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00:00:00.000Herman Cain dies of COVID, President Trump floats delaying the election, and Democrats and Republicans can't reach a deal on propping up the economy as more Americans join the unemployment rolls.
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00:02:15.000text Ben to 474747. Well the breaking news as of this hour is the death of a former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain. I believe I've interviewed Mr. Cain on a couple of occasions. It really is obviously a sad and tragic story. He was a stage four cancer survivor actually. He died at the age of 74. His death was announced Thursday on his website by Dan Calabrese who edits the site and had previously written about his colleague's diagnosis. Calabrese said, Herman Cain, our boss, our friend, like a father to so many of us, has passed away.
00:02:45.000We all prayed so hard every day. We knew the time would come when the Lord would call him home.
00:02:48.000We really liked having him here with us.
00:02:49.000We held out hope he'd have a full recovery. Survivors include his wife Gloria Etchison and his two children Melanie and Vincent.
00:02:56.000Cain was among the highest profile public figures, according to CNBC, to have died from COVID-19.
00:03:01.000Again, he's a 74-year-old survivor of stage 4 colon cancer.
00:03:06.000And people are dunking on Cain on Twitter because obviously he attended President Trump's rally in Tulsa less than two weeks before being diagnosed with COVID-19.
00:03:14.000He had posted about how he didn't want to wear a mask.
00:03:17.000And this is a rationale for many on the left to dunk on Herman Cain because obviously If somebody whose politics you don't like dies of COVID, then you get to dunk on them.
00:03:24.000That's the way this has been working for quite a while here.
00:03:26.000If somebody posted skepticism on Facebook or Twitter about the extent of the danger of COVID, or if they posted skepticism about masks, then you get to dunk on them if they die.
00:03:34.000It's basically the way that our garbage world works.
00:03:38.000There are plenty of people who are dying of this who have been wearing masks and have been being careful.
00:03:42.000And there are plenty of people in the media who've been quite Shall we say cavalier about the activities in which people should and should not engage, up to and including mass rallies, so long as they're for the public purposes that so many of our elite like.
00:03:55.000So spare me some of the crocodile tears on behalf of Herman Cain from people who really are mostly just not happy with Herman Cain's politics.
00:04:04.000Not even as much as his politics on COVID.
00:04:06.000Mostly they don't like his politics generally.
00:04:11.000It's certainly ugly stuff and very, very bad news.
00:04:13.000Cain had been hospitalized in Atlanta July 1st, two days after being told he had tested positive for COVID-19, according to a statement posted to social media accounts at the time.
00:04:21.000He obviously was in, like, chief demographic territory for risk.
00:04:25.000This has been hitting black men harder than it's been hitting white men.
00:04:28.000It has been hitting people with pre-existing conditions extremely hard, and it's been hitting people above the age of 70 extremely hard.
00:04:35.000He didn't require a respirator and was awake and alert when he checked into the hospital, but it took about a month for all of this to progress.
00:04:42.000Now, there's no evidence that he acquired this at the Trump rally.
00:04:44.000The Trump campaign said that every attendee at the event had their temperature checked upon entry, masks and hand sanitizers were handed out but not required to use.
00:04:52.000The July 2nd statement on Kane's hospitalization said there's no way of knowing for sure how or when Kane contracted the coronavirus.
00:04:58.000The Trump campaign said after his diagnosis, he had not met with the president at the Tulsa rally.
00:05:03.000So, obviously, sad and tragic news and honestly, the kind of dunking on people after they die of COVID is pretty...
00:05:15.000It's especially gross because there's been so much focus placed on mask wearing.
00:05:19.000Now, as you know, I have been an advocate of mask wearing since the sort of professional wisdom suggested that mask wearing was a good idea.
00:05:26.000And there have been several studies that have shown that there's been some sort of minor benefit on an individual level from wearing a mask.
00:05:32.000But if everybody does it, then the aggregate sort of effect is good.
00:05:37.000That said, it's certainly controversial, not just in the United States, but abroad.
00:05:40.000The fact is that the Danish, the Dutch government has already said that they have no plans to mandate masks.
00:05:48.000A minister for medical care, Tamara van Ark, in the Netherlands, said that there was no evidence, actually, that they were effective.
00:05:55.000He said, from a medical perspective, there's no proven effectiveness of masks.
00:05:58.000So the cabinet has decided there will be no national obligation for wearing non-medical masks.
00:06:02.000The head of the Netherlands National Institute for Public Health, a guy named Jaap van Dissel, added that the organization is aware some studies show masks can help slow the spread of the virus, but he argued the evidence is not conclusive and that masks can actually increase the likelihood of transferring the disease if not worn properly.
00:06:16.000He said, we think if you're going to use masks in a public setting, you must give good training for it.
00:06:21.000Health officials in Denmark are also finalizing a study to be released next month on the effectiveness of face masks to determine what the requirements should be going forward.
00:06:29.000Danish health official Henrik Bungaard said, all the countries recommending face masks haven't made their decisions based on new studies.
00:06:35.000He added, the only effective face covering might be a visor because the virus can travel through eyes and cloth masks might provide a false sense of security.
00:06:42.000Dr. Anthony Fauci actually yesterday came out and said that the masks might be enough, maybe we should all start wearing goggles.
00:06:47.000So, there's just not enough known about the mask wearing overall.
00:06:52.000That doesn't mean you shouldn't wear it, right?
