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00:00:00.000The judge in the Rittenhouse case bars MSNBC from the courtroom after a porter allegedly follows jurors, Democrats in the House make yet another push for Build Back Better, and the groundswell begins for an AOC presidential run.
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00:01:30.000Alrighty, so another crazy development in the Rittenhouse trial.
00:01:34.000Now, remember, the jury is still out at this point.
00:01:36.000We don't know what is going on with the jury.
00:01:39.000The speculation seems to me that a hung jury is coming.
00:01:42.000Andrew McCarthy writing for National Review, he says that he believes that a hung jury is likely, as at midday on Thursday, as the third day of deliberations dragged on, and there grew a foreboding sense that the jury may be deadlocked over a very straightforward case, the judge announced he had banned MSNBC from the courtroom.
00:01:58.000The judge, of course, is Bruce Schrader.
00:02:00.000Schrader elaborated that on Wednesday evening, a man who identified himself as affiliated with MSNBC, a guy named James Morrison, was stopped by police as he tracked the jury at close range, running a red light in that pursuit.
00:02:10.000The jurors were in a large vehicle with covered windows, from which they had been escorted to and from court.
00:02:15.000Schrader said that Morrison claimed to have been acting under the direction of an MSNBC producer in New York.
00:02:21.000Now, we all know that MSNBC has been blatantly anti-Rittenhouse, with all of its hosts attacking Rittenhouse, suggesting that he's guilty, suggesting he's a racist and a white supremacist, and that the outcome of this trial is going to speak for the future of race relations in America, despite the fact that only three white people got shot.
00:02:36.000Here was the judge announcing that he had barred MSNBC from the courtroom after this.
00:02:41.000I have instructed that no one from MSNBC news will be permitted in this building for the duration of this trial.
00:02:49.000This is a very serious matter and I don't know what the ultimate truth of it is, but absolutely it would go without much thinking that someone who is following the jury bus, that is a very, extremely serious matter and will be referred to the proper authorities.
00:03:31.000It's especially insane given the high-profile nature of the trial and the fact that many of these jurors, all of them, live in Kenosha, which means that they are subject to the problems that are going to arise in Kenosha if they come down the wrong way.
00:03:44.000According to an MSNBC spokesperson, they said last night a freelancer received a traffic citation.
00:03:48.000While the traffic violation took place near the jury van, the freelancer never contacted or intended to contact the jurors during deliberations and never photographed or intended to photograph them.
00:03:56.000We regret the incident and will fully cooperate with the authorities on any investigation.
00:04:01.000Now, as Andy McCarthy suggests, he says, I think a quick verdict would have favored Rittenhouse.
00:04:06.000If deliberations instead drag out, there's a greater chance of a hung jury or a compromised verdict in this case.
00:04:11.000Andy McCarthy says, in a compromised verdict, former prosecutor, which can be scandalous but is nevertheless permissible in our system, jurors avoid a hopeless deadlock by agreeing to convict the accused on some but not other charges or on lesser charges.
00:04:22.000That is, neither those who believe the defendant should be acquitted nor those who want him convicted on severe charges get what they want, but a verdict is reached even if it is not rational.
00:04:30.000it's not internally consistent or aligned with the proof.
00:04:54.000For the Rittenhouse case, that would seem like an eternity.
00:04:57.000But in our case, after 17 months of trying a raft of charges against 22 defendants, it seems extraordinarily quick.
00:05:02.000As I write this piece, we are seven hours into the third day of deliberations in the Rittenhouse trial that already seems long, especially because the trial was less than two weeks of testimony.
00:05:11.000And the question is whether the defendant acted in justifiable self-defense or even whether there is reasonable doubt that he did so.
00:05:17.000Remember, the standard isn't, did he act in self-defense?
00:05:19.000It's, is there reasonable doubt that he might have done so?
00:05:26.000Is the clearest cas— I mean, it's a clear-cut case of self-defense.
00:05:30.000It is in 197% clear-cut case that there is reasonable doubt as to whether he engaged in self-defense.
00:05:39.000What this does suggest is that there may be a situation in which the judge simply declares a mistrial if the jury comes back deadlocked, maybe a mistrial with prejudice.
00:05:49.000He just says, we're not doing this again.
00:05:51.000There have certainly been enough cases of mistrial laden behavior by the prosecution to support that.
00:05:59.000If the jury comes back and acquits, the judge is off the hook.
00:06:01.000If the jury comes back and says hung jury, the judge could theoretically declare a mistrial.
00:06:07.000That would have the same impact as a hung jury unless he did so with prejudice, which means that they can't refile the case.
00:06:13.000If they come back guilty, he could still declare a mistrial or mistrial with prejudice based on what is going on.
00:06:18.000So there's a long way to go in this trial, even once the jury comes back.
00:06:23.000And Andy McCarthy is fairly critical about Schrader, the judge.
00:06:28.000He says, I'm constrained to observe one's assessment of Judge Bruce Schrader does not improve with extended observation.
