The Ben Shapiro Show - October 05, 2020


The Covid Botchery | Ep. 1108


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Length

54 minutes

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213.34555

Word Count

11,638

Sentence Count

771

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary

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. Plus, a new poll shows Biden gaining ground on Trump in the midterms, and a new CNN/ORC poll shows Trump losing ground to Biden among women, and is losing ground among elderly voters. All that and more on today's show from Ben Shapiro's show on The Ben Shapiro Show with Ben Shapiro! Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, and use the promo code: CRIMINALS to receive 10% off your first month with discount code CRIMICAL10 at checkout. Visit expressvpn.me/BenShapiroShow to receive $10 and receive $15 when you sign up for the ExpressVpn VIP membership trial. NoOM is the habit-changing solution that helps users learn to develop a new relationship with food through personalized courses, based in psychology. Noom doesn t tell you what to do and what not to do. It teaches you how to look inside your own mind and make better decisions for yourself. You don't have to change everything in one day, you don t have to do it in one big day. You can make small steps, make big progress in one small step, and you can do big steps in one giant day. That's not really what you're looking for, right now. You're human, right? You're not human, you're human. You re not a robot, you re a robot. And you don't need to be a robot? . Noom is not a machine, it s not a computer, you can be a machine. It s a human being, you s a machine that s a robot that s just like a robot with a computer that s not just a computer. - Ben Shapiro or a computer a human, a human and it s a good thing, not a car s a car, a truck, a bike, a motorcycle, a horse, a bicycle, a bus, a plane, a dog, a car and a horse , a car etc., a truck And so on and so on, etc., etc. ...and so on. Ben Shapiro is the host of the Ben Shapiro show on the show, and he s a writer, and so much more.


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00:00:00.000 President 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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00:01:40.000 OK, so first, let's start with the state of the race, because thank God it looks like the president is going to be fine.
00:01:45.000 It looks like he's going to be totally OK.
00:01:47.000 We'll watch the health as it progresses over the course of the next week.
00:01:50.000 We'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.
00:02:00.000 But the state of the race seems to be breaking very strongly in Joe Biden's direction.
00:02:04.000 That is not a great shock.
00:02:06.000 After 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.
00:02:14.000 And as you see from the new Wall Street Journal NBC News poll, this is exactly what you see.
00:02:18.000 Joe Biden now leads the president 53 to 39 among registered voters in the new poll.
00:02:22.000 Now, registered voters isn't really what you're looking for.
00:02:24.000 Really, you're looking for likely voters.
00:02:26.000 That is a large lead, however, for Biden.
00:02:28.000 He has increased the lead from an 8-point advantage last month to a 14-point lead today.
00:02:33.000 That came just before Trump tested positive for COVID, which of course is bad news for Trump.
00:02:38.000 The 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.
00:02:46.000 One of the reasons, again, was because Trump sort of reinforced the fact that he was at the center of the race.
00:02:51.000 As I have literally been saying for years at this point, if this race is a referendum on Trump, he's going to lose.
00:02:57.000 If this race is a referendum on Biden and the radicalism of the Democrats, then maybe the Democrats lose.
00:03:02.000 But there are certain areas where Trump is really starting to trail heavily.
00:03:06.000 He was always trailing among women.
00:03:08.000 In this particular survey, he's trailing 60 to 33 among women.
00:03:12.000 More importantly, among elderly people, he's really dropping in terms of his level of support.
00:03:17.000 And he won elderly voters last time.
00:03:18.000 Right now, he's losing elderly voters pretty significantly.
00:03:23.000 And 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.
00:03:33.000 So, all of this is bad news for Republicans, obviously.
00:03:37.000 It's bad news for the Senate.
00:03:38.000 The worse the president performs, if it's a close election and he loses, maybe the Republicans hold the Senate.
00:03:41.000 Right now, Republicans, in order to hold the Senate, need to hold five of eight contested seats.
00:03:46.000 Right now, that looks pretty dicey.
00:03:49.000 They would need to hold, among others, Colorado, Iowa, Montana, Arizona, Maine, North Carolina.
00:03:58.000 A lot of very, very contested seats.
00:03:59.000 A lot of hotly-fraud seats right there.
00:04:02.000 So we'll see how all of this turns out.
00:04:06.000 It 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.
00:04:22.000 As 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.
00:04:31.000 Whenever 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.
00:04:45.000 Two things can be true at once.
00:04:47.000 One, Trump can have handled his own rhetoric on COVID in a very bad way.
00:04:51.000 And two, the media are completely insane, right?
00:04:54.000 Both of these things are absolutely true, which brings us to this weekend.
00:04:57.000 So I had the wonderful experience of not being online during this weekend, which honestly, it was great.
00:05:03.000 And one of the reasons it was great is because I missed all of the chaos and discombobulation.
00:05:07.000 See, I came off my Jewish holiday late last night.
00:05:11.000 And my first thing was, okay, is Trump okay?
00:05:14.000 And I checked, he was okay.
00:05:16.000 And I thought, okay, well, that's the news.
00:05:17.000 No, 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.
00:05:27.000 And 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.
00:05:42.000 And when you come away at the end, Trump's basically okay, the media's basically okay, everything's basically okay, right?
00:05:46.000 That was the story of the weekend.
00:05:49.000 Nonetheless, two things can be true.
00:05:51.000 Once, there was a botchery in terms of exactly how this was handled from the White House, without a doubt.
00:05:57.000 And 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.
00:06:08.000 Okay, so let's begin with early on in the weekend.
00:06:11.000 So on Friday, President Trump cuts an 18-second video just showing that he's okay.
00:06:15.000 Then he proceeds to get on Marine One, and then he flies to the hospital.
