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00:00:12.000Well, Tucker Carlson has ticked off all of the right people, apparently.
00:00:24.000So Tucker was given access to 41,000 hours of footage of the January 6th riots and what was going on inside the Capitol building by Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker of the House.
00:00:33.000And this was considered very, very controversial.
00:00:35.000It was considered controversial because how dare he give access?
00:00:39.000Well, as it turns out, the January 6th committee is now admitting that even they did not bother watching the videos.
00:00:45.000They had some of their staffers watch the videos that they themselves did not attempt to gain access to the videos.
00:00:50.000Elena Treen, who's a political reporter at CNN, reported this morning that Kevin McCarthy has now granted lawmakers the option to view the Capitol footage from January 6th if they request to see it.
00:00:58.000Marjorie Taylor Greene told CNN, quote, any one of us can go.
00:01:01.000You just have to schedule the time with the Speaker's office.
00:01:06.000Green said she doesn't know who's all in the room or if the U.S.
00:01:08.000Capitol Police will be there, but said there are instructions her team has been given, including how to view the videos because there are so many hours.
00:01:13.000Benny Thompson, here's the key part, Benny Thompson, who is the former chair of the January 6th committee, said lawmakers were never given that type of access to the footage last Congress.
00:01:22.000So even the January 6th committee is admitting that other members of Congress were not given access to the footage that Tucker showed the other night, which is kind of mind boggling.
00:01:33.000It's not supposed to be secret committees inside Congress.
00:01:36.000When we are talking about an incident that affected all of America and that was put on all of our TVs on January 6th, Thompson's quoted strictly a new policy that the new speaker has put in place.
00:01:46.000Thompson said he doesn't think any of the January 6th members themselves ever had access to the footage.
00:01:52.000So apparently, even the Capitol Police only allowed the staff of these committee members to view it, but the members of the staff themselves did not view it.
00:01:58.000He said, I'm actually not aware of any member of the committee who had access.
00:02:02.000We had a team of employees who kind of went through the video.
00:02:05.000So, in other words, you were just kind of talking heads on behalf of ABC producers you guys gave access to.
00:02:12.000And somehow, that is significantly better than Speaker McCarthy giving access to all of the congresspeople and also Tucker Carlson?
00:02:20.000You don't get to play a stupid game in which you do a thing to one side, then the other side does the same thing, and it's bad when the other side does it.
00:03:00.000And not only is it kind of weird, there's tons of footage of people, like large crowds, kind of walking through the Capitol building.
00:03:06.000In other words, the footage from outside, which appears to be extremely violent and extremely chaotic, is not mirrored altogether by a lot of the footage inside, thereafter, in which people are kind of walking the halls, and many of them are not defacing things.
00:03:18.000Again, it's not as though the riots didn't happen.
00:03:21.000The question is whether we were told the whole story, and the answer is we weren't told the whole story, and that footage was never revealed to the public at all.
00:03:28.000And now Tucker is being raked over the coals for this.
00:03:30.000Now the question is whether he's being raked over the coals for the angle that he's taking on it, which many people are suggesting downplays the idea there were riots at all, or whether he's being raked over the coals for revealing the footage.
00:03:44.000The White House went directly after Tucker Carlson by name yesterday.
00:03:48.000Of course, they went to their friends at Politico.
00:03:50.000Quote, In comments first shared with Politico, the White House joined Republican Senate leaders and Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger, who a day earlier assailed Carlson's broadcast of selected assault footage as, quote, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said, We agree with the chief of the Capitol Police and the wide range of bipartisan lawmakers who have condemned this false depiction of the unprecedented violent attack on our Constitution and the rule of law, which cost police officers their lives.
00:04:12.000We also agree with what Fox News' own attorneys and executives have now repeatedly stressed in multiple courts of law that Tucker Carlson is not credible.
00:04:18.000So they are now going directly after one particular host.
00:04:22.000Now, I was informed during the Trump administration that attacks on the press meant the death of the republic.
00:04:28.000Democracy dies in darkness, as the Washington Post suggested.
00:04:31.000Any attempt to frame the press as quote-unquote the enemy of the people, which is a phrase that Trump liked to use a lot, That was absolutely an assault on the First Amendment.
00:04:38.000It was violating our most cherished and deeply held beliefs.
00:04:41.000Right now you have the White House essentially going after one guy and suggesting by name that that guy is not credible.
00:04:48.000And then you have the Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer going out publicly and suggesting that he should be taken off the air.
00:04:53.000Yeah, it seems to me that there's only one reason that the White House is really doing this.
00:04:57.000And it's not because they think that Tucker Carlson should actually be taken off the air.
00:05:00.000The reason they are doing this is because they actually enjoy controversies around January 6th because it means that people are talking about January 6th.
00:05:07.000And that is actually what the White House wants.
00:05:09.000Joe Biden wants nothing more than for January 6th to be the topic of discussion all the way up through the next election cycle.
00:05:15.000He thinks that that'll ride him back to the White House.
00:05:17.000And then maybe a smart political strategy, it also happens to be really, really toxic.
00:05:22.000Because the fact of the matter is that we all at this point should know what happened on January 6th.
00:05:42.000There were people there who were threatening violence and doing that sort of stuff.
00:05:45.000That was not everybody who was in the Capitol.
00:05:47.000All those things can be held in your mind at once.
00:05:50.000But the idea, as always, is that the American people can only handle a single black and white narrative and there can't be any shades of gray or any complexity to any situation at all.
00:06:02.000The White House enjoys that fight because, again, their goal is to portray everybody who's on the other side of the aisle as a rioter.
00:06:11.000It's tied up in a broader narrative that they have generated.
00:06:14.000Which is that not only was everyone there that day a rioter, all the ralliers were essentially rioters, even if they weren't.
00:06:20.000And all the Republicans who voted for Trump were essentially ralliers who were also rioters.
