The Ben Shapiro Show - ZELENSKY Election INTERFERENCE?!

00:00:00.000 Well, folks, we will bring you the state of the race momentarily.

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00:00:17.000 Well, again, again, this race is tight as a tick.

00:00:24.000 It turns out that despite all of the media's attempts to pretend that this race is somehow a blowout for Kamala Harris, there is literally zero evidence that that is the case.

00:00:33.000 Today, Politico has a piece that must be somewhat devastating for Kamala Harris, suggesting she really didn't get any sort of balance out of that much ballyhooed debate with Donald Trump.

00:00:41.000 Now, as I said at the time, I didn't expect That I thought she was going to get a big bounce out of it.

00:00:44.000 I thought it was a blown opportunity for Donald Trump because there are only so many times in this campaign where Kamala Harris will be forced to actually answer questions about her own positions, about the things she has done as Vice President of the United States, about her belief system, and Trump didn't effectively press that attack.

00:01:00.000 But that did not fundamentally change the race.

00:01:03.000 I said, Even at the time.

00:01:04.000 A week and a half from now, and it can make one bit of difference.

00:01:07.000 That is now clear.

00:01:08.000 According to Politico, Kamala Harris did not get much of a post-debate bounce. 0.79

00:01:12.000 Instead of taking a clear lead over Donald Trump, the polls have shifted only slightly

00:01:15.000 in the vice president's favor, especially in the battleground states,

00:01:18.000 even though voters overwhelmingly crowned her the winner of the high stakes showdown. 0.94

00:01:21.000 It's nowhere near enough to change the underlying reality.

00:01:24.000 Harris and Trump are still on a collision course for a very close finish in November.

00:01:27.000 And when you look again at the polls, what you see is that virtually every state

00:01:31.000 is inside the margin of error.

00:01:33.000 According to that RealClearPolitics polling average, Donald Trump has a two point lead in Georgia.

00:01:37.000 He's almost certainly going to win Georgia in my estimate.

00:01:40.000 He is tied with Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania within a point. 0.66

00:01:44.000 In Michigan, she's up by a couple of points.

00:01:46.000 In Wisconsin, they're within a point.

00:01:47.000 In Arizona, Trump is up by a couple of points.

00:01:49.000 Nevada is basically a dead heat at this point.

00:01:53.000 Those states are really tight.

00:01:54.000 Plus, of course, North Carolina, which has turned into a real dogfight for Donald Trump.

00:01:58.000 So this election could spin on very, very small numbers.

00:02:03.000 And there are a couple of lagging indicators for Kamala Harris that are not particularly good.

00:02:07.000 So yesterday, for example, CNN's Harry Enten pointed out that this New York Times poll that showed that Donald Trump was winning in North Carolina, Arizona, and Georgia showed that she's actually lagging in terms of support from black and Hispanic voters, which is a disaster area for her.

00:02:22.000 How about this?

00:02:23.000 I think this is really interesting.

00:02:24.000 All right, choice for President Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina.

00:02:27.000 All right, Hispanic voters.

00:02:29.000 Four years ago, Joe Biden won that vote 66% in the Sun Belt.

00:02:33.000 Look at where we are now.

00:02:35.000 Kamala Harris at just 52%.

00:02:36.000 So Kamala Harris struggling among Hispanic voters.

00:02:39.000 Donald Trump doing considerably better than he did four years ago.

00:02:42.000 How about black voters?

00:02:43.000 Kamala Harris, again, leading here by a significant margin, right?

00:02:45.000 She's getting 83% of that vote, but that is significantly short of Joe Biden's 92%.

00:02:51.000 So the bottom line is, in the Sun Belt, which is much more diverse than the northern battleground states up in the Great Lakes, Kamala Harris is struggling among voters of color.

00:03:02.000 Okay, this is a real problem for her.

00:03:03.000 There are a couple of unspoken problems for the Kamala Harris campaign. 0.80

00:03:07.000 The democratic matrix that has been built, the sort of logical electoral matrix that has been built since 2012, which is drive out minority votes and then count on suburban white ladies to bring you over the finish line. 0.97

00:03:18.000 Kamala Harris is trying to do that, but she's trying to do so without mentioning her race. 1.00

00:03:22.000 That is a very big problem for her. 0.90

00:03:23.000 You can see why she's trying to do that. 0.93

00:03:25.000 She doesn't want to lose Joe Biden's somewhat heavier blue-collar base.

00:03:29.000 Joe Biden had some blue-collar white voters in 2020 that, for example, Hillary Clinton did not have in 2016. 0.87

00:03:35.000 And so she's trying to retain that base, but she's bleeding that base. 1.00

00:03:38.000 Overwhelmingly.

00:03:39.000 The Teamsters do a poll in pretty much every swing state, and every single swing state shows that Joe Biden, who is leading Donald Trump by 20 points, Among the Teamsters.

00:03:50.000 Now that Kamala Harris has replaced Joe Biden, she is trailing Donald Trump by 10 to 20 points among the Teamsters, which means there is, I think, a quiet male rebellion against Kamala Harris's candidacy.

00:04:01.000 I think it's not so quiet in some places, but I think there are a lot of men who look at Kamala Harris's campaign and the way that she has degraded men into some sort of beta male Tim Walz, Doug Emhoff subservience.

00:04:13.000 And they don't like it very much.

00:04:14.000 And so I think there are a lot of men out there who are saying that they are undecided on this election, who actually have decided that they are voting in favor of Donald Trump.

00:04:20.000 So when you see polls that show Kamala Harris winning women by a huge margin, but Donald Trump only winning men by sort of a mid margin, I don't think that's right.

00:04:28.000 I think Trump is going to do much better among men than the polls are currently showing.

00:04:32.000 And because Kamala Harris is attempting not to alienate blue collar white men, again, she wants to hold some of Joe Biden's base, particularly in those swing states. 0.98

00:04:41.000 This election, like pretty much all the others, is going to come down once again to the blue wall states.

00:04:45.000 It's going to be about Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.

00:04:48.000 Michigan is her best state.

00:04:49.000 Wisconsin is her second best state.

00:04:51.000 Pennsylvania is basically a dead heat at this point, which we'll get to in just a minute, because now they're pulling out all the stops in, I think, the most egregious way I think maybe I've ever seen in a campaign.

00:05:00.000 It really is kind of astonishing what they did yesterday.

00:05:02.000 Truly amazing.

