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00:02:31.000Just for clarification on all this, we've asked Sydney Powell on the show.
00:02:34.000We'll see if Sydney Powell, who is the Trump team lawyer, if she comes on the show, she of course has suggested that the Kraken will be released.
00:02:43.000Like, what exactly are we waiting for?
00:02:45.000If you have a Kraken in the waiting, if you have an enormous amount of information suggesting widespread voter fraud or voter irregularity that would switch the outcome of an American presidential election, like, you know when it'd be a great time to release all that information?
00:03:02.000Because all of these states are beginning to certify So, yesterday, another Georgia county has uncovered 2,700 missing votes.
00:03:09.000This makes the second Georgia county that has now uncovered thousands of missing votes, which obviously is a terrible look.
00:03:15.000According to WSB-TV, the Georgia Secretary of State's office says another county has found missing votes during their audit of the ballots in the presidential race.
00:03:22.000This comes as Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has started firing back after more than a week of criticism from President Trump.
00:03:27.000Raffensperger says it was the president's own attacks on absentee ballots that cost him the election in Georgia.
00:03:32.000So, his suggestion is that because Trump kept saying mail-in ballots are a bad thing, a lot of Republicans didn't use the mail-in ballots, but that's election analysis, which we don't need from him.
00:03:40.000What we actually need from him is a safe and secure election.
00:03:43.000So, who cares about his opinions on mail-in ballots or why Trump supposedly lost?
00:03:47.000How about we get from him, you know, a verified vote count in which thousands of votes are not ignored?
00:03:53.000Raffensperger said he actually suppressed, depressed his own voting base.
00:03:57.000I understand he's trying to cover his butt here a little bit, but it's not a great look when you have 5,400 votes that suddenly magically appear during an audit.
00:04:06.000The Secretary of State said some 24,500 Georgia Republicans who voted absentee in the June primary did not actually vote in the general election.
00:04:13.000During the hand recounts on Tuesday, Fayette County uncovered 2,755 votes that were not included in the initial count.
00:04:19.000Secretary of State official Gabriel Sterling said those ballots were scanned onto a card, but the votes were never uploaded into the initial count.
00:04:25.000He says there were several backups designed to catch this issue, and that it falls to workers who didn't follow procedure.
00:04:31.000Of the votes that are now being added to the total, 1,577 were for Trump, 1,128 were for Biden, the rest were for Joe Jorgensen or Reitens, which changes the margin in the state by 500 votes.
00:04:40.000Biden now leads Trump by about 12,929 votes.
00:04:44.000That margin is down about 1,000 votes just from those two counties alone.
00:04:47.000Okay, that does show an awful lot of election error.
00:04:51.000I mean, when we had the recounts, the hand recounts in Florida, it shifted the voting total by a couple of hundred votes, not 1,000 votes.
00:04:57.000Fayette is the second county to report an issue with missing votes on Monday.
00:05:00.000Floyd County uncovered 2,600 votes that were missed during the initial count on election night.
00:05:04.000The Secretary of State's office said it was human error and called for the elections director in the county to step down.
00:05:09.000Those votes changed the margin by about 800 in favor of President Trump.
00:05:13.000The margin was similar in the Purdue-Ossoff race.
00:05:15.000That would be David Purdue and John Ossoff will not affect the runoff, according to Secretary of State official Gabriel Sterling.
00:05:21.000The guardrails that were there caught this.
00:05:22.000We're going to be able to put those results in the final amount.
00:05:25.000Sterling also said they're investigating a potential memory card with 224 votes on it in Walton County that may have been missed.
00:05:31.000The Secretary of State's office also opened two investigations in Fulton County.
00:05:35.000The first into how a water leak at State Farm Arena was handled.
00:05:37.000The second is how elections monitors were handled.
00:05:40.000Of the other counties that have completed their recounts, 57 had no deviations from the original ballot count.
00:05:45.00021 counties were either plus or minus one off of the original ballot count.
00:05:49.00032 counties are off by single digit numbers and are being investigated.
00:05:52.000So it is not as though these are coming in one by one or a high percentage of the counties are reporting extra votes that have not yet been found.
00:05:58.000But obviously when you find giant caches of votes, when you find 2,700 votes, 2,400 votes that have not been counted.
00:06:04.000That is not a good thing and is going to plant in people's minds the idea that at least some screw-ups took place right here.
00:06:11.000Meanwhile, President Trump has filed new lawsuits in Nevada.
00:06:15.000The Trump campaign late last night said it was challenging Nevada's election results under a state law that lets candidates contest an election based on allegedly fraudulent votes and other grounds, is according to the Washington Post.
00:06:24.000In a document filed on Tuesday, Republicans asked a state court in Carson City to declare Trump the winner of Nevada's six presidential electors or to annul the election entirely, meaning no winner would be certified from Nevada.
00:06:35.000The document promises evidence of fraud but does not provide it.
00:06:37.000Okay, if you're gonna... Seriously, like, this is not...
00:06:40.000This sort of move you need real evidence for.
00:06:41.000If you're going to disenfranchise the millions of voters in a state like Nevada, then you actually are going to have to show the election fraud.
00:06:48.000You don't get to say there's the possibility of election fraud, so we are going to throw out all the votes in the entire state.
00:06:53.000You actually have to show widespread voter fraud.
00:06:55.000Because as much of a fan of Republican rather than Democratic ideals as I am, meaning small Republican, meaning checks and balances on mob rule, Okay, people's votes count.
00:07:14.000Now, if there's actual evidence that 100,000 votes or 10,000 votes that would shift the election outcome are being, voter fraud is found, voter irregularity is found, that shifts the outcome, so you disenfranchise the entire state's vote.
00:07:27.000Well, then I guess that's what you do.
00:07:28.000But you actually have to show evidence that that is the case.
00:07:30.000You don't just get to file to invalidate state counts all over the place if the state counts don't go your way.
00:07:51.000This is evidence that votes were missing.
00:07:54.000But if the evidence is there's the possibility of voter fraud, that ain't gonna cut it to disenfranchise an entire state like Nevada, for example.
00:08:01.000The election contest filed Tuesday reprises some of the previously rejected allegations rejected by the state of Nevada and by the courts, including the claim that Clark County officials violated state law by using a machine to verify some mail-in signatures rather than processing them all manually.
00:08:14.000Other claims include that officials did not allow for meaningful observation, that people voted improperly in the state, and that some people were offered improper incentives to vote.
