Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 15, 2020


Episode 1093 Scott Adams： Post Office Efficiency, Biden Botching Everything, ACLU Backs China, Barr Disses Teachers Union for Racism


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44 minutes

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145.02388

Word Count

6,486

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407

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

19


Summary

In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, host Scott Adams talks about the latest in the Russia investigation, including the latest charges against former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, and why he should get the death penalty. Plus, Bill Mitchell gets banned from Twitter.


Transcript

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00:01:06.380 Yeah.
00:01:07.480 Including the legal system.
00:01:10.500 Why not?
00:01:12.240 Go.
00:01:12.580 I feel justice breaking out all over the place.
00:01:22.460 Plenty of it.
00:01:24.560 If you are sitting around tonight and saying to yourself, what could I do in the middle of this pandemic?
00:01:30.660 What type of entertainment can I find that's in my own house without even leaving the house?
00:01:37.880 The answer is you should watch the Greg Gutfeld show tonight.
00:01:43.980 Because I'm on it.
00:01:46.460 I'm not alone, of course.
00:01:48.520 Other wonderful people on it, too.
00:01:50.400 You know the show.
00:01:52.020 Check your local listings.
00:01:54.240 And you will be delighted.
00:01:57.700 So that's the Greg Gutfeld show tonight.
00:01:59.820 So I'll be on that as a guest.
00:02:01.340 The big news, unless you watch the fake news, is that lawyer Kevin Clinesmith is being indicted for falsifying evidence that continued the investigation onto Carter Page, which we know now was all a bunch of BS.
00:02:24.220 And I ask you this.
00:02:27.860 If you have a high-level lawyer working for the FBI, and this high-level lawyer falsifies documents to keep a guy under surveillance and risk his life in the larger service of overthrowing the legal government of the United States,
00:02:49.300 I'm just going to put this out there.
00:02:52.400 Shouldn't that be the death sentence?
00:02:54.220 Because, it's a weird thing, because it's sort of a, it feels blue-collar, or white-collar-y.
00:03:02.860 You know, it's like if you change some words on a document, well, that's not so bad, right?
00:03:09.200 I mean, it's not like you murdered somebody, is it?
00:03:13.580 But it kind of is.
00:03:15.780 It kind of is closer to murdering somebody.
00:03:18.640 Because that's the whole point of treason.
00:03:21.320 Treason doesn't say you murdered this one person.
00:03:25.880 It says you created a situation that is so dangerous for the country that the entire republic is in danger.
00:03:34.280 So this one lawyer did a crime which, in my opinion, put the entire republic at risk.
00:03:42.180 That, in terms of how bad it is, potentially, you know, he got caught.
00:03:50.500 But in terms of how bad it is, potentially, it's treason level.
00:03:56.760 You know, I don't think there's any chance that the death penalty could be, you know, actually used.
00:04:02.840 But it's treason level.
00:04:08.320 So I'll just put that out there.
00:04:10.020 Apparently, the MSNBC and CNN, they don't think this is a big story.
00:04:17.760 It's by far the biggest story.
00:04:19.500 But you're watching it in real time, and it's probably blowing your mind, that the press can make anything important seem like it's completely unimportant.
00:04:33.000 And they can take something that's completely unimportant and blow it into something that looks like it's the big national story.
00:04:40.260 And you stand there, and you look at it objectively, and you think to yourself, are we spending all our time on the unimportant stuff?
00:04:48.160 And the answer is, yeah, we are.
00:04:50.840 We are.
00:04:51.660 A little bit more on that in a bit.
00:04:55.520 Bill Mitchell got banned from Twitter, I understand.
00:05:00.760 Jack Posobiec was reporting on this on Twitter.
00:05:04.200 And this was Jack's information.
00:05:07.060 He said that Bill Mitchell first received a seven-day ban for tweets talking about mask dangers,
00:05:14.380 then was using a second account to tweet during the ban and had his main account permanently suspended.
00:05:20.640 Now, I blocked Bill Mitchell a long time ago.
00:05:27.920 Now, I think he's a nice guy.
00:05:30.780 I've been on his show a few times.
00:05:33.120 And he's very nice personally, so it's not a personal thing.
00:05:36.560 But I blocked him because his certainty on a medical thing just is not good.
00:05:46.920 Now, I wouldn't have necessarily banned him from Twitter.
00:05:53.000 I don't know if that's something I would have done.
00:05:55.100 But I certainly banned him from my life because I didn't want to interact with someone who was not a medical professional
00:06:03.180 who had certainty about a medical thing.
00:06:06.900 It's just not good, right?
00:06:08.860 Now, I'm perfectly okay with anybody who tweets a study that turned out not to be valid.
00:06:15.900 That would be every one of us on Twitter.
00:06:18.460 There's nobody on Twitter who hasn't at one time or another retweeted a story that turned out to be false,
00:06:24.720 a study that turned out to be not reproducible.
00:06:27.400 That's just sort of everyday on Twitter.
00:06:29.140 But most of us don't sell it as a fact.
00:06:34.360 Most of us would say, well, this is interesting.
00:06:37.620 Or these people say this.
00:06:40.060 Once you cross over into I'm telling you the facts, listen to me, people,
00:06:45.060 you're probably on shakier ground.
00:06:46.980 So I don't know the full details of this, but I'm guessing that Bill Mitchell was saying something as a medical fact
00:06:56.100 when maybe we shouldn't be speaking in terms of certainty.
00:07:00.880 But we'll see.
00:07:01.680 I guess more information on that will come out.
00:07:04.920 All right, here's my favorite stupid story of the day.
00:07:08.440 Now, as the creator of the Dilbert comic, you know my filters are turned for corporate behavior that's a little bit ridiculous.
00:07:17.080 And I've always wondered, will there be a day sometime in the future where there'll be some company that's so big and so unwieldy,
00:07:26.340 that has so many moving parts, so big, the bureaucracy, that it would someday sue itself?
00:07:34.920 Right?
00:07:35.320 That sounds silly, right?
00:07:37.060 Would a company ever get so big that it wouldn't know that it was suing itself?
00:07:41.960 Well, something like that's happening.
00:07:44.480 And I thought I would share it with you.
00:07:47.080 So the ACLU is, first of all, it's backing China, saying that TikTok and WeChat,
00:07:58.180 the two Chinese apps that are under review for being banned in this country,
00:08:02.700 it looks like they will be banned, and the ACLU is trying to stop that.
00:08:09.060 What?
00:08:09.740 The ACLU is trying to stop a national security decision by the Commander-in-Chief?
00:08:18.080 What?
00:08:19.160 These are not American companies.
00:08:21.680 And nobody's saying that these products can't exist.
00:08:25.020 They just can't exist under the control of our nemesis who wants to destroy our country.
00:08:30.260 Now, if that doesn't make you think that the ACLU has lost all credibility,
00:08:40.420 I would add this little factoid.
00:08:45.160 The ACLU gets a lot of its funding from Google, for example.
00:08:50.020 So Google is one of the main, you know, big funders of the ACLU.
00:08:55.180 Google, of course, is maybe a little bit friendly with China.
00:08:59.820 So what do you make of the fact that Google is maybe a little bit friendly with China
00:09:06.020 and is funding the ACLU, and the ACLU is siding with China over the United States?
00:09:14.980 Now, they wouldn't put it that way, but that's the way it looks to me.
00:09:17.960 Because even if, you know, even if this is like a gray area,
00:09:24.800 it's still the United States' call how much risk we're willing to take.
00:09:30.100 It's not up to China to decide how much risk the United States takes.
00:09:35.280 They don't get to decide.
00:09:37.280 And also, I don't get to decide.
