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00:00:34.000There's that ABC News headline, one of the best headlines ever over the past 48 hours, quote, protesters in California set fire to a courthouse, damaged a police station, and assaulted officers after a peaceful demonstration intensified.
00:00:47.000Not kidding, that was the actual headline from ABC News.
00:00:53.000See, normally when peacefulness intensifies, then people get more peaceful.
00:00:56.000But apparently, when peacefulness intensifies, according to ABC News, that's when you set fire to a courthouse, damage a police station, and assault police officers.
00:01:39.000My friend Ami Horowitz, he's reported from on the ground at these riots and at the protests, and he said he couldn't find anybody who actually condemned the rioting and the looting from the protests.
00:01:49.000So the sort of stark divide, at least ideologically, not in terms of behavior, but ideologically, between the protesters and the rioters and looters basically has not existed since the early days of the BLM protests.
00:02:00.000Which have now morphed into Antifa protests.
00:02:02.000Well, according to the New York Times, they're now confirming what AMI reported on my radio show.
00:02:06.000They say peaceful protesters with quote, room for rage sympathize with aggressive tactics.
00:02:12.000Minutes before midnight on Sunday, the first firework of the evening screeched low over the heads of protesters gathered in Portland, Oregon, sprinkling them with white flecks of light and ricocheting into the courthouse that has become a symbol of an unwelcome federal incursion into a local outcry over police brutality.
00:02:26.000Now, I love, first of all, how the New York Times immediately posits that the only reason they're attacking the courthouse is because of the federal incursion.
00:02:34.000Now, that completely reverses the timeline.
00:02:35.000Remember, the feds did not arrive until they attacked the courthouse.
00:02:38.000But the way the New York Times reports this, if you were an alien from outer space and you arrived and you read just that paragraph, you would assume that the feds arrived and then the attacks began.
00:02:46.000The New York Times says some ducked under makeshift shields to protect themselves from the falling sparks, while others cheered at the sight of the blazing projectile hurtling toward the courthouse and the federal law enforcement agents inside.
00:03:02.000Typically speaking, when you think of democracy, you don't think of people firing projectiles at law enforcement agents.
00:03:08.000It isn't high on the list of democratic activities is to actually engage in anti-civilization violence.
00:03:14.000Typically, that's not high on the list of democratic agenda items.
00:03:19.000In recent weeks, says the New York Times, protesters in Portland have pointed laser beams, lobbed water bottles and trash bags, and in one case, according to the Portland Police Bureau, hurled an open pocket knife at the officers guarding the courthouse.
00:03:29.000They've used power tools, crowbars and bolt cutters to yank down a fence.
00:03:32.000In Seattle, demonstrators over the weekend set fire to several construction trailers at a youth detention facility.
00:03:47.000Peacefulness intensifying across the nation.
00:03:49.000I'm just going to point out here, if there had been one firework shot at police officers during the Tea Party movement, that would have been the end of the world.
00:03:57.000They were called terrorists by members of the Obama administration as it was.
00:04:01.000They were called the Tea Party terrorists by members of the Obama administration and members of the media.
00:04:05.000If the anti-lockdown protesters had so much as sneezed at the officers who were trying to stop them from breaking the law, that would have been an assault.
00:04:47.000You cannot watch footage of these protests and not come away with the conclusion these are not people attempting to actually effectuate change.
00:04:52.000These are folks who are having a good time.
00:05:03.000In fact, there was a concert in New York last night and Andrew Cuomo was very angry at the concert.
00:05:07.000Sadly, no one thought to bring a Black Lives Matter t-shirt or it all would have been fine.
00:05:11.000The only thing you are allowed to do in today's society, in public, with others, is overtly resist law enforcement and or have dance parties in the thousands in the middle of the streets.
00:05:21.000So, this has basically become the outlet for a bored and angry country.
00:05:27.000And that doesn't mean everybody isn't genuine.
00:05:29.000It does mean there are a lot of people who are not genuine.
