Adam Schiff has been censured by the House of Representatives, but as he stood in the well to hear Speaker Kevin McCarthy announce the finding, fellow Democrats jammed the aisles, shouting shame and disgrace at the GOP majority while cheering Schiff and patting him on the back. Adam Schiff needs to grow a third arm so he can pat himself on the head and say, "I stand proudly before the truth" and I am grateful for the words of Rep. Tom McClintock, who said that Schiff was not punishing himself for the things he was doing wrong, but rather for the political tactics he was pressing on to divert attention away from his political priorities and divert resources away from pressing them into other matters. And as always, two things can be true at once. Schiff is a liar, and he has been lying for years on end. He spent years with a pup tent right outside the CNN green room waiting to be called in so he could explain that Donald Trump was in the coordination of Russia, that he was essentially a cat s paw for Vladimir Putin, and all the rest. It turns out, that was a lie. And he kept saying that he had access to special information that was gonna blow the cover off of this entire scandal. And he s one of the people who kept throwing gasoline on the flames in that particular non-scandal. Well, now he s here to make sure that the fire was lit, and the flames were ready to be put out, right? so he s been called in to explain that Trump s colluding with the Russians, and that he s working with Vladimir Putin . Well, that s one thing he s a cat's paw for Putin . well, isn t it? And now that s a done deal, is he? . . . and he s running for a Senate seat in California in 2020? And what s he s got a chance to run against Dianne Feinstein in a primary challenge against her in the Democratic primary race in the next election, and is he going to run for re-election in the primary race against her? ? or is he running to be re-elected to the Senate seat that s not even worth running in 2020 because he s going to be a shot at all? Or is he just a little bit better than he s supposed to be running for the seat he s actually running for? What s he really running for, you know?
00:00:00.000Well, you'll recall that Adam Schiff, the congressperson from California, he's currently running for Senate, and as always, two things can be true at once.
00:00:06.000Republicans ought to have censored him in the House of Representatives.
00:00:10.000He is a liar, and he has been lying for years on end.
00:00:14.000He spent years with a pup tent right outside the CNN green room,
00:00:17.000waiting to be called in so he could explain that Donald Trump was in the
00:00:20.000coordination of Russia, that he was essentially a cat's paw for
00:00:40.000The other thing that can be true is that because the Republicans just did this, it probably elevates him in his senatorial primary race in California to replace the late Dianne Feinstein.
00:00:49.000She's not dead, but she may as well be at this point because she is going to be out of Congress in the next run, and she is not fully sentient even in the moment.
00:00:55.000According to Roll Call, Schiff was censured by the House Wednesday.
00:00:59.000But as he stood in the well to hear Speaker Kevin McCarthy announce the finding, fellow Democrats jammed the aisles, shouting shame and disgrace at the GOP majority while cheering Schiff and patting him on the back.
00:01:07.000Because the way that this works in Democrat land is the more lies you tell about Republicans, the more you are treasured among Democrats.
00:01:14.000Here is what it looked like on the House floor when the vote went through to censure Adam Schiff.
00:01:20.000On this vote, the ayes are 213 and the nays are 209, with six answering present.
00:01:38.000Apparently not realizing that it's the bad guys in Game of Thrones who chant shame at people.
00:01:43.000They're standing in the well of the House, an intimidating group of elderly white people chanting shame over Adam Schiff.
00:01:50.000And then he comes through and he's being patted on the back by the Democrats and all the rest of this sort of stuff.
00:01:54.000Floor representative Ana Paulina Luna was the one who offered the resolution to censure the former House Intelligence Committee chairman.
00:01:59.000By the way, there was a big non-troversy.
00:02:01.000Just a week ago, when the censure was brought forth in the House, and some representatives on the Republican side voted against it, not because they didn't want to censure Adam Schiff, but because the original form of the censure was actually unconstitutional, it required something like a $16 million fine of Adam Schiff, and Thomas Massey, a great congressperson from Kentucky, Massey had suggested that we don't want to set this precedent where the House is simply removing wealth From its members over political disagreements, because that's a really, really bad way to go.
00:02:31.000Democrats will undoubtedly use it on the other side.
00:02:33.000So a better form of this thing passed with 213 votes all from the Republicans, 209 against all Democrats.
