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00:01:49.000So Joe Biden is now officially into the race.
00:01:52.000Now, there was a lot of controversy earlier this week over when he was going to jump in the race, but this had been the plan since late last week.
00:01:57.000He was going to drop an online video, and then next week, he's officially going to launch his campaign in Pittsburgh at some sort of union hall, which is smart.
00:02:04.000Now, the Joe Biden campaign is basically apparently going to be run on the basis that Joe Biden is a return to normalcy.
00:02:40.000The reason that it didn't work for Hillary Clinton is because Hillary herself was a widely hated figure.
00:02:45.000She was much more hated than Joe Biden ever has been, mainly because Joe Biden has been a political afterthought for most of his career.
00:02:51.000Even when he was vice president, Joe Biden was never considered a political force.
00:02:55.000He was considered a career political guy who had failed a couple of times at running for president, completely blew up in 2008 on platform.
00:03:02.000So, you know, the idea that Joe Biden is as threatening as Hillary Clinton is simply not true.
00:03:07.000So the question is, can Hillary Clinton's campaign win without Hillary Clinton?
00:03:36.000We'll be what would create a referendum on President Trump simply because most Americans are kind of comfortable with the old quirky guy who is VP under Barack Obama by polling data.
00:03:47.000Now there's a couple of problems with this.
00:03:49.000One is that Joe Biden is a human with a record.
00:03:52.000That Joe Biden actually has a pretty long record of his own.
00:03:54.000We'll get into that in just one second.
00:03:56.000The other thing is that people seem to have forgotten that Barack Obama was ever president.
00:04:01.000I know, it feels like it's been 35 years since Barack Obama was president, but it really, in reality, has only been a couple of years since Barack Obama was president.
00:04:08.000And Joe Biden was there for all of it.
00:04:10.000And so, as we'll see, I think there are a couple of fruitful lines of counterattack that President Trump could use against Joe Biden.
00:04:17.000Suffice it to say that in the early polling, the first polling, Joe Biden against Donald Trump, Joe Biden has a significant edge on Donald Trump.
00:04:24.000According to Morning Consult this morning, as Biden prepares to enter the race, a Morning Consult political poll conducted April 19th through 21st among 2,000 registered voters found Biden leading the president by 8 percentage points in a hypothetical matchup, 42% to 34%.
00:04:40.000Which leaves a bunch of voters on the table.
00:04:43.000You may be saying to yourself, wait a second, 42 and 34, that is only 76%.
00:04:46.000And the answer is, they haven't decided yet.
00:04:52.000Which is not great news for President Trump, frankly.
00:04:55.000Because the fact that there were a lot of undecideds going into the 2016 election was good news for President Trump because, again, the focus was on Hillary Clinton.
00:05:02.000The fact that President Trump is the incumbent president and he is riding at 34% in polls against Joe Biden is not good news for the president.
00:05:24.000Millennials do despise President Trump by polling data.
00:05:28.000It was one of my great fears when Trump was elected is that he was going to poison the well with millennials.
00:05:31.000Among independents, that's really where the question lies.
00:05:35.000And independents, if this were Bernie versus Trump, it would look a lot closer.
00:05:38.000Because independents would look at Bernie and they'd say, okay, well, as much as Bernie wants this to be a referendum on Trump, Bernie is a human with views, and those views are radical.
00:05:48.000Joe Biden is sort of seen as a wet dishrag, and so if it's a wet dishrag versus Trump, that doesn't favor Trump, actually.
00:05:54.000Trump garnering roughly one-third of the vote in the early head-to-head test pales in comparison to the last incumbent president.
00:05:59.000At this point in 2012, Barack Obama led Mitt Romney by several points.
00:06:03.000He was pulling consistently in the mid to high 40s, even after he got blown up in the 2010 election wave.
00:06:11.000Biden has also held a consistent lead in Morning Consult weekly tracking among likely Democratic primary voters.
00:06:16.0003 in 10 say that Biden is their top pick, followed by 24% for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
00:06:21.000Now, I've been saying for a while, I think that Joe Biden's best day is his first day.
