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Ben Shapiro
The left's institutional control is falling apart. They thought they had the government, and then President Trump won and the Republicans won, and they thought they had the media as well. More than anything, they thought they had the media. But last night, that magical world is all before their very eyes as CBS News fired longtime 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley, making clear that no longer would that show be an agit prop outlet for the left, but without institutional control, what happens to the left? What do they do next? The answer, they move even further to the left. We'll get into all of that. Plus Megyn Kelly on Sean Ryan and Marco Rubio destroys. And a lot more. This is the Ben Shapiro Show. Well, folks, it looks like another ex legacy journalist is joining Substack. His lifelong dream is coming true. Scott Pelley is headed over to Substack. So here is the left wing and mainstream media narrative today. 60 Minutes was a magical place filled with objective journalism. And then right wing fire breather Bari Weiss and her evil Zionist paymasters arrived. And now they're firing stalwart old style journalist Scott Pelley from 60 Minutes. How dare they touch this bastion of journalistic integrity. That narrative is not so true. 60 Minutes was never objective. It was always a left wing outlet. That's the reason why the left is angry that changes are being made today. If it were objective and Barry Weiss made changes, they would not be so upset. They saw this as their institutional preserve and now that preserve has been violated. Like an. A naturally beautiful piece of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is being touched by human hands. It must not be. Also, they've been promoting this notion that Barry Weiss is some sort of flaming right winger. That's crazy. I'm sorry, that's nuts. I'm friends with Barry. Barry is not right wing on a huge number of issues. She is pro lgbt. Obviously she is pro choice. Obviously. She used to describe herself as a center left person. If you went back about 25 years, she would be a moderate Democrat. Barry Weiss is the person described in the famous Elon Musk Colin right swipe right chart. You know, the one that shows that in 2008, people who are on the center left were next to the people on the left and people on the right were far away. And that as the left moved further and further to the left, people who are center left were still close to the center. And then by now, everybody who is center left is now considered right wing because the left is just so far to the left. Barry Weiss and Bill Maher basically have the same political positions. I disagree with both of them, a lot. The fact that Bari Weiss is now considered some sort of flaming right winger is nuts. It is crazy towns. It's crazy towns. The reason that's happened, obviously, is because the left has gone so totally insane. And so people like Barry, who I am sure voted Democrat many times, is now considered again, some sort of arch conservative. So what is the actual story here, the key story here? The real key story here is the Democrats are losing control of a lot of their key institutions. That if there's any overarching sort of theme to the Trump era, it is that Democrats thought they had undeniable control of basically every key institution in American life. And one by one, that's coming apart for them. So 60 Minutes again, was considered sort of the tip of the spear in the objective journalism universe. And I'm using scare quotes there for those who can't see, because those of us who've been watching mainstream legacy media for a long time recognize that the so called objective media is usually anything but. Usually it is just a liberal leaning group of people who pretend to be objective. In any case, Scott Pelley was fired and the reason he was fired is because there were changes made over at 60 Minutes. Nick Bilton, who's a tech journalist and filmmaker, he was appointed to shake up 60 minutes because again, the ratings were not amazing and also they'd had some problems in terms of journalistic integrity. Well, at this point, Bilton, who's sort of introducing himself, he was accosted by Scott Pelley publicly at this meeting earlier this week. This was after CBS had fired Tanya Simon, according to the New York Times, the previous executive producer and her deputy, along with Sharon Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega. Those were a couple of the show's correspondents. Peli referred to these as a Black Thursday. The absolute self censored arrogance of referring to the firing of your colleagues as Black Thursday. Yeah. How will the American democratic experiment survive without Sharon Alfonsi as an Assistant Reporter on 60 Minutes? This is why I always said about Jim Acosta when he was over on cnn, ladies, find you a man who loves you like Jim Acosta loves Jim Acosta. But that's true for an enormous number of journalists in the online space and pseudo journalists in the online space. They are just narcissists. The only thing they regret about the camera is that it is not a mirror. In any case, Bilton was speaking to the crowd and he said, broadcast is an ice cube that is melting. He said, barry loves this institution. She loves 60 Minutes. At this point, Scott Pelley gets up in self, right? You can see him doing this in full self righteous mode, knowing of course that he's trying to get himself fired. Because let's be clear, that's what he wants. He wants to be a martyr if you're going to have your airtime reduced. Better to be a martyr if you're Colin Kaepernick and you're about to get benched much better than, you know, for the national anthem that to go out quietly. So Pelly, who is very likely to have his role reduced to 60 minutes, decided this was the moment. It was a moment of bravery and resistance. Maybe they'll make a movie about him, his bravery and resistance. So he got up and he said, she is murdering 60 Minutes. She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it. And she's been doing exactly that. She has no qualifications for her job, by the way. Let me just explain. The qualifications for being a reporter is you go and report. It's not as though you're a doctor. It is incredible to me when people talk about qualifications in the journalistic world. Oh, you went to J School. You know what J School is? J School for the vast majority of people is you sit through a bunch of classes where they don't teach you anything to do with journalism. They teach you a bunch of thematic narrative stuff. And then what are the things you have to learn in J School that make you a journalist? This is why I don't describe people typically as journalists. I say that they do acts of journalism because you have a normal person who does an act of journalism. The idea that journalism is a job for which you require a license or a qualification is ridiculous. By the way, there are very few jobs where qualifications actually matter. Like heart surgeon. That's one where a qualification matters. Scott Pelley standing on his qualifications while Barry Weiss, who is an editor at the New York Times, before she started the Free Press, one of the most successful independent journalistic endeavors in America, and somehow she has no qualifications. But Scott Pelley, who reads stuff from a teleprompter on camera, that he is Captain Qualifications is absurd. He says she has no qualifications for her job. You have slender qualifications for this job. The changes that she's made at the Evening News have been catastrophic. So why should we expect that any of this is going to be any better? Well built and tried to be nice, he said, I will show you. That's what I have to say. That's my plan. Over the next two weeks, I'll be meeting with everyone Very excited to meet with everyone, yourself included. My only regret here is that Bilton didn't respond with show yourself out the door. Is that away already? Coming up, Nick Bilton terminated Scott Pelley. It's very enjoyable. His letter is very enjoyable. You're going to want to hear it first. June marks the first days of summer. That means that I have a full schedule. I mean I have a baby due like any day now. We got a lot going on in the house. We have America 250. We have to be taking care of the kids cause the kids don't have school. What I do not have time for is waiting through a bunch of confusing insurance websites trying to figure out if I'm getting a good deal. And that's where policygenius comes in. Here's the reality. Most people know they need life insurance. 