Tucker Carlson has now broken his silence, saying that he would be back sometime in the near future. And yesterday, he explained that he was, in fact, back. He will be launching a version of his show, he says, on Twitter, but it's not clear exactly what that will look like, or what it means for the future of Tucker's show on the social media platform. Alex Blumberg and Peter Bergen discuss why this is a good thing, and what it could mean for Tucker's future on other media outlets, including Fox News and the other cable news networks that have been rumored to be interested in taking him on as a guest host. They also discuss why it would be a good idea for Tucker to go on the air on other networks, and why it's a bad idea for him to be on the other shows he's been linked to, like MSNBC, CNN, CBS, NPR, and the New York Times, among other outlets. And they talk about why it makes sense for him not to return to Fox News, and how it could affect his chances of landing a new job at another network that pays him the same amount he was getting at Fox News. Music: "Good Morning America" by Haley Shaw, "American Morning" by The Cut, "Goodbye Outer Space" by Fountains of Wayne State University, "The Good Morning Show" by John Singleton, "Incomptech" by Sarah Downey, "Outrageous" by David Axelrod, and "Outro Music: by Ian Dorsch, "No Country" by Jeff Perrin (feat. by Suneaters, "I Don't Know What" by Kevin Spacey, "How I'll Figure It Out" by Jingle Bells, by John Mayer, "Solo" by D'Andruv "I'm Not a Badass" by Ian McKinnon, "This Is My Name" by Scott Holmes, "Blame It On You" by James Rocha, "Let's Talk About It" by Robert Downey Jr., on SoundCloud, and . in the new album art by Ian McElton John's "I'll See You Soon" by , is out! -- -- and we'll be back with a new song written and performed live on the next episode of the new ep. -- by The Good Morning America?
00:00:43.000And yet for the most part, the news that you see analyzed on Twitter comes from media organizations that are themselves thinly disguised propaganda outlets.
00:00:52.000You see it on cable news, you talk about it on Twitter.
00:00:55.000The result may feel like a debate, but actually the gatekeepers are still in charge.
00:01:23.000And so it is not perfectly clear at this point exactly what Tucker's show on Twitter will look like.
00:01:28.000What is clear is that there's been no financial arrangement between Tucker and Elon Musk.
00:01:32.000That was the early speculation as soon as this video came out.
00:01:34.000There have been rumors in the air that Tucker was working some sort of deal with Elon in order to take his show to Twitter and that Twitter was going to be launching essentially its own sort of show network, video podcast network.
00:01:45.000And all of the rest, it was unclear exactly how that would monetize.
00:01:48.000Would you pay a subscription fee in order to be able to see a show like Tucker's?
00:01:51.000Would Tucker be directly getting advertising dollars or whatever the deal is?
00:01:55.000None of that has been cleared up, especially because Musk actually put out a statement in which he pretty much openly dissociated from the show that Tucker is doing, at least he didn't say it's bad that he's putting it up or anything, but he did say, I'm not putting money behind it.
00:02:08.000He suggested, he put out a tweet saying that there is no actual deal Between him and Tucker and on this platform, unlike the one-way street of broadcast, people are able to interact, critique, and refute whatever he or anyone else may say.
00:02:24.000We have not signed a deal of any kind whatsoever.
00:02:26.000Tucker is subject to the same rules and rewards as all content creators.
00:02:30.000And then he added those rewards would be subscriptions and advertising revenue shares.
00:02:33.000So apparently there'll be some sort of substack model, I guess, via Twitter, in which you'll be able to directly contribute to people like Tucker if you enjoy their show via Twitter.
00:02:40.000He said, I hope that many others, particularly from the left, also choose to be content creators on this platform.
00:02:46.000So, the early speculation, which is that Musk would have been paying some sort of cash bounty, some sort of salary, to Tucker appears not to be the case at this point.
00:02:53.000What is clear is that Tucker is going to be bringing some version of his show back to Twitter.
00:02:58.000So he's not going to be absent from the public debate for 12 or 18 months, as the length of his contract at Fox News would suggest.
00:03:03.000Now, remember, the early news when Fox News parted with Tucker is that this would have made Tucker free as a bird, but that's not how these contracts work.
00:03:09.000Tucker, presumably, is still bound by contract.
00:03:12.000They can continue to pay him and just take him off the air.
00:03:15.000This is very common in the media industry, is that you are able to pay somebody and then basically pay them to stay home.
00:03:21.000Fox has an interest, presumably, in doing that because they don't want Tucker going somewhere else and bad-mouthing them.
00:03:26.000So how exactly is he able to go on Twitter and do that?
00:03:28.000Because pretty much by implicit association, that's what he's doing there.
00:03:33.000When he says there are a lot of media outlets that'll just fire you for saying the truth, you have to assume he means the people who just fired him for, in his mind, telling the truth.
00:03:43.000My suspicion is that Tucker's contract is very onerous with regard to the other cable networks that he could go to, the other kinds of shows that he could start, any sort of competitive service with, say, Fox Nation.
00:03:54.000Because, again, this is how lawyers draw contracts.
00:03:57.000If you have a big personality like Tucker, and if you let Tucker go, either because you want to or because you have to, what you don't want is Tucker going into direct competition with you until you pay him to stay home.
00:04:06.000However, I'm assuming that there is one area of Tucker's sort of public life that is unbound, and that presumably would be Twitter.
00:04:14.000And that's, again, very, very common, because most personalities wish to keep their Twitter personas separate from their business relationships.
00:04:21.000Here at Daily Wire, for example, we don't control Matt Walsh's Twitter feed.
00:04:24.000We don't control Candace Owens' Twitter feed.
00:04:26.000Daily Wire does not control my Twitter feed.
00:04:28.000These are all things where we are saying exactly what we think and what we want.
00:04:31.000I assume that Tucker's personal Twitter feed is the same sort of thing, that he retains rights to his personal Twitter feed, and so he felt comfortable putting this out on his personal Twitter feed.
00:04:39.000Now, theoretically, it could violate his contract if the contract extends to virtually all video content, but clearly it doesn't extend to all video content.
00:04:47.000It might be only extending to video content on channels to which Fox News has rights, or its direct competitors.
00:04:53.000And so if Tucker is not considered a direct competitor, then theoretically this could free him from his contract, and this would be why he's launching a show on Twitter.
