Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1142 Scott Adams： I Think You Know the Topics This Morning

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00:00:09.880 Hey everybody

00:00:14.120 Come on in

00:00:15.900 I overslept

00:00:19.100 Did anything happen in the last half of day?

00:00:21.820 Did I miss anything?

00:00:24.200 Oh, yeah

00:00:25.400 I think I did

00:00:26.320 I think I did miss something

00:00:28.200 We're going to be talking about that.

00:00:30.320 Come on in. Come on in.

00:00:32.460 You need to come in here for the best part of the day.

00:00:36.760 And this is the sort of day you really need to get up for the day.

00:00:42.040 You're going to have to dig a little bit deeper today.

00:00:45.020 But all you need to get going on the right foot is a cup or a mug or a glass of tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or flask of a vessel of any kind.

00:00:53.900 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:00:55.800 I like coffee.

00:00:58.900 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better.

00:01:05.940 And we hope that includes the coronavirus.

00:01:08.700 It's called the simultaneous sip.

00:01:10.720 And let's lift our glass to the good health of our First Lady and the President.

00:01:17.040 To all of you.

00:01:21.920 Ah.

00:01:24.120 Well, it's a busy news story.

00:01:26.300 So let me look through my notes and see what we want to talk about first.

00:01:30.920 There's the economy.

00:01:34.060 Don't really care about that today.

00:01:37.500 We could talk some more about the Biden debate.

00:01:40.900 We don't really care about the Biden debate.

00:01:45.580 How about the climate change is the most important.

00:01:48.260 It's by far the most important issue.

00:01:50.820 I don't give a shit about that.

00:01:55.020 There's a giant asteroid heading toward the Earth that will kill us all in about 16 hours.

00:02:02.360 But like I'm interested in that.

00:02:05.220 I'm not.

00:02:06.020 So, where do we start?

00:02:13.200 Where do we start?

00:02:14.980 You know, when I went to sleep last night, I told myself quite incorrectly that I might be one of the big stories in the morning.

00:02:25.480 I thought to myself, you know, I'm trending on Twitter yesterday afternoon.

00:02:33.500 I'm trending.

00:02:34.400 My name's trending.

00:02:35.320 Dilbert is trending.

00:02:37.140 And I thought to myself, there's articles about me and the Hill.

00:02:41.260 People are contacting me all over the place.

00:02:43.600 And I thought to myself, you know, I'm going to wake up and I'm going to be the big story in the morning.

00:02:51.920 Well, that didn't work out.

00:02:54.180 So, here's the big story about me.

00:02:59.060 All right.

00:02:59.580 Well, I'll talk about that in a moment.

00:03:01.180 But first, let's get to the good stuff.

00:03:06.040 The biggest story, of course, I mean, I don't think there's any doubt about what the big story is.

00:03:11.440 And that is that Gavin McGinnis has decided to sue Joe Biden and CNN for calling the Proud Boys white supremacists.

00:03:22.080 Was there anything else that happened?

00:03:24.680 Any other stories?

00:03:29.020 And, of course, it's just such a weird day.

00:03:35.500 I don't quite know what to do with this day.

00:03:38.040 So, I was going to talk about some other things, but there's nothing else to talk about.

00:03:43.140 There's just nothing else to talk about.

00:03:45.480 The news of the President and the First Lady having coronavirus just made everything else unimportant.

00:03:54.160 All at the same time.

00:03:55.880 It wasn't just me.

00:03:57.760 You know, of course, like everybody, I think the world revolves around me.

00:04:03.480 But nothing else feels important, does it?

00:04:08.060 Are you having the same feeling that just nothing else feels important?

00:04:11.600 It just took everything, everything else, and just put it in its own little perspective.

00:04:17.660 But let's talk about that.

00:04:21.100 Number one, what will this do to the President's empathy issue?

00:04:30.560 In other words, the people who think he's not showing enough empathy, will this change it?

00:04:36.120 In other words, when it happens to him, will people say, well, now you've got some empathy,

00:04:40.120 and suddenly their own biggest complaint about the President will be fixed.

00:04:45.760 Because that's the big complaint.

00:04:47.640 He doesn't understand how big it is or how big the risk is.

00:04:52.480 But I'll bet he does now.

00:04:54.340 Or at least people will imagine that it's changed his mind, even if it doesn't.

00:04:59.180 So, it's going to be really tough to predict the psychology of this.

00:05:05.400 The psychology is wildly unpredictable.

00:05:07.580 Let's just talk about where it could go.

00:05:10.860 Number one, did you see the video?

00:05:15.060 There's a little clip from the debate in which Joe Biden was trying to list three things.

00:05:21.260 And he skipped the second one.

00:05:22.680 He goes, number one, blah, blah, blah.

00:05:24.140 And then he goes, number two.

00:05:26.360 And then he goes, number three.

00:05:28.160 And he just skips whatever number two is and goes to number three.

00:05:31.200 And Trump was talking over him the whole time.

00:05:33.340 And Trump not only keeps his own train of thought,

00:05:37.580 but while he's thinking it, he realizes, while he's talking,

00:05:42.400 Trump realizes that Biden has skipped a number.

00:05:45.380 And in the middle of his sentence, he goes, you missed a number.

00:05:48.460 And he goes back to talking.

00:05:50.080 And I thought, that takes a lot of concentration.

00:05:53.280 He was literally doing two things at once.

00:05:55.100 He was listening, listening to math and talking in front of the public.

00:06:00.260 And he was actually tracking both of them at the same time.

00:06:03.100 It was kind of impressive.

00:06:03.960 And funny, too.

00:06:06.960 But that's not what I was getting at.

00:06:10.140 So you've got the empathy issue.

00:06:11.940 What will that happen?

00:06:13.540 Here's another part of the psychology.

00:06:16.900 I'll just hit all the little parts and see if we can put them together into anything.

00:06:21.380 Another part is that since Trump has been the one who's been saying,

00:06:26.400 maybe more than anybody, at least anybody prominent,

00:06:29.400 that we should take the risk of getting back to work.

00:06:34.220 So if you ask yourself, what was the message that Trump was telling the country?

00:06:40.160 What was the leadership message?

00:06:42.660 It probably was something along the lines of,

00:06:45.780 let's take the risk with this thing,

00:06:48.740 because getting everything working is more important

00:06:52.840 than some of these individual risks.

00:06:56.120 He walked the walk and he took the risk

00:07:01.080 and he actually contracted it.

00:07:04.480 So he modeled, you know, not intentionally, of course,

00:07:08.460 but he ended up exactly modeling the thing he said

00:07:12.340 was the condition we should be walking toward.

00:07:16.740 So he actually walked into the situation he was promoting,

00:07:21.760 not the situation he was avoiding.

00:07:23.880 So nobody can say you tried really hard not to get it,

00:07:29.580 you know, you did everything you could not to get it,

00:07:31.740 and blah, blah, blah, but bad luck, he got it anyway.

00:07:34.800 He designed this level of risk,

00:07:38.520 and then he walked into it,

00:07:40.560 and he had bad luck.

00:07:42.440 You know, he was one of the ones who got it.

00:07:44.940 At least I hope it was bad luck.

00:07:47.620 I hope there was nothing nefarious going on there.

00:07:50.680 And I feel as if there is some authenticity in that,

00:07:58.320 and I don't know which way that works for him.

00:08:00.640 I feel like it works a little bit in a positive way,

00:08:04.360 because he was consistent to his own description

00:08:10.400 of how we should handle this.

00:08:12.620 And he was consistent, meaning that he said

00:08:15.400 we should try to live our best life

00:08:17.060 while, you know, masking up when we can

00:08:19.340 and doing the things we can,

00:08:21.340 but not to hide from life.

00:08:25.800 And sure enough,

00:08:27.420 he modeled the very behavior

00:08:29.320 that he was promoting for the rest of the country,

00:08:31.860 good or bad.

00:08:32.640 I'm not saying that that's good or bad.

00:08:34.480 I'm not putting the judgment on it.

00:08:36.140 I'm just saying that he modeled

00:08:37.400 what he wanted for us.

00:08:39.480 So he did not hide from the risk

00:08:43.180 that he asked the public to take.

00:08:46.340 That's a big deal.

00:08:48.060 Imagine two different generals.

00:08:50.680 One rides into battle at the front of the charge

00:08:56.880 and is part of the battle and is in the battle.

00:08:59.760 The other general is back at headquarters

00:09:03.320 and phones it in and says,

00:09:05.520 I'll be getting a massage.

00:09:08.740 Why don't you attack the front lines

00:09:10.580 and let me know how it goes.

00:09:12.420 Which of those leaders is the bigger leader?

00:09:15.320 Is it the leader who does and models

00:09:17.480 exactly what he's asking of the troops,

00:09:21.180 in this case the country,

00:09:22.640 or is it the one who has a completely different existence,

00:09:26.980 one who hides from the virus

00:09:28.760 while telling you not to hide from the virus?

00:09:31.980 Now, you could argue whether he was trying hard enough

00:09:34.820 to stay away from the virus.

00:09:36.680 I don't think anybody would take the position

00:09:39.920 that he really quarantined himself

00:09:42.220 the way he could have.

00:09:43.400 As president, he could have had a...

00:09:45.420 The president could have had a total seal

00:09:48.700 on his contacts.

00:09:49.780 He could have.

00:09:50.700 He just chose not to.

00:09:52.360 And it was the same decision he thinks we should make.

00:09:54.440 Now, we have to ask the question,

00:10:01.080 unfortunately, it's just horrible

00:10:02.580 that it even has to come out of my mouth,

00:10:04.360 but you have to ask the question if he'll survive.

00:10:08.100 I haven't yet seen,

00:10:09.900 and I'm pretty sure I'll see it as soon as I'm done here,

00:10:12.520 an estimate for somebody in his specific situation,

00:10:16.300 you know, his age and his health.

00:10:18.100 What are the odds of his survival?

00:10:20.320 I think it's still 95%, right?

00:10:22.500 Doesn't he still have a 95% chance of survival or higher?

00:10:28.040 98%?

00:10:28.740 It's pretty high.

00:10:30.580 And you add that to probably early detection.

00:10:34.080 You add that to the best health care in the world.

00:10:37.840 You know, I think his odds are pretty good.

00:10:41.440 But here's the question you have to ask.

00:10:43.440 Was it an assassination attempt?

00:10:47.260 You have to ask that question.

00:10:49.420 Now, in all likelihood, it was not, right?

00:10:51.960 Because the virus is everywhere.

00:10:54.140 The most likely scenario is he got it the normal way.

00:10:58.220 But if you were trying to take out a leader of another country,

00:11:02.880 isn't the first thing you do is make sure that there was a lot of virus

00:11:07.160 among the people who would have contact with him?

00:11:10.760 I mean, isn't that the obvious thing you would do if you were a bad player?

00:11:14.180 Get a little virus, make sure that, you know,

00:11:16.800 the assistant to the staff, whatever, gets infected

00:11:20.220 until, you know, you get lucky

00:11:22.200 and somebody gets close enough to the president.

00:11:24.300 And so I don't know how they could possibly know that one way or the other,

00:11:29.600 but you can't rule that out

00:11:30.880 because it would be such an obvious, obvious play.

00:11:37.080 Then we have the question of whether Biden will get it or already has it.

00:11:41.240 Because I would think that the president probably already had contracted it

00:11:45.860 when he was at the debate.

00:11:49.160 He may have actually contracted it at the debate.

00:11:52.100 That's possible.

00:11:52.720 So he was probably at least in the general vicinity of Biden

00:11:57.240 when he was infected, you know, 20 feet away.

00:12:04.380 And what would that change?

00:12:05.780 What if they both get it?

00:12:07.040 I mean, these are completely impossible to sort out the psychology in advance

00:12:13.020 of how that would affect things.

00:12:14.720 But what will happen to Trump's,

00:12:18.620 what will happen to his campaign?

00:12:20.580 Because that's the end of his physical campaigning.

00:12:25.100 Will Trump get better credit for staying home because that's good behavior, I guess?

00:12:33.240 Or will he just lose his momentum because he's losing his energy?

00:12:38.720 Is Trump, without being Trump, still Trump?

00:12:43.120 In other words, if you take the high energy, which we know to be Trump,

00:12:47.480 and you take, you know, 40% off the energy because he's sick,

00:12:51.440 if it turns out he has symptoms, we don't know yet, you know.

00:12:55.040 But if it takes, let's say, 40% off his energy, can he even do a Zoom, right?

00:13:03.180 Can you even do a Zoom if you're at low energy?

00:13:07.220 Probably not.

00:13:07.860 It's entirely possible that Trump will just disappear from public view.

00:13:14.700 You know, it may be that, you know, if he's low energy,

00:13:18.500 I don't know if he wants us to see him.

00:13:20.840 If he even looks like he's sick,

00:13:23.760 is that going to help him or hurt him if you saw him on Zoom?

00:13:27.460 It might help him.

00:13:29.000 Again, these are totally imponderables at this point.

00:13:32.480 You know, we'll be able to look back in hindsight and say,

00:13:35.240 oh, that was the one variable that mattered.

00:13:37.460 But right now, it's a whole bunch of variables,

00:13:39.920 and they're all just swirling around.

00:13:42.800 And one of them is, imagine this.

00:13:45.060 Let's say, you know, he loses his energy or something,

00:13:49.040 which would be typical.

00:13:50.660 And he still does a Zoom because he still wants to get out there.

00:13:55.360 And you watch the Zoom, and everybody who watches it says,

00:13:59.380 he doesn't look well.

00:14:01.020 Well, he doesn't look well.

00:14:03.820 What would that do to your feelings about re-electing him?

00:14:08.240 Would you say, ah, I can't elect somebody

00:14:11.180 who's literally, you know, might not make it to election day,

00:14:15.980 you know, if it looked like that was the case.

00:14:18.360 Or would you say, finally, he looks human?

00:14:22.220 You know, there's something about this

00:14:23.900 which has become sort of the third act.

00:14:28.440 You know, it's the turning point.

00:14:29.820 It's the thing that changes him.

00:14:31.780 Might he be a different person after this?

00:14:35.100 Because that's possible.

00:14:36.840 This is the sort of event that could actually change him.

00:14:41.340 Not in every way, but it might change an opinion.

00:14:44.760 It might change a policy.

00:14:46.020 It might change his empathy.

00:14:47.160 It might change how people see him.

00:14:49.200 It could be big.

00:14:50.500 We don't know.

00:14:51.760 People are unpredictable.

00:14:53.300 Let's see.

00:14:56.100 The other things that we need to think about this

00:14:58.200 is if you were investing,

00:15:03.180 the most important thing you should do as an investor

00:15:06.040 is fill in the blank, diversify.