00:08:22.000Under Nevada law, parties to the case may take depositions of any witnesses.
00:08:25.000The court must hold a hearing in five to ten days.
00:08:28.000Clark County Registrar George Gloria has said his staff has forwarded isolated complaints about alleged voter fraud to the Secretary of State for further investigation.
00:08:34.000Overall, he says he is confident in the county's election system.
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00:10:38.000Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out one of the Trump campaign's post-election complaints Tuesday.
00:10:44.000It's according to NBC News, ruling that officials in Philadelphia did not violate state law by maintaining at least 15 feet of separation between observers and the workers counting the ballots.
00:10:53.000Okay, so that was one of the claims that had been made, is that it had not amounted to effective observation if you were forced to stand 15 feet back thanks to COVID regulations.
00:11:00.000The Pennsylvania Supreme Court says if it applies to everybody, then it is not in fact An equal protection concern, right?
00:11:06.000It's not you're saying to Republicans, you have to stand 20 feet back and Democrats can be one foot up on the person.
00:11:11.000Now, this was an equally applied rule.
00:11:13.000Neutrally applied rule is what the Pennsylvania Supreme Court says.
00:11:16.000The ruling is likely to undercut the Trump campaign's case in federal court, where Rudy Giuliani joined a hearing on Tuesday afternoon to argue on behalf of President Trump's effort to contest the election results in Pennsylvania.
00:11:26.000Republican observers said they were kept so far back behind a waist-high fence they couldn't see any of the details on ballot envelopes or reach conclusions about whether vote-counting procedures were correctly followed.
00:11:35.000A state appeals court said observers were not given enough access.
00:11:38.000It ordered the county to move the fence closer to the counting tables.
00:11:41.000The state Supreme Court reversed that ruling by a vote of five to two.
00:11:44.000It said that Pennsylvania law requires only that observers must be allowed in the room where ballots are counted, but does not set a minimum distance between them and the counting table.
00:11:52.000The legislature left it up to county election boards to make these decisions, according to the court.
00:11:56.000In the case of Philadelphia, the local board, quote, fashioned these rules based on its careful consideration of how it could best protect the security and privacy of voter ballots, as well as safeguard its employees and others who would be present during the pandemic.
00:12:07.000A Republican observer, Jeremy Morris, testified during lower court proceedings Okay, so that is a dicey ruling.
00:12:44.000Chief Justice Thomas Saylor dissented, writing that he would have declared the case moot given the counting is nearly done.
00:12:49.000And he said the state legislature is signaling there will be an intense after-action review of the no-excuse mail-in voting regime.
00:12:54.000He also said it was misguided to argue that presumptively valid ballots cast by the Pennsylvania electorate would be disregarded based on isolated procedural irregularities.
00:13:02.000He said the Trump campaign was looking for a remedy in the entire Pennsylvania state vote not being certified.
00:13:08.000Now again, you have to prove more than, my guys were a little far away, in order to invalidate the state count of a state like Pennsylvania, which is an enormous state with a lot, a lot of people who voted.
00:13:18.000Meanwhile, Giuliani appeared in court.
00:13:20.000This is the first time that Giuliani has appeared as a registered lawyer in court since apparently 1992, when I was eight years old, which shows that the Trump team is desperate for legal help at this point.
00:13:30.000I mean, just to be perfectly frank about this, Rudy was a very good mayor of New York.
00:13:35.000I'm not sure that he'd be your first legal pick.
00:13:37.000Rudy was representing the Trump campaign at a hearing on a lawsuit.
00:13:39.000He said observers in Philadelphia were kept at bay by, quote unquote, the democratic machine.
00:13:43.000He said it was part of, quote, widespread nationwide voter fraud.
00:13:46.000OK, this resulted in both the judge and the opposing counsel chiding Rudy Giuliani, according to the New York Daily News.
00:13:53.000So Giuliani appeared and he said that the he said that the Democratic mafia had essentially stolen the election by shifting more than one million illegal votes to Joe Biden.
00:14:03.000Apparently, he didn't talk much about the legal case.
00:14:05.000He said the best description of this situation is widespread nationwide voter fraud.
00:14:09.000This is a case that is repeated in at least 10 other jurisdictions.
00:14:13.000Giuliani said, the point is, your honor, this is not an accident.
00:14:16.000You have to be a fool to think this was an accident.
00:14:19.000He said that Democratic officials in Pennsylvania saw to it that only their quote-unquote little mafia were allowed to count ballots in the November 3rd election and that roughly 1.5 million votes should be invalidated as a result.
00:14:28.000Now, it is worth noting here that Trump actually overperformed in Philadelphia compared to 2016.
00:14:31.000It is one of the few cities where Trump actually did better in 2020 than he did in 2016.
00:14:52.000The Trump team did remove allegations of voter fraud from their original filing in this case.
00:14:59.000Instead, they were arguing basically that ballots that were being counted without a postmark after the election date should not be counted.
00:15:07.000The problem there is there aren't enough of those ballots to actually shift the direction of the election in Pennsylvania, given that the current vote tabulation has Joe Biden up by about 70,000 votes in Pennsylvania.
00:15:17.000you The judge signaled he was not super impressed.
00:15:21.000He said, how can this result possibly be justified?
00:15:23.000Suggesting this would be Giuliani's claim that millions of Pennsylvania voters should have their ballots tossed.
00:15:28.000And then Giuliani said this isn't a fraud case.
00:15:30.000And he said the Trump campaign only wants illegal ballots scratched.
00:15:35.000We'll see where all of that comes out.
00:15:37.000Meanwhile, there was another moment of uncertainty and chaos last night in Michigan's Wayne County.
00:15:46.000So apparently, two Republicans on Michigan's Wayne County Board of Canvassers were involved in a brief deadlock in the county's election certification process.
00:15:54.000So, they were given the deadline of late last night to actually certify the election result from Wayne County.
00:15:58.000Wayne County, of course, includes Detroit.
00:16:01.000And the Board of Canvassers is split 2-2.
00:16:04.000It is a partisan office, and there are two Democrats and two Republicans on the Board of Canvassers.
00:16:09.000Two of the Republicans voted originally to not certify the election result from Wayne County based on allegations of voter fraud and voter irregularities.
00:16:16.000Now, the evidence of voter fraud and voter irregularities definitely exists in Wayne County.