00:07:02.000It was Trump's lowest moment of his presidency.
00:07:05.000Now I know, listen, I know there are a lot of people who are trying on the right to engage in what I consider to be revisionist history about what President Trump said about Charlottesville.
00:07:12.000He did not say there were good Nazis, but what he did say is that there were good people on both sides of the marches in Charlottesville.
00:07:20.000The people who are marching in Charlottesville around the statue, it was not a bunch of nice people who showed up to march with Richard Spencer.
00:07:26.000This thing was identified as a unite the right rally that was led by alt-right white supremacists.
00:07:32.000And when President Trump said this, it was a huge mistake.
00:07:35.000He knew it at the time, he apologized for it, then he moved back in the other direction.
00:07:38.000I'm gonna play you the full clip of President Trump talking about it.
00:07:40.000People are trying to say he meant there were people on both, good people on both sides of the Confederate statue debate.
00:07:45.000If that's what he had said, I would have not only had no problem with it, I would have agreed with it.
00:07:52.000What he said is there were good people marching who's specifically referring to that Friday night.
00:07:56.000So here's what the president said. - You had a group on one side and you had a group on the other and they came at each other with clubs and it was vicious and it was horrible and it was a horrible thing to watch.
00:08:06.000I think there's blame on both sides and I have no doubt about it and you don't have any doubt about it either.
00:08:11.000And you had some very bad people in that group but you also had people that were very fine people on both sides.
00:08:20.000You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of to them a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.
00:08:31.000OK, so that last OK, so that last comment, people are now taking that out of context on the right and suggesting that Trump was not talking about the protesters who showed up.
00:08:39.000He was talking about writ large Confederate statues.
00:08:44.000Okay, that is just not what he said at the time.
00:08:48.000And so, I am loathe to rewrite history in favor of President Trump, specifically because that, again, I want to read you the entire transcript.
00:09:21.000You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.
00:09:29.000And then he moved on to his discussion of generalized statutes and the taking down of those statutes, an issue about which I largely agree with President Trump.
00:09:37.000But I don't, I'm not going to buy the rewriting of history just for partisan purposes.
00:09:41.000So that is not what President Trump said when he says find people on both sides.
00:09:45.000He was not specifically talking about the generalized debate, a proposition with which I agree.
00:09:49.000He was talking, I mean, he referred to the pictures of the violence.
00:09:52.000He talked specifically about the night that he was talking about.
00:09:55.000I have yet to identify the nice people who are marching with Richard Spencer that night.
00:10:01.000It is also fair to note that the Democrats have then taken this and blown this up into, President Trump has widespread sympathies for the alt-right.
00:10:18.000The President of the United States has been more strongly against anti-Semitism than any president in recent memory.
00:10:25.000He's been more against anti-Israel sentiment than any president in recent memory.
00:10:29.000And the Democrats, as we'll see, who are calling upon President Trump and trying to label him an anti-Semite, these are the same people who are defending Ilhan Omar, an open anti-Semite, at the same time.
00:10:38.000So, I am not somebody who takes winking and nodding at the alt-right with a grain of salt.
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00:12:47.000We haven't always lived up to these ideals.
00:12:50.000Jefferson himself didn't, but we have never before walked away from them.
00:12:55.000Okay, so very important thing that Joe Biden is doing right here, strategically speaking, and it is separating him off from his own party.
00:13:01.000I have been saying in my book tour, I've been saying for a long time, there's a difference in vision in this country.
00:13:07.000One vision of America is that America has these wonderful founding ideals, and we have not always lived up to them.
00:13:12.000And the other vision of America is that America is founded on terrible, horrible, no good, very bad ideals, and that we have lived up to them, and we have to abandon those ideals.
00:13:19.000Joe Biden is running squarely in that first lane.
00:13:22.000Now, there may be a silent majority of Democrats who still agree with that first lane, which would be great.
00:13:26.000I mean, those are the same people who I am trying to appeal to, too, because I think that that's an important message, that America is inherently great.
00:13:32.000But what Joe Biden is actually saying is, make America great again.
00:13:35.000He's saying, make America great again, because America was already great.
