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00:00:24.000Alrighty, so we have reached the big day.
00:00:26.000Today might be the day when finally this whole impeachment thing that started all the way back in October and now is carried forward all the way to the beginning of February.
00:00:35.000The reason it may be over today is because it appears that the Republicans have the witnesses, have the votes to prevent further witnesses from testifying.
00:00:42.000I say further witnesses because all of the witness testimony from the House was in fact admitted as evidence in the Senate impeachment trial.
00:00:49.000So what you keep hearing from the media, which is that there were no witnesses, not technically true.
00:00:53.000There were witnesses and many of the witnesses that were quote unquote called during the Clinton impeachment was the same thing.
00:00:58.000They were actually interviewed by the DOJ or by the House.
00:01:00.000And then those transcripts were admitted via video or via transcript.
00:01:04.000To the to the Senate impeachment trial.
00:01:06.000So the idea there have been no witnesses is obviously not true.
00:01:09.000The question is, why are there no further witnesses?
00:01:12.000And that question, of course, was exacerbated by that supposed bombshell that John Bolton dropped in which he suggested that the president was pretty explicitly making clear that he wanted to withhold Ukrainian aid in exchange for particular investigations from the Ukrainian government targeting events back in 2016 and Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and CrowdStrike and all the rest of it.
00:01:31.000So There was a big question coming up to Friday, coming up to today, as to whether Republicans were going to vote to admit additional witnesses.
00:01:39.000And as of this hour, effectively, there are a few different options, right?
00:02:18.000Option number two is that there are three Republicans who vote in favor of further witnesses.
00:02:23.000And this is where things get kind of dicey, because if you get Mitt Romney and Susan Collins, both of whom have come out for further witnesses, and they are joined by Lisa Murkowski, then you have a 50-50 split in the Senate, assuming that everybody on the Democratic side shows up.
00:02:35.000Okay, if you have a 50-50 split, normally in the Senate, the presiding officer breaks the tie.
00:02:39.000And normally the presiding officer in any sort of Senate procedure would be the Vice President of the United States.
00:02:44.000But, in an impeachment trial, the presiding officer is Chief Justice John Roberts.
00:02:48.000So you could end up with the unenviable scenario for Chief Justice Roberts, where he is the person who actually has to make the decision.
00:02:54.000As to whether further witnesses are called, which throws him right in the center of a massive controversy, which, by the way, is the place that Chief Justice Roberts least likes to be.
00:03:02.000If you know one thing about Justice Roberts, he really, really hates being the center of attention.
00:03:07.000He really wants to, quote unquote, stand up for institutional legitimacy.
00:03:10.000He doesn't like to inject himself in politics.
00:03:12.000It's the reason that he let Obamacare be reclassified as a tax rather than as a fee.
00:03:17.000The reason he did that is because he specifically Wanted to, quote-unquote, not interject in the legislative process.
00:03:25.000So making John Roberts sort of the swing vote here is just a disaster for everybody involved, except the Democrats, because they win either way.
00:03:32.000If Roberts says no witnesses, then the Democrats should say, because he's a Republican appointee.
00:03:37.000And if he says, I'm not going to weigh in on this, so it dies, then they say, because he's a Republican appointee.
00:03:40.000And if he votes in favor of more witnesses, then Republicans go on attack against the guy who was appointed by George W. Bush.
00:03:45.000So Democrats, In that scenario, don't really have a losing situation.
00:03:49.000And then there is the most unlikely scenario at this point.
00:03:52.000And that is that somehow the Democrats do pry away four votes for additional witnesses.
00:03:56.000And we hear from additional witnesses over the next couple of weeks.
00:03:59.000Now, as I've been saying for a while, I'm not sure that the smartest strategic play long-term here is to go with no witnesses.
00:04:36.000And then there is sort of logic, number two, which is, OK, if they shut down the witnesses and then two weeks before the election, John Bolton goes on a speaking tour talking about all the stuff he would have said if he'd been allowed to testify.
00:04:46.000Then that's not going to look good, not only for Trump.
00:04:49.000I mean, Trump is not really vulnerable on the score, but it doesn't look great for a lot of the purple state Republicans who voted against bringing witnesses.
