Eric Swalwell vs. Ben Shapiro | Real-Life Twitter Battle — Transcript

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1. 0:00as a human I try to avoid Washington DC
2. 0:01as frequently as possible there are nice
3. 0:04buildings there the problem is it's
4. 0:05filled with government and it turns out
5. 0:07that government is filled with idiots
6. 0:09and so yesterday we did a congressional
7. 0:10hearing the hearing was in the house
8. 0:12Judiciary Committee and it was about
9. 0:14issues surrounding a collusive quasi
10. 0:18conspiratorial group called G the Global
11. 0:20Alliance for responsible media that
12. 0:22group is essentially a Consortium of 90%
13. 0:25of the advertising Market they sign up
14. 0:28with garm garm sets a pseudo OB standard
15. 0:30for what can be advertised on and what
16. 0:33cannot be advertised on that pseudo
17. 0:35objective standard of course Cuts
18. 0:36universally against conservatives so
19. 0:38what they do is they label unsafe sites
20. 0:40like the daily wire or shows like mine
21. 0:42or shows like Joe Rogan or places like X
22. 0:45this is one of their goals they tried to
23. 0:46cudle all of these social media sites or
24. 0:49shows or conservative Outlets into
25. 0:51compliance with their idea of things
26. 0:53that ought to be said so I was on the
27. 0:54hill testifying about all of that here
28. 0:57is some of my opening statement
29. 1:00we're in the midst of a trust crisis in
30. 1:01the world of media which is because so
31. 1:03many in the Legacy Media have lied in
32. 1:05order to preserved left-leaning
33. 1:06narratives to take just the most recent
34. 1:08example we were told by the Legacy Media
35. 1:10that President Biden was just fine for
36. 1:12years anyone who questioned his health
37. 1:13and mental Fitness was trafficking in
38. 1:15cheap fakes and then President Biden
39. 1:17went out and engaged in a full-scale
40. 1:18mental collapse on stage in front of
41. 1:19hundreds of millions of people so we can
42. 1:21see why Americans at least Americans who
43. 1:23are not Democrats do not trust the media
44. 1:25the question isn't really why the Legacy
45. 1:27Media have lost Americans trust we know
46. 1:29that answer answer the question is why
47. 1:31despite that loss of trust the Legacy
48. 1:32Media continue to gain share in the
49. 1:34advertising market and the answer is
50. 1:36simple there is in fact an informal
51. 1:38pressure system created by Democratic
52. 1:40legislators this White House Legacy
53. 1:42Media advertisers and pseudo objective
54. 1:44brand safety organizations that system
55. 1:46guarantees that advertising dollars flow
56. 1:48only to leftwing Media
57. 1:51Brands and so the hearing was fairly
58. 1:53long it started about 10: a.m. it ended
59. 1:55about 2:30 p.m. somewhere in that
60. 1:58neighborhood it was a spicy there were
61. 2:01some Democrats who decided that they
62. 2:02were not going to talk about the issue
63. 2:05at hand namely the collusive attempt by
64. 2:08advertising agencies social media Bros
65. 2:11and government right because again
66. 2:13Democrats have been pushing for
67. 2:16intervention in these markets for years
68. 2:18and so what happens that advertisers and
69. 2:20social media Bros in an attempt to avoid
70. 2:23the scrutiny of people like Diane
71. 2:24Feinstein who has been consistently
72. 2:25threatening until her death obviously
73. 2:27she was consistently threatening social
74. 2:29media for years with regulation if they
75. 2:31would not quote unquote regulate
76. 2:32themselves she's not the only one that
77. 2:33are members of the committee before whom
78. 2:35I was speaking people like ranking
79. 2:37member Jerry Nadler people like head of
80. 2:40the Congressional Progressive caucus
81. 2:41premila jaipal who have openly called
82. 2:43for regulation of social media if social
83. 2:45media allows messages they don't like
84. 2:47they call it misinformation or hate
85. 2:48speech but it really is just messages
86. 2:50they don't like so instead of talking
87. 2:51about all that some of the Congress
88. 2:53people decided that it would be fun to