00:06:20.000 It is worth pointing out at this point that Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post says, why is he getting in a helicopter?
00:06:23.000 Why doesn't he just take a car?
00:06:25.000 Probably it's because he's super sick, so he should take a car.
00:06:28.000 The relevance of the car will become apparent in just a moment.
00:06:31.000 Okay, 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.
00:06:38.000 Is that all he could do?
00:06:39.000 Right, how sick was he?
00:06:40.000 So 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.
00:06:48.000 And frankly, he looks, you know, a fair bit better than he did on Friday.
00:06:53.000 It's been a very interesting journey.
00:06:55.000 I learned a lot about COVID.
00:06:57.000 I learned it by really going to school.
00:06:59.000 This is the real school.
00:07:01.000 This isn't the, let's read the book school.
00:07:03.000 And I get it and I understand it.
00:07:06.000 And it's a very interesting thing.
00:07:08.000 I'm going to be letting you know about it.
00:07:09.000 In the meantime, we love the USA and we love what's happening.
00:07:13.000 Thank you.
00:07:15.000 Okay, so obviously he doesn't sound bad there.
00:07:18.000 I mean, he looks like he's pretty high energy, kind of typical Trump.
00:07:20.000 He looks like he's getting through this thing.
00:07:23.000 And the media went crazy because, oh my god, it looks like he's signing a blank paper.
00:07:29.000 First of all, it's not clear the paper is blank.
00:07:31.000 Number two, like...
00:07:32.000 He might be dying, guys.
00:07:34.000 As far as you know at this point, he could be dying.
00:07:36.000 So that seems like that is a last priority.
00:07:38.000 They also went crazy because there are two pictures of him that were released.
00:07:41.000 One of them, he's wearing a jacket.
00:07:42.000 One of them, he is not wearing a jacket.
00:07:44.000 And they're like, he took those two minutes apart!
00:07:46.000 And then he pretended that that was him doing work all day long.
00:07:50.000 Okay, seriously, it was amazing.
00:07:52.000 Over the weekend, members of the media were like, you know, other people, other presidents have lied about their state of health in the past.
00:07:57.000 Woodrow Wilson, FDR, JFK.
00:08:00.000 I've seen presidents lie about their health in the past, but they're good at it.
00:08:03.000 Well, 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.
00:08:10.000 Here, 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.
00:08:17.000 Okay, so that was Saturday.
00:08:19.000 Okay, then, on Sunday, as we will see, President Trump decided, you know, it's Sunday.
00:08:23.000 Let's go for a drive.
00:08:24.000 We'll get to that in just one second.
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00:09:34.000 So it was a Sunday and the president was feeling better.
00:09:36.000 And so he decided it was time for a drive.
00:09:38.000 So he released another video in which he said, guys, you know what?
00:09:41.000 I'm missing all y'all.
00:09:42.000 And 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.
00:09:48.000 But instead, I need to drive around in a car.
00:09:52.000 He's going riding in his automobile.
00:09:54.000 Okay, so here is the video of President Trump riding around in his car.
00:09:58.000 There he is waving. He's wearing a mask inside the car and you have a bunch of Trump supporters outside cheering.
00:10:11.000 Okay, everybody in the media went totally crazy about this, and you knew they would, right?
00:10:16.000 You knew they would, which is why, was this like a wonderful idea on its face?
00:10:20.000 No, I mean, if you're sick, the way you are supposed to be sick with COVID is you're supposed to quarantine.
00:10:25.000 Quarantining means you're not supposed to do stuff like this, right?
00:10:28.000 Now, again, Jennifer Rubin, who five minutes before was like, why didn't he take a car to the hospital?
00:10:32.000 Now she's like, why is he even in a car at all?
00:10:34.000 He should get back on Marine One!
00:10:36.000 Okay, but the rest of the media, again, decided to go absolutely bananas over this thing.
00:10:40.000 Now, again, for the thousandth time, two things can be true at once.
00:10:43.000 Is it a good idea to get in a vehicle and drive around in the vehicle while you have COVID?
00:10:49.000 The general answer is no.
00:10:51.000 It is not a good idea to do this, right?
00:10:52.000 We 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.
00:11:01.000 But is it also true that the president is likely working with medical professionals when he decides to do this?
00:11:07.000 Of course that's true.
00:11:09.000 But it doesn't matter.
00:11:09.000 Our Twitter medical professionals decide to go absolutely nuts about this.
00:11:14.000 So 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.
00:11:26.000 It just means he is an attending at Walter Reed.
00:11:28.000 Walter Reed's a very large hospital.
00:11:29.000 There are many attendings, so it wouldn't be too hard to find some doctor who presumably doesn't like Trump very much.
00:11:34.000 He tweeted out, every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary presidential drive-by just now has to be quarantined for 14 days.
00:11:42.000 They might get sick.
00:11:42.000 They may die for political theater.
00:11:45.000 Commanded by Trump to put their lives at risk for theater.
00:11:48.000 This is insanity!
00:11:52.000 Okay, and then you had Dr. Liana Nguyen, who is the contributing columnist for the Washington Post and CNN medical analyst.
00:11:59.000 I believe former head of Planned Parenthood, correct?
00:12:01.000 So 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.
00:12:25.000 According to Catherine Herridge over at CBS, doctors okayed the president's drive by supporters.
00:12:31.000 Deputy 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.
00:12:41.000 So apparently the Secret Service agents were not just wearing masks along with Trump.
00:12:44.000 They were also wearing goggles.
00:12:45.000 They were also wearing Like full-on gowns, basically.
00:12:48.000 They're wearing whatever personal protective equipment they needed in order to be safe.
