Tucker Carlson has been fired from Fox News, and it s the biggest media news of the last decade. Tucker is the biggest cable host on TV, with more than 3 million viewers a night. Fox News reported the news on the air, and the stock dropped almost $100 in value. Tucker's last show was this past Friday, and starting tonight, a new Fox News show will be hosted by a rotating crew until a new host is named. This is the latest in a series of stories surrounding the firing of Fox News host Tucker Carlson, including reports that he was told by the network he was being let go, and that he would be replaced by a different host. This comes on the heels of a speech Tucker gave to the Heritage Foundation on Sunday night, and a speech he gave to a conservative think tank on the topic of race and identity on Saturday night. Tucker was a force to be reckoned with in the conservative media world, and he was widely respected and beloved by his audience. Now, he s no longer a part of the Fox News family. Fox News is without a host and a host, and there are many questions as to why this happened and what will happen next for the network and the future of the network going forward in the wake of such a scandalous news. Subscribe to the Let Them Eat Bugs podcast, Not Quite as Good as Pizza, streaming now on Fox News Radio. Use the promo code ORIGINALS for 30 Days Free for 30 days, and get 30% off your first month with promo code ORGANIZED for 30 DAYS FREE. Use promo code "LEGOOGLE" at checkout at checkout, and you'll get 10% off the entire month, plus free shipping, and up to $99.99, and free shipping throughout the rest of the month, and $99 gets you an ad-free version of the entire year, plus a FREE F&B membership gets you get an additional 3 months VIP membership when you sign up for VIP access to the VIP membership offer, plus they get 5 GBPC Provenza VIP membership, and they get a complimentary 3 months, they also get $5,000 OFF THE F&C OFF THE FIRST MONTH, AND VIP PRODUCER WEEKLY PROMO, AND FREE PRODUPCORDSION AND VIP SUPPORTING VIP SUPPORT ONLY, AND they get FREE TALKING TO THE PODCAST AND PATREON WEEKLY AND VIP OFFER FREE, AND THE MOST PRACTICALLY VIP SUPPORTED INCLUDE?
00:00:00.000Well, it is the biggest media news of the last decade.
00:00:02.000Tucker Carlson has been apparently fired by Fox News.
00:00:05.000The statement that was originally put out by Fox News Media suggested an agreement to part ways, but we can all tell that that is not exactly what happened.
00:00:13.000According to Fox News, quote, Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways.
00:00:17.000We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.
00:00:21.000Mr. Carlson's last program was Friday, April 21st.
00:00:23.000Fox News Tonight will air live at 8 p.m.
00:00:25.000Eastern, starting this evening as an interim show, helmed by a rotating Fox News personalities crew, until a new host is named.
00:00:32.000It's earth-shattering, in media terms.
00:00:35.000Tucker is the biggest cable host on TV.
00:00:38.000He's got 3 million viewers a night, according to the latest ratings.
00:00:41.000The market immediately responded by not liking what happened very much.
00:00:45.000So the Fox News stock took a serious dive.
00:00:47.000It went from approximately $33.50 a share all the way down to about $31.50 a share.
00:00:52.000So it lost like a couple of bucks in share price, which was, you know, when you aggregate it, $690 million in value.
00:00:59.000Now it regained a lot of that by the end of trading, but it just shows you that Tucker meant a lot to the network in terms of the actual value of the network.
00:01:08.000Tucker obviously did not see it coming.
00:01:09.000So any talk that this was some sort of planned arrangement between Tucker Carlson and Fox News, that he was ready to go with, for example, another media outlet, or that he was readying a presidential run, that appears to be belied by the simple fact that on Friday, Tucker literally said, we'll see you here on Monday.
00:01:24.000And what we are hearing from people who are in the know is that Tucker was prepping his show as of Monday morning, getting ready for Monday night, when the news came down that he had been summarily fired from Fox News.
00:01:34.000Here are the last moments of Tucker's show.
00:01:36.000Apparently forever, on Friday from Fox News.
00:02:16.000In the meantime, have the best weekend with the ones that you love.
00:02:19.000That was the end of Tucker Carlson's show.
00:02:21.000So first of all, I mean, you can you can see Tucker, a really, really good and talented broadcaster, very exciting to watch on air, really upbeat and interesting very often, but capable of doing anger in a way that pretty much no one else in the media is capable of doing it.
00:02:34.000This is why he was so beloved by his fans.
00:03:50.000So when I started at Heritage, the presumption was, and this is a very Anglo-American assumption, that the debates we're having are kind of rational debates about the way to get to mutually agreed upon outcomes.
00:04:01.000If you have people who are saying, I have an idea, let's castrate the next generation.
00:04:20.000But if you're telling me that abortion is a positive good, what are you saying?
00:04:24.000Well, you're arguing for child sacrifice, obviously.
00:04:27.000When people, or crowds of people, or the largest crowd of people at all, which is the federal government, the largest human organization in human history, decide that the goal is to destroy things.
