With his presidency flailing, Joe Biden tries to pivot, but is it too late? Plus, Jeff Zucker was reportedly in a relationship with his top deputy for 25 years, and directly helping out Andrew Cuomo. Plus, why is he being ousted, just because he was having a consensual, loving relationship with the network s top communications executive, Allison Gallus? Well, according to Rolling Stone, the timeline on their coupledom is off by more than two decades, say sources who have worked with the pair. According to CNN President Jeff Zucker s February 2nd resignation memo to staff, the romantic relationship which marks a flagrant violation of corporate policy given that Gallus was a direct report to Zucker for most of her nine-year tenure at CNN. But sources who worked closely with Zucker and Gallus dispute their statements in the memo. In fact, these sources tell Rolling Stone that the pair became romantically entangled with each other back in 1996, when she was a trainee in NBC s corporate communications group and he was the married executive producer of the Today Show. It was the worst kept secret in the history of secret relationships at the network. And for a limited time, when you buy a signed copy of my brand new book, The Authoritarian Moment, you get a copy of the book and an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau. You can trust Birch Gold to help you diversify your 401k and IRA into gold! When you buy, Birch Gold will send you a free information kit on gold, you can trust your savings and you ll get a tax-sheltered IRA in gold! And for 99% off your retirement accounts. When you re done, you ll ll ll get an A-plus rating with Birch Gold! You ll get your FREE information kit to protect your savings account and a signed book on gold! and for a chance to get your own signed copy, too! Ben Shapiro is the only person I trust to help me, the only company I trust. Get ExpressVPN, the company that helps me diversify my 401k, and IRA, and I ll send you an A + rating on gold. Get Express VPN, right now at ExpressVPN right now, at expressvpnppn. Get your FREE info kit right now! - Ben Shapiro's show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. - The Ben Shapiro Show is a show sponsored by Vaynerchuk, the best VPN service in the entire world!
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00:01:35.000Okay, so, I'm gonna begin today with some new revelations about Jeff Zucker.
00:02:00.000Well, the answer to why this would happen, as it turns out, is because Jeff Zucker has apparently been knocking boots with this lady since the mid-90s and then elevating to every job she ever held afterward.
00:02:09.000According to Rolling Stone, in relationships, timing is everything.
00:02:13.000And the timeline on Jeff Zucker and Allison Golis' coupledom is not only off by more than two decades, say sources who have worked with the pair, the CNN power couple also repeatedly lied about their relationship to their corporate bosses.
00:02:24.000According to CNN President Zucker's February 2nd resignation memo to staff, the romantic relationship, which marks a flagrant violation of corporate policy given that Gallus, the network's top communications executive, was a direct report to Zucker for most of her nine-year tenure there, began sometime in the past two years.
00:02:40.000Thales said in the same memo, Jeff and I have been close friends and professional partners for over 20 years.
00:02:44.000Recently, our relationship changed during COVID.
00:02:46.000I regret we didn't disclose it at the right time.
00:02:48.000Zucker said the relationship evolved in recent years.
00:02:51.000Zucker noted in his memo that WarnerMedia's ongoing investigation into Chris Cuomo, who was fired in December for a breach of ethics after it was discovered he'd been advising his brother, former New York Gov, Andrew Cuomo, while the latter faced accusations of sexual harassment, brought the affair to light and prompted his resignation.
00:03:06.000It seems the probe, which is being overseen by the law firm of Crabath, Swain & Moore, again, one of the most tony law firms in all of America, is unearthing plenty of embarrassing details about the goings-on at CNN.
00:03:15.000The scope of the investigation has now expanded to include Zucker and Gallus' relationship with Andrew Cuomo, too, according to a Warner Media source.
00:03:23.000But sources who worked closely with Zucker and Gallus, dating back to their days at the Today Show in the mid-90s, dispute their statements in the memo.
00:03:30.000In reality, these sources tell Rolling Stone, Zucker became romantically entangled with Gallus back in 1996.
00:03:38.00025 years ago, when she was trainee in NBC's corporate communications group, and he was the married executive producer of the Today Show.
00:03:45.000It was the worst-kept secret, but Jeff was seen as untouchable, says one insider, and their statements in the memo are total BS.
