Rachel Maddow celebrates the fact that the United States leads the world in the number of coronavirus cases, despite all the evidence to the contrary. Ben Shapiro explains why this matters, and why Donald Trump should be the one to take the blame for it. The United States is not the worst place in the world for Coronavirus, but it's not close to the worst either, either. And when it comes to testing, the US is better than almost every other country on the planet in terms of testing, and in testing in raw sum, the U.S. ranks No. 1 in the total number of cases, but not in the overall number of confirmed cases. Why is Rachel Maddow celebrating this? And why does she think Donald Trump is to blame for the problem, when he says, America First? The answer is simple: because he s the most prepared nation on Earth for a pandemic like this, and he s also the most capable of handling it well. Ben Shapiro breaks it all down, and explains why Trump should blame someone other than himself for the problems we re having a problem like this in the first place, not the president of the USA. The Ben Shapiro Show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Protect yourself online activity should not be public. Protect yourself at ExpressVpn.org/Protect Yourself at ExpressVPN, and use the promo code "Protect Yourself" to protect yourself at Parcast Connect with Ben Shapiro: BenWells on social media: Ben Wells: . Subscribe to the show on Anchor. Subscribe on Apple Podcastsales Learn more about your ad choices. Use coupon code: "Become a supporter of the show and get 10% off your first month, and get 20% off for the rest of the month, plus free shipping, free shipping on all future months, plus a FREE 7-availment offer, and a discount on premium plans! FREE shipping when you sign up for the next month, shipping anywhere else gets a new ad-free version of the service, starting in January 1st, starting at $99, starting with 7 days, starting on $99.99, gets you get 7GB, gets $99 gets $49, gets free, gets 4GB max, gets 3GBR, gets 2GB, she gets 3MB, and gets an ad-only, 3GB, 4GB, and she gets 7GB gets 3 GB, and I'm also getting a FREE PRICING FREE, FREE Shipping, 2GB and 2MB, she'll get an ad discount, and 2GB is 4GB is also gets $24GB, plus she gets a FREE FIBPCO?
00:00:00.000New York Governor Andrew Cuomo escapes responsibility for New York's disaster as Mayor Bill de Blasio slams the Jewish community, the media gives Sweden a second look, and Hillary Clinton endorses Joe Biden.
00:00:40.000So there is a weird phenomenon out there where some people seem to be celebrating the failures of the United States with regard to coronavirus, championing the idea that the United States has been a gigantic failure.
00:00:54.000Who is seeking to blame the entire pandemic on President Trump, which is weird because it seems like the pandemic is it, you know, like everywhere.
00:01:00.000In fact, the United States, when it comes to our death per million population is basically middle of the pack.
00:01:05.000The United States ranks about 179 deaths per million population, according to Worldometers.
00:01:09.000By contrast, Spain is at 519 per million, Italy is at 453 per million, France is at 362 per million, the UK is at 319 per million.
00:01:17.000In other words, the United States ranks right now about half of all of those other places on Earth.
00:01:22.000Nonetheless, Rachel Maddow is out there almost celebrating the idea that the United States is number one.
00:02:12.000The number of deaths in the United States.
00:02:14.000The reality of the situation is that the United States is not close to number one in terms of the number of deaths we have suffered from coronavirus.
00:02:20.000The United States has actually handled this thing pretty well, except for New York.
00:02:22.000I'm going to talk about New York in just a few minutes here.
00:02:25.000But here's Rachel Maddow last night trying to suggest that the United States has engaged in widespread failure.
00:02:30.000Because on the back of failure, you can change the politics of the United States.
00:02:33.000And this phenomenon is really ugly and really terrible.
00:02:36.000This is the phenomenon where folks on the left try to gin up a feeling of true disaster.
00:02:42.000Not that the pandemic is not a disaster, a feeling that the government response was a true, thoroughly going disaster, simply so that they can then suggest a vast change to the system.
00:02:50.000Here's Rachel Maddow doing just that last night.
00:02:52.000Downplaying the threat, ignoring the experts, refusing to prepare.
00:03:02.000The way that started, the way the clip came in, you actually missed the first little bit of it which started with Donald Trump said he would put America first and now he has.
00:03:11.000The United States leads the world in coronavirus cases.
00:03:14.000That whole America first slogan not aging well obviously in this time.
00:03:20.000You can't hold back a smile there, can you, Rachel?
00:03:22.000That America, first thing is, first of all, again, America is not the worst place in the world for coronavirus.
00:03:28.000Statistically speaking, the United States, again, not close to the worst place in the world for coronavirus.
00:03:33.000In fact, the United States ranks better in terms of deaths per million population, which is the stat that you should be using.
00:03:37.000The United States ranks better than virtually every European country, with the exception of Germany.
00:03:41.000And when we talk about how the United States is doing, and we just passed one million total diagnoses of coronavirus, and again, that is a vast undercounting.
00:03:49.000of the number of people who actually have coronavirus.
00:03:51.000It may be five to 10 times that number, considering that huge number of people are asymptomatic and antibody tests are showing a multiple, a multiple of that number in terms of people who actually have acquired COVID-19 and who have not died.
00:04:03.000If you're looking at the fact that we have a million cases and we have a population of 330 million, you'd have to actually aggregate the number of total cases in Europe, right, which has a similar population.
00:04:12.000The EU, altogether, has a population that looks a lot more like the United States than any single country in Europe.
00:04:18.000So, suggesting that the United States has more raw cases than, for example, Italy, when Italy has approximately, at this point, 201,000 diagnosed cases, but only 60 million members of the population.
