Ben Shapiro is back with more good news about the coronavirus outbreak, including reports that vaccines could be available for public consumption by the end of the year, and that some patients who tested positive for the virus are not actually infectious. President Trump announces he s been taking hydroxychloroquine, cities lack the courage of their lockdown convictions, and a columnist for the New York Times decides all women were a right-wing plot all along. Today's show is sponsored by ExpressVPN, Stand Up For Your Digital Rights, and Stand Up for Digital Rights. To find a list of our sponsors and show-related promo codes, go to gimlet.fm/OurAdvertisers and use the promo code: CRIMINALS at checkout to receive $10 and receive 10% off your first purchase when you place an order at the checkout counter at ExpressVPN. Thanks to ExpressVPN for sponsoring the show and for standing up for your digital rights. Take action at expressvpn.me/standupfordigitalrights and take action at standupforyourdigitalrights.org/tweet and tweet us what you think of the show to let us know what you thought of it! Tweet us and we'll get a shoutout on the next episode of The Ben Shapiro Show! Timestamps: 5:00 - What's the worst thing you've heard about the outbreak? 6:30 - What are you worried about? 7:15 - Is there any good news? 8:20 - What would you like to know about it? 9: What do you think about it's going to happen next? 11:40 - Is it's a good thing? 15:00s - What do we need to do more? 16:30s - Does it have a cure? 17:40s - Is the CDC better than that? 19:20s - How do we know it's better than it's getting better? 21:00 22: Is there a cure for it better than this? 25:00 sigs? 26:30 27:10s - Are we going to stop being a lackey? 30s: Is it really? 29s - Can we stop being lackeyed? 31s - Do we have enough evidence? 32s - is it a problem? 35s 36s - does it get better?
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00:00:25.000So if you live on Twitter, what you will notice that there is a vast disconnect between the crap that people care about on Twitter and the stuff that happens in real life, like in real life.
00:01:04.000It now appears that vaccines could be on the way.
00:01:07.000That doesn't mean that they will be available for public consumption by the end of the year, but it does mean that probably sometime early next year, we are looking at public consumption of a vaccine for COVID that drastically reduces the death rate.
00:01:17.000And this has resulted in a skyrocketing stock market, according to the Associated Press, Asian shares rose Tuesday on optimism about a potential vaccine for coronavirus after hopes for a U.S.
00:01:25.000economic recovery in the second half of the year sent Wall Street into a rebound.
00:01:29.000Japan's benchmark Nikkei 2.25 added 1.9% in morning trading.
00:01:39.000The mood is assertively risk-on, with sentiment having been tipped over by fresh hope sparked for a COVID-19 vaccine, says Jingyi Pan, a market strategist for IG.
00:01:48.000Massachusetts-based Moderna saw its stock jump 20% in New York trading on Monday.
00:01:52.000That was its best day Since early April, the gains raised all the losses from last week when the index posted its worst showing since late March and its third weekly loss in the last four.
00:02:02.000Bond yields rose broadly and in other signs that investors were becoming more optimistic.
00:02:05.000Bond yields rise inversely proportional to demand.
00:02:08.000That means that demand for bonds drop.
00:02:10.000People are looking to invest in the stock market as opposed to relying on bonds.
00:02:13.000Investors were also encouraged by remarks over the weekend from Fed Reserve Chair Jerome Pell.
00:02:41.000It now turns out that covid patients who are testing positive after recovery are not actually infectious, according to a new study.
00:02:49.000So there was some speculation that you might still be positive for COVID-19 and able to pass it to other people once you had recovered from COVID-19.
00:02:56.000According to Bloomberg, there's a report of a study that says that people are only shedding dead virus.
00:03:01.000So they're testing positive for the dead virus, but they are not actually shutting into the public stream, which means that people are not actually going to die after meeting someone who has recovered from COVID-19, which is really, really good news.
00:03:11.000Based on those results, according to Atul Gawande, who's a very well-respected healthcare researcher, he says the Korean CDC is lifting requirements to have a negative test for return to work or school after a COVID-19 infection.
00:03:22.000Under the new protocols, no additional tests are required for cases that have been discharged from isolation.
00:03:30.000In other news, the president of the United States is now taking a hammer to the WHO, which is a...
00:03:37.000The president issued a letter to the WHO basically saying, you guys need to stop being lackeys of the Chinese government, or we are simply not going to participate in that which you seek.
00:03:47.000He wrote, Dear Dr. Tedros, On April 14, 2020, I suspended U.S. contributions to the World Health Organization pending an investigation by my administration of the organization's failed response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
00:03:58.000This review has confirmed many of the serious concerns I raised last month and identified others that the WHO should have addressed, especially the World Health Organization's alarming lack of independence from the People's Republic of China.
00:04:08.000Based on this review, we now know the following.
00:04:11.000The WHO consistently ignored credible reports of the virus spreading in Wuhan in early December 2019 or even earlier, including reports from the Lancet Medical Journal.
00:04:20.000The WHO failed to independently investigate credible reports that conflicted directly with the Chinese government's official accounts, even those that came from sources within Wuhan itself.
00:04:29.000I know later than December 30th, the World Health Organization in Beijing knew there was a major public health concern in Wuhan.
00:04:35.000Between December 26th and December 30th, China's media highlighted evidence of a new virus emerging from Wuhan.
00:04:40.000By the next day, Taiwanese authorities had communicated information to the WHO, which they ignored.
