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00:00:20.000Alrighty, so the market is tanking again today.
00:00:23.000As of this morning, it was dropping almost a thousand points again below 25,000, which means that we've seen a significant market selloff over the course of the last five days, all the way down from about 29,000, all the way down to below 25,000.
00:00:38.000Anything below 10% down, Is a market correction we have seen well below 10% down and this is leading to questions about how real this drop is.
00:00:48.000Are we going to see a gradual rise again as the market improves based on the market pricing in all of the global supply chain disruptions?
00:00:55.000What you are seeing in the news today is people trying to make political hay out of this thing.
00:00:59.000There's just no question this is happening and it's really a point of irritation to watch the media who are definitely spinning people into a panic over this thing.
00:01:06.000Try to pretend that they are not involved in spinning people into a panic over this thing.
00:01:09.000Or Democrats, who continue to claim that the government response is completely lackluster, then claim, how dare President Trump responds to our claims that he is botching a pandemic response?
00:01:18.000I mean, the fact is that there are people out there who, without evidence, are suggesting that a pandemic is directly on the horizon, that the United States is going to be hit with a wave that it is unprepared for.
00:01:28.000And not only that, but that President Trump is solely responsible for this.
00:01:31.000You've seen Democrats out there claiming that the stock market drop is somehow reflective of President Trump's inability to quell A president said something so strange that you really have to wonder.
00:01:40.000He said the reason the market dropped is because of the debate the other night.
00:01:45.000The markets dropped even as Trump was talking.
00:01:46.000A president said something so strange that you really have to wonder.
00:01:52.000He said the reason the market dropped is because of the debate the other night.
00:01:56.000Well, the market had dropped 1,800 points before the debate the other night.
00:02:01.000The market dropped while he was speaking yesterday in his press conference.
00:02:06.000So, you know, So, you know, let's not be silly about what that is.
00:02:12.000Okay, what that is, is global supply chains being disrupted.
00:02:15.000The fact is that the United States has very strong underlying economic fundamentals by every expert that I have talked to and most experts out there.
00:02:41.000And that means that companies are not able to fulfill their orders.
00:02:45.000It means that they are not able to make money and then they're not able to pay off those debts.
00:02:48.000So China's mishandling of this entire thing from the very outset, It just demonstrates the dangers of investing heavy amounts of money in factories and authoritarian dictatorships that are more willing to kill their own people for speaking openly about threats like coronavirus than they are to actually crack down on coronavirus after the cat is already out of the bag, after the hen is already out of the coop.
00:03:10.000So the fact is this has really nothing to do with the United States.
00:03:12.000This has to do with China botching this thing.
00:03:14.000It has to do with the fact that the European economy was already on relatively shaky footing.
00:03:18.000Their growth rates were already incredibly low.
00:03:20.000We've had on Mohamed El-Erian, who's now getting all sorts of credit.
00:03:24.000He's getting all sorts of credit, correctly so, for forecasting a couple of days ago, don't buy into the stock market drop yet.
00:03:30.000Wait a little bit more, because it's really a stock market correction.
00:03:33.000He's been on my show pointing out that the fundamentals of the economy in the United States are fine.
00:03:37.000It's the fundamentals of the economy in Europe that are a real problem, because Europe has been blowing out the spending, because Europe has not actually got its debt in line with its spending, because European growth rates have been low, and because China's growth rates have been unduly inflated.
00:03:51.000And so he was predicting for a long time that as central banks continue to manipulate currencies in order to keep the market up, eventually they would run out of bullets in their gun and you would have to see some actual underlying fundamental economic changes in places like Europe and China in order to sustain growth.
00:04:06.000You're not seeing correction based on failures of American policy.
00:04:09.000You're seeing corrections here based on failures of European and Chinese policy specifically.
00:04:13.000And you're seeing what happens when vulnerable global supply lines Actually become vulnerable.
00:04:19.000The fact is globalization is fantastic in the sense that if you can widely distribute The factors of production across various country lines, you can make that cheaper, you can make it quicker, you can make products more easily and better.
00:04:33.000It also means that just as if you were playing a game of telephone, the chances are much better that the longer the line goes on, somebody is going to miss the message somewhere in the middle.
00:04:41.000Well, the longer the supply chain is, the better chances that there is some sort of disruption in one of those areas, and that disruption is going to affect the entire supply chain.
00:04:49.000So companies are constantly trying to evaluate what are the sort of downside risks here.
00:05:01.000It's an event that is so large and out of the box that nobody has really planned for it.
00:05:05.000There was no real contingency plan for it.
00:05:07.000Now, I think it's fair to say that people should have taken into account that China was a significant area of risk for a very long time.
00:05:13.000I mean, the fact is, again, it's an authoritarian regime.
00:05:15.000That means that they can shift policy at a moment's notice.
00:05:18.000But more than that, There have been a series of diseases coming out of China, ranging from bird flu to SARS, right?
00:05:25.000And all of these diseases coming out of China, maybe that should have been more predictable that something like this would happen, but they were cropping up once every few years.
00:05:31.000They really did not disrupt global supply lines the way that this has disrupted global supply lines.
00:05:36.000So it was sort of an unforeseeable black swan.
00:05:37.000To blame that on Trump, or to suggest that that is reflective of underlying problems in the American economy, Is really not true, particularly since President Trump has been very harsh on China, right?
00:05:46.000President Trump has suggested that investments in China are actually a mistake in the first place and that we should be bringing a lot more of those investments home.
00:05:53.000And I think companies in the future are going to think twice about whether they want to invest in China based on the factor that you never know five years from now whether China is simply going to step in and declare that all business in the country is done, right?
00:06:03.000That they're just not going to operate anymore.
00:06:05.000We'll get into more of this in just one second, and the sort of parochial nature of Americans' view of the economy, which is that everything in the American economy is reliant on the American economy alone.
00:06:17.000I mean, I've said this while Trump was president.
00:06:18.000I think it's very silly for any one president to be credited with a stock market drop or a stock market increase, unless the president takes policies that are directly related to a stock market crash.
00:06:28.000Very often, global economic factors have very little to do with sort of the tinkering around the margins that presidents tend to do.
00:06:33.000We'll get into more of this in just one second.
00:06:35.000First, let's talk about the problems that you may have with employees.
00:06:40.000In a time where economic contraction may be beginning, you want to be very careful about the people you hire.
00:06:44.000So let's say that there's a guy who works for you, and let's call him Jared, just for example.
