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00:00:00.000President Trump's communications team can't set the record straight on the president's health, Trump takes an ill-advised ride around the hospital, and Democrats try to conceal their glee as they politically maneuver.
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00:01:40.000OK, so first, let's start with the state of the race, because thank God it looks like the president is going to be fine.
00:01:45.000It looks like he's going to be totally OK.
00:01:47.000We'll watch the health as it progresses over the course of the next week.
00:01:50.000We'll get to his health condition in just a moment, because it turns out that it's really more about the sort of topsy-turvy comms of it all, the communications of it all, over the weekend, rather than the president's actual health.
00:02:00.000But the state of the race seems to be breaking very strongly in Joe Biden's direction.
00:02:06.000After President Trump's very bizarre debate performance last week, and then after his COVID diagnosis, you would expect that the polls would begin to open A fair amount.
00:02:14.000And as you see from the new Wall Street Journal NBC News poll, this is exactly what you see.
00:02:18.000Joe Biden now leads the president 53 to 39 among registered voters in the new poll.
00:02:22.000Now, registered voters isn't really what you're looking for.
00:02:24.000Really, you're looking for likely voters.
00:02:26.000That is a large lead, however, for Biden.
00:02:28.000He has increased the lead from an 8-point advantage last month to a 14-point lead today.
00:02:33.000That came just before Trump tested positive for COVID, which of course is bad news for Trump.
00:02:38.000The survey actually found that the individual news event, the debate, was having a material effect on Trump's political standing, at least for the moment.
00:02:46.000One of the reasons, again, was because Trump sort of reinforced the fact that he was at the center of the race.
00:02:51.000As I have literally been saying for years at this point, if this race is a referendum on Trump, he's going to lose.
00:02:57.000If this race is a referendum on Biden and the radicalism of the Democrats, then maybe the Democrats lose.
00:03:02.000But there are certain areas where Trump is really starting to trail heavily.
00:03:23.000And even in this poll, which was before Trump got COVID, the poll showed that 52% of Americans believed that Biden would be better at handling COVID, 52 to 35.
00:03:33.000So, all of this is bad news for Republicans, obviously.
00:03:59.000A lot of hotly-fraud seats right there.
00:04:02.000So we'll see how all of this turns out.
00:04:06.000It is likely that the president's poll numbers are going to drop further in the immediate aftermath of the COVID diagnosis, specifically because there is a poll from ABC News Ipsos that shows that nearly three in four people think that Trump did not take the appropriate precautions regarding COVID, which again is not a shock considering the kind of rhetoric he puts out there.
00:04:22.000As I pointed out last week after the COVID diagnosis, what the government has done is not the same thing as what Trump expresses when he is number one on the stump and number two in his sort of general attitude.
00:04:31.000Whenever he talks about masks, for example, he'll say things like, Okay, there's a way to talk about masks that shows that you take them seriously, and then there's a way to talk about them that shows that you don't take them particularly seriously.
00:05:16.000And I thought, okay, well, that's the news.
00:05:17.000No, wrong I am, because we live inside a reality TV show, and the only thing that matters is how the media cover what Trump is doing today and what Trump is doing today.
00:05:27.000And so what you got over the weekend is really in microcosm, the last four years of the news cycle, which is Trump does a bunch of things, some of which are good, and some of which are tremendously ill-advised, and the media treat all of them individually as the end of the world.
00:05:42.000And when you come away at the end, Trump's basically okay, the media's basically okay, everything's basically okay, right?
00:05:51.000Once, there was a botchery in terms of exactly how this was handled from the White House, without a doubt.
00:05:57.000And also, the media decided to turn everything, even stuff that was pre-approved with the health professionals, they decided to turn everything into some sort of crazy scandal.
00:06:08.000Okay, so let's begin with early on in the weekend.
00:06:11.000So on Friday, President Trump cuts an 18-second video just showing that he's okay.
00:06:15.000Then he proceeds to get on Marine One, and then he flies to the hospital.
00:06:20.000It is worth pointing out at this point that Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post says, why is he getting in a helicopter?
00:06:25.000Probably it's because he's super sick, so he should take a car.
00:06:28.000The relevance of the car will become apparent in just a moment.
00:06:31.000Okay, so then, on Saturday, President Trump puts out another video, and this one is a four-minute video, because there are questions about the 18-second video.