00:04:56.000So it is a not risk-free move to simply vote to shut down the witnesses.
00:05:01.000Okay, we'll give you more of this story in just one moment, because then we are moving forward on the impeachment vote, probably by tomorrow, if all indicators as they are currently hold.
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00:07:19.000OK, so here's the way the vote is going to go.
00:07:21.000Republican, according to the according to the Associated Press, Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee declared late Thursday night he will oppose calling more witnesses in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, all but dashing Democratic efforts for more testimony and pushing the Senate toward an imminent vote to acquit the president.
00:07:34.000And he put out A long Twitter thread explaining why it was that he was not going to vote for additional witnesses.
00:07:43.000He said, I worked with other senators to make sure that we have the right to ask for more documents and witnesses, but there is no need for more evidence to prove something that has already been proven and that does not meet the US Constitution's high bar for an impeachable offense.
00:07:53.000Okay, so the point he's making is the point I've been saying that Trump's team should be making the whole time, right?
00:07:57.000which is, yeah, the president engaged in a quid pro quo in which he requested investigations in exchange for military aid.
00:08:05.000The question is whether that is impeachable or not, given the fact that the United States does have a legitimate interest in the investigations, at least some of those investigations, and given the fact that the president of the United States was engaging in what is generally understood to be foreign policy.
00:08:19.000Now, if you don't like his foreign policy, you have an option to get rid of him.
00:08:24.000But you don't simply get to say him exercising his general prerogatives under foreign policy, even if they're prerogatives you don't like.
00:08:30.000By the way, I don't like his policy here, right?
00:08:32.000I think that holding back the Ukrainian military aid was a foolish move.
00:08:35.000I think that him doing it in exchange for weird conspiracy theories about CrowdStrike is idiotic.
00:08:39.000But that does not make it impeachable, as I've been saying, right?
00:08:42.000Lamar Alexander said, there's no more need for more evidence to prove that the president asked Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
00:08:47.000He said this on television on October 3rd, 2019, and during his July 25th, 2019 telephone call with the President of Ukraine.
00:08:54.000There's no need for more evidence to conclude that the President withheld USAID, at least in part, to pressure Ukraine to investigate the Bidens.
00:08:59.000The House managers have proved this with what they call a mountain of overwhelming evidence.
00:09:02.000There's no need to consider further the frivolous second article of impeachment that would remove the president for asserting his constitutional prerogative to protect confidential conversations with his close advisors.
00:09:12.000It was inappropriate for the president to ask a foreign leader to investigate his political opponent and to withhold U.S.
00:09:18.000When elected officials inappropriately interfere with such investigations, it undermines the principle of equal justice under the law, but the Constitution does not give the Senate the power to remove the President from office and ban him from this year's ballot simply for actions that are inappropriate.
00:09:31.000The question, then, is not whether the President did it, but whether the U.S.
00:09:35.000Senate or the American people should decide what to do about what he did.
00:09:38.000I believe that the Constitution provides that the people should make that decision in the presidential election that begins in Iowa on Monday.
00:09:43.000The Senate has spent nine long days considering this mountain of evidence, the arguments of the House managers and the President's lawyers, their answers to Senators' questions, and the House record.
00:09:51.000Even if the House charges were true, they do not meet the Constitution's treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors standard for an impeachable offense.
00:09:57.000The framers believe that there should never, ever be a partisan impeachment.
00:10:00.000That is why the Constitution requires a two-thirds vote of the Senate for conviction, yet not one House Republican voted for these articles.
00:10:06.000If this shallow, hurried, wholly partisan impeachment were to succeed, it would rip the country apart, pouring gasoline on the fire of cultural divisions that already exist.
00:10:12.000It would create a weapon of perpetual impeachment to be used against future presidents whenever the House of Representatives is of a different political party.
00:10:19.000Our founding documents provide for duly elected presidents who serve with the consent of the governed, not at the pleasure of the United States Congress.
00:10:25.000Okay, so what he is saying here is wholly true.
00:10:29.000I will say this with one caveat, which is this doesn't answer why you would vote against the witnesses, right?
00:10:34.000The answer is why you'd vote against the impeachment.