00:12:54.000 And for all of the members of the media who are fulminating, look at Secret Service.
00:12:57.000 Secret Service being put at risk.
00:12:58.000 It's so terrible.
00:12:59.000 Again, is this a good idea by Trump?
00:13:00.000 No, it is not actually, but...
00:13:02.000 With that said, Secret Service, you guys are very, very worried about the Secret Service today.
00:13:06.000 Let 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.
00:13:13.000 And there are videos and photos of people shouting directly in their faces, people screaming directly in their faces.
00:13:19.000 And you guys didn't have one word to say about the safety and security of the Secret Service agents.
00:13:23.000 Because apparently that's deeply necessary.
00:13:25.000 It'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.
00:13:34.000 And 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.
00:13:44.000 Then, my favorite thing, the White House Correspondents Association, they couldn't even get the message straight.
00:13:49.000 So, 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?
00:13:55.000 According 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.
00:14:07.000 White House Correspondents Association President Zeke Miller said in a statement, So it's terrible, terrible, terrible that Trump would go outside.
00:14:12.000 Also, he was endangering everybody.
00:14:13.000 amid a health crisis, without a protective pool president to ensure the American people know where their president is and how he is doing.
00:14:19.000 Now more than ever, the American public deserves independent coverage of the president so they can be reliably informed about his health.
00:14:25.000 So it's terrible, terrible, terrible that Trump would go outside.
00:14:27.000 Also, he was endangering everybody.
00:14:30.000 Also, why didn't we have reporters in the car with him?
00:14:33.000 So that's solid stuff right there.
00:14:36.000 Okay, so what exactly is Trump's health condition as of right now?
00:14:40.000 Apparently, he's okay.
00:14:41.000 People are trying to blow it out of proportion that he's taking a steroid.
00:14:45.000 Okay, lots of people take steroids.
00:14:47.000 I mean, seriously.
00:14:48.000 Steroids are a very, very commonly used medication.
00:14:52.000 They are safe for use in children, as designated by the FDA.
00:14:55.000 The 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.
00:15:06.000 However, there was confusion about his condition over the weekend.
00:15:11.000 We'll get to that confusion in just a moment.
00:15:13.000 First, it now looks as though pretty much everybody around Trump has been infected with COVID.
00:15:19.000 So Trump's campaign manager, Bill Stepien, he tested positive for COVID.
00:15:24.000 Attorney General William Barr has not tested positive for COVID, but he's gonna self-quarantine anyway, just in case for the next few days.
00:15:31.000 We also have Chris Christie being diagnosed, and Christie obviously is also in a high-risk bracket, considering that he is obviously heavily overweight.
00:15:42.000 We have a bunch of people who are at the Cleveland Clinic debate who apparently got tested and came out positive.
00:15:49.000 So, 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?
00:16:00.000 Just in his attitude.
00:16:01.000 Not even in so far as what he says, but his attitude?
00:16:03.000 No.
00:16:04.000 Should 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?
00:16:09.000 Probably not.
00:16:12.000 None of this was kind of CDC standard.
00:16:14.000 I get it.
00:16:15.000 I get the narrative.
00:16:16.000 I do.
00:16:17.000 And again, two things can be true at once for the fifth time.
00:16:19.000 Two things can be true at once.
00:16:21.000 Botched by the White House.
00:16:22.000 Media's bad at this.
00:16:23.000 Okay, so the New York Times is looking at the use of dexamethasone to treat Trump as suggesting that he had severe COVID.
00:16:31.000 According 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.
00:16:47.000 And this is where we get off into cuckoo land territory.
00:16:50.000 So 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.
00:17:00.000 That seems irresponsible to me.
00:17:02.000 It seems irresponsible to have Sanjay Gupta, you know, talking about the president's health condition when he couldn't even correctly diagnose Chris Cuomo.
00:17:09.000 On air, he said that Chris Cuomo had leakage into his lungs, which apparently is not even a thing.
00:17:13.000 But over the weekend, he was like, I don't trust the medical information being put out by the medical team.
00:17:18.000 Now, 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.
00:17:26.000 Everything's a mess.
00:17:27.000 If this White House acted professionally, it would tamp down two-thirds of the problems that have happened inside this administration easily.
00:17:27.000 Everything's a mess.
00:17:34.000 That's been the problem with this administration from the very beginning.
00:17:36.000 Lots of great policy, horrible communication strategy.
00:17:39.000 Hey, here's Sanjay Gupta on CNN.
00:17:42.000 You've got to be honest.
00:17:43.000 You've got to be transparent.
00:17:45.000 And all these details matter.
00:17:47.000 I mean, he's coming out to brief the public about the president.
00:17:52.000 That's the briefing that's happening.
00:17:54.000 If you're going to do that, then you have to be absolutely honest.
00:17:57.000 And it wasn't just sort of conveying an upbeat attitude.
00:18:01.000 It was purposely misleading yesterday about a very basic issue, which is whether or not the president had been on supplemental oxygen.
00:18:11.000 Okay, and so they've taken whatever confusion came out of the White House and then painted the gloomiest possible picture.
00:18:16.000 Now, is that because many members of the media are actually kind of hoping for the gloomiest possible picture for Trump?
00:18:21.000 And it's going to be anticlimactic if Trump emerges with the V for Victory sign and then says, I just did COVID, and you know what?
00:18:27.000 It was not great, but all right.
00:18:30.000 Is that something they're going to live with?
00:18:31.000 Hmm.
00:18:32.000 We'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.
00:18:39.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:18:40.000 First, let us talk about the fact that you should not be headed out to the auto parts store today.
00:18:44.000 In fact, why would you go to the auto parts store ever?
00:18:46.000 They're just going to order you this generic part offline that you can do right now yourself.