00:04:45.000Internal health regulations require countries to report the risk of a health emergency within 24 hours.
00:04:49.000China did not inform the WHO of Wuhan's cases of pneumonia of unknown origin until December 31st, even though it likely had knowledge of these cases days or weeks earlier.
00:04:58.000According to Dr. Zhang Yongzhen of the Shanghai Public Health Clinic Center, he told Chinese authorities on January 5th he had sequenced the genome of the virus.
00:05:06.000There was no publication of this information until six days later when Dr. Zhang self-posted it online.
00:05:11.000The next day, the Chinese authorities closed his lab for rectification.
00:05:14.000As even the WHO acknowledged, Dr. Zhang's posting was a great act of transparency, but the WHO has been conspicuously silent with respect to both the closure of Zhang's lab and his assertion that he notified Chinese authorities of his breakthrough six days earlier.
00:05:28.000The WHO has also made claims about coronavirus that were either grossly inaccurate or misleading.
00:05:33.000On January 14th, they suggested no human-to-human transmission.
00:05:35.000On January 21st, President Xi Jinping of China reportedly pressured the WHO not to declare the coronavirus outbreak an emergency.
00:05:43.000And on January 22nd, the WHO said that this was not a public health emergency of international concern.
00:05:48.000On January 28th, after meeting with President Xi in Beijing, Dr. Tedros praised the Chinese government for its transparency.
00:05:55.000Even after the WHO belatedly declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern, January 30th, they didn't press China for the timely admittance of a WHO team of international medical experts.
00:06:05.000And so that team didn't even arrive until February 16th.
00:06:07.000Even then, the team was not allowed to visit Wuhan until the final days of their visit.
00:06:11.000Also, the WHO strongly praised China's strict domestic travel restrictions, but were inexplicably against the closing of the U.S.
00:06:18.000border or the ban with respect to people coming from China.
00:06:22.000And the list goes on and on and on of WHO failures.
00:06:24.000And so the president concludes, until you stop becoming basically a lackey of the Chinese government, we're cutting off your funding.
00:06:30.000He says, my administration has already started discussions with you on how to reform the organization, but action is needed quickly.
00:06:36.000That is why it is my duty as President of the United States to inform you that if the WHO does not commit to major substantive improvements within the next 30 days, I will make my temporary freeze of U.S.
00:06:45.000funding to the WHO permanent and reconsider our membership in the organization.
00:06:48.000Okay, so that's big news, and that is good news.
00:06:50.000That's something good that President Trump is doing.
00:06:52.000We'll get to more of the actual news, and then we'll get to all of the news that people apparently care about on Twitter in just one second.
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00:08:44.000According to the Washington Post, the prospects for the nation's professional sports leagues to resume operations were boosted Monday when the governors of New York, California, and Texas announced their support for pro sports returning in their states.
00:08:55.000New York State is ready and willing to partner with major sports teams that are interested in playing games safely without fans.
00:08:59.000New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wrote on Twitter, The announcements from the states, which are home to more than two dozen franchises across the NFL, NBA, NHL, and Major League Baseball, Don't provide certainty as to how or when this is going to happen, but leagues are making tentative plans to return.
00:09:16.000MLB is discussing a return to play proposal with its players union, has an eye on a possible resumption of training next month and a season beginning in early July, perhaps with teams playing in their home cities and stadiums being grouped geographically for scheduling purposes to limit travel as well.
00:09:30.000The NFL is not scheduled to begin until September.
00:09:32.000That gives them some time to figure all of this out.
00:09:37.000In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott has already announced professional sports can resume May 31st without any spectators.
00:09:43.000The pronouncements don't resolve the league's return to play issues, but they bolster hopes that sports can return on a more widespread basis in the coming weeks and months.
00:09:51.000So, the fact is that Americans are ready for this shutdown to be over.
00:09:57.000I'm hopeful that people are going to act responsibly here.
00:10:01.000I think it's very important that people act responsibly here.
00:10:03.000In fact, we already have some evidence that things are not going to be as bad in terms of the outbreak as people originally suspected.
00:10:11.000The Atlanta mayor, Who is very, very critical of the Georgia governor.
00:10:14.000She says, listen, this thing, I thought it was going to be really terrible.
00:10:16.000I'm not so sure it's going to be so terrible anymore.
00:10:19.000It's not as bad as I thought that it would be, so I am pleased about that, but I still think it's too soon to say.
00:10:26.000The reason being, whereas initially we were seeing increases between deaths and people testing positive, rising anywhere from 25 to 30 percent over a seven-day period, right now we're somewhere between 12 and 15 percent, and so it's better than it was, but it's still not great.
00:10:45.000Okay, well, again, better than it was, but still not great.
00:10:48.000It's never gonna be great until this thing is totally over, but the fact that the Atlanta mayor is now having to walk back the Brian Kemp is going to kill everybody routine is pretty astonishing.
00:10:57.000Because remember, Brian Kemp was evil.
00:11:29.000Listen, people still have to be careful if you don't want to get COVID-19.
00:11:32.000If you're young and you don't care about getting COVID-19, I suppose that's on you.
00:11:35.000Try not to infect somebody who is older.
00:11:37.000That would be the thing that we are most focused on.
00:11:39.000One of the big problems here is that the lockdown was so severe and so strict that now that people are being let out of jail, basically they're saying, I'm going to do what I want willy-nilly.
00:11:48.000Now, it is important to recognize that, by the way, in Sweden, that actually is sort of what happened, right?