00:10:36.000The answer is why you would not vote to impeach the president.
00:10:38.000But the Democrats are saying, okay, well, what if John Bolton were to come forward and testify that the president told him he was going after Joe Biden because he was afraid of him in 2020?
00:10:47.000And Republicans are pushing back saying, well, you guys could have called them in the House at any time, but it doesn't really answer the question.
00:10:54.000Not that John Bolton would actually say that, but that the House Democrats and the Democrats generally and the media claiming that this is a cover-up, whether that has any impact on some of those swing state senators.
00:11:05.000I mean, Adam Schiff was playing this up to the hill yesterday.
00:11:08.000He was basically begging the Republicans, let's limit the witness subpoenas to one week.
00:11:11.000You keep saying it's going to drag out for weeks.
00:12:22.000This is not a bad argument from Scalise.
00:12:25.000Jay Sekulow, I thought, had the mic drop moment when he looked over at Adam Schiff sitting there on the Senate floor today and he said, over 30 times, you said that you made your case.
00:12:36.000And literally, you know, looking over at Schiff and Schiff said, yes.
00:12:40.000So if Schiff made his case, why do you need more witnesses?
00:12:44.000Especially when Sekulow pointed out, oh, and by the way, we'll call the whistleblower.
00:12:52.000You know, is this going to go on and on for months?
00:12:54.000Or we all know the president didn't commit a crime.
00:12:57.000Okay, so, Senator Susan Collins, for her part, she came out at basically the same time as Lamar Alexander, and she said that she would vote in favor of more witnesses.
00:13:06.000This makes sense on a political level.
00:13:07.000The reason it makes sense on a political level is she is voting in favor of witnesses, presumably knowing that Lamar Alexander was going to vote against witnesses, so the vote has no actual impact, right?
00:13:16.000She gets to say to her constituents, I called for more witnesses, what are you blaming me for?
00:13:20.000At the same time, her vote was not the swing vote to ensure that the witnesses actually happened.
00:13:24.000She put out a statement saying, we've heard the cases argued and the questions answered, In keeping with the model used for the impeachment trial of President Clinton, at this point, Senators are able to make an informed judgment about what is in dispute and what is important to the underlying issues.
00:13:35.000I worked with colleagues to ensure the schedule for the trial included a guaranteed up or down vote on whether or not to call witnesses.
00:13:40.000I believe hearing from certain witnesses would give each side the opportunity to more fully and fairly make their case, resolve any ambiguities, and provide additional clarity.
00:13:47.000Therefore, a vote in support of the motions will allow witnesses and documents to be subpoenaed.
00:13:50.000If this motion passes, I believe that the most sensible way to proceed would be for the House managers and the President's attorneys to attempt to agree on a limited and equal number of witnesses for each side.
00:13:58.000If they can't agree, then the Senate should choose the number of witnesses.
00:14:02.000Guys, this does give Susan Collins some political cover for her main race, but obviously it has no impact if the Republicans have 51 votes not to call more witnesses at this point.
00:14:11.000And, you know, again, I think the media are going to blame the Republicans.
00:14:14.000But the fact is that if the Democrats had done their job in the House, none of this would have been an issue in the first place, right?
00:14:18.000I mean, if they just waited to adjudicate the Bolton subpoena, if they'd waited to adjudicate the documentary subpoenas from the executive branch, none of this would have been a problem in the first place.
00:14:26.000So it's easy for them to blame the Republicans.
00:14:28.000And sure, you can make the case that Republicans ought to be allowing witnesses.
00:14:40.000And because they did not have the case, they were then calling on the Senate to fill in the gaps in their own case.
00:14:44.000And let's assume for a second that John Bolton had not come out with this quote-unquote bombshell a week before the end of this thing.
00:14:51.000Then everybody would acknowledge that there was no need to call additional witnesses.
00:14:55.000Because who would those additional witnesses be?
00:14:57.000Okay, it was just because Bolton spoke up that this became a hot issue.
00:15:00.000Now, the reason I've been saying that maybe Republicans should consider additional witnesses is not because I believe it would change the outcome.
00:15:05.000In fact, I've said precisely the reverse.
