Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro took time during his show on Thursday to rehash moments from his viral exchange with Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) in a Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday morning. Shapiro was invited by the Republican-led committee to testify on the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) and alleged coordination between the media and the White House to silence conservative news outlets, including The Daily Wire. After delivering a blistering opening statement on the “cartel” targeting conservative voices, Shapiro faced questions from multiple Democrats, including Swalwell, who tried to derail the hearing. “The Democrats have been trying for the last week or so to try to misdirect away from the fact that their president is no longer sentient by shouting ‘Project 2025,'” Shapiro said. “So yesterday at the hearing, I would say about half of the Democrats in the House Judiciary Committee decided to rail about Project 2025, which has literally nothing to do with the subject of this particular committee hearing,” he added. “One of the people who is doing that was Representative Eric Swalwell, who I think just wanted to have a Twitter battle, but in real life.” During the exchange, Swalwell asked Shapiro if he supports Project 2025 to which Shapiro responded, “I think like President Trump, I haven’t looked all that deeply at Project 2025, but it seems that Democrats on this committee [think that] — sort of like Peter Pan and Tinkerbell — if they say Project 2025 enough, their presidential candidate becomes alive again.” The clip of Shapiro’s response quickly went viral on social media with many conservatives praising the Daily Wire host for how he handled Swalwell’s off-topic questioning. “They all know what I’m saying is true,” Shapiro said on his show, referring to Congressional Democrats. “This is an attempt to breathe life back into a failing candidacy. Even Swalwell had to laugh at it because, again, [it’s] true.” Swalwell continued to trumpet the Project 2025 line on Thursday, posting, “Messaging matters: Stop saying: ‘Project 2025.’ Say: ‘Trump’s Project 2025.’” Shapiro replied to the congressman’s tweet by posting a GIF of Tinkerbell with the caption “Clap if you believe.” https://t.co/3AsGaIkKnM pic.twitter.com/JXIz3CkN6d — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) July 11, 2024 Despite Shapiro’s quick putdown of Swalewell during the hearing, the Democratic congressman continued to use his time to ask Shapiro about Project 2025 and policies unrelated to the censorship of conservatives, on which the Daily Wire host was at the hearing to testify. “What he’s really questioning me about, I assume, is just being a conservative,” Shapiro added. “And the idea is that being a conservative is just evil. I don’t think it went particularly well for Representative Swalwell here.” Swalwell also brought up a past statement from Shapiro on same-sex marriage and sexual activity, and bizarrely congratulated Shapiro for “restrain[ing]” himself against a desire to sleep with women. Swalwell is widely known for reportedly getting romantically involved with a suspected Chinese spy named Fang Fang. “I would’ve jumped in at this point and said that Eric Swalwell is probably the last person in America who should talk about the difficulty of struggling with, for example, men as a genetic matter wanting to sleep with many women,” Shapiro said. “Eric Swalwell’s personal history is quite checkered. I decided not to bring that up in a Congressional hearing.” “So it didn’t go amazing for Representative Swalwell,” he added. “And we hope he gets well soon.” George Clooney writing an op-ed calling on Biden to go — with the quiet endorsement of Barack Obama — is the reason Democrats are in trouble. Their actual political leaders are too cowardly to say the obvious. And their celebrities are leading the way. pic.twitter.com/CiYARQq1Cb — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) July 11, 2024

A new poll commissioned by the Young America’s Foundation found that the economy is the number one concern for college and high school students as President Joe Biden remains unpopular among the demographic. The poll, conducted by Echelon Insights, found that high school and college students overwhelmingly see the economy as the top concern, more than issues like abortion or the climate. The survey examined the views of 821 high school students and 804 college students from June 4 to June 9. Of those surveyed, 44% of college students and 48% of high school students said the economy was their number one concern. In 2020, college students were a crucial demographic for Biden with an estimated 61% of young people (ages 18-29) casting a vote for Biden. “Despite the Left’s never-ending focus on ‘progressive’ social issues, students are largely indifferent. Only 12% of high school students and 25% of college students consider abortion to be a top concern, while racial issues and LGBTQ+ ‘rights’ are even less of a priority,” YAF said in a statement. Other top issues for students included school safety, political corruption, and health care. Credit: YAF Inflation has been a persistent issue under Biden, with elevated food, gas, and housing prices hampering the economy. Biden’s popularity among young people has also plunged since his inauguration in January 2021. According to the poll, just 30% of college students and 32% of high school students approve of Biden. Those numbers are down from 62% and 58% respectively in 2021. Of college students who identify as liberal, just 42% approve of Biden’s performance. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP The survey found that 63% of college students, a critical demographic for Biden’s re-election campaign, are not very or not confident at all in Biden’s ability to be an effective leader when it comes to young people. Students were also polled on a range of policy issues from immigration to women’s sports with strong majorities saying it was unfair for males who identify as females to compete in women’s sports. Sixty-three percent of high schoolers and 60% of college students said it would be unfair at any level for a male identifying as a female to compete in a women’s athletic competition. “Our polling shows the biggest issue young people care about right now is the economy,” said former Wisconsin GOP governor and Young America’s Foundation President Scott Walker. “It’s crucial that YAF continues to teach high school and college students the timeless principles of individual liberty and the free market so that future generations ensure the continued success of our great nation.”