00:05:03.000 Unprecedented, as far as I'm aware, in the history of American politics.

00:05:08.000 What they did yesterday in Pennsylvania.

00:05:09.000 It's kind of amazing.

00:05:10.000 Break glass in case of emergency kind of stuff.

00:05:12.000 But Kamala Harris, in an attempt to win over blue-collar white men, has been downplaying her race in this campaign. 1.00

00:05:19.000 Which again, I think is probably better for the country.

00:05:21.000 I think the sort of racial polarization ushered in by Barack Obama in 2012 has been horrific for America.

00:05:27.000 You can see it in the polling data.

00:05:28.000 Race relations in America were on an upward trajectory until about 2012, 2013, and then they immediately plummet when Barack Obama opens that can of worms in an attempt to get himself reelected.

00:05:37.000 So I'm glad Kamala Harris isn't talking about race very much on the campaign trail, but it is true that And because she's not talking about race, she's not earning as much black support or apparently Latino support as she otherwise might be.

00:05:50.000 Kamala Harris, folks, is not running a very good campaign, but if she were the president, the economic situation that would follow would be significantly worse. 1.00

00:05:58.000 We're looking at a proposed top income tax rate of nearly 40%, a 7% hike in corporate taxes, and she has said she wants a capital gains tax on unrealized gains, which just means pretty much every business in America is in serious trouble.

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00:06:11.000 They also want to add almost $2 trillion to our already staggering $2 trillion deficit every year.

00:06:16.000 It's like they're trying to speedrun the collapse of our economy.

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00:07:14.000 So she's lagging with white men and apparently she's lagging with blacks and Latinos in these polls. 0.99

00:07:20.000 Well, that's not a recipe for victory in a very, very close election, in a turnout-based election.

00:07:24.000 Now, maybe she's counting on the fact that she's radically outspending Republicans. 0.99

00:07:28.000 Democrats are outspending Republicans basically almost two to one at this point.

00:07:33.000 The campaigns, political outspending in the United States, including presidential, congressional, and down-ballot races.

00:07:38.000 The Democratic campaigns, to this point, have spent about $700 million.

00:07:42.000 The Republicans have only spent about $390 million.

00:07:45.000 Republicans are getting shellacked in the spending race.

00:07:48.000 The spending by outside groups?

00:07:50.000 Democrats have spent 1.1 billion dollars.

00:07:51.000 Now remember...

00:07:53.000 We were supposed to believe that Citizens United was a right-wing decision by the Supreme Court that allowed outside groups to manipulate American politics.

00:08:00.000 Remember, Democrats have been complaining for years that it's these outside Republican-funded super PACs that are deciding politics in America.

00:08:07.000 It's not true.

00:08:08.000 Unions have been spending billions of dollars for Democrats for as long as I've been alive.

00:08:11.000 Democratic super PACs spend a ton of money.

00:08:14.000 In fact, again, they are currently spending $1.1 billion to outside groups in this election, compared to about $915 million for Republicans.

00:08:23.000 In total, Democrats have spent in this election cycle $1.8 billion.

00:08:27.000 Republicans are stuck at $1.3 billion.

00:08:31.000 And most of the spending is, of course, concentrated in the swing states.

00:08:34.000 So maybe the Democrats are hoping to outspend.

00:08:37.000 And one thing that's fascinating is that Democratic super PACs are not focusing on Trump anymore.

00:08:41.000 They've decided, they've squeezed all the blood they can from that particular stone.

00:08:45.000 That everyone who's voting in favor of Kamala because they hate Trump, all those people are God.

00:08:49.000 So what they're instead focusing enormous amounts of energy on is trying to create a phenomenon around Kamala Harris.

00:08:56.000 And this is where, again, they have a problem.

00:08:58.000 Kamala Harris is a nothing burger. 0.91

00:09:00.000 She's a giant nothing burger. 1.00

00:09:01.000 She's always been a giant nothing burger. 1.00

00:09:04.000 She moves where the prevailing winds of Democratic Party opinion move.

00:09:08.000 She tries to read the tides and then ride those tides.

00:09:11.000 So in 2019-2020, when the Democratic Party was moving in a very Bernie Sanders Black Lives Matter direction, she campaigned as left of Bernie Sanders and left of Black Lives Matter.

00:09:19.000 And then, when there was a backlash, she suddenly turned into Queen Moderate, who actually was an aggressive prosecutor. 0.98

00:09:25.000 She wasn't.

00:09:26.000 In California.

00:09:28.000 According to Politico, Democratic super PACs are taking an unusual approach in this year's presidential race.

00:09:32.000 They're not focusing on former President Donald Trump.

00:09:36.000 And the significant majority of this cycle's spending by pro-democratic outside groups, which typically function as attack dogs, is going to add to aiming to drive positive perceptions of Kamala Harris.

00:09:46.000 That stark contrast reflects a challenging reality.

00:09:48.000 Harris began her abbreviated campaign, comparatively unknown to many voters, setting off a frenzy to define her in the final weeks of the election. 0.98

00:09:54.000 That's particularly pronounced because this is Trump's third presidential run in a row.

00:09:58.000 There may be little Democrats can do to persuade most voters about Trump.

00:10:01.000 Instead, since Harris's elevation, according to Politico, Democrats have bet that their dollars are better spent reintroducing voters to the vice president.

00:10:09.000 Which of course means, as I've been saying, the Trump campaign has to be focused laser-like on characterizing Kamala Harris.

00:10:16.000 This campaign must be made about Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:10:18.000 The same math that was always true holds true now.

00:10:20.000 If this election is a referendum on Trump, he's going to lose.

00:10:23.000 If this election is a referendum on Kamala Harris, she is going to lose. 0.99

00:10:28.000 It is up to the Trump campaign, outside super PACs, conservatives, to make this election about what Kamala Harris is and what she will be.

00:10:38.000 That is the entire, that's the entire ball of wax right now.

00:10:41.000 That is the thing that matters.

00:10:42.000 Well, you can tell that the Democrats are in a bit of a state of panic at this point, which is quite amazing because really they should be riding high.

00:10:49.000 They've had nothing but glowing media coverage of Kamala Harris since they swapped out one candidate for another in the most shocking presidential move of my lifetime.

00:10:57.000 And everybody just pretended that it was totally fine.

00:10:59.000 It was totally normal.

00:11:01.000 Zero votes earned by Kamala Harris in any primary ever.

00:11:04.000 And here she was, the nominee.