00:04:49.000Again, it was Tucker's ability to characterize good and evil that made him so wildly popular.
00:04:53.000As I said before, Tucker is really, really talented.
00:04:57.000He's going to land on his feet somewhere.
00:04:59.000Maybe it'll be at a place that you've heard of, maybe it'll be a place that you haven't.
00:05:02.000Whatever it is that comes next, Tucker is going to be successful at it because again,
00:05:05.000he's a very, very talented guy with a large crowd of people who really like him.
00:05:08.000This all requires us to ask the question, why did this happen?
00:05:11.000It's particularly true given the fact that he re-upped with the network back in February of 2021.
00:05:15.000According to Deadline Hollywood, this is February 2021.
00:05:17.000There's a lot more Tucker Carlson coming.
00:05:19.000The top rated Fox News channel host has just signed a new multi-year deal to bolster sister streaming service Fox Nation with a video podcast series and Tucker Carlson specials.
00:07:40.000Fox News instead decided to, and this would be Rupert Murdoch, decided to sign an $800 million check to Dominion.
00:07:46.000But according to the Washington Post, it wasn't those comments that were so bothersome.
00:07:49.000It was Carlson's comments about Fox management, as revealed in the Dominion case, that played a role in his departure from Fox, according to a person familiar with the company's thinking.
00:07:56.000Quote, Do the executives understand how much credibility and trust we've lost with our audience?
00:08:00.000Carlson wrote to a colleague in a message a day after Fox, like the other media outlets, called the election for Joe Biden.
00:08:05.000This is a sentiment echoed by others at Fox in the fall of 2020, as even network officials who disbelieved Trump's election fraud conspiracy theories, fretted that countering them strongly would alienate their conservative viewers.
00:08:14.000So in other words, a lot of the Fox News executives were looking at the fact that Tucker really didn't believe a lot of the things that were being alleged by Sidney Powell and Trump's legal team, but also was deeply worried about how that was going to play with the Fox News audience and all that had now come out.
00:08:27.000In another message, Carlson referred to management with an expletive, quote,
00:08:30.000those efforts are destroying our credibility. He later wrote, a combination of incompetent
00:08:33.000liberals and top leadership with too much pride is back down is what is happening.
00:08:37.000Carlson did not have a farewell show, obviously.
00:08:40.000So this is theory number one, is that this was the natural aftereffect of the Dominion lawsuit, that basically everybody who was involved in any sort of credibility-giving to the election fraud narrative is now going to be on the line.
00:08:54.000And to back that theory, you have the fact that Fox News also parted ways with Dan Bongino just last week.
00:09:01.000Dan Bongino, of course, had been very vocal in his support not only for President Trump, but also had wanted to do an interview a couple of years ago in which Trump actually aired his grievances about the election.
00:09:09.000The Fox News brass cut the interview and Dan actually went on the air and he said, you shouldn't cut the interview with the former president of the United States.
00:09:15.000He's the former president of the United States.
00:09:16.000It was just a few days ago that Fox News parted ways with Bongino.
00:09:20.000So it's hard not to see Carlson's ouster in the context of Dan Bongino also being ousted as of last week.
00:09:27.000Now, that's not the only possible theory.
00:09:29.000Theory number two is that there are ancillary issues that we actually are only now becoming aware of.
00:09:35.000According to the Los Angeles Times, and this would have been Steve Battaglio reporting as a staff writer over there, people familiar with the situation who are not authorized to comment publicly said the decision to fire Carlson came straight from the top from Rupert Murdoch directly.
00:09:47.000Carlson's exit is related, according to them, to the discrimination lawsuit filed by Abby Grossberg.
00:09:51.000There's another lawsuit that has been on the books.
00:09:53.000She's a producer fired by the network last month, according to certain people.
00:09:56.000Carlson's senior executive producer, Justin Wells, has also been terminated, according to people familiar with the matter.
00:10:02.000So what exactly was in that particular lawsuit?
00:10:04.000A bunch of allegations were in that particular lawsuit.
00:10:08.000According to Yahoo News, just about a month ago, that discrimination lawsuit included allegations that constant bullying and gaslighting caused the producer so much stress and anxiety, her stomach ulcers flared up and she was in excruciating pain, and that she'd been discriminated against based on gender, religion, and disability.
00:10:24.000Discovery may have uncovered other ugly messages, perhaps.
00:10:28.000Maybe this is what Fox News was worried about.
00:10:31.000The network said in a statement, Fox News media engaged an independent outside counsel to immediately investigate the concerns raised by Ms.
00:10:35.000Grossberg, which were made following a critical performance review.
00:10:39.000Grossberg's complaint contains allegations that Fox's lawyers pressured her to provide misleading testimony in the Dominion claim, in the Dominion voting claim.
00:10:47.000Fox News says her allegations in connection with the Dominion case are baseless.
00:10:49.000We will vigorously defend Fox against all of her legal claims, which have no merit.