00:04:29.000We have 330 million people here in the United States.
00:04:32.000So, again, these numbers make no sense.
00:04:35.000If you look at how the United States has performed, with the exception of New York, which again we're going to get to in a second, the United States has performed exceptionally well.
00:04:49.000And let me give you those stats on New York so that you understand that basically the United States, when it comes to the treatment of COVID-19, is two countries, New York and everywhere else.
00:04:57.000When it comes to New York, New York has a population of about 19 million people, New York State.
00:05:01.000We've had about 23,000 deaths to date.
00:05:03.000Right now, New York State has 1,180 deaths per million population in New York State.
00:05:10.000Italy, which was the hardest hit country for a while, now it's Spain, the hardest hit country in Europe was Italy.
00:05:14.000They had 27,000 deaths, slightly more deaths than New York State, but they have three times the population, it's 60 million, so they only have 453 deaths per million in Italy, as opposed to 1,180 deaths per million in New York State.
00:05:35.000If you take New York State out of the calculation, which again, because it is so outside the sort of normal distribution, you can make an argument for.
00:05:43.000If you were to do that, the rest of the United States looks like Germany or Canada.
00:05:46.000So the idea that this is equally devastated every part of the United States is obviously untrue.
00:05:50.000A national policy would be a disaster.
00:05:51.000Second of all, this does raise some questions about the governance in New York, where supposedly Andrew Cuomo was hero of the day.
00:05:57.000I remember when the media did the same thing after Hurricane Katrina, declaring that, I believe it was Kathleen Blanco was the governor of Louisiana at the time, was suddenly a wonderful governor and Mayor Ray Nagin, who's a horrible mayor of New Orleans, By calling his city a chocolate city that had been taken revenge upon by the federal government when he was telling people not to leave the city in the middle of the hurricane.
00:06:16.000And the media made him out to be a hero because Bush had to be the bad guy.
00:06:20.000It's media malpractice what has gone on in terms of how Trump has been treated and the Trump administration have been treated versus how the New York state government has been treated and the New York local government has been treated.
00:06:29.000It is absolute journalistic malpractice.
00:06:31.000If there were a Republican governor of New York, the whining would never stop.
00:06:39.000The media are angrier at Brian Kemp for telling people they can reopen their barber shops than they are at Andrew Cuomo in New York who didn't shut down the state until late March and Bill de Blasio who's going out in public and telling people that they could go about their business through mid-March.
00:06:56.000First, let's talk about the fact that Mother's Day is approaching.
00:06:58.000It's kind of hard to see mom right now, but mom should be able to see you.
00:07:01.000And I don't mean just like how you are now.
00:07:03.000I mean, mom should be able to look at all of the old memories.
00:07:05.000She should be able to take all that stuff that's in the garage that is just moldering out there, all those old family films, and she should be able to view them and enjoy them.
00:07:11.000It really is important at this time to forge stronger family connections.
00:07:16.000Legacy Box is a super simple mail-in service to have all your home movies and pictures digitally preserved on a thumb drive, DVD, or the cloud.
00:07:22.000I can't think of anything more moving as a parent.
00:08:17.000Really a meaningful and fantastic gift.
00:08:21.000The United States has indeed, according to the New York Times, surpassed one million known coronavirus cases.
00:08:26.000The bleak milestone, according to the New York Times, is yet another sign of how the virus has upended life in America, taking lives, destroying family, spreading through meat plants and nursing homes, prisons, forcing businesses and schools to close.
00:08:36.000The true number of infections is much higher than one million, of course.
00:08:40.000Roughly one out of every 330 people in the U.S.
00:08:42.000has now tested positive for the virus.
00:08:44.000Now, there's good news here and there's bad news.
00:08:45.000The good news is, the bad news is this thing spreads really fast.
00:08:48.000Because we've been in lockdown and still we have huge numbers.
00:08:51.000Probably five to ten million people in the United States have already gotten coronavirus.
00:08:54.000The good news is that that means that we are actually getting fairly close to herd immunity in certain areas of New York, which is a good thing.
00:09:01.000I mean, that's what you're aiming for.
00:09:03.000At a certain point, you're going to have to aim for herd immunity.
00:09:05.000Herd immunity is basically a vaccine, right?
00:09:08.000Herd immunity is you reach the level at which the reproduction rate of a virus is less than one because so many people have already had the virus.
00:09:15.000And for all the people right now who are saying, well, there's no guarantee that antibodies confer immunity.
00:09:19.000If antibodies don't confer immunity, why are we spending all of our time looking for a vaccine?
00:09:23.000A vaccine just allows you to build up your antibodies to a particular disease.
00:09:26.000So if you're putting all your faith in a vaccine and at the same time shouting from the rooftops that antibodies don't confer immunity, I don't know exactly what you are waiting for.
00:09:33.000At that point, you better just throw up your hands and go out and enjoy your life, right?
00:10:19.000Illinois has been a little bit softer in terms of the number of increased deaths.
00:10:23.000Maryland has basically been kind of on par, actually, and Colorado has been nearly on par.
00:10:28.000According to the New York Times, if you look at the provisional deaths from all causes, death counts in New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Massachusetts, Illinois, Maryland, and Colorado have spiked far above their normal levels for the period.
00:10:38.000In New York City, the home of the biggest outbreak, the number of deaths over this period is more than three times the normal number.
00:10:43.000Recent data suggests it could have reached six times higher than normal.
00:10:47.000And that means that there would be a significant undercount on the number of deaths from March 8th to April 11th.
00:10:52.000The gap could have been up to 2,000 people in New York City.