00:06:53.000I've been, again, advocating for it because it seems to me if there's an incremental way to prevent the spread of the disease, then you should absolutely do it, even if the evidence is mixed on this thing at best.
00:07:04.000With that said, to dunk on somebody because they weren't a fan of mask wearing after they died of COVID is pretty gross.
00:07:10.000Again, I assume there are a lot of people there.
00:07:13.000We had 1,500 deaths of COVID yesterday in the United States.
00:07:15.000I assume some of those people wore masks.
00:07:17.000It turns out this thing is really, really transmissible, and it may transfer via the eyes, not just the nose and mouth.
00:07:22.000So, before you start dunking on people, recognize that everyone can be dunked on.
00:07:27.000Honestly, I think the dunking on people for dying of COVID is a way for people to dissociate from the possibility that they may catch it themselves.
00:07:33.000If I did all the right things, he did all the wrong things.
00:07:36.000The fact is the death comes for all of us, unfortunately.
00:07:39.000And all of the protective measures that we are taking, none of them is a proof positive guarantee that everything is going to be okay when it comes to COVID.
00:07:45.000This is very, very transmissible and it remains dangerous, particularly in the upper age range with preexisting conditions, as Herman Cain had.
00:07:52.000Well, meanwhile, as I mentioned, there has been this massive spike in the number of reported deaths.
00:07:56.000Yesterday, the United States reported at least 1,444 new coronavirus deaths.
00:08:00.000That was the biggest one day increase in more than two months.
00:08:04.000Every time there's a weekend as the week sort of progresses, basically Mondays are really scanty and then Tuesdays they start to increase.
00:08:10.000Usually Wednesdays are the high point and then they start to recede on Thursdays and Friday in terms of the deaths that are reported.
00:08:16.000A huge number of those deaths came in Texas.
00:08:18.000Texas has been lagging behind Florida and California in terms of death, but Texas reported over 300 deaths yesterday from COVID-19.
00:08:26.000Again, it's not a great surprise considering we've had this enormous Increase in the number of diagnosed cases in the United States and death, as we know, is a lagging indicator.
00:08:33.000Herman Cain's perfect example of this.
00:08:35.000He was diagnosed with coronavirus a month ago.
00:08:36.000He didn't die until today, apparently.
00:08:39.000But obviously all this is bad news and it is placing the shaky economic recovery on even less firm footing.
00:08:46.000Dr. Kavita Patel on MSNBC was saying another shelter-in-place mandate should be considered, which again would basically destroy the economy.
00:08:53.000The chances that we are going to be able to shut this thing down, and that we're going to be able to shut it down until a vaccine is developed, I would say are slim and none.
00:09:01.000All the other countries that have supposedly done an incredible job of this over in Europe are experiencing second waves now, like all of them.
00:09:07.000They're all having to consider new shutdown orders if they don't wish to see this thing increasingly transmitted.
00:09:12.000Many of these countries are saying we're not shutting down, even if there's a low level of consistent Outbreak.
00:09:18.000The fact is that the lockdowns have not proved to be incredibly effective all the way through.
00:09:22.000There's still a lot of factors here that have to be considered.
00:09:25.000If people are social distancing while not locked down, that was happening since early May in places like Florida.
00:09:29.000The spike really happened after Memorial Day and really after all these giant rallies in the streets.
00:09:34.000It's very difficult to attribute exactly where this stuff is coming from.
00:10:24.000There are certain things that suggest you're not taking it seriously.
00:10:27.000If you are getting together in close quarters with people and you're taking no precautions, then you're probably not taking it seriously enough.
00:10:33.000However, I will point out that again, the media was cheering on people in the streets by the millions.
00:10:38.000That's not taking it seriously either.
00:10:40.000So I'm just wondering what taking it seriously constitutes.
00:10:43.000Is the only mark of seriousness that would completely shut down the entire American economy?
00:10:47.000Because that has some pretty significant ramifications as well.
00:10:50.000It's particularly true of young people.
00:10:52.000Now, as I've been saying for literally months, basically since this began, to treat all Americans as equally susceptible to COVID is at the height of anti-scientific foolishness.
00:10:59.000Herman Cain was particularly susceptible to COVID-19.
00:11:04.000Plus he was a black man, which unfortunately for reasons that we really don't understand yet, the death rates, and this is true across Western civilization, there are death gaps between black and white. It's true in Britain, it's true in Canada, it's true in the United States as well.
00:11:17.000So, when we talk about how exactly we trans people back into the population, One of the things the media are trying to do is on the one hand they're trying to say that you're not taking it seriously unless you want to shut down schools.
00:11:28.000On the other hand, you can go out and rally in favor of George Floyd.
00:11:31.000You can't have it all different ways at once.
00:11:33.000The reality is if you want to treat the scientific evidence with the most plausibility, what you recognize is that people who are older and at more risk need to stay home.
00:11:43.000They may be In shape for a shelter at home mandate.
00:11:46.000If you're talking about people under the age of 55, in the United States, under 11,000 people under the age of 55 have died.
00:11:52.000It is not a lot of people under the age of 25.
00:11:53.000Under the age of 25, you're talking about, I believe, still triple digits.
00:11:57.000So, that means people probably should be going back to school.
00:12:01.000And not only should they be going back to school, it is actually imperative they should be going back to school.
