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🚨 Candace Owens FIRED from Daily Wire after FIGHT With Ben Shapiro | Candace: 'I Am Finally Free'

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01:51

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03:03

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unidentified		President Trump now only has three days to secure $454 million in bond.
		And the New York Attorney General, Letitia James, is already laying the groundwork to seize his assets if he doesn't get the money.
		Chanley Pager is here with the details.
		Chanley, welcome to the show.
		Good morning, Todd and Carly.
		Great to be here.
		Well, it looks like the AG's office is making sure everything is in place so it can start taking possession of Trump's assets if and when he's unable to post that multimillion dollar bond resulting.
		From the state's civil fraud judgment against him.
		Now, the former president owns several properties across the state of New York, as you can see there, including in Westchester County, where the attorney general filed those judgments and would allow her to seize a golf course in a private estate.
		Meanwhile, many in the real estate industry, though, have slammed the judge's decision.
kevin oleary ▲ ● ▼		This is hurting the American brand.
		What's going on in New York, it has nothing to do with Trump.
		That case is over.
		What's going on now is concerning financial markets all around the world.
		I mean, seizing assets after 22 days?
		In a bankruptcy court, you get years to resolve this.
		This is not a good look on New York.
		It doesn't matter if it's Trump.
		It could be anybody.
unidentified		And Trump himself echoed those same sentiments on Truth Social, posting in part that numerous businesses have ended plans to relocate into New York because of the fabricated witch hunt against him.
		And just recently, Trump's lawyers revealed they've struggled to find the backing necessary to cover such a great amount of cash.
		And now Trump's campaign is even calling on his supporters to donate money to the cause.
		And of course, Trump's team has asked a New York appeals court to waive or at least decrease that bond while he challenges that verdict.
		But there hasn't been a ruling on that just yet.
		Mr. Trizzle Dizzle, I thought I told you to pay me five hundred million dollars.
		Did you bring that money today?
		No.
		Well, that's too bad.
		I need my money, sucka.
		So what I'm going to do is take all your properties in New York and start selling.
		But what the did you just flip me off?
		No.
		Yes, you did.
		You just flipped me the bird.
		If you don't shape up and get your head straight, see there, you just did it again.
vivek ramaswamy ▲ ● ▼		No, I didn't.
unidentified		I didn't.
		I didn't.
		I love you.
		Ha ha ha ha ha ha What are these memes?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		These are good memes.
unidentified		I didn't know we could do the voice activation and the animation with the mouth.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I really like that.
		I see a bright future.
		For that style of meme.
		Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Free For All Friday, March 22, 2024.
		Candace Owens and The Daily Wire have parted ways.
		Letitia James is trying to part Donald Trump from his properties because she is a filthy, dirty Marxist.
		Joseph Stalin would be proud.
		What's next for New York?
		Some gulags?
		South Carolina State Rep Adam Morgan joins the show after going viral.
		My name is Benny Johnson, and this is The Benny Show.
		Lots of breaking news this morning.
		We'll cover all of it.
		Make sure that you have the energy to fight the left.
		A big-time theme of the show this morning, actually.
		Who is our enemy?
		Is the question this morning.
		You must have the power to fight the communists.
		Remember, the communists is a very sad creature.
		It lives alone.
		It lives in dark little caves.
		It doesn't have any God.
		It doesn't have any purpose.
		It doesn't have any reason for being.
		Its only reason for being is the destruction of this nation.
		And so it strives day and night, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 12 months out of the year to destroy your life.
		You must have the energy to fight the communists, please.
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		Be awake, not woke.
		Which is, of course, very nicely a table setting for the beginning of this show.
		I want to state this, but this is obviously the news that is...
		Trending across all social media platforms.
		This is the news that is breaking the internet right now.
		And we are an internet show.
		And so we're going to talk about it because we actually know all the parties involved.
		Candace Owens and The Daily Wire have parted ways.
		Now, I want to begin table setting here by saying that we have many good friends at The Daily Wire.
		We've known Candace for years.
		Love Candice.
		Worked with her before.
		Done big video shoots with her before.
		Done projects before.
		Gone on her show a bunch of times.
		And we have a stable, good relationship with a number of people at work at the Daily Wire.
		Here's what we're going to try and...
		The message we're going to try and put out.
		The energy we're going to try and put out on this show is that the orcs are at the gates of Helm's Deep.
		Okay?
		Like, we have bigger enemies.
		Than the internal enemies of the right.
		And the left loves it when the right has a circular firing squad inside of itself.
		So we're not going to be here to try and hate on either party here, right?
		Like, there's too big of an actual collective enemy for us right now in the country.
		And we mustn't lose sight of who our actual enemy is.
		And the internal battles, whether it's Tucker getting fired from Fox News, Which happened, man, ALX, did that happen like a year ago today?
		Like, that happened about a year, like exactly one year ago?
		When did that happen?
		Am I getting my timelines correct?
		Like, time is a flat circle, man.
		Whether it's like Tucker Carlson in Fox News, or you remember Dan Bongino in Fox News, and Steve Hilton in Fox News, and Candace in the Daily Wire, and so on.
	Like, we get too navel-gazy on this stuff.
	And so, it's, yeah.
	ALX is telling me it was April of last year that Fox News fired Tucker Carlson.
	Here we are, March, end of March of this year, and Candace Owens has been fired by the Daily Wire.
	Or, at the very least, they are no longer in business together.
	Maybe it is a...
	We haven't been able to reach anyone on this.
	We did some furious phone calls before the show.
	I haven't been able to reach anyone on this.
	So, when it comes to our movement, we must unite and win.
	That's my message for this morning.
	We must unite and win.
	Like, who the hell cares?
	Fox News, Daily Wire, Tucker Carlson, who cares what they do if the country's being invaded, if Marxists are able to seize Donald Trump's private property after rigging lawsuits against him, if they're able to put Donald Trump in jail for practicing his First Amendment, and if they're able to lock up members of the MAGA movement for peacefully protesting.
	Like, who the hell cares?
	You've already lost America.
	It doesn't matter, right?
	We're fighting over the ashes, as they say.
	The evil ruler will burn their nation to ashes to rule over the ashes instead of give up power.
	And that's the forces that we're dealing with right now.
	Talked about it with Stephen Miller on the show yesterday.
	That's the angle.
	So we're going to, like, the drama.
	We're not here for big-time drama alerts, but this is the number one, I'm seeing right now on Google Trends, number one trend in the country.
	So it's worth talking about.
	Last week, we were at UFC with Candice Owens.
	We actually sat right down from her and were able to dab her up and chat her up and were able to talk with Candice.
	We've known Candice for a long time.
	We love Candice and love working with her.
	She's iconic in the movement.
	Candace Owens obviously is somebody who has a deep and abiding organic following of people who just love her and love her takes.
	Her takes are spicy, and that's what people like about her.
	She always comes correct, and she's a mother of beautiful children.
	She's a devoted wife, and she's somebody who really has something to fight for.
	And we deeply, deeply respect Candace and her work.
	I've been on Candace's show a bunch of times, and I was always blown away when I was on Candace's show of how, like, her intellect, how smart she was, how driven she was, and how researched she was.
	You tend to look at people with that size of, like, social media audiences and say that they're just fabulists, right?
	Or they're, you know, they're people who maybe don't deserve it because...
	You know, they hit one viral moment or one thing or another.
	Candace is not that.
	Let me tell you what.
	She's an unbelievably hard worker.
	An unbelievably hard worker.
	During that interaction, Candace also, I don't know if you have the photo with Trump and everything like that.
	Like, it was a great time.
	During that interaction, I said, what's going on, like, professionally?
	I asked.
	You know, what's happening professionally?
	And, you know, all I can say is she's like, stay tuned, right?
	Stay tuned.
	Okay?
	And I'd seen the day before.
	She was on Patrick Bet-David's podcast.
	She'd been doing a bunch of media rounds.
	She was just on The Breakfast Club.
	And you could sort of, like, get the sense that maybe something was going to happen with Candace.
	And with somebody who has, Candace Owens is followed by tens of millions of people.
	I don't know the exact number.
	With somebody that big of a voice and that big of a platform, it's going to make news.
	And so news was made this morning.
	Jeremy Boring, the CEO of The Daily Wire, announced that Candace Owens is no longer working with The Daily Wire.
	Now, the language here I think is really important.
	Candace and The Daily Wire have ended their relationship.
	Does that mean she was fired?
	Does that mean that a contract dispute didn't go forward?
	That she just didn't re-sign the contracts?
	We've seen from Steven Crowder, you know, and that sort of drama alert with the...
	Daily Wire, that they have some pretty locked-in contracts with some real teeth into them.
	And so did they just kind of absolve her of that?
	And what led to this, right?
	Candace Owens' big name.
	What was it that actually led up to this moment where Candace Owens and Daily Wire parted ways?
	We're going to cover all of that on the program.
	And I think we're going to talk through...
	Where I stand on all this as well, because it's really important for the movement itself.
	If we can't unite on these larger issues, then we're never going to win.
	And, you know, divide and conquer is the way that you are able to destroy a movement like ours.
	And so we're not here to divide.
	We're here to find, like, the places where we can all, like, come together.
	But there are times, ladies and gentlemen, where it's bigger than...
	Money.
	Okay?
	There are times, ladies and gentlemen, where it's bigger than a contract.
	And where it's actually bigger than anything written down on paper.
	Because it gets, like, the moral root of an issue.
	And that's when I...
	This is when I knew that it was over for Candace and Ben.
	Israel was attacked in a terrorist attack on October 7th.
	And after that terrorist attack...
	People started asking questions or voicing their concerns about America getting dragged into another war and America getting dragged into more chaos around the world.
	Obviously, we are 100% funding Taiwan's defenses right now.
	China is going to try and seize Taiwan.
	Who knows?
	Ukraine, we're already bankrupt as a nation.
	Ukraine's cost us $200 billion.
	What the hell is going on there?
	Mmm, man.
	Don't look too hard!
	We have a special coming up about what was really going on in Ukraine.
	We're very excited about.
	And you can see why Hunter Biden is untouchable and why Hunter Biden never went to jail.
	Because Hunter Biden was doing the CIA's bidding in Ukraine.
	And it's going to be very, very interesting to see.
	We have the emails and the receipts.
	What were they building there?
	You're going to be very interested to find out.
	Ladies and gentlemen, people just didn't want America...
unidentified		People...
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		But from a larger perspective, 35,000-foot perspective, people didn't want America involved in another war.
		And so some voices on the right were like, wait a second, like, neocons, stop.
		Like, it's not time to, like, begin another war, right?
