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00:00:00.000Joe Biden finally speaks about Tara Reade's accusations, the media preemptively declared Georgia's opening a failure, and evidence mounts of the FBI's manipulation of Michael Flynn.
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00:00:34.000Well, Joe Biden is unable to put together English sentences and has been hiding out in his basement for a while, and he'd been completely silent about the Tara Reid allegations.
00:00:41.000Now he has finally spoken, and it didn't go awesome.
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00:02:13.000Over the past 48 hours, the dam has started to break on the Tara Reade allegation.
00:02:17.000So Tara Reade came out almost over a month ago, I believe, and made the allegation that back in 1993, when she was a Senate staffer for Joe Biden, he called her into a little used corridor in the Senate,
00:02:29.000And there he proceeded to sexually molest her essentially like pick up her skirt and then put his fingers inside her like actual penetration penetrative sexual assault I mean it's a sexual assault by definition any penetration forcible penetration is sexual assault so she alleged this and then everybody ignored it and then she came forward with a bunch of people who she had told contemporaneously now That is not dispositive.
00:02:50.000For people in the media who don't understand the word dispositive, dispositive means that does not mean that the case is disposed of because of these allegations.
00:02:58.000Meaning, just because you told somebody at the time something happened doesn't mean it went down that way, doesn't mean that you remembered correctly, but it does mean You've been telling the story for 30 years.
00:03:06.000You didn't make it up in the last five minutes.
00:03:08.000So Tara Reade originally had a couple people she had told.
00:03:12.000Her mom called into Larry King Live and actually made a sort of oblique reference to it back in 1993.
00:03:17.000And then it turned out there were two additional people who said, on the record, that she had told them about this allegation.
00:03:22.000So all of this starts to mount because, after all, the Democratic Party has been pushing the Believe All Women, Hashtag Me Too movement for years, mainly to get Trump.
00:03:31.000Remember, nobody cared about Harvey Weinstein in Hollywood for years, and then Trump was elected, and it was like, okay, we're gonna have to get rid of all these bad, bad, terrible men.
00:03:37.000Sure, we had Bill Clinton, and sure, we had JFK, and sure, we had Ted Kennedy, and sure, we had Chris Dodd, and sure, we had, you know, a lot of people who are sort of famously going around town and molesting women, but...
00:03:54.000We'll hold ourselves to a better standard.
00:03:55.000And they did overtly change the standard.
00:03:57.000Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who had been hobnobbing with the Clintons, turned on a dime and said, if I had been around when Bill Clinton was doing this, maybe we should have gotten rid of Bill Clinton in 1998 after all, over the Monica Lewinsky and Paula Jones stuff.
00:04:07.000Maybe we should have gone ahead and done that.
00:04:09.000OK, well, now Joe Biden is the nominee and this allegation comes forward.
00:04:13.000And Joe Biden's original strategy is, we'll put out a statement denying it, and then that's all we're going to do about it.
00:04:18.000We're just going to sit here silently.
00:04:19.000And the media basically go along with this.
00:04:21.000Tara Reid, the person who made the allegation, is not asked on a single national news show.
00:04:25.000There was an entire article in the New York Times yesterday about this by Ben Smith, who's actually doing a pretty good job over at the New York Times.
00:04:30.000He used to be the editor-in-chief over at BuzzFeed.
00:04:32.000Now he's reporting over at the New York Times.
00:04:35.000And he says, And he says, the mainstream American media in 1999, for reasons that are hard to explain or excuse today, got cold feet on a credible allegation of rape against the president.
00:04:45.000After NBC News sat for weeks on an exclusive interview, Broderick went on to the only people who would listen to her, Mr. Clinton's partisan enemies at the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
00:04:53.000That move helped turn her straightforward allegation into a weaponized political story.
00:04:57.000And while Americans watching at home could make up their own minds about Juanita Broderick's credibility, they were left with new reasons to shake their head at the media.
00:05:03.000The same thing is about to happen again.
00:05:05.000A former Senate aide for Joe Biden, Tara Reade, has accused the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee of sexually assaulting her in 1993.
00:05:11.000Reporters have found other accounts that indicate she's been telling her version of events for a long time.
00:05:15.000There are, as with Juanita Broderick, reasons to doubt her story.
00:05:18.000There aren't good reasons not to hear her out.
00:05:20.000And yet, Reid told me Wednesday the only offers she's had to appear on television have come from Fox News, including a call from primetime host Sean Hannity she has so far turned them down.
00:05:30.000She said, I've been trying to just kind of wait to get someone in the middle.
00:05:32.000I don't want to be pigeonholed as a progressive.
00:05:33.000I don't want to be pigeonholed as a Trump supporter.
00:05:36.000CNN, MSNBC, MSNBC, whose DNA, even a pandemic, is politics, have covered her on their websites and on air, but have not put her on camera.
00:05:44.000Reid said, they're not offering to put me on TV.
00:06:54.000The broadcast television network CNN and MSNBC have covered the story on their websites, but there's been no clear explanation for why Reid was not booked on mainstream TV.