00:06:49.000And let's say that one of the things that he does, he makes sure that you have your ads on time and that you are fully kept abreast of what exactly advertisers are interested in hearing.
00:06:58.000And let's say that your show starts at, let's say, I don't know, like 8 a.m.
00:08:31.000On Friday, the S&P 500 slid 4.4% on Thursday.
00:08:34.000As I say again, as of early trading this morning, the stock market, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, was down another 1,000 points.
00:08:41.000The downturn continued on Friday as Asian markets closed sharply lower and European stocks tumbled at the start of trading.
00:08:46.000The widening scope of the health crisis threatens to overwhelm global supply chains, especially in China, the world's second largest economy after the United States.
00:08:53.000In addition, the outbreak could crush consumer demand as people limit travel or stay home even without a government order to do so.
00:08:59.000And this is where the uncertainty really comes in.
00:09:02.000It's why China has really botched this thing.
00:09:04.000Because even if China had an outbreak, but they were transparent about what exactly was going on, the market could price in the information.
00:09:10.000Markets are fantastic at pricing in information.
00:09:14.000There's a theory of the stock market that is called the efficient markets theory.
00:09:18.000There's sort of a strong version and a weak version.
00:09:20.000The strong efficient markets theory says that no single trader can ever beat the stock market in general because it is a collectivized aggregation of all knowledge on a particular topic.
00:09:29.000The more information is available, the more the stock market is able to price it in.
00:09:32.000When you see tremendous stock market drops like you've seen over the last week, what that means is tremendous uncertainty.
00:09:37.000It means that people are trying to figure out exactly how much uncertainty there is in the global market, exactly how much information has been made available, and the fact that China has been very stingy about the information that they've actually put out there is the rationale for this drop because investors are trying to figure out, okay, well, I'm not sure whether this thing is going to continue for a month or six months.
00:09:57.000I'm not sure whether we're going to see cancellations of public events.
00:10:00.000Already in Switzerland, they've cancelled, apparently, all public events over a thousand people.
00:10:03.000Not sure why a thousand people is the limit, but you could easily see something like that in the United States if this outbreak starts to worsen.
00:10:10.000You could see public, I mean, sporting events could be shut down, for example.
00:10:14.000Scott Clemens, the chief investment strategist for private bankers at Brown Brothers Harriman, said the outbreak's potential to alter American consumers' habits was at the heart of the sell-off.
00:10:21.000To the degree that consumers change their behavior, so they stop going out to eat, they don't take the vacation, they cancel the business trip, that consumption, that spending, personal consumption, is 68% of GDP.
00:10:31.000Over the past few days, companies as varied as United Airlines, MasterCard, and Pfizer have said the outbreak poses a threat to their 2020 earnings.
00:10:37.000Analysts at Goldman Sachs predict that companies in the S&P 500 would generate no profit growth the entire year as a result of the crisis because of a severe decline in Chinese economic activity.
00:10:49.000On Wednesday, President Trump tried to address the outbreak and said that the risk to the United States was low, but people aren't really confident in that because, frankly, even the United States government doesn't know enough about coronavirus.
00:10:59.000Again, this is the problem with China withholding all sorts of information.
00:11:03.000There are two real factors, as I discussed yesterday, in deciding what the risk factors are with regard to coronavirus.
00:11:09.000One is the transmission rate, and the other is the death rate, and we don't have good information on either one of those.
00:11:13.000Because China has not been revealing the information and you're seeing widely variant reports across the globe on the impact of coronavirus.
00:11:21.000You are seeing that coronavirus in Iran is killing like a crapload of people, but coronavirus in Italy isn't killing that many people.
00:11:28.000Which is not like a major shock, considering that public health in Iran is garbage, and the government of Iran is garbage.
00:11:34.000A bunch of their top ministers have gotten coronavirus over in Iran, according to Farnaz Fasihi and Rick Gladstone reporting for the New York Times.
00:11:41.000A senior figure in Iran's government who sits just a few seats away from President Hassan Rouhani at cabinet meetings.
00:11:46.000coronavirus, making her Iran's seventh official to test positive, including one prominent cleric who has died.
00:11:55.000Vice President Masuma Ebtikar, Mr. Rouhani's deputy for women's affairs and the highest ranking woman in the government, also one of the lead revolutionaries during the Iranian revolution in which they took hostages.
00:12:06.000She was actually one of the hostage takers.
00:12:13.000That his closure came a day after a cabinet meeting in which she was in close contact with other government leaders, including Rouhani.
00:12:21.000A photo posted by a BBC Persia reporter on Twitter showed she was sitting within a few yards of Rouhani.
00:12:26.000She was known as Mary during the Tehran hostage crisis four decades ago.
00:12:30.000Iran now appears to have the highest number of government officials infected by coronavirus.
00:12:34.000It was officially first reported in the holy Iranian city of Qom on February 19th.
00:12:38.000The disease is believed to have spread to the country from China, which retains close economic relations with Iran.
00:12:43.000They've already reported something like 26, it was 245 people infected, something like 26 deaths already.
00:12:50.000But health experts estimate the number of infections is far higher because the country's fatality rate of about 20% seems so high compared to other countries.
00:12:57.000Meanwhile, we've seen that In Italy, coronavirus is shutting down public activity, but we're not seeing tons of deaths.
00:13:05.000So there is a wide difference in how countries' death rates are varying and transmission rates are varying as well.
00:13:11.000Because we don't have enough information, the stock market is trying to price in a tremendous amount of uncertainty right now.
00:13:15.000So when you see that stock market dip, what you should recognize is that if as information emerges, it turns out that coronavirus is really not going to have as grave an impact on global health rates as it was originally suspected it might, then you're going to see the stock market quickly reprice and people buy back in.
00:13:32.000The question is where the bottom is and nobody really knows the answer.
00:13:34.000My guess is that we are approaching the bottom because uncertainty seems like it's at its height right now.
00:13:39.000I'm not recommending that people go and buy stocks.
00:13:40.000All I'm saying is that I would be looking in the very near future to buy stocks given the stock market dip that has taken place over the last few days.
00:13:47.000Whenever the stock market drops this much, that tends to be a fairly good time to buy stocks, not a great time to sell stocks.
00:13:52.000You don't want to sell into a dropping market.
00:13:53.000Buying into a dropping market's a good idea.
00:13:55.000And by the way, when people say my 401k is worth less, that's true.
