The White House cancels the Philadelphia Eagles.

Paul Manafort allegedly gets caught witness tampering,

and President Trump talks about pardoning himself.

We'll talk about all of it.

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

All right, so we have a lot to get to today.

We will be talking about President Trump disinviting the Philadelphia Eagles,

and why that is a silly move. We will also be talking about Miss America 2.0, better than ever, except for how it's worse in every possible way. I'll explain what I mean by that in just a second. First, I want to make a couple announcements. We've decided to honor Father's Day this year to the special live stream. On Tuesday, June 12, 7 p.m. Eastern Dailyware God King Jeremy King Jeremy Boring, will host a roundtable discussion with me, Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klaven, and Michael Knowles. We'll discuss what fatherhood means, why fathers matter, how fatherhood will stand up against an increasingly anti-male culture, and we'll smoke cigars and ignore the fact that we have wives and children. Subscribers will be able to answer. Well, send in right in live questions.

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in honor of the great men and women of our military and the people of our country. The Eagles wanted

to send a smaller delegation, but the 1,000 fans planning to attend the event deserve better. These fans

are still invited to the White House to be part of a different type of ceremony, one that will honor a great country, pay tribute to the

heroes who fight to protect it, and loudly and proudly play the national anthem. I will be there at

3 p.m. with the United States Marine Band and the United States Army Choiries to celebrate America.

Okay, so there are a bunch of things that are wrong with this statement. So,

first of all, I love the self-centeredness of the statement is really quite astonishing.

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