Joe Biden has been accused of using a pseudonymous e-mail address to communicate with his son, Hunter Biden, about a phone call he had with the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko. The House Oversight Committee is now asking for all records and emails related to this alleged alias address to be released by the National Archives and Records Administration. Joe Biden has long been a deeply corrupt human being, and his corruption goes all the way back to his first Senate campaign, when people related to the Biden campaign worked with members of the union to prevent the publication of a newspaper that opposed his opponent. And then, from then on, there s been an unbroken series of scandals involving Joe Biden and family members, and money from family members who should not have been lending the money because they knew that Joe Biden was the senator from Delaware, to his sons receiving jobs they certainly shouldn t have had. How does a man who earned $200,000 a year in a career in the Senate end up with $15 million mansions? How does that happen? How's that happen, and why does he have all that money flowing all over the earth? How do all of that money flow to him? And how does he do it? How does he keep it all flowing? How's he keep his name clear and clear? And how much money does he really have to pay for his mansions, and how much does he actually have to give it to his brother, James J. Biden Jr. and his wife, Jill Biden, to help him pay for them to live the life he's dream of becoming the most derelict human being on the planet? ? How does this happen, you ask the question? What does that even mean, you might ask? This is a question that needs to be answered, and the answer to the question: What does Joe Biden have to do with his name? Joe Biden is a thief, a crook? and a thief? Does he have a lot of money, doesn t he have enough money to pay taxes on his mans mans or does he own mans mansions with his own mansions in the rest of his name and he does it all for his name in the same way that his brother does not pay taxes? or is he a crootin ? Is he a thief or a cro crooper, or is it a crooper ? And does he run around with his brother?
00:00:00.000So late yesterday afternoon, the House Oversight Committee released a bombshell letter to the Archivist of the United States, the National Archives and Records Administration, asking for all records and emails related to a particular email address.
00:00:14.000This is not the official email address that Joe Biden used when he was Vice President of the United States.
00:00:19.000Instead, this is a secret email address that he allegedly used when he was Vice President of the United States.
00:00:23.000Now, we have known about a series of names that were found in Hunter Biden's quote-unquote laptop from hell since 2021.
00:00:31.000Those names included one called Robert L. Peters.
00:00:36.000Robert L. Peters, it turns out, is a pseudonym the committee has now identified as then-Vice President Biden.
00:00:41.000So first of all, you start to get into real dicey territory when you have official members of the federal government who are using alternative email addresses, pseudonymous email addresses, in order to email about actual political goings-on.
00:00:53.000We saw that Hillary Clinton had a private email server.
00:00:56.000There have been other people Who in the past have had private email addresses.
00:00:59.000And if those private email addresses are dealing with, you know, private business, that is one thing.
00:01:02.000But if they are dealing with outside business activities, and this is being used as sort of a Chinese firewall in order to screen those outside business activities from any sort of discovery, that's a real problem.
00:01:12.000So the House Oversight Committee writes, The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating President Biden's meetings and communications with certain family members and their business associates during his tenure as Vice President.
00:01:22.000The National Archives and Records Administration has published the Biden Vice Presidential Records Collection, which contains information relevant to the Committee's work.
00:01:29.000Many of these records have been redacted for publication pursuant to the Presidential Records Act and FOIA.
00:01:33.000To further our investigation, it is essential the Committee review these documents in their original format.
00:01:37.000The committee also seeks unrestricted special access under the PRA to case number 2023 entitled email messages to and from Vice President Biden and Hunter Biden related to Burisma and Ukraine, which have been published on NARA's website.
00:01:49.000These records have been redacted for public release pursuant to PRA and FOIA.
00:01:53.000Also, they want all of the pseudonymous emails.
00:01:57.000Attached to this email made available on the NARA website is a document that indicates
00:02:01.000at 9 a.m. on July 27, 2016, Vice President Biden took a call with the President of Ukraine,
00:02:06.000Petro Poroshenko. It is concerning to the committee, however, that this document was
00:02:10.000sent to Robert L. Peters, a pseudonym the committee has identified as then-Vice President Biden.
00:02:15.000Additionally, the committee questions why the then-Vice President's son, Hunter Biden,
00:02:19.000and only Hunter Biden was copied on this email to then-Vice President Biden.