00:06:34.000In the latest gripe session, Schrader bleated about how he'd been criticized for his handling of a defense motion for a mistrial he said he had not even had a chance to read since it had only been filed the previous day.
00:06:45.000But the motion is six pages long, double-spaced.
00:06:49.000He says, it appears the traitor made up his mind before the trial there would be no sequestration and he is mulishly sticking to that.
00:06:55.000But that was a mistake because now that they've not been sequestered, the jury, they can be easily intimidated.
00:07:00.000And it appears that that is at the very least a possibility given the fact that MSNBC is now apparently sending reporters as stringers to follow members of the jury.
00:07:12.000Alrighty, in one second, we'll get to the chaos that has now broken out on the left side of the aisle.
00:07:17.000Everybody knows Joe Biden is not running for re-election at this point because he cannot even walk.
00:07:21.000It is very difficult to run for re-election when you cannot walk.
00:07:24.000Okay, we'll get to more of that in just a second.
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00:08:41.000So, one thing has become eminently clear on the left side of the aisle, and that is that they are panicked about 2024.
00:08:46.000The reason they're panicked about 2024 is because Joe Biden made the idiotic decision to pick as his vice president, not somebody who is a plausible 2024 candidate, but somebody who had completely flamed out as an early candidate in 2020, Kamala Harris, who didn't even last through the California primaries.
00:09:02.000She didn't even get to her home state, despite being the early leader in the presidential race.
00:09:08.000She had all of the benefits of intersectionality.
00:09:13.000She had shellacked Joe Biden in the first debate by suggesting that he was a racist, and then later in the race suggested that he was a sexual assaulter.
00:09:21.000And then she dropped out of the race because she's terrible at everything.
00:09:23.000Because all she has done for her entire career is fail up.
00:09:26.000Democrats are so disquieted with her that CNN reported the other day they were talking about elevating her to the Supreme Court just to get her out of the way.
00:09:33.000That would be the greatest case of failing upward in American history.
00:09:36.000You go from being a crappy AG, to being a crappy Senator, to being a crappy Vice President, to being a crappy Supreme Court Justice.
00:09:42.000Really, America is the land of opportunity.
00:09:46.000Well, Kamala Harris did yet another national interview yesterday and they all go badly for her.
00:10:01.000This guy was an advisor to Hillary and Bill Clinton.
00:10:04.000Again, if Karl Rove were presented as an objective news reporter, that is the equivalent of making George Stephanopoulos an objective news source.
00:10:22.000So here is Kamala Harris explaining that you can't fix the border.
00:10:27.000Eight months ago, the president gave you the job of addressing the root causes of migration.
00:10:31.000But last month, we learned that in the past year had the highest number of illegal border crossings since they started to be recorded in 1960.
00:10:38.000What are you doing to turn that around?
00:10:44.000We can't just flip a switch and make it better.
00:10:47.000The reality is that we inherited a system, an immigration system, that was deeply broken, and it's requiring us to actually put it back together in terms of creating a fair process that is effective and efficient.
00:11:01.000Okay, yeah, we can't fix it, is really not a good answer, considering this was delegated to you.
00:11:34.000there with every one of these questions. And these are not super tough questions. Okay, George Stephanopoulos then asked her a softball. Does she feel underused as Vice President of the United States? And here is her inspiring answer. We're getting things done and we're doing it together. So you don't feel misused or underused? No, I don't.
00:11:53.000I'm very, very excited about the work that we have accomplished. But I am also absolutely, absolutely clear eyed that there There is a lot more to do and we're gonna get it done.
00:12:25.000And as this is all happening in the context of two years of a pandemic, it's one of the highest priorities actually for the president and for me.
00:12:33.000And so we're dealing with this issue in a number of ways.
00:12:36.000Short term, one of the issues is the supply chain.
00:12:39.000We're facing a bottleneck, and we need to relieve that bottleneck.
00:12:42.000So we brought together everyone from the Teamsters to Target to say, hey, let's all bring everyone together, from the truckers to the folks who are moving product, and let's open up some of our major ports for work 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
00:12:58.000Okay, so this is not going down for Kamala Harris.
00:13:07.000Like really, the American people are definitely going to embrace the guy who went missing on the job for two months because he was on paternity leave.
00:13:14.000Despite the fact that, again, paternity leave was originally designed so that you can help care for a person who just experienced physical trauma, namely your wife, Pete Buttigieg took a two-month paternity leave in the middle of a supply chain crisis and no one noticed.
00:13:26.000And then he came back and bragged about how he was a wonderful person for having taken two months of paternity leave on the public dime.
00:13:34.000The intersectional firefight between the LGBT wing of the Democratic Party and the people of color wing of the Democratic Party is going to be a wonder to watch.
00:13:45.000But, says Politico, there is one person, one person who's being forgotten in all of this mathematical calculation about who ought to be the 2024 Democratic nominee.
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00:15:03.000Here is Politico speculating about what ought to happen come 2024.
