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00:00:00.000The media settle on a backup narrative after their Covington hit goes awry, Mitch McConnell takes steps to end the government shutdown, and the millennial fresh faces arrive on the scene!
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00:01:52.000The Covington story, the Covington Catholic High School story that blew up the media over the weekend has completely imploded in on the media because it turns out that these kids from Covington Catholic High School really didn't do anything wrong.
00:02:03.000There's not a lot of evidence they did anything wrong.
00:02:05.000They were standing there, to recap the story, they were standing there after the March for Life, some of them were wearing MAGA hats, which apparently is now a crime in the United States, and we're supposed to know that MAGA hats are innately offensive and triggering to people, the MAGA hats.
00:02:20.000And they were standing there, after the March for Life, and they started being harassed by the black Hebrew Israelites, a bunch of cult members, who are mostly known for being ignored on the New York subways.
00:02:28.000And then, a Native American guy walked up into the middle of the group, banging a drum, stood face-to-face with a guy named Nick Sandman, who's apparently 17 years old, goes to Covington Catholic High, and Nick Sandman just stood there, kind of awkwardly, And this was enough cause for people to lose their ever-loving minds.
00:02:44.000Well, Nick Sandman appeared on the Today Show this morning with Savannah Guthrie.
00:02:47.000It is amazing to watch the media attempt to twist their way out of this by trying to cast aspersions on the 17-year-olds whose great sin was standing there on his feet in a public place at one of the most visited places in America, not moving, with a mild smile on his face, trying to diffuse the situation.
00:03:45.000He's obviously a little bit deer-in-the-headlights right there because he's got the entire national news media on his case, in his face, specifically because he committed the grave, terrible sin of standing in a place, not doing a thing.
00:04:00.000And then it continued along these lines, this Today Show interview.
00:04:04.000You know, she was asked, he was asked then about wearing a MAGA hat.
00:04:18.000And because he was wearing an angry-making hat, a hat that makes folks lose their minds, probably it's his fault because he was wearing the hat.
00:05:31.000The people who are offending here were not the kids.
00:05:34.000It was the Black Hebrew Israelites and Nick Phillips, or Nathan Phillips, who walked into the crowd in an attempt to draw attention and then lied about the situation repeatedly.
00:05:55.000She says, none of this might have mattered, and the clip certainly would not have gone viral, if Sandman and many of his peers were not wearing red Make America Great Again hats.
00:06:04.000Racked reported in 2017 that the hats would become popular souvenirs among white teenage boys visiting Washington, in part because they invite instant attention, instant discomfort, easy transgression.
00:06:15.000Boston Globe columnist Renee Graham wrote last summer about seeing more than a dozen white teenage boys in MAGA hats at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
00:06:23.000Clearly, this was meant as a provocation, she wrote.
00:06:26.000I'm inclined to believe that Sandman, too, is smart enough to understand that the MAGA hat is not a symbol of peace and reconciliation, especially when the bill of that hat is inches from the nose of a Native American.
00:06:37.000The Native American guy walked up to Nick Sandman.
00:06:40.000If we are now going to assume what's in the head of everyone who wears a MAGA hat... And by the way, if you want everyone in a MAGA hat to think like Ruth Graham is suggesting they think, keep doing this stuff.
00:06:49.000Really, if you want everybody who wears a MAGA hat to think of it as a symbol of the resistance, all you have to do is keep maligning everyone who voted for Trump as a secret racist, who is racist for standing there and having a face.
00:07:01.000That's really what they're saying now.
00:07:21.000And Chris Hayes from MSNBC says, you know what the problem is?
00:07:24.000The real problem here is that these kids have privilege.
00:07:27.000Is the privilege of being targeted by the media for wearing a hat and being human and standing on feet?
00:07:34.000Chris Hayes writes, "The most vital privilege in American life is due process, second chances, and the grace to have your actions read charitably.
00:07:40.000I understand why people will fight like hell to preserve it, but probably worth thinking about all the people who do not have those privileges at all." Yeah, I'm sure.
