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00:01:37.000Alright, so big news over the weekend.
00:01:40.000Finally, the accuser of Brett Kavanaugh has come forward.
00:01:43.000So, as you recall, all the way back last week, Senator Dianne Feinstein, in a last-ditch attempt to stop the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, decided to bring forward an anonymous letter.
00:01:53.000She did not actually reveal the letter, she just said she had such a letter that accused Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump's pick to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, it accused Brett Kavanaugh of some unspecified offense.
00:02:03.000So, Dianne Feinstein's original letter
00:02:06.000With regard to all of this, her original statement with regard to all of this was this, quote,
00:02:24.000And people like me said, um, what the hell is that supposed to mean?
00:02:35.000That is supposed to somehow end all of the hearings about Brett Kavanaugh and we're supposed to just remove him from consideration.
00:02:43.000Well, now it turns out that the woman in question has come forward and she has leveled an allegation of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh from when he was 17 years old.
00:02:52.000Apparently, this is a letter that was originally sent to Dianne Feinstein July 30th, 2018.
00:02:57.000So, you may begin by asking why exactly if Dianne Feinstein had this since July 30th, 2018, did she not bring it up at Kavanaugh's hearings?
00:03:27.000She did not ask Brett Kavanaugh about it.
00:03:28.000She waited until after Kavanaugh had already testified and then she came forward with this allegation and then sort of dumped it into public, which looks like a dirty political smear.
00:03:36.000Even if the allegations are true, it looks like a dirty political smear.
00:03:39.000It does call into question the seriousness of the allegations when Dianne Feinstein treated them so unseriously.
00:03:45.000But here is, in fact, the actual allegations in the letter.
00:03:48.000Apparently, this letter was originally sent to a congresswoman in California named Anna Eshoo from California.
00:03:56.000She sent Ford's letter on to Dianne Feinstein.
00:03:58.000Here is what the letter said from July 30, 2018.
00:04:01.000Dear Senator Feinstein, I am writing with information relevant in evaluating the current nominee to the Supreme Court.
00:04:07.000As a constituent, I expect that you will maintain this as confidential until we have further opportunity to speak.
00:04:12.000Brett Kavanaugh physically and sexually assaulted me during high school in the early 1980s.
00:04:16.000He conducted these acts with the assistance of Redacted.
00:04:21.000The name, it turns out, according to the New Yorker, is a guy named Mark Judge, who's also written for the Weekly Standard and has become sort of a respected conservative writer.
00:04:29.000We both were once two years older than me and the students at a local private high school.
00:04:33.000The assault occurred in a suburban Maryland area home at the gathering that included me and four others.
00:04:37.000Kavanaugh physically pushed me into a bedroom as I was headed for a bathroom up a short stairwell from the living room.
00:04:42.000They locked the door and played loud music precluding any successful attempt to yell for help.
00:04:46.000Kavanaugh was on top of me while laughing with Judge, who periodically jumped onto Kavanaugh.
00:04:51.000They both laughed as Kavanaugh tried to disrobe me in their highly inebriated state.
00:04:54.000With Kavanaugh's hand over my mouth, I feared he may inadvertently kill me.
00:04:57.000From across the room a very drunken judge said mixed words to Kavanaugh ranging from go for it to stop.
00:05:02.000At one point when judge jumped onto the bed the weight on me was substantial.
00:05:05.000The pile toppled and the two scrapped with each other.
00:05:07.000After a few attempts to get away I was able to take this opportune moment to get up and run across to a hallway bathroom.
00:05:14.000Both loudly stumbled down the stairwell at which point other persons in the house were talking with them.
00:05:18.000I exited the bathroom, ran outside the house and went home.
00:05:21.000Okay, so that is the full text of the letter that Dianne Feinstein had in her possession.
00:05:50.000There are several questions about this letter.
00:05:52.000First of all, we don't know where this actually happened.
