A new CBS News poll shows that the qualities that most Americans are looking for in a president are just not present in Joe Biden. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is on track to defeat Joe Biden in the 2020 election, and the economy is doing much better than it has ever been in the history of presidential election polling. The problem with Keynesian Keynesian stimulus is that when the stimulus doesn t work, you have no more bullets to fire. The only way to truly stimulate an economy is with innovation and growth. It is not simply by helicoptering money everywhere, but that is the entire premise of all left-wing economic policies, that if you simply helicopter money everywhere and then you blow it out, or you don t even get money from the future, somehow this is going to lead to long-term economic growth and innovation. The truth is that the only way you can really stimulate a growing economy is through innovation and innovation, and that is not by simply handing money to the private sector. The Saudis are extending the production cuts through the end of the year, and are looking at taking any action on this front? Well, are you looking at it? Well are you? Well, we don t know what to do with the money you're getting from the current production cuts, because they don't have any clue what they're going to do in the future? And we don't even know where to put the money they're getting? What are you gonna do with it, do you have a clue what you're gonna do next? The problem is that you don't know what you should do with that money? It's just ain't enough, and you're not gonna get any more of it, hoo hoover it up in the rest of the future in the way you're just gonna do it up, right? You're not going to get enough of it in the near future, you just gotta wait for it, right hooooooohoo! ...and that's what we're gonna have to do, right there in 2020, right in the next few months, right, right here in the meantime? -- -- right in front of you, folks? -- Tom? -- right, we're just waiting for it? -- we'll figure it out? -- let's get it out of the pudding? -- and then we'll talk about it, won't we? -- not just in the here and now?
00:00:00.000The polls are really bad for Joe Biden on the economy.
00:00:02.000In fact, the polls are really bad for Joe Biden pretty much across the board.
00:00:06.000A CBS News poll that came out over the weekend shows that the qualities that most Americans are looking for are just not present in Joe Biden.
00:00:12.000According to the latest CBS News YouGov poll, it shows that 67% of Americans want a president
00:00:18.000who is tough, 66% want a president who is caring, 62% want a president who is no-nonsense,
00:00:24.000only 61% want calm, and 58% want energetic.
00:00:28.000Among people asked about Joe Biden's leadership style, 63% say that he is calm, but only 50%
00:00:34.000say that he is caring, and only 35% say that he is no-nonsense.
00:00:39.000Meanwhile, Donald Trump's leadership style is seen as provocative by 71%, by tough, it was seen as tough by 67%, energetic by 65%, no-nonsense by 55%, and entertaining by 55%.
00:00:51.000Even more importantly, despite the fact that Americans are really dissatisfied with this matchup, this Trump versus Biden perspective matchup, with 64% of Americans saying that that rematch would make them feel that the political system is totally broken, on the economy, the numbers are awful for Joe Biden, as well they should be.
00:01:07.000According to this poll, it shows that only 20% of Americans say they're better off today than they were before the pandemic, 45% say they are worse off today, and 35% say they're at about the same level, which is to say only 20% are pleased as punch.
00:01:21.000As far as the choice for president, if finances are worse now than before the pandemic, 71% say they would vote for Trump.
00:01:28.000So if you said that your finances are worse than they were before the pandemic, which is like 45% of Americans, 7 in 10 of those voters say they are going to vote for President Trump.
00:01:38.000One of the administration's efforts, according to CBS News, has been to tout what it sees as Biden's accomplishments.
00:01:42.000A lot of voters do know about some key efforts, and it apparently matters.
00:01:45.000For example, independents who have heard about the Biden administration investing in infrastructure are backing him.
00:01:49.000But those independents represent a small minority of people.
00:01:54.000The vast majority of people who are thinking about the economy either think that they are no better off or significantly worse off than before the pandemic.
00:02:01.000And that has to do with Joe Biden's policy.
00:02:04.000The fact of the matter is that Joe Biden's easy money policy, which has been combined with a Extraordinarily restrictive regulatory environment, massive subsidies to his union buddies, green boondoggles, and all the rest is making people feel pretty insecure.
00:02:18.000Their wages are not stacking up the same way they were before the pandemic.
00:02:22.000Prices have risen dramatically, and it doesn't look as though an end is in sight.
00:02:26.000Even people in the business sector who are supposedly doing amazing, thanks to the stock market boom, even those people are holding their money on the sidelines, not sure exactly where to put it.
00:02:35.000And you can hear the inability To handle the economy in the voice of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen who's supposed to be the big expert on this sort of stuff.
00:02:43.000So Janet Yellen did an interview on CNBC yesterday in which she basically explained that she has no clue what to do next because they don't.
00:02:54.000The problem with Keynesian stimulus is that when the stimulus doesn't work, you have no more bullets to fire.
00:02:59.000See, the thing about innovation is that innovation is done by individual entrepreneurs who have ideas and then look for the funding in order to go and build those ideas.
00:03:08.000But stimulus doesn't make the ideas magically happen.
00:03:11.000This is the equivalent of suggesting that some kid who gets straight C's, if you just give him an extra juice box, suddenly he's going to get A's.