00:11:53.000In Sweden, there was this notion that everybody was mask wearing and socially distancing.
00:11:56.000No, some people were, but the level of compliance was not actually supremely high, even in places like Sweden.
00:12:02.000The level of compliance is actually kind of low in places like Sweden.
00:12:05.000It was like 60% of the public was complying.
00:12:07.000Now, you don't actually need 100% of the public complying in order to lower what they call the R naught, which is the replication rate of the virus, right?
00:12:14.000All you need is maybe 60, 70, 80% of people who are complying by the rules.
00:12:19.000However, you do have a bit of a collective action problem in that it is more fun to not socially distance than to socially distance.
00:12:25.000And what this means is that the people who are most calling for social distancing and who are strictest when it comes to these lockdowns, they better have the courage of their convictions.
00:12:32.000Well, as it turns out, they do not, in fact, have the courage of their convictions.
00:12:35.000So, Bill de Blasio yesterday, he said, listen, we're just going to pull you right out of the water.
00:12:39.000Like, if you go down to the beach and then you get in the water, you take one foot and you put it in the water on Memorial Day, we'll pull you out of the water.
00:12:44.000First of all, let's just note something.
00:12:46.000Memorial Day, the Atlantic Ocean, It's like 50 degrees.
00:12:49.000It's not like people are willy-nilly jumping into the Atlantic Ocean on Memorial Day.
00:12:52.000If you've ever been in New York at this time of year, it don't work that way.
00:12:56.000But here was Bill de Blasio anyway trying to suggest that he was going to personally go and muscle people out of the water.
00:13:02.000Fencing will be there, but it won't be implemented at first.
00:13:05.000We're hoping everyone just listens to the rules, follows the rules.
00:13:59.000Because the reality is that if you actually want to enforce this thing, then you are going to have to, you know, promulgate it by use of law enforcement.
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00:15:53.000And so, in an attempt to drive the idea that people need to socially distance, the media are going overboard.
00:15:59.000Again, being fully transparent with people is probably the best way to do all of this.
00:16:03.000I feel like that's what I try to do on the show.
00:16:04.000I try to give you as much information as possible, then you make your own decisions.
00:16:07.000Because I trust you as an individual human being to make responsible decisions.
00:16:10.000So I've encouraged you, when you're in a populated area, particularly an area where you believe there are going to be older and vulnerable people, you should wear a mask.
00:16:17.000I know there are a lot of conservatives who are very not on board with masks.
00:16:55.000Okay, so you would imagine that if the data were suggesting that the protests have spread this widely, here's what you would expect.
00:17:01.000You would expect An outbreak at a protest, and then that that outbreak was brought home by a bunch of people, and outbreaks where people brought the virus home, right?
00:17:11.000All the article shows is that people came from different places to the protest and then went back to different places.
00:17:16.000At no point does it show an outbreak in any of those places.
00:17:18.000At no point does this article suggest that there was an outbreak at the protest.
00:17:22.000Instead, all the article says is, cell phone location data suggests that demonstrators at anti-lockdown protests, some of which had been connected with COVID-19 cases, are often traveling hundreds of miles to events, returning to all parts of their states and even crossing into neighboring ones.
00:17:35.000The data provided to The Guardian by the progressive campaign group, the Committee to Protect Medicare, shocker, raises the prospect that protests will play a role in spreading coronavirus epidemics to areas which have so far experienced relatively few infections.
00:17:46.000Okay, so at no point do they actually demonstrate this has happened.
00:17:49.000Instead, they just say people are traveling.
00:17:51.000And that's supposedly enough for us to determine these protests are spreading the disease far and wide.
00:17:55.000Now listen, I may think that it increased the risk of the spread of the disease, but that is not the same thing as may have spread the disease far and wide.
00:18:02.000If you're gonna say that that happened, you actually have to provide some data to support it.
00:18:07.000Also, here's another great example of the media panicking to try and suggest that things are bad where there's no evidence that they're actually bad.
00:18:13.000So Florida has been a real black mark for the media.
00:18:16.000The media really botched Florida because the media treated it as though Ron DeSantis in Florida was a bad, bad, very evil man who wanted to kill grandma, and Florida was going to get absolutely shellacked by COVID-19.
00:18:25.000And it turns out that Florida, with a population basically the same as New York State, has experienced about one-fifteenth, one-twentieth of the deaths of New York State.
00:18:34.000It has not been hit anywhere near the same as New York State.
00:18:39.000So, the new report that the media are trying to push out there is that a researcher, a data chief for Florida, was fired.
00:18:46.000And she claimed, without evidence, without presenting any evidence, that she was fired because the Florida government was trying to cover up bad evidence of COVID-19.
00:19:10.000Except that's not what the article says.
00:19:11.000When you actually read the article, what it says is that this woman claims that maybe she was fired For some data reason, she can't quite discern.
00:19:20.000She warned, she does not know what the new team's intention are for data access, including what data they're now restricting.
00:19:25.000So she doesn't even claim that the data were covered up in the aftermath of her firing.
00:19:29.000In her original note, which she posted on Facebook, she said, as a word of caution, I would not expect the new team to continue the same level of accessibility and transparency I made central to the process during the first month.
00:19:38.000After all, my commitment to both is largely, arguably entirely, the reason I'm no longer managing it.
00:19:43.000Okay, well that's a pretty big allegation.
00:19:52.000So, if she's going to make that accusation, what you would imagine is that the data would then go missing, right?
