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Correspondent Ed Lavandera is in Brownsville Texas critics say the troubled ministration is trying to bolster its case for a national emergency to build more border wall but the president's threat to close down the border that's really sending shock waves throughout these border communities bridging the distance that's what millions of people use to get back and forth to see family and friends to get to work to get to school they are the lifeline of these border communities and shutting down these ports of entry will have a devastating effect Ed Lavandera Brownsville Texas former Texas congressman bet O'Rourke has officially kicked off his quest for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination correspondent Leila Santiago reports on the campaign rally in El Paso he really did focus a bit on immigration is one of his top issues and that's because. Where we are right now just a mile from the Southern u.s. 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A welcome this is the Ben Shapiro show got a lot to get to this hour we'll be discussing the latest in the justice my case where it looks like a prosecutor could be facing disbarment in the state of Illinois it will also get to your questions in the mailbag But we begin with President from doing a huge rally president from basically laid out what his last 20 campaign is going to look like and there are good there are good points and there are bad points Michigan is a state one extraordinary narrowly over Hillary Clinton if you are 47.3 percent to 47 percent it is trending a little bit blue because in the last election cycle in 2018 a lot of Democrats won. Senatorial candidate John James over there. Really good solid Republican candidate military background African-American he lost it was too bad the fact is that President from re-election essentially. Inches on 3 states Wisconsin Pennsylvania and Michigan that's it and that's the whole action you will probably win Ohio it's debatable whether he wins Florida and on the Democrat if he loses Florida it's over yes to hold all of the states that he held last time except for one he can lose Wisconsin and still win the election he could lose Pennsylvania as long as you hold Wisconsin and Michigan but he cannot lose 2 of those 3 or the election is over so Michigan is a crucial battleground state for him in the aftermath of the molar reports top line findings being released president from was ready to go on a rampage in Grand Rapids Michigan half the rally is about how much he hates the media and how much he despises the people who push the Russia collusion hoax and then have the rally was dedicated to him actually attacking the Democratic positions now all of this is good and all of this is good for drum trumps pitch in 2020 is very simple I have been targeted like no other president in history by the media I have been called a Russian stooge for 2 years because they couldn't get over the fact that Hillary Clinton lost and yet in spite of that we've made all of these gains on the economy on foreign policy we're rebuilding our military we're cutting regulations or making it easier to do business imagine what a 2nd term of this will be if the media get over themselves and actually allow me to do the work that I need to do as the argument of President Trump should be making headed into 2020 by the president from is nothing if not as he likes to call himself a counter-puncher this has its upsides and it has its downsides and so we return to campaign trail campaign trumpet as I have described in the past. It is a hammer in search of a nail sometimes hits a nail and it's very satisfying and sometimes he has a baby and it is far less satisfied in Grand Rapids Michigan pent up crowd I mean the crowd was just ready to roar at the slightest provocation there is the president of the United States describing what he called the collusion illusion after 3 years of long spears and slander the Russia hope is finally. The. Over the the special counsel. Complete report. Structure Ok so he's right about all of this and this is a fair ground for him to for him to go after the media and to go after the Democrats who lied about him for 2 continuous years on this basis the president also suggested that this was the greatest hoax in history which frankly it may well have been considering that the media didn't leave spent 2 years proclaiming that undoubtedly there would be evidence that he was a Russian Kat's you heard the same thing from members of the intelligence community it really was astonishing when people talk about the failures of the intelligence community in the lead up to the war in Iraq there was a widespread intelligence consensus from Israeli intelligence British intelligence French intelligence German intelligence there was widespread consensus that Saddam Hussein was developing Wm d. Because Saddam Hussein was in the worlds of think that he was in fact of elevating them to that was an intelligence failure what we watched it was not an intelligence failure what we watched here was members of the intelligence community leverage their institutional credibility on behalf of a narrative that was absolutely not true we watched James Clapper the former head of Obama's CIA go out there in public and suggest that he actually was the d.n.i. The director of National Intelligence go out there and suggest that he had special knowledge that President Trump was probably in league with the Russians or the same thing from John Brennan Obama's former CIA director that he was going to he had some inside baseball knowledge based on his institutional knowledge that suggested that Trump was all of these things we watch members of the media come out nearly every day and simply suggest without the benefit of evidence that it was absolutely clear the Trump campaign had thrown the election with the help of Russia so in terms says this is the greatest hoax in history there is a pretty solid case to be made on this basis at least in the history of American politics. Current and former officials page promoted and for sure the single greatest home in the history of politics in our. Ok So obviously this isn't a basis for him to get the base revved up the question is whether this is a basis for actually campaigning and the more term focus is on this going forward and doesn't talk about his record doesn't talk about what he's done and doesn't talk about what the Democrats are the more he keeps the focus on himself as a victim I don't think that that is going to be a continuing effect of strategy other than getting the base really revved up which is good you need to read up face a President Trump needs to win a bunch of voters or in the middle he needs to win suburban women I'm not sure this mode carries him here and the more worked up he gets over this again I think that's not great strategy I understand it on a personal level if somebody had accused me of what they accuse President Trump of I want to go out there and clubs and folks do I want to go out there in the media like a little baby seal rhetorically speaking but. As a politician I'm not sure this is the smartest strategy again the more exercise Trump gets