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Yesterday you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt. I welcome a diversity of viewpoints and respectful debate among the team. This was nothing of the sort of yesterday's performative display of hostility enacted in front of the staff instead of in a civil private conversation demonstrated you have no interest in contributing to the future success of the show or approaching my new tenure with a mind open to collaboration and progress. I am here to deliver first in class news programming, not to make headlines about newsroom drama. I'm eager to work alongside those who share this goal, despite yesterday's misconduct. I'd hoped in sitting down with you today, we could find a path forward together. You made clear you are not interested in such a path. Your antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear, and I have heard you. I therefore write on behalf of CBS News to inform you that your employment with CBS is terminated for cause, effective immediately, and closes your formal termination letter. Which is great. That is a great letter. Nick Bilton's first courageous act as executive producer of 60 Minutes. Applause for Nick Bilton. This alone means that his tenure has been worth it, because that letter is fabulous, by the way. This is how you should treat insubordination. That is precisely what he should do. I've said it before. I think that when Barry was made head of CBS News, the only mistake I think that Barry made was not firing more people because she had a bunch of people, the CBS News deep state, shall we say, who are deeply, deeply invested in her failure. Well, apparently Pelly then responded. He said, Mr. Pelly, this is the New York Times. Mr. Pelly, in a telephone interview on Tuesday evening shortly after he was fired, said he had devoted decades of his life to 60 Minutes, which he said he still cared about deeply. I have been in combat in Afghanistan, Mr. Pelly said. I have been in combat in Iraq. I've been in a war zone in Ukraine multiple times, risking my life and the happiness of my family because of my devotion to the broad. Oh, man. Wow. Give him a medal. Hero time. Mean, the reporter went to the war zone because he reports on wars. Whoa. Yeah. Wow. I guess he's basically like a veteran. We should give him a Purple Heart or something. Maybe he should be buried at Arlington when he goes. Honestly, he needs to grow extra arms to pat himself on the back that hard. He's going to break his back from patting himself on the back that hard. Then he put out a full statement. Quote, There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes. The Sunday Tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, it's innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. Actually, we can count them. It turns out they have ratings. This spring, at the end of our 58 season, 6860 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard of 9% jump in viewers on CBS, 60 has been the number one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology where while preserving the values our audience expects. Ah, the values your audience expects. That's the big one right there, right? What are the values he's talking about? Is it journalistic integrity, as we'll talk about in a moment? No, it is not the values that the audience expects, according to Scott Pelley, left wing aligned values. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration. The waste is heartbreaking. Last month, says Scott Pelley, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Cruel. Cruel. The highly paid members of the CBS News staff have to go find other jobs, which they will. Oh, the heart breaks. Can we send money to the families? I mean, really good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. Silenced. I'm getting a little tired of hearing from people in America that if you lose your job, you are somehow silenced. I feel like he's not so silent. The conflation of getting fired with First Amendment type censorship is stupid. It's dumb. It was always dumb. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias. They stood for professionalism against cast. Is that what it is? Professionalism? When you have a new boss and you immediately rip into him as unqualified, is that professionalism? For my part, he says, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I've been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. I would love examples. What is the thing he's actually alleging? Because probably what happened here is that his boss has told him, you cannot inject your own bias into a story. You have to present both sides of an issue. He says. At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. The collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone. And so I must leave as well. Single tier. And then, he says, I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion, a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again. A day when sanity, competence and courage return. By the way, this letter alone means he never should have been the anchor on a major news network. Truly. Because what the letter betrays is not only overweening arrogance and self obsession, but a belief in his own politics that overtake anything remotely like objective fact. There is a reason why Ben Rhodes, known as Hamas in the Obama administration, that was literally his nickname. I don't know what your nickname is, dear friends. Usually it's not Hamas. He wrote. Some guy named Nick Bilton serving an audience of one, Barry Service, an audience of one, Ellison, serving an audience of one, Trump. This is how oligarch authoritarian takeover of media happens. Ben Rhodes literally said, I believe in an article with the Atlantic. He literally said that he manipulated people using friendly journalistic outlets while he was at the Obama administration. Ben Rhodes literally said that. He said we retail crap and people will just pick it up. Ben Rhodes so just a quick review of problems with 60 minutes because again, if you don't watch this stuff closely or if you only watch network news and you only watch 60 Minutes in the same way that people have a, shall we say, very halo ridden view of what network news was in the era of Edward R. Murrow or in the era of Walter Cronkite. In the same way that people have a very, very starry eyed view of that. Because the truth is that Cronkite had his own political biases, very clear political biases, in some cases biases that helped us lose the Vietnam War, but because people have this sort of starry eyed view of what journalism used to be. And it was never that they have that view of 60 Minutes too, but just a brief review of some of the problems 60 Minutes has had over the years. And again, any journalistic outlet can make mistakes. We here at Daily Wire, we've made mistakes, we've reported things and we've had to retract reporting. That happens. We, however, are an openly conservative institution. What does that mean? It means that when we make a mistake, you know where the mistake is coming from. 60 Minutes pretends that is an openly journalistic, objective institution. Every mistake, every mistake that 60 Minutes made before the Ellison, Barry Weiss era, every single mistake was a mistake that helped the left. Every single one. Why? Because 60 Minutes was oriented toward the left. Again, it wasn't that there's some sort of newsroom mandate. You got to bury everything that helps the Republicans. It's not that. It's that when 99% of your newsroom votes Democrat, you are completely blind to all of the areas in which you are biasing your stories. So just a few examples. October 2023, Scott Pelley sitting there with Joe Biden and actively attempting to massage him through an interview.