00:15:07.000Quote, amid the glut of speculation about whether Kamala Harris or Pete Buttigieg is Joe Biden's political heir, another important succession story in Democratic circles has gone almost entirely undiscussed.
00:15:17.000Who will inherit Bernie Sanders' ideological mantle?
00:15:19.000During the past two presidential cycles, the Vermont Independent mounted captivating, extremely well-financed bids.
00:15:25.000He lost twice, but he reshaped the Democratic Party.
00:15:27.000The size and contents of Biden's domestic agenda have been directly affected by Sanderism.
00:15:31.000He has compelled Democrats to embrace government intervention rather than hide their faith in it from public view.
00:15:39.000No one in his orbit imagines him mounting a third run should Biden call it quits.
00:15:42.000Something, to be clear, the president and his team have explicitly said he isn't doing.
00:15:47.000This is left to void in the party's left wing.
00:15:49.000And it is causing anxiety among progressive operatives who believe Sanders' great discovery was that in the era of online politics, a presidential campaign was an effective tool to push unapologetic liberalism.
00:15:59.000And this is true, by the way, for a huge number of members of the government, is that they are basically Instagram influencers.
00:16:03.000They're not in the business of drawing compromised deals and trying to figure out good policy.
00:16:09.000They're out there to try and get the clicks, and try and get the likes, and try and get the attention on their little videos.
00:16:14.000Because many of them make a lot of money after leaving office based on the sort of following that they have built while they were in office.
00:16:22.000I've said for a long time, I have a pretty easy job.
00:16:24.000My job is to tell you what I think on a daily basis, and I can be as honest about it as I want to be, which is purely honest about how I feel about all of these issues.
00:16:45.000But politicians who masquerade as principled people who are just about principle, they can do really well in the principled space.
00:16:53.000This is why Bernie Sanders has great popularity despite never having done anything of use his entire life and being an old communist leech on the public dollar.
00:17:01.000Well, the question on the Democratic side of the aisle is this.
00:17:04.000If you've got Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg and they're running against each other and neither one of them have the sort of soft-spoken, he's-a-dead-person appeal that Joe Biden had in 2020, right?
00:17:16.000His appeal was he was kind of just a thing who was there and not all that threatening.
00:17:21.000Well, Pete Buttigieg is pretty threatening.
00:17:22.000That dude says crazy stuff all the time.
00:17:25.000When Pete Buttigieg first declared for the presidency, he seemed like kind of an interesting candidate, specifically because he wasn't spitting on people from middle America.
00:17:31.000Then, within five minutes, he started treating himself like Pastor Pete and explaining that everybody who believed in the Bible in traditional ways was actually a brutal gay hater, and that if you interpreted the Bible properly, you should just be a pro-gay marriage socialist, essentially.
00:18:03.000Actually, there's a wide, here's the dirty secret.
00:18:05.000There's a wide opening in the so-called moderate wing of the Democratic Party, and there's a huge opening on the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.
00:18:13.000And the question is, which one of those wings actually pushes forward in the next primary cycle?
00:18:18.000So, in the Sanders wing, Politico says ask veterans of Sanders' world who they think could fill that lane, and you get a host of recognizable but not necessarily national names.
00:18:27.000The most common are a band of House progressives like Pramila Jayapal from Washington, or Roccano of California, or Katie Porter of California, or members of the squad.
00:18:36.000I think the next chapter is Bernie 2.0 in color, says Chuck Rocha, a former union organizer who served as Sanders' senior campaign advisor.
00:18:43.000The next Sanders, as Rocha sees it, will follow the path laid out by one of Bernie's major influences, Jesse Jackson, whose rainbow coalition, presidential campaigns in 1984 and 1988, fused worker rights and multiculturalism into a potent political force.
00:18:56.000Jackson had his missteps, including one fairly infamous one, and they link to the story.
00:19:00.000That would be the one where he called New York Heimetown, because Jesse Jackson is a vicious anti-Semites.
00:19:05.000But the Democratic Party also went into abject panic at the prospect of him winning.
00:19:09.000Rocha thinks the party's in a new place now, having seen obvious slippage with white working class and Hispanic voters.
00:19:14.000He surmises that politicians like Ruben Gallego of Arizona, or Annette Barragan of California, or Austin Council City member Greg Casar, a self-avowed Democratic Socialist, are the clearest embodiments of the Jackson vision.
00:19:26.000But, um, yeah, nobody's ever heard of these people.
00:19:28.000So then they say, what about Elizabeth Warren?
00:19:42.000Still, there is one lawmaker who Rocha and several others said did have the ideological makeup and infrastructure already in place and a Sanders connection to boot.
00:19:50.000Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, who turns 35, the legal age to be president under the Constitution, on October 13, 2024.
00:20:00.000Bernie's no different than when he was a crazy white-haired congressman, says Rocha.
00:20:03.000What legitimized him was when he could raise tens of millions of dollars.
00:20:07.000That made him real to every power broker in America.
00:20:09.000And no one beyond AOC has been able to do that.