00:06:40.000So on Saturday, he puts out a second video, in which he speaks for four minutes, and he talks about how he's going to beat this thing, and he's learning about COVID the hard way.
00:06:48.000And frankly, he looks, you know, a fair bit better than he did on Friday.
00:07:52.000Over the weekend, members of the media were like, you know, other people, other presidents have lied about their state of health in the past.
00:08:00.000I've seen presidents lie about their health in the past, but they're good at it.
00:08:03.000Well, no, the difference is that back then, the media were actually complicit in lying about the health of the president of the United States when they felt that it had national security implications.
00:08:10.000Here, they're obviously trying to pick apart the health state of President Trump based on whether he is signing a blank sheet of paper or not.
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00:09:42.000And sure, I have a window right here and I could just like go there and open it up and just wave to everybody like Ronald Reagan after he got shot in 1980.
00:09:48.000But instead, I need to drive around in a car.
00:10:51.000It is not a good idea to do this, right?
00:10:52.000We all made fun of Chris Cuomo when he had COVID, and then he decided to jet set out to his second property and check the place out while he had COVID.
00:11:01.000But is it also true that the president is likely working with medical professionals when he decides to do this?
00:11:09.000Our Twitter medical professionals decide to go absolutely nuts about this.
00:11:14.000So Dr. James Phillips, MD, who is the Chief of Disaster Medicine at George Washington University Emergency Medicine, and he's an attending at Walter Reed, which doesn't mean he's Trump's attending.
00:11:26.000It just means he is an attending at Walter Reed.
00:11:29.000There are many attendings, so it wouldn't be too hard to find some doctor who presumably doesn't like Trump very much.
00:11:34.000He tweeted out, every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary presidential drive-by just now has to be quarantined for 14 days.
00:11:52.000Okay, and then you had Dr. Liana Nguyen, who is the contributing columnist for the Washington Post and CNN medical analyst.
00:11:59.000I believe former head of Planned Parenthood, correct?
00:12:01.000So Deanna Nguyen, who again has her own political priors, she tweeted out, if Donald Trump were my patient in unstable condition and contagious illness, and he suddenly left the hospital to go for a car ride that endangers himself and others, I'd call security to restrain him, then perform a psychiatric evaluation to examine his decision-making capacity. Well, then you're probably not like a very good doctor because it turns out that the Walter Reed physicians cleared him to do this.
00:12:25.000According to Catherine Herridge over at CBS, doctors okayed the president's drive by supporters.
00:12:31.000Deputy Press Secretary tells Mark Knoller appropriate precautions were taken in the execution of this movement to protect the president and all those supporting it, including personal protective equipment cleared by the medical team as safe to do.
00:12:41.000So apparently the Secret Service agents were not just wearing masks along with Trump.
00:13:02.000With that said, Secret Service, you guys are very, very worried about the Secret Service today.
00:13:06.000Let me just point out that over the weekend, there were a bunch of Black Lives Matter protesters protesting, and they were doing it at the White House, which means the Secret Service is right there.
00:13:13.000And there are videos and photos of people shouting directly in their faces, people screaming directly in their faces.
00:13:19.000And you guys didn't have one word to say about the safety and security of the Secret Service agents.
00:13:25.000It's very necessary to have people scream without masks directly in the face of Secret Service agents, because at least they are screaming for racial justice or whatever cause of the day is.
00:13:34.000And so, forgive me my skepticism about your motives, media, when you talk about how deeply you care about the protection of our Secret Service agents.
00:13:44.000Then, my favorite thing, the White House Correspondents Association, they couldn't even get the message straight.
00:13:49.000So, was it bad for Trump to go on the drive, or was it bad that he didn't invite the press to also go along with the drive?
00:13:55.000According to The Hill, the White House Correspondents Association on Sunday blasted President Trump's brief foray out of his hospital room to wave to supporters from an SUV, calling it outrageous and criticizing the lack of transparency around the photo op.
00:14:07.000White House Correspondents Association President Zeke Miller said in a statement, So it's terrible, terrible, terrible that Trump would go outside.
00:14:48.000Steroids are a very, very commonly used medication.
00:14:52.000They are safe for use in children, as designated by the FDA.
00:14:55.000The use of a clinical steroid in order to presumably help tamp down COVID, or work on the immune system so as to tamp down COVID, that is not like the end of the world.
00:15:06.000However, there was confusion about his condition over the weekend.
00:15:11.000We'll get to that confusion in just a moment.