00:13:41.000This is a conservative message that he's pushing out there right now.
00:13:45.000How is that going to play in an intersectional primary where every other candidate in the Democratic Party is complaining that America is inherently rooted in evil, in racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia?
00:14:20.000Charlottesville is also home to a defining moment for this nation in the last few years.
00:14:25.000It was there in August of 2017 we saw Klansmen and white supremacists and neo-Nazis come out in the open. - Their crazed faces, illuminated by torches, veins bulging and bearing the fangs of racism, chanting the same anti-Semitic bile heard across Europe in the 30s.
00:14:53.000And they were met by a courageous group of Americans.
00:15:01.000And a brave young woman lost her life.
00:15:03.000And that's when we heard the words of the President of the United States that stunned the world and shocked the conscience of this nation.
00:15:12.000He said there were, quote, some very fine people on both sides.
00:15:16.000Okay, so this is where Joe Biden is making his pitch, right?
00:15:19.000That Donald Trump has undermined the spirit of America with Charlottesville.
00:15:23.000He is taking for granted a couple of things.
00:15:26.000And I think those things cannot be taken for granted.
00:15:27.000In a second, I'm going to explain what he's taking for granted and why I think that he's overstating his case.
00:15:32.000Okay, so what he is saying from the very beginning, right, is he makes that conservative pitch.
00:15:37.000That conservative pitch is that America is founded on these great ideals, we haven't always lived up to them, and then Charlottesville is a betrayal of those ideals.
00:15:55.000I do not think most Americans think that is true.
00:15:57.000He is in danger of stepping into the same minefield that Hillary Clinton stepped into when she suggested that all supporters of Donald Trump were effectively white supremacists and deplorables.
00:16:06.000Remember that she called everybody deplorables who supported Donald Trump in the last election cycle.
00:16:10.000This is a huge mistake because the vast majority of people who support Donald Trump Do not do so because of Charlottesville.
00:16:17.000They do not do so because they think that Donald Trump is in favor of white supremacy.
00:16:21.000So Joe Biden is in serious danger of falling into that trap.
00:16:24.000Problem number two, Joe Biden happens to have picked as his lead indicator of Trump's evil this March, which was replete with anti-Semitism.
00:16:34.000The Democratic Party is steeped in anti-Semitism at the moment.
00:16:37.000The first time Joe Biden mentions this, don't you think that President Trump is going to say to him, okay, Joe, what do you have to say about Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib?
00:16:57.000And if you're saying I'm soft on anti-Semitism, let me ask you a question, Vice President.
00:17:02.000Why is it that you served under an administration that endorsed the Iran deal, and lied about the American public in order to do so?
00:17:08.000Why did you work for an administration that was so wildly anti-Israel, their defense department was instructed not to provide weaponry to Israel in the middle of the Gaza war?
00:17:15.000Why do you side with a Democratic Party that has made excuses for Ilhan Omar, a raging and open anti-Semite, and Rashida Tlaib, a raging and open anti-Semite?
00:17:26.000Trump's got some pretty good comebacks here, and Joe Biden is opening himself up wide to them.
00:17:30.000Now, again, he is hoping that his focus on Trump means that Trump becomes the subject of the public's referendum, but Joe Biden is very vulnerable in these areas as well, and Trump has not yet begun to fight.
00:17:46.000With those words, the President of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate And those with the courage to stand against it.
00:18:08.000In the 1970s, he came out in favor of segregation to a certain extent.
00:18:13.000He suggested that forced busing, which was a bad idea, was a bad idea not because it was ineffective and not because it forced children to shuttle hours on end on buses, but it was bad because it might undermine black segregationist pride.
00:18:25.000This is something that Joe Biden actually said during the 1970s, according to the Washington Examiner.
00:18:31.000He said that the concept of busing, that we are going to integrate people so that they all have the same access and learn to grow up with one another and all the rest, is a rejection of the whole movement of black pride, said Biden.
00:18:44.000Desegregation was a rejection of the entire black awareness concept, where black is beautiful, black culture should be studied, and the cultural awareness of the importance of their own identity, their own individuality.
