Will President Trump pardon Paul Manafort? Will Robert Mueller indict President Trump's buddies?

Will you drive a car in 10 years? These and other questions will be answered. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

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All right.

So today's news.

All right, fine.

Do you have to do the news today? Let's do the news today. All right. So the latest news is with regard to Paul Manafort and Donald Trump. This is my least favorite news cycle. Why? Because the truth is we're not going to know anything until the Mueller report actually comes out. So everything is speculation. Listen to a lot of other shows and you're going to get tons of speculation about Trump and Mueller and Manafort. And is Trump going to be impeached? And is Trump going to go to jail? And is Paul Manafort going to be set on fire by Robert Mueller after being dumped off the top of the Randy's donut sign in downtown Los Angeles. Who knows? No one knows.

Right? And this is why I really don't like talking about these topics so much because I'm an evidence-based person, and that means that I like to wait for all the evidence to come out before speculating upon it. However, two things drive me to talk about this. One, it's a slow news cycle. We've got to talk about something. And two, the fact is that the news is now replete with

speculation about Mueller. So let us debunk some of the speculation. A couple of things right off the top.

First off, yesterday we reported that there is a shock guardian story from the UK Guardian talking

about Paul Manafort meeting with Julian Assange, the head of the, of WikiLeaks, which is a Russian front group that hacked Hillary Clinton's

emails and John Podesta's emails and then started releasing them on mass just before the election.

And the allegation has been that President Trump's campaign was working with Assange and with WikiLeaks

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