00:07:02.000CNN and MSNBC declined to explain why they have not booked a woman who is, whether you believe it or not, one of the few newsmakers right now who could cut through the pandemic.
00:07:14.000The posture is all the more strange because at this point, it's essentially symbolic.
00:07:17.000In 1999, you could argue that NBC's decision to hold back Lisa Myers' interview with Broderick had real political consequences.
00:07:23.000Taped in January, as the Senate took up impeachment charges against Clinton, it didn't air until after the Senate voted not to convict the president in February.
00:07:30.000Back then, the only way Americans were going to hear her voice was on television.
00:07:33.000But these days, if you want to judge Reed's story, you can listen to the original podcast interview.
00:07:37.000You can find her talking about it in different places.
00:07:40.000So it's pretty amazing that TV has refused to have Terror Read on, and it does demonstrate the bias of the media.
00:07:47.000Remember, Christine Blasey Ford was put on the cover of Time magazine with her face comprised of various quotes from her about all the horrible things that happened to her in a hero's pose, holding up her hand and taking the oath to tell nothing but the truth, the whole truth.
00:08:02.000But Tara Reade, they won't even have on national TV.
00:08:05.000They'll have on clowns like Sean Penn to talk about the global pandemic, but they won't have on Tara Reade, who's making an actual allegation of direct sexual assault against a presidential candidate.
00:08:14.000They're willing to have on everybody who's making those sorts of allegations against Trump back in 2016.
00:08:17.000But when it comes to Joe Biden, complete silence from national TV.
00:08:21.000So Joe Biden rightly thought he could hide out from this for quite a while.
00:08:25.000And now it turns out, by the way, that Joe Biden is doing more to hide out from the story.
00:09:57.000Well, now would be a pretty good time to, you know, actually reveal those personal papers from the archive.
00:10:02.000If you didn't want to donate them, Joe, you shouldn't have donated them.
00:10:04.000But the idea that we are going to keep them in the dark and make them irrelevant, For years on end, in the middle of this, it's pretty ridiculous.
00:10:29.000I thought it would be good to know what kind of classes he took back when he was in college and what kind of papers he was writing and all of that.
00:10:34.000I mean, some of us have been public since we were 17.
00:10:36.000So I sort of like the idea that if you are in the Senate on the taxpayer dime and you have notes that you have donated to a public university, I believe University of Delaware is a public university, that you should now have to release those as a condition of running.
00:10:48.000Like this seems like a thing that you should do.
00:10:52.000But apparently Joe Biden will not release those records.
00:10:55.000Tara Reid says, I'm calling for the release of the documents being held by the University of Delaware that contain Biden's staff personnel records, because I believe it will have my complaint form, as well as my separation letter and other documents.
00:11:05.000Maybe if other staffers that have tried to file complaints would come to light, why are they under seal?
00:11:08.000Why won't they be released to the public?
00:11:10.000So Biden's campaign has denied the claim from Reid.
00:11:13.000Biden says that there won't be any references in the records to any of this, but you could just release the records.
00:11:49.000And frankly, Trump was kind of circumspect about it, considering that Trump is usually the guy who, like, you hand him a brick and he will clock you directly in the forehead with it.
00:11:56.000Instead, Trump was actually kind of circumspect because, in Trump's opinion, he's been falsely maligned about this sort of stuff many times.
00:12:02.000And so he's not going to jump to guilt.
00:12:04.000Well, that's actually Trump being consistent, shockingly enough.
00:12:07.000Trump saying, listen, I know all about false accusations, so I'm not going to suggest that Joe Biden is guilty merely because an accusation was made.
00:12:13.000That's actually Trump being far more consistent than Joe Biden has ever been on this stuff.
00:12:45.000Okay, and that is a fairly circumspect answer, again, from the President of the United States.
00:12:51.000So, in the middle of all this, again, the momentum is gaining, and then Joe Biden has himself a couple of awful days, awful political days.
00:12:58.000Yesterday, Joe Biden was on national TV, and Joe Biden literally suggested, on national TV, Quote, I view myself as a transition candidate.
00:13:08.000My job is to bring the Mayor Pete of the world into this administration.
00:13:12.000So he's openly acknowledging that he's not actually the candidate for president, that he is just a dead person.
00:13:46.000He's basically betting that people hate Trump so much that he's elected president.
00:13:48.000That may not be a bad bet, but it's a horrible campaign tactic.
00:13:52.000Suggesting that you are running, not because you have a vision for the country or because you add anything to the political debate, but because you are an empty vessel who is likely to collapse and die two years into your term.
00:14:02.000This is the first time in my lifetime that the VP selection is actually going to matter a lot.
00:14:06.000If Joe Biden selects Kamala Harris, Donald Trump will run against Kamala Harris.
00:14:09.000He will not even run against Joe Biden.
00:14:11.000He will say, Joe Biden has said he's a transition candidate.
00:15:11.000And this was a video the campaign released because they thought it made Joe Biden look good.
00:15:16.000Joe Biden looks like he cannot string a sentence together.
00:15:18.000He repeats himself no less than twice in the course of about a 45-second video.