00:02:41.000The resolution argued that Schiff abused his power as the ranking member and chair of the panel, and falsely spread allegations about Trump's 2016 campaign collusion with Russia.
00:02:48.000Democrats said that Schiff was being targeted as Trump faces legal troubles.
00:02:51.000The vote came a week after, as I say, 20 Republicans voted with Democrats to table a similar measure.
00:02:56.000Again, a lot of people were very angry at Thomas Massie at the time, but Massie was right, and a lot of people who were angry at him were wrong.
00:03:01.000He had suggested change the form, and we'll vote it out of committee, and then we'll do this thing.
00:03:05.000Schiff, yesterday, tried to defend himself.
00:03:18.000You, who are the authors of a big lie about the last election, must condemn the truth-tellers, and I stand proudly before you.
00:03:26.000Your words tell me that I have been effective in the defense of our democracy, and I am grateful.
00:03:32.000Representative Tom McClintock said that this was really not punishing him for the things that he was saying.
00:03:37.000It was really more about specific acts, quote, most particularly the abuse of his position as intelligence
00:03:41.000chairman by implying he had access to classified information that
00:03:43.000did not exist and his placement into the congressional record of the Steele
00:03:46.000dossier that he knew or should have known was false.
00:03:49.000Schiff, of course, has been fundraising off of all of this.
00:03:52.000He sent out an email on Tuesday night saying, quote, these political smear tactics divert the resources of the House away from pressing priorities.
00:03:58.000This is always my favorite thing is when people like, oh, the Congress, they have pressing.
00:04:01.000The Congress has never had a pressing priority.
00:04:04.000They are a useless legislative body that achieves very little on a daily basis.
00:04:09.000They should go to part time like most state legislatures do.
00:05:59.000He can at once be the chairman of the intelligence committee, the special counsel investigating Donald Trump, Manage and run the FBI and be a judge ruling on FISA applications.
00:06:15.000It is remarkable that he, from his perch in Congress, can do all of that.
00:06:22.000There is nothing in this motion, this resolution, that is true.
00:06:24.000One of my colleagues says, we will hold members accountable.
00:06:26.000I'm going to yield the gentleman an additional 20 seconds.
00:06:41.000The guy is an alleged and acknowledged liar and indicted, and you protect him every day.
00:06:48.000What a warrior for truth is Daniel Goleman, who's involved in both impeachment attempts.
00:06:52.000Worth noting here, just at this point for all the class warriors on the left who are big Daniel Goleman fans, he is the heir to the Levi Strauss fortune.
00:06:59.000He's worth about $250 million, that particular congressperson.
00:07:06.000In just a second, we'll get to the other big congressional event of the day, and that was the arrival of Special Counsel John Durham on Capitol Hill to testify about his bombshell report from a little bit earlier this year.
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00:08:17.000Okay, meanwhile, the other big event on Capitol Hill yesterday, was the testimony of Special Counsel John Durham.
00:08:24.000According to Politico, Durham testified for over five hours before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday over the details of a 360-page report that he released earlier this year that was all about the origins of the so-called Crossfire Hurricane investigation that was the investigation into Trump-Russia collusion.
00:08:39.000That report, if you'll recall, was just an absolute disaster for Democrats.
00:08:43.000I called it maybe the worst political scandal in American history.
00:08:46.000Nobody actually took it seriously in the press because to do so would have been devastating for the Obama administration in particular.
00:08:52.000As I wrote at the time, Crossfire Hurricane was an initiative based on sheer conjecture.
00:08:56.000That was conjecture that was created whole cloth by Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign.
00:09:02.000Durham reports that in late July 2016, Australia provided information to the U.S.
00:09:06.000Embassy in London surrounding conversations between Australian diplomats and a low-level Trump foreign policy advisor named George Papadopoulos, in which Papadopoulos had allegedly suggested that the Trump team had received some kind of suggestion from Russia that it could assist in the process of releasing information about Hillary Clinton.
00:09:20.000That information was the predicate for the entire Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
00:09:24.000The FBI basically greenlit the investigation within days of receiving that flimsy information, Peter Strzok, who is an ardent Trump hater, he helped initiate that investigation.
00:09:36.000The investigation, Zoram notes, was launched before any dialogue with Australia or the intelligence community prior to any critical analysis of the information itself.