00:15:13.000First, it now looks as though pretty much everybody around Trump has been infected with COVID.
00:15:19.000So Trump's campaign manager, Bill Stepien, he tested positive for COVID.
00:15:24.000Attorney General William Barr has not tested positive for COVID, but he's gonna self-quarantine anyway, just in case for the next few days.
00:15:31.000We also have Chris Christie being diagnosed, and Christie obviously is also in a high-risk bracket, considering that he is obviously heavily overweight.
00:15:42.000We have a bunch of people who are at the Cleveland Clinic debate who apparently got tested and came out positive.
00:15:49.000So, this has turned into its own little super-spreader core, which is why, again, Should the president have been downplaying the way that he did masking?
00:16:04.000Should there have been at this White House Rose Garden ceremony people who were hugging each other and all up on each other even if they had already been tested?
00:16:23.000Okay, so the New York Times is looking at the use of dexamethasone to treat Trump as suggesting that he had severe COVID.
00:16:31.000According to the New York Times, on Sunday, Trump's doctors offered rosy assessments of his condition on Sunday, but the few medical details they disclosed, including his fluctuating oxygen levels and a decision to begin treatment with a steroid drug, suggested to many infectious disease experts that he is suffering a more severe case of COVID-19 than the physicians acknowledged.
00:16:47.000And this is where we get off into cuckoo land territory.
00:16:50.000So now we have the New York Times and many other publications running full-scale speculation about the president's health while you have actual doctors out there speaking about the president's health.
00:17:02.000It seems irresponsible to have Sanjay Gupta, you know, talking about the president's health condition when he couldn't even correctly diagnose Chris Cuomo.
00:17:09.000On air, he said that Chris Cuomo had leakage into his lungs, which apparently is not even a thing.
00:17:13.000But over the weekend, he was like, I don't trust the medical information being put out by the medical team.
00:17:18.000Now, as we will see, there are some basis provided to this distrust by the White House communications team and the White House and the White House doctors.
00:17:27.000If this White House acted professionally, it would tamp down two-thirds of the problems that have happened inside this administration easily.
00:18:32.000We'll find out in short order because it appears the president is getting better to the disappointment of a great many blue check marks on the left.
00:18:39.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:19:59.000Okay, so over the weekend, the White House team, the medical team, was not particularly I would say transparent about the health of the president of the United States.
00:20:10.000You can see the message change over time.
00:20:13.000So on Friday, they said originally that he was asymptomatic.
00:20:17.000Then they said that he had mild condition.
00:20:19.000Then they said that he had a moderate condition, according to Mark Meadows.
00:20:21.000And then on Saturday, Dr. Sean Conley, who's the White House physician, came out publicly and he did a presser in which he kind of refused to give answers on whether Trump had received oxygen.
00:20:30.000He has not received any supplemental oxygen.
00:21:00.000Okay, so he kept saying over and over, he's not on oxygen right now.
00:21:03.000And then Saturday morning, Sarah Cook of NBC reported that a source familiar with the president's health said, quote, the president's vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning, and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care.
00:21:14.000We're still not on a clear path to a full recovery. And people on the right went nuts. How could Sarah Cook report this?
00:21:36.000Conley was doing the Bill Clinton is, is in present tense, and was in past tense, right?
00:21:41.000He's saying, well, you know, right now, like this very moment, he's not on oxygen, but...
00:21:46.000And here's Mark Meadows getting rid of the narrative.
00:22:04.000He had a fever and his blood oxygen level had dropped rapidly.
00:22:12.000And yet, in typical style, this president was up and walking around.
00:22:20.000Okay, so there you have Mark Meadows undercutting the original narrative by Conley that Trump was not on oxygen.
00:22:24.000He says, no, actually he did have oxygen, actually a couple of times.
00:22:28.000So then on Sunday, Conley was asked about why he didn't actually just give real information.
00:22:34.000Now it was pretty obvious again from that original clip that he was being studiously, I'd say he was studiously avoiding saying that Trump had been on oxygen.
00:22:41.000So then on Sunday he comes out and he says, I was trying to convey an upbeat attitude.
00:22:45.000I was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude that the team, the president, that his course of illness has had.
00:22:53.000I didn't want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction.
00:23:02.000And in doing so, it came off that we were trying to hide something, which wasn't necessarily true.
00:23:18.000And as it turns out, it was a comms strategy that was designed at the top as per our usual arrangement.