00:18:50.000 It's going to take weeks to get there.
00:18:51.000 When it does get there, they're going to upcharge you or they'll charge you differently because you are not a professional.
00:18:56.000 Well, why exactly would you do all that instead?
00:18:58.000 Head on over to rockauto.com.
00:19:00.000 It's much easier than walking into the store.
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00:19:59.000 Okay, 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.
00:20:10.000 You can see the message change over time.
00:20:13.000 So on Friday, they said originally that he was asymptomatic.
00:20:17.000 Then they said that he had mild condition.
00:20:19.000 Then they said that he had a moderate condition, according to Mark Meadows.
00:20:21.000 And 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.
00:20:30.000 He has not received any supplemental oxygen.
00:20:33.000 He's not on oxygen right now.
00:20:34.000 That's right.
00:20:35.000 He has not received any at all?
00:20:39.000 He's not needed any this morning, today, at all.
00:20:43.000 Has he ever been on supplemental oxygen?
00:20:46.000 Right now, he is not on oxygen.
00:20:48.000 I know you keep saying right now, but should we read into the fact that he had been previously?
00:20:51.000 Yesterday and today, he was not on oxygen.
00:20:53.000 So he has not been on it during his COVID treatment?
00:20:57.000 He's not on oxygen right now.
00:21:00.000 Okay, so he kept saying over and over, he's not on oxygen right now.
00:21:03.000 And 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.
00:21:14.000 We're still not on a clear path to a full recovery. And people on the right went nuts. How could Sarah Cook report this?
00:21:19.000 It's in an anonymous source.
00:21:20.000 If you're going to say something like, the president might be dying, then you probably need to source that.
00:21:24.000 Well, as it turns out, the anonymous source was, in fact, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.
00:21:27.000 This is according to Jonathan Swan over at Axios.
00:21:29.000 Here was Mark Meadows on Saturday saying, oh yeah, he did actually receive oxygen, as it turns out.
00:21:33.000 Now, that doesn't mean that Conley was lying.
00:21:35.000 Conley was not lying.
00:21:36.000 Conley was doing the Bill Clinton is, is in present tense, and was in past tense, right?
00:21:41.000 He's saying, well, you know, right now, like this very moment, he's not on oxygen, but...
00:21:46.000 And here's Mark Meadows getting rid of the narrative.
00:22:04.000 He had a fever and his blood oxygen level had dropped rapidly.
00:22:12.000 And yet, in typical style, this president was up and walking around.
00:22:20.000 Okay, so there you have Mark Meadows undercutting the original narrative by Conley that Trump was not on oxygen.
00:22:24.000 He says, no, actually he did have oxygen, actually a couple of times.
00:22:28.000 So then on Sunday, Conley was asked about why he didn't actually just give real information.
00:22:34.000 Now 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.
00:22:41.000 So then on Sunday he comes out and he says, I was trying to convey an upbeat attitude.
00:22:45.000 I was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude that the team, the president, that his course of illness has had.
00:22:53.000 I didn't want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction.
00:23:02.000 And in doing so, it came off that we were trying to hide something, which wasn't necessarily true.
00:23:08.000 And so here I have it.
00:23:11.000 The fact of the matter is that he's doing really well.
00:23:15.000 Okay, so the last thing is the one that matters, but is this a good comms strategy?
00:23:18.000 No.
00:23:18.000 And as it turns out, it was a comms strategy that was designed at the top as per our usual arrangement.
00:23:23.000 When professionals actually do the comms, things turn out okay.
00:23:27.000 When President Trump does the comms, things do not turn out okay, meaning the communications strategy.
00:23:31.000 I mean, this puts now the White House doctor in a position of not really being able to be believed.
00:23:36.000 And Sunday Conley was asked about this at the White House.
00:23:38.000 He was asked, you know, how are we supposed to believe you when you basically would not give us information yesterday?
00:23:42.000 Yesterday you told us that the president was in great shape, had been in good shape and fever free for the previous 24 hours.
00:23:48.000 Minutes 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.
00:23:56.000 Simple question for the American people.
00:23:58.000 Whose statements about the president's health should we believe?
00:24:01.000 So the chief and I work side by side, and I think his statement was misconstrued.
00:24:07.000 What 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.
00:24:22.000 Okay, so the way that they actually ended up clearing this up is by saying that, originally, the timeline had been conveyed wrong.
00:24:27.000 It wasn't over the prior 24 hours.
00:24:28.000 It wasn't over the prior 48 hours.
00:24:30.000 It was over the prior 24 hours.
00:24:32.000 People on the left have been speculating that Trump tested positive as early as Wednesday.
00:24:36.000 It turns out that that is not the case, as far as we know.
00:24:39.000 It turns out, actually, that Trump tested positive, I guess, as of Thursday.
00:24:44.000 And 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.
00:24:56.000 Now, that's not lying, right?
00:24:58.000 I 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.
00:25:09.000 Or if you just don't volunteer the information, that's not really lying either.
00:25:12.000 It's not great.
00:25:13.000 Like, if you're Trump, probably just cancel the interview with Hannity.
00:25:16.000 Like, why wouldn't you cancel the interview?
00:25:18.000 But again, com strategy run from the top.
00:25:20.000 The great lie of the Trump White House for a long time is that Trump is a communications genius.
00:25:24.000 He is a branding genius.
00:25:26.000 He is not a communications genius.
00:25:27.000 These are two different things.
00:25:29.000 A branding genius is somebody who knows how to put together a pithy slogan, somebody who knows to put together a pithy pitch.
00:25:34.000 A 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.
00:25:43.000 And Trump is not a com strategy genius.