00:06:24.000And so by the transit of property, everybody who voted for Donald Trump was in favor of rioting.
00:06:30.000Now, if it turns out that a fraction of the ralliers were rioters and that a fraction of the rioters We're the ones who are like the most violent and that many of the people who are riding were actually just trespassing.
00:06:42.000Well, then that kind of breaks down the narrative.
00:06:44.000This was a dire threat to the Republic and that the entire democracy was in danger.
00:06:47.000And the only way to protect democracy from the predations of Donald Trump and his crew is to elect Joe Biden and allow them untrammeled power.
00:06:57.000And that's why people are so angry at Tucker for having revealed That footage in the first place.
00:07:02.000Again, you can disagree with the angle that Tucker took on the footage.
00:07:05.000I disagree with a lot of the angle that Tucker took on the footage.
00:07:07.000But that doesn't change the underlying fact, which is that the generalized narrative that January 6th was, as the White House suggested, the worst attack on democracy since the Civil War, is not true.
00:07:16.000And it's very hard to maintain that perspective in light of the footage of people walking down cordoned lines through the halls of the Capitol building with police officers standing on either side in some cases.
00:07:29.000We'll get to the media response, which has been just overwrought in the extreme in just one second.
00:07:34.000First, it's tough to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
00:07:36.000The reality is that you have a busy day, and then you're being told that you need to eat basically nothing but fruits and vegetables.
00:07:42.000And I'm of the personal belief that God's punishment to humanity was making vegetables healthy, because the reality is they taste like garbage.
00:07:48.000So what exactly are people like me, people with a child's palate, supposed to do?
00:07:53.000What are we supposed to do when we want to have stuff that tastes good and also we want to be healthy?
00:07:56.000Well, one answer is balance of nature.
00:07:58.000Balance of nature fruits and veggies are the best way to make sure that you're getting essential nutritional ingredients every single day.
00:08:05.000Balance of nature uses a cold vacuum process that preserves the natural phytonutrients in whole fruits and vegetables and encapsulates them for easy consumption.
00:08:12.000Balance of Nature sent a bunch of their product down to the studio for my team to try.
00:09:48.000But at the same time, they're going out and suggesting that Tucker Carlson should be literally jailed, presumably, for the kinds of broadcasts that he is doing.
00:09:59.000Is Tucker the threat to democracy here?
00:10:01.000Or is it more people like Whoopi who are more than happy to unleash the authoritarianism so long as it targets their political opponents?
00:10:07.000Meanwhile, you have Jon Stewart, Who, yeah, whatever talent he had has been washed out.
00:10:13.000I mean, he himself looks like he's gone through a dishwasher a few times and whatever talent Stewart has is now gone.
00:10:19.000He's become basically in somewhat elderly gentleman ranting at things he doesn't like without any of the wry humor that used to characterize his message.
00:10:28.000And his substitute for humor, because this is the laziest form of humor, is just dirty talk.
00:10:35.000When you are a lazy comedian, you have to rely a lot on curse words, on sexual imagery.
00:11:00.000It's the only reason why it's coming out.
00:11:02.000And it's the only reason why, and they were so comfortable with the idea that none of their private communications would ever come out, which is why it's so explicit.
00:11:10.000To the point of saying, these people are crazy with the stolen election narrative and the ways that they think it's stolen.
00:11:18.000They're crazy, but if we say that, we'll lose our audience.
00:11:22.000It's a fascinating look at At just sort of like, you know the Ouroboros?
00:11:28.000We call it the snake sucking its own s***.
00:11:30.000Like, America has become a snake sucking its own s***.
00:11:36.000Well, deep words there from from Jon Stewart, who, by the way, is part of the media problem in the first place.
00:11:41.000You'll recall that Jon Stewart, one of his great claims to fame is that very early in the 2000s, there used to be a show on CNN.
00:11:48.000It was called Crossfire and included Tucker Carlson on one side and Paul Begala on the other is actually a pretty good show in which they would go at every political topic every day.
00:11:55.000And it was actually really interesting.
00:11:56.000It's when CNN used to allow opposing points of view on the air.
00:12:00.000And Jon Stewart came from Comedy Central.
00:12:02.000Where he did what I would say is one of the ugliest political shows in modern American history because his show was, I will show a clip out of context and then I'll make a face.
00:12:20.000It's become pretty much all of late night.
00:12:22.000It's become the model for an enormous amount of news coverage and media coverage instead of actual, you know, politics.
00:12:29.000And he went on crossfire and he said, you guys are bad for America.
00:12:31.000The answer was John Stewart was actually quite bad for America because he reduced essentially all political conversation to a series of face memes.
00:12:38.000But, Jon Stewart is now suggesting that America is an Ouroboros, and by the way, just for the record, an Ouroboros is a snake that is eating its own tail.
00:12:46.000I don't know what in the world he's talking about, or why it necessitates him talking about snake genitalia, but there you have it.
00:12:55.000Jon Stewart, great intellectual of our times.
00:12:57.000His former deputy, Stephen Colbert, is doing the same exact thing.
00:13:00.000Again, he's got nothing, so he's going to go direct to shock value with regard to Tucker.
00:13:04.000Thanks in large part to the former president.
00:13:07.000There's a whole industry of people who make a good living trying to make you think you're insane.
00:13:13.000Well, I make a very good living reminding you that you're not.
00:13:21.000You think that once the people gaslighting you on a daily basis have been revealed to be liars, say, in multiple text messages and a $1.6 billion court filing by Dominion Voting Systems, they would pump the brakes.
00:13:34.000But apparently, some people are just addicted to being b******.
00:13:38.000Case in point, Fox News host and toddler sucking on a dog turd, Tucker Carlson.
00:14:15.000It's that some of the narratives that they have been promoting, in fact, the biggest narrative they've been promoting over the course of the last three years, which is that American democracy is under unbridled attack from the right and that authoritarianism is there and that the images were on your TV on January 6th of authoritarianism in action.