00:20:18.000And this turns into Ron DeSantis is firing people to cover up the evidence on COVID-19.
00:20:23.000Again, the evidence is not there that that's happening.
00:20:25.000Also, don't you think the media would be all over it, all over it, if Florida were experiencing a massive uptick right now?
00:20:32.000Another example, there's a big story out of Georgia.
00:20:34.000The story out of Georgia is that in a public presentation of a chart, the Georgia government put together a bizarre chart in which they sort of cited random dates in which there was a downturn in cases to demonstrate a clear charted downturn in cases.
00:20:49.000So instead of showing you a trend line drawn through various dates that were consistent, instead they sort of picked and chose dates that made the trend line look clearer.
00:20:58.000So instead of showing every day what the trends line were in terms of cases and diagnoses and deaths, instead they picked the highest dates and then the lowest dates.
00:22:01.000And as for justifying to people your policies, our politicians don't even feel the need to do that, which leaves you with coercion.
00:22:07.000And now, as it turns out, for all the talk about from Lori Lightfoot in Chicago and the governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, when it comes to coercion, The authorities don't actually want to utilize coercion because the disproportionate impact of coercion is going to fall on poor and minority communities apparently, and this is true in New York City.
00:22:28.000And then they will be accused of racism.
00:22:30.000So it turns out that the coercion ain't gonna work anyway.
00:22:34.000The New York Times, which has been stumping for lockdown, lockdown, lockdown, lockdown, when they realize that that means the NYPD is going to be issuing citations largely to black and Hispanic people, then they're like, well, I guess we're not so hot on the lockdown anymore, are we?
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00:24:16.000I'm not going to follow Bill de Blasio's prescriptions because he's blown all of his credibility.
00:24:20.000This is why it was so important from the beginning for our leaders to explain their decision-making process.
00:24:24.000And because they refused to do so, and because they were not doing so in transparent or even factual manner, that led to a widespread distrust of the authorities when it comes to this stuff.
00:24:34.000And so this means radical transparency.
00:24:37.000This means that we need to be very clear about why it is that you are wearing a mask.
00:24:40.000The reason that you are wearing a mask today, folks, is not to protect yourselves.
00:24:44.000The masks, unless it's N95, are not filtering out particles at the rate necessary to prevent you from getting COVID-19.
00:24:50.000Masks are meant to protect other people.
00:24:52.000So, if you're in a place where you think there will be people who are vulnerable, then you should wear a mask.
00:24:57.000If you're in a place where there are no people who are vulnerable, then there's a case that maybe wearing a mask isn't so important.
00:25:03.000Okay, seriously, if you're around a bunch of 17-year-olds, like, we were out the other day on a Sunday, and there were a bunch of teenage girls hanging out together.
00:25:09.000Did I think to myself— They weren't wearing masks.
00:25:11.000Did I think to myself, oh my god, danger to the republic?
00:26:36.000We need to get the police out there and break up the Jews.
00:26:39.000Oh man, we had to break up a wedding the other day because of those Jews.
00:26:42.000And now, as I've said, if you are Jewish, and I have a lot of Jewish listeners, obviously I'm an Orthodox Jew myself, Don't hold big weddings without social distancing.
00:26:51.000It's a great way to spread it to people who are vulnerable.
00:27:08.000Disproportionately, Bill de Blasio is not arresting Jews.
00:27:10.000Disproportionately, Bill de Blasio's NYPD are arresting people who are Black and Hispanic.
00:27:14.000Now, this has led people on the left to suggest this is because the NYPD is racist.
00:27:18.000Is it possible, maybe, that Bill de Blasio is picking on the Jews, but the reality is that people of various groups are not socially distancing at the same rate?
00:27:28.000I know, that would cut against all of the narratives about how disparate healthcare outcomes when it comes to COVID-19 are entirely the result of American racism.
00:27:36.000But is it possible that the disproportionate hit that the Orthodox Jewish community took in terms of COVID-19, and the Orthodox Jewish community did take a disproportionate hit, particularly in New York, in terms of COVID-19.
00:27:46.000I know three separate people, all in the Orthodox community in New York, who died of COVID-19.
00:27:50.000Okay, so the Jewish community did take a disproportionate hit.
00:27:52.000Was that because of the racism and anti-Semitism of the healthcare system in New York?
00:27:56.000Or is it because a lot of Jews got together right around Purim, March 10th, and they hung out together and then they infected each other?
00:28:03.000And is it possible that the same thing is true in minority communities that are being hard hit?
00:28:07.000That in order to actually chart whether racism is to blame for America's healthcare system disparities, We actually have to determine whether people are paying attention to the social distancing or not.
00:28:18.000Because as it turns out, in New York, according to the New York Times, of the 125 people arrested over offenses that law enforcement officials described as related to the coronavirus pandemic, 113 were black or Hispanic.
00:28:52.000Videos of some of the arrests are hard to watch.
00:28:54.000In one posted to Facebook last week, a group of some six police officers are seen tackling a black woman in a subway station as her young child looks on.
00:29:01.000She's got a baby with her, a bystander shouts.
00:29:02.000Police officials told the Daily News the woman had refused to comply when officers directed her to put the mask she was wearing over her nose and mouth.
00:29:09.000Contrast that with photographs across social media showing crowds of sunseekers packed into parks in wealthy, whiter areas of the city, lounging undisturbed as police officers hand out masks.
00:29:18.000So it is obvious the city needs a different approach to enforcing public health measures during the pandemic.