00:09:43.000So basically, they heard a rumor that a very low-level Trump official had mentioned Russia in a conversation, and they launched the Trump-Russia investigation.
00:09:50.000So what exactly prompted their eagerness to launch?
00:09:53.000The FBI, as Jerome acknowledges, was already in possession of the Steele dossier, which is the lies and innuendo compiled by Fusion GPS, Hillary Clinton's law firm, at the behest of the Clinton campaign.
00:10:03.000The FBI had also been approached by a second source working with Fusion GPS in July of 2016.
00:10:07.000Apparently, there was a push for an investigation prompted by the desires of the Clinton campaign and the perceived necessity of stopping Trump.
00:10:13.000The FBI's assistant legal attache in London knew that this information was not good enough to be the predicate for an investigation.
00:10:19.000He said that the FBI management was pushing the matter so hard there is, quote, no stopping the train, making it his job to grease the skids.
00:10:28.000intelligence agencies already knew that Russia was saying that Hillary was basically trumping all of this up.
00:10:34.000On August 3rd, CIA Director John Brennan, quote, met with the president, vice president, and other senior administration officials, including but not limited to the attorney general and the FBI director, and briefed them on the so-called the Clinton plan.
00:10:43.000The Clinton plan was, of course, her plan to turn Trump-Russia into a major campaign issue by laundering this into public view.
00:10:49.000Nobody at that point decided to put a hold on the Trump-Russia investigation to investigate whether it was coming from Hillary.
00:10:54.000Instead, they just jumped full-scale both feet into the middle of this thing.
00:10:58.000As I wrote at the time, that collusion is significantly worse than Watergate, involves the former Secretary of State and Democratic candidate for president laundering false intelligence information to the FBI, and the FBI overseen by that candidate's political allies in the Obama administration using that information as the predicate for a full-scale investigation, knowing full well that the Clinton campaign could well be behind the allegations in the first place and they went forward with it anyway.
00:11:20.000And that is essentially what Durham testified yesterday.
00:11:24.000He testified yesterday that FBI agents had actually come to him personally to apologize for having been involved in the thing at all.
00:11:42.000Well, let me give you some real life views on that.
00:11:46.000I have had any number of FBI agents who I've worked with over the years, some of whom are retired, some are still in place, who have come to me and apologized for the manner in which that investigation was undertaken.
00:12:00.000These are good, hardworking, majority of people in the FBI, decent human beings who swear under their oaths to abide by the law.
00:12:13.000In fact, Durham went on to explain that James Comey had full knowledge that the Hillary Clinton campaign was attempting to launder the Steele dossier into public view, and he didn't inform his lower-down FBI agents that this was happening.
00:12:23.000So he basically created a Chinese screen between the information about the Hillary Clinton campaign laundering this stuff, and the FBI agents who are then tasked with investigating the underlying material, which is insane.
00:12:35.000So the same FBI agents who were being tasked with tracking down false information, information that had largely been propagated by the Hillary Clinton campaign, had never been told that Hillary Clinton was actually the one behind all of this and that her campaign was the one behind all of this.
00:12:47.000Here's Durham testifying that James Comey, then the head of the FBI, hid Clinton's campaign plan from his own FBI agents.
00:12:56.000Mr. Durham, in the summer of 2016, did our government receive intelligence that suggested Secretary Clinton had approved a plan to tie President Trump to Russia?
00:13:10.000Didn't share with the agents on the case.
00:13:12.000Can you tell the committee what happened when you took that referral memo and shared it with one of those agents, specifically Supervisory Special Agent Number One?
00:13:22.000We interviewed the first supervisor of the crossfire investigation, the operational person.
00:13:31.000We showed him the intelligence information.
00:13:34.000He indicated he had never seen it before.
00:13:36.000He immediately became emotional, got up and left the room with his lawyer.
00:13:43.000Spent some time in the hallway, came back.
00:14:00.000As Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air points out, in other words, the director of the FBI knowingly withheld evidence pertinent to an FBI investigation that resulted not just in errors made by the agents conducting the investigation that might have resulted ending what turned out to be a witch hunt, but also contributed to misrepresentations to the FISA court about the nature of the evidence they were using to conduct surveillance on the Trump campaign figures.
00:14:20.000That FISA court, you'll recall, was handed a warrant to surveil Carter Page, who was, again, a low-level Trump campaign foreign policy advisor.