00:14:28.000And that was a real threat to democracy.
00:14:30.000When that sort of thing starts to look a little more dicey, then they get really, really mad.
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00:15:45.000Okay, so, with all of this said, all the attacks on Tucker Carlson, obviously politically motivated, obviously.
00:15:51.000Well, one of the things that Republicans can do is overplay their hand here.
00:15:54.000The incentives are misaligned for both Democrats and Republicans.
00:15:57.000They're misaligned for Democrats in the sense that they are so tied into the democracy in danger narrative that they are now attacking freedom of the press in order to preserve the democracy is in danger narrative, which is really self-defeating.
00:16:07.000And on the right, the incentives are misaligned in that people are going to overplay their hand.
00:16:12.000They're going to suggest that it's not that there was footage we didn't see.
00:16:16.000That seems to be somewhat exculpatory of some of the people who may be prosecuted in January 6th, right?
00:16:21.000Like, their defense lawyers should now have access to all of that stuff.
00:16:24.000One of the defense lawyers was on with Tucker last night and suggested he did not have access to all of this tape, which, you know, that's going to be a legal filing, like, right away.
00:17:01.000But what I'm not there for is the next two years, again, being a referendum on January 6th.
00:17:06.000We did this in 2022, and it didn't go amazing.
00:17:08.000It didn't go amazing because it turns out that most Americans already have an idea of what January 6th was, and they don't want to talk about it anymore.
00:17:13.000They don't actually think that it is the key issue in American life.
00:17:16.000And if either side makes it the key issue in 2024, That is going to be a problem for the American people.
00:17:23.000So, for example, when you see House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer or Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene saying their aides are working to set up a congressional delegation to visit individuals jailed on January 6th, the question is which individuals and who are you talking to and what's the plan?
00:17:38.000Or is it mainly a photo op that's going to allow the newspapers to suggest that you are in solidarity with some of the actual violent rioters on January 6th?
00:17:44.000Which, of course, is exactly what the newspapers would like to do.
00:17:47.000Politics requires a little bit of what we would call in Hebrew, requires a little bit of common sense.
00:17:52.000You actually have to use your head a little bit and figure out, be meticulous in the things that you are taking on as opposed to sort of broad-based blunderbuss attacks if you are running for re-election in 2024 and you're attempting to oust the Democrats who did not provide this footage in the first place from office.
00:18:08.000Meanwhile, International Women's Day was yesterday.
00:18:12.000You know, I'm really excited about International Women's Day, mainly because it's the only day of the year where we celebrate women.
00:18:17.000It's the only day of the year where anybody even knows that women exist, apparently.
00:18:20.000That's why we need an International Women's Day.
00:18:32.000And in celebration of International Women's Day, the left had themselves just a day for the ages.
00:18:38.000It began with Dr. Jill Biden, the second female president of the United States after Edith Wilson, and the greatest doctor in America.
00:18:45.000She is, it goes again, in terms of great doctors in American history, it goes like Dr. J, Dr. Jill, Jonas Salk, And sometimes Anthony Fauci is at the very top, if you're on the left, because he's the greatest doctor.
00:19:22.000That is a man who identifies as a woman.
00:19:25.000He is the Special Envoy for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Argentina, and the country's first trans-identifying politician to hold a senior governmental position.
00:19:35.000According to the State Department, Daily Wire reports the award is meant for, quote, extraordinary women from around the world who are working to build a brighter future for all.
00:19:43.000Now, this is, in fact, an extraordinary woman.
00:19:46.000She's extra ordinary, by which I mean she is a he.
00:19:50.000Roida is a transgender activist and has long pushed woke politics in Argentina, which includes the Transgender Labor Quota Act, which would require 1% of all public sector jobs in the entire nation to be staffed by people who identify as transgender.
00:20:06.000That's going to go amazing in the firefighting industry.
00:20:09.000Roida also served as Argentina's Undersecretary for Diversity Policies in the Ministry of Women, Gender, and Diversity, as well as founding the group Argentina Trans Women.
00:20:18.000The diplomat has also campaigned to change the name of the National Women's Conference to the Plurinational Conference of Women and Lesbian, Cross-Dresser, Transsexual, Bisexual, Intersex, and Non-Binary Persons, which is rather unwieldy.
00:20:28.000I mean, I feel like that's a little long.
00:20:30.000I don't even know what the acronym there would be.
00:20:33.000There was a little bit of the award ceremony for a man.
00:20:37.000In Argentina, Alba Ruada is a transgender woman who was kicked out of classrooms, barred for sitting for exams, refused job opportunities, subjected to violence, and rejected by her family.
00:21:15.000It's International Women's Day, so we all must, like Kramer in Seinfeld, if you don't wear the International Women's Day ribbon, it's because you hate women.
00:21:24.000I'll get to the discussion on the view about international women in just one second because, again, the view is a repository of all stupidity in the universe apparently.
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00:22:35.000Okay, so in celebration of International Women's Day, The View kicked off International Women's Day by doing what they do best, attacking the Catholic Church.
00:22:42.000Yes, Whoopi Goldberg, when she is not declaring that Jews are white people, so when they're slaughtered by the Nazis, that's not actual racism.
00:23:48.000One thing that I will note here is that the same people who are decrying the Catholic Church and religion generally as repressive to women, they seem to ignore the fact that women are less happy now than they were in the 1970s.
00:24:02.000By all available polling data, women now, freer, more involved in the economy, more liberated, significantly less happy.
00:24:10.000Maybe it's because many of the traditional mores of society were quite good for women.
00:24:16.000And it turns out that women are still lagging.
00:24:18.000According to the Washington Post, quote, more women than ever are single.
00:24:40.000People who are single are significantly less happy than people who are married.