00:10:55.000It could have been up to 3,000 people in New Jersey.
00:10:57.000The statewide could have been another 700 people in Illinois.
00:11:02.000These numbers aren't enough to change the overall infection fatality rate of this thing, which is probably between 0.5 and 0.6 according to best available data, which means it is significantly deadlier than the flu, as we've been saying.
00:11:11.000It is also significantly more transmissible than the flu.
00:11:13.000It is not 3.4 or 4% as the WHO was originally suggesting.
00:11:19.000It means that it will continue to be out there and will continue to kill people.
00:11:22.000Unless there's a therapeutic that comes about.
00:11:23.000Now, we're expecting some news from Gilead Sciences a little bit later today about that Remdesivir, which is that drug that they were purporting to put out there.
00:11:30.000There was some good news a couple of weeks ago, suggestions that it had been effective.
00:11:33.000Then there was a study that was canceled in China that was suggesting it wasn't as effective.
00:11:36.000We're going to find out whether there's a therapeutic on the way, which would be great.
00:11:39.000But one thing to keep in mind, this thing is still out there.
00:11:54.000That's the purpose of the lockdown, I thought.
00:11:55.000People who are surprised that there's a spike in cases after the lockdown, I honestly don't know what they were thinking.
00:12:00.000I've been saying for weeks that all the models were flawed because they didn't expect a second wave.
00:12:04.000Well, if a lockdown is designed to prevent us from going out and infecting each other, and then the lockdown ends because the original lockdown was designed not only to prevent us from infecting each other, but to stop us from infecting each other for a specific purpose, namely to not swamp the healthcare system, When we relieve the lockdown, people will be in more contact with one another, and then there will be a spike in cases.
00:12:23.000The question isn't whether there's a spike in cases.
00:12:24.000Without a vaccine, of course there will be.
00:12:26.000And again, the good news is, the more people get it, the better the chances that we eventually reach herd immunity.
00:12:51.000All we can do is be cautious, try and spread this out over time, which is why social distancing and masks matter and all of the rest of this.
00:12:58.000But the notion that we are going to avoid an increase in the number of cases, like everyone knows there's going to be an increase in the number of cases.
00:13:04.000That's why I'm constantly shocked by the way people treat this thing online.
00:13:16.000And it served its actual purpose, which was to stop the overwhelming of the health care system.
00:13:19.000We'll talk about Florida in just a second, because people are using this as an excuse.
00:13:22.000They set up an expectation that cannot be met by reality, that when people go out again, you're going to be somehow safer than you were when you went back in.
00:14:40.000Okay, so New York is already planning for all of this, as they should.
00:14:44.000Florida is seeing a spike in cases, according to the Miami Herald.
00:14:50.000Florida's Department of Health on Tuesday confirmed 708 additional cases of COVID-19, bringing the state's total of confirmed cases to 32,846.
00:14:56.000There were 83 new deaths announced, the highest reported on a single day.
00:15:00.000That brought the statewide total to just over 1,000.
00:15:03.000Well, that's not great, but that is not nearly the original forecast.
00:15:06.000There's going to be four or five thousand dead in Florida.
00:15:09.000So, are there going to be additional infections?
00:15:12.000Also, you shouldn't really look at the death numbers because the death numbers lag.
00:15:16.000And when you look at the death numbers, you're looking at infections from two weeks ago.
00:15:19.000That's when people are dying after lingering, unfortunately, for a week or two in the hospital.
00:15:23.000Tuesday's number of new cases in Florida is the highest the state has seen in the past three days.
00:15:28.000Saturday was the lowest, when the state reported a total of 306 new cases and nine deaths, which was a steep decline of new daily cases and deaths not seen since late March.
00:15:36.000That was likely caused by the Florida Department of Health changing its system of providing updates.
00:15:39.000So that was not actually a change in the underlying data.
00:15:42.000It's just they changed how they were providing the updates.
00:15:43.000But people are using this as an excuse to be like, well, if we end the lockdown, everything is going to go hog wild.
00:15:56.000And that does not change the calculation here.
00:15:58.000New York has apparently set up a circuit breaker.
00:16:01.000Andrew Cuomo says that if either the hospital system in an area of the state hits 70% of capacity, or if the rate of transmission reaches 1.1, meaning for every person who has the virus, another 1.1 are infected, then that would constitute what he called a circuit breaker.
00:16:13.000The statewide transmission rate is about 0.8%, meaning less than one person is infected.
00:16:18.000He said we want to do it without infecting more people or overwhelming the hospital system.
00:16:21.000Well, that first one is not going to happen.
00:16:24.000Overwhelming the hospital system, that's the one you can stop.
00:16:32.000Social distancing will help to lower that, but that's just the way things are going to go.
00:16:36.000The only thing you can really control is whether people are going to overwhelm the hospital system.
00:16:40.000That's where the circuit breaker should exist.
00:16:42.000Dr. Deborah Birx yesterday at the White House, she said, listen, we understand there's going to be Increased infections.
00:16:47.000And we are ready for a second wave if a second wave should occur.
00:16:51.000Our job right now and our job in the White House to ensure that we are ready for anything that happens in the fall.
00:16:57.000Whether it's testing, whether it's PPE, whether it's ventilators, whether it's a complete surveillance system that understands that we have to track for asymptomatics as well as symptomatic individuals.
00:17:09.000All of those pieces need to accelerate and expand to be ready for the fall.
00:17:15.000Okay, so she's getting ready for the fall.
00:17:16.000Dr. Fauci also says that everyone who needs a test will be able to get one by late May or June.