00:15:22.000He stumbles over himself, and his big suggestion for curing coronavirus is he is going to lower the flag at the White House, which is just, wow.
00:15:37.000By the end of this month, we have lost more people to coronavirus dead than we lost in the entire Vietnam War.
00:15:44.000America's lost in the entire Vietnam War.
00:15:47.000You know, I think the president should lower the flag on the White House to half-mast to recognize their loss and all they leave behind, all those families they leave behind.
00:15:59.000Many of them were first responders who gave their lives trying to save other lives.
00:16:04.000Folks, I think if he does not do that, When I'm president, I promise you that's what I'll do.
00:16:11.000They thought that this was a good video for Joe Biden.
00:16:22.000Who doesn't have those allegations out there.
00:16:25.000And so what you've seen is some of the Democrats starting to come out of the woodwork and a bit of a gap opening up in the Democratic Party.
00:16:30.000All this is the lead up to his disastrous appearance on Morning Joe this morning.
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00:18:11.000Have you heard credibly accused about Tara Reade?
00:18:13.000There is more evidence that Tara Reade actually has been telling the same story for 30 years than there ever was that Christine Blasey Ford was telling the truth.
00:18:21.000Tara Reade is a much more credible witness than Christine Blasey Ford.
00:18:30.000Tara Reade at least can point to a bunch of people she said, I told them at the time, right?
00:18:33.000So here is Nancy Pelosi suggesting that Christine Blasey Ford should be believed, that Justice Kavanaugh was probably a rapist, and then we'll hear her on Tara Reade.
00:18:43.000And suffice it to say, she is not consistent.
00:18:48.000There's been statements from his campaign, not his campaign, but his former employees who ran his offices and the rest, that there was never any record of this.
00:18:59.000Instead of asking questions, the Republican leadership fears the truth.
00:19:27.000Yesterday, Pelosi was asked about this, and she started getting angry at reporters.
00:19:31.000By the way, we've been told that every time a politician gets angry at a reporter, ever since Donald Trump, that this is an attack on the free press.
00:19:38.000Listen to this vicious attack on the free press, putting all of our freedoms at stake.
00:21:57.000Instead, Mika Brzezinski clocked him with just a cartoon mallet.
00:22:02.000She went directly at him and she asked precisely the kinds of questions that Democrats were asking about Brett Kavanaugh.
00:22:09.000And by the way, people who are angry at Mika, you should have been angry when Democrats were asking this stuff about Brett Kavanaugh or about Donald Trump.
00:22:15.000At least Mika Brzezinski is holding to a consistent standard.
00:22:18.000Now, I think the standard is stupid, by the way.
00:22:20.000I don't think the standard should be, if you are asked about an allegation, you say the allegation is false, you now have to justify why you say the allegation is false.
00:22:27.000And if someone accuses you of rape and you say, that never happened, you then do not have to say, but the woman's story, you know, we should, we should totally take her story seriously.
00:22:35.000You're allowed to say, no, that, that, that story is complete crap.
00:22:38.000The story is, it's garbage and I'm angry that I've been accused of something I didn't do.
00:22:42.000That is called a normal human reaction.
00:22:44.000And the fact that we live in a stupid time where if you are accused of a crime that you did not commit, you are supposed to be in some way tolerant of the person who is making the accusation is insane.
00:22:54.000I mean, the standard itself is stupid.
00:22:55.000That was the standard set by Democrats.
00:22:57.000Okay, so, Mika Brzezinski actually holds the same standard for Brett Kavanaugh.
00:23:01.000And Joe Biden can't hold up to the standard.
00:23:33.000But that is the standard Democrats are using.
00:23:35.000You have to believe all women, even if you're the one who knows it's not true.
00:23:40.000So no one can hold up to that standard.
00:23:41.000And predictably enough, Joe Biden, who held that standard, doesn't hold up to the standard, which is why, again, it was a terrible appearance by Joe Biden for a couple of reasons.
00:23:48.000We'll get to those in just one second.
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00:26:45.000said in 2018, for a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus nationally, you've got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she's talking about is real, whether or not she forgets facts, whether or not it's been made worse or better over time.
00:26:56.000So Brzezinski asked, is the essence of what she is saying real?
00:27:12.000She has the right to say whatever she wants to say, but I have a right to say, look at the facts, check it out, find out if what she says is true.
00:27:59.000It is literally, the guilt is the accusation, because believe all women, all women have to be taken seriously no matter how outlandish their claims, no matter if they're claiming that Brett Kavanaugh was lining up women and boofing them, In high school?
00:28:11.000And that boof actually meant not getting drunk, but raping people?
00:28:19.000And then she asked another follow-up, Mika Brzezinski, along the same lines.
00:28:22.000She said, Stacey Abrams said during the Kavanaugh hearings, I believe women, I believe survivors of assault should be supported and with voices heard.
00:28:28.000Kirsten Gillibrand tweeted, do we believe women?
00:28:29.000Do we give women an opportunity to tell their story?
00:28:32.000We must be a country that says yes every time.
00:28:35.000Are women to be believed unless it pertains to you?
