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00:02:04.000I don't see any reason why it would be.
00:02:06.000But I really do want to see the server.
00:02:12.000I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful.
00:02:24.000Okay, so Trump was not particularly unclear about his perspective on this.
00:02:30.000He believes that the Russians didn't actually hack, or at least if they did hack, then he's not going to grant that credibility to the intelligence services.
00:02:37.000He takes Putin and the intelligence services.
00:02:42.000Well, yesterday, in what was a necessary move, he tried to walk this back.
00:02:46.000But as is typical with the president, when he tries to walk something back, he then walks back the walk back.
00:02:51.000He started off by saying that he does have full faith in the American intelligence agencies, right?
00:02:57.000This is something he should be saying, because the reality is there is unanimity among the intelligence agencies that Russia was involved in attempting to hack the DCC, as well as the DNC, as well as the Hillary Clinton campaign.
00:03:07.000So here's President Trump yesterday suggesting that he has full faith and support with America's intelligence agencies, and then you'll hear at the very end of his attempted walk back, he walks back to walk back.
00:03:18.000Let me begin by saying that, once again, in full faith and support for America's intelligence agencies, I have a full faith in our intelligence agencies.
00:03:31.000Whoops, they just turned off the light.
00:03:32.000That must be the intelligence agencies.
00:03:54.000And I have felt very strongly that while Russia's actions had no impact at all on the outcome of the election,
00:04:03.000Let me be totally clear in saying that, and I've said this many times, I accept our intelligent community's conclusion that Russia's meddling in the 2016 election took place.
00:05:09.000Of course, his walk back isn't genuine, but it's something that's necessary.
00:05:12.000Now, the reason that the walk back is necessary, obviously, is because when you keep signaling to Russia that you are not going to take seriously their election meddling, then that gives them the impetus to meddle more.
00:05:21.000It makes them think they can get away with it.
00:05:23.000And it also means that they think maybe they can get aggressive on other fronts.
00:05:26.000We'll talk about that in a little while.
00:05:27.000Well, the president's explanation for why he was walking this back was even less convincing than that unconvincing walk back itself.
00:05:37.000We played you the clip of what he actually had to say, and the direct quote was, as you recall, the direct quote was, I have President Putin, he said it's not Russia.
00:05:46.000I will say this, I don't see any reason why it would be.
00:05:49.000And here is President Trump attempting to walk that back in the most awkward possible fashion.
00:05:54.000A lot of people have come out strongly on that.
00:05:56.000I thought that I made myself very clear by having just reviewed the transcript.
00:06:02.000Now, I have to say, I came back and I said, what is going on?
00:06:22.000I thought it would be obvious, but I would like to clarify just in case it wasn't.
00:06:27.000In a key sentence in my remarks, I said the word would instead of wouldn't.
00:06:33.000The sentence should have been, I don't see any reason why I wouldn't or why it wouldn't be Russia.
00:06:42.000Just to repeat it, I said the word would instead of wouldn't, and the sentence should have been, and I thought it would be maybe a little bit unclear on the transcript or unclear on the actual video, the sentence should have been, I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be Russia.
00:07:22.000My favorite part of that is where he goes on for like five minutes in the original Monday Presser saying that Russia did—he believes Vladimir Putin, and he explains in fulsome detail why he doesn't trust our intelligence services.
00:07:33.000And then he says, well, I thought I was pretty clear about this, that I trust the intelligence services and I don't trust Vladimir Putin.
00:07:39.000I thought I was pretty clear about that, guys.
00:07:41.000I mean, I thought I made myself clear by having just reviewed the transcript.
00:07:44.000You know, I got the transcript, I reviewed it, and then maybe there was a need for some clarification.
00:07:48.000I meant the exact opposite of what I said the other day, but you guys should have gotten that.
00:07:51.000I mean, come on, how could you not get that?
00:07:53.000Like people going crazy over the thing I said as opposed to the thing that I didn't say?
00:08:29.000Pardon me for being slightly confused, Mr. President, but I feel like that's more on you than on me at this point.
00:08:35.000But listen, I'm glad that he's quasi-walking this back.
00:08:38.000Now, here is the part that actually matters from what he said, and this is the part where he requires a fulsome commitment from the President.