00:15:07.000I don't think it would change the outcome.
00:15:08.000The only reason that I've suggested that it might be a good idea to allow the calling of additional witnesses is because you want everything out right now because you don't want it all coming out later via another channel and hurting the senators who voted against allowing the witnesses in the first place.
00:15:22.000And you can see the media already building up to this, right?
00:15:26.000He was on television last night and he was suggesting it's a cover-up.
00:15:30.000They have covered up what the President of the United States has done in his grievous action when they had the ability to find out more and reach a bipartisan, as it were, decision if we could hear from the witnesses.
00:15:45.000If Mr. Bolton could come in and tell us, is there anything else there?
00:15:54.000Okay, it's not a cover-up, plain and simple, because again, the House has the means at its disposal to simply call Bolton.
00:15:59.000So it's not a cover-up when there is a branch, an independent branch of government that has the ability to make all of this happen, like right now, in the here and now.
00:16:07.000It's also not a cover-up because, frankly, the Senate gets to decide its own procedures, right?
00:16:11.000Acting in coordination with normal procedures, which...
00:16:19.000A cover-up is where you do something illegal in order to prevent information from coming out.
00:16:23.000And as the Trump team and the GOP were pointing out yesterday, there was a political article that came out during Thursday night's proceedings about how former VP Joe Biden actually argued against including new witnesses during former President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial and that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer agreed with him.
00:16:39.000Trump attorney Patrick Philbin called it the Biden Doctrine and the Biden Rule.
00:16:42.000And suggested that five minutes ago, the Democrats were very much in favor of barring witnesses.
00:16:47.000Now, of course, they have flipped their positions.
00:16:49.000Of course, the same is true for a lot of the Republicans with regard to Clinton impeachment.
00:16:53.000Now, in a second, we'll get to the Democratic reaction to all of this because it's beginning to dawn on them that this thing went nowhere and that they don't have a lot coming out of this.
00:17:06.000Barring any of that, the Democrats really have nothing here.
00:17:08.000And you can see how desperate they are from the proceedings yesterday and from what they were saying about what impeachment means generally.
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00:18:24.000Okay, so the Democrats, desperate to spin this thing as a victory in some way, are now trotting out more and more ridiculous arguments.
00:18:36.000So Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House who botched this thing from beginning to end, I mean truly botched it, truly and well botched it, right?
00:18:42.000She put forward this impeachment without actively knowing what was in it, and that pre-committed her to a path where impeachment had to take place.
00:18:50.000And then, because the witnesses were not giving them exactly what they wanted, they just sort of forced through a partisan vote, which gives Republicans the excuse to say this thing is wholly partisan from the outset, which of course it was.
00:19:01.000Well, Nancy Pelosi is now faced with the prospect of having brought an impeachment that did not receive a single Republican vote in favor of the impeachment, and not a single Republican vote presumably in favor of conviction.
00:19:12.000Okay, and now Nancy Pelosi is out there trying to proclaim that she won, she won, she won, right?
00:19:16.000She's insisting that she won, even though the game is over and she lost.
00:19:20.000Here she is explaining, don't worry, President Trump has never acquitted.
00:20:48.000So if you are saying that the trial never took place because no witnesses were called in the Senate, Well, you didn't call any of those same witnesses in the House.
00:20:55.000So what exactly were you doing in the House?
00:20:58.000Does that count as an impeachment now?
00:21:00.000Like, this is just attempting desperately to grab onto any piece of news and try and treat it as though she's gotten a victory when she's pretty clearly lost.
00:21:07.000Angus King, the quote-unquote independent from Maine, he's not independent in any way.
00:21:11.000He says, without witnesses, he's never acquitted.
00:21:24.000Frankly, from the President's point of view, if this trial winds up in the next 24-48 hours with no witnesses, he can say, well, I was acquitted, but he really can't say he was exonerated.
00:21:35.000I think there will always be an asterisk by this, you know, trial but no witnesses.
00:21:41.000I mean, one of the Senators last night said, you know, we had a Okay, again, this is such a ridiculous, ridiculous contention that if you don't have witnesses at the trial... Yeah, you know what else you normally have at a trial?