00:11:06.000 Joe Biden, the sitting president of the United States, was deemed too senile to be the candidate, but yet not senile enough to be ousted from the presidency.

00:11:14.000 And this is all the new normal.

00:11:16.000 This is all treated as normal.

00:11:17.000 You would imagine under those circumstances, under the circumstances in which the Democrat media human centipede continues to operate unmitigated, That she'd be leading by 5-10 points and that she'd be running away with the race in the swing states. 0.98

00:11:31.000 And that, in fact, is not the case.

00:11:33.000 That is actually not a thing that has been happening.

00:11:35.000 Which means they're now pulling out all the stops.

00:11:38.000 So, yesterday, this is a shocking story.

00:11:40.000 It truly is an amazing thing.

00:11:42.000 I've never seen anything quite like it, actually.

00:11:44.000 Apparently, according to the Associated Press, under tight security, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday visited a Pennsylvania ammunition factory to thank the workers who are producing one of the most critically needed munitions for his country's fight to fend off Russian ground forces.

00:12:00.000 Representative Matt Cartwright, a Democrat, who was among those who met with Zelensky at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant, said the President had a simple message, thank you, and we need more.

00:12:09.000 So he's supposed to speak at the U.N.

00:12:11.000 General Assembly Annual Gathering in New York on Tuesday and Wednesday and then go to Washington, D.C.

00:12:15.000 to hang out with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

00:12:19.000 But instead, the United States flew him into Pennsylvania.

00:12:26.000 That is bizarro world.

00:12:28.000 Apparently, they actually sent like a United States C-17 to pick up Vladimir Zelensky and fly him into Pennsylvania.

00:12:37.000 I feel like there's something going on in Pennsylvania.

00:12:37.000 Well, that's weird.

00:12:39.000 What could it be?

00:12:40.000 Could it be it's the most important state in a swing state election?

00:12:43.000 That basically if Pennsylvania goes Democrat, Harris wins.

00:12:46.000 And if Pennsylvania goes Republican, Trump wins.

00:12:48.000 And so they are now flying in a foreign leader.

00:12:50.000 The Democrats are.

00:12:51.000 I mean, it's the White House.

00:12:52.000 They are literally flying in a foreign leader to Pennsylvania to go hang out with Josh Shapiro, a surrogate for the campaign.

00:12:59.000 And the person passed over for VP because he's a Jew.

00:13:02.000 They have him now running around the state of Pennsylvania, basically campaigning in favor of Biden-Harris.

00:13:08.000 I've never seen anything like this.

00:13:10.000 You talk about foreign election interference.

00:13:12.000 Democrats said that in 2016, the Russians were intervening on behalf of Donald Trump.

00:13:16.000 And the evidence they had is that the Russians had some cutouts who were trying to retail information to the Trump campaign, information that never materialized and was never used.

00:13:24.000 And then they said, oh, it was the Russians on Facebook, the Russians on Facebook.

00:13:27.000 They were putting up all sorts of memes.

00:13:29.000 And it turned out that the amount of engagement earned by the Russians on Facebook was less than my own personal Facebook page during that election cycle earned in one month.

00:13:38.000 During the entirety of the election.

00:13:39.000 So it's not the Russians interfering.

00:13:42.000 Well, this is foreign election interference, like on its face.

00:13:46.000 This is insane.

00:13:47.000 Well, it is insane that Kamala Harris and team are now trotting out Vladimir Zelensky to campaign for them.

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00:15:05.000 Flying in a foreign leader to literally campaign in a battleground state is unheard of.

00:15:10.000 I don't know why it's a good move for Zelensky, by the way.

00:15:12.000 It seems to me an awful move for Zelensky.

00:15:15.000 Any foreign leader at least has to maintain the patina of attempting to reach out to both sides of the aisle.

00:15:22.000 It is a foolhardy endeavor to attempt to cultivate only one side of the aisle.

00:15:25.000 Even Benjamin Netanyahu has been totally rejected by the Democratic Party.

00:15:28.000 So much so that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer literally went on the floor of the Senate and called for his ouster as the Prime Minister of Israel, elected.

00:15:38.000 Even Bibi Netanyahu tries to make calls to Joe Biden, tries to meet with senior Democratic leaders.

00:15:44.000 If they reject him, that's their problem.

00:15:47.000 But Vladimir Zelensky flying in at the behest of the White House to Scranton, Pennsylvania to tour munitions factories is one of the single worst decisions I've ever seen a foreign leader reliant on American bipartisan support bank.

00:16:00.000 It's bizarro world.

00:16:02.000 He is not flying in to make an address to Congress invited by the Democrats, for example, and some Republicans don't show up.

00:16:07.000 That's what happened to Netanyahu back in 2015 and then again this year.

00:16:12.000 Netanyahu was invited by Congress, some Democrats didn't show.

00:16:15.000 Not the same thing.

00:16:17.000 He is literally going to an arms munitions factory in a swing state and being given a tour by Josh Shapiro.

00:16:26.000 This is the equivalent of Donald Trump, in the latter days of an election, using the White House to personally fly Benjamin Netanyahu, for example, to the United States, to campaign in Florida for him, to send him to like Michigan, To meet with Jews living in the Detroit suburbs and thank them for their support.

00:16:47.000 That's so weird.

00:16:48.000 It's not only weird, it is very bad.

00:16:50.000 This is not how foreign policy is actually done in the United States.

00:16:54.000 Having an administration fly in a foreign leader to go do your rabble rousing for you in a swing state.

00:16:58.000 Now, you know what they're doing.

00:17:00.000 Kamala Harris made this apparent during that debate with Donald Trump.

00:17:05.000 She randomly sort of name-checked Polish-Americans in Pennsylvania.

00:17:09.000 It was the weirdest call-out I've ever seen, I think.

00:17:12.000 I mean, it was like, I've never seen such a specific political call-out in the middle of a debate before.

00:17:18.000 There are about 800,000 Polish-Americans who live in Pennsylvania.

00:17:23.000 She specifically called them out in an attempt to say that they had to be in favor of her because Donald Trump is not sufficiently in favor of the Ukraine war, for example.

00:17:36.000 It was a perfectly obvious thing that she's doing.

00:17:38.000 So we know what she's doing right now.

00:17:39.000 She's bringing in Zelensky to go campaign in favor of the votes of Eastern Europeans who have historically lived under the thumb of the Russians.