00:17:21.000Again, the testing doesn't really change the outcome here because once you're tested, the treatment is exactly the same whether you were tested or not.
00:17:26.000If you go to the hospital and you're having trouble breathing, You will get a test and then you will get treatment.
00:17:32.000Even if you test positive for COVID-19, that's probably not going to change anything except you're going to stay home.
00:17:37.000But we've already told people, if you have a cough and you have a fever, you're supposed to be staying home anyway.
00:17:40.000So the tests actually don't change all that much other than if you have some sort of contact tracing that can be put in place to tell people around you that they need to stay home, even if they're asymptomatic.
00:17:50.000That could help, again, prevent the fast spread and overwhelming the healthcare system.
00:17:55.000But I keep reiterating the same point.
00:18:01.000Sweden will not see a second wave because they didn't do the lockdown in the first place.
00:18:05.000Sweden, which it's amazing to watch, right?
00:18:07.000The New York Times swiveled on a dime.
00:18:08.000There are two separate articles in the New York Times today talking about how maybe Sweden did this right.
00:18:12.000After weeks of suggesting that Sweden was a disaster area, there's an article in the New York Times today talking about how Sweden may have done this right because there won't be a second wave.
00:18:48.000Sweden looks like they're going to be okay because nothing is going to change there because nothing changed there in the first place in terms of people locking down permanently.
00:18:56.000Where you are going to see the spikes are where people lock down permanently.
00:18:59.000We artificially suppressed the numbers and now the numbers are going to spike again.
00:19:02.000Maybe the artificial suppression was necessary so we didn't overwhelm the system.
00:19:05.000But I've been saying for weeks, we were all going to become Sweden.
00:20:44.000They're bad people because they opened up.
00:20:47.000And then the media have a rooting interest.
00:20:48.000And it seems that that rooting interest definitely aligns with D versus R. Because the perfect proof of this, by the way, is Jared Polis in Colorado is starting to open up.
00:20:56.000He's not getting anywhere near the kind of flack that other governors who have an R next to their name are getting.
00:21:00.000And we're going to get to New York in just a second.
00:21:02.000Because by the way, the deaths per million in New York state is really high.
00:21:07.000The deaths in New York City per million are astonishing.
00:21:10.000The deaths per million in New York City are absolutely crazy.
00:21:14.000How many deaths have there been in New York City proper from COVID-19?
00:21:19.000I believe there have been about 12,000 deaths in New York City to date from COVID-19.
00:22:29.000And I'll give you an example of how the media really treats the mayor and the governor with kid gloves because their activities over the last 24 hours, on a political level, would kill any Republican who attempted this kind of stuff.
00:22:42.000First, let's talk about the fact that right now is probably not the time you want to be going out to the auto parts store.
00:22:47.000You don't want to be standing in line.
00:22:48.000And then, even if you could, the auto parts store is probably overcharging you.
00:22:51.000They're giving you a generic part that doesn't actually fit your car.
00:22:54.000Instead, you should be checking out rockauto.com.
00:22:57.000RockAuto.com always offers the lowest possible prices rather than changing prices based on what the markets will bear like the airlines do.
00:23:04.000Why would you spend up to twice as much for the same parts?
00:23:05.000You will really get the rock-bottom prices at RockAuto.com.
00:23:09.000Chain stores have different price tiers for professional mechanics and do-it-yourselfers.
00:23:12.000RockAuto.com's prices are the same for everybody.
00:23:39.000Okay, so let's talk about New York now.
00:23:40.000Because somehow, the governor of New York was able to escape responsibility for the fact that his state has been a complete bleep show since the very beginning.
00:23:45.000He was calling for 30-40,000 ventilators.
00:23:45.000helps them go check out rockauto.com and get your car part for the best available price.
00:23:50.000Okay, so let's talk about New York now, because somehow the governor of New York was able to escape responsibility for the fact that his state has been a complete bleep show since the very beginning.
00:23:58.000He was calling for 30,000, 40,000 ventilators.
00:24:00.000They didn't end up needing one third of that.
00:24:03.000When Trump said that he didn't think that's what the numbers would end up being, he was ripped up How dare he say that?
00:24:08.000Because it was pretty obvious that they weren't actually going to need those kind of numbers.
00:24:12.000And you want to say that Cuomo was bargaining with Trump for the ventilators?
00:24:15.000He was bargaining against other states for the ventilators.
00:24:18.000Andrew Cuomo didn't shut down the state until late March.
00:24:20.000For all the talk about Trump was late on the game, Trump issued his 15 days to slow the spread.
00:24:26.000I believe it was March 15th, March 16th.
00:24:30.000Cuomo didn't shut down the state until March 23rd.
00:24:33.000Mayor de Blasio is going around in early March telling people they should go out and celebrate their lives in New York and everything was hunky-dory.
00:24:39.000Somehow, these public officials escaped the censure of the media.
00:24:44.000Well, because the Democratic agenda here is to blame it all on the federal government, just like Hurricane Katrina, where it's up to the state of New Orleans to control the safety of the citizens of the state of New Orleans.
00:24:52.000And I say this as a resident of California.
00:24:54.000I think Gavin Newsom's a garbage governor.
00:24:55.000I think he's going too far right now in a lot of his shutdown orders.
00:24:58.000I think that a lot of what he's saying is insane.
00:25:00.000But guess what didn't happen in California?
00:27:07.000Like, everything that people say about Trump, and how Trump didn't take this seriously enough, he's not the governor of the state that actually had this outbreak.
00:27:14.000He's the president of the United States.