00:05:55.000We don't actually know where it happened, because it says it was in a suburban Maryland area home, on an unspecified date, at an unspecified time, with unspecified others.
00:06:05.000So, what we have here is a basic, she said something happened, and then both guys who were supposedly involved have denied that anything like this ever happened.
00:06:13.000So Kavanaugh has released a pretty strong statement saying, I'm happy to come back and testify anytime you want me to.
00:06:20.000Mark Judge came forward, he said, this never happened.
00:06:23.000And that's not stopping Democrats from saying that Kavanaugh's nomination should be pulled.
00:06:27.000Again, the real thing that should happen here, in reality, if Democrats are going to take this seriously, the real thing that should happen here is that the lady, whose name is Christine Blasey Ford, and who is apparently a professor at Palo Alto College,
00:06:39.000She should be called to testify in front of the committee, and then Kavanaugh should be called to rebut her testimony.
00:06:45.000If we're going to treat these allegations with any level of seriousness, that's how this is supposed to go.
00:06:49.000And this is very reminiscent of how the Democrats played it with Anita Hill.
00:06:52.000They waited until the last minute with Clarence Thomas' hearing, then they brought forward Anita Hill, who alleged that
00:06:58.000That Justice Thomas had sexually harassed her.
00:07:01.000The allegations were really, really shaking.
00:07:04.000I'll go through in a second the Anita Hill allegations, because I want to show by comparison that these are even more shaking than the Anita Hill allegations.
00:07:10.000But here is the Washington Post talking about Ford.
00:07:13.000So Ford now does an interview with the Washington Post.
00:07:17.000She finally says she's going to come forward.
00:07:18.000Speaking publicly, for the first time, Ford said that one summer in the early 80s, Kavanaugh and a friend, both stumbling drunk, Ford alleges, corralled her into a bedroom during a gathering of teenagers at a house in Montgomery County.
00:07:29.000While his friend watched, Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed on her back and groped her over her clothes, grinding his body against hers and clumsily attempting to pull off her one-piece bathing suit and the clothing she wore over it.
00:07:38.000When she tried to scream, she said, he put his hand over her mouth.
00:07:40.000Okay, now, number one, let's start with the allegation itself.
00:07:47.000That is an allegation of actual sexual assault.
00:07:49.000If you push a girl on a bed and you lie on top of her and you try to pull off her clothes and cover her mouth with your hand while she's screaming, that's a bad allegation.
00:08:01.000And that's an allegation that, if it can be substantiated in any way, would be disqualifying from the Supreme Court and, frankly, from the D.C.
00:08:35.000If I ask you about something that happened when you were 15, chances are that it's going to change a fair bit, particularly if it's emotionally invested.
00:08:44.000Witness testimony is not particularly good.
00:08:45.000The reason statutes of limitation exist in the first place, it is beyond the statute of limitations presumably, which is presumably why the FBI didn't investigate, also because there's no way for them to investigate it.
00:08:55.000The reason the statute of limitations exists in the first place is because it's an urge to people to come forward with criminal behavior so we can investigate it and convict people on the basis of evidence.
00:09:04.000Otherwise, this is exactly what you end up with.
00:09:06.000Unverifiable memories from a time that is not even specified, and then we're supposed to simply jump to the conclusion that it happened because a woman said that it happened.
00:09:35.000All the people who say that we have to take at face value every accusation from years and years and years ago and all of its myriad details without any corroborating evidence, all those same people are the same people who generally point out in criminal trials that witness testimony is quite unreliable.
00:09:53.000Witness testimony is very unreliable as a general rule.
00:09:57.000And it's going to be even more unreliable when you're talking about something that happened to you in many cases.
00:10:02.000And anyway, The Washington Post continues, Ford said she was able to escape when Kavanaugh's friend and classmate at Georgetown Preparatory School, Mark Judge, jumped on top of them, sending all three tumbling.
00:10:11.000She said she ran from the room, briefly locked herself in a bathroom.
