Is Trump pushing the culture wars or are Democrats?

Plus, updates on the Jeffrey Epstein case,

and Chris Cuomo of CNN confronts a heckler.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Wow, wild and variegated news cycle today.

We're going to get through all of it in just an hour.

I mean, we're really going to pump through this stuff in far less than an hour, actually. We begin today with the most

important story of the day, and that, of course, is CNN's Chris Cuomo gets into an altercation

with a heckler. So, as somebody who has had hecklers in public before, and you say that how you

handle hecklers is kind of important. Part of your job is a public figure. Now, I have been rarely confronted by people while I am with my family, but there are jerks out there who will do this. There are people who will come out, come up to you and say something nasty when you are with your family. And generally the best tactic is to basically push them off and let them go. I don't mean physically push them off, just kind of like back off, say what you're going to say, man, and then just take off.

And it's not a subject. Generally the best tactic is to basically push them off and let them go. I don't mean physically push them off.

Just kind of like back off.

Say what you're going to say, man, and then just take off. And that's not a sign of weakness. That's a sign of being smart because getting into an altercation likely ends with cell phone video of the altercation at the least and a lawsuit at the most. It's never a very good idea. I mean, this happened to me like, I don't know, a couple of weeks ago.

We were out in public somewhere, and some woman came up to me while I was with my kids,

and they're five and three, and my wife was somewhere else and she was going to the restroom or something. And I'm holding my five-year-old in one hand, my three-year-old in the other hand, and some woman comes up to me to explain that I'm a white supremacist. I was like, well, you know, we'll have to agree to disagree, have a nice day, and off she went. Well, that is not exactly how things went with Chris Cuomo. So

a bunch of things can be true. One, hecklers are jerks. People who come up to you in public, I don't care what your politics, they come up to you in public, they come to Ted Cruz, they come up to me, they come to Sarah Huckabee Sanders. It comes to Chris Cuomo. If you go up to Chris Cuomo and you start calling him names in

public when he's with his family, you're a jerk. It is one thing to make him and make fun of him on a show like this because that's the nature of the game. That's the nature of political entertainment. That's the nature of the dialogue. But I promise you that if I were in a room with Chris Cuomo, I wouldn't be insulting him nor would he be insulting me. That's not the way this works. Now, somebody went up to Chris Cuomo in a public place and started calling him by a name that we on the right frequently use for Chris Cuomo Fredo. And the reason people call him Fredo is not because he's Italian. The reason that people call him Fredo is because that's a reference to the dumb brother from the godfather, obviously.

The implication being that his brother is the smarter brother.

I've been saying for a long time that there's an open competition between Chris Cuomo and his

brother Andrew as to which is the dumber Cuomo brother.

Usually Chris tends to take the cake.

Sometimes Andrew surpasses him, although that's a rare occasion.

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