		Now, there's a lot of interests here, a lot of lobbying, but I am, like, deeply anti-war and deeply anti-U.S.
		interventionism in these kind of things, right?
		I'm a big-time advocate of, like, they're your own borders.
		It's your own stuff.
		People can sort it out.
		And my take on this, as I've grown older, is, dude, there's no such thing as angels in wartime.
		Really, there's no such thing as angels on the...
		If you think that during any war or conflict in human history, one side was the side of the angels, and one side was the devil, the reality is, grow up.
		Oftentimes, both sides are devils, right?
		And war is just hell.
		And go ask the...
		Go ask the people who fight in wars what they think of war.
		There's plenty of wounded and maimed forever Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans walking the streets of America today, if they can still walk.
		And go ask them about what war was like.
		Go ask that generation what war was like.
		They're my age, right?
		Like, you shouldn't want war.
		You should only want peace.
		And you should not be fomenting more war.
		So that's just my take on all of this.
		Candace and Ben Shapiro had divergent takes on the Israel-Hamas war.
		And that boiled over.
		It boiled over into a public space where Ben Shapiro attacked Candace Owens.
		Ben Shapiro, at a party, decided to attack Candace Owens.
		This isn't the right clip.
		Let's put the clip up of Ben.
		I'm going to play the clip right here.
		It's going to be a play beside.
		Yeah, let's load it as a play beside.
		But I want to, like, sort of begin with the, you know, the breakdown here and show you that, like, there are some things that get crossed.
		There are some things that you, like, there are some bridges you can cross professionally that you can work together with people, and there are some bridges that are, that get much deeper, and you can no longer work with those people when you have disagreement, okay?
		So, ladies and gentlemen, this was the video that sort of rocketed around the internet that shocked people because, load this one, Royce, please, because it was Ben Shapiro publicly really chastising and attacking Candace Owens in front of a large group of people.
		I still don't know exactly what was going on.
		that Shapiro was standing on a table with a microphone at what looks like seemingly a party of some sort.
		And here's what he had to say.
		Without attack.
unidentified		I can't believe that.
		Yeah, I think she's been absolutely disgraceful.
		I think that her faux sophistication on these particular issues has been ridiculous.
		It's not faux sophistication, it's ridiculous.
jesse watters ▲ ● ▼		Everybody can see the moves that she's making and the things that she's saying.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		And if I was destructing at all.
unidentified		So.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So, if you call one of your employees disreputable and you call one of your employees a faux sophisticated, And you call them disgusting in public knowing that you're just being filmed because no matter what, you just have to assume you're always being filmed in public.
		Right now, everybody has one of these in their pockets.
		Well, ladies and gentlemen, you've just got to understand that that's not going to create the best working environment.
		That's going to create a very, very bad working environment for people.
		As an employer myself, as somebody who like...
		As a contractor and worked with a bunch of people, right?
		It's like, we're building a company here.
		You have to be very, very in tune to build up and to make sure that you are building up the people who are working for you and working with you and not tearing down, especially in a public space.
		Obviously, there's always room for improvement.
		But I got to tell you, as soon as I saw Ben Shapiro willing to go public with his criticisms, I said, well...
		This is getting really unstable.
		And then, then this happened.
		What happened here was, and you're going to have to go back here at Rolls-Royce, put up this tweet, because this is really, really, this is really important.
		In the middle of that, after that, after that video, Candace Owens tweets Bible verses.
		She put up on X, blessed are the peacemakers, for they'll be called children of God.
		Because everyone's like, whoa, man, you were getting flamed, right?
		By Ben.
		Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness'sake.
		For this is the kingdom of heaven.
		Blessed are ye when men shall receive you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil falsely for my sake.
		No one can serve two masters.
		Either you will hate one or love the other.
		You will be devoted to one who defies the other.
		You cannot serve both God and money.
unidentified		So...
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		This is obviously, like, scriptures, right?
		These are teachings of Christ that...
		Candace Owens posted here, and then she says Christ is king as a follow-up thread to that, right?
		Now, the response to this from Ben Shapiro was, Candace, if you feel like taking money from the Daily Wire somehow comes between you and God, by all means, quit.
		Quit your job.
		Ben Shapiro was completely misreading, I think, what Candace was saying and what Candace was quoting comes from a different, you know, he comes from a different religious tradition background.
		And apparently, apparently wasn't familiar with those verses because Ben Shapiro took that as an attack directly on the Daily Wire, the best as I can tell.
		Candace Owens then responded to Ben Shapiro on this.
		You are utterly out of line for suggesting that I cannot quote biblical scripture.
		The Bible is not about you.
		And ladies and gentlemen, that's what you knew.
		That's what you knew.
		We're done here, right?
		We're done.
		We're done here.
		You knew it was finished when you had...
		Something that is way more powerful than money, and it's why we talk about scripture on this show, and it's why we're open about our faith on this show, is because there are things that connect us to our ancestors.
		There are things that are thousands of years old that are woven into our DNA.
		There's something that's like, that's iron in your DNA that is like an iron chain that connects you to thousands of years of history.
		And they're desperate.
		The cultural Marxists to break that chain.
		They are desperate to remove the ancestors from your life.
		They're desperate to remove the people that built you.
		You're here because of the excruciating and tough decisions and the providential blessing of God because there's many family lines that die off.
		I have to assume that most family lineages have died off, actually.
		Given plagues and wars and famines all throughout history, it doesn't matter where you're from.
		Go check on the Black Plague in Europe, for instance.
		The Black Plague in Europe killed upwards of 60% of the population of every day.
		60% of the population of everywhere it touched.
		And I don't think that was even 1,000 years ago.
		Yeah, I think the timeline's correct.
		I don't think that was even 1,000 years ago.
		So consider that you're here in spite of things like that, right?
		You're here.
		And so Candace's Christian tradition was going head-to-head with Ben Shapiro's religion and tradition.
		And it was happening in public.
		Put the tweet up again.
		The Bible is not about you.
		That's when it became more than just a contract dispute.
		That's when it became more than any money that she was being paid.
		Or any amount of contract work, or lawyers, or lawsuits.
		That's when you knew.
		This was from November 15th, 2023.
		By the way, this tweet has 9.7, 10 million views, this tweet.
		From Candace.
		And then she followed it up, once again, with Christ is King, with an emoji of a Christian cross.
		So, what...
		It's why it's hard to, like, point at somebody as the bad guy here.
		Because what you're looking at now is like Christian tradition versus Jewish tradition, Judaism versus Christianity, and the thousands of years of those traditions linking back, and there are some great cross-sectionality there, obviously.
		You read the Old Testament and the New Testament, but there's also some big, big, big areas of disbelief.
		Insult, non-belief, and differences of beliefs, okay?
		You can say.
		And it's right here where it's like, that's it.
		It's done.
		Because this is now a question of faith.
		This is going to be like a question of where someone's moral standing is, as it pertains to their religion, as it pertains to what roots them as a person.
		And a human being?
		And so that's the moment.
		Candace Owens, as soon as she posted this, went on Tucker Carlson's program.
		And Tucker Carlson asked her her response to all of this, right?
		I was like, listen, I texted Tucker and Candace at the time.
		I was like, dude, this is one of the most brilliantly...
		What I said to Tucker was, I cannot believe the timing of all this.
		And the news cycle just hit, right?
	Get me that Tucker post on X. I want to see the numbers on that because this thing went thermonuclear.
	But here's what Candace Owens had to say.
	Here's what Candace Owens had to say about her relationship with the Daily Wire in November.
candace owens ▲ ● ▼		You know, there isn't much of a background.
candace owens ▲ ● ▼		I saw the video when everybody else saw it when I woke up.
unidentified		No one warned you about it?
candace owens ▲ ● ▼		Nobody warned me about it.
		It looks like maybe he didn't know he was being recorded.
		It looks like it was some sort of a private event.
		I got no clarity on the issue that he was particularly speaking on.
		And in what was said, I also can't respond to it.
		Beyond what he's saying, because it's just ad hominid attacks.
unidentified		Yeah, because it's not, you know, we disagree, or I don't think she's correct, or maybe she doesn't know what she's talking about.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		It's absolutely disgraceful.
candace owens ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, exactly.
		And so I can't respond to it on a level of intellect, because there's nothing that he has expressed, at least in that short clip, that he fundamentally disagrees with in terms of what I said.
		But I will say that...
		I'm not going to respond with the same Ed Hoffman attacks.
		I don't think it helps further discussion.
		And if that was me that was caught on a video saying that about colleagues that I work with, I would be embarrassed.
		So I think that the video speaks more to Ben's character than it speaks to mine.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Has he texted you to apologize or explain or anything?
candace owens ▲ ● ▼		No, nothing.
		I haven't heard a single word.
		It just was sort of something that he said.
		And you know what?
		Ben and I have many disagreements, so I don't think that that's particularly something that's interesting.
		We disagreed on the COVID vaccine.
		We disagreed on Ukraine and Russia.
		He has taken virtually every stance that has been the opposite of mine.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So this was Candace Owens' announcement, ladies and gentlemen.
unidentified		This was, is this the Tucker?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Is this the Tucker tweet?
		Okay.
		So this was Tucker.
		The same Candace Owens response to Ben Shapiro.
		What did that do?
		14 million?
unidentified		Yeah.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Thermonuclear.
		That 30,000 repos?
		Yeah, 123.
		So, lightning in a bottle, you know?
		I do find, just on its level, and we're going to talk about where Candace Owens is going next.
		Candace Owens has just posted, actually, she just posted that...
		I'm free.
		I'm free at last.
		Sort of paraphrasing an old hymn, right?
		Rumors are true.
		I'm finally free, she says.
		Candace Owens is pushing then her website, CandaceOwens.com, and her locals, right?
		And so she's just posted, producers are telling me she just posted a video there, and then also...
		Promoting her YouTube page, which is at Candace Owens, right?
		So she's promoting her own...
		She's been promoting her own channels.
		But we'll see, ladies and gentlemen, where she ends up.
		Will Candace Owens end up at a larger media company?
		The Tucker Carlson Network?
		You'd have to have more than just Tucker Carlson for it to be a network, right?
		Like, presumably, would she go work with Tucker?
		She's obviously very, very close with Tucker.
		What about Patrick Bet-David, who runs the PBD podcast and has a really big following?
		Patrick Bet-David just posted something very cryptic.
unidentified		Oh, is there anything going on today in the conservative media space?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I don't know.
		I'm not sure.
		Just checked in.
		Haven't seen the news today.
		Any major news?
		And by the way, Candace Owens was just on Patrick Bet-David's show.