00:10:29.000Because she didn't give a specific date, that wouldn't help him at all.
00:10:31.000So how the hell is he supposed to, you know, how is he supposed to maintain his innocence when he doesn't even have enough details to argue with the details?
00:10:41.000Ford said she told no one of the incident in any detail until 2012 when she was in couples therapy with her husband.
00:10:46.000This should raise red flag number one.
00:10:48.000Okay, so this thing originally happened 36 years ago, so now we're saying she only even talked to her therapist about it three decades later.
00:10:55.000This is very different from the Roy Moore case, for example.
00:10:57.000In Roy Moore's case, there are several corroborating details.
00:11:00.000First of all, the women who are accusing him named specific times and places, and it was corroborated that he was in those places at those times.
00:11:17.000So, when I was 15 years old, I was abused by members of my high school class.
00:11:21.000People knew that because there were witnesses there, and I told people at the time.
00:11:25.000Here, the witnesses all deny that it happened, and she told no one at the time that it actually happened, making her the only person who can actually testify as to the veracity of this actually happening.
00:11:34.000And she's going to have to answer some questions if we are going to come away with the conclusion that Kavanaugh absolutely did this and therefore should be disqualified and we ruin his life as an attempted rapist at age 17.
00:11:43.000We're going to talk a little bit more about this.
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00:12:40.000Okay, so here's where it gets dicey again.
00:12:42.000Ford said she told no one of the incident in any detail until 2012 when she was in couples therapy with her husband.
00:12:46.000The therapist notes, portions of which were provided by Ford and reviewed by the Washington Post, do not mention Kavanaugh's name.
00:13:05.000Okay, so first of all, the therapist notes don't actually include Kavanaugh's name, but her husband says that she mentioned Kavanaugh's name.
00:13:33.000The notes say that four boys were involved.
00:13:36.000Well, that's a pretty major discrepancy.
00:13:39.000So if the notes say that four boys were involved in her alleged rape, and then she says that her alleged attempted rape, and then she says that two boys were involved, how do you rectify that discrepancy?
00:13:49.000Well, she says that the therapist just got it wrong.
00:14:28.000It's, in many cases, in some cases, prepubescent.
00:14:31.000In an interview, her husband, Russell Ford, said that in a 2012 session, she recounted being trapped in a room with two drunken boys, one of whom pinned her to a bed, molested her, and prevented her from screaming.
00:14:40.000He said he recalled his wife used Kavanaugh's last name and voiced concern that Kavanaugh might one day be nominated to the Supreme Court,
00:14:47.000Unclear exactly from this post account in what context Kavanaugh's name was mentioned.
00:14:52.000So he said he recalled that Kavanaugh's last name was used, but did that mean he was one of the four boys, one of the two boys, the boy who was on top of her?
00:14:59.000Not clear from the Washington Post account.
00:15:00.000So there are a bunch of questions to be asked.
00:15:15.000And he said that there was there's no illegal activity at any time.
00:15:18.000I'm going to give you more background on this in just a second.
00:15:21.000So here's the story about Christine Ford.
00:15:23.000Christine Ford is a professor at Palo Alto University.
00:15:27.000She teaches in a consortium with Stanford University, training grad students in clinical psychology.
00:15:31.000Her work has been widely published in academic journals, which supposedly means now that she's credible.
00:15:36.000Well, again, the credibility of the statements is at issue.
00:15:40.000We'd have to take them seriously no matter who gave them.
00:15:42.000She contacted the Post through a tip line in early July, when it had become clear that Kavanaugh was on the shortlist of possible nominees to replace Kennedy, but before Trump announced his name publicly.
00:15:51.000A registered Democrat who has made small contributions to political organizations.
00:15:55.000She contacted her congresswoman around the same time and then in late July she sent a letter to Dianne Feinstein in the letter before describing the incident and said she expected her story to be kept confidential.
00:16:05.000Then she signed the letter as Christine Blasey, the name she uses professionally.