00:03:19.000The reality is that the only way to truly stimulate an economy is with innovation and growth.
00:03:24.000It is not simply by helicoptering money everywhere, but that is the entire premise of all left-wing economic policies, that if you simply hoover up money from the private sector and then you blow it out, or you don't even do that, you hoover it up from the future and you blow it out in the present, somehow this is going to lead to long-term economic growth and innovation.
00:03:57.000The Saudis are extending the production cuts through the end of the year.
00:04:00.000Are you looking at taking any action on this front?
00:04:02.000Well, the president wants to make sure that gas prices remain affordable for Americans.
00:04:10.000Americans care a great deal about the price of gas.
00:04:14.000They're still down $1.20 off their highs last summer, although they have gone up recently.
00:04:20.000We're monitoring this situation very closely.
00:04:24.000The president has taken action over the last year.
00:04:28.000Certainly the releases of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve have been important in holding
00:04:36.000down oil prices and we'll continue to monitor that closely.
00:04:42.000The two things that Joe Biden has done that have tremendously affected gas prices, really, three, inflation affects the gas price, two, massive regulations placed on oil and gas companies, and the notion that Joe Biden spins out at every turn that he's going to kill off gas.
00:04:56.000He's going to just destroy oil production in this country.
00:04:59.000And then he's like, why don't you invest in the oil refineries today?
00:05:01.000Well, because you've said that you want to destroy the industry over the course of the next five to 10 years.
00:05:05.000That's factor number two, regulation and incentivization.
00:05:08.000And factor number three, Joe Biden has decided to make enemies of many of the biggest oil producers on planet Earth, including the Saudi royal government.
00:05:14.000Before he came into office, he basically said that he was going to cut off the Saudis at the knees, and they returned the favor by saying, we'll cut you off at the knees, which presumably is why the gas prices in 2021, January 2021, when this tool took over, were $2.42.
00:05:23.000January 2021, when this tool took over, were $2.42.
00:05:28.000And today, they're $3.70 or thereabouts.
00:05:32.000And they've really never sunk below that in any serious way.
00:05:33.000Meanwhile, Janet Yellen is claiming that we really shouldn't worry about this UAW strike.
00:05:38.000So we currently have a massive strike, the biggest strike against the Detroit carmakers in modern American history.
00:05:44.000It's against all three Detroit carmakers.
00:05:46.000And she's pretending that this is going to have no economic impact to slow down at these plants.
00:05:52.000Because you have to be worried about inflation, I would think.
00:05:55.000Just as it's starting to come down, supply chain disruptions are a risk here, aren't they?
00:06:00.000Well, you know, I think it's premature to be making forecasts about what it means for the economy.
00:06:07.000It would depend very much on how long the strike lasts and exactly who's affected by it.
00:06:15.000But the important point, I think, is that the two sides need to narrow their disagreements and to work for a win-win,
00:06:25.000a contract that's good, good for the workers.
00:06:30.000Okay, but the entire reason this strike is happening, like all the other strikes that have happened on Joe Biden's watch, is because everyone in union world thinks that Joe Biden is on their sides.
00:06:40.000They are now all taking advantage of the easy money policies and the inflation of the Biden administration in order to strike against their employers, hoping that the Biden administration is going to come in and ram down some sort of beneficial deal to them that will, in the end, bankrupt these car companies again.
00:06:54.000Remember, the car companies went bankrupt the first time because of rich union contracts, including defined benefits pension plans.
00:06:59.000That's exactly what the UAW is seeking right now.
00:07:01.000All of this can be laid at the footstep of this White House.
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00:08:10.000These strikes, these UAW strikes again, are just part of a broader whole picture here, which is that the unions have paid off Joe Biden and the Democratic Party for literally decades on end, and finally they got their man in the White House, the most pro-union president since Barack Obama, and probably more pro-union even than Barack Obama, who's too elitist.
00:08:28.000Joe Biden has been in the pocket of the union since day one in Wilmington, Delaware.
00:08:32.000Well now, all of these unions are seeing their moment to shine.
00:08:35.000According to Politico, the UAW's walkout Friday at 3-4 General Motors and Stellantis plans Stellantis, by the way, is Chrysler.
00:08:41.000They got sold to a European conglomerate.
00:08:42.000Could become the most politically and economically disruptive strike since President Joe Biden took office.
00:08:47.000But it's hardly the only significant labor management clash during his administration.
00:08:50.000Maybe part of that is because you actually appointed a union man head of your labor department and your National Labor Relations Board, an absolute Frankensteinian monster in terms of its pathetic effect on the American government, the NLRB.
00:09:01.000It's a disgrace to American government.
00:09:11.000They just threaten businesses that are not in violation of the law.
00:09:14.000Workers, according to Politico, armed with the power of a tight labor market and at times angered by how employers treated them during the pandemic, have organized with new energy from Hollywood to UPS to Starbucks.
00:09:27.000If all of the left-wingers over in Hollywood are not signing the rich union contracts, you know why that is.
00:09:33.000Because if they do, they'll go bankrupt.
00:09:35.000You're seeing this, by the way, in the stock prices of a lot of the major entertainment conglomerates, ranging from Netflix to Disney.