00:13:58.000Your 401k is worth less, but if you're not cashing it out, it doesn't really matter.
00:14:02.000And Warren Buffett was once asked how much money he lost during the 2007-2008 stock market crash, and he said, I didn't lose a dime because I didn't sell a stock.
00:14:09.000As long as you don't realize the loss, the loss is not realized, which is something good to keep in mind when you're panicking over the value of your 401k.
00:14:15.000If you don't have to access your 401k right now, doesn't really matter.
00:14:17.000You can wait another year, the stock market goes back up, which, by the way, is the best investment strategy.
00:14:22.000Buy and hold is a very, very good investment strategy over time.
00:14:25.000Playing around with the stock market is generally not a great investment strategy.
00:14:29.000The outbreak of coronavirus in and around Milan is light years from the horrors of the plague.
00:14:32.000For now, only just over a dozen people have died.
00:14:35.000They were elderly or with serious underlying health conditions.
00:14:39.000Even in the Chinese statistics that have been made available, the death rates are much higher for older people and people with pre-existing conditions than they are for people who are young.
00:14:52.000But now, basically everybody is staying home.
00:14:56.000On Via Alessandro Manzoni, hardly any cars or people went by, and long lines of white taxis waited for fares that didn't come.
00:15:01.000It led down to Piazza del Duomo, where Milan's landmark cathedral, usually crammed with tourists and people rushing to the subway, was mostly empty.
00:15:08.000Only a few tourists, often wearing masks, showed up and took pictures of themselves, swarmed in gray clouds of the pigeons they fed, out of their hands.
00:15:23.000Everybody is being very cautious at this point.
00:15:26.000Meanwhile, in the United States, There's been a lot of focus on California because there are apparently 8,400 people who are being monitored in the state of California.
00:15:36.000Our Ken Doll of a governor, Gavin Newsom, who has presided over one of the worst health crises in modern California history in terms of a massive homeless crisis that has spread disease in areas like downtown Los Angeles.
00:15:46.000Gavin Newsom came out yesterday and announced that we are monitoring 8,400 people and that 33 confirmed cases of coronavirus have cropped up in California alone.
00:15:56.000Thousands and thousands of other people have come in on more traditional flights through the state of California.
00:16:02.000Some 8,400 plus are currently being monitored with 49 local jurisdictions doing those protocols and monitoring as it relates to more traditional commercial flights that came in from points of concern and potential points of contact, particularly in Asia.
00:16:22.000Okay, so 8,400 people is a lot of people to monitor.
00:16:24.000The people they're monitoring are people who have had points of contact in China.
00:16:27.000We have seen the first case in California.
00:16:29.000This is the one that's kind of freaky.
00:16:30.000The first case of what they call a community infection, meaning we have no idea where the person got the coronavirus infection.
00:16:35.000According to the New York Times, coronavirus diagnosis in California is highlighting testing flaws.
00:16:40.000Doctors suspected that one person was infected with coronavirus for days, but the patient didn't fit the federal criteria because they hadn't been in contact with anyone from China, and they weren't tested for days, which means they were running around the state of California.
00:16:51.000Without any testing protocol in place.
00:16:54.000Even before the announcement on Wednesday, frustration had been mounting among health providers and medical experts that the agency was testing too few Americans, which may slow preparations for an outbreak and may obscure the scope of infections.
00:17:04.000Lauren Sauer, Director of Operations at Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response, says, CDC officials said on Thursday they had not been made aware that doctors in California made an urgent appeal for diagnostic testing of the woman.
00:17:20.000By the end of the day, the agency had revised and broadened its testing criteria, adding to the number of Americans who qualify.
00:17:26.000Right now they're saying there is a shortage of testing kits, so all the talk about testing everybody, that apparently is not a thing that is possible right now.
00:17:37.000CDC is worrying that maybe the health system gets overwhelmed, but the fact is that we are going to be spending billions of dollars on this thing.
00:17:43.000Okay, we're going to get into more of what the government has been doing, where the shortcomings are, in just one second.
00:17:48.000First, let's talk about the problems with fixing your car.
00:17:51.000So, you have something breaks down in your car.
00:17:52.000Your car is now more complex than ever.
00:17:54.000You probably can't go to the local auto parts store, get what you need, and walk out with exactly the right part for your car because parts have become so specific.
00:18:01.000Instead, what you need is to use the power of the internet.
00:18:04.000Chain stores have different price tiers for professional mechanics and do-it-yourselfers alike.
00:18:08.000And here's the thing, RockAuto.com doesn't.
00:18:10.000RockAuto.com always offers the lowest prices possible rather than changing prices based on what the market will bear, like airlines do.
00:18:16.000I spent up to twice as much for the same parts.
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00:18:21.000You can quickly see all the parts available for your vehicle and choose the brands, specifications, and prices you prefer.
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00:19:02.000The FDA is now announcing that the issue of a drug shortage is a possibility.
00:19:09.000Again, these drugs will be ramped up fairly quickly, you would imagine.
00:19:12.000Japan has reported a couple additional Diamond Princess cruise ship deaths.
00:19:16.000The individuals were a British man and a Japanese woman.
00:19:18.000They were the fifth and sixth passengers to die from coronavirus after being aboard the quarantined cruise ship.
00:19:23.000Of course, like 700 people were actually infected on that quarantined cruise ship.
00:19:28.000Not a huge surprise that that many people die, because if there were 800 people infected aboard the cruise ship and six or seven people die, that's obviously tragic and it's obviously terrible, but that means that the death rate is not 10% or 20% or even 5%.
00:19:44.000Right now, China still leads the way in terms of number of infections.
00:19:47.000Apparently, at least 2,800 people, according to the WHO.
00:19:49.000South Korea has the second highest national total of coronavirus cases behind China.
00:19:55.000Of the more than 81,000 people tested in that country, about 2,300 had tested positive for coronavirus.
00:20:01.000More than 30,000 others were waiting test results at this point.
00:20:06.000Meanwhile, a majority of the cases who were on board the Diamond Princess cruise ships, the people in the United States who were diagnosed with the disease, they were on board that Diamond Princess cruise ship that was placed under quarantine in Japanese waters.
00:20:19.000No American has yet died from coronavirus.
00:20:23.000The CDC is investigating the source of the various infections that have been seen around the country.
00:20:28.000The FDA said on Thursday it was not aware of any reports at this time of human illnesses that suggest the coronavirus can be transmitted by food or by food packaging.