00:05:00.000Now, I would assume this is the first step in Tucker's comeback.
00:05:03.000I really doubt that this is the last step.
00:05:04.000He's going to be battling out in the courts with Fox to free himself, I would assume, from the other provisions of his contract, which is why he has now issued a letter, according to Axios, an aggressive letter, from his lawyer to Fox.
00:05:16.000That letter essentially argues that Carlson can now breach his contract because he's accusing Fox of having breached its contract.
00:05:25.000Carlson's contract, according to Axios, currently runs until January of 2025.
00:05:29.000Fox wants to keep paying him, which would prevent him from starting a competing show.
00:05:33.000And of course, there are many outlets that have reached out to Tucker.
00:06:17.000The letter alleges that Fox broke an agreement with Carlson not to leak his private communications to the media and not to use Carlson's private messages to take any adverse employment action against him.
00:06:26.000Now, it is certainly possible that Fox executives were leaked.
00:06:32.000And it was an assumption made by Megyn Kelly, who used to work at Fox News, right?
00:06:34.000She actually mentioned Irina Briganti, who is sort of the head of comms over at Fox, she mentioned her saying that when she left for NBC Daytime, when she did that, she believed that Irina Briganti was the one who was releasing information on her, so she was assuming that that was the same thing that was happening here, that a lot of these leaks about Tucker, you know, the white supremacy leak, or the leak in which she suggested that white people don't fight this way, that that was actually coming from Fox in order to smear Tucker while he was still under contract, and now Tucker is claiming that's exactly what happened.
00:07:04.000This, I assume, is also why Fox sent a letter to Media Matters, which has been the source of many of these leaks in terms of distributing them.
00:07:11.000Fox sent a letter to Media Matters telling them to stop doing that.
00:07:13.000I assume that was a piece of legalese intended to say, it's not us.
00:07:17.000We're not the ones who are doing the leaking.
00:07:19.000So it doesn't look as though they are violating their contract with Tucker.
00:07:23.000Also, the letter alleges that Fox broke promises not to settle with Dominion Voting Systems in a way that would indicate wrongdoing on Tucker's part.
00:07:31.000And now they're claiming that a member of the board said that Tucker had been fired because of the Dominion voting system's settlement.
00:07:50.000But it's possible that Fox looked at that settlement, an $800 million settlement, and they said, we don't want anybody who presents legal risk to us.
00:07:56.000And Tucker is very often walking the line.
00:07:59.000We don't want that legal risk, and so we're getting rid of Tucker.
00:08:02.000And so, theoretically, it could be sort of tangentially related to the Dominion voting system's fallout.
00:08:07.000They could legally do that, but they can't say it.
00:08:09.000If they say that we did this as part of the Dominion voting system settlement or as fallout from Dominion voting systems, could that theoretically be read as a breach of a promise that they would not harm Carlson's reputation over the Dominion voting system's claim and settlement?
00:08:25.000It's a letter from Tucker's lawyer says, So we'll get to more on this in just one second.
00:08:27.000the covenants of good faith and fair dealing in the agreement.
00:08:29.000They give rise to claims for breach of contract and intentional and negligent misrepresentation.
00:08:34.000A Fox News spokesperson then came out and said it is categorically false that Carlson
00:08:37.000lost his job as part of the $787.5 million settlement.
00:08:42.000So we'll get to more on this in just one second.
00:08:44.000First, you know, all of this stuff is very confusing.
00:09:43.000Again, Pure Talk, wireless for Americans by Americans.
00:09:47.000Okay, so back to this conflict between Tucker Carlson and Fox News.
00:09:52.000And this is going to decide the future of whether Tucker can go to, say, Newsmax or go to, say, Daily Wire or go to any place else and launch a competitive show.
00:10:00.000Again, Tucker's lawyers are trying to argue that Fox breached its agreement with Tucker, and this now frees Tucker to do whatever he wants.
00:10:05.000Carlson is claiming that Irene Briganti, Fox's longtime communications and PR chief, attempted to, quote, undermine, embarrass, and interfere with Carlson's future business prospects, which he maintains would constitute another breach of his employment contract.
00:10:17.000The letter says, make no mistake, we intend to subpoena Ms.
00:10:19.000Briganti's cell phone records and related documents, which evidence communications with her and all media, including, but not limited to, the New York Times.
00:10:26.000Now, again, the cell phone records are not really gonna demonstrate anything, I would assume.
00:10:30.000Briganti is the head of communications at Fox News.
00:10:31.000I assume she speaks with people at the New York Times.
00:10:33.000The real question is gonna be written communications.
00:10:35.000Which, by the way, as a lawyer, I will now be my audience's legal advisor.
00:10:52.000Because things that are said orally are then not permanently memorialized.
00:10:57.000Okay, but I assume that Irene Breganti knows this, presumably if she was leaking this stuff
00:11:01.000to the New York Times, there probably won't be any record of it,
00:11:04.000but they're claiming that she wasn't leaking this stuff to the, again, Megyn Kelly, with whom I'm friends,
00:11:07.000she says that it's pretty frequent practice for Irene Breganti to do exactly that.
00:11:11.000I don't know the truth on that, but that is the controversy.
00:11:14.000Carlson's lawyers add that because Carlson is considering litigation against the network
00:11:17.000to resolve these disputes, Fox News must take all immediate steps
00:11:20.000to preserve all existing documents and data relevant to Fox's relationship with Carlson,
00:11:23.000including correspondents between top executives and several media outlets.
00:11:26.000Now, it is quite possible that all of this is designed by Carlson's lawyers, by Tucker's lawyers, in order to pressure Fox to just release him from the contract.
00:11:33.000In other words, all this goes away If you guys just release him from the contract and let him fly like a butterfly wherever he wants to go.
00:11:40.000And Fox, which is a very large company, will have to decide, do they wish to continue to litigate this thing out with Tucker in order to preserve Fox News from competition in which Tucker goes to another network?
00:11:50.000Just on a business level, you see exactly why Fox News would do this.
00:11:54.000The audience in prime time on Fox has dropped by 50% since Fox left the network, since Tucker left the network,
00:12:00.000because Tucker, again, is very talented at what he does.
00:12:02.000Now, I assume that Fox's long-term plan is you rebuild the audience.
00:12:05.000They also had significant audience drop off, and it took like several years for them to rebuild it,
00:12:09.000even with Tucker, after they got rid of Bill O'Reilly.
