning with it.

00:21:26.000 My dude, Mr. President, I support you.

00:21:31.000 I think you've done an enormous lot of good.

00:21:34.000 Please do not be suckered by the silliness of Zorhan Mamdani.

00:21:38.000 Please don't do it.

00:21:40.000 Please don't do it.

00:21:41.000 It's ridiculous because it's not just that Momdani is now announcing that President Trump will provide $21 billion in federal grants for a long-stalled project that would involve building 12,000 affordable apartments in an entirely new neighborhood on top of sunnyside yards in Queens.

00:21:57.000 It's not just that he pitched Trump on that.

00:21:59.000 So your federal taxpayer dollars now go to subsidize Zorhan Mamdani's agenda in New York City, which I do not think is a good idea.

00:22:05.000 I don't understand why my, I'm paying a lot of taxes to the federal government.

00:22:08.000 I don't know why I'm paying for Zorhan Mamdani's affordable housing proposals in New York City.

00:22:12.000 No.

00:22:13.000 You want to do it in New York?

00:22:14.000 Go for it yourself.

00:22:15.000 That's your problem.

00:22:16.000 That is not the problem of taxpayers living in other parts of the country.

00:22:19.000 This is why federalism exists.

00:22:21.000 And the president doing that because he got handed a headline by Zorhan Mamdani.

00:22:24.000 I'm no on that.

00:22:26.000 But it's not just that.

00:22:27.000 The president also then bent over backwards to please Mamdani over a Columbia student named Elmina Agaeva, who was detained by ICE.

00:22:41.000 And he put out a statement, just got off the phone with President Trump in our meeting earlier.

00:22:45.000 I shared my concerns about Columbia student Elmina Agaeva, who was detained by ICE this morning.

00:22:50.000 He has just informed me she will be released immediately.

00:22:52.000 This is not the way that law and order works.

00:22:54.000 If she violated the law, she should be deported.

00:22:56.000 If she did not violate the law, she should not be deported.

00:22:58.000 This sort of bizarre picking and choosing who should be deported and who shouldn't based on personal like and dislike.

00:23:06.000 Yeah, it's strange.

00:23:09.000 It's a strange thing.

00:23:11.000 And somehow supercharging Zorhan Mamdani's popularity back home.

00:23:17.000 That is a fail. 0.98

00:23:18.000 By the way, New York is still being run like trash. 0.97

00:23:22.000 Yesterday, Manhattan DA dropped a charge against a New Yorker who was assaulting police officers by throwing snowballs at them. 0.87

00:23:34.000 Patrick Hendry, president of the Police Benevolence Association, told reporters that the purported snowball fight was an attack on the uniform these police officers wear every day.

00:23:43.000 Doesn't matter that you dropped it.

00:23:46.000 Meanwhile, workers in New York are getting paid $45 an hour, $45 an hour to shovel snow.

00:23:54.000 So what do you see in the video of them shoveling snow?

00:23:58.000 Nine dudes surrounding one snowball and shoveling one snowball.

00:24:03.000 Look at this.

00:24:04.000 Look at this.

00:24:04.000 You just had a bunch of people standing around doing the worst shoveling I have ever seen.

00:24:09.000 You mean if you pay city workers $45 an hour to shovel, they're going to slow walk their shoveling?

00:24:16.000 Who would have known?

00:24:17.000 Who could have ever predicted such a thing?

00:24:20.000 The government is great at overpaying for bloated bureaucratic nonsense and wasting your money.

00:24:26.000 Don't humor that.

00:24:27.000 Please don't humor that.

00:24:28.000 And meanwhile, I've spoken about the craziness of the left quite a lot.

00:24:32.000 The craziness of the right is no less bothersome to me.

00:24:36.000 I want to give some credit to our own Matt Walsh, who yesterday went after Candace Owens. 0.88

00:24:41.000 Candace Owens, of course, has been spreading complete poppycock nonsense trash about Erica Kirk since shortly after Erica Kirk's husband was murdered in front of all of us. 1.00

00:24:50.000 I've talked about this extensively. 0.92

00:24:52.000 I've been calling it out extensively for months.