00:09:39.760 I don't think the ACLU should get to decide how much risk the United States takes
00:09:45.800 in terms of foreign adversaries either.
00:09:48.900 You know where that belongs?
00:09:51.040 Commander-in-Chief.
00:09:53.660 It's purely a security issue.
00:09:57.960 So that makes you wonder about them.
00:10:00.280 But here's the real story I was getting to.
00:10:01.620 The ACLU is also going after this small startup called Clearview AI,
00:10:08.040 who does an app that if you have a photo of anybody,
00:10:14.520 it'll find you more photos of that person so you can figure out who they are.
00:10:19.240 So it's used by law enforcement to identify people.
00:10:23.160 And I guess the ICE, so the federal government's ICE, you know, immigration guys,
00:10:29.620 are, they signed a contract with Clearview to use the app to catch child traffickers.
00:10:37.680 Okay?
00:10:38.040 So here's the setup.
00:10:38.900 There is a technology which we know with complete certainty
00:10:44.000 because it's already being used, already successful at exactly this.
00:10:49.420 So we don't have to speculate whether it works.
00:10:53.160 That's already determined.
00:10:55.100 That's why ICE signed a contract.
00:10:57.100 They're not guessing if it works.
00:10:59.660 They know it works.
00:11:00.760 There are lots of examples already of it working in other contexts, etc.
00:11:03.860 So ICE decides that this technology will help them catch child traffickers.
00:11:11.500 Who would be on the other side of that?
00:11:14.220 Right?
00:11:15.240 Like, who's on the other side of using, you know, a standard technology,
00:11:20.640 which will be widespread far more than it is now, to catch child traffickers?
00:11:26.000 Well, it turns out the ACLU is.
00:11:27.700 So the ACLU is trying to stop ICE from using a technology
00:11:34.240 that we know catches child traffickers.
00:11:38.880 Just wrap your head around that.
00:11:41.520 Now, their argument goes like this.
00:11:43.760 It's not so much that they care about this particular use.
00:11:47.760 They care about the company and that what it might be for, you know, privacy, etc.
00:11:54.000 But that's just a big question for the country.
00:11:59.640 It doesn't really have to do with this contract.
00:12:02.660 And they're using, and there's a punchline to this.
00:12:05.660 It gets better.
00:12:06.440 If you think this is crazy, there's a whole good part coming.
00:12:10.780 So make sure you hear that.
00:12:13.080 So here's the fun part.
00:12:15.480 There's, I guess, an Illinois law recently passed that said it's illegal to scrape personal data,
00:12:23.920 like somebody's picture and identity or something, from other websites
00:12:28.160 and then to use it for some purpose.
00:12:31.840 So since Illinois has this law, that gives the ACLU the ability to, you know,
00:12:37.220 say that Clearview's a problem.
00:12:39.820 Now, they're saying that Clearview's a problem in general,
00:12:44.240 and then they're taking this ICE thing as the little fight they're going to make,
00:12:48.120 which is the dumbest fight anybody ever took.
00:12:50.300 They're literally on the side of child traffickers.
00:12:53.180 And that's not even a joke.
00:12:55.180 They actually, literally, no kidding, took the side of child traffickers.
00:13:02.420 I've never seen anything like that.
00:13:03.760 It's the most amazing thing you'll ever see.
00:13:06.300 But anyway, it gets better.
00:13:08.160 Here's the fun part.
00:13:09.820 So Google, as you know, is one of the big funders of the ACLU.
00:13:17.600 And the ACLU is going after this company, Clearview.
00:13:20.680 And the cause is that they're scraping this personal information, right?
00:13:24.900 So that's the whole story.
00:13:26.400 There's a story in the Wall Street Journal saying the same thing,
00:13:30.540 scraping this personal information, except here's the punchline.
00:13:34.220 They don't do that.
00:13:35.340 The whole basis of the story is that Clearview is scraping the photos and identification of people.
00:13:45.360 And they don't do that.
00:13:46.700 That's not their business.
00:13:47.520 What they do is they create an index of stuff that's available on the Internet.
00:13:52.680 They just focus on faces.
00:13:55.080 That's it.
00:13:56.360 Clearview AI is a subset of Google function itself.
00:14:01.620 It's not a subset of the company.
00:14:03.780 But rather, they do what Google does.
00:14:05.340 Google does not store on their own servers all the information on the Internet.
00:14:11.140 They don't make a copy of it.
00:14:13.000 They make an index.
00:14:15.300 Somebody says you were wrong.
00:14:17.500 Goodbye.
00:14:17.860 So Clearview makes an index of faces and does not store any of that data itself.
00:14:28.540 Rather, it stores the index information so you can go find it if you want to see it.
00:14:33.980 What does Google do?
00:14:36.300 Google does the same thing.
00:14:38.120 Yeah, Google does some caching.
00:14:39.500 But the main point is they're not storing a copy of the whole Internet.
00:14:43.060 So Google's own business model, if you did a Google image search, it would have an index
00:14:52.960 to the images, and then it would show it to you.
00:14:55.220 That's exactly what Clearview does.
00:14:57.320 They just have an index of where all the faces are, and then it just finds it for you.
00:15:02.760 So Google is funding the ACLU to sue Clearview for the business model that is identical to
00:15:11.220 Google's own business model.
00:15:13.500 And the only reason this is happening is because apparently the people doing the suing don't
00:15:19.620 understand how the technology works.
00:15:21.800 They don't know the difference between an index and a copy.
00:15:27.020 Think about that.
00:15:28.260 This whole thing, it's like national news, and everybody's writing about it, and it's
00:15:33.280 all based on the fact they can't tell the difference between an index, which is perfectly
00:15:38.360 legal.
00:15:38.840 It's the way, basically, Google works.
00:15:43.040 All search engines are an index.
00:15:45.400 It's just another one.
00:15:47.400 It's basically an extension of a fingerprint database.
00:15:50.960 It's just better.
00:15:52.300 That's it.
00:15:52.880 If fingerprints were legal, and they are, to take fingerprints, this is just a better version
00:16:00.740 of it, using public information that's already available.
00:16:03.540 Google, and if you did a little work, you could find it.
00:16:06.340 It would just be harder without the app.
00:16:07.760 Google actually found a way to sue itself.
00:16:13.120 Not technically, but they're basically suing through ACLU that they fund, trying to stop
00:16:20.580 a company that has the same business model.
00:16:22.500 But here's the kicker.
00:16:24.560 They're a competitor.
00:16:26.820 So the ACLU is managing to sue on behalf of Google, if you count them as the funding source,
00:16:40.640 somebody doing the same thing that Google's doing.
00:16:42.560 Now, how's that going to go?
00:16:47.380 Somebody says, I blocked the wrong person.
00:16:49.560 Well, the one I touched said you were wrong, so if I blocked the wrong person.
00:16:55.300 No, I don't block people for disagreeing with me.
00:16:59.720 If you're new here, the rule is this.
00:17:04.260 You can disagree with me all you want, but you just have to show a reason.
00:17:09.400 It could be a summary of a reason, just, oh, I think you didn't look at this data or whatever.
00:17:13.960 But if you just say you're wrong, I block you, because I don't need it.
00:17:19.280 Anyway, so keep an eye on this ACLU story, because it seems they've turned bad.
00:17:25.760 Now, this is an example of a Gell-Mann amnesia.
00:17:29.260 I talk about this all the time.
00:17:31.120 Gell-Mann was the name of a physicist who, whenever he saw a story about physics,
00:17:35.680 he knew the story was wrong.
00:17:37.620 But then if he saw a story about some other topic, he would say, oh, that's probably right,
00:17:43.300 knowing that every story he saw that he knew the information about was wrong.
00:17:47.840 Now, is it more likely that they're only wrong about the things he knows about?