00:25:45.000 He is a very, very good branding guy.
00:25:47.000 That divide has never been greater than it is right now.
00:25:50.000 Now, with that said, the media, again, have lost their ever-loving minds over all of this.
00:25:54.000 We've been told that him riding in a car literally is murdering people.
00:25:58.000 We've been told that his doctors are openly lying to the American public.
00:26:01.000 How can we trust them?
00:26:02.000 To the point where we even had people like Joy Reid suggesting Trump may not even have COVID.
00:26:05.000 Maybe this is just all a sympathy play.
00:26:07.000 Mm-hmm.
00:26:08.000 She said she was getting those sorts of texts from her friends.
00:26:10.000 That lady has a show on MSNBC.
00:26:12.000 We'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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00:27:35.000 And so, President Trump apparently was running the comms strategy here, top down.
00:27:39.000 According 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.
00:27:44.000 This is Dr. Conley, and in doing so, it came off that we were trying to hide something, which wasn't necessarily true.
00:27:49.000 Alyssa 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.
00:28:03.000 Well, okay, the intent of Conley even being, if you don't want to do a presser, don't do a presser.
00:28:07.000 But if you're going to have a presser, then you actually have to be transparent about the health condition.
00:28:10.000 What's amazing about this is that Trump is now mimicking a lot of the same flaws as the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016.
00:28:15.000 In 2016, there were serious questions about Hillary Clinton's health.
00:28:18.000 You remember this, right?
00:28:19.000 She kept coughing.
00:28:21.000 She wasn't doing long interviews.
00:28:22.000 And then, you remember, she kept saying, everything's fine.
00:28:24.000 It's fine.
00:28:25.000 It's totally fine.
00:28:26.000 And then she collapsed into a van.
00:28:28.000 And then the answer was, well, she had dehydration, right?
00:28:30.000 That was the original answer.
00:28:31.000 She got dehydrated.
00:28:32.000 And then it turns out she had walking pneumonia or something.
00:28:34.000 And we had not been given that information and people started to have real doubts about her health.
00:28:38.000 Well, the same thing has happened here with President Trump.
00:28:41.000 Now, 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.
00:28:51.000 In 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.
00:28:58.000 The White House does have a medical unit capable of responding to the president's health troubles.
00:29:02.000 They don't have the sophisticated equipment available at Walter Reed, but more of that is for evaluation.
00:29:07.000 Trump apparently wants out.
00:29:08.000 If his Twitter account is any indicator, the president is feeling a lot better.
00:29:11.000 He was pretty silent on Twitter on Saturday, blessedly.
00:29:14.000 And then on Sunday night and Monday morning, he went wild on Twitter and just started tweeting everything in the world.
00:29:21.000 Apparently, President Trump was very frustrated with a lot of the media coverage.
00:29:25.000 And so he had a conversation with Rudy Giuliani reported by the Daily Telegraph, in which a Daily Telegraph columnist now has unveiled the comments.
00:29:33.000 She says, I have a good update for you from Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor, I spoke to him about an hour ago.
00:29:37.000 He just got off the phone from the president.
00:29:39.000 Apparently, 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.
00:29:45.000 I feel I could get out of here right now, but they're telling me there can always be a backstep with this disease.
00:29:49.000 I feel like I could go out and do a rally.
00:29:51.000 I'm president of the United States.
00:29:52.000 I can't lock myself in the room.
00:29:54.000 Apparently, 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.
00:30:00.000 Now, that could be president's actual message coming out of this.
00:30:04.000 There are gonna be two dueling messages.
00:30:05.000 Coming out of COVID, assuming that Trump is fine, God willing.
00:30:09.000 Okay, message number one is gonna be the one pushed by Democrats.
00:30:12.000 He was irresponsible.
00:30:13.000 His irresponsibility led him to be in rooms with people he should not have been in rooms with.
00:30:17.000 He did not protect himself, and he did not protect others.
00:30:20.000 And in fact, Chris Christie has said, for example, that during debate prep, Trump was not wearing a mask.
00:30:24.000 He was within six feet of Chris Christie, and Chris Christie now has it.
00:30:27.000 We now know that Senator Tom Tillis has it.
00:30:29.000 We know that Senator Mike Lee has it.
00:30:31.000 Like, a lot of people who are in Trump's kind of immediate circle They'll step in, the president's campaign manager has it.
00:30:37.000 That'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.
00:30:46.000 This is one of the great frustrations.
00:30:48.000 It is a true frustration for me, because here's the deal.
00:30:50.000 Here's what Trump could have done back in March and April.
00:30:53.000 What if President Trump had said, you know what?
00:30:54.000 Lockdowns don't work.
00:30:55.000 Lockdowns are a bad idea.
00:30:56.000 What if Trump had said this?
00:30:57.000 Total 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.
00:31:06.000 It's being telescoped into the debate over broader lockdowns, which are going to reemerge as we enter the fall.
00:31:11.000 What if Trump had said, listen, lockdowns are a bad strategy.
00:31:13.000 Everybody should go back to work if they are healthy, and they should wear masks, and they should socially distance.
00:31:18.000 People are capable of being responsible.
00:31:20.000 This is exactly the case I was making in April.
00:31:22.000 Go back and listen to the show.
00:31:23.000 I literally said lockdowns are a bad idea, and I trust people to be responsible.
00:31:27.000 And by and large, people are responsible.
00:31:30.000 Okay, but it's easier to make that case when you are not personally being kind of irresponsible.
00:31:35.000 It became even more politically inept when he started doing these large rallies.
00:31:39.000 I 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.
00:31:49.000 So 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.
00:31:55.000 Trump should have said, listen, I'm not doing rallies.
00:31:57.000 I don't know why you guys are green lighting all this stuff.
