Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1035 Scott Adams： Let's Talk About Bolton and Stuff

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00:00:11.380 Hey, everybody, come on in.

00:00:15.560 Can somebody tell me what the hell time it is?

00:00:18.520 Serious question.

00:00:21.360 There's no joke here.

00:00:23.080 I don't know what time it is.

00:00:24.840 Can somebody tell me?

00:00:26.060 Is it, seriously, what time is it?

00:00:33.940 Alright, well, I thought I had another hour, but I'm having a bit of a, apparently the

00:00:44.860 time is not different in Arizona.

00:00:48.700 I've been here for, you know, half a day, got here yesterday.

00:00:52.780 Okay, so I'm in the free state of Arizona.

00:00:59.100 Oh my God.

00:01:00.980 Alright, so true story.

00:01:03.400 I got here yesterday and Christina said, you know, the time is an hour different.

00:01:10.260 And I thought, really?

00:01:11.740 It's an hour different?

00:01:13.920 And I thought, I didn't know that.

00:01:17.740 But it turns out it's not an hour different.

00:01:19.800 Ah, the things I don't know.

00:01:24.160 Alright, well, I don't have my cheat sheet with me to do the proper toast.

00:01:30.080 But I'm going to do the, and believe it or not, I have not memorized it.

00:01:33.840 I can't memorize things.

00:01:36.420 But I would like to join you in the simultaneous sip.

00:01:40.400 Will you join me in the simultaneous sip?

00:01:42.560 All you need is, well, you know what you need.

00:01:45.720 Cup, mug, glass, all that stuff.

00:01:49.000 Go.

00:01:49.280 Go.

00:01:56.040 Ah.

00:01:57.880 You know, if it wasn't for a message from Joe Manico, or Manic Joe, on Twitter,

00:02:09.700 I wouldn't know that I was supposed to be on here.

00:02:13.300 Now, it's not exactly my honeymoon, for some of you who know.

00:02:17.900 I was supposed to get married in May.

00:02:21.940 But, of course, that wasn't really a good time to get married.

00:02:26.300 So, both our honeymoon and our marriage plans keep changing.

00:02:30.220 So, we're just going to, I think we're going to go asynchronous.

00:02:35.660 So, I'm wearing the ring, and we just decided we're married.

00:02:40.000 So, yesterday, we just looked at each other and said,

00:02:43.520 Why don't we just say we're married?

00:02:46.980 We've got a marriage license.

00:02:48.520 If you have a marriage license, and you have rings, and you've agreed to get married,

00:02:58.040 you know, what exactly does the ceremony do?

00:03:01.300 We're still going to have a ceremony, but we're still figuring out where and when.

00:03:05.780 Yes, as somebody is answering in the comments,

00:03:13.360 I did vaguely have it in my mind that Arizona was only half of the year,

00:03:18.160 they had a time zone change, and I didn't know if I was in that half.

00:03:21.880 However, let's talk about the news.

00:03:24.260 That's why you're here.

00:03:25.720 You know you are.

00:03:27.880 So, are you as amused as I am by the statue stuff?

00:03:32.280 You know, on one hand, you're probably alarmed because, you know,

00:03:37.960 all these statues are coming down and all that,

00:03:40.100 but on some level, does this not remind you of a Star Trek episode?

00:03:48.420 So, think about the statue stuff,

00:03:50.880 and think about the fact that the country is in something like a civil war

00:03:58.180 between roughly the left and the right, sort of,

00:04:01.500 but not really.

00:04:03.340 So, we've got this sort of weird virtual civil war,

00:04:06.820 but instead of attacking each other,

00:04:09.900 the left is attacking statues.

00:04:13.580 And you know that the right is going to attack some statues eventually, right?

00:04:18.500 You know that somebody on the right

00:04:21.780 is going to treat this like a chess game,

00:04:25.640 and they're going to say,

00:04:26.620 hey, the left is taking all our pieces.

00:04:29.600 They took our Washington, our Jefferson,

00:04:32.500 our Teddy Roosevelt,

00:04:35.300 and they're going to say,

00:04:37.180 well, what statue can we take?

00:04:39.680 So, this morning, I tweeted that,

00:04:42.660 don't be surprised if the right treats this like a chess game,

00:04:48.180 just like the left is,

00:04:49.640 and goes to take one of their pieces.

00:04:52.420 It won't be a person.

00:04:53.980 It'll be a statue.

00:04:56.020 Now, I cheekily said that the right would be coming for their king,

00:05:00.660 and I capitalized king.

00:05:03.340 I capitalized king.

00:05:07.220 And people still didn't understand what I was talking about.

00:05:10.620 Now, somebody said,

00:05:12.020 hey, Martin Luther King was actually a Republican or whatever.

00:05:14.880 None of that matters.

00:05:16.320 None of that matters.

00:05:17.540 And by the way,

00:05:18.080 I'm not recommending any statues being taken down.

00:05:21.040 I am opposed to offensive statues,

00:05:25.780 but I'm also opposed to taking them down by mob rule

00:05:29.620 instead of some more civilized way.

00:05:32.880 But I also recognize that if the civilized way wasn't working,

00:05:36.560 well, they are just statues in the end.

00:05:39.880 You know, if somebody tears down a statue

00:05:42.060 that half of the country is deeply offended by,

00:05:46.040 and they couldn't get it done in some other mechanism,

00:05:48.880 and they tried,

00:05:49.640 I don't know if anybody tried,

00:05:51.800 but if they tried the other mechanisms

00:05:53.520 and they didn't work,

00:05:55.480 it's just a statue.

00:05:57.760 It's not the hill I'm going to die on.

00:06:01.140 But you know that the country is always worried

00:06:03.700 about the slippery slope,

00:06:04.840 and if they take down this statue,

00:06:06.380 they'll take down this,

00:06:07.340 and they'll take down that.

00:06:09.020 I'm pretty sure

00:06:10.240 that eventually people associated with the right

00:06:14.520 or not even on the right,

00:06:16.280 it might be just people who want this to stop,

00:06:18.600 are going to say,

00:06:19.920 look,

00:06:20.580 you can either have it all

00:06:22.160 or you can stop now.

00:06:25.820 You see the choice?

00:06:26.980 You can either have it all,

00:06:28.980 in other words,

00:06:29.640 get everything you want,

00:06:30.820 which is that anybody who has a sketchy background

00:06:33.000 can't have a statue.

00:06:36.640 And the right might say,

00:06:38.020 let's play by your rules.

00:06:39.260 We accept your standard.

00:06:43.740 So you would expect that they would take down

00:06:46.240 Martin Luther King's statues.

00:06:47.920 Now, I'm not in favor of that, obviously.

00:06:50.580 I'm not in favor of any of the statues

00:06:52.000 being taken down by citizens acting on their own.

00:06:56.880 But it's going to happen.

00:07:00.980 And maybe that'll be enough

00:07:03.380 for people to say,

00:07:04.640 whoa, whoa, whoa,

00:07:05.240 maybe we've gone too far.

00:07:06.560 But here's the thing.

00:07:09.400 If we allow that what's happening

00:07:11.540 is somehow acceptable

00:07:12.720 because of the offense,

00:07:15.300 historical offense,

00:07:17.360 you're going to have to go after

00:07:19.080 the Ivy League colleges.

00:07:21.640 Because as it turns out,

00:07:23.160 as people are saying in the comments,

00:07:25.640 I think Yale is named after a slaver,

00:07:30.240 a slave trader.

00:07:31.060 I think New York is named after a slaver.

00:07:35.960 Princeton is named after a dictator,

00:07:39.060 literally.

00:07:41.280 Harvard is named after a slaver.

00:07:46.020 Now, in what world would it be okay

00:07:49.220 to leave those colleges

00:07:51.420 with their current names?

00:07:53.540 I think Leland Stanford was a,

00:07:55.840 you know, for Stanford University,

00:07:57.400 I believe he was a massive racist.

00:08:01.660 And I think that's documented.

00:08:03.080 I don't think there's any question about it.

00:08:05.260 So Harvard, Yale, Princeton,

00:08:07.400 Princeton's different

00:08:08.180 because that's a dictator,

00:08:10.040 but who likes dictators, right?

00:08:12.260 Now, suppose you had a statue

00:08:13.720 to somebody who had been

00:08:15.300 accused credibly of

00:08:18.180 Me Too stuff.

00:08:21.820 Could you keep a statue

00:08:23.100 to somebody who was

00:08:25.080 actually kind of famous

00:08:26.360 for Me Too-ing?

00:08:30.620 If that's the standard,

00:08:31.980 it's got to go.

00:08:33.440 And it has nothing to do with,

00:08:35.160 you know, whether you liked

00:08:36.160 or disliked anything else

00:08:37.520 that Martin Luther King did.

00:08:39.100 Is there anybody who dislikes it?

00:08:41.000 I mean, if you're talking about the,

00:08:42.640 you know, the primary message

00:08:44.000 of Dr. King,

00:08:45.880 I don't think there's anybody

00:08:47.320 in the left or the right

00:08:48.280 who disagrees with the basic philosophy.

00:08:51.940 But if we're judging the people

00:08:53.440 in their entirety,

00:08:56.660 standard is a standard.

00:08:58.900 So we'll see how,

00:09:00.040 I think the people

00:09:01.280 maybe more associated

00:09:03.400 with the right

00:09:04.060 are just trying to stay out of it.

00:09:07.140 Have you ever been more impressed

00:09:09.080 by the political right

00:09:11.900 in this country?

00:09:13.040 I've never been more impressed.

00:09:15.580 And this is, again,

00:09:17.080 one of those situations

00:09:18.000 of the dog that isn't barking.

00:09:19.540 So here's the dog

00:09:21.620 that isn't barking.

00:09:23.760 Something like 40%

00:09:25.160 of the country

00:09:25.840 associates with

00:09:28.260 the political right,

00:09:30.060 conservatives.

00:09:32.540 Conservatives have entirely

00:09:34.580 just stepped back

00:09:37.640 and said,

00:09:38.520 let's just watch this,

00:09:40.460 let it play out,

00:09:41.760 see if some of the energy

00:09:42.840 will come out of it.

00:09:44.400 Play it cool,

00:09:45.940 you know,

00:09:46.560 load your gun,

00:09:47.460 clean your gun,

00:09:48.200 don't use your gun,

00:09:50.360 don't provoke,

00:09:52.140 just be ready.

00:09:53.880 You know,

00:09:54.060 sort of standard

00:09:54.960 conservative thought.

00:09:56.860 You know,

00:09:57.120 don't do anything crazy,

00:09:58.280 but be ready.

00:09:59.600 Very conservative thing to do.

00:10:02.760 So,

00:10:03.480 I'm actually amazed

00:10:05.080 that things have gone

00:10:06.380 as far as they have gone

00:10:07.780 with almost

00:10:08.760 a complete absence

00:10:09.940 of the political right

00:10:12.100 being on the street.

00:10:14.080 And when they are,

00:10:15.300 they don't seem

00:10:15.840 to cause trouble.

00:10:16.500 Nor do they seem

00:10:18.180 to be the recipients

00:10:19.460 of trouble.

00:10:20.300 I mean,

00:10:20.660 maybe some minor skirmishes,

00:10:22.400 but nothing important.

00:10:25.820 Okay,

00:10:29.380 that's pretty funny.

00:10:30.760 Somebody said,

00:10:31.360 what about the Clinton Library?

00:10:34.300 Yup.

00:10:36.660 Yup.

00:10:37.840 The Clinton Library,

00:10:39.400 it's got to be

00:10:41.400 on the list,

00:10:42.660 right?

00:10:43.080 Again,

00:10:43.380 I'm not in favor

00:10:44.060 of the library

00:10:45.140 being removed

00:10:46.460 or taken down.

00:10:47.460 I'm not in favor

00:10:48.100 of any of them

00:10:48.620 being taken down.

00:10:49.840 But if you're going

00:10:50.700 to be consistent,

00:10:51.960 you kind of have

00:10:53.200 to go there.

00:10:54.780 So,

00:10:55.260 let's see if the country

00:10:55.920 wants to go there.

00:10:58.340 I'm down for that.

00:10:59.320 Anyway,

00:10:59.580 the reason that this is

00:11:00.520 the Statue Wars

00:11:02.080 is like a,

00:11:03.560 by the way,

00:11:06.300 did anybody else

00:11:08.360 make this connection

00:11:09.340 that the Statue situation

00:11:12.620 is basically

00:11:13.620 a giant chess game?

00:11:15.160 Because they are just

00:11:16.000 like giant chess pieces.

00:11:17.600 They're literally

00:11:18.540 like giant chess pieces.

00:11:20.500 There are two teams

00:11:21.380 and they're moving

00:11:22.880 their chess pieces.

00:11:23.880 In this case,

00:11:24.880 the left is capturing

00:11:25.940 a bunch of pieces

00:11:26.700 from the board.

00:11:27.400 And

00:11:28.700 how

00:11:30.420 simulation

00:11:31.620 weird is it

00:11:32.620 that the

00:11:34.220 statue

00:11:34.820 you would

00:11:35.420 first think of

00:11:36.520 as being like

00:11:37.840 the primary

00:11:38.940 respected

00:11:42.540 statue

00:11:43.540 on the left

00:11:44.480 is Martin Luther King

00:11:47.020 and his last name

00:11:48.080 is literally

00:11:49.000 King.