00:24:44.000And yet, we are a society that promotes singlehood, and denigrates marriage, and suggests that traditional institutions are bad, and suggests that women are essentially doing themselves a grave injustice if they have children at a young age.
00:24:56.000And instead, what they really should do is they should slave away at 2,200 billable hours a year as an associate at a law firm until they're about 40, beyond their prime, and then try IVF.
00:25:05.000And then really, that's what an international woman's all about, man, is turning women into basically androgynous.
00:25:11.000Androgynous caricatures of effeminate men.
00:25:36.000The fact of the matter is that married women are happier than single women.
00:25:39.000Women with kids generally are happier than women who don't have kids.
00:25:43.000And if you see the number of women who are now hitting the age beyond which they can normally get pregnant and looking around and saying, oh, I made some bad decisions over the course of the last 20 years, thanks to the feminist movement.
00:25:53.000Again, you guys turned yourself into, it's so funny, all the same people who celebrate International Women's Day and then decry on International Women's Day that women are being paid less in the workplace.
00:26:02.000Also hate the capitalist system that they are feeding, that they are feeding by essentially suggesting that all value ought to be measured in terms of a woman's economic power outside the home.
00:26:13.000According to the Washington Post, single women who are postponing marriage or foregoing it altogether are a growing economic force, accounting for a larger share of growth in the job market, home ownership, and college degrees, according to an analysis of federal data.
00:26:24.000But while decades of changing norms around marriage and work have empowered women to carve their own paths, a stubborn wage gap continues to keep many women, especially single mothers, from enjoying the same economic gains as single men and married couples.
00:26:46.000You undermine all the fundamental institutions of society.
00:26:47.000And on International Women's Day, you're deriding religion the way the view is.
00:26:51.000And then you wonder why people are having a rough time.
00:26:53.000But what is International Women's Day really about for the media?
00:26:56.000For the media, International Women's Day is about suggesting that women still are not being provided equality of rights in the United States.
00:27:03.000And so we have a bevy of left wing kind of aspects of this particular argument that made themselves present yesterday.
00:27:10.000We have an article in the New York Times called More Black Women Run for Office, but prospects fade the higher they go.
00:27:15.000By the way, that is true of literally everyone.
00:28:03.000That is essentially the platform of the Democratic Party at this point.
00:28:06.000You described that the price increases had a disproportionate effect on black, brown, and low-income families.
00:28:13.000How did the administration's actions and the ensuing drop in gas prices, how did it help those same families?
00:28:23.000While there are a number of factors that affect the price of oil, in an interview with Oxford, I believe, Dr. B. did concede that the Strategic use of SPR did have an impact.
00:28:34.000It's hard to quantify and hard to tell, but it definitely had an impact in the price of oil.
00:28:41.000But whenever we celebrate a day, remember, it's not about celebrating the day.
00:28:43.000It's about ripping the system because the system is mean to people, apparently.
00:28:48.000I do enjoy people like Cori Bush talking about economics when she knows nothing about economics.
00:28:51.000The best economic clip of the day yesterday actually came Courtesy of her fellow member of the squad and card-carrying anti-Semite Rashida Tlaib, the representative from Michigan.
00:29:01.000She was talking about the economy and she was trying to explain to the Federal Reserve chairman about how the economy works.
00:29:10.000Does that corporate profiteering does impact inflation?
00:29:13.000You don't have any stats of percentage wise, how much of it?
00:29:16.000Because you seem, you know, I played, I really paid attention to your testimony in the Senate.
00:29:22.000I don't know if the feds is paying closer attention to monopolies, copper, you know, corporate profiteering and executive egregious pay.
00:29:31.000All of it, even the side buybacks, you're saying all of that.
00:29:34.000Aside your focus more on wages and increasing the interest rate than on those other... Our focus is really on price stability, not so much wages.
00:29:44.000Wages play into that because they're an important cost for business, but we're not trying to achieve a particular level of wages.
00:30:31.000The solution to that problem is more cops.
00:30:33.000The solution to that problem is more policing.
00:30:35.000And yet the left is very much focused on the idea that if There is a problem that exists disproportionately in a minority community that can't be solved by, you know, stopping the problem.
00:30:45.000It can only be solved by dissolving the system in general and then blaming the system for the problem in the first place.
00:30:51.000This is something that has been taken up now by the Biden administration.
00:30:55.000There's a game that left-wing administrations like to play with police departments all over the United States.
00:31:00.000They say, what we'll do is we'll go and we'll investigate your police department.
00:31:02.000We'll look at all the problems your police department has had over the course of the last five years.
00:31:05.000You can do this with literally any police department because the truth is you can do this with pretty much any institution, any institution or business.
00:31:11.000If you put a microscope on it, it's going to look pretty ugly.
00:31:14.000There are all sorts of problems inside every institution, business, corporate, financial, media, police.
00:31:28.000So what left-wing administrations do is what they will do is they will go to a police department, a police department that has been tasked with policing a particularly violent area, for example, and then they will put a microscope on it.
00:31:39.000They will look at all of the problems that have existed there, and then they will cram down a consent decree that prevents policing from happening, and then the crime rates increase.
00:31:45.000This has happened consistently since 2014.
00:31:47.000Roland Fryer of Harvard, he did a study, and what he showed is that in areas that had high-profile police encounters with suspects, Michael Brown and Ferguson.
00:31:57.000What ended up happening after the federal scrutiny and after the national media scrutiny is the crime rates went up dramatically.
00:32:03.000Things got way worse for people in that area.
00:32:05.000Because again, if you put focus on the flaws of the system and then you try to dissolve the system, what you end up doing is dissolving the system.
00:32:11.000And in the aftermath of the system, things get way worse.
00:32:13.000Well, now the Justice Department is doing this in Louisville, Kentucky.
00:32:17.000So in the aftermath of the shooting of Breonna Taylor, And again, that was miscovered by the media because the media just picked up whatever the narrative was that was being spun out by Breonna Taylor's family and by people who were suing the Louisville Police Department.