00:08:43.000All this stuff right now is just, the President said something dumb, then he tried to walk it back, then he half-walked back the walk back, and as we'll see, he
00:08:49.000Almost completely walked back the walk back.
00:08:51.000It's a mishmash because that's what President Trump does.
00:08:53.000He'll say he did the exact same thing with Charlottesville.
00:08:55.000He said something dumb about Charlottesville.
00:08:56.000And then he had a walk back on Monday in which he said, I should never have said that.
00:10:11.000As you know, President Obama was given information just prior to the election.
00:10:17.000Last election, 2016, and they decided not to do anything about it.
00:10:22.000The reason they decided that was pretty obvious to all.
00:10:27.000They thought Hillary Clinton was going to win the election.
00:10:30.000And they didn't think it was a big deal.
00:10:32.000When I won the election, they thought it was a very big deal.
00:10:35.000And all of a sudden they went into action, but it was a little bit late.
00:10:38.000So he was given that in sharp contrast to the way it should be.
00:10:44.000And President Obama, along with Brennan and Clapper and the whole group that you see on television now, probably getting paid a lot of money by your networks.
00:10:53.000They knew about Russia's attempt to interfere in the election in September.
00:11:12.000That if the Obama administration had come out fulsomely and said Russia's attempting to interfere in our election by attempting to swing votes behind Trump, Trump and everyone in the media would have suggested that the Obama administration was trying to rig the election results by letting all that information slip.
00:11:25.000So it is true that Obama should have done more.
00:11:27.000There's no question Obama should have done more.
00:11:29.000The question now is, will Trump do more?
00:11:31.000And that really is a major question, as we'll talk about in just a second.
00:11:35.000You know, Trump needs to be pretty clear about what he means to do, rather than this kind of wishy-washy, walking back the walkbacks.
00:11:42.000I mean, he's basically doing the Michael Jackson moonwalk all over his own position, and it's very confusing.
00:11:47.000It's very confusing from any objective point of view.
00:11:49.000We'll talk a little bit more about that when we get to his interview on Tucker Carlson in just a second.
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00:13:07.000The President of the United States completed the walkback of his walkback on Twitter this morning when he decided that after the presser, it was necessary for him to clarify that he didn't mean what he said in the presser.
00:13:38.000And so there are people who are misinterpreting this tweet to suggest that he was saying people in the intelligence community loves his press conference.
00:13:44.000What he means is that smart people loved his press conference in Helsinki.
00:13:47.000And when he means smart people, what he means is people who like President Trump and agree with him on everything.
00:13:51.000And then when he says that we got along well and that bothered many haters, no, I'd like for the president to get along well with Putin without actually compromising our position vis-a-vis Putin.
00:13:59.000I don't really care whether he gets along with Putin, to be frank with you.
00:16:21.000If you want to see Trump be a successful president, you can't have him making these kind of overtures toward Russian aggression.
00:16:27.000And that's basically what he did last night.
00:16:28.000So, Tucker went on last night and he started off his show by saying that this was basically a hostage tape, that Trump's walk back was a hostage tape.
00:16:35.000In the first place, he wishes that Trump had stuck with his original position, which is that the intelligence community is wrong and Vladimir Putin is right.
00:16:40.000I don't know why Tucker would say this.
00:16:42.000It really doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
00:16:44.000Does he really believe that all 17 American intelligence agencies who all agree that Russia attempted to hack the DCCC, DNC, and Hillary Clinton campaign, all of them are lying?
00:16:55.000But Vladimir Putin, who literally murders dissidents in his own country and interferes with elections all over the world, that guy is not lying to us.
00:17:02.000Here is Tucker saying that Trump was basically taken hostage by, I guess, the quote-unquote Republican establishment, another term that bothers me deeply.
00:17:10.000If you want to say establishment, you have to define establishment.
00:17:32.000Okay, so the idea that this is a hostage tape, it's true that Trump didn't want to walk it back, but I'm not sure why him walking back a bad idea is a bad idea.
00:17:42.000And then Tucker went on to suggest that Trump bowed to the intelligence community, and he said the intelligence community is trying to destroy democracy.