00:12:12.000Bill O'Reilly dropped, they lost like half their audience, it took them a couple of years, they rebuilt the audience.
00:12:17.000And one of the things that Fox is saying is that their ad dollars are now coming back
00:12:21.000because there were a lot of advertisers who were afraid of Tucker, which again,
00:12:24.000is part of the problem for a company like Fox News that is a major publicly traded corporation.
00:12:29.000If you're a publicly traded corporation, one of the things you have to do is maximize shareholder value.
00:12:33.000If you're Daily Wire and an advertiser decides that they are going to boycott you, they don't like you because of something one of your hosts says, we launch like Jeremy's chocolates and Jeremy's razors in order to fight people.
00:12:43.000Fox isn't doing any of that sort of stuff.
00:12:45.000So the fact that advertisers have dropped off Tucker's program and that now some of those advertisers feel safer coming back in, they're saying, we're not actually losing money on this thing.
00:12:54.000So we're perfectly happy to prevent Tucker from going elsewhere and presumably drawing people away from Fox Nation, shifting their subscriptions over from Fox Nation somewhere else.
00:13:02.000So the real question for Tucker now is whether what he is doing online, just restricted to Twitter, Makes him as prominent in the culture as it otherwise would.
00:13:12.000I mean, he was, again, one of the biggest, if not the biggest voice in sort of conservative media because of that 8 p.m.
00:13:20.000slot on Fox News, does he have the same sort of impact?
00:13:23.000Now, Tucker, his videos on Twitter are getting extraordinary numbers of views.
00:13:26.000I mean, you're talking about 12, 15, 20, in some cases 40 million views on the last couple of videos.
00:13:32.000Is that something that's going to maintain?
00:13:33.000Is it going to play the same way online that it plays in terrestrial media?
00:13:37.000And the fact is, a lot of the Fox News viewers are not people who are on Twitter.
00:13:40.000Only 2% of the population of the United States is regularly on Twitter.
00:13:43.000When it comes to Fox News, there's not a huge crossover between the Fox News audience, which is disproportionately elderly, and the Twitter audience, which is disproportionately younger.
00:13:51.000This doesn't mean that Tucker isn't going to have outsized impact.
00:13:53.000He definitely will, but that impact is going to change over time.
00:13:55.000That's probably what Fox News is counting on.
00:13:57.000It's all pretty fascinating, but suffice it to say, Tucker is not going to go completely absent in the debate, and he's not going to allow himself to go completely absent in the debate over the course of the next couple of years.
00:14:07.000This was just the first shot, so anybody who thinks this is like the end of Tucker's relaunch, that is incorrect.
00:14:12.000It is not the end of Tucker's relaunch, but also, this is not a cooperative venture between Tucker and Elon Musk.
00:14:18.000Which means, again, that there are going to be other shoes to drop here.
00:14:20.000This is not like the final stage of Tucker's redevelopment deal.
00:14:35.000They say, right-wing extremist Tucker Carlson announced Tuesday he will relaunch his program on Twitter, which he praised as the only remaining large free speech platform in the world after Fox News fired him late last month.
00:14:46.000So again, they call him a right-wing extremist because this is what CNN does.
00:14:48.000This is Oliver Darcy reporting over at CNN.
00:14:51.000This presumably is one of the reasons why Tucker is so popular.
00:14:53.000It's because the media insists on going overboard on literally all the things.
00:14:58.000Worth noting here that CNN, which supposedly hates the right-wing extremists, and they really, really hate Donald, like really hate Donald Trump, they'll be hosting Donald Trump for a town hall style event tonight.
00:15:08.000So, for all these people, we cannot give a voice to the right-wing extremists, particularly Trump and the MAGA-ULTRAMAGA movement.
00:15:14.000Also tonight, on our network, for ratings and money, we present Donald Trump in conversation.
00:16:31.000Meanwhile, a jury in New York has now found President Trump in Not guilty, because it is a civil trial, but they have now found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation in the E. Jean Carroll case.
00:16:45.000Now, we've not followed this case particularly closely, because I'll be frank with you, I don't find E. Jean Carroll to be a credible witness.
00:16:51.000I think that she, her testimony, she's a very flighty, strange person.
00:16:56.000She makes Christine Blasey Ford, the lady who testified against Justice Kavanaugh during his judicial hearings, she makes Christine Blasey Ford look as sober as a judge.
00:17:05.000She makes her look incredibly credible.
00:17:07.000E. Jean Carroll made the allegation that sometime, sometime in 1996, sometime, like in the entire year, Donald Trump took her into a room at Bergdorf Goodman, a fitting room, and then raped her.
00:17:45.000And the reason it seems kind of weird is because, again, the thing that she was alleging was rape.
00:17:49.000I mean, if you go back to her original piece in The Cut, which was at thecut.com, this is back in June of 2019, she describes what happened, she says, with Donald Trump.
00:18:02.000She says this, Before I discuss him, I must mention there are two great
00:18:05.000handicaps to telling you what happened to me in Bergdorf's.
00:18:07.000A. The man I will be talking about denies it, as he has denied accusations of sexual misconduct made by at least 15
00:18:11.000credible women, and then she lists off a bunch of names.
00:18:14.000The White House at the time said this is a completely false and unrealistic story surfacing 25 years after allegedly
00:18:19.000taking place and was created simply to make the president look bad.
00:18:22.000And B. I run the risk of making him more popular by revealing what he did.
00:18:25.000His admirers can't get enough of hearing that he's rich enough, lusty enough, and powerful enough to be sued by
00:18:29.000and to pay off every splashy porn star or playboy playmate who comes forward.
00:18:32.000And then she continues along these lines, she says, And she says.
00:18:56.000Okay, so first of all, immediate question marks.
00:19:00.000She can't remember what kind of door is being used, so she's already saying that her memory is hazy of this.
00:19:06.000She says, I'm surprised at how good looking he is.
00:19:07.000We've met once before, and perhaps it is the dusky light, but he looks prettier than ever.
00:19:11.000This has to be in the fall of 1995 or the spring of 1996, because he's garbed in a faultless top coat, and I'm wearing my black wool Donna Karan coat dress and high heels, but not a coat.
00:19:20.000So, point of doubt number two, she can't even name the year.
00:19:24.000Okay, so she's starting in 1995 or 1996.