00:24:54.000 Matt Walsh did an entire episode yesterday that is totally worth the listen, in which he broke down Candace's bizarro world conspiracy theories about Erica Kirk.

00:25:05.000 Here was Matt taking this on.

00:25:09.000 There isn't enough evidence to justify dragging her into a police precinct, much less charging her with a crime, much less convicting her.

00:25:17.000 There isn't any evidence, actual positive evidence that Erica has committed any crime or covered up any crime or had any involvement in any crime, to include especially the crime of murdering her husband.

00:25:29.000 And that's why, although the innuendos about Erica may be compelling fodder for YouTube videos, they would not be compelling to a grand jury or a prosecutor or a judge.

00:25:39.000 If you took everything that's been said about Erica or implied and tried to present it as evidence in a court of law, you would be laughed out of the room.

00:25:48.000 There's no case here.

00:25:50.000 There's no evidence of anything.

00:25:53.000 Now, these attacks on Erica by Candace and by everyone else engaged in this campaign are wrong, deeply, desperately wrong.

00:26:02.000 Wrong morally and factually.

00:26:05.000 They are wrong morally because they are wrong factually.

00:26:12.000 Hey, I don't understand why it's hard for others to say the same thing.

00:26:15.000 Matt, of course, saying the obvious here, but we live in an era where saying the obvious requires some measure of actual courage.

00:26:22.000 Walsh continued by saying, of course, Erica didn't do this. 0.68

00:26:24.000 Stop with this nonsense.

00:26:27.000 The point is that Erica didn't do any of that.

00:26:30.000 There is no evidence that she did any of that.

00:26:32.000 No evidence at all, period.

00:26:35.000 Defaming anybody with untrue accusations is very bad, but defaming a widow, the grieving wife of a man that we all say we loved and admired, is unspeakably, horrifically bad. 0.99

00:26:47.000 And then, as Matt pointed out, and as I have been pointing out for months and months and months at this point, the fact is that we know who killed Charlie Kirk, and the entire right has been misdirected from talking about, for example, trans act of violence because of the rabbit hole stupidity of a conspiratorial right that is eating itself alive.

00:27:10.000 Even if you don't like how she acts, the pants she wears, her facial expressions, anything else, you have no actual evidence-based reason to think that she is guilty of committing any crime. 0.73

00:27:25.000 And if she isn't guilty of a crime, then all you're doing is nitpicking a widow, which is every bit like critiquing the color of somebody's nail polish while you watch them drown in the ocean and make no attempt to help.

00:27:40.000 Yes, maybe she made an odd choice of nail polish that day. 0.98

00:27:45.000 She's also drowning. 0.96

00:27:47.000 And that would seem to be the more salient fact.

00:27:50.000 And it's interesting to me to note that Tyler Robinson is not subjected to even a fraction of the public scrutiny, even though all of the evidence, literally all of the evidence points to him.

00:28:04.000 There is no evidence connecting Erica to the crime.

00:28:09.000 All of it.

00:28:11.000 All of the evidence we do have, every bit of it connects Tyler Robinson to it.

00:28:15.000 And yet for some reason, he's not the subject of public scorn.

00:28:21.000 That, of course, is exactly right.

00:28:23.000 And so I would urge others who have been conspicuously silent, many others, to do the obvious here.

00:28:31.000 We'll see if they take up the call or whether they continue to be gigantic cucks on behalf of conspiratorial nonsense.

00:28:38.000 Well, meanwhile, in international news, the U.S. Embassy has now informed its staffers that they may leave the country.

00:28:47.000 They may consider leaving the country of Israel.

00:28:50.000 The reason being the possibility of an impending U.S. strike against the Iranian nuclear facilities and other facilities.

00:28:57.000 The negotiations apparently aren't going that well, which of course is no surprise at all.

00:29:01.000 The United States made several demands of the Iranians.

00:29:04.000 On the nuclear front, they demanded that Iran dismantle its facilities for building nuclear weapons.

00:29:09.000 They demanded that Iran ship out its enriched uranium.

00:29:13.000 And they demanded a forever pledge, basically, an enforceable forever pledge not to build nuclear weapons.

00:29:18.000 And Iran said no to all those things.