00:15:09.580 There's nothing more important if you're investing

00:15:12.060 than making sure that you spread your risk

00:15:14.360 across different stocks or different classes of investments.

00:15:17.380 But when we run two candidates for president,

00:15:21.560 just two,

00:15:23.440 that's not very well diversified, right?

00:15:26.140 So you need one of those two to work out

00:15:30.420 so you don't have any choice,

00:15:33.120 any chance of a good outcome.

00:15:35.580 But what we did

00:15:36.620 is we started with a senior citizen president

00:15:40.520 and we added one choice,

00:15:45.040 which is somebody who was even older.

00:15:47.900 It doesn't make any sense

00:15:49.900 that we run two elderly candidates for president.

00:15:55.100 That was maybe one of the dumbest things

00:15:57.500 that America has ever done

00:15:58.820 because if you run two elderly candidates for president

00:16:03.080 and by any measure,

00:16:05.920 Joe Biden looks like he's right on the margin

00:16:07.920 of even being functional,

00:16:09.340 you really just had one president as a spare

00:16:13.680 because you had sort of a shaky Biden

00:16:16.260 from the starting gate.

00:16:18.960 Your backup is President Trump.

00:16:21.200 If anything happened to him,

00:16:23.460 you don't have a healthy candidate.

00:16:25.920 You actually would not have a candidate for president

00:16:28.900 who is sufficiently healthy,

00:16:32.040 just healthy.

00:16:33.380 Forget about policy.

00:16:35.020 Forget about his record,

00:16:38.220 his background.

00:16:39.340 Forget about all that.

00:16:41.260 We intentionally,

00:16:42.660 meaning America,

00:16:43.780 we put ourselves in a position

00:16:45.220 where we had a very high risk

00:16:47.600 of this very thing.

00:16:50.200 This was the risk we knew

00:16:52.140 we were putting ourselves into.

00:16:54.600 Two elderly candidates,

00:16:56.640 maybe none of them would be up for the job

00:16:58.880 by election day.

00:17:00.120 There was a good chance of this.

00:17:01.840 You can't say,

00:17:02.740 you can certainly say you didn't see

00:17:05.400 the specific thing coming,

00:17:06.960 that it was coronavirus back in November of last year.

00:17:11.000 You probably didn't see this coming.

00:17:13.740 But was it impossible to see?

00:17:17.200 Could smart people have a forecast

00:17:19.820 that it was a bad idea

00:17:21.960 to have two elderly candidates

00:17:23.640 and one of them's already shaky?

00:17:25.380 We did this to ourselves.

00:17:29.980 This is absolutely

00:17:31.360 America kicking itself in the nuts

00:17:34.480 and knowing it.

00:17:36.120 It's like,

00:17:36.680 I think I'll kick myself really hard in the nuts.

00:17:39.560 Why are you doing that?

00:17:41.200 I don't know.

00:17:42.480 I don't know.

00:17:43.680 Seemed like the thing to do.

00:17:45.600 And then we kicked ourselves really hard in the nuts

00:17:47.840 and here we are.

00:17:49.240 So,

00:17:50.200 how's the stock market look?

00:17:52.360 Well,

00:17:53.400 not so good.

00:17:58.120 Yeah,

00:17:58.680 it looks like a lot of red.

00:18:00.700 Red,

00:18:01.260 red.

00:18:02.680 So,

00:18:04.060 does that tell you that the

00:18:05.640 system just doesn't like

00:18:08.200 risk and change

00:18:09.420 or does it tell you that they

00:18:10.760 think that

00:18:12.560 if President Trump

00:18:13.860 doesn't get re-elected

00:18:15.120 that the market will tank?

00:18:17.040 What's it telling you?

00:18:18.520 I think it's telling you

00:18:20.200 that there are a lot of shy

00:18:22.300 Trump investors,

00:18:23.640 if you know what I mean.

00:18:24.940 People who think

00:18:25.880 Trump is better for the market

00:18:27.360 even if they don't necessarily

00:18:29.020 want to vote for him.

00:18:30.320 They still think he might be

00:18:31.800 the better one for the economy.

00:18:33.540 The polls show that.

00:18:35.500 So,

00:18:36.100 the stock market

00:18:37.140 is

00:18:38.040 tapping the public on the shoulder

00:18:40.160 and saying,

00:18:41.460 I know you're talking about

00:18:43.980 the President's health

00:18:45.660 and the First Lady's health

00:18:46.780 and their health

00:18:48.040 is the most important thing.

00:18:49.940 But,

00:18:50.400 I just got to tap you

00:18:51.460 on the shoulder here

00:18:52.160 a little bit.

00:18:52.800 Just,

00:18:53.300 just don't forget about me.

00:18:55.240 You know,

00:18:55.540 the stock market over here,

00:18:57.360 where the stock market

00:18:58.200 doesn't exist

00:18:59.020 by itself.

00:19:00.820 The stock market

00:19:01.900 is a psychology engine.

00:19:03.660 And the spark plug

00:19:05.760 that runs the psychology engine,

00:19:08.160 the economy,

00:19:09.620 just got a hiccup.

00:19:12.020 And when your spark plug

00:19:13.860 looks like it's starting

00:19:15.040 to misfire,

00:19:16.420 the entire engine

00:19:17.380 of the economy

00:19:18.100 starts to sputter.

00:19:20.240 And,

00:19:21.000 just want to give you

00:19:21.900 a little tap on the shoulder.

00:19:23.360 We're just going to pull back

00:19:24.240 the,

00:19:24.540 just going to pull back

00:19:25.640 the Dow Jones a little bit.

00:19:26.880 Make sure you notice.

00:19:28.500 Because we don't want you

00:19:29.400 not to know

00:19:30.240 that,

00:19:31.880 hey,

00:19:32.820 you know,

00:19:33.220 we're watching.

00:19:37.540 Wow.

00:19:40.840 In the middle of this all,

00:19:42.880 the citizens

00:19:44.040 of the United States

00:19:45.100 decided to have

00:19:46.440 a separate competition

00:19:47.900 to see who could be

00:19:49.580 the worst human being

00:19:51.140 in the entire world.

00:19:53.280 Now,

00:19:53.580 if you go to Twitter,

00:19:54.460 you can see the competition

00:19:55.560 raging.

00:19:56.980 And,

00:19:57.800 the,

00:19:58.240 so far it seems to be

00:19:59.360 mostly just Democrats.

00:20:00.240 who have entered

00:20:00.840 the contest.

00:20:02.600 But,

00:20:03.280 look at some of the

00:20:04.360 comments

00:20:05.180 from the people

00:20:06.920 that you believed

00:20:07.960 were good people.

00:20:10.540 You know,

00:20:10.820 just good citizens.

00:20:12.620 Look at the things

00:20:13.520 that they say.

00:20:14.980 Now,

00:20:15.440 I'm not going to

00:20:16.240 excuse conservatives

00:20:17.640 for,

00:20:19.140 you know,

00:20:19.300 I'm not going to say

00:20:20.040 conservatives never

00:20:21.060 say horrible things

00:20:22.040 on social media.

00:20:23.140 That would not be true.

00:20:25.060 But,

00:20:25.800 at the moment,

00:20:26.720 this is mostly

00:20:27.460 coming from the left.

00:20:28.300 and it's truly

00:20:30.100 horrible.

00:20:31.360 It's truly

00:20:31.800 quite horrible.

00:20:33.240 And,

00:20:33.680 you're going to see

00:20:34.820 the worst of humanity

00:20:36.220 come out of this.

00:20:38.000 Just the worst.

00:20:39.280 I will tell you

00:20:39.880 my opinion

00:20:40.400 that when the

00:20:42.040 President,

00:20:42.720 when the President

00:20:43.600 of the United States,

00:20:44.980 no matter who it is,

00:20:46.840 gets a potentially

00:20:47.920 fatal disease,

00:20:49.880 I'm not a Republican

00:20:51.560 and I'm not a Democrat,

00:20:53.100 never was really,

00:20:53.980 but I suddenly

00:20:55.920 become not

00:20:56.800 a partisan anymore.

00:20:58.740 Certainly,

00:20:59.420 I was partisan.

00:21:00.860 But,

00:21:01.520 when your President

00:21:02.720 and your Commander

00:21:03.540 of Chief,

00:21:04.680 you know,

00:21:05.020 takes a bullet,

00:21:06.880 you don't really,

00:21:08.480 if your head

00:21:10.060 is on right,

00:21:11.700 that should

00:21:12.160 immediately collapse

00:21:13.300 your support.

00:21:14.640 And,

00:21:14.900 it should collapse

00:21:15.640 it into,

00:21:16.840 I mean,

00:21:17.720 we should be

00:21:18.320 on the same team

00:21:19.000 for a little while.

00:21:20.520 Because,

00:21:21.520 you can't lose

00:21:22.240 your President

00:21:22.840 even when you're

00:21:24.500 running for President.

00:21:25.660 You know,

00:21:25.900 even when there's

00:21:26.720 another one

00:21:27.140 that might be

00:21:27.600 coming on,

00:21:28.340 that could be

00:21:28.720 months before

00:21:29.460 things get sorted out.

00:21:31.700 Nobody wants to

00:21:32.640 lose the Commander

00:21:33.720 in Chief

00:21:34.240 now,

00:21:35.820 under any circumstance.

00:21:37.360 You might want him

00:21:38.240 not to win the election,

00:21:40.200 but,

00:21:40.740 this is,

00:21:41.360 this is the time

00:21:42.200 to,

00:21:42.640 to kind of

00:21:43.800 come together

00:21:45.720 if it can be done.

00:21:47.900 Now,

00:21:48.240 the President

00:21:48.700 has often

00:21:49.860 talked about

00:21:50.380 the coronavirus

00:21:50.880 as being,

00:21:51.780 as being a,

00:21:54.160 an enemy.

00:21:56.220 And,

00:21:56.840 it is a common

00:21:57.660 enemy now.

00:21:58.420 And,

00:21:58.660 it's not only

00:21:59.160 a common enemy,

00:22:00.180 but it's an enemy

00:22:01.040 that just

00:22:01.960 took a

00:22:02.860 big old

00:22:03.740 shot at

00:22:05.060 our Commander

00:22:05.640 in Chief.

00:22:07.120 And,

00:22:08.140 you know,

00:22:08.900 we'll see.

00:22:09.460 We'll see if this

00:22:10.120 makes a difference

00:22:10.880 in terms of

00:22:12.200 people,

00:22:12.500 how people

00:22:13.620 think about it.

00:22:14.220 I've noticed

00:22:18.440 that there's

00:22:19.100 a,

00:22:19.440 there's a

00:22:20.880 correlation

00:22:21.400 between

00:22:23.300 Democrats

00:22:24.200 and

00:22:24.960 Republicans,

00:22:26.000 or not a

00:22:26.500 correlation,

00:22:27.020 a distinction.

00:22:27.900 And it goes

00:22:28.360 like this.

00:22:28.760 And I want you

00:22:29.180 to see

00:22:29.580 if you've

00:22:30.900 noticed

00:22:31.180 this pattern.

00:22:34.140 Republicans,

00:22:34.900 for the most

00:22:35.960 part,

00:22:36.280 and this is

00:22:36.780 going to be

00:22:37.020 a gross

00:22:37.460 generalization,

00:22:38.420 right?

00:22:38.620 So I'm not

00:22:39.020 going to say

00:22:39.440 every Republican,

00:22:40.960 and I'm not

00:22:41.420 going to say

00:22:41.740 every Democrat.

00:22:42.440 Just in your

00:22:43.160 mind,

00:22:43.480 you should

00:22:43.700 always translate

00:22:44.380 that I never

00:22:45.100 mean every

00:22:45.520 single person.

00:22:47.560 Would it be

00:22:48.260 true,

00:22:49.160 the Republicans

00:22:49.780 tend to be

00:22:51.100 Christian,

00:22:52.640 or Christian,

00:22:54.520 let's say

00:22:55.660 Christian biased,

00:22:57.120 meaning that

00:22:57.880 they tend to be

00:22:58.740 influenced by

00:22:59.400 the Bible,

00:23:00.780 and by that,

00:23:01.600 you know,

00:23:02.000 that teaching,

00:23:02.780 even if they're

00:23:03.280 not actively

00:23:04.020 religious,

00:23:05.140 they probably

00:23:05.620 came from

00:23:06.060 that,

00:23:06.660 you know,

00:23:06.980 cultural thing.

00:23:08.420 And one of the

00:23:08.980 biggest elements

00:23:09.900 of Christianity

00:23:10.620 is forgiveness.

00:23:12.440 In fact,

00:23:13.100 there's almost

00:23:13.680 nothing more

00:23:15.000 central to

00:23:15.840 Christianity

00:23:16.820 than forgiveness,

00:23:18.000 right?

00:23:18.400 Second chance,

00:23:19.620 you know,

00:23:19.820 you can make up

00:23:20.380 for it in heaven.

00:23:21.480 It's all about

00:23:22.300 forgiving sins.

00:23:25.020 The Democrats,

00:23:26.360 on the other

00:23:27.140 hand,

00:23:28.360 tend to be

00:23:30.160 a little more

00:23:30.800 godless,

00:23:31.720 at least some

00:23:32.460 of the protesting

00:23:33.320 active ones

00:23:34.360 appear to be,

00:23:35.740 and they seem

00:23:37.560 to have a

00:23:38.120 philosophy that

00:23:38.960 is not

00:23:39.460 forgiveness,

00:23:41.000 it's hate.

00:23:42.440 And it's

00:23:43.040 hate based

00:23:43.720 on anything

00:23:44.340 you've ever

00:23:44.860 done.

00:23:45.620 But here's

00:23:46.060 the weird

00:23:46.400 part.

00:23:47.380 It's hate

00:23:47.800 based on

00:23:48.360 imagined sins.

00:23:50.500 So here's

00:23:51.300 the distinction.

00:23:52.920 Republicans

00:23:53.480 will,

00:23:55.000 by choice,

00:23:56.020 this is

00:23:56.620 actively

00:23:57.160 their philosophy,

00:23:58.680 they will

00:23:59.200 forgive you

00:23:59.960 for actual

00:24:01.240 real sins,

00:24:03.120 including,

00:24:03.980 you know,

00:24:04.240 you saw the

00:24:04.620 president do

00:24:05.240 that first

00:24:05.720 step act.

00:24:06.540 If you can

00:24:07.240 get your

00:24:07.600 life together

00:24:08.160 in prison,

00:24:09.460 you know,

00:24:09.820 learn something

00:24:10.700 and serve

00:24:12.500 some of

00:24:12.840 your time,

00:24:13.800 you are

00:24:14.280 forgiven.

00:24:15.080 You're

00:24:15.240 Alice Jones

00:24:16.660 and you're

00:24:17.860 forgiven,

00:24:18.380 you're

00:24:18.980 released.

