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The media lose their mind over former FBI director James Comey's new book.

Corey Booker makes a complete ass of himself,

and we check the mailbag.

I'm Ben Shapiro,

and this is the Ben Shapiro show. Some days you get up in the morning, you're just giddy to do the show,

because, I mean, let's be real. This news cycle is amaze balls. It's incredible. And there's so much

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bombshells in former FBI director James Comey's new book. First of all, James Comey called this thing

a higher loyalty. A loyalty to, like the money? Because if this was all stuff of vital public import,

then why exactly did he wait a year and a book contract before coming out with it? If he wants to demonstrate that he really is not in it for the cash, that he's really in it because he just wants to tell the truth, then he, like Stormy Daniels, could just give up the money. He's not going to be doing that anytime soon. And the media, I mean, they are so over the moon about this book, but they're really trying to make mountains out of not even molehills. I mean, the stories in this book are nothing. It's all James Comey's whiny opinions. Chris Wallace, I think, said it best on Fox News. He said, this book is incredibly big. And it really is. And if you look at this book and you read the segments from it, it's really just nasty and petty and stupid. That's at least what I'm getting from it because I'm not seeing

any revelations here. I'm not seeing anything that says to me, wow, this is something I didn't know. Remember, James Comey was fired because President Trump wanted him to clear him in the Russia investigation publicly. And James Comey said, you're not being investigated. And Trump said, well, say that publicly. And Comey said, no. And Trump said, fine, you're fired. Right. That's exactly what happened.

And now we're supposed to believe that something deep and nefarious happened.

Comey went, no. And Trump said, fine, you're fired. Right? That's exactly what happened. And now we're supposed to believe that something deep and nefarious happened. Comey went on Capitol Hill. He testified that Trump had not obstructed his Russia investigation in any way. Trump just got rid of him because Trump apparently was unhappy with him that Comey would not publicly say the truth, which is that Trump was not the target of the investigation or even a

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