Starbucks is in serious trouble and we will go through the case. Plus, President Trump reaches out to North Korea and Democrats try to take Ted Cruz's seat in Texas.

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

As always, it is a busy newsday and I have a lot to talk about, particularly with regard to the Starbucks fiasco.

I just hate how the media covered these racial incidents without actually waiting to hear all the facts, without waiting to see if there's any additional evidence. The immediate jump to conclusions is pretty astonishing. We'll get to all of that in just a second. First, I want to say thanks to our sponsors over at Quip. So, every single day, you are brushing your teeth, I would hope, because otherwise

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This has now become a national issue. So Starbucks is supposed to shut down every one of its stores

for a day next week because there was apparently an incident in which two black guys were at a

Philadelphia Starbucks and sat down and the manager asked them if they wanted to buy anything and they

said no. And according to them at this

point she called the police according to her they continuously refused to leave uh they were they were

they were just loitering and she called the police the police came the police apparently asked

these guys to leave the guys refused over and over at which point the police arrested them so

starbucks is of course apologized for the incident uh the woman in question has not been fired

she apparently no longer works at the store which makes me a little suspicious it does make Starbucks has of course apologized for the incident. The woman in question has not been fired.

She apparently no longer works at this store, which makes me a little suspicious. It does make me a little suspicious. It makes me a little suspicious that Starbucks didn't just fire the lady.

If they actually thought that there was a deeply racist incident that had happened, you would

imagine that they would get rid of the lady for simple legal reasons. Having this woman

hanging around if she actually was participant in a racial incident seems like really stupid, stupid policy. But Starbucks didn't get rid of her, which leads me to believe there might be a little bit more to the story. So today I want to go through the media hubbub about all of this. And I want to ask a few simple questions that are all answerable. This is not truth-erring. I'm not saying I don't believe these guys' story. I'm just saying that I want to see the evidence on all sides, and I don't think that that's unreasonable. So, for example, the guys go on Good Morning America, the two Black fellows go on Good Morning America, and they're being given national coverage for an incident in which they were threatened with arrest for apparently sitting in a Starbucks for no reason. And the tape was originally taken by a woman, by a couple

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