00:23:23.000When professionals actually do the comms, things turn out okay.
00:23:27.000When President Trump does the comms, things do not turn out okay, meaning the communications strategy.
00:23:31.000I mean, this puts now the White House doctor in a position of not really being able to be believed.
00:23:36.000And Sunday Conley was asked about this at the White House.
00:23:38.000He was asked, you know, how are we supposed to believe you when you basically would not give us information yesterday?
00:23:42.000Yesterday you told us that the president was in great shape, had been in good shape and fever free for the previous 24 hours.
00:23:48.000Minutes after your press conference, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told reporters that the president's vitals were very concerning over the past 24 hours.
00:23:56.000Simple question for the American people.
00:23:58.000Whose statements about the president's health should we believe?
00:24:01.000So the chief and I work side by side, and I think his statement was misconstrued.
00:24:07.000What he meant was that 24 hours ago, when he and I were checking on the president, that there was that momentary episode of the high fever and that temporary drop in the saturation.
00:24:22.000Okay, so the way that they actually ended up clearing this up is by saying that, originally, the timeline had been conveyed wrong.
00:24:32.000People on the left have been speculating that Trump tested positive as early as Wednesday.
00:24:36.000It turns out that that is not the case, as far as we know.
00:24:39.000It turns out, actually, that Trump tested positive, I guess, as of Thursday.
00:24:44.000And then, after he tested positive in a rapid test on Thursday, He went on Sean Hannity's show, and while he was on Hannity's show, he didn't then convey that he had tested positive because he was waiting for the more certain PCR test to come back.
00:24:58.000I mean, if you test preliminarily positive in a rapid COVID test and you're president of the United States, and you are now waiting for another test to come back, and somebody asks you and you say, I don't know yet, that's not lying.
00:25:09.000Or if you just don't volunteer the information, that's not really lying either.
00:25:29.000A branding genius is somebody who knows how to put together a pithy slogan, somebody who knows to put together a pithy pitch.
00:25:34.000A communications genius is somebody who knows how to actually message complex ideas into the simple and how to be transparent enough with the American public that you gain their trust.
00:25:43.000And Trump is not a com strategy genius.
00:26:12.000We'll get to more of this in just one second, but it does point to a shortcoming in the president's personality that's being reflected in the polls, and it is common between the debate and between the COVID treatment handling.
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00:27:35.000And so, President Trump apparently was running the comms strategy here, top down.
00:27:39.000According to the New York Times, he said, I didn't want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction.
00:27:44.000This is Dr. Conley, and in doing so, it came off that we were trying to hide something, which wasn't necessarily true.
00:27:49.000Alyssa Farrah, who actually is very good at her job, she's a White House comms advisor, she conceded Dr. Conley had been speaking to an audience of one during a Saturday briefing, quote, when you're treating a patient, you want to project confidence, you want to lift their spirits, and that was the intent.
00:28:03.000Well, okay, the intent of Conley even being, if you don't want to do a presser, don't do a presser.
00:28:07.000But if you're going to have a presser, then you actually have to be transparent about the health condition.
00:28:10.000What's amazing about this is that Trump is now mimicking a lot of the same flaws as the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016.
00:28:15.000In 2016, there were serious questions about Hillary Clinton's health.
00:28:32.000And then it turns out she had walking pneumonia or something.
00:28:34.000And we had not been given that information and people started to have real doubts about her health.
00:28:38.000Well, the same thing has happened here with President Trump.
00:28:41.000Now, it looks like, apparently, according to Dr. Brian Garibaldi, another physician treating the president, that Trump could be discharged as early as today and head back to the White House, which, of course, would be good.
00:28:51.000In addition to steroids, Trump has received an experimental antibody cocktail and is in the midst of a five-day course of remdesivir, which is an antiviral.
00:28:58.000The White House does have a medical unit capable of responding to the president's health troubles.
00:29:02.000They don't have the sophisticated equipment available at Walter Reed, but more of that is for evaluation.
00:29:08.000If his Twitter account is any indicator, the president is feeling a lot better.
00:29:11.000He was pretty silent on Twitter on Saturday, blessedly.
00:29:14.000And then on Sunday night and Monday morning, he went wild on Twitter and just started tweeting everything in the world.
00:29:21.000Apparently, President Trump was very frustrated with a lot of the media coverage.
00:29:25.000And so he had a conversation with Rudy Giuliani reported by the Daily Telegraph, in which a Daily Telegraph columnist now has unveiled the comments.