00:07:49.000The real story here is the white privilege of the kids who had their lives basically overturned for no reason because the media decided to go after people.
00:07:56.000I love the perception by a lot of mainstream media actors that the constant savage attacks on people who are not of the left wing, that's evidence that those people have privilege in and of themselves.
00:08:06.000And maybe when we get it wrong, the real story is the privileges that the people that we're not attacking don't have.
00:08:12.000The real story isn't what happened to these kids.
00:08:14.000It's what happens to other kids that we're not talking about or targeting for destruction.
00:08:18.000It's not a point I'm making, by the way.
00:08:20.000Conor Friedersdorf over at The Atlantic makes that point.
00:08:22.000He's a lot more libertarian to the left than I am.
00:08:26.000But the constant stream of false information continues virtually unabated.
00:08:31.000So Ilhan Omar, who is one of the fresh faces of the new Congress, fresh, fresh, fresh, so fresh, So she tweeted this out.
00:08:37.000out she tweeted the boys were protesting a woman's right to choose and yelled it's not rape if you enjoy it number one false the kid who was caught on tape yelling that is not from covington catholic high school two she says they were taunting five black men before they surrounded phillips and led racist chants false on every single score the There is no evidence they led racist chants, nor were they taunting the people from the Black Hebrew Israelites.
00:09:01.000The people from the Black Hebrew Israelites were calling them the F word, for gay people, and they were calling them the N word.
00:09:08.000And then, I love this, Ilhan Omar says, Sandman's family hired a right-wing PR firm to write his non-apology.
00:09:14.000What do you think they're going to do?
00:09:15.000Now they're the center of media scrutiny.
00:09:17.000You think maybe they're going to talk to somebody who might know PR?
00:09:20.000Yeah, and I love that this has now become a symbol of Sandman's privilege, that he hired a PR firm to deal with the fact that he had incoming national media trying to destroy his life.
00:09:30.000Ooh, God forbid he hires a professional when professional adults are trying to destroy him.
00:09:35.000Let me point out that the family of Trayvon Martin also had professionals who were working with them.
00:09:39.000In other words, whenever there is an incident at the center of American life, PR professionals are there in a heartbeat because this is legitimately what they do for a living.
00:09:47.000That's not a rip on Trayvon's family, and it's not a rip on Nick Sandman's family, because all of this is dumb.
00:09:52.000We continue, by the way, to promote the idea that Nathan Phillips is not a liar.
00:10:32.000Well, hate, what I'm saying is that when these folks came there, these other folks were saying their piece, and these others, they got offended with it because they were both just expressing their own views.
00:10:40.000And if it's racism, that's what it was, because the folks that were having their moment there, they were saying things that I don't know if I agreed with them or not, but some of it was educational.
00:10:47.000And it was truth, and it was history about religious views and ideologies.
00:10:50.000But these other folks, the young students, they couldn't see it.
00:10:57.000The adult black Hebrew Israelites were taunting the kids relentlessly, as David French writes.
00:11:03.000These folks are really rage-filled and hate-filled.
00:11:06.000I mean, they're not the kind of folks you want to hang around in your spare time, which is why everyone on the New York subway ignores them.
00:11:16.000And then Philip says that he, I mean, he just spins the story completely in a false way, and we're still supposed to take him seriously as some sort of American hero.
00:11:24.000He says, he says, I think that was the push, that we need to use our drum, use our prayer, and bring a balance, bring a calming to the situation.
00:11:38.000They were going to hurt them because they didn't like the color of their skin.
00:11:41.000There is no indicator that these kids were going to do anything to the black Hebrew Israelites who were taunting the kids with racial slurs.
00:12:00.000And in a second, we will show you other stories demonstrating that he has been trying to do this sort of stuff for a while here, disrupting other people's events.
00:13:23.000Okay, so it turns out that Nathan Phillips has a habit of trying to disrupt other people's events.
00:13:28.000That's according to Ed Condon, Dateline, yesterday.