One of the radio stations that interviewed President Joe Biden following his disastrous debate performance against former President Donald Trump admitted this week that it cut out remarks from the president that made him look bad after his campaign called and requested it. Civic Media, a Wisconsin-based far-left talk-radio network, said that the decision by “The Earl Ingram Show” to make the cuts from Biden’s interview with host Earl Ingram fell short of “journalistic interview standards.” “On Monday, July 8th, it was reported to Civic Media management that immediately after the phone interview was recorded, the Biden campaign called and asked for two edits to the recording before it aired,” the station said in a statement. The two sets of remarks that Biden made that the radio station cut out were: At time 5:20, the removal of “…and in addition to that, I have more Blacks in my administration than any other president, all other presidents combined, and in major positions, cabinet positions.” At time 14:15, in reference to Donald Trump’s call for the death penalty for the Central Park Five, the removal of “I don’t know if they even call for their hanging or not, but he–but they said […] convicted of murder.” LISTEN to the moment that the Biden campaign edited out of a Wisconsin radio interview: Joe Biden: “I have more Blacks in my administration than any other president, all other presidents combined, and in major positions, cabinet positions.” pic.twitter.com/ajMFDaZFIh — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) July 11, 2024 The Biden also requested this part of the interview be removed: “I don’t know if they even call for their hanging or not, but he–but they said […] convicted of murder.” pic.twitter.com/PZZvzNlb8y — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) July 11, 2024 The station said that the show’s judgement was wrong “both with respect to the handling of the interview questions and the decision to edit the interview audio.” “We have taken this opportunity as a new media organization to clarify our internal policies to ensure that everyone in the organization understands the standards we expect for live and pre-recorded interviews, particularly for commentators and other non-news personnel,” the station said. “A policy defining Civic Media’s content and production standards for non-news programming that covers our opinion content, including The Earl Ingram Show, is in the process of being reviewed and finalized, based in part on our published Civic Media News Ethics and Standards that applies to hard news.” However, the station said that it would still stand by Ingram, even after he admitted last week to using the questions that Biden’s campaign gave him to interview the president. Another radio host who interviewed Biden and used the questions that were provided by his campaign is no longer employed by the station she worked at.