00:16:20.000The question is whether, again, it is of the size and scope to actually change the outcome of the election, number one.
00:16:27.000And number two, you know, compared to the generalized voting population, how large is it?
00:16:32.000You're always going to be able to find cases of voter irregularity and voter fraud.
00:16:35.000Just any sample size, if it's large enough, is going to include flawed samples.
00:16:40.000It is going to include voter... This is why when you see the media and Democrats saying there is no such thing as voter fraud, there are no voter irregularities, that's just crazy.
00:17:25.000That is not a gap that's going to be filled by Wayne County.
00:17:27.000It's not a gap that's going to be filled by voter fraud or voter irregularity absent, again, some sort of systemic exposed system of corruption that is brought to light.
00:17:38.000Barring Sidney Powell actually releasing the Kraken that apparently is being hidden, barring that happening, the vote in Michigan is probably not going to shift.
00:17:45.000And so the legal strategy here, apparently, is that the entire state of Michigan should not certify its vote or something.
00:17:51.000Again, nor, barring extraordinary evidence, with extraordinary evidence, sure, right?
00:17:55.000If there is real evidence of significant widespread voter fraud amounting to tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of votes, Then of course, you're gonna have to disregard an election.
00:18:04.000This has happened in other elections in smaller scale.
00:18:06.000We had this happen in a case in North Carolina, for example, where ballot harvesting by a hired hand of apparently a Republican campaign led to election uncertainty and they redid the vote.
00:18:16.000Okay, you could have something like that, but the evidence has to actually be there, right?
00:18:20.000You actually have to show the evidence.
00:18:21.000I get a lot of flack for saying I wanna see evidence, but again, my standards on this stuff are very, very consistent.
00:18:26.000I want evidence across the board on everything from police shooting cases to voter fraud.
00:18:30.000You have to actually, Support your allegations with evidence.
00:18:35.000Kayleigh McEnany announced earlier on Twitter there were 234 pages of sworn affidavits that raised allegations of fraud in Wayne County.
00:18:42.000The blazes Leon Wolf did go through those allegations.
00:18:44.000What he found is that under a thousand votes were actually affected by those voter allegations.
00:18:48.000A lot of those voter allegations were things like people were being mean to me at the balloting places, which is bad and not good practice, but is not enough to actually invalidate the votes of presumably over a million people in Wayne County.
00:19:01.000There were a bunch of Republicans who came out and praised the two canvassers who were Republicans on the board, which, again, if they held this thing up just so that they can get an audit, then really, they do deserve applause, right?
00:19:14.000I mean, if they said, we are going to not certify this election until we get a commitment from the state to audit the election, good for them.
00:19:19.000John James, the Republican Senate candidate from the state who's black, he applauded them for their bravery.
00:19:24.000Laura Cox, the Michigan Republican Party's chairwoman, also said in a statement there appeared to be enough evidence of irregularity and potential voter fraud to affect all of this.
00:19:34.000And then President Trump tweeted, Well, that's not actually what happened, right?
00:19:42.000Basically, the Michigan Board of Canvassers held up for a couple hours the Michigan vote certification so that they could get a commitment to actually audit the vote and ensure that everything is being done on the up and up.
00:19:54.000Then they obviously reversed themselves and went ahead and voted with the Democrats in order to move forward with the certification of the election in Wayne County.
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00:21:33.000They did certify the result of the election.
00:21:36.000That deadlocked decision had been lauded by Republicans and decried by Democrats after a lengthy public comment session.
00:21:41.000The vote was described as a targeted attack on Detroit, of course.
00:21:43.000After hours of angry responses from Wayne County residents, the change in course was approved by two Republicans and the two Democrats with the demand that the Secretary of State's office conduct a comprehensive audit of precincts with unexplained out-of-balance tallies.
00:21:56.000So my understanding of out-of-balance tallies is that people filed for absentee ballots and then the number of absentee ballots that came in did not match the number of absentee ballots that were in fact requested.
00:22:05.000So they want an audit to make sure that all of that is legit.
00:22:11.000Apparently, the Republicans listened to the comments and they went ahead and certified the vote.
00:22:16.000In August, canvassers found 72% of Detroit's absentee voting precincts didn't match the number of ballots cast.
00:22:22.000The imbalances between August and November are not an exact comparison, since August canvassing was based on results from 503 precincts.
00:22:28.000November's canvassing was based on 134 counting boards.
00:22:31.000The same situation in August, earlier imbalances in 2016.
00:22:35.000Those were not enough to keep the same board from certifying the results in this year's primary in November 2016.
00:22:39.000The board's votes came after the absentee ballot poll books at 70% of Detroit's 134 absentee counting boards were found to be out of balance without explanation.
00:22:49.000The mismatch varied anywhere from one to more than four votes.
00:22:54.000Right, so the number of absentee ballots that were actually cast were not the numbers that were actually taken down in the logs, and those discrepancies were like one to four votes in 134 absentee counting boards.
00:23:04.000It doesn't shift thousands of votes, let alone tens of thousands or the 150,000 votes that Trump is in deficit.
00:23:09.000So there should be a full scale, again, all claims of voter irregularities and voter fraud should be fully investigated.
00:23:14.000certifying a vote, saying that the vote is not based largely on voter fraud or voter irregularity is appropriate so long as you're also calling for an audit at the time. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal writing about the rage about Dominion voting, right?
00:23:33.000The suggestion is that Dominion voting is the software system that is used in some 28 states, including a bevy of Republican states.
00:23:41.000Texas doesn't use Dominion, but there are a bunch of red states that do use Dominion.
00:23:45.000According to the Wall Street Journal, what seems to have launched the theory that Dominion voting screwed around with the vote was an earlier misreport in Antrim County, Michigan.
00:23:53.000In 2016, Trump won 62% of its 13,600 ballots.
00:23:57.000Eyebrows rose this year when initial tallies showed Biden up by 3,000.
00:24:00.000In reality, Trump won 61% of Antrim County.
00:24:05.000The underlying votes were counted correctly.
00:24:06.000Officials later explained, That in October, the county had to tweak the ballot information for two local races.
00:24:12.000Tabulated machines in the affected areas were updated, but some others weren't.
00:24:15.000On Election Day, the differing data didn't line up right after being merged.
00:24:18.000The printouts from the tabulators did show accurate totals.