00:17:47.000Now, I have a lot of questions about the intel community.
00:17:50.000I have a lot of questions about Peter Strzok.
00:17:51.000I have a lot of questions about Lisa Page.
00:17:53.000I have a lot of questions about James Comey.
00:17:54.000Those questions have not been answered yet.
00:17:56.000We don't have the full Inspector General report on the Russian collusion investigation.
00:18:01.000But if the suggestion is that anything the intel community does is trying to destroy democracy, because some members of the intel community are bad, so in other words, you don't like the Russian collusion probe, and therefore the Russian interference probe is bad, this is a logical fallacy.
00:18:18.000The intelligence community is fully capable of deriving the fact that the Russians were attempting to hack into the DCCC, the DNC, and the Hillary Clinton campaign without you having to accept the legitimacy of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
00:18:30.000It's not like you either accept all or none.
00:18:32.000You can say what they are doing, trying to track down all of the bad action by the Russians in the election cycle,
00:18:45.000But Tucker apparently wants to wrap the whole thing up in a ball and then suggest that Trump bowed to the intel community and the intel community is trying to destroy democracy, as opposed to whom?
00:18:52.000Vladimir Putin, who hates democracy and has been in power since 2000?
00:18:56.000He's been in power for nearly 20 years as a dictator in Russia?
00:18:59.000Well, as the rage storm swirled, the president bowed to the inevitable, genuflecting before U.S.
00:19:04.000intelligence agencies whose judgment must never be questioned, and recited the now-obligatory oath of loyalty to the spy bureaucrats now in charge of our country.
00:19:13.000This is about democracy, whether or not voters rule their country.
00:19:18.000It turns out the very people telling you they are saving our democracy are working overtime to destroy it and scolding you as they do.
00:19:35.000There are lots of people in the intel community working overtime to prevent Russian interference in our elections and many other bad things.
00:19:42.000And to watch this sort of blanket condemnation of the intel community, it's this sort of feel that is going to allow Putin, I think, to feel like he can interfere in our elections without a lot of blowback.
00:19:51.000Because if we think our enemies are the intel community, then I guess that he's not our enemy anymore.
00:19:56.000After all, he's the one being targeted unfairly by our intel community, apparently.
00:20:01.000Tucker's support of President Trump on his original Helsinki presser, I think is deeply counterproductive for President Trump.
00:20:09.000But I think his perspective on this is skewed by the fact that Tucker tends toward isolationism on foreign policy.
00:20:14.000We're going to discuss President Trump and isolationism and NATO in just a second because he got into it with Tucker on his show last night.
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00:21:48.000Okay, so, President Trump is on with Tucker Carlson last night, and it wasn't just Tucker mouthing, I think, what were basically platitudes about the intel community trying to destroy democracy, and how Trump was now being held hostage by the intel community.
00:22:02.000Egged on by Tucker Carlson, Trump made some, I think, very ill-advised comments about NATO.
00:22:06.000Now, there are a lot of people who, last week, were worried about Trump and NATO.
00:22:08.000And I said, there's not really a reason to worry that much about Trump and NATO, because Trump's going to say a lot of stuff, right?
00:22:13.000My theory about Trump has been pretty consistent here, which is Trump says a lot of stuff, most people ignore most of that stuff, and then policy sort of gets done in the background.
00:22:21.000There's one area where this is not true, and that is if the President of the United States signals weakness to foreign adversaries, and those foreign adversaries take those signals seriously and then get aggressive.
00:22:30.000We saw this happen with Crimea and Barack Obama.
00:22:33.000We saw this happen with Georgia and George W. Bush.
00:22:35.000We saw this happen with Saddam Hussein and George H.W.
00:22:38.000When an administration signals they're not going to do anything about aggression by a foreign adversary, foreign adversaries, foreign dictators, they start to get aggressive.
00:22:46.000This is not unique to any administration.
00:22:51.000Usually what people say is that every new president is pushed with some sort of foreign crisis in the first couple of years.
00:22:56.000Trump has avoided that so far, but he is almost egging it on in some of these comments about NATO because, let's face this, NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which was put in place after World War II in order to check against Soviet aggression, that has been the key keeper of peace in the region for the last 70-odd years.