00:16:09.000Though Ford had contacted the Post, she declined to speak on the record for weeks as she grappled with concerns about what going public would mean for her and her family and what she said was her duty as a citizen to tell the story.
00:16:17.000So in other words, she went to the Washington Post, she refused to go public with the statement, she refused to go on the record with the statement, and then they basically ran with this.
00:16:26.000Feinstein found a way to leak this a couple of days before the vote.
00:16:33.000Why bother telling the Washington Post about this if you're not going to go public with it unless you just want to smear Kavanaugh?
00:16:38.000Now, there's a possibility that maybe what she wanted to do is she said, listen, I don't want to get involved, but I would love it if the reporters at the Washington Post could track down what actually happened here.
00:16:47.000But obviously the reporters at the Washington Post could not track down what actually happened here because they didn't run with the story independently.
00:16:53.000That sort of stuff happens all the time, by the way, that as a reporter,
00:16:57.000As a journalist, people come to you with pitches, and then you check out the pitches.
00:17:00.000Sometimes they check out, sometimes they don't.
00:17:02.000You take some pitches, you don't take others.
00:17:04.000Many of the people who are involved in pitches are self-interested actors.
00:17:07.000You know, all of that is just the way journalism works, but it's evident that if she came to the Post and the Post couldn't track anything further down, they weren't going to run with it.
00:17:15.000So instead, they're running solely on the basis of this vague statement that she has now given.
00:17:19.000And then she tells the Post that she engaged Deborah Katz, a Washington lawyer known for her work on sexual harassment cases.
00:17:24.000On the advice of Katz, who said she believed Ford would be attacked as a liar if she came forward, Ford took a polygraph administered by a former FBI agent in early August.
00:17:32.000The results concluded Ford was being truthful when she said a statement summarizing her allegations was accurate.
00:17:37.000Okay, well, there are a few things to point out here about polygraphs.
00:17:41.000First of all, polygraphs are inadmissible in courts of law because polygraphs are wildly, wildly unusable.
00:17:47.000Aldrich Ames, who was an actual spy for the Russians in the 1990s and 1980s, Aldrich Ames, he actually passed a polygraph test twice while he was an active spy for the Russians.
00:18:02.000Also, the question that was asked on the polygraph was whether a statement summarizing her allegations was accurate, not whether the allegations themselves were accurate.
00:18:11.000So, if I tell you a story, and the story is not true, and then you write down the story, and then you ask me whether the story that I just wrote down reflects the story you told me, that is a different question than whether the story you told me is true.
00:18:24.000I could read you a bedtime story about the cat in the hat,
00:18:27.000And then if you write that down and then you say, did I just write down the story that you told your daughter at bedtime?
00:18:36.000So it's important to actually read what the Washington Post report says.
00:18:39.000By late August, Ford had decided not to come forward, calculating that do so would upend her life and probably would not affect Kavanaugh's confirmation.
00:18:45.000Why suffer through annihilation if it's not going to matter?
00:19:07.000The FBI redacted the state and the name from the letter and then sent it to the White House.
00:19:12.000The New York Times reported more details on the incident.
00:19:15.000Then finally, this woman came forward and she says, These are the ills I was trying to avoid.
00:19:20.000Now I feel like my civic responsibility is outweighing my anguish and terror about retaliation.
00:19:24.000Kat says she believed Feinstein honored Ford's request to keep her allegation confidential, but regrettably others did not, which is nonsense.
00:19:30.000And again, the letter was only sent to three places, presumably the Washington Post.
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00:22:16.000Like, legitimately, I don't understand the line of reasoning.
00:22:19.000These were so serious that I hid them for months from my Senate Democratic colleagues, and then I released them at the last minute, without any name attached, and now I want a new hearing.
00:22:29.000Well, just to clear his name, we should give Kavanaugh a new hearing.
00:23:19.000She held it, and she held it, and she held it.
00:23:21.000And then she released it at the last minute, and she expects the entire world to turn on the time.