00:24:21.000In any case, the Michigan Secretary of State's office said the error would have been identified during that county canvas, when Democrats and Republicans review the printed totals tape from each tabulator.
00:24:30.000Then there was another problem with the Dominion module in Gwinnett County, Georgia, apparently.
00:24:34.000Officials had trouble with the Dominion module for adjudicating absentee ballots if the voter put a checkmark in the circle instead of filling it in.
00:24:41.000Some adjudicated ballots said the county were displayed as in progress but would not move over to be accepted.
00:24:46.000The county ended up re-adjudicating some votes until November 5th, which is basically, it looks like they fixed the problem.
00:24:53.000A couple of counties in Georgia had trouble with electronic poll books, but that would not really affect vote totals.
00:24:58.000It would affect wait times at precincts.
00:25:01.000And then, of course, there's footage from a House hearing a few years ago where a Princeton computer science professor named Andrew Appel said voting machines could theoretically be hacked.
00:25:09.000But just because a system is vulnerable does not mean that it actually was hacked.
00:25:14.000Now, here's something to remember about Dominion, okay?
00:25:16.000There's been a lot of talk about Dominion and its ties.
00:25:20.000Dominion makes hundreds of millions of dollars a year by selling its voting systems.
00:25:24.000If they were that vulnerable to hack, if those Dominion voting systems were, in fact, that easy to be gamed to the effect that millions of votes were tabulated the wrong way, not only is that company bankrupt, it is sued into the ground and everybody goes to jail.
00:25:36.000I mean, especially if there was fraud involved, people are going to jail, right?
00:25:39.000So the incentives don't really align to be in the voting, The voting system business and then create a voting system that can be easily rigged by somebody from the outside, especially when you sell these things all over the world, particularly in Western democracies.
00:25:54.000So if there are problems with, again, full investigation, full evidence, possibility of fraud is not the same thing as fraud.
00:26:14.000We'll get to more on Dominion in just one second, because I think it's important that we all have the proper up-to-date information.
00:26:20.000So that we can tell what is true and what is not and where there are real suspicions and where the suspicions are overblown and so that we can actually accurately make our vote counts better and we can ensure that voter fraud and voter irregularity did not decide this election.
00:26:32.000I understand people being really upset about the outcome and I understand people being really suspicious of the outcome of the election.
00:26:39.000I understand that a lot of people went to sleep on Tuesday night and Trump was in the lead in all these states.
00:26:43.000They woke up the next morning and all of a sudden Trump's way behind.
00:26:45.000And people go, what the hell just happened?
00:26:47.000Why were you pausing the machines in the middle of the night?
00:26:54.000Unjustified suspicion based on lack of evidence That's a different question.
00:26:57.000So we need more evidence, more evidence, right?
00:26:59.000Again, I want to get Sidney Pell on the program so she can explain exactly what releasing the Kraken will look like here.
00:27:04.000I think it's really, really important that we have all the information possible because again, election integrity really, really does matter.
00:27:10.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:28:44.000There's been talk about Dominion and its connections to Democrats.
00:28:48.000The company in 2014, according to the Wall Street Journal, did agree to donate voting machines to emerging and post-conflict democracies via a Clinton Foundation initiative.
00:28:56.000But that doesn't necessarily mean that, obviously, they were sending faulty voting machines that could be gamed by the Clinton Foundation.
00:29:01.000The company says it has no ownership relationships with, quote, any member of the Pelosi family, the Feinstein family, or the Clinton Global Initiative.
00:29:06.000There's also talk that Dominion has ties with Smartmatic.
00:29:09.000A company that supplied voting systems in Venezuela, where the ruling regime manipulates elections.
00:29:14.000Both of the companies openly deny this.
00:29:16.000Smartmatic says, quote, it has never provided Dominion voting systems with any software, hardware or other technology.
00:29:21.000Dominion says they, quote, do not collaborate in any way and have no affiliate relationships or financial ties.
00:29:26.000In 2009, Dominion says Smartmatic, quote, licensed Dominion machines for use in Philippines, but the contract ended in a lawsuit.
00:29:32.000This does not mean there are not problems with Dominion.
00:29:35.000It does mean you're going to have to do better than simply saying that Dominion voting machines are suspicious because of ownership structure, or they are suspicious because we are concerned that people have said there's possibility of vulnerability.
00:29:45.000Again, possibility of fraud is very real.
00:29:47.000It means that maybe we shouldn't be using these voting systems in the future if you are deeply worried those possibilities could manifest.
00:29:53.000But just as Democrats in 2004 were saying that Diebold voting machines were hacked, and it turns out that that was not the case, if you're actually going to show that something bad happened here, you have to show that the bad thing happened, not that the possibility of the bad thing happened, particularly if you're talking about not certifying votes, or if you're talking about throwing this thing to legislatures to select electors, or something like that.
00:30:11.000You gotta actually show evidence that the election ought to be, I mean, these are major things we're talking about, right?
00:30:15.000If you're talking about overturning an actual election, then what you have to talk about is, are the allegations, Backed by evidence sufficient to merit that response, right?
00:30:44.000According to USA Today, the Department of Homeland Security Cyber Chief, who presided over an elaborate election security effort guarding against foreign interference and fraud, was ousted by President Trump on Tuesday as part of a continuing post-election purge of top national security officials.
00:30:56.000Trump announced the dismissal in two tweets on Tuesday night.
00:30:59.000Twitter flagged both tweets with labels saying, this claim about election fraud is disputed.
00:31:27.000And it's all when it says this claim about election fraud is disputed, right?
00:31:30.000This is the kind of warning that Twitter has been putting on people's messages, particularly It just doesn't apply if a Democrat does it.
00:31:36.000So Twitter is full of crap, but that's a different story.
00:31:38.000We'll get to the full of crappiness of Twitter and Facebook in just one second.
00:31:42.000First, the dismissal of Christopher Krebs, according to USA Today, director of DHS's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, follows the agency's declaration that the general election was the most secure in U.S.
00:31:53.000President Trump disagreed, and President Trump tweeted out the recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020 election was highly inaccurate, and that there were massive improprieties and fraud, including dead people voting, poll watchers not allowed into polling locations, glitches in the voting machines, which changed, excuse me, which changed votes from Trump to Biden, late voting, and many more.
00:32:13.000Therefore, effective immediately, Chris Krebs has been terminated as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
00:32:18.000So it's not that Trump thinks that Krebs did a bad job protecting the election.