00:03:50.000In fact, the pair have skirted the issue multiple times in the past.
00:03:53.000At least one investigation into their relationship had been carried out by WarnerMedia well before COVID.
00:03:58.000But Zucker and Gallus denied the romance over and over again, says a knowledgeable source, nothing changed in the corporate hierarchy's reporting structure.
00:04:04.000A WarnerMedia spokesperson denied that any such investigation had ever been launched, but acknowledged that both parties had been asked about the nature of their relationship multiple times, including after a New York Post gossip item hinted at a romance when they were spotted arguing at a Hollywood Reporter party in 2017.
00:04:19.000The pair repeatedly denied any impropriety.
00:04:21.000A representative for Zucker said, Jeff resigned due to an undisclosed personal relationship.
00:04:26.000A representative for Gallus did not respond to Rolling Stone's request for comment.
00:04:33.000On May 1st, 2020, this is according to Rolling Stone, Jason Killar took the reins as CEO of WarnerMedia and immediately set about overhauling the sprawling entertainment and media conglomerate owned by AT&T.
00:04:43.000In the process, Zucker, who also served as chairman of WarnerMedia's news and sports division, lost oversight of CNN's finances and human resources, as well as corporate communications, the division run by top executive Gollist.
00:04:54.000Sources say Killar was aware of rumors that Zucker was in a long-term relationship with Gallus, who is also the network's chief marketing officer, and that Zucker, given just 24 hours' notice of the move, was livid.
00:05:03.000He's very angry that suddenly his lover is not working for him any longer.
00:05:08.000Killar's sudden restructuring prompted several journalists to begin chasing the story of Zucker and Gallus' unorthodox union.
00:05:14.000Back in September 2020, this reporter placed calls to WarnerMedia and specifically asked if Killar's decision to move Gollust out from under Zucker was a result of learning about their relationship, which was in violation of the company's code of conduct.
00:05:25.000At the time, a WarnerMedia spokesperson declined to answer and referred the matter to Gollust herself.
00:05:29.000Still, a behind-the-scenes executive showdown ensued, and Zucker appeared to have prevailed.
00:05:33.000After the May 2021 announcement that AT&T would be spinning off WarnerMedia and merging it with Discovery, Killar, reportedly blindsided by the news, began negotiating his own exit.
00:05:42.000Zucker was rumored to be getting a bigger role in the new entity because he was very close with the Discovery CEO, David Zasloff.
00:05:48.000Dallas, in turn, was supposed to become the head of CNN, so Zucker was going to fail upward.
00:05:53.000Killar, who was trying to clean house, was going to be ousted.
00:05:57.000And Gallist was going to take Zucker's place as the head of CNN.
00:06:02.000But those well-laid plans came crashing down when the investigation into Chris Cuomo began sweeping up embarrassing details concerning Zucker and Gallist, including emails and other evidence that painted an undeniable picture of the duo's romantic relationship.
00:06:14.000The evidence only surfaced in recent days, say two sources, and Killar basically used this as an excuse to chop off Zucker's head.
00:06:22.000Facing termination, Zucker resigned and is not poised to receive any severance.
00:06:25.000Sources say Zaslav was not involved in the decision to cut ties with Zucker.
00:06:32.000It turns out that apparently, Katherine Forrest, a former U.S.
00:06:36.000district judge who's actually overseeing the legal investigation into all of this, Forrest is apparently investigating not just Chris Cuomo's alleged help in helping his brother Andrew, but also Zucker and Gallus' help.
00:06:48.000The source says the investigation suggests Zucker and Gallus were advising Andrew Cuomo at the beginning of the COVID pandemic in ways not dissimilar to what led to Chris Cuomo's dismissal.
00:06:59.000As Andrew sparred on a daily basis with then-President Trump over COVID messaging, the couple provided the governor with talking points on how to respond to the president's criticism of the New York crisis.
00:07:08.000They booked the governor directly to appear on the network exclusively, which became a ratings boon for CNN, with Chris Cuomo doing the interviewing.
00:07:15.000Cuomo and Gallus' conduct, too, would appear to mark an ethical breach for executives acting on behalf of an impartial news organization.