00:12:05.000It turns out that the CDC head, Robert Redfield, he suggests that the number of young people who are dying of suicide and overdose is now actually overwhelming the number of people who are young dying of COVID.
00:12:19.000There has been another cost that we've seen, particularly in high schools.
00:12:23.000We're seeing, sadly, far greater suicides now than we are deaths from COVID.
00:12:29.000We're seeing far greater deaths from drug overdose that are above excess that we had as background than we are seeing deaths from COVID.
00:12:40.000Okay, so that is something worth keeping in mind when we are talking about exactly what to do.
00:12:43.000This is also true when we are talking about economic recovery, as we'll get to in just a second.
00:12:48.000I do want to talk about the partisan nature of so much of what's going on right now.
00:12:51.000As I keep pointing out, there's very little partisanship to how COVID affects people.
00:12:56.000There is very little partisanship to how COVID is hitting states.
00:13:00.000What we have seen is there's a lot of partisanship to the media coverage and to political response to COVID.
00:13:05.000So to take a perfect example, everybody yesterday was talking about the number of deaths in Florida.
00:13:10.000It was nearly surpassed by the number of deaths in California.
00:13:13.000California continues to have more than 2,500 more deaths than Florida overall.
00:13:18.000California continues to see a radical uptick in new cases.
00:13:21.000There seems to be no trailing off in California.
00:13:23.000You're starting to see a little bit of a trailing off in Florida, a little bit of a trailing off in Texas.
00:13:27.000You're not seeing anything like that in the state of California.
00:13:30.000In terms of deaths, California had 195 deaths reported yesterday.
00:13:34.000Florida had 216 deaths reported yesterday.
00:13:36.000But apparently we're not really allowed to mention that because California is a blue state.
00:13:39.000Susan Rice, who is desperate to be Joe Biden's vice presidential nominee yesterday, she suggested that all of this is, of course, Trump's fault.
00:13:46.000She was on The View, a repository of all stupidity in the United States.
00:13:49.000And she suggested that if Obama had been running this thing, it would have been wildly different, which, again, the evidence just does not show this.
00:13:54.000Here she was explaining that the Obama administration gave a Pandemics for Dummies playbook to the Trump administration.
00:14:00.000Which, as we will see, is kind of weird since they really did botch the swine flu thing.
00:14:04.000The difference is that the swine flu is not nearly as communicable or as deadly.
00:14:08.000Everybody who knew anything about national security, global health, understood that a pandemic was inevitable.
00:14:15.000I write about it in my book that we were just talking about briefly at the outset.
00:14:20.000We prepared the incoming administration with a pandemic for dummies playbook and a tabletop exercise and so many other briefings.
00:14:28.000So the fault here The tragic loss of 150,000 Americans and counting is on Donald Trump and his gross mishandling of this pandemic.
00:14:40.000Okay, here's a lady who wants to be vice president of the United States, but let's look at the facts on this.
00:14:43.000The fact is that the Obama administration, when it came to swine flu, they did not handle it all that well.
00:14:48.000It just turned out that swine flu is not nearly as deadly in the United States as COVID has been.
00:14:53.000Times reported that after the swine flu epidemic in 2009, a safety equipment industry association and federally sponsored task force both recommended depleted supplies of N95 respirators be replenished by the stockpile.
00:15:30.000We live in a very chaotic, difficult world.
00:15:33.000Human beings have a need to feel in control.
00:15:34.000But the fact is that when it comes to COVID-19, there just ain't that much control.
00:15:37.000You do what you can, and that's pretty much all you can do.
00:15:40.000In a second, we're going to get to the economic fallout, which continues to just be horrendous.
00:15:44.000Meanwhile, Republicans and Democrats arguing over how to shore up the economy while Americans are still In many places banned from being able to work and as COVID-19 continues to tear through various communities in terms of case diagnosis.
00:17:48.000It's going to take a long time to get out.
00:17:50.000And it's going to take longer if we can't get past COVID-19.
00:17:53.000Now we still don't know whether the tailing off that we've started to see in Texas and Florida or the tailing off that we saw in New York is sort of a permanent tailing off or whether as people go back to work and as people get out there again, the thing's going to uptick again as we hit the flu season.
00:18:07.000One of the assumptions of a big second wave during flu season was that there would be a tailing off during the summer thanks to climate.
00:18:12.000That really didn't happen because it was so hot outside, everybody went inside and then air conditioning gave everybody the coronavirus.
00:18:18.000So the assumption was it'll sort of tail off during the summer and then it'll crop up again in the fall.
00:18:50.000The one thing that we do know is that more and more Americans are being added to the unemployment rolls.
00:18:53.000Apparently 1.4 million Americans joined the unemployment rolls again this week, which is really scary stuff.
00:19:00.000And many states still have some form of lockdown in place.
00:19:04.000Obviously, Los Angeles, pretty much all the businesses are still closed.
00:19:08.000There are heavy restrictions on what you can and cannot do in the city of Los Angeles, for example.
00:19:13.000Well, this means that there's been a lot of debate inside Congress about what to do in terms of continuing to prop up the economy and make sure that people who have basically been barred from work by the government are not the ones who take it directly on the chin.
00:19:24.000Republicans have been looking at some sort of measured response and Democrats have been looking at just blowing it out and spending on a variety of idiocies that make no sense at all.
00:19:33.000Now, even the Republicans were looking at spending on kind of random garbage.
