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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 583 - Is Honesty Dead?

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News, News Commentary

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Trump reverses himself on Putin, Barack Obama re-emerges to demonstrate why Trump was elected, and environmentalists fret over whether to have kids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

President Trump reverses himself on Putin, sort of.

0:03.2

Barack Obama reemerges to remind us why President Trump won in the first place

0:06.6

and environmentalist fret over whether to have babies or not.

0:09.1

I'm Ben Shapiro.

0:09.8

This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

0:16.3

Another packed news day because the news cycle never stops.

0:19.0

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1:37.7

Okay. So, President Trump has now walked back his original statements with regard to Vladimir Putin.

1:44.0

So you remember that on Monday, the president of the United States appeared alongside Vladimir Putin,

1:48.7

and this is what he said, this clip 11.

1:51.7

My people came to me, Dan Coates came to me and some others.

1:56.0

They said they think it's Russia.

1:57.9

I have President Putin.

2:04.6

He just said it's not Russia. I will say this. I don't see any reason why it would be, but I really do want to see the server. But I have confidence in both

2:12.8

parties. So I have great confidence in my intelligence people. but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today.

2:25.0

And what he did is an incredible offer.

2:27.3

Okay, so Trump was not particularly unclear about his perspective on this.

2:30.7

He believes that the Russians didn't actually hack, or at least if they did hack, then he's not going to grant that credibility to the intelligence services. He takes Putin and the intelligence services. He trusts both of them. He was not unclear about this. He was very clear about this. Well, yesterday, in what was a necessary move, he tried to walk this back. But as is typical with the president, when he tries to walk something back, he then walks back the walk back. So he started off by saying that he does have full faith in the American intelligence agencies, right?

2:57.3

This is something he should be saying because the reality is there is unanimity among the intelligence agencies that Russia was involved in attempting to hack the DCC, as well as the DNC, as well as the Hillary Clinton campaign. So here's

3:07.9

President Trump yesterday, suggesting that he has full faith and support with America's

3:12.6

intelligence agencies. And then you'll hear at the very end of his attempted walkback. He walks

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