00:07:22.000And again, Rolling Stone says over the past three decades, the Zucker-Gallus relationship was no secret inside the newsrooms of NBC or CNN, Within a year of Zucker and Gallist commencing the affair, according to multiple sources, Gallist leapfrogged from trainee to the role of senior publicist for The Today Show, and Zucker became her boss, a paradigm that continued for years to come with only two brief interruptions.
00:07:42.000Through a series of promotion, her purview expanded.
00:07:44.000She added oversight duties for NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, and Weather Channel, as well as NBC Nightly News, Dateline, and Meet the Press.
00:07:51.000So Zucker was nailing this intern basically and she kept moving upward with him.
00:07:55.000He just kept elevating her in stature to the point where eventually he was going to move up at Discovery and she was going to end up as the head of CNN.
00:08:03.000Meanwhile, both of them at CNN were calling up Andrew Cuomo to advise him on how to handle the pandemic and comms with Donald Trump, which makes perfect sense considering that Jeff Zucker knew Cuomo and Gallus had once been a senior comms director for Cuomo.
00:08:18.000In 2000, Zucker became president of NBC Entertainment and quickly pulled off a series of splashy deals, including signing Donald Trump to host The Apprentice and Joe Rogan to host Fear Factor.
00:08:28.000In 2009, Gallus was named executive VP of corporate communications at NBCUniversal, becoming the chief spokesperson for Zucker.
00:08:34.000But then in June 2010, Zucker was ousted as Comcast was about to complete its 51% acquisition of NBCUniversal.
00:08:41.000He was paid $30 million to $40 million to leave.
00:08:45.000And then five months later, Gallus resigned.
00:08:48.000And then as Zucker was plotting his media world comeback, both he and Gallus became intertwined with the Cuomo brothers.
00:08:53.000In 2012, Gallus took a post as comms director for Andrew Cuomo.
00:08:57.000Not long after Zucker joined CNN, one of his first hires was Chris Cuomo.
00:09:01.000Very quickly after that, Gallus resigned and joined Zucker at CNN, where she was named senior vice president of communications for CNN worldwide.
00:09:40.000Now listen, Chris Cuomo is a douchebag, but Chris Cuomo is not responsible for this.
00:09:44.000Chris Cuomo is just pointing out what everybody apparently at CNN knew, which is that Zucker and Gallus were doing exactly what Chris Cuomo was doing, except they were also knocking boots at the time.
00:10:16.000Well, I mean, listen, I like a lot of what Jake does, but all of these people are the bad guy.
00:10:19.000I'm not aware that Chris Cuomo is not the bad guy, but Jeff Zucker is the good guy.
00:10:22.000with terrorists and Chris blew the place up.
00:10:23.000How do we get past the perception that this is the bad guy winning?
00:10:26.000Well, I mean, listen, I like a lot of what Jake does, but all of these people are the bad guy.
00:10:31.000I'm not aware that Chris Cuomo is not the bad guy, but Jeff Zucker is the good guy.
00:10:36.000He and Allison Gallist were overtly, apparently, advising Andrew Cuomo in the middle of the pandemic while running the most trusted name in news.
00:11:29.000So what really happened here is that Killar, it sounds like, took his revenge by initiating this investigation on the basis of Chris Cuomo's lawsuit and then used that as a way of getting Zucker out.
00:11:43.000Which suggests, once again, the rules only apply when the powerful want them to apply.
00:11:46.000It's really not that there's a set of rules that Zucker and Gallus violated.
00:11:50.000They've been violating this set of rules for 25 years.
00:11:52.000Every HR violation in the world sounds like it happens right here.
00:11:56.000I mean, she was his direct inferior at a company.
00:14:22.000But when it comes to the generalized attitude of the left toward when the rules apply, they only apply to quote-unquote allies who just demonstrate there are no rules for the left.
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00:16:12.000They lost like 26% on their stock value because they actually had a reduction in the absolute number of users who were using Facebook.
00:16:19.000Mark Zuckerberg, for his part, blamed TikTok and the rise of TikTok, which again, goes to show you that in the tech world, there really is no such thing as a long lasting monopoly because eventually, Everybody gets overtaken.
00:16:28.000Eventually, there's always somebody with a better algorithm.
00:16:30.000And the TikTok algorithm is astonishingly good.
