The Ben Shapiro Show - Yet More Biden Classified Documents Found | Ep. 1652

00:00:00.000 Another trench of classified documents is found at Joe Biden's home.

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00:00:24.000 Alrighty, so Joe Biden.

00:00:26.000 He's so responsible with classified documents.

00:00:28.000 He'll tell you himself.

00:00:29.000 So, you recall that just last week he said that he has no regerts whatsoever in his handling of classified material.

00:00:36.000 He's done an amazing job.

00:00:37.000 Sure, they found classified materials next to his.

00:00:40.000 As we found, uh, we found a handful of documents were failed, uh, were filed in the wrong place.

00:00:43.000 his home and of course they found some documents at the Penn Biden Center for Chinese donation.

00:00:48.000 But that was pretty much it. I mean, he did an okay job. I mean, it's not a big deal, right?

00:00:52.000 Remember Joe Biden said last week he was doing fine, guys.

00:00:55.000 It was all good. Here he was.

00:00:56.000 As we found, we found a handful of documents were failed, were filed in the wrong place.

00:01:04.000 We immediately turned them over to the archives and the Justice Department.

00:01:08.000 We're fully cooperating, looking forward to getting this resolved quickly.

00:01:11.000 I think you're going to find there's nothing there.

00:01:14.000 I have no regrets.

00:01:15.000 I'm following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do.

00:01:19.000 It's exactly what we're doing.

00:01:21.000 There's no there there.

00:01:22.000 He's reading it from a binder.

00:01:24.000 There's no there there.

00:01:25.000 There's nothing to find.

00:01:26.000 Everything is absolutely hunky dory. 0.69

00:01:28.000 At the time, this is already silly.

00:01:30.000 Once you have classified documents in your possession in multiple places, this raises the question of whether you were careful enough under the statute with classified documents.

00:01:37.000 This is not an intent crime.

00:01:38.000 Now, I understand that James Comey entirely rewrote the law with Hillary Clinton to make it an intent crime.

00:01:44.000 He suggested that basically, unless you had taken classified documents with the intent to expose them, You know what?

00:01:49.000 eyes, then there was no criminal matter at hand. It didn't matter even if you had taken the classified documents and put them in a place where foreign actors actually got a hold of them, that was still not a good enough excuse for prosecution. You remember that's exactly what happened with Hillary. She took the documents, she put them on her private server. Comey admitted that these were probably accessed by foreign powers, but he said, you know what, she didn't mean to do that, she didn't mean to hand it over to the Russians or the Chinese or the So, no prosecution.

00:02:13.000 But then, Donald Trump took home a bunch of documents, and everybody on the left immediately went back to the standard pre-Hillary Clinton.

00:02:20.000 They were like, well, clearly, clearly he did something terribly evil.

00:02:24.000 And we'll make up a motive.

00:02:25.000 Maybe he was gonna sell nuclear secrets to the Russians.

00:02:27.000 And when it turns out that that wasn't the case as well, you know, it was very irresponsible.

00:02:30.000 Remember that Joe Biden said this, right?

00:02:32.000 It was super irresponsible.

00:02:33.000 And the legal standard is irresponsibility.

00:02:36.000 If you're irresponsible with classified documents, then you must pay the price.

00:02:39.000 Well, the problem is that Joe Biden, sure, he's now, quote unquote, abiding by statute in turning over the documents once they have been found.

00:02:47.000 Although, gotta say, I'm suspicious as to why these documents were found now.

00:02:51.000 This is a very serious question.

00:02:53.000 The Vice President of the United States has been in the Senate of the United States before that, since the 1970s.

00:02:58.000 That dude has been in the U.S.

00:03:00.000 government in positions of high elected power since well before I was born.

00:03:04.000 So why now are we finding these documents?

00:03:06.000 Why were his lawyers searching the documents?

00:03:08.000 This was a real question.

00:03:10.000 Again, the suggestion was that when the Penn-Biden Center for Chinese Grift was closing down, the suggestion was that it was just basically like the interns in the closet who were going through the old papers and they found this classified stuff.

00:03:20.000 One, Isn't that a problem?

00:03:22.000 I mean, they don't have classified approval.

00:03:25.000 They don't have any sort of actual top security standard, too.

00:03:29.000 It wasn't actually interns who found it in the closet, it was lawyers, which raises the question.

00:03:32.000 When you move, do you have your lawyers search your old boxes?

00:03:36.000 Or do you typically have some schlub move your boxes, or you move them yourself, or you call your unfortunate friend on the weekend and force him to move the stuff?

00:03:42.000 So if you are cleaning out Penn Biden Center for Chinese donations, Why exactly are your lawyers going through that?

00:03:48.000 And then why are they going through your garage?

00:03:49.000 And then why are they going through your house?

00:03:51.000 The real answer here, by the way, is that Joe Biden probably had his lawyers going through these documents knowing there were about to be a bunch of Republican investigations that were going to request some sort of perusal of all of his old documents.

00:04:03.000 And they were going to find those.

00:04:04.000 So he's like, OK, I'm going to activate my lawyers now and they're going to go look through all of the documents.

00:04:08.000 OK, fine.

00:04:09.000 All of this suggests, of course, that the standard that was applied to Donald Trump, which was, if you are messy with classified documents, then you should be prosecuted, was going to be thrown away as soon as it was Joe Biden on the other end of that stick.

00:04:22.000 And that's precisely what seems to have happened here.

00:04:25.000 Just last week, Karine Jean-Pierre actually suggested that Joe Biden saying that there was no there there, which is, of course, a paraphrase of a Gertrude Stein statement, About a major American city, there's no there there. 0.68

00:04:38.000 It's so dismissive, it's so silly.

00:04:40.000 You can't simultaneously say you take classified documents very seriously and two, there's no there there. 0.54

00:04:45.000 There is a there there.

00:04:46.000 There are classified documents there.

00:04:47.000 That is literally a there, there.

00:04:49.000 I don't know what else to say about that.

00:04:52.000 He literally did the thing you're not supposed to do.

00:04:53.000 You don't then get to declare that you're very serious about that thing.

00:04:56.000 Yeah, that's exactly what Karine Jean-Pierre said.

00:04:58.000 She said, it just shows how serious Joe Biden is that he's saying it's not very serious.

00:05:03.000 Because he's also said he takes very seriously the handling of classified documents.

00:05:08.000 So I'm unclear what he means about no regrets.

00:05:11.000 So I'm not going to comment further from what the president has said yesterday.

00:05:16.000 I think he laid out his thoughts.

00:05:19.000 He was asked about it.

00:05:20.000 He laid out his thoughts of whatever question he was asked.