00:28:37.000And Biden says, women are to be believed, given the benefit of the doubt.
00:28:40.000If they come forward and say something that they said happened to them, they should start off with the presumption that they are telling the truth.
00:28:47.000Then you have to look at the circumstances and the facts, and the facts in this case do not exist.
00:29:04.000But let's just acknowledge what happened here.
00:29:05.000That the Democrats shifted their standard from Nina Berlay's Time magazine piece in which she claimed That she would perform a Lewinsky on Bill Clinton in order to maintain the propriety of abortion.
00:29:18.000They moved from, we don't care about sexual assault if it's a Democrat, to every woman must be believed when it was Donald Trump who was in the crosshairs.
00:29:24.000And then they moved from that to, you know what would be great?
00:30:43.000April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
00:30:46.000Every year at this time, we talk about awareness prevention and the importance of women feeling they can step forward, say something, and be heard.
00:30:51.000That belief, that women should be heard, was the underpinning of a law I wrote over 25 years ago.
00:30:55.000To this day, I am most proud of the Violence Against Women Act.
00:30:58.000So, each April, we are reminded not only of how far we have come in dealing with sexual assault in this country, but how far we still have to go.
00:31:05.000So, again, he's being I'm going to use the phrase, credibly accused, because I guess now that's the phrase that we use, credibly accused of sexual assault.
00:31:12.000And he opened his statement with, here are all the great things I've done for women.
00:31:16.000I was reliably informed that it does not matter whether you've treated women well your entire career, that has no relevance to a sexual assault allegation.
00:31:22.000I was reliably informed of that when it came to both Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh, actually.
00:31:47.000In the years that followed, I fought to continually strengthen the law.
00:31:50.000So when we took office and President Obama asked me what I wanted, I told him I wanted oversight of the critical appointments in the office on violence against women at the DOJ.
00:31:57.000and I wanted a senior White House advisor appointing directly to me on the issue.
00:32:03.000As Vice President, we started the It's On Us campaign on college campuses to send the message loud and clear that dating violence is violence and against the law.
00:32:10.000So there's this long preamble about all of these wonderful things that he has done for women.
00:32:15.000And then he says, It's on us, and it's on me as someone who wants to lead this country.
00:32:19.000I recognize my responsibility to be a voice, an advocate, and a leader for the change in culture that has begun but is nowhere near finished.
00:32:25.000So I want to address allegations by a former staffer that I engaged in misconduct 27 years ago.
00:32:30.000Well, no, the allegation is that you forcibly sexually assaulted her, not that you engaged in misconduct.
00:32:37.000While the details of these allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault are complicated, two things are not complicated.
00:32:42.000One is that women deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, and when they step forward, they should be heard, not silenced.
00:32:46.000The second is that their stories should be subject to appropriate inquiry and scrutiny.
00:32:49.000Again, there's that shifting standard.
00:32:51.000Appropriate inquiry and scrutiny apparently did not involve, you know, actual scrutiny and inquiry for Christine Blasey Ford, or any of the women Donald Trump was involved with, or any of the rest of us.
00:32:59.000Responsible news organizations should examine and evaluate the full and growing record of inconsistencies in her story, which has changed repeatedly in both small and big ways.
00:33:08.000She has said she raised some of these issues with her supervisor and senior staffers from my office at the time.
00:33:12.000They, both men and a woman, have said unequivocally she never came to them and complained or raised issues.
00:33:17.000News organizations that have talked with literally dozens of former staffers have not found one, not one, who corroborated her allegations in any way.
00:33:23.000Indeed, many of them spoke to the culture of an office that would not have tolerated harassment in any way, as indeed I would not have.
00:33:29.000There is a clear critical part of this story that can be verified.
00:33:33.000The former staffer has said she filed a complaint back in 1993.
00:33:36.000But she does not have a record of this alleged complaint.
00:33:38.000The papers from my Senate years that I donated to the University of Delaware do not contain personnel files.
00:33:43.000It is the practice of senators to establish a library of personal papers that document their public record.
00:33:47.000Speeches, policy proposals, positions taken, and the writing of bills.
00:33:50.000There's only one place a complaint of this kind could be.
00:34:07.000She says, the National Archives does not hold records from the Personnel Office, the Office of Fair Employment Practices.
00:34:13.000Instead, a Senate Historical Office staffer said the Fair Employment Practices records are governed by Senate resolution mandating that records containing personal privacy information closed by statute and records of executive nomination are closed for 50 years.
00:34:26.000That staffer said that the rules for filing a complaint to the Office of Fair Employment Practices were complicated, and it was possible a staffer attempting to do so without proper guidance may not have taken the necessary steps to get an investigation started.
00:34:38.000According to the congressional testimony from 1995, 479 people contacted the office between 1992 and 1995 seeking assistance.
00:34:45.000Of those, only 102 entered the office's five-step dispute resolution process, which included a formal complaint and hearing.
00:34:52.000If Reid's complaint was filed to the Office of Fair Employment Practices, the record will remain closed until 2043. 2043!