00:16:32.000The TikTok algorithm, designed by the Chinese, what makes it good is that very often on platforms, you can sort of promote your content into virality.
00:16:40.000On TikTok, they have an ability to identify potential viral content without the marketing dollars.
00:16:46.000And so you get a bunch of stuff in your feed that is more viral and it's a very, very sophisticated algorithm.
00:16:52.000In any case, Facebook took a complete trashing yesterday.
00:16:58.000They gave a disappointing financial forecast, helping the major indices snap a four-session winning streak, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:17:03.000The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 3.7 percent.
00:17:07.000That was the worst day since September of 2020.
00:17:18.000Over recent days, the payments giant lowered its 2022 profit outlook.
00:17:22.000The streaming company elected not to provide annual guidance.
00:17:24.000Both companies suffered sharp drops in their stock prices.
00:17:28.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the setbacks reflect the increased scrutiny companies are under as major U.S.
00:17:32.000stock indices remain near record highs and the Federal Reserve is preparing to raise interest rates for the first time since 2018.
00:17:37.000So people are shedding their high performing stocks that don't actually have solid profits underlying them.
00:17:43.000Rising rates tend to reduce the multiples investors are willing to pay for a share of company profits, a trend that stands to mean pain for stocks already trading at lofty valuations.
00:17:51.000So if there are stocks that are overvalued, they're likely to recede back to the norm.
00:17:55.000The level of forgiveness has gone down, said Daniel Genter, chief executive and chief investment officer at RNC Genter Capital Management.
00:18:01.000When boards come to their shareholders to confess their sins, they're just not going to be pardoned with one Hail Mary.
00:18:06.000The Facebook parent company surprised investors with deeper than expected declines in profit and a downbeat outlook.
00:18:11.000The company said it expects revenue growth to slow and shared that it lost about 1 million daily users globally.
00:18:18.000That is the worst daily performance since Facebook even opened in 2012.
00:18:23.000One of the new problems here is that the company's challenges include a new ad privacy policy from Apple that Meta expects to cost more than $10 billion in lost sales for 2022.
00:18:32.000That requirement that apps ask users whether they want to be tracked limited the ability to gather data used to track digital ads, driving advertisers to change their spending.
00:18:40.000Meanwhile, by the way, companies like Amazon just made bank on advertising.
00:18:45.000So Facebook, which again is free because basically they gather data on you and then they use that data to market to advertisers.
00:18:51.000Apple's new policy was basically designed to cut Facebook off at the knees and it succeeded in that.
00:18:57.000Meta's $232 billion drop in market value exceeds the record Apple set in September 2020, when the iPhone maker lost about $182 billion in a single day.
00:19:06.000Now, when we say that they lost this much money, we don't mean that they have like cash and the cash just went away.
00:19:10.000What we mean is that the stock is trading at a lower value.
00:19:13.000So when you say that Facebook lost a couple hundred billion dollars, it doesn't mean that Mark Zuckerberg actually had his bank account strained.
00:19:20.000It just means that his stock is not as marketable.
00:19:23.000Some strategists said the recent slide in shares of speculative tech companies should serve to remind investors a robust market rally relies on advances by a variety of stocks.
00:19:31.000They warn they expect more big stock swings ahead of any hint of slowing growth.
00:19:35.000Jung Yoo Ma, Chief Investment Strategist at BMO Wealth Management said, In other words, you need actual innovation that drives actual goods and services that people wish to consume.
00:19:50.000Not just goods and services that people engage in for free.
00:19:53.000There have to be actual profit models.
00:20:00.000And we're about to head into a deflationary cycle with the with the Federal Reserve cutting back on its own inflationary policies.
00:20:08.000So Joe Biden has a world of hurt heading for him, and his own economic policies make that world of hurt worse.
00:20:13.000So for example, yesterday, Joe Biden signed an executive order boosting construction workers.
00:20:19.000Federal construction workers now have to be unionized, is the basic idea here.
00:20:23.000Every federal construction project over $35 million will now require project labor agreements, which means that unions get paid, so the taxpayer gets to foot that bill too.
00:20:32.000So Joe Biden's economy is likely to slow.