00:20:36.000Meanwhile, there's the other big story today from the U.S.
00:20:38.000government is that a whistleblower within the U.S.
00:20:40.000Department of Health and Human Services had filed a complaint alleging that more than a dozen workers were sent to receive the first Americans repatriated from Wuhan, China without proper training or protective gear for coronavirus infection control.
00:20:50.000This was reported by the Washington Post.
00:20:53.000They suggest that the coronavirus basically was treated without any sort of protective gear, according to this whistleblower.
00:21:03.000The underlying complaint, apparently, has not been substantiated at this point.
00:21:08.000Office of Special Counsel confirmed it received the whistleblower complaint and that the case has been assigned.
00:21:13.000U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Caitlin Oakley told ABC News, we take all whistleblower complaints very seriously and are providing the complainants all appropriate protections under the Whistleblower Protection Act.
00:21:23.000Have nothing further to add at this time.
00:21:26.000ABC News has not revealed the complaint.
00:21:28.000Lawyers representing the whistleblower have refused to provide the complaint.
00:21:31.000One of the whistleblower's attorneys told ABC News that the allegations laid forth are accurate.
00:21:37.000He says, we are hopeful Congress and the OSC will investigate this case in a timely and comprehensive manner.
00:21:41.000There's no evidence, by the way, that anybody who actually met the folks coming back from Wuhan, that any of those folks were actually infected with coronavirus.
00:21:50.000Nonetheless, that is leading to questions about the federal handling of this entire situation.
00:21:56.000Now, with all of that said, there's no question that the Democrats and the media are making hay out of all this.
00:22:01.000Brian Stelter was saying, we may be looking at a crisis, and meanwhile, we're having a crisis in leadership.
00:22:05.000Okay, we're not anywhere near crisis point in the United States at this point, guys.
00:22:10.000And the fact is that we have double digit numbers of actual infected in the United States.
00:22:15.000There's only 60 total infected in the United States.
00:22:18.000In a country of 330 million people, we have zero deaths so far.
00:22:21.000So the notion that we are like on the verge of a widespread outbreak, Now, this stuff is fluid, it could move, but there's no evidence at this point that a pandemic is in the offing in the United States, particularly since the US has done a fairly good job, it seems so far, of quarantining people.
00:22:35.000Meanwhile, over in Israel, There are reports that Israeli scientists are on the cusp of developing the first vaccine against the novel coronavirus, according to Science and Technology Minister Ofer Akunas.
00:22:45.000I look forward to Bernie Sanders, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar suggesting boycott, divestment and sanction from the coronavirus vaccine because it's produced in Israel.
00:22:52.000If all goes as planned, the vaccine could be ready within a few weeks and available in 90 days, according to a press release.
00:22:57.000Congratulations to the Galilee Research Institute on this exciting breakthrough, said the Science and Technology Minister Acunas.
00:23:03.000I am confident there will be further rapid progress enabling us to provide a needed response to the grave global COVID-19 threat.
00:23:09.000For the past four years, scientists have been developing a vaccine against infectious bronchitis virus, which causes a bronchial disease affecting poultry.
00:23:16.000The effectiveness of that vaccine had been proven in preclinical trials.
00:23:20.000So we'll see how well this coronavirus vaccine works, but at least there are some glimmers of hope on the horizon.
00:23:29.000But this is not stopping anybody in the media from speculating that the end of the world is upon us.
00:23:33.000We're going to get to that in a second, because that really is the big story in the United States.
00:23:36.000Right now, the big story is not the actual coronavirus outbreak, because there is no coronavirus outbreak in the United States.
00:23:41.000The big story in the United States is twofold.
00:23:43.000One, the drop in the stock market, which again, is not attributable to Trump.
00:23:47.000It is attributable to the weakness of the global economy and the fact that China has screwed everything up.
00:23:51.000And two, it is the Democrats and the media trying to spin this thing into crisis.
00:23:55.000And again, the evidence just ain't there for crisis at this point.
00:23:59.000First, let's talk about making your business more efficient.
00:24:01.000Now, now would be a good time to think about making your business more efficient, right?
00:24:04.000I mean, we may be looking at the possibility of an economic downturn.
00:24:07.000Goldman Sachs suggesting that S&P 500 companies are not going to have profits this year.
00:24:11.000If your business is a business that requires profit, One thing that you definitely need is control of your data, right?
00:24:16.000We here at The Daily Wire, we have to have our eye on our data at all times because that is how we know where the holes in our business are.
00:24:24.000And this is why you should be checking out NetSuite by Oracle.
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00:25:50.000However, the president does have a right to push back against Democrats who have been claiming falsely that the end of the world is upon us.
00:25:58.000Even the Associated Press called out Democrats yesterday.
00:26:00.000The Associated Press, which is no right-wing source, reported that Democrats who keep suggesting that President Trump is defunding the CDC, the Centers for Disease Control, or decreasing the National Institute for Health budget, The AP says these people are wrong.
00:26:16.000Trump's budget's proposed cuts to public health only to be overruled by Congress, where there is strong bipartisan support for agencies like the CDC and the NIH.
00:26:26.000Indeed, the money that government disease detectives first tapped to fight the latest outbreak was a congressional fund created for health emergencies.
00:26:31.000Some public health experts say a bigger concern than White House budgets is the steady erosion of a CDC grant program for state and local public health emergency preparedness.
00:26:39.000But that decline was set in motion by a congressional budget measure that comes before Trump.
00:26:45.000The broader point about there being nobody here to coordinate the response is not true.
00:26:48.000The public health—I mean, this is the AP, right?
00:26:52.000The public health system has a playbook to follow for pandemic preparation, regardless of whose president or whether specific instructions are coming from the White House.
00:26:59.000Those plans were put into place in anticipation of another flu pandemic, but are designed to work for any respiratory-borne disease.
00:27:05.000Among the health authorities overseeing the work are Dr. Anne Schuchat, CDC's principal deputy director and veteran of previous outbreaks, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, NIH's infectious disease chief, who has advised six presidents.
00:27:16.000John Auerbach, president of the Nonpartisan Trust for America's Health, says the CDC's response has been excellent, as it has been in the past.
00:27:22.000our back says cdc's top scientific ranks have remained stable during the past three years now there may be problems going forward but that is not because of cuts that trump supposedly undertook and this is but this is not stopping the media from speculating and speculating and I mean, they are indeed trying to whip people into a frenzy over all this, which, by the way, may provide you a buying opportunity in the stock market if the stock market is responding to that ridiculous feeding frenzy.