00:19:36.000There was talk that President Trump wanted additional funding for federal buildings in the in the quote-unquote stimulus package.
00:19:41.000Again, this is not a stimulus package.
00:19:43.000A stimulus package is when the economy is slow and you just inject money in order to make the economy go.
00:19:47.000It is not when the government has actually created mandates so that you cannot work.
00:19:52.000If the government came and paved over my house, as I've said a million times, if they pave over my house, they have to compensate me.
00:19:58.000This seems to me, effectually, a taking.
00:20:00.000When you have the government saying to people that you cannot work, telling them they cannot go to work, when you have the government telling people that if they do go to work, they have to obey certain restrictions that make it nearly impossible for their business to do business, well, that is a taking, and just compensation is required under the Constitution of the United States, under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
00:20:18.000So, it seems to me that this, Looks more like an eminent domain situation than like a stimulus package.
00:20:24.000That said, the way to make clear that that is the case is to actually fill in the gap, not to just blow out the spending.
00:20:29.000So there's apparently a big gap between Republicans and Democrats on exactly how to fill in that gap.
00:20:34.000Nancy Pelosi says everybody's still really far apart on this new quote unquote stimulus package.
00:20:38.000She says it's like trying to breed a flamingo and a giraffe.
00:20:43.000Which is a hell of a take by Nancy Pelosi.
00:20:46.000Again, we could come to some sort of reasonable compromise here, but she says that this is not going to happen.
00:20:51.000Apparently in a meeting she said it's like a giraffe and a flamingo.
00:21:25.000Why are we talking about mating animals?
00:21:26.000How about we just talk about like what we should do?
00:21:30.000Very strange stuff happening in Congress.
00:21:32.000One of the nice things about American government is you always know you have the best and the brightest who are going to be handling your future.
00:21:58.000So the Senate Republicans want a second round of direct stimulus payments.
00:22:01.000They're worth up to $1,200 for individuals and $2,400 for families.
00:22:05.000It would send an individual an additional $500 per dependent regardless of age.
00:22:09.000The first round excluded dependents who are older than 17.
00:22:11.000The size of the payments would scale down starting with individuals who earn more than $75,000 a year and married couples who earn more than $150,000 and phase out altogether for high-income individuals.
00:22:21.000Again, that actually doesn't make tons of sense for the very reason that...
00:22:24.000People of basically all incomes in the United States, especially if you're measuring based on last year's income before the pandemic, everybody's getting hurt and everybody has costs.
00:22:33.000But put that aside, that's a lot of money.
00:22:35.000They're talking about payments worth up to $1,200 for individuals and $2,400 for family, $500 per dependent.
00:22:38.000House Democrats want $1,200 per family member, maxing out at $6,000 per household.
00:22:40.000Senate, House Democrats want $1,200 per family member, maxing out at $6,000 per household.
00:22:47.000$6,000 per household, which is an enormous amount of money and money that we do not have.
00:22:53.000And would incentivize people not to go back to work, obviously.
00:22:55.000One of the big problems with the last stimulus package is that if you're paying people $600 per week in unemployment benefits and supplementary unemployment benefits, then very often people are being paid more to stay at home than they are to go to work.
00:23:10.000I mean, when the economic recovery does happen, when people go back to work, you don't want to be paying them to stay at home.
00:23:16.000On unemployment benefits, the proposal from the Republicans would extend the federal boost to unemployment benefits, but at a reduced amount.
00:23:22.000It would call for cutting the weekly payments to $200 from $600 until states implement a system that replaces roughly 70% of laid-off workers' wages.
00:23:29.000Basically, they're saying states have not been footing the bill, the feds have been footing the bill, states need to pick up the slack.
00:23:34.000Democrats want to extend the $600 enhanced unemployment benefit through all the way through January.
00:23:39.000All the way through January, just in time for Joe Biden's inauguration, is what Democrats are thinking.
00:23:44.000Those receiving regular state benefits at that time could continue receiving the $600 boost as late as the end of March.
00:24:40.000The answer is, you can have arguments over how much people should be receiving on a personal level or on an unemployment level.
00:24:46.000When you start with all the goodies, the paying off states and all of that, you've gotten into territory that has nothing to do with filling in gaps created by COVID in the first place.
00:24:54.000In just a second, we're going to get to some cultural issues that have been cropping up as of recently.
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00:26:12.000Okay, so, meanwhile, teachers are now saying that they don't even want to return to online instruction.
00:26:18.000Demonstrating once and for all the teachers' unions have little to do with helping students and a lot to do with helping teachers, the New York Times reports, teachers in many districts are fighting for longer school closures, stronger safety requirements, and limits on what they are required to do in virtual classrooms, while flooding social media and state capitals with their concerns and threatening to walk off their jobs if key demands are not met.
00:26:36.000Clearly, the needs of the children are first and foremost in the minds of teachers who don't even want to do online education.
00:26:43.000It is one thing to say you don't want to go into school because you're 70 years old and you don't want to get infected and die.
00:26:47.000It is another thing to say you don't want to be on video.
00:26:52.000On Tuesday, the nation's second-largest teachers union raised the stakes dramatically by authorizing local and state chapters to strike if their districts do not take sufficient precautions, like requiring masks and updating ventilation systems before reopening classrooms.
00:27:04.000Already, teachers unions have sued Florida's governor over that state's efforts to require schools to offer in-person instruction.