00:05:31.000I'm not going to pretend that I think that everybody who is firing projectiles at police officers is looking for quote-unquote systemic change as opposed to just being a jerk having a good time at two o'clock in the morning.
00:05:41.000The raucous escalation in recent days brought about by the deployment of federal law enforcement officers and the harsh tactics they have used against protesters has prompted new debates among the protesters over their own tactics and goals.
00:05:51.000Now battling nightly rounds of pepper spray and impact munitions fired by federal forces, some activists worry that the nightly clashes are distracting from their demands for defunding or reforming local police departments.
00:06:01.000It turns out that when you fire crap at police officers, people are less sympathetic to the perspective that we don't need police officers.
00:06:07.000To see people standing in Portland destroying property was not actually doing the work of advocating for black people.
00:06:12.000Was disturbing, said Rachel Dixon, the vice president of the Multnomah County Democrats, organizer in the black community.
00:06:18.000I think they're a distraction from the everyday needs of people of color, especially black people.
00:06:21.000My life is not going to improve because you broke the glass at the Louis Vuitton store.
00:06:25.000Well, that, of course, is true, but there's only one problem.
00:06:29.000A huge percentage, according to this article, of people who are engaged in the protests actually have a lot of sympathy for the people who are engaging in more aggressive tactics.
00:06:39.000Apparently, there are a lot of people who are kind of happy with this.
00:06:42.000I mean, that's the headline of the piece.
00:06:44.000Kat Brooks, racial justice organizer in Oakland.
00:06:46.000I don't know how you even apply for that job.
00:06:48.000And the co-founder of the Anti-Police Terror Project said Black Lives Matter protests and the movement to oust federal forces from cities were one connected struggle.
00:06:55.000The debate among organizers, she said, is the tactics that protesters should use.
00:06:58.000Her own view is that protesters cannot be blamed for forcefully responding when confronted with rubber bullets and pepper spray, as they have been in Portland.
00:07:05.000I don't consider property destruction violence, she said.
00:07:07.000Violence is when you attack a person or another living, breathing creature on this planet.
00:07:10.000Windows don't cry, and they can't die.
00:07:12.000Okay, first of all, the idea that property damage does not amount to a form of violence is insane.
00:07:47.000Brooks, she rejected the notion put forward by Mayor Libby Schaaf of Oakland that violence and property destruction reinforced Trump's message that anarchists were taking over the country's streets.
00:07:55.000She says, we could sit there and sing Kumbaya and suck lollipops between now and November.
00:07:59.000But if Donald Trump thinks it makes sense to hit Oakland and Detroit and some of the other cities with large black populations, then that's what Donald Trump is going to do.
00:08:06.000So a lot of sympathy among the protesters for people who are engaging in violence.
00:08:12.000And it's important to recognize this because that is what federal law enforcement and local law enforcement are actually facing down.
00:08:18.000These protests have been going on for months.
00:08:19.000It did not escalate to people firing pepper balls at people unless the people who were having the pepper balls fired at them were engaged in violation of law.
00:08:26.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:08:29.000First, let's talk about having good clothes.
00:08:32.000Now, I know you probably have a lot of clothes in that dresser right now.
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00:10:03.000Marshal Service decided last week to send more deputies, according to an internal email reviewed by the Washington Post, with personnel beginning to arrive last Thursday night.
00:10:10.000The Department of Homeland Security is also considering a plan to send an additional 50 U.S.
00:10:14.000Customs and Border Protection personnel to the city, according to a senior administration official involved in the federal response.
00:10:20.000This would mark a significant expansion of the federal force operating at the Portland Federal Courthouse.
00:10:24.000There were 114 agents there in mid-July.
00:10:26.000It's unclear how many existing personnel could be sent home after the arrival of 100 reinforcements.
00:10:32.000Anybody treating this as completely out of bounds is just ignoring the realities on the ground, but that's exactly what is happening.
00:10:38.000attorney for Oregon is ripping Portland officials over the handling of the riots.
00:10:43.000Attorney Billy Williams, he urged Portland residents to demand action from local officials.