00:32:22.000He doesn't like that Krebs said that he did a good job in protecting the election, because obviously Trump is saying, I still have lawsuits outstanding, and he's saying, I still have, you know, claims that I am making currently in court, and you are undercutting those claims, and those claims are still under dispute.
00:32:36.000Now, the cybersecurity agency that Krebs is heading up, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, CISA, they put out a statement earlier this week saying there's no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.
00:32:49.000All the states with close results in the 2020 presidential race have paper records of each vote, allowing the ability to go back and count each ballot if necessary.
00:32:55.000This is an added benefit for security and resilience.
00:32:57.000This process allows for the identification and correction of any mistakes or errors.
00:33:02.000And then Krebs tweeted out after Trump fired him, honored to serve, we did it right, defend today, secure tomorrow.
00:33:08.000Krebs, I mean, literally his job was to defend the election security system.
00:33:11.000So you would imagine he would defend his own job, right?
00:33:13.000He would defend what kind of a job, like, does that mean he's right?
00:33:20.000Until there is further evidence, you have to assume that the election was not victimized by millions and millions of fraudulent votes or hacked voting machines or something like that.
00:33:28.000But of course he's going to defend what he did, right?
00:33:30.000I mean, he was the head of the DHS's cybersecurity agency.
00:33:35.000He tweeted out, on allegations that election systems were manipulated, 59 election security experts all agree, in every case of which we are aware, these claims either have been unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent.
00:33:45.000Krebs is expecting to be fired as recently as last week, according to Politico.
00:33:50.000This prompted a wave of criticism from both sides of the aisle, with obviously the usual Democrats criticizing all of this, but also some of the Republicans criticizing this as well.
00:34:09.000He served as senior advisor on cybersecurity and infrastructure protection.
00:34:12.000So we're still gonna go with the myth that Russia undermined the general election in 2016 in some significant way.
00:34:15.000But we have to be assured that this election is perfectly clean and wondrous.
00:34:17.000increasing attempts by foreign adversaries to disrupt the government, the nation's vulnerability was made clear in 2016 when quote-unquote Russia sought to undermine the general election according to USA Today.
00:34:27.000So we're still going to go with the myth that Russia undermined the general election in 2016 in some significant way.
00:34:32.000But we have to be assured that this election is perfectly clean and wondrous.
00:34:36.000Now, should Trump be firing people for saying that sort of stuff?
00:34:40.000I mean, the guy is defending the job that he did, obviously.
00:34:44.000Does that mean that the election is pure and clean?
00:35:23.000In fact, it seems like a pretty good thing for the country for everybody to put their cards on the table at this particular point in time.
00:35:30.000And none of that is to suggest, of course, that there's not voter fraud or voter irregularities.
00:35:34.000I've said 1,000 times there absolutely is, but it has to be up to a certain level of effectiveness in order for it to affect the outcome of elections that have huge numbers of people voting.
00:35:44.000Again, the deficit in Pennsylvania right now is 70,000.
00:35:45.000Okay, we can always make the elections cleaner, and we should.
00:35:49.000Full audits should be available of all of these states.
00:35:51.000We should go through every ballot tabulated.
00:35:53.000We should make sure that everybody who is legally voted is counted, and everybody who legally voted is not counted.
00:35:59.000We should all be on the same page about all of this.
00:36:01.000But if you're talking about we need to overturn the results of an entire election in a particular state or disenfranchise the voters of Michigan or Pennsylvania or Nevada or Arizona or Georgia, we need to see the actual evidence.
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00:37:53.000First, if you're not disgusted by the establishment media, you should be.
00:37:56.000And the simple fact of the matter is that the media threw the election to Joe Biden.
00:38:00.000If the media had not been out there stumping every day against Donald Trump, if the media had not spent the last several years undermining Trump and suggesting that Joe Biden was clean as the driven snow and not reporting on any of Joe Biden's improprieties, then Biden would have lost that election.
00:38:12.000Just because the media declare a narrative to be true does not actually mean that it is true.
00:38:16.000It just means they are pushing a narrative.
00:38:18.000So now it is time for you to fight back.
00:38:20.000What is the best way for you to fight back against the mainstream establishment media narrative?
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00:39:49.000Alrighty, so meanwhile, Facebook and Twitter appearing on the hill.
00:39:58.000And you can see the different agendas of the Republicans and Democrats when it comes to Facebook and Twitter.
00:40:01.000Republicans are saying, you guys really should allow people to speak their minds on your platforms.
00:40:06.000I mean, this is what your platforms were created for.
00:40:08.000And Democrats are like, you know what you should really do?
00:40:10.000You should use your massive social media power to ensure that no one is ever able to express their opinion if we don't like their opinion.
00:40:17.000It's incredibly obvious that Democrats are seeking to enjoin conservatives from expressing their opinion or disseminating information they don't like.
00:40:25.000So, Richard Blumenthal, idiot senator from Connecticut, he actually demanded that Mark Zuckerberg ban Steve Bannon.
00:40:32.000Zuckerberg's like, do you have grounds for banning Steve Bannon?
00:40:34.000And Blumenthal's like, I don't like him.
00:40:37.000What if we just don't let them on the system?
00:40:40.000Democrats see social media as a way of quashing their opposition, and they are angry that places like Facebook allow their opposition to exist.
00:40:48.000So they've made it impossible for any Republican, the media have made it impossible for any open Republican to work at a mainstream publication.
00:40:54.000And then when you form a different kind of publication like Daily Wire and you disseminate your information through social media like Twitter or Facebook, Democrats are like, you know, it'd be great if we shut that down too.
00:41:02.000Here's Richard Blumenthal trying to do this yesterday.
00:41:05.000How many times has Steve Bannon allowed the call for the murder of government officials before Facebook suspends his account?
00:41:15.000Senator, as you say, the content in question did violate our policies and we took it down.
00:41:21.000Will you commit to taking down that account, Steve Bannon's account?
00:41:26.000Senator, no, that's not what our policies would suggest that we should do.
00:41:31.000Again, Zuckerberg, at least, is being consistent there.
00:41:33.000You can see how he's getting browbeaten by members of the Democratic Party, which is the great irony here.
00:41:38.000What you are seeing from Facebook's internals, what you're seeing from the leaked reports about what's going on inside Facebook, is that Facebook is being bullied by the left to comply with the left.