00:10:53.000So again, the allegation here is that a former Tucker producer was alleging anti-Semitism and sexism and maybe this had some legal ramifications.
00:11:02.000So that is theory number two, is that it was sort of ancillary issues, that producer's lawsuit.
00:11:06.000Another possibility was that the network was very upset with the possibility of additional legal liability created, they think, by Tucker Carlson.
00:11:13.000For example, Ray Epps, who you'll recall from Tucker's show, he was a Texas man who, the day before the actual storming of the Capitol building, urged people to enter the Capitol building.
00:11:24.000A lot of people on the right have suggested that he was some sort of FBI plant.
00:11:27.000And Epps was interviewed Sunday on 60 Minutes.
00:11:29.000He suggested that Tucker had targeted him.
00:11:32.000Maybe Fox News didn't want to be hit with another lawsuit.
00:11:34.000That's quite possible after suffering an $800 million settlement, which is actually the largest media settlement in American history so far as we are aware.
00:11:42.000Again, that is a possibility as well. There's also talk about the possibility that the network
00:11:47.000was upset about Tucker's coverage of January 6th. Tucker had done a special not all that long ago.
00:11:53.000We covered some of Tucker's allegations in the special. For example, the fact that the so-called
00:11:58.000buffalo horned man, whatever his name was, QAnon Shaman, that he was walking around the building
00:12:06.000And that looked kind of different than the idea that he was kind of running around the building threatening people physically and all of this.
00:12:11.000And Tucker had sort of downplayed the nature of January 6th.
00:12:14.000Maybe the brass didn't like that very much.
00:12:17.000But what this all comes down to is it looks as though Fox News is quote unquote cleaning house.
00:12:23.000There are a lot of people who not only love Tucker, but also think that Tucker says things that other people won't.
00:12:28.000Which is true, Tucker does say things that other people won't.
00:12:31.000You can see a fundamental divide has emerged, obviously, inside the Fox Corporation, and that was pretty clear from what members of the Fox News brass were saying during election 2020.
00:12:40.000There's a pretty clear divide between some of the top brass, that'd be Rupert Murdoch, maybe Lachlan Murdoch, Paul Ryan, some of the other people who are sort of at the top of the Fox brass, and some of the other people who are Again, near the top, more sympathetic to the perspectives of the hosts who, for example, did not want Arizona called in favor of Joe Biden.
00:12:58.000I've been Suzanne Scott and Jay Wallace, for example.
00:13:10.000This has extreme emotional and psychological impacts on family, friends, and neighbors.
00:13:14.000One person who knows this very well is David Rubin.
00:13:16.000David and his young son were wounded in a terror attack.
00:13:18.000While healing from that trauma, David realized his family was one of thousands struggling to recover from similar experiences.
00:13:23.000Many of those families are dealing with post-traumatic stress, panic attacks, severe anxiety, depression, isolation, and loneliness.
00:13:28.000That's when David founded the Shiloh Israel Children's Fund.
00:13:31.000It works with trauma experts to provide a range of uniquely tailored therapies that are radically improving the lives of thousands of families and children devastated by terror.
00:13:39.000I urge you to visit their website, Israelchildren.org slash men, watch the devastating stories of families who suffered tremendously at the hands of terrorists, watch Shiloh Israel Children's Fund is doing to provide the healing they need.
00:13:49.000And this week actually marks both Yom Hazikaron, which is Israel's Memorial Day, as well as Yom HaAsma'u, which is Israel's Independence Day.
00:13:54.000It's a wonderful time to give if you care about Israel.
00:13:56.000In one particular story, Shiloh Israel's Children's Fund saved the marriage of a couple who lost their child to a terror attack.
00:14:13.000Okay, so if you look back at the text of the various members of sort of the Fox News brass, they had very different opinions on sort of what was happening in 2020 and a lot of what seems like happened with Tucker on Monday morning.
00:14:24.000Seems like it was fallout from 2020, just late, and as a result of the Dominion judgment.
00:14:29.000So for example, if you look at the text of Rupert Murdoch at the time, he texted Suzanne Scott, who's the CEO of Fox News, January 21st, 2021, saying, still getting mud thrown at us.
00:14:41.000All very well for Sean to tell you who's in despair about Trump, but what did he tell his viewers?
00:14:44.000So Murdoch apparently was not happy with the behavior of some of the hosts with regard to the division between what they were saying to the viewers and what they were saying sort of behind the scenes.
00:14:53.000Lachlan Murdoch, who is the Fox Corp CEO and Rupert's son, he said, News guys have to be careful how they cover this rally.
00:14:58.000The narrative should be this is a huge celebration of the president.
00:15:03.000That was a message that he sent Suzanne Scott November 14, 2020 about coverage of a Trump rally in which two Fox journalists had contradicted election fraud claims.
00:15:10.000Paul Ryan also suggested that the 2020 election coverage was an inflection point for the company and a chance for people to tell the truth about what they actually thought about the election fraud claims.