00:23:14.000For the last 73 years, that's been the key keeper of peace in the region.
00:23:17.000Remember, Europe was one of the most war-torn places on planet Earth for literally centuries.
00:23:31.000There were a bunch of different wars that were happening on the European continent in this time.
00:23:35.000Since NATO, there have been zero major wars on the European continent, the only exception being Yugoslavia, where NATO actually took an active role in bombing.
00:23:42.000So the idea that NATO has been some sort of net negative for the United States or for world peace is just foolish.
00:23:48.000But here's what President Trump had to say about NATO.
00:23:51.000And this is actually, this is troubling stuff because if you're Vladimir Putin, you're sitting back and you're hearing Trump say this, you might be saying to yourself, hey, maybe I ought to get aggressive.
00:23:58.000Here's what Trump had to say to Tucker Carlson.
00:24:01.000NATO was created chiefly to prevent the Russians from invading Western Europe.
00:24:05.000I think you don't believe Western Europe's at risk of being invaded by Russia right now.
00:24:09.000So what is the purpose of NATO right now?
00:24:24.000East Germany was a part of Soviet Russia.
00:24:26.000Just because the Soviet Union collapsed doesn't mean that we should allow Poland and Lithuania and Latvia and Estonia and Albania and all these countries on the border of Russia to suddenly become Soviet client states again, Putin client states again.
00:26:15.000Remember, I just got here a little over a year and a half ago and I took over the conversation three or four days ago and I said, you have to pay, you have to pay.
00:26:35.000Now, I heard Tucker Carlson say the same thing to Max Boutin in an interview about a year ago, and I thought that it was really an asinine point, this idea, why should my son die for Montenegro?
00:26:43.000Well, why should your son die for Poland?
00:26:50.000I mean, the whole point of having a military is that you are to defend your allies.
00:26:54.000No one is calling on Tucker Carlson's son to die and nobody is calling on American soldiers to die.
00:26:58.000Every single foreign policy decision has to be made on the basis of whether we think that it is positive for the United States to intervene or whether it is negative.
00:27:04.000But one of the things that prevents us from having to intervene is a perception that we will if we have to.
00:27:11.000Reaganism was about the idea of mutually assured destruction and peace through strength.
00:27:15.000You're not going to cross that trip wire, because if you do, we will mash you.
00:27:18.000You're not going to invade Montenegro, because if you do, we'll kill you.
00:27:21.000And it's this notion that prevents us from actually having to expend soldiers in Montenegro.
00:27:26.000It is when the other side walks over the line that American soldiers die.
00:27:29.000It's in Vietnam, when the United States does not have a credible threat of retaliation, and then we gradually escalate to lots of American soldiers die.
00:27:36.000It's when that happens in Korea that American soldiers die.
00:27:38.000It's when that happens in the Gulf War that American soldiers die.
00:27:41.000It does not happen when there's a perception on the other side that if you cross us we will break you, that we will absolutely shatter you.
00:27:47.000When that is the perception, then Vladimir Putin has no interest in crossing those borders.
00:27:52.000Beyond that, Trump's suggestion that Montenegro is aggressive with Russia is Russian propaganda.
00:27:59.000Montenegro is a tiny little country that has no aggressive instincts vis-a-vis Russia.
00:28:02.000In fact, it was the Russian government that in 2016 tried to assassinate, allegedly, the prime minister of Montenegro and replace him with a Russian proxy.
00:28:10.000So it's Russia that's aggressive toward Montenegro.
00:28:12.000I don't understand what Trump's deal with Montenegro is.
00:28:24.000Okay, NATO Charter has been invoked one time.
00:28:26.000What was that one time it was invoked?
00:28:28.000After we were attacked on September 11th.
00:28:30.000Montenegro currently has troops in Afghanistan because Montenegro came to the common defense of the United States after we were attacked on September 11th.
00:28:37.000So ripping on Montenegro and ripping on NATO is so foolhardy.
00:28:41.000And not only is it foolhardy, it sends a signal to Putin that you might be able to walk in.
00:28:45.000Now, maybe Putin doesn't take that seriously.
00:28:47.000Maybe Putin doesn't move forward with that.
00:28:48.000But if I'm an Eastern European ally, I'm going to have my doubts.