00:05:23.000 I'm not going to get into specifics or I'm not going to go beyond what the President has said, but I will reiterate from here that, and basically what he said to all of you many times at this point, that he does indeed take classified information seriously.

00:05:40.000 He does indeed take classified documents seriously.

00:05:44.000 Uh, what?

00:05:45.000 So, uh, what?

00:05:46.000 She is the world's most untalented press secretary. 1.00

00:05:48.000 Well, as it turns out, over the weekend, they found even more documents.

00:05:53.000 I know.

00:05:54.000 I know.

00:05:54.000 You're shocked.

00:05:55.000 You're shocked.

00:05:56.000 I thought that he was super careful about all of this sort of stuff, but as it turns out, he's not that careful with this sort of stuff.

00:06:01.000 According to NBC News, six additional items, including documents with classified markings, were found in President Joe Biden's Delaware home after Justice Department officials searched the residence on Friday, according to the president's personal attorney.

00:06:13.000 The search was prompted by the White House, not the Justice Department, according to a White House official and a source familiar with the matter.

00:06:18.000 The documents at the Wilmington, Delaware home appear to be related to his time as Vice President, as well as to his tenure in the United States Senate.

00:06:25.000 Wait, hold up a second.

00:06:26.000 His tenure in the United States Senate.

00:06:28.000 So he left his job in the White House in January of 2017, right?

00:06:33.000 That's when the Obama administration ended.

00:06:35.000 He left his job as Senator in the United States Senate in 2009.

00:06:41.000 It is now 2023, guys.

00:06:43.000 That means that he's had classified documents from his time in the Senate for 14 years!

00:06:49.000 Minimum!

00:06:50.000 It may be 50 years!

00:06:51.000 Because he was literally a senator for like three decades before that.

00:06:55.000 He may have classified documents from the Reagan administration.

00:06:58.000 This is a guy who says that he's really, really careful about classified documents?

00:07:01.000 I'm having a hard time with this.

00:07:04.000 So according to NBC News, the documents at those Wilmington, Delaware home, they are related to his time in government.

00:07:09.000 They were found after Biden's counsel offered full access to the premises as the department investigates his possession of classified material.

00:07:15.000 Bob Bauer, Biden's personal attorney, said in a statement.

00:07:18.000 Bauer said DOJ took possession of materials it deemed within the scope of its inquiry, including six items consisting of documents with classification markings and surrounding materials, some of which were from the president's service in the Senate, some of which were from his tenure as vice president.

00:07:31.000 He added the department had full access to Biden's home, including personally handwritten notes, files, papers, binders, memorabilia, to-do lists, schedules, and reminders going back decades.

00:07:39.000 Apparently, investigators spent about 13 hours at the president's personal residence on Friday, according to White House officials and Biden's lawyer.

00:07:46.000 It was a planned consensual search of the president's residence in Wilmington, Delaware.

00:07:52.000 This would make, again, the third tranche of documents that we have now found, minimum, that contain classified materials.

00:07:59.000 And apparently the word Iran has been mentioned in here.

00:08:01.000 Apparently some of the classified materials included materials about Iran.

00:08:04.000 By the way, it was the FBI that was actually pursuing this particular search, apparently.

00:08:10.000 It was not just Biden's personal attorneys this time.

00:08:14.000 The federal search of Biden's home well voluntary marks an escalation of the probe, according to CNN, into the president's handling of classified documents and will inevitably draw comparisons to his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, even if the FBI search of Trump's residence was conducted under different circumstances.

00:08:27.000 So now we have the former president and the current president both under FBI investigation for classified documents mishandling.

00:08:35.000 Everything is going great.

00:08:36.000 Only the finest people in positions of high power in this particular country.

00:08:41.000 Meanwhile, the Justice Department, again, is announcing that they are involved in all of this, and they are considering other locations, apparently.

00:08:48.000 They're not done at this point.

00:08:50.000 So, they've checked the Penn-Biden Center, they've checked his house, they've checked his garage, but there may be more locations that they actually have to check now.

00:08:59.000 Because it turns out that Joe Biden apparently leaves classified documents like his son leaves cocaine-ridden laptops.

00:09:05.000 It's like, everywhere.

00:09:06.000 On the Acela, in like a locked bathroom on the Acela, there's just classified documents now.

00:09:12.000 Turns out that Joe Biden at the local ice cream shop, while he was eating Rocky Road, just left a classified document in the garbage bin or something.

00:09:22.000 It is incredible.

00:09:23.000 Okay, so is he going to be prosecuted?

00:09:24.000 Of course he's not going to be prosecuted.

00:09:26.000 He's a special person.

00:09:26.000 You're not a special person.

00:09:27.000 If this were you, you'd get prosecuted, but he's a special person, so he will not be prosecuted.

00:09:31.000 In fact, what is amusing is to watch the spin coming from Democrats and from the media on all of this.

00:09:38.000 At least Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, he was at least honest enough to say, yeah, Biden has lost the high ground here.

00:09:42.000 It's gonna be very difficult for Biden to claim that he is morally superior to President Trump when the dude is apparently leaving classified documents like Hansel was leaving Breadcrumbs through the forest.

00:09:54.000 It's insane.

00:09:55.000 It's Senator Dick Durbin.

00:09:55.000 Here we go.

00:09:57.000 Do you fear that because of that, the current president has kind of lost the high ground on this notion of classified information being where it shouldn't be?

00:10:09.000 Well, of course.

00:10:11.000 Let's be honest about it.

00:10:12.000 When that information is found, it diminishes the stature of any person who is in possession of it.

00:10:20.000 Because it's not supposed to happen.

00:10:22.000 Whether it was the fault of a staffer or an attorney, it makes no difference.

00:10:26.000 The elected official bears ultimate responsibility.

00:10:30.000 Well, good for Dick Durbin.

00:10:31.000 But Dick Durbin is actually being less of a partisan than CNN's Pamela Brown.

00:10:35.000 Over the weekend, CNN's Pamela Brown asked a Republican congressperson about Trump versus Biden.

00:10:38.000 She's like, well, you know the difference, don't you?

00:10:40.000 You do.

00:10:41.000 You know the difference.

00:10:42.000 Here we go.

00:10:44.000 This inequality, this hypocritical aspect, especially from President Biden having condemned Trump and then having done the same thing. 0.56

00:10:52.000 And he did. 0.54

00:10:52.000 Right. 0.54

00:10:53.000 I mean, he did condemn it.

00:10:54.000 And we have scrutinized that on this show, that he said it was really irresponsible what Trump did.

00:10:59.000 And now there have been approximately 20 classified documents found at various properties.

00:11:04.000 And certainly he has been under scrutiny.

00:11:06.000 But you know, if you're being intellectually honest with yourself, the key difference here that Trump and his team defied a subpoena.