00:14:30.000And they put forward a FISA warrant on the basis of essentially false information that was being trafficked by the Hillary Clinton campaign, not knowing that it was false information being trafficked by the Hillary Clinton campaign because James Comey had refused to actually tell them.
00:14:43.000As Ed points out, Comey knew it, but made sure the agents assigned to the case did not.
00:14:48.000All of those officeholders lied publicly about the nature of the rumors and innuendo consistently for months.
00:14:52.000Obama himself ramped up his rhetoric about Russian interference in the weeks following this briefing, which certainly seems as though Brennan's briefing resulted more in a political campaign strategy than in concern over the security of American elections.
00:15:02.000All the top officials in the Obama administration knew that Hillary Clinton was behind the Trump-Russia collusion narrative entirely, and they went out and they promoted it anyway.
00:15:11.000Which, you want to talk election interference, that is high-level election interference.
00:15:15.000As Durham says, the FBI itself, they had tons of red flags, they ignored all of them.
00:15:20.000Are you tired of feeling uncomfortable in the underwear and loungewear that you are wearing right now?
00:15:24.000You're probably still wearing old underwear that you got like five years ago from You know, one of those other brands, one of those cheaper brands, like, oh, I get 20 pairs of underwear for $7.
00:15:32.000Yeah, and they're full of holes, they don't fit you right, they're terrible.
00:15:35.000Instead, you need to switch over and use the greatest underwear on God's green earth.
00:16:25.000John Durham testified yesterday that the FBI basically ignored all the red flags in initiating this investigation into Donald Trump and Trump-Russia collusion.
00:16:32.000Again, this is relevant also to the censure of Adam Schiff because Adam Schiff was fully aware of virtually all of this stuff when he was still promoting the Trump-Russia collusion hoax for years on end, saying that he had access to secret information via the Intelligence Committee when apparently he had none.
00:16:46.000Here's John Durham saying every red flag was ignored here.
00:16:50.000From the report, I gathered that key FBI leaders all the way at the top Yes.
00:16:55.000were predisposed to go after candidate Trump.
00:17:00.000This bias likely affected the conduct of FBI personnel in this investigation.
00:17:54.000There was open political coordination.
00:17:56.000Here was Durham saying, we need some form of accountability here.
00:18:00.000Well, I'm encouraged by some of the reforms that have been implemented by the FBI.
00:18:03.000The problems identified in this report, anybody who actually reads the report and the details of the report, The documented portions of the report, I think, would find that the problems identified in the report are not susceptible to overnight fixes.
00:18:22.000As we said in the report, they cannot be addressed solely by enhancing training or additional policy requirements.
00:18:29.000Rather, what is required is accountability, both in terms of the standards to which our law enforcement personnel hold themselves, And in the consequences they face for violation of laws and policies.
00:18:42.000One of the things that was amazing here was the response by Democrats on the committees.
00:18:47.000The response by Democrats on the committee was not specific questions that actually targeted the content of what Durham was saying.
00:18:52.000Instead they just went after him personally.
00:18:55.000Who's a Democratic congressperson from Tennessee, started ripping into Durham and saying, you've sullied your reputation, says a man with hair directly.
00:19:03.000He looks like Jerry Garcia in his later days at this point, does Steve Cohen.
00:19:11.000As everybody's reputation who gets involved with Donald Trump is damaged, he's damaged goods, there's no good dealing with him, because you will end up on the bottom of a pyre.
00:19:32.000Yeah, my concern about my reputation is with the people who I respect, my family and my Lord, and I'm Perfectly comfortable with my reputation with them, sir.
00:19:43.000Well, that is a very, very good answer.
00:19:45.000We'll get to more Democratic attacks on Durham for the crime of speaking the truth on all this in just a second, including Adam Schiff, who decided to sign into the conversation first.
00:20:39.000When you check out online, don't forget to tell them you heard about Blinds.com from The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:20:43.000Rules and restrictions Okay, so Democrats continued their assault on John Durham, the special counsel for the great crime of unveiling the level of coordination between the Obama White House, the FBI, the DOJ, and Hillary Clinton's campaign.
00:21:08.000Representative Cori Bush, and this really speaks to, again, the mentality the Democrats have about Donald Trump.