00:17:52.780 No.
00:17:53.000 Now, in this case, with the Clearview AI, I know this much about technology,
00:18:02.040 and I've looked into this specific issue, so I know that it's an index.
00:18:08.020 So if you know just a little bit about how things work,
00:18:11.380 you can tell that all the headline stories are just complete bullshit,
00:18:14.780 because they think that they're scraping and keeping the personal information,
00:18:19.120 which isn't happening.
00:18:19.940 All right, I live in California, which, as you know, is a third-world country.
00:18:29.540 It wasn't always this way.
00:18:31.460 But last night, I'm getting an alert on my phone about which parts of California
00:18:36.120 are going to have to go without electricity,
00:18:38.400 while the temperature yesterday at my house was 106.
00:18:42.440 Now, my house is built to be very green, so it could be 106 outside,
00:18:48.600 and my house wouldn't get warmer than probably 80.
00:18:52.700 You know, it would be livable.
00:18:53.660 But it's pretty rugged if you live in any less insulated house.
00:19:02.220 That's a big deal.
00:19:03.460 So I actually live in a state that can't figure out how to keep the lights on all year.
00:19:09.480 Really.
00:19:09.820 Now, could you even think of any greater indicator of incompetence
00:19:17.860 than you can't keep the lights on?
00:19:20.220 In 2020, you can't keep the lights on all year.
00:19:23.540 And it's not even because there's a surprise.
00:19:26.660 It's not like there was a disaster.
00:19:29.040 It just got warm.
00:19:31.600 That's it.
00:19:32.380 It got warm, and my state is not well-run enough to keep the lights on?
00:19:39.780 Oh, that's pretty bad.
00:19:42.800 You know, it wasn't long ago that we didn't have enough water.
00:19:46.620 So we don't have water, electricity,
00:19:49.640 and it looks like we're going to get rid of police
00:19:51.720 and just fill the cities with, I don't know,
00:19:56.020 homeless and protesters or whatever else.
00:19:58.040 So I saw some stats that people are leaving San Francisco
00:20:01.660 and New York City in droves,
00:20:03.860 but it's not everybody, is it?
00:20:06.840 It's basically all the people with money are leaving.
00:20:11.640 And I have to say that I've wondered for some time
00:20:14.480 why cities can exist.
00:20:18.120 It just seems like cities should disappear.
00:20:22.300 Now, I say this as someone who, you know,
00:20:25.100 through most of my career,
00:20:26.500 I would have to go to New York City,
00:20:28.480 you know, once or twice a year
00:20:29.760 for a book publication thing
00:20:32.280 or, you know, press tour or something like that.
00:20:36.100 And every time I'd go to New York City,
00:20:38.240 I'd have the same feeling,
00:20:39.520 which is, you know, there's a great energy here,
00:20:42.460 and I do like, you know, the people are great.
00:20:44.380 If you're in Manhattan,
00:20:46.500 of course I'm talking about before any of the protests happened,
00:20:51.140 it was great people, great energy,
00:20:53.400 but the city's completely broken.
00:20:56.500 I mean, even months ago,
00:20:58.520 I'd go there and, you know,
00:21:00.520 I'd get like a high-end hotel room
00:21:02.620 where I'd pay a lot of money
00:21:03.580 and it's about the size of a shoebox,
00:21:05.620 and you just can't even wait to get out of there.
00:21:07.820 So it just is unlivable,
00:21:10.160 and then you try to get someplace,
00:21:11.760 and you just can't get across town
00:21:13.880 in less than an hour.
00:21:15.840 It wasn't really livable, in my opinion,
00:21:18.320 but apparently the people liked it.
00:21:19.700 I'm not surprised that San Francisco and New York
00:21:23.840 are going to get emptied out.
00:21:25.560 I also don't necessarily think it's the end of the world
00:21:28.180 because the people leaving have options.
00:21:31.500 They have enough money,
00:21:32.220 and the people staying behind,
00:21:34.920 I don't know,
00:21:35.520 were they shopping at those retail stores anyway?
00:21:38.240 Who knows?
00:21:40.700 We're mixing concepts here.
00:21:42.680 All right.
00:21:45.020 So the New York Post
00:21:46.300 has a story about the New York PD,
00:21:49.060 the police department union,
00:21:50.320 endorsing Trump.
00:21:52.540 Now, you've got this, you know,
00:21:54.460 super Democrat city,
00:21:57.420 New York City,
00:21:58.120 and their police department just endorsed Trump.
00:22:01.580 And I looked at the comments for that article.
00:22:04.160 I tweeted about this.
00:22:05.700 And the people who were really confused,
00:22:09.560 they got cause and effect backwards,
00:22:14.020 which was weird.
00:22:15.520 And they were writing stuff like,
00:22:17.740 well, no wonder the police are not trusted
00:22:20.420 if they're going to back the president of the United States.
00:22:24.180 And I thought,
00:22:25.220 there's something wrong with these people.
00:22:27.660 And I kept seeing comments like that,
00:22:29.160 and I thought,
00:22:30.140 don't they have cause and effect backwards?
00:22:33.160 You know, isn't it,
00:22:33.940 isn't it the everything went wrong
00:22:36.300 and people turned against the police,
00:22:37.960 and that's why they're backing Trump?
00:22:41.060 I mean, they didn't back Trump first
00:22:43.680 and then the city fell apart.
00:22:45.860 Kind of was the other way around.
00:22:47.960 So I thought,
00:22:48.920 who could be so dumb
00:22:50.300 that they would reverse cause and effect?
00:22:53.160 And I started clicking on the profiles
00:22:54.800 of the people with those comments.
00:22:58.000 Writers.
00:22:59.820 Writers, artists, musicians.
00:23:02.420 It is so consistent
00:23:05.260 that the ones who really don't understand
00:23:08.180 anything that's going on,
00:23:10.340 they're just always writers.
00:23:13.240 And I'm looking for somebody
00:23:14.840 who's an economist or an engineer.
00:23:18.400 None.
00:23:19.780 None.
00:23:20.820 There's nobody who understands
00:23:23.100 how to compare things properly
00:23:25.560 or to analyze things.
00:23:27.160 None of those people are confused
00:23:29.200 about why the New York Police Department
00:23:31.540 might want to back Trump.
00:23:34.000 To them, that's not too surprising.
00:23:37.520 But to the artists,
00:23:39.160 what's going on?
00:23:43.060 Bill Barr was on Hannity,
00:23:45.240 might have been last night,
00:23:46.760 and he said this,
00:23:48.100 which made me happy,
00:23:50.020 when asked,
00:23:50.540 you're talking about racism,
00:23:52.040 systemic racism.
00:23:53.640 And Bill Barr,
00:23:54.360 Attorney General,
00:23:55.000 says the racism in this country
00:23:56.900 look no further
00:23:57.980 than our public education system.
00:24:01.140 That's a racist system,
00:24:02.960 he says,
00:24:04.100 maintained by the Democratic Party
00:24:06.040 and the teachers' unions,
00:24:07.800 keeping inner-city kids
00:24:09.120 in failing schools.
00:24:12.120 And I say to you,
00:24:13.980 how perfect is that?
00:24:16.100 Now, I was saying before
00:24:17.660 that the mark of the Democrats
00:24:20.440 seems to be not knowing
00:24:22.460 the difference between
00:24:23.560 what is important
00:24:24.620 and what is not.
00:24:25.740 It's very consistent.
00:24:27.620 Now, what is important,
00:24:30.420 if you're looking at the concept
00:24:32.080 of systemic racism,
00:24:33.500 what are the big things?
00:24:35.360 Well, one thing that's not important
00:24:37.080 is hoaxes
00:24:38.660 and things that aren't true.