00:11:15.000 They said they had turned over everything, and yet evidence developed through the course of the investigation that classified documents were being moved, which started this obstruction of justice investigation.

00:11:26.000 Okay, but that's not a key difference with regard to the actual mistreatment of classified information.

00:11:31.000 It may be a key difference with regard to an obstruction charge, but there are two separate charges for Trump that are apparently being considered.

00:11:36.000 One is the obstruction of justice stuff, mostly trying to cover something up, and the second is the mishandling of classified material.

00:11:42.000 And again, it's gonna be very difficult to claim obstruction of justice when the underlying claim that misclassification of material or classification of material that was mishandled, that if there's no underlying crime, the obstruction becomes a lot less sanguine.

00:11:55.000 So yeah, the media are going to try to spin Biden's way out of this.

00:11:58.000 Bottom line is all of this is going to end up being thrown overboard.

00:12:01.000 Trump is now off the hook thanks to Joe Biden and his complete inability not to apparently take classified documents home and just leave them in random places.

00:12:09.000 And the best excuse for Joe Biden is that Joe Biden doesn't know what's going on around him on a daily basis.

00:12:13.000 So it's not super shocking that he ended up with a bunch of classified documents pretty much everywhere.

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00:14:30.000 And meanwhile, the White House is emptying out.

00:14:32.000 White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, who spends all day on Twitter, just retweeting as reclined basically.

00:14:38.000 He is now going to leave his job in the coming weeks, according to a person familiar with Klain's plans.

00:14:42.000 This is according to the Associated Press.

00:14:44.000 Klain's expected departure comes not long after the White House and Democrats had a better-than-expected showing in the November election, so it's a good time for him to step out because, I mean, if he sticks around for 2024, then he might be responsible for whatever comes next, but now he gets to leave on top and say he did a great job.

00:14:58.000 The personnel change is a rarity for an administration that has had minimal turnover so far.

00:15:02.000 No member of Biden's cabinet has yet stepped down, in stark contrast to Donald Trump's White House with frequent staff turmoil and other crises.

00:15:08.000 Yes, there has been a lot of stability in the Biden administration.

00:15:11.000 Stability and crappiness.

00:15:13.000 The replacement for Ron Klain, according to CNN, is likely to be Jeff Zients.

00:15:15.000 You'll recall that Jeff Zients ran Joe Biden's COVID-19 response effort.

00:15:17.000 anonymity to confirm the development, which was first reported by the New York Times.

00:15:21.000 The White House did not return calls or emails seeking comment on Klain's expected exit.

00:15:25.000 The replacement for Ron Klain, according to CNN, is likely to be Jeff Zients.

00:15:29.000 You'll recall that Jeff Zients ran Joe Biden's COVID-19 response effort.

00:15:33.000 He is a lockdown fanatic.

00:15:35.000 The notion that Zients is going to be some sort of moderating influence on the president of the United States is probably incorrect.

00:15:43.000 According to CNN, the decision to pick Zens surprised some internally, given there were differences in Biden's and Zens' management style early on in the administration.

00:15:49.000 But Biden was impressed with his job as COVID response coordinator when Zens inherited what officials described as a largely dysfunctional effort by the Trump administration.

00:15:57.000 By the way, largely dysfunctional effort by the Trump administration bearing a vaccine, a plan for rollout, and a reopening.

00:16:05.000 The Biden administration then proceeded to botch all of those things, like every single one of them.

00:16:11.000 Zeng is not viewed as a political operator, according to CNN, but his deep experience inside two administrations and his reputation for technocratic skill will likely serve as the assets at a time when both are viewed as critical for what Biden faces in the year ahead.

00:16:24.000 He handled the launch of healthcare.gov during the Obama administration.

00:16:28.000 So just stellar success for Jeff Zients, the guy who's responsible for the disastrous rollout of healthcare.gov and also responsible for the disastrous rollout of Joe Biden's COVID-19 policy.

00:16:39.000 So things have been going amazing over at the Biden administration.

00:16:42.000 Prepare for a double down here.

00:16:44.000 Remember, Jeff Zients, he's the guy who suggested basically that travel bans be maintained in the middle of 2021.

00:16:50.000 It was July, 2021.

00:16:53.000 And the White House was still resisting lifting U.S.

00:16:55.000 travel bans on a broad swath of foreign countries.

00:16:58.000 And science was still claiming that we were in the middle of a pandemic and all the rest.

00:17:01.000 So, expect more radical policy coming out of the administration.

00:17:05.000 Now, meanwhile...

00:17:07.000 Joe Biden is about to run headlong into a battle largely with his own party, it sounds like.

00:17:11.000 So there's been a lot of talk about the debt ceiling fight that is looming.

00:17:15.000 Republicans, of course, have been suggesting that they want to hold firm in demanding some serious debt reduction from Joe Biden in response for in return for Increasing the debt ceiling.

00:17:25.000 Now, they should make clear exactly what their demands are.

00:17:28.000 The reality, as I've said before, is the debt ceiling is going to be raised.

00:17:32.000 We're not going to hit the debt ceiling and then leave it there indefinitely.

00:17:35.000 The reason it's not going to happen is because it's too damaging politically to the party that is perceived as being an obstacle to raising the debt ceiling.

00:17:35.000 It's not going to happen.

00:17:43.000 Republicans have tried this repeatedly.

00:17:44.000 They've always caved.

00:17:46.000 Unless They make some very specific demands, and those demands wrongfoot the administration.

00:17:50.000 That is the only way that they're going to be able to get away with not raising the debt ceiling and getting something in return.

00:17:56.000 Now, that would be a smart move.

00:17:57.000 They could do that, and it would be something, I assume, worthwhile.

00:18:01.000 Will it make any sort of real systemic change?

00:18:03.000 Probably not.

00:18:04.000 The reality is that 85% of the American budget is mandatory spending.

00:18:06.000 That'd be Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, SNAP assistance.

00:18:12.000 Military spending, all of that falls under the mandatory spending bucket.

00:18:15.000 And then you've got the discretionary spending stuff, and that's like 15% of the budget.

00:18:19.000 So you might get some minor changes around the edges here.

00:18:22.000 And sure, that'd be great.

00:18:23.000 Save a little bit of money.

00:18:24.000 Is that going to impact systemically the $31 trillion national debt?

00:18:29.000 But can Republicans get a few wins here?

00:18:29.000 It will not.

00:18:31.000 They probably can.

00:18:33.000 According to the Washington Post, top Republicans on Sunday blasted President Biden for refusing to negotiate a deal over the debt ceiling, renewing their threats to leverage the fiscally calamitous prospect of default to secure spending cuts from the White House.