00:21:14.000Everything is fair in love and destroying Donald Trump.
00:21:17.000Representative Cori Bush, the BLM congresswoman from Missouri, she says that what Durham is trying to do is redeem a former white supremacist-in-chief.
00:21:25.000Wow, that sort of really well-thought-out language is what's going to convince people there, Cori.
00:21:33.000Louis and I are here today to set the record straight about this political investigation conducted on behalf of the twice-impeached, twice-indicted former white supremacist-in-chief Donald Trump.
00:21:44.000From the start, this entire investigation has been an attempt to undermine the findings of the Mueller investigation and distract the people of this country from Donald Trump's corruption.
00:21:56.000Again, this is all that it comes down to for Democrats, is that as long as you're going after Donald Trump, anything is justified, which explains exactly why Adam Schiff made a liar of himself.
00:22:04.000Here was Schiff himself signing into this debate, saying that, you know, the real question here is whether Donald Trump is a good man or a bad man.
00:22:11.000The question here is rule of law and whether you ought to exploit the office that you hold in order to lie to the American public to get somebody you don't like.
00:22:22.000And his responses are in direct contradiction to the Mueller report.
00:22:27.000Well, he was really trying to downplay the significance of the President's son being offered dirt on Hillary Clinton, something that was represented to Don Jr.
00:22:38.000as part of the Russian government's effort to help the Trump campaign, taking a secret meeting to receive that information, along with the campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, along with his brother-in-law, Jared Kushner.
00:22:51.000He wanted to suggest, well, this happens all the time.
00:22:53.000And in that answer, And so many others, what it really betrayed is exactly what he accused the FBI of, and that is confirmation bias.
00:23:02.000You could really see his bias into thinking that what the Trump campaign did was fine, that he wasn't going to call it collusion, even though there is no other name for what the Trump campaign tried to do.
00:23:17.000Because if that's collusion, then so is Hillary Clinton coordinating with Ukrainian sources to dig up dirt on the Trump campaign, which is something that actively happened during the 2016 campaign.
00:23:26.000There's a reason Adam Schiff was censured.
00:23:32.000And meanwhile, one other thing happened on the Hill yesterday, and this is worth noting, mainly because it's hilarious to watch as the left continues to be Completely unable to define the difference between men and women.
00:23:40.000So yesterday, there was a hearing in the House with regard to whether women should be allowed their own spaces in sports.
00:23:47.000That men, like Leah Thomas, are not allowed to walk full twig and berries into ladies' locker rooms a-dangling.
00:23:55.000And this became a point of hot contention among Democrats.
00:23:58.000It was pretty awkward when Kelly Robinson, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, was asked about, are there any differences between men and women?
00:24:04.000And Kelly Robinson was like, well, I don't know.
00:24:52.000Is there a difference between women and men?
00:24:54.000I think that there are definitions for biological sex.
00:25:01.000The inability of these people to just say the obvious because they have convinced themselves they must never say the thing that is true is truly amazing.
00:25:07.000Actually, the same Democratic witness from the human rights campaign just got absolutely...
00:25:15.000So Riley Gaines, the former champion swimmer who's out swam by a dude in Leah Thomas and has been talking about the predations of men in women's sports for a while.
00:25:26.000This Democratic witness was asked whether if there's no difference between men and women, then why is it that men who compete in women's sports are dominating them?
00:25:32.000And she actually tried to make the case that women can dominate and routinely dominate men in sport.
00:25:37.000And so she was asked specifically to name such a situation.
00:26:48.000When the human rights campaign lady's like, well, Serena Williams beats men, and then Riley Gaines is like, no she doesn't.
00:26:53.000By the way, worth noting, in that particular Serena Venus Williams story, they wanted to play a man, so the 203rd ranked man, not only did he defeat them in straight sets, He also did so while smoking between the actual sets.
00:27:05.000He was smoking and having beer between the sets.
00:27:09.000I mean, Serena has said this herself, but once the lie has been promulgated by the left, they must keep repeating it until it becomes true.
00:27:16.000Which is how you end up with the bizarre situation that six in ten Democrats now claim that a woman can become a man and a man can become a woman, which is just amazing, amazing stuff.
00:27:27.000Meanwhile, The situation aboard the submersible, this Titanic submersible, is ending in tragedy.