00:10:46.000He's saying, listen, the only reason the feds are even here is because the local officials refuse to do anything about this, which suggests that they have some sympathy for the violence because they think the violence is going to actually effectuate change.
00:11:43.000She allowed city blocks of her own city to be ripped away from law and order and dominated by people who really can be described as terrorists.
00:11:51.000I mean, if you take over a two block area of downtown and then there are shootings that take place therein and the first responders are not allowed to come in.
00:11:57.000I don't know what else to describe that as.
00:12:01.000The Seattle mayor, however, says that by President Trump deploying federal law enforcement to protect federal property, it's a dry run for martial law.
00:12:08.000Now, if you're suggesting it's a dry run for martial law, what you really are suggesting is that violent uprisings against a dry run for martial law are justified.
00:12:16.000This is just justification for violence by the Seattle mayor, who has tolerated violence in her own city and has tolerated the degradation of her own law and order in her own city.
00:12:24.000Here's Mayor Jenny Durkan, just a trash heap of a mayor.
00:12:27.000Every time this president promises to sow division, he's successful at it.
00:12:32.000And he's clearly targeted cities run by Democratic mayors.
00:12:55.000She's absolutely suggesting that the president of the United States is going to use federal force to overwhelm all resistance to his own agenda.
00:13:03.000Martial law, by the way, these are the same folks who suggest that President Trump should put down a national mask mandate enforceable by federal law enforcement.
00:13:10.000It's very funny to watch all the same people who claim that Trump is a fascist asking him It's really exciting.
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00:13:55.000from Twitter for the great crime of tweeting out a video on hydroxychloroquine that most medical experts think is wrong.
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00:15:01.000Okay, so Rahm Emanuel, former Chicago mayor, he's of course blaming the federal government.
00:15:05.000He's saying that the real problem here is that people are conflating the protestors and the rioters and looters.
00:15:10.000Except that the rioters and the looters are among the protestors, and the protestors, many of them, are expressing open sympathy for the rioters and the looters, and so are members of the media.
00:15:18.000So there's this inside-outside game that's being played here by Democrats.
00:15:20.000How dare you lump together these people?
00:15:23.000And we're like, okay, I don't want to lump together those people.
00:15:25.000And then the media's like, yeah, but they're the same.
00:15:27.000So why are you ripping rioters and looters?
00:15:29.000The most beloved tactic these days is the so-called Mott and Bailey tactic of argumentation, where you make an extraordinarily extreme claim, somebody attacks the extraordinarily extreme claim, and then you basically...
00:16:30.000Here's Rahm Emanuel doing that routine.
00:16:33.000There are people trying to hijack these legitimate protesters and create violence.
00:16:38.000And I think in the response from the federal government, you shouldn't be trying to make Antifa the face of the protest.
00:16:44.000Let the local law enforcement take the lead.
00:16:45.000If they need federal assistance, they'll ask for it, like we've done in every other situation going back.
00:16:50.000And in this situation, understand the protesters who are asking America to live up to the promise of America, and know that others, individuals, not a lot, but are trying to hijack these protests for their own violent needs.
00:17:06.000Also good stuff, an activist named Erica was on MSNBC featured on MSNBC, your source for all left-wing news, and suggested openly, this activist, that what's actually happening in major cities is that violence is rising, not because the police are absent, violence is rising because the federal government is shipping guns into inner cities in order to create violence.
00:17:24.000This was featured on MSNBC in a segment called America in Crisis.
00:17:28.000Racial injustice protests across US spur police clashes.
00:17:31.000Again, notice even in that chyron, conflation between protests and violence, right?
00:18:06.000And so just like in the 70s and the 80s, when we saw the counterintelligence program put guns and drugs into certain communities to create certain behaviors, to stop the rise of protests and movements, Okay, this is absolutely bizarre nonsense, and there's no pushback on MSNBC so far as I can tell to any of this.
00:18:31.000Things are going really well in the country, it seems.
00:18:33.000Well, I think that the only way that the country can truly heal is if HBO has itself a really important session.
