Real Coffee with Scott Adams - October 20, 2020


Episode 1160 Scott Adams: #Metoobin Jokes, CIA Domestic Disinformation, How Trump Wins


Episode Stats

Length

58 minutes

Words per Minute

143.05466

Word Count

8,312

Sentence Count

496

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

16


Summary

Jeffrey Toobin and Alex Blumberg talk about the potential good news and bad news about the coronavirus pandemic, and how the government might be close to having enough home test kits to eradicate it by the end of the year.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Bum, bum, bum, bum.
00:00:02.500 Bum, bum, bum, bum.
00:00:05.220 Bum, bum, bum, bum.
00:00:08.700 Oh, what a day, what a day.
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00:01:12.800 Oh, yeah.
00:01:18.400 I feel the goodness coursing through my veins.
00:01:23.400 So, I don't know where to start today.
00:01:26.320 It's such a funny day,
00:01:27.300 but I'm going to start with potential good news.
00:01:30.120 All right?
00:01:31.060 Oh, yeah.
00:01:31.580 We'll get to Jeffrey Toobin.
00:01:33.920 We'll get to that.
00:01:35.000 But let's start with some potential coronavirus good news.
00:01:39.540 So, in Reason, the publication Reason,
00:01:45.260 they estimated in an article that would cost around $20 billion
00:01:48.660 to provide 330 million Americans,
00:01:53.000 so basically all of us,
00:01:55.100 with home test kits at $1 apiece for weekly use.
00:02:00.180 So, it would cost you $1 a week
00:02:02.040 to test yourself at home
00:02:04.080 with these test kits.
00:02:06.140 And it would only cost $20 billion.
00:02:09.340 Now, if you had vaccines,
00:02:13.960 or you knew that vaccines were coming,
00:02:16.120 how does that make you feel?
00:02:18.000 Well, it might make you feel optimistic.
00:02:22.200 But a lot of you are thinking,
00:02:23.780 I'm not sure I want to sign up for the vaccine first.
00:02:27.180 Maybe you other people take the vaccine,
00:02:29.920 and a couple months from now, I'll check into it.
00:02:34.360 So, we have some bad feelings about vaccines
00:02:37.540 that is neither conservative nor liberal.
00:02:40.660 There is just a general uncomfortableness
00:02:43.100 with rushing that sort of stuff, quite reasonably.
00:02:47.260 But, suppose I told you this,
00:02:50.840 that the government had a plan
00:02:52.980 that by a certain date,
00:02:55.160 we would have enough tests
00:02:56.900 that you could get a test once a week for $1.
00:03:00.280 And everybody could do it as much as they wanted.
00:03:02.900 It's just $1.
00:03:04.120 How would that make you feel?
00:03:06.520 Let's say you knew that we could do that
00:03:08.540 by end of the year.
00:03:11.020 You'd be pretty happy about that,
00:03:13.340 because that feels like the end of the pandemic.
00:03:15.440 Now, it wouldn't end it, you know,
00:03:18.020 with one crushing blow.
00:03:20.760 But if everybody could get a test for $1 once a week,
00:03:24.620 you would really be putting your boot on the bug at that point.
00:03:29.660 So, you might ask yourself,
00:03:33.240 well, if it's only $20 billion,
00:03:35.120 and in the context of spending literally trillions
00:03:39.080 to get past this pandemic,
00:03:41.460 $20 billion would be quite a deal.
00:03:45.000 But I'm a little unclear
00:03:46.760 about whether the FDA has approved this.
00:03:51.420 So, the article was a little unclear on that.
00:03:53.780 So, I need a fact check on that.
00:03:55.140 I know that it was illegal
00:03:56.760 to authorize these,
00:04:00.260 and there was some obstacle,
00:04:02.040 I don't know what it was.
00:04:02.820 But at the moment,
00:04:04.060 there are a number of companies,
00:04:05.440 say the article in Reason,
00:04:07.260 including biotech startups,