00:13:31.000While chanting and playing ceremonial drums, a group of Native American rights activists, reportedly led by Nathan Phillips, attempted on January 19th to enter Washington DC's Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception during a Saturday evening mass.
00:13:44.000So shortly after going after these kids, he decided that he was going to disrupt a mass.
00:13:49.000The group of 20 demonstrators was stopped by shrine security as it tried to enter the church during its 5.15 p.m.
00:13:55.000vigil mass, according to shrine security guard on duty during the mass.
00:13:58.000It was really upsetting, the guard told Catholic News Agency.
00:14:01.000There were about 20 people trying to get in.
00:14:03.000We had to lock the doors and everything.
00:14:05.000The guard said it was a disappointment during a busy and joyful weekend for the shrine.
00:14:08.000He said we had hundreds and hundreds of people come from all over the country here to celebrate life, to celebrate each other together.
00:14:14.000That a protest tried to come inside during mass was really the worst.
00:14:17.000He said, I'm grateful that nothing bad happened.
00:14:31.000He didn't try to wander into the middle of the mass with his folks at all.
00:14:34.000What happened is he was just standing there, minding his own business, banging on his drum.
00:14:37.000And suddenly the church magically materialized around him and right in front of him.
00:14:42.000It was just like, like unbelievable because churches are racist, of course.
00:14:47.000This is the way we do our news these days.
00:14:50.000In just a second, we'll talk about more of the left's reaction to all of this, because it is indeed insane.
00:14:56.000And then we're going to talk about why this is a national story in the first place, because we all know the real story here, why this is a national story.
00:15:02.000So the press have been trying to spin this away because this was a big boo-boo by a large number of people in the press.
00:15:08.000Here is how the Washington Post did it.
00:15:17.000My friend Andrew Klavan has said this for a long time.
00:15:20.000That when something, when a Republican does something bad, then the story is Republican does something bad.
00:15:27.000When a Democrat does something bad, or a leftist does something bad, or the media do something bad, the story is Republican reaction to the bad thing.
00:16:18.000The video, taken from an Instagram account and reposted to Twitter, went viral with the caption, As the story picked up speed on social media, a Washington Post editor assigned reporters to cover it.
00:16:33.000on Saturday, one reporter spoke to Phillips about what happened.
00:16:36.000Others called the Catholic school and the local diocese, looking for a statement from someone who could represent the students in the video.
00:16:42.000The reporters weren't aware of a critical third element in the scene, the Hebrew Israelites who had been taunting the high school boys moments before the viral video began.
00:16:51.000on Saturday, still unaware of the moments preceding the viral video, the Post published its first story on what would become a days-long national argument about racism, the media, and masculinity.
00:17:01.000The headline, It Was Getting Ugly, Native American Drummer Speaks on His Encounter with MAGA Hat-Wearing Teens.
00:17:08.000We all know where this story came from and why they were jumping to that conclusion.
00:17:12.000And then they talk about how the breaking news made the rounds, as is typical in such breaking news situations.
00:17:19.000Initial news accounts, which drew howls from partisans on both sides, were unable to provide all the context and facts.
00:17:25.000The howls that were being drawn were largely the baying of the hounds in the media who were going after these kids because they happened to be wearing MAGA hats.
00:17:32.000It took close to 48 hours for reporters in a divided America to fully grasp what had occurred, and to whom.
00:17:38.000Like many viral outrage stories, the narrative became more complicated as more facts emerged, and more people stepped forward to talk about what they saw and experienced in that moment.
00:17:46.000But the Covington story isn't just a run-of-the-mill incident of viral outrage.
00:17:51.000It involved MAGA hat-wearing teens and a Native American activist.
00:17:54.000Those who shared the video in those first 24 hours, including many conservatives, seemed to feel it was emblematic of the vitriol and racism that drives the worst of American culture.
00:18:03.000But when new details shifted the story into more ambiguous territory, a well-oiled machine of pro-Trump personalities and sites saw an opportunity to strike.