00:18:43.000 The party affirmed its political demands as Biden prepares to sit down with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in the coming days, even though the president has maintained he will not haggle over the need to address one of the country's most important fiscal obligations.

00:18:53.000 The emerging and potentially catastrophic stalemate concerns the maximum amount the U.S.

00:18:57.000 government can borrow to pay its existing bills.

00:18:59.000 Congress must act to raise or suspend that cap, known as the debt limit, or risk pushing the United States into a recession with global implications, according to economists and administration officials.

00:19:07.000 The country's debt now exceeds $31 trillion.

00:19:09.000 Republicans have tried to pin the blame on Democrats as they pledged to seek steep reductions in federal spending this year.

00:19:14.000 House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said you can't just increase the debt limit and let President Biden keep spending like he has done.

00:19:20.000 Representative Nancy Mays, Republican of South Carolina, said Republicans had to seize on the debt ceiling because clearly the budget process is not working any longer.

00:19:27.000 It's just these giant omnibus packages.

00:19:29.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:19:30.000 They actually do have an ally in Joe Manchin.

00:19:33.000 So Manchin, obviously, is running for re-election in short order in West Virginia.

00:19:38.000 He, like Kyrsten Sinema, has been seen as a swing vote in the Senate.

00:19:40.000 Sinema, as you'll recall, recently declared herself a political independent, no longer a member of the Democratic Party.

00:19:46.000 Joe Manchin is starting to reorient himself away from Joe Biden in expectation that he's running in an extremely red state.

00:19:53.000 West Virginia went for Donald Trump in the last election cycle by some 30 points.

00:19:58.000 So Joe Manchin could be an ally to Republicans in the effort to use the debt ceiling to exact some concessions from Joe Biden.

00:20:05.000 Here is Joe Manchin saying, with regard to, for example, the classified documents scandal, that Joe Biden absolutely should have regrets.

00:20:10.000 What are we, nuts here?

00:20:13.000 I think the special counsel will do a better job than the politicians and the political circus it was going to follow.

00:20:18.000 President Biden said he had no regrets on how he handled this.

00:20:20.000 Do you have any advice for him on how he should handle this?

00:20:22.000 Oh, I think he should have a lot of regrets.

00:20:24.000 I would think that I said, whoever's responsible, I mean, if I hold people accountable and I use whether my chief of staff or my, you know, my, uh, my staff that we're doing this and I'm looking at, then I'm going to hold someone accountable.

00:20:24.000 Yeah.

00:20:37.000 But basically the buck stops with me.

00:20:39.000 Manchin, as I say, is probably looking at the possibility of starting a swing bloc with Kyrsten Sinema in the Senate of the United States.

00:20:45.000 Now, you'll recall that this would have made a lot more of a difference if Republicans had not actually done so poorly in the United States senatorial election last time around.

00:20:54.000 However, it would make a difference if Manchin and Sinema actually formed sort of their own bloc.

00:20:57.000 That would make a very large-scale difference against Joe Biden.

00:21:00.000 Manchin actually says he might not run as a Democrat next time.

00:21:02.000 If you run for office in 2024, are you going to run as a Democrat?

00:21:08.000 Chuck, I haven't made a decision what I'm going to do in 2024.

00:21:11.000 I've got two years ahead of me now to do the best I can for the state and for my country.

00:21:14.000 What's on the table?

00:21:15.000 Is re-election on the table?

00:21:17.000 Everything's on the table.

00:21:18.000 Is running for governor on the table or no?

00:21:20.000 No, I've done that.

00:21:22.000 That you've ruled out?

00:21:23.000 So everything on the table, there's basically only one other thing.

00:21:23.000 I've done that.

00:21:26.000 The presidency.

00:21:27.000 Is that something you would do outside the Democratic Party?

00:21:29.000 The only thing I can tell you is what I will do is whatever I can when I make my decision, what I think is the best that I can support and represent the people of West Virginia, but also be true to this country and the Constitution of this country.

00:21:40.000 Okay, so Manchin obviously is trying to reorient himself away from Joe Biden.

00:21:44.000 That means he may join the Republicans in trying to exert some sort of pressure on Biden with regard to the debt ceiling.

00:21:50.000 Okay, speaking of that, Senator Joe Manchin, he says that it would be a mistake for Joe Biden not to negotiate on the debt ceiling.

00:21:56.000 He says, listen, we could come to some sort of deal here.

00:21:58.000 Stop pretending that there's no deal to be cut at all, President Biden.

00:22:02.000 Let's turn to the debt ceiling.

00:22:03.000 The White House says that they want Congress to pass a clean debt ceiling increase.

00:22:10.000 No negotiations with Republicans at all.

00:22:12.000 Is that a mistake?

00:22:13.000 I think it's a mistake, because we have to negotiate.

00:22:15.000 This is a democracy that we have.

00:22:18.000 We have a two-party system, if you will.

00:22:21.000 And we should be able to talk and find out where our differences are.

00:22:23.000 And if they're irreconcilable, then you have to move on from there and let the people make their decisions.

00:22:29.000 Manchin happens to be correct about this.

00:22:31.000 It's always funny how the language becomes, you're holding somebody hostage when a negotiation takes place that you just don't like.

00:22:37.000 So the White House's Jared Bernstein, who's on the chief, I believe he's the chief economic advisor to President Biden.

00:22:45.000 He says the GOP can't hold the economy hostage over the debt.

00:22:47.000 Well, doesn't it work both ways?

00:22:49.000 Isn't Joe Biden holding the economy hostage over the debt?

00:22:51.000 He's saying he literally will not negotiate on spending at all unless he's able to just raise the debt limit.

00:22:58.000 So, which side is being intransigent?

00:22:59.000 The answer is both sides are being intransigent. 0.93

00:23:02.000 Trying to pretend that one side is being intransigent and the other side is not is ridiculous.

00:23:05.000 The difference is that Republicans are being intransigent in the interests of the future of the country by attempting to at least lower the $31 trillion debt.

00:23:12.000 Joe Biden's like, I want to spend as much money as I want.

00:23:14.000 And if you won't let me take out another credit card, well then you're holding the country hostage.

00:23:17.000 Here's Jerry Bernstein making that particular case.

00:23:20.000 Why won't the White House initiate some conversations over the debt limit? 0.98

00:23:26.000 Kevin McCarthy signed an increase without any negotiations, with any conditions, three times under President Trump.

00:23:33.000 So if they want to talk about fiscal responsibility, bring it on.

00:23:37.000 If they want to hold the economy hostage and threaten a default to force cuts in Social Security and Medicare, nope.

00:23:46.000 He's not there for that.

00:23:47.000 Okay, so I'm just confused for a second.