00:02:24.000So, they're now saying that Joe Biden was using a false email address in order to email his son about a call that he had just had with the then-head of Ukraine.
00:02:35.000This is pretty dicey stuff for Joe Biden.
00:02:39.000And again, Joe Biden has long been a deeply corrupt human being.
00:02:42.000I mean, Joe Biden, his corruption goes all the way back to his first Senate race.
00:02:45.000There were serious allegations that in his first Senate race, people related to the Biden campaign worked alongside members of the local union to prevent, for example, the dissemination of a newspaper that contained an insert for his Republican opponent, that the union was basically told to create a picket line so that the newspaper didn't go out that day, thus boosting Joe Biden to his first senatorial victory in Delaware.
00:03:09.000And then, from then on, there's been an unbroken series of scandals involving Joe Biden and family members and money.
00:03:15.000From family members who are absolutely uncreditworthy receiving money from banks who absolutely should not have been lending the money because they knew that Joe Biden was the senator from Delaware, to his sons receiving jobs they certainly should not have had, To Hunter Biden running around in foreign precincts, picking up bags of cash under the Biden name.
00:03:34.000Well, Joe Biden has always hid behind this sort of plausible deniability.
00:03:38.000I was not involved in any way, shape or form.
00:03:40.000And it's been perfectly obvious to everybody that he was deeply involved in every way, shape and form.
00:03:44.000After all, how does a man who earned approximately $200,000 a year for literally his entire career in the Senate end up buying $15 million mansions?
00:03:57.000How does Hunter Biden, one of the most derelict human beings ever to walk the earth, clear Millions and millions and millions of dollars over the course of the last decade for being a complete ne'er-do-well.
00:04:07.000How does his brother James clear a bunch of money?
00:04:09.000How does brother Frank clear a bunch of money?
00:04:11.000How are all these people now exorbitantly wealthy?
00:04:24.000But this would be the first evidence that Joe Biden was directly involved, as in, like, writing emails.
00:04:29.000Now, we have a lot of indirect evidence that Joe Biden was directly involved.
00:04:33.000We have a lot of indirect evidence, ranging from actual testimony from people like Devin Archer that Hunter Biden was having Joe stop by business meetings, or that Hunter would actually call up Joe on the phone, and they would talk about the weather, and then they would get off the phone in front of other people.
00:04:46.000We have testimony from Tony Bobulinski that Joe would stop by various business functions.
00:04:52.000We have pictures of Joe with various business dignitaries that Hunter was cultivating.
00:04:56.000We have all of those things, but this would be actual communications to Hunter Biden about the business, which would be the first that we have actively seen at this point in writing.
00:05:06.000So it'll be fascinating to see what actually arrives here and also how the White House just brushes this off.
00:05:11.000Because what the White House will say is that we have no idea what this is.
00:06:58.000Alejandro Mayorkas, the head of the Department of Homeland Security, he was asked about the border crisis yesterday, and he basically ran away from it because this is what he does.
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00:09:41.000You have a corrupt, elderly man who is not capable of fulfilling his office.
00:09:45.000And when he is capable, it's even worse!
00:09:47.000I'd rather have him being senile watching Matlock in the basement than having him do the sort of damage he does to the country when he occasionally is awoken by a Thorazine shot or something.
00:09:55.000So Republicans have an opportunity to get rid of this guy.
00:10:06.000And personality and emotional response to particular candidates.
00:10:09.000And maybe they should focus on, you know, who could be the President of the United States and make Joe Biden not be the President of the United States.
00:10:16.000So there's a very interesting piece of data that is coming down from Nate Cohen.
00:10:19.000Nate Cohen does some really good data analysis at the New York Times.
00:10:22.000Even though he's at the New York Times, Nate Cohen's data analysis is good.
00:10:25.000And he breaks down the Republican Party into essentially six pieces.
00:10:29.000First is the so-called moderate establishment.
00:10:31.000Highly educated, affluent, socially moderate, or even liberal, outright, never Trump, very often.
00:11:41.000But these disaffected voters like Democrats and the woke left even less.
00:11:44.000Okay, so if you're gonna break this down, what you would figure is that Trump has about 38% of the Republican vote absolutely locked up.
00:11:52.000Right, so that means almost 40% of the Republican Party is basically locked up.