00:27:10.000Even as unions exert their influence, they face enormous public and political pressure because of widespread acknowledgment that you gotta have kids back at school.
00:27:19.000Apparently many of these teachers are now upset that they even have to work at all.
00:27:24.000So now they're saying that the teachers went above and beyond work hours laid out in emergency labor agreements.
00:27:28.000Their members provided technical support to families and answered emails and text messages from students and parents.
00:27:33.000Wow, that's rough considering you weren't in school teaching.
00:27:37.000Well, actually, the representatives aren't doing any of that kind of stuff at all.
00:27:40.000They're just caving to teachers who aren't actually teaching.
00:27:41.000children. Well actually the representatives aren't doing any of that kind of stuff at all. They're just caving to teachers who aren't actually teaching.
00:27:49.000That's it that is pretty incredible. LA, the nation's second largest school district, has already made the decision to start the year online because of Now, the union and administrators are engaged in long negotiating sessions via Zoom, with one of the sickest points of contention being how many hours per day teachers should be required to teach via live video.
00:28:08.000Cicely Meyer Cruz, president of the United Teachers Los Angeles Union, said she understood the benefits.
00:28:13.000She watched her own son engage with teachers online.
00:28:15.000She argued that a full school day over video would not be feasible for either students or teachers.
00:28:19.000She said, you're not going to see people engaged.
00:28:32.000So, in other chaotic news of the day, President Trump decided that it would be a good idea today to tweet out and then pin to the top of his Twitter page a suggestion that Election Day should be delayed.
00:28:42.000So the president tweeted out today, quote, Three question marks?
00:28:45.000mail-in voting, not absentee voting, which is good, 2020 will be the most inaccurate and fraudulent election in history.
00:28:51.000It will be a great embarrassment to the United States to delay the election until people can properly, securely, and safely vote?
00:29:15.000Mail-in voting can be a bad idea, generally, because it's going to take weeks to hash out, because there's the possibility of fraud, for all the reasons that we've talked about before.
00:29:24.000Also, The president floating that he wants to delay the election is like the worst idea ever.
00:30:07.000So he has to be just kind of like barely alive.
00:30:09.000Like barely alive is where he wants to be because he can just point to Trump being extraordinarily volatile.
00:30:13.000And then when Trump says he's senile, all Biden has to do is just say, OK, I may be senile, but you're incredibly volatile and you're not senile.
00:30:37.000An ESPN investigation has found that coaches at NBA's China academies are complaining of player abuse and lack of schooling.
00:30:46.000According to ESPN, long before an October tweet in support of Hong Kong protesters spotlighted the NBA's complicated relationship with China, the league faced complaints from its own employees over human rights concerns inside an NBA youth development program in that country, an ESPN investigation has found.
00:31:00.000American coaches at three NBA training academies in China told league officials their Chinese partners were physically abusing young players and failing to provide schooling, even though Commissioner Adam Silver had said education would be central to the program, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the complaints.
00:31:15.000The NBA ran into myriad problems by opening one of the academies in Xinjiang, the police state in western China where more than a million Uighur Muslims are now held in barbed wire camps.
00:31:25.000American coaches were frequently harassed and surveilled in Xinjiang, the sources said.
00:31:28.000One American coach was detained three times without cause.
00:31:31.000He and others were unable to obtain housing because of their status as foreigners.
00:31:35.000A former league employee compared the atmosphere where he worked in Xinjiang to World War II Germany.
00:31:40.000In an interview with ESPN about his findings, NBA Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer Mark Tatum, who oversees international operations, said the NBA is re-evaluating and considering other opportunities for the academy program, which operates out of sports facilities run by the Chinese government.
00:31:54.000Last week, the league acknowledged they closed the Xiangjing Academy, but they refused to say whether Cuban rights were a factor.
00:32:02.000One of the lessons we've learned here is we do need to have more direct oversight and the ability to make staffing changes when appropriate.
00:32:09.000The program launched in 2016 was part of the NBA's strategy to develop local players in a basketball-obsessed market that has made NBA China a $5 billion enterprise.
00:32:17.000Most of the former employees spoke on the condition of anonymity.
00:32:21.000One American coach who worked for the NBA in China described the project as a sweat camp for athletes.
00:32:26.000At least two coaches quit in response to what they believed was mistreatment of young players.
00:32:31.000One requested and received a transfer after watching Chinese coaches strike teenage players, three sources told DSPN.
00:32:36.000Another American coach left before the end of his contract because he found the lack of education unconscionable.
00:32:40.000He said, I couldn't continue to show up every day looking at these kids, knowing they would end up being taxi drivers.
00:32:46.000Not long after the academies opened, multiple coaches complained about the physical abuse and lack of schooling to Greg Stoltz, the league's VP for international operations.
00:32:53.000It was unclear whether the information was passed on to the NBA in New York.
00:32:57.000The NBA would not make Stoltz available for comment.
00:33:00.000Two of the former NBA employees separately told ESPN coaches that the academies regularly speculated about whether Silver had been informed about the problems.
00:33:07.000I said if Silver shows up, we're all fired immediately.
00:33:10.000Tatum said the NBA did receive a handful of complaints that Chinese coaches were mistreating players, but they did nothing about it apparently.
00:33:17.000They immediately informed local authorities that the league had zero tolerance for that behavior, but they didn't report the incidents to the league at the time, or to Tatum, or to Silver.