		With Chris Cuomo, and they just hired Chris Cuomo at Valuetainment.
		So maybe that's what's going on.
		I haven't checked the news today, says PBD.
		Yeah.
		Any major news?
		So, we're going to dive into a little more of sort of the breakdown between Candace and Ben, because I think it's important to talk about, but the important thing that I would say here, as kind of a takeaway, is...
		Like, Don Lemon also fired from CNN?
		Also tried to, like, restart his show this week?
		Nobody cared.
		No one cared.
		We can show you Don Lemon's, like, latest episode.
		Like, concurrently, live, we're doing more views than Don Lemon's episode has done over the last 48 hours right now.
		Nobody cares.
		About the delusional, derivative opinions of these people.
		Go up to the show itself.
		Let's look.
		Let's look.
		What's Don Lemon do?
		That's not it.
		That's a clip.
		Oh, there we go.
		What's that done?
		120,000 views.
		Is what Don Lemon's show has done on X. 120,000 views.
		Also Don Lemon with a rotary telephone.
		And some absurd, like, 1950s crooner microphone next to him.
		With the graphics package of Arsenio Hall, circa 1992.
		And, like, one of the most ridiculous lighting.
		Like, look at that giant shadow he's casting on the desk.
		Who did your lighting, Stevie Wonder?
unidentified		It's so bad.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		It's so cringe.
		And it's so interesting because it shows you where the actual real organic power is.
		It's on our side.
		The true audience is on our side.
		That's why people care.
		This is why Candace Owens is the number one trend right now across all media.
		Number one trend on Google.
		Number one trend on Twitter.
		This is why Candace Owens is trending.
		Because people actually give a shit about what we're doing, about what's going on here.
		Because the people on the right, the creators on the right actually have talent and are actually building something and have real audiences.
		On the left, it is as synthetic and propped up and corporatized as the DNC.
		Go ask Bernie Sanders.
		Who should have won the 2016 and 2020 primaries?
		Bernie Sanders was beating Hillary Clinton and beating Joe Biden by a country mile.
		The DNC, as a Marxist entity, was able to effectively just decide that the will of the people didn't matter.
		The DNC is a totally and wholly owned and operated, corporately, downwardly structured, managed organ.
		Of globalists?
		The World Economic Forum?
		Vanguard?
		BlackRock?
		It's not owned by the people.
		They don't have real audiences.
		Dunlap doesn't have a real audience.
		It's fake.
		Fugazi.
		Turn the lights on, it disappears.
		It's fake.
		It's not real.
		None of this stuff that corporate media does is real.
		They're not real.
		These people have no real audiences.
		Oh, the Nielsen ratings say we had a million viewers.
		You know how that works?
		First off, pull up CNN's viewership.
		By the way, this show does more views than CNN.
		And these are real views.
		Nielsen box ratings.
		Do you know how this works?
		I worked in cable TV, so I can tell you.
		It's all fraudulent.
		They put a Nielsen box in the back of a TV.
		That TV's sitting in an airport somewhere in Minot, North Dakota.
unidentified		And...
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		It's sitting there at the Minot North Dakota airport and it pings that CNN's on in the airport.
		And they ping it once an hour to see who's watching.
		Does that seem like a sophisticated or correct way to get ratings?
		Does that actually show who's really watching or engaging with something?
		Is that a way to tell if somebody's actually actively participating in the content you're putting up?
		No.
		It's a terrible way to do that.
		Actually, I can't think of a worse way to do that.
		CNN, March 19th.
		So this week, we can zoom in here.
		And you can see CNN.
		Gonna have to zoom a little bit more.
		Double that.
		Okay.
		So this is in the key demo.
		They only have 100,000 people watching in the key demo.
		They have less than 100,000 people watching in the key demographic.
		Go down.
		So the numbers mean 100,000 people.
		So look at this.
		This is per million numbers.
		Look at this.
		$600,000, $500,000.
		I mean, and that's done through an archaic pinging of a Nielsen box.
		Do you know that's how they get their ratings?
		And so if CNN is just on in a bar, and not a single person's in the bar, and not even the bartender or the janitor's watching it, it'll say, ping, someone's watching CNN.
		That's how it works.
		You see how fraudulent this all is?
		How fake it all is?
		And how none of these people can make the transfer, can move over to this space?
		Because this audience is real.
		You're real.
		What we're building is real.
		We're deeply humbled and thankful for you.
		We're like so unbelievably appreciative.
		I tell you what, man, we work like hell.
		We work like animals at this program to make sure that you get the news.
		Get me one of Candace's last episodes.
		Get me the Candace Brigitte McCrone episode, ALX.
		Does that have millions of viewers?
		Probably.
		So one of Candace's last episodes is beating all of CNN.
		Prime time.
		Total viewers.
		And they're real viewers, right?
		Let's grab the last, let's grab the Candace Brigitte McCrone episode.
		This is one of her last episodes.
		And I'll show you that Candace Owens, as a single person, is beating the entire CNN lineup at a publicly traded company with trillions of dollars, not billions of dollars, of PR.
		This PR that's poured into these people, right?
		They're like pouring all this money and advertising and begging people to watch.
		They don't do any of that for Candace.
		Candace, by force of personality, brings people into watch.
		So we actually have to work on it, but our audiences are real.
		And that's what makes them lose their minds.
		Makes them go crazy.
		Because what's happening here, and Tim Pool's live, right?
		Big fans of Tim.
		Some of the best to do it.
		What do we got?
		So we got 51,000 likes.
		We got 920, 825,000 views.
		Okay, there you go.
		Eight days ago.
		So there's Candace Owens.
	Bigger show than I think the entire lineup of CNN.
	The entire primetime lineup of CNN.
	And those are real viewers.
	And this is just one platform.
	Presumably this show is doing, there's 1.4 million for Candace.
	This is just Candace's show.
	So if you're taught, if you want some like uplifting to carry you forward, like understand that this is power.
	Like, this is us remaking the ecosystem.
	And we talk with all these members of Congress and senators, and they come on our show.
	Pretty famously, we had a fight.
	We had a prickly interaction with an old senator that will remain unnamed, talking about the liberal media not covering something.
	Do you realize we're more powerful than them?
	We're bigger than them?
	Like, this isn't a pat of me on the back.
	This is actually a compliment to everyone who's doing this work.
	And obviously a compliment to you, who presumably pulled the plug and are watching this program.
	This is how we win.
	This is how we win.
	Tucker Carlson, of course, has made the transition because Tucker Carlson's audience was real.
	Tucker Carlson had real followers, real people.
	He was really interesting.
	And so he was able to port that following into hundreds of millions, billions of views on X, on his show on X. And it's also posted across a bunch of different platforms.
	So billions of views for Tucker Carlson because his audience is real.
	These frauds like Cuomo and Don Lemon, they don't have real audiences.
	Those people aren't, they're not, they're make-believe.
	Because their views are derivative.
	Their views are not in line with what actual people really think.
	Their views are not, like, they're not real.
	Their corporate pablum vomited out of their mouths.
	And spit out at you to try and manipulate you.
	Instead of to reinforce you in those bonds of you going back to your ancestors.
	Because quite frankly, you know what's right in this world.
	You know what's right and you know what's wrong.
	That's been woven into your DNA.
	It's been in the core of your being.
	And it's super important to reinforce that in our content.
	And to not try and rip that out.
	Which is what all leftist media is.
	And that's why leftist media is failing.
unidentified		Thank you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Last week, Deadspin collapsed.
unidentified		Vice collapsed.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		BuzzFeed is on the verge of collapse.
		I don't know.
		The graveyard is too big to actually walk through the whole thing.
		Talk about whistling past the graveyard.
		That's me, baby.
		When I look at all these leftist, derivative news sites that publish the same articles and do the same type of Torturous practices.
		Oh, white this.
		Oh, black bat.
		Oh, racism.
		Everyone's racist.
		Everything's racist.
		America's original sin.
		Like the same type of self-loathing, Marxist drivel.
		And they're all collapsing.
		It seems like Candace might be going solo.
		We'll see, ladies and gentlemen.
		One of her last monologues sort of gave a tip of the hat for what was about to happen.
		Here's Candace Owens saying, like, effectively thanking her audience on one of her last times on the Daily Wire platform and saying that it is invaluable to speak truth.
		Here you go.
candace owens ▲ ● ▼		In a few weeks, I will be out to Israel and I will be out to Gaza.
		And I will be able to report to you guys what it is that I actually see.
		But I also want to say this because it's so important.
		I am team God.
		Okay?
		I'm team God.
		I do not fear the media.
		I do not fear journalists.
		I do not fear AIPAC.
		I don't fear Big Pharma.
		What I actually fear is God.
		I think that one day we are all going to have to account for the things that we have done and the things that we have said, and I want to make sure that I am not a person that is parroting lies.
		The fear of losing your job, encouraging some people to spit out lies, I don't think that works in the end.
		I think you've got to check your priorities.
		With that said, I want to thank everybody who has been on this journey with me, people that have supported me.
		I especially want to thank all of the Jewish people that have been in the comments saying how outraged they are.
		And I know that it is especially difficult for you guys right now because you are being smeared, you know?
		I mean, I'm not going to go away.
		I'm going to use my God-given voice to talk about the things that are important for me.
		I'm just asking to be left alone or at least just report the truth.
		Ladies and gentlemen, unfortunately, that is all the time that we have for today.
		But don't worry because we will see you tomorrow for a brand new episode.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So Candace Owens was telegraphing there.
		I think what was about to happen, ladies and gentlemen, that Candace sort of knew as, as we sort of saw this breaking down.
		We understood, uh, there are things that are obviously more powerful than money.
		I think a lot of people don't, Don't understand that, unfortunately, in our government.
		And a lot of people think that they can break Donald Trump by going and seizing his properties or having these massive rulings against him.
		There are some things that outlive money.
		In fact, the more you do that to Donald Trump, the more you make us want to crawl through glass and fire to vote for Donald Trump.
		The more you do that, the more you prove how broken of a system it is.
		But, with Candace Owens and Ben, what you have...
		Is a situation where it's beyond money and contracts, right?
		I think there was, quite frankly, a moral breakdown where they could not see eye to eye.
		And Candace wanted to cover some things that perhaps made the Daily Wire uncomfortable.
		You can see that in some of her more recent postings.
		And her most recent post was just made on Locals.
		This is a platform that sort of supports independent creators.
		And Locals, Candace Owens just posted her first video.
		I believe we have that.
		And we're going to go to that right now.
		So let's hear from Candace directly about all of this.