00:35:00.000Also, it is possible the reason that she wants the University of Delaware records exposed is because they're actual records because she met formally and informally with several Biden aides, according to her, including his former chief of staff, Ted Kaufman, about her concerns, which included allegations she was told she dressed too provocatively and asked to serve drinks at a fundraiser because Biden liked her legs.
00:35:20.000She believes notes from those discussions would be in any personnel files the archive might contain.
00:35:25.000So it's not just about a formal complaint.
00:35:26.000It's also about, did Joe Biden ever mention her in any of his notes?
00:36:17.000OK, in just a moment, we're going to get to all of your coronavirus updates.
00:36:21.000By the way, quick further note on Joe Biden.
00:36:24.000Joe Biden also has now enlisted Chris Dodd to aid in his search for a female vice president.
00:36:28.000The Connecticut Democrat allegedly assaulted a waitress during his tenure there.
00:36:31.000There's a famous story where Chris Dodd and Ted Kennedy were sandwiching waitresses.
00:36:36.000That's literally what that was in a report from Michael Kelly writing for GQ.
00:36:40.000Quote, "It is after midnight and Kennedy and Dodd are just finishing up a long dinner in a private room on the first floor of the restaurant's annex.
00:39:15.000Well, we're going to get into everything coronavirus related because the idiotic controversy over when to reopen continues.
00:39:22.000I say idiotic because we're not actually having the intelligent conversation.
00:39:25.000At this point, it's basically people who want to lock down forever against a few people who want to open everything up in willy-nilly fashion, and then a bunch of people in the middle saying, how about we go back to work in tranches and act responsibly?
00:39:34.000I think that's like 70% of the American public at this point.
00:40:06.000So Amity is the author of a fantastic book called The Forgotten Man about FDR and the 1930s and why all the measures taken during the Great Depression were absolute garbage.
00:40:14.000She also has a fantastic book on the Great Society and how government attempts to alleviate poverty have been a giant backfire and a giant fail.
00:40:20.000It's deeply relevant at a time when you have the Democratic Party calling for a whole scale remaking of the economy yet again.
00:40:27.000Guaranteed income tends to break up families.
00:40:29.000It makes it easier to be a single, autonomous adult.
00:40:32.000With a guaranteed income, you don't have to stay together.
00:40:34.000Families need to depend on one another in order to be strong.
00:40:43.000Okay, it's really a great episode, a really informative episode, and her books are really tremendous.
00:40:47.000Meanwhile, it is that glorious time of the week when I give a shout-out to a DailyWare member.
00:40:50.000Today, it is Laura Dykstra, who clearly knows how to count her blessings.
00:40:53.000In this pic, two adorably, patriotically dressed babies are sitting on the floor together, one deep in thought, the other fully surprised to be getting photographed with not one, but two examples of the world's most elite beverage vessel.
00:41:03.000The caption reads, good things really do come in pairs.
00:41:06.000Couldn't have said it better myself, Laura.
00:41:56.000And politicians understand right now, because of the media coverage, That the best available option for them is blame Trump for the economy and then take credit for saving lives by locking down your city or locking down your neighborhood.
00:42:07.000Unless you're a responsible governor, in which case you are looking to responsibly reopen.
00:42:10.000And there are some bipartisan responsible governors.
00:42:12.000Again, you're looking at people like Jared Polis in Colorado looking at reopening.
00:42:15.000He doesn't get any sort of media play because they're too busy, the media, turning this into a polarized political issue when it shouldn't be politicized.
00:42:22.000Here's the narrative the media are now generating.
00:42:24.000The media is that if you want to reopen in any way, it's because you don't care about human life.
00:42:29.000And this follows hard on the Joe Biden line.
00:42:32.000So Joe Biden has been saying since the beginning of the week, his new line is, we need to fly flags at half staff, that this is going to fix everything.
00:42:38.000So I played that clip a little bit earlier of Joe Biden stumbling and bumbling his way through that suggestion.
00:42:42.000Within four hours, the New York Times on its front page put a piece suggesting that President Trump is mean and doesn't care about dead people.
00:42:50.000The actual headline was, amid a rising death toll, Trump leaves the grieving to others.
00:42:54.000You see, Trump's really mean and terrible.
00:42:56.000By the way, here was Donald Trump yesterday talking about mourning for every life lost.
00:42:59.000Tragically obscene, the virus poses the greatest risk to older Americans.
00:43:04.000Together as one nation, we mourn for every precious life that has been lost.
00:43:16.000Through our aggressive actions and the devotion of our doctors and nurses, however, we have held our fatality rate Far below hard-hit other countries such as Spain and Italy and United Kingdom and Sweden.
00:43:31.000Yeah, also, first of all, when it comes to the fatality per million rate, that's not actually true.
00:43:37.000We are below UK, we are below Spain, we are below Italy, we are not below Sweden.
00:43:40.000I don't know why he's beating up on Sweden these days other than Trump himself seems confused as to what his actual policy should be here.
00:43:45.000The point here is that the media have generated a narrative.
00:43:47.000The narrative is if you reopen, you're killing people.