00:24:40.800 Another thing that is not important,
00:24:43.260 if you were to rank
00:24:44.460 all the problems of black Americans,
00:24:47.320 the least important thing
00:24:48.860 would be the thing
00:24:49.560 they're protesting about.
00:24:51.420 The protesters are worrying
00:24:53.460 about police brutality.
00:24:55.460 Now, I'm not saying
00:24:56.720 it doesn't exist.
00:24:58.460 Even assuming it exists
00:25:00.520 exactly as is presented
00:25:02.980 by the protesters,
00:25:03.920 which is not so much
00:25:05.240 the killing,
00:25:05.980 but maybe the more stopping
00:25:08.100 and the more physicality,
00:25:10.840 that's certainly something
00:25:12.200 I would assume
00:25:12.900 might be happening.
00:25:14.060 I don't have data on that,
00:25:15.400 but it feels like
00:25:16.020 that probably does happen.
00:25:17.640 And I think to myself,
00:25:18.600 if all of that's true,
00:25:20.920 it's still your smallest problem.
00:25:23.600 What's the biggest problem?
00:25:24.980 Well, Bill Barr just called it out.
00:25:26.800 The biggest problem,
00:25:28.100 the alpha problem,
00:25:29.200 the base problem,
00:25:30.060 the problem that makes
00:25:30.780 all the other problems,
00:25:32.540 is that the school system
00:25:33.720 is broken.
00:25:35.100 You know,
00:25:35.340 if black Americans
00:25:36.340 were getting good educations
00:25:38.160 no matter where they lived,
00:25:39.500 inner city or other,
00:25:41.600 would you have as much poverty?
00:25:44.020 Would you have as much crime?
00:25:45.940 Would you have as much anything?
00:25:48.600 I mean,
00:25:49.020 it pretty much fixes,
00:25:51.320 fixes is too strong a word,
00:25:53.520 it removes the friction
00:25:56.120 that racism otherwise
00:26:00.280 puts on the system.
00:26:01.740 So in other words,
00:26:02.460 if you're doing great,
00:26:04.040 you're not as affected by racism,
00:26:05.940 even though racism doesn't go away.
00:26:08.140 As long as you're doing great,
00:26:09.920 it doesn't affect you.
00:26:11.260 So if you fix education,
00:26:13.800 people have a far better chance
00:26:15.320 of doing great,
00:26:16.700 and then, yeah,
00:26:17.660 there's still racism.
00:26:18.600 You can't make it go away.
00:26:19.820 It's one of those things
00:26:20.640 that's like air.
00:26:21.600 It's always going to be there.
00:26:23.400 But you can make it not matter.
00:26:25.580 So I think the administration
00:26:27.640 might want to hammer
00:26:28.900 on this whole priority thing
00:26:30.340 a little bit more
00:26:31.040 because the Dems
00:26:34.020 are getting this wrong
00:26:35.200 all the time,
00:26:36.380 the priority stuff.
00:26:37.140 Let me give you another example of that.
00:26:40.740 You turn on CNN,
00:26:42.160 what are they yammering about?
00:26:43.740 It's about the birther issue.
00:26:46.460 The birther issue.
00:26:48.040 Born out of the fact
00:26:49.100 that when the president
00:26:50.160 was asked about
00:26:51.220 Kamala Harris's
00:26:52.900 legal eligibility
00:26:54.960 to be vice president,
00:26:57.160 and the president said,
00:26:58.080 well, you know,
00:26:58.800 there's an interesting theory
00:27:00.240 about that,
00:27:00.840 but I don't really know.
00:27:02.840 And that turned into
00:27:03.960 CNN's biggest story.
00:27:06.480 That is the smallest story.
00:27:08.400 In terms of the priorities
00:27:10.580 of anybody in this country,
00:27:12.540 that is the smallest story.
00:27:15.060 And it's not even true.
00:27:17.360 Because the president
00:27:18.400 is not pushing birtherism.
00:27:20.600 He's just saying,
00:27:21.620 I don't know, maybe.
00:27:22.980 Which is just enough
00:27:24.300 to get people yapping
00:27:25.340 about all the wrong stuff.
00:27:28.140 Now,
00:27:30.460 it's becoming
00:27:31.260 increasingly clear to me
00:27:32.660 that one of the reasons
00:27:33.900 that CNN might want,
00:27:35.760 and MSNBC,
00:27:37.240 might want
00:27:38.000 a black vice president
00:27:39.880 for Biden
00:27:40.600 is so that they have reasons
00:27:42.480 for insulting
00:27:43.340 President Trump.
00:27:44.920 Doesn't it just make it easier?
00:27:47.060 It makes it easier
00:27:48.360 for them
00:27:50.640 to criticize Trump
00:27:51.800 if they've got
00:27:52.360 at least one black person
00:27:53.540 on the ticket, right?
00:27:54.880 They want a black person,
00:27:55.980 they want a woman,
00:27:57.280 they got both,
00:27:58.780 so that they can claim
00:28:00.060 everything Trump says
00:28:01.240 is sexist or racist.
00:28:03.000 It's kind of transparent.
00:28:05.260 I mean,
00:28:05.520 it's just the ultimate situation.
00:28:07.540 Now, compare that
00:28:08.500 to what the president's
00:28:09.980 working on.
00:28:10.640 Let's say,
00:28:11.660 for example,
00:28:12.440 peace in the Middle East.
00:28:14.640 You know,
00:28:14.860 what is more important?
00:28:15.840 Peace in the Middle East
00:28:16.960 or that thing he said
00:28:19.200 he didn't know about
00:28:20.340 but turned into a story
00:28:22.020 where he's really promoting it
00:28:23.660 when all he said
00:28:24.540 is he didn't know about it.
00:28:26.900 How about ending ISIS?
00:28:28.520 How about the economy?
00:28:29.640 How about decoupling
00:28:30.380 from China?
00:28:31.860 Those are pretty big things.
00:28:34.620 And how about,
00:28:35.960 you know,
00:28:36.260 the question about
00:28:36.980 the post office?
00:28:38.540 I guess everybody's
00:28:39.320 treating that one seriously.
00:28:42.660 But look for this
00:28:44.740 pattern that the Democrats
00:28:47.420 can't tell the difference
00:28:48.600 between a big problem
00:28:49.600 and a small one
00:28:50.540 even when it's
00:28:51.620 their own problems.
00:28:52.400 They can't tell
00:28:53.320 their own problems
00:28:54.460 the big ones
00:28:55.640 from the small ones.
00:28:56.740 Very consistent.
00:28:58.900 All right.
00:29:01.620 There are three things
00:29:03.000 that I think
00:29:03.600 have great potential
00:29:04.600 to help with
00:29:06.000 the coronavirus situation.
00:29:08.380 That doesn't mean
00:29:09.520 for sure.
00:29:11.480 So,
00:29:12.240 don't imagine
00:29:13.220 you see any certainty
00:29:14.300 in what I say next.
00:29:15.560 I'm not a doctor.
00:29:16.320 but there are three things
00:29:17.940 that appear to me
00:29:18.920 just from reading
00:29:20.080 and watching the news
00:29:20.980 to have the most
00:29:22.400 immediate
00:29:23.040 short-term potential.
00:29:25.740 One would be
00:29:26.700 the blood serum
00:29:28.280 plasma situation
00:29:29.540 where you're
00:29:30.720 taking the blood
00:29:31.680 antibodies
00:29:32.660 from people
00:29:33.360 who have already
00:29:34.380 recovered
00:29:34.860 and sharing it
00:29:35.820 with people
00:29:36.240 who need some
00:29:37.080 extra protection.