00:23:49.000 You're telling me that the Republicans moved with Trump to raise the debt ceiling and did it in clean fashion, and you're surprised that they're putting some sort of pressure on Joe Biden?

00:23:59.000 Why?

00:24:00.000 Wouldn't Democrats presumably do the same thing if they'd been in control of Congress while President Trump was president?

00:24:06.000 Stop pretending that this is about principle.

00:24:08.000 It's not.

00:24:09.000 What this is really about is that the Democrats constantly want to increase the amount of money they are spending, no matter the consequences.

00:24:15.000 They do have the help of the press in this.

00:24:17.000 The New York Times ran a piece over the weekend titled, How the U.S.

00:24:19.000 Government Amassed $31 Trillion in Debt.

00:24:22.000 Their answer was tax cuts.

00:24:24.000 Okay, guys, it's not the tax cuts.

00:24:25.000 It's the spending.

00:24:27.000 It's the spending.

00:24:28.000 Pretending that allowing the American people to keep their own money is what contributes to the debt, as opposed to, you know, spending money you don't have. 0.94

00:24:35.000 That's ridiculous. 0.67

00:24:36.000 This is like your parents give you a $20 allowance. 0.98

00:24:39.000 You go and you spend $50.

00:24:40.000 You're like, well, it's really my parents' fault for not giving me a $40 allowance.

00:24:44.000 No, it's your fault for spending $50.

00:24:45.000 I'm sorry.

00:24:46.000 You can't pretend that your parents keeping their own money somehow alleviates your responsibility for spending within your means.

00:24:53.000 The American people are not there to subsidize your drug-like spending habit over at the federal government.

00:24:58.000 But according to the New York Times, that's exactly what they're there for.

00:25:01.000 Most money, actually, according to the New York Times, belongs fundamentally to the federal government, and they allow you to keep some every so often.

00:25:06.000 So a tax cut is really the problem.

00:25:08.000 According to the New York Times, quote, America's debt is now six times what it was at the start of the 21st century.

00:25:13.000 It is the largest it has been compared with the size of the U.S.

00:25:15.000 economy since World War II.

00:25:16.000 It's projected to grow on average about $1.3 trillion a year for the next decade.

00:25:20.000 The United States hit its $31.4 trillion legal limit on borrowing this past week, putting Washington on the brink of another fiscal showdown.

00:25:27.000 Republicans are refusing to raise that limit unless President Biden agrees to steep spending cuts, echoing a partisan standoff that has played out multiple times in the past two decades.

00:25:35.000 But America's ballooning debt is the result of choices made by both Republicans and Democrats.

00:25:39.000 Since 2000, politicians from both parties have made a habit of borrowing money to finance wars, tax cuts, expanded federal spending, care for baby boomers, and emergency measures to help the nation endure two debilitating recessions.

00:25:50.000 There have been bipartisan tax cuts and bipartisan spending increases driving that growth, said Maya McGuinness, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and perhaps the preeminent deficit hawk in Washington.

00:25:59.000 It's not the simple story of Republicans cut taxes and Democrats grow spending.

00:26:03.000 Actually, they all like to do all of it.

00:26:04.000 Well, no.

00:26:05.000 Republicans like to cut taxes and grow spending, and Democrats just like to grow the spending.

00:26:09.000 They don't like to cut the taxes.

00:26:11.000 So, again, Democrats don't want to raise the taxes to, like, Norwegian levels.

00:26:15.000 They're not interested in the sort of Scandinavian tax program that Bernie Sanders has on tap.

00:26:21.000 But pretending that this is about the tax cuts as opposed to the spending habit that both parties have engaged in for literally decades is really, really silly.

00:26:29.000 And again, puts the onus on the American people to fund all of this when the onus really should be on the federal government to cut.

00:26:33.000 Now, at a certain point, the American people are going to have to take responsibility for the fact that they keep saying that they want the spending cut, and then they refuse to name exactly what kind of spending they wish to have cut.

00:26:42.000 But a negotiation should take place, and good for Joe Manchin, and good for the Republicans for at least saying they want to do that.

00:26:48.000 The question is, what concessions can they say that they will try to exact from President Biden?

00:26:53.000 This is an opportunity to point out specific things they want Joe Biden to do, and then they should say to him, You're willing to sink the American economy because you won't cut X, Y, and Z, where X, Y, and Z are unpopular programs?

00:27:04.000 That is the way that you do all of this.

00:27:06.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden continues to happy talk his way through what is an economic downturn.

00:27:10.000 Joe Biden over the weekend says, our plan is working, guys.

00:27:13.000 The plan is doing great.

00:27:14.000 Well, that comes as a surprise to the 12,000 members of the Google team who were cut over the weekend.

00:27:19.000 Now, two years in, it's clearer than ever that our plan's working.

00:27:23.000 We're building the economy from the bottom up and the middle out, not just the top down.

00:27:26.000 I'm sorry, he's so boring.

00:27:28.000 Everything he says is just a terrible bumper sticker.

00:27:30.000 The bottom out and the middle in and the top down and the outside in and inside out and move it all about.

00:27:39.000 Meanwhile, Larry Summers, the former Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, he points out the real problem here, which is that the Federal Reserve looks as though it is slowing its rate of interest rate increases.

00:27:49.000 The idea here, presumably, is that, well, you know, those inflation rates are coming down, they're coming down fast, so they should be real careful about increasing those interest rates.

00:27:56.000 And Larry Summers is like, guys, you're going to miss the target here.

00:27:59.000 You're not going to be able to land the plane.

00:28:01.000 You're going to increase the interest rates, but you're going to do so at too low a rate to actually curb the inflation.

00:28:07.000 You're going to end up with stagflation again.

00:28:09.000 Here's Larry Summers, who's the only person who happened to be right on this over the course of the last couple of years.

00:28:13.000 Transitory factors have contributed to the declines that we have seen in inflation.

00:28:22.000 And as in many journeys, the last part of the journey is often the hardest.

00:28:28.000 And that's true with respect to a return to the inflation target.

00:28:35.000 The greatest tragedy in this moment would be if central banks were to lurch away from a focus on assuring price stability prematurely, and we were to have to fight this battle twice.

00:29:00.000 He happens to be correct about this.

00:29:01.000 Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve is preparing to only increase those interest rates at a much lower rate.

00:29:07.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Federal Reserve officials are preparing to slow interest rate increases for the second straight meeting and debate how much higher to raise them after getting more confidence that inflation will ease further this year.

00:29:16.000 I have a feeling that if they take the current trends as indicative of future trends, that is a large-scale mistake, as Larry Summers is suggesting.