00:18:14.000So the only offense here, the only thing that was wrong here was the people who waited and then said that the media screwed this thing up.
00:18:21.000Because it turns out that the media screwed this thing up.
00:18:36.000It must be so difficult to be a member of the media when you can just make excuses for your own malfeasance by saying that people pounced, pounced.
00:18:43.000Okay, so there's that, which is great.
00:18:45.000Meanwhile, Joy Behar basically let the cat out of the bag.
00:18:47.000So she was on The View yesterday talking with Whoopi Goldberg, and Whoopi Goldberg was talking about the rush to judgment, and Joy Behar sort of let slip the reason why all of this happened, and we all know, we all know.
00:18:57.000We just instantly say that's what it is based on what we see in that moment and then have to walk stuff back when it turns out we're wrong.
00:19:16.000I think the press jumps the gun a lot because we just, we have so much circumstantial evidence against this guy that we basically are hoping that, you know, Cohen's got the goods and what have you.
00:19:38.000You can hear the crowd laughing and cheering because they know it's true.
00:19:41.000In other words, if members of the mainstream media, who all think the same way that Joy Behar does, decide that these kids must be sacrificed on the altar of Get Trump, Then they'll do it.
00:19:52.000They have no problem with that whatsoever.
00:19:53.000And they're continuing to promote the stupidest nonsense.
00:19:56.000So, the worst tweet of the day yesterday came courtesy of Kathy Griffin, who, you know, after holding up a severed head of President Trump, has apparently lost her head.
00:20:06.000Well, you know, what was left of the brains inside is gone.
00:20:08.000So, she tweeted out a photo that was originally covered by the New York Daily News, right?
00:20:13.000And I talked about this yesterday, in which members of the Covington Catholic High School were wearing, not blackface, but they were wearing black paint for a blackout game.
00:20:23.000She found another photo of the Covington Catholic students, and some of them are holding up their hands in the OK motion, right?
00:20:29.000Which is, they're not even doing that, right?
00:20:31.000What they're really doing is they're holding up the three-point motion.
00:20:33.000The three-point motion, for those who have never seen a basketball game.
00:20:35.000This is a picture of a basketball game.
00:20:37.000All these kids are going like this, for people who can see me.
00:20:40.000All these kids are holding up their hands like this.
00:20:42.000This is not a white power symbol in basketball, you stupid morons.
00:21:34.000Jim Carrey, another crazed lunatic, who's decided that he's an artist, which is shocking because, honest to God, my five-year-old daughter draws better than he does.
00:21:43.000He made a portrait of people supposedly shouting at Nathan Phillips, and then above it, it says, Baby snakes, according to Jim Carrey.
00:21:52.000So people are just going to continue lying about this in the same way that they said, hands up, don't shoot, may not have been factually accurate, but it was morally accurate.
00:22:07.000The argument is basically that if we screw up the facts, then that's okay because our narrative, our underlying narrative, is good.
00:22:14.000And if people on the right say, well, you screwed up the facts, so this does not prove your narrative, then people on the left say, well, that's because you don't take our narrative seriously enough.
00:22:21.000So what they'll say is, look at these racist kids.
00:22:23.000And people on the right will go, well, those kids aren't racist.
00:22:25.000And the left will go, you're only saying that.
00:22:28.000The only reason you're even asking the question is because you don't take racism seriously enough.
00:22:32.000And you say, well, the facts don't back your account.
00:22:45.000There's a piece by Adam Serwer in The Atlantic kind of making the counter case saying, well, you know, people who are debunking this particular case and are now suggesting that there's not racism in America are wrong.
00:22:57.000Well, I'm not sure who's exactly making that case, but it's it is amazing that folks on the left can't see the counter.
00:23:02.000That is the mirror negative of that, right?
00:23:04.000The photo negative of that argument, which is if you don't got the facts to prove your case, you don't got facts to prove your case.
00:23:10.000And that doesn't prove your narrative.