00:33:28.000Or alternatively, everybody decided to look the other way because they were making a bundle in China.
00:33:33.000The NBA brought in elite coaches and athletic trainers with experience in the G League and Division I basketball to work at the academies.
00:33:39.000One former coach described watching a Chinese coach fire a ball into a young player's face at point-blank range and then kick him in the gut.
00:33:45.000The kid was apparently 13 or 14 years old.
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00:34:55.000Now speaking of China, now the fact is not just the NBA that is enthralled to China's So many of our Big Ten companies are enthralled to China, enthralled to China as well.
00:35:55.000Twitter is not the same thing as Facebook.
00:35:58.000This is something that, as we'll see, Congress people don't know, because they don't understand how the interwebs work.
00:36:02.000It is also true that Facebook has taken a pretty antagonistic view toward Chinese regulations in a way that Apple has not, that Google has not, that Amazon has not, and that is worthy of note.
00:36:11.000You can see the contrast in this particular exchange.
00:36:15.000Do you believe that the Chinese government steals technology from U.S.
00:36:19.000I don't know of specific cases where we have been stolen from by the government.
00:36:26.000I have no first-hand knowledge of any information stolen from Google.
00:36:31.000Congressman, I think it's well documented that the Chinese government steals technology from American companies.
00:36:37.000I haven't seen it personally, but I've heard many reports of it.
00:36:40.000Okay, so amazing how only Zuckerberg is really willing to come out and just say, yeah, absolutely the Chinese are stealing.
00:36:46.000Corporations are willing to make money virtually anywhere.
00:36:49.000That is just an aspect of profit-seeking.
00:36:52.000That is why the government really needs to be focusing on China, not on big tech so much.
00:36:56.000Big tech, there's some problems inside big tech.
00:36:59.000But the question is whether you really want your Congress people in charge of big tech.
00:37:02.000The question is to who should be in charge.
00:37:05.000When it comes to China, that's a very different thing.
00:37:07.000Listen, the NBA, so long as the government is not shutting, like it's one thing for the NBA to be overtly participating in human rights abuses.
00:37:14.000But for the NBA to participate in trade with China is not the end of the world.
00:37:20.000It's why the government of the United States should really be focused in on shutting down a lot of the avenues of economic growth for China, which is indeed a geopolitical threat to the United States and to its neighbors, mostly.
00:37:30.000Instead, we are focused in on attacking our domestic corporations.
00:37:34.000Some of them are the biggest hirers in the United States.
00:37:40.000I mean, Google is obviously biased against conservatives.
00:37:44.000But the idea that you're going to put Congress in charge of all the big tech companies and that Congress can do this better seems to me bizarre.
00:37:52.000Example, yesterday a representative named Sensenbrenner asked Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook about suspending Donald Trump Jr.
00:38:13.000Congressman, well, first, to be clear, I think what you might be referring to happened on Twitter, so it's hard for me to speak to that.
00:38:19.000But I can talk to our policies about this.
00:38:22.000We do prohibit content that will lead to imminent risk of harm.
00:38:26.000And stating that there's a proven cure for COVID when there is, in fact, none, might encourage someone to go take something that could have some adverse effects.
00:38:56.000The problem is, they never let anybody inside their data, so it's very difficult to tell exactly which companies are discriminating against conservatives and which ones are not.
00:39:05.000Again, I'll say that I don't think that Facebook is discriminating against conservatives because it would be hard for me to claim otherwise, considering that Daily Wire does very well on Facebook, right?
00:39:11.000I mean, just on an anecdotal level, it's hard for me as the head of a company that gets good traffic on Facebook to say Facebook is cracking down on us.
00:39:19.000I can say that when there have been sort of Weird instances of Google glitches.
00:39:23.000They always seem to target conservatives over at Google.
00:39:26.000So distinguishing between the companies seems to be something worthwhile.
00:39:29.000According to the New York Post just a couple of days ago, Google said it fixed a bug that led to several conservative websites disappearing from its search results on Tuesday.
00:39:36.000But a former engineer for the tech giant said the glitch may have inadvertently exposed an internal list that targeted certain news outlets.
00:39:42.000Mike Wacker said it appears to have revealed the existence of another blacklist that disproportionately targets conservatives.
00:39:47.000So the glitch is that sites on this blacklist disappeared from Google search results, but the existence of the list is very much by design.
00:39:54.000Why exactly does that list exist in the first place?
00:39:57.000For several hours, Tuesday morning and early afternoon, users couldn't access a number of websites on Google search, including Breitbart, Drudge Report, Bongino Report, and the National Pulse.
00:40:05.000Major newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post were not affected.
00:40:08.000We saw this, by the way, just maybe a year ago when Google decided they were going to put Fact checker evaluations of only conservative sites on the side of the Google page.
00:40:17.000So yeah, Google's been a problem for this.
00:40:19.000Representative Jim Jordan went after Google yesterday in this big tech hearing.
00:40:24.000There's an email in 2016 that was widely circulated amongst the executives at your company that got public where Ms.
00:40:34.000Ileana Murillo, head of your multicultural marketing, talks about the silent donation Google made to the Clinton campaign And you applauded her work.
00:40:45.000I'm just curious, if you did it in 16, I want to make, you know, in spite of the fact you did it in 16, President Trump won, I just want to make sure you're not going to do it again in 2020.
00:40:53.000Okay, so it is true that Google has its biases.