00:29:33.000She says, I have a good update for you from Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor, I spoke to him about an hour ago.
00:29:37.000He just got off the phone from the president.
00:29:39.000Apparently, the president gave Giuliani this statement, quote, You can go and tell people I'm watching this coverage, which is basically saying he's taking a turn for the worst.
00:29:45.000I feel I could get out of here right now, but they're telling me there can always be a backstep with this disease.
00:29:49.000I feel like I could go out and do a rally.
00:29:54.000Apparently, the president said I had to confront the virus so the American people stopped being afraid of it so we could deal with it responsibly.
00:30:00.000Now, that could be president's actual message coming out of this.
00:30:04.000There are gonna be two dueling messages.
00:30:05.000Coming out of COVID, assuming that Trump is fine, God willing.
00:30:09.000Okay, message number one is gonna be the one pushed by Democrats.
00:30:31.000Like, a lot of people who are in Trump's kind of immediate circle They'll step in, the president's campaign manager has it.
00:30:37.000That's gonna be the narrative, is Trump was irresponsible, and so when Trump got it, it was just a sign of his irresponsibility, which again, is completely at odds with the administration's actual activity on COVID.
00:30:46.000This is one of the great frustrations.
00:30:48.000It is a true frustration for me, because here's the deal.
00:30:50.000Here's what Trump could have done back in March and April.
00:30:53.000What if President Trump had said, you know what?
00:30:57.000Total lockdowns are a bad idea, because as we're gonna see, what's happening right now is the debate over Trump's health and his, Obtaining COVID is now being telescoped.
00:31:06.000It's being telescoped into the debate over broader lockdowns, which are going to reemerge as we enter the fall.
00:31:11.000What if Trump had said, listen, lockdowns are a bad strategy.
00:31:13.000Everybody should go back to work if they are healthy, and they should wear masks, and they should socially distance.
00:31:18.000People are capable of being responsible.
00:31:20.000This is exactly the case I was making in April.
00:31:23.000I literally said lockdowns are a bad idea, and I trust people to be responsible.
00:31:27.000And by and large, people are responsible.
00:31:30.000Okay, but it's easier to make that case when you are not personally being kind of irresponsible.
00:31:35.000It became even more politically inept when he started doing these large rallies.
00:31:39.000I said at the time, on the show, over and over, as soon as the Democrats said, That was morally admissible for you to go out and protest and shout in people's faces and spread COVID as much as you wanted.
00:31:49.000So long as you were shouting about how the police were evil and America was racist and George Floyd, as long as you were doing that, it was totally fine.
00:31:55.000Trump should have said, listen, I'm not doing rallies.
00:31:57.000I don't know why you guys are green lighting all this stuff.
00:32:19.000And that, of course, allowed the media back in to say that Trump was being irresponsible.
00:32:23.000And because Trump is anti-lockdown, And then he got COVID, the case is gonna be made that Joe Biden, who is pro-lockdown and has not had COVID, has the right strategy here.
00:32:31.000Even though, again, anecdotal evidence is not the basis of good policy.
00:32:34.000But that's how people are going to use it.
00:32:51.000And I was in Florida for three weeks during the uptick.
00:32:53.000And people were, in fact, wearing masks, in widespread fashion, in much-maligned Florida.
00:32:58.000By the way, Florida, Texas, Georgia, all of them had a much, much lower second wave, or first wave, as the case may be, than New York had.
00:33:06.000And New York is now having a bit of a second wave, or it looks like they're upticking into a second wave, because when you lockdown very harshly, in consummate fashion, you will have a bump after the end of that lockdown.
00:33:17.000We'll get to more of the public policy ramifications of all this in just one second.
00:33:22.000Also, more kind of media craziness over all of this.
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00:34:38.000Okay, we'll get to more of this in just one second, how the Democrats are trying to turn this into political hay.
00:34:43.000But first, in case you missed it, we had another great episode of the Sunday Special yesterday.
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00:36:53.000Okay, there's only one problem with this.
00:36:54.000The virus either runs its course or it does not run its course.
00:36:57.000Once it runs its course, that's usually like a 10-day period.
00:37:00.000The CDC says you're supposed to quarantine for 10 days.
00:37:03.000Once you are post-symptomatic, you typically are not transmitting the virus.