		This is Candace's first video after the departure from The Daily Wire.
candace owens ▲ ● ▼		Hey guys, it's Candice.
unidentified		The rumors are true.
candace owens ▲ ● ▼		I am free.
		Welcome to my locals page.
		So much to talk about.
		Obviously, I'm going to take a couple of weeks here just to rebuild and to refocus and to create something that is actually mine and something that...
		Can't be threatened or taken because it belongs to me.
		I can't tell you enough how much your support has meant to me over the years.
		We're just getting started.
		Join the Locals page, obviously, here.
		You can support me and my work as an independent journalist, as an independent podcaster.
		We're still going to be doing five days a week.
		There'll be tons of announcements coming in the next couple of weeks.
		And I guess the last thing I want to say is thank you.
		For those of you that don't want to be on Locals and just want to support in any capacity, you can head to GoCandice.com.
		Thank you, guys.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		GoCandice.com We say Go Candice and I'll tell you one final story to sort of cap all this off.
		Something that I thought that really bothered me.
		Again, as I say, we've been friends with Candice for a long time.
		Her and her husband George are awesome.
		I can't speak more highly about who the two of those people are.
		They're brilliant.
		They're wonderful parents.
		They believe.
		They truly believe.
		In the future of this country, they believe that there are evil forces within this country, that they must fight, and they're in it to fight.
		And it can't be great, ladies and gentlemen.
		It can't be fun to be Candace Owens, right?
		It can't be fun to stand up against Black Lives Matter.
		So the Black Lives Matter organization, it's sort of a memory hold here, but is a completely and totally fraudulent organization.
		ALX, grab me that trailer.
		Can you grab me that trailer for a documentary?
		I want to play that because this is such a beautiful piece of work, man.
		And I also want her going to Patrice Collure's house.
		I think that was gold.
		Candace Owens, probably the most underappreciated piece of work that she did was a documentary on Black Lives Matter called The Biggest Lie Ever Sold.
		Where she went through Black Lives Matter's donations and where the money was coming from, because you remember they got like close to hundreds of millions of dollars pouring in, right?
		To go fight for black people.
		Well, did they help out any black people?
		Did anyone ever get helped?
		It was amazing.
		When I was living in Washington, D.C., that guy, I don't live there anymore.
		But when I was living in Washington, D.C., I lived in a, I was the only white guy within like 10 city blocks where I was living.
		Okay?
		Very poor.
		I lived in a rough part of town in what was, used to be Section 8 housing.
		And if there was a neighborhood where Black Lives Matter could have come in and like helped, I mean, I was around some very poor people living some tough lives.
		It changed my perspective forever.
		I coached the local football team in my free time.
		That's a place where BLM could have really gone in and helped people.
		Paid off a mortgage.
		Done some after-school programs.
		A lot of these kids living in homes with no dads.
		Broken homes.
		Tough lives, man.
		Tough stuff.
		I lived there.
		Five years I lived there.
		Until I...
		Until they defunded the police, and then a gangland warfare event led to our house being, like, set ablaze, effectively.
		Right?
		They burned down a house next to mine, a row house, and all the flames and fumes went into my home.
		Praise God, like, we could have lost our newborn child, actually.
		My wife, the firefighters had to break down our door.
		Break down our door, cops had to rush in.
		Black smoke filling the nursery of my child.
		It's horrifying.
		You wonder why I moved.
		This is why I moved.
		But man, I didn't see anything.
		Like, Black Lives Matter is getting hundreds of millions of dollars in donations.
		Did they help out anyone?
		I'm not sure this is a documentary that I could have done, but hot damn, did Candace Owens ever do it, man.
		Candace Owens went in.
		And she got the receipts.
		And this is what she created.
		This is the trailer for her documentary.
		The Greatest Lie Ever Sold.
		I would argue her best piece of work.
		Check this out.
unidentified		Lives Matter released their 990 IRS filing.
		They collected $80 million.
		Where is that money?
		It's not here.
		Everything looks worse than it was.
		Where have you seen that money impacted throughout the city?
		So my producer just sent me a link.
		It is just shocking to me because of how much money was raised to think that where he lived, the bills weren't being covered.
		Super frustrating, but that's a dead end, so.
		And here's where it gets really interesting.
candace owens ▲ ● ▼		Ready for some BLM pride?
unidentified		Another 200K went to escorts, BDSM workers, strippers, peep show workers, phone sex operators, and webcam performers.
candace owens ▲ ● ▼		And then at that moment...
		It became personal.
		And I thought, not only am I going to say the truth, I am going to scream the truth louder than you can scream the lies.
unidentified		The End That's incredible that the majority of the world hasn't seen this.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So we went to the premiere of that documentary in a very, very small, very intimate setting in Nashville.
		We got a chance to see it.
		We were some of the first people to ever see it.
		And it's an awesome event.
		It's an amazing event.
		Executive producer ALX there.
		Look at Sharp.
		Look at dapper ALX.
		You should wear a suit to work every day.
		It was in this teeny little theater in Nashville.
		And there were superstars there.
		So Brittany Aldean and Jason Aldean were there.
		Kid Rock was there.
		James O 'Keefe and Kanye West.
		We're there.
		Like, come on, man.
		This is the collab we're begging for, okay?
		Come on.
		This is the collaboration.
		Come on, James and Candice.
		And Candice walking.
		The red carpet with, like, Ray J was there.
		It was wild.
		It was a fascinating event.
		Very, very interesting.
		Very, very interesting event.
		But here's what sort of struck me.
		About this event.
		Is that.
		Nobody else.
		Nobody else from the Daily Wire went.
		And this was like two years ago.
		And so I didn't see any of the lead.
		There's no leadership or other personalities from the Daily Wire there.
		And.
		Maybe they have their own reasons, right?
		I think they all have their own families.
		But I'm saying like.
		If Candace is going to do this documentary.
		And going to make.
		Going to make like.
		Gonna stick her neck out and, like, do this and go after BLM, like, the sacred cow, right?
		Of BLM.
		And expose them for their fraud.
		And expose them for, like, for the Marxist organization that they are, which is really the conclusion she came to, right?
		Which is this, like, fraudulent organization that was predicated on helping black people, but helped only, like, three black people, which are the leadership of BLM.
		To live these lavish lives.
		And we have, ladies and gentlemen, obviously, you have the filings.
		You can see the mansions they bought.
		They bought all these mansions.
		They took that money and they committed every single crime you could possibly commit as a non-profit.
		As somebody who works with non-profits, it's bewildering.
		Everyone who is at BLM should be federally prosecuted instantly for how they spend their money.
		Buying mansions for themselves, like, lavishly, like, spending on all their, like, sisters and brothers and family members.
		All these fake organizations that they funnel all this money to.
		I mean, it's like Fannie Willis, like, times ten hundred thousand.
		Ladies and gentlemen, there was no corporate press went in to find that out.
		No media, not even Fox News.
		But Candace Owens was the person who, like, put her shoulder to the wheel and, like, decided to make life uncomfortable for the frauds at BLM.
		This is my favorite scene from the documentary.
		It was an amazing documentary, the whole thing.
		You should still check it out.
		Here, check this out.
		This is Candace Owens going up to Patrice Collures.
	She's the Marxist.
	She literally calls herself a trained Marxist who's in charge of BLM.
	She bought a mansion with all that money, right?
	In one of the whitest neighborhoods in California.
	She buys a mansion and puts up a giant wall around it.
unidentified		Wow!
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I thought walls were racist.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Here's Candace making life uncomfortable for Patrice Cluers.
unidentified		I woke up to Candace Owens being outside of my house with a news crew.
		She was demanding that I come outside.
		Hello?
		Um, I was just looking to speak to whoever is at this property because it's listed as the Black Lives Matter property.
		Sir?
candace owens ▲ ● ▼		Hello?
unidentified		The fact that she's came outside my house and demanded things harassed me is unacceptable.
candace owens ▲ ● ▼		We're not trying to harass you.
		We'll gladly leave.
		We're just wondering if we can speak to anybody?
unidentified		Y 'all.
		I really need my family to be safe.
		I need to be safe.
		I need my child to be safe.
		And this, this, what happened this morning is not safety.
candace owens ▲ ● ▼		Thank you, sir.
unidentified		Have a great day.
unidentified		Have a great day.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		What's the new iron law rule of wokeness?
		Feel bad.
		For the exceedingly rich person who didn't earn anything, didn't do anything, and who is a multi-millionaire.
		That's the Don Lemon shtick right now.
		Don Lemon's up here saying that Elon Musk is racist now.
		A real clip from Don Lemon's show.
		Elon Musk is a racist because he didn't give me the first podcast in space, a Cybertruck, Equity and X, and then...
		The capacity to, like, oversee all news on X?
		The rule is, feel bad for the uber-rich multi-multi-millionaire.
		Feel bad for me.
		As I cry and I sob in my mansion.
		Okay?
		Got it?
		Pretty remarkable when you lived in a neighborhood like I lived in, and you looked around, and you saw a lot of black people that could use some help.
		And BLM was nowhere.
		Nowhere.
		Nothing.
		And you can't go to any neighborhood in America and find any of that.
		And Candace Owens exposed it.
		And I thought it strange that nobody from the Daily Wire showed up to help her at this premiere.
		I found it very interesting.
		But I also found it interesting that the star power and pull that Candace had of having Kanye there, Jason Aldean, Ray J, and a number of other big-time celebrities.
		It's super cool.
		It's super rad to see.
		It's very, very interesting to see.
		So it's like bigger.
		It's bigger.
		Like it's a cultural force.
		And that's what we're building here.
		We wish Candice obviously all of the best.
		I don't have any confirmation.
		I have my assumptions that she's going to go to value.
		She's going to do a deal with value attainment.
		Again, like we also wish the Daily Wire the best.
		All right.
		And all this too much.
		Too much friendly fire.
		But we're out to do the same mission, right?
		And the mission is to break the back of the corporate media and to provide and build a better media for you and me and for the future of this country.
		Here, while we're streaming, you can see here, the stream charts live, that we are actively beating...
		NBC News, Bloomberg, CBS, Associated Press.
		This is live right now.
		Right Side Broadcasting.
		Those guys are super-based.
		Love those guys.
		Fox, Newsmax, Eyewitness News.
		This is what it looks like.
		This is what it looks like to take on culture and defeat it.
		And we do it with your help.
		Obviously, because of you.
		It's all because of you.
		And so we thank you.
		And we're animals.
		And we will work to earn it.
		We do not take it for granted.
		And it's really humbling, quite frankly.
		And so we're going to keep driving.
		We're going to keep pushing.
		We're going to keep hustling.
		We're going to keep grinding.
		And we're going to say thank you.