00:29:20.000 That was, by the way, the shortlist of things that the United States should have been asking for.

00:29:25.000 Apparently, the negotiations did not include negotiations over ballistic missile development, did not include negotiations over the treatment of protesters, which by the way, you will recall, that is the thing that led this off again.

00:29:37.000 One of the most hysterical things that I'm seeing right now are commentators, many on the right, many on the left as well, who are doing this routine where they're saying that somehow Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is talking Donald Trump into a war.

00:29:50.000 Okay, let us be clear about the timeline here.

00:29:53.000 Last year, Israel unilaterally went after Iran, completely destroyed its air defense resources, and did tremendous damage to IRGC facilities and leadership capacity in Iran.

00:30:06.000 And then the United States, at the last minute, in Operation Midnight Hammer, authorized by President Trump, flew a single B-2 sortie over a nuclear facility and blew it up in Fordo.

00:30:17.000 That is what happened.

00:30:19.000 So what led off this round, you may recall, if you have a memory longer than that of a goldfish, that what actually led this off is that just a few weeks ago, there were massive protests inside Iran against the government.

00:30:30.000 Not a lot of Jews in those protests, not a lot of Israelis in those protests, just gigantic millions of people protesting against the Iranian regime.

00:30:38.000 And you might recall the president of the United States making a public statement that people should stay out in the streets.

00:30:45.000 Help is on the way.

00:30:47.000 And then you may recall that the Iranian government shot to death some 32,000 people in the streets.

00:30:54.000 And that put the president of the United States in a little bit of a box, because if you say help is on the way and you encourage people to go into the streets to protest a regime, and then those people get blown away, well, it might make you look a little weak if you don't do anything about that.

00:31:08.000 And President Trump does not like to look weak.

00:31:10.000 The president of the United States would much prefer that the United States be strong on the world stage, that people respect our power and our power of deterrence.

00:31:19.000 And the president historically has understood this.

00:31:22.000 And so the president began mobilizing military resources into the Middle East.

00:31:27.000 And in fact, he considered a straightaway strike on the Iranians.

00:31:31.000 And according to contemporaneous reports, the Israeli government told the United States: don't just do a pinprick strike that doesn't mean anything, because all that does is draw a return fire for no apparent gain.

00:31:42.000 So either go big or go home. 0.99

00:31:45.000 That was the advice, which seems to me given by anyone to be good advice, because hitting a camel in the ass with a tomahawk doesn't do anything. 0.99

00:31:51.000 We watched Barack Obama do it during his administration, and it achieved literally nothing. 0.98

00:31:56.000 In some cases, it was counterproductive.

00:31:58.000 So the United States military was deployed at scale to the region.

00:32:03.000 And President Trump simultaneously deployed negotiators, his top negotiators, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, to the Middle East to try to negotiate in Geneva, actually, with the Iranians.

00:32:13.000 And he promised over and over and over to the Iranians that a deal was forthcoming, a deal was awaiting. 0.89

00:32:18.000 He said this last year, too.

00:32:19.000 He's been trying this for over a year, that he wants a deal.

00:32:23.000 He would rather do a deal than do a bombing.

00:32:25.000 And the Iranians keep saying no. 0.99

00:32:28.000 Because to be fair to the evil and horrifying Iranian regime, they themselves are in a box. 1.00

00:32:33.000 They are weak.

00:32:34.000 If they give up their nuclear aspirations and their support of terror proxy groups all over the region, they might have to focus for half a second on helping their people, but they don't want to help their people. 0.52

00:32:45.000 The most extraordinary and astounding thing about the Iranian regime is that at any literally any moment, like right now, as we speak, the Iranian regime could say publicly, we're shipping all the nuclear material out of the country. 0.82

00:32:58.000 We're shutting down our nuclear facilities.

00:32:59.000 We're stopping our support of terrorism.

00:33:01.000 Let us re-enter the world economy and build up our economy and give people the freedom to live their lives to a certain extent necessary to economically prosper.

00:33:11.000 And you could still be an Islamic state hellhole, but you would be integrated into the family of nations, so to speak, because there are countries that are very much like that. 0.99

00:33:20.000 I named Pakistan here as one example.