the more off winning he is frankly to suburban women in particular people he needs to win in 2020 president from obviously got his a friendly crowd here where he says that continuing problems continue investigations are ridiculous both believe he just drops in some curse words Democrats have to now decide whether they will continue to fraud in the public with a ridiculous post. Partisan advantage to get your own way there they will apologize to the American people and join us to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure Ok all of that is fine then he goes off the rails and this is where he gets into bad from territory so there's a pretty good episode actually of good from bad from which we haven't talked in a while because the focus has largely been on the Democrats who are vying to compete with him all of this is Ok Trump 2 good from and then he gets to bedroom and this is where he just starts slinging insults at people that doesn't like now I'm a podcast host I can sling insults about I try not to particularly on the basis of physical appearance President Trump has no such compunctions here he goes after pencil neck Adam Schiff little pencil neck. Out of sheer. Got the smallest thinnest neck I've ever seen. He's not a long ball hitter. But I sure don't well we don't really know there could still have. Russia polish. Against body. But it. Is also not useful but his father. But again he the president is not a stand up comedian is it smart for him to be going back into standup comedy mode this is what his base loves about him I understand I understand a lot of people find the center I find it entertaining it is inherently funny this is the thing about Trump that I think a lot of folks in the media don't understand folks on the Left understand if you do actually pretty funny. He plays a room as though he's an actual stand up comedian is that smart however to go after Adam Schiff on the basis of his neck and wouldn't just go after Adam Schiff by saying that he's a dummy or a dunce or a or a liar but that seems like a more solid grounding on the basis of his neck ache and then taking that if it didn't end up as in June they got together. That actually was not even the funniest thing that he said he was talking for some reason about the great lakes of Michigan is in the Great Lakes region and he starts talking about how much he loves Lakes. This is funding them I support the Great Lakes. Always. Your beautiful big very deep record deep dish right. If I got nothing then I got nothing again the all or none of this is going to particularly hurt President Trump is going to hurt him but his tendency to be president is exactly the problem there is a speech here somewhere but it was buried inside a comedy routine and the comedy routine comedy is great for people who agree with you comedy is not great for people who really disagree with you unless it's self-deprecating comedy something for getting comedy is popular pretty much everybody from has never made a self-deprecating remark so it's nearly impossible to imagine him doing that if comedy is great for all the people who like President from or who agree with his agenda or agree with him on these issues or people who are torn on President Trump it's not going to do him any significant favors and I'm looking at this from the strategic point of view not from the is it funny point of view because from the it's funny point I mean it's just damn till areas obviously now in a 2nd or going to president from actual attacks on Democrats because the less he focuses on his victimization and the more he focuses on their garbage agenda the better he is going to do we'll get to that in just one second 1st admit it you think cyber crime is something that happens to other people you may think no one wants your data or that hackers can grab your passwords or credit card details you would be wrong about stealing data for months respecting people in public life I think that's one of the simplest and cheapest ways for hackers to make money when you leave your Internet connection on encrypted you may as well be writing your passwords and credit card numbers on a huge billboard for the rest of the world to see which is why I decided to take action to protect myself from cyber criminals I use express express deep insecurity and anonymize your internet browsing encrypting your data and hiding your public IP address express the Pm has easy to use apps that run seamlessly in the background of your computer phone and tablet turning on Express v.p.n. 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Dot com slash spending and more Ok so as we say President Trump launches this Michigan campaign really his 21 year reelection campaign off the basis of the report and that just shows you how polarized our politics are because usually the president launches his reelection campaign on the basis of hear all the great things that I've done instead the president launched his triumphant reelection campaign on the basis of I'm not a Russian agent so the goalposts have moved pretty radically here and the Democrats are the ones who move them here's where President Trump however could be really effective and that is attacking the Democratic agenda of the Democratic agenda truly is radical and most people understand that he has to one's attacker that are really useful one is attacking the media people hate the media people think the media are dishonest why because many in the media are in fact dishonest whether they mean to be or whether they do not mean to be their confirmation bias makes it so that they cover the news in the least favorable way to conservatives that he can possibly find and that obviously holds true for anyone who is even remotely right of center including President Trump I don't think is actually an ideological conservative so interim goes after the media that's going to be a popular line with most Americans Here's Trump saying the media have to be held accountable. They have. They have to be. And he is not wrong about that that line was popular going all the way back to Newt Gingrich in 2012 when he was running for the nomination for the Republican Party it continues to be popular today nobody thinks the media have done a good job on any of the stuff that is a fruitful line of attack for president from casting aspersions at the media that attacks incessantly and attack Bush incessantly attack everybody right of center incessantly and people who are not even right of center so long as they disagree that will continue to be a fruitful line of attack but he's really going to have to win on the basis of pointing at the Democrats as I've said all along if President Trump or capable of just being quiet and pointing I like Donald Sutherland in that famous just he just stand there and like Donald Sutherland from Invasion of the Bodysnatchers and points in horror at Democrats most Americans would immediately recoil in revulsion at what they saw coming up President from didn't just go after the Moeller report he didn't just go after the media he also went after the Democrats and this is good stuff because frankly if the president is going to win in 2020 he's going to need to attack Democratic policy not just h