The hosts of ABC’s “The View” lashed out at actor George Clooney during Thursday’s broadcast, complaining about his decision to publish an op-ed calling on President Joe Biden to bow out of the 2024 presidential race. Joy Behar led the charge, arguing that if Clooney — who hosted a fundraiser for Biden recently — had concerns about Biden, he should have addressed them in private rather than splashing them across the pages of a newspaper. “President Biden is fighting right now for his political future,” she began. “Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison … is still in Biden’s corner, but he’s losing more high-profile support. George Clooney wrote an op-ed piece in The New York Times claiming that after he saw Biden’s condition at the recent fundraiser, he doesn’t think he’s up for the gig. George Clooney, couldn’t he tell them that in person, for God’s sake? He has to write an op-ed piece?” Behar went on to complain about comments from Jon Favreau, a speechwriter for former President Barack Obama, who said that there was no way to escape Biden’s declining health. WATCH: “I don’t think they understand what’s at stake yet,” Behar attacked the intelligence of the American people. She falsely claimed Biden “saved the economy.” “Why doesn’t George Clooney mention that in his op-ed piece?” pic.twitter.com/VqrcRksgrY — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 11, 2024 “I don’t think they understand what’s at stake yet,” Behar said of the American people — and then chastised Clooney for not reminding everyone that Biden “saved the economy.” Cohost Ana Navarro joined in, lamenting the fact that Americans had been talking about Biden’s apparent cognitive decline for two weeks — since the disastrous debate against former President Donald Trump —and added, “I will be damned if I will use whatever little platform I have to demean and weaken our commander-in-chief and the one man standing between Donald Trump.” Sunny Hostin also lashes out at George Clooney for speaking out about Biden’s mental decline. “I don’t like that George Clooney did this and aired this dirty laundry to the world” she huffed. “This should be happening privately…This is the man who saved the soul of our country” pic.twitter.com/v8i5QKdzjL — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 11, 2024 Sunny Hostin brought the conversation back around to Behar’s initial complaint, saying that she believed Clooney should have brought the matter to Biden privately instead. “I don’t like that George Clooney did this … and aired this dirty laundry to the world. … [T]his should be happening privately … This is the man who saved the soul of our country,” she said.

An Israeli man was “very surprised” to find he was sanctioned by the Biden administration on Thursday after he was confused for someone else with a similar name. Aviad Shlomo Sarid, an active Israel Defense Forces reservist serving on Israel’s northern border, was sanctioned in President Joe Biden’s latest batch of sanctions on Israeli civilians who are accused of violence in Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank. The sanctions were meant to target a man named Shlomo Sarid, and various other individuals and farms with which Aviad Shlomo Sarid is not affiliated. “While he is defending Israel, the American administration has imposed sanctions on him by mistake,” David Ben Zion, the deputy head of the Samaria Regional Council who is helping Sarid get free of the sanctions, told The Daily Wire. “It’s very unfortunate and especially disturbing.” “Every citizen of Israel should be afraid that his name is similar to someone who will enter the ‘black list,'” Zion added. Matthew Miller, the U.S. State Department spokesman, said the Biden administration is “deeply concerned about extremist violence and instability in the West Bank, which undermines Israel’s own security.” In addition to Sarid, Isachar Manne and Reut Ben-Haim are accused of being affiliated with Tzav 9, a group that has come under fire for protesting and disrupting the distribution of humanitarian aid to Gaza while Israeli hostages are still held captive. The five entities sanctioned include farms and outposts and Lehava, an anti-assimilation NGO that Miller accused of having members who “have engaged in repeated acts of violence.” The addresses of the sanctioned individuals were released by the U.S. Treasury Department. Iranians and Russians recently sanctioned have not previously had their addresses released, according to Jewish News Syndicate. Manne, who runs a farm in the south Hebron Hills, had one of its residents survive an attempted lynching in June 2022 by Palestinian rioters who beat him with rocks and clubs, according to Jewish News Syndicate. Zion said he fears that the sanctions against settlers living in outposts are only the first step before they target any Israelis living in Judea and Samaria and IDF soldiers serving there.  “The State of Israel is a state of law and order and manages to enforce the law on its own and without external assistance,” Zion said. “Today it is sanctions on social activists, tomorrow it will be a sanction on reservists and the day after that on public figures and politicians.” Israeli civilians and members of the Israeli Knesset have repeatedly condemned Biden’s sanctions for undermining its ally Israel’s legal system. “This is not acceptable behavior between friends, the people of Israel expect the U.S. government to act as partners,” Zion said. “We are in a war of existence, a war for our lives, in these moments all we need is assistance, support and a strong hug!” The Biden Administration has continued to impose sanctions on Israeli civilians since he issued Executive Order 14115, which allows the sanctioning of “persons undermining peace, security and stability in the West Bank.” The sanctions block all property and possession of the designated individuals in the U.S. and prohibit American citizens from contributing funds, goods, or services to the sanctioned individuals. “We strongly encourage the Government of Israel to take immediate steps to hold these individuals and entities accountable,” Miller states. “In the absence of such steps, we will continue to impose our own accountability measures.” In the first round of sanctions, individuals lost access to their Israeli banks who feared defying the sanctions until the Treasury Department clarified that they were not intended to cut off access to local assets, reported the Times of Israel.