00:21:58.000Okay, again, this is such a ridiculous, ridiculous contention that if you don't have witnesses at the trial, yeah, you know what else you normally have at a trial, a prosecution that brings its case.
00:22:07.000Normally, you have a prosecution that brings its entire case.
00:22:11.000If you're in a normal criminal trial and the prosecution showed up and they're like, okay, well, we don't actually have a crime we're charging, so we're not going to charge a crime.
00:22:17.000Also, we're not going to bring sufficient evidence.
00:22:19.000And we insist that the defense call our witnesses for us.
00:22:21.000We insist that you, like, in no way is a Senate trial comparable to a criminal trial.
00:22:28.000So suggesting that a trial has not taken place because you didn't get the witnesses that you wanted, that you were fully capable of calling in the House is an absurdity on its face.
00:22:34.000But this is what the Democrats have been relegated to because they lose.
00:22:48.000So Elizabeth Warren, what they do over in the Senate during the trial is they submit their questions to John Roberts, who sits there and reads the questions out loud.
00:22:57.000Like, all of these people are contestants on The Price is Right or something.
00:23:00.000And here is John Roberts reading Elizabeth Warren's question, which is designed to, quote-unquote, humiliate John Roberts.
00:23:05.000And of course, the left is like, look at her, humiliating John Roberts.
00:23:08.000Yeah, except you know what's going to happen after this is over?
00:23:10.000John Roberts is going to go back to his life-tenured seat on the Supreme Court and get to wear that robe around all day.
00:23:15.000And Elizabeth Warren is going to lose in Iowa, and then she's going to lose in New Hampshire, and then she's going to lose everywhere, and she's going to go back to being an elderly senator from Massachusetts.
00:23:22.000That's what's going to happen after all of this.
00:23:23.000So the humiliation visited upon John Roberts, first of all, nothing can humiliate John Roberts worse than his own judgment in the Obamacare case.
00:23:31.000But beyond that, like truly, this is this is puerile nonsense.
00:23:36.000From Senator Warren is for the House managers.
00:23:40.000At a time when large majorities of Americans have lost faith in government, does the fact that the chief justice is presiding over an impeachment trial in which Republican senators have thus far refused to allow witnesses Or evidence contribute to the loss of legitimacy of the Chief Justice, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution.
00:24:20.000Okay, so this whole thing, of course, is incredibly, incredibly stupid, and it is now over, and we know it's over, and it's just a question of where we go from here.
00:24:28.000Well, that does clear the decks for President Trump to go hog wild out there, and he is indeed going hog wild out there.
00:24:34.000He held a big rally last night in which he just blasted the Democrats.
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00:26:05.000Okay, so President Trump going hog wild on the stump.
00:26:08.000This impeachment thing didn't go particularly great for Democrats.
00:26:11.000Now, again, I still think that there is a risk out there lurking in the distance.
00:26:15.000That John Bolton decides that he's gonna talk about Trump saying to him that he hates the Bidens and that's what this is all about, or that Mick Mulvaney does an unfortunate interview or something like that where a document leaks, right?
00:26:25.000This is why I was suggesting maybe that Republicans should just go forward, clear the decks of all of this, and then move on with their lives.
00:27:43.000is if you impeach somebody and you take the shot and you miss, all you've done is fire up Trump's base, which thinks that you are trying to toss him off the ballot unfairly.
00:27:51.000Here is Donald Trump saying the entire goal of this thing was to come after you, which is, again, true.
00:29:20.000I mean, she is pandering like a pander bear eaten at a Chinese wildlife market.
00:29:24.000I mean, she is just really going for it.
00:29:27.000Here is Elizabeth Warren, pandering harder, pandering harder, starring Bruce Willis.
00:29:34.000I'm going to have a secretary of education That this young trans person interviews on my behalf, and only if this person believes that our Secretary or Secretary of Education nominee is committed to creating a welcoming environment, a safe environment, and a full educational curriculum for everyone, will that person actually be advanced to be Secretary of Education.
00:30:07.000My goodness, look at that, that is just, and people are cheering, woo!