00:43:49.000And if you call for reopening, you're calling for killing people.
00:43:52.000And so they're going to pick on Trump here.
00:43:54.000The headline at the New York Times was, as the death toll from the coronavirus over eight weeks surpasses the total American military casualties in eight years of major combat in Vietnam, Mr. Trump has led no national mourning.
00:44:04.000That sentence in and of itself demonstrates how stupid the media coverage is.
00:44:07.000That's Peter Baker from the New York Times.
00:44:53.000Come on, it's just irresponsible nonsense.
00:44:56.000And again, all of this is driving a narrative.
00:44:58.000The narrative is that you're very mean and very bad if you try to reopen the economy.
00:45:03.000And the media love picking the nuts, right?
00:45:06.000They like picking on the people who are being most irresponsible in protesting this sort of stuff.
00:45:10.000So for example, yesterday, there were a bunch of protesters who descended on the Michigan Capitol because Michigan legislators are voting on whether to extend the stay-at-home orders.
00:45:19.000And in the dumbest possible fashion, protesters show up carrying guns, And by the way, I will note, even this was miscovered by the media.
00:45:29.000Screaming at police officers who are attempting to enforce social distancing, getting right in their faces while the police officers are only wearing medical masks, which means that the police officers are protecting others from being infected.
00:45:38.000But a medical mask, unless it's an N95, is not going to protect you from being infected by others because you intake air every time you breathe.
00:45:45.000Getting right in the faces of police officers who are just trying to protect legislators and keep people safe is idiotic.
00:46:33.000By the way, when I say the medium has covered even this, let's be frank about this.
00:46:36.000It is not against the law to come to the Capitol with a gun unless they can show hostile intent.
00:46:41.000So members of the media, because they're scared of guns and they think the guns are inherently evil, they think it shows hostile intent to show up anywhere with a gun.
00:46:46.000So they said a pro-gun rally in Virginia, which involved Like, 10,000 people bringing guns and involved zero actual violence was super, super threatening.
00:46:54.000Anytime reporters see a gun, they freak out.
00:46:58.000These are the same kinds of people who say that if I have armed security at my kid's school, that this is somehow damaging to my child, which is purely insane.
00:47:24.000So on the one side you have the people in the media who obviously want to lock down forever, and then you have people like this who are being irresponsible in how they protest and creating bad optics and being stupid.
00:47:34.000And then you have everybody in the middle who's like, you know what guys?
00:47:36.000There are serious costs to this thing and we're gonna have to reopen.
00:47:39.000I'm amused to see that the New York Times is finally recognizing that capitalism raises people out of poverty, and that when you shut down forcibly the world economy, that people get poor again.
00:47:48.000There's an article in the New York Times that sort of tacitly admits this.
00:47:52.000There's a headline, millions who had risen out of poverty are pulled back in by the pandemic.
00:47:57.000It's not just the pandemic that has pulled people back into poverty.
00:48:00.000It is governments forcibly shutting down the free market economy that has pulled people back into poverty and changing free market economy conditions based on people not going out and participating in a free market economy.
00:48:10.000If government was the solution to poverty, I'm wondering, why did millions of people just sink back into poverty during the greatest government enforcement action in the history of mankind, transnationally?
00:48:35.000Again, the media have created this bizarre perception, super bizarre, that Gavin Newsom in California has done an amazing job, Ron DeSantis in Florida has been evil and horrible, Greg Abbott in Texas has been evil and horrible.
00:48:46.000Last I checked, California has about five deaths per 100,000 population from coronavirus.
00:48:51.000Texas has three deaths per 100,000 population from coronavirus.
00:48:55.000Florida has six deaths per 100,000 population from coronavirus.
00:48:59.000So why is it that Gavin Newsom is a hero and Ron DeSantis is a fool when Ron DeSantis has about the same stats as Gavin Newsom except he didn't shut down his entire state and is not threatening to shut down every beach?
00:49:10.000Gavin Newsom, by the way, even had to walk that back.
00:49:12.000A couple of days ago, Gavin Newsom suggested he was going to shut down every state park and beach in the state because a bunch of people showed up at Newport Beach.
00:49:18.000As I mentioned, this is like the dumbest possible policy.
00:49:35.000There was a study from China, two, count them, two cases of coronavirus transmission in the open air, and it was apparently two people talking to each other at like one foot distance with no masks.
00:49:45.000So Gavin Newsom had to walk that back.
00:49:47.000He said that he is, he's only going to close state and local beaches in Orange County.
00:49:52.000Which means, of course, now he's closed L.A.
00:50:35.000A testing and tracing regimen that is only operative to prevent spikes?
00:50:39.000You know, by the way, when you're first going to see those spikes, you're first going to see those spikes not in the testing and tracing regimen, not unless you ramp up the testing to millions per day.
00:50:46.000You're first going to see it in hospital cases, when people suddenly spike in a particular area.
00:50:51.000I'm all for testing and contact tracing, but can we stop pretending that it's a utopian solution in which the virus stops spreading and that the R goes below 1 because of testing and tracing?