00:17:48.000 That's what she is doing.

00:17:50.000 So Zelensky heads on over to Pennsylvania.

00:17:52.000 And you hear footage of him touring this munitions factory.

00:18:03.000 And that is Josh Shapiro signing the munitions.

00:18:05.000 Bye!

00:18:05.000 Bye.

00:18:06.000 The governor of Pennsylvania.

00:18:08.000 Now again, not unusual for politicians to sign munitions aimed at America's enemies.

00:18:12.000 And this also happened in Israel.

00:18:15.000 Nikki Haley famously signed munitions that were aimed at Hamas in Gaza.

00:18:18.000 But it is weird to fly Vladimir Zelensky into an American munitions factory in the swing state of Pennsylvania in order to rabble rouse.

00:18:26.000 That's bizarre.

00:18:28.000 And not only that, Zelensky then did an interview with the New Yorker magazine where he specifically called out the Trump fans ticket.

00:18:36.000 So Zelensky was asked about Trump's statements about Ukraine.

00:18:40.000 He said, My feeling is Trump doesn't really know how to stop the war, even if he might think he knows how.

00:18:44.000 With this war, oftentimes, the deeper you look at it, the less you understand.

00:18:47.000 I've seen many leaders who are convinced that they knew how to end it tomorrow.

00:18:50.000 And as they waded deeper into it, they realized it's not that simple.

00:18:54.000 And then he specifically said that J.D.

00:18:56.000 Vance was, quote, too radical.

00:18:59.000 And the New Yorker said, Vance has come out with a more precise plan, he said, to give up our territories.

00:19:03.000 He said, his message seems to be that Ukraine must make a sacrifice. 0.62

00:19:06.000 This brings us back to the question of the cost and who shoulders it.

00:19:08.000 The idea that the world should end this war at Ukraine's expense is unacceptable, but I do not consider this concept of his a plan in any formal sense.

00:19:14.000 This would be an awful idea if a person were actually going to carry it out to make Ukraine shoulder the cost of stopping the war by giving up its territories.

00:19:21.000 But there's certainly no way this could ever happen.

00:19:24.000 This kind of scenario would have no basis in international norms and UN statute and justice, and it wouldn't necessarily end the war either.

00:19:29.000 It's just sloganeering.

00:19:31.000 And then he was touring around, again, in Pennsylvania.

00:19:35.000 That is such a weird move.

00:19:36.000 It's a particularly weird move for Zelensky, because he's gonna need Republican support if he wants more arms flowing his way.

00:19:42.000 It was a Republican House of Representatives that passed a massive aid package that included aid to Israel and Taiwan, yes, but mostly to Ukraine.

00:19:51.000 Many Republican leaders still believe that Ukraine should be funded sufficient to withstand a Russian assault on Kiev, for example.

00:19:59.000 So him openly campaigning in favor of the Harris campaign is wild.

00:20:05.000 It's totally crazy.

00:20:08.000 According to the Associated Press, the 155mm shells made in the Scranton plant are used in howitzer systems, which are towed large guns with long barrels that can fire at various angles.

00:20:18.000 With the war now into its third year, Zelensky has been pushing for the U.S.

00:20:21.000 to give permission to use longer-range missile systems to fire deeper into Russia.

00:20:27.000 Now, this is unique.

00:20:29.000 I truly have not seen anything quite like it.

00:20:31.000 The sitting leader of a country being shipped in by the White House to campaign in his wing state.

00:20:36.000 Does that count as Russian?

00:20:37.000 Does that count as Ukrainian election interference?

00:20:39.000 Does that?

00:20:40.000 Like when you literally have the leader of a foreign country coming to the United States at the behest of the White House in order to campaign.

00:20:47.000 What else would you call that?

00:20:49.000 Does that count as election interference?

00:20:50.000 And again, this is coming from somebody who's in favor of continuing to fund Ukraine, sufficient to pressure Russia into a deal.

00:20:57.000 Because I don't see how any other deal is going to get done.

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00:21:08.000 Even for me, I'm like, what the hell is Zelensky doing?

00:21:12.000 And more than that, how untoward for the Biden-Harris administration to ship him to Pennsylvania That is so openly political, it's insane.

00:21:21.000 But it shows the desperation of the Biden-Harris campaign.

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00:22:53.000 This is a campaign that's got some desperation about it.

00:22:56.000 It really does.

00:22:59.000 It's pretty incredible.

00:23:01.000 Now, meanwhile, the business community is bizarrely trying to talk itself into Kamala Harris, which makes no sense at all.

00:23:08.000 So Kamala Harris has apparently been making an undercover push to win over corporate America. 1.00

00:23:12.000 Now, I talk with corporate leaders all the time.

00:23:14.000 I talk with tech leaders all the time.

00:23:16.000 There is a gap emerging in CEO world against Kamala Harris.

00:23:20.000 They realize that Kamala Harris is basically a cutout for the Bernie Sanders ideology. 0.99

00:23:25.000 They look at the fact that, for example, The Biden administration put in charge one of the most anti-capitalist people in America, Lena Kahn, in order to basically stymie capitalist mergers.

00:23:37.000 Here is the chairwoman of the FTC, Lena Kahn, yesterday claiming that it was corporate consolidation that was responsible for inflation, which, by the way, is nuts.

00:23:45.000 It's not true at all.

00:23:48.000 She says much of the blame for the exorbitant prices on everything from food to concert tickets is widespread corporate consolidation.

00:23:58.000 The FTC's mission is breaking illegal monopolies, blocking mergers that stifle competition, and protecting consumers from a system Lena Kahn says is rigged against them.

00:24:10.000 Too often, fewer and fewer companies are controlling more and more of the market.

00:24:16.000 And what that means is companies can start ripping you off, hiking prices, stealing from you.

00:24:25.000 She is awful.

00:24:26.000 Everybody in the business community, by the way, knows she's awful. 1.00

00:24:28.000 Everybody in tech world knows she's awful.

00:24:29.000 She has become a byword in CEO land for somebody who wishes to stop the mechanisms of the free market from working.

00:24:35.000 And by the way, when you prevent corporate consolidation, which very often means greater efficiency, what you are doing is actually increasing prices.

00:24:43.000 But the Biden administration put her in place. 1.00

00:24:45.000 And you can see CEOs desperately trying to talk themselves into the lie that somehow the alligator that is Biden-Harris-Sanders is going to eat them last.