00:32:32.000The real facts on the ground are in dispute, but the police officers, one of whom was shot and who actually wrote a book, four DW books, talking about what exactly happened that night.
00:32:39.000According to him, they did, in fact, knock.
00:32:47.000And unfortunately, Breonna Taylor was killed in the crossfire.
00:32:51.000That is not how the media portrayed that particular situation, but this served as sort of the point of the spear for the Justice Department.
00:32:56.000So now the Justice Department is doing a report on the Louisville Metro Police Department.
00:33:00.000And the New York Times, predictably, says investigators paint a grim portrait of the Louisville Metro Police Department detailing a variety of serious, at times shocking, misconduct.
00:33:07.000They included the use of excessive force, searches based on invalid and so-called no-knock warrants, unlawful car stops, detentions and harassment of people during street sweeps, and broad patterns of discrimination against black people and those with behavioral health problems.
00:33:19.000Now, again, typically when they say that there is a broad pattern of disproportionate behavior, they usually don't have the granular data necessary to actually suggest that the disparity equals discrimination.
00:33:30.000In other words, what they will say is more black people were stopped on the street than white people were stopped as a percentage of the population.
00:33:34.000That doesn't explain what the behavior was of everybody who was involved in those particular stops.
00:33:39.000It doesn't involve any of the factors that the police took into account.
00:33:42.000But assume for a second there was some bad behavior inside the Louisville Police Department, which it appears there was.
00:33:48.000Hey, does that mean that the solution is going to be a consent decree from the DOJ on the Louisville Police Department that hampers their ability to enforce the law?
00:33:54.000Because that's exactly what's going to happen next.
00:33:57.000Attorney General Merrick Garland, he is now suggesting that the Breonna Taylor police officers violated the Civil Rights Act.
00:34:02.000Again, this is all predicate to cracking down on police departments.
00:34:04.000And then the crime rates go up and they're like, we don't know why the crime rates are going up.
00:34:30.000Taylor's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when defendants Joshua Jaynes, Kyle Meany, and Kelly Goodlatte sought a warrant to search Ms.
00:34:38.000Taylor's home knowing that the officers lacked probable cause for the search.
00:34:45.000Okay, so again, the final outcome of this, put aside every specific allegation, assume all the specific allegations are true, and the police officers involved in any of these things should be prosecuted to the fullest measure of the law if they violated the law.
00:34:56.000The outcome of this is going to be a consent decree from the federal government on the Louisville Police Department that will end with a higher rate of crime.
00:35:23.000police chief said, you know what would be great is we could actually keep the crime down if we kept our criminals in jail.
00:35:28.000But the political forces have decided that it's inequitable to do so.
00:35:32.000What we got to do, if we really want to see homicides go down, is keep bad guys with guns in jail.
00:35:37.000Because when they're in jail, they can't be in communities shooting people.
00:35:41.000So when people talk about what we're going to do different, or what we should do different, what we need to do different, that's the thing that we need to do different.
00:35:47.000We need to keep violent people in jail.
00:35:50.000Right now, the average homicide suspect, the average homicide suspect, has been arrested 11 times prior to them committing a homicide.
00:36:05.000And if you're voting Democrat and you're in a major city, maybe you should consider the fact that the reason that your life is not better is because of political people who are attempting to, quote unquote, tear down the very systems that are designed to protect you, even if those systems are abused by some of the people in power, because all authority is eventually abused by someone.
00:36:21.000In just a second, we're going to get to the abuse of authority by Joe Biden with regard to his presiding over documents.
00:36:28.000More documents discovered on Joe Biden.
00:36:37.000If your business has five or more employees and managed to survive COVID, you could be eligible to receive a payroll tax rebate of up to $26,000 per employee.
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00:37:24.000It's a payroll tax refund only available for a limited amount of time.
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00:38:03.000Meanwhile, we have some bad news for Joe Biden, who is the husband of the President of the United States.
00:38:08.000If you recall him, he's the old man that they sometimes trot out and he tries not to stumble and then he occasionally does stumble.
00:38:13.000By the way, our entire geriatric class is, in fact, quite old.
00:38:16.000Mitch McConnell is now in the hospital after having tripped and fallen.
00:38:20.000That is because literally everyone in a leadership position in our nation is above the age of 75, which does not speak well of the future of the country, I would say.
00:38:28.000In any case, the Washington Free Beacon reports that the National Archives in November retrieved nine boxes of documents from the Boston office of Joe Biden's lawyer.
00:38:37.000The National Archives has not yet reviewed the documents to determine whether there is any classified material in them, but they did in fact go and pick up a bunch of documents from Joe Biden's lawyer.
00:38:44.000So once again, Captain, it's irresponsible to keep classified documents anywhere in your orbit.
00:38:50.000There are more boxes of documents that the National Archives is now going through.
00:38:53.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden remains under fire over the fact that drug cartels essentially control large swaths of the territory surrounding our southern border.
00:39:00.000According to The Hill, the kidnapping in Mexico this week of four U.S.
00:39:04.000has renewed the focus on the politically charged issue of southern border security and prompted calls from some lawmakers for the Biden administration to more seriously crack down on the cartels.
00:39:12.000Biden administration officials called the killings unacceptable, potentially escalating tensions around the already fraught issues of border security and U.S.-Mexico relations as authorities work to learn more about the circumstances of that particular incident.
00:39:23.000John Kirby tutted this a little bit earlier this week.
00:39:28.000We're going to work closely with the Mexican government to make sure justice is done in this particular case.
00:39:33.000Now, there are other Republicans who are suggesting that, you know what, if you can't protect Americans, if the Mexican government can't do it, then the U.S.
00:39:42.000Lindsey Graham, senator from South Carolina, he says that the U.S.
00:39:44.000should actually label the drug cartels international terrorist organizations, which would allow us to help cut off more of their money, presumably.