00:19:26.000Now, If you talk to people who have survived rape, the kind of general presumption that people block out the memories, that may be true in some cases.
00:19:37.000In many, many cases, women who have been abused, anybody who's been abused, children who have been abused, they remember like exact details, exact details, because it's so unbelievably traumatic.
00:19:45.000People who suffer from PTSD typically remember the exact details of the things that happened to them.
00:19:50.000In this particular case, she remembers what they were wearing, but she can't remember what kind of door was being used.
00:19:57.000The fall of 1995 or the spring of 1996, which again is a weird dating because there is a season in between, right?
00:20:06.000I mean, there's winter also that lies in between those.
00:20:08.000So you're talking about like, it's either September of 1995 or like April of 1996.
00:20:16.000So I'll continue with this account in just one second.
00:20:18.000And this is, again, why I haven't paid a lot of attention to the E. Jean Carroll case because, again, I do not find her to be a particularly credible witness.
00:22:56.000It's gone over a couple of makeovers, right?
00:22:58.000They're getting rid of every detail that would actually lend credibility or verifiability.
00:23:04.000Forget about credibility, verifiability to her story.
00:23:07.000I don't remember what he says, but he comes striding along, greeting a Bergdorf sales attendant like he owns the joint, permitting a shopper to gape in awe at him and goes right for a fur number.
00:23:13.000Please, I say, no woman would want to wear a dead animal on her head.
00:23:17.000What he replies I don't recall, but I remember he coddles the fur hat like it's a baby otter.
00:23:20.000How old is the lady in question, I ask.
00:23:22.000How old are you, replies the man, fondling the hat and looking at me like Louis Leakey carbon dating a thigh bone he's found in Olduvai Gorge.
00:23:38.000I don't remember anybody else greeting him or galloping up to talk to him, which indicates how very few people are in the store at the time.
00:23:43.000I have no recollection where the lingerie is in that era of Bergdorf's.
00:23:46.000Again, this is like the fourth time in the same story in which she's saying, I don't know where anything is in the store.
00:25:22.000The first, a journalist magazine writer, correspondent on TV morning shows, author of many books, begged me to go to the police.
00:25:27.000He raped you, she kept repeating when I called her, he raped you, go to the police, I'll go with you, we'll go together.
00:25:32.000So the fact that, first of all, obviously she didn't think of it as rape at the time.
00:25:37.000She has a friend who keeps saying that he raped her and she didn't go to the cops.
00:25:40.000My second friend is also a journalist, a New York anchorwoman.
00:25:43.000She grew very quiet when I told her, then she grasped both my hands on her own and said, tell no one, forget it, he has 200 lawyers, he'll bury you.
00:25:49.000Do I have photos or any visual evidence?
00:25:50.000Bergdorf's security cameras must have picked us up at the 58th street entrance of the store.
00:25:55.000We also would have been filmed on the ground floor in the bags and hats section.
00:25:57.000Cameras must have captured us going up the escalator and into the lingerie department.
00:26:02.000However, even if it had been captured on tape, depending on the position of the camera, it would be difficult to see the man unzipping his pants because he was wearing a top coat.
00:26:09.000The struggle might simply have read as sexy.
00:26:12.000The department store has confirmed it no longer has tapes from that time.
00:26:15.000So there are no tapes, even though there are cameras present.
00:26:18.000And even if there were cameras present, it wouldn't have been clear what exactly was going on, according to her.
00:26:22.000So again, this all goes to verifiability.
00:26:25.000Why were there no sales attendants in the lingerie department?
00:26:28.000Bergdorf's perfections are so well known.
00:26:29.000It is a store so noble, so clubby, so posh.
00:26:31.000It is almost easier to accept the fact that I was attacked than the fact that for a very brief moment, there were no sales attendants in the lingerie department.
00:26:59.000Why haven't I come forward before now?
00:27:00.000Receiving death threats, being driven from my home, being dismissed, being dragged through the mud, joining the 15 women who have come- So she says she was scared.
00:27:07.000Okay, and then she talks about what happened.
00:27:08.000She suggests that the moment the dressing room door is closed, he lunges at me, pushes me against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, puts his mouth against my lips.
00:27:14.000I'm so shocked, I shove him back and start laughing again.
00:27:17.000He seizes both my arms and pushes me up against the wall a second time.
00:27:21.000And as I become aware of how large he is, he holds me against the wall with his shoulder and jams his hand under my coat dress and pulls down my tights.
00:27:27.000She says, I'm astonished by what I'm about to write.
00:27:30.000The next moment, still wearing correct business attire, shirt tie, suit jacket overcoat, he opens the overcoat, unzips his pants, and forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway, or completely I'm not certain, inside me.
00:28:16.000And this is also beyond the statute of limitations for any sort of real rape trial.
00:28:21.000This is well beyond the statute of limitations for rape because the law generally presumes that 25 years on, it's going to be extraordinarily difficult to actually convict somebody of something like this.
00:28:31.000And you could easily see a defense like a he-said-she-said defense.
00:30:28.000This trial was a referendum on Donald Trump having said to Billy Bush, on a hot mic, on Access Hollywood, years ago, that when you're very famous, you get to grab women by the bleep, and they're fine with it.
00:30:40.000Because when you're famous, people let you do anything.
00:30:43.000And then there were a bunch of witnesses, like women, who came forward and said that that's what Donald Trump did, that he assaulted them.
00:30:49.000That he forcibly kissed them, or he forcibly grabbed them, or he forcibly touched them, or whatever.
00:30:54.000And so, even though Eugene Carroll is not a good witness, as evidenced by the fact that even a New York jury would not actually say that Donald Trump raped her, what they're basically saying is we believe Donald Trump.
00:31:03.000When Donald Trump says that he would grab women this way, then we believe that.
00:31:07.000And we believe that many of the women he was grabbing were not super happy with it.
00:31:11.000Donald Trump's original quote is that women will let you do that, which obviously implies consent.
00:31:17.000When people let you do a thing, this implies consent.
00:31:19.000So from Donald Trump's perspective, yeah, I grab women all the time and they're fine with it because I'm famous and rich.
00:31:24.000And from the perspective of the jury, Donald Trump grabs women all the time, and they're not fine with it.
00:31:28.000And here's a list of 15 women who are not fine with it.
00:31:32.000Now, this, again, came back to bite Trump personally, because Trump did do a deposition on tape.