00:27:49.000The Washington Post has several pieces today trying to suggest that the White House response is lackluster, despite the fact that we're like a week into the White House response.
00:27:56.000According to Beth Reinhart, Emma Brown, and Nina Satieja over at the Washington Post.
00:28:01.000The White House official charged with leading the U.S.
00:28:03.000response to deadly pandemics left nearly two years ago as his global health security team was disbanded.
00:28:08.000Federal funding for preventing and mitigating the spread of infectious disease has been repeatedly threatened since President Trump's election.
00:28:14.000But by the way, repeatedly threatened does not mean that it was cut.
00:28:18.000By the way, this is one area of government spending that actually makes a difference.
00:28:22.000If you're talking about pandemic prevention, there are a thousand other places to cut in American government.
00:28:26.000Pandemic prevention seems like a fairly good place to actually put some federal money.
00:28:29.000Despite the mounting threat of a coronavirus outbreak in the United States, Trump says he has no regrets about those actions and that expertise and resources can be quickly ramped up to meet current needs.
00:28:39.000So the Washington Post is proclaiming that cuts took place that never happened.
00:28:44.000The Washington Post is trying to stir up a feeling of unease about the federal government's response.
00:28:49.000When again, there's no evidence that the CDC at the top levels is understaffed.
00:28:53.000There's no evidence that the CDC is underfunded at this point.
00:28:56.000Trump is going back to Congress for more money tomorrow.
00:28:59.000If we have to spend money, it's not as though the federal government is unable to spend money.
00:29:02.000The federal government spends $4 trillion a year.
00:29:05.000A few billion dollars is not going to, like, the question is where you allocate for that in future budgets to repay.
00:29:10.000But lest you forget, we have $22 trillion in debt here in the United States.
00:29:13.000in federally undertaken debt in the United States.
00:29:16.000So racking up a few more billion ain't gonna bankrupt the United States.
00:29:20.000Former federal officials and public health experts argue that an effective response to an epidemiological crisis demands sustained planning and investment, while the administration's response to coronavirus, says the Washington Post, has been criticized in recent weeks as slow and disjointed.
00:29:33.000People in and outside the White House have warned for years the nation is ill-prepared for a dangerous pandemic.
00:29:39.000People said exactly the same thing about Ebola.
00:29:41.000People said exactly the same thing about bird flu.
00:29:43.000There has yet to be a federal response to a disaster in my lifetime in which people said, ah, the federal government really handled that thing beautifully.
00:30:05.000Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security says, you build a fire department ahead of time, you don't wait for a fire.
00:30:10.000There's an underappreciation for the amount of time and resources required to build a prepared system.
00:30:14.000But again, we have a prepared system when it comes to flu.
00:30:17.000The question is how large the ramp up is.
00:30:21.000President Obama, in 2014, appointed Ronald Klain, a veteran Democratic operative, to serve as Ebola czar.
00:30:26.000Now, by the way, this should be noted.
00:30:28.000Remember that time when everybody said that it's very bad that Mike Pence was made the coronavirus czar here?
00:30:35.000People ripping on Mike Pence, specifically ripping on Mike Pence because when he was governor of Indiana, he didn't stand in favor of needle exchanges and so they blame him for an HIV outbreak because of needle exchanges, which is just an absurdity at the highest level.
00:30:48.000It is not the responsibility of the government to provide you free needles, clean needles so you can shoot up.
00:30:53.000Okay, that is a very controversial public policy issue.
00:30:56.000To blame Mike Pence for an HIV outbreak because he didn't provide government-provided free needles to people is just an insane contention.
00:31:03.000Nonetheless, people are ripping on Pence.
00:31:05.000Well, how could you appoint Pence to this thing?
00:31:07.000President Obama appointed Ronald Klain a Democratic operative.
00:31:12.000The Obama administration, according to the Washington Post, also set up a special National Security Council team to oversee epidemic preparedness on a permanent basis.
00:31:20.000Okay, but would we be significantly better off if that guy were employed right now?
00:31:22.000year in office before John Bolton dismantled the unit when he took over as NSA in 2018.
00:31:28.000That led to the abrupt departure of its leader, Rear Admiral Timothy Zimer, who had led the White House's anti-malaria efforts under Obama and George W. Bush.
00:31:35.000Okay, but would we be significantly better off if that guy were employed right now?
00:31:40.000Not a ton of evidence to suggest that that would be the case.
00:31:43.000It was a clear loss, and now we are behind the balls.
00:31:46.000Had a former White House official familiar with Zemer's team.
00:31:49.000They had the context and the relationships and knew who to talk to.
00:31:52.000Okay, I have a feeling that people can find phone numbers in the federal government.
00:31:56.000Like really, I have a feeling that this is just trying to whip people into a ridiculous level.
00:32:01.000a frenzy over government shortcomings that have yet to be proved in the Washington Post.
00:32:06.000And they ran like three pieces like this yesterday.
00:32:08.000They ran a bunch of pieces like this yesterday trying to suggest shortcomings in the White House.
00:32:53.000I mean, and when I say that's probably true, I mean, like, what would be the upside of not bringing the full force of the federal government to bear on something that's at the tip of everybody's tongue?
00:33:00.000What Penn says there is the proper response.
00:33:03.000Democrats, however, are trying to complain about this thing endlessly.
00:33:06.000I mean, it's so bad that even Democrats were storming out of a meeting with other Democrats after Democrats were complaining about the Trump response.
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00:34:39.000How irritating has the Democratic and media response It's even irritating other Democrats.
00:34:49.000According to Politico, several House Republicans walked out of a closed-door coronavirus meeting on Friday with Trump health officials in protest after a senior Democrat, who looks a lot like Keith Richards for some reason, blasted the Trump administration's handling of the response effort.
00:35:02.000Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut kicked off the briefing sharply criticizing the administration as disorganized and lacking urgency in combating the coronavirus.
00:35:10.000Her eight-minute speech frustrated Republicans and some Democrats.
00:35:30.000Representative Paul Mitchell of Michigan, Republican, said if I wanted to hear the politics of it, I'd read Politico.
00:35:36.000DeLauro's comments were indicative of the growing political tensions around the Trump administration's handling of the coronavirus response.