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Scott Pelley
And I wonder, what is your message to Hezbollah and its backer, Iran? Don't, don't, don't, don't. Don't come across the border.
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Adriano Espaillat
Don't escalate this war.
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Scott Pelley
That's right.
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Ben Shapiro
No, I mean, any other answers you'd prefer to hand them, Mr. Pelly? In the middle of that interview, by the way, Pelly tried to excuse Biden's ineptitude by saying that his stutter crept back in when he was tired. This is all part of the bigger media cover up, of the fact that Joe Biden was no longer sentient for half of his presidency, at least. Here is Scott Pelley, 60 Minutes.
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Scott Pelley
Late Thursday, we met President Biden at the White House. It had been a rough week and we could see it on him. Mr. Biden will be 81 next month and he has said that when he's tired, his lifelong stutter can creep back in. But he wedged us into his schedule.
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Ben Shapiro
Wow. That's kind of him. Wow. Wow. Again, this is the same 60 minutes than October 2024. Cut apart Kamala Harris actual answers in order to make her look a little bit better. Here she was with Bill Whitaker. You remember this? It was a big scandal at the time.
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Adriano Espaillat
Not listening.
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Kamala Harris
We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.
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Adriano Espaillat
But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening. The Wall Street Journal said that he. That your administration has repeatedly been blindsided by Netanyahu. And in fact, he has rebuffed just about all of your administration's entreaties.
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Ben Shapiro
Well, Bill,
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Kamala Harris
the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by. By Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region. And we're not going to stop doing that. We're not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.
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Ben Shapiro
Okay, that first segment was what was actually aired. The second segment is what she said where she completely word saladed the thing. Legacy again. 60 Minutes does this kind of stuff all the time. They did all this kind of stuff. I remember the worst segment I think I ever saw 60 Minutes run is they ran a segment about how Ron DeSantis was essentially rolling out the vaccine in biased fashion. So they ran an entire segment suggesting that the vaccine rollout in Florida via Publix, which is the biggest grocery chain in Florida. Right. We all go to Publix, that he used Publix to roll it out because some members of the family associated with Publix had been making donations to DeSantis's reelection bid. The story by Sharon Alfonsi, who's no longer with 60 Minutes for good reason, suggested a possible link between the donation and the state's partnership with Publix, which of course, is unbelievably stupid, because the reason that you were distributing the vaccine via Publix, regardless of what you think of the vaccine, is because it is a common point of entry for pretty much everyone in the state of Florida. It's idiocy, but here's how 60 Minutes ran it.
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Sharon Alfonsi
But the biggest challenge for residents of the Glades wasn't just making appointments. It was getting to them. That's because back in January, the Governor made another game changing move. He announced he was partnering with Publix grocery stores across the state to distribute the vaccine in their pharmacies. But as part of the program in Palm beach county, most seniors could no longer get vaccine appointments through their public health departments. They had to go to Publix instead. So why did the governor choose Publix? Campaign finance Reports obtained by 60 Minutes show that weeks before the governor's announcement, Publix donated $100,000 to his political action committee, Friends of Ron DeSantis. Julie Jenkins Fiancelli, heiress to the public's Fortune, has given $55,000 to the Governor's PAC in the past. And in November, Fangelli's brother in law, Hoyt R. Barnett, a retired publix executive, donated $25,000.
