Here we are, it is Wednesday, and we have so much to get to, as always, Jerry Brown, the governor of California is in Paris, and he says something intensely insulting.

Plus, this is really some bombshell material out of the Obama administration about just what President Obama is willing to do to get elected, and, of course, things that I hate.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

Tend to demonize people who don't care about your feelings. That tease was so hot that

Jonathan, our producer actually was asking me about it just a moment to go. But here is the

deal with President Obama and what he's willing to do to get elected. So it now turns out

that President Obama knew that ISIS was rising almost as soon as America pulled out of Iraq.

He knew that once we pulled 10,000 troops out, there was going to be a significant rise in terrorist

activity. He knew that ISIS was already on the rise. President Obama's former defense intelligence

agency head is a guy named Lieutenant General Michael Flynn.

He was on CNN with Jake Tapper, and he dropped this bombshell.

And what's amazing about it is that this just went right over the heads of the folks on the left.

They just acted like it never happened.

But what he's about to say, what you're about to hear him say, is one of the most stunning admissions by a former administration official I have ever heard

in my life. It truly is amazing. Here is Lieutenant General Michael Flynn. Do you feel as though

your warnings were ignored? You know, I think that they did not meet a particular narrative

that the White House needed, and I'll be very candid with you. I have said, and I believe that the people that were around the president,

his sort of inner circle that were advising him, I think advised him incorrectly.

What was the narrative?

I think the narrative was that Al-Qaeda was on the run, and Bin Laden was dead,

and he was... The election era.

Yeah, and they were dead and you know these guys are

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