00:31:58.000 Whatever happens next is on you.
00:32:00.000 I've said people should be responsible.
00:32:01.000 You guys have engaged in pure irresponsibility, not only On a moral level, by backing anti-police propaganda from the far left.
00:32:09.000 But on a health level, you're being irresponsible by saying it's totally fine to go out in the streets with millions of people doing it.
00:32:16.000 Instead, Trump was like, well, you know, if they can do it, I can do it.
00:32:18.000 Let's have some rallies.
00:32:19.000 And that, of course, allowed the media back in to say that Trump was being irresponsible.
00:32:23.000 And 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.
00:32:31.000 Even though, again, anecdotal evidence is not the basis of good policy.
00:32:34.000 But that's how people are going to use it.
00:32:37.000 It was stupid, okay?
00:32:39.000 I'm sorry, that was a stupid strategy.
00:32:41.000 And that's not an argument for mask mandates.
00:32:43.000 Again, my whole case is that people can be trusted, responsibly, to put on masks when the caseloads are rising.
00:32:48.000 You see this in LA, where everybody is wearing a mask.
00:32:50.000 You saw this, by the way, in Florida.
00:32:51.000 And I was in Florida for three weeks during the uptick.
00:32:53.000 And people were, in fact, wearing masks, in widespread fashion, in much-maligned Florida.
00:32:58.000 By 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.
00:33:06.000 And 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.
00:33:17.000 We'll get to more of the public policy ramifications of all this in just one second.
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00:36:23.000 So there are two ways in which Democrats are attempting to play this particular COVID scenario into a broader political discussion.
00:36:44.000 Way number one is they're trying on a very practical level to kill the vote for Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court, right?
00:36:49.000 Their goal is we have enough senators who've been infected.
00:36:51.000 They need to stay home.
00:36:52.000 If they're at home, they can't vote.
00:36:53.000 Okay, there's only one problem with this.
00:36:54.000 The virus either runs its course or it does not run its course.
00:36:57.000 Once it runs its course, that's usually like a 10-day period.
00:37:00.000 The CDC says you're supposed to quarantine for 10 days.
00:37:03.000 Once you are post-symptomatic, you typically are not transmitting the virus.
00:37:07.000 Once 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.
00:37:15.000 Also, you're now immune.
00:37:16.000 So, 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?
00:37:22.000 That he actually just goes to rallies, and he's like, whoo!
00:37:24.000 Like, whoo!
00:37:25.000 Yeah!
00:37:26.000 Just jumping out in the crowd, waving to people, and being carried around on their shoulders, eight of them.
00:37:32.000 That's a possibility.
00:37:34.000 But 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.
00:37:40.000 Because right now, there have been several Republicans who have been affected.
00:37:43.000 Mike Lee has it.
00:37:45.000 Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin has it.
00:37:47.000 And Senator Tom Tillis has it.
00:37:49.000 Well, recall you this.
00:37:50.000 Republicans right now have 53 votes in the Senate.
00:37:53.000 Susan Collins of Maine has already said that she may or may not vote this way, and Murkowski says she's not going to vote this way.
00:37:59.000 So you actually need all those people present in order to get Amy Coney Barrett on the court.
00:38:03.000 Democrats are praying that Republicans actually don't have the SCOTUS votes.
00:38:08.000 According to The Atlantic, suddenly Amy Coney Barrett might not have the votes.
00:38:12.000 For the moment, COVID-19 diagnoses have jeopardized three votes that Republicans can't afford to lose.
00:38:15.000 This is according to Russell Berman.
00:38:18.000 September 26th was a festive day for Republicans in Washington.
00:38:20.000 Under 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.
00:38:30.000 A 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.
00:38:43.000 The mood was upbeat, in part, because Barrett appeared to have the votes for confirmation before the president even uttered her name.
00:38:48.000 Just over a week later, Trump's Rose Garden event suddenly seems far more ominous.
00:38:52.000 The idea of Barrett's pre-election confirmation is in doubt.
00:38:54.000 What had been a celebration now appears, in retrospect, to have been a super-spreading catastrophe.
00:38:59.000 The president is hospitalized with COVID-19.
00:39:01.000 Several infections of high-ranking government and Republican Party officials have been plausibly linked to the event.
00:39:05.000 Among 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.
00:39:16.000 The coronavirus cases that could be the most problematic are Mike Lee, Tom Tillis, and Ron Johnson.
00:39:21.000 Lee and Tillis both serve on the Judiciary Committee.
00:39:23.000 They could, of course, have Zoom sessions, and they probably will.
00:39:27.000 Republicans have a 53-47 majority.
00:39:29.000 Two of the members have said they oppose holding a vote to confirm a SCOTUS justice before the election.
00:39:35.000 The Senate isn't expected to hold a final vote until the end of the month.
00:39:38.000 But if these three senators couldn't show up, Republicans would not have the vote.
00:39:42.000 It's also possible that more Republican senators will come down with the virus in the next few days.
00:39:46.000 Apparently, everybody is basically going to quarantine for the next week or so.
00:39:49.000 This is exactly what Democrats are desperately, desperately hoping for.
00:39:53.000 They've been looking for some sort of miracle to happen.
00:39:56.000 And like Hans Gruber, they may get the miracle that they want.
00:40:01.000 Chuck 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.
00:40:07.000 And also, by the way, maybe we shouldn't vote on Amy Coney Barrett.
00:40:10.000 We need full transparency.
00:40:11.000 We all know the president's cavalier attitude towards COVID, towards masks, towards social distancing has endangered many people, including himself.
00:40:23.000 As again, this picture shows.
00:40:26.000 But it happened over and over and over again.