00:37:07.000Once you are post-symptomatic, you might be doing some viral shedding, but it's not much, and there's not a lot of evidence that once you are post-symptomatic, you are really a grave threat to anybody else.
00:37:16.000So, I mean, on President Trump's level, I think that there's a good shot that within three weeks, you see President Trump body-surfing the crowd, right?
00:37:22.000That he actually just goes to rallies, and he's like, whoo!
00:37:34.000But one of the things the Democrats are trying to do is kill the Amy Coney Barrett vote, saying there are not enough Republicans available to vote.
00:37:40.000Because right now, there have been several Republicans who have been affected.
00:38:18.000September 26th was a festive day for Republicans in Washington.
00:38:20.000Under overcast skies, President Donald Trump strode to a podium in the White House Rose Garden to introduce Judge Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
00:38:30.000A military band played Hail to the Chief, and about 150 guests, including senior members of the Republican Party, the President's Cabinet, and the Senate, Sat shoulder to shoulder and mostly without masks as they cheered for the nomination of a 48-year-old conservative to a lifetime seat.
00:38:43.000The mood was upbeat, in part, because Barrett appeared to have the votes for confirmation before the president even uttered her name.
00:38:48.000Just over a week later, Trump's Rose Garden event suddenly seems far more ominous.
00:38:52.000The idea of Barrett's pre-election confirmation is in doubt.
00:38:54.000What had been a celebration now appears, in retrospect, to have been a super-spreading catastrophe.
00:38:59.000The president is hospitalized with COVID-19.
00:39:01.000Several infections of high-ranking government and Republican Party officials have been plausibly linked to the event.
00:39:05.000Among those who have taken ill are the chair of the RNC, Ronna McDaniel, the president's campaign manager, Bill Stepien, the current and former Trump advisors, Hope Hicks and Kellyanne Conway, and the president of University of Notre Dame, John Jenkins.
00:39:16.000The coronavirus cases that could be the most problematic are Mike Lee, Tom Tillis, and Ron Johnson.
00:39:21.000Lee and Tillis both serve on the Judiciary Committee.
00:39:23.000They could, of course, have Zoom sessions, and they probably will.
00:39:29.000Two of the members have said they oppose holding a vote to confirm a SCOTUS justice before the election.
00:39:35.000The Senate isn't expected to hold a final vote until the end of the month.
00:39:38.000But if these three senators couldn't show up, Republicans would not have the vote.
00:39:42.000It's also possible that more Republican senators will come down with the virus in the next few days.
00:39:46.000Apparently, everybody is basically going to quarantine for the next week or so.
00:39:49.000This is exactly what Democrats are desperately, desperately hoping for.
00:39:53.000They've been looking for some sort of miracle to happen.
00:39:56.000And like Hans Gruber, they may get the miracle that they want.
00:40:01.000Chuck Schumer could barely conceal his glee a little bit earlier over the weekend, as he says that President Trump put a lot of people at risk.
00:40:07.000And also, by the way, maybe we shouldn't vote on Amy Coney Barrett.
00:40:11.000We all know the president's cavalier attitude towards COVID, towards masks, towards social distancing has endangered many people, including himself.
00:40:26.000But it happened over and over and over again.
00:40:29.000So now, at the very minimum, we need full transparency.
00:40:34.000We need to know exactly the level of the President's health.
00:40:38.000Okay, but is it really about that, or is it really about the political game?
00:40:42.000Well, color me skeptical that it's about the actual human problems of COVID-19 here, especially when The Atlantic, on the same day they're running pieces talking about how the vote for Amy Coney Barrett could be in doubt, ran another piece by Quinta Jurecic, a contributing writer at The Atlantic and managing editor of Lawfare, and Susan Hennessey, an executive editor of Lawfare, called the reckless race to confirm Amy Coney Barrett justifies court packing.
00:41:05.000They say, we used to reject court packing as a dangerous game.
00:41:08.000Now we believe it may be the best way to restore the court's legitimacy.
00:41:11.000Shocker, they've now flipped and they say that it is now time to just toss justices willy-nilly onto the Supreme Court.
00:41:21.000So it feels as though they have a pre-existing narrative here, and now they're just looking for an excuse to fulfill it.
00:41:28.000Okay, so narrative number one from the Democrats is there aren't gonna be enough votes in the Senate, or even if there are, people are gonna be sick, and so we shouldn't hold hearings.
00:41:34.000And so, just conveniently, Amy Coney Barrett shouldn't make it on the court.