00:18:55.000Is that something Joe Biden was saying way back when?
00:18:57.000So this is the worst time he's ever seen for American racism?
00:19:07.000This is where you said, I have to draw the line?
00:19:10.000I mean, let's not be too naive about this.
00:19:14.000Basically, Joe Biden decided he was going to run for president the moment that Donald Trump was elected, and he was the next guy on the shortlist for Democrats.
00:19:21.000He seriously considered running in 2016, and only when he didn't receive Barack Obama's endorsement did he decide not to.
00:19:27.000Hilariously enough, by the way, A lot of people have been wondering, is Barack Obama going to endorse Biden?
00:19:32.000The answer apparently is no for the moment.
00:19:34.000Apparently Biden's people are out there, I kid you not, walking around and saying with a straight face that Joe Biden was offered Obama's endorsement and rejected it because he wants to see how his candidacy plays on his own.
00:20:15.000We are in the battle for the soul of this nation.
00:20:19.000I believe history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces as an aberrant moment in time.
00:20:27.000But if we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation, who we are.
00:20:37.000And I cannot stand by and watch that happen.
00:20:46.000The best attack on him was always going to be a character attack, and Biden is not making the character attack about the fact that the dude slept around with porn stars or something.
00:20:53.000He's making the character attack about he's changed who we are.
00:22:02.000And I will say that Joe Biden is doing something different in his launch video.
00:22:05.000He's talking about the character of the country, which lends a gravitas and a weight to his video that doesn't exist in, for example, Mayor Pete's video, which is all about, hi, I'm Mayor Pete and I'm from South Bend.
00:22:14.000You're not getting that from Biden because we all know his record.
00:22:17.000But I am not sure it's going to play over the course of two years as well as Biden thinks it will.
00:22:21.000In a second, we'll get to the rest of Biden's campaign launch video and we'll talk about how it plays for the rest of the Democrats.
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00:23:52.000And then finally, he gets to, and that's why I jumped in the race, because I felt like this was a crisis unlike any other, which of course is what every politician always says.
00:23:59.000It's the most important election of our lifetime.
00:24:02.000I needed to jump in because we were at crisis point.
00:24:05.000This isn't the most important election of our lifetime, other than it's an election that is happening now, and you can't vote in the one from 2016.
00:24:11.000In any case, here is Joe Biden continuing.
00:24:14.000The core values of this nation are standing in the world.
00:24:32.000An idea that's stronger than any army, bigger than any ocean, more powerful than any dictator or tyrant.
00:24:39.000It gives hope to the most desperate people on earth.
00:24:41.000It guarantees that everyone is treated with dignity and gives hate no safe harbor.
00:24:48.000It instills in every person in this country the belief that no matter where you start in life, there's nothing you can't achieve if you work at it.
00:25:16.000There's not a word in that ad, just reading it.
00:25:19.000There's not a word in that ad, aside from his characterization of, this is the greatest crisis we've ever faced, and Charlottesville is America, and all this kind of stuff.
00:25:25.000And Trump is fundamentally, all that stuff is wrong, but the main message of the ad, I agree with all of that.
00:25:41.000So Joe Biden, when he talks about America as an idea and all the great things we've done in the past, the stock footage that he uses is stock footage of Marines landing on the beaches during Normandy or at Guadalcanal.
00:25:54.000And then he juxtaposes that with MLK and the civil rights marchers.
00:25:57.000Now, there's a thing that all the other Democratic candidates have done in their video that Joe Biden did not do in this video.
00:26:03.000All the other Democratic candidates then flash to some sort of gay pride parade or something.
00:26:07.000Then they flash to the rainbow flag on the wall of the White House or something.
00:26:12.000Joe Biden specifically does not do that.
00:26:24.000Because you are trying to appeal to blue-collar voters in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan, not to Upper East Side liberals in New York and Washington, D.C.
00:26:34.000I promise you that's something that happened.
00:26:35.000So Joe Biden is running that campaign.
00:26:37.000Now, how is that campaign going to play with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party?