00:11:58.000What he says is that the alliance between blue-collar populists and the right-wing has left Mr. Trump's potential opposition in disarray.
00:12:03.000Before Trump, the party's mainstream prevailed against right-wing candidates by uniting traditional conservatives and the moderate factions, both establishment and blue-collar.
00:12:10.000That blueprint for victory appears to be closed, at least for now.
00:12:13.000Without a natural factional base, Ron DeSantis has struggled to maintain a steady foothold in the race.
00:12:16.000In fact, Trump leads DeSantis among every group of Republican voters identified in the analysis.
00:12:21.000The rest of the party beyond Trump's base may not always back Trump's policies, but it's not necessarily anti-Trump.
00:12:26.000The closest thing to an anti-Trump group in the party, the modern establishment, has become alienated from the rest of the party.
00:12:32.000So, again, that breakdown breaks very much in favor of President Trump.
00:12:37.000So, what exactly does that mean for anyone who wishes to challenge President Trump?
00:12:42.000Well, it seems to me That if you are a, if you are a candidate who wishes to challenge President Trump, there's really only two bases to do so.
00:12:51.000One is that President Trump, as president, didn't do enough.
00:12:55.000That President Trump, as president, his record, the first three years was great, but in the last year he sort of fell apart, and also, you know, because of that he didn't win the last election.
00:13:16.000And then there's the second point, and this is the really more telling one, which is Donald Trump does not have an excellent shot at beating Joe Biden.
00:13:23.000The polling that we are seeing right now that is showing him competitive with Joe Biden very often is incredibly, incredibly biased polling.
00:13:29.000There's a poll that came out yesterday, for example, that showed that he and Joe Biden were effectively tied in the race.
00:13:35.000There's only one problem with that poll.
00:13:36.000It shows Joe Biden winning minority voters by plus 12.
00:13:38.000Joe Biden is not going to win minority voters by plus 12.
00:13:41.000He's going to win minority voters by like 30.
00:13:45.000Because that's what Democrats always win by.
00:13:48.000There's been some movement at the edges, but not to the tune of like 25 to 30 percent.
00:13:53.000This notion that Trump is going to only lose by 12 points among minority voters broad red, like Black, Hispanic, and Asian voters, It's totally wild.
00:14:02.000But those polls are floating Trump right now, because again, if the electability argument is the chief argument, then the polls that show that Trump is still electable against Joe Biden are really, really helping him.
00:14:23.000Can Trump win should be the argument that Republicans are having.
00:14:26.000And you can see already that the argument is shifting from can Trump win inside the Republican Party to what is the campaign even designed to do?
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00:16:23.000Okay, notice at the very, very end, he drops in the Biden stuff.
00:16:26.000But really what this race is about is sort of his personal revenge on the rest of the Republican Party, by the way.
00:16:32.000Hey, Donald Trump, as always, feels slighted by a wide variety of people.
00:16:36.000And that's pretty much everybody he hired, by the way.
00:16:39.000I said, Donald Trump, over the last 48 hours, canceled the crackin' again.
00:16:44.000Does he remember that he promised that on Monday he was gonna have a press conference where he spelled out all the ways that he was cheated of the election in Georgia?
00:16:51.000He put out a truth saying, quote, rather than releasing the report on the rigged and stolen Georgia 2020 presidential election on Monday, my lawyers would prefer putting this, I believe, irrefutable and overwhelming evidence of election fraud and irregularities in formal legal filings.
00:17:04.000As we fight to dismiss this disgraceful indictment by a publicity and campaign finance-seeking DA who sadly presides over a record-breaking murder and violent crime area, Atlanta, therefore the news conference is no longer necessary.
00:17:13.000So what actually happened is his lawyer said to him, Donald, we don't trust that you're not going to go in front of the press and then say a bunch of stuff that's going to get you in further trouble for, for example, suborning justice or obstructing or tampering with witnesses or whatever.
00:17:27.000And so Trump actually listened to his lawyers for once in his life, which is a good thing, by the way, and he canceled the press conference.
00:17:33.000But is this campaign really going to be about Joe Biden or is it going to be about all this sort of stuff?
00:17:37.000So Bill Barr yesterday, his former attorney general, remember Joe, this was Donald Trump's attorney general, okay?
00:17:44.000So Bill Barr was on Fox News and Bill Barr suggested that Donald Trump could theoretically be in jail by the time the primaries even close in May of next year.
