Here we are, we're back. It's a brand new year. There's so much going on.

We'll get to things I like, things that I hate. I'll tell you how I spent my New Year's Eve.

It was boring. And I'll also get to all of the news, but there's so much to talk about.

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

Tend to demonize people who don't care about your feelings.

We're back, and I know you're all depressed. I'm depressed, too. I mean, it's just depressing to be back, but I know that there are lots of you who are waiting for the show to come back, and whoopee, we're here, and there's going to be a full year of shows. There will be many years of shows, we hope. Thanks to all the people, by the way, who do download the show. You can go to dailywired.com, and if you want to subscribe, buy yourself a New Year's subscription. That should be a resolution for you because we look great, not just me. The whole set looks great, although particularly me, I look great. But make sure that you subscribe because we do appreciate your subscribership and it's what helps fun this entire program. And that's wonderful. We do have, I think we're verging on 15,000 listeners for each episode. We're definitely increasing the number of people who listen. And that's really without us pushing it too hard. So we're going to start pushing it this year. It's going to really expand by leaps and bounds and you're part of it you're on the ground floor so it's great to have you along for the ride okay so the big news story there are a couple big news stories that lead off the year first of all we'll do a quick recap of where we are in terms of the polling because we are now less than a month away from iowa donald trump is still running neck-and-neck with Ted Cruz in Iowa. Cruz in the latest polls tends to be away from Iowa. Donald Trump is still running neck and neck with Ted Cruz in Iowa.

Cruise in the latest polls tends to be up in Iowa. Cruz will probably win Iowa. Trump is still leading in New Hampshire. Cruz and Rubio and Kasick and Bush and Chris Christie are all tied together

at second. They're all within margin of error in second place in Iowa. And so how this whole

thing ends up going down is going to come down very much to can they consolidate any sort of base

of support behind Rubio in New Hampshire? If the answer is no, if the answer is no, then probably

Donald Trump or Ted Cruz will end up winning the nomination. If the answer is yes, if somehow Marco Rubio pulls out a victory or a second place finish in New Hampshire, then this is going to be a three-way race all the way to the end. Quick rule of thumb as far as this election cycle goes, don't pay any attention to the national polling. The national polling makes no difference. At this point in the national polling in 2008, Rudy Giuliani was leading the way.

At this point in national polling in 2004, on the Democratic side, Wesley Clark was leading the way.

So national polls don't mean anything.

The only polls that mean something are the primary polls in Iowa and New Hampshire, and really more specifically in Iowa,

because the polls in New Hampshire will move after we find out what happens in Iowa. New Hampshire, and really more specifically in Iowa, because the polls in New Hampshire

will move after we find out what happens in Iowa. So keep your eye there. And we'll get to more

election news, Trump versus Hillary. That's become the big battle. We'll get to that in just a little

while. We'll also get to in just a little while a new ISIS recruitment video, which reinforces

something I said late last year, which is that the Obama

administration has been the best recruiting tool that ISIS ever had. ISIS is using all of the

propaganda points of the Obama administration to recruit. So there's a new ISIS video that

apparently shows Donald Trump today, but there's a difference between how ISIS videos treat

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