00:40:17.000So we need to take a different approach.
00:40:19.000Let's call these drug cartels terrorists, because they're terrorizing America, and go after them with a different model.
00:40:25.000Okay, presumably that different model would involve a few Hellfire missiles, a few well-placed Hellfire missiles.
00:40:31.000That's something that Senator Tom Cotton from Arkansas is also recommending, which is, you know, if we know where the drug cartels are, we know who their heads are, and they keep victimizing Americans and sending, you know, tons of fentanyl over the border to kill Americans, then perhaps we should just, you know, kill them.
00:40:45.000If ISIS and Al-Qaeda had set up shop in Juarez or Monterey or Tijuana, what would you expect your government to do if they were killing 100,000 Americans a year?
00:40:54.000And whatever that is, that's exactly what we should do to them in Mexico, with or without the Mexican government.
00:41:02.000We have a long history of our military protecting us from these threats from drug traffickers and narco-terrorists.
00:41:08.000It's well known they were present A few years back when El Chapo was arrested in Mexico.
00:41:13.000If the Mexican government will not or cannot stop these cartels from killing hundreds of thousands of Americans, then America should.
00:41:26.000The fact of the matter is that Mexico is on the verge of being, if it is not already, a failed state.
00:41:31.000And if they can't control what's happening at our border, we have to control what's happening at our border.
00:41:35.000Meanwhile, the FBI director, Chris Wray, even he is admitting the federal government can't even keep tabs on the illegal immigrants who are entering the country right now.
00:41:40.000That basically, once we let them free, they just disappear into the interior.
00:41:44.000We're not able to keep tabs on every single person who comes in, certainly.
00:41:47.000We have all sorts of investigations into certain people who get in and we try to work very hard on both sides of the border to prevent, to support DHS's efforts and to some extent our neighbors south of the border from preventing them from coming in.
00:42:04.000Again, one of the great aspects of modern society is that the quote-unquote experts are given extraordinary authority over our lives to protect us, and then they do an unbelievably crappy job doing so.
00:42:15.000It turns out that what government typically is pretty good at is taking your money and also killing people and breaking things.
00:42:39.000It was a House panel charged with investigating the origins of the pandemic.
00:42:42.000The New York Times reported that the former director of the CDC accused top federal health officials of excluding him from discussions in early 2020 about whether COVID was the result of a lab leak.
00:42:51.000This would be CDC director, former CDC director Robert Redfield.
00:42:54.000You will recognize him from your TV during the pandemic.
00:42:57.000And Robert Redfield says fully out, yeah, absolutely, tax dollars funded gain-of-function research, an assertion that, of course, Anthony Fauci had openly denied in testimony with Rand Paul.
00:43:08.000Dr. Fauci was affirmatively told in an email that NIAID had a monetary relationship with the Wuhan Institute through EcoHealth Alliance.
00:43:19.000He was told this in January 27th of 2020.
00:43:22.000Do you think that Dr. Fauci intentionally lied under oath to Senator Paul when he vehemently denied NIH's funding of gain-of-function research?
00:43:30.000I think there's no doubt that NIH was funding gain-of-function research.
00:43:33.000Is it likely that American tax dollars funded the gain-of-function research that created this virus?
00:43:38.000I think it did, not only from NIH, but from the State Department, USAID, and from DOD.
00:43:44.000Okay, that is an extraordinary contention by Dr. Redfield.
00:43:46.000It's not going to receive virtually any mainstream television coverage because, again, what he is now asserting is that gain-of-function research funded by the NIH under the auspices of Dr. Anthony Fauci was sending money via EcoHealth Alliance, which of course has long been suspected, sending money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for gain-of-function research and that kind of gain-of-function research, as Dr. Rand Paul suggested, from the floor of the Senate, which Dr. Anthony Fauci denied.
00:44:10.000He's now saying that he thinks that Fauci perjured himself because he was under oath.
00:44:14.000That essentially that money was used to develop gain-of-function research that ended with COVID escaping a lab and killing 7 million people.
00:44:22.000That is what Redfield, again, the former CDC head who was in the government at the same time, he also asserted, did Redfield, in this kind of amazing story as well, that On February 1st, it was pretty clear that the lab leak theory was not crazy.
00:44:35.000By February 4th, a strategy had been formulated by Fauci and others, including a couple of scientists, to trot out papers suggesting the lab leak theory was totally crazy and that he had been cut out of all of those phone calls.
00:44:49.000He said that he was cut out of those phone calls.
00:44:50.000He doesn't know why he was cut out of those phone calls.
00:44:52.000He is not aware of any information that would have made the lab leak crazy between like February 1st and February 4th of 2020.
00:44:59.000Redfield said that he did not find out about the call until much later, when those emails became public.
00:45:04.000Those would be emails between Fauci and other scientists, including Francis Collins, who led the NIH.
00:45:10.000Again, there was a call with various scientists who had suggested that lab leak leakage was actually the problem here.
00:45:16.000The messages do not refer to or name Redfield.
00:45:18.000He told lawmakers when he learned of them, he concluded Fauci and Collins had intentionally excluded him because he believed in the lab leak theory.
00:45:24.000He said, I was told, it was told to me they wanted a single narrative.
00:45:27.000And I had an obviously different point of view.
00:45:29.000Here is Redfield saying the public health officials packaged the message so that it said what they wanted it to say.
00:45:37.000When you don't tell the truth, you've got a problem.
00:45:40.000And I think if you go back, there were many times when public health officials packaged the message to what they wanted to say, but it wasn't necessarily truthful.
00:45:49.000The second thing, you have to have the courage when you're a public health official to say, I don't know, when you don't know.
00:46:08.000Dr. Fauci held a phone call with other scientists in order to discard the LabLeak theory entirely.