00:29:20.000 and inflation they would need to see before pausing rate rises this spring. In recent public statements and interviews, Fed officials have said slowing the pace of rate increases to a more traditional quarter percentage point would give them more time to assess the impact of their increases so far as they determine where to stop. I have a feeling that if they take the current trends as indicative of future trends, that is a large scale mistake as Larry Summers is suggesting. Okay, meanwhile, it's kind of fascinating.

00:29:44.000 Nancy Pelosi over the weekend recognized that Democrats basically lost the House because of crime. 0.96

00:29:50.000 This happens to be correct.

00:29:51.000 She's not wrong about all of this.

00:29:53.000 She told the New York Times over the weekend in an interview with Maureen Dowd that one of the reasons that Democrats lost the House of Representatives is specifically because of the crime issue.

00:30:01.000 Which, again, look at the map and that's true.

00:30:03.000 Democrats lost a bunch of seats in New York they probably should not have lost.

00:30:07.000 Dowd wrote about her sit-in with Pelosi, quote, That's not wrong.

00:30:18.000 And Joe Biden's beginning to realize that also, is that moving forward, if Democrats continue to leave the crime issue on the table, they're going to pay the price.

00:30:24.000 The problem is they're sort of boxed in. 0.99

00:30:25.000 So over the weekend, Joe Biden, for example, told mayors, a group of mayors, they actually need more police, that defund the police is really, really stupid. 0.99

00:30:32.000 I'm glad he's saying it. 0.98

00:30:33.000 I just wish he actually and his party actually believed it.

00:30:36.000 And by the way, you know, when a cop turns up in a domestic violence case or someone's standing on the edge of a bridge, they don't need a cop, they need a psychologist with them.

00:30:47.000 That's why we're putting more people... No, I'm serious!

00:30:50.000 We're beginning to understand this all again.

00:30:52.000 And a lot of you are applying for the money and using it for these mental health issues as well.

00:30:56.000 You know, there are countless examples.

00:30:59.000 When it comes to public safety, when it comes to public safety, we know the answer is not to defund the police.

00:31:05.000 Now, notice that he's actually arguing in that clip.

00:31:09.000 He says don't defund the police.

00:31:10.000 But the problem is he's boxing by his own party.

00:31:11.000 So he's saying don't defund the police.

00:31:13.000 And then he's saying, actually, take all the money that you're using for the police and shift it over to mental health specialists.

00:31:18.000 And then he's also saying that the police are mistrained, that they're always shooting to kill as opposed to shooting to wound or something.

00:31:26.000 Why police are trained to shoot to kill?

00:31:28.000 Because no one on planet Earth can do the Jack Bauer thing of being 200 yards away from somebody with a handgun and shooting them in the knee to incapacitate them.

00:31:36.000 That's not real, but Joe Biden lives in fantasy land and so do many Democrats on this sort of stuff.

00:31:41.000 You know, when I was coming up as a kid, you know, cops were required to learn to shoot to kill.

00:31:49.000 Well, you ought to be able to shoot to stop.

00:31:52.000 You know, everything shouldn't be an extreme.

00:31:54.000 So the way we train police officers is changing. 0.96

00:31:58.000 We should actually train them that they should shoot people in the finger, in their trigger finger. 0.78

00:32:03.000 And that way, if they hit them right in the trigger finger, then they won't be able to shoot anymore because they won't have a trigger finger. 1.00

00:32:08.000 Or maybe they can shoot them right in the ear. 0.99

00:32:11.000 Like at the tip of the ear. 1.00

00:32:12.000 Just a warning shot.

00:32:13.000 Bam! 0.98

00:32:14.000 Right in the ear.

00:32:19.000 Guys, maybe the reason that you did poorly in the last election because of crime is because you are bad on crime.

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00:35:30.000 So over the weekend, officials said that there was a gunman who killed 10 in California.

00:35:34.000 There's a mass shooting over in Torrance.

00:35:37.000 The suspect was found dead.

00:35:38.000 Not before the mass shooting, obviously.

00:35:40.000 According to the New York Times, the man saw it in the late night slaying of 10 people at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park, California.

00:35:45.000 Again, this is just the latest example of serious, deadly violence in Los Angeles where they've had skyrocketing crime rates over the course of the last several years.

00:35:50.000 hunt across the Los Angeles region.

00:35:52.000 Officials offered no motive for the rampage.

00:35:53.000 They said they believe that the gunman tried to carry out a second attack nearby.

00:35:56.000 Again, this is just the latest example of serious, deadly violence in Los Angeles where they've had skyrocketing crime rates over the course of the last several years.

00:36:05.000 The good news is that the LAPD is now banning the thin blue line flag as an expression of solidarity with police officers who have been killed on the job.

00:36:14.000 I can't imagine why crime rates are spiraling out of control. 0.97

00:36:17.000 Maybe it's because you have morons at the top of the police policy who are trying to mirror the perceptions of Joe Biden, who are trying to mirror the perception that it's the police. 0.98

00:36:24.000 You know, they keep doing this stuff that alienates people, like wearing uniforms and mourning dead cops. 1.00

00:36:29.000 It's just the worst.

00:36:30.000 I can't believe that they're doing that sort of stuff.

00:36:31.000 If only they would stop mourning the dead cops, probably there would be fewer criminals.

00:36:35.000 According to Yahoo!

00:36:36.000 to others, the black and white American flag with a single blue stripe is a potent symbol of the ties between white right-wing extremism and American law enforcement.

00:36:44.000 The tension between those irreconcilable interpretations spilled over in the LAPD this month, when Chief Michael Moore ordered the flag, which was widely displayed in station lobbies around the city, to be removed from public view.

00:36:55.000 Well, I mean, listen, as long as the cops have to fly a Pride Progress flag, I think that in the American way, it's been upheld.

00:36:59.000 I mean, honestly, unless every police uniform is replaced with a YMCA logo, I think that pretty... How can we expect violence to go down?

00:37:09.000 Along with banning the flag from station lobbies, Moore said his order includes patches on uniforms and bumper stickers on police vehicles.

00:37:16.000 Violators could face discipline, a department spokesperson said on Thursday.

00:37:19.000 In an apartment-wide email, Moore said the flag's original meaning of support for police had been overshadowed when it began appearing at rallies for the Proud Boys and other far-right extremist groups. Well, I mean, you could say the same about the American flag, which has appeared from right to left. But apparently, as long as some bad guy flies the flag, now cops have to be stopped from flying a flag that symbolizes honor for police officers who have been slain in the line of duty.

00:37:44.000 He said, it's unfortunate that extremist groups have hijacked the use of the thin blue line flags to symbolize their undemocratic, racist, and bigoted views.