00:33:23.000 So you absolutely could do something like that if you're, but they don't want to do that because that would require them to actually run the country even half-decently.

00:33:30.000 They're not going to do that.

00:33:31.000 And so their choice is between continuing to foster chaos in the region or to go down the toilet.

00:33:37.000 Those are their two choices.

00:33:40.000 And it seems they've kind of chosen both.

00:33:43.000 They and their proxies chose to launch an existential war against the state of Israel and they lost. 1.00

00:33:47.000 They got their asses kicked. 1.00

00:33:50.000 And now they're hurting. 1.00

00:33:52.000 They're hurting economically.

00:33:54.000 The Iranian real is trading to the U.S. dollar at 0.00 United States dollars rounded.

00:34:04.000 Literally, it has no value, none, zero value.

00:34:10.000 It would take, I kid you not, 1 million Iranian reals, 1 million Iranian reals, now equal 76 cents.

00:34:22.000 That's how worthless their currency is.

00:34:25.000 The Iranian government has been incapable of procuring water for Tehran.

00:34:29.000 Before this latest round of protests, they were talking about shifting the capital of their entire country out of Tehran because they could not get water to Tehran.

00:34:39.000 So, this whole notion that President Trump is being pressured by Israel into going to war for Israel, it was President Trump who made the decision to call out the Iranian regime.

00:34:48.000 President Trump has been perfectly consistent for his entire political life that not only should the Iranian government not have weapons of mass destruction, like nuclear facilities, but also that the Iranian government should not be supporting terrorism.

00:35:01.000 And by the way, it would be a boon for the world for the Iranian regime to go away. 0.98

00:35:04.000 And the people who seem to be standing somehow for the Iranian regime.

00:35:07.000 Do you really think that Donald Trump is going to get us involved in a land war in Iran for hundreds of thousands of troops are sitting on the ground?

00:35:16.000 Do you really think that's a thing that President Trump is going to do? 1.00

00:35:18.000 Don't be stupid. 1.00

00:35:19.000 But people are being deliberately stupid. 1.00

00:35:21.000 And not just that. 1.00

00:35:22.000 I'm seeing many of the critics of the Trump administration doing this routine where they say, well, Trump may not have a choice. 0.96

00:35:22.000 They're being cowardly. 0.96

00:35:28.000 He may not have a choice.

00:35:29.000 He's being forced into it by whom?

00:35:31.000 He's the most powerful man on planet Earth in charge of the most powerful military in the history of mankind.

00:35:35.000 Forced by whom precisely? 0.95

00:35:37.000 What is he some sort of dullard who can't make his own decisions, who's being directed by malicious outside forces? 1.00

00:35:45.000 You pathetic clowns. 1.00

00:35:46.000 Seriously, pathetic clownery from people on the left who are saying this, from people on the right who are saying this. 1.00

00:35:52.000 It's just clownish nonsense. 0.99

00:35:55.000 The president will make whatever decision he makes. 0.94

00:35:56.000 I may agree with it, I may disagree with it, but it's the president who's going to be making that decision, not anybody else.

00:36:03.000 In any case, this weekend may be a timeline for action.

00:36:07.000 As the New York Times is reporting, the United States Embassy in Jerusalem has told its workers they may leave Israel and warned them that if they want to, it's vital they do so immediately.

00:36:17.000 Mike Huckabee, the ambassador to Israel, put out a statement to the staffers saying that those wishing to leave should do so today.

00:36:26.000 I assume that's because airspace may be closed, because maybe difficult to get in and out of the airport.

00:36:33.000 He said in the email that the embassy's move will likely result in high demand for airline seats.

00:36:38.000 Focus on getting a seat to any place from which you can then continue to travel to DC, but the first priority will be getting expeditiously out of the country.

00:36:46.000 KLM, the Dutch airline, has already suspended service to Israel.

00:36:50.000 The reason being, not that Israel is going to launch the first strike, they may, they may not, but because if the United States does strike inside Iran, Iran may activate all of its missiles and fire a barrage toward Israel, toward Saudi, try to basically do as much damage as possible on the way out.

00:37:09.000 That is the speculation.