89. 2:54talk about other things one of the
90. 2:56things they kept saying over and over
91. 2:57and over was Project 2025 you might
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126. 3:58the Democrats have been trying for the
127. 3:59last week or so to try to misdirect away
128. 4:01from the fact that their president is no
129. 4:03longer sentient by shouting project 2025
130. 4:06so for example Joe Biden just the other
131. 4:07day tweeted out Google project 2025
132. 4:10naturally a lot of people then did
133. 4:12Google project 2025 so yesterday at the
134. 4:14hearing I'd say half the Democrats in
135. 4:17the house Judiciary Committee decided to
136. 4:19rail about project 2025 which has
137. 4:22literally nothing to do with the subject
138. 4:23of this particular Committee hearing one
139. 4:26of the people who was doing that was
140. 4:28representative Eric swell who I think
141. 4:31just kind of wanted to have a Twitter
142. 4:33battle but in real life so we had a bit
143. 4:36of a colorful exchange the
144. 4:38representative and I here is what that
145. 4:40sounded like Mr Shapiro thank you for
146. 4:43joining us today I think it is important
147. 4:46that you're here um as one of the
148. 4:49leading conservative voices in the
149. 4:51country and and the country has in the
150. 4:54last couple weeks talked a lot about and
151. 4:56Googled uh pro project 2025 it's one of
152. 4:59the most Googled uh Search terms right
153. 5:02now and uh you're not going to get any
154. 5:04censorship for me so uh I just wanted to
155. 5:07know from your perspective I think it
156. 5:09would help us understand on just like a
157. 5:12scale of 0o to 100% how much do you
158. 5:15support project 2025 I think like
159. 5:18President Trump I haven't looked all
160. 5:20that deeply at project 2025 but it seems
161. 5:23that Democrats on this committee sort of
162. 5:25like Peter Pan and Tinkerbell uh if they
163. 5:27say project 2025 enough their
164. 5:28presidential C it becomes alive
165. 5:31again so obviously everybody in the room
166. 5:33knew what I was saying was true
167. 5:34including swalwell who to his credit
168. 5:36laughs because the reality of course is
169. 5:38that he had representative Hank Johnson
170. 5:39he came and he just said project 2025
171. 5:41over and over and over and over he had
172. 5:43other members of Congress you had Mary
173. 5:46Mary gay scanland from state of
174. 5:48Pennsylvania she also was just
175. 5:49referencing project 2025 over and over
176. 5:51and over so they they all know that what
177. 5:54I'm saying is true that this is an
178. 5:55attempt to breathe life back into a
179. 5:57failing
180. 5:58candidacy and you know know even swell
181. 6:00had to laugh at it cuz again true but
182. 6:03then swell decided that he was just
183. 6:04going to make his entire five minute
184. 6:06questioning time about project 2025
185. 6:08which I'll be honest with you I haven't
186. 6:10read and the reason I haven't read it is
187. 6:11because it's 922 pages I promise you
188. 6:13Eric swell has also not read project
189. 6:162025 probably no one who's criticizing
190. 6:18project 2025 has read project 2025
191. 6:20certainly president Trump has not read
192. 6:22project 2025 so yeah the swell is
193. 6:24questioning me about this and what he's
194. 6:25really questioning me about I assume is
195. 6:27just being a conservative and the idea
196. 6:29is that being a conservative is just
197. 6:31evil that's that that's the I I don't
198. 6:34think it went particularly well for
199. 6:35representative swell
200. 6:37here you probably want less bureaucracy
201. 6:39right I do I want less bureaucracy you
202. 6:41want more efficiency I do I want less
203. 6:44effic more efficiency you want taxpayer
204. 6:46money spent wisely I do congrats on
205. 6:49becoming a republican yeah yeah my
206. 6:51parents would be proud
207. 6:53um Mass deportations it calls for that
208. 6:56do you support that part I support the
209. 6:58deportation of any illegal IM who's in
210. 7:00the United States who is not of benefit
211. 7:01to the generalized American public so if