00:20:13.000So get ready for the AOC 2024 presidential run.
00:20:57.000And she has a record that is just terrible in her home state.
00:21:02.000So her home district may like her because, again, it is a very, very blue district.
00:21:06.000But the rest of the state, there's upstate New York you got to worry about.
00:21:09.000AOC is not going to be the governor of New York.
00:21:12.000She's not going to be a senator from New York.
00:21:14.000She could theoretically, you know, run for mayor of New York, but Bill de Blasio just flamed out trying the same routine that AOC would push to Eric Adams.
00:21:30.000The media already slavishly pretend that you're an intelligent human being with something interesting to say, even though you have fewer than 10 brain cells to rub together.
00:21:45.000And why not consolidate the Democratic Party around you?
00:21:49.000After all, you've got that intersectional coalition running for you.
00:21:52.000You're a woman of color who solidifies that Democratic Party progressive base, and you're attacked a lot by the right, which means, according to Democrats, that you are inherently good.
00:22:02.000Which moderate is going to stand up to that?
00:22:03.000You think Kamala Harris defeats AOC in a presidential primary?
00:22:07.000I have some fairly serious doubts about that.
00:22:10.000It's going to be fascinating to watch as this war goes on in the Democratic Party, and I'm here for it.
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00:25:12.000I mean, Let's Go Brandon started off as a coded chant for how bad Joe Biden is, and now people are beginning to be, I think, embarrassed of saying Let's Go Brandon on the off chance that somebody might think they actually are rooting for Biden.
00:25:24.000Like there is Joe Biden, he has lower approval ratings than Trump, okay?
00:25:27.000So for all the talk about how unpopular and terrible Trump was, Joe Biden is making Donald Trump look like George Washington in terms of approval rating.
00:25:35.000And there's a reason for that, it's because he's not even with it anymore.
00:25:39.000Here is Joe Biden, he was signing his infrastructure bill or another bill, and I don't know which bill it was, frankly, because he forgot the name of the bill.
00:25:46.000So I have no idea what the hell bill he's signing right here.
00:27:14.000About half hitting households making less than $75,000 a year, according to Americans for Tax Reform.
00:27:21.000There's an $8 billion home heating tax.
00:27:23.000There's a $1.6 billion special tax handout for media companies, which is, by the way, a clear First Amendment violation.
00:27:29.000The federal government is not supposed to be in the business of deciding which companies qualify as local media companies for purpose of giving them a subsidy.
00:27:37.000That is a clear violation of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
00:27:41.000Because once the government is subsidizing particular outlets and calling the media outlets so it can give them money and not others, that is rife for ideological discrimination.
00:27:52.000It also does hike taxes on the middle class.
00:27:55.000So the most hilarious thing about this bill is that after Joe Biden claimed that it would increase the taxes on the millionaires and the billionaires, and that it would not increase taxes on the middle class, it actually gave a tax break to millionaires and billionaires in the blue states.
00:28:09.000Because it increases the SALT tax deduction.
00:28:11.000Okay, so state and local tax deductions, the way that it worked under Trump is that he got rid of those.
00:28:17.000So the rule was, before Trump, that if you lived in California and you paid a 13% state income tax, you could take that tax off the top of your income, and then on the lower line income, you would pay your federal tax.
00:28:27.000Trump came in, he passed the tax cuts.
00:28:30.000The tax cuts got rid of that provision.
00:28:32.000So now, whatever your top line income was, say it was a million dollars, now you're paying 13% for the California tax, and then you're also paying 37% for the federal tax.
00:28:42.000For Biden, it was you paid the 13%, which took your number down to $870,000, and then you paid the federal tax on the $870,000.
00:29:00.000Is he comfortable where the current provisions stand for the state and local tax deductions, given it would be a pretty significant tax break for the wealthy?
00:29:09.000Well, let me start by first, you know, obviously it wasn't what he proposed in his initial package, as you know, but just to come back to that.
00:29:17.000The president also, though, it's been conveyed to him by leaders in the House and Senate that this needs to be included in order for this legislation to move forward.
00:29:30.000So he promised no raising taxes on people who are middle class, and yes, raising taxes on the rich.
00:29:36.000According to Tim Carney, most millionaires would receive a tax cut from the Democrats' Build Back Better bill.
00:29:41.000Many middle class taxpayers would see a tax increase.
00:29:43.000Phil Klein at National Review spells it out, citing a Tax Policy Center study, which concludes roughly 20 to 30 percent of middle income households would pay more in taxes in 2022.
00:29:54.000And plus, according to the Center for a Responsible Federal Budget, a household making a million bucks per year will receive ten times as much from SALT cap relief as a middle-class family will receive from the child tax credit expansion.
00:30:07.000So, I guess that now AOC, the 2024 presidential candidate, is going to have to wear a dress to the Democratic Party caucus saying, tax the rich.
00:30:18.000Or maybe her dress should just say, because she did, I voted for a bill that raised taxes on the middle class and also gave a tax cut to the rich.