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00:25:15.000This law basically gets rid of all restrictions on abortion.
00:25:20.000It strips abortion from the penal code.
00:25:22.000So, if you are a person who is pregnant and somebody hits you in the stomach and the baby dies, this strips, it strips damage to the fetus out of the penal code.
00:25:36.000It's an incredible, incredible violation of the rights of the mother, obviously.
00:25:41.000And then late-term abortions were legalized again.
00:25:44.000The new law allows a licensed healthcare practitioner acting under the scope of their practice to perform an abortion when, according to the practitioner's reasonable and good-faith professional judgment, based on the facts of the patient's case, the patient is within 24 weeks from the commencement of pregnancy, or there is an absence of fetal viability, or, this is the key provision, Health is the key provision there.
00:26:07.000Because protecting the life, we all agree with.
00:26:08.000Protecting the health means, you know what?
00:26:11.000I'd be healthier if I didn't have this nine-month-old baby right here that's about to enter my vaginal canal, cut its brains out.
00:26:37.000When it comes to criminal cases, there is serious concern that it limits prosecutors from applying criminal charges in cases of so-called forced abortions, which can occur during domestic violence cases and when a woman loses a child during pregnancy.
00:26:49.000So, a husband beats the living hell out of his wife and she loses the baby.
00:26:52.000You can't prosecute him for the loss of the baby now.
00:26:56.000Senator Kathy Young, Republican from Olean, Cattaraugus County, she says it is unconscionable to think that anyone would deprive a pregnant domestic violence victim the justice she deserves.
00:27:06.000And then, I love this, Liz Kruger from Manhattan, Democrat, says, you have to ask the question, why would anybody actually use the abortion code to charge someone with a heinous crime?
00:27:13.000We in the state of New York have many strict rules in our criminal code to deal with these kind of criminals.
00:27:17.000So no big deal that the guy killed the unborn baby.
00:27:20.000We have plenty of ways to put this guy in jail, except that it put the guy in jail for longer for committing a crime against a human being.
00:27:26.000So New York has, I mean, it's the most radical law in the nation now.
00:27:33.000He ordered that the spire, At One World Trade Center, the Governor Mario Cuomo Bridge, the Kosciuszko Bridge, I don't know how to pronounce it, and the Alfred Smith Building in Albany all be lit pink on Tuesday night.
00:27:47.000They should have lit it blood red in honor of the death of babies.
00:27:50.000Here is the inside of the chamber after this thing passed.
00:27:52.000Wild applause for the death of the unborn.
00:28:02.000Cuomo said, The Reproductive Health Act is a historic victory for New Yorkers and for our progressive values.
00:28:06.000In the face of a federal government intent on rolling back Roe v. Wade and women's reproductive rights, I promised that we would enact this critical legislation within the first 30 days of the new session, and we got it done.
00:28:16.000I'm directing that New York's landmarks be lit pink to celebrate this achievement and shine a bright light forward for the rest of the nation to follow.
00:28:22.000This act of barbarism stacks alongside acts of barbarism from the 1850s with regard to black folks.
00:28:29.000The reduction of babies who just have not entered the vaginal canal to pieces of meat that you can easily dispense with is dehumanization.
00:28:39.000It is pure, simple dehumanization ending in murder.
00:28:56.000As I said in my speech to the March for Life, it's not important that righteousness be popular, it's just important that it be righteous.
00:29:02.000If you're evolving toward evil, well then it is our job to stand to thwart the rails of history to stop you.
00:29:09.000Cuomo is a radical, the Democratic Party is radical, and this is insanity.
00:29:12.000But this is the reason why they didn't want to cover the March for Life.
00:29:14.000So they came up with any excuse they could not to cover the March for Life because they don't want the messages from the March for Life actually going viral.
00:29:21.000They didn't want to show the section of my podcast on Friday in which I went through the actual Fetal development, stage by stage, to show you how babies in the womb are developed.
00:29:32.000Instead, they would pick out a 21-second segment of my show in which I used an analogy to talk about why you should not eugenically abort babies to prevent future crime rates from dropping.