00:17:54.000And Donald Trump then put out a truth saying, just found this clip of Bill Barr prior to him succumbing
00:17:59.000to impeachment and other threats of the radical left lunatics.
00:18:01.000His bravado changed rapidly because he didn't want to be impeached.
00:18:04.000Republicans have to be much tougher and smarter, or you won't have a party or a country left.
00:18:07.000Barr didn't have the courage or stamina to fight, but he knew what was happening.
00:18:10.000I canned him and felt really good about it.
00:18:12.000Now he goes all over the place, especially Fox, pretending he's a tough guy.
00:18:15.000What is this campaign going to be, folks?
00:19:20.000I think the case being brought by Fannie Willis, this RICO case, is an overcharge and is a misuse of RICO, likely, because she doesn't actually have a criminal enterprise And I think that the classified documents case might be a good legal case, but also is obviated by the fact that they didn't prosecute Hillary Clinton for pretty much the exact same thing.
00:19:38.000With all of that said, why should 2024 be about litigation as opposed to, you know, elections?
00:19:45.000My interest as an American citizen is primarily in Joe Biden not being President of the United States, running the DOJ via Merrick Garland.
00:21:11.000Again, it is the thing that basically allows me to have any level of energy whatsoever given the fact that my energy is being taken up by four young children plus dog.
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00:21:42.000When I look at the polling data, what I see is that the American people, not the Republican base, the American people are not particularly interested in Donald Trump's legal troubles as the point of referendum.
00:21:54.000The notion that what this campaign should actually be is about funding Donald Trump's legal troubles.
00:21:59.000By the way, it's not clear that he's funding anybody else's legal troubles.
00:22:02.000He's had a bunch of lawyers who are very loyal to him, and the minute that they said that they are not in favor of him being the nominee, apparently he's cut them off.
00:23:27.000He has a personal animus for Joe Biden, an animus that I think should be widely shared because Joe Biden is a deeply corrupt human being, but is that the case that you're going to make in order to win?
00:23:42.000Okay, so this might be a topic at a debate, but Donald Trump isn't going to show up for a debate.
00:23:47.000So Donald Trump, yesterday, he put out a statement, a couple of them, one blasting Fox News, suggesting that Fox News was being unkind to him because he was apparently, you know, not going to show up for the debate.
00:24:00.000Anyway, he says, why doesn't Fox and Friends show all of the polls where I'm beating Biden by a lot?
00:24:04.000Well, because the polls where you're beating Joe Biden by a lot are by a lot?
00:24:35.000That doesn't mean that Trump couldn't be theoretically competitive with Joe Biden, although I have serious doubts given the fact that Donald Trump Does not surpass.
00:24:43.000In any poll, literally any poll, he does not surpass 46%.
00:24:46.000He is not going to win the election with less than 46%.
00:24:50.000And even at 46%, you gotta scrape on by.
00:25:36.000I mean, shouldn't he be using them to beat Joe Biden?
00:25:38.000Forget about the idea that his own supporters are really hoping he'll use the funding not for his legal funding, but for everything else.
00:25:44.000Isn't there a tacit admission there that either he's not worth as much money as he says he is, or that he would rather use your money to fund his legal bills than his own money to fund his legal bills?
00:25:53.000Like, why is his money not being used for his own legal problems and for the legal problems of his allies, by the way?
00:26:01.000And speaking of his campaign, I mean, there's an incredible story from Politico today.
00:26:05.000Okay, and this is a story talking about Laura Loomer.
00:26:07.000So Laura Loomer is apparently very upset at me because I mentioned that she's a kind of a crazy person and that Donald Trump is allied with her.
00:26:13.000She's kind of a crazy person, Donald Trump is allied with her.
00:26:18.000In any case, according to Politico, Ron Filipkowski, who is a far-left Twitter addict, He has teamed up now with Laura Loomer and people affiliated with Donald Trump's campaign to attack Ron DeSantis.
00:26:35.000So just to get this straight, the way that it works in Republican Party politics is if you say one bad word about Donald Trump and you are another Republican candidate, Republicans are angry at you.
00:26:43.000If Donald Trump's campaign teams up with Ron Philip Kowalski to attack Ron DeSantis, that's good, apparently.