00:28:52.000I'm going to have some serious questions.
00:28:54.000Now, I said the same thing about Barack Obama.
00:28:55.000When Barack Obama pulled missile defense out of Poland, I said, this is a signal to Vladimir Putin he can get aggressive.
00:29:21.000She's helped subvert its welfare state.
00:29:23.000She's done an awful lot of bad in Germany.
00:29:26.000But if I have to choose between Angela Merkel and a murderous dictator like Vladimir Putin who literally went on national television a night ago and said that he kills people, but so what?
00:29:35.000Kennedy was killed in the United States.
00:29:37.000I'm going to choose Angela Merkel every time over Vladimir Putin.
00:29:40.000And people who don't believe that, I think, don't know enough about Vladimir Putin.
00:29:43.000But here was Trump basically demurring on the question.
00:29:45.000I don't want to say who's better and who's not better, but I will say this.
00:29:48.000She's been very badly hurt by immigration.
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00:32:08.000Okay, so a lot of people very bothered about the perception that President Trump was dishonest in his walk back, and then his walk back of the walk back, and then his walk, walk, walk back, right?
00:32:15.000I mean, he walks off in his Barry Bonds.
00:32:21.000However, let's be real about something.
00:32:23.000The same people crying about Donald Trump's dishonesty, the same people crying about Donald Trump's weakness on Russia from the left, are people who cheered Barack Obama's weakness on Russia from the left, who laughed and scoffed when Mitt Romney said that Russia was a geopolitical threat, and then Obama said, well,
00:32:42.000And then Barack Obama had the temerity to give a speech yesterday in South Africa in which he talked about politicians shamelessly lying.
00:32:49.000You want to know why Trump is president?
00:32:50.000He's president because this guy was the president before he was.
00:32:53.000I mean, Donald Trump is a direct response to the the the imbecility of the Obama administration and Barack Obama's own egotistical mode of fibbing, lying and considering himself a great truth teller at the same time.
00:33:07.000We see the utter loss of shame among political leaders where they're caught in a lie and they just double down and they lie some more.
00:33:51.000Who would lie shamelessly to the American public over and over and then go out and lecture about the lack of self-awareness among America's leadership?
00:33:58.000Like, who would say, like, 22 times that he couldn't unilaterally grant amnesty and then grant amnesty and then praise himself for doing so?
00:34:45.000You wonder why the right looked at this guy and they went, you know what, we'll put up any shameless person who is willing to smack the Democrats in the head.
00:34:50.000You wonder why the right went in that direction?
00:34:52.000It's because Barack Obama was this self-satisfied, smug guy who lied to us over and over and over about the Iran deal, and about healthcare, and about the IRS, and about immigration, over and over and over again.
00:35:04.000Now, that wasn't the only thing that Barack Obama said that was dishonest yesterday.
00:35:08.000So he said something that is pretty amazing, actually.
00:35:29.000For eight long years, he promoted exactly the opposite message.
00:35:32.000So here's Barack Obama talking about why identity politics is flawed.
00:35:36.000We're able also to get inside the reality of people
00:35:39.000We're different than us, so we can understand their point of view.
00:35:43.000Maybe we can change their minds, but maybe they'll change ours.
00:35:47.000And you can't do it if you insist that those who aren't like you, because they're white or because they're male, that somehow there's no way they can understand what I'm feeling.
00:36:00.000That somehow they lack standing to speak on certain matters.
00:36:06.000In like every speech, virtually word for word, that's what I say and then people on the left say I'm a racist for saying that because I'm a white male saying that white males can have perspectives on things too and that the basis of a functional republic is the idea we can have conversations with one another.
00:36:18.000And in just a second I'm going to show you how often President Obama lied on this particular issue.
00:36:22.000You wonder why so many Republicans seem not to care all that much about President Trump's flip-flops on various issues and his vagaries and why they take him seriously but not literally?
00:36:32.000Well, it's because Barack Obama fibbed to everybody's face for eight years and the media went along with it and they smooched him repeatedly over it.
00:36:39.000So, for example, here at Barack Obama, you just heard him rip on identity politics.
00:36:43.000Well, here's Barack Obama talking about Hispanics, right?