00:09:40.000They're taking it directly on the chain.
00:09:41.000And meanwhile, I got their writers striking.
00:09:44.000When it comes to the auto manufacturers, they're all getting their lunch eaten by Tesla, which is a non-union shop.
00:09:51.000It is amazing how we can keep relearning the same lessons over and over and over again.
00:09:55.000All the adults who suggest that it's unions that made American life so wonderful during the 1950s, 1960s, it was the union job, the union job, where you sat there for 10 hours a day doing riveting, or whatever, and neglect the fact that a lot of those jobs, you know, now is you sitting in an air-conditioned office doing another kind of job, and that your grandfather, who had to sit out there in the factory doing the riveting, would kill for your job right now, Put that aside.
00:10:18.000The fact is that the real reason America boomed during the 1950s is because every other place on earth was on fire during the 1940s.
00:10:25.000It's not because the unions did such stellar work.
00:10:27.000They effectively bankrupted the car industry, which was the single greatest industry in the United States in the 1930s, 40s, 50s, and 60s.
00:10:34.000By the beginning of the 1970s, everybody was moving over to the cheap Toyotas.
00:10:39.000The first auto bailouts were happening by the 80s.
00:10:42.000But, says Politico, Biden has worked hard to brand himself as the most pro-labor president in American history and relied on Union's political muscle to help him win the presidency.
00:10:50.000So when there's even the threat of a major strike, he's in the spotlight more than other presidents have been.
00:10:53.000Again, they know they've got him over the barrel.
00:10:55.000In the showdown between the UAW and automakers, Biden has publicly stepped carefully as the administration engages primarily behind the scenes, but that hasn't always been the case.
00:11:02.000Biden was able to intervene directly in talks between railroads and rail workers, because federal law gives the government a big say in that industry's relations because of its economic importance.
00:11:10.000His top Labor Department official was involved in a deal this year between West Coast ports and dock workers.
00:11:14.000When it came to rail negotiations, Biden said a rail strike, without a doubt, would have been an economic catastrophe at a very bad time in the year.
00:11:21.000The contract did not include paid sick leave for more than 100,000 workers who had threatened to strike.
00:11:25.000The administration, weeks before, had brokered a deal to avert an earlier strike, but four of the 12 labor unions involved, representing more than half the union workforce, rejected the proposals, sending both Congress and the administration into a frenzy to get involved before the holiday shipping rush.
00:11:38.000The same thing happened with regard to the UPS and Teamsters, as well as Westport, Because this administration is basically owned by the unions Lock, Stock and Barrel.
00:11:49.000Unions know that and they are pressing while the iron is hot.
00:11:53.000Meanwhile, you can hear Bernie Sanders out there mimicking UAW's demands, including, I kid you not, UAW wants for its workers, get ready for this, a 32-hour workweek.
00:12:11.000Of course, Bernie is big in favor of it.
00:12:14.000This push from the UAW for a four-day work week, is that a negotiating tactic, or do you see that as the future of labor in the U.S., a four-day work week?
00:12:26.000Well, I'll tell you what I think, and thanks for raising that question, Jake.
00:12:30.000We are looking at an explosion in this country of artificial intelligence and robotics.
00:12:37.000And that means that the average worker is going to be much more productive.
00:12:43.000Worker productivity is going to increase significantly.
00:12:46.000The question as a nation that we have got to ask ourselves is who's going to benefit from that increased productivity?
00:12:54.000Is all of that new income and wealth being created by worker productivity going to go to the people on top or are workers going to benefit?
00:13:02.000So right now, in my view, I happen to believe that as a nation, we should begin a serious discussion, and the UAW is doing that, about substantially lowering the work week.
00:13:13.000Okay, so first of all, we should point out here that worker productivity in the United States has largely been a result of investing in better machinery.
00:13:19.000It's not because workers suddenly got massively better at their jobs.
00:13:23.000It's because their jobs themselves are more productive, thanks to the use of, for example, capital equipment.
00:13:27.000This has brought down prices, which has benefited workers, or would have, if there had not been massive inflation.
00:13:33.000You know one way to reverse all the productivity gains?
00:13:36.000One way to do that is to artificially increase wages and lower the hours.
00:13:41.000And by the way, it's always short-term gain versus long-term pain when it comes to these union negotiations.
00:13:46.000The UAW right now is negotiating for all of this stuff because they see that all the car companies did real well because of the boosting inflation prices of cars, right?
00:13:54.000Car prices went up dramatically over the course of the last couple of years because of supply chain woes.
00:13:58.000Well, now those supply chain woes are going away, and now the easy money policies of the United States are going to have to be curbed.
00:14:04.000What happens when the car sales drop off?
00:14:07.000What happens when Joe Biden's push to force car companies to spend extraordinary amounts of cash shifting from gas-powered vehicles, which represent 97% of all Detroit sales, to EVs, electric vehicles?
00:14:36.000When they say big business runs Republican politics, first of all, that ain't true.
00:14:40.000But second of all, Unions run democratic politics like in direct bribery fashion.
00:14:46.000They hire, effectively, Democrats to then negotiate with them at the table.