00:29:44.000Instead of covering what happened at the March for Life, they covered some fake, completely manufactured outrage about Nathan Phillips, who confronted a bunch of high school kids, and we somehow made the kids the villains.
00:29:53.000That's what they will do to avoid talking about abortion, even as they pass laws that target the unborn for death.
00:30:00.000Meanwhile, the radicals in the Democratic Party have fully taken over.
00:30:04.000It was bugging me the other day who Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez reminded me of.
00:30:10.000Because there was, like in the back of my mind, there was something that she reminded me of.
00:30:14.000And then I realized what she reminds me of.
00:30:15.000So we're going to play two clips of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez back to back.
00:30:19.000Or a clip of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and then a clip of her doppelganger.
00:30:24.000So here she is, yesterday, talking about billionaires and ringworms with Ta-Nehisi Coates.
00:30:42.000I don't think that necessarily means that all billionaires are immoral.
00:30:48.000But I do think a system that allows billionaires to exist when there are parts of Alabama where people are still getting ringworm because they don't have access to public health is wrong.
00:31:03.000OK, and then let's play her doppelganger here.
00:31:09.000OK, now let me just make a point before the media gets there.
00:31:12.000This isn't sexist because I make fun of all politicians repeatedly.
00:31:15.000I know as soon as you make fun of AOC, it's sexist.
00:31:18.000It's not sexist to point out that she has exactly the same mannerisms and exactly the same political views as the lady from SNL who Seth Meyers once brought on as the as the girl from the party you didn't actually want to get into a conversation with.
00:31:31.000Also, worth noting here, it was funny, yesterday I talked a little bit about her comments about billionaires, which are innately stupid and really ridiculous.
00:31:40.000And her campaign manager came out and said today, clarified and said, billionaires actually, as a staffer, billionaires are actually immoral.
00:31:48.000Because once you have enough money, you should stop wanting money.
00:31:51.000You should stop wanting to produce goods and services for others.
00:31:53.000Instead, you should sort of sit atop your stack of cash.
00:31:56.000I focused in on the billionaire's comment because it was more relevant.
00:31:59.000I will simply point out that when Alexander Ocasio-Cortez says that people are getting ringworm for lack of public health care, you get ringworm from skin-to-skin contact and from going to the gym when people haven't cleaned off the treadmill.
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00:34:44.000One of the things I love about her most, really, is that she complains about the media more than any person I have seen since Donald Trump, frankly.
00:34:52.000Donald Trump goes around, he goes, fake news.
00:34:54.000But half the time, it's actually fake.
00:34:56.000AOC complains about things that are not even fake.
00:35:00.000She just whines about people fact-checking her.
00:35:03.000So she says this, quote, Me, I don't think billionaires should concentrate wealth while employing people who are sleeping in cars working a zillion hours to survive.
00:35:12.000Next day, that will be 10 Pinocchios to Ocasio.
00:35:16.000And I found someone who sleeps in a tent, not a car.
00:35:19.000One of the fact checkers over at the Washington Post, Glenn Kessler, he tweeted back, I asked you some specific questions about statistics you cited, you refused to answer, and now you're moaning about the fact that I'm asking you simple questions?
00:35:33.000That tweet by her, that intellectually dishonest tweet, 143,000 likes because this is the world that we live in.
00:35:39.000If the girl you don't want to talk to at a party on SNL ran for office, she'd win and she might be president.
00:35:45.000That's where we are as a country because nothing she says is distinguishable from anything that AOC says because that's where we are.
00:35:53.000And before people on the left again say, well, that's sexist, Donald Trump's president, he was a reality TV star who didn't know a lot of things.
00:36:00.000Okay, so that's not me mocking AOC, that's mocking Americans, okay?
00:36:03.000Like, America, get your bleep together, seriously.
00:36:11.000And then, I love this, she also started tweeting about how people are mean to her all the time, and that she's being targeted by the media, I talked about this a little bit on the radio show yesterday.