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Ben Shapiro
Okay. And then what they did in this clip is there was an exchange where DeSantis fully explained this and they totally edited it out. They chopped it apart to make DeSantis look bad. So, again, this notion that 60 Minutes was a bastion of objective journalism and is not true if you go all the way back. For those old enough to remember, it was Dan Rather on CBS News who was apologizing for this fake National Guard letter on Bush. Remember this? He put out in the run up to the election of 2004, he put out a letter that supposedly suggested that George W. Bush, back when he was in the National Guard, went awol, and it was untrue. The letter was completely fake. And he aired it, and then he had to go on and apologize for it, and he ended up getting fired over it. Here was Rather apologizing. Back in 2004, the documents purported to
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Scott Pelley
show that George W. Bush received preferential treatment during his years in the Texas Air National Guard. At the time, CBS News and this reporter fully believed the documents were genuine. Tonight, after further investigation, we can no longer vouch for their authenticity. The failure of CBS News to do just that, to properly form scrutinize the documents and their source, led to our airing the documents when we should not have done so. It was a mistake. CBS News deeply regrets it. Also, I want to say, personally and directly, I'm sorry. CBS News President Andrew Hayward has ordered an independent investigation to examine the process by which the report was prepared. The results of that investigation will be made public
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Ben Shapiro
again. The point that I'm making here is that 60 minutes as objective journalism was never true. It was always a place that leaned left. Always. And the reason the left is mad is because they understand that's no longer the case. So this is actually an existential problem for the Democratic Party. It is not 60 minutes per se, but the reality that Democrats and their popularity with their own base rests in control of institutions. All right, coming up, we'll talk about why it is that Democrats are spinning out into radicalism. First, producer savvy. What have you been buying online lately? Hmm? Wait, why? I'm a little curious. I feel like everybody has at least one oddly specific thing that they're shopping for at any given moment. That is fair. I almost just bought that nose breathing mouth tape, and I always thought that you were going for that elf alarm clock. See, that's the thing. Modern Life is basically a series of highly targeted online purchases. 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Democrats want the Democratic Party to do things right. If you're a member of the Democratic base, you want the Democratic Party to make more legislation, to tax more, to spend more, to regulate more, to do things. And so Democrats might be disappointed that the Democratic Party isn't doing more stuff than. But typically they get a lot of stuff that they want when Democrats are in power because Democrats ram through big things. Republicans traditionally don't like the Republican Party nearly as much because it is harder to be a Republican legislator than a Democratic legislator. Democrats have virtually no limits on the stuff that they are willing to pass and ram into law. That is their job. That is what they are there to do. Republicans are there to stop government overreach and then roll things back. That's a much harder job. Stopping and rolling back when, when it comes to growth of government is very, very difficult. Expanding government is super easy. And so Democrats are traditionally pretty happy with the Democratic Party and Republicans traditionally are more dissatisfied with the Republican Party. That only lasts so long as Democrats win. When Democrats start to lose power, the base starts to get antsy because then the base looks at the Democrats and they say, you're not doing the things we want. If you're not winning, then you can't tell us you're getting us 80% of the pie because there's no pie. And so the base starts demanding radical change. And that's what's happening right now. There is a gigantic left wing civil war that's taken place. The entire Democratic Party, by the way, has moved significantly to the left since the mid-2000s, way further to the left on pretty much every policy. Bill Clinton's platform in 1996 is unrecognizable as a Democratic platform today. If Bill Clinton were running for higher office today, using his platform in 1996, he would be considered a Susan Collins Republican. That is where he would be. That's how far left the Democratic Party has moved. But even with that Democratic Party move to the left, there's an even further splinter wing of the Democratic Party that's making strong moves. You can see all of this breaking out loose across the country. So according to Politico, it's really funny, there are a bunch of elections last night, primary elections. And according to Politico, the Democratic establishment is roaring back. No, it's not. No, it's not. What is there evidence that the Democratic establishment is roaring back? Well, they picked an establishment back candidate named Josh Turek to take on GOP Representative Ashley Hinson for an open Senate seat in Iowa. And they are putting up moderate military veteran Rebecca Bennett against Republican representative Tom Keene Jr. In a competitive House district. But that's not the whole story. The whole story is that overall, the Democratic Party has moved to the left and the splinter faction is gaining power. Great example, by the way, is New Jersey, where according to Politico, progressive Adam Hammawi, a US army veteran with a complicated personal history who has been sharply critical of Israel's war in Gaza, emerged a 12 candidate primary. Okay, that is a very, very flattering portrait of Adam Hamui. Who the hell is Adam Hammawi? Who won the New Jersey 12th primary with 18% of the vote? Well, he was in fact a, an ally and spokesperson for Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman. That'd be the blind sheikh who preached in New Jersey and was convicted in 1995 of inspiring terror attacks, including the first World Trade center bombing which killed six people. He was called to testify by the sheikh's defense. Also, he apparently traveled to Bosnia, according to the Washington Free Beacon, and worked with a group that was basically a front group for Al Qaeda. And now he's probably going to go to Congress in New Jersey. He says, of course, that all of this is guilt by association innuenda infused with Islam. I don't know. I feel like you'd find some Muslims in the United States to run for higher office. Are not radical terrorism supporters like openly associated with terrorism. Again, that Politico description that he is a progressive who's just critical of Israel is an astonishing cover up. More objective journalism from our great journalistic sources. Meanwhile, it's fun to watch the left versus far left action break out in California. So the California gubernatorial primary results are not all in at this point. That's because California has the worst electoral counting system in America. Truly horrifying. They have their mail in ballots that are gonna come in over the course of the next eight years or so. So by the time Marco Rubio is finishing his second term, presumably we will find out whether Steve Hilton actually made the runoff. So right now, Hilton is leading in the runoff. Xavier Becerra is in second. Tom Steyer, who you have to have a sort of bizarre sympathy for Tom Steyer that every couple of years just blows a couple hundred million dollars trying to make himself popular. He's the. He's the rich kid in school who no one likes, but if he buys you a really cool pack of baseball cards, then maybe you'll be his friend. That's Tom Steyer. He is coming in third right now, which is hilarious. We'll see where all of this stacks up at the end. Right now, Steve Hilton is in first place with about 1.4 million votes, and Becerra at 1.3 million votes, and Stier in third place with a little under a million votes. But one of the things that's hilarious is that again, in Democratic California, the big rap on Xavier Becerra is that Becerra is not left wing enough. We need to point out how psychotic this is. Truly crazy. Becerra was one of the most liberal members of Congress, a true left winger by roll call measures, I believe, 86 percentile in terms of liberalism in Congress. And then he was AG of California, where he routinely pursued far left activism, including, you will remember, the prosecution of pro life. Pro life activist David Delayton, filed 120 lawsuits against the Trump administration, defended California's sanctuary state policies, and then he was over at HHS under Joe Biden, where he imposed policies endorsing transing the kids and trying to expand the availability of abortion after the overruling of Roe vs. Wade. That guy is too right wing for the left. Hasan Piker, terrorist supporter and Chinese cutout, says that Xavier Becerra is awful. He's far too right wing.