00:24:20.300 And I

00:24:20.860 think Christians

00:24:21.480 actually mean

00:24:22.080 that.

00:24:22.600 I think that's

00:24:23.240 really baked

00:24:23.740 into them,

00:24:24.540 that, you

00:24:25.280 know,

00:24:25.740 you can do

00:24:26.440 some pretty

00:24:26.920 bad stuff,

00:24:28.620 but if you

00:24:29.000 are genuinely

00:24:31.540 forgiving and

00:24:32.920 you do

00:24:33.200 something with

00:24:33.700 your life,

00:24:34.140 you could be

00:24:34.580 forgiven.

00:24:37.160 It's the

00:24:37.780 opposite with

00:24:38.280 Democrats.

00:24:38.840 They actually

00:24:39.340 will imagine

00:24:40.360 something that

00:24:41.300 you did.

00:24:42.280 We imagine

00:24:43.120 that you're

00:24:43.640 racist.

00:24:44.280 We imagine

00:24:44.760 that you hate

00:24:45.280 us.

00:24:45.620 We imagine

00:24:46.100 that you're

00:24:47.000 guilty because

00:24:47.740 of something

00:24:48.500 your ancestors

00:24:49.280 did,

00:24:49.780 something like

00:24:50.140 that.

00:24:51.080 And you're

00:24:51.600 guilty forever

00:24:53.060 and the stain

00:24:54.500 can never be

00:24:55.240 washed off.

00:24:57.040 That's a big

00:24:57.640 difference,

00:24:58.100 isn't it?

00:24:58.860 Look for that

00:24:59.520 pattern.

00:25:01.180 Republicans

00:25:01.780 and Christians

00:25:03.440 being forgiving

00:25:04.340 of real sins,

00:25:06.060 Democrats being

00:25:06.920 permanently

00:25:07.700 condemning of

00:25:08.860 imaginary sins.

00:25:10.680 That's pretty

00:25:11.180 different.

00:25:12.720 Condemning

00:25:13.200 imaginary sins.

00:25:15.540 Somebody says

00:25:16.260 that Barron

00:25:16.720 tested negative.

00:25:17.780 Well, good.

00:25:18.700 Good for him.

00:25:20.380 But how would

00:25:21.340 you like to be

00:25:21.820 a mother and

00:25:22.320 you can't

00:25:23.180 touch your kid

00:25:24.600 for three weeks

00:25:26.160 or whatever it's

00:25:26.780 going to be?

00:25:27.220 That's pretty

00:25:27.620 tough.

00:25:29.200 I do wish

00:25:29.960 them well.

00:25:30.560 All right.

00:25:30.860 so let's

00:25:37.060 talk about

00:25:37.740 let's talk

00:25:40.800 about some

00:25:41.240 other stuff.

00:25:42.480 My favorite

00:25:43.360 part of the

00:25:44.560 story about

00:25:45.340 the president

00:25:45.940 not condemning

00:25:48.900 white supremacists

00:25:50.000 in the way that

00:25:50.780 people wanted him

00:25:51.520 to do it,

00:25:52.020 in the words

00:25:52.600 that they wanted

00:25:53.180 him to use,

00:25:54.100 was the

00:25:54.800 John Roberts

00:25:55.500 subplot.

00:25:57.780 Did you all

00:25:58.460 catch the

00:25:58.960 John Roberts

00:25:59.700 part of it?

00:26:00.860 So the part

00:26:01.580 you need to

00:26:01.920 know is that

00:26:02.560 John Roberts

00:26:04.020 who works for

00:26:04.680 Fox News,

00:26:05.960 he's married

00:26:06.740 to another

00:26:07.560 journalist,

00:26:08.620 Kyra Phillips

00:26:09.520 who is ABC,

00:26:11.180 I think works

00:26:11.760 for ABC News.

00:26:13.340 And so part

00:26:14.660 of the story

00:26:15.180 is that his

00:26:15.860 wife had asked

00:26:16.980 Trump about

00:26:17.720 the condemning

00:26:19.040 and hadn't

00:26:20.000 gotten quite

00:26:20.600 the crisp

00:26:21.740 exact answer

00:26:22.840 that people

00:26:23.300 were looking

00:26:23.740 for,

00:26:24.320 where he just

00:26:25.000 says it in

00:26:25.480 direct language.

00:26:27.000 So then

00:26:27.920 John Roberts

00:26:28.500 followed up

00:26:29.120 when it was

00:26:29.560 his turn

00:26:30.020 and he

00:26:31.000 asked the

00:26:31.360 same question

00:26:31.900 and he

00:26:32.620 also wasn't

00:26:33.580 getting from,

00:26:34.980 at least he

00:26:35.400 was talking

00:26:35.760 to Kayleigh

00:26:38.000 McEnany,

00:26:38.800 and he

00:26:39.640 wasn't getting

00:26:40.180 from her

00:26:40.840 the exact

00:26:42.420 language that

00:26:43.280 people wanted,

00:26:44.220 direct

00:26:44.800 condemnation.

00:26:46.500 and then

00:26:50.000 finally the

00:26:51.660 president went

00:26:52.340 on Hannity

00:26:54.240 and said

00:26:54.800 the words

00:26:55.220 exactly the

00:26:55.900 way people

00:26:56.300 wanted him

00:26:56.720 to say it.

00:26:57.480 So he

00:26:57.920 finally said

00:26:58.440 the words

00:26:58.800 exactly the

00:26:59.500 way they

00:27:00.220 should.

00:27:00.860 So then

00:27:01.240 John Roberts

00:27:02.340 tweeted that.

00:27:03.500 But the best

00:27:04.320 part of it

00:27:04.800 was how mad

00:27:05.740 he got

00:27:06.340 about the

00:27:07.520 whole situation

00:27:08.280 because I

00:27:11.180 feel as if

00:27:11.900 his professional

00:27:12.820 life and

00:27:13.920 his married

00:27:14.740 life sort

00:27:16.220 of intersected

00:27:17.120 a little bit

00:27:17.580 there and

00:27:18.420 there probably

00:27:18.960 were some

00:27:19.360 conversations at

00:27:20.240 home that

00:27:20.700 were part of

00:27:21.680 the story.

00:27:23.760 My net from

00:27:24.880 this is I

00:27:25.380 ended up liking

00:27:26.060 John Roberts

00:27:26.780 more and I

00:27:28.240 already liked

00:27:28.740 him before.

00:27:29.760 By the way,

00:27:30.260 full disclosure,

00:27:33.180 John Roberts

00:27:33.780 has been in

00:27:34.440 my home.

00:27:35.780 This was years

00:27:36.620 ago.

00:27:37.660 But when he

00:27:38.240 was working

00:27:38.580 for CBS,

00:27:39.320 I think he

00:27:39.860 interviewed me

00:27:40.620 at my home

00:27:41.880 in California.

00:27:44.240 So I spent

00:27:44.840 some time with

00:27:45.340 him.

00:27:45.580 He's a great

00:27:46.020 guy, like

00:27:46.760 terrific guy.

00:27:48.080 You know,

00:27:48.280 you spend time

00:27:48.820 with him,

00:27:49.240 you're going

00:27:49.620 to like him.

00:27:50.700 So watching

00:27:51.440 this gave me

00:27:53.280 a little more

00:27:54.160 extra pleasure

00:27:54.920 just because

00:27:55.360 I'd bet him.

00:27:56.540 So I love

00:27:56.960 that.

00:27:57.960 And the part

00:27:59.780 that made

00:28:00.320 news is when

00:28:01.080 he got angry

00:28:02.720 at, I guess,

00:28:03.960 the public,

00:28:04.660 really.

00:28:05.560 He got angry

00:28:06.400 at the public

00:28:07.100 and other

00:28:07.960 people giving

00:28:08.540 him crap for

00:28:09.480 simply asking

00:28:10.220 the question.

00:28:11.420 Now, did

00:28:11.720 John Roberts

00:28:12.420 go, let's

00:28:14.380 say, did he

00:28:15.840 cross some

00:28:16.460 kind of line

00:28:17.180 by pushing

00:28:18.220 the president

00:28:18.780 for a specific

00:28:19.680 answer?

00:28:20.500 I'd say no.

00:28:21.740 I think he

00:28:22.280 exactly did his

00:28:23.220 job, exactly

00:28:24.600 the way you'd

00:28:25.180 want him to.

00:28:26.060 You want him

00:28:26.600 to push for

00:28:27.100 that answer.

00:28:28.200 You know my

00:28:29.720 part of the

00:28:30.180 story.

00:28:30.520 I was feeling

00:28:31.140 the same thing.

00:28:32.140 So I think

00:28:32.540 he came out

00:28:33.200 but I like

00:28:34.600 the passion

00:28:35.480 he put into

00:28:36.100 it because

00:28:37.140 I think

00:28:37.520 his wife

00:28:39.960 was part

00:28:40.340 of the

00:28:40.540 story.

00:28:41.440 He became

00:28:41.920 part of

00:28:42.260 the story.

00:28:43.360 I just

00:28:43.940 love the

00:28:44.440 human,

00:28:46.080 the anger

00:28:47.380 that he

00:28:48.420 showed on

00:28:48.940 camera was

00:28:50.260 real and I

00:28:51.360 liked it.

00:28:52.440 So good

00:28:53.240 for you,

00:28:53.620 John Roberts.

00:28:54.100 all right.

00:28:57.780 So I guess

00:29:00.060 we have to

00:29:00.480 talk about

00:29:00.960 me, even

00:29:01.600 though it

00:29:01.900 seems as

00:29:02.780 unimportant as

00:29:03.540 anything could

00:29:04.140 be.

00:29:05.900 It seems

00:29:07.620 very unimportant

00:29:08.460 now.

00:29:09.440 I swear it was

00:29:10.340 the weirdest

00:29:10.660 thing.

00:29:11.160 So just in

00:29:12.120 case you don't

00:29:12.520 know the

00:29:12.820 story, after

00:29:14.900 the debate, I

00:29:16.900 was very

00:29:17.380 disappointed with

00:29:18.140 the president's

00:29:19.080 answer about

00:29:20.140 white supremacy.

00:29:20.960 I don't have

00:29:22.340 any doubt in

00:29:23.020 my mind that

00:29:23.920 he has

00:29:24.360 condemned it

00:29:25.040 many times in

00:29:25.800 the past.

00:29:26.780 I don't have

00:29:27.280 any doubt in

00:29:27.860 my mind that

00:29:28.520 he condemned

00:29:29.100 it that night

00:29:29.920 in weak

00:29:31.260 language, but

00:29:31.940 he certainly

00:29:32.320 condemned it.

00:29:32.960 It was

00:29:33.160 unambiguous, but

00:29:34.860 it was a

00:29:35.720 weak statement,

00:29:37.080 but it was

00:29:37.760 clear.

00:29:38.620 Clear but

00:29:39.300 weak.

00:29:40.460 And so I

00:29:41.260 don't have any

00:29:41.840 uncertainty about

00:29:44.040 what the

00:29:44.380 president thinks

00:29:45.300 or what he

00:29:46.200 would do in

00:29:46.660 the future.

00:29:48.720 But I

00:29:49.560 too, like

00:29:50.360 the rest of

00:29:50.780 the country

00:29:51.140 felt a little

00:29:51.840 bit, a

00:29:53.060 little bit

00:29:53.380 tweaked, like

00:29:54.520 a lot of

00:29:54.880 people, that

00:29:56.260 he couldn't

00:29:56.780 just say it

00:29:57.660 the way we

00:29:58.120 wanted him to

00:29:58.700 say it.

00:29:59.420 I will give

00:30:00.160 you a couple

00:30:00.920 of theories as

00:30:02.580 to why I

00:30:03.260 think he

00:30:04.520 doesn't answer

00:30:05.180 it the way

00:30:05.580 you wanted

00:30:06.020 him to answer

00:30:06.600 it.

00:30:07.260 Are you

00:30:07.480 ready?

00:30:08.600 Number one,

00:30:09.540 in persuasion,

00:30:11.060 and of course

00:30:11.660 what the

00:30:12.000 president is

00:30:12.560 doing all

00:30:13.040 the time is

00:30:13.540 persuading.

00:30:14.480 He's

00:30:14.900 negotiating, he's

00:30:16.120 persuading, he's

00:30:17.460 cajoling, he's

00:30:18.480 selling, all the

00:30:20.220 time, would

00:30:20.900 you agree

00:30:21.380 that that's

00:30:21.960 true?

00:30:22.660 That the

00:30:23.000 president is

00:30:23.760 always in

00:30:24.460 persuasion

00:30:25.120 mode, all

00:30:26.200 the time, that's

00:30:27.340 his job.

00:30:28.440 That's who he

00:30:29.140 is by

00:30:29.460 personality, but

00:30:31.200 on top of

00:30:31.740 that, that's

00:30:32.280 exactly his

00:30:32.940 job, he

00:30:33.500 should be

00:30:34.040 persuading all

00:30:34.940 the time.

00:30:36.340 Here's a

00:30:36.940 rule of

00:30:37.420 persuasion that

00:30:38.160 you might not

00:30:38.800 be aware of,

00:30:39.960 and one of

00:30:40.420 the reasons

00:30:40.780 that I say

00:30:41.300 you should

00:30:41.600 build your

00:30:42.080 talent stack

00:30:42.900 is so that

00:30:43.840 you can see

00:30:44.440 the world

00:30:44.820 through more

00:30:45.340 windows if

00:30:46.640 you have more

00:30:47.080 skills, it

00:30:47.920 just allows

00:30:48.380 you to see

00:30:49.400 the world a

00:30:49.920 little more

00:30:50.280 cleanly.

00:30:51.520 If you had

00:30:52.400 skill, let's

00:30:53.780 say you had

00:30:54.220 learned and

00:30:55.080 trained to be

00:30:56.320 a salesperson,

00:30:58.180 or trained in

00:30:59.700 psychology, trained

00:31:01.320 in persuasion, if

00:31:02.740 you had trained in

00:31:03.460 any of those

00:31:03.960 fields, here's

00:31:04.780 something you

00:31:05.260 would know that

00:31:06.440 other people

00:31:07.040 wouldn't necessarily

00:31:07.860 know, and it

00:31:09.380 goes like this.

00:31:10.640 If you are

00:31:11.440 trying to persuade

00:31:12.320 somebody, the

00:31:13.540 best thing you

00:31:14.240 can do, a

00:31:15.100 really good thing

00:31:15.760 to do, like

00:31:16.460 it's powerful, is

00:31:18.040 get them to do

00:31:18.820 something small

00:31:19.780 that primes them

00:31:21.560 to later do

00:31:22.360 something big,

00:31:23.140 which is the

00:31:23.640 real thing you

00:31:24.160 want.