00:26:42.000Biden is hoping that the progressives savage each other, that there are 10 people in that lane, he's the only person in the moderate lane, and he walks away with the nomination.
00:27:17.000The center of energy is not with Joe Biden and his sort of moderate view of America as a fundamentally great place that we have not always lived up to.
00:27:26.000Most people on the left do not believe in this.
00:27:29.000So they say Democrats future, Medicare for all, Green New Deal, free college, rejecting corporate money, ending mass incarceration and deportation.
00:28:20.000If we just went straight to the general election, you'd have to favor Joe Biden.
00:28:23.000He'd be the odds-on favorite against Donald Trump.
00:28:25.000In a primary, however, Joe Biden occupies the space that Donald Trump occupied.
00:28:30.000So in a primary space, Joe Biden basically is Trump.
00:28:35.000Trump, in the general, is this larger-than-life figure who is the incumbent and the referendum is going to be on him.
00:28:43.000That's at least the Democratic theory.
00:28:44.000In the Democratic primaries, Biden is the larger-than-life figure and all of the focus is going to be on him.
00:28:50.000And the problem for Joe Biden is that he has never withstood focus well.
00:28:53.000Joe Biden has always failed to withstand the scars of battle.
00:28:58.000This is why he failed in 1988 and had to drop out over a plagiarism scandal.
00:29:03.000So Bernie Sanders is going to be the first person to go after Joe Biden, obviously, and Bernie's allies are preparing the fight.
00:29:10.000According to The Hill, Sanders has been more of a liberal policy visionary, championing policies that were initially regarded by colleagues as fringe ideas.
00:29:17.000These concepts were later embraced by leading members of the Democratic caucus, such as raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and providing free college education.
00:29:24.000Former colleagues described Biden and Sanders as polar opposites in terms of personalities and interacting with fellow senators.
00:29:30.000Biden, 76, is gregarious and sociable.
00:29:32.000He was always eager to work a room, Strike up a friendly conversation or reassure a colleague who is feeling down.
00:29:37.000A retail politician to his core, Biden always wanted to know what was on his fellow senator's mind.
00:29:41.000Sanders, by contrast, was focused on policy.
00:29:44.000Often so, wrapped up in his thoughts, he seemed oblivious to his colleagues.
00:29:47.000He was seen as consumed by ambitious plans to fight wealth inequality and pushed the national debate to the left, but uninterested in the personal lives of fellow senators.
00:29:55.000Who do you think the base is going to resonate to?
00:29:58.000If you hate Trump, like despise Trump, if you're a Trump hater, who do you think you're going to go for?
00:30:02.000Joe Biden, a guy who's kind of amiable, but not necessarily as hard edged.
00:30:08.000Or Bernie Sanders, who's going to yell and scream and rant and rave about Donald Trump.
00:30:14.000Democrats have a lot of choices in these primaries.
00:30:17.000I'm not sure that Joe Biden stands up to scrutiny.
00:30:20.000That's a very conservative campaign launch video.
00:30:22.000And frankly, I'm sort of astonished that's the direction that he went.
00:30:25.000Especially because he's now going to have to defend his record.
00:30:29.000Senator Dianne Feinstein has already come out and said that Biden would have handled the Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill hearings differently if he could do it all over again.
00:30:36.000He's going to spend the first month of his campaign apologizing for his entire record.
00:30:53.000And then it's all downhill from there.
00:30:56.000Okay, in just a second, we're gonna get to more on Joe Biden, how the other Democrats are reacting, where things stand right now.
00:31:03.000But first, It can be a little frustrating, I know, especially if you are in a hurry or you're running late to find yourself at a railway crossing waiting for a train.
00:31:12.000And it feels like the arms of the railway crossing come down and then you're just sitting there for 35 minutes waiting for the train to pass.
00:31:20.000If the signals are going and the train is not even there yet, sometimes you might feel a bit tempted to try and sneak across the tracks.
00:32:11.000Okay, so, in a second, we'll get to the other Democratic candidates, and we'll show how all of the canon are now going to train on Joe Biden.
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00:32:33.000Well, at least next week, when I will be back on duty full-time.