00:11:51.360 And that the right

00:11:52.440 almost certainly,

00:11:55.360 you should just assume

00:11:56.600 that somewhere

00:11:57.160 somebody is

00:11:57.880 planning

00:11:58.900 to take

00:11:59.760 their king.

00:12:01.440 They're actually

00:12:02.300 going to take

00:12:02.860 their king.

00:12:04.320 Now,

00:12:04.920 I don't know

00:12:05.420 if it'll happen.

00:12:06.420 I don't want it

00:12:07.060 to happen.

00:12:09.400 But I'd be

00:12:10.200 kind of surprised

00:12:11.060 if somebody

00:12:11.620 didn't take a run

00:12:12.420 at it.

00:12:13.660 Now,

00:12:14.160 here's why

00:12:14.500 it's like

00:12:14.880 a Star Trek

00:12:16.300 episode.

00:12:16.920 One of the

00:12:17.340 first original

00:12:18.120 Star Treks,

00:12:19.320 one of the

00:12:19.840 most provocative

00:12:20.700 episodes

00:12:21.540 that just

00:12:23.220 has stayed

00:12:23.620 with me

00:12:24.000 since I was

00:12:24.440 a kid

00:12:24.800 is there

00:12:26.080 was an alien,

00:12:26.680 two alien species

00:12:27.880 that the crew

00:12:29.960 of the Star Trek

00:12:30.540 encountered

00:12:31.040 in which they

00:12:32.100 were embroiled

00:12:32.700 in a war.

00:12:34.240 But they decided

00:12:35.400 ages ago

00:12:36.500 that they didn't

00:12:37.300 want to have a war

00:12:38.040 with real destruction.

00:12:39.600 Like they didn't

00:12:40.380 want to destroy

00:12:41.000 their cities

00:12:41.580 and their stuff.

00:12:43.020 But they knew

00:12:43.820 that you couldn't

00:12:44.860 win or lose

00:12:45.900 a war

00:12:46.280 unless people

00:12:47.020 died.

00:12:47.680 So they would

00:12:48.440 fight the war

00:12:49.120 with simulations,

00:12:51.020 you know,

00:12:51.160 just a simulated

00:12:51.940 war.

00:12:52.340 and then

00:12:53.040 when there

00:12:53.380 was a result,

00:12:54.840 the losing

00:12:55.460 team would

00:12:56.060 have to

00:12:56.400 volunteer

00:12:56.980 X number

00:12:57.840 of citizens

00:12:58.420 to be

00:12:59.120 suicided.

00:13:01.620 Basically,

00:13:02.200 they go

00:13:02.580 into some

00:13:02.980 machine that

00:13:03.520 vaporizes them.

00:13:04.980 So that

00:13:05.780 everybody is

00:13:06.380 just sort

00:13:06.740 of civilized

00:13:07.620 agreeing,

00:13:08.200 ah, darn,

00:13:08.760 we lost

00:13:09.220 the simulation.

00:13:10.840 I guess

00:13:11.240 40,000 of

00:13:12.160 our people

00:13:12.580 have to go

00:13:13.300 into the

00:13:14.800 suicide

00:13:15.180 machine.

00:13:16.840 And they

00:13:17.480 decided that

00:13:18.320 it was just

00:13:19.600 better than

00:13:20.020 regular war.

00:13:21.420 Because you

00:13:21.920 couldn't get

00:13:22.360 rid of war,

00:13:24.060 people wouldn't

00:13:25.200 ever let you

00:13:25.820 get rid of war.

00:13:27.420 So if you

00:13:28.060 couldn't get

00:13:28.420 rid of it,

00:13:29.020 what is the

00:13:29.520 most civilized

00:13:30.520 way you could

00:13:31.040 do it?

00:13:31.360 And that's

00:13:31.600 what the

00:13:31.960 Star Trek

00:13:32.580 imagined,

00:13:33.460 is a

00:13:34.080 civilized way

00:13:35.040 you could

00:13:35.380 have an

00:13:35.600 actual war.

00:13:37.360 And the

00:13:39.180 reason that

00:13:40.400 it stuck with

00:13:41.020 me so long

00:13:41.760 is that it

00:13:42.380 is logically

00:13:44.680 impeccable.

00:13:46.640 Meaning that

00:13:47.400 the solution

00:13:48.140 these two

00:13:48.920 alleged

00:13:49.920 or

00:13:50.880 imaginary

00:13:52.600 alien

00:13:55.180 societies

00:13:55.720 came up

00:13:56.200 with is

00:13:56.900 actually

00:13:57.780 100%

00:13:59.100 better than

00:14:00.420 regular war.

00:14:02.000 There's no

00:14:02.380 doubt about

00:14:02.780 it.

00:14:03.660 But it's

00:14:04.120 so awful

00:14:04.860 that you

00:14:06.140 can't imagine

00:14:06.720 it, which

00:14:07.080 is what

00:14:07.360 makes it a

00:14:07.740 good episode.

00:14:09.100 So,

00:14:09.940 anyway,

00:14:11.280 in a different

00:14:11.880 way, it's

00:14:12.240 not a perfect

00:14:12.760 analogy, but

00:14:13.900 when I see

00:14:14.280 the left and

00:14:14.800 the right

00:14:15.060 fighting with

00:14:17.000 statues like

00:14:18.760 a giant

00:14:19.180 chess board,

00:14:19.920 it feels to

00:14:21.720 be like that

00:14:22.240 Star Trek

00:14:22.700 episode where

00:14:23.420 we figured

00:14:23.860 out how

00:14:24.940 to fight a

00:14:25.520 civil war

00:14:26.260 without the

00:14:27.620 normal

00:14:27.960 consequences.

00:14:29.780 It just

00:14:30.420 feels like

00:14:30.840 that.

00:14:31.600 I just

00:14:31.940 can't get

00:14:32.280 that out of

00:14:32.560 my head.

00:14:32.940 All right.

00:14:33.160 CNN's fake

00:14:35.420 news is

00:14:35.980 hilarious today

00:14:36.980 because they

00:14:37.640 don't have

00:14:37.960 much to

00:14:38.300 work with.

00:14:39.580 When the

00:14:40.380 news doesn't

00:14:41.120 serve up

00:14:41.740 good red

00:14:42.620 meat about

00:14:43.240 the president,

00:14:44.160 they're going

00:14:44.600 to take

00:14:44.860 whatever meat

00:14:45.400 they have.

00:14:47.600 So, if

00:14:48.340 CNN does

00:14:48.980 not have

00:14:49.640 prime steak

00:14:51.760 that they

00:14:52.860 can chew

00:14:53.360 on to

00:14:53.920 criticize the

00:14:54.740 president,

00:14:55.220 they'll take

00:14:55.820 hamburger if

00:14:58.620 that's all

00:14:58.960 you got,

00:14:59.580 and all

00:14:59.960 they had

00:15:00.220 this week

00:15:00.580 was hamburger.

00:15:01.880 Here's the

00:15:02.400 first one.

00:15:04.180 About half

00:15:04.940 of the

00:15:05.220 stories,

00:15:06.240 I think

00:15:06.600 something,

00:15:07.120 I'm exaggerating,

00:15:08.280 but by far

00:15:09.280 most of the

00:15:10.500 articles and

00:15:11.800 opinions and

00:15:12.460 stories on

00:15:13.100 CNN.com are

00:15:15.180 about Trump's

00:15:16.900 rally audience

00:15:19.940 size.

00:15:21.660 Now, is

00:15:22.900 there anything

00:15:23.440 less important

00:15:24.220 than that?

00:15:25.400 In the whole

00:15:26.380 world, is

00:15:27.580 there anything

00:15:28.080 less important

00:15:29.040 than a

00:15:31.360 campaign was

00:15:32.300 hoping that

00:15:32.800 lots of

00:15:33.180 people would

00:15:33.720 show up?

00:15:35.120 Some people

00:15:35.820 expected that

00:15:36.560 a lot of

00:15:36.900 people would

00:15:37.340 show up,

00:15:38.340 but we're in

00:15:39.060 the middle of

00:15:39.460 a pandemic,

00:15:40.500 and here's

00:15:40.960 the part that

00:15:41.400 they never

00:15:41.800 mention.

00:15:43.200 Have you

00:15:43.780 heard anybody

00:15:44.700 mention this,

00:15:45.420 or is this

00:15:45.800 the first

00:15:46.340 time you'll

00:15:46.780 hear it?

00:15:49.060 The original

00:15:50.120 rally was

00:15:50.880 going to be

00:15:51.180 on a

00:15:51.460 Saturday

00:15:51.820 night.

00:15:53.360 It got

00:15:53.980 moved to

00:15:54.460 a Sunday.

00:15:56.020 How many

00:15:56.680 people who

00:15:57.460 would go out

00:15:58.160 on a

00:15:58.480 Saturday

00:15:58.820 night would

00:16:00.520 not go

00:16:01.000 out on a

00:16:01.480 Sunday

00:16:01.720 night,

00:16:02.160 because it's

00:16:02.540 a work

00:16:02.800 night?

00:16:04.020 The answer

00:16:04.480 is a lot.

00:16:05.820 I don't

00:16:06.140 know if

00:16:06.360 that had

00:16:06.600 anything to

00:16:07.060 do with

00:16:07.300 the attendance,

00:16:08.240 but it's

00:16:08.640 a pretty

00:16:08.940 big factor.

00:16:10.320 I would

00:16:10.780 have gone

00:16:11.120 on a

00:16:11.440 Saturday,

00:16:12.000 maybe I

00:16:12.360 had my

00:16:13.700 sitter lined

00:16:14.900 up, I

00:16:16.460 didn't have

00:16:16.840 any plans

00:16:17.360 on Sunday,

00:16:18.600 but Saturday

00:16:19.120 was marked

00:16:19.640 out.

00:16:20.020 Then the

00:16:20.300 president

00:16:20.560 says,

00:16:20.900 that's

00:16:22.140 Juneteenth,

00:16:23.500 let's move

00:16:24.200 it to the

00:16:24.920 next day.

00:16:25.380 not

00:16:26.240 everybody

00:16:26.680 has such

00:16:27.440 a flexible

00:16:28.020 schedule that

00:16:28.780 they can

00:16:29.020 just move

00:16:29.460 it.

00:16:30.720 That's

00:16:31.080 got to be

00:16:31.380 at least

00:16:31.620 part of

00:16:31.980 it.

00:16:32.260 I don't

00:16:32.520 think I've

00:16:32.920 heard anybody

00:16:33.560 say that.

00:16:34.940 That's

00:16:35.180 got to be

00:16:35.780 at least

00:16:36.940 20% of

00:16:38.820 the explanation

00:16:39.520 is that they

00:16:40.460 moved the

00:16:40.860 date.

00:16:41.900 You can't

00:16:42.340 move a

00:16:42.640 date and

00:16:42.920 expect all

00:16:43.400 the people

00:16:43.700 to show

00:16:44.060 up.

00:16:44.300 Anyway,

00:16:45.960 so there's

00:16:47.360 no story

00:16:47.880 there whatsoever.

00:16:49.220 We're in the

00:16:49.500 middle of a

00:16:49.920 pandemic.

00:16:50.620 You didn't

00:16:50.900 get a good

00:16:51.340 attendance at a

00:16:52.400 place that

00:16:52.820 would probably

00:16:53.240 kill you

00:16:53.760 because people

00:16:54.820 wouldn't have

00:16:55.200 masks in

00:16:55.720 their shoulder

00:16:56.120 to shoulder.

00:16:57.340 There's just

00:16:57.740 no story

00:16:58.240 there.

00:16:58.680 But they're

00:16:59.000 trying to

00:16:59.620 make something

00:17:00.440 out of it

00:17:00.820 anyway.

00:17:02.020 And then the

00:17:02.640 other thing

00:17:03.000 that they're

00:17:03.280 trying to

00:17:03.660 make something

00:17:04.740 out of

00:17:05.120 nothing is

00:17:05.920 when Trump

00:17:06.840 said that we

00:17:07.380 should reduce

00:17:08.000 testing because

00:17:08.820 it's making

00:17:09.300 him look

00:17:09.620 bad.

00:17:13.020 Now,

00:17:13.860 the fact

00:17:14.680 that Trump's

00:17:17.200 advisors and

00:17:19.520 folks have

00:17:22.080 have to

00:17:22.260 tell the

00:17:22.760 media that

00:17:23.580 he wasn't

00:17:24.020 serious.

00:17:25.880 No,

00:17:26.620 he's not

00:17:27.080 serious that

00:17:28.400 we should

00:17:28.800 plunge the

00:17:29.640 country into

00:17:30.580 a health

00:17:31.420 nightmare of

00:17:32.780 which we

00:17:34.180 fully understand

00:17:35.100 so that he

00:17:36.100 can look good

00:17:36.780 temporarily.

00:17:38.160 He didn't

00:17:38.900 really ever

00:17:39.660 say that.

00:17:41.300 I mean,

00:17:41.640 he didn't

00:17:41.940 mean it.

00:17:42.800 He said the

00:17:43.720 words jokingly.

00:17:45.280 But the

00:17:45.620 fact that

00:17:46.020 they're making

00:17:46.460 news about

00:17:48.280 something that

00:17:48.840 is obviously

00:17:49.380 a joke.

00:17:50.400 What else

00:17:50.900 could it be?