00:20:34.000It's likely to grind to a bit of a halt here because with the failure of loose money and with the failure of this administration to move on from COVID, they have a real problem on their hands.
00:20:49.000And that continuation of the COVID panic is tanking the stock market.
00:20:53.000I mean, it's giving people a very hang dog look about the economy for sure.
00:20:59.000Meanwhile, by the way, all over the world, people are opening up again.
00:21:02.000It's only Joe Biden and the Blue States that are refusing to really open up.
00:21:06.000The WHO, for its part, the World Health Organization, on Thursday, offered Europe hope of a long period of tranquility, even enduring peace, in the war on coronavirus, with a growing list of nations lifting almost all COVID curbs, according to the Agence France-Presse.
00:21:18.000WHO Europe Director Hans Kluge spoke of a ceasefire that could bring us enduring peace, with high vaccination rates, the milder Omicron variants, and the end to winter in sight.
00:21:26.000This context leaves us with the possibility for a long period of tranquility, he said.
00:21:30.000He said, even with a more virulent variant than Omicron, it's possible to respond to new variants that will inevitably emerge without reinstalling the kinds of disruptive measures we needed before.
00:21:40.000So all over the world, people are realizing that this is stupid and that it's time to end it.
00:21:45.000The problem for Joe Biden is that he's been stuck in I will end COVID mode, and he's now created an entirely paranoid set of American citizens who believe the minute you take off a mask, you'll be struck by the wrath of God.
00:21:57.000That is not a recipe for economic success here.
00:22:01.000Again, he's got tech stocks that are tumbling.
00:22:03.000He's got the Fed, which is set to taper and is set to raise its interest rates.
00:22:09.000And he's got to get out of this somehow.
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00:23:19.000And so Politico is now reporting that the White House is thinking about pivoting.
00:23:22.000Quote, the White House is preparing to move on from Omicron.
00:23:26.000Emboldened by falling case counts, the Biden administration is plotting a new phase of the pandemic response aimed at containing the coronavirus and conditioning Americans to live with it.
00:23:34.000The preparations are designed to capitalize on a break in the months-long COVID-19 surge, with officials anticipating a spring lull that could boost the nation's mood and lift President Joe Biden's approval ratings at a critical moment for his party.
00:23:45.000Biden and his top health officials have already begun hinting at an impending new normal and a conscious messaging shift meant to get people comfortable with a scenario where the virus remains widespread, yet at more manageable levels.
00:23:58.000The big problem for the White House is that they are not capable of doing this.
00:24:01.000The reason they're not capable of doing this is because the minute they say you have to live with this, everybody goes, so why have you been doing this the whole time?
00:24:15.000I've been living completely normally with this virus since at least March of 2021.
00:24:20.000So for almost a year, we've been living completely normally.
00:24:22.000Since the vaccines were tranched out, everybody got vaxxed, wanted to get vaxxed, everybody didn't want to get vaxxed, didn't get vaxxed, and then everybody went back to work.
00:24:28.000Everybody started going out to parties.
00:24:31.000Everybody started hanging out with friends.
00:24:37.000Because the approach in Florida was always, calculate your risk, and then mitigate your risk as you see fit.
00:24:43.000And then, when the absolute level of risk goes down, you will live normally.
00:24:46.000Because that was the approach from the beginning.
00:24:48.000The approach even in 2020, like the middle of 2020, right after the pandemic ensued, the approach was, let's shield the elderly, but then you get to make decisions about how you wish to live your life.
00:24:57.000And a lot of people, like me, We're very cautious.
00:25:00.000I was cautious up until the vaccines were available.
00:25:02.000Because I was in touch with my parents.
00:25:16.000Because at that point, we had mitigated our risk enough to feel safe.
00:25:20.000This is what happens when you give people freedom.
00:25:21.000When you give people freedom, they will inevitably move toward exercising that freedom.
00:25:26.000It's just one of the things about freedom.
00:25:28.000Once you tell people they can make their own risk assessments, and that they are capable, rational beings, they start to make risk assessments.
00:25:33.000You may not like how they assess that risk, but once you give people the power to do that, they then get to assess that risk.
00:25:38.000And you don't do it anymore, so it's not on your head anymore.