		You've heard me say it before, and I'll say it again.
		2023, 2020 to 2023, that was the year of effing around, okay?
		They effed around.
	What happens when you eff around?
	See, there's a chart here.
	See, on the chart, you eff around here, and then here's the find out.
	I think we actually have a meme of that.
	Jerry, can you grab that meme?
	I think we have a good meme on that.
	You effed around, and then you found out.
	This is the year where people find out.
	This is the year that corporate media is going to find out.
	This is the year.
unidentified		This is the year that the light found out.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Planet Fitness right now?
unidentified		Target?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Like, all of these behemoths, BlackRock is now in full retreat?
		Texas just pulled $10 billion out of BlackRock?
		I don't care how big of a company you run.
		Like, that hurts.
		That hurts.
		So this is the F-round year and the find-out year.
		And we, ladies and gentlemen, are here for the finding out.
		What is the thing that they all missed?
		They all betrayed?
		They all betrayed their following, their fans, their paying customer.
		All of them.
		They thought that wokeness and equity and intersectional feminism and every ism you can possibly get.
		They put that on a pedestal over their actual paying customer, over their actual audience.
		And so, ladies and gentlemen, they eft around and they found out.
		And so, here, we will...
		Be here for the find-out.
		Okay?
		And as they bleed audience, as their audience gets destroyed, we are here to provide something that they would never provide for you.
		Which is the truth, ladies and gentlemen.
		In our march against our common enemy.
		And our common enemy is the Marxist.
		And that has been something we have held quite tightly to on this program for a very long time.
		But...
		This current moment in time is really, really mask off when it comes to what our enemy is capable and willing to do.
		Letitia James is eyeing Donald Trump's Westchester Golf Club and 200-acre estate as properties that she's going to seize like she's Joseph Stalin.
		As the clock ticks and the deadline for him to pay the $454 million bond, biggest bond ever set ever.
		Ladies and gentlemen.
		So these Marxists, here's how it worked.
		And it's as quick as we can do this.
		Donald Trump didn't commit a crime.
		Donald Trump, like every real estate investor in human history, and every real estate developer in history, valued his business, what he thought it was worth.
		And his business is worth billions.
		And then he got loans based on the worth of his assets.
		That's how it works.
		There's always going to be speculation built into that.
		That's just the real estate market.
		The real estate market is entirely speculation.
		To find out the worth of Donald Trump's buildings, he has to sell his buildings.
		But then he wouldn't have the asset.
		Do you see that?
		Do you understand?
		Capisce?
		Do you understand?
		I'm talking to Letitia James, not you, obviously.
		Donald Trump...
		Did loans with banks, paid those loans back with interest, and everyone's happy.
		Get the loan, get more property, pay the loan off, boom.
		Everyone gets their cash, everyone gets their money, everyone take it to the bank, as they say.
		Letitia James decided to go into that standard and regular business practice that everyone does in real estate.
		That even the IRS asks you to do, like in your tax forms and your tax filings.
		This is something like you have to speculate on the value of certain things.
		In your taxes, if you give a donation to Goodwill, the IRS is like, okay, how much do you think it was?
		Right?
		What's the value of that?
		And so this is a common practice.
		This is everyday practice.
		This is like putting a nickel in the jukebox when it comes to real estate.
		And they decided to say that Trump overvalued his properties in a criminal way.
		Well, wait a second.
		Hold on.
		My take on the world is that if there's no victim, then there's no crime.
		There's no victim here.
		Sam Bankman freed.
		He stole billions of dollars from people.
	There's your victim.
	Donald Trump paid back all of his loans with interest.
	There's no victim.
	Letitia James, who ran on, of course, putting Donald Trump in jail, Truly a wild-eyed Marxist.
	Her eyes don't even go in the same direction.
	A wild-eyed, psychotic Marxist effectively went after this normal and common business practice.
	They couldn't find anything else.
	So she said they overvalued the buildings.
	That Mar-a-Lago is worth $18 million, for instance.
	When, like, a shed in Palm Beach in a parking lot is worth $20 million.
	And now they go to Judge Arthur Edgernon.
	Trump-hating judge.
	They get him to fine Donald Trump, the largest amount ever in the history of New York, and now they're using that loan to attack Donald Trump.
	Arthur Edgenstein actually set, like, he set the value of the bond, right?
	Set the value of the money that Donald Trump owed as the exact amount, apparently, that Donald Trump had in the bank.
	Trump posting this morning on Truth Social.
	Through hard work, talent, and luck, I currently have almost $500 million in cash, a substantial amount, which I intended to use in my campaign for president.
	The often overturned political hack judge that rigged the corrupt case, the AG case, where I've done nothing wrong, knew this, wanted to take it away from me, and that's where he came up with the shocking number, coupled with the crazy interest demands.
	It's approximately $400,000.
	I did nothing wrong except win an election in 2016 that wasn't expected to win and did better in 2020, and now I lead by a lot in 2024.
	This is communism in America, and he's right.
	The seizure of assets, the seizure of something that makes a man a man, something that, like, the man built himself, that's Marxism.
	That's communism.
	It's also antithetical, of course, to how this country was founded.
	You can go back to, like, the founding of Jamestown.
	You go back to, like, the founding...
	of the colonies in America.
	They didn't work until they actually started giving the laborers in those colonies, the initial British colonies, Jamestown specifically, apportionment of land until they started to practice Adam Smith in real time in the New World.
	So Adam Smith was brought to bear on the American colonies and it was only until the laborers started getting like 60 acres apiece that they started actually building.
	Property rights is as fundamental to our nation as American pie.
	And they're now destroying that tradition, that history.
	Of course, the communist goes and destroys everything that they touch.
	But it does seem like this could potentially backfire and is actually actively backfiring.
	Donald Trump is saying keep your filthy hands off Trump Tower.
	In New York, as Donald Trump is sending off text messages to his supporters, keep your filthy hands off Trump Tower is the subtext there.
	And some of the wisest political commentators are saying that this is, quite frankly, shocking to the conscience, and that you're going to destroy New York City by doing this.
	That you're effectively going to...
	You're effectively going to wreck a city that's built on finance because nobody's going to feel secure in investing in New York ever again.
	Why would you?
	Everything can be just seized from you.
	It's actually why Wall Street has moved from Wall Street in New York down to Brickell in Miami.
	Dude, like, blink an eye.
	And New York City?
	We'll collapse under policies like this.
	One of our favorite, Jonathan Turley, saying exactly that.
	Have a listen.
unidentified		Well, you know, what's interesting, Brian, is that you would think that this monitoring would have been the entirety of the remedy.
		If the court was really concerned about whether Trump would be honest in future dealings, they could have just imposed a monitor.
		Instead, he imposes this ridiculous amount of penalty on Trump.
		He could have picked any figure, because none of us could make sense out of this.
		He could have said a trillion dollars.
		And he just sits back and watches the defendant scramble to have to sell off properties in order to protect properties.
		And, you know, this is going to eventually have to go to some judge who's going to say enough.
		I mean, this really shocks the conscience.
		You should not have to sell off your property at fire sale prices in order just to get anyone to look at the judgment of this one judge.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Do you have So, the sort of legal argument here has fallen utterly to pieces.
		This is going to have a massive chilling effect on everything, every bit of finance that happens in New York.
		New York is already a state that is in total and complete population collapse, is in total demographic collapse, and is in net migration collapse.
		I think New York is number one or number two in people fleeing the state.
		Millions have left New York over the past few years.
		The Attorney General of Missouri responding to this, calling it a gross miscarriage of justice.
andrew bailey ▲ ● ▼		This is a gross miscarriage of justice.
		Remember, this was a fraud trial.
		The only fraud here is that AG Letitia James is masquerading as a competent attorney.
		Look at some of her pleadings.
		There's no reference to case law.
		And why is that?
		It's because there's no legal authority for what she's doing.
		Let's remember, this was a civil fraud trial where the claim was that banks gave loans to President Trump based on misrepresentation.
		And yet Letitia James isn't going after those banks for failing to do their due diligence when providing those loans.
		The only reason they provided those loans, in fact, was because President Trump is a brilliant businessman who is enormously successful and made tons of money for these banks and every other investor.
		And Letitia James hates that.
		She hates his success.
		And so she's weaponized the justice system against him.
		And it's terrible for all Americans.
		It undermines due process and undermines the rule.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		In case you want to...
		Know how bad this has gotten.
		Kevin O 'Leary, Mr. Wonderful, one of the greatest investors ever, was on Fox News saying, New York is finished.
		New York's done.
		Under these kind of policies, you won't have a New York anymore.
		Check it out.
kevin oleary ▲ ● ▼		You're right.
		This is hurting the American brand.
		What's going on in New York, it has nothing to do with Trump.
		That case is over.
		What's going on now is concerning financial markets all around the world, because in the United States, and everybody, I don't care what color you are, red or blue, or independent, it doesn't matter, we are the bastion of safety when it comes to investing large pools of capital.
		That's what America represents.
		We have property rights, we have an appellate system, we have law people trust.
		And we give you good returns with the least amount of resistance.
		And what's happening in New York is tainting the American brand.
		I mean...
		Seizing assets after 22 days?
		In a bankruptcy court, you get years to resolve this.
		This is not a good look on New York.
		It doesn't matter if it's Trump.
		It could be anybody.
		I think that's very bad for the American brand.
		And I also would argue that you think about if this is going to help New Yorkers, they should be asking for better management.
		I'm very disturbed.
		And the way I look at it, and I speak to many institutional capital fronts, including sovereign wealth, because I'm trying to buy TikTok right now.
		So I'm running all around the world trying to raise 30, 40 billion dollars.
		And they all ask me the same thing.
		We're watching this New York thing play out.
		It looks to everybody like it was some dress-up court day when the parents were out and everybody got dressed up in robes and had fun acting out some court trial.
		When are the adults coming back into this?
		There are no adults yet.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Ladies and gentlemen, this kind of activity is going to elect Donald Trump.
		Like I'm telling you.
		I'm telling you, they can't help themselves.
		Like every Marxist in human history, they're going to go too far.
		Don't ever Google the Great Leap Forward in Mao's China.
		They're going to go too far, and it's going to break the system.
		Some of the most visceral Trump haters on the Internet and in the public space, pollster Frank Luntz, was on CNN saying just that, saying this will destroy, this will not only, like, destroy...
		The capacity for New York to do business, but it'll also elect Donald Trump.
		This is going to elect Donald Trump.
		This is Frank Lunds.
		Whatever you think of him, he's one of the most notorietable pollsters in the space.
		And he's saying, you are electing Donald Trump by doing this.