00:50:59.000In a country of 330 million people where asymptomatic spread of the disease is prevalent and we have over a million cases that we've already identified, 900,000 of them that are still active?
00:51:10.000Okay, none of this is going to happen in the near future.
00:51:51.000Frankly, I'm kind of shocked that we still are not getting national data on who exactly is dying and from what.
00:51:57.000There are stats out today, by the way, that demonstrate that the vast majority of people who are dying, again, and who are young, are people who have serious underlying conditions, not just hypertension if you're under 50.
00:52:06.000People who are obese, people who have HIV, people who have asthma.
00:52:11.000If you are young and you are healthy, statistically speaking, you are not going to die of this disease.
00:52:16.000The chances of you dying of the disease, I read the stats yesterday, are extraordinarily low for young people.
00:52:21.000And so what you're going to start seeing is everybody treating this like Sweden.
00:52:58.000Because the entire series is basically about how the FBI, like all other federal agencies, is staffed by people who are self-interested, by people who want to maximize their budget and not lose their jobs, and how they will use the elements of law enforcement in order to maximize their political They're political upside and take risks with the lives of other people that are completely unjustified.
00:54:23.000So the FBI went in guns blazing in a situation for a gun charge.
00:54:27.000This underscores a basic point that I've always made.
00:54:29.000When you are calculating whether a law is worth enforcing or making, understand that at the end of every law is the threat of death from the government.
00:54:36.000Every single law, the threat of death from the government exists at the end of that law.
00:54:40.000Because let's say that you have a high flush toilet and you violate an EPA standard because your toilet flushes too much water.
00:54:46.000And the federal government comes to your door and they say, we're going to fine you.
00:54:48.000You say, you know, I'm not paying that fine.
00:54:49.000They say, we're going to lien your property.
00:54:51.000You say, well, I'm not liening my property.
00:54:53.000And I say, well, then we're going to come arrest you.
00:54:54.000You say, well, I'm not going with you.
00:54:56.000At the end of every law, at the end of every law, is if you resist the law, they will shoot you.
00:55:00.000And so, knowing that, you should take pretty seriously the kind of laws that we make in this country.
00:55:05.000Understanding that most people are not going to resist the law, understanding that most people will pay the fine, understanding all of that, and understanding that there are certain areas where there is interest in regulation, right?
00:55:16.000You are going to have to regulate people from damaging each other.
00:55:19.000But, if you are doing something that doesn't damage another human being, and the federal government is threatening to murder you over it, then that's kind of a big problem.
00:55:27.000The series makes that point with regard to the Branch Davidians in Waco.
00:55:32.000The Branch Davidians were not good people.
00:55:34.000The Branch Davidians were engaged in a cult in which the leader of the Branch Davidians, David Koresh, was essentially engaged in sexual assault of young girls, in which he was engaged in polygamy, in which he was fathering children by other men's wives with their permission.
00:55:56.000But the series makes the point that pretty much all of this was legal in the state of Texas.
00:56:01.000And even the gun charges that the ATF went into police could have been alleviated with like a $25 fine.
00:56:06.000And so they went in, guns blazing, to a compound of 130 people.
00:56:12.00076 people died, including 25 children.
00:56:14.000And the series traces, like every step of this, in apparently fairly accurate fashion, because they were consulting with somebody who was inside the compound and ended up escaping at last minute.
00:56:24.000And they consulted with Gary Nesner, who was the negotiator on behalf of the FBI.
00:56:29.000The series, you know, there's a case to make, the series is too sympathetic toward Koresh, that it really should have examined more of the bad stuff that Koresh was doing.
00:56:38.000But as people in the series point out, there's an actual radio host in the series who is talking about it, almost as running commentary, the ATF is not an enforceable child abuse agency.
00:56:50.000There were accusations that Koresh was abusing children.
00:57:09.000And again, it is a great reminder That we should be very careful about the power you give to the federal government because you never know when that power of the federal government is turned against you.
00:57:40.000God has instructed me to stay here and wait for his sign.
00:57:47.000This is our time to prove through suffering that we are worthy of the miracle that's to come.
00:57:52.000I mean, it is the most libertarian series I have ever seen in my life.
00:58:04.000And it is fairly well-rounded in the sense that, you know, Koresh is obviously not a good person.
00:58:09.000Koresh is obviously a bad guy, but he is a true believer in his own shtick.
00:58:13.000They don't make it as though he's a cynical user, which he may very well have been, right?
00:58:16.000He may have been a guy who just wanted to shtip everybody else's wife, and so he created a false prophecy in which he had to shtip everybody else's wife, and people went along with it.
00:58:23.000But the series is pretty definitive on its own view that the federal government is responsible for the deaths inside that compound.
00:58:32.000It does not make any bones about the idea that this was not a mass suicide, that this was in fact the federal government completely blowing it.
00:58:38.000It's worth watching as it is an excellent reminder for all those who love government force and are willing to use it in nearly any circumstance, that it's all fun and games until the government decides that you're the bad guy based on whatever pretext they can raise that day.
00:58:52.000The utter and essential dishonesty of members of the media who are taking people out of context on this pandemic thing is truly, it's extraordinary.