00:36:46.000He's talking to a Hispanic group, and he says that Hispanics as a group should actually punish other people.
00:36:52.000If Latinos sit out the election, instead of saying, we're going to punish our enemies and we're going to reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us, if they don't see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it's going to be harder.
00:37:06.000But I thought tribal identity politics were bad.
00:37:08.000He just said so, and he was the great emissary of non-tribal identity politics.
00:37:12.000I mean, it's not like Barack Obama ever would have said that, for example, black people should vote as a bloc, and that they should only ally with people who represent quote-unquote black interests.
00:37:19.000It's not like Barack Obama ever said anything like that, like he's about to do in clip 9.
00:37:23.000It's never like he ever said anything in that range.
00:37:26.000We have achieved historic turnout in 2008.
00:37:29.000And 2012, especially in the African American community, I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy if this community lets down its guard and fails to activate itself in this election.
00:37:47.000Go vote and go vote as a black bloc, not as a group of individuals who actually agree with the agenda.
00:37:52.000If black people don't vote, it's an insult to him because obviously Barack Obama is a black president.
00:37:56.000You know, it's not like Barack Obama, after spending years using identity politics, would then turn around and rip identity politics for political gain.
00:38:37.000The same guy who is now saying that we can't have a tribal identity politics in the United States spent his days talking about how the United States was not cured of racism and then suggesting that people who disagreed with him were emissaries of this racist America.
00:38:58.000Overnight, completely erase everything that happened two to three hundred years prior.
00:39:03.000And then his suggestion constantly, politically, was that if you disagreed with him, it's because you were an emissary of the bitter clingers.
00:39:09.000Now this sort of reversal, listen, I'm happy that Obama has reversed himself.
00:39:12.000The real reason Obama has reversed himself on all of this is because he sees that the identity politics coalition that he built is not replicable for other Democratic candidates.
00:39:22.000There are other Democrats like Kamala Harris and Cory Booker who want to use Obama's model.
00:39:26.000They want to cobble together an intersectional coalition of blacks and Hispanics and LGBT people and women and Jews and Asians, and they want to cobble that together and form a majority.
00:39:36.000And Obama's realizing that it doesn't work for anybody except Obama.
00:39:38.000Obama was a grand and glorious politician at getting himself re-elected.
00:39:42.000He was terrible at helping his agenda.
00:39:44.000In the first two years, he pushed forward his agenda, which, by the way, did not include immigration reform, and then
00:39:49.000He basically got nothing done for the subsequent six years, except for promoting himself at the expense of his own party.
00:39:54.000And now he says, hey, guys, maybe we shouldn't have gone in that intersectional politics dynamic direction.
00:39:59.000Well, it's a little late, Mr. President.
00:40:43.000And he talks about the fact that she's a radical and the fact that there's this intersectional politics that's taken over the Democratic Party.
00:41:07.000So I've been reading a great book on sort of the physics of time called The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli, all about why it is that time moves forward, not backward.
00:41:16.000Whether it is true that time actually flows forward or whether time is merely a sort of human perception, that we perceive things wrong.
00:41:23.000And reading the book is really fascinating because
00:41:27.000All of the physics of time suggests that the sort of theistic notion that God can exist outside of time and space, or that God at least exists outside the timeline, if time is actually just a human notion to a certain extent, and there is no actual hard-line timeline, then that lends credence to the idea that existing outside of time is not all that uncredible, actually.
00:41:50.000When you think about it, you and I are not existing in the same moment.
00:41:53.000We don't actually exist in the same moment.
00:41:54.000There's my timeline and there's your timeline.
00:41:56.000By the time you hear my voice, my voice has already stopped resonating in my vocal cords.
00:42:01.000You are living, even the people in this room are living a slight fraction of a millisecond behind me, because even if their perception of me is actually slightly behind what I'm doing right now, is obviously true in the case if we had a person on Mars, there'd be a 15 minute delay between any communications.
00:42:16.000You actually see this with regard to clocks.
00:42:17.000If you fly in a very, very fast airplane around the Earth, and then you measure your clock against a person who stayed on the ground, your clock will actually be slower if you were in the airplane.
00:42:26.000Time moves slower when you move quickly.