00:31:25.320 So, if you're

00:31:27.060 in a negotiating

00:31:28.380 contest, or

00:31:29.600 you're trying to

00:31:32.080 be the alpha

00:31:32.900 in the room,

00:31:34.200 here's what you

00:31:34.880 never want to

00:31:35.780 do.

00:31:36.640 You never want

00:31:37.420 to do exactly

00:31:38.620 what somebody

00:31:39.740 else asked you

00:31:40.700 or is trying

00:31:41.760 to force you

00:31:42.380 to do.

00:31:43.080 If you give

00:31:44.060 a little bit,

00:31:45.760 on anything

00:31:46.540 at all, it

00:31:47.760 makes it easier

00:31:48.480 for them to

00:31:48.980 get more.

00:31:49.900 They'll

00:31:50.120 immediately

00:31:50.520 double down.

00:31:51.180 Ah, he

00:31:52.140 moved an

00:31:52.600 inch, he

00:31:53.440 moved an

00:31:53.940 inch.

00:31:54.620 Look, we

00:31:55.760 got him to

00:31:56.340 say the

00:31:56.700 words that

00:31:57.220 we told

00:31:57.680 him to

00:31:58.000 say.

00:31:58.520 Look, his

00:31:59.020 mouth is

00:31:59.480 moving, and

00:32:00.780 the words he's

00:32:01.520 using are

00:32:02.960 our words.

00:32:04.320 Look what we

00:32:04.920 did.

00:32:05.460 We turned

00:32:05.940 him into our

00:32:06.520 puppet in a

00:32:07.480 small way,

00:32:08.540 very small

00:32:09.140 way.

00:32:09.640 All we did

00:32:10.160 was get him

00:32:10.640 to say the

00:32:11.220 words exactly

00:32:12.680 the way we

00:32:13.280 wanted them to

00:32:13.920 be said.

00:32:14.460 If you

00:32:15.640 can get

00:32:16.080 somebody to

00:32:16.660 do something

00:32:17.300 small like

00:32:18.540 that, and

00:32:19.840 here's the

00:32:20.260 key, something

00:32:21.800 that looks

00:32:22.280 completely

00:32:22.940 reasonable.

00:32:24.740 Don't you

00:32:25.200 think it's

00:32:25.740 100% reasonable

00:32:26.900 to ask the

00:32:27.640 president of the

00:32:28.200 United States

00:32:28.780 to disavow

00:32:30.060 white supremacists?

00:32:31.980 Totally reasonable.

00:32:33.280 That's the most

00:32:33.860 reasonable, small

00:32:35.660 thing you could

00:32:36.260 ever ask for

00:32:36.880 somebody.

00:32:38.240 If you didn't

00:32:39.400 understand this

00:32:40.340 field, you

00:32:42.040 would say to

00:32:42.460 yourself, oh,

00:32:43.560 well, that's

00:32:43.940 very small,

00:32:45.060 it's very

00:32:45.560 reasonable, of

00:32:47.120 course I'm

00:32:47.560 going to do

00:32:47.900 it.

00:32:48.640 And then you

00:32:49.040 just do it.

00:32:49.980 And you

00:32:50.440 would have

00:32:50.700 given somebody

00:32:51.520 a little bit

00:32:52.120 of something,

00:32:52.860 and you

00:32:53.240 would have

00:32:53.520 lost ground.

00:32:55.700 You might

00:32:56.340 not feel it,

00:32:57.620 but it would

00:32:58.180 have been a

00:32:58.600 persuasion

00:32:59.160 mistake.

00:33:01.360 Now, in

00:33:02.220 my opinion,

00:33:03.500 there's one

00:33:04.180 exception to

00:33:05.220 this rule.

00:33:06.800 The one

00:33:07.500 exception where

00:33:08.760 you should just

00:33:09.420 do what you're

00:33:10.240 asked is this

00:33:11.860 one, this

00:33:12.960 exact situation.

00:33:14.800 If somebody

00:33:15.420 asks you as

00:33:16.360 president to

00:33:17.660 disavow white

00:33:18.540 supremacists, this

00:33:19.900 is the one

00:33:20.440 time I recommend

00:33:21.520 that you just

00:33:22.740 say, oh,

00:33:23.660 crap, I'm

00:33:24.920 going to have

00:33:25.260 to actually do

00:33:25.940 this exactly

00:33:27.140 the way they

00:33:27.720 want.

00:33:28.420 Of course, I

00:33:28.900 want to anyway.

00:33:29.860 It's not like I

00:33:30.660 resist the idea

00:33:31.760 of it.

00:33:32.360 I just don't

00:33:33.020 want to do what

00:33:33.900 you want me to

00:33:34.720 do.

00:33:35.280 So here's the

00:33:36.000 first thing I'm

00:33:36.780 going to try.

00:33:38.180 The first thing

00:33:39.140 I'm going to

00:33:39.540 try is to

00:33:41.020 say it my

00:33:41.560 way.

00:33:43.120 Right?

00:33:43.860 Because you're

00:33:44.440 going to try to

00:33:44.940 weasel the

00:33:45.480 situation.

00:33:46.280 You're going to

00:33:46.540 try to say,

00:33:47.100 okay, I'm

00:33:48.240 not going to

00:33:48.680 say it the

00:33:49.120 way you want

00:33:49.840 only because

00:33:50.560 you're the

00:33:51.000 one telling

00:33:51.400 me to do

00:33:51.840 it.

00:33:52.140 It has

00:33:52.520 nothing to

00:33:53.020 do with

00:33:53.340 the thing

00:33:54.520 you want

00:33:54.860 me to

00:33:55.080 say.

00:33:55.720 I'm not

00:33:56.320 editing or

00:33:57.100 judging the

00:33:58.160 content of

00:33:58.920 what you

00:33:59.200 want me to

00:33:59.580 say.

00:33:59.900 I'm only

00:34:00.260 judging that

00:34:00.800 you're telling

00:34:01.240 me to say

00:34:01.720 it.

00:34:02.380 And that

00:34:02.880 disqualifies it

00:34:04.400 from me being

00:34:05.240 able to say

00:34:05.640 it.

00:34:06.560 So instead,

00:34:07.320 I'm going to

00:34:07.840 try to sell

00:34:08.460 you my

00:34:09.180 version.

00:34:10.000 And it

00:34:10.200 goes like

00:34:10.640 this.

00:34:11.700 I oppose

00:34:12.400 all violent

00:34:13.540 groups, but

00:34:14.080 I think

00:34:14.320 most of it

00:34:14.780 comes from

00:34:15.180 the left,

00:34:16.640 which is

00:34:17.320 what he

00:34:17.580 did.

00:34:18.900 So he

00:34:19.560 tried to

00:34:20.140 avoid one

00:34:21.780 of the

00:34:22.020 biggest

00:34:22.440 mistakes you

00:34:25.120 could make

00:34:25.480 in persuasion,

00:34:26.260 which is

00:34:26.500 take somebody

00:34:27.040 else's frame

00:34:27.740 and just

00:34:28.540 be their

00:34:28.900 puppet,

00:34:29.360 even on a

00:34:29.840 small thing.

00:34:31.280 Now,

00:34:32.120 in my

00:34:33.120 opinion,

00:34:33.480 that was

00:34:34.860 an error

00:34:35.560 because he

00:34:37.360 still should

00:34:37.840 have just

00:34:38.160 done it

00:34:38.760 and he

00:34:40.160 should have

00:34:40.780 minimized it.

00:34:42.420 He could

00:34:43.060 have minimized

00:34:43.800 it away.

00:34:44.340 That's the

00:34:44.600 way I would

00:34:44.960 have played

00:34:45.200 it.

00:34:45.400 I would

00:34:45.580 have said,

00:34:46.320 obviously,

00:34:46.980 of course,

00:34:47.320 everybody condemns

00:34:48.060 white supremacy,

00:34:48.880 so do I,

00:34:49.560 and then go

00:34:50.080 right into

00:34:50.660 Antifa.

00:34:51.920 Just give

00:34:53.020 it a clear,

00:34:55.140 distinct

00:34:55.600 statement,

00:34:56.480 but really

00:34:57.060 small.

00:34:57.880 Just compress

00:34:58.560 it down

00:34:58.900 and say,

00:34:59.700 everybody,

00:35:00.620 including me,

00:35:01.680 disavows

00:35:02.180 white supremacy,

00:35:03.480 but let's

00:35:03.760 talk about

00:35:04.180 Antifa,

00:35:05.200 and then just

00:35:05.720 do a whole

00:35:06.120 big Antifa

00:35:06.780 thing.

00:35:07.960 That's how I

00:35:08.640 would have

00:35:08.840 played it.

00:35:09.200 So it was

00:35:09.520 a mistake,

00:35:10.640 but in my

00:35:11.320 opinion,

00:35:11.980 it had to

00:35:12.560 do with

00:35:13.020 not wanting

00:35:13.520 to be

00:35:14.000 pushed,

00:35:15.100 and that

00:35:15.460 was the

00:35:15.980 right instinct,

00:35:16.960 just maybe

00:35:17.340 the wrong

00:35:17.680 time for

00:35:18.140 it.

00:35:20.620 The other

00:35:21.540 possibility,

00:35:22.420 which I

00:35:22.720 mentioned before,

00:35:23.620 but I'll

00:35:23.840 just put it

00:35:24.260 here for

00:35:24.660 completeness,

00:35:25.820 is that

00:35:26.240 anybody who's

00:35:26.860 trained in

00:35:27.520 media,

00:35:28.560 stuff,

00:35:29.500 and that

00:35:29.740 would include

00:35:30.240 me.

00:35:31.140 So I

00:35:31.540 actually had

00:35:32.160 an actual

00:35:32.880 expert sit

00:35:33.900 with me for

00:35:34.540 half a day

00:35:35.140 and train

00:35:36.160 me how to

00:35:36.860 handle media

00:35:37.660 situations.

00:35:38.900 You think

00:35:39.400 it's easy?

00:35:40.360 It's not.

00:35:41.580 Here's what

00:35:42.100 you have to

00:35:42.580 do if you're

00:35:43.660 being interviewed

00:35:44.360 by the media.

00:35:45.580 You need to

00:35:46.260 listen to the

00:35:46.960 question,

00:35:48.200 often while the

00:35:49.380 camera is running,

00:35:50.280 so there's extra

00:35:50.880 pressure,

00:35:51.720 so you're

00:35:52.000 listening for

00:35:52.480 the question,

00:35:53.560 you're formulating

00:35:54.400 your answer to

00:35:55.080 the question,

00:35:55.980 but then there's

00:35:56.560 another layer on

00:35:57.580 top of that,

00:35:58.180 and here's

00:35:58.800 the trouble

00:35:59.240 part.

00:36:00.160 The extra

00:36:00.840 layer is,

00:36:01.560 you have to

00:36:01.960 say to

00:36:02.220 yourself,

00:36:02.820 how could

00:36:03.560 they misconstrue

00:36:04.720 this answer?

00:36:06.020 What are all

00:36:06.660 the ways this

00:36:07.440 could be taken

00:36:08.080 out of context?

00:36:09.740 And so here's

00:36:10.500 one of the

00:36:10.980 things that you

00:36:11.520 would not want

00:36:12.160 to do if you've

00:36:13.140 been trained in

00:36:14.020 media stuff.

00:36:15.000 You would not

00:36:15.720 want to start a

00:36:16.620 statement where

00:36:18.040 the first part of

00:36:19.100 it could be

00:36:19.720 misleading if taken

00:36:20.860 out of context,

00:36:22.000 and then add the

00:36:23.180 clarification at the

00:36:24.320 end.

00:36:24.600 that's a trap.

00:36:26.660 Do you know

00:36:27.040 why?

00:36:28.140 You've seen it

00:36:28.860 a hundred times.

00:36:30.200 The news will

00:36:31.160 simply clip off the

00:36:32.420 second part of your

00:36:33.180 statement, as they

00:36:34.620 did, with the

00:36:35.840 fine people hoax.

00:36:37.440 And then sometimes

00:36:38.240 they'll clip off the

00:36:39.280 front part of the

00:36:39.980 statement, as they

00:36:41.360 did, with the

00:36:43.440 injecting bleach.

00:36:45.420 Because if they cut

00:36:46.480 off the part about

00:36:47.120 he was talking about

00:36:47.880 light as a

00:36:48.680 disinfectant, and

00:36:49.980 then they cut off

00:36:50.560 the end of it,

00:36:51.780 where he went back

00:36:52.620 to make sure

00:36:53.180 that you knew

00:36:53.620 he was talking

00:36:54.080 about light.

00:36:55.260 So, you have to

00:36:56.700 think in terms of

00:36:57.560 an answer, while

00:36:58.880 you're on camera,

00:37:00.180 while the question

00:37:01.060 is being asked,

00:37:01.980 maybe a complicated

00:37:02.840 question, you're

00:37:04.040 thinking about your

00:37:04.700 answer, and then

00:37:05.700 you're thinking of

00:37:06.320 the structure of

00:37:07.100 the answer, so it

00:37:08.200 can't be dissembled.

00:37:10.440 It's not freaking

00:37:11.680 easy.

00:37:13.740 There's a reason

00:37:14.760 that there are not

00:37:16.200 many President

00:37:16.960 Trumps.

00:37:18.180 You see how

00:37:18.980 good he is on

00:37:19.900 camera, usually.

00:37:20.780 It's rare.

00:37:23.260 It's really hard

00:37:24.040 to do that stuff,

00:37:25.280 because there's

00:37:25.780 just way too

00:37:27.060 much thinking

00:37:27.640 going on.

00:37:28.500 Now, have I

00:37:28.940 made this mistake

00:37:29.740 before?

00:37:30.200 Yes, I have.

00:37:31.120 Let me give you

00:37:31.660 an example of

00:37:33.020 how to answer

00:37:33.700 a question about

00:37:35.580 your parents.

00:37:37.840 Let's say you're

00:37:38.440 a famous person,

00:37:39.380 you're me, and

00:37:40.380 the interviewer

00:37:41.180 says on camera,

00:37:42.600 Scott, what

00:37:44.000 about your

00:37:45.300 mom and dad?

00:37:46.300 Tell me about,

00:37:47.680 tell me what

00:37:48.200 they were like.

00:37:49.260 my parents

00:37:51.400 are both

00:37:51.780 deceased, but

00:37:52.920 imagine they're

00:37:53.500 both alive, and

00:37:55.160 they ask me on

00:37:55.900 camera, tell me

00:37:56.540 about your

00:37:57.580 parents.

00:37:58.560 Here is the

00:37:59.480 wrong answer.

00:38:01.100 Anything.