00:29:22.000Mayor Bill de Blasio seems to understand this.
00:29:24.000He's promised to hire 2,300 people to serve as social distancing ambassadors.
00:30:20.000Especially trained civilians could fan out across neighborhoods and parks, helping with pedestrian traffic control and politely encouraging New Yorkers entering parks to protect one another by wearing masks and keeping their distance.
00:30:30.000Police department school safety agents who are not armed could help.
00:30:33.000Such a program could also provide much needed employment for young people.
00:30:36.000So that's the real purpose is we're going to hire a bunch of scolds to go around telling people to socially distance.
00:30:40.000The police department, according to the New York Times, would play only a minimal role in this approach, stepping in to help with crowd control, for example, something it does extremely well.
00:30:47.000Without a significant course correction, the department's role in the pandemic may look more like stop and frisk, the policing tactic that led to the harassment of hundreds of thousands of innocent people, most of them black and Hispanic, while rarely touching white New Yorkers.
00:30:59.000The New York Times was fine when de Blasio was screaming at the Jews.
00:31:02.000But the minute that it turns out that the people who are being arrested are largely black and Hispanic, just like, by the way, most of the criminal arrests in New York City, then all of a sudden it turns into the NYPD is racist and the only way that we can really do this is to recommend the course of action.
00:31:17.000The New York Times' double standard with regard to which groups are worthy of criticism is really something to behold.
00:31:23.000And the same thing is true of Bill de Blasio.
00:31:24.000But it does underscore the basic truth here that libertarians have been speaking for a very long time.
00:31:29.000If you are not willing to enforce a law, do not put the law on the books.
00:31:33.000And if you're going to inform people as to why they ought to pursue certain action on a voluntary basis, you need to be more transparent about how you are making those decisions.
00:31:42.000Otherwise, people have no incentive to do this.
00:31:44.000And again, I cannot think of something more ready for late night TV than a bunch of schoolmarm hall monitors walking around the streets of Crown Heights telling people they need to socially distance.
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00:33:37.000As you are well aware, Americans are now more divided than ever, and they are looking to get more divided.
00:33:41.000Just yesterday, the New York Times reported that Joe Biden wants to completely undermine many of America's institutions.
00:33:46.000We've seen Barack Obama out there suggesting we need fundamental transformative change in the United States.
00:33:51.000Nothing could be more divisive than this in a time of coronavirus pandemic.
00:33:54.000We're seeing serious divisions over issues that should be unifying.
00:33:58.000Take, for example, the fact that the 1619 project by the New York Times about the dark roots of slavery as part of our country's history was actually about how America is rooted in slavery and based on slavery.
00:34:08.000And this has become the rote talking point for large swaths of the Democratic Party.
00:34:12.000This was rewarded with a Pulitzer earlier this month.
00:34:14.000I'd devote a huge section of my book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, that's the name of the book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, to examining its intent as well as its content.
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00:34:32.000Right now in America, there are fundamentally two different visions for the country on the table.
00:34:37.000It finds our unity, what keeps us together in a shared philosophy, culture, and history.
00:34:42.000The other disintegrates our country and sees us all as various interest groups that are basically bashing each other about the skull for control of the government.
00:34:48.000That is an image that the left wants to push.
00:34:51.000And that push is destroying the country from within.
00:34:54.000And this election, this 2020 election is very much about that.
00:34:57.000So oddly enough has the pandemic response, it has become a referendum on how you view the country and whether the country requires fundamental change.
00:35:04.000Every time you see Democrats out there suggesting that COVID has really exposed the deep roots of American injustice.
00:36:04.000Here's what we know about hydroxychloroquine.
00:36:07.000In several studies, hydroxychloroquine alone has not been shown to have any power to cure this COVID-19.
00:36:14.000There was a study that came out from NYU, and it showed that hydroxychloroquine in combination with azithromycin, Azipak, and zinc improved coronavirus patients' chances of being discharged and cut the death risk by almost 50%.
00:36:26.000Researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine looked at 932 coronavirus patients hospitalized between March 2nd and April 5th.
00:36:33.000Half were given a combination of hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and zinc sulfate.
00:37:09.000And I'm not sure any studies have actually been done about that.
00:37:11.000But Trump's doctor, who presumably doesn't want the President of the United States to drop dead of a heart attack on his watch, said that President Trump can take it.
00:37:20.000So I assume Trump isn't going in the back and drinking the fish tank cleaner.
00:37:23.000I assume that the President of the United States is actually following his doctor's advice.
00:37:27.000Now, is it possible the doctor wouldn't have advised this in the first place?
00:37:30.000Is it also possible that Trump went to him and said, listen, I keep hearing this stuff about hydroxychloroquine, and I hear about zinc and azithromycin.
00:37:53.000That seems to me the most likely thing.
00:37:55.000Again, do you really think that Trump's doctors, the doctors for the President of the United States, are like, Mr. President, if you want to take that fish tank cleaner, you just go right ahead and down it.
00:38:11.000Okay, so here was President Trump yesterday saying he was taking hydroxychloroquine, and then the world ends because Dr. Pelosi arrives to talk about it, and Dr. Cuomo arrives to talk about it.
00:38:20.000There are many doctors who say you should not take hydroxychloroquine to fight this thing.
00:38:25.000There's literally no evidence that if you take hydroxychloroquine alone, that that is going to help you in any way.
00:38:30.000Or even if you take hydroxychloroquine with azithromycin, that'll help you in any way.