00:40:56.000Now the question is, is Google a monopoly?
00:40:58.000So there are two sort of views of monopoly in law, in American law.
00:41:01.000One is the consumer-based view, which is that so long as consumers are not being jobbed, there is no monopoly.
00:41:07.000Monopoly is really based on whether the consumer is being overcharged or being exploited in some way that they don't know about through monopoly practices.
00:41:13.000The other is whether a company is just very, very large.
00:41:16.000I tend to toward the first vision, because there can be such a thing as a natural monopoly, where when you break up the monopoly, the consumer is actually harmed.
00:41:22.000And that actually happened with Windows, and Microsoft was broken up in the late 90s.
00:41:26.000The idea being Microsoft was too large, and then Apple ate Microsoft's lunch, so it turned out that it wasn't even a monopoly in the first place.
00:41:33.000The answer to Google having its own bias is presumably for somebody to invest an awful lot of money in AltaVista or an alternative search engine.
00:41:41.000Google didn't become a monopoly simply by dint of them being biased.
00:41:45.000They became a monopoly by dint of being better at their job.
00:41:47.000I mean, they expend an awful lot of money on market research.
00:41:51.000And the notion that Congress is going to be able to successfully Control big tech, I think, is a mistake, considering that most of the people in Congress literally don't know what an internet is.
00:42:28.000It's been a bad policy for quite a while.
00:42:30.000President Trump tweeted out about it with, I would say, probably the worst available take.
00:42:36.000So the AFFH, again, is a policy that is designed to give the federal government a lever to re-engineer nearly every American neighborhood, according to Stanley Kurtz of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
00:42:47.000Imposing a preferred racial and ethnic composition, densifying housing, transportation, and business development in suburb and city alike, weakening or casting aside the authority of local governments over core responsibilities from zoning, to transportation, to education.
00:43:00.000The AFFH's reach is so widespread because so many communities have become far too dependent on housing and urban development programs like community development block grants.
00:43:07.000If a city or town wants federal housing funding, it would have to comply with AFFH.
00:43:13.000The mandate's egregiousness was magnified because they were using what they call disparate impact.
00:43:17.000Which means that if in fact the program is administered neutrally and the impact is disparate, like it impacts people differently, then that means that the program is somehow racist.
00:43:27.000So that gave the government enormous power to basically deny housing and urban development funding to localities based on lack of preferred racial
00:43:36.000So let's say that the country at large is 13% black, and a town received housing and urban development funding, and then they used the housing and urban development funding, and the town's composition demographically went from 13% black to 9% black, then this would cause the federal government to step in and rezone the entire town, which takes local control out of the hands of the locals, obviously.
00:44:00.000It's been a bad policy for a long time.
00:44:01.000The Heritage Foundation points out that the AFFH rightly came to the sites of Ben Carson's HUD soon after change in administrations.
00:44:08.000In 2018, Carson's Housing and Urban Development announced the withdrawal of the 2015 mandate's so-called local government assessment tools, in which communities had to report non-housing related information.
00:44:18.000This would then be used by the HUD to judge the efforts to diversify the community.
00:44:22.000If federal bureaucrats believed the community was not sufficiently quote-unquote diversified, the local jurisdiction would not get federal funds intended to provide affordable housing.
00:44:31.000So, this basically required local officials to answer questions on topics like significant disparities in access to opportunities, disproportionate housing needs.
00:44:39.000Local officials had to analyze and report data on issues like access to public transportation, quality schools and jobs, environmental health hazards.
00:44:45.000In essence, it was the federal government stepping in and trying to control, in top-down fashion, exactly how towns were constituted, even if those towns were not creating policy to bar people on the basis of race.
00:44:58.000I mean, a lot of this actually is barred by federal law.
00:45:01.000Federal law bars the HUD from conditioning federal housing assistance on the type of conditions outlined in the new rule.
00:45:35.000It's about local control and people moving out to the suburbs wanting to be able to determine what the nature of their community is on a non-race-based On a non-race-based basis, right?
00:45:46.000Obviously, you're still barred by federal law and state law from discriminating on the basis of race.
00:45:50.000But it is true that one of the reasons people move out to the suburbs is because they want better public schools, for example.
00:45:55.000And that means that they're moving out to the suburbs because, presumably, people who can live in the suburbs can afford to live in the suburbs.
00:46:00.000And so, it is not unreasonable to say, I don't necessarily want to live directly next to a homeless shelter, right?
00:46:07.000Zoning regulations exist in every city and town across the country.
00:46:10.000Because people want to be able to control exactly the kind of neighborhoods they live in.
00:46:14.000And there are certain factors that shouldn't be taken into account, obviously.
00:46:19.000But the notion that the federal government can, on the basis of disparate impacts, come in and control how zoning is done in every community in the United States is really bad.
00:46:27.000Trump articulates that in a way that is not particularly good.
00:46:31.000Now, in good news for the Trump administration, to his credit, they are doing something good.
00:46:35.000President Trump is now extending Operation Legend to Cleveland, Detroit, and Milwaukee.
00:46:39.000So this is giving more federal resources to local law enforcement to police high crime areas.
00:46:46.000According to the Daily Wire, on Wednesday, the DOJ announced it was extending Operation Legend, which is an initiative in which the federal law enforcement agencies work in conjunction with state and local law enforcement to fight violent crime.