00:27:16.000He didn't handle this well at the very beginning.
00:27:19.000But you know who handled it a lot worse?
00:27:21.000The state that actually got swamped here.
00:27:22.000Here's Andrew Cuomo, you know, basically lying by omission here, saying, yeah, I didn't blow the bugle in December or January.
00:28:05.000And then Cuomo was asked about, you know, the fact that you were late on the game here, and Cuomo's like, governors don't do pandemics, that's a national issue.
00:28:12.000Because it seems like you have been credited with Doing a wonderful job in New York, despite the fact that you have not actually done a wonderful job in New York.
00:28:19.000It turns out that we have a federalist system and that not every state is similarly situated.
00:28:23.000So it's pretty convenient that you're able to suggest that you are in control.
00:28:26.000It's local control when you want it to be local control and national control when it's national control.
00:28:29.000Remember, I'm being perfectly even-handed on this point.
00:28:32.000When Trump said, this is up to the states, and then he said, no, I have national control.
00:28:38.000Well, the same thing holds true for Cuomo.
00:28:40.000You don't get to do, pandemics are a national issue, they're not my state's issue, when you can issue state shutdown orders, and when you suggest to President Trump, get out of the state's business.
00:28:49.000So here's Andrew Cuomo trying to evade responsibility.
00:28:52.000Governors don't do global pandemics, right?
00:28:56.000But there's a whole international, national health community would do that.
00:29:31.000And the members of the media are like, well, we wrote an editorial about this in early February saying coronavirus was a problem, and don't you remember Joe Biden writing an editorial for USA Today in late January?
00:29:40.000Okay, so why is it that when Cuomo says it, it's totally fine?
00:29:43.000And the media are like, oh, well, great, America's governor.
00:29:45.000And then when Trump says the exact same thing, it's, that man downplays his own responsibility for this.
00:29:52.000And not only that, it's Cuomo's garbage policies like, hey look, an elderly person came in with COVID-19, let's send them back to their nursing home.
00:30:01.000It is Cuomo's policy of treating his entire state as a unitary body, as opposed to, hey wait a second, maybe upstate New York with a population density that doesn't even look like the population density of New York City may not be exactly like New York City.
00:30:27.000Liberally governed areas have a serious homeless problem, not only because urban areas tend to draw homeless folks, but also because these cities have refused to crack down on the homeless, largely at the behest of Democrats, who have suggested it is a civil right to sleep on the streets.
00:30:39.000This has been a problem for a very long time.
00:30:41.000Only now are governors like Andrew Cuomo discovering that it's actually a bad thing to let mentally ill people sleep on the streets in their own filth.
00:30:48.000Only now are they discovering this is a bad thing.
00:30:50.000But listen to the language that Andrew Cuomo uses here.
00:30:52.000Because Andrew Cuomo uses language about the homeless people sleeping on the subways.
00:30:56.000If any Republican used this language, that person would be out of a job.
00:31:01.000That is disgusting, what is happening on those subway cars.
00:31:08.000It's disrespectful to the essential workers who need to ride the subway system.
00:31:14.000Upstate New York need to ride the buses to get to work.
00:31:19.000They deserve better and they will have better.
00:31:22.000We have to have a public transportation system that is clean, where the trains are disinfected, You have homeless people on trains.
00:31:31.000It's not even safe for the homeless people to be on trains.
00:31:35.000Okay, so I agree with him that it's actually a bad situation for homeless people to be on trains.
00:31:40.000In fact, I believe that it's a bad situation for homeless people to be homeless, meaning that you should not be allowed to sleep on the streets.
00:31:48.000When New York was not turning back into a garbage heap under Bill de Blasio, by the way, so did Michael Bloomberg.
00:31:52.000Michael Bloomberg agreed with that also.
00:31:54.000But to use the word disgusting in conjunction here, is there any doubt that if a Republican had said this, the headline would have been, Republican governor.
00:32:51.000The man Not only is a hypocrite who was going to the YMCA in the middle of the pandemic while shutting down gyms and now apparently jets on over to Prospect Park in Brooklyn because he likes walking over there first.
00:33:02.000So he actually takes the city transport over there and then he walks around over there and doesn't socially distance according to the New York Post.
00:33:08.000Not only that, Bill de Blasio's take on social distancing.
00:33:11.000This is a man who suggests that he stands against anti-Semitism in New York.
00:33:14.000Wait till you see what Bill de Blasio had to say over the last 24 hours.
00:33:19.000No other group would be treated by Bill de Blasio the way the Jews in New York are being treated by Bill de Blasio.
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00:35:17.000Enter promo code Ben at checkout for that 20% All right, so we're going to get to Bill de Blasio, the worst mayor in America, bar none, without a doubt.
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00:38:35.000There were members of the Orthodox community, by the way, who were going around and telling people they needed to socially distance or get off the street.
00:38:40.000So, all this led Bill de Blasio, who's a terrible person, to tweet this out.
00:38:45.000He tweeted out yesterday, my message to the Jewish community and all communities is this simple.
00:41:04.000And let me point out that failure to abide by social distancing standards has no specific race and no specific religion because it is not tied to race or religion.
00:41:15.000I'll also note that Bill de Blasio is fostering a program to give out free Ramadan meals, something like 500 Ramadan meals at 30 sites.
00:41:25.000At 30 sites, I would imagine that's going to be kind of tough in terms of the social distancing.
00:41:28.000Putting all of that aside, can you imagine if Bill de Blasio said, You know, we have higher rates of transmission in the black community.