00:17:52.080 So there's

00:17:54.060 that.

00:17:55.060 So I was

00:17:56.780 looking through

00:17:57.260 John Bolton's

00:17:58.340 interview transcript

00:17:59.760 because I didn't

00:18:01.360 see it live.

00:18:01.960 I just wanted to

00:18:02.460 read it because

00:18:02.980 it would be

00:18:03.200 faster.

00:18:04.340 And he's

00:18:06.400 the dumbest

00:18:06.880 guy.

00:18:08.660 I am

00:18:10.080 actually really

00:18:10.860 shocked that

00:18:13.200 somebody with

00:18:15.180 his level of

00:18:16.020 intellect as

00:18:17.020 comes through

00:18:17.580 on the

00:18:17.860 transcript.

00:18:18.680 The only thing

00:18:19.680 I know about

00:18:20.180 John Bolton

00:18:20.700 really is a

00:18:22.100 few public

00:18:22.820 surface-y

00:18:23.540 things,

00:18:24.400 a little bit

00:18:25.080 about his

00:18:25.480 resume,

00:18:26.680 but I don't

00:18:27.680 really know too

00:18:28.180 much about him

00:18:28.680 besides that.

00:18:29.720 But when you

00:18:30.240 read a long

00:18:31.060 form interview

00:18:31.960 where he gets

00:18:32.800 to actually

00:18:34.100 talk and

00:18:34.820 explain some

00:18:35.480 things,

00:18:36.480 my jaw was

00:18:37.640 dropping.

00:18:38.640 And it wasn't

00:18:39.120 that I disagreed

00:18:40.260 with him so

00:18:40.940 much.

00:18:41.340 It wasn't that

00:18:41.880 my opinion is

00:18:42.880 different.

00:18:44.020 It's that he

00:18:44.360 doesn't seem

00:18:45.020 smart.

00:18:45.540 I don't

00:18:47.520 know if he

00:18:47.860 ever was.

00:18:49.120 But when I

00:18:49.740 say smart,

00:18:50.560 I don't

00:18:50.940 mean in the

00:18:51.580 book sense.

00:18:52.940 I'm sure if

00:18:53.780 we did a

00:18:55.600 test of

00:18:56.280 who knew

00:18:57.320 the most

00:18:58.800 leaders of

00:18:59.520 the most

00:18:59.900 countries,

00:19:01.120 he would

00:19:01.880 smoke me,

00:19:02.580 right?

00:19:03.360 Who would

00:19:03.920 know the

00:19:04.420 history of

00:19:05.420 blah,

00:19:05.760 blah,

00:19:05.900 blah?

00:19:06.260 He would

00:19:06.640 smoke me.

00:19:07.580 So I'm

00:19:07.920 not saying

00:19:08.420 he lacks

00:19:09.180 knowledge.

00:19:10.880 Probably

00:19:11.380 knowledge-wise,

00:19:12.180 he's one of

00:19:12.560 the more

00:19:12.760 knowledgeable

00:19:13.160 people around.

00:19:13.860 So he's

00:19:15.040 very knowledgeable.

00:19:16.040 But I'm

00:19:16.480 going to walk

00:19:16.880 through some

00:19:17.380 of the things

00:19:17.820 he said in

00:19:18.380 the interview

00:19:18.780 to tell you

00:19:20.220 how stupid

00:19:20.680 they are.

00:19:22.000 So no

00:19:23.320 particular order.

00:19:26.440 Here we

00:19:27.060 go.

00:19:31.900 Here's

00:19:32.380 something that

00:19:33.120 I always joke

00:19:35.160 about this as

00:19:35.780 the creator of

00:19:36.440 the Dilbert

00:19:36.920 cartoon.

00:19:38.140 I can't tell

00:19:39.000 you how many

00:19:39.480 comics I've

00:19:40.180 written,

00:19:40.740 because it's

00:19:41.120 quite a few,

00:19:42.340 on the subject

00:19:43.060 of there's

00:19:43.600 always that

00:19:44.040 one dumb

00:19:44.680 employee who

00:19:45.920 says,

00:19:46.520 but what's

00:19:46.920 our strategy?

00:19:48.740 Have you

00:19:49.060 been in that

00:19:49.500 meeting?

00:19:50.460 You'll be in

00:19:51.080 a meeting and

00:19:51.760 you're talking

00:19:52.340 about stuff and

00:19:53.240 you've made

00:19:53.920 some decisions.

00:19:55.240 And then there's

00:19:55.700 that smart,

00:19:57.280 dumb person.

00:19:59.060 And I think

00:19:59.740 that's what

00:20:00.080 Bolton is.

00:20:00.680 He's a smart,

00:20:01.560 dumb person.

00:20:02.420 I think somebody

00:20:03.200 else has a name

00:20:03.780 for that.

00:20:04.740 But the smart,

00:20:05.640 dumb person in

00:20:06.220 the room says,

00:20:07.220 excuse me,

00:20:08.040 boss,

00:20:09.460 what is our

00:20:10.280 strategy?

00:20:11.840 And everybody

00:20:12.540 just goes,

00:20:13.540 um.

00:20:15.240 And they don't

00:20:15.920 know how to

00:20:16.260 answer it because

00:20:16.960 the smart,

00:20:17.640 dumb person has

00:20:18.580 taken the high

00:20:19.340 ground, but it's

00:20:20.560 a fake high

00:20:21.220 ground.

00:20:22.100 There's no such

00:20:22.920 thing as strategy.

00:20:25.140 Strategy isn't a

00:20:26.020 thing.

00:20:26.600 It's a thing we

00:20:27.380 think is a thing.

00:20:28.540 That's why the

00:20:29.320 smart, dumb people

00:20:30.080 bring it up, but

00:20:30.900 the smart people

00:20:31.600 don't.

00:20:32.780 The smart people

00:20:33.560 know that strategy

00:20:34.420 isn't a thing.

00:20:36.020 You know, there

00:20:36.360 are some obvious

00:20:37.440 things that

00:20:37.940 everybody knows

00:20:38.480 you want to

00:20:38.880 do.

00:20:39.660 For example,

00:20:40.420 does the United

00:20:41.160 States have a

00:20:41.920 strategy?

00:20:44.060 Well, whether

00:20:45.100 you call it a

00:20:45.800 strategy or not,

00:20:47.460 would we all

00:20:48.160 agree that the

00:20:48.740 United States

00:20:49.400 wants to be

00:20:50.020 prosperous, wants

00:20:51.080 to have good

00:20:51.520 trade deals,

00:20:52.740 wants peace,

00:20:53.740 wants to influence

00:20:54.420 other countries,

00:20:55.840 doesn't want to

00:20:56.500 be in big wars?

00:20:57.940 I could go

00:20:58.500 down the list.

00:20:59.880 It would be a

00:21:00.280 pretty long list

00:21:01.040 and you would

00:21:01.440 say, yeah,

00:21:02.180 yeah, that's

00:21:02.680 what we want.

00:21:03.740 Those are all

00:21:04.860 the things we

00:21:05.400 want.

00:21:06.540 And then you'd

00:21:07.480 say, well, how

00:21:07.900 do you get

00:21:08.220 them?

00:21:09.480 Well, here's the

00:21:10.180 thing.

00:21:10.960 If the environment

00:21:12.760 is changing every

00:21:13.980 day and every

00:21:14.900 moment, what's

00:21:16.380 your strategy?

00:21:18.260 You can't have a

00:21:19.320 strategy when

00:21:21.020 things are changing

00:21:21.760 all the time,

00:21:22.420 every moment.

00:21:23.520 There are some

00:21:24.300 basic things you

00:21:25.300 can do that

00:21:26.920 after the fact

00:21:27.860 you can label

00:21:28.640 them a strategy.

00:21:29.900 For example,

00:21:31.420 the United States

00:21:32.300 is, as a

00:21:33.720 pretty high

00:21:34.340 priority on

00:21:34.940 education.

00:21:35.880 We think it

00:21:36.340 could be even

00:21:36.800 more, but

00:21:38.020 wouldn't you

00:21:39.000 say the

00:21:39.300 United States

00:21:39.960 tries to

00:21:40.540 educate its

00:21:41.260 population?

00:21:42.380 Is that a

00:21:43.100 strategy?

00:21:44.340 Kind of.

00:21:45.740 Kind of.

00:21:46.300 You could say

00:21:46.780 that's a strategy,

00:21:47.840 but since

00:21:48.660 everybody agrees

00:21:49.520 and it's

00:21:49.900 obvious, do

00:21:51.400 you call it a

00:21:52.020 strategy, or is

00:21:52.920 it just something

00:21:53.400 that's obviously

00:21:54.220 good to do?

00:21:55.820 The problem

00:21:56.640 with the people

00:21:57.280 who say you

00:21:57.980 have no strategy

00:21:59.000 is they're

00:22:00.120 smart dumb.

00:22:01.440 There's no

00:22:01.960 such thing as

00:22:02.580 a strategy, and

00:22:03.860 if you had

00:22:04.380 one, it would

00:22:05.040 either be so

00:22:05.780 obvious that it

00:22:06.560 would be, you

00:22:07.740 know, not worth

00:22:08.660 saying, or it

00:22:10.620 would change every

00:22:11.640 five minutes.

00:22:12.700 So you'd have to

00:22:13.260 rewrite your

00:22:13.800 strategy.

00:22:14.320 All right, all

00:22:14.740 right, we just

00:22:15.680 found out something

00:22:16.320 new about North

00:22:17.600 Korea.

00:22:18.100 I guess, you

00:22:19.560 know, change

00:22:20.040 your strategy.

00:22:21.360 So all the

00:22:23.040 smart dumb

00:22:23.460 people say, my

00:22:24.360 boss had no

00:22:25.300 strategy.

00:22:26.900 All right, what

00:22:27.560 else does he

00:22:28.500 say here?

00:22:28.920 And here are

00:22:30.380 the different

00:22:30.740 ways that he

00:22:31.500 says it.

00:22:32.000 So these are

00:22:32.420 quotes from

00:22:33.000 Bolden from

00:22:33.580 his interview.

00:22:34.760 There really

00:22:35.140 isn't any

00:22:35.720 guiding principle,

00:22:36.920 like a strategy

00:22:38.380 basically.

00:22:39.560 There isn't any

00:22:40.360 guiding principle

00:22:41.120 that I was able

00:22:42.120 to discern other

00:22:43.600 than what's good

00:22:44.600 for Donald Trump's

00:22:45.560 re-election.

00:22:47.100 Now let me ask

00:22:47.760 you this.

00:22:48.900 Do you think

00:22:49.340 there's ever been

00:22:50.460 in the history

00:22:51.560 of the United

00:22:52.300 States, I'm

00:22:53.920 just speculating,

00:22:55.880 has there ever

00:22:56.520 been anybody

00:22:58.280 who said a

00:22:59.160 democratic

00:22:59.800 president,

00:23:00.460 doesn't matter

00:23:00.860 which one,

00:23:01.840 pick your

00:23:02.260 democratic

00:23:02.660 president,

00:23:03.680 who has ever

00:23:04.540 said, I don't

00:23:05.320 think that

00:23:05.760 president has a

00:23:06.700 guiding principle

00:23:07.960 or a strategy?

00:23:11.020 Probably every

00:23:12.260 single time.

00:23:15.480 Probably every

00:23:16.800 time.

00:23:17.920 My guess is

00:23:18.880 there's no such

00:23:19.600 thing as any

00:23:20.400 prominent leader

00:23:21.240 who does not

00:23:22.540 have people saying

00:23:23.340 there's no

00:23:23.800 strategy.

00:23:25.060 There's no

00:23:25.920 guiding principle,

00:23:26.900 there's no

00:23:27.280 strategy.

00:23:28.740 It's like

00:23:29.480 saying air

00:23:30.440 exists.

00:23:31.680 There's air.

00:23:33.180 It just

00:23:33.440 doesn't mean

00:23:33.820 anything.

00:23:35.460 Then here's

00:23:36.580 another quote

00:23:37.100 from Bolton.

00:23:37.960 I don't think

00:23:38.500 the president

00:23:39.000 fully understood

00:23:40.160 all of the

00:23:41.460 implications of

00:23:42.460 what he was

00:23:42.920 doing.

00:23:44.540 Number one,

00:23:46.040 does anybody

00:23:46.880 understand all

00:23:48.060 of the

00:23:48.380 implications of

00:23:50.460 what they are

00:23:50.960 doing?

00:23:52.560 No.

00:23:53.840 No.

00:23:54.900 Nobody

00:23:55.380 understands all

00:23:56.260 of the

00:23:56.520 implications of

00:23:57.340 what they're

00:23:57.620 doing.

00:23:58.680 What kind

00:23:58.960 of a criticism

00:24:01.320 is that?

00:24:02.680 How about

00:24:03.020 you?

00:24:03.720 How about

00:24:04.380 you there in

00:24:04.860 the comments?

00:24:05.920 Do you

00:24:06.280 understand the

00:24:07.820 implications of

00:24:08.680 everything you're

00:24:09.220 doing?

00:24:10.060 And if you

00:24:10.760 don't, what's

00:24:11.920 your strategy?

00:24:13.460 What kind of

00:24:14.360 guiding principle

00:24:15.100 do you have for

00:24:15.760 your life?

