Washington, D.C. gathers to mourn George H.W. Bush 41. We explore Bush 41's political legacy,

and the radical left gains more steam among the Democratic intelligentsia. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Okay, so I do want to get to everything Bush-related. I also want to get to Warren, who even the New York Times is now acknowledging, sort of blew herself up at the behest of President Trump. But we begin today by talking a little bit about why you should probably be diversifying. Have you seen the stock market this week? It is not great. The stock market in the last few days has dumped about 1,500 points.

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a moment of unity in washington dc we had all of the living ex-presidents at the National Cathedral to do a memorial service

for George H.W. Bush.

And it really was moving, particularly when people who are close to George H.W. Bush spoke.

So when George W. Bush spoke, for example, it was incredibly moving.

That, however, was not the main headline that came out because that was never going to be

the main headline that came out. Whenever there's a political gathering, let's face it. Okay, when there's a memorial like this, we all get together for five minutes, and we pretend that we still have something in common. And it's just like a family reunion at Christmas or at Hanukkah or at Thanksgiving. You all get together and go, oh, remember, we're all family. And by halfway through the meal, everybody's throwing food at each other

and trying to club each other with the empty bottle of Martinelli's.

And that's basically how things are yesterday at the National Cathedral.

The good part was everything that genuine friends and family of George H. W. Bush had to say.

Here was George W. Bush talking about his father.

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