00:18:40.000Like a really important, an important talk.
00:18:43.000So HBO has now finally given a voice to left-wing voices.
00:18:47.000HBO, that notoriously right-wing outlet, they finally opened up a space for left-wingers to talk.
00:18:53.000HBO Sports is now going to air Seeing America with Megan Rapinoe on August 1st.
00:18:58.000Showing a conversation between the U.S.
00:19:00.000women's soccer team captain, Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, famous sportsperson, 1619 Project founder and Pulitzer Prize winner Nicole Hannah-Jones and great fiction writer, also famous sportsperson, and comedian and television host Hasan Minhaj, also amazing, amazing sportsperson.
00:19:14.000So I'm so glad that HBO Sports is going to air a conversation between Megan Rapinoe, who's mostly famous for complaining about how America sucks while making millions of dollars, Complaining about how America sucks.
00:19:27.000AOC, who of course is famous as a sports commentator.
00:19:31.000Nicole Hannah-Jones, who is famous for just making up American history.
00:19:35.000And Hasan Minhaj, who is a comedian and TV host.
00:19:38.000Peter Nelson, Executive Vice President of HBO Sports, I quote, We are grateful Megan Rapinoe would choose HBO as home for this conversation and look forward to more opportunities with her to continue this dialogue.
00:19:47.000Megan is fearless in speaking out on issues.
00:19:51.000Joined by Representative AOC, Nicole Hannah-Jones, and Hasan Minhaj, this conversation embraces the challenges we collectively face.
00:19:59.000So basically, it is a Bill Maher panel without Bill Maher, is what we are seeing right here.
00:20:04.000In the trailer, Rapinoe says, I'm a gay female athlete.
00:20:07.000I can't ever just be one thing, because she's intersectionality.
00:20:10.000Intersectionality, she can't ever just, well, she can.
00:20:12.000She can just be a social justice warrior.
00:20:15.000Hannah-Jones says she views the upcoming election as, quote, the first election where we are actually voting for our lives.
00:20:21.000Okay, this person, Nikole Hannah-Jones, is just... The fact that they made her de facto editor of the New York Times bespeaks the fact that the New York Times is a flaming bag of human feces at this point.
00:20:31.000It is just... This is the first election where black people are actually voting for their lives?
00:20:39.000For a pseudo-historian, she should know a little bit about American history.
00:20:42.000It seems like there have been a lot more risky times to be a black person in America than 2020, the first election where we're actually voting for our lives.
00:20:50.000Rapinoe, according to Mediaite, who led her team to victory during the 2019 World Cup, has consistently dedicated herself to activism and human rights issues.
00:20:58.000It's an honor to host a show where a critical conversation between some of America's most innovative thought leaders.
00:21:02.000I'm so thankful to HBO for providing such a powerful platform.
00:21:17.000It is interesting to note how liberals have a choice to make.
00:21:22.000I've been talking about this for a few weeks now.
00:21:25.000Liberals have a choice to make in our culture.
00:21:27.000Choice number one is they can fight back against the radical left and they can join forces with people in the middle.
00:21:33.000And they can recognize that while they may agree with the radical left on some policy prescriptions, they actually agree more with the middle and maybe even some on the right about the rights that we all have and how the country should basically be rooted in notions of rights.
00:22:06.000Nothing can replace lived experience and authentic representation.
00:22:13.000That's why it's imperative that we cast the appropriate actor for the appropriate role.
00:22:19.000And that means people with disabilities as well.
00:22:23.000Casting able-bodied actors in roles for characters with disabilities is offensive, unjust, and deprives an entire community of people from opportunities.
00:22:36.000You know it's true because there's a lot of piano music in the background.
00:22:38.000That's how you always know these videos are true online is when there's somebody in the background who's playing intense piano music.
00:22:43.000But the intense piano music never has a left hand.
00:22:45.000It's really just the right hand up near the upper register of the keys.
00:22:48.000You gotta love actresses coming out and saying that acting is now wrong.
