former national security advisor Michael Flynn is exonerated by the Justice Department. Democrats insist on

continued lockdown with no alternative plan and Tara Reid speaks out. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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ExpressVPN.com to stay anonymous. Okay, so we will get to everything coronavirus related

because the new economic reports are just as stunning and shocking as people thought they would be.

We now have Great Depression-level unemployment in this country. We went over the course of six weeks

from 3.5% unemployment to 14.7% unemployment, which are levels not recorded since the

Great Depression. Are we allowed to talk about ending this lockdown yet? Are we allowed to talk about it?

Or are you just going to scream that we're killing grandma if we even have discussions about how to

responsibly reopen? We will get to that. But the big story of the day yesterday is that the Department

of Justice dropped the case against Michael Flynn, President

Trump's former national security advisor, to recap what happened with Michael Flynn. Basically,

Michael Flynn had been put in place as the national security advisor, the incoming national

security advisor for President Trump. There were fairly significant questions about whether that

was a good pick, considering that Michael Flynn was

very friendly with Russia today. He was very friendly with the government of Turkey. There are questions

about those sorts of associations. But aside from that, he had a call with Sergei Kisliak, who was

the Russian ambassador. That was not illegal. He was the incoming Trump National Security Advisor,

not illegal for him to talk to Sergey Kisliak. Apparently he was talking with Kisliak about sanctions

with regard to Israel or UN sanctions with regard to Israel, UN resolutions with regard to Israel.

That was happening simultaneous with the Obama administration attempting at the very last minute

to basically pull the rug out from under Israel. So he was calling up Kisliak and they were having

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