00:15:19.000Meanwhile, Suzanne Scott took the position that there were reporters who had not gone
00:15:24.000along with some of the election fraud claims and that she was skeptical that this would
00:15:32.000The audience feels like we crapped on them.
00:15:34.000We've damaged their trust and believe in us.
00:15:35.000We can fix this, but we can't smirk at our viewers any longer.
00:15:39.000So again, there's all this sort of back and forth inside the network, and you can see
00:15:42.000the various points of view that we're taking shape.
00:15:45.000And Tucker was at the center of that, because at the same time that he said, quote, we are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights is January 4th, 2021.
00:15:52.000At the same time, he was obviously giving a lot of airtime to members of Trump's campaign, including people like Sidney Powell.
00:15:59.000Now, again, this is a very confused time.
00:16:03.000Fox didn't take a particularly strong line as to what it wished to see said and what it didn't wish to see said.
00:16:09.000Bottom line is that it's unclear right now whether this is simply a matter of Tucker Carlson or whether Fox News is attempting to draw some new lines about how they covered the issues.
00:16:18.000And again, I think all of these points of view are arguable.
00:16:21.000Whatever the case may be, Tucker was a major asset to Fox News.
00:16:25.000It's not going to be so easy to fill that time slot.
00:16:27.000That is a very difficult time slot to fill.
00:16:29.000Again, he was the number one host in prime time for Fox News.
00:16:33.000Now, there are people who are immediately chortling over the impact of this.
00:16:36.000The New York Times has been chortling over the impact of this, suggesting that Fox News is in serious trouble or that Tucker's in serious trouble.
00:16:41.000The truth is both will go on to success in their various areas of endeavor.
00:16:44.000This is not the first rodeo for Fox News.
00:16:48.000Back when he had about 3.7 million viewers a night, Tucker has about 2.9 million viewers a night.
00:16:52.000Bill O'Reilly went on to make a lot of money in other endeavors, and Fox News went on to, you know, continue to be wildly successful.
00:16:58.000Fox News has parted ways in the past with some friends of mine, people like Glenn Beck, people like Megyn Kelly.
00:17:04.000Again, those are all business decisions, and Fox News went on to continue to have wide-ranging viewership.
00:17:09.000But you can see a lot of people, of course, very angry and very upset about Tucker Carlson being ousted from Fox News, and that is a direct response to the fact that Tucker, again, is an incredibly compelling performer.
00:17:19.000He is somebody who has a unique point of view on politics, and I don't agree with Tucker a lot.
00:17:23.000There are times I've talked about on the show where I strenuously disagree with Tucker.
00:17:26.000If you want to see some other times where I strenuously disagree with Tucker, all you have to do is watch the Sunday special episode I did with him where we disagreed on everything from foreign policy to government interventionism in the American economy.
00:17:36.000He, for example, thinks the government should intervene strongly in the American economy, give subsidies, prevent technological developments in order to preserve certain types of jobs.
00:18:48.000So yeah, great stuff there from those of you.
00:18:51.000By the way, they're very excited about a network they never watch.
00:18:54.000They're really, really excited about it.
00:18:55.000Like, if somebody got fired on MSNBC, a network I never watch, I wouldn't be like, oh my god, that's amazing!
00:19:00.000I'd be like, uh, I never watch that network, I don't care.
00:19:02.000It just shows how much the left is bewildered and confused and upset by the presence of an alternative point of view, like Fox News in the first place, and certainly Tucker.
00:19:10.000CNN, of course, was very excited about all of this.
00:19:12.000CNN's Oliver Darcy, he says that the reason that Tucker was fired is because he was leading them in an extremist direction, which of course was always going to be CNN's line on this.
00:19:21.000This raises a lot of questions about whether the network potentially is trying to at least rein in some of the more extreme people on the channel.
00:19:29.000I mean, of course, Tucker Carlson, the most extreme probably on that channel.
00:19:34.000I should also note, John, why this is so important.
00:19:36.000I mean, Tucker Carlson outside Donald Trump really was the person commanding the GOP, really directing it.
00:19:42.000You saw Republican lawmakers, prominent Republican lawmakers, often grovel at his feet.
00:19:48.000Ted Cruz, for instance, groveled at his feet, and others, because they were afraid of him going on his primetime show and lashing out at them.
00:19:56.000So this is not only huge news in the world of media, but also in the world of politics, where he was really pushing the GOP in that extremist direction.
00:20:05.000And Tucker is not going to go away here.
00:20:07.000Despite CNN really reveling in all of this, Tucker's not going to go away.
00:20:09.000I mean, there were immediate rumors that Tucker might run for president.
00:20:11.000Now, I think that that is a very sketchy rumor, given the fact that, again, Tucker Carlson tends to be a private person.
00:20:19.000He's somebody who really enjoys his private life, and he doesn't want to see that up on a screen.
00:20:22.000I'm not sure that he wants to go head-to-head with Donald Trump, a man who has no limits when it comes to attacking his political opponents.
