So why are the media still madmen, apparently, while the rest of corporate America has moved on?

We'll talk about that.

Plus, the breaking news on the Hillary Russia dossier, pretty shocking stuff.

And the JFK files are released, and we check the mailbag.

So lots of coming up.

I'm Ben Shapiro.

This is the Ben Shapiro show.

So the big news as of yesterday was that NBC correspondent and fabled investigative journalist Mark Halper and the guy who wrote Game Change and he was about to read a new book about the Trump campaign that was going to be turned into a series by HBO, that he had been apparently responsible for an innumerable number, allegedly, of incidents of sexual harassment or

assault, where he would press himself up against women with his genitals, where he would

grope them, where he would say things that were wildly inappropriate.

I want to talk about that, and I want to talk about the widespread nature of this thing in the

media.

And it does seem to be worse in the media than it is in, for example, corporate America,

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conflating these two things because, you know, I think as a society, we just need to be careful

about what we call things for legal reasons. So sexual assault is where someone is legitimately

threatening to commit battery on you, right? It's actually battery if someone grabs you against

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