00:37:10.000 That's what the Iranians have been threatening as well. 1.00

00:37:12.000 Of course, they threatened the same thing during the 12-day war last year, and that didn't end up being much of anything at all in terms of its retaliatory capacity.

00:37:21.000 So obviously, we'll have to see how all of this plays out.

00:37:26.000 What I would say about people who, again, keep making the case that somehow Donald Trump is being manipulated by outside forces is why do you have such a lack of basic respect for the decision-making capacity of the president?

00:37:37.000 Again, I may disagree with the president or I may agree with the president, but he's the guy making the calls. 0.84

00:37:42.000 And you guys are just too cowardly to say that you disagree with the president. 0.99

00:37:45.000 And so instead, you throw it on somebody else, which is really sad sack crap, honestly. 0.99

00:37:50.000 Well, one of the oddities of our modern American politics and really Western politics is that certain things happen and you don't know who did them.

00:37:56.000 Like normally, when a political crime occurs, it's pretty obvious who the culprit is, right?

00:38:00.000 If somebody spray paints a statue of George Washington with genocidal maniac, you know it's somebody on the left, typically speaking.

00:38:08.000 But there are certain things that happen in politics where the horseshoe is so strong between the right and the left that you literally don't know who did it.

00:38:15.000 I give you as an example what's happening in Britain right now.

00:38:17.000 So there's a very famous statue of Winston Churchill in Britain, and it was spray painted with the words, stop the genocide, a Zionist war criminal, free Palestine.

00:38:30.000 They just absolutely defaced.

00:38:31.000 And it must have taken a while.

00:38:32.000 I'm not sure where the bobbies were when all this happened.

00:38:34.000 Globalized the Intifada with the Hamas symbol on it. 0.95

00:38:37.000 Never again is now.

00:38:39.000 The reason that I mock when I say I don't know who did this, obviously it's some sort of pro-Hamas protester, and that's who did it.

00:38:47.000 But, I mean, we have been told by people on the right that Winston Churchill is the actual villain of World War II and that he was a Zionist genocidal maniac by people purportedly on the right.

00:38:58.000 See, here's the thing.

00:38:59.000 When you come to hate the history of the West, whether you pretend to be on the right or whether you are actually on the left, it doesn't matter.

00:39:06.000 It doesn't matter because it's bad for your civilization.

00:39:08.000 It's bad for your civilization.

00:39:09.000 Winston Churchill is a hero of Western civilization because he saved Great Britain from the Nazis. 0.98

00:39:14.000 And yes, that was a good thing because the Nazis kind of sucked it. 0.98

00:39:17.000 They were pretty terrible. 0.97

00:39:19.000 Also, Winston Churchill happened to be an ardent opponent of Bolshevism going back to his earliest days in parliament.

00:39:26.000 He actually attempted to mobilize Western military response to the rise of the Reds in Russia.

00:39:32.000 Denigrating Winston Churchill, which has become a habit on the left, but also is becoming increasingly a habit on the right, is just another example of how the brain rot that has set in across our politics. 0.98

00:39:42.000 It's truly pathetic, truly, truly pathetic. 0.97

00:39:46.000 And I don't care how you label people. 0.99

00:39:48.000 If somebody is talking to you and they start jabbering to you about how Winston Churchill was the bad guy and is a Zionist war criminal, I don't care if they pretend that they are quote unquote conservative or if they actually are on the left. 0.99

00:40:00.000 They're full of sh ⁇ . 1.00

00:40:02.000 And you pretending to give them the time of day because they're quote unquote an ally means that you're the sucker in the room. 1.00

00:40:08.000 It's that simple. 0.96

00:40:10.000 A civilization that denigrates its own heroes on behalf of third worldist foreign ideologies is a civilization doomed to failure.

00:40:20.000 And the fact, again, that you have people on the horseshoe right and the left holding hands on this sort of stuff is an indicator of just how far our civilization is falling and falling right quickly.

00:40:31.000 Meanwhile, people who spend an awful lot of time criticizing the Trump administration without ever mentioning Trump.

00:40:36.000 They always said he's being manipulated from the outside.