00:31:39.000And so here is Donald Trump on tape talking about the grab-em-by-the-bleep comment.
00:31:45.000In this video, I just start kissing them.
00:31:59.000Well, historically, that's true with stars.
00:32:02.000It's true with stars that they can grab women by the... Well, that's what... If you look over the last million years, I guess that's been largely true.
00:32:53.000But this is essentially what happened because Trump said that, because Trump said in that testimony, in deposition, that you can, if you are famous, grab women by the bleep.
00:33:03.000Then when a woman claims that you grabbed her by the bleep, then the jury's like, okay, well, that's credible.
00:33:08.000It's credible that he grabbed a woman by the bleep.
00:33:10.000Which is why even the Fox News legal analysts, they were like, yeah, it turns out that
00:33:14.000testifying against yourself is really not a brilliant idea.
00:33:17.000Here's some of the Fox News legal analysts talking about this yesterday.
00:33:20.000So Andy, what do you think the impact was of these pieces of tape on this process?
00:33:26.000Martha, I think with something like that, I mean, I think the impact was devastating because of the way, not only what he said, but the way that they presented it.
00:33:36.000We've seen the Access Hollywood tape up till this point mainly in the abstract.
00:33:42.000I think one of the most effective things that the Carroll lawyers did was to introduce the tape to the jury In the course of the testimony of Natasha Stoynoff, who was one of the women who claimed that she had been sexually assaulted by former President Trump.
00:34:01.000So it was not a situation where it could just be sort of dismissed as locker room banter in the abstract.
00:34:09.000Right, so basically, this reified Trump's statements before.
00:34:14.000Now, Trump is mad as hell about this, and he has a right to be.
00:34:17.000He wrote on his social media platform, quote, This is why it's not going to harm him electorally.
00:34:26.000The reason it's not going to harm him electorally is because it does look like this was concocted in a laboratory, in this case.
00:34:31.000It looks as though there was a person who almost read his Access Hollywood comments and then was like, What if I just allege that he did that to me because he's already admitted he does that to women and then I say it wasn't consensual and then I sue him and I go to a New York jury and then they fine him.
00:34:44.000And that's kind of what the jury did here.
00:34:46.000Because if the jury actually believed that Donald Trump had raped E. Jean Carroll, then presumably they would have found that he raped E. Jean Carroll, but they didn't find that.
00:34:53.000Again, what they are basically saying is we don't believe E. Jean Carroll's story.
00:35:00.000Like, what exactly did they not believe in her story?
00:35:02.000It sounds like what they're saying is we actually don't believe your whole story, but we believe that all these other women Had experiences verified by Donald Trump on tape talking about grabbing women, and therefore we're going to fine him.
00:35:12.000And so for everybody else looking at this, they're like, well, I mean, he did say that he did that, and there's nothing new here because there have been allegations that he does this to women a lot.
00:35:22.000And now they're going to give Eugene Carroll like a bunch of his money from a New York jury, which is just looking for an excuse to punish Donald Trump because they hate Donald Trump.
00:35:30.000So is this going to affect Donald Trump electorally in any way?
00:35:31.000I have a hard time believing it's going to affect Donald Trump in any way.
00:35:35.000And again, I think it's even I think when he says this feels like a witch hunt, it kind of does.
00:35:40.000I mean, it looks as though they are now litigating.
00:35:43.000In an allegation that Donald Trump made about himself in 2014 or whatever it was with Billy Bush, and they found the world's least credible witness, E. Jean Carroll, to talk about this on tape 23 years later.
00:35:55.000And then the trial wasn't even about E. Jean Carroll.
00:35:57.000The trial was really about Donald Trump.
00:36:10.000And based on the fact that he supported his own statements that he said on a hot mic?
00:36:14.000And which he's already said that he agrees with?
00:36:16.000We'll get to more on this in a second.
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00:38:13.000It'll be interesting to see how Trump responds to questions about this, I assume, on Wednesday night, because he is supposed to do a town hall forum on CNN with Caitlyn Collins.
00:38:23.000Presumably she's going to ask him about all of this and he's going to do the exact same thing that he did in his testimony.
00:38:27.000He's probably going to say, it's true when you're famous that you can do whatever you want and also Eugene Carroll is a liar.
00:39:46.000I don't think there's anybody out there who was kind of an independent like, well, now that he is being targeted by everyone, I like him more.
00:39:53.000I don't think there are tons of people like that.
00:39:54.000But the idea that it's really going to be like a serious bar to Trump running, I think is ridiculous.
00:39:59.000This is why there's an article in The Washington Post.
00:40:01.000It's titled right now, Sexual Abuse Verdict Renews Republican Doubts About Trump's Electability.
00:40:05.000Listen, I think if you had doubts about Trump's electability, and I have doubts about Trump's electability considering he already lost to Joe Biden.
00:40:11.000And that he had to pull a rabbit out of a hat to beat Hillary Clinton.
00:40:13.000Like, again, I have doubts about his electability, but not because of this.
00:40:17.000Because Trump is Trump, and people have their opinions on Trump.
00:40:20.000Now, the notion that this is going to be some sort of kill shot with regard to his campaign is obviously incredibly silly.
00:40:27.000Meanwhile, George Santos, Republican congressperson from New York, he has now been arrested on 13 charges of wire fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds, and making materially false statements.
00:40:36.000It's always the ones you least suspect, guys.
00:40:37.000It's, you know, it's like the butler did it.
00:40:40.000George Santos, who lied about literally all the things.
00:40:43.000It turns out that he probably also lied about money and public funds and how he was using the money and all the rest of that sort of stuff.
00:40:51.000This provides a sort of conundrum for the Republican Party because, again, their majority in the House is extraordinarily slim at this point.
00:40:57.000Right now, their majority is like four seats, five seats.
00:41:03.000Now they're down to 221, I would presume.
00:41:05.000And the way that it works is that he would presumably be replaced by the governor of New York.
00:41:08.000The governor of New York, of course, is Kathy Hochul, who's a Democrat.
00:41:10.000So that means that the Democrats will appoint someone to fill that seat.
00:41:13.000That was a swing district that Santos had won.
00:41:15.000And so the large-scale probability here is that the Republican majority will decline by one.
00:41:22.000Which is a problem for McCarthy because, again, he does have this kind of solid core of people who are gadflies and who vote against everything that he brings up.