00:30:11.000We're gonna find somebody, a child with gender dysphoria, and we're gonna have that child, that seven-year-old child with gender dysphoria, I am jazz, we're gonna have that child interview the prospective secretary of education to tell us what national policy should be with regard to locker rooms and LGBT education, Senator Elizabeth Warren.
00:30:28.000Now, if she really wants to do this, honestly, Elizabeth Warren should, here's what she should announce.
00:30:33.000Senator Warren, if she really wants to win this thing this way, she needs to announce that her vice presidential pick is going to be a trans, Native American, half Native American, like her, half Native American, one quarter Chinese, one quarter African American, one eighth Latinx, disabled person, with With Vitiligo.
00:30:56.000That person is going to be her vice president.
00:30:58.000And then she promises that because that person has the most knowledge of the world affairs, because that person is the most sensitive to everybody's needs, that she will then resign as president and that person will become president.
00:31:10.000That is the most woke thing that she could do.
00:31:12.000She could give up her white woman slot to a minority.
00:31:18.000We can find the most intersectional human being in existence She can nominate that person as her vice president.
00:31:23.000She can pledge that if elected, she will then resign and hand over all power to the trans little person so that they can shape American policy.
00:31:46.000It's going to be so sad when she loses and then Anne Taylor Loft has to put all those sweaters on at half off because the market for the Elizabeth Warren sweaters are just gone.
00:31:55.000Meanwhile, speaking of delusional people, so it turns out that Michael Bloomberg is going to drop $100 million on ads attacking Donald Trump in just two months.
00:32:04.000According to the Drudge Report, Bloomberg has already spent more than $100 million just on ads that attack Trump.
00:32:11.000And that does not include the nearly $100 million more that Bloomberg has spent on ads on his own behalf.
00:32:32.000Meanwhile, national polling, Sanders is now leading an NBC Wall Street Journal national poll.
00:32:39.000So Joe Biden is getting desperate now, and Joe Biden is starting to open up the guns on Bernie Sanders, saying he's a Democrat, Bernie Sanders is not a Democrat.
00:32:47.000The entire pitch for Bernie Sanders is that he's not a Democrat.
00:32:49.000This is like Jeb Bush saying to Donald Trump, I've been a lifelong Republican, you're not a Republican.
00:32:54.000The entire appeal of Donald Trump is that he was running from outside the party infrastructure and that he was shaking things up and bringing something new.
00:33:01.000Biden, speaking in Pella, Iowa, said, I'm a Democrat.
00:33:05.000Earlier, he had told reporters at Dairy Queen that the contrast between himself and his top rivals were, quote unquote, self-evident.
00:33:39.000And it's a caucus state, which tends to favor Bernie Sanders because caucus is all about enthusiasm and turnout.
00:33:45.000The only poll taken in the last month with regard to, or the last three weeks with regard to Nevada, had Biden and Sanders dead even.
00:33:53.000The only state, here's, I've been saying this for years, ever since Rudy Giuliani set up the quote unquote Florida firewall in 2008.
00:34:00.000By the time he hit the firewall, it was gone, right?
00:34:02.000Anytime you have a candidate who sets up an electoral firewall, the firewall is breached every single time.
00:34:06.000Hillary was talking about how she had the blue firewall in Michigan and Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, boom, gone.
00:34:10.000As soon as you have a candidate who is talking about a firewall, that requires You know, a full month of losing in order to reach the firewall, that firewall is not going to exist.
00:34:20.000So right now, Joe Biden's firewall is in South Carolina because that's really the first state where a significant percentage of the vote is black.
00:34:26.000I mean, and he is wildly outpacing Bernie Sanders among black voters, but the latest polling in South Carolina was only done on January 8th.
00:34:36.000So it hasn't captured anything that has happened in the last three weeks.
00:34:40.000Right now, the betting markets have Sanders as a fairly heavy favorite to be the nominee for the Democratic Party.
00:34:51.000Maybe Elizabeth Warren drops out, and maybe some of those votes go to Joe Biden.
00:34:54.000Maybe Pete Buttigieg drops out, some of those votes go to Joe Biden.
00:34:57.000But by the way, if Elizabeth Warren drops out, there's just as good a shot that Elizabeth Warren's voters move over to Bernie Sanders.
