Are American Institutions Beyond Repair? Ben Shapiro Breaks Down the Crisis
Brian Kilmeade Show
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4.1 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:30.1 | In fact, let's get to Ben right now, Daily Wire co-founder, host of the Ben Shapiro show, |
| 0:34.4 | number one New York Times bestseller. Ben, great to see you. |
| 1:27.8 | Hey, good to see you too. How are you doing? Hey, by the way, so some of your great speeches, especially the one of the University of Austin, very impressive, of course, well delivered. And there was no protesters. Can you believe it, Ben? It was almost too easy. Yeah, University of Austin happens to be a great institution. That's actually one of these startup universities that was started by Joe Lonsdale, and Neil Ferguson, and Barry Weiss. And it's done a fantastic job of actually trying to do higher education in a different way. So that was cool. It was a bit different from the usual. First off, when it comes to the Iran War, they say 36% approval. Most Republicans are on board with it. It looks like the president is looking at a one page 14 point deal that he says has some promise. And if it moves forward, this thing could come to a close. I'm not really comfortable from what I've read so far. What about you? Yeah, I mean, I think that the points that I've seen, again, it's sort of vaguely reported by Barack Ravid over at Axios, what's in that 14 points. I wouldn't be satisfied if our |
| 1:32.5 | President Trump with that deal. I do understand that Iran giving up its enriched uranium is |
| 1:37.4 | probably the key sticking point in that deal. Iran is already apparently saying that they have |
| 1:41.4 | problems with the deal. Again, the IRGC is embedded well into the, |
| 1:47.0 | not just into the government, they run the government, but they are really sort of dead enders. |
| 1:51.4 | They are willing to go all the way down into the Ashman of history if it requires them to do so, |
| 1:57.6 | to not give up their nuclear weapons or to not give up their nuclear development. |
| 2:05.9 | So I think that, you know, continuing to starve out the IRGC, continuing to deprive them of oil flow, continuing to deprive them of revenue, and continuing to degrade their ballistic missile |
| 2:10.2 | capacity, that I think is going to be the path forward in the most likely scenario here. |
| 2:14.1 | In pure power political sense, you see everything hitting turbo speed with the president. |
| 2:18.6 | You look at the earnings report. You look at the unemployment. They said it's going to boom. |
| 2:22.8 | AI has taken all jobs away. It hasn't shown up at all so far. And you see the fact that the big |
| 2:27.4 | beautiful bill has produced the type of revenue people thought and has been reflected in the economy. |
| 2:32.2 | In fact, we're close to 50,000 right now on the promise that this could be coming to a close. |
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