00:24:17.120 Again, these are

00:24:18.060 all nonsense

00:24:18.700 words that you

00:24:19.600 can literally

00:24:20.180 just say about

00:24:20.880 anybody in

00:24:21.940 every situation.

00:24:22.840 And it's

00:24:25.380 mind-reading.

00:24:26.400 So the

00:24:27.020 bigger problem

00:24:27.700 is that

00:24:28.180 Bolton says,

00:24:29.600 I don't think

00:24:30.180 the president

00:24:30.640 fully understood

00:24:31.500 all of the

00:24:32.040 implications.

00:24:33.160 Well, it's

00:24:33.620 mind-reading

00:24:34.200 on top of

00:24:35.360 the fact that

00:24:36.620 it's something

00:24:37.060 that nobody

00:24:37.560 could do,

00:24:38.180 understand all

00:24:39.080 of the

00:24:39.300 implications of

00:24:40.020 what they're

00:24:40.280 doing.

00:24:43.180 And then he

00:24:45.000 says,

00:24:46.580 Bolton says,

00:24:47.320 and I think

00:24:47.700 what it shows

00:24:48.260 is a couple

00:24:48.760 of things.

00:24:50.180 Number one,

00:24:50.980 that foreign

00:24:51.360 policy and

00:24:51.980 defense policy

00:24:52.740 are not

00:24:53.340 motivated by

00:24:54.500 philosophy,

00:24:55.520 grand strategy,

00:24:56.560 or policy.

00:25:00.560 Isn't that

00:25:01.320 just sort of

00:25:02.220 true all the

00:25:03.080 time?

00:25:05.220 Why is this

00:25:06.200 special to

00:25:06.880 Trump?

00:25:08.080 Well, let's

00:25:08.500 look at this

00:25:08.920 again.

00:25:10.120 Do you think

00:25:10.580 that our

00:25:11.060 foreign policy

00:25:11.920 and defense

00:25:12.460 strategy have

00:25:14.080 ever been

00:25:14.700 motivated by

00:25:15.940 philosophy,

00:25:17.800 grand strategy,

00:25:19.400 or policy?

00:25:20.140 Okay, let's

00:25:22.000 take them

00:25:22.320 apart.

00:25:23.120 Have our

00:25:23.740 defense policy

00:25:24.640 ever been

00:25:25.040 motivated by

00:25:25.720 philosophy?

00:25:28.180 No.

00:25:30.000 No.

00:25:31.300 What philosophy?

00:25:33.080 The philosophy

00:25:34.100 that you need

00:25:34.920 a strong defense

00:25:35.780 so people don't

00:25:36.500 mess with you?

00:25:38.380 Like what?

00:25:39.320 What kind of

00:25:39.900 philosophy are we

00:25:40.800 talking about?

00:25:41.740 Is there any

00:25:42.360 country in the

00:25:43.000 world who

00:25:44.120 wouldn't like a

00:25:45.020 strong defense if

00:25:46.200 they had the

00:25:46.540 option?

00:25:47.880 No.

00:25:48.340 How much

00:25:49.380 strategy do

00:25:50.560 you need to

00:25:50.980 talk about to

00:25:52.560 decide whether

00:25:53.180 you want a

00:25:53.600 strong military?

00:25:56.720 What kind of

00:25:57.500 philosophy is

00:25:58.300 that?

00:25:59.040 Or how about

00:25:59.540 the grand

00:25:59.980 strategy?

00:26:01.160 Is a grand

00:26:02.200 strategy different

00:26:03.240 than a strategy?

00:26:04.760 And is a grand

00:26:05.800 strategy different

00:26:06.600 than a philosophy?

00:26:07.940 Is a grand

00:26:08.720 strategy different

00:26:09.780 than a philosophy

00:26:10.620 that's different

00:26:11.680 than a guiding

00:26:12.220 principle?

00:26:13.640 Yeah, it's all

00:26:14.260 jargon.

00:26:14.640 If you didn't

00:26:16.420 know how the

00:26:17.160 world really

00:26:17.780 works, in other

00:26:18.400 words, if you

00:26:18.840 had not sort of

00:26:19.960 lived in the

00:26:20.420 corporate world,

00:26:21.760 you'd never been

00:26:22.560 in government,

00:26:24.000 you would easily

00:26:24.780 read Bolton's

00:26:25.560 words and say,

00:26:26.340 whoa, this is a

00:26:28.000 guy who knows

00:26:28.460 what he's talking

00:26:28.980 about.

00:26:29.180 He's talking

00:26:29.580 about philosophies,

00:26:31.380 grand strategies,

00:26:32.440 policies.

00:26:33.120 These are things

00:26:33.700 that President

00:26:34.220 Trump never

00:26:34.840 even, he can't

00:26:36.040 even conceive.

00:26:38.300 He can't even

00:26:39.160 conceive of these

00:26:40.000 smartitudes.

00:26:41.240 But indeed,

00:26:45.120 Trump is clearly

00:26:46.220 the smarter

00:26:46.760 person in the

00:26:47.540 room.

00:26:48.880 And I would

00:26:49.800 die on that

00:26:50.500 hill, by the

00:26:50.980 way.

00:26:51.720 I would die

00:26:52.580 on the hill

00:26:53.180 that if you

00:26:54.480 looked at

00:26:54.880 street smarts,

00:26:56.380 sort of general

00:26:57.140 decision-making,

00:26:58.580 ability to

00:26:59.380 understand people

00:27:00.220 and the world,

00:27:01.380 the ability to

00:27:02.280 look at complexity

00:27:03.680 and figure out

00:27:04.480 how much he

00:27:04.880 really needs to

00:27:05.500 work with,

00:27:06.160 etc.

00:27:06.760 I don't think

00:27:07.960 Bolton is

00:27:08.600 anywhere in the

00:27:09.600 category of

00:27:10.200 Trump.

00:27:11.240 Say what you

00:27:11.980 will about

00:27:12.380 Trump.

00:27:13.320 He's several

00:27:15.740 levels above

00:27:16.860 what is

00:27:18.100 indicated in

00:27:18.800 this transcript.

00:27:21.320 If you take

00:27:22.160 out Trump's

00:27:22.740 jokes and

00:27:23.240 hyperboles and

00:27:24.220 stuff, you

00:27:25.080 end up with

00:27:25.760 a solid

00:27:26.760 decision-making,

00:27:27.760 but you don't

00:27:28.180 get that here

00:27:29.000 from Bolton.

00:27:30.960 Then the

00:27:31.820 other thing he

00:27:32.240 says,

00:27:32.580 philosophy,

00:27:33.200 grand strategy,

00:27:33.880 or policy?

00:27:34.880 Is our

00:27:35.560 defense policy

00:27:36.620 not motivated

00:27:37.720 by policy?

00:27:39.300 This is

00:27:39.680 actually his

00:27:40.180 sentence.

00:27:41.240 If you

00:27:41.540 break that

00:27:41.900 in the

00:27:42.080 sentence,

00:27:42.540 he's actually

00:27:43.060 saying he

00:27:44.140 doesn't think

00:27:44.780 our foreign

00:27:45.420 policy and

00:27:46.100 defense policy

00:27:47.020 are motivated

00:27:48.040 by policy.

00:27:50.800 What?

00:27:52.880 What?

00:27:54.000 That isn't even

00:27:54.940 anything.

00:27:56.020 You can't even

00:27:56.760 disagree with it.

00:27:58.480 It doesn't even

00:27:59.200 mean anything.

00:28:00.360 Yeah, our policy

00:28:01.080 isn't motivated

00:28:01.640 by policy.

00:28:02.940 Oh, yeah,

00:28:03.940 that's probably

00:28:04.640 a good criticism

00:28:06.040 of the president

00:28:06.760 is that our

00:28:07.880 policy isn't

00:28:08.520 motivated by

00:28:09.180 policy.

00:28:09.900 I don't think

00:28:10.620 policy is

00:28:11.240 supposed to be

00:28:11.640 motivated by

00:28:12.220 policy.

00:28:13.320 It doesn't

00:28:14.040 work that

00:28:14.520 way.

00:28:15.640 All right,

00:28:15.780 let's see

00:28:16.060 what else

00:28:16.340 he said.

00:28:19.560 Bolton said,

00:28:20.320 I could see

00:28:21.140 even before

00:28:21.860 my first

00:28:22.460 day when

00:28:23.600 I would go

00:28:24.080 over to

00:28:24.480 talk to

00:28:24.840 Trump and

00:28:25.400 others that

00:28:26.400 this was not

00:28:27.140 like a White

00:28:27.720 House I had

00:28:28.360 ever seen

00:28:28.840 before.

00:28:29.660 It was not

00:28:30.480 functioning in

00:28:31.120 the same way

00:28:31.860 as any of the

00:28:32.940 three previous

00:28:33.640 presidents I had

00:28:34.460 worked for.

00:28:34.960 Now, this

00:28:36.760 is a form of

00:28:37.600 criticism that

00:28:39.320 I call the

00:28:40.140 my God, it's

00:28:41.820 different from

00:28:42.440 what I'm used

00:28:43.080 to, and

00:28:43.600 therefore it

00:28:44.180 must be bad.

00:28:45.700 Is there any

00:28:46.640 criticism in

00:28:47.860 this statement?

00:28:48.980 It feels like a

00:28:50.140 criticism, right?

00:28:51.360 Because you

00:28:52.100 make the leap

00:28:53.940 of assumption

00:28:54.520 that's not

00:28:55.120 present.

00:28:56.200 He's simply

00:28:56.960 saying that the

00:28:57.900 Trump White

00:28:58.640 House operated

00:28:59.380 differently than

00:29:02.220 any other

00:29:02.740 White House.

00:29:03.260 is that

00:29:05.300 bad?

00:29:06.560 I think it's

00:29:07.780 why he was

00:29:08.400 elected.

00:29:09.740 I'm pretty

00:29:10.520 sure people

00:29:11.800 voted for

00:29:12.440 Trump to

00:29:13.740 get a

00:29:14.140 White House

00:29:14.680 that didn't

00:29:16.320 operate like

00:29:17.940 any prior

00:29:18.600 White House.

00:29:19.540 It's pretty

00:29:20.320 much exactly

00:29:21.100 what they

00:29:21.460 voted for.

00:29:23.460 And you'll

00:29:24.240 see this

00:29:24.620 kind of,

00:29:25.740 this is very

00:29:26.540 much a CNN

00:29:27.580 lefty kind

00:29:29.520 of thing.

00:29:29.900 Actually, I

00:29:30.340 take that

00:29:30.700 back.

00:29:31.000 the right

00:29:32.320 uses this

00:29:33.000 all the

00:29:33.440 time.

00:29:34.240 How often

00:29:34.860 do you see

00:29:35.180 people on

00:29:35.560 the right

00:29:35.880 criticize the

00:29:36.660 left, but

00:29:37.740 there's no

00:29:38.200 criticism in

00:29:39.120 the criticism?

00:29:40.440 And it

00:29:40.720 sounds like

00:29:41.160 this, well

00:29:42.260 that's the

00:29:42.700 oddest thing.

00:29:44.140 Well, that's

00:29:45.540 non-standard.

00:29:47.960 Well, I

00:29:48.480 haven't seen

00:29:48.840 that before.

00:29:50.320 You know,

00:29:50.920 anybody who's

00:29:51.840 criticizing

00:29:52.400 something by

00:29:53.280 its uniqueness

00:29:54.220 or its

00:29:56.060 newness

00:29:56.740 without

00:29:57.760 reference to

00:29:58.720 anything wrong

00:29:59.280 with it is

00:30:00.020 just not

00:30:00.480 somebody you

00:30:00.940 should listen

00:30:01.320 to about

00:30:01.700 anything.

00:30:02.660 It means

00:30:03.060 they're not

00:30:04.100 even having

00:30:07.140 a brushing

00:30:07.960 association with

00:30:09.340 reality or

00:30:10.060 the truth or

00:30:10.880 trying to

00:30:11.300 convince you or

00:30:12.060 persuade you.

00:30:12.920 It's just

00:30:13.500 noise.

00:30:15.820 All right.

00:30:17.360 Here's something

00:30:17.940 else that

00:30:18.500 Bolton says.

00:30:19.180 The president

00:30:19.580 should read

00:30:20.380 extensively the

00:30:21.940 material he's

00:30:22.720 given.

00:30:23.520 It's not clear

00:30:24.280 to me that he

00:30:24.900 read much of

00:30:25.540 anything.

00:30:26.860 Is this a

00:30:27.640 true statement?

00:30:28.140 The president

00:30:29.440 should read

00:30:30.120 extensively the

00:30:31.860 material that

00:30:32.580 he's given.

00:30:33.220 Would you

00:30:33.580 agree with

00:30:33.940 that statement?

00:30:35.340 Do you

00:30:35.920 think the

00:30:36.260 president should

00:30:36.960 read extensively

00:30:37.880 the material he's

00:30:39.520 given?

00:30:40.260 And then

00:30:40.760 Bolton went

00:30:41.260 on to complain

00:30:41.880 that the

00:30:42.500 president would

00:30:43.140 talk to

00:30:43.760 advisors outside

00:30:45.100 the little

00:30:45.960 ring of

00:30:46.500 advisors in

00:30:47.200 the White

00:30:47.460 House and

00:30:48.500 he would get

00:30:48.940 external opinions

00:30:49.960 and that

00:30:51.300 Bolton didn't

00:30:52.240 know where

00:30:52.480 these opinions

00:30:53.020 were coming

00:30:53.480 from so he

00:30:54.080 couldn't kind

00:30:54.580 of deal with

00:30:55.840 them or control

00:30:56.520 them or in a

00:30:58.120 chaos?