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00:25:28.000And Chase Strangio has basically decided that the ACLU's old slogan of, say what you want, if it falls inside the First Amendment, we'll defend your right to say it.
00:25:35.000They've moved from that to, if you say something we don't like, it's now a danger.
00:25:40.000Chase Strangio is a staff attorney for the ACLU, says it would be nice to ignore the Harry Potter person, that'd be J.K.
00:25:45.000Rowling, but the rhetoric being used on her massive platform is feeding a genocidal impulse that already exists in governments and within individuals.
00:25:55.000Situating the trans subject and the trans body in the contested discursive space the way she does pulls the conversation around transness into the posture of working to locate the legitimate trans subject.
00:26:04.000Okay, that's just that's just gobbledygook.
00:26:13.000And in so doing, we cede the conversation to cis people and institutions.
00:26:16.000And perhaps most insidiously in doing so, we give the false impression that sexed bodies are things only trans people have.
00:26:22.000By obscuring the larger structural impulses behind bodily policing and the violence of the sex binary, we ensure the continuation of these structures.
00:26:29.000Ah, the violence of the sex binary, guys.
00:26:31.000The fear that a trans person of any age might actually love and embrace their body is what drives JK and others.
00:26:36.000They don't want to just make it harder for us to survive.
00:26:38.000They want to destroy any joy we might feel in our journeys.
00:26:41.000Okay, this is the ACLU staff attorney now saying the JK Rowling is dangerous and is pushing genocidal impulses by pointing out that biological women exist.
00:26:49.000Okay, liberals are going to have to make a choice.
00:26:51.000Do they wish to side with this kind of nuttiness?
00:26:53.000Or do they wish to acknowledge that conversations should and can take place?
00:26:57.000And this is an open debate because what we're seeing right now in America's major cities is that liberals are increasingly saying, okay, if you want to do violence, do violence.
00:27:04.000All right, well, and if anybody says that the violence is bad, stop focusing on the violence.
00:27:08.000Why are you even focusing on the violence?
00:27:10.000Well, what this is driving rational people to do is run headlong from the radical left.
00:27:14.000Like, run screaming from the radical left.
00:27:17.000This is why you're seeing Elon Musk increasingly tweet things that are pissing off the radical left.
00:28:04.000Members, voting has closed on this amendment.
00:28:07.000The motion was not approved by the members and the language as proposed will remain unchanged.
00:28:10.000of the platform. Members, voting on this, voting has closed on this amendment. The motion was not approved by the members and the language as proposed will remain unchanged. There were 36 yes, 125 no, and three abstentions. That's on amendment 328194. Okay, so the Bernie people are super duper pissed because the Bernie people are saying, why don't you give us everything
00:28:10.000There were 36 yes, 125 no, and 3 abstentions.
00:28:40.000we want? And the Biden people are like, because if we do that, nobody will like us. That is a battle that is going to rage out into the open. It started to break out a little bit yesterday when a Sanders campaign co-chair named Nina Turner ripped Biden. She actually suggested, this is a direct quote. It's like saying to somebody about choosing between Biden and Trump, quote, it's like saying to somebody, you have a bowl of bleep in front of you and all you've got to do is eat half of it instead of the whole thing. It's still bleep, bleep being the S word.
00:29:04.000So this is going to be a problem that does eventually rip open the Democratic Party.
00:29:25.000They get that Trump is not in good shape electorally right now.
00:29:28.000And they understand that Trump has to be a lot more focused in how he has approached this campaign so far.
00:29:33.000There is a gap emerging in the Democratic Party.
00:29:35.000It is a gap between the radical left And the old school liberals.
00:29:39.000But that's been glossed over again by anti-Trumpness.
00:29:41.000You can see that gap starting to expose itself with regard to the violence and protests in the cities.
00:29:45.000You can see it starting to expose itself in terms of the cancel culture, where members of the traditional liberal left are looking at their radical left compatriots and going, you guys are kind of fascist, aren't you?
00:29:55.000That is a gap that a professional politician who is good at this could rip wide open.