00:26:51.000Apparently, according to Politico, Filipkowski said, I'm probably the top anti-DeSantis person on Twitter.
00:26:56.000So if rivals have something anti-DeSantis, they want to get into the mainstream, they'll send it to me.
00:27:00.000The Trump campaign declined to comment on whether they are coordinating with a far leftist, Ron Filipkowski, to attack DeSantis.
00:27:06.000Which, by the way, does not seem like, you know, really good conservative strategy.
00:27:11.000It seems to me that if you don't want a circular firing squad, that should apply to everyone in the firing squad.
00:27:17.000Laura Loomer said that they speak occasionally, quote, he knows I'm a Trump loyalist and I know he doesn't like Trump.
00:27:21.000And despite our differences, we have found common ground on making sure Ron DeSantis has never elected president of the United States ever.
00:27:28.000So never DeSantis is a thing, apparently.
00:27:43.000By the way, DeSantis has now been targeted by more negative expenditures than both Biden and Trump combined.
00:27:48.000A quarter of all independent expenditures in the 2024 election cycle, according to the Washington Examiner, $20 million, have targeted DeSantis.
00:27:56.000Trump was hit with just $8 million of negative independent expenditures directed toward him.
00:28:01.000Biden was attacked with $9 million of independent expenditures.
00:28:04.000So pretty much everybody is attacking DeSantis at this point, and nobody is attacking Trump.
00:28:48.000It's been stagnant for three to four months.
00:28:50.000Again, if I look at those RealClearPolitics polling averages and I'm looking at them right this very instant, what you see Is that DeSantis has declined about somewhere between 3 and 4 percent over the course of the last, I don't know, 8 months?
00:29:05.000If you look at the polling in October of 2022, it showed Trump at 53 and DeSantis at 19.
00:29:11.000Today, in the RealClear polling average, it shows Trump at 55 and DeSantis at 15.
00:29:16.000That is not exactly a polling collapse.
00:29:24.000And DeSantis, even in that Fox News poll, that's the only, by the way, the Fox News poll is the only recent poll that shows an actual Vivec surge.
00:29:45.000It means going into the debate, I would assume that all the attacks are going to be on DeSantis, right?
00:29:51.000That's basically the way this is going to go.
00:29:54.000Well, Jeff Rowe, who runs one of the DeSantis super PACs, he then, so one of the things that the super PACs sometimes do to avoid legal complications with coordinating with campaigns, because they're not allowed to do so, sometimes in like dark corners of the internet, they'll post things hoping that the campaign sees it and then implements.
00:30:11.000So apparently, a memo has now gone out from Jeff Rowe, debate advice for DeSantis for next week.
00:30:17.000Trump has already said he's not debating.
00:30:19.000In fact, he's going to counter-program the debate.
00:30:21.000According to CNN, Trump is going to do some sort of event with Tucker Carlson, it sounds like.
00:30:36.000The RNC is coordinating with Trump's surrogates to represent him in the spin room.
00:30:41.000So apparently that means that they will allow Kerry Lake, Byron Donalds, and Matt Gaetz, as well as other Republicans in Congress who are Trump supporters openly, to attend the debate next week and then basically critique the debate in the spin room.
00:30:55.000I'm sorry, if your man doesn't show up, you should not be in the spin room.
00:30:58.000That's like DeSantis saying, I'm not going to show up, but I am going to send Christina Pesceau over to the debate room to critique all the other candidates.
00:31:09.000Again, one of these other candidates could rise, but I'm wondering how.
00:31:13.000And I'm wondering at what point the Republicans are going to say, you know, it might be worthwhile to examine some other options at this point.
00:31:22.000Anyway, the Jeffrow Memo about what DeSantis needs to do is, quote, Now, again, when campaigns are having trouble, very often it feels like they're just stumbling on landmine after landmine.
00:31:31.000when Chris Christie inevitably attacks the former president and needs to attack Joe Biden and the
00:31:35.000media no less than three to five times. Now again when campaigns are having trouble very often it
00:31:41.000feels like they're just stumbling on landmine after landmine.
00:31:44.000When a campaign is having trouble and since this campaign is experiencing trouble to launch
00:31:48.000for sure, when you see this what you see is stuff like this.
00:31:53.000Leaks in the press about debate strategy.