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Hasan Piker
Tom Steyer is the only candidate that has said he would protect trans youth in the state. He speaks fluent woke, ok? He speaks fluent woke, but people don't trust him. Javier Becerra, on the other hand. Javier Becerra, on the other hand, is dog. Ok? Javier Becerra is a representation of all of the billionaires not in California, but across the nation and all the mega corporations.
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Ben Shapiro
God, he's a moron. Xavier Becerra is a representative of the billionaires. Tom Steyer is a billionaire spending his own money to elevate himself. But again, this demonstrates how the splinter left faction is trying to eat even the normal radical left faction. That's how crazy people are. Same thing in la. So the mayoral results are still coming in at this point, two thirds of the votes have been tallied, or so Karen Bass is leading. Spencer Pratt is in second. So it looks like he is likely to make the runoff. Karen Bass is now somehow considered moderate because she was standing next to Nithya Rahman who is a full scale socialist. So Karen Bass was, who again is as left as left can be, is somehow perceived to be the mainstream of the Democratic Party at this point. I mean, congrats to Spencer Pratt. He says that God wanted five more months of him exposing Karen Bass. I agree with that.
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Graham Platner
Well, obviously God wanted five more months of me exposing all the failures of our mayor.
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Ben Shapiro
So it's going to be a fun ride.
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Graham Platner
I hope she's ready.
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Ben Shapiro
Are you ready? I mean, I was born for this, clearly. Okay. But bottom line is, is Karen Bass favorite? Of course, Karen Bass is far and away the leader in the clubhouse to again return to her mayoralty after half of her city burned to the ground. That's how far left the Democratic Party is that she is now considered the moderate wing of the Democratic Party. You see a very similar race that is now breaking out with regard to a 13th House District race in New York. So Zoran Mamdani, the far left socialist who is very fond of Islamist terror groups, well, he has launched a democratic civil war by endorsing a DSA Democrat Socialist of America insurgent named Darieliza Aviation Chevalier. Great. According to the New York Post, he has launched a civil war in the Democratic Party with his controversial endorsement of a fellow socialist bid to oust incumbent Representative Adriano Espallat. Insiders said on Monday Mamdani's decision to support fellow DSA insurgent Chevalier in the June 23rd primary for the Northern Manhattan Bronx House 13th House District is part of a long term effort to by him and fellow socialists to take control of the Democratic Party. Here is Mamdani appearing on Ms. Now to introduce this person.
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Zoran Mamdani
You know, I am so excited to be sitting here with Dariel Issa and I'm so excited to be endorsing her in her run for Congress. She is the daughter of a single mom caseworker and she grew up with a commitment, something out of the hormones that people politics had left behind. And what I see in her is that commitment fulfilled. This is a New Yorker who has not only secured the Release of our neighbors from undue ICE custody. Also someone who has been on the front lines of that fight for affordability. And I can't wait for her to be introduced to so many across the city and across this country as we fight for that affordability agenda from New
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Ben Shapiro
York City to D.C. so who is this crazy person? So this crazy person had to delete a bunch of tweets. Of course he's endorsing the crazy person. So. August 2020. Israel doesn't exist. Israel very much does exist. Okay, Abolishing police, she says, means ending policing, full stop. No more police. June 2020. She had deleted. No more police at all, ever. She has a lot of clappy emojis. It's very harmful to the work black abolitionists have been doing for decades to dilute this movement. September 2021. Reposting that a World Without Borders is possible. Imagine if you try. These are the people Democrats are now pursuing. Zaramdani. Man, you guys bought the ticket. Now you get to take the ride. September 2019. Saying that it was time to seize the means of production. Don't worry, the media will portray her as just a progressive, not a communist. Quote, pay for therapy, lead healthier lifestyles, become bad bleeps. Seize the means of production. Seize the means of production. Just. Just communism. So who. This is the funny part. Who is she running against? Okay, so she is running against Adriano Espad. I may be mispronouncing the name. I apologize if. So, who the hell is this representative? Well, this person is so radical that Espayat was in front of Delaney hall over the weekend stirring up the fake controversy over the supposedly inhumane conditions over there. Espailt is in favor of abolishing ICE, Medicare for All, opposes voter ID, defends sanctuary city policies. Espaillat is in the top 5% most progressive members of Congress, according to Progressive Punch. So why is the DSA opposing him? Why? Well, because it turns out he doesn't hate the Jews enough. That's why. And that's why. Because they're accusing Espayat of being bankrolled by AIPAC and the real estate lobby. This is always the. The all purpose, the all purpose accusation now. Insane Hakeem Jeffries again, trying to hold the fort against the total psychotics.
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Adriano Espaillat
Well, listen, the voters are ultimately going to decide this primary election, and Adriano Espallad, in my view, is going to win. Adriano Espallat has been a tremendous leader. He's leading in terms of battling Donald Trump. He's leading as it relates to battling and pushing back against isis, violent mass deportation machine. And he's been one of the leaders in pushing back against Donald Trump's reckless and costly war of choice.