		Watch.
unidentified		I want you to remember this moment.
		And don't forget it.
		If the New York Attorney General starts to take his homes away, starts to seize his assets, it's all going to be on camera.
		Pundits are going to sit there and scream about this.
		This man cannot be elected.
		You're going to create the greatest victimhood of 2024, and you're going to elect Donald Trump.
		If they take his stuff, he's going to say that this is proof that the federal government and the establishment and the swamp in Washington and all the politicians across the country and the attorneys generals and all of this, that this is a conspiracy.
		To deny him the presidency.
		He's going to go up in the polls just like he went up every single time they indicted him.
		The indictment, let's not talk about whether it's justified or not.
		But it will prove the things that he's saying on the campaign trail.
		And he will go up and it may just elect him president.
		Do not forget that.
		And I say this to the Attorney General right now.
		If you play politics on this, this is what the Secretaries of State did in Colorado and what they did in, I believe, was Maine.
		His numbers went up in both states.
		I don't understand.
		I'm almost speechless in how pathetic the opposition to Trump has been and how completely misguided.
		And this is a perfect example of it.
		What do you think?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		How pathetic?
		Now, this is a guy who hates Donald Trump, okay?
		But Franklin hates Donald Trump.
		So he's saying it's pathetic, it's exciting, you're going to elect Donald Trump.
		It's going to create the greatest victim opportunity for the seizing of Donald Trump.
		On this issue, and it's gonna backfire.
		And what do we get, ladies and gentlemen?
		What do you get as a response to all of this?
		As a reaction to it?
		Well, you're already seeing the total internal collapse in New York City.
		Letitia James tried to give a speech this last weekend and was booed.
		So loudly at the fire department, the firemen in New York, remember NYPD?
		Remember when we used to respect them?
		Remember the New York fire department?
		How they were like the greatest ever?
		We loved them after 9-11.
		Now Letitia James is hunting them down for booing her.
		Incredible, ladies and gentlemen.
		Have a listen.
unidentified		Oh.
		Oh, come on.
		We're in a house of God.
		First, simmer down.
		I want to thank Commissioner Kavanaugh and Chief Hodgins for that recognition.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Ladies and gentlemen, more of that, first off.
		Special.
		And it's great to see them uncomfortable.
		And you hear them go Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
		Somebody who, well, probably won't be chanting Trump is Ronna McDaniel, disgraced, fired RNC chairwoman who just minted a deal with NBC News, of course.
		Because of course.
		Because of course.
		How disgusting.
		My gut is sick on this.
		This is despicable.
		I was at the debate.
		The NBC News debate with Rana.
		Watching her kiss Kristen Welker.
		Watching her hug all of the moderators.
		Like, Rana then running up to do an NBC News hit.
		Like, the day after.
		Because Vivek flamed her with our help.
		Ladies and gentlemen, this is despicable.
		It makes me so angry to watch this.
		This is what it was all about.
		Also, why would Ronna McDaniel get this job?
		She doesn't speak for us.
		She just lost her job.
		Do you understand how this works?
		Ronna McDaniel was so bad at being RNC chairwoman that we kicked her out and now she gets hired by the corporate media to be a mouthpiece?
		For the Republican Party?
		In what universe?
		How does that work?
		If you want to hire somebody, hire Candace Owens.
		Pay Candace Owens $100 million.
		If you want to hire somebody that actually speaks on behalf of the base and speaks on behalf of where the Republican Party is, you do not hire Ronna McRomney.
		Ronna McDaniel loved going on the corporate media.
		Loves the corporate media.
		In a totally despicable bout of cringe, Ronna McDaniel, as soon as she was elected chairwoman of the RNC, she ran to CNN, not Fox News, not the Daily Wire, not our show, not Breitbart.
		She ran to CNN to do a mewling gripe about how many white guys had led the Republican Party before.
		She is an intersectional feminist.
		She is a cloak and dagger, fake Republican from a line and a litany of losers, ladies and gentlemen.
		And now she's getting rewarded for destroying the Republican Party with a corporate media job.
		Here's a short, here's a very short snippet of what she did on CNN.
		This deserves to be remembered.
		These people, these simps, these absolute...
		Doughy simp cucks.
		These people, they're so, it just makes me so angry.
		Because I lived in D.C. and I knew these RNC people.
		These RNC people were ashamed of the Republican Party.
		They were ashamed of you.
		They were ashamed of, like, our movement.
		They would call themselves Democrats.
		I knew multiple RNC people that wouldn't admit publicly that they worked at the RNC would tell people in passing that they were Democrats.
		That they just were Democrat staffers.
		In order to not get hassled.
		It's too much of a hassle.
		And now Rana will get exactly what she's always wanted, right?
		Some fat plum gig on the corporate media.
		The corporate media she's always groveled to to tell her story because she repeats the narratives of the left.
		Too many white men at the RNC!
		Listen to her do it.
		Watch.
unidentified		What do these pictures have in common?
		Hmm, let's see.
		I don't know.
		Yeah, there is a familiar theme here.
		I'm very happy to add a feminine touch to this law.
		Thank you.
		The Republican National Committee has a new face with a familiar name, Ronna Romney McDaniel.
		Your uncle ran for president.
		So did your grandpa.
		Yeah, and my mom ran for Senate.
		And my dad had run for attorney general.
		And I thought, I've got to go get into party politics so I can figure out how to win and get some of my family members across the finish.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I can figure out how to win.
		How'd that work out for you, Ronna?
		How'd that work out for you?
		We got a cool invitation by Vivek.
		He texted.
		He's like, yo, have you ever done debate prep?
		And I was like, no, not really.
		And he's like, why don't you come to Miami and help me debate prep?
		You just sit there and, like, fill me in on, like, what the actual internet.
		Well, we did a whole documentary on this.
		But, like, what are people actually talking about on the internet, right?
		What are Candace Owens viewers?
		What are people, like, actually, what does the comment section of this show look like?
		And so we went and we did that.
		It's awesome.
		And we just literally sat around the pool all day and talked, like, truly just talked shit.
		And the first thing I said, he's like, so what are people upset about?
		I was like, Ronna?
		People hate Ronna McDaniel.
		They hate the fact that there's, like, liberal moderators at these debates.
		Why isn't Tucker Carlson or Elon Musk moderating this debate?
		Why the hell not Joe Rogan?
		Have Joe Rogan moderate the damn debate.
		You want somebody that, like, you want the number one most watched debate in human history?
		Have Joe Rogan moderate it.
		And so they're pissed off at losing.
		And he's like, okay, great, I'll say that.
		Little did I know this would happen.
unidentified		Swami, let me turn to you.
		Please make your case.
		Why would you...
		Why should you be the nominee and not the former president?
vivek ramaswamy ▲ ● ▼		I think there's something deeper going on in the Republican Party here.
		And I am upset about what happened last night.
		We've become a party of losers at the end of the day.
		It was a cancer in the Republican establishment.
		Let's speak the truth.
		I mean, since Ronald McDaniel took over as chairwoman of the RNC in 2017, we have lost 2018.
		2020.
		2022, no red wave that never came.
		We got trounced last night in 2023.
		And I think that we have to have accountability in our party.
		For that matter, Ron, if you want to come on stage tonight, you want to look the GOP voters in the eye and tell them you resign, I will turn over my, yield my time to you.
		And frankly, look, the people there cheering for losing in the Republican Party.
		Think about who's moderating this debate.
		This should be Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, and Elon Musk.
		We'd have ten times the viewership asking questions that GOP primary voters actually care about and bringing more people into our party.
		Do you think the Democrats, and we've got Christian Welker here, do you think the Democrats would actually hire Greg Gutfeld to host a Democratic debate?
		They wouldn't do it.
		And so the fact of the matter is, I mean, Christian, I'm going to use this time because this is actually about...
		You, in the media, in the corrupt media establishment, ask you the Trump-Russia collusion hoax that you pushed on this network for years.
		Was that real or was that Hillary Clinton made up disinformation?
		Answer the question.
		Go.
unidentified		Mr. Ramoswani, this is how we get our country back.
vivek ramaswamy ▲ ● ▼		We need accountability because this media rigged the 2016 election.
		They rigged the 2020 election with a Hunter Biden laptop story.
		And they're going to rig this election.
unidentified		Your time is up.
vivek ramaswamy ▲ ● ▼		Let me turn to Governor Christie.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Ladies and gentlemen, that is part of what led to the destruction of Rana at the RNC.
		That has no compliments to us, all the compliments to Vivek, because we've been giving this advice forever.
		What?
		This isn't new for us?
unidentified		We've been talking like this for the last 10 years.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		We've been saying it for anyone who listened.
		Vivek listened, man.
		So, like, that's the value.
		And, like, why is Vivek thermonuclear?
		Why is Candace thermonuclear?
		Why do these people have real audiences?
		Because they listen.
		They don't F around and then find out.
		We are the find out.
		I am the one who knocks.
		Ladies and gentlemen, more breaking news, shockingly, or maybe not shockingly.
		Marjorie Taylor Greene seems like she's about to lead now a vacate motion for Speaker Johnson in the House.
		Marjorie Taylor Greene seizing on the fury of many Republicans after seeing this omnibus bill and this Pork-clogged, disgusting mess of a bill, and we're signing another omnibus that has so many goodies and carve-outs for so many special interests, has nothing to do to the American people, and zero border control.
		Of course, nothing.
		Zero border control.
		Nothing.
		So Marjorie Taylor Greene is now maybe going to lead another revolt against the Speaker of the House.
		She was on the floor of the House saying that no Republican in good conscience can vote for the uniparty omnibus.
		This is not a Republican bill.
		It is a Chuck Schumer Democrat-controlled bill from a Republican-controlled House and saying that the Speaker should be ashamed of himself.
		Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene, ladies and gentlemen, in her own words from the floor of the House moments ago.
		Sounds like we have another speaker battle on our hands.
unidentified		Sounds like we have another speaker.
unidentified		Thank you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Let's listen.
marjorie taylor greene ▲ ● ▼		Thank you, Madam Speaker.
		Arise in extreme opposition to the second part of the omnibus bill.
		No Republican in the House of Representatives in good conscience can vote for this bill.
		It is a complete departure of all of our principles, especially if you call yourself pro-life.
		This bill funds full-term abortion.
		This is not a Republican bill.
		This is a Chuck Schumer, Democrat-controlled bill coming from the House majority that is supposed to be controlled by Republicans, but yet our majority has been completely handed over to Democrats.
		Madam Speaker, it is the will of our voters, and it is the will...
		of Republicans across the country that this bill should not be brought to the floor, that this bill will absolutely destroy our majority, and will tell every single one of our voters that this majority is a failure.