00:14:51.000It's an amazing scam that's been going on for decades on end.
00:14:54.000Another part of the scam is that the only employers in the United States who right now are benefiting are, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, the government.
00:15:01.000So we are getting rid of job creation in the private sector through rich union contracts, but we are definitely boosting more employment in the government sector, which of course is what Joe Biden would like.
00:15:11.000If you'd like to work for the government, now's an excellent time.
00:15:34.000It was made just for me, which means that it is firm but breathable, which is precisely what I need if the mattress is too soft, I get back pain.
00:15:39.000I tend to heat up a lot at night, so I really need a breathable mattress.
00:16:17.000Well, there is one sector of the employment market that is growing by leaps and bounds and that is government employment.
00:16:22.000Aren't you glad that you get to pay the taxes so the government can hire lots of people?
00:16:24.000According to the Wall Street Journal, while many companies have been cutting staff and freezing new hires this year, the government is laying out the welcome mat.
00:16:30.000Public sector jobs at the federal, state, and local level have risen by 327,000 positions so far in 2023, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
00:16:38.000That is approaching one-fifth of all new American jobs created in the first eight months of the year.
00:16:43.000In contrast, public sector jobs accounted for 5% of employment growth during the equivalent period last year.
00:16:49.000If you look at public sector jobs as a percentage of payroll gains, this is the biggest number that we have seen in any given year Since 2007?
00:16:59.000I mean, it doesn't even go back that far.
00:17:01.000The chart the Wall Street Journal is showing.
00:17:03.000So, what we are watching here is the government basically subsidizing a bunch of people to come work for the government.
00:17:09.000Some of this is worthwhile because you actually need people working for U.S.
00:17:13.000As we'll see, the administration isn't allowing them to do their job, but they are hiring there.
00:17:17.000But, there's also a ton of people who are just working in kind of make-work programs for the government.
00:17:24.000Private sector employment is now 3.29% over its pre-pandemic level, but the public sector is struggling to shore up staffing, and so they are just ratcheting up.
00:17:33.000They are ratcheting up the amount of money that they are paying people.
00:17:36.000So Joe Biden's future economy here is one in which you have a government job working a 32-hour work week with a public sector union pension paid for by the American taxpayer.
00:17:47.000A growing public sector at the expense of a shrinking private sector is the future of this economy.
00:17:51.000And then you wonder why many Americans seem dissatisfied with this arrangement.
00:17:54.000Because it's basically the arrangement that lengthened the Great Depression by eight years during FDR's tenure.
00:18:00.000It's the same arrangement that led to economic turmoil in the 1960s and 1970s under LBJ and then under Richard Nixon.
00:18:09.000So bad economic policy is part and parcel of what Joe Biden is doing right here.
00:18:13.000Combine that with Joe Biden's crappy immigration policy and you have a real You have a real tempest on your hands.
00:18:20.000At the same time that Joe Biden is making it unaffordable for people to live in this country, particularly at the lower end of the income scale, he continues to ship in millions of illegal immigrants and then release them into the interior.
00:18:33.000Over the weekend, Fox's Griff Jenkins posted video of the so-called Faro-Mex train.
00:18:39.000These are all people who are headed up to the American border.
00:18:43.000They're coming from Zacatecas, Mexico, and they are cheering en route to the United States.
00:18:49.000Earlier this summer, the Biden administration, according to Mediaite, ended the Donald Trump-era immigration policy remain in Mexico, which required asylum seekers to wait in Mexico.
00:18:57.000And the administration has successfully incentivized literally thousands of people to hop on trains just head right for that border.
00:19:17.000These are not all people who are attempting to escape from tyranny-ridden countries.
00:19:22.000These are a lot of people who are looking for jobs and welfare benefits, and they're going to come into the United States, and that is what they're going to take advantage of.
00:19:29.000And meanwhile, by the way, images of immigrants in cages are emerging from Tucson, Arizona, thanks to Bill Malugan.
00:19:37.000I don't see AOC crying anywhere near these cages.
00:19:40.000You see these giant cages filled with people?
00:19:42.000All these people will be processed and let into the interior of the United States.
00:19:44.000That's Joe Biden's immigration policy.
00:19:46.000So if you are a low-wage American, just understand that Joe Biden is importing an entire labor pool to take your job away from you in the private sector, simultaneously paying a bunch of middle-class people in Northern Virginia to work for the federal government.
00:19:59.000Blowing out the spending so as to increase inflation and paying off his union cronies.
00:20:03.000And then you wonder why Americans aren't super fond of his economic policies.
00:20:07.000In just one second, we'll get to Joe Biden's absolutely discombobulated and immoral foreign policy first.
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00:21:14.000Okay, meanwhile, the Biden administration has now gone forward with its exchange $6 billion in funding released to the Iranian mullahs, to the tyranny of Iran, in exchange for five Americans.
00:21:28.000According to the UK Daily Mail, the five U.S.
00:21:30.000prisoners released by Iran today as part of a controversial prisoner swap have arrived in Doha, Qatar to begin their journey back to America, where one says he's eager to visit an Apple store to find out what the latest phones are after eight years behind bars.