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Ben Shapiro
Again, the, the new wave in the Democratic Party taking on the old far left wave. Very, very far left wave. Like they're making Bernie Sanders look traditional by comparison. The new left wave is people who are openly associated with actual convicted terrorists, people with Nazi tattoos, people who believe that Israel doesn't exist and that we should have no borders. That is the new wave in the Democratic Party. Why? Well, because this is what happens to frustrated Democrats when they lose institutional power. And you can see that the traditional Democratic Party is starting to line up behind all of this. So, for example, Ro Khanna, who considers himself part of the new wave, he is praising Morris Katz, who is a political strategist for Graham Platner. Graham Platner is the Senate Democratic candidate in Maine. Yeah. Nazi tattoo guy. Yeah. Touches himself in porta potties guy. The guy who's sexting 12, somewhere between 6 and 12 number indeterminate women, basically as soon as he was married, that guy, his campaign manager is a derelict named Morris Katz, a Skidmore College dropout. He was born and raised in lower Manhattan to a children's book publisher. And apparently he wrote a book called everything you always wanted to know about puberty and shouldn't be googling for curious boys. On page 17 of that book, next to a chart of fruit and animals symbolizing different stages of puberty, Katz wrote, at first we are going to use images of my penis to get this point across, but the publisher said it was inappropriate. So here we are. Wow. Seems like a. Seems like a charmer. Well, now he's being endorsed, of course, by Ro Khanna, who is again Zoran Mamdani, but slightly less threatening in affect. Morris Katz is one of the most brilliant political strategists of his generation. You know why young folks are turned off by politics? They hate that the establishment plants dirt on folks like Morris just because his candidates speak out on genocide or taxing billionaires. The political class is so out of touch with where the energy and the passion of our party is. I, I can't wait until Morris's generation leads. And it's happening in 26 and 28. This is the battle inside the Democratic Party. The DSA has momentum. The Democratic Socialists of America. As of early 2026, they surpassed 104,000 dues paying members nationwide. In 2015, they had 6,000 members. There are now 250 DSA members holding public office across the local, state and federal levels. And the traditional Democratic Party is surrendering to all of this. Senator Adam Schiff of California, he was asked about Graham Platner again. That's Nazi tattoo guy. And he's like, oh, I don't know, you know, our Nazi tattoo Senator. Are you still supporting Graham Platner after the sexting scandal that's going on with him? Thank you. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Senate Minority Leader, was asked about Graham Platner. He got very annoyed with the question, which is somewhat ironic from a guy who wrote a book about how terrible antisemitism is. As I said at the time, when he released that book, it was the political equivalent of O.J. simpson's if I did it. Anyway, here was Senator Schumer on Grant Platner.
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Graham Platner
Are you satisfied with the explanations he's
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Ben Shapiro
given for the controversies his campaign has faced right now? Are you concerned about what you've heard? I met with Graham Platler today. We're going to beat Susan Collins and take back the Senate. So you're saying that Janet Mills, your preferred candidate, there's been rattlings that she should get back in. You're standing behind Graham Platner. To be clear here, we're going to beat Susan Collins and take back the Senate.
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Adriano Espaillat
Yes,
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Ben Shapiro
We're going to take bat. We're going to beat Susan Collins and
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Adriano Espaillat
take back the Senate.
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Ben Shapiro
Any other subject? You got any other subject? What a truly trashy person he is. What a trashy person. Senator Tim Kaine, who you'll remember as the guy who you don't remember cuz he was VP candidate for Hillary Clinton. He says he's not gonna say anything right now or maybe ever on Grand Platner. These are the stalwarts you need standing against the real Nazis out there. I mean, aside from the guy with the actual Nazi tattoo. Do you think, considering everything on the line, control of the Senate that could come down to that race in Maine, is he the right person for Democrats to put forward?
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Graham Platner
Casey, here's, here's my thought about this. I almost never get involved in primaries outside of Virginia because I think Maine Democrats should pick their candidates. And I don't think we're pretty far
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Ben Shapiro
down on the primary road here.
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Graham Platner
Well, yeah, there's three candidates on the ballot next week and I am not going to say a word that will tilt it one way or another. Main Democrats are going to make the decision. Once I make the decision, I may have some things to say about it. But I'm not gonna say anything now because Maine Democrats pick who they think would be their best representative.
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Ben Shapiro
That guy was almost vice President of the United States. Bernie, of course, is not rethinking his endorsement because everything that is wrong with Graham Platner is a feature, not a bug to Bernie. Everything. Go look up Bernie's personal history when he was young. It looks very much like Graham Platner's in terms of his personal life. He was a disaster area, and now he's just a political disaster area. So of course he's not. Of course I'm not rethinking my endorsement. I mean, sure, he has a Nazi tattoo, but Communists have sided with Nazis in the past, created prosperity in Poland. Here we go.
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Scott Pelley
60% of our people are living paycheck to paycheck. People can't afford health care. They can't afford groceries. They can't afford to fill up their gas tanks. The oligarchs are planning to spend, I believe, some $90 million in a small.
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Ben Shapiro
I can't even listen to him. I'm sorry. When I hear the schmuck talk about oligarchy, okay? When I listen to a person who has never done a productive thing in his entire life, and that man is twice my age, meaning he's in his 80s, that dude has never done a single productive thing for decades. A lifelong loser who is only in the Senate because he represents a state that have deere and seven white people. Hey, Vermont. The fact that that guy is an ideological thought leader and he talks about oligarchy while claiming that he wants to seize the means of production and run it himself. Every accusation from this guy is an admission he wishes he were the head of an oligarchy. That's his deep desire. There's only, of course, one sane Democrat left in the Senate, Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania. For that crime. They'll try to primary him, I am sure. Senator Fetterman called Graham Platner a creeper, which of course he is. Like, this is. Why is it so hard for Democrats? Why? Well, you know the answer. You know the answer.
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Adriano Espaillat
A creeper has been on a decade, on a platform like Kik and send a dozen explicit kinds of messages and who knows what else.
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Ben Shapiro
We would it be better for Democrats if he was not the candidate here?
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Adriano Espaillat
All I'm saying, it's like when I was growing up, if someone had a clear Nazi tattoo on them, you probably could conclude that there's a Nazi sympathizer.
