The military investigates cadets for flashing an OK symbol on national television, a Democrat

switches parties over impeachment, and President Trump goes after Nancy Pelosi's teeth.

I'm Ben Shapiro.

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In just a minute, we're going to get to all of the impeachment-related stuff.

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Text Ben to 47 47.47. Okay. So we'll get to everything impeachment related. This week is a big week for the Democrats. The impeachment will go through this week. The Democrats will ram this thing through. They've sent forward an almost 700-page report to the rest of Congress, suggesting that President Trump is guilty of bribery, even though they're not actually charging him with bribery. We're going to get to all of that in just a moment. But frankly, it's a foregone conclusion. I don't think anything has changed. It feels like a put-up job. Most independents in the country are not fond of this. There is a late breaking poll over the weekend showing that, well, 85% of Democrats support impeachment. First of all, it's a low number. You would expect it to be like 98% of Democrats support impeachment. It's only about 85%, only 7% of Republicans support impeachment.

And then in the middle, the independents, only 43% support impeachment. So this thing is not breaking in favor of the Democrats.

So that means that for me, frankly, this is a sort of secondary issue. I know. It's weird to say the impeachment of the president in the House of Representatives for the third time in American history would actually represent a nothing burger. But in fact, it sort of does because the fact is that the Senate is not going anywhere with all of this. So believe it or not, the bigger story over the weekend is the continuing degradation of our culture, the continuing stupidity of the media.

I'm speaking, of course, of the attempt to the attempt to Covington Catholic members of the

military cadets at the Army Navy game.

So, according to the Huffington Post, military officials have launched an investigation

after the OK hand symbol that has become known as a symbol for white power was

flashed amid a crowd of cadets before the Army Navy game in Philadelphia on Saturday.

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