00:38:33.000There's some evidence from that NYU study, again, I'm studying the study, okay, from NYU School of Medicine, that if you take the 3-pack, right, the Z-pack and the zinc and hydroxychloroquine, the reason this matters is because hydroxychloroquine apparently sort of opens the ability of cells to absorb zinc, which is good for fighting COVID-19.
00:38:51.000If you do that after you have COVID-19, there's some evidence that this is effective in treatment.
00:39:32.000Okay, so everybody's like, you're not a doctor, Mr. President.
00:39:35.000Right, but you're also not his doctor.
00:39:36.000And again, do you really imagine the President of the United States is just downing the fish tank cleaner in the back room without the doctor overseeing it?
00:39:42.000Okay, so Neil Cavuto on Fox, he says, okay, you should not take azithro, you should not take hydroxy because you will die.
00:40:18.000Here is Neil Cavuto, though, informing the American people, don't take it or you're gonna die.
00:40:24.000The VA study, to which the President alluded, wasn't a loaded political one.
00:40:29.000It was a test on patients there, and those who took it, in a vulnerable population, including those with respiratory or other conditions, they died.
00:40:40.000If you are in a risky population here, and you are taking this as a preventative treatment to ward off the virus, Or in a worst case scenario, you are dealing with the virus and you are in this vulnerable population.
00:41:09.000If you take it without the zinc, without the azitromycin, without COVID-19, it could absolutely raise your risk of dying of heart attack, right?
00:41:43.000She put out like a giant statement, we talked about it on the show, about all the weird crap she's doing that she apparently got from like Gwyneth Paltrow's goop or something, where she's like, well, you know, I took some bleach and I poured it in, I took some Clorox, I put it in the bathtub and then I bathed in the Clorox.
00:42:55.000Okay, the best comment, of course, was reserved for Nancy Pelosi, who gets on TV and then tells Anderson Cooper, this is real news right here, that President Trump shouldn't be taking hydroxychloroquine, says Dr. Pelosi, because he's morbidly obese.
00:43:06.000Now, let me just ask a question in the aftermath of this.
00:43:10.000When is it now okay to fat sham people?
00:43:12.000Because I was informed this is very bad.
00:43:13.000Here's Nancy Pelosi saying the president, he's just so fat.
00:43:16.000He's super fat, fat, fatty, fat, McFat, fat.
00:43:23.000As far as the president is concerned, he's our president and I would rather he not be taking something that has not been approved by the scientists, especially in his age group and in his, shall we say, weight group.
00:44:29.000Because I've been informed reliably by the media that it's very important we point out if politicians are morbidly obese because that does make a difference in terms of their overall health quota.
00:44:38.000So, do we get to, like, look at the weight of Stacey Abrams now or no?
00:44:41.000Do we get to, like, again, I don't know, Chris Christie, like, are we allowed to say this sort of stuff or it only applies to Republicans?
00:44:46.000You can say that Chris Christie's a fatty McFatFat.
00:44:49.000Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, that that dude needs to be lowered into the Illinois Statehouse by crane, that apparently is very, very bad.
00:45:09.000But you are not allowed to say that anybody else is fat ever, especially celebrities, right?
00:45:15.000If a celebrity, female particularly, is plump.
00:45:19.000If a celebrity female is morbidly obese, like in bad health morbidly obese, you cannot point that out because that's body shaming.
00:45:25.000So much so that if somebody who is slightly overweight or somewhat overweight but not morbidly obese, like Adele, loses a bunch of weight, then we have to yell at her about losing the weight.
00:45:33.000We have to talk about how it's very bad.
00:45:46.000I gotta tell you, the person who's going to enjoy this most of all is Trump.
00:45:50.000Because now Trump just gets to talk about Nancy Pelosi's immovable face for the last 25 years.
00:45:54.000Like Trump, he never had any problem going there in the first place, but now the media have no leg to stand on after shouting, Slay Queen at the Moon, because Nancy Pelosi was like, he's morbidly obese.
00:46:04.000Now the president of the United States is going to be like, yeah, well, her face hasn't moved in 25 years.
00:47:34.000There's an entire op-ed in the New York Times yesterday suggesting that the slogan Believe All Women was made up by the right wing in order to trap the Democrats.
00:47:42.000From now on, the Democrats just get to claim that every stupid thing they ever say is made up by Republicans, which is super extraordinarily fun.
00:47:51.000Apparently, from each according to his ability to each according to his needs is a right-wing slogan because it's failed every time it's tried.
00:47:56.000So it must be that the right has somehow boxed everybody in.
00:47:59.000Alrighty, time for some things that I hate.
00:48:01.000The media are desperate, desperate to defend President Obama to every extent possible.
00:48:12.000And this is why if you say a bad word about President Obama, then you will be covered as though you have committed a grave, brutal sin.
00:48:19.000My friend Meghan McCain yesterday on The View said something perfectly obvious about Barack Obama.
00:48:25.000And that is that Barack Obama is not innocent in the culture wars.
00:48:28.000Barack Obama, in fact, was a progenitor of the culture wars and an eager participant in the culture wars and continues to be an eager participant in the culture wars.
00:48:37.000It was Barack Obama who suggested that Trayvon Martin could have been his son in the middle of a contentious legal dispute over a disputed shooting in Florida.
00:48:44.000It was Barack Obama who suggested the Cambridge police acted stupidly.
00:48:47.000It was Barack Obama who suggested that the Michael Brown verdict in St.