00:46:13.000I mean, he is now opening the door wide, is Redfield, to the possibility of what, again, Dr. Paul, Senator Paul, had suggested, which is a perjury charge against Anthony Fauci.
00:46:23.000And man, would that be an extraordinary event in American political life.
00:46:28.000And frankly, there should be consequences to lying to the American people or attempting to cover your ass while you've been the highest paid employee at the federal government for years and years and years, as Dr. Anthony Fauci apparently was.
00:46:37.000Joe Biden is planning to lay out his budget blueprint today.
00:46:40.000He's going to recommend funding levels for programs across the federal government.
00:46:44.000Of course, the budget is not going to be passed this way, but his proposed budget is extraordinarily large, of course.
00:46:50.000He keeps saying that he's reducing the deficit, which, as I've said before, is the stupidest crap ever.
00:46:54.000Basically, what he is saying is that because the deficit ran to the highest levels in recorded history in 2020, And then it was slightly lower than that in 2021.
00:47:02.000And he's lowered the deficit in 2022 and 2023 by spending heretofore unheard of amounts of money.
00:47:06.000The budget request apparently is $5.8 trillion.
00:47:09.000I remember when a $4 trillion budget was considered extraordinarily big.
00:47:13.000Now we're talking about a budget 50% larger than that.
00:47:17.000According to the Wall Street Journal, most of the money the federal government spends in a year is already mandatory.
00:47:23.000Some is made up of interest payments on the federal debt.
00:47:25.000That's gotten a lot more costly because, of course, the interest rates have been rising.
00:47:28.000One of the things that is pushed in favor of lower interest rates by the Federal Reserve has been the idea that when we take out debt, we want to pay back that debt at 2%.
00:47:35.000So every time those interest rates increase, the federal government is going to tax you to pay for that, is pretty much the way that that goes, or borrow to pay off its other bills.
00:47:47.000Well, apparently he says he wants to lower the deficit by $2 trillion over 10 years and extend the solvency of the Medicare trust fund by at least two decades.
00:47:55.000He said he's going to do that without cutting Social Security or Medicare, and he's going to raise taxes on Americans who are rich.
00:48:02.000I'm just going to tell you right now, it's not going to do it.
00:48:04.000It's not going to outpace the spending.
00:48:05.000Also, the taxes that he is talking about relieving Make no sense.
00:48:09.000He is talking right now about essentially ending pass-through corporations.
00:48:13.000Pass-through corporations are where you have an LLC, the money flows to the LLC, but you're essentially the only employee of the LLC, and then you pay income tax on the money that you receive from the LLC.
00:48:24.000Very, very common form of legal formation.
00:48:27.000It's designed in order to sort of regularize accounting procedures and put profits and losses in the LLC before you're paid.
00:48:32.000But that's a pass-through LLC, so the LLC doesn't pay the corporate income tax.
00:48:35.000He wants you to pay the corporate income tax at an income tax rate.
00:48:39.000at the LLC and then apparently pay the income tax again when you get it from your LLC.
00:48:45.000So you're getting double taxed is essentially his proposal.
00:48:53.000But again, it shows you what Joe Biden wants.
00:48:55.000More taxing, more spending, always and forever.
00:48:58.000The good news, according to Karine Jean-Pierre, world's most untalented press secretary, is that his policies are fiscally responsible.
00:49:03.000By fiscally responsible, she means responsible like a raging alcoholic downing three bottles of vodka and then driving a car 100 miles an hour through a school zone in the middle of broad daylight.
00:49:16.000He's now kind of making budget deficit reduction a cornerstone of his policy.
00:49:21.000Why did this become more of a priority, and what does he think this does for everyday Americans?
00:49:26.000So as you just kind of alluded to and laid out, this has been a priority from the President when we talk about deficit reduction, when we talk about being fiscally responsible.
00:49:37.000This is something that the President has talked about since the campaign.
00:49:40.000And you hear me, just as I did moments ago, talk about the $1.7 trillion deficit that he did the first two years.
00:49:46.000And it was important to the president as he's going to put forward his budget tomorrow.
00:49:51.000And as you've probably heard us say, we see this as a value statement on what the president sees in the future of this country.
00:49:58.000And so he wanted to make sure it was fiscally responsible.
00:50:31.000And then he gets just enormous amounts of crap for giving a lot of charity.
00:50:36.000When I say he's successful on YouTube, I mean he has 137 million subscribers on YouTube.
00:50:42.000And he puts out videos like, I Survived 50 Hours in Antarctica, or Hydraulic Press vs. Lamborghini.
00:50:50.000These are some of his recently uploaded videos.
00:50:53.000He puts out maybe one a month, and these videos are very highly produced, extraordinarily well done, And then he gives a lot of charity.
00:51:03.000So a month ago, for example, he gave money via his charity so that a thousand blind people could have surgeries that would allow them to see for the first time.
00:51:12.000And then he just did another video in which he offered shoes to kids who had never had shoes in South Africa.
00:51:21.000For hundreds of thousands of kids in South Africa, the only thing standing between them and an education is a simple pair of shoes.
00:51:30.000But before tackling this major problem by donating 20,000 pairs of shoes, we flew to Johannesburg, South Africa, where we found a charity called Barefoot No More that uses these plastic granules and then it goes through all these tubes and does a bunch of other complicated mechanical stuff that eventually creates the perfect seamless shoe.
00:52:28.000Well, the real problem is, according to a lot of the people who do not like Mr. Beast and they do not like his charitable giving, that your obligation is not to actually do good in the world.
00:52:37.000Your obligation is to fight the evil capitalist system.
00:52:41.000Fight the evil, terrible, no good, very bad capitalist system that has raised literally more than half, like 80% of the world from abject poverty.
00:52:50.000So one rather famous tweet about Mr. Beast from September of 2020 reads, quote, every heartwarming human interest story in America is like he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan crushing machine and then never asks why an orphan crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used.