President Joe Biden, who is facing pressure from Democrats to drop out of the 2024 race because of concerns about his age and health, has not held a full Cabinet meeting in over nine months and left its members in the dark about his condition, according to a new report. CNN broke the story on Thursday as Biden attempts to reassure supporters that he is capable of leading effectively and run for a second term after a debate performance against President Donald Trump late last month in which he appeared confused and lost his train of thought. The report noted the last full Cabinet meeting took place more than half a year ago on October 2, 2023, and cited one unnamed secretary who said members of the Cabinet were uncertain of how 81-year-old Biden was doing because they hardly ever get to see the commander in chief. Sources told CNN that before closed-door Cabinet meetings — when they had been taking place — it was routine for them to submit questions and talking points to White House aides in advance, leaving one to say the gatherings were “not free-wheeling, and pretty well-orchestrated.” CNN reported the White House shared a statement from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack saying that what the story described about the Cabinet meetings was “standard practice for any administration” because “there should not be surprise in Cabinet meetings.” House Republicans have pressed Vice President Kamala Harris to get a majority of the Cabinet to remove the president from office using the 25th Amendment since at least February, following the release of a special counsel report that spoke about Biden exhibiting memory problems. They cranked up the pressure on the White House on Wednesday when Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) subpoenaed three of Biden’s staffers following reporting from Axios that suggested they were seeking to cover up Biden’s apparent declining cognitive state. NBC News chief political analyst Chuck Todd said on his podcast this week that a Cabinet official, whom he did not name, questioned whether the president would be capable of seeking a second term in the White House — sometime in the first half of Biden’s administration. “I’m not gonna out the Cabinet secretary, right?” the former moderator of “Meet The Press” said on “The Chuck Toddcast,” adding, “But I had a Cabinet secretary two years ago… all out of the blue ask me, ‘Do you really think he’s gonna — he can’t run again like this?'” He continued, “This is a pretty senior cabinet secretary. And this was two years ago.” Todd went on, “This is one of those, you know, it’s the classic open secret, a non-versation, right? It’s the story everybody knows and no one was — everybody was afraid to talk about.”

Former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer is being sued for wrongful death in connection with an incident when a man was killed after being struck by a vehicle. Per a new report obtained by TMZ, a 47-year-old man named Israel Sanchez was hit by a black GMC Yukon in Alhambra, CA in March while he was in a crosswalk. Sanchez was dragged across the pavement and died hours later from blunt force trauma to the head. A video of the incident shows the driver pulling over after striking the pedestrian, looking at the body, and then getting back into the vehicle, the outlet noted. No arrests were made yet, the lawsuit says. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday by Ashley Sanchez, the daughter of the victim. The filing alleges that Klinghoffer was using a cellphone while driving, as evidenced by the video footage that appears to show the driver holding an object above the steering wheel.  The lawsuit also states that the large grassy median should have provided plenty of space for the driver to see Sanchez walking.  “My dad was known for being a great chef, the most talented of his family, the greatest grandpa always full of love and joy,” Sanchez said in a news release, per The Guardian. “His smile was so infectious. His life was taken by a careless act of a person who didn’t bother to look where he was driving.” Klinghoffer was part of the popular rock band from 2009 until 2019. TMZ reported that the guitarist was the youngest inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. The rocker left the Red Hot Chili Peppers and toured with several other mainstream bands, including Jane’s Addiction and Pearl Jam. Klinghoffer’s attorney Andrew Brettler shared the following statement with TMZ: “It was a tragic accident. After Josh struck this pedestrian in the intersection, he immediately pulled over, stopped the car, called 911 and waited until police and the ambulance arrived. Obviously, he’s cooperating with the police throughout the traffic investigation. This was purely a tragic accident.”