00:30:00.000And that's what Trump should be doing.
00:30:37.000And if the Democratic Party keeps caving to the radical left, maybe traditional liberals might think about moving away from a Democratic Party that no longer represents them.
00:30:44.000I know a lot of traditional liberals who are looking in horror at what's happening right now.
00:30:49.000Trump, if he's skillful, can exploit that, and he should exploit that.
00:30:52.000That requires two things, focus and not providing the Democrats with a shiny object, namely Trump, to gather around and attack.
00:30:59.000We're gonna get to that in a second, because that brings us to COVID policy.
00:31:12.000You got to schlep your stuff over there.
00:31:13.000And especially in COVID era, it really is not like a thing.
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00:34:40.000Alrighty, so as I've been talking about here, there is a gap that's emerging between the radical left and the liberals.
00:34:52.000And the radical left, I will say, they are acting a little bit more tepid than they were just a few weeks ago.
00:34:58.000Take as an example, Nikole Hannah-Jones, right?
00:35:00.000Fresh off her Pulitzer Prize winning essay that was so bad, four other Pulitzer Prize winning historians called it bad.
00:35:05.000And then she won a Pulitzer for it, in true New York Times Walter Durante fashion.
00:35:09.000Today, she tweeted out that the 1619 Project, which openly posited that the actual origin of the country was not 1776, it was 1619, that every structure in America was designed in order to effectuate slavery and racism.
00:35:23.000I mean, this is what the 1619 Project openly says.
00:35:26.000Now, she is saying, the revisionist historian is now revising the history of her own revisionist history project.
00:35:53.000Because the original language of the 1619 Project, which apparently is no longer available online, but I remember it because I quoted it in my book.
00:36:00.000They said that 1619 was, quote, our true founding.
00:36:03.000They stated, quote, on the 400th anniversary of this fateful moment, it is finally time to tell our story truthfully.
00:36:08.000It was not meant as a sort of balancer or corrective to whitewashed history.
00:36:18.000It wasn't meant to be like an alternative history.
00:36:21.000Doesn't matter that the very first page of the 1619 Project declares, quote, it is finally time to tell our story truthfully by reframing American history, treating 1619 as our nation's birth year, and placing slavery at the very center of our national narrative.
00:36:35.000So, you know, she's walking it back a little bit because it turns out that all of the sort of radicalism of the Robins, the Angelos, even members of the liberal literati are beginning to say, well, I'm not so into this.
00:37:17.000The curve went up, and now the curve is coming back down.
00:37:19.000And that was happening before, quote-unquote, additional lockdowns, which is good, which is good.
00:37:24.000And frankly, I'm very curious to see what happens in New York as New York continues to reopen.
00:37:28.000Because if New York reopens and we do not actually see a second wave, we don't see a second spike, what that would suggest is that herd immunity doesn't kick in at 60 or 70%.
00:37:36.000Thanks to T-cell immunity, it actually kicks in a lot lower, right?
00:37:39.000That would be like the best of all scenarios is that once it runs through a community, that's it, like you're basically done.
00:37:44.000That'd be, you know, my mouth to God's ears.
00:37:48.000There's a lot of scientific controversy over T-cell resistance and T-cell immunity, but that would be great.
00:37:53.000The bottom line is what we're seeing in the Sunbelt, for example, is a receding of the cases.
00:37:58.000And we never saw death levels like death levels that we saw in New York.
00:38:01.000So over the last week and a half, the president has become, or had until the last 24 hours, a lot more, I would say, studied and focused on the COVID issue.
00:38:15.000So he gave his typical daily presser yesterday, and he sounded pretty good, right?
00:38:18.000Here was President Trump yesterday encouraging people to wear masks and socially distance, which has been sort of the going scientific advice for the last several months.
00:38:27.000I trust all Americans to do the right thing, but we strongly advise everyone to especially, especially focus on maintaining a social distance, maintaining rigorous hygiene, avoid large gatherings and crowded indoor bars, and wear masks when appropriate.