00:20:27.000But It is galling to watch the members of the left-wing media, who've been wildly dishonest for years about Trump, about Tucker, about pretty much everybody, now kind of reveling in it.
00:20:35.000The New York Times re-ran a piece today titled, The Times Did an Investigation into How Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear to Conquer Cable.
00:20:56.000It's not remotely the end of Fox News, because again, Fox News still is the primetime destination for the vast majority of America's really motivated conservatives.
00:21:06.000Certainly with Tucker's viewers, it will.
00:21:08.000But again, the kind of rule in conservative media is that Fox News continues to truck on and ex-hosts, they continue to have second careers as well.
00:21:16.000So this is hardly the end for either of them.
00:21:19.000In just a second, we'll get to the other big media firing of the day.
00:21:21.000And this one is actually kind of funny.
00:21:34.000And because I'm the world's best dad, I'm like, totally.
00:21:36.000And not only am I the world's best dad with that, I say, you can only have pillow fights on the world's greatest sheets.
00:21:41.000And this is why we have bull and branch sheets in our home.
00:21:44.000My little ones, they have very particular views on the sheet quality of the sheets that they're jumping up and down on and messing up my bed.
00:22:56.000After 17 years at CNN, I would have thought that someone in management would have had the decency to tell me directly.
00:23:00.000At no time was I ever given any indication that I would not be able to continue to do the work I have loved at the network.
00:23:05.000It is clear there are some larger issues at play.
00:23:07.000With that said, I want to thank my colleagues and the many teams I've worked with for an incredible run.
00:23:11.000They're the most talented journalists in the business, and I wish them all the best.
00:23:16.000So, uh, he's obviously implying when he says there are some larger issues at play.
00:23:19.000Presumably he is implying that sexism is to blame because he is a gay man, or racism is to blame because he is a black man, or whatever else it is that Don Lemon is going to claim about why he was fired.
00:23:29.000The reason he was fired is because he was getting lower ratings than some forms of colon cancer, and also because he had a really bad habit of doing creepy and weird things to his co-hosts.
00:23:38.000That is the reason why, I mean, honestly, the fact that it took him this long to be fired is insane.
00:23:42.000I mean, there were profiles of him years ago, like, hitting on waiters at restaurants.
00:23:58.000So not only does Don Lemon get fired, but still in the cable competition for who actually cares about Don Lemon getting fired, he still comes in second to Tucker Carlson.
00:24:07.000The great irony, of course, is fast forward, you know, several decades and they're definitely going to die on the same day, right?
00:24:14.000And then Tucker is going to be above the fold and Don Lemon's going to be on page like A-17 is the way this is going.
00:24:21.000It's only God could have a sense of humor like this when it comes to Don Lemon, because that is really, really funny.
00:24:27.000CNN immediately said that Don Lemon was inaccurate.
00:25:29.000Don will forever be a part of the CNN family and we thank him for his contributions over the past 17 years.
00:25:36.000We wish him well and we will be cheering him on.
00:25:39.000In his future endeavors, and then it goes on to say that the network is committed to the morning show seen in this morning, which of course is hosted or was hosted by Don Lemon as well as Caitlin Collins and Poppy Harlow.
00:25:51.000Now, this statement is coming from CNN CEO Chris Licht.
00:25:55.000It does not detail what happened, what led to Don's departure, but Don Lemon is no longer with CNN.
00:26:05.000Oh, time to play the sad trombone music from The Price is Right.
00:26:08.000Here's the last things Don Lemon said on air before his untimely demise.
00:26:13.000Kayla and I agree on this. When someone calls, I'm like, what's wrong? What do you want?
00:26:53.000Apparently, he was ousted for inappropriate conduct with CNBC anchor and senior international correspondent Hadley Gamble.
00:26:59.000NBCU parent Comcast announced today that Shell was leaving after an investigation by outside counsel.
00:27:04.000Shell acknowledged, quote, I had an inappropriate relationship with a woman in the company, which I deeply regret.
00:27:08.000Apparently, Deadline Hollywood learned that Shell had a relationship with Campbell, which started about 11 years ago and continued sporadically up until a couple of years ago when it ended.
00:27:16.000The complaint was lodged in the last month.
00:27:18.000Unclear why that would actually get the guy fired, but so long and happy trails to the head of NBCUniversal will also be replaced.
00:27:27.000Now, in the world of politics, Somebody got fired too.
00:27:52.000According to the Washington Post, Susan Rice will step down as White House Domestic Policy Advisor, President Biden announced on Monday, praising her work on some of the most divisive issues for his administration, including immigration and healthcare.
00:28:10.000Biden said, So she sufficiently botched foreign policy under Barack Obama.
00:28:12.000I knew that and what we all know now after more than two years of her steady leadership
00:28:16.000at the Domestic Policy Council, it's clear there's no one more capable and more determined
00:28:19.000to get important things done for the American people than Susan Rice.