00:41:34.000So I'm telling the black community right now in New York City, if you don't stop social, if you don't stop gathering in large crowds, we're going to send the NYPD to arrest you.
00:41:42.000Would Bill de Blasio ever say that about black folks in New York City?
00:42:34.000Most people are not doing idiotic things.
00:42:36.000But to single out the Jewish community, again, would any mayor in the United States ever single out the black community for social gatherings like this one?
00:44:11.000hit a grim milestone of one million cases of the coronavirus.
00:44:15.000Back in late February, you predicted that the number of cases would go down to zero.
00:44:20.000How did we get from your prediction of zero to one million?
00:44:25.000Well, it will go down to zero, ultimately.
00:44:27.000And you have to understand, when it comes to cases, we do much more testing than anybody else.
00:44:31.000So we could go to some of these other countries, you know, as an example, China.
00:44:36.000If you test, you're going to show many more cases.
00:44:40.000So this is, you know, obviously the media attempting to play this game.
00:44:44.000They did it yesterday also with regard to Mike Pence.
00:44:46.000So Mike Pence went to the Mayo Clinic, and he didn't wear a mask at the Mayo Clinic.
00:44:50.000And everybody else was wearing a mask at the Mayo Clinic.
00:44:52.000And the Associated Press reported, Vice President Mike Pence chose not to wear a face mask Tuesday during a tour of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, in apparent violation of the world-renowned medical center's policy requiring them.
00:45:03.000Video feeds show that Pence didn't wear a mask when he met with a Mayo employee who has recovered from COVID-19 and is now donating plasma.
00:45:09.000He was also maskless when he visited a lab where a male conducts coronavirus tests.
00:45:13.000He was the only participant not to wear a mask during a roundtable discussion.
00:45:16.000All the other participants did, including the FDA chief, Stephen Hahn.
00:45:20.000Top Mayo officials, Governor Tim Walz and U.S.
00:45:22.000Representative Jim Hagedorn is all over in Minnesota.
00:45:26.000First of all, quick note, one of the costs that people have not been talking about is the Mayo Clinic, which is one of the finest medical institutions on planet Earth, had to cut tens of thousands of jobs, apparently, because people are not being allowed to do, quote-unquote, elective surgeries, which in many cases are not supremely elective, simply because of COVID-19.
00:45:41.000Now, people are very, very angry at Pence for not wearing the mask.
00:45:45.000Why did Pence say that he didn't wear the mask?
00:45:46.000He says, as vice president of the United States, I'm tested for coronavirus on a regular basis.
00:45:50.000Everyone around me is tested for coronavirus.
00:45:52.000Since I don't have it, I thought it'd be a good opportunity for me to be here to be able to speak to researchers.
00:45:56.000These incredible healthcare personnel look them in the eye and say, thank you.
00:45:59.000Now, the real reason that he's not wearing the mask is, of course, because he wants a picture of himself at the Mayo Clinic, right?
00:46:03.000I mean, this is how politicians treat the media.
00:46:06.000Nancy Pelosi is on the floor of the House, wiping her nose and putting it on the podium, right?
00:46:09.000I mean, really, there's video of her doing that.
00:46:56.000gentlemen, I just want to make it clear that South Korea's testing was 11 per Okay, well, one of the things I love most about that is that Burks is like the A student in the class, and Trump is just a D student, and he's sitting in the back like, yeah, how about you, Yahoo?
00:47:13.000That's why nobody knows who you are, including me.
00:48:00.000So today is, in fact, Yom Ha'atzmuth, an Israeli Independence Day.
00:48:03.000That is a very good thing for the world because the only democracy in the Middle East is the Jewish state.
00:48:07.000And by the way, it's one of the great success stories in world history.
00:48:10.000The Jews, a people who have been persecuted for several thousand years, regaining their historic homeland in the middle of the 20th century after the destruction of European Jewry at the rate of six million people, nearly half of world Jewry, murdered in forests and shot down in gas chambers and concentration camps.
00:48:26.000And the state of Israel is an amazing, amazing place.
00:48:34.000Colton, who is my producer, came with me to Israel when we went last year.
00:48:37.000And it doesn't matter whether you're Christian or whether you're Jewish or whether you're Muslim, Israel's an unbelievable place.
00:48:41.000It is an incredible, incredible place.
00:48:43.000All the people who hate Israel don't know a damn thing about it.
00:48:45.000All the people who suggest that it's very bad for there to be a Jewish state.
00:48:48.000There are lots of Christian states in Europe.
00:48:50.000The fact that there is one state that is reserved for the Jewish religion as the official religion of the state of Israel, that is a very good thing, considering the long history of persecution of the Jews.
00:49:01.000It's very interesting how, for 2,000 years, there was no Jewish state, and Jews were persecuted.
00:49:05.000Now, there's a Jewish state, and people are like, you know the reason that people hate Jews?
00:49:31.000Because in Europe, guess where Jews are fleeing as the anti-Semitism rises?
00:49:35.000If America stays America, America is the greatest country in the world for Jews.
00:49:39.000But as it stands, you know, if America moves in another direction, the final hope for the safety of Jews will always be in a Jewish state that is able to protect Jews all over the world.
00:50:22.000Gilead made the announcement in a statement on Wednesday stating, we understand that the trial has met its primary endpoint.
00:50:27.000The company said that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will provide data at an upcoming briefing.
00:50:33.000The government-run studies show that the medicine is effective against COVID-19.
00:50:37.000So this particular study is the most important and rigorously designed test of remdesivir in COVID-19.