00:24:54.000 One of the people who's doing this is Texas billionaire Mark Cuban.

00:24:56.000 Cuban, of course, has become a big Kamala Harris supporter.

00:24:58.000 His proposition seems to be never hold her accountable for anything she's going to say or tie her to the Biden administration in any way, shape, or form.

00:25:06.000 I know Mark Cuban a little bit, seems like a very nice guy, but he's wrong on this.

00:25:11.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Texas billionaire Mark Cuban only occasionally spoke with President Biden or his aides.

00:25:17.000 But when he thought over the summer that drug industry middlemen were hiking up the cost of medicines to drive independent pharmacies out of business, he found an eager-sounding board in Kamala Harris' presidential campaign.

00:25:26.000 Cuban, a celebrity entrepreneur who dabbles in politics, has spent hours in recent weeks on phone calls, texts, and email chains talking with the Harris campaign about the pharmacy problem, an issue he is familiar with because of an online pharmacy he co-founded, and taxes, Wall Street, and the deficit too.

00:25:40.000 By the way, normally we would call this corporate cronyism.

00:25:43.000 When CEOs talk with Democrats, that's just good old-fashioned business.

00:25:47.000 When CEOs say to Republicans, will you leave us alone?

00:25:49.000 That's corporate cronyism, according to the legacy media.

00:25:52.000 And remember, when I cite the Wall Street Journal, and I'm not reporting from their opinion pages, the Wall Street Journal's news page is actually to the left of the New York Times' news page.

00:26:01.000 But according to the Wall Street Journal, like past Democratic candidates, Harris has made taking on wrongdoing by American corporations a central part of her pitch to voters.

00:26:08.000 But in private at least, she's making a quiet play for corporate America's support, seeking out advice from leaders across sectors.

00:26:14.000 She's offered few policy specifics, but many executives say they view her openness to their feedback as enough for now.

00:26:19.000 They're just talking their way right past this graveyard.

00:26:23.000 She's hosting dinners of eight to 10 chief executives at the VP's Naval Observatory residence, according to attendees.

00:26:28.000 And many of these CEOs are desperately attempting to talk themselves into fetch.

00:26:33.000 They're trying to pretend that Harris is actually not anti-capitalism, that she is going to be a friend to business.

00:26:41.000 She is absolutely not.

00:26:43.000 And again, many of these corporate CEOs are specifically talking about getting rid of Lena Kahn, chairman of the FTC.

00:26:49.000 That includes Major Democratic Donald Reid Hoffman.

00:26:54.000 But, Harris has tried to move away from that. 0.97

00:26:59.000 And there is this tendency among American CEOs that's really quite pathetic. 0.99

00:27:03.000 It truly is pathetic. 0.99

00:27:05.000 American CEOs, let's say founders, people who build businesses, they have this pathetic belief system that if they just, all they really want is just a little more of my money. 0.99

00:27:12.000 If I'm just a little more self-sacrificial, they'll leave me alone. 0.89

00:27:14.000 No, they won't.

00:27:15.000 The entire ideology of a Bernie Sanders, or yes, a Kamala Harris, is that if you are a billionaire, you should not exist.

00:27:22.000 They're not coming to eat a foot.

00:27:24.000 They're coming to eat the whole thing.

00:27:27.000 They want to tear down business in the name of equity.

00:27:29.000 It is a thing that they believe.

00:27:31.000 Again, the single most important political quotation of my lifetime with regard to corporate and business policy comes from Barack Obama circa 2007, open debate.

00:27:40.000 He has asked, if you increase the capital gains tax rate and it lowers government revenues because the economy shrinks, will you still do it?

00:27:47.000 And he says, yes, for purposes of fairness.

00:27:50.000 In other words, they don't care.

00:27:51.000 This is not about the economic impact.

00:27:53.000 This is not about balancing the budget.

00:27:54.000 It's not about reducing deficits.

00:27:56.000 It's not even about increasing government revenues.

00:27:58.000 It's about punishing success.

00:28:01.000 But you have people like Bill Gates.

00:28:02.000 Again, just because you're good at business does not mean that you understand politics in any way, shape, or form.

00:28:07.000 In fact, very often there's a reverse correlation.

00:28:09.000 Here's Bill Gates suggesting, well, yeah, I think the wealthy should pay more in taxes, but Bernie would say you can't become a billionaire.

00:28:15.000 It's not about the wealthy paying more in taxes.

00:28:17.000 The wealthy could have literally all of their property confiscated tomorrow, and it would pay for approximately six months of federal government funding.

00:28:26.000 Here is Bill Gates.

00:28:27.000 Again, they keep trying to walk their way past this graveyard, and it is not going to work.

00:28:33.000 If I was in charge of the tax system, I would have paid a lot more in taxes.

00:28:37.000 I'd have about a third as much money as I have.

00:28:40.000 Now, Bernie would go further.

00:28:41.000 He would basically say that you can never be a billionaire, that at that point the government's going to take away 100%.

00:28:51.000 Okay, pathetically showing your neck to people who want to destroy you does not save you.

00:28:56.000 All of Bill Gates' efforts for the last 30 years to try and buy his way back into the polite societies of the left wing have not earned him much with the left wing.

00:29:05.000 AOC still sees Bill Gates as a villain and always will because he built a business.

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00:31:42.000 Kamala Harris, again, I'm just going to point out, Kamala Harris has never run or owned a business.

00:31:46.000 Chuck Schumer has never run or owned a business.

00:31:48.000 Barack Obama never ran or owned a business.

00:31:50.000 Nancy Pelosi has never run or owned a business.

00:31:53.000 None of these people have ever run or owned a business.

00:31:56.000 They're career government leeches.

00:31:58.000 And what they believe, more than anything else, is that wealth creation is an act of sin.

00:32:03.000 Wealth creation is exploitation in their generalized world view.

00:32:07.000 Now, they lie about it.

00:32:08.000 They say all the time that, oh, we still believe in capitalism.

00:32:10.000 You hear Joe Biden say this.

00:32:12.000 I'm not saying you can't earn.

00:32:13.000 I'm just saying you gotta have something fair.

00:32:15.000 He just never defines fair.

00:32:18.000 The exception eats the rule.

00:32:20.000 By fair, he means that he should be able to seize all the privately created wealth he can and use it for his various purposes.

00:32:27.000 And maybe he'll take a medieval indulgence from people like Bill Gates in order to buy off support for a moment.

00:32:34.000 But that's just corporatism, not actual free markets.