00:23:24.000She says, I support Mrs. Ford's decision to share her story, and now that she has, it is in the hands of the FBI to conduct an investigation.
00:23:30.000The FBI has already said, how the hell are we supposed to conduct an investigation?
00:23:33.000There's no specific allegation about a specific time and place.
00:23:57.000So this should happen before the Senate moves forward on this nominee.
00:23:59.000Jeff Flake has come forward, he says, we can't vote until we hear more.
00:24:04.000And the same thing is being said by a bunch of other politicians already.
00:24:09.000So I am not sure what the story here is.
00:24:13.000Lindsey Graham has issued a statement saying that he will listen to any statement Ford wishes to make.
00:24:17.000He says, if Ford wishes to provide information to the committee, I would gladly listen to what she has to say and compare that against all the other information we have received about Judge Kavanaugh.
00:24:25.000He says, if the committee is to hear from Ms.
00:24:26.000Ford, it should be done immediately so the process can continue as scheduled.
00:24:31.000And then he says, I agree with the concerns expressed in the Judiciary Committee's statement about the substance and process regarding the allegations in this latest claim against Judge Kavanaugh, and he said it was disturbing that these uncorroborated allegations would surface now.
00:24:44.000And Senator Grassley's office, Chuck Grassley on the Judiciary Committee, he says the same thing.
00:24:48.000He issued a statement where he said it's disturbing these uncorroborated allegations from more than 35 years ago during high school
00:24:53.000would surface on the eve of a committee vote after Democrats sat on them since July.
00:24:57.000If Ranking Member Feinstein and other committee Democrats took this claim seriously, they should have brought it to the full committee's attention much earlier.
00:25:05.000Instead, they said nothing during two joint phone calls with the nominee in August, four days of lengthy public hearings, a closed session for all committee members with the nominee where sensitive topics can be discussed, and in more than 1,300 written questions.
00:25:17.00065 senators met individually with Judge Kavanaugh during a nearly two-month period before the hearing began.
00:25:36.000And this is, again, reminiscent of the Anita Hill situation, which has now, it has now become gospel truth that Anita Hill was sexually harassed by Clarence Thomas.
00:25:44.000They made an HBO movie about it, but there's a bunch of evidence to suggest that Clarence Thomas never harassed Anita Hill.
00:25:50.000So, for example, one witness that Anita Hill called back during the hearings,
00:25:55.000There was a witness who said she was told details about the supposed sexual harassment while the two were living in Washington, but the witness wasn't living in Washington when Anita Hill worked for Clarence Thomas.
00:26:04.000Hill followed Clarence Thomas around from job to job while supposedly he was sexually harassing her.
00:26:10.000She said she did it for job security, but she was a federal employee, which is like the best job security you could ever have.
00:26:16.000Hill made numerous supposed phone calls to her supposed sexual harasser after she stopped working for him.
00:26:34.000Hill initially asked that she be kept anonymous about these allegations in the same way that this woman initially asked that she be kept anonymous about the allegations.
00:26:41.000But if the allegations were actually true, just as in this case, if the allegations were actually true, then why would you care about being kept anonymous?
00:26:59.000Let's say that in the Anita Hill situation, Clarence Thomas had been asked about, there's a woman in your office who accuses you of sexually harassing her by talking about pubic hair on Coke cans.
00:27:11.000Presumably Clarence Thomas would know immediately who he's talking about and would have just said, oh, you mean Anita Hill?
00:27:18.000People would have known who exactly was making the allegations immediately.
00:27:20.000The same thing would be true here, right?
00:27:22.000If this woman says, Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted me when I was 15, we were in a house with four other guys, he tried to pull off my bathing suit.
00:27:30.000If Kavanaugh knew about that, he'd know exactly who it was and presumably people would start digging immediately.
00:27:34.000So what's the point of the anonymity if the allegations are going to be leveraged?
00:27:37.000The only way this works is if you make anonymous allegations that are vague.