00:21:40.000The prisoners were flown first from Tehran to Doha on a Qatar Airways jet today.
00:21:44.000They were greeted on the tarmac at Doha by the U.S.
00:22:24.000national security better today because of this deal and not worse off, as I've heard many Republicans say?
00:22:31.000First of all, what's really better off are five families.
00:22:35.000And I think that's really important to remember.
00:22:38.000Number two, as I said earlier, we just executed more sanctions on entities in Iran today, specifically for the offense of wrongfully detaining Americans.
00:22:47.000And just in the last couple of weeks, we've upped our military presence in the Gulf region.
00:22:50.000We added some additional sanctions on Iran just a few days ago.
00:22:54.000I mean, we are holding Iran to account.
00:22:57.000And we are mindful of our national security interests in the region, and we're doing everything we can, not just on the economic space, but even in the military space, to protect our troops, to protect our interests, to protect our allies and partners in that part of the world.
00:23:08.000No one should take away from today's events Any idea that we are somehow turning a blind eye to what Iran is doing in the region or around the world?
00:23:19.000You'd be the second straight Democratic president to ship pallets of cash over to the Iranians, effectively speaking.
00:23:24.000By the way, we also released a bunch of Iranian prisoners in the United States who are actual criminals, including one Iranian who was sentenced to 63 months in prison in 2021 for obtaining equipment that could be used in missiles, electronic warfare, nuclear weapons, and other military gear.
00:23:37.000Another Iranian, a permanent resident of the United States, who was charged in 2019 with allegedly stealing engineering plans from his employer to send to Iran, as well as another one who was arrested in February and sentenced to 30 months in prison for purchasing sophisticated top-tier U.S.
00:23:52.000electronic equipment and software through front companies in the UAE.
00:23:57.000Meanwhile, John Kirby continues to maintain, don't worry, the regime is never going to get their hands on this money, which is weird because they totally are.
00:24:03.000That's what happens when you release money to criminals.
00:24:07.000What can the United States do if it is seen that they're using this money not for food, not for medicine, for bad reasons?
00:24:17.000It's important to remember, Kate, that the regime doesn't get the money.
00:24:21.000They can request a withdrawal for humanitarian goods, agricultural products, medical supplies, food.
00:24:28.000And then we will run a process through which those goods are contracted for.
00:24:32.000The Iranians don't even get to let the contracts.
00:24:34.000We'll make sure that the contracts are let with vendors that we know we can trust, and then that material will be delivered to the Iranian people.
00:24:41.000The Iranian regime does not get hands on this money.
00:24:43.000There's nothing that America does better than foreign aid going directly to the sources that we're seeking to get it to.
00:24:49.000I'm being incredibly sarcastic right now.
00:24:51.000The amount of money that we waste every year on fraud and graft that goes directly to dictators all over the world is insane.
00:25:47.000The point is, there's gonna be a lot of damaging material about Joe's corruption from now up till Election Day.
00:25:52.000And Joe Biden is absolutely blithe about the whole thing, which is pretty shocking.
00:25:57.000Moments ago, the president reacting with defiance when asked about the new House impeachment inquiry as he arrived back at the White House.
00:26:29.000By the way, Hunter has somehow come up with the money to sue the IRS, which is exciting stuff.
00:26:33.000Remember, he doesn't have enough money to pay his baby mama, but he does have enough money to sue the IRS, alleging his privacy rights were violated when agents aired concern to Congress and the media about the handling of the investigation into his taxes and business dealings.
00:26:44.000Well, that's actually whistleblowers coming forward to allege bad behavior.
00:27:16.000In a second, we'll get to Republicans beclowning themselves.
00:27:20.000Speaking of people beclowning themselves, the medical establishment has been beclowning itself on the issue of abortion for literally decades.
00:27:26.000Many doctors were on callous because it seems surreal to think that over 64 million babies have been killed.
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00:27:59.000These ultrasounds, they are basically magic.
00:28:20.000Okay, meanwhile, the GOP, I'm not sure if they are running out of rakes to step on.
00:28:25.000You would imagine at some point they might.
00:28:28.000I have some bad news from the world of love.
00:28:30.000Apparently Lauren Boebert, the congresswoman from Colorado, who was last seen barely winning a reelection to her Colorado seat, well, now she has broken up with her beloved Not her husband of 18 years with whom she has multiple children.
00:28:46.000We're talking about the Democrat bar owner who runs, like, Gay Pride events and Drag Queen Story Hour over there.
00:28:52.000And you'll recall that she went to the musical Beetlejuice, where she proceeded to vape.
00:28:58.000And then proceeded to get herself groped and then groped her date in return.
00:29:02.000Pleasuring him over, you know, I'm not going to get more detail.
00:29:05.000But that is a thing that happened in public.
00:29:07.000She was then kicked out, to which she apparently said, you know who I am, and denied that anything like this had happened, to which they then released all of the camera footage.
00:29:14.000Well now, sadly, romance is dead, folks.
00:29:17.000I regret to inform you that if this romance can't last, I'm not sure what romance can.