00:29:38.400 The other is
00:29:39.080 these cheap
00:29:39.960 over-the-counter
00:29:41.220 test strips
00:29:42.020 that will get
00:29:43.640 your viral load
00:29:44.620 when it's at
00:29:45.120 the high point
00:29:45.820 which is when
00:29:46.320 you want to catch it
00:29:47.140 but won't get
00:29:49.220 everything in the world
00:29:50.060 that could be caught
00:29:50.840 but they're so cheap
00:29:52.960 that you could do it
00:29:53.560 every day
00:29:54.040 and that would be
00:29:54.720 enough to basically
00:29:55.540 just halt
00:29:57.060 the virus.
00:29:59.520 And the third thing
00:30:00.160 would be
00:30:00.640 hydroxychloroquine
00:30:01.800 which
00:30:02.800 for whatever reason
00:30:04.880 there are still
00:30:05.560 people on both sides.
00:30:07.120 My current view
00:30:07.980 is 30% chance
00:30:09.600 that it really works
00:30:10.640 based on just
00:30:12.300 looking at
00:30:13.780 the various arguments
00:30:14.800 back and forth
00:30:15.480 but that's still
00:30:17.060 enough
00:30:17.580 to give it a whirl.
00:30:19.440 In other words
00:30:19.880 if your doctor
00:30:20.580 says it makes sense
00:30:21.560 for you
00:30:22.000 if in fact
00:30:23.900 I'm right
00:30:24.620 and it's a 30%
00:30:26.060 chance it might work
00:30:27.100 that's totally
00:30:28.220 a good reason
00:30:28.780 to prescribe it.
00:30:32.060 But what
00:30:32.800 do these three
00:30:33.920 things have in common?
00:30:35.080 The blood plasma
00:30:35.840 thing,
00:30:36.280 the over-the-counter
00:30:36.860 test strips
00:30:37.500 and the hydroxychloroquine.
00:30:39.320 The thing
00:30:40.360 they all have
00:30:40.940 in common
00:30:41.420 is that they
00:30:42.860 seem to be
00:30:43.500 under-emphasized
00:30:44.840 at least
00:30:46.340 in this country.
00:30:47.840 It feels like
00:30:48.840 the three
00:30:49.380 most promising
00:30:50.340 things
00:30:51.160 are not
00:30:52.920 really being
00:30:53.640 pursued.
00:30:54.520 At the very
00:30:55.240 least
00:30:55.880 on the
00:30:56.880 hydroxychloroquine
00:30:57.980 we should be
00:30:59.060 animals
00:30:59.860 about finding out
00:31:01.040 if there's
00:31:01.460 something to it.
00:31:02.860 Like we should
00:31:03.520 be chewing
00:31:04.180 through a concrete
00:31:05.140 wall
00:31:05.600 to either
00:31:06.420 dismiss it
00:31:07.260 as useless
00:31:07.900 or to
00:31:09.040 confirm
00:31:09.440 that it
00:31:09.780 works.
00:31:10.760 I don't
00:31:11.640 feel I
00:31:12.080 see that
00:31:12.500 energy
00:31:12.900 happening.
00:31:14.160 It's perfectly
00:31:15.320 fine if the
00:31:16.420 government wants
00:31:17.080 to say
00:31:17.480 it's not
00:31:19.100 proven to the
00:31:19.900 level that we'd
00:31:20.680 want in order
00:31:21.960 to go hard
00:31:22.640 at it,
00:31:23.540 but who's
00:31:24.140 making sure
00:31:24.880 that that's
00:31:25.800 true?
00:31:26.880 Who has
00:31:27.660 studied every
00:31:28.440 situation,
00:31:29.980 bundled them
00:31:30.680 together of
00:31:31.500 the hydroxychloroquine
00:31:33.320 users versus
00:31:34.160 all the
00:31:34.640 states and
00:31:35.160 all the
00:31:35.460 countries that
00:31:36.480 weren't using
00:31:37.040 it and
00:31:37.920 just see if
00:31:38.360 there's any
00:31:38.700 difference.
00:31:40.100 Instead what
00:31:40.880 we see is
00:31:41.520 you'll see
00:31:42.220 one country
00:31:43.040 compared to
00:31:43.680 three or
00:31:44.120 four others
00:31:44.820 completely
00:31:45.800 useless
00:31:46.320 because it
00:31:47.200 would be so
00:31:47.620 easy to
00:31:48.080 cherry pick
00:31:48.700 any countries
00:31:49.380 and say
00:31:49.720 look at
00:31:50.080 this trend
00:31:50.580 these ones
00:31:51.680 I cherry
00:31:52.080 picked are
00:31:52.560 doing better
00:31:53.020 than these
00:31:53.440 other few
00:31:53.960 I cherry
00:31:54.360 picked
00:31:54.620 and of
00:31:55.260 180
00:31:55.760 countries
00:31:56.340 and of
00:31:57.220 50 states
00:31:58.060 all different
00:31:59.600 experiences
00:32:00.180 completely useless.
00:32:01.680 So if you
00:32:02.660 think you've
00:32:03.340 seen an
00:32:04.120 argument that
00:32:04.980 is completely
00:32:05.780 persuasive that
00:32:07.800 hydroxychloroquine
00:32:09.040 works I
00:32:10.420 think you're
00:32:10.820 wrong.
00:32:12.040 I think you're
00:32:12.580 wrong.
00:32:13.160 There's lots of
00:32:13.820 indication that
00:32:14.580 we should find
00:32:15.280 out if it
00:32:15.740 works.
00:32:16.580 I mean there's
00:32:16.880 plenty of
00:32:17.380 that.
00:32:18.680 But there's
00:32:19.240 no strong
00:32:20.960 indication in
00:32:22.000 my opinion
00:32:22.540 that says it
00:32:24.040 works.
00:32:25.340 But there's
00:32:26.220 plenty of
00:32:27.100 suggestion that
00:32:27.980 it might.
00:32:29.080 The fact that
00:32:29.720 we're not going
00:32:30.360 hard at those
00:32:31.120 or explaining
00:32:32.080 to the
00:32:32.460 public why
00:32:33.620 we're not
00:32:34.100 going as
00:32:34.680 hard as
00:32:35.080 we could.
00:32:36.260 I mean why
00:32:36.660 aren't we
00:32:37.520 seeing some
00:32:38.040 kind of
00:32:38.340 blood plasma
00:32:39.160 donation thing
00:32:40.260 like every
00:32:41.380 day?
00:32:42.280 Why don't I
00:32:42.940 walk out or
00:32:44.440 drive my car
00:32:45.280 into town and
00:32:46.020 see a sign
00:32:46.520 that says
00:32:46.980 sign up here
00:32:48.480 if you've
00:32:49.020 had coronavirus
00:32:49.920 and you've
00:32:50.700 recovered so
00:32:51.360 we'll get
00:32:51.580 your blood.
00:32:52.280 I mean I
00:32:52.600 know it's
00:32:52.920 happening but
00:32:54.240 it feels like
00:32:54.800 it's the most
00:32:55.280 understated part
00:32:56.440 of everything
00:32:56.920 right?
00:32:57.720 We've got
00:32:58.300 hundreds of
00:32:59.060 vaccines being
00:33:00.360 tested.
00:33:01.120 And all
00:33:02.080 this other
00:33:02.700 stuff.
00:33:03.640 But the
00:33:03.880 things that
00:33:04.380 we almost
00:33:05.360 could be
00:33:05.880 sure would
00:33:06.560 work and
00:33:07.140 then hydroxychloroquine
00:33:08.280 we should just
00:33:08.940 make sure we
00:33:09.620 know if it
00:33:10.080 works.
00:33:11.280 I feel they're
00:33:12.140 a little
00:33:12.460 underserved or
00:33:13.580 maybe it's
00:33:14.220 just the
00:33:14.620 communication of
00:33:15.680 them.