00:41:30.000That would be Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and the like.
00:41:34.000It doesn't always include MTG, by the way.
00:41:36.000MTG very often will vote with McCarthy, actually.
00:41:38.000She seems to be more rational in terms of her legislative priorities than, say, Matt Gaetz.
00:41:42.000It does mean that his majority shrinks a little bit, and that's a problem for the Republicans.
00:41:45.000Meanwhile, I guess that he's being indicted because he is slightly more of a liar than all the other members of Congress.
00:41:57.000Yesterday, she pathologically lied about Jordan Neely.
00:41:59.000Jordan Neely is, of course, the mentally ill and career criminal black man who died on a New York subway after a Marine put him in a submission hold in an attempt to stop him from attacking the other passengers.
00:42:10.000She tweeted out, So the real problem is that New York doesn't provide any of the resources necessary for people like Jordan Ely.
00:42:25.000As Thomas Chatterton Williams, a writer for The Atlantic, who is not a conservative, pointed out, she says Jordan Ely was killed because he couldn't access mental health support.
00:42:34.000According to the actual New York Times reporting, he was arrested not all that long ago, and he was supposed to go from court to live at a treatment facility in the Bronx and stay clean for 15 months.
00:42:44.00013 days later, he abandoned the facility.
00:42:47.000This idea that this is about underfunding in New York City, it's not about underfunding.
00:42:50.000It's about the fact that there are no consequences for simply going out and living on the street and then abandoning your drug rehab facility.
00:42:56.000But AOC wants you to be able to abandon your drug rehab facilities, an aspect of freedom to live on the streets, according to people like AOC.
00:43:02.000And pathological lies exist all over Congress.
00:43:04.000Only George Santos is really being targeted over his pathological lies.
00:43:08.000Meanwhile, the immigration crisis on our southern border gets worse and worse and worse.
00:43:11.000According to the Wall Street Journal, officials in New York and Chicago have now declared states of emergency after Texas Governor Greg Abbott resumed busing migrants to northern sanctuary cities ahead of the expiration later this week of Title 42.
00:43:23.000Busloads of migrants, mostly from Texas, began arriving in cities hundreds of miles from the border last year.
00:43:28.000Officials have been trying to provide housing and services for those new arrivals in Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C.
00:43:33.000Lori Lightfoot in Chicago, she says, we have hit the breaking point.
00:43:36.000She is still the outgoing mayor of Chicago.
00:43:38.000They've taken in like 8,500, 9,000 illegal immigrants over the course of the last year.
00:43:42.000Meanwhile, you have 10,000 illegal immigrants arriving on the border like every single day.
00:43:47.000And all those people are just being schlepped to the streets of El Paso and left there.
00:43:50.000But Lori Lightfoot is in a state of panic because some busloads of people are entering a city of millions.
00:43:55.000Here is Lori Lightfoot talking about it.
00:43:58.000Last week, I sent a letter to Governor Abbott when we learned that he may be sending more migrants to our city via bus to try to reason and explain to him that yes, of course we are a welcoming city and we will always do what is right by our immigrant and refugee communities.
00:44:14.000But we've reached a breaking point in our response to this humanitarian crisis primarily manufactured by him for cynical political purposes.
00:44:25.000Oh, it's super cynical for Abbott to send people to cities where they want to go.
00:44:30.000You know what's not cynical, though, apparently?
00:45:06.000So, bad when Greg Abbott sends busloads of illegal immigrants to New York City.
00:45:11.000Good when Eric Adams takes those busloads of immigrants and unloads them in Rockland County.
00:45:16.000Rockland County's top official declared a state of emergency on Saturday in response to Adams' plan to send 340 adult male migrants to live at an Armani Inn and Suites in Orangeburg, New York for four months.
00:45:28.000I mean, honestly, oh darn, it's the consequences of my own actions.
00:45:49.000The county executive Edwin Days of the city declared itself a sanctuary city in December 2016, committing itself to supporting undocumented individuals.
00:46:09.000So, on Friday, Adams announced he was sending migrants to neighboring New York counties in response to the rising numbers of asylum seekers in the city.
00:46:32.000You're staying actually in Rockland County.
00:46:34.000Adam said at a press conference, despite calling on the federal government for a national decompression strategy since last year, and for a decompression strategy across the state, New York City has been left without the necessary support to manage the crisis.
00:46:45.000With a vacuum of leadership, we're now forced to undertake our own decompression strategy.
00:46:51.000I love that Eric Adams is going to escape scrutiny for now schlepping people to the middle of nowhere after declaring that he was going to help everybody.
00:46:58.000Meanwhile, immigrants continue to pour over the borders.
00:47:00.000This video from Matamoros, Mexico is absolutely shocking.
00:47:04.000This is just people who are pouring over the border here.
00:49:23.000Well, I would say you heard from the president just this past Friday.
00:49:26.000He did an interview, a sit-down interview, with one of the networks and talked about Title 42, talked about immigration, so the American people did hear directly from the President on this issue.
00:49:37.000I don't have anything else to share in the next couple of days about the President's schedule, so I'll just leave it there.
00:49:57.000And by top men, she means Kamala Harris.
00:50:00.000I don't know how anybody finds this satisfying.
00:50:02.000She says, yeah, we got a border crisis, but you know, Joe Biden is talking to Kamala Harris, who will presumably be supplying electric school buses and Venn diagrams to all of the illegal immigrants.
00:50:11.000Will the Vice President be involved in today's meeting since she'll be here in the country while the President is away?
00:50:17.000So the President has been closely consulting with the Vice President on this.
00:50:22.000They have had several conversations on this issue.
00:50:26.000And so again, when it comes to issues that matter to the American people, they're very much partners.
00:50:58.000Meanwhile, the Biden administration doing yeoman's work on blowing up the budget as well.
00:51:02.000So there's been no breakthrough on the debt ceiling.
00:51:04.000There was a all for show meeting yesterday between President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
00:51:08.000But according to the Wall Street Journal, they remain at loggerheads after a meeting at the White House on Tuesday.
00:51:12.000They have made little progress in averting the first ever default by the federal government.
00:51:15.000Again, You know, I am not one for conspiratorial thinking.
00:51:19.000However, it occurs to me that Joe Biden, knowing that the economy is not in amazing shape right now and that there will probably be a recession, him finding an excuse to blame Republicans who are not really in charge of the government might actually be in his wheelhouse.