00:41:47.000In the assumption that people on the right are going to be in favor of free speech and free enterprise and defend them even as they quash speech from the right.
00:41:58.000He says, I want Facebook and I want Twitter to censor climate denialism.
00:42:02.000He says, can you guys please, you know, shut down anybody's ability to speak about their doubts about climate change solutions proposed by the left?
00:42:10.000The Democrats are all in favor of censorship.
00:42:11.000You think these are your free speech protectors?
00:42:15.000You do, Mr. Dorsey, have policies against deepfakes or manipulated media, against COVID-19 misinformation, against things that violate civic integrity, but you don't have a standalone climate change misinformation policy.
00:42:30.000I'd urge you to reconsider that because helping to disseminate climate denialism, in my view, further facilitates and accelerates one of the greatest existential threats to our world.
00:42:43.000So he's saying that if you don't agree with my perspective on climate change, I want woke Rasputin over here, Jack Dorsey, to actually stop that information from being disseminated.
00:42:51.000The Democrats are very clear in what they want here.
00:43:05.000They hope to use social media as a weapon to siphon off all of the possible information they don't like and make it go away, disappear into the ether.
00:43:14.000Democrats cannot be trusted with free speech principles.
00:43:17.000If they had their way, you would not be able to listen to shows like this one.
00:43:20.000And you're gonna see this weaponized, not just by social media companies, you're gonna see it weaponized by credit card companies.
00:43:25.000There will come a point here, here's my prediction, there will come a point at which credit card companies, under pressure from woke staffers and from members of Democratic Congress, Decide that they are simply not going to allow you to charge on your credit card anything they don't like.
00:43:38.000So if you decide that you're going to subscribe to Daily Wire, there will come a point where your credit card company says, you can't because they're conservative and we don't like that.
00:43:45.000Or you want to buy a gun with your credit card.
00:43:46.000A credit card company will say, nope, you can't do that.
00:43:48.000You can't use your charge card for that.
00:43:50.000The predictable result of that will be that there will be right-wing credit cards and left-wing credit cards.
00:43:54.000The left is so determined to wish everybody they don't like out into the cornfield, all they're going to do is create entire new right-wing ecosystems.
00:44:04.000You'll only be able to go to the right-wing restaurant or the left-wing restaurant.
00:44:07.000You'll only be able to go to the right-wing credit card or the left-wing credit card.
00:44:11.000You're only going to be able to go over to Parler because Twitter is going to ban you, right?
00:44:14.000I mean, this is the way that the left wants things to be.
00:44:16.000And then they complain that those alternative systems even exist, right?
00:44:19.000They complain that Parler is even a thing.
00:44:21.000They're whining about how so many people are joining Parler.
00:44:24.000Yes, it turns out when you weaponize a social media company against people you disagree with, those people will leave and go find an alternative method of talking with one another.
00:44:31.000Maisie Hirono, the stupidest person in the United States Senate, she is a complete and utter dud, intellectually.
00:44:37.000And the senator from Hawaii, she slammed Facebook.
00:44:40.000Because they allowed the Daily Caller fact-checking site to be included in their fact-checkers.
00:44:44.000Now, as I have mentioned, when it comes to social media, social media do something deeply corrupt.
00:44:48.000They outsource all of their political predilections to the fact-checkers.
00:44:52.000So what they do is they go to PolitiFact or Snopes.
00:44:54.000Or factcheck.org, all left-wing sites, the Washington Post factchecker, all left-wing sites, who very often are not even checking facts.
00:45:02.000Very often these factchecks will say things like, well, sure, what the Republican was saying here was factually true, but it packs a false narrative.
00:45:10.000And then they will use that as a rationale for downgrading particular news sites.
00:45:15.000So we've had this experience with, for example, there's a site called NewsGuard.
00:45:18.000NewsGuard has downgraded our site, not because what we report is false, We report things that are mistaken sometimes, just like CNN does.
00:45:27.000They've downgraded us because we are openly an opinion site that also does news reporting.
00:45:32.000So what they do, these social media companies, they outsource to places like NewsGuard to decide whether an outlet is good or not.
00:45:37.000And naturally, NewsGuard decides that left-wing outlets and establishment media outlets, those are good, and everybody on the right is bad.
00:45:43.000Okay, so they're doing the same thing with the fact-checkers.
00:45:45.000Facebook actually does allow one quote-unquote right-wing fact-checker, that'd be The Daily Caller.
00:45:50.000Maisie Hirono's like, well, we shouldn't allow that.
00:45:52.000There shouldn't be any fact-checkers on the right.
00:45:54.000And in fact, The Daily Caller is a white supremacist site, which of course The Daily Caller is not, but Maisie Hirono is a complete moron, so here she is.
00:46:01.000In early 2019, Facebook selected the Daily Caller, another site with white nationalist ties, to be one of its third-party fact-checkers.
00:46:10.000And Mr. Zuckerberg, I'm really wondering at what point you will stop giving in to baseless claims of anti-conservative bias and start exercising your control over Facebook to stop driving division and actually, to quote you, build community and bring the world closer together, end quote.
00:46:33.000So they want to make sure that all the fact-checkers are left-wing fact-checkers so that they can launder their left-wing views through the fact-checkers and then just say, hey, look, the fact-checkers say the site's bad, so we're just not going to allow the site anymore.
00:46:50.000Media Matters is a political action organization started by Hillary Clinton and David Brock with the explicit design of protecting the Clintons.
00:46:58.000It is an organization that dedicates its time to listening to shows like this one, clipping things out of context, and then attempting to make them trend via echo chamber on Twitter so they can go after advertisers.
00:47:32.000It's not like they make any bones about it.
00:47:34.000Here's Maisie Hirono being an idiot, as she is wont to do.
00:47:38.000Everyone who has systematically looked at the content on social media, from Media Matters to the Cato Institute to former Republican Senator John Kyle, has found absolutely no evidence of anti-conservative bias.
00:47:53.000And data from Proud Tangle show that far-right content from the likes of Fox News, Ben Shapiro, David Bongino dominates the daily top 10 most engaged pages on Facebook.
00:48:09.000Okay, well, the reason that we dominate on Facebook is because there are like three of us.
00:48:14.000If you actually look at the sites that have the most traffic via Facebook, it is at least mostly establishment media sites, right?