00:27:41.000Vague enough that they can't hurt anyone.
00:27:43.000Hey, Hill lied five times about being told something from a Democratic staffer.
00:27:47.000She later admitted to that under oath.
00:27:49.000And a dozen females who worked with Thomas and Hill gave favorable testimony about Thomas.
00:27:52.000We've seen the same thing about Kavanaugh.
00:27:54.000So this looks a lot more like Anita Hill than it looks like Roy Moore.
00:27:57.000This looks a lot more like Anita Hill than it does like Juanita Broderick.
00:28:02.000There are serious questions to be asked about this tale, and just taking it at face value is not worthy of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
00:28:08.000So, what I've suggested is that Ford be called.
00:28:12.000If she turns down the call, they should have a vote.
00:28:22.000I don't know how you are supposed to ruin a man's life based on an allegation from nearly four decades ago that is vague enough that there's no way to refute it.
00:29:00.000There is nothing to stop any woman I was alone with in a room when I was in law school from coming forward and claiming that I sexually assaulted her in some way.
00:29:13.000Once the allegation has been made, how do you rebut it?
00:29:16.000That sort of question does have to be asked when it comes to matters as serious as this.
00:29:21.000And the higher people get in public life, the more likely that the stakes are high enough that somebody could say something that's untrue, or it's possible that this woman is misremembering the situation, or it's possible that, in her own mind, the situation went one way and it didn't go the other way.
00:29:34.000I'm not even questioning this woman's honesty.
00:29:37.000All I'm suggesting is that as an objective observer, I need more than this before I say that Brett Kavanaugh should be run off the Supreme Court on a rail.
00:29:47.000And this is not coming from somebody who's like the biggest Brett Kavanaugh fan.
00:29:50.000I didn't think that President Trump should have picked Brett Kavanaugh as his first pick.
00:29:56.000I mean, it would have been hard to make a sexual allegation about Amy Coney Barrett.
00:30:00.000But, with all that said, is this enough?
00:30:02.000No, it's not enough and we cannot have this as the precedent for killing judicial nominations or this will be, there is no bottom to this ladder.
00:30:09.000I mean, it just keeps descending if that's the case.
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00:33:52.000You don't seem to understand the concept of a magazine shoot, which would actually be about you putting your best foot forward as a democratic socialist.
00:33:57.000She says, you don't get to keep the clothes.
00:35:08.000I'm going to have to ask him some questions later about his level of knowledge on these matters.
00:35:12.000But I will admit that I don't know what the hell she's talking about or why she is dressed like a member of an alt-rock indie band in a magazine.
00:35:43.000So where is the other $38 trillion going to come from?
00:35:46.000Well, one of the things that we need to realize when we look at something like Medicare for All, Medicare for All would save the American people a very large amount of money.
00:35:56.000And what we see as well is that these systems are not just pie in the sky.
00:36:01.000Many of them are accomplished by every modern, civilized democracy in the Western world.
00:36:07.000It is an externality, if you will, of unprecedented amounts of student loan debt.
00:36:16.000I'm assuming I'm not going to get an answer for the other $38 trillion, but we'll have you back and maybe we can go over that.
00:36:35.000You're not going to get any answer on where all this came from because it's all pie-in-the-sky nonsense that you throw out there for the for the rubes who who eat this stuff up and pretend that spending 38 trillion dollars is no big deal and that we can all just come up with this money no matter what.
00:36:49.000That socialist democratic countries are starting to move toward the right.
00:36:53.000They're having to embrace either austerity, or immigration restrictions, or they're just kicking the can down the road.
00:37:00.000But none of this is going to end well for countries that blow out the budget the way that we are.
00:37:04.000And by the way, that's not unique to Democrats.
00:37:05.000Republicans are blowing out the budget exactly the same way Democrats would be, except if Democrats actually gain control, they're going to pass a bunch of mandatory spending that's going to make all of the debts and deficits we have right now look like child's play.