00:29:22.000Lauren Boebert has now parted ways with the man seen groping her during a frisky date at a Colorado theater while enjoying a family-friendly performance of the musical Beetlejuice.
00:29:30.000The self-described eccentric politician is eccentricity now to grope your date in the middle of a performance of Beetlejuice.
00:29:39.000All future date nights have been canceled between her and bar owner Quinn Gallagher.
00:29:43.000She said, I learned to check party affiliations before you go on a date.
00:29:47.000Although she alluded to her date's affiliation as a Democrat, the GOP stalwart said the breakup had nothing to do with the various reports on Gallagher in recent days.
00:30:28.000Meanwhile, in other not good for the GOP news, apparently, President Trump wrote to-do lists for his assistant on White House documents marked classified.
00:30:56.000Please, three Diet Cokes on the back of the Iran attack plan.
00:31:00.000According to ABC News, one of former President Trump's longtime assistants told federal investigators that Trump repeatedly wrote to-do lists for her on documents from the White House that were marked classified.
00:31:14.000As described to ABC News, the aide, Molly Michael, told investigators that more than once, she received requests or taskings from Trump that were written on the back of note cards, She later recognized those note cards as sensitive White House materials with visible classification markings used to brief Trump while he was still in office about phone calls with foreign leaders or other international related matters.
00:31:39.000In 2018, Michael became Trump's executive assistant in the White House.
00:31:42.000She continued to work for him when Trump left office.
00:31:44.000She resigned last year in the wake of Trump's alleged refusal to comply with the federal request and the FBI's subsequent search of Mar-a-Lago.
00:31:50.000Michael recounted by late 2021, as many of 90 boxes of materials from Trump's time as president were moved into a basement storage room at Mar-a-Lago.
00:31:59.000And apparently, they say this is very easily disprovable.
00:32:04.000Um, but, uh, yeah, this is, uh, my, no one's disproved it yet.
00:32:17.000Republicans are hell-bent on running directly into a wall at full speed, which is presumably many of the Republicans' plan on this government shutdown.
00:32:24.000Again, if you are asking for, like, a moderate cut, and you might get part of that moderate cut in a government shutdown negotiation, alright.
00:32:31.000But if your plan is, let's just run directly into a government shutdown, get blamed for everybody for that, and then lose the House on the basis of that, which is very likely what could happen, I'm wondering about your strategic choices.
00:32:41.000Again, I'm going to point out again, I am more fiscally conservative than pretty much anyone in Congress.
00:32:46.000I'm certainly more conservative than many of the people who consider themselves MAGA Republicans, right?
00:32:50.000I want to restructure Social Security, I want to restructure Medicare, and I make no bones about it.
00:32:53.000That stuff's going to bankrupt the United States.
00:32:56.000But there's also such a thing as tactical as tactical competence.
00:33:01.000And it turns out that the tactics that are currently being used are not particularly smart.
00:33:05.000According to the New York Times, Speaker Kevin McCarthy's bid to gain the upper hand in a battle over federal spending hit stiff opposition from within his own ranks on Monday, leaving him with dwindling options and little time to find his way out of a funding impasse that could lead to a government shutdown in less than two weeks.
00:33:17.000Roughly a dozen Republicans made it clear they were staunchly opposed to the proposal unveiled on Sunday, which combines a stopgap spending measure with steep funding cuts and new border controls, indicating they could not be induced to change their votes through leadership pressure.
00:33:29.000The measure wasn't going to pass the Democratic-controlled Senate anyway, but McCarthy was then going to use that as the basis for some sort of compromise with Democrats.
00:33:38.000We're just gonna run directly into a wall, and the only loser here, presumably, will be the Republican Party, because Democrats are not gonna be punished for Republicans not even being able to come to an agreement on what they want the basis for negotiations to be.
00:33:50.000So all of this is going just amazingly, amazingly well.
00:33:53.000Okay, in just one second, we'll get to what is pretty obviously the worst story of the day, a breaking report on Tim Ballard, the inspiration for Sound of Freedom First.
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00:35:42.000Alrighty, so meanwhile, worst story of the day, Tim Ballard is of course a person we've interviewed on the show.
00:35:47.000Tim Ballard, was the man who was the inspiration for the fantastic film Sound of Freedom.
00:35:52.000Well now, according to Vice.com, Tim Ballard's exit from Operation Underground Railroad earlier this year followed an investigation into claims of sexual misconduct, including seven women, according to sources with direct knowledge of the organization.
00:36:04.000Again, we're gonna have to see if all these charges are confirmed.
00:36:06.000I always create that caveat because you just don't know until the facts are all out there.
00:36:09.000Sources familiar with the situation said, the self-styled anti-slavery activist who appears to be preparing for a Senate run invited women to act as his wife on undercover overseas missions ostensibly aimed at rescuing victims of sex trafficking.
00:36:21.000He would then allegedly coerce those women to sharing a bed or showering together, claiming that it was necessary to fool traffickers.
00:36:27.000Ballard, who is played by Jim Caviezel in the hit film Sound of Freedom, is said to have sent at least one woman a photo of himself in his underwear festooned with fake tattoos.