00:27:34.000They thought yesterday that they were hearing knocking from the seafloor.
00:27:36.000It now turns out that they're not sure whether that knocking was actually coming from the submersible or whether it was just equipment that was dropping off of the Titanic because the Titanic itself continues to decay, of course.
00:27:48.000According to the UK Daily Mail, the Coast Guard is still saying that they are hunting for these Titanic 5.
00:27:55.000And they're looking for survivors, but oxygen supply has apparently run out.
00:28:00.000The Ocean Gate co-founder says that it's possible that they have more oxygen down there or it's possible that if in fact they go unconscious because of lack of oxygen, they will be consuming less oxygen, but...
00:28:10.000It seems almost certain that this is going to end in absolute tragedy.
00:28:14.000According to the Daily Mail, Rear Admiral John Malgar of the U.S.
00:28:17.000Coast Guard said the operation remains in active search and he remains hopeful thanks to favorable weather conditions.
00:28:21.000Asked about the banging noise, he said initial analysis suggested they were background ocean noise, but this was still being examined.
00:28:26.000So yesterday there was a lot of talk about the idea that maybe the banging that they were hearing was people inside the submersible banging to try and send some sonar Indicators that they were still down there or where they were, but they haven't even found the submersible as of this morning.
00:28:40.000Those stuck on board the sub include British billionaire Hamish Harding, Oceangate CEO Stockton Rush, French Navy veteran Ph.
00:28:46.000Nargileh, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, and his son Suleyman, who's just 19.
00:28:52.000A deepwater robot sub reached the Atlantic floor.
00:28:54.000Another is descending the 12,500 feet of ocean fast.
00:28:57.000The Canadian vessel Horizon Arctic has deployed an ROV that reached the sea floor and began its search for the missing sub, according to a spokesperson.
00:29:03.000A friendship viewed as the best and final hope of finding the missing Titanic submersible has also dropped its remote-controlled sub to find the five missing adventurers.
00:29:12.000Now, again, as we mentioned yesterday, This just there's certain things that seem like a bad idea and it turns out that getting into a jerry-rigged contraption to travel 13,000 feet below sea surface is a bad idea.
00:29:26.000Here was Oceangate CEO Stockton Rush in one of his last interviews over the course of last year talking about how he wasn't worried that much about safety.
00:29:35.000I couldn't help noticing how many pieces of this sub seemed improvised.
00:29:40.000We can use these off-the-shelf components.
00:30:15.000Your thrusters can go, your lights can go, you're still going to be safe.
00:30:20.000Okay, but the problem is that basically if there's one point of failure, if you're always one point of failure and there are no backup systems available, which is essentially the case with the submersible, you're dead.
00:30:30.000If your ballast fails, right, you can't get rid of it, it's dragging you to the bottom and it fails,
00:30:48.000Now, one of the questions here is why people are paying this much money to do this sort of thing.
00:30:52.000I will say that one of the draws, I think, for a lot of very wealthy people
00:30:57.000who are doing this sort of stuff is the price point.
00:31:00.000Meaning that there comes a point where you have a lot of money, you're a billionaire like some of the people who are aboard this submersible, and somebody says you can have this experience for an incredible High price point, you immediately go, it must be safe.
00:31:13.000I mean, if somebody is actually charging you that much money, it's not as though he's going to put me aboard a jerry-rigged vessel using parts from camping world.
00:31:19.000Well, not so much, actually, as it turns out.
00:31:23.000Again, it is quite possible that the controller that was running this thing was a $49.99 video game controller.
00:31:30.000According to the Wall Street Journal, it's unclear if Oceangate Expeditions was using a Logitech controller on the Titan when it started its mission on Sunday.
00:31:36.000A spokesperson for Oceangate declined to comment.
00:31:38.000Logitech did not respond to requests for comment.
00:31:41.000The Titan, which is the name of this submersible, lost contact with the ship, monitoring it from the surface one hour and 45 minutes after it began its dive in the North Atlantic on Sunday morning.
00:31:49.000The Titanic, again, is 900 miles off Massachusetts' Cape Cod.
00:32:44.000You're going to have to figure it out on your own.
00:32:47.000And again, the air was slated to run out as of Thursday morning.
00:32:51.000One of the things that is fascinating about this is just how our country is so polarized that everybody goes to sort of politics immediately.