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Ben Shapiro
Why is this difficult? It is not difficult at all. But For Democrats, it is because there are no limits to the left wing tilt of the Democratic Party. Now on the right, obviously there is a similar problem. That problem is similar, but not the same. The reason I say this is because there is a splinter faction in the Democratic Party that is taking over the Democratic Party wholesale. I mean, the, the Adam Hammawis of the party, the Zorma Donis of the party, the Graham Platners of the party are taking over the party and the traditional Democrats are just caving to them. They're bowing before them. The same thing is actually not happening on the right. You have a splinter faction of pseudo Republicans who supported Trump in 2024 and now they're making common cause with Democrats. This is the thing, right? The woke right, which is rooted in grievance politics or click whoring like Megyn Kelly, just chasing those clicks. Got to get them clicks. The goal here is to form a new alliance with the left. So the woke right is just the new left. They're the same thing. So Megyn Kelly appeared with Sean Ryan. So Sean Ryan is a conspiracy ridden podcaster. For those who don't know. He's kind of one of these podcast bros who doesn't know anything but purports to have conspiratorial knowledge over world events despite the fact that his political takes are, shall we say, that they have the informed maturity of a potato. In any case, Megyn Kelly, who is a. Who is just seeking the clicks always and forever, she's the weather vane of politics. Whichever way the wind blows, that is the direction that Megyn Kelly will move. Never has a political parade begun with Megyn Kelly at the front that has ended without Megyn Kelly at the front twirling a baton. Well, now the lady who was campaigning with Trump, rah, rah Trump. She went from Trump is the worst thing in the world, literally the worst in 2016, to he is the greatest. You remember. I don't have to retell the story. The sordid tale. She went from I'm a defender of women and young women, young mothers, to still. I'm checking my clock here. Checking it. Checking, checking the watch. It is June 3rd. Charlie Kirk was assassinated nine months ago. Still nothing on the will Megyn Kelly condemn Candace Owens for slandering Erica Kirkwatch? Still nothing there. In any case, here she was on Sean Ryan saying now she the new wave. The new wave. The way she believes the wind is blowing is toward the woke right slash new left. They're the same. She says she hasn't Been a Republican in over 20 years.
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Megyn Kelly
The line between left and right is merging. You know, like there's. There's something rising out of the middle
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Ben Shapiro
of that that is not for some of us. You're talking with Anna Kasparian.
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Megyn Kelly
Yeah. I love her.
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Ben Shapiro
It's awesome.
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Megyn Kelly
I love her.
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Ben Shapiro
I do, too. She's awesome.
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Megyn Kelly
People think of me as a Republican, but I haven't been a Republican in over 20 years. I was a registered Democrat when I was fresh out of school. And then I was a registered Republican for a few years when I was right around when I joined Fox News. And then I quickly realized, oh, wow, shock. I don't want to wear either of these team jerseys. I'm against both of these guys.
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Ben Shapiro
Yes, yes. The weather vane for sloppy list nonsense. So Megyn Kelly and Sean Ryan, who again, are making cause with Anna Kasparian. Anna is as pro abortion as it is possible to be, as pro anti American regimes as it is possible to be. But at least she hates Israel, which is the real thing that Meghan is doing right here because she believes that that is the future wave. They're all gonna make common cause. They will form a new. When they say middle, they mean a new fringe. How do I know this? Because she literally says it. Here are Megyn Kelly and Sean Ryan declaring that Core maga, meaning the people who support President Trump, are pedophiles who support Israel.
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Megyn Kelly
You know what's Core MAGA now?
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Ben Shapiro
I have no idea.
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Megyn Kelly
I think I know Trump has said
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Ben Shapiro
from the beginning, pedophile supporting Israeli lobby. I have no idea.
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Megyn Kelly
Need a different acronym.
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Ben Shapiro
Just vile and disgusting. Core MAGA is pedophile supporting the Israeli lobby. The only thing I will say is that I'm very glad that President Trump won in 2024, because now it can say the word retarded, and it would be impossible to describe these exchanges without use of that very specific word. This is retardation at an almost unparalleled level. Truly. And then, of course, the idea here is that it's all about Israel. It's always and forever all about Israel, because this is the thing that gets them clicks. Go get them clicks, girl. You got to get them clicks. Okay, now, the point that I'm making here, the reason that I bring this up is not just to rip on Megan, although frankly, it's. I will say I told you so. But the reason that I bring this up is because you know what hasn't happened? Megyn Kelly's politics here or Tucker Carlson's or Candace Owens fresh from Moscow. Those Politics have not infused the Republican Party. The Republican Party has divided itself off from that. They are not following these people down the primrose path. You are not seeing Tucker Carlson's favored candidates win wide scale across America. You are not seeing that happen. You are not seeing the Republican Party embrace the politics, the bizarre, conspiratorial, anti Israel bullshit. You're not seeing that happen from the Republican Party. You're seeing them excised. Now they're out there making common cause with Anna Kasparian. I think that we are moments away from the Megyn Kelly Hasan Piker crossover episode. I think that's where we're going here. I mean, there is a reason why Russia Today is reposting. Megan, if you want to. It's not as though the Russian op here is particularly subtle. It is not Russia Today literally reposted that clip. Quote, maga will feel the way I want them to feel. Megyn Kelly on Trump pivot. But now he's defined. MAGA is agreeing with Mark Levin. Meaning your main issue is what's best for Israel. You must be a neocon. Maga is dying. Maga equals pedophiles supporting Israeli lobby. All of that being put out by Russia Today because they love this stuff. This is their favorite. This is their op. Again, the politics of Megyn Kelly and Sean Ryan and Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens are indistinguishable from the politics of Hassan Piker. At this point,
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Hasan Piker
it's not that shocking that these guys are saying like this because they're the current manifestation of Adolf Hitler. Every single one of them is a little Adolf Hitler in their own way. What's shocking to me is that people still get mad at me when I say these mother are Nazis. They are. Just because they're Jewish doesn't change that dynamic. And it goes on and it goes on and it goes on.