00:28:23.000So she sufficiently botched foreign policy under Barack Obama.
00:28:26.000Then she botched domestic policy under Joe Biden.
00:28:30.000She will step down in late May, according to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
00:28:34.000Rice has not specified what her plans were after leaving the White House.
00:28:38.000She was responsible for overseeing policy, including economic mobility, health care, and immigration.
00:28:43.000She did an amazing job on all three of those things.
00:28:45.000Economic mobility, she did an amazing job by helping to craft a policy that has led to 40-year highs in inflation, as well as a stagnating economy.
00:28:52.000On health care, she's done an amazing job helping to oversee a complete botchery of COVID, which has led to extraordinary levels of excess death, plus a fentanyl crisis that has taken hundreds of thousands of lives.
00:29:02.000And on immigration, she has had her hand in the worst immigration crisis in the modern American era, which is really exciting.
00:29:09.000By the way, how bad is the immigration crisis?
00:29:12.000Well, apparently, according to National Review and Jim Garrity, in 2021, as images of children sleeping under foil blankets in overflow centers dominated the news, Susan Rice, the White House's head of domestic policy, told staff members she was frustrated with the situation.
00:29:26.000Rice vented in a note she scrimbled on a memo detailing the position of advocates who believed a pandemic-era border closure was compelling parents to send unaccompanied children, sometimes called UCs.
00:29:35.000This is BS, Rice wrote, according to a memo.
00:29:38.000What is leading to voluntary separation is our generosity to unaccompanied children.
00:29:43.000Patterson, the White House spokeswoman, said any suggestion Rice felt constrained by the demands of the law was false, and she was proud to be doing the right thing and treating children with dignity and respect.
00:29:51.000Well, last week, the New York Times reported that, quote, thousands of children have ended up in punishing jobs across the country, working overnight in slaughterhouses, replacing roofs, operating machinery and factories, all in violation of child labor laws.
00:30:02.000All along, there were signs of the explosive growth of this labor force and warnings the Biden administration ignored or missed, the Times has found.
00:30:08.000So, in other words, the New York Times reporting that a bunch of those unaccompanied children who entered the country ended up being used for child labor.
00:30:17.000So, NBC News says it has nothing to do with her immigration problem.
00:30:20.000Quote, the timing of Rice's departure coincides with a growing controversy over the White House's handling of migrant children who arrive unaccompanied to the southern border.
00:30:28.000And whether members of the White House, including Rice, ignored warnings that sponsors of migrant kids were making them work grueling jobs in violation of child labor laws.
00:30:35.000The White House has said this is not the case.
00:30:36.000A senior administration official said Rice is proud of her work on the border.
00:30:41.000Or maybe they're just throwing her off the team before Joe Biden runs for re-election.
00:30:44.000In either case, we bid a fond farewell to Susan Rice, who again was part of two administrations botching policy absolutely thoroughly.
00:30:51.000And now the question becomes, who's running the Biden White House now?
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00:32:39.000Meanwhile, Democrats are reluctant about Joe Biden, but they have no other choice, according to The Washington Post.
00:32:44.000Quote, the leftover pizza was divvied up.
00:32:46.000The Girl Scout cookies had been exchanged.
00:32:48.000The Democrats of North Fulton County sat and chatted about an issue that had been in the back of their minds for months, President Biden's future.
00:32:54.000There was no question the people in the room, dedicated Democrats who'd gathered in Johns Creek, Georgia to talk strategy and advance the party's aims, would vote for Biden in the general election.
00:33:02.000But the cold pizza-fueled debate was about people outside the room, the friends and family and neighbors they would try to convince, again, to vote for him and other Democrats in 2024.
00:33:10.000Debbie Watson, a 66-year-old retired paralegal, said she thought of them when she heard on the
00:33:14.000radio about the 80-year-old president stumbling on the stairs of Air Force One.
00:33:17.000So again, the Democrats basically know that they are tied to the anchor that is Joe Biden.
00:34:09.000You don't know their names, you don't care about them, and I'm not going to let you threaten to gender transition my children because you have perverse views about reality.
00:34:20.000The reason why Democrats are scared of Joe Biden running, but they're also scared of him not running, is because he's a terrible candidate, but they got nothing in the background.
00:34:28.000In fact, Joe Biden, he's gone hard into reelect pander mode, which is kind of amazing.
00:34:34.000He should be swiveling to the middle, but he is not.
00:34:37.000If he's suspicious the Republicans are going to nominate Donald Trump or they're going to go more extreme, shouldn't he be pivoting to the middle?
00:34:43.000He keeps doubling down on the extremes.
00:34:46.000Which is why the three Tennessee state lawmakers who faced expulsion after participating in protests over last month's school shooting in Nashville, the so-called Tennessee Three, met with Joe Biden on Monday at the White House.
00:35:04.000Or if you're a white lady who just kind of tags along, which is what one of the Tennessee Three is.