00:36:34.000And to ask another how far she was willing to go to save children, those sources request an anonymity because they fear retaliation.
00:36:39.000The total number of women involved is believed to be higher than seven.
00:36:43.000One source close to the organization has detailed knowledge of Ballard making sexual advances to a volunteer using methods similar to those he allegedly used with employees.
00:36:50.000Those methods are also consistent with his conduct toward another former employee who spoke to Vice News.
00:36:55.000A spokesperson for Operation Underground Railroad told Vice, Tim Ballard resigned from the organization on June 22, 2023.
00:37:41.000So, we have anonymous allegations at this point that are made to Vice.
00:37:46.000We're going to have to wait to see what comes out about this, and so I'm going to reserve further comments until more confirmation is presented at this time.
00:37:53.000For what it's worth, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormon Church, they've removed all articles promoting Ballard and the nonprofit that he founded when all this came out.
00:38:04.000This came out the same day the church released a statement citing betrayal and condemning Ballard for morally unacceptable behavior, which makes it sound a little more real than merely an anonymous report.
00:38:14.000Truly bad stuff, Glenn Beck, who's one of Ballard's partners, indicated on social media that Ballard had been, quote, So again, I'm gonna wait to see more come out before I comment more extensively on this particular subject, but obviously it's in the news and worthy of coverage.
00:38:56.000A profile in the New Yorker of Minhaj says, in Minhaj's approach to comedy, he leans heavily on his own experience as an Asian-American and Muslim-American, telling harrowing stories of law enforcement, entrapment, and personal threats.
00:39:06.000For many of his fans, he's become an avatar of the power of representation in entertainment.
00:39:09.000But after many weeks of trying, I had been unable to confirm some of the stories he had told on stage.
00:39:13.000And then when the author confronted him, Minhaj admitted that the stories that he tells on stage are often exaggerated or made up.
00:39:20.000Well, I mean, some of these stories are just purely intended to paint America in the worst possible light, and they're completely made up.
00:39:27.000It's not resulting in tremendous blowback for Minhaj.
00:39:30.000One of his anecdotes apparently claims a white woman from high school stood him up for a prom because her family didn't want her to take pictures with a brown boy.
00:39:37.000Minhaj then disclosed identifiable details about the woman during his telling of the story, prompting his fans to harass her.
00:39:44.000The woman apparently addressed the threats with Minhaj, who then told her to scrub her social media presence to deter more threats.
00:39:51.000It's one thing to exaggerate family stories for comedic effect.
00:39:56.000It's another thing to make up out of whole cloth stories about the evils of American racism.
00:40:03.000This effectively borders on emotional fraud.
00:40:07.000And the fact that there are so many people out there in Hollywood who are making excuses for him, people like Whoopi Goldberg out there suggesting that this is totally fine.
00:40:15.000Again, would Whoopi Goldberg say that about anyone else?
00:40:18.000I have a difficult time believing that she would.
00:40:20.000Whoopi Goldberg's defense of him is that this is what we do.
00:40:26.000We tell stories and we embellish them.
00:40:28.000Goldberg said that she recalled a time when a reporter called to fact-check one of her stand-ups in which she said she had agreed from NYU.
00:40:33.000She told the reporter she did not have agreed from the university and never said she did, before realizing he was referring to one of her stand-up characters.
00:40:39.000But that's not exactly what's happening here.
00:40:42.000Minhaj tells stories that are ostensibly about himself.
00:40:46.000And they are inherently tied to the idea that America is a deeply evil and racist place.
00:40:50.000If you're going to make those sorts of claims, presumably you should have some sort of backing for them.
00:40:56.000And the fact that he had to make up the stories in the first place is pretty good evidence that America is not remotely as racist and horrifying as Minhaj suggests for laughs and profit.
00:41:05.000And leftism is a very, very lucrative point of view for comedians.
00:41:10.000That's how you get a Comedy Central special.
00:41:13.000That's how you end up being extremely rich and extremely famous.
00:41:17.000He says, every story in my style is built around a seed of truth.
00:41:19.000My comedy, Arnold Palmer, is 70% emotional truth, this happened, and then 30% hyperbole, exaggeration, and fiction.
00:41:26.000He says, the punchline is worth the fictionalized premise.
00:41:29.000But, um, you know, how is there a punchline to, my daughter was exposed to a substance that could have been anthrax, which is one of the things that he actually said at one point.
00:41:38.000Now, that's not something that you are supposed to fabricate.
00:41:41.000Especially as a person who has received powder in the mail at least twice, as far as I'm aware.
00:41:47.000The FBI is still investigating a case like this.
00:41:50.000That's not a story that you make up or embellish.
00:41:56.000This is also part of the problem with our new comedic world, which plays clown nose on, clown nose off.
00:42:02.000I'm a comedian, but I'm telling deep and meaningful truths about the world to you.
00:42:06.000How about you're a comedian and you tell jokes?
00:42:08.000How about you're a comedian and you tell funny stories?
00:42:10.000But that's not what comedy is anymore.
00:42:12.000Our comedians are supposed to be newscasters, and our newscasters are supposed to be comedians.