00:59:05.000So you remember early on, President Trump suggested that the Democrats were engaged in a hoax by blaming him for all the impacts of coronavirus.
00:59:11.000And this became a talking point for the Democrats who then claimed that Trump was actually saying that coronavirus itself was a hoax.
00:59:17.000He never said coronavirus itself was a hoax, but this became the talking point.
00:59:20.000And Nancy Pelosi went on TV and repeated it every day.
00:59:26.000It has been trotted out ever since to claim that President Trump claims that coronavirus itself was a hoax.
00:59:31.000Well, now the Democrats have a second round of this.
00:59:33.000So Jared Kushner, who's the chief advisor to the president, he goes on television and he says, listen, the federal response to this thing has been a success story.
00:59:40.000Not the coronavirus is a success story.
00:59:43.000The federal government's response to this is a success story because we responded as governors need us to respond.
00:59:50.000And then we will explain and then we'll show how it has been deliberately twisted by members of the media to suggest that Jared Kushner is celebrating 60,000 dead Americans.
00:59:57.000It's just this kind of stuff is just sheer garbage.
01:00:00.000Here is Jared Kushner on Fox and Friends the other day.
01:00:02.000We're on the other side of the medical aspect of this, and I think that we've achieved all the different milestones that are needed.
01:00:08.000So the government, federal government, rose to the challenge, and this is a great success story.
01:00:13.000And I think that that's really, you know, what needs to be told.
01:00:17.000Okay, so again, he is saying that the federal government's success here is a story that needs to be told.
01:00:51.000The federal government got them the ventilators.
01:00:53.000The federal government has been responsible for getting people the personal protective equipment.
01:00:57.000The federal government has been responsible for a $7 trillion bailout.
01:01:00.000The federal government response here has been as active as any response in the history of America and more active than virtually all of them.
01:01:07.000And you know who is saying that sort of stuff?
01:01:45.000Here is Phil Murphy yesterday saying this.
01:01:49.000We can't thank the president and his team enough in terms of what we've gotten already in terms of ventilators, bed capacity for the Army Corps, PPE, etc.
01:02:01.000But we are Embarking upon a very significant partnership to more than double expand our testing amounts and numbers in New Jersey by at latest the end of May.
01:02:18.000Okay, so there he is explaining the federal government has done its job.
01:02:50.000The media will not tell that success story.
01:02:52.000I would guarantee that if you do a search for ventilators right now in the media, if you just search the word ventilators at the New York Times and the media, you will see this enormous spike in the early days when the demands were ventilators, ventilators, ventilators, ventilators.
01:03:05.000And then the federal government got them the ventilators and then gone.
01:03:09.000When's the last time you heard somebody on national TV mentioned the word ventilators?
01:03:20.000Remember when they said we don't have enough hospital beds in New York and the feds were like, okay, but we'll get you the hospital beds you need?
01:03:31.000Remember the huge story when the Comfort arrived?
01:03:33.000Not as big a story when it went away, was it?
01:03:36.000So when Jared Kushner says it was a success story by the federal government, that's because it was a success story by the federal government.
01:03:41.000And they continue to work to provide for the needs of states, many of which should have been providing for those needs themselves.
01:03:47.000Okay, so this all leads up to the media deliberately misinterpreting Kushner because Kushner is very bad.
01:03:51.000He's a very bad guy because Jared Kushner works for Trump and he's related to Trump because he's married to Trump's daughter.
01:03:57.000And this means that Kushner is bad and evil and terrible and no good and very bad.
01:04:00.000By the way, in the history of American politics, I understand.
01:04:12.000The person who was effectively running the country when Woodrow Wilson went down in 1919, right, he had a heart attack and he was basically not with us, was Edith.
01:04:22.000His son-in-law, McAdoo, William McAdoo, was the Secretary of War under, so the Jared Kushner of his time was the Secretary of War, not an advisor to the president, the Secretary of War under Woodrow Wilson.
01:04:40.000Here was the view yesterday, deliberately misinterpreting Kushner's comments to suggest that he was saying that it was a success that 60,000 people had died.
01:04:48.000Those were some of the most tone-deaf comments I've heard from the administration.
01:04:54.000We know that Jared Kushner has been sort of the behind-the-scenes task force leader, corona task force leader.
01:05:02.000He's been instrumental in this response, this piss-poor response, and 60,000 Americans have lost Okay, Sunny Hostin, I'd like to hear you define the piss-poor response.
01:05:24.000Really, what should they have done better?
01:05:26.000What were the things they should have done better?
01:05:27.000And the Democrats were stumping for heavily in February.
01:05:30.000The widespread media lie that the federal government's response has been piss-poor is absolutely rebutted by Democratic governor after Democratic governor saying we asked for what we needed and then we got it from the feds.
01:05:42.000And the attempt to twist what Kushner is saying into, yes, we're happy with 60,000 dead is insane.
01:05:49.000But again, this is the media basically saying that Trump is a bad, mean man who doesn't care about human beings, and that's why he wants to reopen.
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