00:31:56.000I'm not sure that this is a terrible strategy, but the fact that it is now being revealed publicly and being treated as like top line news is part of the ongoing media narrative, which is that DeSantis is getting hammered by Trump.
00:32:11.000The media have a common interest in ensuring that Trump gets the nomination because they believe, rightly or wrongly, that Donald Trump getting the nomination will lose to Biden.
00:32:19.000That's what they want, more than anything else.
00:32:22.000And if Republicans believe that that's not the case, and they nominate Trump, maybe they'll be right, and maybe they'll be wrong.
00:32:27.000But if they're right, I would like to see the data that they are right, and I would like to see the plan that Trump plans to implement to avoid what happened last time.
00:32:33.000I still... One question, and one question only, guys.
00:32:37.000If Donald Trump is the nominee, and he thinks that the last election was stolen from him after he won it, by big numbers according to him, right?
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00:36:22.000Well, meanwhile, if it feels as though the economy is on the verge of falling apart, that's only because the economy is on the verge of falling apart.
00:36:28.000According to CNN, China's Evergrande Group, which was once the country's second largest property developer, filed for full-on bankruptcy in New York on Thursday.
00:36:37.000The beleaguered firm borrowed heavily and defaulted on its debt in 2021, sparking a massive property crisis in China's economy, which continues to feel the effects.
00:36:45.000Evergrande filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection that allows the U.S.
00:36:47.000Bankruptcy Court to step in when an insolvency case involves another country.
00:36:51.000Chapter 15 bankruptcy is intended to help promote cooperation between U.S.
00:36:54.000courts, debtors, and other countries' courts involved in cross-border bankruptcy proceedings.
00:36:59.000Well, China's real estate sector Was 30% of the country's GDP.
00:37:05.000But Evergrande's 2021 default sent shockwaves through China's property markets, damaging homeowners and the broader financial system in the country.
00:37:12.000Basically, China had built a bunch of fake growth on the back of borrowing money and then building empty apartment buildings.
00:37:17.000Evergrande is a massive company with more than 1,300 real estate projects in more than 280 cities.
00:37:22.000They've struggled to pay off their loans.
00:37:24.000The property company's debt load reached $340 billion by the end of last year.
00:37:35.000That means the United States economy is in trouble as well.
00:37:38.000Meanwhile, mortgage rates have now hit over 7% in the United States.
00:37:41.000That's the highest rate in more than 20 years.
00:37:44.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the increase extends a lengthy stretch of high borrowing costs that has slowed the housing market to a crawl.
00:37:50.000This marked the first time since last fall the rate on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages rose above 7% a year ago, rate to around 5%.
00:37:56.000The housing market is part of the economy hit most directly by the Federal Reserve's high-rate policies.
00:38:01.000It means that the prices on real estate are about to drop rather precipitously because it turns out there is no one to buy the real estate.
00:38:08.000So, a bunch of people are just not going to sell their houses, which is fine if you can afford to stay in your house because you've got a 2% mortgage or 3% mortgage, good for you.
00:38:15.000There are going to be some people who are not able to afford their bills and they bought the houses kind of on spec, thinking they'd be able to flip them.
00:38:22.000And now when they cannot flip them, those houses will be defaulted.
00:38:26.000Stocks fell on Thursday, extending August declines, with investors worried anew about continuing Fed rate hikes.
00:38:31.000Fed officials still see inflation risks and the potential need for higher interest rates, according to meeting minutes released this year.
00:38:37.000When the Fed started lifting interest rates at a rapid clip last year, the rising cost of borrowing to buy a home was expected to be temporary.
00:38:42.000A year and a half on, rates are climbing back toward their highs, despite briefly dipping toward 6% in late 2022 and early 2023.
00:38:47.000Now, buyers, sellers, and investors are adjusting to the idea higher rates are here to stay, or at least here to stay longer than they were expecting.
00:38:56.000So a lot of would-be sellers feel stuck in place.
00:39:00.000They're instead renting, which is driving up rents.
00:39:02.000And all of this is artificially created by bad government policy and bad Federal Reserve policy, and it's going to have some pretty significant downstream effects.
00:39:10.000Meanwhile, a lot of very important things to people's lives, like for example, childcare, those expenses are just ripping through families.
00:39:18.000The national average price of daycare and preschool services rose 6% in July from one year before.