212. 7:03they're uh picking agriculture that puts
213. 7:07food on the tables of everyday Americans
214. 7:09they've never committed a crime inside
215. 7:12the United States they didn't come
216. 7:14across with documents should they be
217. 7:15deported if they have not paid taxes and
218. 7:18if their draw on the taxpayer benefits
219. 7:20are larger than the contribution they
220. 7:22are making to the economy or if they're
221. 7:23involved in criminal activity they
222. 7:24should be deported how do we measure
223. 7:25that the same way that the IRS measures
224. 7:28my income every year it seems like if
225. 7:29the IRS can track down every aspect of
226. 7:31every receipt that I've ever submitted
227. 7:33and they hundreds of millions of other
228. 7:34Americans they can do that for illegal
229. 7:35immigrants as well except for the fact
230. 7:37that no one knows how many are in the
231. 7:38country thanks to this Administration so
232. 7:40you would be cool with creating a system
233. 7:41where they could pay those taxes if they
234. 7:44wanted to and then stay and work and put
235. 7:46food on our table uh it depends on how
236. 7:48long it would take for them to pay the
237. 7:49taxes and they would also have to go
238. 7:50presumably to the back of the line
239. 7:52although I'm not sure why I'm testifying
240. 7:53about immigration policy at this point
241. 7:55how about banning the abortion pill
242. 7:58that's part of project 2025 do support
243. 7:59that part I think that that's a state
244. 8:01byst state issue on a personal level uh
245. 8:04you know
246. 8:05I'm sure I'm I'm I'm I'm a fully
247. 8:08pro-life person which means that I'm not
248. 8:09in favor of the distribution of the
249. 8:11abortion pill Banning samesex marriage
250. 8:13what about that part I am in favor of
251. 8:16traditional marriage between a man and a
252. 8:17woman and I am perfectly fine with
253. 8:19anyone having any sort of voluntary
254. 8:20sexual Arrangement they seek that's a
255. 8:22different thing from whether the
256. 8:23government should attach benefits to
257. 8:24that personal relationship but you think
258. 8:26it's a sin to have same-sex marriage I
259. 8:29mean
260. 8:30I'm I'm confused are you asking me as a
261. 8:31religious Jew what I think about
262. 8:33biblically I'm just asking is it a sin
263. 8:35to be gay is it a sin to be gay I
264. 8:38mean how long do we have here two
265. 8:39minutes I mean if the if the basic idea
266. 8:42is that sexual orientation is up for
267. 8:43government regulation I'm not in favor
268. 8:45of the government regulating the private
269. 8:47consenting sexual activity of adults
270. 8:49that is a different thing once again
271. 8:50from whether the government ought to
272. 8:52engage in actual benefits for particular
273. 8:55sexual Arrangements that adults make but
274. 8:58again just you you to me is it a sin or
275. 8:59not from a religious Jewish perspective
276. 9:02orientation is not a sin but activity is
277. 9:04that's also the same perspective of most
278. 9:05major religions so far as I'm aware okay
279. 9:08and and how
280. 9:10about cutting Social Security do you
281. 9:12support that part of
282. 9:142025 I'm not sure what project 25 202's
283. 9:17position on Social Security is I'm I'm
284. 9:19in favor of the restructuring of Social
285. 9:21Security along the lines of
286. 9:22privatization and lowering and and
287. 9:23increasing the retirement age because
288. 9:25you as well as every other Congress
289. 9:27person knows Social Security is going to
290. 9:28go bankrupt and everyone seems to have
291. 9:30an interest in lying about it for the
292. 9:31next decade and a half until we have to
293. 9:32take austerity measures or radically
294. 9:34increase inflation or taxes and and bans
295. 9:36against uh books about slavery do you
296. 9:38support that part about why would I
297. 9:39possibly be in favor of banss about
298. 9:41books about slavery that that would be
299. 9:42absolutely ridiculous what I am in favor
300. 9:44of is the idea that school libraries