00:48:46.000And the reason it was suppressed is because people like Mazie Hirono and Kevin Roos decided they were going to yell at Facebook until they suppressed that.
00:48:52.000So the people who have not yet been suppressed are people like Dan Bongino, right?
00:48:55.000Dan knows that it's coming for him too, which is why he has started alternative social media sites.
00:49:54.000You put up a page that says, quote, voter fraud of any kind is exceedingly rare in the United States.
00:50:00.000That's not linking to a broader conversation.
00:50:02.000That's taking a disputed policy position, and you're a publisher when you're doing that.
00:50:07.000Okay, so Ted is exactly right about this.
00:50:09.000Of course, Senator Cruz, when he says that you guys are taking a position, as I said yesterday, my business partner tweeted out something overtly false about Stacey Abrams being governor of Georgia, not flagged by Twitter.
00:50:18.000If you say that there's widespread voter fraud in the United States, that is flagged as false by Twitter.
00:50:21.000So, Twitter obviously has its own point of view on things.
00:50:24.000They're entitled to that, but let's not pretend that they are some sort of neutral arbiter of information.
00:50:28.000Meanwhile, in stories that presumably the establishment media wished that you would not look at, there are these Georgia Senate races.
00:50:34.000The Georgia Senate races, by the polling data, for whatever good it does, are virtually dead even.
00:50:39.000You have John Ossoff running against David Perdue.
00:50:41.000David Perdue is the incumbent senator in Georgia.
00:50:43.000And then you have Senator Kelly Loeffler, who is appointed to that seat.
00:50:46.000She is running against Raphael Warnock.
00:50:48.000Now, Perdue did beat Ossoff in Georgia.
00:50:51.000He beat him by about two percentage points.
00:50:52.000He did not surpass 50%, which is what you need to avoid the runoff.
00:50:56.000He did that in a time when Trump allegedly lost Georgia by, you know, 12,000 votes or so.
00:51:01.000So that was a bad performance by John Ossoff.
00:51:04.000The performance by Raphael Warnock, he won about 33% of the vote, but it was a three-way primary, essentially.
00:51:10.000Now it's Kelly Loeffler versus Warnock.
00:51:11.000The polls are saying that that thing is close to dead even, but who cares?
00:51:28.000It's obvious the Democrats did not bother to vet this guy.
00:51:30.000Raphael Warnock said in 2011 in a speech on tape that you cannot serve both God and the military.
00:51:36.000Literally, if you're in the military, you are against God, which is a hell of a thing to say about, you know, the men and women of America's military who are fighting for our freedom and the freedom of people like Raphael Warnock to be complete jackasses.
00:51:48.000America, nobody can serve God and the military.
00:52:09.000You can back abortion and be a great Christian.
00:52:10.000So you can't be in the military and be a good Christian, but according to Raphael Warnock, abortion is consistent with his Christian views, which suggests to me that this guy really, let's just say he's untraditional in his view of Christianity.
00:52:22.000I believe that healthcare is a human right.
00:52:26.000And I believe that it is something that the richest nation in the world provides for its citizens.
00:52:30.000And for me, reproductive justice It's consistent with my commitment to that.
00:52:36.000I believe unequivocally in a woman's right to choose and that the decision is something that we don't want government engaged in.
00:52:46.000I've been focused on women's health, women's choice and reproductive justice.
00:52:51.000So, here's what we know about Raphael Warnock.
00:53:20.000So Pfizer now says their vaccine is 95% effective in their final data.
00:53:23.000They're going to seek authorization from the FDA, emergency authorization as of like right now.
00:53:30.000According to the Wall Street Journal, An experimental COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech was 95% effective in final results from a pivotal study and is showing signs of being safe.
00:53:39.000Key pieces of data as the companies prepare to ask health regulators to authorize use.
00:53:46.000Pfizer plans to seek authorization for that vaccine within days, the company said Wednesday, leaving the shot on track to go into distribution by the end of the year if health regulators permit.
00:53:55.000Now, it's true that Tens of millions of people won't be able to get the doses, but tens of millions of people may not need the doses if you start with the most vulnerable.
00:54:03.000My kids don't need doses of the vaccine.
00:54:06.000The death rates on people who are under the age of 70 are pretty scanty, particularly if you have no preexisting conditions.
00:54:13.000It's something like 5 in 1,000 are the death rates on people who are under the age of 70 in the United States, and that includes people with preexisting conditions.
00:54:19.000So if you're in good health and you're 30, you probably don't need the vaccine right away in order for everybody to sort of start getting back to normal life.
00:54:26.000The 95% effectiveness rates puts the shot's performance on par with shingles and measles, which is really damned effective.
00:54:31.000It's also consistent with the vaccine's showing at a peak last week at how it did in an analysis of the first 94 subjects to fall sick.
00:54:38.000Researchers have not yet found any serious safety issues.
00:54:40.000The vaccine appears to be well-tolerated following a review from 8,000 study subjects.
00:54:45.000A severe side effect was fatigue that was reported by about 4% of the subjects.
00:54:49.000About 2% of subjects reported headaches, but that's not like Guillain-Barre syndrome or something.
00:54:53.000The company said they have collected two months of safety data on about 19,000 study subjects requested by the FDA.
00:54:58.000They're still reviewing all of those results.
00:54:59.000Earlier, Moderna reported a similarly strong preliminary result for its shot, which the biotech said was 94.5% effective in an early look.
00:55:10.000Studies show that a lot of people are hesitant to get the shots.
00:55:13.000The evidence suggests that hesitancy is probably not worthwhile at this point.
00:55:19.000The FDA is expected to take some time to consider the request for permission to distribute the vaccine.
00:55:22.000That will require a review by an outside committee of vaccine experts.
00:55:24.000the data by press release, and they plan to publish the results in more detail later in a peer-reviewed medical journal.
00:55:30.000The FDA is expected to take some time to consider the request for permission to distribute the vaccine.
00:55:35.000That will require a review by an outside committee of vaccine experts.
00:55:38.000The FDA plans to expedite the review, obviously.
00:55:41.000During the pandemic, the FDA has authorized emergency use for several drugs, including remdesivir and recently a COVID-19 antibody drug from Eli Lilly and company.
00:55:50.000Upon authorization, Pfizer plans to produce up to 50 million doses by the end of the year, about half of which would be destined for the United States.