00:37:51.000 Flags serve as powerful symbols with specific meanings. So yeah, I'm sure that this is, it's a great way to fight crime.

00:37:59.000 You guys are doing an amazing job.

00:38:01.000 Just an amazing job.

00:38:02.000 Speaking of doing an amazing job in terms of fighting crime, obviously things are going incredibly well over in Atlanta.

00:38:08.000 Over the weekend, according to the New York Post, an angry crowd took to the streets of Atlanta on Saturday night, smashing windows, torching a police car in response to the death of a 26-year-old protester on Wednesday, reports said.

00:38:18.000 By the way, when they say 26-year-old protester, they mean someone who shout at police.

00:38:22.000 Atlanta Police Chief Darren Sherbaum told reporters multiple protesters were found with explosive devices on them.

00:38:29.000 One of the devices was used to set an Atlanta police car on fire.

00:38:32.000 So those would not be protesters, those would be violent rioters.

00:38:36.000 I've been to protests before, and see, the way that I can tell the difference between a protester and a violent rioter is that protesters don't have a bomb on them.

00:38:44.000 I know, it's subtle.

00:38:45.000 It's a subtle thing.

00:38:47.000 Protesters who hit the streets after calling for a night of rage by Antifa members were also seen throwing bricks at the Atlanta Police Department vehicles and smashing property, largely in black neighborhoods. 0.80

00:38:56.000 They had a bunch of spoiled white rich kids throwing bricks through the windows of black businesses, you know, in the name of social justice and all. 0.98

00:39:03.000 Georgia Governor Brian Kemp condemned the protesters' actions on Saturday night. 0.91

00:39:06.000 He said violence and unlawful destruction of property are not acts of protest.

00:39:09.000 They are crimes that will not be tolerated in Georgia and will be prosecuted fully.

00:39:14.000 Apparently, the protests began peacefully marching in the city around 5 p.m., when some members then began smashing property.

00:39:21.000 The mayhem came after a person named Manuel Esteban Pérez Terán was shot and killed by Georgia State Patrol troopers who were trying to clear protesters camping near the site of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, dubbed Cop City.

00:39:32.000 So what exactly did Pérez do?

00:39:34.000 He shot and wounded a police officer.

00:39:36.000 And the media covered this as though a peaceful protester had been slain by the police, as always.

00:39:41.000 media coverage helps facilitate this sort of rioting. And then there were headlines that were coming out of Atlanta after half the city got burned, or at least after significant violence took place, suggesting that these were peaceful protests. It really is an amazing thing how the media will go out of its way to determine based on political causes whether something is a political protest or whether it is a violence act of rage.

00:40:05.000 If it's a right-wing thing, then you have to ban every symbol associated with it, up to and including totally legit symbols like the thin blue line.

00:40:12.000 But, if it's Antifa burning down a city, you have to say that it's mostly peaceful.

00:40:16.000 By the way, the footage from the Atlanta Antifa Night of Rage, pretty ugly stuff, guys.

00:40:20.000 It didn't go amazing over there.

00:40:23.000 We now understand they're marching through the streets of downtown Atlanta.

00:40:26.000 Courtney Francisco, our reporter, is there with them.

00:40:29.000 Courtney, what's going on?

00:40:32.000 Well, right now we're walking toward what we see here.

00:40:36.000 Chase Bank, the Hard Rock Cafe.

00:40:39.000 Police presence swarming downtown, but you can see fire are working to extinguish that right now.

00:40:48.000 We've also seen windows broken out.

00:40:51.000 At what I believe is a hotel.

00:40:53.000 And over here to my right, you can see officers are setting up some caution tape to rope this off.

00:41:01.000 A bunch of people, by the way, were in fact charged for their crimes.

00:41:04.000 Virtually all of them are white.

00:41:05.000 I believe all of them, actually, are white.

00:41:08.000 So, just excellent job, as always, by the Antifa dopes, as well as the media that seems tempted always to cover for Antifa's violations in the name of, presumably, their political agenda.

00:41:21.000 Okay, meanwhile, a continuation of a shocking story that was reported by Luke Rozsiak last week.

00:41:27.000 So Luke Rozsiak, the investigative reporter here at Daily Wire, last week, he reported on a shocking story of a 14-year-old who was found sexually assaulted and trafficked in Texas after she had fled her home.

00:41:40.000 She ran away from home.

00:41:41.000 She was 14 years old, claiming she was transgender.

00:41:43.000 She ran to Maryland.

00:41:44.000 She was then found with a pedophile.

00:41:48.000 We're an alleged pedophile.

00:41:49.000 And then instead of the state returning her to her parents, they said her parents, her adopted parents, her grandparents, that they apparently were not in line with her new gender identity.

00:42:02.000 They called her a her.

00:42:03.000 And so she couldn't be put back with them.

00:42:05.000 So instead they placed her in a Marilyn Foster home.

00:42:07.000 She ran away and she ended up being sex trafficked in Texas. 1.00

00:42:10.000 Well, now it turns out, where exactly did she come up with the idea that she was a boy in the first place?

00:42:15.000 At school, of course!

00:42:16.000 According to The Federalist, in August 2021, by concealing a teen's newly asserted transgender identity from her parents, Virginia's Appomattox County High School participated in a chain of events that led to that girl falling into the hands of sexual predators not once but twice.

00:42:29.000 When the FBI found Sage in Maryland, where she was victimized by a sexual predator, a judge refused to return her to her parents on the grounds they were abusing her and not affirming her as a male.

00:42:37.000 Housed in the boy's quarters of a children's home away from her parents, she told her mother she was assaulted again.

00:42:42.000 The girl soon fled, then was brutally sex trafficked again until her rescue in Texas by law enforcement. 0.98

00:42:47.000 Apparently, Sage was essentially mainlined into all of this stuff in school.

00:42:54.000 Sage is a slight pretty 15 year old girl with elfin features and an edgy style.

00:42:58.000 Recently reflecting back on her transgender identification, she told her mom, quote, So, basically, her school apparently started socially transitioning her.

00:43:03.000 person now. I never was a boy. Everybody was doing it. I just wanted to have friends." So basically, her school apparently started socially transitioning her.

00:43:14.000 They started calling her by a male name. School records indicate school staff were calling Sage by her chosen male name and pronouns and at her request concealing this from her parents.

00:43:27.000 Sage recalls her school counselor telling her during her first week of school that since she identified as a male, she could use the boys' bathroom.

00:43:34.000 School records also indicate bullying, although they don't capture the severity of what Sage eventually told her mom.

00:43:38.000 Boys were following behind her in a group, touching her, threatening her with a knife, violence and rape, and even shoving her up against a hallway wall.

00:43:45.000 On August 23rd, according to school notes, reports were received from students and teachers that Sage had used a boy's bathroom and encountered hostile boys there.