301. 9:46should be able to make decisions along
302. 9:48the lines of what exactly is appropriate
303. 9:51for say a seventh grader and whether
304. 9:53they ought to be treated to cartoons in
305. 9:54gender queer that's not quite the same
306. 9:56thing and and just because we found some
307. 9:58receipts you did say I think homosexual
308. 10:00activity is a sin yes I'm a religious
309. 10:02sure there's a genetic component found
310. 10:04orientation but the view of all
311. 10:06religious people I know has always been
312. 10:07that sexual behavior is something that
313. 10:09is up to you and you said I may have a
314. 10:11desire to sleep with many women but I uh
315. 10:13do not I agree with me yes that's true
316. 10:16um congratulations on your yeah uh I'm
317. 10:19sure it's very hard to restrain um
318. 10:21yourself Mr chairman I just want to uh
319. 10:23shift to um Alvin Bragg uh he was
320. 10:28supposed to be here
321. 10:29uh this week and then he starts randomly
322. 10:31talking about Alvin Bragg and and the
323. 10:34hearings I would have jumped in at this
324. 10:36point and said that Eric swow is
325. 10:38probably the last person in America who
326. 10:40should talk about the difficulty of
327. 10:42struggling with for example men as a
328. 10:45genetic matter wanting to sleep with
329. 10:46many women Eric sw's personal history is
330. 10:49quite checkered I decided not to bring
331. 10:50that up in the Congressional hearing but
332. 10:52again it just shows you what Democrats
333. 10:54are trying to do do they actually want
334. 10:55to talk about the issues that are on the
335. 10:56table of course not what they actually
336. 10:57want to do is misdirect to bunch of
337. 10:59issues they don't fully understand and
338. 11:02how many questions can you be asked by a
339. 11:03congress person where the premise is
340. 11:05just completely wrong so didn't go
341. 11:08amazing for representative swell and um
342. 11:11we hope he gets well soon in any case
343. 11:12back to the topic of the actual hearing
344. 11:15one of the things that became clear from
345. 11:17the house Judiciary Committee report is
346. 11:19that the Global Alliance on responsible
347. 11:20media didn't just Target the daily wire
348. 11:22which they suggested was well out of
349. 11:24bounds for advertisers or Joe Rogan they
350. 11:26also targeted Twitter SLX
351. 11:29the report said that garm tried to
352. 11:31direct all of its members corporate
353. 11:32Giants who together account for 90% of
354. 11:34global advertising dollars to quote stop
355. 11:36all paid advertisement on the platform
356. 11:38after Elon Musk purchased it and we have
357. 11:41the emails Rober aitz who is the head of
358. 11:44garm he was emailed by one of the
359. 11:48advertisers or one of the advertising
360. 11:49agencies says says hi Rob I'm reaching
361. 11:51out to ask you if it's possible to
362. 11:52arrange a meeting and hear more about
363. 11:54your perspectives about the Twitter
364. 11:55situation and a possible boycott from
365. 11:57many companies and rakowitz then then
366. 12:00responded quote hi both this is good I
367. 12:03did some tweaking on the edges to help
368. 12:04contextualize who we are and what we are
369. 12:05doing I'd like to point out that nowhere
370. 12:07in this email is the you may recognize
371. 12:09my name from being the idiot who
372. 12:10challenged musk on brand safety issues
373. 12:12since then they are 80% below Revenue
374. 12:14forecasts happy face
375. 12:16emoji this prompted Elon Musk to
376. 12:18announce today that X has no choice but
377. 12:21to file suit against the perpetrators
378. 12:23and collaborators in the advertising
379. 12:24boycott racket hopefully some states
380. 12:26will consider criminal prosecution so
381. 12:29some actual positive effects from a
382. 12:30congressional hearing other than some
383. 12:32viral moments are you tired of the lies
384. 12:33and the twist of the mainstream media
385. 12:35talking points yeah me too join me in my
386. 12:37newest series fact where I dismantle and
387. 12:39bring truth to this tiring mainstream
388. 12:41agenda