00:32:38.000 The business community trying to talk themselves into Harris is truly an astonishing thing.

00:32:42.000 So, by the way, is the American population that is trying to talk themselves into the idea that she's not radical in some way, shape, or form.

00:32:50.000 Here is footage of Kamala Harris in 2018, literally protesting deportation of illegal immigrants with, wait for it, Jussie Smollett! 1.00

00:32:57.000 Remember Jussie Smollett?

00:32:58.000 He's the guy who pretended that he was attacked on the mean streets of Chicago by MAGA-headed white supremacists with a rope, and they threw bleach on him.

00:33:06.000 Remember that?

00:33:06.000 And it turned out to be a giant lie.

00:33:08.000 Well, here she was campaigning with them in 2018 against the deportation of illegal immigrants.

00:33:11.000 Down with deportation!

00:33:12.000 Up, up with education!

00:33:12.000 Down, down with deportation!

00:33:34.000 Down, down with deport In 2018, with Jussi Smilje.

00:33:39.000 Don't worry, she's not a radical, guys.

00:33:40.000 By the way, she was literally asked yesterday if she would fulfill her 2019 promise to offer citizenship to 2 million DREAMers.

00:33:48.000 She was asked by Axios.

00:33:50.000 Because back then, she said she would use executive order to offer a pathway to citizenship to 2 million DREAMers and then shield another 6 million undocumented immigrants from deportation.

00:34:01.000 The campaign spokesperson just refused to answer, quote, So they just reject any sort of answer on the positions.

00:34:06.000 This is the essence of the Kamala Harris campaign.

00:34:07.000 Hide what she's about, pretend she is something that she is not, and then apparently ship Volodymyr Zelensky to Pennsylvania to go campaign for you. 0.77

00:34:13.000 reject any sort of answer on the positions.

00:34:16.000 This is the essence of the Kamala Harris campaign.

00:34:20.000 Hide what she's about, pretend she is something that she is not.

00:34:23.000 And then apparently ship Vladimir Zelensky to Pennsylvania to go campaign for you.

00:34:27.000 Truly amazing. 0.98

00:34:28.000 Now, meanwhile, the Biden-Harris administration continues to be utter garbage in terms of actual policy. 0.94

00:34:36.000 There's a major war in the Middle East right now. 0.95

00:34:38.000 Israel has finally responded to a year of 10,000 rockets being fired into its sovereign territory by another sovereign nation, the nation of Lebanon.

00:34:47.000 That nation has, as part of its governing coalition, Hezbollah, a terrorist group.

00:34:51.000 That terrorist group is an Iranian proxy, and they've been firing 10,000 rockets into northern Israel, depopulating the entirety of northern Israel.

00:34:59.000 There are no civilians there because all the civilians are living in hotels in the middle of central Israel right now.

00:35:05.000 That started in coordination with the Hamas attacks of October 7th.

00:35:08.000 So finally, Israel, having completed most of its major military operations in Gaza, turned north and said, guys, you better back it up. 0.66

00:35:15.000 You better stop the rocket fire and back it up so we can have people, you know, live in their homes on our side of the border. 0.56

00:35:20.000 And Hezbollah just kept firing.

00:35:22.000 So finally, Israel activated what has been the single most devastating war launch in the modern era. 0.91

00:35:29.000 It's astonishing.

00:35:30.000 They did the Biber attack, which took down the entire communication structure of Hezbollah in Lebanon and took

00:35:37.000 out thousands of terrorists, wounded them many gravely, killed them.

00:35:42.000 Killed dozens of them. 0.98

00:35:44.000 Then they blew up their walkie-talkies.

00:35:45.000 So the terrorists couldn't talk with each other.

00:35:47.000 Then Israel promptly took out nearly all of the major heads of Hezbollah.

00:35:51.000 Right now, the meetings of the Hezbollah upper echelon is Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, alone in a room with a mirror.

00:35:58.000 That is the entire upper echelon of Hezbollah. 0.96

00:36:00.000 So Israel did that in the first couple of days of the war. 0.83

00:36:03.000 Then they proceeded to knock out 50% of all long-range cruise missiles and other ordnance in the first day.

00:36:11.000 The intelligence that Israel had was so good that they actually had pictures of Hezbollah ordinance in private homes.

00:36:17.000 That's how good Israel's intelligence was on the ground in Lebanon.

00:36:19.000 And so they've been going very heavy.

00:36:22.000 They sent out 80,000 phone calls to citizens of Lebanon telling them, get out of your house if you have Hezbollah ordinance underneath your house.

00:36:30.000 Hezbollah, by the way, has an active program.

00:36:33.000 The evils of Hamas and Hezbollah are unbelievable. 0.79

00:36:35.000 Hezbollah has an active program.

00:36:37.000 The program is they literally will subsidize your rent and pay it for you if you agree to live above their missiles. 0.54

00:36:43.000 That is a thing.

00:36:44.000 That is government policy led by Hezbollah in Lebanon.

00:36:47.000 It's insane.

00:36:48.000 OK, so here's I mean, this is a cruise missile in somebody's house.

00:36:52.000 In Lebanon, Israel released these pictures to show what they're hitting.

00:36:55.000 So they're blowing up all the ordnance.

00:36:57.000 By the way, you can see that Israel is right, because in virtually all of the videos, you'll see an Israeli piece of ordnance hit an apartment building, and then you will see a bunch, a bunch of secondary explosions. 0.80

00:37:08.000 That's all of the missiles and the rockets that are hidden inside those supposedly civilian residences.

00:37:13.000 So unless they're storing up fireworks for July 4th, it turns out they got a bunch of rockets and explosives inside these private apartment buildings.

00:37:19.000 So Israel has been going very hard.

00:37:21.000 They're ramping up the strikes.

00:37:23.000 The idea is to pressure Hezbollah to pull back north of, if not the Latanya River, even further north to make safe Israel's north. 0.82

00:37:32.000 And Israel, remember, voluntarily gave up the areas of southern Lebanon that it was 0.73

00:37:37.000 occupying in order to ensure its own safety in 2000 and gave it over to the UN to try

00:37:41.000 to keep it Hezbollah free. 1.00

00:37:42.000 The UN promptly turned over the entire area to Hezbollah, which promptly staffed it up, 1.00

00:37:47.000 armed it up and put hundreds of thousands of rockets there.