00:41:37.000Mitch McConnell's not gonna listen to that.
00:41:38.000Amy Coney Barrett will end up on the court.
00:41:40.000Then, there is the second narrative that is being promulgated, and that narrative is more damaging to Trump.
00:41:46.000That narrative is, again, he was not particularly careful.
00:41:50.000Republicans have not been particularly careful.
00:41:52.000And so when they say that you can be trusted, they can't even be trusted.
00:41:57.000And if there are continued lockdowns from now until the end of the election, or from now until January, or from now until February, the economy is just going to skid.
00:42:12.000It's not like the recovery is just doing amazing.
00:42:14.000It turns out that we are seeing the recovery stall out for a wide variety of industries, including the airline industry and the theater industry.
00:42:22.000Regal Cinemas is now suspending operations at all U.S.
00:42:26.000According to the Wall Street Journal, they are the second largest cinema chain in the United States.
00:42:29.000They're closing every one of its locations nationwide after reopening in August.
00:42:34.000That followed a cascade of postponements for big-budget Hollywood films, most recently the new James Bond movie.
00:42:39.000The studio behind the film, MGM Holdings, said Friday it was delaying the film for the second time to next April.
00:42:44.000From this November, it had originally been scheduled for release in April of this year.
00:42:49.000So they said that they don't have enough movies.
00:42:51.000Meanwhile, you saw Disneyland cut like 28,000 jobs.
00:42:56.000You saw that the airline industry was cutting tens of thousands of jobs.
00:42:59.000According to the National Association of Theater Owners, if status quo continues, 69% of small and mid-sized movie theater companies will be forced to file for bankruptcy or to close permanently.
00:43:10.000So these lockdowns do have severe consequences, not just for obvious industries like the theater industry, where you are packed tightly into small areas in confined spaces with air conditioning and re-ventilation, but The airline industry, which has similar conditions, the restaurant industry, where you're going to see huge numbers of small businesses go under.
00:43:29.000So as we hit the supposed second wave season, right, as we hit the cold season, the flu season at the end of the year, as people begin to go indoors because it's too cold outside, in the Northeast, there's going to be widespread debate over what is the proper policy to take.
00:43:43.000And with Trump having gotten COVID, with Ron Johnson, for example, having gotten COVID, and then apparently Senator Johnson, who I know Senator Johnson a little bit personally, very nice guy, but apparently he went to an Oktoberfest party while he was waiting his COVID-19 test results.
00:44:00.000Apparently, according to the Daily Beast, he didn't reveal his diagnosis until Saturday.
00:44:04.000He apparently chose to attend this bash on Friday evening, even though he knew that Trump and many of his inner circle had tested positive for COVID-19.
00:44:12.000There's also talk about when Trump knew that he was sick.
00:44:16.000He knew that Hope Hicks apparently was sick on Wednesday, and then he went to a fundraiser anyway.
00:44:20.000Johnson said that he only took his mask off when it was time to address the crowd.
00:44:23.000He also insisted he was at least 12 feet from anybody during his speech at the event, which was sponsored by the Ozaukee County Republican Party.
00:44:31.000He said, I feel fine, I feel completely normal.
00:44:32.000He said he didn't stick around to mingle at the dinner.
00:44:35.000Okay, so these sorts of stories don't look good for the anti-lockdown advocates.
00:44:58.000But the Democrats are fully invested, in many cases, in full-scale lockdown, including in places like New York.
00:45:04.000So New York is now seeing a little bit of an uptick.
00:45:07.000New York City, over the past several days, has seen an uptick in number of diagnosed COVID cases.
00:45:12.000So maybe a couple of weeks ago, in all of New York City, they were seeing something like 500 cases, 800 cases.
00:45:19.000If you go back to mid-September, they were seeing, at their peaks, something like 900 cases, 860 cases, 880 cases.
00:45:26.000Well, over the weekend, they jumped to 1,731 cases.
00:45:31.000So this has led to talk of New York City adopting restrictions in harder-hit areas.
00:45:38.000According to the New York Times, for many weeks, public health officials had expressed concern that a second wave of the coronavirus would hit New York City, which until recently had achieved striking success in beating back the outbreak after a devastating spread that left more than 20,000 residents dead.
00:45:50.000On Sunday, with those fears growing, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced an emergency crackdown, saying he intended to impose new restrictions in 20 hotspots in Brooklyn and Queens that have been experiencing rising positivity rates.
