All righty. So the president of the United States is in supremely hot water after he calls a bunch of countries bleep holes and then suggests that people shouldn't immigrate from there to here.

We will explain what the controversy is about from every possible angle. Plus, we've got the mailbag and the media have decided that they don't actually have to use bleeps anymore. They're just going to say straight out holes. So we'll talk about all those things. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

It's another day and another controversy, which means that all of Twitter, all of the news

cycle, all of Facebook is now a flaming bleep hole. This is where we are now. Yes, it wasn't as though

anyone could have predicted that life would become a turd tornado should politics make a turn

in this direction. No one ever would have used that sort of language, say, hmm, a year ago,

two years ago, but, you know, we'll just leave that out there. Okay, before I go any further, I want to say the next Tuesday, January 16th, you should tune in at 5 p.m. Eastern, 2 p.m. Pacific to Dailywire.com or our Facebook page or our YouTube page, because we're doing our fifth episode of the conversation, which features Andrew Claven and Elisha Kraus. Subscribe today, and you become part of the conversation. You can ask Drew live questions, and he will answer those for everyone to hear. Again, his conversation is going to stream live on the DailyWare Facebook page. If you want to ask questions, you have to go over to our website at DailyWire.com. Click on the conversation page. You can watch the live stream. Just type your questions into the DailyWire chat box, and Alicia will funnel those to Drew. So you can only do that if you subscribe. Again, you can get your questions answered by Andrew Claven, Tuesday, January 16th, 5 p.m. Eastern, 2 p.m. Pacific, and join the conversation. So I'm very eager to break down everything to do with President Trump's alleged remarks. I say alleged because it is not clear whether he actually said them. He has now denied saying them. A bunch of people in the room say that he said them. We don't know what he said or how he said it. There's no context. There's no tape. We'll get to all of that in a second. First, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at texture. So, you love information and you love in-depth information. You love in-depth reporting. Well, that's where the magazine business really does some great stuff. You know, Daily Wire, we have a lot of great commentary and we have a lot of great quick hit reporting.

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Okay, so yesterday all hell breaks loose. All hell breaks loose because the presidents of the United

States has a bipartisan meeting over deferred action for childhood arrivals. Now, Trump thinks he's behind closed doors, and he thinks this is an off-the-record conversation.

As Trump should know by now, when you're in a room with Democrats and or Republicans,

the chances that what you say remain on background or secret are very, very slim to none.

Trump apparently forgot this little problem. And so he decided to

sound off about immigration. So here's what the Washington Post originally said. So they reported

yesterday that Trump had been having a conversation about protecting immigrants from Haiti,

El Salvador, and African countries. And when he was talking about El Salvador, that was particularly

of interest because the Trump administration had moved to basically revoke the temporary visas for people who have been in the United States from El Salvador, 200,000 of them.

They've been there for, I think, 15 years, and Trump revoked some of their visas.

We don't know the context of the comments. It's unclear where Trump made these comments. But here is what he said. We don't know whether he was talking about the Visa Diversity Lottery Program or whether he was talking about targeted deportation of illegal immigrants from particular countries. That does make a difference, because here's what Trump supposedly said. He said, quote, why are we having all these people from bleep whole countries come here? bleep is another word for poop. Okay, why are we having all these people from bleep whole countries come here? Bleep is another word for poop. Okay, why are we having all these people from bleep whole countries come here? And then, the post continues, Trump then suggested that the United States should instead bring more people from countries such as Norway, whose prime minister he met with Wednesday. The president, according to a White House official, also suggested he would be open to more immigrants from Asian countries because he felt they helped the United States economically.

He then reportedly continued, why do we need more Haitians, take them out?

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