00:33:16.660 So I would
00:33:17.100 like one or
00:33:17.740 the other.
00:33:18.300 Either
00:33:18.520 communication
00:33:19.160 that says
00:33:19.640 we're doing
00:33:20.040 everything we
00:33:20.580 can or
00:33:21.860 we've looked
00:33:22.320 into it and
00:33:22.840 we're not
00:33:23.200 going to do
00:33:23.700 anything more
00:33:24.300 because it
00:33:24.660 doesn't work
00:33:25.260 and here's the
00:33:25.860 reason.
00:33:26.280 That would be
00:33:26.600 fine.
00:33:27.800 But they feel
00:33:28.940 underserved.
00:33:29.640 That's all I'm
00:33:30.020 saying.
00:33:31.120 Is it too
00:33:33.760 early to say
00:33:34.360 that braindead
00:33:35.100 Biden has
00:33:35.880 botched his
00:33:36.880 campaign?
00:33:38.360 Is it too
00:33:39.240 early to say
00:33:39.840 it's botched?
00:33:41.920 Now if you've
00:33:43.240 been following me
00:33:44.020 for a while you
00:33:44.540 know why I'm
00:33:45.060 saying botched.
00:33:46.280 Botched is one
00:33:47.040 of those great
00:33:47.520 words and you're
00:33:48.300 seeing that the
00:33:48.980 Democrats are
00:33:49.580 using it to
00:33:50.300 refer to the
00:33:50.960 president's
00:33:51.920 coronavirus
00:33:52.420 response.
00:33:53.880 it's just an
00:33:55.380 excellent persuasion
00:33:56.480 word.
00:33:57.380 I didn't realize
00:33:58.400 it until I
00:33:58.860 heard them use
00:33:59.720 it and I
00:34:00.460 thought wow
00:34:00.940 you don't
00:34:01.840 really argue
00:34:02.480 with botched
00:34:03.260 because it's
00:34:04.340 so comprehensive
00:34:05.140 it's like wow
00:34:05.820 I don't even
00:34:06.380 need to give
00:34:06.820 you the
00:34:07.040 details.
00:34:08.520 Details?
00:34:09.420 No it was
00:34:09.980 botched.
00:34:11.320 It just makes
00:34:12.660 the details not
00:34:13.480 matter.
00:34:14.680 So I thought
00:34:15.100 I'd start using
00:34:15.800 that about the
00:34:16.500 Biden campaign
00:34:17.600 because it does
00:34:18.380 seem to fit.
00:34:19.660 I mean you could
00:34:20.160 argue that the
00:34:20.740 whole campaign has
00:34:21.600 been botched even
00:34:22.420 though he's ahead.
00:34:24.600 So yesterday
00:34:26.060 Harris and
00:34:28.380 Biden did
00:34:29.180 their little
00:34:29.660 it looks like
00:34:30.780 they've got some
00:34:31.340 kind of a set
00:34:32.260 that looks like
00:34:32.960 sort of a war
00:34:33.780 room with
00:34:34.540 flags on the
00:34:35.660 wall and maps
00:34:36.680 of the United
00:34:37.120 States and it
00:34:38.260 looks sort of
00:34:39.580 like a news
00:34:40.380 room but maybe
00:34:41.660 like a war
00:34:42.620 room kind of
00:34:44.160 cool thing
00:34:45.000 and my take
00:34:46.940 on it is
00:34:47.640 good try but
00:34:50.060 I think they
00:34:50.700 missed.
00:34:51.220 it felt like
00:34:52.560 a mess.
00:34:53.620 Their little
00:34:54.040 artificial set
00:34:55.180 looked
00:34:56.480 pathetic
00:34:58.780 because it
00:35:00.600 didn't look
00:35:01.240 high end
00:35:02.400 enough so
00:35:03.200 you'd say to
00:35:03.700 yourself well
00:35:04.240 it's like they're
00:35:04.900 broadcasting from
00:35:05.960 the Oval
00:35:06.480 Office or
00:35:07.740 it looks like
00:35:08.260 they're broadcasting
00:35:09.120 from some
00:35:09.700 important place.
00:35:10.980 It just looked
00:35:11.860 like you had a
00:35:12.440 little set
00:35:12.940 designer and
00:35:14.380 you put your
00:35:15.200 little douchey
00:35:16.900 desks in there.
00:35:19.360 It didn't quite
00:35:20.520 work.
00:35:21.380 I know what
00:35:21.900 they were going
00:35:22.420 for and so
00:35:23.180 what they were
00:35:23.580 going for made
00:35:24.300 sense to give
00:35:25.800 it a more
00:35:26.300 powerful or
00:35:28.420 serious look.
00:35:30.060 That made
00:35:30.560 sense but they
00:35:32.100 didn't quite hit
00:35:32.800 the mark to
00:35:33.520 me.
00:35:33.900 It looked a
00:35:34.640 little amateurish
00:35:36.900 I guess.
00:35:38.060 Botched.
00:35:38.620 I think you
00:35:39.060 could say it
00:35:39.500 was botched.
00:35:40.740 Anyway, here
00:35:42.060 was the
00:35:42.360 interesting thing.
00:35:43.260 If you're
00:35:43.980 looking at it
00:35:44.580 from the
00:35:45.100 audience's
00:35:45.860 perspective,
00:35:46.940 they had
00:35:47.220 Kamala Harris
00:35:47.840 in a desk
00:35:48.540 on the
00:35:48.880 left and
00:35:49.540 they had
00:35:49.820 Biden on
00:35:50.480 the desk
00:35:50.880 on the
00:35:51.200 right.
00:35:51.880 Let me ask
00:35:52.540 you this.
00:35:54.120 If you were
00:35:54.960 the one in
00:35:55.440 charge of
00:35:56.120 designing where
00:35:57.240 each of them
00:35:57.780 sat, would
00:35:59.140 you have put
00:35:59.680 the top of
00:36:01.020 the ticket on
00:36:01.740 the left or
00:36:03.440 would you have
00:36:03.940 put the top
00:36:04.620 of the ticket
00:36:05.140 on the right?
00:36:07.940 I would have
00:36:08.680 put the top
00:36:09.260 of the ticket
00:36:09.740 on the left
00:36:10.820 because the
00:36:12.060 left is the
00:36:13.940 important part
00:36:14.740 part of
00:36:15.660 the position
00:36:16.220 in Western
00:36:17.220 culture.
00:36:18.680 In the
00:36:19.100 West, we
00:36:19.560 read from
00:36:20.680 left to
00:36:21.120 right.
00:36:21.720 I've told
00:36:22.040 you before
00:36:22.480 that if
00:36:22.820 you look
00:36:23.100 at a
00:36:23.300 website,
00:36:24.380 the important
00:36:24.900 news or
00:36:25.520 the news
00:36:25.960 that they
00:36:26.240 want you
00:36:26.540 to think
00:36:26.840 is important
00:36:27.280 is in
00:36:27.660 the top
00:36:28.000 left.
00:36:29.100 Same as
00:36:29.660 reading.
00:36:30.600 Our brains
00:36:31.380 are just
00:36:31.720 wired, at
00:36:32.160 least in
00:36:32.440 the West,
00:36:33.300 to look at
00:36:33.760 the top
00:36:34.120 of the
00:36:34.360 left or
00:36:35.500 at least
00:36:35.760 the left
00:36:36.320 and start
00:36:37.100 there and
00:36:37.460 go to
00:36:37.660 the right.
00:36:38.780 So we're
00:36:40.040 compiling a
00:36:40.920 number of,
00:36:41.680 let's say,
00:36:42.460 subjective-looking,
00:36:43.980 anecdotal,
00:36:45.100 situations that
00:36:46.460 all suggest
00:36:47.280 the same
00:36:47.840 thing.