00:38:46.000We also strongly urge citizens to take extra precautions to shield those at highest risk, which are, in most cases, in many cases, the elderly.
00:38:57.000I mean, that's what he should be saying.
00:38:58.000There's new evidence out today, according to the Wall Street Journal, that says that face masks are still fairly useful.
00:39:03.000Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said he believes the pandemic could be brought under control over the next four to eight weeks if we could get everybody to wear a mask right now.
00:39:11.000Apparently, it has like a very small impact on the transmission of COVID in small numbers.
00:39:16.000But the more people wear masks, the more the curve is really brought down because fewer and fewer people, like it reduces your risk of transmitting COVID by like 30 or 40% was what I'd seen in the studies.
00:39:26.000But if everybody does that, then it reduces it by a very, very large percentage.
00:39:29.000There's a newly published study suggesting that universal use of surgical masks helps reduce rates of confirmed coronavirus infections among healthcare workers at Mass General Brigham Healthcare Systems in Massachusetts.
00:39:41.000Redfield's comments are the clearest message yet from the CDC that they are pushing the mask wearing.
00:39:47.000The CDC currently recommends the use of cloth face coverings in public.
00:39:50.000Several states have made the coverings a requirement for most people in wide ranging public situations.
00:39:54.000An analysis published Sunday in the BMJ, a medical journal, found face coverings are now recommended or mandated in 160 countries to reduce coronavirus transmission.
00:40:03.000Apparently, according to researchers, they say that a homemade face mask will radically reduce the amount of time that the virus is in the air, which is good, right?
00:40:18.000And that it reduces the amount of distance traveled when you breathe.
00:40:22.000It reduces it from up to apparently 100 inches, if you have an uncovered face, to if you have like a stitched mask, nearly zero.
00:40:31.000In other words, it goes like a little bit beyond your mask, but not much further than that.
00:40:46.000That's because everybody around me is wearing a mask.
00:40:48.000And when I'm not on the camera, I'm wearing a mask, too.
00:40:51.000It seems to me that the easiest way for us to get back to work is to be safe, because you know what would happen if there was a COVID outbreak?
00:41:06.000We've now moved to phase three in certain vaccine trials.
00:41:09.000Here's the president talking about this yesterday.
00:41:12.000A groundbreaking agreement with Pfizer includes a guarantee to deliver 100 million doses shortly after the vaccine's approval, almost immediately, with the option to purchase an additional 500 million thereafter.
00:41:26.000Not only is Operation Warp Speed accelerating the development of a vaccine, we're also directing a colossal industrial mobilization to ensure its rapid delivery.
00:41:37.000Nothing's happened like this since the end of World War II.
00:41:42.000Okay, and he's not wrong about this, right?
00:41:53.000The virus was first put on a public database, the sequence, early on in January.
00:42:00.000So to go from not even knowing what the virus was in early January to a phase three trial is really record time.
00:42:08.000And I might add, it was not done compromising safety, nor was it done compromising scientific integrity.
00:42:16.000I can't guarantee you the success of the vaccine because only a clinical trial will determine that.
00:42:23.000But I can virtually guarantee you that this has got off to a good start and we will get this trial completed.
00:42:30.000So all of this is positive news, obviously.
00:42:33.000Now, where the Democrats prefer to put their focus is on chaos inside the administration, which is why, again, if Trump wants to exacerbate the scene between radical left and liberals, which is good for the country, it's something that should happen, then he needs to not provide them a common rallying point when he does silly things.
00:42:47.000What the Democrats would prefer to do is rally around, we hate Trump.
00:42:50.000And that's what you're seeing from Andrew Cuomo.
00:42:52.000He says, lack of a plan is called Trump.
00:42:53.000The absolute arrogance of Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, suggesting that Trump's Activities during COVID-19 are really the problem when his state got walloped.
00:43:02.000Actually, this is Chris, his brother, sorry.
00:43:03.000His idiot brother who has helped push the propaganda here.
00:43:07.000Here's idiot brother Chris talking about how a lack of a plan is called Trump as opposed to his brother who he was having on the air and holding up giant fake nasal swabs.