00:35:03.000So right now, you gotta be seeing this geriatric communist as the guy who is the greatest threat to take the Democratic nomination.
00:35:10.000And the reason I call him a communist is because I would like to see him, before I start just signing on to the idea that he is pro-capitalism, I'd like to hear him say, like, a nice word about capitalism, like, one would be good.
00:35:18.000You know, maybe revise his support for various communist regimes over the last 60 years.
00:35:22.000Maybe explain why he was wrong in the 1970s to support nationalization of every major industry in the United States, ranging from banks to the energy industry.
00:35:30.000Like, I would love to hear him explain what changed.
00:35:33.000And if you say, well, he's not calling for that stuff anymore, right, so explain what changed.
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00:38:12.000Meanwhile, things are getting pretty horrific surrounding this coronavirus.
00:38:21.000I'm always one of these people who says, like, don't panic until it's time to panic, because the time that you've wasted worrying is never receivable.
00:38:29.000You don't get it back on the other end.
00:38:30.000But I will say that this is starting to look not so great.
00:38:34.000The State Department is now telling Americans not to travel to China at all.
00:38:37.000They've issued a travel advisory because of the public health threat posed by coronavirus.
00:38:42.000The WHO has declared the coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency.
00:38:48.000So apparently, apparently there are now over 200 dead.
00:38:52.000There are over 9,000 diagnoses of this.
00:38:56.000Just by contrast, the SARS virus, I believe over the course of an entire year, had about 8,100 diagnoses.
00:39:01.000So this thing is spreading a lot faster than the SARS virus did.
00:39:05.000I've seen estimates that put the death rate from this virus at around 2%.
00:39:08.000The problem is you don't actually know what the rates are because the Chinese government lies.
00:39:12.000So we have no idea how many people are actually dead.
00:39:14.000We have no idea how many people have actually obtained the virus.
00:39:16.000And the biggest problem with this virus is we don't actually know how it is crossing human to human.
00:39:21.000Is it liquid transmission, the way that Ebola is, for example?
00:39:25.000Or is it aerial transmission, which is a lot scarier, right?
00:39:27.000Like the flu, like you sneeze in a room and suddenly somebody could get it, or you breathe on something and somebody can get it.
00:39:32.000That, of course, would be incredibly frightening.
00:39:35.000The fact is that we do have human-to-human transmission outside of China.
00:39:38.000This has happened in the United States when a person who came back from China gave it to her husband.
00:39:42.000Beyond that, we also know that the coronavirus is is giving people sort of secondary conditions.
00:39:51.000A lot of people apparently who are dying are dying of various other sort of conditions that are contingent upon the having of the coronavirus in the first place.
00:40:02.000The biggest problem is, of course, that they are now reporting that you can get the coronavirus.
00:40:08.000You can actually get the coronavirus from somebody who's asymptomatics.
00:40:11.000So somebody's walking around, they appear to be perfectly healthy, but they are a carrier for the coronavirus.
00:40:15.000That makes it nearly impossible to stop the transmission.
00:40:18.000And because you can't even quarantine people, you can't even, you don't know if they have it or if they don't have it.
00:40:22.000So once it spreads, it's going to be very difficult to stop at this point.
00:40:27.000All of this Is scary as hell, obviously.
00:40:30.000But, important to note, again, that in the United States there were 3.7 million diagnoses of the flu just at the end of the year.
00:40:36.000And some 3,000 people died of the flu or conditions related to the flu just at the very end of last year.
00:40:41.000So we're not anywhere near that scale at this point.
00:40:45.000With that said, This is not good news.
00:40:47.000This particular case in which a person transmitted asymptomatically, it was described from Germany, and it could help resolve one of the major unknowns about the virus.
00:40:55.000As of Thursday night, it had infected nearly 10,000 people in China alone and killed 213.
00:40:59.000About 100 more infections have been reported in 18 other countries, but no deaths.
00:41:02.000Now, what we have to know is why people died in China.
00:41:05.000Did they die from lack of medical care because China is a garbage country run by a communist regime?
00:41:09.000Or did they die because China cared for them and the virus is just that much of a killer?
00:42:48.000They're largely the same sorts of white men and a couple women on the sidelines who have dominated the Trump administration from the very beginning.