00:33:45.000It seems like it's being fairly well received by members of the media, but it's very early as of yet.
00:33:51.000There are already some of the base members of the Democratic Party who are getting upset, not just the Justice Democrats, people like Bakari Sellers.
00:33:58.000So, Bakari Sellers came out on Twitter, and he immediately started slapping Joe Biden for his criminal justice record.
00:34:14.000This bill has led to mass incarceration and specifically targeted black and brown people.
00:34:18.000What are your plans to unravel the damage you helped to cause?
00:34:21.000Without Barack Obama endorsing Joe Biden, this will be the lead point of attack for people like Kamala Harris, who is already fundraising over Biden's entry into the race, saying she welcomes him there.
00:34:32.000The problem for Joe Biden is that if you take away his support in the minority community, he's running behind Bernie Sanders.
00:34:38.000Joe Biden is earning outside support from the black community right now.
00:34:41.000In fact, he's earning a plurality of the black vote right now in polling data.
00:34:45.000If that starts to chip away, and that will be the first area where people seek to attack him, if that starts to bleed away to a combination of Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, both of whom have to train themselves on Joe Biden, it's going to be a problem for Joe Biden.
00:35:00.000Meanwhile, right now, as I say, right now, Biden is popular.
00:35:03.000By polling number, women still like Biden.
00:35:07.000I wonder if that's the story two months from now.
00:35:11.000And the real reason, of course, that Joe Biden is doing well is because if you look at Democratic polls, one of the things that you see is that the number one priority is defeating Trump, and they think that he is the most electable.
00:35:20.000They're trying to forecast his electability versus President Trump.
00:35:25.000Well, over time, as attacks start to mount up against him, and if Donald Trump starts to hit him, that could change.
00:35:30.000You can see that Donald Trump is already lowering his boom on Joe Biden.
00:35:34.000He tweeted out early this morning about Joe Biden.
00:35:37.000He said, welcome to the race sleepy Joe.
00:35:39.000Sleepy Joe, I only hope you have the intelligence long in doubt to wage a successful primary campaign.
00:36:17.000Like there's plenty of Trump's favorite adjectives you could use to describe Joe Biden.
00:36:22.000I'm not sure why sleepy is the thing, as though it's a contest of energy.
00:36:26.000Now, I know that Biden is trying to appear sober, but the fact is that for a man his age, dude has pretty good energy levels.
00:36:32.000So I'm not sure that that's a winning moniker.
00:36:34.000A better moniker is necessary, Mr. President.
00:36:36.000So let's go back to the drawing board.
00:36:39.000Again, the major draw for Biden is that Democrats think he can beat Trump by polling data that obviously appears to be a not implausible case.
00:36:46.000You're seeing the only other Democrat in the race who realizes this is apparently Pete Buttigieg, that electability matters.
00:36:52.000So Pete Buttigieg is attacking Bernie Sanders.
00:36:54.000He says Bernie Sanders can't win, and that's why you shouldn't vote for Bernie Sanders.
00:36:58.000Now, I think that he is probably right, but I don't think that those votes then turn to Pete Buttigieg.
00:37:03.000A mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who has fewer constituents than I have family members.
00:37:07.000In any case, here's Pete Buttigieg suggesting that, so Pete Buttigieg suggested that he doesn't think that Bernie can win a general election, so vote for me.
00:37:15.000He said, quote, I have a hard time seeing the coalition ultimately coming together there.
00:37:20.000He said that people are refreshed by the novelty and boldness of Sanders' idea, but they're now less excited.
00:37:25.000So Buttigieg is trying to go after Bernie and savage his vote.
00:37:28.000I'm surprised that Buttigieg has not gone after Biden.
00:37:41.000Now, the rest of the Democratic Party is trying desperately to gain attention from a media that is struggling to keep up with the vast number of Democrats who are running.
00:37:50.000Elizabeth Warren, trying to grab attention, she went to some sort of women in politics event, where she suggested, of course, that black women are dying in childbirth more often because of racism in the medical industry, even though she has suggested no solutions to said racism in the medical industry, and even though the vast majority of female death in childbirth is due to low birth weight or pre-existing health problems.