00:43:51.000 The school counselor met with Sage the next day to direct her to use the nurse's bathroom for safety reasons.

00:43:58.000 Again, they never actually contacted the parents.

00:44:02.000 By the time they did contact the parents, Sage was basically gone.

00:44:08.000 When you have educational institutions that are outright participating in the sexual indoctrination and destruction of children, our society has gone irredeemably awry.

00:44:18.000 How bad is this particular situation?

00:44:20.000 The situation is so bad that even the New York Times is beginning to notice this.

00:44:24.000 I know that here's how it works in the world of transgender coverage.

00:44:28.000 First, the transgender movement comes out with a statement that is just not true.

00:44:33.000 A statement like, boys can be girls.

00:44:35.000 Then, somebody argues with it.

00:44:37.000 Somebody says, that's not true. 0.57

00:44:38.000 And then, the media immediately label that person a bigot, and a transphobe, and a terrible person.

00:44:44.000 And they say it's absolutely untrue. 0.99

00:44:45.000 And, if you oppose the original argument, then this must mean you want trans people to die, or some such nonsense. 0.98

00:44:50.000 Right? 0.99

00:44:50.000 J.K. 0.99

00:44:50.000 Rowling is a murderer, is the argument. 0.99

00:44:52.000 Then, about two years later, the New York Times reports the counter-argument that was always correct.

00:44:58.000 So now the New York Times, shockingly enough, is actually reporting that maybe schools should not be socially transitioning kids without making parents aware.

00:45:05.000 Quote, Jessica Bradshaw found out that her 15-year-old identified as transgender at school after she glimpsed a homework assignment with an unfamiliar name scrawled at the top.

00:45:12.000 When she asked about the name, the teenager acknowledged that at his request, teenage teachers and administrators at his high school in Southern California had for six months been letting him use the boy's bathroom and calling him by male pronouns.

00:45:23.000 Mrs. Bradshaw was confused.

00:45:24.000 Didn't the school need her permission?

00:45:25.000 Or at least need a teller?

00:45:27.000 It did not, a counselor later explained, because the student did not want his parents to know.

00:45:30.000 District and state policies instructed the school to respect his wishes.

00:45:33.000 His.

00:45:34.000 It's a girl.

00:45:36.000 There was never any word from anyone to let us know that on paper and in the classroom our daughter was our son, Mrs. Bradshaw said.

00:45:41.000 The Bradshaws have been startled to find themselves at odds with the school over their right to know about and weigh in on such major developments in their child's life, a dispute that illustrates how school districts, which have long been a battleground in cultural conflicts over gender and sexuality, are now facing wrenching new tensions over how to accommodate transgender children.

00:45:57.000 The Bradshaws accepted their teenager's new gender identity, but not without trepidation, especially after he asked for hormones and surgery to remove his breasts.

00:46:05.000 Doctors had previously diagnosed him as being on the autism spectrum.

00:46:08.000 The reason I read it that way is because one of the things that they found at the Tavistock Children's Clinic in Britain, which was just shut down, is that there's a wildly disproportionate number of autistic kids who had been mainlined into transgender ideology and then mutilated.

00:46:23.000 Doctors had previously diagnosed him as being on the autism spectrum, as well as with ADD, PTSD, and anxiety.

00:46:29.000 He had struggled with loneliness during the pandemic, and to his parents, seemed not to know exactly who he was, because he had repeatedly changed his name and sexual orientation.

00:46:36.000 Given those complexities, Mrs. Bradshaw said she resented the fact the school had made her feel like a bad parent, for wondering whether educators had put her teenager or minor on a path the school wasn't qualified to oversee.

00:46:46.000 It felt like a parenting stab in the back from the school system, she said.

00:46:50.000 It should have been a decision we made as a family.

00:46:52.000 The student, now 16, told the New York Times his school had provided him with a space to be himself he otherwise lacked.

00:46:57.000 He had tried to come out to his parents before, he said, but they didn't take it seriously, which is why he asked his school for support.

00:47:05.000 This is absurd.

00:47:06.000 Schools have pointed to research that shows that inclusive policies benefit all students, which is why some education experts advise schools to use students' preferred names and pronouns.

00:47:14.000 Educators have also said they feel bound by their own morality to affirm students' gender identities, especially in cases where students don't feel safe coming out at home.

00:47:23.000 Wait, so why are educators' sense of personal identity and morality the issue here?

00:47:30.000 Who hired them to do this?

00:47:31.000 Who allowed them to pervert children this way?

00:47:33.000 There's no other arena of American life where you would allow a teacher to pervert a child this way. 0.95

00:47:38.000 Seriously, a child comes to school and says, I'm a sex addict. 0.94

00:47:42.000 A child comes to school and says, I'm engaged in sex with an older person.

00:47:46.000 That's immediately reported to police and or to parents.

00:47:49.000 A child says, I want an aspirin, and that gets reported to parents.

00:47:53.000 A child comes to school and says, I am a member of the opposite sex.

00:47:55.000 And the teacher's like, well, my moral scruples say that it's my job to help socially transition the kid.

00:48:00.000 The key line in this article from the New York Times, by the way, is this one.

00:48:04.000 Many advocates for LGBTQ youth counter that parents should stop scapegoating schools and instead ask themselves why they don't believe their children.

00:48:11.000 There's no legitimate room for debate, according to these advocates for LGBTQ youth.

00:48:16.000 They are your surrogate parents.

00:48:18.000 They're stealing your kids. 0.99

00:48:20.000 And then they are pretending that they are the advocates of good.

00:48:23.000 They said ensuring schools provide enough support for trans students is more crucial than ever, given the rise of legislation that blocks their access to bathrooms, sports, and gender-affirming care.

00:48:33.000 Every state in the union needs to immediately pursue legislation that forces educators to let parents know what the hell is going on at these schools.

00:48:41.000 This is perversion.

00:48:43.000 It is a form of ideological grooming, at the very least.

00:48:48.000 It is the destruction of children in the name of a perverse ideology. 0.98

00:48:52.000 It is godless nonsense, and logicless nonsense, and reasonless nonsense. 0.91

00:48:57.000 And it has serious, real consequences. 1.00

00:49:00.000 From every kid who's being indoctrinated into this crap, to specific kids who end up sex-trafficked in Texas because schools decided to lie to their parents in the first place. 0.98

00:49:09.000 Alrighty guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now. 0.99

00:49:11.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

00:49:12.000 We'll be getting into the notion from the media that Israel is turning into a fascist country. 0.82

00:49:17.000 It's absurd.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - January 23, 2023

Yet More Biden Classified Documents Found | Ep. 1652

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