00:42:28.000This is Einstein's special theory of relativity.
00:43:09.000James Comey has now emerged to explain that everyone should vote Democrat.
00:43:13.000So, the guy who probably lost Hillary Clinton in the election, hilariously enough, now says everyone should vote Democrat to undo his big boo-boo, which was completely botching both the Hillary Clinton investigation and the Russia investigation.
00:43:24.000Here, Comey tweeted out, This Republican Congress has proven incapable of fulfilling the founder's design that ambition must counteract ambition.
00:43:30.000All who believe in this country's values must vote for Democrats this fall.
00:43:33.000Policy differences don't matter right now.
00:43:44.000Well, history had its eyes on you when you decided not only to botch the original Hillary investigation, but then re-botch it right before the election, and then to stay around for Donald Trump's administration rather than quitting out of pique, supposedly.
00:43:56.000And then you decided not to tell the truth about the investigation publicly, and then Donald Trump fired your ass.
00:44:01.000And now you're saying history has its eyes on us?
00:44:42.000But James Comey suggesting that ambition must counteract ambition and Republicans aren't doing it so now we have to elect Democrats is just, it's so silly that even Brian Fallon, former Hillary Clinton campaigner, he came out and he said basically to Comey, we don't want your help, you're an idiot.
00:45:21.000I cried two times when my daughter was born.
00:45:23.000First, for joy, when after 27 hours of labor, the little feral being we'd made came yelling into the world.
00:45:28.000And the second, for sorrow, holding the Earth's newest human and looking out the window with her at the rows of cars in the hospital parking lot, the strip mall across the street, the box stores and drive-thrus and drainage ditches and asphalt in the waste fields that had once been oak groves.
00:45:40.000A world of extinction and catastrophe, a world in which harmony with nature had long been foreclosed.
00:45:45.000My partner and I had, in our selfishness, doomed our daughter to life on a dystopian planet, and I could see no way
00:45:52.000Okay, what I like about this particular paragraph is it doesn't say, I looked around the hospital room and I saw the IV that was connected to the person birthing my child, and I looked around and I saw the doctors and the nurses who had modern medical equipment, and I looked around and I saw the antiseptic room in which we were sitting that did not have germs that could infect this person or my baby so that my baby wouldn't die of a disease before the baby turned eight days old.
00:46:19.000If you were living in the middle of the forest right now, the chances that the woman who birthed your child and the child would die would be a lot higher than you sitting in a beautiful antiseptic hospital connected to an electrical grid created by all of the environmental catastrophe that you think happened.
00:46:31.000And were you writing this on a laptop?
00:46:35.000So, the whole thing is just inane, but he continues, like, this idea that we're living in this dystopian future, where it's Logan's run, the environment has been so overrun, it's soil and grain that we're going to have to eat people?
00:46:45.000We're going to put down Edward G. Robinson and turn them into potato chips?
00:48:00.000I mean, we did wipe out one third of the species with the Black Plague, and then we also had the risk of nuclear war, as well as two world wars that killed literally tens of millions of people, also the scourge of communism that wiped a hundred million people off the planet.
00:48:11.000Yeah, it's a little overstated to say that if the temperature changes by 7 degrees Fahrenheit over the next century, that that's the worst challenge we've ever faced, I think.
00:48:18.000Because anyone who pays much attention to politics can assume we're almost certainly going to botch it.
00:48:22.000To stop emitting waste carbon completely within the next 5 or 10 years, we would need to radically reorient all human economic and social production, a task that's scarcely imaginable, much less feasible.
00:48:31.000It would demand centralized control of key economic sectors, enormous state investment in carbon capture and sequestration, and global coordination on a scale never before seen.
00:48:40.000Right, because we're not actually going to stop carbon emissions completely, because number one, we still have questions about the sensitivity of the climate to carbon.
00:48:48.000I do believe that carbon emissions affect climate change, but there are still questions as to how much that is, and what are the outliers?
00:48:56.000What's the possibility that it's small?
00:48:58.000And also, the climate's been changing routinely over the past several billion years on this planet, and so there's quite the possibility that people just move.
00:49:05.000There are water levels that rise and there are water levels that fall.