00:32:58.000It's hard for me to find the political angle on what is obviously a tragedy.
00:33:03.000I think there are a couple of human angles that are pretty obvious.
00:33:05.000What drives people to do extreme things?
00:33:14.000Another says that this is basically a form of very high-end tourism.
00:33:18.000And so the question for me is, if this were an SAT analogy, is this more like you are traveling to space and helping to fund a project that is going to lead to future discoveries, for example, like Richard Branson or Elon Musk or something?
00:33:30.000Or is this more like you went on a safari?
00:33:32.000And this seems to me more like a safari.
00:33:34.000It's sort of disaster tourism, to a certain extent.
00:33:37.000And so I don't think that you get the explorer points for something that has already been explored and in which there is no new discovery really to be made.
00:33:45.000That doesn't mean what they're doing is quote-unquote morally wrong, although I'm not a big fan of putting yourself in dangerous situations that you don't need to be in unless there is some sort of real upside to it.
00:33:55.000I think there may be a morality question there, just in terms of the value of human life.
00:33:58.000If there is no real exploratory upside, and the safety risk is so high, is that something that you morally should be doing?
00:34:15.000The New Republic actually ran a headline that said, quote, Well, I mean, I guess that means that he had it coming.
00:34:25.000I guess it means all those people should die.
00:34:26.000You know, if he donated to some local congressional Republicans or even to Donald Trump, that means that he should probably, you know, suffocate to death 13,000 feet below the ocean.
00:34:36.000Ooh, gross stuff there from the New Republic.
00:34:39.000And you can always count on Eli Mistel of MSNBC to sign in and be terrible as well.
00:34:43.000He actually tweeted about Sam Alito, quote, next time some rich white person wants to take Sam Alito on an expensive trip, please take him to see the Titanic.
00:34:50.000Eli Mistel, continuing to be one of the more disgusting people in American politics.
00:34:55.000There is a sense of glee with a certain crowd when it comes to this, where they're like, oh, billionaires, billionaires doing stupid things and dying.
00:35:01.000Well, again, it seems to me That the status of their wealth has very little to do with the moral worth of the decision.
00:35:10.000Either it's a good decision or it's a bad decision.
00:35:13.000Them being wealthy doesn't make them worse people for doing the thing.
00:35:16.000You can say there's better uses for the money, and I would tend to agree with you.
00:35:20.000But that does not mean that these are people who are innately horrible.
00:35:24.000I mean, I haven't seen their charitable giving, have you?
00:35:29.000And in terms of bad use of money, I don't see that there's a massive difference between spending $250,000 to take a submersible down to see the Titanic or spending $250,000 on a random Lamborghini that loses half its value the minute you drive it off the lot in terms of if we're going to critique people's spending habits.
00:35:45.000All these weird strains of antagonism are rising to the surface on the back of a tragedy, and that really is ugly, because this is a tragedy.
00:35:51.000Now, with that said, should we be devoting the kinds of efforts to saving migrants who are drowning in the Mediterranean, getting from Libya to Italy?
00:36:01.000Should we spend more efforts doing that, or as many efforts, saving those 300 migrants who are doing that, than the five guys who took the submersible voluntarily, spending that much money?
00:36:09.000I think there's a case to be made for that, for sure.
00:36:11.000Alrighty, in just a second, We'll get to Joe Biden basically completely blowing it on China in every possible way.
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00:39:24.000And then meanwhile, you go to a fundraiser like, that guy's a dictator, right?
00:39:27.000Well, that seems real stupid. According to Jude Blanchett, China specialist at the Center for
00:39:34.000Strategic and International Studies, to have the world's leading power refer to him in ways
00:39:37.000that de-elevate him. I think Xi Jinping will take that personally.
00:39:40.000He wants to be seen as a peer with the United States.
00:39:42.000China's foreign ministry then termed Biden's characterization extremely absurd and extremely irresponsible.
00:39:47.000The White House then declined to comment.
00:39:49.000I love that Joe Biden just crapped all over himself, just crapped the bed.
00:39:52.000Meanwhile, the State Department came out and tried to defend this.
00:39:54.000They're simultaneously trying to defend the rapprochement with China and Joe Biden claiming that Xi Jinping is a dictator, thus Scuttling the rapprochement.