00:25:41.000The problem for Joe Biden is he said, I have to assess the risk for all of you, and my risk assessment rules all of you.
00:25:47.000And now he's stuck between a rock and a hard place because he played up the risk throughout the pandemic that people would die of every age despite the fact that this thing is wildly age-striated and that if you were a young person, your chances of dying from any form of Delta were about 1,000 times less than if you were an elderly person.
00:26:58.000Those of us who haven't been listening to Fauci for quite a while here don't care about what Fauci has to say.
00:27:02.000But those who've been trained that everything Anthony Fauci says is what matters most in life, He can't just say, I, Joe Biden, assess this risk to no longer be a risk.
00:27:11.000And then you've got Anthony Fauci and Zeke Emanuel saying differently.
00:27:13.000Who do you think people are going to listen to?
00:27:14.000I mean, Zeke Emanuel literally went on MSNBC last night and he purveyed misinformation.
00:27:19.000And the entire left, which accuses Joe Rogan of purveying misinformation on COVID, what he's about to say right here is just not true.
00:27:59.000Also, I know by the data that the natural immunity that arises from actually getting the disease is far more durable than the vaccine immunity.
00:28:09.000And I know this because Marty McCary at Johns Hopkins University literally tweeted out the stats yesterday.
00:28:13.000Two years after people are infected, they have better immunity than two years after they were vaccinated or a year after they were vaccinated.
00:28:20.000So the White House is kind of stuck here.
00:28:21.000They want to pivot because they know the more that people are worried and paranoid about COVID, the more the economy is going to continue to skid.
00:28:28.000So according to Politico, the White House is wary of declaring victory too early only to get hit with another catastrophic variant, a half dozen administration officials and others close to the COVID response said.
00:28:37.000Officials are also anxious that voters will be disappointed by the idea of living with an endemic virus under a president who once pledged to shut it down completely.
00:28:45.000And they realize it will take vigilance and billions more dollars from Congress to prevent the nation from backsliding into crisis once again.
00:29:59.000But he can't let go of the lie because then he's proved to be a liar.
00:30:03.000We are moving toward a time when COVID doesn't disrupt our daily lives, said one administration official, who requested anonymity to discuss the internal deliberations.
00:30:09.000But in order to get people to view the pandemic differently, they have to feel differently about the pandemic.
00:30:16.000Joe Biden and company, they told a group of people that if they get vaxxed 97 times, and wear masks everywhere, and mask their kids everywhere, they are the good ones.
00:30:25.000But guess who Joe Biden is going to have to tell to relax now?
00:30:35.000Those people were never listening to Joe Biden.
00:30:37.000Now he has to go to his most ardent supporters and say, guys, you got to live like the people who didn't do it right.
00:30:43.000There is little talk so far about disbanding the COVID response team, though some burnt out aides have mused about leaving as soon as the spring.
00:30:49.000As to what metrics will signal success against the virus, officials say they're still figuring that out and hope they know it when they see it.
00:30:55.000It's something we need to answer, the senior administration official said.
00:30:57.000If you talk to six doctors inside and outside the administration, you get six different answers.
00:31:01.000For now, Biden's COVID team is counting on an expanding supply of vaccine and therapeutic to accelerate the transition to the next pandemic phase, allowing people to safeguard themselves against COVID-19's worst effects before and after an infection.
00:31:13.000Okay, first of all, most of us have been doing this the whole time.
00:31:17.000Regulators are expected to authorize the vaccine for children under five in the coming months, a major milestone in building out the country's COVID protections.
00:31:25.000Sane parents don't — Leanna Wen of CNN yesterday was like, I'm not sure that three-year-olds should be getting the vaccines.
00:31:32.000Do we have any really good data on that?
00:31:35.000The administration is stockpiling new treatments like antiviral pills that are shown to significantly cut the risk of severe illness.
00:31:41.000Well, I mean, yeah, but they shouldn't have to stockpile that.
00:31:43.000They should just put that on the shelves, like, right now.
00:31:45.000Like, just have Pfizer produce as much as humanly possible and put it on the shelves.
00:31:48.000After initial hesitation over the need for ramping up the availability of at-home testing, the administration now views easy access to rapid tests as core to persuading people they can safely live with the virus.