00:38:02.180 Everything you

00:38:02.820 say about your

00:38:03.580 own parents will

00:38:04.860 be taken out of

00:38:05.660 context, and

00:38:06.740 will be used

00:38:07.360 against you, and

00:38:08.420 your parents are

00:38:09.060 going to pick up

00:38:10.040 a newspaper, and

00:38:10.760 they're going to

00:38:11.080 say, he said

00:38:13.760 that about his

00:38:14.520 parents, it will

00:38:15.580 be out of

00:38:16.180 context, and it

00:38:17.940 will look terrible.

00:38:19.340 So here's how

00:38:20.020 you answer the

00:38:20.680 question about

00:38:21.520 your parents, as

00:38:22.840 I have, actually, a

00:38:24.460 number of times, but

00:38:25.760 not until I did it

00:38:26.520 the wrong way

00:38:27.060 first.

00:38:27.940 I had to learn

00:38:28.720 this the hard

00:38:29.180 way.

00:38:29.800 Scott, can you

00:38:30.440 tell us about

00:38:30.860 your parents?

00:38:32.260 It was very

00:38:32.820 average.

00:38:34.440 It was just a

00:38:35.020 normal, totally

00:38:36.440 normal situation.

00:38:37.640 Well, can you

00:38:38.020 tell us more?

00:38:39.260 Can you give us

00:38:39.820 some detail?

00:38:41.220 So yeah, my

00:38:41.860 father worked for

00:38:43.140 the post office.

00:38:43.860 Yeah, and my, you

00:38:47.880 know, it was a

00:38:48.740 very normal

00:38:49.200 upbringing, and

00:38:50.040 very average.

00:38:51.120 Everything was

00:38:51.640 completely average

00:38:52.540 and normal, and

00:38:54.200 we loved each

00:38:54.780 other.

00:38:56.120 That's the only

00:38:57.080 way to answer

00:38:57.740 that question.

00:38:59.060 Everything else

00:39:00.020 you say about it

00:39:00.940 can be misconstrued

00:39:02.540 into an insult to

00:39:03.540 your parents, and

00:39:04.540 if you think that's

00:39:05.320 not real, that it

00:39:06.740 wouldn't turn into

00:39:07.400 an insult to your

00:39:08.240 parents, you

00:39:09.140 haven't taken media

00:39:10.300 training, and you

00:39:11.080 haven't done this for

00:39:11.900 a living, as I

00:39:12.720 have, you can't

00:39:14.080 say anything about

00:39:15.280 a topic that

00:39:16.480 could be taken

00:39:17.240 out of context.

00:39:18.940 So, when the

00:39:19.960 president was asked

00:39:20.820 first by Jake

00:39:21.680 Tapper in the

00:39:22.560 first election to

00:39:24.940 disavow the KKK,

00:39:26.940 and he paused, and

00:39:28.380 he asked for

00:39:28.920 clarification, what

00:39:30.660 was actually going

00:39:31.740 on in his mind?

00:39:33.460 We don't know.

00:39:34.480 We can't read

00:39:35.220 minds.

00:39:35.980 That's crazy.

00:39:37.040 I can't read his

00:39:37.740 mind, but I'll

00:39:38.880 tell you that with

00:39:39.640 similar training and

00:39:40.900 experience of

00:39:41.780 being interviewed,

00:39:42.680 if I had received

00:39:43.920 that question, I

00:39:45.300 would be thinking

00:39:45.920 ahead, what are

00:39:47.140 they going to do

00:39:47.640 with it, and I

00:39:48.840 would have thought

00:39:49.400 this, what are

00:39:51.280 they going to ask

00:39:51.840 me after this?

00:39:53.520 That's the media

00:39:54.900 training.

00:39:55.840 The media training

00:39:56.580 would say, where

00:39:57.360 is this going?

00:39:58.640 It's not a question

00:39:59.740 about the question.

00:40:01.380 The question is,

00:40:02.240 where is this

00:40:02.560 going?

00:40:03.480 And here's where

00:40:04.100 it would go.

00:40:04.740 Do you disavow

00:40:06.140 the KKK?

00:40:07.080 Absolutely.

00:40:08.320 Easy question.

00:40:09.380 Disavow the KKK.

00:40:10.280 Do you disavow

00:40:11.660 David Duke?

00:40:12.700 Easy question.

00:40:14.220 Yup.

00:40:15.100 Disavow them.

00:40:16.260 Do you disavow

00:40:17.060 white supremacists?

00:40:18.540 Yes.

00:40:19.600 Yes, of course I

00:40:20.500 do.

00:40:21.060 Disavow them.

00:40:22.100 Do you disavow

00:40:22.800 the Proud Boys?

00:40:25.760 I'm not sure

00:40:26.660 exactly what they

00:40:27.440 do.

00:40:30.180 Are they, are

00:40:31.960 they, what are

00:40:34.180 they?

00:40:34.420 are the Proud

00:40:36.000 Boys white

00:40:37.100 supremacists?

00:40:38.560 Because they're

00:40:39.460 being accused of

00:40:40.300 that.

00:40:41.520 And Gavin

00:40:42.380 McGinnis is, you

00:40:44.240 know, one of the

00:40:44.620 founders, is suing

00:40:45.900 CNN and others

00:40:48.520 for saying that.

00:40:49.520 Joe Biden, I guess,

00:40:50.520 for saying that.

00:40:51.680 And they have a

00:40:53.040 multi-ethnic

00:40:54.280 membership.

00:40:56.400 That's right.

00:40:57.440 They have a

00:40:57.960 multi-ethnic

00:40:58.820 membership.

00:41:00.440 One of their

00:41:01.100 leaders is a

00:41:02.300 black Cuban or

00:41:03.500 something.

00:41:04.480 And, you know,

00:41:05.360 you've seen the

00:41:05.800 pictures.

00:41:06.500 They have

00:41:06.820 African-American

00:41:07.560 members.

00:41:09.300 But they have

00:41:10.900 been accused of

00:41:13.400 being white

00:41:13.840 supremacists.

00:41:15.180 So now you're

00:41:15.900 the president.

00:41:17.380 What do you

00:41:17.800 do?

00:41:18.900 Do you disavow

00:41:20.040 them just to be

00:41:22.860 clean, just to

00:41:24.500 make sure it

00:41:25.580 doesn't affect

00:41:26.180 you?

00:41:26.800 Because if you

00:41:27.620 do, there are

00:41:28.320 going to be a

00:41:28.640 whole lot of

00:41:29.040 people who say,

00:41:30.160 wait a minute,

00:41:31.680 I think you just

00:41:32.440 disavowed

00:41:33.280 law-abiding

00:41:35.500 Americans.

00:41:37.200 I think that's a

00:41:38.160 little too far.

00:41:39.700 Look at the

00:41:40.320 comments.

00:41:40.900 Some people are

00:41:41.540 saying that they

00:41:42.240 are best described

00:41:43.280 as patriots.

00:41:45.060 Now, I'm not

00:41:46.220 going to give you

00:41:46.780 an opinion of

00:41:47.760 what I think the

00:41:48.680 Proud Boys are,

00:41:49.900 because I don't

00:41:50.700 think they're one

00:41:51.300 thing.

00:41:52.200 I think it's a

00:41:52.920 bunch of people

00:41:53.480 who have some

00:41:54.060 things in common,

00:41:55.020 like they want to

00:41:55.960 be part of this

00:41:56.660 group.

00:41:57.580 They like America.

00:41:58.940 They have that in

00:41:59.800 common.

00:42:00.380 They seem to be

00:42:01.060 chauvinistic.

00:42:01.700 They seem to

00:42:02.460 be sort of

00:42:03.460 male-dominated

00:42:04.880 kind of thinking.

00:42:07.040 Now, you could

00:42:08.020 condemn them maybe

00:42:08.880 for some of those

00:42:09.660 other things,

00:42:11.180 but here's my

00:42:12.380 point.

00:42:13.600 The moment the

00:42:14.660 president starts

00:42:15.520 condemning, the

00:42:16.780 easy ones come

00:42:17.740 first, but it

00:42:19.260 guarantees that he's

00:42:20.620 going to go down

00:42:21.220 the line until he

00:42:22.640 gets to something

00:42:23.320 like this.

00:42:24.580 Do you condemn

00:42:25.340 Breitbart?

00:42:27.580 Right?

00:42:28.100 Because, in my

00:42:30.200 opinion, Breitbart

00:42:30.960 has nothing to

00:42:31.760 apologize for.

00:42:33.100 At least, I've

00:42:33.640 never seen anything

00:42:34.300 that was over the

00:42:34.980 line.

00:42:35.900 But other people

00:42:36.940 think so.

00:42:38.080 If other people

00:42:39.200 believe or are

00:42:40.640 willing to accuse

00:42:41.600 some entity of

00:42:43.860 being whatever,

00:42:45.740 does the president

00:42:46.460 have to disavow

00:42:47.820 everybody until he's

00:42:48.840 disavowed his

00:42:49.560 entire base?

00:42:50.920 So that's the

00:42:51.940 trap.

00:42:52.540 And you saw the

00:42:53.100 president in the

00:42:53.920 debate do exactly

00:42:55.340 the same thing he

00:42:56.280 did with the

00:42:57.720 Jake Tapper

00:42:58.300 KKK thing.

00:42:59.680 He paused.

00:43:00.900 You could tell

00:43:01.400 there was a

00:43:01.900 thought process

00:43:02.580 going on.

00:43:04.040 Probably that

00:43:04.820 thought process is

00:43:05.780 where does this

00:43:06.380 go?

00:43:07.040 I think he was

00:43:07.820 thinking as many

00:43:09.120 chess moves in

00:43:10.020 advance as he

00:43:10.840 could, and

00:43:11.700 like, am I going

00:43:12.360 to get myself in

00:43:13.060 a trap here?

00:43:14.120 Because if

00:43:14.980 possible, I would

00:43:16.340 like to not

00:43:16.880 disavow anybody

00:43:17.900 who would vote

00:43:18.440 for me.

00:43:19.180 Just period.

00:43:20.360 I'd prefer not

00:43:21.360 to disavow anybody

00:43:22.560 if they could vote

00:43:23.760 for me.

00:43:24.480 So I think that's

00:43:25.540 all that went

00:43:25.920 on.

00:43:26.280 Now, what is

00:43:28.800 my level of

00:43:29.600 certainty that

00:43:31.020 the real problem

00:43:31.840 was that?

00:43:33.960 He was just

00:43:34.440 thinking about

00:43:34.980 his best answer.

00:43:36.500 The answer is

00:43:37.000 there's no way

00:43:37.540 to know what

00:43:37.960 anybody's thinking.

00:43:39.400 I'm just saying

00:43:40.160 that if your

00:43:40.900 interpretation was

00:43:42.700 that the only

00:43:43.700 explanation is

00:43:45.260 that he was

00:43:45.820 winking to

00:43:46.780 racists while

00:43:48.520 running for

00:43:49.100 president, I

00:43:50.460 think that's

00:43:51.100 crazy.

00:43:52.800 In my opinion,

00:43:54.580 the least likely

00:43:56.020 explanation of

00:43:57.040 what was going

00:43:57.600 on is that

00:43:58.720 he was thinking

00:43:59.280 to himself,

00:44:00.540 how can I

00:44:01.620 pretend to

00:44:03.420 sort of

00:44:03.900 disavow them

00:44:04.720 while winking

00:44:05.840 at the same

00:44:06.440 time?

00:44:07.580 I think that

00:44:08.380 is the

00:44:09.140 dumbest

00:44:09.740 interpretation

00:44:10.620 because it

00:44:12.140 sort of assumes

00:44:12.840 a low-functioning

00:44:14.160 person as

00:44:14.920 president, right?

00:44:16.080 He's not

00:44:16.920 low-functioning.

00:44:18.080 That would just

00:44:18.860 be a dumb

00:44:19.560 strategy.

00:44:20.180 And I

00:44:21.320 don't think

00:44:21.900 there's evidence

00:44:22.840 that he

00:44:23.180 would do

00:44:23.480 something that

00:44:24.200 dumb.

00:44:24.740 That's pretty

00:44:25.160 dumb.

00:44:28.320 Somebody says

00:44:29.120 Proud Boys is

00:44:29.920 an idea.

00:44:31.860 Yeah, Joe

00:44:32.380 Biden said that

00:44:33.060 Antifa is an

00:44:33.940 idea and not

00:44:35.360 an organization.

00:44:36.520 That's pretty

00:44:37.220 funny.

00:44:37.760 Yeah, the Proud

00:44:38.200 Boys, it's just

00:44:38.780 a concept.

00:44:40.140 It's not even an

00:44:40.960 organization.

00:44:42.820 It's not an

00:44:43.360 organization.

00:44:43.920 It's just an

00:44:44.460 idea.

00:44:45.760 See if anybody

00:44:46.380 buys that.

00:44:46.960 All right, so

00:44:48.920 that said, I

00:44:50.880 was so

00:44:51.200 disappointed with

00:44:51.860 the president's

00:44:52.580 answer, the

00:44:55.860 inadequacy of

00:44:56.800 it during the

00:44:57.380 debate, that

00:44:58.800 I said that I

00:45:00.100 would withdraw

00:45:00.700 my vote for

00:45:02.220 the president.

00:45:03.120 Now, here's

00:45:03.680 the funny part.

00:45:05.180 If you've been

00:45:05.900 watching me for

00:45:06.560 a while, I

00:45:07.740 think the people

00:45:08.260 who have been

00:45:08.540 watching me the

00:45:09.100 longest were

00:45:09.700 probably on to

00:45:11.600 this early.

00:45:13.260 My vote for

00:45:14.740 president doesn't

00:45:16.240 have any

00:45:16.880 functional value

00:45:17.940 because I live

00:45:19.040 in California.

00:45:19.980 There isn't any

00:45:21.020 reasonable chance

00:45:22.060 that my vote in

00:45:23.580 California will

00:45:24.440 make any

00:45:25.020 difference to the

00:45:25.720 presidency.

00:45:26.700 So if I say I

00:45:27.780 am voting for

00:45:28.580 him or I'm

00:45:29.320 not, it

00:45:30.360 doesn't have a

00:45:31.080 functional purpose

00:45:32.040 as in getting

00:45:33.700 elected or not.

00:45:35.060 It only has a

00:45:35.980 symbolic importance.

00:45:38.000 And if something

00:45:38.480 is only symbolic,

00:45:40.600 you can move it

00:45:41.440 around and you

00:45:42.180 can do whatever

00:45:42.700 you want to

00:45:43.720 make a point

00:45:44.280 with it.

00:45:45.080 So when I say

00:45:45.820 I'm voting for

00:45:46.860 or not voting

00:45:47.580 for the

00:45:48.240 president from

00:45:49.160 the perspective

00:45:49.860 of a Californian

00:45:50.740 is purely

00:45:51.940 symbolic.