00:30:26.000Welcome to the oligarchy, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
00:30:29.000Here was Bernie Sanders saying this is bad policy.
00:30:32.000I think it's bad politics, it's bad policy.
00:30:36.000The Democrats correctly have campaigned on the understanding that amidst massive income and wealth inequality, we've got to demand that the wealthy stop paying their fair share of taxes, not give them what tax breaks.
00:30:47.000The bottom line is we have to help the middle class, not the 1%.
00:30:51.000Okay, so yeah, this thing is DOA in the Senate.
00:31:10.000It's going to be trillions of dollars in deficits because the actual cost of this bill is not $1.85 trillion.
00:31:17.000The actual cost of this bill is $4.6 trillion.
00:31:20.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the Penn Wharton budget model estimates the House bill would cost nearly $4.6 trillion over 10 years if temporary provisions are made permanent, as most will be.
00:31:30.000The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget pegs that cost at $4.9 trillion if temporary tax credits and programs are made permanent through 2031.
00:31:37.000through 2031. This would add not $367 billion, not $120 billion, $1.5 trillion to deficits over the next five years without additional tax offsets.
00:31:48.000Okay, so what exactly is in this budget?
00:31:51.000So they've enhanced child allowances, $3,600 for children under age 6, $3,000 up to age 17.
00:31:57.000This is the bill's most expensive provision at about $130 billion a year.
00:32:01.000That's why Democrats limit it to one year.
00:32:03.000Does anyone think this is going to be one year?
00:32:06.000Democrats are going to try and leverage this into law forever, and many Republicans will go along with it.
00:32:11.000The Earned Income Tax Credit expansion triples the maximum EITC value for childless adults, but only for one year.
00:32:20.000But if you extend it over a decade, which is what they want to do, it's $135 billion.
00:32:24.000And by the way, you can qualify based on your previous year's earnings, so you don't actually have to work to get this particular tax credit.
00:32:55.000The price of daycare is going to go up, not down.
00:32:57.000The reason it's going to go up, not down is because the same bill that subsidizes daycare for all of these folks also regulates who is allowed to receive money as a daycare provider.
00:33:07.000It creates all sorts of new restrictions on who gets to be a daycare provider.
00:33:11.000So it actually limits, it increases the demand and limits the supply, which leads to, wait for it, inflation.
00:33:18.000Their universal pre-K bill appropriates about $18 billion to states for universal pre-K through 2024, and then, quote unquote, such sums as may be necessary through 2027.
00:33:27.000The pre-K and child care entitlements, according to the Wall Street Journal, are estimated to cost only $380 billion because they phase in gradually and expire after six years.
00:33:37.000But they're not going to expire in 2027.
00:33:39.000Once people get hooked, the government just keeps doing it, which means they cost $800 billion if made permanent.
00:35:06.000And then this crazy lady, she says, um, spending on climate change.
00:35:10.000So there's a ton of spending on climate change here, which is just a waste of money because most of the spending on climate change, as all as far as I'm aware, is not directed towards, say, building new seawalls, or shoring up infrastructure, it is all geared toward green energy boondoggles for political allies. It's all Solyndra writ large. Here's Nancy Pelosi, though. I love you got to love the religious principles of hardcore Democrats like Nancy Pelosi. She's such a wonderful Catholic, Nancy Pelosi, that she believes that abortion is a positive
00:36:32.000For passing a bill that will go nowhere in the Senate and completely screws all of the moderates in the Democratic- Like, I don't even know how they convince the moderates to vote for this thing.
00:36:42.000Like, how do you convince the Josh Gottheimers of the world that this is a good idea?
00:36:46.000I guess they just don't want to take crap from the Democratic primary.
00:36:50.000They don't want to take crap from the Democratic Party.
00:36:52.000They're afraid they won't be able to get a job with their friends after they're out of Congress, but they're all going to be out of Congress.
00:36:56.000The Republicans right now are running 8 to 10 points ahead on the generic ballot.
00:36:59.000That is the biggest lead in the history of the polling.
00:37:03.000Republicans are set to pick up 50, 60 seats in the House.
00:37:06.000And Nancy Pelosi's like, what if I shove through this piece of crap bill that's filled with just garbage that no one's going to vote for in the Senate?
00:38:34.000And if you don't believe Kevin McCarthy, why don't you believe the Biden administration, which continues to maintain that its policies are wonderful, even as they have precisely the effect they were intended to have, crushing Americans.
00:38:44.000Yesterday, Jen Psaki defended canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, despite the fact that oil prices are spiking.
00:38:50.000I think the problem with that argument is that the Keystone pipeline isn't even really functioning.
00:38:59.000So suggesting that changing that would lower the price of gas, I don't know that that makes substantive sense.
00:39:06.000Well, we look at every pipeline on an individual basis.
00:39:10.000The president made the decision when only about, I think, 8% of the pipeline had been built not to move forward as we looked at the environmental impacts and weighed them with the economic impacts.