00:42:16.000One of the great ironies of Jon Stewart attacking Crossfire back in the early 2000s, which at that point was Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson, is that this has led to the temptation for comedians to basically become newscasters and newscasters to play Jon Stewart.
00:42:28.000Everyone has become, they've converged on Jon Stewart, basically.
00:42:32.000Hasan Minhaj is now Jon Stewart, telling meaningful stories about his life that are completely made up to expose the evils of the United States of America and how racist it is.
00:42:40.000And then when he's caught on that, we're all supposed to pretend that it's no big deal at all.
00:42:43.000Okay, speaking of things that are unbelievably stupid, The Senate Majority Leader has now declared that there will be no informal dress code for the Senate chamber.
00:42:52.000Because John Fetterman likes to wear the clothes of the homeless.
00:42:56.000Apparently we have to be nice to Mongo over here.
00:42:59.000And that requires that there be no dress code in the Senate anymore.
00:43:03.000According to the New York Times, in the tradition-bound halls of the Senate, customs die hard.
00:43:07.000Rules can be next to impossible to change.
00:43:08.000On Monday, with a potential government shutdown days away, a newly begun impeachment inquiry and lawmakers preparing for a visit from the President of Ukraine, a major change had the Capitol abuzz.
00:43:16.000For the first time in centuries, lawmakers are no longer expected to suit up to conduct a business on the Senate floor.
00:43:22.000From now on, members are allowed to take a more business-casual approach to their workwear.
00:43:26.000Not the staff, by the way, and not guests.
00:43:28.000Only if you're a senator do you get this special dispensation.
00:43:31.000The modification is in many ways about a reality.
00:43:34.000In recent years, there have been plenty of senators who have departed from the suit-and-tie uniform that for decades was considered the only acceptable attire.
00:43:39.000It most clearly reflects the influence of John Fetterman, the six-foot-eight, tattooed, brain-damaged, first-term Democrat from Pennsylvania.
00:43:46.000He's on a suit-and-tie for his first months in Congress, but now he's just wearing around Jim shorts and Carhartt sweatshirts.
00:43:53.000Now we're changing the entire rule of the Senate in order to make nice with a dude who does not want to actually, you know, just wear a suit.
00:44:12.000A lot of states are now starting to cut ties with the American Library Association, which is utterly appropriate considering that the ALA is now a left-wing interest group like so many of our public institutions.
00:44:21.000Senator Mike Lee, according to the Washington Post, has now targeted the ALA when it was his turn to question witnesses.
00:44:27.000He called up a video of Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom.
00:44:32.000In a Zoom call, Caldwell-Stone had been recorded arguing book advocates should reframe the book challenges.
00:44:37.000This debate should not center on whether titles are sexually inappropriate for minors, said Caldwell-Stone.
00:44:40.000It should be about diverse materials that are about everyone's right to see themselves and their families reflected on bookshelves.
00:44:46.000Lee then said, the goal is to sexualize children, provide minors with sexually explicit material, and then hide this content from parents.
00:44:52.000The ALA is now facing a partisan firefight unlike anything in its almost 150 year history, says the Washington Post.
00:44:59.000I love that we now, like, it is a full-time sport now.
00:45:03.000The, we will do something unbelievably terrible and provocative, and if you notice, you're the one starting a firefight.
00:45:08.000The once uncontroversial organization, which says it is the world's largest and oldest library association, and which provides funding, training, and tools to most of the country's 123,000 libraries, has become entangled in the education culture wars, the raging debates over what and how to teach about race, sex, and gender, culminating in Tuesday's senatorial name check.
00:45:25.000Like Lee, politicians and parents on the right increasingly paint the association, known as the ALA, as a defender of pornographic literature for children, tying their allegations into a broader conservative movement that asserts school libraries are filled with sexually explicit inappropriate texts.
00:45:39.000A 2022 tweet in which the organization's president calls herself a Marxist lesbian added to the concerns.
00:46:02.000Meanwhile, librarians and those on the political left are defending the ALA as a key provider of money and skills for librarians.
00:46:08.000In particular, they are citing an ALA report tracking 1,269 attempts to remove library books in 2022, the highest number of challenges to books since the ALA began compiling stats on the issue.
00:47:04.000And, um, he was asked to, quote, acknowledge that performers of color and women performers are just not in your zeitgeist.
00:47:09.000And Wenner said, insofar as the women, just none of them were as articulate on this intellectual level, and that none of the female or black musicians met his criteria as philosophers of rock rather than just creative geniuses, this provoked a major reaction.
00:47:22.000He said at one point, you know, just for public relations sake, maybe I should have gone and found one black and one woman artist to include here that didn't measure up to that same historical standard just to avert this kind of criticism.
00:47:31.000Mr. Wenner's comments, according to the New York Times, drew an immediate reaction, with his quotes mocked on social media and past criticisms unearthed of Rolling Stone's coverage of female artists under Wenner.
00:47:41.000And the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has now effectively kicked him off.
00:48:14.000But that's, like, if you were asked to name today, who are the greatest classical composers of all time, and you were like, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Mozart, all white men, does this make you some sort of anti-feminist radical?