00:46:57.000They're extending that to Albuquerque, from Albuquerque, Kansas City, Missouri, Chicago, to Cleveland, Detroit, and Milwaukee.
00:47:40.000This is sending more federal forces as an adjunct to programs that are anti-gang or anti-gun prevalence in major American cities.
00:47:49.000The authority for this already exists on the books.
00:47:52.000Twenty-five federal investigators from the FBI, DEA, and ATF are being sent to Cleveland, supported by a million bucks from the Bureau of Justice Assistance.
00:47:58.000Forty-two federal agents are going to be sent to Detroit, and twenty-five more investigators are going to be sent to Milwaukee.
00:48:06.000For all the talk about Trump not caring about people of color, this is specifically designed to crack down on crime that disproportionately affects people of color.
00:48:13.000So the fact that Trump is doing that, that is in fact a good thing.
00:48:15.000Of course, that's not going to be covered.
00:48:16.000And if it is covered, he's going to be called a fascist for now using federal resources to help tamp down on crime.
00:48:21.000Instead, everybody is going to focus in on President Trump saying a dumb thing about delaying the election.
00:48:39.000It's the 9th of Av, which is the saddest day in the Jewish calendar.
00:48:42.000And just a quick note about Tisha B'Av, so for those who care about cultural diversity, Tisha B'Av is the commemoration of the destruction of not one, but two temples.
00:48:50.000Not a great day in Jewish history, and as I say, there's sort of a superstitious belief in the Jewish community that, and based on the evidence of all the bad things that have happened on Tisha B'Av, this is a bad day just generally, so not a big shock, the news sucks today.
00:49:02.000In any case, Tisha B'Av commemorates the destruction of the first temple in Jerusalem in 586 BCE, and the second temple in 70 CE, respectively.
00:49:11.000People fast on the state and they fast in commemoration.
00:49:15.000It's worthwhile noting that the The thing that is being commemorated is the destruction of the temple on top of the Temple Mount.
00:49:22.000So as I've said many times on the show before, many in the media just get it wrong when it comes to Jerusalem.
00:49:26.000They say things like the Western Wall is the holiest site in Judaism.
00:49:30.000The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism.
00:49:32.000It was usurped and then built over by Muslims, frankly.
00:49:36.000I mean, that is the story here, is that Judaism, this is unfortunately a habit of medieval Islam, is to take religious sites that belong to other religions and then pave over them and then build a mosque.
00:49:47.000It's actually not just medieval Islam.
00:49:49.000It's happening right now in Turkey, where a church was turned into a mosque, turned into a museum, and turned back into a mosque now.
00:49:55.000In any case, the Temple Mount was made into a religious site for more than one religion, but it was originally a Jewish site, obviously, which is why you have this giant flat area in the middle of Jerusalem.
00:50:06.000There's a very famous Talmudic story in which Rabbi Akiva, maybe the most famous rabbi in the Talmud, is sitting shortly after the destruction of the temple in 70 CE, sitting with other rabbis, and they're all crying, and he starts laughing.
00:50:23.000He says, well, there's a prophecy that says that the temple will be destroyed and a fox will run through its ruins.
00:50:30.000And now we've seen that and the good news is that eventually the temple will be rebuilt because that's the other half of the prophecy.
00:50:35.000So the going Jewish notion is that one day the Tisha B'Av will be a day of rejoicing as opposed to a day of tragedy.
00:50:43.000One of the other reasons it's worthwhile noting this is because whenever people try to eviscerate the history of Israel by suggesting that basically it was just a repository of European Jews recognize that the dream of Jerusalem has been on the table for some 4,000 years in Judaism and the bizarre notion Well, I think that the history of the world has shown that wherever Jews are, there tends to be a threat.
00:51:00.000Jewish connection to the land of Israel or that if there is a Jewish connection, he doesn't like religion.
00:51:04.000So obviously, Seth Rogen knows best or Seth Rogen suggested the Jews would be better off dispersed throughout the world.
00:51:09.000Why would you put all the Jews in one place if you're worried about risk to them?
00:51:12.000Well, I think that the history of the world has shown that wherever Jews are, there tends to be a threat.
00:51:15.000And the history of Israel has shown that the fact that there is a Jewish state willing to defend Jewish rights in places that are not Israel has been quite good for Jews, generally speaking.
00:51:24.000The the revitalization of the state of Israel is a glorious thing.
00:51:29.000And as an Orthodox Jew, we pray every day for the restoration of a temple.
00:51:35.000There is a way that that can be done without the destruction.
00:51:38.000It's kind of controversial, but there's some opinions that say there's a way that can be done without the destruction of the Dome of the Rock, for example.
00:51:44.000But bottom line is that if you want to know anything about Jewish history, study Tisha B'Av because the story of the Jewish people and the destruction of those two temples demonstrates the ever-present commitment and connection between Jews and the land of Israel.
00:51:58.000It is not merely just a bunch of white people who arrived on quote-unquote Arab land.
00:52:02.000That is complete revisionist nonsense.
00:52:04.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later to do two additional hours of content.
00:52:07.000Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.
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00:52:38.000You know, the Matt Wall Show, it's not just another show about politics.
00:52:42.000I think there are enough of those already out there.
00:52:44.000We talk about culture, because culture drives politics, and it drives everything else.
00:52:49.000So my main focuses are life, family, faith.
00:52:53.000Those are fundamental, and that's what this show is about.