00:36:48.940 When you
00:36:49.320 see a
00:36:49.660 photograph of
00:36:51.180 Kamala Harris
00:36:52.620 with a big
00:36:53.180 picture and
00:36:54.080 then there's a
00:36:54.580 tiny little
00:36:55.060 Biden behind
00:36:55.840 her just
00:36:57.160 to indicate
00:36:57.660 that he's
00:36:58.060 part of it
00:36:58.500 too, it's
00:36:59.860 all collectively
00:37:00.880 coming together
00:37:01.840 like the
00:37:03.320 public is
00:37:03.900 supposed to
00:37:04.560 see Kamala
00:37:05.200 Harris as
00:37:05.720 the top of
00:37:06.220 the ticket.
00:37:07.260 They don't
00:37:07.620 want to say
00:37:08.060 it out loud,
00:37:09.220 but you're
00:37:09.820 going to see
00:37:10.100 it in
00:37:10.400 photography and
00:37:11.520 positioning and
00:37:13.080 in a hundred
00:37:14.040 different ways.
00:37:18.580 And then
00:37:19.180 they didn't
00:37:19.500 take questions.
00:37:21.540 If they do
00:37:22.360 take questions,
00:37:23.660 I would like
00:37:24.220 to suggest
00:37:24.840 something for
00:37:25.740 any reporter
00:37:26.860 who can get
00:37:27.440 Harris to sit
00:37:28.100 down and take
00:37:28.540 questions.
00:37:29.480 It goes like
00:37:30.140 this.
00:37:30.800 You've probably
00:37:31.260 all seen the
00:37:31.820 video of,
00:37:33.780 so Kamala Harris
00:37:34.620 was giving a
00:37:35.260 talk somewhere,
00:37:36.380 couldn't have
00:37:36.660 been too long
00:37:37.620 ago, I think it
00:37:38.260 was before she
00:37:38.760 was running for
00:37:39.260 president, but
00:37:40.140 not too long
00:37:40.700 ago, in which
00:37:41.720 she said that
00:37:42.900 young people,
00:37:44.800 I think between
00:37:45.500 the ages of
00:37:46.120 18 and 24,
00:37:47.220 she was talking
00:37:47.720 about, she
00:37:48.720 said that
00:37:49.180 they're stupid.
00:37:50.940 Now, is she
00:37:51.740 wrong?
00:37:53.340 No, no.
00:37:55.460 No, she's not
00:37:56.280 wrong.
00:37:57.600 She's completely
00:37:58.700 right, because I've
00:38:00.560 said exactly the
00:38:01.380 same thing.
00:38:02.200 It isn't really
00:38:03.000 even an insult to
00:38:04.200 say that young
00:38:04.740 people are stupid,
00:38:05.600 because I was
00:38:07.440 young, I'm
00:38:08.860 talking about
00:38:09.300 myself.
00:38:10.600 Scott Young,
00:38:12.520 stupid, compared
00:38:13.920 to more
00:38:15.460 experienced Scott.
00:38:17.560 Likewise, and
00:38:18.660 this is meant as
00:38:19.420 no insult to my
00:38:21.100 dear, beloved
00:38:21.880 viewers, but you
00:38:23.820 were all stupid.
00:38:25.120 You were all
00:38:25.900 stupid between the
00:38:26.740 ages of 18 and
00:38:27.580 24.
00:38:28.400 There's no way
00:38:29.120 around that.
00:38:30.440 But now you're
00:38:31.800 wiser, you're
00:38:33.280 experienced, you're
00:38:34.700 mature, but you
00:38:36.060 were stupid then.
00:38:36.860 I was stupid,
00:38:38.500 Kamala Harris was
00:38:39.200 stupid, President
00:38:40.420 Trump was stupid.
00:38:41.720 We were all
00:38:42.660 stupid when we're
00:38:44.540 that certain age
00:38:45.660 while thinking we
00:38:46.780 were smart.
00:38:47.720 But here's the
00:38:48.240 thing.
00:38:48.960 If somebody gets
00:38:49.800 Harris to answer
00:38:50.720 some questions,
00:38:52.060 here are the
00:38:52.480 questions I would
00:38:53.260 like her to
00:38:53.860 answer.
00:38:55.380 Kamala Harris, you
00:38:56.100 once said that
00:38:57.580 people, young
00:38:58.420 people are stupid.
00:38:59.820 Does that extend
00:39:00.740 to Greta
00:39:01.320 Thunberg?
00:39:03.800 Isn't that a
00:39:04.620 great question?
00:39:05.160 Would you say
00:39:06.100 that Greta
00:39:06.620 Thunberg is
00:39:07.780 stupid because
00:39:10.160 she's in that
00:39:10.760 age group?
00:39:12.180 And one
00:39:13.220 follow-up
00:39:13.680 question after
00:39:14.300 that is, do
00:39:15.520 you think that
00:39:16.040 the stupidity just
00:39:17.660 stops at 24?
00:39:19.600 Or would you
00:39:20.700 say, Kamala, I'm
00:39:21.880 just asking for
00:39:22.520 your opinion, would
00:39:23.640 you say that
00:39:24.380 somebody like
00:39:26.400 AOC, who's
00:39:28.320 on the younger
00:39:29.440 side of the
00:39:30.240 political
00:39:30.720 professional
00:39:31.860 spectrum, would
00:39:33.160 you say that
00:39:33.880 at the age
00:39:34.780 25, on her
00:39:35.980 25th birthday, she
00:39:37.000 became smart?
00:39:38.340 Or do you
00:39:38.940 think there's a
00:39:39.440 little bit of
00:39:39.820 that stupid
00:39:40.820 stuff from age
00:39:42.640 18 to 24?
00:39:43.960 Does it linger a
00:39:44.840 little bit?
00:39:45.760 Or would you
00:39:46.320 say AOC is
00:39:47.200 out of that
00:39:47.660 stupid zone yet
00:39:48.680 completely?
00:39:49.620 We're just
00:39:50.200 trying to
00:39:51.000 understand how
00:39:51.680 the stupidity
00:39:52.380 works according
00:39:53.060 to your worldview.
00:39:54.940 Now, those
00:39:56.160 would be hard
00:39:56.540 questions to
00:39:57.140 answer, wouldn't
00:39:57.600 they?
00:39:57.760 somebody says
00:40:00.740 awkward, your
00:40:01.520 wife.
00:40:06.280 See, now, I
00:40:07.080 don't block you
00:40:07.640 for that, because
00:40:08.580 you gave me
00:40:09.280 reasons.
00:40:11.020 As long as you
00:40:11.840 give me reasons,
00:40:12.560 you're okay.
00:40:13.540 So it turns out
00:40:14.200 that Bahrain
00:40:14.880 joined Egypt and
00:40:16.120 Oman in
00:40:17.120 backing the
00:40:18.920 UAE's deal
00:40:20.420 with Israel.
00:40:22.280 So the
00:40:22.980 president, and
00:40:23.820 I think Jared
00:40:24.960 Kushner had
00:40:25.580 teased that
00:40:27.340 there might
00:40:28.380 be more
00:40:28.940 good news
00:40:30.020 coming in
00:40:30.480 the Middle
00:40:30.760 East.
00:40:31.220 Maybe this
00:40:31.640 is the
00:40:31.900 beginning of
00:40:32.400 it.
00:40:32.680 So Bahrain
00:40:33.300 and Oman
00:40:34.460 and Egypt
00:40:35.220 and the
00:40:36.760 UAE are
00:40:37.840 all leaning
00:40:39.440 in Israel's
00:40:40.100 direction.
00:40:41.100 Now, would
00:40:41.540 we be
00:40:41.940 surprised at
00:40:42.840 this?