00:45:53.500 Now, what

00:45:54.480 happened when

00:45:55.500 I said that I

00:45:56.240 would not vote

00:45:57.100 for the

00:45:57.400 president?

00:45:58.560 Was I aware

00:45:59.760 that that might

00:46:01.100 get some

00:46:01.580 attention?

00:46:03.700 Yes, I

00:46:04.340 was.

00:46:05.480 Not my

00:46:06.080 first rodeo.

00:46:07.820 It's not the

00:46:09.340 first time.

00:46:11.360 It's not the

00:46:12.320 first time I've

00:46:13.180 dealt with the

00:46:13.880 media.

00:46:14.600 So of course I

00:46:15.480 knew that if I

00:46:16.560 did a dog

00:46:18.520 bites man

00:46:19.200 story, that it

00:46:20.500 would be a

00:46:21.780 big deal.

00:46:22.740 Sure enough,

00:46:24.080 within a day,

00:46:25.720 I'm trending

00:46:26.380 on Twitter.

00:46:27.640 So the two of

00:46:28.740 the top trending

00:46:29.680 terms yesterday

00:46:30.560 were my name

00:46:32.160 and Dilbert

00:46:33.160 separately at the

00:46:34.040 same time.

00:46:35.340 I think Max

00:46:36.120 Boot might have

00:46:37.060 been the first

00:46:37.580 one to tweet

00:46:38.440 my video where I

00:46:39.480 was saying I

00:46:39.900 wasn't going to

00:46:40.340 vote for the

00:46:40.940 president and

00:46:42.360 that got it

00:46:44.080 into the left

00:46:44.900 hemisphere,

00:46:46.380 new silo,

00:46:47.500 and then what

00:46:48.400 happened?

00:46:51.100 Then what

00:46:51.660 happened?

00:46:53.120 Now, so the

00:46:54.480 first question you

00:46:55.140 ask yourself is,

00:46:56.340 did I know

00:46:57.220 that it would

00:46:58.260 cause a

00:46:59.080 minor flurry

00:47:01.800 of attention?

00:47:04.140 Yes, of

00:47:04.820 course.

00:47:05.640 The basic

00:47:06.680 rule is that if

00:47:07.640 you act against

00:47:08.880 type and you're

00:47:10.400 a public figure

00:47:11.220 of any kind

00:47:11.780 and you do

00:47:12.600 something that

00:47:13.200 people don't

00:47:13.760 expect you to

00:47:14.480 do, that's

00:47:15.620 news.

00:47:16.540 So when I said

00:47:17.400 I wasn't going

00:47:17.920 to vote for

00:47:18.340 the president,

00:47:19.360 the only reason

00:47:20.420 I said that is

00:47:21.660 for the effect,

00:47:23.080 right?

00:47:24.260 Because it would

00:47:25.080 be this provocative

00:47:26.580 if it gets your

00:47:27.180 attention.

00:47:28.080 Now, I did want

00:47:29.400 to get the

00:47:29.760 attention of both

00:47:30.640 the left and

00:47:31.940 the right,

00:47:32.420 which is very

00:47:32.880 hard.

00:47:33.480 It's really easy

00:47:34.200 to get the

00:47:34.640 attention of the

00:47:35.360 right if you're

00:47:36.300 in the right

00:47:36.760 and the left

00:47:37.980 if you're in

00:47:38.480 the left.

00:47:38.860 What it's

00:47:39.820 hard to do

00:47:40.480 is if you're

00:47:41.740 associated with

00:47:42.740 the right,

00:47:43.660 as I am,

00:47:44.860 it's hard to

00:47:45.680 get any

00:47:46.100 attention on

00:47:47.520 the left,

00:47:48.860 unless you

00:47:50.500 do something

00:47:51.120 that looks

00:47:51.580 like a giant

00:47:52.940 news story,

00:47:54.300 at which point

00:47:55.340 all the

00:47:55.940 attention from

00:47:56.600 the left

00:47:57.060 comes pouring

00:47:58.340 in.

00:47:59.320 Now, what I

00:47:59.880 didn't fully

00:48:00.600 anticipate is

00:48:01.700 how ugly it

00:48:02.460 would be.

00:48:03.440 Now, I assume

00:48:04.220 that when you

00:48:04.740 get attention

00:48:05.280 from the left,

00:48:06.300 a lot of it

00:48:06.880 is going to

00:48:07.180 be trolls.

00:48:07.680 A lot of

00:48:08.420 it's going

00:48:08.700 to be

00:48:08.940 insults,

00:48:09.600 et cetera.

00:48:10.700 But I

00:48:11.940 think I

00:48:12.320 opened some

00:48:12.960 kind of

00:48:13.340 portal to

00:48:14.040 hell, and

00:48:15.580 every Democrat

00:48:17.160 demon came

00:48:17.940 streaming through

00:48:18.860 to crap on

00:48:20.240 my head, and

00:48:22.080 I thought to

00:48:22.760 myself, wait

00:48:23.480 a minute,

00:48:23.720 wait a minute,

00:48:24.680 they're crapping

00:48:25.740 on me while

00:48:27.240 I'm agreeing

00:48:28.260 with their

00:48:28.860 point of not

00:48:29.900 voting for the

00:48:30.520 president.

00:48:31.700 Do you see

00:48:32.520 how important

00:48:33.060 that is?

00:48:34.260 Instead of

00:48:35.140 forgiving me,

00:48:36.780 instead of

00:48:37.360 saying, thank

00:48:38.460 goodness, we're

00:48:39.780 glad that you

00:48:40.500 have come to

00:48:41.120 your senses, and

00:48:42.320 while you don't

00:48:42.920 agree with us on

00:48:43.740 everything, we do

00:48:44.960 love the fact that

00:48:46.060 you said in public

00:48:46.920 that you would not

00:48:47.880 vote for the

00:48:48.360 president, and for

00:48:49.300 this reason, because

00:48:50.660 this reason is one

00:48:51.600 that we consider

00:48:52.260 important, the

00:48:52.960 whole disavowing

00:48:54.320 racism thing.

00:48:56.480 And so, what

00:48:57.480 should have been

00:48:58.580 the right response?

00:49:02.000 Well, as I've

00:49:03.440 taught you, if you

00:49:04.180 would like to

00:49:04.640 encourage something

00:49:05.560 to happen, you

00:49:06.880 should reward

00:49:07.560 it.

00:49:08.260 If you would

00:49:08.740 like to

00:49:09.180 discourage

00:49:09.940 something from

00:49:10.500 happening in the

00:49:11.540 future, you

00:49:12.500 should penalize

00:49:13.340 it.

00:49:14.080 That always

00:49:14.700 works.

00:49:15.860 What happened

00:49:16.520 when I gave

00:49:17.180 the left

00:49:17.680 exactly what

00:49:18.720 they should

00:49:20.000 have wanted,

00:49:20.940 which is a

00:49:21.680 staunch Trump

00:49:23.300 supporter

00:49:23.960 switching to

00:49:25.520 say that I

00:49:26.080 would not vote

00:49:26.800 for him, and

00:49:28.120 here's the best

00:49:28.820 part, the

00:49:29.860 reason I gave

00:49:30.980 is their top

00:49:32.420 reason, their

00:49:33.800 top reason, their

00:49:35.480 number one

00:49:36.280 reason that they

00:49:37.520 would want me to

00:49:38.340 change my vote, I

00:49:40.000 expressed clearly,

00:49:42.140 emotionally, and

00:49:43.100 honestly, completely

00:49:44.440 honestly, and then I

00:49:46.460 said I would give

00:49:47.080 them what they

00:49:47.540 wanted.

00:49:48.500 What was their

00:49:49.300 response?

00:49:51.140 They shit on me

00:49:52.580 in buckets.

00:49:55.260 What was my

00:49:57.980 response to

00:50:00.140 giving them

00:50:00.800 everything they

00:50:01.440 wanted, and

00:50:02.840 then having them

00:50:03.600 shit on me in

00:50:05.520 gigantic quantities?

00:50:08.740 Well, if you

00:50:09.580 saw my pinned

00:50:10.480 tweet, you know

00:50:11.780 the answer to

00:50:12.400 that.

00:50:13.720 They switched me

00:50:14.580 back to vote for

00:50:15.340 Trump.

00:50:16.300 Because the

00:50:17.260 number one reason

00:50:18.100 for voting for

00:50:18.920 Trump is to

00:50:20.740 not let those

00:50:21.520 people have

00:50:22.640 power.

00:50:23.660 They have

00:50:24.420 demonstrated

00:50:25.040 by penalizing

00:50:27.080 me for doing

00:50:27.800 the right

00:50:28.280 thing that

00:50:29.420 they can't

00:50:29.900 hold power.

00:50:31.340 You can't

00:50:32.280 let power

00:50:33.180 be held by

00:50:34.160 people who

00:50:34.800 will penalize

00:50:35.800 the stuff

00:50:36.720 they want.

00:50:38.340 And the

00:50:38.560 reason they

00:50:38.940 would penalize

00:50:39.500 me is because

00:50:40.200 of past

00:50:41.020 crimes.

00:50:41.980 In other

00:50:42.260 words, past

00:50:43.880 crimes meaning

00:50:44.520 supporting the

00:50:45.140 president.

00:50:45.980 In other

00:50:46.400 words, no

00:50:47.640 forgiveness.

00:50:49.420 What did I

00:50:50.260 tell you is the

00:50:50.820 difference between

00:50:51.500 Republicans and

00:50:52.680 Democrats?

00:50:53.220 if I had

00:50:55.600 gone from a

00:50:56.720 Democrat to

00:50:58.060 a Republican,

00:51:00.600 right?

00:51:01.600 You're ahead

00:51:02.340 of me, right?

00:51:02.780 I don't even

00:51:03.160 have to finish

00:51:03.900 the sentence,

00:51:05.640 but I will

00:51:06.480 anyway, in case

00:51:07.100 there's anybody

00:51:07.500 who needs it.

00:51:08.780 If I had

00:51:09.700 gone from

00:51:10.300 staunch

00:51:10.860 Democrat to

00:51:12.660 saying,

00:51:13.340 forget it,

00:51:14.720 Biden has

00:51:15.380 lost me,

00:51:16.000 I'm going to

00:51:16.340 vote for

00:51:16.720 Trump, what

00:51:17.560 would Trump

00:51:18.140 supporters do?

00:51:19.380 how would

00:51:20.780 they treat

00:51:21.340 me?

00:51:22.420 You know

00:51:22.940 the answer.

00:51:24.300 You know

00:51:24.760 the answer.

00:51:27.260 The way you

00:51:28.120 would treat

00:51:28.500 me is like

00:51:30.260 a friend.

00:51:31.740 The way you

00:51:32.460 would treat

00:51:32.800 me is like

00:51:33.280 a guest.

00:51:34.880 The way you

00:51:35.620 would treat

00:51:35.940 me is like

00:51:36.680 special.

00:51:38.820 You would

00:51:39.400 have actually

00:51:39.880 rewarded me

00:51:40.960 for doing

00:51:42.120 what you

00:51:42.660 thought was

00:51:43.940 the right

00:51:44.280 thing.

00:51:45.560 Wouldn't

00:51:46.000 you?

00:51:46.180 In the

00:51:48.240 comments,

00:51:49.100 look at the

00:51:49.400 comments,

00:51:50.020 you can see

00:51:50.420 it.

00:51:51.220 As a

00:51:51.880 philosophy,

00:51:53.540 Republicans

00:51:54.100 understand

00:51:55.480 human

00:51:56.020 motivation.

00:51:58.140 Democrats

00:51:58.660 don't.

00:51:59.480 It's very

00:51:59.820 consistent.

00:52:01.000 What is

00:52:01.520 socialism?

00:52:02.860 Socialism

00:52:03.500 is a whole

00:52:04.500 bunch of

00:52:04.900 people who

00:52:05.340 don't

00:52:05.600 understand

00:52:06.120 how human

00:52:06.780 motivation

00:52:07.320 works,

00:52:08.280 and don't

00:52:08.580 understand

00:52:09.020 systems and

00:52:09.980 economies,

00:52:10.900 and how to

00:52:11.660 build something

00:52:12.260 that could

00:52:12.640 last.

00:52:14.140 Republicans,

00:52:15.220 like free

00:52:15.820 markets,

00:52:16.580 which are

00:52:17.160 cruel,

00:52:18.860 but it

00:52:19.880 understands

00:52:20.460 human

00:52:20.820 motivation,

00:52:21.900 it understands

00:52:22.640 people,

00:52:23.520 it allows

00:52:24.020 that they

00:52:24.420 are flawed,

00:52:25.480 but it's

00:52:25.840 just the

00:52:26.200 best we

00:52:26.580 can do

00:52:26.900 with our

00:52:27.280 flawed

00:52:27.580 selves.

00:52:28.680 So when

00:52:29.320 you see

00:52:29.600 this pattern,

00:52:30.280 it's hard

00:52:30.560 to unsee

00:52:31.120 it.

00:52:31.900 And so

00:52:32.260 I'll say

00:52:32.700 again that

00:52:33.380 the Democrats

00:52:34.900 within one

00:52:36.420 day forced

00:52:37.740 me back

00:52:38.680 to be a

00:52:39.480 Trump supporter

00:52:40.120 because I

00:52:41.020 can't be on

00:52:41.760 the team

00:52:42.240 that penalizes

00:52:43.800 good behavior.

00:52:45.820 they just

00:52:46.440 don't

00:52:46.700 understand

00:52:47.160 how anything

00:52:47.740 works.

00:52:49.060 Anything.

00:52:50.020 I want to

00:52:50.580 be on the

00:52:50.920 team where

00:52:51.960 I can

00:52:52.360 totally F

00:52:53.580 up, and

00:52:55.080 if I say,

00:52:56.160 damn it,

00:52:56.620 I really, I

00:52:57.360 messed that

00:52:57.860 up, here's

00:52:59.180 what I'm

00:52:59.480 going to do

00:52:59.900 to fix it.

00:53:01.520 I want to

00:53:02.200 be on the

00:53:02.500 team that

00:53:02.840 says, yeah,

00:53:03.780 you did

00:53:04.140 F up.

00:53:04.980 We're not

00:53:05.340 going to take

00:53:06.600 that away.

00:53:07.140 That's history.

00:53:08.040 That's just

00:53:08.560 a fact, but

00:53:09.940 I do appreciate

00:53:10.580 the fact that

00:53:11.960 you made

00:53:12.320 good.

00:53:13.400 I'm okay

00:53:13.960 with you.

00:53:15.300 That's

00:53:15.740 Republicans,

00:53:16.840 and there's

00:53:17.900 only one of

00:53:18.380 those two

00:53:18.740 countries I

00:53:19.240 want to live

00:53:19.640 in, and

00:53:20.460 it's not

00:53:20.800 the one

00:53:21.100 where I

00:53:21.420 get punished

00:53:22.020 for doing

00:53:22.600 the right

00:53:23.180 stuff.