00:31:00.380 Who's the

00:31:01.080 idiot in the

00:31:01.740 room?

00:31:03.200 So you've just

00:31:03.820 heard this

00:31:04.320 criticism.

00:31:05.860 So Bolton

00:31:06.280 says, and

00:31:07.140 let's accept

00:31:07.880 that this is

00:31:08.500 true, because

00:31:09.220 I think this

00:31:09.680 is true.

00:31:10.940 The president

00:31:11.500 should read

00:31:12.120 extensively the

00:31:13.000 materials he's

00:31:14.040 given.

00:31:14.660 It's not clear

00:31:15.400 to me that he's

00:31:16.020 read much of

00:31:16.720 anything.

00:31:17.760 I feel like

00:31:18.940 we've heard

00:31:19.360 enough reporting

00:31:20.120 from enough

00:31:20.640 different people

00:31:21.300 that we could

00:31:22.560 agree he does

00:31:23.420 not do a deep

00:31:24.220 dive on the

00:31:25.020 reading.

00:31:25.380 So let's

00:31:26.960 take that as

00:31:27.440 a fact, just

00:31:28.260 for conversation

00:31:29.100 purposes.

00:31:30.080 It's a fact

00:31:30.840 that the

00:31:31.240 president does

00:31:31.940 not do a

00:31:32.460 deep dive on

00:31:33.780 the details of

00:31:34.600 the reading.

00:31:37.280 Who's the

00:31:37.920 idiot?

00:31:38.920 Who's the

00:31:39.640 idiot in the

00:31:40.420 room?

00:31:41.780 Bolton.

00:31:43.120 Bolton.

00:31:44.020 Do you know

00:31:44.380 why the

00:31:44.640 president should

00:31:46.040 not, this is

00:31:47.700 my opinion, this

00:31:48.460 is my advice,

00:31:49.700 should not do a

00:31:50.700 deep dive on

00:31:51.560 the reading and

00:31:52.760 then ignore his

00:31:53.660 outside sources

00:31:54.700 of information?

00:31:56.900 Because the

00:31:58.160 people who give

00:31:59.160 him the

00:32:00.060 write-ups are

00:32:01.680 not trying to

00:32:02.560 inform him,

00:32:04.460 they're trying

00:32:05.760 to manipulate

00:32:06.700 him.

00:32:08.780 You know

00:32:09.540 that, right?

00:32:10.440 Everybody in

00:32:11.240 the White

00:32:11.460 House, any

00:32:12.160 White House,

00:32:12.940 every White

00:32:13.460 House, every

00:32:14.100 corporation, every

00:32:15.800 organization, the

00:32:17.700 write-ups that

00:32:18.540 are given to

00:32:19.080 the boss, whoever

00:32:20.040 the boss is,

00:32:20.940 president, CEO,

00:32:22.020 doesn't matter,

00:32:22.460 whoever does

00:32:23.860 the write-up

00:32:24.440 is not

00:32:25.900 trying to

00:32:26.700 inform the

00:32:27.520 boss, they're

00:32:29.120 trying to

00:32:29.640 manipulate them,

00:32:31.140 they're trying to

00:32:31.800 move them to a

00:32:32.500 certain conclusion.

00:32:33.900 Now, they may

00:32:34.540 not say that,

00:32:35.940 they might show

00:32:36.980 both sides,

00:32:39.080 but the way

00:32:40.340 things are written

00:32:41.060 is for the

00:32:41.960 purpose of

00:32:42.740 getting the

00:32:43.160 result, even

00:32:44.080 if they swear

00:32:45.640 in a Bible that

00:32:46.480 that's not the

00:32:47.240 case.

00:32:48.100 Nobody can

00:32:48.880 write a long,

00:32:49.740 detailed thing

00:32:50.420 without leaving

00:32:51.700 out some

00:32:52.140 things that

00:32:52.960 maybe should

00:32:53.440 have been in

00:32:53.800 there,

00:32:54.640 emphasizing some

00:32:55.540 things that

00:32:56.280 maybe they

00:32:56.820 think are

00:32:57.320 kind of

00:32:57.680 special.

00:32:59.800 What is the

00:33:00.500 worst thing

00:33:01.340 that a

00:33:01.640 president should

00:33:02.360 do to be a

00:33:03.600 good president?

00:33:05.180 Let me read

00:33:06.040 John Bolton's

00:33:06.900 advice.

00:33:07.600 This is the

00:33:08.060 worst thing you

00:33:08.820 should do.

00:33:09.300 The dumbest

00:33:09.720 thing you

00:33:10.000 could do if

00:33:10.740 you were the

00:33:11.040 president would

00:33:11.620 be what

00:33:12.340 Bolton says,

00:33:14.240 which is,

00:33:14.920 should read

00:33:15.720 extensively the

00:33:16.820 material he's

00:33:17.620 given.

00:33:17.900 If I could

00:33:19.300 give the

00:33:19.640 president,

00:33:20.360 any president,

00:33:21.620 any CEO,

00:33:23.020 one piece of

00:33:23.760 advice, it

00:33:24.260 would be this,

00:33:25.340 do not read

00:33:26.220 extensively all

00:33:27.920 the materials you

00:33:28.860 are given.

00:33:30.480 It would be the

00:33:31.380 dumbest thing you

00:33:31.980 could do.

00:33:33.300 Now, imagine

00:33:34.680 you're the

00:33:35.040 president.

00:33:36.640 You've got a

00:33:37.980 zillion decisions

00:33:38.940 in the most

00:33:39.640 complicated world

00:33:40.720 that you could

00:33:41.680 imagine.

00:33:42.460 How much of

00:33:43.700 all the decisions

00:33:44.620 that a

00:33:45.040 president, any

00:33:45.760 president, needs

00:33:47.160 to make, can

00:33:48.700 be kept in

00:33:49.900 any human

00:33:51.120 being's mind

00:33:52.060 and sort of

00:33:53.400 processed well.

00:33:54.520 And the answer

00:33:54.940 is, not much.

00:33:56.620 As a percentage

00:33:57.460 of everything a

00:33:58.180 president needs

00:33:58.620 to do, you

00:33:59.940 could pick the

00:34:00.440 most genius

00:34:01.080 president, let's

00:34:02.660 say Bill

00:34:02.980 Clinton.

00:34:04.060 I think Bill

00:34:04.580 Clinton and

00:34:05.440 Obama, very

00:34:06.400 high IQ people,

00:34:08.360 you would say,

00:34:09.140 I think you

00:34:09.500 would agree,

00:34:10.280 Harvard educated,

00:34:12.000 whatever, that

00:34:14.140 these are smart

00:34:14.800 people who can

00:34:15.660 hold a lot of

00:34:16.480 detail, did it

00:34:18.420 matter?

00:34:20.040 Did the amount

00:34:20.760 of detail that

00:34:22.400 Obama could

00:34:23.420 master, did that

00:34:25.500 translate directly

00:34:26.540 into better

00:34:27.020 decisions?

00:34:27.940 And if so, can

00:34:29.500 you point to

00:34:30.000 one?

00:34:31.800 Can you point to

00:34:32.980 a decision that

00:34:34.620 was better because

00:34:35.760 any president did

00:34:38.000 a deep dive on

00:34:39.140 the reading, the

00:34:40.720 reading material,

00:34:41.840 and the background

00:34:42.820 and the historical

00:34:43.760 significance?

00:34:44.400 No.

00:34:46.760 No, I don't

00:34:47.540 think he can.

00:34:48.480 I doubt that's

00:34:49.300 ever happened in

00:34:50.100 the history of

00:34:50.600 the world.

00:34:51.840 The you didn't

00:34:52.940 look at my

00:34:53.480 write-up is what

00:34:54.820 the low-level

00:34:55.720 smart, dumb

00:34:57.060 people say in

00:34:57.760 every organization.

00:34:59.740 Every smart,

00:35:01.960 dumb employee of

00:35:03.200 every corporation

00:35:04.220 says, I tried to

00:35:06.080 tell the CEO, but

00:35:07.780 he wouldn't

00:35:08.240 listen.

00:35:09.020 I couldn't get

00:35:09.880 his attention.

00:35:10.500 He seems

00:35:11.660 motivated by

00:35:12.520 his own

00:35:12.960 career.

00:35:13.980 As far as I

00:35:14.820 can tell, he

00:35:15.940 doesn't even have

00:35:16.680 an interest in

00:35:17.820 strategy.

00:35:19.200 Every smart,

00:35:20.140 dumb, worthless

00:35:20.720 employee says

00:35:21.460 that about every

00:35:22.120 leader.

00:35:22.720 The only way you

00:35:24.120 could survive the

00:35:26.100 president's job, and

00:35:27.300 I have the least

00:35:29.300 little, let's say,

00:35:31.640 an opening into

00:35:32.460 that world.

00:35:33.720 In other words,

00:35:34.740 there are probably

00:35:35.720 only a few of you

00:35:36.920 here, percentage

00:35:38.500 wise.

00:35:38.820 It might be a

00:35:39.320 lot in numbers,

00:35:40.040 but percentage

00:35:40.940 wise, very few

00:35:41.900 of you who are

00:35:42.340 watching have

00:35:43.880 had a career or

00:35:46.220 a job that I

00:35:47.180 would say would

00:35:47.820 be as complex

00:35:49.300 as the

00:35:49.960 president's, or

00:35:51.620 even as complex

00:35:52.400 as mine.

00:35:54.000 Because at any

00:35:54.740 given moment, I've

00:35:55.560 got three careers

00:35:56.840 running simultaneously,

00:35:58.280 and all of them

00:35:58.720 have thousands of

00:36:00.380 variables.

00:36:01.380 So I live in a

00:36:02.320 world that is so

00:36:03.300 unbelievably

00:36:04.080 complicated that

00:36:06.520 the only way that

00:36:07.520 I can navigate

00:36:08.800 it, which I do

00:36:10.400 successfully, I

00:36:11.300 think, is that I

00:36:14.240 pay attention to

00:36:15.960 the least amount

00:36:16.860 of information I

00:36:18.100 can.

00:36:19.620 So the way to

00:36:21.140 survive immensely

00:36:22.700 complicated situations

00:36:24.160 that are just

00:36:24.840 ever, ever

00:36:26.020 complicated, they

00:36:27.480 don't ever

00:36:27.920 simplify, and

00:36:29.140 you've got to

00:36:29.620 find a way to

00:36:30.860 navigate through

00:36:31.500 this all the

00:36:32.220 time and make

00:36:32.860 the important

00:36:33.280 decisions.

00:36:33.740 decisions, you

00:36:35.180 really have to

00:36:35.780 find the

00:36:36.740 smallest bit of

00:36:37.620 information that

00:36:38.400 can get you to a

00:36:39.180 good decision.

00:36:40.300 So it could be,

00:36:41.620 bring my two

00:36:42.240 advisors in who

00:36:43.160 have different

00:36:43.660 points of view.

00:36:44.860 Give me ten

00:36:45.900 minutes arguing, and

00:36:47.320 you listen to him,

00:36:48.220 and you go, ah,

00:36:48.820 ah, ah, ah.

00:36:49.720 Let's say you're the

00:36:50.600 leader.

00:36:51.320 You're listening to

00:36:52.000 him, and one is,

00:36:53.900 I'm going to pick

00:36:54.880 two people,

00:36:55.680 randomly.

00:36:56.420 You don't have to

00:36:57.100 agree that these are

00:36:57.980 good characterizations,

00:36:59.400 but just go with me

00:37:01.500 here.

00:37:02.280 Two people, two

00:37:03.100 advisors come into

00:37:03.940 the room.

00:37:04.360 One is Peter

00:37:05.400 Navarro, who I

00:37:07.800 think is kind of

00:37:08.440 brilliant, actually,

00:37:09.560 if you listen to

00:37:10.240 him talk, that you

00:37:11.940 don't think he's

00:37:12.800 smart-dumb.

00:37:14.000 When you hear Peter

00:37:15.080 Navarro talk, you

00:37:16.080 think, I think he's

00:37:17.640 smart-smart.

00:37:19.460 Smart book-wise,

00:37:21.080 smart street-wise,

00:37:22.720 smart reality-wise.

00:37:24.440 So Peter Navarro

00:37:25.280 is smart-smart.

00:37:26.900 So he comes into

00:37:28.000 the office with John

00:37:29.460 Bolton, who is

00:37:30.780 smart-dumb.

00:37:32.420 And the president's

00:37:33.220 sitting there, and

00:37:34.680 Navarro, and let's

00:37:36.040 say they're on

00:37:36.880 different sides of

00:37:38.000 some topic, and

00:37:39.560 Navarro says,

00:37:40.380 here's my argument,

00:37:41.260 ba-ba-ba-ba-bum,

00:37:42.060 here are the three

00:37:42.700 things you need to

00:37:43.320 know.

00:37:44.000 Two of them are

00:37:44.580 really important,

00:37:45.280 Mr. President,

00:37:46.280 focus on these two

00:37:47.240 things.

00:37:48.280 The other things are

00:37:49.000 important, but not

00:37:49.880 nearly as important,

00:37:50.800 these two things.