00:39:18.000Well, we look at every pipeline on an individual basis.
00:39:20.000The president made the decision when only about, I think, 8% of the pipeline had been built not to move forward as we looked at the environmental impacts and weighed them with the economic impacts.
00:39:31.000No, you did not look at any of those factors.
00:39:34.000You just knew that the left wing was fighting Matt over Keystone XLC, cancelled it, and then the gas prices have risen because you have taken an anti-oil and gas position in the middle of a gas price spike.
00:39:52.000I don't understand what they're doing.
00:39:54.000Again, from a political perspective, it is going to go down in history as one of the great acts of political malpractice of all time that Joe Biden entered office after a highly unpopular one-term president and proceeded to do everything he said he would not do, embracing the positions of the person he defeated in the primary.
00:40:11.000You have to wonder whether this geriatric patient is even in control of his own brain at this point to make that kind of politically unpalatable move.
00:42:14.000If you're an employee, your company cannot force you to take a vaccine you do not want or should not force you to take a vaccine you do not want.
00:42:21.000Don't let them hide behind the vaccine mandate.
00:42:23.000Unless we lose, nobody should have to comply.
00:42:39.000to the Biden administration that Americans don't just do whatever you tell them to do.
00:42:43.000Over 600,000 people have already signed the petition.
00:42:45.000The more signatures we get, the louder the message.
00:42:46.000That's why we are aiming to get to 1 million signatures.
00:42:48.000So, head on over to dailywire.com slash do not comply and sign the petition today.
00:42:53.000Also, big announcement, this Sunday, I'm joined by my favorite governor, because he's my governor, Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, who's taken a firm stance against the Biden administration's unconstitutional vax mandates, just like we have here at The Daily Wire.
00:43:09.000We get to everything from Ron DeSantis's handling of COVID, to why Florida is drawing people down here, to his philosophy of government in general.
00:43:41.000Meanwhile, again, I don't know what is driving so many thinkers on the Democratic side of the aisle these days, but it is certainly not reality.
00:44:18.000Or, alternatively, they want to indoctrinate your kids and they don't want you to know what they're doing.
00:44:22.000Christina Wyman says, Parents and politicians across the country are interfering with the curricula that public schools use to teach students.
00:44:28.000State legislatures are passing laws to keep critical race theory out of schools.
00:44:31.000Literary classics like Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye are banned for sexual content.
00:44:35.000School libraries are coming under attack for containing books about gender.
00:44:38.000There are even parents who are trying to shield students from learning about mental health and suicide, as though helping children build emotional fortitude is a bad thing.
00:44:46.000While the political climate and national involvement in school districts gave the phenomenon a broader platform and have more serious ramifications, this behavior is nothing new.
00:44:54.000Parents have always tried to interfere with curricula, as I observed when teaching middle school in the mid-2000s.
00:44:59.000Even then, there was no shortage of parental input about the content of my instruction from books to test questions.
00:45:04.000Part of the problem is that parents think they have the right to control teaching and learning because their children are the ones being educated.
00:45:10.000But it actually, gasp, doesn't work that way.
00:45:12.000It's sort of like entering a surgical unit, thinking you can interfere with an operation simply because the patient is your child.
00:45:21.000Okay, so let's begin with the false analogy between being a surgeon and being a middle school teacher.
00:45:26.000I'm sorry, did you go to like eight years of Stem schooling in order to determine how to operate on a kidney?
00:45:34.000Or do you just go to a crappy ed school where they taught you a bunch of social justice nonsense and now you think that you're qualified to teach children despite never having dealt with actual real-life children yourself very often?
00:45:45.000Like, who makes the analogy between a surgeon, like a heart surgeon, and a person whose main job is to read a curriculum designed by other people and then infuse it with their own biases?
00:45:57.000Second of all, She says, you know, parents are misinformed if they think that they can control their kid's education the way that they can control medical care.
00:46:29.000This bizarre idea that she's promoting, that when you hand your kid over to the state, the state is now the expert on how to educate your kid, is crazy towns.
00:46:39.000The analogy is proper in terms of parental action.
00:46:42.000I get to decide whether my kid has surgery.
00:46:44.000I get to decide whether my kid needs medical treatment.
00:46:47.000And I get to decide which doctor does it.
00:46:49.000But with the public schools, I don't get to decide any of that.
00:46:52.000You force my kid to go to a public school if I can't afford to go to a private school, which is why vouchers should be a thing, so I can choose where to put my kids.
00:46:59.000Of course parents should have control over education, especially when you're talking about subjects like English or history.
00:47:06.000Yes, if a parent burst into a classroom and said, you're teaching calculus wrong, and then suggested that we break out the abacuses, that would be silly.
00:47:15.000But that's not what we're talking about here.
00:47:16.000We're talking about the values that are taught to your kids.
00:47:18.000And so you have now democratic thinkers saying, no, no, no, no.
00:47:22.000Teaching English and history and social science is exactly like teaching math.