00:40:39.000 How could advisors, how could outside for they ignore the actual things the Trump administration is doing.

00:40:44.000 You know, the people who work for President Trump joining me on the line right now is the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the DOJ, Harmee Dillon.

00:40:51.000 The Trump administration has announced that they're going after the University of California for hostile work environment based on violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as applied to Jewish students.

00:41:03.000 Harmee, thanks so much for the time.

00:41:04.000 Appreciate it.

00:41:05.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:41:06.000 Thanks for having me, Ben.

00:41:09.000 So why don't you explain for those who missed it, number one, what the Civil Rights Act of 64 says with regard to hostile work environment.

00:41:16.000 And number two, what exactly University of California did to earn the ire of the Justice Department?

00:41:22.000 Well, there's an 80-page complaint, and I, you know, it's linked to our press release.

00:41:28.000 It's just a litany of terrible acts that have occurred over a space of years.

00:41:33.000 And basically, we're talking about employment discrimination here.

00:41:37.000 And University of California at Los Angeles, and in my opinion, some of the other UC campuses as well, but we're specifically focused on UCLA over a period of years has allowed anti-Semitic harassment by employees, by staff, and without really punishing that.

00:41:56.000 And so faculty, employees of the university have had to labor under these conditions where there's swastikas that are painted on their stuff and anti-Semitic slurs and the lack of discipline is something that creates a hostile work environment under Title VII.

00:42:15.000 And so that's what we're going after here in this case.

00:42:19.000 And no employee should have to suffer from the types of harassment that existed here.

00:42:26.000 And this law protects people on the basis of race, on the basis of sex, on the basis of national origin, veteran status, and other criteria.

00:42:35.000 But religious discrimination is one of the big aspects of that.

00:42:38.000 And so we're just applying well-established law here.

00:42:41.000 And I don't think there's any question that UCLA failed in its duties.

00:42:47.000 You know, Harme, one of the things that kind of is astonishing is how inconsistent the various sides of the political aisle are on these questions.

00:42:55.000 On the left, they will claim that if there is anti-black harassment on campus, then the Civil Rights Act should obviously be enforced.

00:43:01.000 That is not allowed under the Civil Rights Act.

00:43:03.000 However, the minute that it's Jews who are sort of in question, then all of the enforcement mechanisms magically go away and get shoved under some other rubric.

00:43:12.000 Is that what the University of California is doing here?

00:43:15.000 Well, absolutely.

00:43:16.000 They were equivocating and making excuses.

00:43:18.000 And basically, I think if you really were to psychoanalyze what's going on here, there has been an elevation of the sort of protected status of people who are hostile to Jews and kind of lionizing them as if they, because they champion a political cause that's in vogue, it gives them a free pass.

00:43:41.000 And so, you know, the university administrators, I'm not saying they were necessarily themselves anti-Semitic.

00:43:46.000 They were just cowed and afraid to go after a sort of protected category.

00:43:54.000 And, you know, you make a very good point, Ben.

00:43:56.000 When you're a favored class in our culture, the mere microaggressions and the use of language that most of us would find pretty normal.

00:44:09.000 But if you're looking for offense, that's protected in the workplace and employees are required to go through this indoctrination.

00:44:17.000 And we have to sit through these videos.

00:44:18.000 I had to do it here at the Department of Justice about using the correct language and not offending your coworkers.

00:44:25.000 And yet, this is a big blind spot that occurred here, a total lack of enforcement on the religious front.

00:44:32.000 And so we won't stand for it at the DOJ.

00:44:34.000 And I think that we're putting schools on notice that this is not going to be tolerated.

00:44:38.000 This is a very lengthy investigation that we have been going through for years.

00:44:42.000 And I also want to add that before we've filed this complaint, we had a lot of criticism in the press.

00:44:51.000 I think the LA Times did a hit piece on us and said that we were trying to concoct a case where there wasn't one.

00:44:56.000 I think you can read the complaint and see that this is an extremely strong case.

00:45:01.000 So, Harmie, meanwhile, on other fronts, the administration has announced that they're going to be cracking down in significant ways on things like Medicaid and Medicare fraud, public welfare fraud.

00:45:11.000 The vice president is leading that effort.