00:39:23.000This has nearly doubled the overall inflation rate of 3.2%.
00:39:26.000Everybody's got to keep working those long hours in order to earn those inflated dollars in order to pay off those inflated bills.
00:39:32.000Parents could see their childcare bills climb higher this fall as providers boost tuition to cover rising costs and federal pandemic aid seizes.
00:39:39.000And a lot of people don't have options, and they have to take the hit.
00:39:43.000Rising wages and other expenses are driving up child care tuition, so people are feeling it right in the pocketbook.
00:39:49.000People are selling off assets in order to make the bills.
00:39:52.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Americans built bookcases and shrines to the baseball cards, vinyl records, and sneakers they collected, sometimes through painstaking efforts.
00:40:00.000Collectors are saying they don't have a choice.
00:40:03.000Well, yeah, I mean, a bunch of people are losing business, and now they're going to have to sell what they got.
00:40:09.000All of this is going, again, what goes up must come down.
00:40:13.000And now the Federal Reserve is stuck because if they continue to raise those interest rates and attempt to quash inflation, the economy could flip over.
00:40:19.000This boat is taking on water, the economy could easily flip over.
00:40:21.000And if they don't raise those rates, inflation could continue to chip away at Americans' lifestyles.
00:40:31.000They're already talking about lowering the interest rates again, which would presumably jack up the inflation rates again.
00:40:37.000According to the Wall Street Journal, most Federal Reserve officials backed an increase in interest rates last month, but some saw rising risks they might raise rates too high, underscoring growing caution about further increases.
00:40:46.000Officials still saw significant risks inflation might not fall as much as they expect, which could require them to raise rates again this year, according to the Minutes.
00:40:53.000Those risks include stronger economic growth and the reversal of recent supply chain improvements or declines in commodity prices, which have been largely responsible for the slowdown in inflation.
00:41:03.000All of this is going to first hit in China and first hit in Europe and then it'll hit the United States last, but it's already hitting in Europe.
00:41:10.000According to the Wall Street Journal, a sluggish economy, higher interest rates, and the expiration of pandemic-era life support for ailing companies is forcing more businesses in Europe to declare bankruptcy.
00:41:19.000A new report also showed new business creation in Europe is slowing.
00:41:22.000As the Biden administration's support for green tech continues to draw new investment abroad, the number of EU business filings for bankruptcy in the three months to end June rose 8.4% from the previous quarter.
00:41:48.000Republicans should be running against that if they're not distracted with all the other issues that Democrats wish to distract them with, including Donald Trump's legal travails.
00:41:57.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden is offering all sorts of failures for Republicans to pick up on, including failures in Hawaii.
00:42:04.000Joe Biden is going to be going to Maui, but the amount of aid that he's offered to families, like $700 a family, which doesn't even pay for the amount of money that each family in Lahaina has paid for the Ukraine war.
00:42:15.000Seriously, like the amount of money in taxes, if you prorate it, across the economy.
00:42:20.000What you see is the people in Lahaina paid more than $700 for the war in Ukraine and are getting less than $800 back from the federal government when their house burns down.
00:42:28.000Karine Jean-Pierre, however, has been using the magic words, whole of government approach, which is a way of saying, we have no idea what we're doing, but we'll say a thing.
00:42:36.000The entire nation is grieving with you and is going to be with you as you rebuild and recover.
00:42:42.000We are not going to go anywhere until that occurs, that happens.
00:42:47.000The president is going to continue to marshal a whole of government effort, approach, as
00:42:52.000he has done from day one with having dozens of federal agencies and agencies and departments
00:43:01.000on the ground helping local partners and state partners get the assistance, the federal assistance
00:43:50.000So obviously this is what we're gonna do.
00:43:52.000Meanwhile, we have been hearing about this Hawaii wildfire.
00:43:55.000It's a disaster, obviously a major, major disaster, but one of the things we've been hearing from the media is that it's all about global warming.
00:44:05.000According to Cliff Mass, who is a professor at the University of Washington Atmospheric Sciences, Hawaii fires are not connected to climate change.
00:44:13.000He told my friend Jason Rantz over on KTTH, He said, uh, no.
00:44:16.000They have nothing to do with climate change.
00:44:20.000He says they were due to a combination of dry and invasive grass and powerful wind that accelerated the spread of the fire, not climate change.