00:40:29.000 So now, at the very minimum, we need full transparency.
00:40:34.000 We need to know exactly the level of the President's health.
00:40:38.000 Okay, but is it really about that, or is it really about the political game?
00:40:42.000 Well, 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.
00:41:05.000 They say, we used to reject court packing as a dangerous game.
00:41:08.000 Now we believe it may be the best way to restore the court's legitimacy.
00:41:11.000 Shocker, they've now flipped and they say that it is now time to just toss justices willy-nilly onto the Supreme Court.
00:41:20.000 Very exciting stuff.
00:41:21.000 So it feels as though they have a pre-existing narrative here, and now they're just looking for an excuse to fulfill it.
00:41:28.000 Okay, 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.
00:41:34.000 And so, just conveniently, Amy Coney Barrett shouldn't make it on the court.
00:41:37.000 Mitch McConnell's not gonna listen to that.
00:41:38.000 Amy Coney Barrett will end up on the court.
00:41:40.000 Then, there is the second narrative that is being promulgated, and that narrative is more damaging to Trump.
00:41:46.000 That narrative is, again, he was not particularly careful.
00:41:50.000 Republicans have not been particularly careful.
00:41:52.000 And so when they say that you can be trusted, they can't even be trusted.
00:41:55.000 So why should you be trusted?
00:41:56.000 Therefore, lockdowns.
00:41:57.000 And 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.
00:42:04.000 It is just going to go off the rails.
00:42:06.000 We had an economic report last week.
00:42:07.000 It showed that there were some 644,000 jobs added nationwide.
00:42:09.000 That's not bad, but it ain't great.
00:42:12.000 It's not like the recovery is just doing amazing.
00:42:14.000 It turns out that we are seeing the recovery stall out for a wide variety of industries, including the airline industry and the theater industry.
00:42:22.000 Regal Cinemas is now suspending operations at all U.S.
00:42:25.000 locations.
00:42:26.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, they are the second largest cinema chain in the United States.
00:42:29.000 They're closing every one of its locations nationwide after reopening in August.
00:42:34.000 That followed a cascade of postponements for big-budget Hollywood films, most recently the new James Bond movie.
00:42:39.000 The studio behind the film, MGM Holdings, said Friday it was delaying the film for the second time to next April.
00:42:44.000 From this November, it had originally been scheduled for release in April of this year.
00:42:49.000 So they said that they don't have enough movies.
00:42:51.000 Meanwhile, you saw Disneyland cut like 28,000 jobs.
00:42:56.000 You saw that the airline industry was cutting tens of thousands of jobs.
00:42:59.000 According 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.
00:43:10.000 So 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.
00:43:29.000 So 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.
00:43:43.000 And 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.
00:43:58.000 Not kidding.
00:44:00.000 Apparently, according to the Daily Beast, he didn't reveal his diagnosis until Saturday.
00:44:04.000 He 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.
00:44:12.000 There's also talk about when Trump knew that he was sick.
00:44:16.000 He knew that Hope Hicks apparently was sick on Wednesday, and then he went to a fundraiser anyway.
00:44:20.000 Johnson said that he only took his mask off when it was time to address the crowd.
00:44:23.000 He 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.
00:44:31.000 He said, I feel fine, I feel completely normal.
00:44:32.000 He said he didn't stick around to mingle at the dinner.
00:44:35.000 Okay, so these sorts of stories don't look good for the anti-lockdown advocates.
00:44:41.000 Okay, they don't.
00:44:43.000 Because again, the case for anti-lockdown is we can all act in responsible fashion and we can go back to work.
00:44:48.000 These things are not only mutually not exclusive, they're mutually necessary.
00:44:52.000 Responsibility and ending lockdown, both of these things should happen in tandem.
00:44:56.000 That is the case.
00:44:58.000 But the Democrats are fully invested, in many cases, in full-scale lockdown, including in places like New York.
00:45:04.000 So New York is now seeing a little bit of an uptick.
00:45:07.000 New York City, over the past several days, has seen an uptick in number of diagnosed COVID cases.
00:45:12.000 So maybe a couple of weeks ago, in all of New York City, they were seeing something like 500 cases, 800 cases.
00:45:19.000 If you go back to mid-September, they were seeing, at their peaks, something like 900 cases, 860 cases, 880 cases.
00:45:26.000 Well, over the weekend, they jumped to 1,731 cases.
00:45:31.000 So this has led to talk of New York City adopting restrictions in harder-hit areas.
00:45:38.000 According 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.
00:45:50.000 On 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.
00:46:00.000 The 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.
00:46:08.000 The 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.
00:46:16.000 But 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.
00:46:25.000 Indoor and outdoor dining in restaurants in those areas will not be allowed.
00:46:28.000 Even outdoor dining, right?
00:46:29.000 Now we are back to full-scale lockdown under Bill de Blasio.
00:46:32.000 Now, even as a person, I happen to be pretty COVID cautious, right?
00:46:35.000 I have parents who are 64.
00:46:37.000 You know this, right?
00:46:37.000 When I was sheltering, I literally sheltered in place for several months there.
00:46:41.000 With my parents, because I did not want them to risk their health.
00:46:44.000 Even today, when my parents are over with us, we tend to be outdoors.
00:46:48.000 When we are indoors, my parents wear masks.
00:46:50.000 They wear masks around my kids.
00:46:52.000 I tend to be much more COVID-cautious than some of the people who are on the right.
00:46:56.000 But even I believe that it is nuts to ban, for example, outdoor dining.
00:47:02.000 Outdoor dining is not a chief vector of transmission.
00:47:05.000 Schools.
00:47:06.000 Particularly for people who are under the age of 10, right?
00:47:08.000 For small children, these are not a chief vector of transmission.