		This is the bill that the White House cannot wait to sign into law.
		This is the bill that rips our border wide open and tells every single person in over 160 countries around the world they can invade our country.
		They can run over our Border Patrol.
		They can run over our Texas National Guard.
		They can come in, rape our women, murder our people, and squat and take over our homes.
		This is an atrocious attack on the American people.
		The Speaker of the House should not bring it to the floor, and this bill should not pass.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Man, hot damn.
		Ladies and gentlemen, this bill is an absolute abomination.
		Marjorie Taylor Greene, I think, has a right to be upset.
		I'm going to have to think about this.
		This is breaking news.
		This is happening right now.
		That's why we do the show live.
		But it's...
		It's literally a lobbyist-backed pork funding bill that has nothing to do with what regular Americans would want to see inside of their funding packages.
		Marjorie Taylor Greene was on the steps of the Capitol explaining to a gaggle of media why she is bringing this motion now against Mike Johnson.
		The way that it works is the Speaker signs a motion that if you are able to get...
		A motion to vacate plus a second, then you're going to be able to vacate the chair.
		Republicans are going to give the House to the Democrats, man.
		Like, you only have two seats in the majority.
		Republicans are going to give the House to the Democrats.
		That's what's going to happen in this situation.
		Because what you're going to get is you're going to get, like, two Republicans that vote with Democrats, and you're going to have Speaker Hakeem Jeffries.
unidentified		Whew!
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		It's going to be crazy.
		I'm not saying Mike Johnson is doing what's right here.
		I'm saying you're going to have, like, you're once again, we have an entire show built on, like, we must unite to win.
		We must unite against our common enemies.
		The orcs are at the gates of Helm's Deep.
		Like, we either fight, we either decide that the enemy, the Marxist, is more dangerous than our own side.
		And part of that, I guess, like, the blame lies at Mike Johnson.
		Like, Mike Johnson's got to not, like, not force Republicans to vote on bills like this.
		That have abortion funding and open borders funding.
		I mean, it's literally antithetical to what the Republican Party is in favor of.
		Late-term abortion and then open borders.
		I mean, come on.
		Like, how can you go back to your constituents and say that?
		And that's exactly what Marjorie Taylor Greene is saying.
		The Speaker has put us in a position to, like, vote against our consciences.
		Kind of the same thing that's happening with Candace and Ben, right?
		Like, when it's a battle of, like, your conscience and your morality...
		Then, well, where are you going to land on?
		What side are you going to land on?
		Check this out.
marjorie taylor greene ▲ ● ▼		As with rules and promises to the American people that we would bring regular order back to Congress, Speaker Johnson has betrayed that by passing three CRs and then forcing us to pass or to vote on a two-part omnibus, the second one being today.
		He also only gave us, I mean, I don't even know how, we had one day basically to read 1,012 pages, breaking the 72-hour rule.
		This is a betrayal of the American people.
		It was a betrayal of Republican voters, and the bill that we were forced to vote on forced Republicans to choose between funding to pay our soldiers and, in doing so, funding late-term abortion.
		This bill was basically a dream and a wish list for Democrats and for the White House.
		It was completely led by Chuck Schumer, not our Republican Speaker of the House, not our conference, and we weren't even allowed to put amendments to the floor to have a chance.
		I filed the motion to vacate today.
		But it's more of a warning and a pink slip.
		I respect our conference.
		I've paid all my dues to my conference.
		I'm a member in good standing, and I do not wish to inflict pain on our conference and to throw the House in chaos.
		But this is basically a warning, and it's time for us to go through the process, take our time, and find a new Speaker of the House that will stand with Republicans and our Republican majority instead of standing with the Democrats.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Man.
		Man.
		Oh, hot damn, ladies and gentlemen.
		So, it looks like we are, it looks like it's on, again, in the House.
		There's really bad stuff in this bill.
		Nobody should be, like, excited about what's in this bill.
		Jesse Waters did a really great, did a really great, here guys, I'm gonna send you this.
		Jesse Waters did a really great breakdown of all this pork funding and It is remarkable how we don't have a Congress that is built on you or me.
		We have a Congress that is built on special interests and lobbying.
		And that's how you get this.
		Almost a million dollars.
		Like almost a million dollars for gay senior citizens centers?
		College tuition for young people in Egypt?
		Not your kids, of course.
		Teaching elementary school kids, obviously.
		Gender confusion for elementary school kids.
		Zoo tickets.
		If House Republicans vote for this, then they deserve to lose their seats.
		They're putting them into such a horrible, horrible position.
		Speaker Mark Johnson ran as this sort of archetype Christian.
		And it's like, how could you possibly not hold the line?
		On something like this.
		It seems like this is something that could actually lose, will absolutely result in Republicans losing their seats.
		Ladies and gentlemen.
		And the details of this spending package, we often don't like dive into the mix on things like this, but the details of the spending packages are like utterly grotesque.
		Ladies and gentlemen, we got it.
		Okay.
		Jesse Waters did a wonderful segment on this last night.
		Let's have a watch.
		I'm kind of like disturbed.
		I'm sort of like absorbing all this.
		Oh man, is the whole rest of the year now going to be another speaker's fight?
		And are we going to hand the House back?
		Is the House going to go back to Democrats?
unidentified		Oof.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Uh-oh.
		Spaghetti-o.
		And it's all done.
		Mike Johnson could have just said no.
		But it said Mike Johnson approved of this.
		This is what he approved of.
jesse watters ▲ ● ▼		There's an old saying.
		Nothing good happens after 2 a.m.
		Well, this morning at 2.23, Congress released a monster.
		1,012-page bill with a trillion-dollar price tag.
		They're rushing to pass the bill before you have a chance to read it.
		Why?
		Well, because it's full of pork.
		And we've been digging through it.
		And here's what you're paying for.
		Liz Warren is spending $850,000 on a gay senior citizen home in Boston.
		Florida has the villages.
		Massachusetts has the village people.
		We're spending $15 million to pay for Egyptians' college tuition.
		Egyptian tuition.
		Not Egyptians who live in America.
		Egyptians in Egypt.
		Egyptian tuition.
		So we pay for illegals to go to college here, and now we're paying for the tuition before, I guess, they even cross the border.
		Speaking of Egypt, Goldbar Bob's sending $400 grand to a gay activist group that teaches elementary school kids about being trans.
		Not enough to keep you out of jail, Goldbar.
		Sorry.
		Another $400,000 goes to a group that gives clothes to teens that help them hide their gender, like chest binders and tuckums.
		Parental permission not required.
		Even Dianne Feinstein, who unfortunately passed away long before the bill was written, has an earmark from the grave.
		Half a million dollars for a DEI zoo.
		The San Diego Zoo is getting a half a million dollars for an anti-racist nature appreciation program where high school kids from diverse backgrounds can observe wildlife.
		Why do they need a half a million dollars to go to the zoo?
		Tickets are like 15 bucks.
		That should be enough for every congressman, especially the Republicans, to vote.
		No, but this massive bill will probably be on Biden's desk this weekend and it'll just sign your money away.
unidentified		Poof!
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		That's how it works, ladies and gentlemen.
		But there is a groundswell of people speaking out.
		There is actually a clip that went viral earlier this week from the South Carolina State House where a man named Adam Morgan decided to speak out against lobbying in the State House and in the chamber and speak on behalf of the people who elected him.
		It was very much a Mr. Smith goes to Washington moment.
		It went thermonuclear.
		Perhaps you've seen this clip, but it's a real stunner where this one man sort of stands up against this entire body of special interests and bought and paid for lobbyist apparatchiks and said, no more.
		Watch.
unidentified		The pressure in here in Colombia is for me to not even vote red on the board.
		Y 'all might not know this.
		A dark money entity that was created on Tuesday, the day after we voted for this, I went home and a tack piece went out in my whole district about the fact that I voted for this.
		I get that the people in Colombia, that the lobby wants me to either not vote or to vote green on this.
		But my constituents...
		Want me to vote red?
		And they want their tax money spent on core government functions, on their roads, on their schools.
		That's what they want their money spent on.
		Would you consider the fact that South Carolina's track record on bringing major projects into this state has a winning record, and therefore, again, commerce should be listened to rather than those people back in your district that may not have ever brokered a deal, may not understand what it means of being a project, may not...
		Mr. Rutherford, I don't think that you could have...
		I've espoused a philosophy that disagrees more fundamentally than me.
		I completely disagree with you, and I think that you believe what you just said.
		But no, I 100% am going to listen to the people back home who I represent in this house.
		And you should listen to the 40,000 people in your area, and not the bureaucrats at Commerce, and not the lobbyists, and not the multi-billion dollar international corporations.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I mean, how refreshing is that to hear, ladies and gentlemen?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		And you're going to hear a little more of it because Adam Morgan, candidate for Congress, joins the program now.
unidentified		Thank you.
unidentified		Thank you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		you you Adam, I really appreciate your patience with us this morning.
		We have had a...
		Crazy breaking news day.
		We call it free-for-all Friday.
		Sometimes we do five-hour shows on Fridays.
		I apologize.
		Adam Morgan's been waiting and we've just had one thing after another after another.
		But it kind of dovetails perfectly into now the speaker getting recalled and Congress in Washington, D.C., which you wish to join.
		I believe you were running for South Carolina, 4th District.
		Everyone's now saying, what the hell is this omnibus bill?
		What is this thing, right?
		You drop a 10,000-page bill on us at 2 a.m.
		Is this common practice?
unidentified		Yeah, I mean, it's literally indicative of everything wrong with Washington.
		The members didn't even see it before.
		They had no input.
		It was written up by staff and bureaucrats and leadership and special interests.
		And of course, it's chock full of all these special projects that the American people do not want.
		It's a waste of our tax money.
		It's stuff that we shouldn't be spending with tax dollars.
		We're like playing socialism in all these different arenas, trying to plan the family and plan the economy and plan everything.
		It's like government get out of the way.
		That's what the whole debate was about.
		Like, let the people be great.
		Roll the government back.
		We don't create jobs.
		We're not going to plan the family better than individuals and just let the American people be great.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So that clip went thermonuclear.
		I saw it everywhere.
		And that guy was like, I don't know if you paid that guy or what, but he's like, straight out of Central Casting.
unidentified		So you're saying that we should listen to our constituents?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I was like, yeah, dude!
		What do you think this is?
		But amazing that you had to explain that to him.
unidentified		I even tried to help him.
		I almost couldn't contain myself.
		I was like, oh, oh, like, buddy, do you realize what you're saying?