00:44:25.000He says there's an area of extensive grass.
00:44:27.000The grass is more bountiful than normal because there was not a lot- because there was a lot of precipitation over the winter.
00:44:32.000A lot of that grass is not natural grass.
00:44:34.000It's invasive stuff brought over in the last century.
00:44:36.000They had an extraordinarily strong windstorm.
00:44:38.000So, it really had nothing to do with, uh, anything except for that.
00:44:42.000The windstorm likely destroyed a power line, creating a spark that ignited the grass.
00:44:46.000The only thing that could have been done is to warn the locals.
00:44:49.000And this is where the failure kicked in.
00:44:51.000Apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal, during the 2019 wildfire season, one of the worst Maui had ever seen, Hawaiian Electric concluded it needed to do far more to prevent its power lines from emitting sparks.
00:45:01.000The utility examined California's plans to reduce fires ignited by power lines, started flying drones over its territory, and vowed to take steps to protect its equipment and its customers from the threat of fire.
00:45:09.000Nearly four years later, the company has completed little such work.
00:45:12.000Between 2019 and 2022, it invested less than $245,000 On wildfire-specific projects on the island, regulatory filings show it did not seek state approval to raise rates to pay for broad wildfire safety improvements until 2022 and has yet to receive it.
00:45:25.000The blazes caused at least 110 deaths, destroyed Lahaina, and resulted in estimated billions of dollars in damage.
00:45:32.000Hawaiian Electric said it would investigate any role its infrastructure may have played and coordinate with a separate probe into the fire launched last week by Hawaii Attorney General.
00:45:40.000There's also reports that a silent alarm went off, which is completely useless.
00:45:47.000So, once again, human failure, generally to blame for massive natural disasters, in the same way that faulty building in New Orleans led to the full-scale disaster that was a result of Hurricane Katrina.
00:45:59.000Already time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:47:09.000They're never going to do any of this.
00:47:10.000But it is amusing to watch California push forward with this sort of stuff, presumably by increasing the tax burden on people who are wealthy, which is driving people from the state.
00:47:21.000So congratulations to California once again on pursuing crappy policy.
00:47:24.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:47:30.000So according to Breitbart.com, a study of open AIs at ChatGPT conducted by researchers at the University of East Anglia in the UK shows that the market-leading AI chatbot has a clear bias toward leftist political parties.
00:47:40.000I mean, you can see our YouTube video that we did where I have discussions with ChatGPT and where it will write glowing poems about Joe Biden and then it will refuse to write anything laudatory about Donald Trump.
00:47:51.000There are obviously parameters that have been placed on these chatbots, on these AIs, that make them more left-leaning, without a doubt.
00:47:57.000The study, published in the journal Public Choice, shows ChatGPT, under its default settings, favors Democrats in the United States, the Labour Party in the UK, and President Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party in Brazil.
00:48:07.000Researchers asked ChatGPT to impersonate supporters of various political parties and positions, and then asked the modified chatbots a series of 60 ideological questions.
00:48:15.000The responses to these questions were then compared to ChatGPT's default answers.
00:48:19.000This allowed the researchers to test whether ChatGPT's default responses favor particular political stances.
00:48:26.000To overcome difficulties caused by inherent randomness of the large language models, each question was asked a hundred times, different responses were collected.
00:48:32.000What they found is that, of course, there was serious political bias to AI.
00:48:37.000That, of course, is not a shocker at all.
00:48:39.000As we've said, you can go to ChatGPT right now and you can try it out.
00:48:43.000My producers, because, you know, this is what they do in their off time, they actually ran through ChatGPT a query for a musical about me.
00:50:19.000It is the left that has no empathy and no understanding.
00:50:21.000It is the left that truly believes that instead of actually, you know, taking care of people on a personal level, you should just give them money.
00:50:51.000The finale brings the entire cast together for a rousing ensemble number celebrating
00:50:55.000the power of diversity and the importance of respectful discourse in a divided society.
00:50:59.000Overall, says the I.I., The Righteous Mind is a thought-provoking and entertaining exploration of politics, family, and personal identity featuring the dynamic talent of Ben Shapiro.
00:51:08.000So first of all, no one wants to see me in a musical.
00:51:10.000If you want to see me sing, you have to pay to be an All Access member and watch me sing for my supper.