00:37:52.520 Can the president

00:37:53.460 hold two things in

00:37:55.000 his head?

00:37:55.500 Sure.

00:37:56.300 Sure.

00:37:56.760 Peter Navarro just

00:37:57.600 broke it down for

00:37:58.320 him.

00:37:59.080 Peter Navarro did

00:37:59.920 the deep dive.

00:38:01.520 Peter Navarro, in

00:38:02.360 this example, told

00:38:04.460 him what the two

00:38:05.040 important things

00:38:05.660 were, and then he

00:38:07.540 wants to check this,

00:38:08.840 so he asked

00:38:09.220 Bolton.

00:38:09.980 All right?

00:38:10.280 Bolton says, nope,

00:38:11.560 totally disagree.

00:38:12.420 Here are all my

00:38:12.940 reasons, blah-ba-ba,

00:38:14.120 my reasons, and

00:38:15.420 here are my two

00:38:16.100 reasons, or three

00:38:17.420 reasons, why I think

00:38:18.980 Peter Navarro is

00:38:19.940 wrong.

00:38:20.700 Now, what's the

00:38:21.320 president do?

00:38:22.940 He's got two

00:38:24.480 opinions, and they're

00:38:25.360 opposites.

00:38:26.560 They're opposites.

00:38:27.560 Well, does the

00:38:30.160 president say, let

00:38:31.800 me go with the

00:38:32.460 smart, dumb guy, or

00:38:34.200 let me go with the

00:38:34.940 smart, smart guy?

00:38:37.300 How hard is it to

00:38:39.280 agree with the

00:38:39.880 smart, smart guy if

00:38:41.420 the alternative is the

00:38:42.500 smart, dumb guy?

00:38:44.780 It's not hard, right?

00:38:47.940 You listen to

00:38:48.840 Navarro's summary, and

00:38:49.900 you go, okay, that's

00:38:50.700 what I need to know,

00:38:51.780 all right, and how

00:38:52.600 do I frame this?

00:38:53.760 All right, got it.

00:38:54.460 That's about as deep

00:38:56.560 as you can go, if

00:38:58.540 you're the president.

00:38:59.820 Now, the bigger the

00:39:01.060 issue, the more time

00:39:02.160 you want to spend, and

00:39:03.060 the more people you

00:39:03.660 want to talk, so I've

00:39:05.380 highly simplified it,

00:39:06.780 but if you think

00:39:07.600 being president is a

00:39:09.020 process of reading all

00:39:10.180 the materials, you've

00:39:12.040 never lived in any

00:39:13.020 kind of a complicated

00:39:13.840 world, because reading

00:39:15.620 the materials will

00:39:16.600 mislead you and take

00:39:18.420 way too much time.

00:39:20.080 You need people to

00:39:21.160 break it down for you,

00:39:22.340 to give you the

00:39:23.320 argument the way the

00:39:24.240 news will make it, to

00:39:26.000 give you the argument

00:39:26.760 the way President Xi

00:39:28.580 might see it.

00:39:30.080 You know, you can

00:39:30.800 break these things

00:39:31.580 down into pretty

00:39:32.280 simple elements, and

00:39:34.280 while I do think it

00:39:35.920 matters some of the

00:39:37.200 context, you know, so

00:39:38.440 you know what the

00:39:39.060 other side is thinking,

00:39:40.580 why can't your

00:39:41.440 advisors just tell you

00:39:42.720 that?

00:39:43.740 Suppose you've got

00:39:44.760 Bolton coming in

00:39:45.820 saying, ah, the

00:39:47.120 president, he doesn't

00:39:48.000 read my materials, and

00:39:49.500 so he doesn't know

00:39:50.500 that, I'll just pick a

00:39:52.160 random example, that

00:39:53.760 he doesn't know that

00:39:54.840 North Korea traditionally

00:39:57.040 says X, but then

00:39:58.260 does Y.

00:40:00.620 Why can't he just

00:40:01.540 tell them?

00:40:02.940 You're in the room,

00:40:04.460 just tell them that.

00:40:06.400 Say, you know,

00:40:06.860 President, historically

00:40:07.880 they say X, but then

00:40:09.080 they do Y.

00:40:09.880 They've done it seven

00:40:10.580 times.

00:40:12.240 Why do you have to

00:40:13.040 read that?

00:40:14.440 Who needs to read

00:40:15.500 that?

00:40:17.620 You don't have to

00:40:18.400 read that.

00:40:18.880 What else does

00:40:23.840 Bolton say?

00:40:24.880 He said,

00:40:27.560 Bolton said,

00:40:29.260 quote, I thought

00:40:30.120 that it was almost

00:40:31.540 impossible to sustain

00:40:33.140 a consistent,

00:40:34.760 coherent policy

00:40:35.900 over time.

00:40:37.840 Do you know

00:40:38.300 what situation

00:40:40.160 makes it impossible

00:40:42.260 to have a

00:40:44.660 consistent,

00:40:45.620 coherent policy

00:40:46.540 over time?

00:40:47.080 Every situation.

00:40:50.560 Every situation.

00:40:52.260 Nobody has a

00:40:52.940 consistent policy

00:40:53.860 over time.

00:40:55.160 They always change.

00:40:56.260 It changes with the

00:40:57.140 facts, it changes

00:40:58.020 with a better

00:40:58.660 argument.

00:41:00.920 I don't know.

00:41:02.340 You should always

00:41:03.720 be waking up

00:41:04.420 every day and

00:41:05.160 saying,

00:41:05.680 did the policy

00:41:06.980 that we were

00:41:07.400 doing yesterday,

00:41:08.240 does that still

00:41:08.640 make sense today?

00:41:10.000 Did anything

00:41:10.460 change?

00:41:10.940 here's something

00:41:16.280 that Bolton

00:41:16.960 claims in his

00:41:17.740 book.

00:41:18.300 So the

00:41:18.580 interviewer asked,

00:41:19.840 you say in the

00:41:20.440 book that Trump

00:41:21.020 asked General

00:41:22.100 John Kelly

00:41:22.820 if Finland

00:41:24.160 was part of

00:41:24.900 Russia or

00:41:26.220 thought Venezuela

00:41:27.180 is really part

00:41:28.160 of the United

00:41:28.620 States.

00:41:30.260 Come on.

00:41:32.200 The president

00:41:33.220 did not ask

00:41:35.000 anybody if

00:41:36.660 Venezuela is

00:41:39.400 part of the

00:41:39.860 United States.

00:41:41.720 If you're

00:41:42.480 dumb enough

00:41:42.920 to believe

00:41:43.400 that,

00:41:44.360 you're dumb

00:41:44.820 enough to

00:41:45.580 believe anything

00:41:46.180 else in this

00:41:46.760 book,

00:41:47.440 which would

00:41:48.220 be a

00:41:49.600 strategic

00:41:50.000 mistake.

00:41:53.100 So can

00:41:53.840 we agree

00:41:54.360 that there

00:41:55.000 isn't the

00:41:55.420 slightest

00:41:55.820 chance,

00:41:56.500 really zero?

00:41:58.140 There aren't

00:41:58.840 too many

00:41:59.140 things I

00:41:59.540 would give

00:41:59.840 a zero

00:42:00.500 percent chance

00:42:01.380 being true.

00:42:02.520 Somebody

00:42:02.800 says,

00:42:03.180 are you

00:42:03.460 sure?

00:42:04.260 Yeah.

00:42:04.520 So what

00:42:04.960 I'm saying

00:42:05.300 is,

00:42:06.520 most things

00:42:07.780 I say,

00:42:08.320 well,

00:42:08.760 you know,

00:42:09.140 90% chance

00:42:10.320 it's true,

00:42:11.240 95%,

00:42:12.640 98%.

00:42:13.740 If I'm

00:42:14.700 really,

00:42:15.200 really sure

00:42:15.660 of something,

00:42:16.140 I might

00:42:16.420 say 99%.

00:42:17.680 But let me

00:42:18.900 break with

00:42:20.120 tradition for

00:42:20.860 a moment.

00:42:23.260 Let me

00:42:23.940 break with

00:42:24.820 tradition.

00:42:26.420 The

00:42:26.740 president

00:42:27.260 100%

00:42:29.200 did not

00:42:30.680 ask if

00:42:31.680 Venezuela

00:42:32.280 is part

00:42:33.460 of the

00:42:33.680 United

00:42:33.900 States.

00:42:35.040 And if

00:42:35.340 you think

00:42:35.740 there's any

00:42:36.360 chance that

00:42:36.880 happened,

00:42:38.240 you should

00:42:38.740 not watch

00:42:39.200 my periscopes

00:42:40.100 because you're

00:42:42.840 not going to

00:42:43.200 understand

00:42:43.540 anything.

00:42:44.880 There's no

00:42:45.660 chance that

00:42:46.140 happened.

00:42:47.060 So if you

00:42:48.040 know it's in

00:42:48.520 the same

00:42:48.920 sentence

00:42:49.560 with

00:42:51.000 Trump asking

00:42:53.540 if Finland

00:42:54.240 was part

00:42:55.000 of Russia,

00:42:55.560 now how

00:42:59.300 do you

00:42:59.520 feel about

00:42:59.940 the

00:43:00.140 Finland

00:43:00.420 one?

00:43:01.260 Now if

00:43:01.760 the

00:43:01.940 Finland

00:43:02.200 one had

00:43:02.820 been by

00:43:03.240 itself,

00:43:05.120 and that

00:43:05.420 had been

00:43:05.600 the only

00:43:06.020 allegation,

00:43:06.760 he asked

00:43:07.160 if Finland

00:43:07.600 was part

00:43:08.140 of Russia,

00:43:09.080 here's what

00:43:09.760 I would

00:43:10.080 have assumed.

00:43:11.820 I would

00:43:12.360 have assumed

00:43:13.040 that he

00:43:14.440 was asking

00:43:15.020 if Finland

00:43:15.660 was sort

00:43:16.240 of under

00:43:16.620 the,

00:43:17.520 you know,

00:43:18.080 maybe

00:43:18.280 virtual

00:43:18.900 sway

00:43:19.640 of Russia.

00:43:22.080 He may

00:43:22.800 have asked

00:43:23.140 something like

00:43:23.680 that.

00:43:24.640 You know,

00:43:24.840 are they

00:43:25.320 part of

00:43:26.540 the circle

00:43:27.040 or,

00:43:28.180 you know,

00:43:28.500 something like

00:43:28.920 that.

00:43:29.940 Now,

00:43:30.780 I can see

00:43:31.520 that being

00:43:31.840 possible,

00:43:32.480 but did

00:43:32.840 Trump actually

00:43:34.020 ask if

00:43:34.680 Finland was

00:43:35.520 like,

00:43:36.880 you know,

00:43:37.300 officially a

00:43:38.180 part of

00:43:38.680 Russia?

00:43:39.820 No.

00:43:41.040 No.

00:43:41.820 No,

00:43:42.240 I won't put

00:43:42.680 100% on

00:43:43.420 that.

00:43:44.640 So I'm

00:43:45.380 going to be

00:43:45.680 consistent.

00:43:46.780 Can I say

00:43:47.480 with 100%

00:43:48.500 certainty

00:43:48.960 that the

00:43:50.700 president did

00:43:51.320 not say,

00:43:52.280 hey,

00:43:52.600 is Finland

00:43:53.100 part of

00:43:53.640 Russia?

00:43:53.840 He may

00:43:55.620 have said

00:43:56.180 the sentence,

00:43:58.200 but that

00:43:58.560 doesn't mean

00:43:59.000 that he

00:43:59.300 meant it

00:43:59.760 literally

00:44:00.220 part of

00:44:00.900 Russia,

00:44:01.460 as in

00:44:01.860 Putin is

00:44:02.780 the head

00:44:03.040 of Finland

00:44:03.440 as well.

00:44:04.700 It could

00:44:04.960 have been,

00:44:05.880 you know,

00:44:06.600 are they on

00:44:07.520 their team,

00:44:08.400 on this

00:44:08.720 particular

00:44:09.140 question?

00:44:10.460 Are they

00:44:10.800 a satellite

00:44:12.280 of influence?

00:44:14.520 Which,

00:44:15.060 by the way,

00:44:15.400 I don't know

00:44:15.800 the answer

00:44:16.200 either.

00:44:16.960 Is Finland

00:44:17.520 in the

00:44:18.440 circle of

00:44:19.340 influence

00:44:19.900 from Russia?

00:44:21.360 I don't

00:44:22.780 know that.

00:44:24.020 Do you?

00:44:25.300 Can anybody

00:44:25.720 answer that

00:44:26.180 question?

00:44:27.500 I actually

00:44:28.180 don't know

00:44:28.520 the answer.

00:44:29.820 Somebody says

00:44:30.300 many Finns

00:44:31.000 speak Russian

00:44:32.140 but dislike

00:44:33.500 Russia.

00:44:34.480 All right,

00:44:34.760 I think

00:44:35.100 you'll see

00:44:35.520 in the,

00:44:37.040 somebody says

00:44:39.060 was he being

00:44:39.600 sarcastic?

00:44:40.700 Well,

00:44:40.960 we don't have

00:44:41.360 any evidence

00:44:42.040 of that,

00:44:42.540 but you

00:44:42.780 can easily

00:44:43.280 imagine

00:44:43.820 him saying

00:44:45.040 something like

00:44:45.740 this rhetorically.