00:51:32.000He might be looking for a way to blame Republicans for an economic downturn.
00:51:36.000And maybe that's why he's not negotiating, because there's no other reason not to negotiate at this point, considering avoiding the debt ceiling is not all that tough.
00:51:42.000Kevin McCarthy's proposal, which is to, again, not lower spending, but to stop the trajectory of spending from rising in the same way, has been outright rejected by the White House.
00:51:51.000He just wants to go back to 2022 levels of spending.
00:51:54.000And yet there is no movement, none whatsoever.
00:51:56.000Here's Kevin McCarthy yesterday announcing, yeah, we sat in a room and Joe Biden stared at the walls and ate oatmeal, and it was real weird.
00:53:59.000He passed a bill that raises the debt ceiling.
00:54:01.000It's you guys who refuse to even negotiate so much so that Joe Biden now says he's thinking of just violating the Constitution and he's going to, you know, consider the 14th Amendment a basically blank slate to spend whatever he wants to spend.
00:54:14.000You said you're certain there won't be a fall.
00:54:17.000Are you willing to take unilateral action, like a vote in the 14th Amendment, to make sure that doesn't happen?
00:54:23.000Well, I have been considering the 14th Amendment.
00:54:26.000And a man I have enormous respect for, Larry Tribe, who advised me for a long time, thinks that it would be legitimate.
00:54:33.000But the problem is it would have to be litigated.
00:54:37.000And in the meantime, without an extension, it would still end up in the same place.
00:54:44.000It's really fun that Larry Tribe can plant an op-ed in the New York Times talking about how he's now in favor of reinterpreting the 14th Amendment, and then Joe Biden can go out and cite that and pretend that he has legal precedent for this, which he doesn't.
00:54:54.000Joe Biden was asked about the fact that he's not negotiating, and then Biden got real chippy with the reporters.
00:54:58.000He started getting real mad at the reporters.
00:55:00.000Why are you even asking me this stuff, man?
00:56:21.000Like, if you guys would negotiate and you'd say, here's our position, and then the Republicans are like, here's our position, then maybe you could find a middle position.
00:56:27.000But when your position is, we will not negotiate ever at all, who looks more unwilling to raise the debt ceiling?
00:56:35.000Kevin McCarthy, who passed a bill to raise the debt ceiling, or you, who are doing nothing?
00:57:22.000Senator Joe Manchin, who has been calling on the White House to sit down and have these discussions with Republicans, indicating that they need to agree to some spending cuts.
00:57:31.000Otherwise, the consequences, he warned, could be drastic.
00:57:38.000It's just, it's not rational, it's not reasonable, and it's not practical.
00:57:42.000And it's something that, it's hypocritical to say that we're not going to do it now when we've done it every time that there has been a split in the party.
00:57:49.000The only time that I know there hasn't been big discussion is when one party, whether it be Republicans, have the President, the House, and the Senate.
00:58:08.000By the way, that's a member of Joe Biden's own party, and with Dianne Feinstein absent, it means they don't actually have a majority in support of Joe Biden, even in the Democrat Senate.
00:58:30.000It's a country of 230 million people with nuclear weapons.
00:58:33.000And nobody ever pays any attention to Pakistan, despite the fact that Pakistan is generally in a widespread, decades-long battle between radical Islamists and people who are slightly more moderate, between military dictatorship and a democracy that may go radical.
00:58:47.000So Imran Khan, who is currently the most popular leader in Pakistan and tends to be on the more extreme side of Pakistani politics, has now been arrested, which could lead to mass unrest by his supporters.
00:58:59.000According to the New York Times, Imran Khan, who is Pakistan's ousted prime minister, was arrested on corruption charges on Tuesday in a major escalation of a political crisis that has engulfed the country over the past year and that raises the prospect of mass unrest by his supporters.
00:59:10.000The arrest intensified a showdown between the powerful Pakistani military and Khan and brought the country into uncharted political territory.
00:59:17.000Pakistani leaders have faced arrest before, but never has anyone like Khan so directly and with mass popular support challenged the military, which for decades has been the invisible hand wielding power behind the government.
00:59:29.000And again, it demonstrates pretty full scale that sometimes there's a conflict between democracy and, you know, the interests of the West.
00:59:36.000One of the great lies about American foreign policy is that American foreign policy in all circumstances must cut in favor of sort of formalistic democratic arrangements as opposed to American interests.
00:59:48.000Because the reality is that if the military in Pakistan were no longer in charge of the nukes, but Imran Khan were, this would be a significantly Less stable region.
00:59:58.000Political tensions have been building for months as Khan, a former cricket star who is extremely populist, has accused the military and the current government of conspiring against him.
01:00:06.000Both the military and government officials deny those claims.
01:00:10.000His supporters are ransacking the official residences of army commanders.
01:00:14.000Hundreds of protesters have gathered outside army headquarters just outside Islamabad.
01:00:18.000In the port city of Karachi, the police are firing tear gas to disperse crowds.
01:00:23.000Again, the fact that Pakistan has nuclear weapons is one of the least covered, most dangerous parts of world politics.
01:00:30.000Pakistan is in an unbreachable conflict.
01:00:35.000I mean, it's just an intransigent conflict since 1948.
01:00:57.000Instead, they pay attention to Israel killing terrorists.
01:00:59.000So this is the other story that's on the table today, is that Israel launched something called Operation Shield and Arrow, killing three high-level Islamic Jihad leaders.
01:01:07.000Islamic Jihad is a terrorist group by every available metric.
01:01:30.000Israel will literally take out, not apartment buildings, apartments, like single apartments in terror-occupied areas with the intent of killing as few human beings as possible.
01:01:42.000They'll take out like a room in an apartment.
01:01:44.000And it'll turn out that the terrorists have been trotting their kids around with them, specifically in order to deter Israel from killing them.
01:02:12.000So Israel kills these three Islamic Jihad leaders and this has led to mass rocket attacks that across Israel, including in Tel Aviv, the videos are
01:02:43.000I mean, there were pictures that were emerging of El Al flights, like, these are civilian airliners, flying into Ben Gurion Airport, and rockets being shot down not all that far from the jets.
01:02:53.000No country worth its salt can tolerate this.
01:02:56.000If this were America, let's say that Mexican drug cartels started using Matamoros, Mexico as a launching point, a staging point for hundreds of rocket attacks into Brownsville, Texas.