00:35:41.000Trump, who's tried to publicly downplay the virus through misleading claims just after midnight, took to Twitter to complain that Democrats were pinning the crisis on him.
00:35:49.000I mean, the Democrats are trying to pin the crisis on him.
00:35:53.000Trump says, he tweeted out, So the coronavirus, which started in China and spread to various countries throughout the world, but very slowly in the U.S.
00:35:59.000because President Trump closed our border and ended flights very early, is now being blamed by the do-nothing Democrats to be the fault of Trump.
00:36:06.000And then he said that Democratic lawmakers were wasting time on other legislative priorities.
00:36:10.000He says the do-nothing Democrats were busy wasting time on the immigration hoax and anything else they could do to make the Republican Party look bad, while I was busy calling early border and flight closings put us way ahead in our battle with coronavirus.
00:36:39.000DeLauro, the leading health appropriator, accused the administration of a lack of urgency and warned there were several crucial questions that remained unanswered.
00:36:46.000As lawmakers transferred to a bigger room, a visibly frustrated DeLauro told colleagues she didn't give a rat's ass about the reaction and that members needed answers from the administration.
00:36:55.000The briefing was led by the CDC director Robert Redfield and NIH infectious disease specialist Tony Fauci, who was called to update members on the state of the coronavirus' spread.
00:37:04.000Asked about an HHS whistleblower complaint, officials did not directly contradict the allegations, but they insisted they believed everyone was properly trained and protocols were followed.
00:37:11.000That was about that whistleblower complaint mentioned earlier.
00:37:13.000Meanwhile, CNN, trying to claim that Trump is silencing scientists.
00:37:16.000This is based on a New York Times piece that points out that the White House is now running all messaging through Mike Pence, which again, Makes a lot of sense, okay?
00:37:28.000If it turns out that the coronavirus outbreak is much more widespread, then that will damage the administration far worse than anything else.
00:37:34.000Radical transparency is called for, and the administration, I think, knows this.
00:37:37.000What they don't want is exactly what has happened.
00:37:39.000A bunch of low-level officials running out and saying different things, and then the media reporting chaos in the administration.
00:37:44.000So the media are trying to create this Catch-22.
00:37:47.000If you have a bunch of low-level officials, Running out there, uncoordinated, saying different things.
00:37:51.000Then they say, chaos in the administration!
00:37:54.000Okay, and then, if you have one person heading it, like Pence, and all the messaging is going through Pence, then it's, they've bottlenecked this thing.
00:38:02.000Okay, so in other words, there's nothing that Trump can do right here, right?
00:38:04.000And there's nothing that Pence can do right.
00:38:06.000Here is CNN trying yesterday to suggest that Trump was silencing scientists to prevent them from talking about coronavirus, which is absolutely absurd.
00:38:15.000The problem occurs when, A, you have a president who starts with very little credibility, and then, B, you have an administration that has had mixed messages.
00:38:25.000And what the people want is the truth.
00:38:27.000And the question is whether you can get the truth more from the scientists or whether you believe the politicians are the right people to get the truth.
00:38:35.000When scientists use the word pandemic, they don't take that lightly.
00:38:40.000And they say that it is a possibility, and if they are muzzled from talking about that possibility, I think that could threaten public health.
00:38:50.000Okay, seriously, nobody is muzzling anybody.
00:38:53.000The problem is that there are a bunch of different stories coming out, and that is shocking the stock market, because when you are getting multiple different stories, that raises the level of uncertainty.
00:39:25.000They're trying to stoke fear in the American people.
00:39:28.000This is a time when Americans usually come together, and they put aside their political differences, and they say, how can I help this president?
00:39:34.000How can I make sure we calm the fears of the American people?
00:39:38.000And that's precisely the opposite of what Democrats are doing.
00:40:06.000I mean, you can see it in the Washington Post.
00:40:08.000The Washington Post has another piece today about how Trump is mean to bureaucrats.
00:40:11.000So obviously this threatens the country because Trump has ripped on the deep state.
00:40:14.000Throughout his more than three years as president, says the Washington Post, Trump has obsessed at times conspiratorially over what he calls the deep state.
00:40:21.000The thousands of career government specialists in national security, intelligence, science, and other areas whose expertise he shuns in part because he suspects they are disloyal saboteurs.
00:40:29.000And so with the first case of coronavirus not tied to foreign travel being announced in California on Wednesday, Trump finds himself grappling with a crisis for which his record suggests he's particularly ill-suited to respond.
00:40:40.000So because Trump is ripping on his intel people because they were in fact leaking a bunch of crap about him for years on end, this means he's ill-equipped to respond by letting health officers do their job?
00:41:06.000And he should let his people handle it.
00:41:07.000But to proclaim that we are in the midst of a public relations and Trump-caused crisis is just missing the fact that the rest of the world is the source of coronavirus, is the source of the global economic risk, that the United States is actually the only solid island in a sea of chaos.
00:41:22.000And meanwhile, we are approaching the South Carolina primary.
00:43:10.000At the same press conference, she suggested that if Bernie goes into the convention with a plurality of delegates but not a majority of delegates, then she will not necessarily support Bernie Sanders.
00:43:19.000So, they are adjusting to the possibility of Bernie Sanders without handing over the keys to the car to Bernie Sanders at this point.
00:43:28.000Rahm Emanuel, former chief of staff to Barack Obama, and of course, mayor of Chicago, former mayor of Chicago, he says, listen, for all this talk about Bernie driving up turnout, In controversial areas, it ain't happening.
00:43:39.000The turnout model that he's looking at has not materialized.
00:43:43.000One of the things I'm concerned about right now is that while viewership in the debates are up, 2018, big turnout, 2019, big turnout for Democrats.
00:43:53.000Participation in our primaries is barely surpassing 2016, and that's a flashing yellow light.
00:44:00.000And it is indeed a flashing yellow light.
00:44:01.000But again, you're starting to see Democrats sort of hedge their bets here by defending every bad thing that Bernie ever does.
00:44:06.000So remember that time that the entire media proclaimed that the Republican Party had been hijacked by Trump and now everybody approved his worst excesses?
00:44:12.000Yeah, all of that's true of Bernie Sanders, like every single element of it.
00:44:15.000So yesterday, House Republicans tried to bring to the floor a resolution condemning Bernie Sanders for his comments over Cuba and condemning Cuba's human rights abuses.
00:44:22.000And Democrats voted to block the resolution.