00:35:08.000If you are, however, the family of a child who was murdered, During the actual shooting that these young legislators were protesting about, if you are the family of a victim of that, you don't go to the White House.
00:35:19.000If you are a legislator who is suspended for violating all of the House rules in Tennessee, then you go to the White House, so long as you have the right color and you speak in very bizarrely bad MLK cosplaying tones, then you get to go to the White House.
00:35:33.000Joe Biden said, You're standing up for our kids.
00:35:35.000You're standing up for our communities.
00:35:37.000What the Republican legislature did was shocking.
00:35:41.000So, they get to go to the White House, which is very exciting.
00:35:44.000Again, he's swiveling hard to the left.
00:35:45.000your city but also across the country. Nothing is guaranteed about democracy, every generation
00:35:52.000has to fight. You're doing just that, erroneous. So they get to go to the White House, which is
00:35:58.000very exciting. Again, he's swiveling hard to the left, hard to the left. But guess what?
00:36:03.000That ain't gonna work, because he is still a wildly unpopular president.
00:36:06.000You would think at some point that he would swivel, but apparently not.
00:36:09.000In fact, he is so confident as Joe Biden that he can continue to be Joe Biden and win, that he's still having Hunter squire him around, which is amazing.
00:36:18.000In fact, Hunter's lawyers are so confident that Hunter can get away with anything, that the Washington Post reports a lawyer for Hunter Biden called Monday for a congressional ethics investigation into the behavior of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:36:29.000Alleging that she has repeatedly directed unmoored verbal abuses at the president's son, including false accusations of human trafficking and cavorting with prostitutes.
00:37:10.000Green posted photos of Hunter Biden driving his niece and her cousin on President Biden's convertible and falsely alleging he was on crack and with prostitutes.
00:39:32.000A slow and steady erosion of deposits at small and mid-sized banks could continue now that long-time consumers have awakened to the potential to earn more on their money by moving it to money market mutual funds.
00:39:42.000By the way, I've done some of that personally.
00:39:43.000I know a bunch of people who have done that.
00:39:45.000The rates at the money market mutual funds are higher than the rates at the banks.
00:39:49.000So what you're going to see is lending drying up.
00:39:52.000All of this because, again, Joe Biden inflated the currency and inflated the economy.
00:39:56.000But we're supposed to believe that this is a guy with economic specialty and we should listen to him about spending more money via the debt ceiling increase.
00:40:03.000Meanwhile, on foreign policy, the Biden administration just left 16,000 American citizens behind in Sudan with nobody to even care for them.
00:40:13.000Anthony Blinken, who was last seen in the news back in 2020, apparently attempting to launder into the public view the lie that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation.
00:40:23.000This time he is saying that, you know what?
00:40:25.000Yeah, we left, you know, 16,000 people in Sudan.
00:40:29.000But, you know, our first priority is getting our people out of Sudan.
00:40:32.000That apparently does not include the 16,000 American citizens in Sudan.
00:40:36.000A decision to suspend operations at the Embassy, remove our personnel from their assigned posts, is among the most difficult that any Secretary has to make.
00:40:46.000But my first priority is the safety of our people, and I determined that the deteriorating security conditions in Khartoum pose an unacceptable risk to keeping our team there at this time.
00:40:59.000I want to be clear that even as we have temporarily suspended operations on the ground in Khartoum, our diplomatic and consular work in Sudan continues.
00:41:48.000Well, things are completely imploding around them.
00:41:50.000They said the same thing about people in Afghanistan who got stuck there.
00:41:52.000This administration is such a bleep show.
00:41:54.000It is a highly vulnerable administration, obviously.
00:41:57.000And the fact that Democrats have to run with what they got?
00:42:00.000This is a real opening for Republicans, if Republicans take it.
00:42:03.000Okay, quick update, business update for you.
00:42:04.000So, remember that time that Disney was supposedly beating around the Santas?
00:42:07.000Well now, apparently, they're having to cut employees.
00:42:10.000They're having serious economic difficulties.
00:42:11.000They're bringing their second round of layoffs as part of their previously unveiled plan to cut 7,000 jobs.
00:42:16.000Employees at this round are being let go from divisions including ESPN, which is MSNBC, with footballs and basketballs.
00:42:23.000The company, according to the Wall Street Journal, said several thousand U.S.
00:42:25.000employees would be cut this week from multiple business areas, including entertainment and its parks, experiences, and product divisions.
00:42:32.000It turns out that when you, you know, completely alienate your entire customer base, including parents like me, that has some actual serious side effects.
00:42:38.000I mean, they've lost thousands of dollars from the Shapiro family, has Disney.
00:42:42.000And they will continue to do that so long as they embrace a radical left-wing policy position.
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00:43:57.000I'm a Boston Celtics fan, which means I spent like my entire life watching the NBA and hating Phil Jackson.
00:44:03.000He was the coach of the Lakers, of course, highly successful coach of the Lakers, who ended up tying, I believe, Red Arbok, maybe surpassing him, I can't remember, as the most championship-laden coach of all time.