00:37:50.000 Here is Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, the prime minister of Israel, saying Israel's

00:37:53.000 war isn't with the Lebanese people.

00:37:54.000 It's with Hezbollah, which, of course, is true. 1.00

00:37:56.000 I have a message for the people of Lebanon.

00:38:00.000 war is not with you.

00:38:02.000 It's with Hezbollah. 0.97

00:38:04.000 For too long, Hezbollah has been using you as human shields.

00:38:08.000 It placed rockets in your living rooms and missiles in your garage.

00:38:12.000 Those rockets and missiles are aimed directly at our cities, directly at our citizens.

00:38:18.000 To defend our people against Hezbollah strikes, we must take out those weapons. 1.00

00:38:23.000 Now, starting this morning, the IDF has warned you to get out of harm's way.

00:38:28.000 I urge you.

00:38:30.000 Take this warning seriously.

00:38:32.000 Don't let Hezbollah endanger your lives and the lives of your loved ones. 0.99

00:38:36.000 Don't let Hezbollah endanger Lebanon.

00:38:39.000 Please, get out of harm's way now.

00:38:42.000 Once our operation is finished, you can come back safely to your homes.

00:38:48.000 Have you ever seen a war conducted like this?

00:38:50.000 It's truly amazing. 0.98

00:38:51.000 The news media, of course, are doing their damndest to defend Hezbollah, as per their usual Sky News, which is a trash outlet.

00:38:58.000 They had a headline yesterday, quote, Hezbollah has been provoked like never before by Israel and may be tempted to unleash its firepower.

00:39:04.000 Hezbollah has been provoked by Israel?

00:39:07.000 For a year, Israel took incoming rocket fire that depopulated an entire swath of their country.

00:39:12.000 Sky News.

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00:40:01.000 Okay, meanwhile, Leave it to the Biden administration to get it wrong, as always.

00:40:04.000 All the Biden administration has to do to ensure peace in the Middle East right now is get the hell out of the way.

00:40:08.000 That's all they have to do.

00:40:10.000 Seriously, the IDF is doing bang-up work in Lebanon.

00:40:13.000 They are attempting to minimize civilian casualties, despite the fact that, as always, terrorist groups legitimately hide their weaponry in civilian areas.

00:40:20.000 It is what they do.

00:40:21.000 It is their entire strategy. 1.00

00:40:22.000 They know that left-wingers are morons, and that if they do that, and then a sovereign nation has to defend itself against terrorists, civilians will die, and then they blame the sovereign nation for defending itself. 0.99

00:40:31.000 That is the entire game terrorists know the game. 1.00

00:40:33.000 It's been their entire strategy all along.

00:40:35.000 It didn't work in Gaza because the Israelis didn't stop, and now they've devastated Hamas's war-making capacity, and Hamas has lost command and control status in the Gaza Strip. 0.60

00:40:45.000 This is why there's been speculation that Sinwar is dead, because he's so isolated at this point, the head of Hamas, that he can't even communicate with his top leaders.

00:40:51.000 In fact, it's not even clear who the hell the Americans think they're negotiating with at this point.

00:40:55.000 It might be Khabib, the third-rate Hamas fighter, who's actually a 17-year-old guy with an AK.

00:41:00.000 That's how bad the command and control structure is in Gaza because of the devastating effectiveness of the Israeli defense forces in Gaza.

00:41:08.000 In Lebanon, it's significantly more upgraded than that.

00:41:11.000 The intelligence did not have a window into Hamasistan in the Gaza Strip for Israel.

00:41:16.000 They have great intel on the ground in Lebanon apparently, like amazing intel.

00:41:20.000 Every day they're taking out top Hezbollah commanders.

00:41:22.000 And they're ratcheting it up.

00:41:24.000 In the hopes that this will prompt Hezbollah to say, OK, guys, we cry uncle, we're pulling north. 0.99

00:41:28.000 We don't want any more of this or we just won't exist anymore.

00:41:31.000 And if Israel has to, Israel will, in fact, send ground troops over the border in order to clear that area and ensure that it cannot be used as a base for operations against Israelis again.

00:41:41.000 So what is the Biden administration, what they should be saying?

00:41:43.000 The obvious answer is Israel's got to do what it's got to do. 0.96

00:41:46.000 Sorry, guys, you're the ones who decided to let your country, which was once a nice country, Lebanon at one point, Was considered a nice country.

00:41:52.000 Beirut was considered a Paris of the Middle East.

00:41:54.000 It was a Christian country, by the way.

00:41:56.000 It was run by the Christian Maronites. 0.81

00:41:58.000 And then the PLO arrived and promptly sent that country spiraling into hellhole status.

00:42:03.000 And then the Iranians moved in and sent it further into hellhole status. 1.00

00:42:08.000 So what exactly is Joe Biden doing?

00:42:10.000 Instead of just saying, you know, our allies have to do what they have to do in order to protect themselves.

00:42:15.000 Instead, he says, we're working to de-escalate.

00:42:18.000 You've done some solid work in the de-escalation category, you know, all the way through here, Joe Biden, by saying words out of your face hole.

00:42:25.000 And what's his plan for de-escalation, by the way?

00:42:27.000 Talking?

00:42:28.000 Because they've been doing this the whole time.

00:42:30.000 Amos Hochstein has logged more miles than the Motel 6 guy.

00:42:34.000 I've been briefed on the latest developments in Israel and Lebanon.

00:42:36.000 That dude is basically just logging up stamps on his luggage like Paddington Bear.

00:42:42.000 It's an absurdity. And you know what he's accomplished?

00:42:45.000 Nothing. Because one side of this supposed negotiation is a terrorist group that does

00:42:50.000 not care about civilians. 1.00

00:42:51.000 Here's Joe Biden again being a fool. 0.99

00:42:53.000 I've been briefed on the latest developments in Israel and Lebanon. 0.99

00:42:58.000 My team is in constant contact with their counterparts and we're working to deescalate

00:43:05.000 and a way that allows people to return to their homes safely.

00:43:08.000 you Well, I mean, as long as you just say the word de-escalation.

00:43:12.000 It's like Kamala Harris's answer every time she's asked about Gaza.

00:43:15.000 Just, well, you know, we have always been, and always will be, and always are, every day, seeking a deal.

00:43:25.000 It's like, okay, that doesn't mean anything.

00:43:27.000 Doesn't mean anything.

00:43:28.000 And I'm seeking a deal with Bill Gates to put me in his will.

00:43:31.000 And you know what?