00:43:51.000And by the way, the Washington Post is now saying what we should do is shut down the entire country for months on end in the hope that this will bring the coronavirus infections down to zero.
00:43:58.000And then we can test and trace everybody in a country of 330 million people, ignoring the fact that we are seeing in Europe is spikes again in a huge number of countries that initially brought the cases down near zero.
00:44:12.000So that is not really a solution either.
00:44:13.000The bottom line is that there aren't a lot of good solutions here other than the stuff that we already know tends to reduce transmission, namely the socially distance and the mask wearing.
00:44:22.000The idea of going into a full-scale national... The Washington Post is now encouraging people, by the way, like they would like to see that if you are COVID positive, that you would be forced to stay in a hotel, that the government would set up hotels for you, and you would be forced to stay there by law.
00:44:33.000Like they say this in a Washington Post editorial today.
00:44:36.000They don't explicitly say that they want you forced into it.
00:44:38.000They say, we'll set up hotels for people who want to go.
00:44:55.000When COVID started, his re-elect chances went from basically 50-50 or 55-45 down to about 20%, which means don't make boo-boos that make it look like you are not on solid footing.
00:45:06.000Which is why yesterday when the president decided to retweet a Breitbart video, and it was a video of some frontline doctors, they call themselves America's frontline doctors, and they're speaking, it looks like at the White House, talking about how hydroxychloroquine was a cure, Like, literally a cure.
00:45:23.000And then he was retweeting things that said in the video, like, implying that Anthony Fauci was bad at his job and he's at fault for all of this.
00:45:31.000That's not the kind of stuff that is going to make people feel a sense of durability and a sense of solidity in a time where everything feels chaotic.
00:45:39.000The tweet also included, again, ripping on Fauci, which is... Like, the media have been begging for Trump to go right at Fauci for literally months.
00:45:47.000Which is bad for the country and bad for Trump.
00:45:50.000The reason that they've been pushing this is because they want this to be a battle between Fauci, who's become sort of hero of the resistance, simply because Trump and he seem to be at odds.
00:46:03.000By the way, that Houston doctor, she's now being ripped up and down because apparently she has made some claims about alien DNA and she has made claims about demon sperm and such.
00:46:50.000He did it with his own chief of staff for a while.
00:46:54.000It's a frequent thing, but When it looks like that guy stands for science and you don't, that's a bad look for you, especially because, again, Trump's been more focused over the last week.
00:47:00.000So, set the Simpsons Day Since Work Accident counter back to zero here.
00:47:42.000I don't think that that video is supported by the best available science.
00:47:45.000I think that the lady in the video is making some pretty extraordinary claims that don't seem to be based, like the idea that it's a cure does not seem to be reality.
00:48:02.000Twitter suspended him, and this is insane.
00:48:04.000Twitter suspended him, saying that under their policies, they violated the policy on spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19.
00:48:15.000The reason that it's wildly overbroad is because if you had tweeted back in March that people should wear masks, you would have been in contradiction to the CDC and Fauci and the WHO.
00:48:24.000The thing about science is that until the science is quote-unquote settled, you actually don't know whether the science is settled.
00:48:29.000And the studies on hydroxychloroquine, again, they're pretty mixed, right?
00:48:32.000There's some that say that it's somewhat effective.
00:48:34.000There's some that say that it is not at all effective.
00:48:36.000The original studies were completely debunked.
00:48:37.000The ones that said that it was gonna kill you of a heart attack, those completely fell apart.
00:48:43.000But the bottom line is that politically speaking, for Trump, the biggest thing that he can do right now to push for his own victory is to force the liberals to repudiate the radical left instead of centering on him and his particular foibles.
00:48:55.000Again, set the counter back to zero because that is not what he did today.
00:48:58.000Keep the man off of Twitter, for the love of God, keep the man off of Twitter for five seconds if you actually want him re-elected.
00:49:04.000All right, we'll be back here a little bit later today with two additional hours of content.
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