00:36:27.000The Hill put out an article about her that said, Ocasio-Cortez, I give zero Fs about pushback from other Democrats.
00:36:34.000And then she wrote back, I actually didn't say this.
00:36:37.000So while I know brown women cursing drives clicks, maybe you accurately quote the entire exchange instead of manipulating people into thinking I said this sentence instead of just the word zero.
00:36:47.000Hey, does she know how quotation marks work?
00:36:49.000Like, this is a proper use of quotation marks in this headline.
00:36:51.000She was asked a question, how many Fs do you give?
00:37:51.000But that's the nice thing about being a Democrat.
00:37:53.000It means never having to actually be good at anything or say true things.
00:37:57.000In fact, Axios has a piece today talking about Alexander Ocasio-Cortez's claim that we're all going to die in 12 years.
00:38:04.000I saw a very funny, a very funny suggestion internally here is that we should put on a shirt a quote from AOC, the world will end in 12 years.
00:38:11.000And then it should say Alexander Ocasio-Cortez for president 2032.
00:38:26.000During the past year, several scientific reports have been released that underscore the urgency of slashing emissions of greenhouse gases.
00:38:32.000But while there were only 12 years left till 2030 when the IPCC report came out, the reality is that we have a diverse array of choices before us in terms of how soon to make emissions cuts and how significant and costly they are, top climate scientists told Axios.
00:38:46.000Their comments were about the framing of a rigid 12-year timetable in general.
00:38:49.000So they said, 12 years isn't the deadline.
00:38:52.000Climate change isn't a cliff we fall off.
00:39:32.000I don't think we're going to listen to her on much of anything, particularly not on matters that we're going to leave into the hands of a much, much higher authority, and certainly not listen to the freshman congresswoman on when the world may end.
00:39:49.000We're focused on what's happening in the world right now.
00:39:52.000We wish that Democrats like herself would engage in that conversation, help us fix some of the current problems we know exist.
00:39:59.000But the race to the left continues apace.
00:40:01.000One of the great things about the 2020 race is we're going to see nothing but dumb from here on in.
00:40:05.000Really, nothing but stupid from here on in.
00:40:30.000It's like she's a human being who's constantly doing the robot.
00:40:32.000Everything she does is... It's just great.
00:40:36.000And there's also nothing greater than watching a white person awkwardly preach to black people.
00:40:40.000It's one of my favorite things in the entire world.
00:40:43.000So, Kirsten Gillibrand went to the National Action Network.
00:40:46.000Again, it is astonishing to me that Al Sharpton is still considered some sort of legitimate political influencer inside the Democratic Party.
00:40:54.000He's an anti-Semitic piece of human debris, Al Sharpton.
00:41:03.000So Kirsten Gillibrand, but this was great.
00:41:05.000Kirsten Gillibrand went to the National Action Network and she got her preach on.
00:41:09.000It's sort of like when Hillary Clinton went down south and started talking to black audiences and suddenly she started talking like the down-home Arkansas girl we always knew she was from Park Ridge, Illinois.
00:41:20.000Well, Kirsten Gillibrand is doing the same thing and it's just spectacular.
00:41:23.000Watch Kristen Gilliband preach like she just watched Elmer Gantry.
00:41:27.000We will wear the belt of truth because we know the truth.
00:42:06.000You know, there's a famous speech in which George H.W.
00:42:10.000Bush was reading the speech off a teleprompter, and in the middle of the teleprompter, there was a stage direction, and it said something like, say with sincerity, and so he was just reading, and he goes, say with sincerity.
00:44:01.000The acquisition of that much wealth has bad consequences.
00:44:03.000A moral society needs guardrails against it.
00:44:07.000I'm gonna need for like a definition of morality that says that it is not you being greedy when you stick your hand in somebody else's pocket.
00:44:13.000It is greedy when they make their money through consensual transactions.
00:44:17.000So Bill Gates, who has made legitimately millions of lives better, is greedy.