00:38:09.000She's immediately going to label the entire health industry racist based on something.
00:38:14.000Here she is doing that routine in a desperate search for attention.
00:38:17.000Well, countries around the world have had more and more mothers surviving childbirth.
00:38:23.000Here in the United States, we're one of only a handful of countries where it's actually gone down.
00:38:28.000And there is a specific problem, as you rightly identify, for women of color, who are three to four times more likely to die in childbirth.
00:39:24.000Too bad it's all been stolen by Pete Buttigieg.
00:39:27.000Here's Beto talking about, we need an equal rights amendment because my hands won't stop moving, brah.
00:39:33.000A minimum wage is not going to be enough, especially when it comes to women of color.
00:39:39.000Women alone in this country are paid 80 cents on average what a man is paid for the same job, but African American women Pandering and pandering and lies and pandering.
00:39:49.000Hispanic women are not making 53 cents on the dollar.
00:39:53.000Black women are not making, whatever it was, 60 cents on the dollar.
00:39:57.000woman can be discriminated against on any basis whatsoever.
00:40:00.000Pandering and pandering and lies and pandering.
00:40:03.000Hispanic women are not making 53 cents on the dollar.
00:40:06.000Black women are not making whatever was 60 cents on the dollar.
00:40:17.000Kamala Harris is in the pandering business.
00:40:19.000See, here's the thing about Joe Biden.
00:40:20.000If he can stick with his original campaign plan, if he can stick with the moderation and the non-pandering, not only do I think that he runs the gamut in the primary, I think he wins the nomination.
00:40:30.000I think he's a very strong candidate for the presidency.
00:40:33.000I think that if he campaigns as a moderate and he's able to withstand the pressure, it'll be fine.
00:41:18.000Now this is one of the fastest growing money-making industries in our country.
00:41:23.000And the very young men who were trying to make money doing the same thing, but got criminalized and have now been branded felons for life, are excluded from the economic opportunities that are now available because of this new industry.
00:41:39.000So part of what has to happen is there have to be policies in place that look at the background and actually do the work of saying that some of those young men should be first in line to get the jobs that are available.
00:41:51.000Okay, and the big cheers that go up from the radical left for this idiotic proposal.
00:42:01.000I don't think the reason that people went into the weed dispensing business when it was illegal in the state of California.
00:42:07.000I don't think they did that because they were just young entrepreneurs who are looking for a new way to break into a growing business.
00:42:13.000I think they knew it was an easy way to make money because it turns out that people who commit crimes of one type are very likely to have committed crimes of another type.
00:42:21.000This is like saying that everybody who ran booze during Prohibition, those would definitely be the best bartenders.
00:42:29.000Or maybe they were criminals and they were using the facts that booze was illegal as a way to make money.
00:42:35.000And if they cannot make money at a weed dispensary in the same way they were dealing weed, they will find another way to make money.
00:42:43.000But I guess this is the New Democratic Party.
00:42:45.000Cory Booker doing the pandering routine as well.
00:42:48.000He says he'll have a female running mate.
00:42:49.000I always find this highly amusing when men say, I love women so much that I will have a female running mate.
00:42:55.000I love women so much that I need a woman to be subservient to me on my ticket.
00:43:01.000I think that women deserve political power so much that I, a man, should have the most political power and a woman can have the warm bucket of spit job.
00:43:08.000Here's Cory Booker with his crazy eyes making that case.
00:43:14.000Uh, the question, if you didn't hear it, is will I pledge to have a woman running mate?
00:43:34.000Now, as I mentioned before, Joe Biden is campaigning on the basis that Democrats have the moral high ground in America because of President Trump.
00:43:39.000Here's Cory Booker blowing up that moral high ground, suggesting that Ilhan Omar is a wonderful, wonderful woman and that all attacks on her are reprehensible.
00:43:48.000The criticisms of Congresswoman Omar What Donald Trump has been saying about her is reprehensible, it is trafficking in Islamophobia, and it should be condemned by everyone.
00:44:00.000This kind of selective condemnation should be a chorus of people condemning it.