00:40:43.480 No.
00:40:44.660 Because the
00:40:45.600 president and
00:40:47.280 Jared Kushner
00:40:48.380 have set up
00:40:49.920 this situation
00:40:50.700 where, if
00:40:52.740 you imagine
00:40:53.160 there were
00:40:53.440 two major
00:40:53.980 powers in
00:40:55.280 the Middle
00:40:55.560 East, and
00:40:56.040 throw in
00:40:56.460 Russia as a
00:40:57.240 complicator,
00:40:58.540 but if
00:40:59.260 there was
00:41:00.000 the Iranian
00:41:00.580 sphere of
00:41:01.280 influence, and
00:41:02.420 there was, let's
00:41:02.880 say, the
00:41:03.300 Saudi, Israel,
00:41:05.020 the United
00:41:05.400 States sphere
00:41:06.480 of influence,
00:41:07.220 because they're
00:41:07.640 sort of on the
00:41:08.760 same team-ish,
00:41:11.000 it didn't make
00:41:13.020 sense to be in
00:41:13.860 the Iranian
00:41:14.320 sphere of
00:41:14.960 influence anymore,
00:41:16.100 did it?
00:41:16.940 Because it's a
00:41:18.420 losing sphere.
00:41:19.500 Nobody wants to
00:41:20.140 be on the
00:41:20.440 losing team, and
00:41:21.280 it's pretty
00:41:21.840 obvious that
00:41:22.560 Iran is not
00:41:23.900 heading toward
00:41:24.640 a good place.
00:41:25.760 So I think
00:41:27.180 that the
00:41:27.540 president degraded
00:41:28.880 Iran to the
00:41:29.680 point where
00:41:30.860 it was just
00:41:31.480 smart to be
00:41:32.040 on the winning
00:41:32.480 team.
00:41:33.060 It's like, you
00:41:33.480 might as well
00:41:33.860 just be on the
00:41:34.440 winning team.
00:41:35.080 Why don't we
00:41:35.380 just make
00:41:35.840 peace, act
00:41:37.100 like, you
00:41:38.500 know, civilized
00:41:39.160 people?
00:41:40.020 And the
00:41:40.860 Palestinians
00:41:41.420 apparently did
00:41:42.380 not like what
00:41:43.380 the UAE was
00:41:44.500 doing, and so
00:41:45.540 they decided to
00:41:46.780 withdraw their
00:41:47.620 diplomat and
00:41:48.740 close their, I
00:41:51.440 don't know if
00:41:51.700 they closed the
00:41:52.160 embassy, but I'm
00:41:54.520 thinking to
00:41:54.940 myself, does the
00:41:55.940 UAE really care
00:41:58.060 that they lost
00:41:58.760 the Palestinian
00:41:59.620 embassy or
00:42:01.660 ambassador?
00:42:03.300 I don't think
00:42:04.000 they care at
00:42:04.560 all.
00:42:06.020 Do they?
00:42:08.080 So, anyway,
00:42:10.120 that's good.
00:42:13.980 You know, there's
00:42:14.940 this little side
00:42:16.440 story about
00:42:17.340 Jeff Zucker, the
00:42:18.700 head of CNN,
00:42:20.020 and how he's
00:42:20.760 been a Kamala
00:42:21.520 Harris supporter
00:42:22.280 for a long time,
00:42:23.520 and you have
00:42:24.580 to ask
00:42:24.940 yourself, how
00:42:26.220 important was
00:42:27.060 it, in terms of
00:42:28.240 Kamala Harris
00:42:28.800 getting the VP
00:42:30.000 spot, how
00:42:31.420 important was
00:42:32.300 it that CNN
00:42:33.960 was going to
00:42:34.620 back her?
00:42:36.160 I mean, I'm
00:42:36.580 sure they would
00:42:37.020 have backed
00:42:37.320 whoever the
00:42:38.060 nominee picked,
00:42:39.700 but don't you
00:42:41.600 wonder if CNN
00:42:42.380 was really the
00:42:43.220 one who was
00:42:44.940 the main force
00:42:45.880 behind picking
00:42:46.720 Kamala Harris?
00:42:48.160 You know, the
00:42:48.660 CNN, Clinton
00:42:50.100 universe?
00:42:52.660 Yeah, I don't
00:42:53.340 think anything
00:42:53.900 happens the way
00:42:54.540 you think it
00:42:55.020 does.
00:42:56.380 I feel like the
00:42:57.300 real story behind
00:42:58.380 all of this is
00:42:59.100 never quite the
00:42:59.800 one that you
00:43:00.220 hear.
00:43:01.420 All right, what
00:43:02.180 else we got going
00:43:02.860 on here?
00:43:04.160 I think those are
00:43:05.160 the big things.
00:43:06.740 Just make sure I
00:43:07.460 didn't miss
00:43:07.800 anything.
00:43:09.380 No, I did
00:43:10.140 not.
00:43:10.840 I have been
00:43:11.460 very thorough.
00:43:14.320 Arms embargo?
00:43:15.660 Who's got an
00:43:16.320 arms embargo?
00:43:16.920 I just see that
00:43:19.060 in the Middle
00:43:22.560 East is a
00:43:23.500 powder keg, you
00:43:24.400 think?
00:43:24.900 Well, that's no
00:43:26.060 different than
00:43:26.540 ever, right?
00:43:31.280 Representative
00:43:31.880 Tlaib didn't
00:43:33.240 like it.
00:43:34.540 What a
00:43:35.020 surprise.
00:43:37.720 Somebody says
00:43:38.340 Brett Baer is
00:43:39.360 anti-Trump.
00:43:40.540 That is not
00:43:41.820 true.
00:43:42.720 He is neither
00:43:43.420 pro nor
00:43:44.360 anti-Trump.
00:43:45.860 You know,
00:43:46.040 Brett Baer is
00:43:46.820 like the one
00:43:47.380 guy who
00:43:48.960 you'd have to
00:43:49.580 say, all
00:43:50.260 right, he's
00:43:50.580 playing it
00:43:51.000 right down
00:43:51.340 the middle.
00:43:51.900 He's trying
00:43:52.540 to tell the
00:43:54.100 actual news.
00:43:59.760 What about
00:44:00.440 Jeff Bezos?
00:44:03.300 Are you
00:44:03.860 saying that
00:44:04.220 he's behind
00:44:04.820 some of
00:44:05.160 this?
00:44:05.780 I don't
00:44:06.100 know.
00:44:06.460 I don't
00:44:06.880 know that
00:44:07.240 exactly.
00:44:08.820 All right.
00:44:09.280 well, let
00:44:13.860 us continue
00:44:14.420 watching what
00:44:15.240 happens with
00:44:16.160 the plotters
00:44:17.460 who were
00:44:18.240 behind the
00:44:18.760 Russia collusion
00:44:19.660 hoax.
00:44:20.740 See how many
00:44:21.580 of them go
00:44:22.040 to jail.
00:44:24.140 The Millie
00:44:24.900 Weaver story,
00:44:25.860 I'm a little
00:44:26.200 confused by that
00:44:27.160 one.
00:44:27.420 We don't know
00:44:27.880 quite what's
00:44:28.480 going on there,
00:44:29.140 so I'll just
00:44:29.480 watch that one
00:44:30.060 a little bit.
00:44:31.220 Yeah, I'll be
00:44:31.560 on the Greg
00:44:32.060 Gutfeld show
00:44:33.020 tonight.
00:44:34.000 Check your
00:44:34.480 local listings.
00:44:35.500 And thank
00:44:39.600 you.
00:44:40.520 All right.
00:44:40.980 That's all for
00:44:41.400 now, and I
00:44:42.020 will talk to
00:44:42.580 you later.