00:49:07.000This is not to make light of the impacts of climate change.
00:49:10.000It is to say we should have a reasonable expectation of what exactly is going to happen, as opposed to this day after tomorrow, there's going to be a giant tsunami that washes over the Statue of Liberty and freezes it with Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal underground.
00:49:21.000And then he continues, barring a miracle, the next 20 years are going to see increasingly chaotic systemic transformation in global climate patterns.
00:49:28.000Unpredictable biological adaptation, so you're going to turn into a fish.
00:49:31.000And a wild spectrum of human political and economic responses, including scapegoating and war.
00:49:38.000War is literally at an all-time low in human existence right now.
00:49:42.000And if you think that that's going to increase radically because the temperature changes three degrees Fahrenheit over the next 20 years or a degree and a half or two degrees, I would be surprised.
00:49:50.000This is just like the doom and gloom predictions that Paul Ehrlich was making in the 1970s with the population bomb where billions were going to die of starvation.
00:49:57.000And then he, this is the best part, he says, some people might say the mistake was having a child in the first place.
00:50:02.000As Maggie Astor reported, more and more people are deciding not to have children because of climate change.
00:50:06.000This concern, conscious or unconscious, is no doubt contributing to the United States' record low birth rate.
00:50:30.000birth rate has gone down is because of the availability of contraception, the fact that it costs a lot of money to raise a child, and the decline of marriage.
00:50:36.000Those are the real reasons that the number of children being born has dropped dramatically.
00:50:40.000It's happened in every industrialized society, including the United States.
00:50:46.000He says, Well, I don't know why you'd be that interested in the persistence of human culture through time, generally, considering that you really, really like those oak trees.
00:51:08.000There's a whole group of people called deep greens who think that if human beings ceased to exist, the world would be better off because then the squirrels could play and live with the unicorns freely in the forests of Albania.
00:51:19.000This whole thing is so self-involved and so ridiculous.
00:51:32.000Reading to her from Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear, a book I've read to my daughter, I can't help marveling at the disconnect between the animal life pictured in that book and the mass extinction happening right now across the planet.
00:51:41.000By the way, the polar bear population is not in danger of mass extinction.
00:51:44.000I believe it's increased, actually, over the last 10 years, if I'm not mistaken.
00:51:47.000When I sing along with Elizabeth Mitchell's version of Froggy Went to Courtin', I can't help feeling like I'm betraying my daughter by filling her brain with fantastic images of a magical non-human world when the actual non-human world has been exploited and despoiled
00:51:59.000How can I read her Winnie the Pooh or the Wind in the Willows when I know the pastoral harmony they evoke is lost to us forever and has been for decades?
00:52:04.000There are more trees in the United States now than there were 50 years ago.
00:52:09.000And by the way, Winnie the Pooh and Wind in the Willows were written by people who had just experienced World War I, which was a hell of a lot worse than any of the environmental degradation that you're talking about.
00:52:19.000Literally, Winnie the Pooh was written by A. A. Milne, who had just returned from World War I, where he had watched his friends get gassed.
00:52:46.000Teach her how to care, how to be kind, how to live within the limits of nature's grace.
00:52:49.000I can teach her to be tough but resilient, adaptable and prudent because she's going to have to struggle for what she needs.
00:52:53.000But I also need her to teach to fight for what's right because none of us is in this alone.
00:52:57.000I need to teach her that all things die, even her and me and her mother and the world we know, but that coming to terms with this difficult truth is the beginning of wisdom.
00:53:04.000So yeah, tell your three-year-old that you're gonna die.
00:53:08.000And that you're gonna live in a dystopian hellscape where Viggo Mortensen roams around with a cart, right, and then ends up dying at the end of the movie.
00:53:32.000This one says, Basically, his son tried to depose him, King David, and he got in a big war with his son, and his son was basically chasing him around with half the generals.
00:53:41.000Oh Lord, how many have my adversaries become?
00:54:40.000When we realize that the Lord supports us, when we realize that God supports us, that you don't get a civilization this great without something designing it, then we awake and we realize just how much we have been blessed and why it is incumbent upon His people to bless Him forever.
00:54:53.000Okay, we'll be back here tomorrow with all the latest.