00:44:05.000Okay, now do Ilhan Omar's antisemitism.
00:44:08.000So if you criticize Ilhan Omar, this makes you an Islamophobe.
00:44:11.000If Ilhan Omar says the Jews are in control of everything, then that is fine.
00:46:08.000It's amazing that we now live in this time and place.
00:46:11.000But Bernie Marcus defending capitalism is now controversial.
00:46:14.000So here's Bernie Marcus doing just that.
00:46:16.000The free market system has been the biggest creator of wealth and prosperity the world has ever known, lifting billions of people out of poverty, and far more superior than any government program could ever be.
00:46:29.000That's why it pains me to see people in this country glorifying socialism Young people especially have been indoctrinated into believing that free enterprise is immoral because it enriches the greedy and depresses the poor.
00:46:44.000While some may say socialism is well-intentioned, the fact is it robs people of their independence, their dignity, and their finances, leading to government dependence, suppression of ideas, and lower standards of living for those under its thumb.
00:47:14.000He actually wanted to become a doctor, but didn't have the money to do it.
00:47:16.000So instead, he ended up working for his dad as a cabinetmaker.
00:47:20.000And then he studied at Rutgers for a pharmacy degree.
00:47:23.000He worked in a drugstore as a pharmacist, and then he started working at a cosmetics company.
00:47:27.000Eventually, he became the CEO of HandyDan Improvement Centers, which was a LA-based chain of home improvement stores.
00:47:33.000And then he decided, after he was fired, to open Home Depot.
00:47:36.000So this is a guy who basically worked his way through the system from nothing, not even being able to afford tuition Okay, that's a pretty great story of capitalism.
00:47:44.000Capitalism is full of those sorts of wonderful stories.
00:47:47.000And the fact that the Democrats refuse to embrace those stories is pretty telling and pretty terrible.
00:47:54.000So, we'll see if Joe Biden has the courage of his convictions to embrace capitalism.
00:48:21.000Now, she has an editorial, an op-ed, in the Washington Post.
00:48:24.000So, they had Adam Schiff yesterday and Hillary Clinton today.
00:48:27.000Just stellar work, everybody, at the Washington Post, in which she talks about the Mueller case.
00:48:33.000She says our election was corrupted, our democracy assaulted, our sovereignty and security violated.
00:48:37.000This is the definitive conclusion of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report.
00:48:40.000It documents a serious crime against the American people.
00:48:44.000The debate about how to respond to Russia's sweeping and systematic attack and how to hold President Trump accountable for obstructing the investigation and possibly breaking the law has been reduced to a false choice.
00:49:34.000Hillary says, obviously, this is personal for me.
00:49:36.000Some may say I'm not the right messenger, but my perspective is not just that of a former candidate and the target of the Russian plot.
00:49:41.000I'm also a former senator and secretary of state who served during much of Vladimir Putin's assent, sat across the table from him and knows firsthand that he seeks to weaken our country.
00:49:55.000I I remember you being there, Hillary Clinton.
00:49:57.000I remember you and the rest of your Democratic Party mocking Mitt Romney when he said that Vladimir Putin was our number one geopolitical foe.
00:51:14.000So Taraji Henson and Terrence Howard are now telling both Disney and Fox that they want Jussie Smollett to be brought back for Empire's next season.
00:51:21.000Now, I don't watch Empire, so frankly, I don't care.
00:51:23.000And if this is how they want to sync their show, you're welcome to it.
00:51:26.000If you want to have on race hoaxer Jussie Smollett, go for it.
00:51:29.000What will happen is that the first two episodes will have massive ratings, and then there'll be a serious drop-off as people realize they can't watch a guy who was involved in beating himself up.
00:51:38.000That that's not a thing they want to do.
00:51:40.000But the fact that actors think that they can dictate to Disney how that series is going to get cast?
00:52:39.000I'm Michael Knowles, host of The Michael Knowles Show.
00:52:41.000Joe Biden is in, and according to Morning Consult, he opens with an eight-point lead, not just over his Democrat opponents, but over President Trump himself.
00:52:50.000We will analyze 2020 than the mailbag.