00:46:00.000The plan is a major setback for New York City, amounting to the first significant reversal in the reopening and offering further evidence of the challenges in curbing the pandemic.
00:46:08.000The city over the last month had taken several strides forward, allowing indoor dining for the first time, becoming the first major school district in the country to bring back children into its public schools.
00:46:16.000But under the new restrictions, de Blasio would close every school, public and private, in nine of the city's 146 zip codes, as well as all non-essential businesses.
00:46:25.000Indoor and outdoor dining in restaurants in those areas will not be allowed.
00:47:31.000It does mean that the risk is relatively lower and the schools have been open in Europe for a long time without them becoming a chief vector of transmission.
00:47:40.000De Blasio said today, unfortunately, is not a day for celebration.
00:47:44.000The nine areas have large populations of Orthodox Jews, communities where the virus have been spreading rapidly, and where public health officials have struggled to persuade many residents to adhere to guidelines on mask wearing and social distancing.
00:47:54.000Those areas all have had positivity rates in recent days of more than 3%, some as high as 8%, in contrast to the city's overall rate of 1.5%.
00:48:02.000The reason for that, presumably, is because in a lot of these Orthodox areas, it is the time of the year where you go to shul a lot, right?
00:48:07.000You end up going for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, right?
00:48:33.000Whenever there's a spiking rate, and it happens among black communities, or it happens in Hispanic communities, the answer is sheer American racism.
00:48:54.000In Canada, it's very doubtful that America's racist medical system is really the problem here.
00:48:59.000Okay, but even when there is a spike in cases in the black community or in the Hispanic community, the media will chalk it up to endemic American discrimination and racism and evil.
00:49:09.000When there's a spike in rates in the Orthodox Jewish community in New York, it is because they're refusing to obey mask guidelines and they are going in enclosed areas and then spitting on each other.
00:49:18.000So, by the way, I tend to think that the second one is true, meaning that when you have a heavy spread in a particular community, you might wanna look at the activity of the particular community as opposed to differentiating the communities based, one, on the behavior of the community, and two, based on the evils of the American system.
00:49:33.000Just gonna note the media bias there, right?
00:49:35.000If there's a heavy uptick in urban Chicago, in heavily black urban Chicago, then it must be because America is a racist place.
00:49:41.000If there's a heavy uptick in Borough Park in New York, then it must be because those terrible Jews are out there spitting on each other.
00:49:47.000And just noticing the disparate treatment right here.
00:49:51.000Apparently, reactions to the restrictions began to emerge from Jewish leaders on Sunday evening after celebrations of Sukkot ended at least the first couple of days.
00:49:57.000David Greenfield, who represented Borough Park on the City Council until 2017, he said, I think it's unfortunate New York City continues to single out a couple of Hasidic Jewish neighborhoods where there are now 20 neighborhoods with serious spikes.
00:50:08.000Many of the 20 zip codes the city is focusing on do have sizable numbers of residents who are not The new restrictions could increase tensions between them and the Orthodox Jews.
00:50:16.000Most of the schools set to close are non-public schools, largely as you vote, that have been open for weeks.
00:50:21.000About 200 private schools will close, as well as 100 public schools as well.
00:50:26.000Okay, so as New York looks to close down again, as more and more blue areas look to close down again, they're gonna look at President Trump, they're gonna look at Ron Johnson, they're gonna look at the Republicans, and they're gonna say, you guys said that people would be responsible, and you couldn't even keep yourself from getting this thing, and you're inside the White House bubble.
00:50:43.000So Trump could theoretically come out and say right now, listen, I should have been more careful, I should have socially distanced, you know, I'm in the upper age bracket.
00:50:51.000But he should also say, listen, If you are careful, number one, you will lower your chances of getting it.
00:50:57.000And having been through this, the vast, vast, vast majority of people who get it do live.
00:51:02.000According to the CDC's best current estimates, if you are between the ages of zero and 19 years old, your chances of dying from this thing are extraordinarily remote.
00:51:12.000Like the infection fatality ratio is .00003.
00:52:05.000And the media play right into it because the media are all in favor of lockdown.
00:52:09.000The media wish to foster a sense of chaos, and it is irresponsible for the administration to give that sort of fuel to people who are looking for that fuel to burn down a lot of elements of the free market system.
00:53:35.000Okay, well, we'll be back here tomorrow with much, much more, so make sure that you stay tuned for that.
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