00:44:24.000Here's Representative Mario Diaz-Balart from Florida, Republican, talking about it.
00:44:28.000But I remind Senator Sanders and the progressive movement that the Castro regime is not only a threat, a threat to the national security interests of the United States, but also to the democracies, the democracies in our hemisphere.
00:44:46.000I want to remind Senator Sanders of Cuba's close relationship, of the Cuban regime's close relationship with some of the world's worst thugs.
00:44:55.000And that, of course, is true, but it's not really gonna matter because Democrats have decided that they will defend anything and everything with regard to Bernie Sanders.
00:45:03.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden continues, again, in these polls in South Carolina, to do very well.
00:45:06.000We're gonna know within 24 hours whether Joe Biden's candidacy is still alive.
00:45:11.000He continues to just stumble around out there.
00:45:13.000Yesterday, on the campaign trail, Joe Biden randomly started talking about ladies taking off their clothes and why you're not allowed to touch them, which is a very, very weird thing to do.
00:45:21.000No man has a right To lay a hand on a woman for any other reason than self-defense.
00:45:27.000And I'm going to make the controversial statements you've always made.
00:45:30.000If someone in this room got up, took off all her clothes and walked out the door, no man has the right to touch her.
00:46:06.000This is the choice you have made for yourself.
00:46:08.000Meanwhile, Michael Bloomberg continues to be a weapon against Bernie Sanders.
00:46:10.000He released some medical information about his heart health.
00:46:16.000And he said that Senator Sanders ought to do the same.
00:46:19.000I mean, it is pretty incredible that Sanders had a heart attack on the campaign trail last year, and he has not released his complete health records, and everybody's like, oh, well, I guess no big deal.
00:46:28.000We had a caller into our radio show yesterday who asked a question, what happens if Bernie Sanders gets nominated and then, God forbid, something happens to him?
00:46:35.000The answer, by the way, is that the DNC gets to appoint the replacement for anybody who would plot before an election, but You know, that's never happened before in American history.
00:46:47.000In a new report from CNN, Bloomberg campaign spokesman Stu Lesser ripped Sanders for not releasing the same left ventricular ejection fraction data Bloomberg did in his own health report.
00:46:55.000That's a very specific report talking about the ability of the heart to continue pumping blood properly.
00:46:59.000Lesser said releasing the single scientific number about heart health could start to put to rest any concerns about Senator Sanders' secrecy about his recent heart attack.
00:47:07.000He said Mike Bloomberg's doctor shared Mike's number.
00:47:09.000Will Senator Sanders ask his doctor to do the same?
00:47:14.000Sanders says we're not going to be releasing any more health records, which is weird because earlier in the campaign he said he was going to release all of these health records.
00:47:22.000Suffice it to say that this Democratic field is so weak at this point that the two choices at the top, neither one of them seems to be a massive A massive victory for Democrats.
00:47:35.000With all of that said, again, there are these black swans that are out there.
00:47:40.000It does really upturn the entire conventional wisdom about this election.
00:47:46.000I mean, if the stock market were to continue to drop, if the economy were to stagnate, then everything is on the table and things get really ugly really quickly.
00:47:52.000So obviously we'll continue to bring you all the updates on all of this.
00:47:55.000Okay, time for a quick thing I like and then we'll do a couple of things that I hate.
00:48:40.000He's made a quadriplegic in the process and he knows sort of this tech type who implants in him something called STEM and STEM Allows him to regain the use of his functions.
00:50:14.000Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:50:17.000All right, thing that I hate, number one.
00:50:23.000So, there is a video that has now gone viral on TikTok.
00:50:26.000TikTok is one of these things for the Gen Zers and Millennials.
00:50:29.000Basically, you upload these little videos to TikTok.
00:50:33.000They're supposed to be sort of edited into, what, 10, 15 seconds or something?
00:50:37.000And then, basically, it acts almost like Snapchat, except they don't disappear.
00:50:42.000You put them out publicly, and then people view them.
00:50:43.000This video has been viewed A bajillion times now because it's just horrifying and disgusting.
00:50:48.000Basically, it's a young woman who goes with her friend to get an abortion and she is happy the whole way through.
00:50:53.000She goes there and she's making fun of people who are at the abortion clinic who seem to be a little bit upset about, you know, killing a baby.
00:50:59.000And here is a little bit of the TikTok video.
00:51:02.000I'll read it to you because a lot of it is done in Texas.
00:51:17.000People who are sad and then her partying it up.
00:51:21.000Her like pumping her fist and smiling while she gets an abortion.
00:51:23.000And then it shows the ultrasound as that baby is, as that fetus is sucked into a tube.
00:51:28.000So let me just point something out about the modern American left.
00:51:32.000I'm old enough to remember when people on the left at least acknowledged the moral quandaries involved in abortion.
00:51:39.000I'm old enough to remember Safe, Legal, and Rare, which was the Bill Clinton line.
00:51:42.000Now, it never made any logical sense, but at least it made a certain amount of emotional sense.
00:51:45.000It didn't make any logical sense because if you believe that it's a wrong, then it should not be legal.
00:51:50.000Right, but if you are at least making the moral, at least if you're making the emotional case that there is something that is worthy of consideration here, that at least is living in the realm of reality.
00:52:00.000Acting as though it is nothing more than getting a polyp removed to take an incipient human life and then kill it.
00:52:04.000And by the way, what does that mean, abortion take two?
00:53:07.000Pregnancy is one of the things that makes you most a woman, as distinguished from most a man.
00:53:11.000It's not what makes you most a human being, what reason makes you most a human being, but your capacity to have a child is one of the key features of being a woman as opposed to being a biological man.
00:53:21.000And to pretend that that doesn't matter.
00:53:22.000And to pretend that femininity is to actively cast that out.
00:53:26.000That female empowerment is to take that which makes you most uniquely female.
00:54:02.000I mean, it's the, honest to God, it's the equivalent of Superman deliberately grounding himself and then saying, I feel more like a Kryptonian today.
00:54:09.000Like, that's just not the way that this works.
00:54:17.000This is any woman who's been pregnant point.
00:54:19.000Okay, this is an amazing, amazing gift that God has given you, or nature has given you, if you don't believe in God.
00:54:25.000And that gift, that amazing gift, to take that and to degrade that, to pretend that the mark of womanhood is to take that which most makes you a woman and then throw it away, is really insane.