00:50:45.000The study compared remdesivir to placebo in 800 patients, with neither patients nor physicians knowing who got the drug instead of the placebo, so there shouldn't be any unconscious biases affecting the conclusions.
00:50:56.000The main goal of the study is the time until patients improve with different measures of improvement depending on how sick they were to begin with.
00:51:02.000Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner, said that this should now be added to the emergency use authorization for the toolbox.
00:51:08.000He said remdesivir isn't a home run, but looks active and can be part of a toolbox of drugs and diagnostics that substantially lower our risk heading into the fall.
00:51:16.000Remdesivir, which must be given intravenously, is likely to remain a treatment for patients who are hospitalized, but it's also likely it will be the most effective in patients who have been infected more recently rather than less.
00:51:27.000Gilead on Wednesday did release data from its own study of remdesivir in patients with severe COVID-19.
00:51:32.000The study showed similar rates of clinical improvement in patients treated with a 5-day and 10-day course of remdesivir.
00:51:39.000So they said that it may be possible to treat patients with a 5-day treatment of remdesivir, not the 10-day course that was originally used.
00:51:45.000Data disclosed Thursday are from 397 patients.
00:51:50.000The study didn't reveal much about how well it's working, but the conclusion is that there are basically two durations of treatment and there is some level of efficacy.
00:52:01.000Hopefully we'll see some new stats on all of this.
00:52:04.000Patients in the trial generally lived.
00:52:07.0008% of patients treated with 5 days of remdesivir died, compared to 11% of the patients treated for 10 days.
00:52:13.000Outside of Italy, where 77 patients were treated, the overall mortality rate across the entire study was 7%, which is lower than those seen in other studies which have been in the teens or 20s.
00:52:23.000So hopefully this will be a A drug added to the toolbox, new therapeutics, we will hope, coming out every day.
00:52:33.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:52:40.000So let's look for a second at the 2020 race.
00:52:43.000So Justin Amash, the libertarian from Michigan, announced that he is going to run for president on a third-party ticket, which means that his immediate family and the remaining quote-unquote never-Trumpers will probably vote for him.
00:52:55.000He is not actually a threat to win a severe number, a significant number of votes in this election.
00:53:02.000President Trump has high approval ratings among Republicans.
00:53:04.000The Democrats are going to be able to get out their base.
00:53:05.000I do not see a lot of room for a Libertarian in this election cycle.
00:53:08.000Libertarians blew last time around when there was widespread dissatisfaction with both candidates.
00:53:12.000I don't think that he's going to have much of a shot here.
00:53:16.000On policy, I tend to like Justin Amash.
00:53:18.000I like many of the things he has said, but he does not have a constituency at this point outside of his congressional district.
00:53:23.000And so the idea that this is going to radically change the race is very silly.
00:53:26.000I also do not like the idea on the right of third party candidates in this particular election.
00:53:30.000The reason being, it is going to create a narrative that I think is absolutely false, which is that if you do not vote for Justin Amash, it is because you embrace every aspect of President Trump.
00:53:40.000It's because you love all of the bad things about him.
00:53:44.000A lot of people just think that Justin Amash ain't going to be president, and I'm going to vote for Trump against Biden.
00:53:49.000That is the logic, I would think, of most Republicans, including most libertarians who vote Republican.
00:53:53.000They're saying, why would I throw away my vote on a Justin Amash when I could be voting in a close-fought election that really is going to decide a lot about the future of our country, specifically because the pandemic has shifted the internal politics of the country fairly dramatically.
00:55:36.000Did a little bit of an endorsement video with Hillary Clinton yesterday.
00:55:41.000He had her on his silly podcast from his basement, and he says he's going to go to her for advice, which is probably the worst thing you can do.
00:55:51.000She thanked him, by the way, for being able to talk with him from his basement.
00:55:57.000No, the last time Hillary Clinton was in a basement, it was with a wrench and Jeffrey Epstein was there.
00:56:00.000In any case, here was Joe Biden saying he's going to keep calling Hillary for advice, which is pretty much the worst thing you can do in a presidential election.
00:56:09.000I want to thank Hillary for joining us in this conversation today.
00:56:12.000And Hillary, I'm going to keep calling and asking for your advice.
00:56:17.000The coronavirus is shining a bright light on the equities in our country, and there's so much work to do.
00:56:22.000But I have no doubt we can meet these challenges brought on by this virus if we work together.
00:56:52.000I assume he's just looking down at his notes or something, but it looks very much as though Joe Biden has gone comatose in the middle of this interview.
00:56:59.000But the first prong, again, is that he is going to propose radical solutions at the same time claiming that he is a return to status quo anti.
00:57:06.000Here he was yesterday with Hillary, and Hillary was saying, we can achieve health justice from this crisis.
00:57:10.000Basically, the Rahm Emanuel thing, right?
00:57:12.000It's a crisis, and if we didn't achieve health justice on the back of a pandemic, we would be blowing the opportunity.
00:57:53.000We should never let a good crisis go to waste.
00:57:54.000You know, like 75,000 Americans dying.
00:57:57.000That's a great opportunity for us to completely bankrupt our private healthcare system that has been extraordinarily responsive.
00:58:03.000That's a great opportunity for us to do Medicare for All, which has been working perfectly in France and the UK and in Italy, all of which have nationalized healthcare systems, and all of which have a worse rate of death per million than the United States, by the way.
00:59:15.000Survivors have a right to speak their truth and be given the space to heal.
00:59:20.000The inconvenient truth is that this story is impacting us differently because it hits at the heart of one of the most important elections of our lifetime.
00:59:26.000And I hate to disappoint you, but I don't really have easy answers.