00:48:51.000Louis In Ferguson, Missouri, was unjustified.
00:48:54.000It was Barack Obama who suggested that big businesses ought to obey him because the pitchforks were outside.
00:49:00.000It was Barack Obama who was ripping into Fox News at every available opportunity.
00:49:04.000It was Barack Obama who was shining a rainbow flag on the White House after the Supreme Court baselessly decided the Constitution of the United States mandates gay marriage.
00:49:11.000Barack Obama was an eager participant in the culture war.
00:49:13.000He never saw a TV show he didn't want to be a part of.
00:49:17.000He never saw a sports event he couldn't Parachute into and try and grab the attention.
00:49:22.000Okay, so Meghan McCain points this out and then she basically says and then Trump has exacerbated those cultural conflicts But Obama started them and the media went nuts over this because Obama must be protected at all costs Obviously, everyone on the left has basically appointed President Obama as nothing short of a saint.
00:49:37.000And obviously, I feel different, as most Republicans and conservatives do.
00:49:40.000I will say, the culture war that I believe is real and is raging in this country, I believe was ushered in with his administration and then exacerbated in the Trump administration.
00:49:50.000And if the election were held today, I do believe Trump would be re-elected.
00:49:54.000And I think at a certain point, we have to start talking to each other in the middle.
00:50:12.000If you ever say Obama in a bad context, it's because you're very, very evil and also racist.
00:50:17.000And Meghan McCain is clearly evil and also racist for saying a perfectly obvious thing.
00:50:21.000So the media's latest iteration of this stupidity.
00:50:23.000is the unwillingness to cover so-called Obamagate.
00:50:27.000So again, Obamagate is about the idea.
00:50:29.000The basic theory of Obamagate is very simple, and that is that the Obama administration had convinced itself that Trump and Russia were in collusion, and that is the reason that President Trump won the election, and then they basically loosed the hounds and allowed them to bend all the rules in the attempt to demonstrate what they thought was a foregone conclusion, which is that Trump and Russia were colluding in order to shift the election, and then that in the aftermath of Trump's election, they were going to undermine America's security by working with the Russians.
00:51:33.000I don't think he violated a bribery law.
00:51:34.000I don't think that he violated an extortion law.
00:51:36.000I don't think that he violated any law.
00:51:38.000I don't think he should have done it anyway.
00:51:39.000Barack Obama did many things during his tenure that were bad but not illegal.
00:51:42.000Obamagate falls under the category of bad but not illegal except for the people who actually violated the law by leaking to the press illegally or by using FISA warrants illegally.
00:51:51.000But the media have decided it's totally not worth covering.
00:51:53.000So imagine an opposite situation in which Donald Trump was firmly convinced that Barack Obama was in the pocket of the Pakistani government.
00:52:30.000But according to the media, if you cover Obamagate, it's only because you're a Trump lackey.
00:52:34.000It's only because you're a Trump lackey.
00:52:36.000Now again, you don't have to buy into the darkest version of Obamagate, which is that Obama knew everything, was directing it like a puppeteer top-down, was telling people explicitly to violate the law and all of this.
00:52:46.000You don't have to believe any of that to believe that bad stuff went on and that it is not good when an outgoing administration is basically loosing the hounds of war on the incoming administration on the basis of skimpy or no evidence.
00:53:17.000This is Bill Barr, the supposed lackey of the Trump administration who only violates the law on behalf of the Trump administration.
00:53:23.000The Durham investigation is trying to get to the bottom of what happened.
00:53:29.000And it will determine whether there were any federal laws broken.
00:53:33.000And if there were, those who broke the laws will be held to account.
00:53:40.000But this cannot be, and it will not be, a tit-for-tat exercise.
00:53:45.000As to President Obama and Vice President Biden, whatever their level of involvement, based on the information I have today, I don't expect Mr. Durham's work will lead to a criminal investigation of either man.
00:54:03.000Okay, so that is a perfectly reasonable thing for Barr to say.
00:54:07.000People are being reasonable in how they are pursuing this at the level of the Trump administration.
00:54:11.000But that does not mean that it is not worth looking into when you are talking about several violations of law at a minimum.
00:54:16.000Molly Hemingway has a good piece on this over at The Federalist, talking about the media failing to report on all of this.
00:54:23.000She says, many of our supposedly smart media elites are dinosaurs who are completely unaware of the asteroid headed right to them.
00:54:28.000Instead, they are doing their part in an all hands on deck effort to continue pushing out Democratic talking points that got them into this mess.
00:54:34.000This week, that meant they regurgitated the Democratic claim that the Obama administration spying and leaking was normal and that to be concerned about it is nothing more than a distraction.
00:54:42.000Susan Glasser at The New Yorker suggested that acknowledging the Obama administration's recorded attempts to undermine a duly elected administration through spying and leaking was a form of political agitprop.
00:54:52.000Her husband Peter Baker at the New York Times took the same line, but went with the authoritative gaslighting approach, in which he suggested it was odd that Trump would want to correct the false narrative that he was a traitor to his country, and replace it with the truth that he was a victim of a coordinated attack to spy on his campaign, criminally leak against him, and force him out of office.
00:55:07.000Jake Tapper reported for duty to spread this partisan talking point as well.
00:55:11.000She says, the big problem with covering the story honestly is that it might help Trump and Republicans, but they should look to left-wing journalists who are able to put aside their genuine dislike of the orange bad man and his co-partisans and retain their journalistic integrity.