00:54:44.000It's not enough to just acknowledge that a sin is being committed, or to say, listen, I believe I should have the right to commit the sin, even if I think it's a sin, even if I think it's bad, I think I should have the right to commit the sin.
00:54:53.000It's not a good argument, but at least that's an argument.
00:54:54.000But to celebrate the sin is an act of evil.
00:54:56.000To celebrate doing something that harms another human being, And by the way, I'm not seeing any evidence in the, I mean, she took a pregnancy test.
00:55:05.000She doesn't look as though she was forced into the sex in this particular video.
00:55:09.000If that is different, then I will amend that statement.
00:55:12.000But I've seen no information to suggest that.
00:55:14.000If she had consensual sex with a person and then she got pregnant, which is a result of consensual sex in many cases, turns out these two things are interlinked.
00:55:20.000And then her natural response is to celebrate, presumably, both the casual sex and then also the abortion.
00:55:31.000How does this make anybody a better human being?
00:55:35.000How does this strengthen womanhood in any real way?
00:55:37.000If you don't watch that, if you watch that and you're not horrified, I'd say you're doing morality wrong whether you're left, right, or center.
00:55:43.000You gotta take this stuff with a certain level of moral seriousness for you to even be taken seriously as a moral human being.
00:55:48.000The other blithe attitude toward abortion is utterly astonishing.
00:55:51.000The Michelle Wolf, celebrate your abortion, fire off fireworks.
00:55:57.000If your freedom is the killing of an unborn human being and celebrating it and fist-pumping it while you do it and making fun of people who are depressed and upset about doing it, even if they're doing it, I mean, what utter callousness.
00:56:17.000But basically this is an episode of Deconstructing the Culture where we take a piece of culture that people are examining and taking a look at and we talk about how important it is and why it affects your kids and affects you.
00:56:28.000So, Taylor Swift, obviously, one of the most popular artists in America, and as her songs get worse, she gets more woke.
00:56:34.000Now, I don't know which precedes the other.
00:56:36.000I don't know whether her talent has abandoned her, and now she's relying on wokeness in order to force her forward, or maybe she just got woke because she had had enough of being insulted for not being woke enough, and so she decided to get overtly political, and then her songs started to be crap.
00:56:51.000By the way, I think there is something to this.
00:56:53.000I think the more overtly political artists get, I think the worse their art tends to be, because the art comes now second to the politics.
00:57:56.000And gay marriage was legalized in Obergefell in 2013.
00:57:58.000You're like half a decade late on this.
00:58:00.000It was exactly the case from Popstar, Never Stop Never Stopping, where the artist trying to get woke cuts a gay marriage music video after it's been legal for several years.
00:58:12.000In which she also insists he's not gay.
00:58:13.000Okay, so Taylor Swift has been doing that.
00:58:32.000In this video, Taylor Swift, who directed, produced, wrote, directed, produced.
00:58:36.000Like, this is the very end of her video.
00:58:37.000It's just her talking about how she did everything because she's so empowered.
00:58:39.000Yeah, you're worth like $200 million, lady.
00:58:41.000Like, I'm sure you're capable of doing a lot of these things.
00:58:43.000She dresses up as a man, and then the basic suggestion of this music video is that her life would be better if she were a man.
00:58:50.000Now let me explain a very simple truth.
00:58:52.000If Taylor Swift were a man, she'd be homeless and living down by the river.
00:58:56.000Okay, the reality is there are lots of men who write songs like Taylor Swift, and none of them are nearly as popular as Taylor Swift, because there is something to the idea of a sexy woman singing songs to you.
01:00:25.000Okay, so this critique that she's making, that males are treated with sort of reverence for conquest and all of this, I actually sort of agree with this critique.
01:00:34.000Okay, this critique is actually a conservative critique of quote-unquote liberated sexual revolution America.
01:00:41.000The problem is that her conclusion is that she should be allowed to do the same stuff that men should do, not that men should stop acting like pigs.
01:00:47.000This is my big critique of large parts of the feminist movement, is that they critique men for being pigs, and then they're like, and so we should also be pigs!
01:00:54.000It's like, well, how about, like, you should just say that men shouldn't be pigs.
01:01:12.000The problem is that the conclusion that she then proceeds to draw is that she should be able to act like a man and then be treated like a man as opposed to men should stop acting like jackasses.
01:01:21.000Okay, here is more of this idiotic song.
01:03:00.000And she'll be celebrated for this because, of course, she is intersectional in the extreme.
01:03:03.000And then the video is her unzipping and peeing on the wall of the 13th Street station.
01:03:07.000By the way, if a dude in a Wall Street business suit started peeing on the wall of a New York subway station, you know how fast that person would be arrested?
01:04:01.000Okay, every single person who earns in this country and is not a wild, woke leftist is considered to have not earned their money by Taylor Swift and her people.
01:04:11.000I mean, by people like Taylor Swift of the left.
01:04:14.000And then in this video, it shows her as a man picking up a child, world's greatest dad, and all of this.
01:04:20.000You're celebrated for being a great dad.
01:04:22.000Yes, you should be celebrated for being a great dad.
01:04:39.000Seriously, if you have to decide, is being a pig bad or is being a pig good?
01:04:42.000If being a pig is good, then what you should be complaining about is that women aren't being pigs enough and that you wish that you could be a pig more.
01:05:43.000But guys, Taylor Swift is super empowered.
01:05:46.000She's super duper empowered in every way.
01:05:48.000And now I feel like she's woke because she's proclaimed herself a victim.
01:05:51.000And if she proclaims herself a victim, then she is a victim.
01:05:53.000And now she'll get to show the video of me talking about her stupid ass video?
01:05:57.000She'll get to show the video of this and claim that I'm victimizing her for criticizing her when she is worth more money than God, is more successful in the public sphere than presumably somebody like me will ever be.
01:06:12.000You are the greatest beneficiary of a free American society that treats women pretty damned well, historically speaking.
01:06:17.000Okay, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
01:06:20.000By the way, next Tuesday, March 3rd, join me, the God-King Jeremy Boring, and reclaimant of Michael Mowles on Daily Wire backstage while we watch the results From Super Tuesday roll in and in and in.
01:06:30.000It's going to be a very long evening, so be there to help us get through it.
01:06:33.000I mean, it's going to be interminable for me.
01:06:34.000I have to hang out with these people in person, but you can join us and watch me suffer.
01:06:38.000Go check us out next Tuesday on our Super Tuesday coverage.