00:47:30.000She talks about what an expert she is.
00:47:31.000When I first pursued teaching nearly two decades ago, I was struck by the list of requirements I had to fulfill for the state of New Jersey to determine I was qualified.
00:47:38.000Several years of focused college instruction, followed by intense mentorship, state-level exams, and more exams.
00:47:50.000And by the way, those state educational standards have made New Jersey the crown jewel, particularly inner city New Jersey, the crown jewel of the world's educational systems.
00:48:01.000So yeah, hand it over to the experts and shut up.
00:48:09.000Meanwhile, the Biden administration continues to double down.
00:48:13.000So we've discussed the case of Saúl Omarova.
00:48:16.000Over the past couple of weeks, this is the person that the Democrats want to be controller of the banks, essentially, run the banking industry in the United States.
00:48:25.000She has said in the past that she wishes to abolish all private holdings of savings accounts and checking accounts.
00:48:31.000That should all be done through the Federal Reserve.
00:48:33.000So then the Fed can determine who gets a loan and who does not.
00:48:37.000She said in the past she wants to bankrupt the oil and gas industry.
00:48:39.000Yesterday, she said she doesn't like Bitcoin.
00:48:41.000Yeah, no bleep you don't like Bitcoin.
00:48:44.000You mean a person who's in favor of centralized government control over every aspect of the economy doesn't like Bitcoin, which is the alternative to centralized government control of the economy?
00:48:52.000Here is Saúl Omarova, the Biden administration's communist nominee for running in the banks.
00:48:59.000And by the way, when I say communist nominee, I mean she earned the Lenin Prize at the University of Moscow and will not reveal her PhD thesis before being nominated to this position.
00:49:09.000Do you believe that a government-issued representation of currency, of value, is superior to private commerce?
00:49:22.000I believe that we do have government-issued money right now in this country, and it's working great, and I worry about Allowing private innovation to undermine a lot of important public policies.
00:49:48.000Bitcoin is a great alternative to the government inflating the currency, doing whatever it wants with your dollar, doing whatever it wants with your savings.
00:49:56.000Her deep desire to nationalize nearly everything should scare the hell out of everyone.
00:50:01.000Now, the left is trying to pretend that this is not true, right?
00:50:03.000The left is trying to pretend that she is actually anti-communist, that she is some sort of free marketeer, which is amazing, since like two years ago, she tweeted out that there was no gender pay gap in the Soviet Union, right?
00:50:16.000Things were wonderful in the Soviet Union.
00:50:20.000She says that she chose in her PhD program to study American democratic theory, and she was on exchange at the University of Wisconsin.
00:50:28.000When the Soviet Union collapsed, she simply stayed.
00:50:35.000Her academic writing about the banking industry was all about centralizing all power.
00:50:42.000In her book, The People's Ledger, How to Democratize Money and Finance the Economy, a 71-page academic study on how to separate big banks' lending features from their role as safekeepers of Americans' savings, she wanted the Federal Reserve to replace bank deposits.
00:50:56.000There's a reason she's being defended by Elizabeth Warren.
00:50:59.000So, John Kennedy from Louisiana, he went after her in pretty colorful fashion.
00:51:03.000This, of course, made many people very angry.
00:51:06.000You're not allowed to mention communism or Marxism.
00:51:42.000Now, she says now that she has a unique appreciation for our dynamic and diverse markets.
00:51:47.000But all of the things that she has said about our dynamic and diverse markets are critical of those dynamic and diverse markets, so far as I'm aware.
00:51:54.000She said that her articles are designed to expand the boundaries of academic debate.
00:52:05.000It's a red scare, says Elizabeth Warren, who herself has embodied a lot of sort of Marxist ideals in her own campaigning.
00:52:13.000Professor Omarova, I know that the giant banks object to your willingness to enforce the law to keep our system safe and that you may cut into big bank profits so they and their Republican buddies have declared war on you.
00:52:27.000The attacks on your nomination have been vicious and personal.
00:52:55.000This is the senator from Ohio trying to defend Omarova.
00:52:58.000We know that a shadowy political group funded by former Trump staff has been fomenting these personal attacks and pushing radical right-wing news sites to spread misinformation.
00:53:11.000These inflammatory insinuations continue to stoke the unhinged rhetoric that is poisoner politics.
00:53:17.000Now we know what happens when Trumpism meets McCarthyism.
00:53:23.000It's a cruelty no person should experience.
00:53:27.000How about we find out what she actually thinks and wonder whether somebody with Marxist leanings ought to control the banking industry in the United States.
00:53:35.000But really, Democrats keep, apparently they just think that if they keep shouting Trump over and over and over, then like Beetlejuice, he will appear and then win elections for them.
00:53:43.000This seems to be their opinion of the situation.
00:53:48.000Meanwhile, speaking of people who continue to kowtow to the Chinese, Jen Psaki yesterday was asked why Joe Biden won't raise a COVID investigation with China.