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Ben Shapiro
I don't want to.
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Hasan Piker
I'm a fascist homophobe. Israel's new finance minister, Bezel Smouter said they're just Nazis. Of course it's a Nazi parade. And you as a Democrat participated in the Nazi parade. That's it. Because Israel is a Nazi country. It's just objectively true.
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Ben Shapiro
That's the horseshoe common party that people want to put together. What does that really mean? Well, as people like the Hasan Pikers and the Zoran Mandanis take over the Democratic Party, people who are members of the quote, unquote, woke, right? They will move over to the Democratic Party. That is the thing that will happen. But here's the Thing, as I say, the traditional Republican Party, meaning the vast majority of Republicans, do not buy this nonsense. They don't good evidence of this. So Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared before the Senate yesterday and he was tremendous. What's hilarious to me is that Marco Rubio saying, perfectly obvious, Normie, Republican things feels just fresh, doesn't it? It feels just kind of like clean and nice. Isn't it kind of great just hearing normalcy from people, non psychotic stuff from politicians? It's kind of delightful. Here is Marco Rubio talking about the foreign policy of the United States.
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Marco Rubio
I just want to remind everybody, you know, our foreign policy is one that's solely focused on the national interest of the United States of America, on the defense of our country, both its military defense and our security, but also our economic security and the vibrancy of our economy, our sovereignty and our future. We believe that America should lead the world, and I believe that we are. And we'll have a very good story to tell about that. American leadership, however, should always be on behalf of the American interests. I say this because I think over a period of time in our foreign policy, we lost focus on that.
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Ben Shapiro
Again, this is very, very basic stuff, but it feels kind of refreshing. Here's Rubio talking about how the United States is the global superpower. Yes, yes, we are.
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Marco Rubio
We remain the world's sole global superpower, the most powerful country on Earth. We have the largest economy. We have the most formidable and powerful military ever known to man. By the way, our dollar remains the reserve currency of the world. Our language is used extensively throughout the world to transact all sorts of business and many of our engagements. But all of this means very little if that power is not used to protect the people who built it, the people who it is meant to protect.
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Ben Shapiro
Now, I know that there are a lot of black pillars out there saying that all of this is. People don't like this. It's not true. It's not true. Brand new Harvard Capps Harris poll, And it shows 75% of Americans believe that stopping Iran's nuclear ambitions and countering China and Russia, that those are in America's interest. 75% for stopping Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, 67% for restraining the global influence of China and Russia. People generally agree with that, including a majority of Democrats. Marco Rubio also testified about how the war is going. He said, we're not begging them, they might be begging us.
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Adriano Espaillat
We are the strongest nation on the planet Earth and we're in a stalemate with Iran. And now we're begging to get back into a deal that you all trashed in the first place.
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Marco Rubio
There's no one begging.
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Adriano Espaillat
Clearly. This is a.
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Graham Platner
Senator Booker.
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Ben Shapiro
Senator Booker, your time's up. Rubio, since he's calling, I do want
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Marco Rubio
to address some of these points because they go to the heart of the matter. No one's begging for anything here. The Iranians might be begging because their economy's losing hundreds of millions of dollars a day.
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Ben Shapiro
Okay, So I will also point out, same poll, 7 in 10 voters think the United States is currently winning the war with Iran. 72% of voters, because, I mean, we are. There is no metric by which Iran is winning. The only way that Iran wins, as I said yesterday, is if the United States randomly gives up the ghost. If we release all sanctions on Iran without them giving up their nuclear program or their ballistic missile program or stopping their support for terror, if we allow Iran to link relink all of their terrorist activities from their proxy groups all over the Middle east to a United States release of sanctions money. If we do that, we could lose. Other than that, not so much. Iran is losing. That doesn't mean that both sides don't suffer some. The United States obviously having some economic issues because of the blockade. But if it's a comparative matter, Iran is clearly losing. Rubio also talked about where we are in terms of the Western hemisphere, and he says the Western hemisphere is being made free for American interests. This of course is true.
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Marco Rubio
We now have in this hemisphere a coalition of friendly countries, over a dozen who have aligned to work on not just the issues of security that we all have in common, but also economic prosperity that go hand in hand. It's an amazing story that basically other than Nicaragua, other than Cuba, obviously other than Venezuela remains with some challenges. And of course Brazil, although they're in the midst of an election cycle, and to some extent the current government in Colombia as well, at least the President's been problematic. But generally speaking, it is now a region filled with American allies, American friendly leaders and an American friendly direction. Now, obviously we have to operationalize that into action after 20 years of neglect in which China and other global powers have intruded in our Western hemisphere to the detriment, not just of American national interest, but to the detriment in our view of the people of those countries as well. So these are important, important achievements and one that I'm very happy about.
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Ben Shapiro
Man, isn't hearing just normie stuff kind of comforting and calming, isn't it? Just a little bit. Like, just a little bit. Alrighty. Coming up, we'll get into a bizarre appointment by President Trump. He's appointing somebody to replace Tulsi Gabbard at dni. As you know, I was not a fan of Tulsi Gabbard at dni. I was hoping for someone better as the replacement. I do have some questions. Remember, in order to watch, you have to be a member. If you're not a member, become a member. Use code Shapiro. Check out for two months free on all annual plans. Click that link in the description and join us.