00:55:57.000The supplies would be enough to inoculate about 12.5 million Americans because each person needs to take two doses three weeks apart.
00:56:07.000I mean, if you start with people who are the most vulnerable, people in nursing homes, people with significant pre-existing conditions, there are tens of millions of those people.
00:56:14.000But if you start with healthcare workers, for example, and you start with the people who are most likely to die, namely people who are above the age of 70 with pre-existing conditions, well, you're gonna bring down those death rates pretty significantly and pretty quickly.
00:56:27.000And more excellent news, it turns out immunity to coronavirus could last for a year.
00:56:32.000According to Apoorva Mandaville, reporting from the New York Times, years, maybe even decades, immunity might last.
00:56:38.000Eight months after infection, most people who have recovered still have enough immune cells to fend off the virus and prevent illness, according to new data.
00:56:43.000A slow rate of decline in the short term suggests that these cells may persist in the body for a very, very long time to come.
00:56:49.000The research published online has not been peer-reviewed or published in a scientific journal.
00:56:52.000It is the most comprehensive and long-ranging study of immune memory to the coronavirus to date.
00:56:57.000Now, this does show how irresponsible the media are.
00:56:59.000Remember, the media found, like, one case all over the world of a guy who was reinfected with COVID, and was like, well, who knows how long immunity's gonna last?
00:57:07.000Remember when President Trump said he was immune from the virus now that he'd had it?
00:57:10.000Everybody in the media were like, how dare he say that?
00:57:13.000No, we kinda knew it then, and we certainly know it now.
00:57:16.000So can we stop with all this crap where you find some wild case of a guy being reinfected out of the millions of people, tens of millions of people, who have been infected by this thing?
00:57:23.000And instead, why not look at the actual stats?
00:57:25.000It's the same sort of stuff you hear Until we see percentages, this means nothing.
00:57:40.000A study published last week found that people who have recovered from COVID-19 have powerful and protective killer immune cells even when antibodies are not detectable.
00:57:48.000According to Deepta Bhattacharya, immunologist at the University of Arizona, the studies are all by and large painting the same picture.
00:57:54.000Once you get past those first few critical weeks, the rest of the response looks pretty conventional.
00:57:58.000Akiko Awasaki, immunologist at Yale, said she was not surprised the body mounts a long-lasting response because that's what's supposed to happen.
00:58:04.000Still, she says, that is very exciting news.
00:58:14.000The FDA has now authorized the first at-home coronavirus test.
00:58:17.000They give an emergency green light to the first rapid COVID test that can run from start to finish at home.
00:58:21.000The test was developed by Lucira Health.
00:58:23.000It requires a prescription from a healthcare provider.
00:58:25.000People under 14 can't perform the test on themselves.
00:58:27.000But with a relatively simple nasal swab, the test can return results in about half an hour.
00:58:31.000It is projected by the company to cost 50 bucks or less, according to the product's website.
00:58:35.000Clinicians can also run the test on their patients, including kids under the age of 14, Potentially delivering answers during a single visit to a care center or pharmacy instead of having this routine where you have to take the sample and then wait for hours to get the result, right?
00:58:46.000All of this means that we are going to be bringing down the rates of transmission.
00:58:50.000It means that we are going to be bringing down the rates of death because if you can identify this stuff earlier, you can treat it better.
00:58:55.000All of this is really, really good news, right?
00:58:58.000So we should be very, very happy about all of this.
00:59:00.000Meanwhile, it's hilarious to note that the media have finally noticed that it's a bad thing that Democrats have been holding up COVID aid.
00:59:06.000So remember that time when Nancy Pelosi for months held up a COVID relief package because she wanted to hurt President Trump at the ballot box?
00:59:24.000Once again, showing that our ridiculous media are indeed ridiculous and awful.
00:59:29.000So according to the Washington Post, this is the editorial board, Congress's stimulus impasse must end, even if it means Democrats accepting a smaller deal.
00:59:36.000You know when you could have written this, if you were actually honest?
00:59:42.000By the way, I'm not going to pretend that Nancy Pelosi's intransigence has not contributed to her almost losing the House of Representatives.
00:59:49.000There are another two seats that could flip Democrats or Republicans over the course of the next 48 hours, which means the Republicans could pick up up to 14 seats in the House, which virtually no one had predicted.
00:59:59.000Now the editorial board at the Washington Post is like, you know it would have been great if Nancy Pelosi had signed a COVID relief deal because people are suffering.
01:00:06.000According to the Washington Post editorial board, When negotiations between Pelosi and the Trump administration broke off before the November 3rd election, the latter had upped its offer to $1.9 trillion.
01:00:16.000But the Speaker objected the proposal lacked details, such as a plan for containing the virus, and in any case was smaller than the $2.2 trillion the House passed in early October.
01:00:24.000Meanwhile, Trump was sending mixed signals while Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was refusing to accept anything more than $500 billion.
01:00:30.000If Pelosi's strategy was to hold out until a Democratic sweep increased her leverage, it didn't quite work out.
01:00:35.000Democrats retain the House by a narrow majority and control of the Senate awaits two Georgia runoffs.
01:00:39.000The precise distribution of clout in Washington is anyone's guess, but the nation needs, especially those of the working poor and the unemployed, are beyond question.
01:00:46.000Priorities for a new package include extending eviction limits and special unemployment benefits for gig workers, another round of forgivable no-interest loans to small businesses, and aid to state and local governments.
01:00:56.000Possibly at least some elements may be attached to a spending bill that Congress must pass by December 11th to avoid a partial government shutdown.
01:01:03.000So hilariously, the media have now decided, you know what would be great?
01:01:07.000Notice they didn't put any pressure on Nancy Pelosi to do that for literally months before the election, because they're a bunch of partisan hacks who essentially work for the Democratic Party at this point.
01:01:17.000By the way, quick note on Joe Biden and his staffing up.
01:01:21.000So his selected White House staff thus far is likely to disappoint progressives.
01:01:24.000If you think this is gonna be an easy period for the Democrats, even if Joe Biden ends up taking the inaugural oath, which God forbid, even if that ends up happening, Joe Biden, here's his staff, according to Ken Vogel, writing for the New York Times.
01:01:37.000executive Ronald Klain, former pharmaceutical and insurance lobbyist Steve Rischetti, top Democratic recipients of big oil money Cedric Richmond, and a co-founder of a firm that represents pharma and private equity, Joe Malley Dixon.