00:47:11.000 It is one thing to talk about closing middle schools or high schools.
00:47:14.000 Once kids have a more mature immune system, apparently they can now pass it to people because their bodies act like adult bodies.
00:47:19.000 But if you're talking about five-year-olds, they are not apparently passing this in anywhere near the same numbers.
00:47:24.000 And if they do get it, they're not really getting supremely sick according to CDC statistics, okay?
00:47:28.000 I can quote you all of the CDC statistics.
00:47:30.000 It doesn't mean the risk is zero.
00:47:31.000 It 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.
00:47:40.000 De Blasio said today, unfortunately, is not a day for celebration.
00:47:42.000 Today is a more difficult day.
00:47:44.000 The 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.
00:47:54.000 Those 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%.
00:48:02.000 The 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?
00:48:07.000 You end up going for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, right?
00:48:09.000 These are the big communal days.
00:48:10.000 Sukkot, the high holidays.
00:48:12.000 The high holy days, holidays.
00:48:14.000 This is the time of year when people tend to get together in close quarters.
00:48:16.000 It's a big problem in Israel.
00:48:17.000 This is why they've had military lockdown, particularly in religious areas.
00:48:21.000 By the way, I think it is worth noting I do.
00:48:24.000 I think it is worth noting right here that the media's treatment of Orthodox Jews and other racial groups is quite disparate.
00:48:32.000 Have you noticed this?
00:48:33.000 Whenever there's a spiking rate, and it happens among black communities, or it happens in Hispanic communities, the answer is sheer American racism.
00:48:42.000 Brutal American racism.
00:48:43.000 Not spiking deaths, right?
00:48:45.000 Not spiking deaths where you could theoretically talk about differentials in medical care.
00:48:48.000 Although even there, you're seeing those spiking rates of death vary by racial group, ethnic group.
00:48:53.000 In Europe as well, you're seeing it.
00:48:54.000 In Canada, it's very doubtful that America's racist medical system is really the problem here.
00:48:59.000 Okay, 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.
00:49:09.000 When 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.
00:49:18.000 So, 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.
00:49:33.000 Just gonna note the media bias there, right?
00:49:35.000 If there's a heavy uptick in urban Chicago, in heavily black urban Chicago, then it must be because America is a racist place.
00:49:41.000 If 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.
00:49:47.000 And just noticing the disparate treatment right here.
00:49:51.000 Apparently, 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.
00:49:57.000 David 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.
00:50:08.000 Many 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.
00:50:16.000 Most of the schools set to close are non-public schools, largely as you vote, that have been open for weeks.
00:50:21.000 About 200 private schools will close, as well as 100 public schools as well.
00:50:26.000 Okay, 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.
00:50:43.000 So 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.
00:50:51.000 But he should also say, listen, If you are careful, number one, you will lower your chances of getting it.
00:50:57.000 And having been through this, the vast, vast, vast majority of people who get it do live.
00:51:02.000 According 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.
00:51:12.000 Like the infection fatality ratio is .00003.
00:51:15.000 If you're 20 to 49, it is .0002.
00:51:17.000 If you're 20 to 49 it is 0.0002. If you're 50 to 69 it is 0.005.
00:51:23.000 Right? Which means not 5%, not 0.5%, but 0.5 of a percent.
00:51:28.000 Right?
00:51:30.000 And if you're over the age of 70, then it's like 5.4% is your infection fatality ratio.
00:51:36.000 Which is still, you know, means that 94% of the people who get it above the age of 70 are going to live.
00:51:42.000 Now once you get above the age of 80, then it starts to climb pretty precipitously.
00:51:45.000 Trump could say all of that.
00:51:46.000 He could say lockdowns are ill-advised, we can all be responsible, and I myself am now promoting that we should all be responsible.
00:51:52.000 We'll see if he does that.
00:51:54.000 I have my doubts.
00:51:55.000 But this has some pretty significant ramifications for the future of lockdowns, specifically over the next few months.
00:52:01.000 Okay, it's not...
00:52:04.000 It's not wonderful.
00:52:05.000 And the media play right into it because the media are all in favor of lockdown.
00:52:09.000 The 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.
00:52:21.000 Meanwhile, final note here.
00:52:22.000 So I just have to point this out because the hypocrisy is so grand.
00:52:25.000 So over the weekend, 60 Minutes covered Tara Reade.
00:52:29.000 Tara Reade, of course, is the woman who accuses Joe Biden of having sexually assaulted her back in the Senate in the early 1990s.
00:52:36.000 60 Minutes covered it in Australia, which makes sense because we have tons of American voters in Australia.
00:52:41.000 So really, really well done, 60 Minutes.
00:52:44.000 Long before Joe Biden was a household name across America.
00:52:48.000 And here is my desk.
00:52:50.000 Tara Reid worked in his Senate office in the early 90s.
00:52:54.000 In March this year, Reid came forward with what she said was the full story.
00:52:59.000 By then, many in politics and the media were already questioning her version of events.
00:53:05.000 It's an allegation that has received little coverage this election.
00:53:10.000 And unlike Trump's accusers, Tara has received a barrage of scrutiny.
00:53:15.000 Do you feel as though if Joe Biden wasn't Joe Biden, your allegations would be taken more seriously?
00:53:21.000 Absolutely.
00:53:22.000 Okay, so I'm glad that 60 Minutes saw fit to cover Tara Reid in Australia.
00:53:29.000 Do you think they would be covering Donald Trump's accusers in Australia, but not domestically here in the United States?
00:53:33.000 Yeah, I didn't think so.
00:53:35.000 Okay, well, we'll be back here tomorrow with much, much more, so make sure that you stay tuned for that.
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