00:42:56.000Now, nowhere in this article does it actually explain which of these people is not an expert.
00:43:01.000It's just assumed that because they're white, they can't be experts.
00:43:07.000By contrast, former President Barack Obama's circle of advisors in the face of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa was hardly so monochromatic.
00:43:15.000Neither was it so abysmal in terms of gender diversity.
00:43:24.000This is the worst piece ever written over at CNN.
00:43:27.000And yet, as unsurprising as the diversity issue in the Trump era has become, it's still worth pointing out from time to time, especially as the country approaches the 2020 presidential election in earnest.
00:43:36.000That's partly because of the recent photos of the best experts telegraph, the kinds of people the administration deems worthy of holding power.
00:44:05.000If you're looking for some rip on Trump and it's like, oh, well, you know, these doctors he's got here talking about how to stop a global pandemic, he needs in here right now the cast of Project Runway.
00:45:17.000We live in Toronto where the SARS virus got world-scale attention.
00:45:20.000That's because the only people who died outside of Asia from that virus were in Canada, and most of them were in Toronto.
00:45:26.000With only 44 people dying in total in Canada, it had a huge impact on our city.
00:45:31.000We lost a lot of tourism, we lost millions of dollars, but most importantly we saw a lot of stigma and racism towards Chinese people.
00:45:38.000It's important that we do not repeat those racist notions that happened here in Toronto, and we all need to be aware of this when we talk about the current coronavirus.
00:45:45.000On our social media channels we've seen lots of people saying things like this always happens in China and relating it a lot to the types of foods that Chinese people eat.
00:45:53.000But it's important to remember that Western food practices are what created mad cow disease and also Western meat consumption has created a big issue with antibiotic resistance.
00:46:33.000You know, it turns out that domesticated animals, you rip on American meat consumption.
00:46:36.000Okay, here's the thing about domesticated animals.
00:46:38.000Typically, domesticated animals have had a lot of disease bred out of them for years, and there may be other problems associated with it.
00:46:44.000But, you know what's one problem that's not associated with that?
00:46:47.000The wild diseases you get from eating like a meerkat.
00:46:51.000It turns out that when you eat weird animals, bad crap can happen.
00:46:55.000And listen, I am- I'm a person with one of the most religiously restrictive diets on the planet, right?
00:46:59.000I keep kosher, which means that we think pigs are exotic.
00:47:02.000But, like, if you think that you are going to, like, take a chomp out of a cobra, and this is somehow a great idea, and that it's racist for me to say that, that somehow it's racist for me to say, please, please, do not go into the forest and tear that lemur off a tree and just take a chomp.
00:48:44.000And also, who do you think Pete Buttigieg is talking about?
00:48:46.000Typically the moral values that people are talking about When they say Heartland Values, very often they have to do with values with regard to sexual activity.
00:48:54.000People would judge a gay man who lives in Indiana.
00:49:24.000Because you're making the world a stupider place.
00:49:26.000Like, each and every day a stupider place.
00:49:28.000Donald Trump's task force is not diverse enough.
00:49:31.000It's racist to say that you shouldn't take a, like, it's racist to say now that if you go to the LA Zoo and you take a walk around and you see it as a dinner menu that maybe this is a bad idea.
00:50:13.000So, I told you I was watching, like, 1990s silly movies with my wife.
00:50:18.000And so my wife and I, the other day, watched the John Woo film, Face Off, from 1997.
00:50:23.000This is one of the greatest cheesy action flicks of all time.
00:50:26.000First of all, Nicolas Cage was in every movie.
00:50:29.000Just note that from 1992 to 2000, Nicolas Cage was in every single movie playing Nicolas Cage.
00:50:34.000He's the exact same person in Face Off that he is in The Rock.
00:50:37.000The difference is that in The Rock, he plays like a chemist, he plays a scientist, and in Face Off he plays an international criminal who's crazy, and they're exactly the same person.
00:51:47.000Like, Nicolas Cage in every single movie.
00:51:49.000So the whole premise of the film is that people can switch faces, and so John Travolta, in order to stop Nicolas Cage, has to become Nicolas Cage.