00:55:22.000Among the few journalists on the right who covered these issues well, there are many who weren't particularly fond of Trump.
00:55:28.000She says, look, the reality is that we know that people inside the Obama administration We're firmly convinced that they were going to get Trump here and that they then basically bent the rules in order to go after Trump.
00:55:53.000We never should have covered Hillary's emails.
00:55:55.000Again, it seems worth covering when the former Secretary of State set up her own private server so that all of her mail, including government mail, was going through her server and there would be no record of it and she could wipe it clean.
00:56:09.000In fact, it is in fact a violation of law.
00:56:11.000James Comey lied when he rewrote the law in order to avoid the implication that Hillary Clinton had violated the law.
00:56:17.000If he didn't want to prosecute her, what he should have said is, listen, she did violate the law.
00:56:21.000We don't prosecute everybody who violates the law because the reality is that common practice sometimes means that we sort of look the other way.
00:56:28.000But he wasn't going to be that honest.
00:56:30.000In fact, James Comey came out and he basically made the case for why Hillary should be prosecuted and then he was like, well, we're not going to prosecute her.
00:56:35.000But the media are very angry at themselves because by covering the emails, they made that top line issue.
00:56:40.000There was an entire study that came out yesterday showing sort of how many people associated various words with the various campaigns.
00:56:46.000And the number one word associated with Hillary Clinton in 2016 was emails.
00:57:00.000She says it's becoming clear that journalists never reckoned with the mistakes of the 2016 campaign coverage.
00:57:04.000We know this because they seem poised to repeat them.
00:57:07.000As you may recall, the news media, from Fox News to the New York Times and plenty of others across the political spectrum, managed to make the relative molehill of Hillary Clinton's dicey email practices into a daily obsession roughly equal to the mountain of Donald Trump's financial and personal transgressions.
00:57:20.000Hey, let me just note, Donald Trump was not a member of government.
00:57:53.000This vaporous, apparently made-up offense, according to Trump, is the political crime of the century.
00:57:57.000And heck, last century too, because he claims it makes the 1970s Watergate scandal look like child's play.
00:58:03.000As best as he even attempted to spell out, it supposedly involves a deep state conspiracy by the former president and his allies to undermine Trump by being informed of the identity of private citizens having covert and legally questionable discussions with the Russian ambassador, a citizen who turned out to be Trump's national security adviser-designate, Michael Flynn.
00:58:18.000Despite the fact that this practice is legal and normal, the non-scandal around it is getting plenty of attention.
00:58:22.000Okay, so, a couple things can be true.
00:58:24.000One, unmasking is legal, and it is normal.
00:58:27.000Unmasking by half the administration of an incoming national security advisor, and then the leaking of that advisor's name to the media is not normal, and the leaking is not illegal.
00:58:37.000On Chris Wallace's Sunday morning interview show, The bottom of the screen, Kyron read, is Obamagate, an effective campaign strategy.
00:58:44.000Trump water carrier, Karl Rove, was allowed to opine.
00:58:46.000There were some very serious questions that need to be answered.
00:58:49.000Juan Williams tried to pour water on this nonsense.
00:58:51.000There's no Obamagate, he said bluntly, declaring Trump's blather a smoke screen to distract from his disastrous handling of coronavirus.
00:58:57.000Still, the conversation about the non-scandal went on for almost seven minutes on this popular show at the nation's most watched cable network.
00:59:04.000At CBS News, Catherine Herridge has been heavily hyping her updates on the non-story scoop she declared on Twitter to herald her story that acting DNI Richard Grenell had notified Congress about the Great Unmasking.
00:59:14.000CBS's hiring of Herridge, says Margaret Sullivan, from Fox News last year was sharply criticized by liberals who recalled her persistent reporting on the Clinton email debacle and on debunked allegations that the former Secretary of State personally approved the diminishment of security at the Benghazi compound in Libya before the 2012 attack there.
00:59:31.000So let's just say, Obamagate's getting plenty of attention across the media spectrum.
00:59:34.000This led Sean Illing of Vox, who by the way, I like Sean.
00:59:38.000He said, watching the media pounce on this story like greyhounds chasing mechanical rabbits has been painful, but also deeply familiar.
00:59:43.000And it's so horribly familiar because we have failed to learn very much, if anything, about how much attention to give exaggerated pseudo scandals Hilarious that the media that spent three years saying that undoubtedly Trump would be uncovered as a Russian cat's paw is now saying it's a pseudo-scandal to investigate whether or not members of the Obama administration were bending and breaking the rules in order to follow their hearts and the suggestion that Donald Trump was in fact a Russian cat's paw.
01:00:13.000And when you suggest openly that you are not going to cover a story because you do not like the political implications of that story, when you suggest that retrospectively Hillary Clinton's emails were a big nothing burger, when they in fact were not a nothing burger, All that shows is that you're upset that you were honest about Hillary Clinton, and so now you plan on being dishonest in the future.
01:01:28.000As pro-lockdown leftists get shriller in their calls to lock everyone at home from coast to coast, everyone from cops to judges to ordinary people are wising up to the simplest way to stop them.
01:01:39.000Just weeks after promising his own lockdown order on saving just one life, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is promising that lots of grannies are going to die.
01:01:47.000What a difference two months and a lot of failed policies makes.
01:01:51.000And the gaslighting Me Too movement is now pretending they never told us to believe all women.
01:01:55.000Do they think that we don't have Google?