00:53:07.000Unless you're fighting the system, private charity is not only a waste of time, it's actually bad because it incentivizes a continuation of the system.
00:53:13.000Now, this is nothing new in terms of left wing philosophy.
00:53:16.000Bernie Sanders, back in 1981, ripped into private charity.
00:53:19.000Here's what he said, quote, I don't believe in charities.
00:54:11.000Meanwhile, here's a thing that I like.
00:54:13.000So another thing that I like here is Ron DeSantis, again, the way that he's handling the media right now is really, really good.
00:54:18.000So the media have lied about him already.
00:54:21.000They've already turned him into a combo of Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and they have decided That he's done a bunch of things he hasn't actually done.
00:54:29.000So the headline, for example, at Matt Drudge's Drudge Report, and Drudge has become sort of a left-wing tool in a wide variety of ways.
00:54:37.000His headline right now, it's a picture of DeSantis, and the headline is, DeSantis runs from Florida blogger bill.
00:54:43.000DeSantis runs from Florida blogger bill.
00:54:49.000So what the media did is one dumb state senator in Florida proposed a bill to get bloggers who were paid by interest groups to register with the government.
00:55:30.000Amazing this has been true in the United States for a very long time.
00:55:32.000What Ron DeSantis is saying is you should not have porn in school libraries, which seems fairly straightforward.
00:55:38.000Now, here's where we get to the part I like.
00:55:41.000Ron DeSantis did a presser yesterday in which he showed a video.
00:55:44.000The video that he showed was of the books that were in the school libraries and what exactly those books said.
00:55:50.000The books are so obscene that the networks were broadcasting had to tune away.
00:55:54.000So in other words, their argument is your seven year old should be able to access these books, but you as an adult should not be able to see what is in the school library on CNN because it's too obscene for you.
00:56:04.000There's a little bit of Ron DeSantis press conference yesterday.
00:56:08.000I didn't have to view what you just viewed, so I'm glad I didn't, but I think that we need to have truth prevail, and so today we're going to be exposing, we've already exposed with that video, I think, this idea of a book ban in Florida, that somehow they don't want books in the library.
00:56:56.000I have to say that the parenting strategy by which you completely destroy your children, you usher them into chaos and confusion, sexual confusion, confusion about the realities of life, and then you exhibit them for the entire public to see is sick.
00:57:26.000Again, their whole thing is that children should have privacy except, and we are taking our son, our 15-year-old son, and saying that he is a girl.
00:57:34.000And then, we should exhibit this 15-year-old minor on a catwalk debut at Paris Fashion Week.
00:57:45.000And if there were a textbook and it said terrible parenting, pictures of Dwayne Wade and Gabrielle Union would appear apparently in that textbook.
00:57:51.000How you would take a 15 year old, of any persuasion by the way, and exhibit that person on a Paris Fashion Week stage while they were suffering any sort of issue that caused them pain or confusion, I don't know why you would do that.
00:58:01.000Especially when you're talking about something as deep and abiding, as a belief that you're a member, the why, that you're a member of the opposite sex.
00:58:08.000And then you exhibit this for your own glorification because look what a wonderful parent I am because I'm so tolerant, I'm so diverse that I can take my son, dress him up as a girl, usher him into hormone therapy and presumably genital mutilating surgery.
00:58:18.000And then as a minor, 15 years old, who's been identifying this way since 12, 12-year-olds don't make any decisions in our society because 12-year-olds are not capable of making decisions in our society.
00:58:27.000We'll do this and then we'll glorify ourselves by putting this boy in girls' clothing and in girls' makeup on a stage at Paris Fashion Week.
00:58:37.000I mean, I'm sorry, this is child cruelty.
00:58:44.000That is Dwayne Wade with his son who is dressed as a girl.
00:59:05.000Zaya's birth mother, Siobhan Fletches Wade, was not in attendance, according to the Daily Mail, after she launched a petition to stop her trans child from legally changing her name and gender, and claimed the child was being pressured financially to make the decision.
00:59:16.000That petition failed after Wade argued in court he had full authority to make decisions on behalf of Zaya.
00:59:22.000On Tuesday, the NBA star and his wife, Union, beamed with pride as they watched Zaya make her catwalk debut.
00:59:30.000Again, Zaya is a boy who is 15 years old and is now being trotted out in public.
00:59:39.000And, um, you know, you can such heroism, such unbelievable parenting heroism, which is really all about attention getting on on the part of these parents.
00:59:50.000Meanwhile, One more thing that I hate.
00:59:53.000So I know that we've all forgotten about the time that Joe Biden decided to stab every Afghan ally in the back by pulling out of Afghanistan so precipitously that the government fell to the Taliban, and then essentially handing over the city of Kabul to terrorists, and then not providing any of the resources necessary for our military to evacuate the people we needed to evacuate, leaving hundreds, if not thousands of Americans behind, and getting 13 American service members killed in the process.
01:00:16.000Now, it really destroyed Biden's approval rating at the time, but I know that we have a short memory.
01:00:20.000And so people prefer to forget about these things.
01:00:23.000It was one of the worst things, if not the worst thing I've ever seen a president of the United States do.
01:00:27.000And yesterday, there was testimony from a U.S.
01:01:18.000About 1730, Staff Sergeant Darren Hoover, friend and mentor, came to get me from the tower to go help find an Afghan interpreter in the crowd.
01:01:33.000I stayed there waiting for the family members standing against a two-foot canal wall.
01:02:33.000It is by far the single worst thing that he has done.
01:02:36.000And the fact that you now have Marines who, again, where were the hearings when Democrats were in charge of Congress?
01:02:40.000I mean, I was under the impression that everybody was pro-military.
01:02:43.000So where were the hearings when it came to why 13 American service members were murdered by a suicide bomber in the middle of a supposedly well-planned pullout by the Biden administration?
01:02:54.000Why that's not at the top of the national news, even now, is beyond me.