00:53:24.180 Now, how

00:53:25.700 much did I

00:53:26.360 anticipate that

00:53:27.420 this would

00:53:27.780 happen?

00:53:29.020 Well, I

00:53:29.760 could see it

00:53:30.280 coming from

00:53:30.780 a mile away.

00:53:32.180 Now, I

00:53:32.540 didn't know

00:53:32.840 exactly what

00:53:33.740 form it would

00:53:34.320 take, but

00:53:35.700 I did assume

00:53:36.820 that bringing

00:53:38.040 this attention

00:53:38.740 to myself

00:53:39.420 would do

00:53:40.640 one of two

00:53:41.480 things.

00:53:42.720 Well, let me

00:53:43.220 put it this

00:53:43.640 way, instead

00:53:44.200 of saying

00:53:44.500 one of two

00:53:44.920 things.

00:53:47.040 As I've

00:53:47.700 taught you,

00:53:48.280 the number

00:53:48.640 one thing

00:53:50.580 you have to

00:53:50.960 do with

00:53:51.640 persuasion

00:53:52.440 is get

00:53:52.940 attention.

00:53:53.900 Until you

00:53:54.460 get people's

00:53:55.060 attention, it

00:53:56.320 doesn't matter

00:53:56.900 what persuasion

00:53:57.740 technique you

00:53:58.420 have, what

00:53:59.000 your message

00:53:59.460 is, nobody's

00:54:00.700 watching.

00:54:01.620 So the

00:54:02.220 big part is

00:54:03.500 getting the

00:54:03.960 attention of

00:54:04.640 the left.

00:54:05.560 Why did I

00:54:06.200 want to do

00:54:06.840 that?

00:54:07.620 Why did I

00:54:08.240 intentionally say

00:54:09.760 something provocative

00:54:10.680 like, Trump

00:54:11.700 lost my vote?

00:54:12.480 Why did I

00:54:13.800 want to do

00:54:14.220 that on this

00:54:15.220 topic of

00:54:16.500 the not

00:54:17.240 disavowing the

00:54:17.940 white supremacist?

00:54:18.940 The reason I

00:54:19.820 wanted to do

00:54:20.320 it is that I

00:54:21.440 have discovered,

00:54:22.440 as you have,

00:54:23.860 that people on

00:54:24.520 the right see

00:54:25.420 the whole news

00:54:26.420 and the people

00:54:27.000 on the left

00:54:27.420 see only half

00:54:28.120 of it.

00:54:28.980 Because if you're

00:54:29.560 on the right,

00:54:30.420 you can't

00:54:31.720 avoid seeing

00:54:33.380 the mainstream

00:54:33.940 news.

00:54:34.520 It's just too

00:54:35.020 prevalent.

00:54:36.080 But if you're

00:54:36.540 on the left,

00:54:37.080 you can easily

00:54:37.780 avoid watching

00:54:39.300 Fox News or

00:54:40.320 reading Breitbart

00:54:41.040 or something

00:54:41.900 that would

00:54:42.200 be right

00:54:44.160 leaning.

00:54:45.940 So what I

00:54:46.680 wanted to do

00:54:47.180 was open a

00:54:48.040 channel so

00:54:49.600 that the left

00:54:50.340 would pay

00:54:50.920 attention to

00:54:51.540 me in a way

00:54:52.220 that they

00:54:52.560 normally would

00:54:53.220 not.

00:54:54.340 If I could

00:54:54.980 get them to

00:54:55.480 pay attention

00:54:55.960 to me,

00:54:56.780 they would

00:54:57.220 be open

00:54:57.940 to my

00:54:58.460 persuasion

00:54:59.080 for the

00:54:59.860 first time.

00:55:01.160 And once

00:55:01.860 they're open

00:55:02.220 to my

00:55:02.540 persuasion,

00:55:03.280 they would

00:55:03.680 have at

00:55:04.060 least the

00:55:04.380 opportunity

00:55:04.840 to see

00:55:05.420 the compilation

00:55:06.860 clips of

00:55:07.740 the president

00:55:08.280 clearly and

00:55:10.100 consistently

00:55:10.680 disavowing

00:55:11.500 white supremacists

00:55:12.520 and neo-Nazis

00:55:13.420 a number of

00:55:14.560 times throughout

00:55:15.740 his presidency,

00:55:16.880 throughout his

00:55:17.360 candidacy,

00:55:18.220 and throughout

00:55:18.540 his life.

00:55:20.640 I've never

00:55:21.460 met any

00:55:22.080 Democrat who

00:55:22.900 had ever

00:55:23.240 seen that

00:55:23.980 video unless

00:55:25.000 I showed

00:55:25.480 it to him.

00:55:26.420 Would you

00:55:26.760 agree?

00:55:27.560 You've never

00:55:28.160 met a

00:55:28.820 Democrat who's

00:55:29.620 ever seen

00:55:30.240 that compilation

00:55:31.000 video, but

00:55:31.620 I'll bet

00:55:31.880 almost every

00:55:33.440 one of you

00:55:33.820 has seen

00:55:34.140 it.

00:55:34.840 I'll bet

00:55:35.260 just about

00:55:35.780 every one

00:55:36.220 of you

00:55:36.540 has seen

00:55:37.480 all the

00:55:38.100 times he's

00:55:38.720 disavowed

00:55:39.260 it in

00:55:40.080 clean,

00:55:40.840 complete,

00:55:42.540 exact language

00:55:43.720 just like

00:55:44.760 you'd want to

00:55:45.260 hear it from

00:55:45.780 a president.

00:55:46.840 He just

00:55:47.560 didn't want

00:55:47.940 to get

00:55:48.160 pushed during

00:55:48.940 the debate.

00:55:49.640 That's what

00:55:49.960 it looks like

00:55:50.420 to me.

00:55:51.400 So I did

00:55:52.180 assume that

00:55:53.060 he would

00:55:53.480 eventually say

00:55:54.580 a clean and

00:55:55.800 complete statement

00:55:57.160 and it would

00:55:57.900 allow me to

00:55:59.360 vote for him.

00:56:02.860 So I knew

00:56:03.280 it was coming,

00:56:04.020 but I didn't

00:56:04.400 think it would

00:56:04.800 happen as

00:56:05.200 quickly as

00:56:05.720 it did with

00:56:06.780 the bile and

00:56:08.120 evil and

00:56:09.080 horribleness of

00:56:10.380 the left.

00:56:11.200 They actually

00:56:11.900 convinced me a

00:56:12.960 lot faster.

00:56:14.380 I would have

00:56:14.940 waited probably

00:56:15.500 for the

00:56:17.140 president's

00:56:17.680 statement that

00:56:18.200 he finally

00:56:18.560 made on

00:56:19.380 Hannity, I

00:56:20.340 guess.

00:56:21.520 So here's

00:56:22.480 his exact

00:56:23.260 statement on

00:56:23.840 Hannity.

00:56:24.460 And by the

00:56:24.820 way, doing

00:56:25.220 it on Hannity

00:56:25.860 was exactly

00:56:26.680 the right

00:56:27.100 place to

00:56:27.500 do it.

00:56:28.540 If the

00:56:29.200 president could

00:56:30.600 pick one

00:56:31.320 place to

00:56:32.900 make this

00:56:33.440 statement, it

00:56:34.900 was on

00:56:35.300 Hannity.

00:56:36.360 Nailed it.

00:56:37.480 Because you

00:56:37.840 want to be

00:56:38.280 on the

00:56:40.060 most, right

00:56:43.020 most kind

00:56:44.280 of, you

00:56:44.580 know, Trump

00:56:45.440 friendly platform,

00:56:47.240 in part because

00:56:48.820 the whole

00:56:49.540 situation will

00:56:50.320 go well for

00:56:50.940 him, but

00:56:51.640 partly because

00:56:52.220 it forces the

00:56:53.160 left to watch

00:56:53.820 it.

00:56:54.780 He created a

00:56:55.980 Hannity clip

00:56:56.860 that the left

00:56:57.940 just had to

00:56:58.460 watch because

00:56:59.340 the story is

00:56:59.880 too big.

00:57:00.340 They could

00:57:01.320 ignore Trump

00:57:02.340 on Hannity

00:57:02.940 if he says

00:57:03.540 ordinary

00:57:03.920 stuff, but

00:57:05.720 they couldn't

00:57:06.220 ignore this.

00:57:07.500 The story is

00:57:07.960 too big.

00:57:08.940 So putting it

00:57:09.440 on Hannity was

00:57:10.080 kind of

00:57:10.400 brilliant.

00:57:10.860 Here's what he

00:57:11.260 said.

00:57:11.600 Quote, if you

00:57:12.560 missed it,

00:57:12.980 I condemn

00:57:13.400 the KKK, I

00:57:14.900 condemn all

00:57:15.420 white supremacists,

00:57:16.360 I condemn the

00:57:16.940 Proud Boys, I

00:57:18.140 don't want to

00:57:18.600 here's the best

00:57:19.940 part.

00:57:20.500 He goes, I

00:57:21.400 don't know much

00:57:23.260 about the Proud

00:57:23.880 Boys, almost

00:57:24.860 nothing, but I

00:57:26.340 condemn them.

00:57:27.060 could that

00:57:35.140 have been more

00:57:35.740 perfect?

00:57:37.100 Let me read

00:57:38.560 between the

00:57:39.140 lines.

00:57:42.440 The first

00:57:43.320 part of his

00:57:44.580 statement, I

00:57:45.220 condemn the

00:57:45.740 KKK, true.

00:57:48.520 Not only does

00:57:49.240 he condemn

00:57:49.700 them, he

00:57:50.280 actually put

00:57:51.680 them on a

00:57:52.300 domestic terrorism

00:57:53.560 list.

00:57:54.240 So yeah, you

00:57:55.260 know that is

00:57:56.340 freaking true.

00:57:57.060 He condemns

00:57:57.780 the KKK, and

00:57:59.020 he's said it

00:57:59.500 lots of times

00:58:00.040 in the past

00:58:00.560 as well.

00:58:01.340 He goes, I

00:58:01.860 condemn all

00:58:02.440 white supremacists.

00:58:03.400 Again, something

00:58:04.580 he's said a

00:58:05.220 number of

00:58:05.600 times that the

00:58:06.420 left has never

00:58:07.060 heard, but the

00:58:07.800 right has heard

00:58:08.320 lots of times.

00:58:09.820 All good.

00:58:11.120 So now he's

00:58:11.700 said the two

00:58:12.140 important things,

00:58:13.300 and notice that

00:58:14.000 he said them

00:58:14.480 first.

00:58:16.060 If you're good

00:58:17.080 at media

00:58:17.820 relations, you

00:58:19.180 do this.

00:58:20.340 You say you

00:58:21.260 lead with the

00:58:22.080 thing you want

00:58:22.800 to say.

00:58:24.560 You don't put

00:58:25.760 any qualifiers,

00:58:26.680 you just

00:58:27.140 say, I

00:58:27.520 condemn the

00:58:27.920 KKK, I

00:58:28.760 condemn all

00:58:29.200 white supremacists.

00:58:30.320 So he's

00:58:31.180 moved from

00:58:31.920 the debate

00:58:33.080 where his

00:58:33.520 answer was

00:58:34.260 bad, to

00:58:35.960 this where

00:58:36.440 it's perfect.

00:58:37.800 There's no

00:58:38.480 improvement on

00:58:39.180 this.

00:58:39.400 This is a

00:58:39.820 perfect statement.

00:58:41.460 But then

00:58:41.900 when he

00:58:42.200 throws in

00:58:42.620 the proud

00:58:43.000 boys, don't

00:58:45.200 think of

00:58:45.640 this as

00:58:46.320 throwing them

00:58:46.860 under the

00:58:47.260 bus exactly,

00:58:48.460 because I

00:58:48.940 don't quite

00:58:49.420 see that.

00:58:50.540 Here's what

00:58:51.040 I see.

00:58:52.220 This is a

00:58:52.880 little bit

00:58:53.360 tongue-in-cheek.

00:58:54.380 Remember I

00:58:54.840 told you that

00:58:55.480 the hard

00:58:55.920 part is

00:58:57.200 where do

00:58:57.520 you draw

00:58:57.820 the line?

00:58:58.960 Like, how

00:58:59.280 do you go

00:58:59.900 from KKK,

00:59:01.500 definitely

00:59:01.740 bad, white

00:59:02.700 supremacists,

00:59:03.340 definitely

00:59:03.560 bad, I

00:59:05.120 don't know

00:59:05.460 who the

00:59:05.760 proud boys

00:59:06.240 are.

00:59:07.420 But the

00:59:07.840 fact that

00:59:08.380 he said

00:59:08.940 explicitly,

00:59:10.700 I don't

00:59:11.160 know much

00:59:11.600 about them,

00:59:12.300 almost nothing,

00:59:13.520 but I

00:59:13.940 condemn that?

00:59:14.880 Come on.

00:59:20.320 Come on.

00:59:21.980 Could that

00:59:22.480 have been

00:59:22.840 more perfect

00:59:23.540 to say he

00:59:24.460 doesn't know

00:59:24.960 anything about

00:59:25.720 them and he

00:59:26.260 condemns them?

00:59:27.540 That tells

00:59:28.400 you,

00:59:29.180 that tells

00:59:31.460 you everything

00:59:33.260 you need to

00:59:33.840 know about

00:59:34.240 it.

00:59:34.640 Because remember,

00:59:35.600 the problem

00:59:36.180 was, what

00:59:36.980 happens when

00:59:37.560 he gets

00:59:38.240 into the

00:59:38.680 gray area?

00:59:39.600 The way he

00:59:40.440 handled the

00:59:41.020 gray area

00:59:41.660 was to say

00:59:42.900 he doesn't

00:59:43.340 know what

00:59:43.680 they do,

00:59:44.060 but he

00:59:44.300 condemns

00:59:44.720 them anyway.

00:59:46.960 You can't

00:59:48.040 do better

00:59:48.560 than that.

00:59:50.660 That is

00:59:51.500 the best

00:59:51.980 answer maybe

00:59:53.640 anybody has

00:59:54.380 ever given

00:59:55.000 to any

00:59:56.340 question from

00:59:58.120 the beginning

00:59:58.640 of recorded

00:59:59.340 history.

01:00:00.500 You will

01:00:01.180 never see

01:00:02.180 a more

01:00:03.560 perfect answer

01:00:04.460 to a

01:00:05.540 trap

01:00:05.920 question.