00:53:55.000Joe Biden has been very hands-off with regard to the human rights crisis that China has been purveying in Hong Kong, the threats against Taiwan.
00:54:03.000Joe Biden has been relatively sanguine about all of this.
00:54:07.000And of course, neither he nor John Kerry brought up the COVID investigations with China, which unleashed a virus from Wuhan on the world, which has killed some 4 million people.
00:55:16.000Somebody should inform him his administration already floated a trial balloon about just doing it.
00:55:20.000Okay, meanwhile, speaking of that Wuhan virus investigation, now people are trying to claim that it was at the wet market.
00:55:27.000According to a scientist who has poured over public accounts of early COVID-19 cases in China, he reported on Thursday an influential WHO inquiry had most likely gotten the early chronology of the pandemic wrong.
00:55:37.000The new analysis suggests the first known patient sickened with coronavirus was a vendor in a large Wuhan animal market, not an accountant who lived many miles from it.
00:55:45.000That report was published on Thursday in the prestigious journal Science.
00:55:47.000It will revive, though certainly not settle, the debate over whether the pandemic started with a spillover from the wildlife sold at the market, a leak from a Wuhan virology lab, or some other way.
00:55:56.000The scientist, Michael Worobei, is a leading expert in tracing the evolution of viruses at University of Arizona, came upon timeline discrepancies by combing through what had already been made public in medical journals, as well as video interviews in a Chinese news outlet with people believed to have the first two documented infections.
00:56:57.000And they've taken our corporations and turned them inside out.
00:56:59.000Now listen, I think these corporations are gutless.
00:57:02.000I think these corporations should stand up.
00:57:04.000I think they should not go along with this.
00:57:06.000But I also think that the federal government at a certain point, Western civilization at a certain point, has to tell the Chinese that we are going to cut them off economically at the knees if they continue to purvey the kind of political terrorism in which they are currently engaged.
00:57:20.000But instead, we've got corporations that are just kowtowing to them.
00:57:25.000According to Axios, the Marriott Hotel in Prague declined to host a conference of activists and leaders from China's Uyghur diaspora this month, citing political neutrality, an email shared with Axios shows.
00:57:35.000The Chinese government has condemned the World Uyghur Congress, which has attempted to rally global attention to the genocide in Zhangjiang, China.
00:57:42.000The decision to reject the conference reflects China's growing ability to extend authoritarian control beyond its borders by making clear to corporations that crossing the party's red lines will be bad for business.
00:57:53.000About 200 delegates from 25 countries gathered in Prague from November 12th to 14th to elect the organization's new leadership and hold discussions with politicians, academics, and civil society representatives from around the world.
00:58:04.000The Prague Marriott Hotel declined to host the conference.
00:58:08.000As they said, they were afraid of pissing off the Chinese, basically.
00:59:30.000So, the Women's Tennis Association is now calling on China to explain what the hell just happened to Peng Shuai.
00:59:37.000Now, Peng Shuai is a Chinese tennis player.
00:59:39.000She put up a post on social media alleging that a high-ranking Communist Party official had raped her.
00:59:44.000The post was immediately taken down, and she was disappeared.
00:59:47.000And then, a statement was issued to the WTA in her name that was obviously written by the Communist Party.
00:59:54.000Clearly written by the Communist Party.
00:59:56.000Her post was deleted within 30 minutes of publication.
00:59:58.000Her Weibo account, which has more than half a million followers, is still blocked from searchers on the platform.
01:00:04.000Earlier this week, Chinese state media released an email purportedly from Pang, walking back her allegations, saying they weren't true and claiming she is fine.
01:00:16.000And so this put the WTA in a bit of a bind.
01:00:18.000Do they alienate the Chinese and stand up for this tennis player?
01:00:21.000Or do they simply kowtow to the Chinese government the way the NBA has?
01:00:25.000And good for them, the WTA was like, nope, we're not doing it.
01:00:28.000According to CNN, the head of the Women's Tennis Association, Steve Simon, has said he is willing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars worth of business in China if tennis player Peng Shui is not fully accounted for and her allegations are not properly investigated.
01:00:40.000Simon said in an interview Thursday with CNN, we're definitely willing to pull our business and deal with all the complications that come with it.
01:00:46.000This is certainly bigger than the business.
01:00:48.000Women need to be respected and not censored.
01:00:56.000Simon said, when you factor in the commitment to prize money and the commitments to the WTA, and you factor in the stadium building real estate elements, it's over a $1 billion commitment they've made to the WTA finals and the WTA in Shenzhen.
01:01:08.000But apparently, they're willing to pull out.
01:01:10.000Serena Williams also put out a statement.
01:01:11.000Naomi Osaka also released a statement with hashtag whereispengshuai.
01:01:14.000We'll see if any of these people have the stones to separate off from Nike for continuing to do business this way.
01:01:33.000Now, honestly, really, credit to Serena Williams.
01:01:36.000Even if she's not going to cut ties with Nike, her speaking out against the Chinese government at the risk of pissing off Nike is a good thing.