		But then he just said the quiet part out loud that there are really people in elected office and in government who think that the constituents that they represent are too stupid to have an opinion on the bills and the legislation that's coming before us.
		And this bill was a $1.3 billion handout to a private company to make electric vehicles.
		Not even a stable market, all propped up by Biden subsidies.
		And so from the start, it was a terrible idea and a terrible deal.
		And yet he thought that my constituents were just incapable of understanding how it was such a bad deal and that we should maybe spend our tax money on roads and public safety and school and not giving it to a multi-billion dollar corporation to make electric vehicles, which ultimately is just going to fail.
		And it's just everything wrong with Washington and everything wrong with politics.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So, you're a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.
		You're an elected official.
		I've never been an elected official, nor have I ever been a financial advisor.
		But the financial advisors that are my neighbors here in Tampa, and that's a big industry here in Tampa, they often tell me that the reason Trump had such a great economy is because he pulled everything back.
		He said no regulation.
		He said don't get involved, actually.
		Let the market do its thing.
		Thin spending bills, like less government intervention, led to a roaring economy.
		Why can't people figure that out?
unidentified		Go figure.
		Our conservative values actually work.
		Isn't that why we run as Republicans?
		Isn't that why it's in the Republican Party platform to oppose corporate welfare and crony capitalism?
		We're the party that's supposed to be against government intervention and socialism in the marketplace.
		And when we roll things back, the economy does flourish.
		We do better.
		And so the problem is we have too many elected officials in the Republican Party, but of course in the Democrat Party, who think that they know best, who want to claim that they...
		They've created jobs and that they've done all these great things when you are there to listen to your constituents, to fight for them, and to fight against the government abuses of trying to take more tax money and waste it, of trying to weaponize...
		We fight on every front all the time for our values.
		And I just think we need more people in Washington who know what's at stake and are willing to fight.
		And so you guys can check me out at VoteAdamMorgan.com.
		It's a movement, but I think people are hungry for somebody who will actually listen to the people and represent their interests and not the interests of the lobbyists.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So if you get to Congress, I mean, what would you be doing on this vote right here with the Speaker?
		Like, why is this happening?
		I thought Speaker Johnson was going to be pretty good based on what I heard about him.
		He's from the Freedom Caucus in D.C., right?
		He's a Freedom Caucus member, Republican Study Committee member in D.C. So what gives, man?
unidentified		Yeah, I don't know.
		Speaker Johnson wasn't from the Freedom Caucus.
		Jim Jordan was the Freedom Caucus option, and they rejected him because he actually was aligned with the Freedom Caucus.
		That's why a lot of the moderate Republicans said no.
		And so Johnson was kind of a compromise candidate that the conference could come up with.
		And, you know, the fact is...
		What it ultimately comes down to is the majority of Republicans are going to sway this one way or the other.
		And if the majority had the stomach for the fight for the American people and were willing to oppose the groups that write large campaign contributions, we wouldn't have this problem.
		This is not a Republican bill.
		It's a Republican compromise or a surrender even, funding all these leftist projects.
		And when I get there, I'm going to join the Freedom Caucus day one.
		I think they're the ones who have been so outspoken.
		I mean, the fact that it's over 2,000 pages, the fact that it was dropped in the middle of the night, and they don't even have time to read it and comprehend what they're even voting on is ludicrous, and let alone the fact that it's literally funding our invasion.
		It does nothing to secure the border and actually even funds the furtherance of bringing illegals here, let alone the transgender mutilation on minors and the late-term abortions.
		You can go on and on, and it's baffling that we're even having this discussion when we control the House.
		We need strong leadership, and we need conservatives.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, all it takes is to just stand up.
		Stephen Miller was on the show yesterday.
		He's like, when was the last time a Republican stood up for you?
		This is why Donald Trump's so popular.
		This is why Donald Trump's so damn popular.
		All it takes is one person to stand up.
		All it takes is one, right?
		And if all of us start standing up, which is what this audience is about, then you can actually defeat systems.
		We fight the corporate media every single day, and you can actually defeat the system.
		You can get bigger ratings than them.
		And we do it every day.
		And so we hope that that testicular fortitude is brought to Congress.
		We say best of luck, sir.
		I know you've already shouted out your campaign, but I did want to just ask one quick question on this.
		It looks like you have a beautiful family there.
		Would they be prepared for you to go to D.C.?
		D.C. sucks, man.
		I have spent 15 years in D.C., right?
		I didn't want to raise my family in D.C. It does.
unidentified		Well, I won't be raising them in D.C., but I will be taking them with me.
		We started homeschooling my oldest, and we're planning on going back and forth.
		We want to live in district, but we want to stay together.
		I think we need more people who own small businesses, who are involved in their faith communities, who have families and are actually family people.
		Let's get away from...
		Hiring career politicians who are so disconnected and are literally just running to insider trade or whatever they're doing to make so much money.
		We need people who are actually going to go and who care about the future of this country.
		I've got a lot at stake.
		I've got a newborn and a six-year-old and a four-year-old.
		The country that we make and that we fight for and the values that we defend is what they're going to inherit.
		I've got a lot on the line.
		And, you know, we have to fight for it because when you don't have conservatives that step up to the plate to run and you don't have conservatives engaged at the grassroots level getting these people elected, there's a void.
		And you know who fills it?
		Special interest.
		And they come in and they write big campaign checks and they help them on their campaigns.
		And that's why they buy so many elected officials.
		And we have to stop that.
		We have to actually defeat the stranglehold that the special interest groups and these lobbyists have over members of Congress.
		I'm so glad the video went viral.
		It's hilarious that it went viral when I literally just said, hey, representatives, represent your people.
		It's literally in the name.
		But the truth is, now I got a big target on my back.
		And all the people, special interest groups, are literally sitting there going, Definitely not that guy.
		So, you know, I know that it's going to have to be a groundswell of support that actually gets me over the finish line, but I think things are looking good, and I'm just glad to step up to the plate and fight for the American people.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Well, Godspeed in your race, sir, and thank you for spitting truth.
		Benny Breguet is behind you.
		Thank you.
unidentified		Thanks for having me on.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		you you you you Ladies and gentlemen, this might be the longest we've ever gone on the program without salting a lid.
		Okay?
		Adam Morgan, great dude.
		We've never salt that guy.
		We do have a very salty lid to salt this morning.
		If you're new to the show, what happens is we...
		Oh, my salt shaker is all the way down there.
unidentified		Okay.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Here we go.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, my salt shaker.
unidentified		Okay.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		My salt shaker was on there.
		We're doing some spring cleaning.
		What happens on the program is we find a salty, salty lid.
		There are tears.
		They fill our cup.
		And we must have the salt.
		We're sodium deficient.
		And so we love to drink the salty tears of libs on the program.
		And we take the salt.
		You can take physical salt.
		Typically, people just leave salt shakers in the comment section.
		And then we put the comments up on screen as we salt a salty lib.
		And I can't think of anyone's salt here this morning.
		Then Joe Scarborough having like another anaphylactic heart attack, apoplectic meltdown.
		On MSNBC in the saltiest possible way.
		Watch them sweat and, like, actually shake in this meltdown.
		It's so good.
		Okay, ladies and gentlemen, let's salt this limb.
joe scarborough ▲ ● ▼		Join me Join me Join me Join me Join me This guy really worships dictators.
		He stole nuclear secrets.
		You have a federal judge in New York State that said Donald Trump raped E. Gene Carroll.
		Why don't our friends and neighbors, why don't my friends that I grew up with, people that I went to church with, now these same people are in the front lines.
unidentified		Supporting this would be dictators.
joe scarborough ▲ ● ▼		Where were these people raised that they would like a guy that treats people this way?
		A guy that reveres Hitler, reveres Xi, reveres Putin?
		I could go down the list.
		What, they like this guy?
		He makes them feel good?
unidentified		Yes!
unidentified		Yes, Joe!
joe scarborough ▲ ● ▼		Who feels good doing that?
		You did more than denigrate women.
		How long am I supposed to sit in a corner, Michael, and try to figure that out?
		Because I can tell you, I've been trying to figure it out now for eight years, and I still can't figure it out.
		I'm confused.
		What do you mean?
		He's figured it out.
		He's doing something I can't.
		He's unlocked the code.
		I mean, Eddie talks about it.
		The code to worship Hitler?
		The code to do as a judge says, rape women, and you still win?
unidentified		They're not worshiping Hitler.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		No, Trump is.
unidentified		They contextualize it differently.
joe scarborough ▲ ● ▼		It ain't like I grew up in the Young Marxist League in Greenwich Village.
		If liberal...
		Media people want to drive to the middle of Pennsylvania and go, "Oh, tell me why you like a guy who loves Kim Jong-un!" Don't waste your time!
unidentified		Don't waste your time That's who we're up against!
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		That's who we're up against!
		Oh, come on!
		This is gonna be easy!
joe scarborough ▲ ● ▼		This is great!
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Look at the stream chart numbers!
		You can see them!
		We're actually beating Joe Scarborough right now.
		So, that's awesome.
		There's NBC News right there.
		Okay, well.
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		Janie Brown says, what's the plan in Republican Congress now that they are resigning and giving the majority back to the Dems?
		That's exactly right, Janie.
		Jeannie, sorry, Jeannie Brown.
		That's exactly right.
		I don't know what the hell the plan is.
		Nobody has a plan.
		This is the problem in an actual revolution, which is what's going on inside the Republican Party.
		Actual revolutions, things get a little chaotic.
		And there is a uniparty that is standing against the actual America First Republican majority.
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		I am not in favor of anything that gives the House to Democrats, okay?
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		If it hands the House over to Hakeem Jeffries, whatever is going on is not...
		Whatever like.
unidentified		There you go.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Okay, here we go, ladies and gentlemen.
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		How long was that for, Bryce?
unidentified		It was like 30 seconds.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Okay, well, I apologize, ladies and gentlemen.
		Beverly Player.
		Hey, Benny, why can't Trump sue the state of New York for Eighth Amendment violation and selective prosecution?
		He should.
		And I think that's absolutely the next step, Beverly.
		I think that, like, you read the Eighth Amendment.
		Also, this is a violation of, like, the Third Amendment, right?
		Government forces coming into your home.
		Like, the nation is founded on private property.
		This is a constitutional issue.
		And this is why the state of New York needs to jump this hurdle.
		Because as soon as Donald Trump appeals this, then he's going to win.
		He's going to win this on appeal.
		That's what's been baked into the cake the entire time.
		So he should also, though, sue the state of New York for violating his constitutional rights.
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unidentified		Hey Shapiro, you warmonger.

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