00:32:23.000Even as it maps out the next stage, the White House has ruled out making a splashy show or major announcement regarding a hard pivot back to normalcy.
00:32:31.000There's a fear among aides over repeating last year's July 4th Freedom from the Virus celebration, an event that turned politically disastrous weeks later when the Delta variant fueled a swift resurgence of the pandemic.
00:32:40.000And though it faces pressure to back off from some of its more notable and onerous public health policies, the administration is also unlikely to drop its indoor masking recommendations, which are seen as among the key tools for preventing new outbreaks.
00:32:54.000Officials instead describe plans for a more subtle shift over the next several weeks toward touting Biden's achievement in rolling out vaccines and treatments and emphasizing the everyday things people can do again if they're vaccinated.
00:33:03.000So again, they're just going to keep saying the same exact thing they've been saying the whole time.
00:33:06.000But the vaccinated are the scared ones.
00:33:08.000The vaccinated are the ones who aren't going back to work.
00:33:10.000The vaccinated are the ones who are trying to mask up their own kids.
00:33:12.000The vaccinated are the ones who are shutting down schools.
00:33:16.000Again, Joe Biden has no systematic ability to say to his own base that he has been wrong and they have been wrong.
00:33:22.000And that even if they were right at the beginning, they are wrong now.
00:33:31.000We'll get to something that went right for the Biden administration yesterday, and then quickly started to go kind of sideways, which is weird.
00:34:47.000Alrighty, we'll get to something that went right for the Biden administration and then quickly started to go a little bit wrong.
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00:38:22.000So meanwhile, Joe Biden, he actually did get a good economic report today.
00:38:31.000So there's a jobs report that came out today.
00:38:32.000It said payrolls were up by about $467,000, which is a large win for him because the expectations, according to one report, is that we're going to actually lose jobs in January.
00:38:42.000The White House had been downplaying the jobs report saying it was all about Omicron, which suggests that nothing that's happening right now is about Omicron.
00:38:47.000It's just about Whether people go back to work.
00:38:51.000If you stay out of the way, the economy will do fine.
00:38:53.000It's not about Omicron, it's about what people do with Omicron.
00:38:58.000All the talk about Omicron being the deciding factor is really not real, which is why Joe Biden should just declare the thing over and be done.
00:39:03.000And yes, slap it his own face, but he's not going to do that.
00:39:05.000Meanwhile, there was another piece of good news for Joe Biden yesterday.
00:39:08.000So Joe Biden yesterday announced the death of an ISIS leader in Syria and said that the guy had blown himself up, unfortunately, along with several children.
00:39:18.000The United States military forces successfully moved a major terrorist threat to the world, the global leader of ISIS, known as Haji Abdullah.
00:39:29.000Our team is still compiling the report, but we do know that as our troops approach to capture the terrorist, in a final act of desperate cowardness, He, with no regard to the lives of his own family or others in the building, he chose to blow himself up, not just to the vest, but to blow up that third floor, rather than face justice for the crimes he has committed.
00:39:52.000So that is a big win for the United States.
00:39:54.000Killing ISIS leaders is definitely a good thing.
00:39:57.000Now the problem is that pretty quickly there started to be allegations that actually the guy hadn't blown himself up and apparently the U.S.
00:40:03.000raid had been carried out in such a way that it ended up basically getting a lot of kids killed.
00:40:11.000It was an allegation that was being made by some people on the ground and it actually prompted the Pentagon to admit yesterday that it might review Syrian air raid reports.
00:40:19.000Because, of course, they had said something similar, you'll recall, about the killing, the supposed killing of members of Al-Qaeda and ISIS in Afghanistan, and it turns out that they actually just knocked out a guy and his family.
00:40:32.000So, this would not be the first time there'd been a screw-up in terms of whether a bunch of civilians were killed who didn't need to be killed.
00:40:38.000Now the Pentagon's acknowledging they might need to do an actual investigation.
00:40:42.000There's been no decision to do a review or investigation right now, Nancy.
00:40:47.000Again, this operation is not even 24 hours old.
00:40:51.000As the Secretary said, we certainly are willing to take a look to see if there's any possibility that anything that we did might have caused harm to innocent life.
00:41:02.000But I have no investigation or review to speak to today.