00:44:46.920 so imagine

00:44:49.980 if somebody

00:44:50.420 says,

00:44:51.000 you know,

00:44:51.200 we could

00:44:51.440 do this

00:44:51.900 in this

00:44:52.220 country,

00:44:52.760 oh no,

00:44:53.120 we can't

00:44:53.440 do this

00:44:53.780 in this

00:44:54.040 country,

00:44:54.940 you know,

00:44:55.320 because Russia

00:44:56.980 has too much

00:44:57.500 control of

00:44:58.040 that other

00:44:58.300 country,

00:44:58.840 but we

00:44:59.120 could put

00:44:59.420 a,

00:45:00.220 you know,

00:45:01.460 we could

00:45:01.680 put,

00:45:01.900 let's say,

00:45:02.120 a missile

00:45:02.420 defense

00:45:02.880 in this

00:45:03.480 country,

00:45:04.640 but we

00:45:06.300 can't do

00:45:06.680 it in

00:45:06.980 Finland.

00:45:08.100 Okay,

00:45:08.640 here's a

00:45:09.240 hypothetical,

00:45:10.060 I'm not

00:45:10.340 assuming anything

00:45:11.360 like this

00:45:11.980 happened,

00:45:12.400 it's for

00:45:12.800 your imagination

00:45:13.700 to imagine

00:45:15.200 something that

00:45:15.880 could have

00:45:16.180 happened that

00:45:16.620 would sound

00:45:17.060 like this

00:45:17.620 but was

00:45:17.980 different,

00:45:18.940 all right,

00:45:19.240 so it's

00:45:19.560 just hypothetical,

00:45:20.720 just for

00:45:21.200 imagination.

00:45:21.920 Imagine,

00:45:22.900 they were

00:45:23.140 talking about

00:45:23.620 where to

00:45:23.900 put a

00:45:24.180 missile defense

00:45:24.980 thing,

00:45:27.880 and they,

00:45:28.640 they,

00:45:29.300 some people

00:45:29.660 are tossing

00:45:30.140 out some

00:45:30.460 countries,

00:45:30.900 well,

00:45:31.080 how about

00:45:31.360 put it in

00:45:31.900 Czechoslovakia,

00:45:32.880 you know,

00:45:33.260 blah,

00:45:33.460 blah,

00:45:33.560 blah,

00:45:33.780 yes or

00:45:34.080 no,

00:45:34.940 not

00:45:35.800 Czechoslovakia,

00:45:36.640 but Czech

00:45:37.580 Republic,

00:45:38.140 whatever it is

00:45:38.580 there,

00:45:39.400 and then let's

00:45:41.180 say somebody

00:45:41.620 said Finland,

00:45:43.020 and then it

00:45:43.900 was rejected,

00:45:45.200 all right,

00:45:45.460 so you're the

00:45:45.860 president,

00:45:46.200 you're listening

00:45:46.800 to people

00:45:47.200 debate what

00:45:48.080 country,

00:45:49.220 and somebody

00:45:49.720 says,

00:45:50.140 how about

00:45:50.440 Finland,

00:45:52.340 and then

00:45:52.780 somebody says,

00:45:53.240 no,

00:45:53.460 no,

00:45:53.640 you can't

00:45:53.900 do

00:45:54.020 Finland,

00:45:54.340 can you

00:45:56.280 imagine the

00:45:56.820 president saying

00:45:57.620 rhetorically,

00:45:59.040 what,

00:45:59.840 is Finland

00:46:00.280 part of

00:46:00.660 Russia?

00:46:00.900 you see it?

00:46:04.360 Is Finland

00:46:05.080 part of

00:46:05.460 Russia?

00:46:06.660 In other

00:46:07.060 words,

00:46:07.280 it would

00:46:07.440 be rhetorical

00:46:08.120 to say,

00:46:09.280 why couldn't

00:46:09.640 we talk to

00:46:11.220 Finland about

00:46:11.920 taking a

00:46:13.300 missile defense

00:46:14.600 or a NATO

00:46:15.920 base or

00:46:17.400 whatever the

00:46:17.860 fuck they were

00:46:18.220 talking about,

00:46:19.280 right?

00:46:20.200 So you can

00:46:21.500 imagine lots

00:46:22.840 of ways it

00:46:23.340 could have

00:46:23.580 been interpreted

00:46:25.180 differently,

00:46:25.800 but we

00:46:29.680 weren't

00:46:29.880 there,

00:46:30.140 so we

00:46:30.340 don't

00:46:30.440 know.

00:46:32.340 Then

00:46:32.640 Bolton

00:46:32.840 says,

00:46:33.280 but there

00:46:33.500 was an

00:46:33.820 unwillingness

00:46:34.440 on the

00:46:34.680 part of

00:46:34.900 the

00:46:35.000 president,

00:46:35.500 I think,

00:46:36.320 to do

00:46:36.980 systematic

00:46:37.740 learnings so

00:46:38.920 that he

00:46:39.200 could make

00:46:39.560 the most

00:46:39.980 informed

00:46:40.460 decisions.

00:46:41.020 was John

00:46:43.300 Bolton

00:46:43.560 actually

00:46:43.960 inside the

00:46:44.760 president's

00:46:45.220 brain?

00:46:46.140 And he

00:46:46.380 could find

00:46:47.420 out that he

00:46:48.000 was unwilling

00:46:48.700 to do

00:46:50.200 systematic

00:46:50.880 learning.

00:46:52.660 Maybe he

00:46:54.020 thought that

00:46:54.520 systematic

00:46:54.980 learning was

00:46:56.020 not the way

00:46:56.520 to go,

00:46:57.020 so he

00:46:58.020 might have

00:46:58.320 been unwilling

00:46:58.940 to do it

00:46:59.760 systematically.

00:47:01.560 Now,

00:47:02.160 what does

00:47:02.520 systematic

00:47:03.460 mean in

00:47:04.400 this context?

00:47:06.000 In this

00:47:06.740 context,

00:47:07.580 it means that

00:47:08.200 John Bolton

00:47:08.840 wanted to

00:47:09.940 manage the

00:47:10.640 president.

00:47:11.340 He wanted

00:47:12.220 to be the

00:47:12.680 one who

00:47:13.000 gave the

00:47:13.420 president

00:47:13.720 materials

00:47:14.360 that were

00:47:15.400 approved by

00:47:16.480 John Bolton,

00:47:17.360 which, of

00:47:17.820 course, would

00:47:18.300 support his

00:47:18.960 side, and

00:47:19.920 he wanted the

00:47:20.340 president to

00:47:20.880 spend a lot

00:47:21.460 of time

00:47:21.960 looking at

00:47:22.880 the materials

00:47:23.500 that John

00:47:24.040 Bolton gave

00:47:24.620 him.

00:47:25.320 The president

00:47:26.080 decided not

00:47:27.460 to spend a

00:47:27.980 lot of

00:47:28.240 time every

00:47:29.500 day looking

00:47:30.280 at materials

00:47:30.980 that John

00:47:31.620 Bolton gave

00:47:32.180 him.

00:47:33.360 Is that

00:47:34.180 because the

00:47:34.900 president is

00:47:35.580 defective?

00:47:36.960 Could be.

00:47:38.700 That's one

00:47:39.400 interpretation.

00:47:40.240 That's John

00:47:40.780 Bolton's.

00:47:41.520 Here's

00:47:41.780 another

00:47:42.080 interpretation.

00:47:43.600 The president

00:47:44.080 didn't think

00:47:44.800 that systematically

00:47:46.560 looking at

00:47:47.640 materials from

00:47:48.300 John Bolton

00:47:48.920 would help

00:47:50.160 anything.

00:47:53.240 And he

00:47:53.960 might have

00:47:54.180 been right.

00:47:54.540 And then

00:47:58.740 the

00:47:59.140 interviewer

00:47:59.580 says,

00:47:59.940 but are

00:48:00.120 you saying

00:48:00.480 that all

00:48:01.060 the decisions

00:48:01.760 the president

00:48:02.260 made were

00:48:02.780 driven by

00:48:03.380 re-election?

00:48:05.360 Here's what

00:48:05.920 Bolton said.

00:48:06.920 I didn't see

00:48:07.820 anything where

00:48:09.480 that wasn't the

00:48:10.400 major factor.

00:48:14.680 That wasn't

00:48:15.580 the major

00:48:15.980 factor.

00:48:16.400 now, how

00:48:20.220 often is

00:48:21.980 the president's

00:48:24.060 actions

00:48:24.680 disconnected

00:48:26.240 from his

00:48:27.040 re-election

00:48:27.640 or even

00:48:29.640 his legacy?

00:48:32.180 How often

00:48:33.100 does the

00:48:33.540 president do

00:48:34.140 something that

00:48:35.260 is clearly

00:48:35.960 bad for

00:48:36.720 re-election

00:48:37.280 but good

00:48:38.740 for the

00:48:39.040 country?

00:48:39.800 You can

00:48:40.500 please name

00:48:41.420 all the

00:48:41.720 examples in

00:48:42.400 the comments.

00:48:42.880 I'd like

00:48:43.360 to see

00:48:43.720 in the

00:48:43.980 comments

00:48:44.340 all the

00:48:45.260 examples

00:48:45.680 historically

00:48:46.380 where a

00:48:47.680 president did

00:48:48.260 something that

00:48:48.820 was clearly

00:48:49.520 bad for

00:48:50.120 re-election

00:48:50.680 but good

00:48:51.720 for the

00:48:52.000 country.

00:48:52.460 Go.

00:48:55.360 Crickets,

00:48:56.560 crickets,

00:48:57.740 crickets,

00:48:58.900 crickets.

00:49:00.320 Somebody says

00:49:01.140 Lincoln.

00:49:02.120 That's a

00:49:02.880 little more

00:49:03.960 complicated.

00:49:05.400 I think

00:49:05.700 Lincoln had

00:49:06.800 a game

00:49:08.340 plan with

00:49:09.220 everything he

00:49:10.500 did.

00:49:10.800 Yeah.

00:49:13.700 The atomic

00:49:14.260 bomb, no,

00:49:15.000 that was

00:49:15.240 good for

00:49:15.560 re-election.

00:49:17.200 Economic

00:49:17.740 shutdown,

00:49:18.380 no, the

00:49:19.360 alternative

00:49:20.040 was worse.

00:49:21.840 There

00:49:21.940 basically is

00:49:23.300 no situation.

00:49:24.940 Obamacare,

00:49:25.920 I don't

00:49:27.080 know.

00:49:27.860 I don't

00:49:28.480 think so.

00:49:29.840 The lockdown,

00:49:31.340 I think

00:49:32.180 every single

00:49:32.880 decision

00:49:33.360 is compatible

00:49:36.780 in the

00:49:37.340 sense that

00:49:37.920 the presidency

00:49:38.580 is pretty

00:49:39.220 transparent.

00:49:40.800 If the

00:49:41.440 president did

00:49:42.080 something that

00:49:42.740 was just

00:49:43.200 clearly not

00:49:45.880 for the

00:49:46.260 country, I

00:49:48.520 think we

00:49:48.920 would have

00:49:49.180 noticed that.

00:49:51.100 So, it's

00:49:51.980 a ridiculous

00:49:52.620 thing.

00:49:53.220 All right.

00:49:55.460 Here's

00:49:56.020 something else

00:49:56.420 Bolton says.

00:50:00.200 Oh, here,

00:50:01.300 he continues

00:50:02.680 on.

00:50:03.100 It was

00:50:05.180 not something

00:50:05.700 that started

00:50:06.200 with a

00:50:06.600 strategy of

00:50:08.160 how do we

00:50:08.880 want to see

00:50:10.100 the threats

00:50:10.600 from China

00:50:11.160 and Russia

00:50:11.600 resolved on

00:50:12.400 arms control,

00:50:13.280 for example.

00:50:14.740 What does

00:50:15.300 that sentence

00:50:15.820 mean?

00:50:17.500 Like, what does

00:50:18.380 that actually

00:50:19.000 mean?

00:50:19.740 It's just

00:50:20.180 jargon, isn't

00:50:20.780 it?

00:50:22.660 We didn't

00:50:23.320 start with a

00:50:23.900 strategy on

00:50:24.660 how do we

00:50:25.040 want to see

00:50:25.440 the threats

00:50:25.940 from China

00:50:26.400 and Russia

00:50:26.780 resolved on

00:50:27.520 arms control,

00:50:28.320 for example.

00:50:28.780 Well, I'm

00:50:30.720 no expert

00:50:31.780 on arms

00:50:32.420 control, but

00:50:33.920 let me throw

00:50:34.620 out some

00:50:35.080 assumptions.

00:50:36.620 We would

00:50:37.320 like them

00:50:37.860 to build

00:50:38.540 fewer weapons

00:50:39.980 that could

00:50:41.440 kill us.

00:50:42.820 Am I

00:50:43.260 close?

00:50:44.200 Is that the

00:50:44.840 whole strategy?

00:50:46.060 Because I

00:50:46.600 think the

00:50:46.920 strategy of

00:50:47.500 arms control

00:50:48.160 is that we

00:50:48.740 negotiate and

00:50:50.320 try to have

00:50:50.860 fewer weapons.

00:50:52.880 Is it deeper

00:50:53.640 than that?

00:50:54.200 Am I missing

00:50:54.720 something?