00:44:20.000You are not greedy for going into his pocket and stealing his wallet.
00:44:24.000That's just you establishing moral justice in the world.
00:45:46.000You cannot kill a person who breaks into your house.
00:45:49.000This is according to an opinion piece by Sean Roman Strockage over at the New York Post.
00:45:55.000There's a reason homeowners can rarely afford to dispense mercy on an overnight invader.
00:45:59.000Criminal intruders tend to be the dangerous type.
00:46:01.000What homeowners don't expect are law enforcers and prosecutors going after them for defending themselves and their loved ones.
00:46:07.000Queens resident Joel Christopher Paul faced a home intruder threat in the early hours of July 30th, 2017.
00:46:12.000The 27-year-old was home in Springfield Gardens with his mother, brother, and sister when someone attempted to break in.
00:46:18.000The intruder was Shamel Chaveau, 26, who had traveled north from Maryland after being named a suspect in a shooting there 10 days earlier.
00:46:25.000Expecting a pizza delivery, Paul's brother Michael, 16, went to the door and discovered Chauveau trying to break in.
00:46:30.000Michael forced Chauveau to the surrounding area, and his mother called for help.
00:46:34.000Joel, adrenaline likely surging through his veins, answered the call and brought a bat and knife to the confrontation.
00:46:39.000By the time it was all over, Chauveau received the ultimate lesson in picking the wrong house.
00:46:43.000He died at Jamaica Hospital after being clubbed and stabbed.
00:46:46.000The confrontation had all the indications of a break-in gone wrong for the wanted man, and as one high-ranking police source told the Post, the response was justifiable.
00:46:54.000Both brothers avoided arrest and remained home after the incident, but months later, Queens DA Richard Brown submitted the case to a grand jury, bringing ruin upon Joel, who has been charged with manslaughter.
00:47:05.000Prosecutors shouldn't have targeted Joel.
00:47:06.000The stress, expense, uncertainty facing a first-degree manslaughter charge are devastating and can lead to an unjustified plea that could result in Joel going to prison.
00:47:14.000Part of the trouble lies with New York's retreat doctrine.
00:47:17.000So there's something in a lot of states called the Castle Doctrine.
00:47:19.000That is, if somebody breaks into your house, they are now in your domain and you can shoot them.
00:47:23.000Because they're presumably there to do ill.
00:47:26.000This does not seem like a wild assumption, by the way.
00:47:38.000Just warning to all intruders, you break into my physical domicile, I'm going to assume you are there not to play pinochle, and I will shoot you in the face.
00:47:45.000And this is the perspective of all Second Amendment-abiding gun owners across the United States.
00:47:49.000You break into our houses, you get shot.
00:47:54.000The doctrine holds that Joel had a duty to run and hide if it was safe to do so.
00:47:59.000It's an obligation Joel, like the vast majority of New Yorkers, had probably never heard of because it's asinine.
00:48:04.000Yet it's likely the Queens DA will pursue precisely this avenue at trial since the indictment states that Joel, with intent to cause serious physical injury to Shamal Shavell, caused his death.
00:48:13.000While most jurisdictions would have left Joel alone, the Queens DA seems to want to resurrect the city's bad old days when prosecutors developed a reputation of interpreting laws in ways that protected criminals more than they protected victims.
00:48:28.000It's a violation of the basic right to self-defense.
00:48:30.000Government was established to protect you and your property.
00:48:33.000It was not established to protect criminals who break into your home.
00:48:37.000And this is not a... I mean, this should not be a racial issue.
00:48:40.000It shouldn't be that if you're a white person defending your home, then everybody is okay with it.
00:48:44.000And if you're a black person protecting your home, or a brown person protecting your home, then everybody is very upset about it.
00:48:49.000This guy should be acquitted immediately.
00:48:52.000There's no way that this person ever should have been indicted in the first place if we are getting the true story from the New York Post here.
00:48:57.000If someone breaks into your house, you have a right, naturally given to you by God, to shoot that person in the head.