So here we are, and it's a Monday. Lots of things are happening. George Papadopacopacopoulos, Theodoricopoulos, snuffelupagus, has apparently cut a plea deal with the special counsel. We'll talk all about it. Plus, Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman, is probably going to go to jail. And Kevin Spacey gives the worst defense for allegedly attempting to rape a child anyone has ever given. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

So much news, so little time. So today, it's a fun day because I get to put on my lawyer head. When I put on my lawyer hat, it means that I go through the full Paul Manafort

indictment. Plus, I go through the special plea deal that was cut by George Theodoracopalopoulos.

We're going to talk all about that. Plus, of course, we'll get to Kevin Spacey and the media being awful at everything. But first, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Texture. So if you're addicted to information the way that I am, if you're constantly on the go and looking for something to read, that is why you need to subscribe to Texture Texture, the app, gives you unlimited access to 200 premium magazines. It has leading titles like Time, The Atlantic, the New York, or Vanity Fair, and Wired. And right now, you can try texture for free. It is better than print. It delivers unlimited access to over 200 premium magazines. Again, it's just great. I mean, I've picked, it gives you the archives to all of these magazines. Instead of you having to pay for a separate subscription to each, you're paying a low fee to get

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I always love when they leave cliff hangers at the end of a season.

It's really exciting that way.

So they left the cliffhanger on Friday.

Who would be indicted?

And everybody sort of assumed it'll be Manafort, right?

It's got to be Manafort because Manafort has been known to be dirty for years and years and years.

He was very, very tied in with the Republican establishment.

He really was. He was close to the Bushes. He was close to the Republican National Committee. He was very close to a lot of people in Republican

halls of power. I know because I had heard of him sort of in those circles. But Manafort had also

been widely known since really 2012 to sort of be a dirty character who was in with the Ukrainian

government, who's basically doing lobbying work allegedly on behalf of the Ukrainian government, which is a Russian front puppet

state, basically run by a gun named Victor Yanukovych.

So the allegations in the indictment, the left was hoping that the indictment would say,

Paul Manafort traded money.

The Russians paid him in order so that he would set up collusion between the Trump

campaign in Russia. This is what the Democrats and the media wanted. They wanted Paul Manafort

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