00:50:55.680 If the

00:50:56.100 president tries

00:50:57.360 to negotiate

00:50:57.940 with another

00:50:58.480 country for

00:50:59.160 arms control?

00:51:04.020 Is that

00:51:04.860 obvious what

00:51:07.380 the strategy

00:51:07.820 is?

00:51:08.380 All right.

00:51:10.020 Then Bolton

00:51:10.500 says,

00:51:10.880 the president

00:51:11.260 over and

00:51:11.700 over again

00:51:12.060 seems to

00:51:12.580 think that

00:51:13.760 a good

00:51:14.040 personal

00:51:14.600 relationship

00:51:15.320 with Xi

00:51:16.020 Jinping,

00:51:16.920 Vladimir Putin,

00:51:17.740 Kim Jong-un,

00:51:19.200 the Ayatollahs,

00:51:20.680 Erdogan of

00:51:21.260 Turkey, was

00:51:21.960 equivalent to

00:51:23.020 a good

00:51:23.380 relationship

00:51:24.100 between the

00:51:24.880 United States

00:51:25.640 and their

00:51:26.240 respective

00:51:26.720 countries.

00:51:28.480 And you

00:51:29.580 know what?

00:51:31.820 Trump's

00:51:32.380 right.

00:51:33.320 Trump is

00:51:34.040 right.

00:51:35.200 Now,

00:51:36.140 Bolton used

00:51:37.380 the word

00:51:37.720 equivalent,

00:51:39.420 which nobody

00:51:40.340 would use,

00:51:41.040 and of course

00:51:41.560 the president

00:51:42.180 does not

00:51:42.780 think they're

00:51:43.340 equivalent,

00:51:44.220 because nobody

00:51:44.760 would.

00:51:45.620 To imagine

00:51:46.320 that the

00:51:46.700 president is

00:51:47.280 the only

00:51:47.600 person in

00:51:48.100 the world

00:51:48.500 out of

00:51:49.020 7 billion

00:51:50.100 who would

00:51:50.660 have this

00:51:51.120 opinion,

00:51:51.580 because you

00:51:51.880 know nobody

00:51:52.300 else would.

00:51:52.700 nobody else

00:51:53.600 in the world

00:51:54.160 would think

00:51:55.200 a personal

00:51:55.740 relationship

00:51:56.400 with anybody,

00:51:57.200 even a

00:51:57.540 dictator,

00:51:58.400 was equivalent

00:51:59.120 to, you

00:52:01.480 know, a

00:52:02.860 good

00:52:03.120 relationship

00:52:03.740 between two

00:52:04.400 countries.

00:52:05.120 Nobody would

00:52:05.580 think that.

00:52:06.980 But Bolton

00:52:07.680 is alleging

00:52:08.820 that the

00:52:09.160 president is

00:52:09.900 the only

00:52:10.160 person who

00:52:10.540 would think

00:52:10.800 that.

00:52:12.340 Maybe,

00:52:13.460 but pretty

00:52:15.500 unlikely.

00:52:16.580 But here's

00:52:17.060 what I would

00:52:17.420 say about

00:52:17.780 that.

00:52:18.020 I think

00:52:18.900 the president

00:52:19.420 has been

00:52:19.920 proven right,

00:52:21.320 not in

00:52:22.120 terms of

00:52:22.460 them being

00:52:22.880 identically

00:52:24.200 equivalent to

00:52:25.220 the country's

00:52:25.800 relationship,

00:52:26.800 but there is

00:52:27.800 no doubt

00:52:28.380 that the

00:52:29.320 president's,

00:52:30.280 let's say,

00:52:31.960 respect for

00:52:32.680 Xi allowed

00:52:34.460 him to

00:52:34.900 negotiate

00:52:35.380 harder.

00:52:36.720 Now he

00:52:37.220 realizes that

00:52:38.060 that didn't

00:52:38.520 work, but

00:52:39.480 it was

00:52:39.660 certainly worth

00:52:40.140 working on.

00:52:41.280 If you're

00:52:41.840 going to

00:52:42.020 negotiate with

00:52:42.640 somebody hard,

00:52:44.300 first you

00:52:45.240 make them

00:52:46.060 your friend,

00:52:47.360 because you

00:52:47.740 can go

00:52:48.060 harder that

00:52:48.560 way.

00:52:49.280 If you're

00:52:50.000 going to

00:52:50.360 push somebody

00:52:51.240 on trade,

00:52:52.360 or push

00:52:52.680 somebody on

00:52:53.280 weapons,

00:52:54.340 or anything

00:52:54.620 else,

00:52:55.680 first treat

00:52:56.940 them with

00:52:57.360 respect,

00:52:58.120 so they

00:52:58.520 don't have

00:52:58.860 an irrational

00:52:59.420 reason to

00:53:00.000 hate you.

00:53:01.000 So the

00:53:01.300 president is

00:53:02.960 smart enough

00:53:03.560 about negotiations

00:53:04.580 that he wants

00:53:05.520 to remove the

00:53:06.820 personal reasons

00:53:07.860 to say no.

00:53:09.860 Is that

00:53:10.620 equivalent to

00:53:13.000 a relationship

00:53:13.900 between two

00:53:14.580 countries?

00:53:15.000 Of course

00:53:15.540 not.

00:53:16.660 Nobody

00:53:17.000 thinks that.

00:53:18.400 Not the

00:53:18.820 president.

00:53:19.260 Nobody

00:53:19.480 would think

00:53:19.860 that.

00:53:20.940 But can

00:53:21.900 you do a

00:53:22.600 good

00:53:22.900 negotiation

00:53:23.620 until you've

00:53:25.340 set some

00:53:26.080 boundaries of

00:53:26.720 respect?

00:53:27.660 So you

00:53:28.100 don't want

00:53:28.540 President Xi

00:53:29.480 to be over

00:53:30.360 there negotiating

00:53:31.180 and thinking

00:53:31.740 to himself,

00:53:32.780 you don't want

00:53:33.860 him thinking

00:53:34.280 to himself,

00:53:35.620 I can't

00:53:37.120 make this

00:53:37.520 deal because

00:53:38.080 I need to

00:53:38.560 save face.

00:53:40.420 Right?

00:53:41.120 You can't

00:53:41.720 have Putin

00:53:42.080 say,

00:53:42.960 I can't

00:53:43.680 give Trump

00:53:44.640 what he wants

00:53:45.220 because it's

00:53:45.620 going to

00:53:45.820 make me

00:53:46.280 look like

00:53:47.860 I gave

00:53:48.280 in to

00:53:48.780 this guy

00:53:49.740 who's

00:53:49.920 pushing me.

00:53:51.460 Right?

00:53:52.440 But you

00:53:53.200 could imagine

00:53:53.960 that President

00:53:55.120 Xi or

00:53:56.040 Putin or

00:53:56.880 anybody else,

00:53:57.780 they could

00:53:58.660 make a deal

00:53:59.260 that looked

00:53:59.680 good for

00:54:00.080 their country

00:54:00.600 and was

00:54:02.180 good for

00:54:02.560 us,

00:54:03.180 and what

00:54:03.960 didn't get

00:54:04.580 in the way

00:54:05.080 is any

00:54:06.220 personal

00:54:06.780 animosity

00:54:07.740 between the

00:54:08.300 leaders because

00:54:09.140 that would just

00:54:09.680 be a

00:54:09.960 distraction.

00:54:10.420 So for

00:54:12.180 Bolton not

00:54:12.940 to understand

00:54:13.560 the importance,

00:54:15.100 and I think

00:54:15.480 Trump is

00:54:16.260 a really,

00:54:17.960 maybe he'll

00:54:18.640 be the only

00:54:19.080 president who

00:54:19.580 will ever

00:54:19.860 do this,

00:54:20.920 but he

00:54:22.120 is just

00:54:22.600 smarter about

00:54:23.880 human beings.

00:54:25.600 It is way

00:54:26.600 smarter to

00:54:28.220 treat somebody

00:54:28.840 with respect

00:54:29.460 if you're

00:54:30.080 going to

00:54:30.260 push them

00:54:30.560 hard.

00:54:31.800 In fact,

00:54:33.120 if you

00:54:33.900 treat somebody

00:54:34.580 without respect

00:54:35.500 and push

00:54:35.960 them hard,

00:54:36.500 you should

00:54:36.780 expect to

00:54:37.380 get your

00:54:37.660 ass kicked

00:54:38.220 in some

00:54:39.060 fashion.

00:54:39.440 Virtually

00:54:40.860 or

00:54:41.260 actually.

00:54:44.420 Alright,

00:54:45.580 is Netflix

00:54:48.160 going to

00:54:48.660 make a

00:54:48.960 movie based

00:54:49.500 on the

00:54:49.780 Bolton

00:54:50.040 book?

00:54:51.060 Well,

00:54:52.240 who knows?

00:54:58.680 Thank you,

00:54:59.680 Becca.

00:55:03.080 So I'm

00:55:03.960 in Arizona

00:55:04.700 right now,

00:55:06.360 and it's

00:55:08.300 pretty freaky.

00:55:09.440 because,

00:55:12.260 you know,

00:55:12.760 everything's

00:55:13.480 open here.

00:55:15.120 There are

00:55:15.480 masks everywhere,

00:55:16.500 but everything's

00:55:17.060 open.

00:55:17.960 So it's a

00:55:18.500 whole different

00:55:19.360 world.

00:55:24.140 Alright,

00:55:27.560 I'm just

00:55:27.740 looking at

00:55:28.080 your comments

00:55:28.560 here.

00:55:30.880 Is

00:55:31.360 Hollywood

00:55:31.720 done?

00:55:32.160 I don't

00:55:34.840 know.

00:55:35.080 When was

00:55:36.740 the last

00:55:37.040 time you

00:55:37.360 enjoyed a

00:55:37.800 movie that

00:55:39.220 wasn't a

00:55:39.700 biography?

00:55:43.060 I just

00:55:43.840 think movies

00:55:44.360 are dead.

00:55:45.340 So,

00:55:45.660 forgetting

00:55:46.980 about the

00:55:47.900 political

00:55:48.940 correctness

00:55:49.640 aspect of

00:55:50.320 movies,

00:55:51.160 you know,

00:55:51.460 that's a

00:55:51.960 small pressure

00:55:52.600 on some

00:55:53.200 of the

00:55:53.400 classic

00:55:53.720 movies,

00:55:54.280 etc.

00:55:54.460 But,

00:55:56.320 no,

00:56:01.120 I'm not

00:56:01.320 playing

00:56:01.560 golf.

00:56:03.740 Sorry,

00:56:04.320 I just

00:56:04.520 lost my

00:56:04.940 train of

00:56:05.280 thought.

00:56:07.860 Pascal

00:56:08.340 says a

00:56:09.020 digital thing

00:56:09.700 is coming.

00:56:11.000 What's a

00:56:11.340 digital thing?

00:56:11.920 All right.

00:56:17.740 Any

00:56:18.260 statues

00:56:18.680 taken down

00:56:19.320 in Arizona?

00:56:21.000 I don't

00:56:21.660 think that's

00:56:22.100 going to

00:56:22.280 happen in

00:56:22.700 Arizona.

00:56:23.600 It's a

00:56:23.900 pretty well

00:56:24.680 armed state.

00:56:26.680 So we'll

00:56:27.160 see.

00:56:28.880 Somebody

00:56:29.360 says Hollywood

00:56:29.980 is done.

00:56:31.420 I think

00:56:32.060 Hollywood might

00:56:32.640 be done.

00:56:33.480 You know,

00:56:33.720 if you look

00:56:34.120 at the

00:56:34.480 Me Too-ing,

00:56:36.140 I don't

00:56:36.500 know how

00:56:36.900 Hollywood

00:56:37.420 could survive

00:56:38.080 all the

00:56:38.500 Me Too

00:56:39.600 stuff.

00:56:41.920 somebody

00:56:43.640 says they

00:56:44.080 like

00:56:44.360 Marvel

00:56:44.820 movies.

00:56:45.900 You know,

00:56:46.160 I did

00:56:46.420 like the

00:56:46.960 super

00:56:47.600 powers

00:56:50.360 types of

00:56:51.180 movies,

00:56:51.960 but they're

00:56:52.300 kind of

00:56:52.680 old.

00:56:58.420 Am I

00:56:59.080 writing

00:56:59.360 another

00:56:59.660 book or

00:57:00.300 your

00:57:00.500 wedding

00:57:00.760 vows?

00:57:01.660 You know,

00:57:02.060 most of

00:57:02.380 my extra

00:57:02.880 energy is

00:57:03.780 going into

00:57:04.220 the locals

00:57:04.860 platform,

00:57:06.040 so I'm

00:57:06.340 putting my

00:57:06.760 extra energy

00:57:08.360 and content

00:57:08.900 there,

00:57:09.560 and there'll

00:57:10.160 be more

00:57:10.540 over time.

00:57:11.180 I'm just

00:57:11.460 sort of

00:57:11.820 working it

00:57:12.220 out over

00:57:12.540 there,

00:57:12.720 what that's

00:57:13.060 going to

00:57:13.220 be.

00:57:13.940 All right,

00:57:14.340 that's all

00:57:14.640 for now,

00:57:15.120 and I

00:57:15.340 will talk

00:57:15.620 to you

00:57:16.020 tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 22, 2020

Episode 1035 Scott Adams： Let's Talk About Bolton and Stuff

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