On Wednesday night, Donald Trump held one of his patented bizarro Superman press conferences,

in which he sounds it off on everything, like a bright bar commenter or a member of their

editorial staff on speed. During the course of that press conference, Donald Trump dropped

one line that got the media's ire going. He said, it would be interesting to see. I will tell

you this, Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.

This drove Democrats completely up a wall. Hillary's foreign policy advisor, Jake Sullivan, he said this has gone from being a matter of curiosity and a matter of politics to being a national security issue.

Former CIA director Leon Panetta, who served under a president who promised Russia flexibility, you remember,

complained, quote, it's inconceivable to me. Any presidential candidate would be this irresponsible. Retired Rear Admiral John Hudson, he said this morning, Trump personally invited Russia to hack us. That's not law and order. That's criminal intent. So I guess now he's doing TV show titles. Well, this is kind of weird. Kind of a surprising turn, it turns out, from the same Democrats who claim just a few weeks ago that Hillary's deleted emails contain nothing classified or even important.

According to Hillary, remember those 30,000 deleted emails? They were just about yoga and Chelsea's wedding dress. So why would it be a national security threat if Vladimir Putin had them?

And if it is a national security threat for Putin to have Hillary's emails, why isn't Hillary being prosecuted for, as Penna put it, being this irresponsible? After all, she, not Donald Trump,

created a private server vulnerable to foreign hack for the obvious and clear purpose of hiding

information from the American

public and transmitting classified info. Sure, Trump's a clod for saying he hopes Putin has

the information. Presumably, Putin could have information that puts Americans in danger,

but Trump's clottishness is nothing next to the fact of the thing. Hillary Clinton took

action that exposed America's national security to the tender mercies of thug of Vladimir Putin. Democrats are now stuck between Iraq and a hard place. Either what Hillary did wasn't a big deal, in which case their response to Trump should be, it wouldn't matter if Putin had her emails. What's he going to do with yoga, RSVPs? Or what Hillary did was a really big deal, in which case Hillary should be the candidate on the chopping block. Now, look, I don't think Trump was playing 40 chess with his comments, mainly because I don't think that Trump knows that the horsey in chess jumps in an L formation. But whether he did, or whether he did it on purpose or not, he did expose the Democrats for what they are, liars and opportunists with America's national security. I'm Ben Shapiro.

This is the Ben Shapiro show. Tend to demonize people who don't care about your feelings.

So we have tons to get to today. If you're wondering why we're broadcasting from what

appears to be a closet in Mogadishu, it's because we're broadcasting from a closet in Washington, D.C., which is sort of like Mogadishu. And it's, it's, you know, a lot to get to today.

We would have broadcast from the bathroom, as I said earlier, except Hillary's server, it turned out,

was in there. So tons to get to. Last night at the convention, obviously, President Obama

was the big headline. President Obama was the one who ends up being the big headline

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