00:41:05.000Okay, so we are waiting on more information on that.
00:41:07.000And of course, we'll bring you more information on that.
00:41:08.000But, win for the United States in killing an ISIS leader.
00:41:12.000So, that could be a good pivot for the United States.
00:41:14.000Another good pivot for the Biden administration that would be good for the United States would be to prevent Russia from invading Ukraine.
00:41:20.000Because if Russia invades Ukraine, presumably China will look on and then invade Taiwan.
00:41:23.000Now, it is unlikely at this point that Russia is going to invade Ukraine while the world's eyes are focused on China.
00:41:29.000Beijing doesn't want any attention distracted from the Olympics right now, their propaganda effort over in Beijing.
00:41:34.000And so what they don't want is for international conflict to break out in the middle of the Olympics.
00:41:39.000And Putin and Xi Jinping are working very closely together.
00:41:42.000And so it is unlikely that for the next few weeks, while the Olympics are going on, that there will be an invasion of Ukraine.
00:41:46.000That's sort of the going conventional wisdom.
00:41:48.000In any case, yesterday, the United States, however, announced that they thought that Russia was planning to fabricate a pretext to invade Ukraine, which would not be a shock.
00:41:54.000They tried to do this last time with regard to Crimea.
00:41:59.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Russia is planning to prefabricate a pretext for an invasion of Ukraine by releasing a staged video depicting attacks by Kiev military forces, U.S.
00:42:07.000officials said Thursday, citing newly declassified intelligence.
00:42:11.000officials said they went public with the information to expose Russian tactics in an attempt to avert a conflict inside Ukraine, the latest in a series of similar moves in recent weeks.
00:42:18.000So basically they're saying, we know what you're doing, so don't do it.
00:42:21.000The intelligence shows a Russian plan to stage a prefabricated attack by Ukrainian military or intelligence personnel against Russian sovereign territory or against Russian-speaking people to justify an incursion into Ukraine.
00:42:32.000This is exactly what Hitler did when he invaded Poland.
00:42:36.000Basically, the idea is that you fabricate the idea that somebody else is attacking you and then, in quote-unquote response, you attack instead.
00:42:43.000The plan would include Moscow's use of a propaganda video that would depict graphic scenes, according to administration officials, of a staged false explosion with corpses, actors depicting mourners, and images of destroyed buildings and military equipment.
00:42:54.000The equipment in the video would be made to look like it is Ukrainian or from nations belonging to NATO, according to the officials.
00:43:00.000Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said, this is one example that we can talk about today.
00:43:04.000We've seen this kind of activity by the Russians in the past.
00:43:06.000We believe it's important when we see it like this, and we can, to call it out.
00:43:10.000The video, they said, could include depictions of Turkish-made Okay, so this is what the United States said about it.
00:43:20.000But then, when they were questioned, they couldn't actually provide any evidence of this.
00:43:24.000So the State Department spokesperson, Ned Price, He's asked by Matt Lee, who's a pretty ballsy AP reporter, where is the information here?
00:43:33.000Like, you keep saying that this is true, but you're not providing us any of the data that backs it.
00:43:36.000And the administration just keeps saying over and over, well, I'm telling you.
00:43:40.000And Matt Lee keeps saying over and over, right, but you telling me things doesn't mean that it's true.
00:44:41.000The LAPD, meanwhile, is actually considering an end to pretextual stops of motorists and pedestrians, supposedly because everything is racist.
00:44:49.000Quote, the LAPD is considering limiting pretextual stops of motorists and pedestrians by officers investigating serious crime, arguing they aren't effective and have undermined public trust in the police, particularly among Black and Latino residents who have been disproportionately targeted in the past.
00:45:04.000Such stops involve officers citing minor traffic or code violations as a pretext for stopping motorists, bicyclists, or pedestrians who they suspect may be involved in more serious crime.
00:45:40.000And the DA basically has decided in New York, all these Soros-funded DAs, all of these Soros-funded DAs have basically decided they will not enforce any criminal law ever again.
00:45:48.000And so New Yorkers are looking around going, yeah, you're not, you're not helping me.
00:45:53.000Yesterday, there was video of New Yorkers saying that Joe Biden can't do anything to stem violent crime.
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