00:37:16.000OK, well, meanwhile, this is an awful story from the land of Israel.
00:37:20.000A man named Ari Fold was murdered over the weekend.
00:38:03.000He was very involved in explaining and defending the good reputation of the state of Israel on the internet and before the citizens of the world.
00:38:09.000He was about to launch a new Hasbara site to reveal the truth about Israel in English.
00:38:13.000He was a good friend who knew you would stand by you and protect you in any situation.
00:38:17.000A lowly terrorist came up behind him in a cowardly way, stabbed him.
00:38:20.000Ari was one of the fighters in the Efrat emergency squad.
00:38:22.000We didn't expect anything less of him.
00:38:24.000Even after he was wounded, Ari engaged with the terrorist and chased him as he was bleeding and managed to respond and shoot at the terrorist.
00:38:29.000He actually wounded the terrorist and stopped him from attacking other folks.
00:38:32.000The video looks like this for folks who can watch.
00:38:35.000Uh, you can actually see in the corner of the screen, uh, Ari Fold is standing there and then he is, uh, attacked from behind, uh, by a- by a terrorist, and then he's wounded.
00:39:52.000There's a reason that the Trump administration has been withdrawing all of its support from the Palestinian Authority, the Palestine Liberation Organization.
00:40:01.000It's because they support stuff like this, and they're exactly right to do so.
00:40:05.000Now, speaking of the Trump administration, over the weekend, the hurricane touched down.
00:40:11.000The hurricane has claimed several lives already.
00:40:13.000There's one year old that was swept away after her mother lost her grip.
00:41:00.000On Sunday, over the dispute over the death toll in Puerto Rico.
00:41:03.000This is why it was so foolish for the president to have said anything about the death toll in Puerto Rico, because now we get to fight this on national TV, which doesn't look good.
00:41:09.000Here was FEMA's Brock Long trying to defend President Trump on the death toll in Puerto Rico.
00:41:14.000You know, look, these studies are all over the place.
00:41:16.000The Harvard study was done differently.
00:41:18.000Studies a different period of time versus the George Washington study.
00:41:22.000There's a big discrepancy whether it's direct deaths or indirect deaths.
00:41:25.000Yeah, I don't know who they interviewed within my agency.
00:41:28.000They may have looked at funeral benefits to help, you know, calculate whatever number and that's a number, you know, that's the only number that we would really be able to contribute to any study going forward.
00:41:38.000OK, well, what he's saying here is not false.
00:41:40.000And I talked about all of this last week, the variability of studies from deaths and natural disasters.
00:41:44.000It's difficult to come up with a hard number.
00:41:46.000But the fact that this is an argument that the Trump administration is having at a time when all focus should be on actually saving people.
00:41:53.000They can walk and chew gum at the same time for sure, but public focus should be on helping folks.
00:41:58.000It's just silly for the Trump administration to do that.
00:42:00.000Again, once again, the Trump administration on policy very often does the right thing and on rhetoric.
00:42:05.000They very often undercut themselves, and that's a really unfortunate thing that I wish they would avoid.
00:42:10.000Okay, time for some things I like, and then some things that I hate.
00:42:34.000holiday over over Rosh Hashanah, I was able to jump into a book that I've been meaning to get to for a long time.
00:42:38.000It's a book called The Prime Ministers by Yehuda Avner.
00:42:40.000If you are interested in sort of the history of the state of Israel at all, if you're interested in the inside story about all the controversial decisions made basically between 1947 and 1983, 84, the Lebanon War, then you should check it out.
00:43:34.000So Joe Biden came out over the weekend and he suggested that President Trump supporters are the dregs of humanity, which is if you're looking to win an election, I'm not sure how this is helpful particularly, but go for it, man.
00:43:45.000This time, they, not you, have an ally in the White House.
00:44:33.000Yeah, that was all crap and we all knew that it was nonsense at the time.