00:45:14.000 I assume that he's working hand in glove with the DOJ in order to track down people who are actually participating in this.

00:45:19.000 What sort of efforts is the DOJ expending at cracking down on fraud?

00:45:23.000 We have significant efforts here.

00:45:25.000 First of all, we have a new assistant attorney general slot that is specifically focused on this type of government benefits fraud.

00:45:35.000 And we're ginning up that effort.

00:45:37.000 But even before that, in the major cities, particularly where we have a lot of this type of fraud, my friend Bill Asale in Los Angeles, who's the first assistant United States attorney there, who was the president's nominee for that position, he's been focused on this and has gone on to bust and bring some significant prosecutions with respect to theft of these government resources.

00:46:00.000 And this happens wherever you have a lot of billions of dollars of money sloshing around and poor controls, you're seeing this.

00:46:08.000 You're seeing it in D.C. You're seeing it.

00:46:11.000 I'm sure you're going to see it in all the major cities in the United States.

00:46:14.000 We've had years of lax enforcement in this regard.

00:46:17.000 And again, sort of the pet projects of the left and the sort of preferred classes are running these homeless projects, these food projects, these after-school projects, these school projects.

00:46:32.000 And that's where the money is being looted from.

00:46:34.000 These medical Medicaid, I mean, there's just the fraud is myriad.

00:46:39.000 And I'm glad to see such a coordinated effort here in this building to root it out.

00:46:46.000 Well, that is Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division.

00:46:49.000 Harmee Dylan, Harmony, thanks so much for your hard work and appreciate the time.

00:46:53.000 Thanks for having me, Ben.

00:46:55.000 Well, as every good lawyer, like Harmy Dylan knows, the first rule of lawyering: don't ask questions to which you do not know the answers.

00:47:01.000 And this is why, in my opinion, as I suggested a couple of days ago, it was a stupid idea to invite Secretary of State, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee over Jeffrey Epstein. 0.97

00:47:13.000 Why did I think that was dumb? 0.93

00:47:14.000 Because if you don't have her dead to rights, if you don't have the capacity to ask questions that are likely to elicit serious information, what you will end up doing is boosting her. 0.97

00:47:23.000 What you will end up doing is be clowning yourself.

00:47:26.000 And what you will end up doing is opening the door to when Democrats take Congress in November, as is highly likely to happen according to the polls.

00:47:34.000 If that were to happen, I guarantee you, Howard Lupnick will be sitting in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearings.

00:47:40.000 I promise you, Donald Trump will be called.

00:47:42.000 He'll then refuse.

00:47:43.000 We'll have a constitutional battle.

00:47:44.000 It'll be lots of fun.

00:47:45.000 Democrats were itching for this.

00:47:47.000 This is an own gold, gang. 0.99

00:47:49.000 Don't ask dumb questions if you don't know the answers to the question.

00:47:52.000 So Hillary had her prepared testimony and she said, The committee justified its subpoena to me based on its assumptions that I have information regarding the investigations into the criminal activities of Jeffrey Epstein and Glene Maxwell.

00:48:04.000 Let me be as clear as I can.

00:48:05.000 I do not.

00:48:06.000 As I stated in my sworn declaration on January 13th, I had no idea about their criminal activities.

00:48:10.000 I do not recall ever encountering Mr. Epstein.

00:48:12.000 I never flew on his plane or visited his island homes or offices.

00:48:15.000 I have nothing to add to that.

00:48:17.000 Like every decent person, I've been horrified by what we have learned about their crimes.

00:48:21.000 It's unfathomable that Mr. Epstein initially got a slap on the wrist in 2008, which allowed him to continue his predatory practices for another decade.

00:48:28.000 Mr. Chairman, your investigation is supposed to be assessing the federal government's handling of the investigations and prosecutions of Epstein and his crimes.

00:48:35.000 You subpoenaed eight law enforcement officials, all of whom ran the DOJ or directed the FBI when Epstein's crimes were investigated and prosecuted.

00:48:42.000 Of those eight, only one appeared before the committee.

00:48:44.000 Five of the six former AGs were allowed to submit brief statements saying they had no information to provide.