01:03:21.000They don't worry so much about what the UN Security Council is going to do.
01:03:24.000The fact that Israel is criticized when it has to kill terrorists and those terrorists hide behind their families, but that terrorists can shoot hundreds of rockets into a sovereign state and Israel is expected to absorb it, is totally insane.
01:03:35.000The Israeli government should do whatever it has to do to stop the terrorism.
01:03:37.000Yes, up to and including taking controversial military actions to kill as many terrorists as possible and stop these sorts of attacks.
01:03:44.000You can't have a country that's living half underground.
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01:05:08.000So, a bunch of people have now come out ripping on Mr. Beast.
01:05:12.000Okay, so, the Redditors, they have decided there are many reasons why they are very, very upset at Mr. Beast.
01:05:21.000So, some people will say, well, you know, when he gives charity, when he gives charity, he's just covering for the failures of the systems.
01:05:26.000This is sort of the Bernie Sanders attitude toward charity.
01:05:28.000Which is that if you help your neighbor, this is bad.
01:05:30.000Because really, the government should be helping your neighbor.
01:05:31.000And you should pay taxes to the government, you jerk!
01:06:13.000Also, apparently they say he's a for-profit charity because he presents himself as a philanthropist when in reality he's a CEO whose business model is turning people in bad situations into a profit.
01:06:22.000So first of all, let's say that that were true.
01:06:40.000I, on a personal level, thank God, have very good cash flow.
01:06:44.000And I spend a lot of my money on charity.
01:06:47.000But according to these morons, if I make a lot of money and give a lot of my money to charity, that's bad because I shouldn't be making a lot of money.
01:06:52.000And Mr. Beast, if he's making money off of people getting the warms and fuzzies from this sort of stuff, that means he's a bad person.
01:06:59.000That means you're a bad person if you object to this.
01:07:03.000Also, he has specifically said that on these videos he does not monetize them.
01:07:07.000He does not try to make money off of these videos.
01:07:09.000Now listen, I would have no problem if he did try to make money off of these videos because some of that money is going to go to more videos like this where he's helping a thousand people here!
01:07:15.000But apparently, he doesn't want that sort of controversy, so he's not even monetizing these videos.
01:07:20.000So then they go to the indirect route.
01:07:21.000Oh, well, you know, this is making him more famous.
01:07:23.000And when you click on his videos, it makes him more money.
01:07:25.000And then, he's using that money to help people, and that's making him richer.
01:07:48.000And then finally, the last criticism is, are selfless acts truly altruistic if you film it and want people to know that you perform the selfless act?
01:07:55.000And this would be sort of the Kantian argument is, oh my god, what's his intent?
01:08:27.000If you putting your name on a charitable endeavor causes others to give more charity, that's a good thing.
01:08:33.000So when we give charity, my wife and I, we like to give anonymous charity.
01:08:35.000Because frankly, we don't care if our name is associated with it.
01:08:38.000We're not doing it for the claps and the giggles.
01:08:40.000We're doing it specifically because we want to give the money and we feel duty bound to do so.
01:08:46.000Okay, but there have been situations where we specifically will give public charity because it encourages other people to give the charity.
01:08:53.000If you've ever been to a charity fundraiser, this sort of stuff happens all the time.
01:09:27.000Now, the reality is the reason so many people are hating on Mr. Beast on this particular score is because when people are very rich and very successful, there are a lot of people who hate them.
01:09:36.000But number two, there is now ingrained in a lot of young people this weird idea that helping your neighbor on a personal level is a betrayal of the need for systemic change.
01:09:46.000The reason they think this is because so much of our philosophy now is driven by the idea that if you say that people can individually change their situation or change the issues of others, then this means that you will be redirecting energy from the system itself.
01:09:59.000You give charity, well you should be spending all the time and money that you're giving to the charity.
01:10:03.000You should be spending that on political activism to change the entire system.
01:10:08.000Well, maybe I don't think that the system is bad, number one.
01:10:11.000And maybe, number two, even if I were an activist, I could do both.
01:10:14.000But I've noticed that there's a weird sort of reversal, which is that Bernie Sanders gives virtually no charity, that Democrats overall give very, very little charity.
01:10:21.000By every possible study in the United States, Red state people who vote red give way more charity as a percentage of their income than people who vote blue.
01:10:57.000By Kant's standards, the person who says, I'm giving money of my own accord because I think it is good to give money, or the person who forces the other guy to give money, or says, I'm giving money because I'm forced to by the federal government and this makes me superior.
01:12:07.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
01:12:12.000So this is actually two separate things that I hate.
01:12:15.000So, first of all, Disney and their deep and abiding desire to apparently trans the kids is very weird.
01:12:23.000So apparently, Melissa McCarthy, who is the voice of Ursula in the new live action, or she plays Ursula in the new live action Little Mermaid, she showed up and had a heartwarming run-in with iconic drag queen Nina West.
01:13:07.000According to Yahoo News, the pair seemed to have an instant connection, even broke into song with an impromptu version of Rosemary Clooney's Sisters while they wrapped their arms around each other's shoulders.
01:14:04.000But there was no way to kind of... I didn't know how to find out, but I was like, I am positive whoever created her look and created this character was a fan of Divine.
01:14:15.000I was like, I know it with my whole heart, and now I know it to be true, and I was like, of course!
01:14:28.000Also, nobody knew that at the time and no one cared.
01:14:30.000And the reason no one cared is because Disney wasn't actually attempting to trans the kids back in 1989, when The Little Mermaid came out in 1990, whatever year it was.
01:14:43.000So you morons have undercut your own value by pushing all of the social leftism in movies for kids.
01:14:50.000And the way you're trotting out Little Mermaid, which is gonna be one of your big live action remakes
01:14:54.000of the animated film, is not only by pushing the woke notion
01:14:58.000of racially neutral casting, except if there's a black character,
01:15:01.000which never ever can be cast as white.
01:15:03.000Not only are you gonna do that, you are also going to now promote
01:15:08.000and continue to facilitate drag queen story hour amongst the children at the Little Mermaid.
01:15:15.000By the way, gotta love the fact that it's Rachel, what's her face, Rachel Lindsay, the bachelorette, everybody is racist lady, who's interviewing.
01:15:23.000That is like a singularity of woke idiocy right there.