00:43:31.000 It ain't happening.

00:43:33.000 Because it's stupid. 1.00

00:43:35.000 These morons. 1.00

00:43:35.000 Ben Rhodes. 1.00

00:43:37.000 The fact that Ben Rhodes was ever a high-level ranking member of the foreign policy establishment is an astonishing thing.

00:43:42.000 Truly. 0.99

00:43:42.000 Ben Rhodes is one of the most dunder-headed, wrong-headed fools in the history of American foreign policy. 0.99

00:43:48.000 This dude was writing bad short stories in his Brooklyn apartment, and then he was dragged by the Obama administration into a position of prominence, knowing literally zero things about anything, and somehow here he is talking about foreign policy now. 0.98

00:44:01.000 The challenge for the administration is that Israel is the prime actor here. 0.99

00:44:05.000 They're the ones driving events.

00:44:07.000 Mr. Netanyahu is the key decision maker.

00:44:09.000 And he just doesn't appear to be listening to President Biden.

00:44:13.000 Well, that's the big problem is he's not listening to the credulous old man who has solved zero problems during his presidency.

00:44:20.000 Joe Biden is the worst president since Jimmy Carter, bar none, maybe worse. 0.96

00:44:23.000 Truly an awful president. 0.85

00:44:25.000 By the way, Ben Rhodes' nickname, I'm not even kidding, his nickname, the person who was just talking, in the Obama White House, his nickname was, wait for it, Hamas.

00:44:33.000 Not even kidding.

00:44:34.000 That is a real thing.

00:44:37.000 So again, Kamala Harris, the only way she gets elected is simply by avoiding talk of any of this.

00:44:42.000 Now, in another piece of astonishing news yesterday, and this really is an amazing piece of news, apparently the DOJ has now released a letter that was on the, that was, it was a handwritten letter from the suspect in the second Trump assassination attempt.

00:45:00.000 It was placed in a box containing tools and building materials left at the home of an unnamed associate.

00:45:05.000 And they released the letter publicly.

00:45:07.000 Well, that's weird.

00:45:09.000 That's strange.

00:45:11.000 It's weird how every manifesto that seems to, you know, I don't know, somehow forward a left-wing agenda?

00:45:18.000 Every manifesto like that is released.

00:45:21.000 Every manifesto of, say, a shooter at a Christian school in Tennessee is somehow hidden for months.

00:45:27.000 So what exactly was in the letter?

00:45:30.000 It was a letter urging others to finish the job and offering $150,000 to anyone who managed to kill the Republican presidential candidate.

00:45:38.000 So I have a question.

00:45:39.000 Why was that released publicly?

00:45:40.000 Might there be someone who takes that seriously and thinks that perhaps shooting Donald Trump will get them $150,000?

00:45:45.000 Like, why is that made public?

00:45:49.000 Bill Barr, former Attorney General, he came out, he was like, what are they doing?

00:45:52.000 Why in the world is this public right now?

00:45:56.000 So that is a strange story and has raised yet more questions about the process of the release of these sorts of materials.

00:46:05.000 Meanwhile, in other news, you know how Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party, they keep saying the crime is down?

00:46:10.000 Well, that's weird because it isn't actually down.

00:46:13.000 According to the Wall Street Journal's Jeffrey Anderson, he says U.S.

00:46:17.000 urban crime rates are actually up because the FBI doesn't get reports.

00:46:20.000 This is what Donald Trump actually said during the debate.

00:46:23.000 He was falsely fact-checked by David Muir and Lindsay Davis about all of this.

00:46:27.000 He was right.

00:46:28.000 Crime rates in urban areas are not, in fact, down.

00:46:32.000 A new finding released this month by the National Crime Victimization Survey found that crime rates have not been falling and urban crime is far worse than it was in the pre-George Floyd era.

00:46:42.000 That new NCVS report for 2023 finds no statistically significant evidence that violent crime or property crime is dropping in America.

00:46:50.000 Excluding simple assault, the type of violent crime least likely to be charged as a felony, the violent crime rate in 2023 was 19% higher than in 2019.

00:46:57.000 That is the last year before the BLM riots.

00:47:03.000 America's recent crime spike has been concentrated in urban areas, which, shock shock, are governed largely by Democrats.

00:47:10.000 The urban violent crime rate increased 40% from 2019 to 2023.

00:47:15.000 Excluding simple assault, the urban violent crime rate rose 54% over that span.

00:47:22.000 Even murder stats are being skewed because there are a bunch of major cities that don't actually report their murder stats to the FBI.

00:47:28.000 So just remember, the governance of the Biden-Harris administration has been awful, which presumably is why they are now relegated to unleashing the Ukrainian president on Pennsylvania as a campaign gambit.

00:47:40.000 Alrighty, guys.

00:47:41.000 Coming up, we'll get into the latest on the P. Diddy scandal, because pretty much everybody was involved, it seems like.

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00:47:53.000 Republicans or Nazis, you cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people. 0.91

00:47:58.000 Growing up, I never thought much about race. 0.95

00:47:59.000 It never really seemed to matter that much, at least not to me.

00:48:02.000 Am I racist?

00:48:03.000 I would really appreciate it if you left.

00:48:05.000 I'm trying to learn.

00:48:05.000 I'm on this journey.

00:48:07.000 I'm gonna sort this out.

00:48:08.000 I need to go deeper undercover.

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00:48:16.000 Here's my certification.

00:48:17.000 What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness. 0.71

00:48:20.000 What's more for you in this field?

00:48:21.000 Is America inherently racist?

00:48:22.000 The word inherent is challenging there.

00:48:24.000 You want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument?

00:48:27.000 America is racist to its bones.

00:48:29.000 So inherently? 0.98

00:48:30.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:48:31.000 This country is a piece of shit. 1.00

00:48:33.000 White. 1.00

00:48:34.000 Folks. 1.00

00:48:34.000 Trash. 1.00

00:48:35.000 White supremacy. 1.00

00:48:36.000 White woman. 1.00

00:48:36.000 White boy. 1.00

00:48:37.000 Is there a black person around?

00:48:38.000 What's a black person right here? 0.90

00:48:39.000 Does he not exist?

00:48:41.000 Hi Robin.

00:48:43.000 Hi.

00:48:43.000 What's your name?

00:48:44.000 I'm Matt.

00:48:44.000 I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.

00:48:47.000 Never be too careful.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - September 24, 2024

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