00:44:15.000Well, he actually said something I agree with, and I was never a big Phil Jackson fan because he had this whole kind of like new-agey thing in which he would quote Zen and talk about how, you know, crystals were going to make his team work better.
00:44:27.000Meanwhile, Tex Winter was in the back actually doing the triangle offense and all of this.
00:44:31.000My feeling was always that when you are blessed to coach a team with like Kobe and Shaq on it or Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen on it, you have a pretty good shot at the champ—in any case.
00:44:39.000Put aside my criticisms of Phil Jackson for now, because he actually said something correct.
00:44:43.000Phil Jackson was on a podcast, and he had the temerity to suggest that he doesn't watch the NBA anymore because it's too political.
00:45:30.000He then put out a statement about how terrible it was that Phil Jackson did not appreciate equality, rejecting Black Lives Matter during the NBA finals in 2020, which is what you would see.
00:45:39.000You'd see people with, like, their jerseys, the names on the back of the jersey would be like, equality, Black Lives Matter, etc.
00:45:44.000And here's Jalen Rose being very upset at Phil Jackson.
00:45:48.000The same Phil Jackson that won championships with some of the greatest black athletes in the history of the game, Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant made millions on their backs and off their sweat equity.
00:46:06.000You're sitting up watching a game with your grandkids and y'all think it's funny when justice passes the ball to equal opportunity?
00:46:17.000When somebody shows you who they are, believe them.
00:46:20.000Well, I mean, I think it's funny because neither of those people is named that.
00:46:24.000Justice is, there's no one named Justice, and there's no one named Equal Opportunity, so you're having bumper stickers passing the ball back and forth.
00:46:30.000But I love the fact that because Phil Jackson works in a league in which the players are largely black, now he's a racist for not wanting it to be overtly political when he watches basketball, which is an amazing thing.
00:47:09.000The special feature is of a dude, a gender non-conforming, I know this is a dude because this person has more hair than the carpet in this entire office.
00:47:19.000I mean this person is just covered in human hair.
00:47:23.000My goodness, the levels of testosterone running through this person's body could populate entire worlds, apparently.
00:47:30.000In conversation with Brides Today, and this is a dude who's dressed up in Indian bridal garb.
00:47:36.000Like, as in, like, the country of India.
00:47:38.000In conversation with Brides Today, gender non-conforming and trans-feminine author, performance artist, poet, and comedian Alok Vaid-Menon, who performs under the moniker Alok, makes a compelling case for love is love.
00:48:59.000You look like a schlub because you're dressing for you now to be comfortable.
00:49:04.000But apparently we're all supposed to believe that when you don bridal garb, Indian bridal... First of all, I wonder how Indian women feel about this sort of thing.
00:49:11.000Apparently, okay, is that the answer here?
00:50:00.000You are a deeply happy individual in an individualist culture, dressing up in women's clothing and bearing your extremely hairy belly to the world on the cover of Brides Today.
00:50:28.000You should recognize that for a huge number of people, when they say marriage equality, what they mean is the fundamental institution of marriage ought not be respected, it ought to be deconstructed.
00:50:34.000And marriage equality is just one tool in that deconstruction.
00:50:37.000Which, by the way, is one of the reasons why we moved directly from gay marriage, which is a completely different argument, to men can be women.
00:50:43.000Because maybe the argument alone embedded itself in a broader argument, which is that marriage is bad, and once you hollow out the institution from man and woman and children, then all of a sudden, it doesn't exist anymore.
00:50:57.000So, you know, well done again, Brides Today.
00:50:59.000That is an interesting choice, Brides Today.
00:51:03.000Okay, meanwhile, I would recommend that you not allow your children to watch a Mighty Morphin Power Rangers reunion special.
00:51:10.000You grew up watching Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and it was, you know, like a semi-cute show with a bunch of young people who would randomly turn into spandex-wearing crime fighters and such.
00:51:22.000Well now, the reunion is going to feature the adult sex lives of the people, which makes perfect sense.
00:51:28.000According to Entertainment Weekly, Power Rangers star David Yost has been open about how the homophobia he faced while working on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers led him to walk away from the hit series in the 1990s.
00:51:38.000But now, as he returns for the 30th anniversary special, once and always, he's seeing the LGBTQ community explicitly represented on the series.
00:51:46.000I think it's great we had an element like that obviously into where we are because it's important people see representation.
00:51:50.000Yost tells EW of a once and always scene in which Yellow Ranger Trini's daughter Min helps a man and his boyfriend fend off some of Rita Repulsa's putty patrollers.
00:51:59.000Yes, it's very important that children see a gay couple being defended from the putty patrollers of Rita Repulsa.
00:52:08.000Don't worry, it's not about the kids, guys.
00:52:09.000They don't want to indoctrinate the kids in their values.
00:52:12.000It's just about exposing kids to different lifestyles and all the rest.