01:00:07.200 Remember

01:00:07.500 when,

01:00:08.680 harking back

01:00:09.760 to the

01:00:11.780 Rosie O'Donnell

01:00:12.580 situation in

01:00:13.320 his first

01:00:13.660 debate,

01:00:14.140 when he

01:00:14.440 said,

01:00:14.680 only Rosie

01:00:15.240 O'Donnell,

01:00:16.120 and he

01:00:16.460 got out

01:00:17.020 of the

01:00:17.320 worst

01:00:17.720 question

01:00:19.100 trap you

01:00:19.720 could ever

01:00:20.040 get out

01:00:20.420 of.

01:00:21.080 And that

01:00:21.500 was the,

01:00:22.120 you know,

01:00:22.460 as I've

01:00:23.020 told the

01:00:23.340 story,

01:00:23.660 that was

01:00:23.900 the moment

01:00:24.300 I said,

01:00:25.220 wait a minute,

01:00:26.280 he's doing

01:00:26.840 things that

01:00:27.300 nobody can

01:00:27.780 do.

01:00:28.520 He just

01:00:28.920 did the

01:00:29.240 impossible

01:00:29.660 right in

01:00:30.040 front of

01:00:30.260 me.

01:00:30.420 He got

01:00:30.700 out of

01:00:30.900 the

01:00:31.000 impossible

01:00:31.540 trap.

01:00:31.980 trap.

01:00:32.840 Now,

01:00:33.400 he did

01:00:33.680 not get

01:00:34.040 out of

01:00:34.220 the

01:00:34.340 trap

01:00:34.640 in the

01:00:35.560 debate,

01:00:36.660 but when

01:00:38.820 he had

01:00:39.100 time to

01:00:39.720 prepare and

01:00:40.700 think about

01:00:41.200 it,

01:00:41.820 he came

01:00:42.320 up with,

01:00:43.060 really,

01:00:44.500 you could

01:00:45.100 not craft a

01:00:46.880 better answer

01:00:47.360 than this.

01:00:48.080 Because you

01:00:48.720 can read the

01:00:49.300 Proud Boys'

01:00:50.000 part as

01:00:50.900 tongue-in-cheek,

01:00:52.540 the fact that

01:00:53.140 he would

01:00:53.400 condemn them

01:00:53.980 while saying

01:00:54.440 he doesn't

01:00:54.780 know what

01:00:55.060 they are.

01:00:55.420 that is

01:00:56.420 the funniest,

01:00:57.300 I'm sorry,

01:00:58.000 I feel like

01:00:58.460 I have to

01:00:58.940 swear.

01:01:00.220 Do you

01:01:01.140 mind an

01:01:01.980 F-word in

01:01:02.580 the middle

01:01:02.820 of this?

01:01:04.520 Give you a

01:01:05.100 little bit of

01:01:05.460 warning to

01:01:07.040 send the

01:01:07.640 children away,

01:01:08.400 earmuffs,

01:01:09.360 earmuffs on

01:01:09.980 the children.

01:01:10.780 There's

01:01:10.960 sometimes when

01:01:11.700 the F-word is

01:01:13.340 the only word

01:01:13.960 that works in

01:01:15.100 the sentence,

01:01:15.700 have you ever

01:01:16.080 noticed that?

01:01:16.980 So let me

01:01:17.440 say it with

01:01:17.880 the F-word

01:01:18.360 the way it

01:01:18.780 should have

01:01:19.020 been said.

01:01:20.280 When the

01:01:20.820 president said,

01:01:21.640 I don't know

01:01:22.000 much about the

01:01:22.600 Proud Boys,

01:01:23.160 almost nothing,

01:01:23.880 but I condemn

01:01:24.480 that,

01:01:24.840 that's the

01:01:26.040 funniest fucking

01:01:26.800 thing a

01:01:27.380 president ever

01:01:28.060 said.

01:01:29.400 That's just

01:01:30.080 the funniest

01:01:30.580 fucking thing.

01:01:32.120 And I don't

01:01:32.800 know if

01:01:33.180 everybody's going

01:01:33.920 to appreciate

01:01:34.600 how brilliant

01:01:36.980 that is.

01:01:38.060 Because what

01:01:38.640 it does was,

01:01:40.360 in a million

01:01:41.460 years I

01:01:41.920 couldn't have

01:01:42.280 seen this

01:01:42.680 solution.

01:01:43.440 Literally,

01:01:44.060 this is like

01:01:44.500 a Houdini

01:01:45.060 situation.

01:01:46.260 Because I

01:01:48.020 would not

01:01:48.500 have known

01:01:49.120 how to get

01:01:49.940 out of the

01:01:50.380 trap of

01:01:51.420 going down

01:01:52.020 the gray

01:01:52.540 area.

01:01:53.880 Right?

01:01:53.960 Now,

01:01:54.880 what happens

01:01:55.680 if next

01:01:57.360 he's asked

01:01:57.960 to condemn

01:01:58.780 somebody who

01:01:59.760 is even

01:02:00.260 more,

01:02:02.640 let's say,

01:02:04.680 holy?

01:02:06.580 The next one

01:02:07.440 he could do

01:02:07.820 the same

01:02:08.220 thing.

01:02:08.820 He could say,

01:02:09.100 well,

01:02:09.260 I don't know

01:02:09.600 much about

01:02:10.120 them,

01:02:10.240 but I

01:02:10.460 condemn

01:02:10.800 them.

01:02:11.160 Are you

01:02:11.320 happy?

01:02:12.120 Sure,

01:02:12.420 I condemn

01:02:12.780 them.

01:02:13.360 I don't

01:02:13.800 know what

01:02:14.000 they do,

01:02:15.140 but I

01:02:15.620 condemn

01:02:15.920 them.

01:02:17.480 That's it.

01:02:18.160 he's shown

01:02:20.080 a willingness

01:02:20.540 to condemn

01:02:21.860 people just

01:02:23.800 because you

01:02:24.160 wanted them

01:02:24.520 to say

01:02:24.840 it.

01:02:25.280 It took

01:02:25.660 all the

01:02:25.920 power out

01:02:26.380 of it.

01:02:27.180 It's sort

01:02:27.600 of like

01:02:27.960 Jay-Z

01:02:31.420 using the

01:02:32.080 N-word.

01:02:33.000 If you've

01:02:33.580 ever seen

01:02:34.000 Jay-Z,

01:02:35.020 he was

01:02:35.400 asked about,

01:02:36.400 well,

01:02:36.540 why do you

01:02:36.880 always use

01:02:37.340 the N-word

01:02:37.880 in your

01:02:38.240 music?

01:02:39.900 And part

01:02:40.320 of his

01:02:40.600 answer was

01:02:41.700 that it

01:02:41.980 takes the

01:02:42.360 power out

01:02:42.820 of it.

01:02:43.120 Instead of

01:02:44.140 it being

01:02:44.540 a horrible

01:02:45.280 insult,

01:02:46.200 he just

01:02:46.600 owns it,

01:02:47.580 uses it,

01:02:48.340 turns it

01:02:48.680 into a

01:02:49.020 tool.

01:02:49.960 Good

01:02:50.240 technique,

01:02:51.000 Jay-Z.

01:02:51.900 And the

01:02:52.500 president

01:02:52.860 kind of

01:02:53.900 did that

01:02:54.360 a little

01:02:54.640 bit by

01:02:56.100 saying,

01:02:56.660 you want

01:02:56.880 me to

01:02:57.180 condemn?

01:02:58.120 What do

01:02:58.440 you want?

01:02:59.560 Give me

01:03:00.100 a name.

01:03:00.880 Give me

01:03:01.160 a name,

01:03:01.520 I'll

01:03:01.680 condemn

01:03:01.940 him.

01:03:02.840 How

01:03:02.940 about,

01:03:04.520 I'm

01:03:06.300 trying to

01:03:06.600 think of

01:03:06.880 some other

01:03:07.300 example.

01:03:08.780 How about

01:03:09.360 the,

01:03:10.760 I don't

01:03:12.040 know,

01:03:12.460 anybody.

01:03:13.120 All right,

01:03:15.400 unemployment

01:03:15.800 down to

01:03:16.320 7.9 in

01:03:17.520 September.

01:03:18.640 Well,

01:03:19.140 room to

01:03:20.140 grow.

01:03:21.760 So,

01:03:22.520 let me

01:03:23.160 give you

01:03:23.420 a bottom

01:03:23.760 line on

01:03:24.360 the

01:03:24.600 president

01:03:24.960 and his

01:03:25.940 coronavirus

01:03:26.500 situation.

01:03:27.720 First of

01:03:28.080 all,

01:03:28.380 what are

01:03:28.620 the odds

01:03:29.300 that the,

01:03:30.580 is it the

01:03:31.160 head of the

01:03:31.520 Democratic

01:03:31.860 Party,

01:03:32.480 her name

01:03:32.800 is Rona?

01:03:34.200 What are

01:03:34.580 the odds

01:03:34.960 that,

01:03:35.320 I'm sorry,

01:03:35.740 the head

01:03:35.940 of the

01:03:36.140 Republican

01:03:36.480 Party,

01:03:37.620 isn't the

01:03:38.580 chair of

01:03:39.620 the Republican

01:03:40.160 Party named

01:03:40.780 Rona?

01:03:42.000 R-O-N-A?

01:03:43.840 What are

01:03:44.460 the odds

01:03:44.720 of that?

01:03:47.200 I'm just

01:03:47.880 tossing that

01:03:48.440 in there

01:03:48.700 because it

01:03:49.460 struck my

01:03:50.140 mind funny.

01:03:52.520 But anyway,

01:03:53.940 my guess

01:03:54.900 is that

01:03:56.260 this will

01:03:56.980 work for

01:03:57.980 the president.

01:04:00.120 I think

01:04:00.880 it could go

01:04:01.460 either way,

01:04:02.240 so I wouldn't

01:04:02.820 put a ton

01:04:03.480 of confidence

01:04:04.080 in this

01:04:04.680 initial opinion,

01:04:05.980 and I'll

01:04:06.600 reserve the

01:04:07.180 right to

01:04:07.540 revise my

01:04:08.280 opinion.

01:04:08.580 because you

01:04:09.260 need to

01:04:09.580 see how

01:04:10.560 the public

01:04:11.200 responds.

01:04:12.760 And once

01:04:13.060 you see

01:04:13.400 how they

01:04:13.700 respond,

01:04:14.580 you'll get

01:04:15.080 a better

01:04:15.360 idea if

01:04:15.960 this is

01:04:16.280 going to

01:04:16.500 work for

01:04:16.980 or against

01:04:17.360 the president.

01:04:18.280 But let

01:04:18.640 me ask

01:04:18.920 you this.

01:04:20.460 Is it

01:04:21.060 more likely

01:04:21.640 that the

01:04:22.100 president

01:04:22.440 would cause

01:04:23.200 trouble by

01:04:24.660 speaking out

01:04:25.480 and doing

01:04:25.760 public

01:04:26.120 appearances,

01:04:26.780 or that

01:04:27.720 he would

01:04:28.040 gain votes?

01:04:30.280 I don't

01:04:30.560 know.

01:04:30.880 There were

01:04:31.100 probably more

01:04:31.580 downside from

01:04:32.800 active campaigning

01:04:33.880 at this point

01:04:34.480 than upside.

01:04:34.960 It's

01:04:35.640 hard to

01:04:35.940 say.

01:04:38.520 And

01:04:38.800 Tom

01:04:42.740 Arnold,

01:04:43.440 people are

01:04:45.120 suggesting

01:04:45.720 people to

01:04:46.280 condemn.

01:04:47.160 What about

01:04:47.680 the Elbonians?

01:04:49.080 Well, I

01:04:49.480 don't know

01:04:49.720 anything about

01:04:50.180 the Elbonians,

01:04:51.020 but I

01:04:52.020 condemn that.

01:04:53.400 I think I'm

01:04:54.560 going to

01:04:54.760 tweet that

01:04:55.180 after we're

01:04:55.600 done here.

01:04:56.800 All right.

01:04:58.320 My guess

01:04:59.200 is that this

01:04:59.860 will create

01:05:00.380 some sympathy

01:05:00.980 for the

01:05:01.440 president,

01:05:02.120 but in

01:05:02.880 addition,

01:05:03.480 it's very,

01:05:04.260 very

01:05:04.420 compatible

01:05:04.980 with his

01:05:06.400 notion that

01:05:07.440 we should

01:05:07.760 try to

01:05:08.060 get back

01:05:08.420 to work

01:05:08.900 even at

01:05:09.800 great risk

01:05:10.560 to some

01:05:11.180 people.

01:05:12.260 And he

01:05:12.680 was one

01:05:13.080 of the

01:05:13.280 people who

01:05:13.680 took the

01:05:14.060 risk.

01:05:15.120 He lived

01:05:16.540 the life

01:05:17.060 that he

01:05:17.500 was promoting,

01:05:18.500 which is

01:05:18.800 take

01:05:19.080 precautions,

01:05:21.780 but still

01:05:22.200 work.

01:05:23.340 That's what

01:05:23.940 he did.

01:05:24.360 He took

01:05:24.700 precautions,

01:05:25.800 but he

01:05:26.760 still worked.

01:05:27.480 That's what

01:05:27.780 he asked

01:05:29.120 of the

01:05:29.360 country.

01:05:30.340 And he

01:05:31.100 took a

01:05:31.440 risk,

01:05:32.640 and

01:05:32.880 in a

01:05:34.660 weird way,

01:05:35.260 he turned

01:05:35.600 into an

01:05:35.980 accidental

01:05:36.440 role model

01:05:37.060 because he

01:05:38.700 took the

01:05:39.020 risk.

01:05:40.600 So we'll

01:05:41.300 see.

01:05:42.060 All right.

01:05:42.980 That's all I

01:05:43.460 got to say

01:05:43.880 about this.

01:05:45.260 And I

01:05:45.920 condemn

01:05:46.160 everyone.

01:05:47.400 I condemn

01:05:48.200 everything I

01:05:50.120 don't understand.

01:05:51.440 In general,

01:05:52.620 if I don't

01:05:53.020 know about it,

01:05:54.320 I condemn

01:05:54.760 it.

01:05:55.760 That's my

01:05:56.340 take on

01:05:57.060 this.

01:05:57.260 And

01:05:58.320 somebody

01:06:00.920 said

01:06:01.180 Rona

01:06:01.800 is

01:06:02.160 COVID

01:06:02.700 positive.

01:06:03.880 That's not

01:06:04.620 I don't

01:06:06.260 know if

01:06:06.540 that's a

01:06:06.880 real thing.

01:06:07.880 So don't

01:06:08.300 believe that.

01:06:11.220 All right.

01:06:12.100 That's all

01:06:12.640 for now.

01:06:13.040 I'll talk

01:06:13.280 to you

01:06:13.440 later.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - October 02, 2020

Episode 1142 Scott Adams： I Think You Know the Topics This Morning

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