00:40:19.000We believe that engagement and dialogue and diplomacy are integral to a number of the issues that we think are important as it relates to our bilateral relationship with the PRC.
00:40:37.000That is a lot of us to obscure the fact that the President of the United States no longer has functional brain waves at this point.
00:40:43.000Meanwhile, Andrea Mitchell was making excuses for Joe Biden as well.
00:40:49.000We mobilized all the resources of the government, up to and including Joe Biden, downplaying Chinese aggression just so he could call China a dictator and then reverse everything he was trying to do.
00:40:57.000Here's Andrea Mitchell trying to save the President from himself.
00:41:00.000Let's pull back the curtain a little bit and explain how these fundraisers work.
00:41:04.000Because one person can go in, a pooler, to take notes, one or another, but no cameras, no audio that we can play.
00:41:31.000Obama talked about guns out there in San Francisco.
00:41:34.000Get themselves in trouble, because they become more relaxed when you don't see a camera platform, and you're surrounded by donors who want to hear the inside stuff, and you kind of get too casual, right?
00:41:51.000Speaking of failures by the Biden administration, remember Randi Weingarten?
00:41:54.000She, of course, is the head of the American Federation of Teachers and one of the most nefarious forces in the country.
00:41:59.000It is worth noting at this point that her lockdown strategy when it came to schools has destroyed the educational experience and performance of literally tens of millions of American school kids.
00:42:07.000Story from the Washington Post, national test scores plummeted for 13 year olds according to new data that shows the single largest drop in math in 50 years and no signs of academic recovery following the disruptions of the pandemic.
00:42:18.000It's people like Randy Weingarten pushing for lockdowns and simultaneously pushing that we have to pay our teachers more.
00:42:24.000It's always weird to me that every time our education system fails, the push from the left is, what if we paid our teachers more?
00:42:29.000Imagine if you were so bad at your job that you achieved 40-year lows in outcome and you went into your boss for a raise.
00:42:34.000How do you think that would go for you?
00:42:35.000Well, Randy Weingarten is getting some special treatment from the Department of Homeland Security.
00:42:40.000It was announced on Wednesday that they were going to create 22 members for their school safety board ahead of their first public meeting in the coming months.
00:43:14.000Um, and, um, for those who missed it, I did this a few days ago, the single worst song maybe ever recorded, Poundtown, but then there was a sequel called Poundtown 2, which is apparently too pound too furious.
00:43:48.000Anyway, it's a terrible song by a person who calls herself Sexy Red.
00:43:53.000There are multiple Y's at the end of her name for no reason that anyone can explain other than I guess that it is sort of a prereq in rap that you can't spell.
00:44:00.000I think that's the way that this works.
00:44:01.000Anyway, Nicki Minaj co-starred on Poundtown 2.
00:44:05.000Now, in the original critique, I actually mentioned only that she co-starred in it, did Nicki Minaj.
00:44:11.000I did not actually critique her verse in Poundtown 2.
00:44:14.000Because after all, I think we'd had enough.
00:44:16.000But now, Nicki Minaj has decided to sign into the chat.
00:44:23.000She was unhappy with me critiquing the brilliant lyrics and extraordinary flow of a song in which the main artist, Sexy E Red, describes the colors of her various bodily orifices.
00:46:14.000Nicki Minaj was the one with the anaconda all along.
00:46:18.000But in any case, I think what this requires now is that we actually look at the cultural context and pure joy of Poundtown 2, because we actually critiqued mostly the lyrics from Poundtown 1 last time.
00:46:31.000First of all, before I even get to Nicki Minaj's verse here, I should point out that 6E Red She did an interview in which she described the rules of Poundtown.
00:46:40.000Apparently, there is law in Poundtown.
00:46:43.000Poundtown is not a lawless, anarchic place.
00:46:45.000I don't know who the sheriff is in Poundtown, but apparently there is a full law enforcement body that is not systemically racist.
00:50:48.000I can't get over that this is our culture.
00:50:50.000And then we're all supposed to pretend that this is like high culture.
00:50:53.000This is the part that drives me absolutely up a wall.
00:50:55.000We're all supposed to pretend that this is somehow a reflection of intelligence, that it's a reflection of emotional depth, that it's all just playful witticisms and lyricisms.
00:51:06.000Wow, that our culture has not degraded in any way.