00:59:46.000In a just world, we'd have a transformative approach to dealing with claims of sexual violence where a survivor's story is given fair consideration and they are made whole by a process that supports both accountability and healing.
00:59:55.000Well, that's a lot of words that mean nothing.
01:00:44.000Okay, so we can't say credibly accused about Tara Reade for some reason.
01:00:47.000And then I love the fact that she's like, well, you know, we can't trust people who are asking questions because their motives are bad.
01:00:52.000Oh, because the motives of people asking about Brett Kavanaugh were absolutely great.
01:00:55.000The same people who were saying they wouldn't vote For Brett Kavanaugh, if their choice were voting for Brett Kavanaugh or being thrown into a flaming hot lava pit, those same people, their motives were absolutely pure in taking Christine Blasey Ford at face value.
01:01:10.000Many of you are only interested in this story because you are entertained by the trauma of others, or because it has the potential to be politically expedient, with no real regard for the survivor.
01:01:18.000Because if you had regard for the survivor, it seems like you'd be taking her story super seriously.
01:01:21.000But right now, it seems like you're kind of dismissing her story because you like Joe Biden.
01:01:24.000Isn't that really what's going on here?
01:01:26.000Isn't this just a variation of the Nina Burleigh argument that was made in 1998 during the Lewinsky scandal, in which Nina Burleigh, who was, I believe, writing for Time Magazine at the time, said that she would do what Lewinsky did to keep abortion legal.
01:01:37.000Tarana Burke says, on the one hand, Tara Reade has been afforded the opportunity to speak her truth through mainstream media reporting on her claims and ongoing investigative journalism.
01:01:53.000She should have been able to come forward in a process where she was treated fairly in a trusted system.
01:01:57.000Instead, like other public survivors before her, she had to rely on journalists in order to be heard, precisely because the system for survivors are not in place.
01:02:03.000You know who she should have gone to is you, Tarana Burke, and then maybe you should become a variety- You're the Me Too Lady!
01:02:10.000And you're like, well, you know, this is a complicated issue.
01:02:12.000I find it very difficult to believe that Tarana Burke would find this quite so complicated if her political interests were not impugned here.
01:02:19.000She says, on the other hand, the defense of Joe Biden shouldn't rest on whether he's a good guy or our only hope.
01:02:22.000Instead, he could demonstrate what it looks like to be both accountable and electable.
01:02:51.000We don't have a guidebook for this, in part because it would take a willingness from all of us to write it.
01:02:56.000Survivors deserve more than being used as a political football by disinterested parties and a culture of acknowledging harm can't exist if we continue to view sexual violence as a catastrophic outlier rather than an embedded toxic element of our culture.
01:03:06.000So basically that is, I'm not going to condemn Joe Biden because I like Joe Biden and I want him to be the president.
01:03:10.000Speaking of people who want Joe Biden to be the president, Stacey Abrams.
01:03:13.000So Justin Amash announced he's going to run for president.
01:03:15.000My friend Seth Mandel had the best tweet on this.
01:03:17.000He said, immediately Stacey Abrams signs her application because Stacey Abrams is unemployed at the moment and she's desperate to be the vice president.
01:03:24.000And Joe Biden apparently is taking a look at her mainly because he has some pretty bad numbers among black Americans, shockingly.
01:03:29.000Donald Trump actually has cut into the black vote share.
01:03:33.000So Stacey Abrams told the Huffington Post in an email.
01:03:38.000The allegations have been heard and looked into.
01:03:40.000For too many women often, that's not the case.
01:03:41.000The New York Times conducted a thorough investigation.
01:03:43.000Nothing in the Times review or any other later reports suggests anything other than what I already know about Joe Biden, that he will make women proud as the next president of the United States.
01:04:59.000So, Kirsten Gillibrand, the crap senator from New York.
01:05:02.000Who basically came out against Al Franken and forced him to step down over allegations that he was grabbing women's boobs while they were asleep.
01:05:09.000And then she also came out against Brett Kavanaugh and suggested his life should be ruined because of all this.
01:05:14.000And she said that if she'd been around in politics in like the late 90s, then she probably would have gone up against the Clintons and she would have told the Clintons that Bill needed to leave.
01:05:23.000That was after Hillary Clinton supported her and after she took all of their support.
01:05:26.000Now, Kristen Gillibrand's like, You know who needs due process?
01:05:58.000When we say, believe women, it's for this explicit intention of making sure there's space for all women to come forward, to speak their truth, to be heard.
01:06:09.000And in this allegation, that is what Tara Reade has done.
01:06:14.000She has come forward, she has spoken, and they've done an investigation in several outlets.
01:06:22.000He's devoted his life to supporting women, and he has vehemently denied this allegation.
01:06:29.000Well, that is an amazing shift in position there, Kirsten Gillibrand.
01:06:34.000And I would be surprised by that, except that you play political twister basically every single day, which is why you got zero votes in the Democratic primaries for president.
01:06:42.000One of the most lovely things was watching Kirsten Gillibrand twist herself into A gender studies major to Wellesley in order to run for president and then completely fall in on herself like a dying star.
01:06:53.000It is even more delicious to watch as she sells out her final principle, the Me Too movement, in order to back Joe Biden to maybe grab a crumb of maybe like a cabinet position.
01:07:02.000He'll make her Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Kirsten Gillibrand.
01:07:29.000If you throw mud at a mud monster, he now just has more mud on him.
01:07:32.000If you throw mud at Joe Biden, and Joe Biden has been portrayed As pure as the driven snow, as clean and as white as a freshly spread bedsheet.