00:48:49.000 You have held zero public hearings, refused to allow the media to attend them, including today, despite espousing the need for transparency on dozens of occasions.

00:48:55.000 Again, I'm sorry she outplayed you.

00:48:58.000 She did. 0.99

00:48:59.000 This is dumb. 0.99

00:49:00.000 Here's Hillary Clinton yesterday saying she didn't really know Jeffrey Epstein. 1.00

00:49:00.000 It was dumb. 1.00

00:49:03.000 Now, again, you can say that you don't believe her. 0.99

00:49:05.000 That's fine.

00:49:07.000 Okay.

00:49:08.000 But you know who did know Jeffrey Epstein?

00:49:10.000 Because we know that he knew Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump.

00:49:13.000 But you know, he wasn't guilty of malign activity with Jeffrey Epstein, also Donald Trump.

00:49:17.000 This is why having a nice common standard for everybody seems to me the best way to solve these sorts of issues.

00:49:22.000 Like if there's evidence for things, then we should pursue them.

00:49:25.000 And if there's not evidence for things, then we probably should not.

00:49:28.000 And if you're going to do house subpoenas of people because they are famous and because you don't like them, then you shouldn't be surprised when it swings around like a boomerang and clocks you on the other side of the head, which is what is going to happen here.

00:49:39.000 I'm telling you, it's what's going to happen next, politically speaking.

00:49:41.000 Here was Hillary Clinton yesterday. 1.00

00:49:44.000 I don't know how many times I had to say I did not know Jeffrey Epstein.

00:49:49.000 I never went to his island.

00:49:51.000 I never went to his homes.

00:49:53.000 I never went to his offices.

00:49:55.000 So it's on the record numerous times.

00:50:00.000 And then she explained that she was asked questions about UFOs and Pizzagate. 0.90

00:50:06.000 Again, if you don't want to appear like clowns, then don't do clown stuff thing. 0.93

00:50:09.000 Like, really, really, just political mouth. 0.99

00:50:11.000 I think Hillary Clinton is awful. 1.00

00:50:13.000 I think she's terrible. 0.99

00:50:14.000 I think she's one of the worst politicians in modern American history. 1.00

00:50:17.000 Don't do clownish things if you don't want clownish answers.

00:50:22.000 It then got at the end quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and a series of questions about Pizzagate, one of the most vile, bogus conspiracy theories that was propagated on the internet that was serving as the basis of a member's questions to me.

00:50:50.000 Meanwhile, as you can see, Democrats are very excited about this, actually.

00:50:53.000 They know it's an own goal.

00:50:55.000 So a Democratic representative then got up and explained that the Oversight Committee now has the ability to call Trump.

00:51:02.000 I want to also add that this committee has now set a new precedent about talking to presidents and former presidents.

00:51:12.000 And we're demanding immediately that we ask President Trump to testify in front of our committee and be deposed in front of oversight Republicans and Democrats.

00:51:22.000 And that should happen immediately.

00:51:24.000 He is the person that appears almost more than anyone else in the committee, and it needs to happen right now. 1.00

00:51:32.000 Again, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. 1.00

00:51:34.000 We'll see where it goes from here. 1.00

00:51:37.000 All righty, guys, coming up, we are going to get to AI in conflict with the Defense Department.

00:51:43.000 Anthropic is now kind of at war with the Department of War.

00:51:46.000 We'll explain what's going on first.

00:51:47.000 In order to watch, you have to be a member.

00:51:48.000 If you're not a member, now's the time, guys.

00:51:51.000 Use code Shafiro at checkout for two months free on all annual plans.

00:51:54.000 Click that link in the description and join us.

00:51:56.000 Legal sent this list of everything we're not allowed to do in season two.

00:52:00.000 We're going to do all of it.

00:52:03.000 We've got games, more celebrity guests.

00:52:05.000 And yes, the mailbag is somehow worse.

00:52:07.000 If you thought season one was extra, season two, we're doubling down.

00:52:11.000 We're not supposed to be doing this.

00:52:13.000 Exactly.

The Ben Shapiro Show - February 27, 2026

Yes, We’re Making a Movie With JONATHAN MAJORS

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