00:44:35.000Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:44:41.000So Anne Hathaway, who I think in the dictionary under white privilege, there's actually a picture of Anne Hathaway.
00:44:47.000Anne Hathaway has now come out and denounced white privilege while accepting an award, because this is what we have to do now, is virtue signal along every line.
00:44:53.000She ripped into white privilege at this same event that Joe Biden spoke at, this National Equality Dinner, the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner.
00:45:02.000Human Rights Campaign is a pretty extreme left group.
00:45:07.000And when I say they're an extreme left group, I mean that they have relationships with the Southern Poverty Law Center and they're constantly accusing people who are not actually homophobic of being homophobic.
00:45:17.000In any case, Anne Hathaway felt the necessity to talk about how everybody who is not gay, black, Hispanic, a woman, all these people are actually privileged in American society.
00:45:30.000It is important to acknowledge that, with the exception of being a cisgender male, everything about how I was born has put me at the current center of a damaging and widely accepted myth.
00:45:44.000That myth is that gayness orbits around straightness, transgender orbits around cisgender, and that all races orbit around whiteness.
00:46:19.000And then she says that when she spent time with the LGBTQ community, her older brother is gay, she learned to reject the myth.
00:46:27.000I appreciate this community because together we are not just going to question this myth, we are going to destroy it.
00:46:31.000Let's tear this world apart and build a better one.
00:46:33.000Tear this world apart and build a better one is a pretty good democratic slogan because, honestly, it's what they believe.
00:46:38.000Never mind that this is the world that actually built the foundations for gay rights.
00:46:41.000Never mind that what built the foundation for individual rights is, in fact, the Judeo-Christian tradition because those rights don't exist nearly anywhere else on earth.
00:46:49.000We're all going to pretend now, I suppose, that the West is the worst place in the world for gays, and what we really have to do is tear down the entire system in order to make the world safe for gay people, even though America is safe for gay people.
00:47:29.000So is everybody else in Hollywood, which is why they are in turn brown nosing everybody on the left, in terms of the social justice warrior crowd.
00:47:57.000One of the big issues with the Constitutional Convention is that originally it was called in order to change the Articles of Confederation, not completely supplant them with something new.
00:48:04.000He has to make the case that it's okay to just scrap them and do something new.
00:48:08.000And the case that he makes is a pretty broad one and not a very good one, actually.
00:48:11.000He says, were the plan of the Convention adverse to the public happiness, my voice would be reject the plan.
00:48:15.000Were the Union itself inconsistent with the public happiness, it would be abolish the Union.
00:48:20.000He says, but if the Union, as has been shown, be essential to the security of the people of America against foreign danger, if it be essential to their security against contentions and wars among different states, if it be essential to guard them against those violent and oppressive factions which embitter the blessings of liberty, if in a word the Union be essential to the happiness of the people of America, is it not preposterous to urge as an objection to a government
00:48:40.000In other words, he says, human happiness requires us to override the rights of the states.
00:48:53.000It's a good emotional case, a bad legal case.
00:48:55.000And it's a case that would actually, in some ways, lead to the tariff of abominations, the Civil War, a lot of the divisions between state and federal government that culminate in the bloodiest war in American history.
00:49:05.000Madison still argues that the states still have a lot of power under the federal constitution.
00:49:09.000And this, I think, is important to note because most of these state powers have now dissipated.
00:49:13.000He says the state governments may be regarded as constituents and essential parts of the federal government, whilst the latter is no-wise essential to the operation or organization of the former.
00:49:22.000In other words, the states run on their own.
00:49:54.000Now they are appointed by direct vote.
00:49:55.000I think it's a bad amendment and it's had a bad effect of basically turning all of our politicians into populists.
00:50:01.000Even the House of Representatives, though drawn immediately from the people, will be chosen very much under the influence of that class of men whose influence over the people obtains for themselves an election into the state legislatures.
00:50:10.000In other words, people will start with state assemblies and then they'll run for Congress.