00:04:10.160 E25 Bio,
00:04:12.680 and then there's Orashure,
00:04:14.420 and 3M, etc.
00:04:15.780 So, there are a bunch of companies
00:04:17.240 making these tests.
00:04:19.060 Here is how President Trump
00:04:21.080 could win the election
00:04:22.720 pretty much speed.
00:04:25.680 He would need to produce
00:04:27.200 a roadmap,
00:04:29.200 very simple roadmap,
00:04:30.540 that says,
00:04:31.300 here's where we are,
00:04:33.260 and by this date,
00:04:35.020 we'll have enough tests
00:04:37.420 that every person can get a test
00:04:39.580 for a dollar at home,
00:04:41.660 and you'll have quick results.
00:04:44.180 Now, if he told us
00:04:45.380 that here's where we are,
00:04:47.140 and here's the day
00:04:48.080 that we'll have enough tests,
00:04:50.660 I would feel like I saw
00:04:51.920 the end of the pandemic.
00:04:53.780 It might not be,
00:04:55.420 but it would certainly feel like it,
00:04:57.420 wouldn't it?
00:04:58.840 Now, how long would that take?
00:05:00.280 And what would it take
00:05:01.660 the government to get that done?
00:05:03.460 Well, I would just like
00:05:04.400 visibility on it.
00:05:05.980 I would like to know,
00:05:07.020 is there an FDA obstacle?
00:05:09.100 If there is still a legal obstacle,
00:05:11.620 when will that be removed?
00:05:13.920 And how long does it take
00:05:15.320 these companies to ramp up?
00:05:17.160 Give us a little visibility
00:05:18.440 into those companies,
00:05:20.100 and tell us how close they are.
00:05:22.180 Just sort of put it on paper.
00:05:24.400 One page,
00:05:25.780 here's where we are,
00:05:26.700 here's the date
00:05:27.840 we'll have enough tests
00:05:28.900 to test our way out.
00:05:31.080 $20 billion.
00:05:32.540 I would feel that
00:05:33.580 that would pretty much
00:05:34.940 settle the election,
00:05:36.120 really.
00:05:36.820 Because the coronavirus situation
00:05:38.420 is going to turn
00:05:39.920 on how scared you are
00:05:42.440 about the pandemic.
00:05:44.080 And that would take
00:05:44.900 a lot of the scare out of it.
00:05:47.020 Apparently,
00:05:47.620 there's the new rule
00:05:49.320 for the presidential debate
00:05:50.860 is that the microphones
00:05:51.940 will be turned off
00:05:53.280 when it's not
00:05:54.640 the candidate's turn to speak.
00:05:57.640 What do you think
00:05:58.440 that's going to do
00:05:59.220 to President Trump's
00:06:00.640 debate game?
00:06:02.920 Well, your first impression
00:06:04.740 might be,
00:06:05.200 oh no, he can't interrupt.
00:06:06.820 And it's the interrupting
00:06:07.780 that's sort of the fun part
00:06:09.580 and gives it a life.
00:06:11.740 But I would argue
00:06:12.960 this is going to work
00:06:14.020 in Trump's favor.
00:06:16.980 Because what was
00:06:17.780 the one big thing
00:06:18.580 that people didn't like
00:06:19.820 about Trump's performance
00:06:21.700 last time?
00:06:23.180 The people who are,
00:06:24.740 you know,
00:06:25.280 sort of would like
00:06:26.220 to like him,
00:06:27.300 you know,
00:06:27.520 maybe they could be convinced
00:06:28.880 if they see him
00:06:30.180 acting like a bully
00:06:31.140 and talking over everybody
00:06:33.040 and trying to dominate
00:06:34.200 the debate,
00:06:35.600 do they think better of him?
00:06:37.720 Or do they think worse?
00:06:39.320 I think that the people
00:06:40.600 who are persuadable,
00:06:42.020 that tiny little sliver
00:06:43.480 of people who need a reason
00:06:44.660 to go one way or the other,
00:06:46.680 I feel like they would like
00:06:48.400 Trump more
00:06:49.460 if he doesn't even have
00:06:51.240 the option of talking
00:06:52.260 over Biden.
00:06:53.500 Now,
00:06:54.160 as Trump has said
00:06:55.320 and other people have said,
00:06:56.420 if you let Biden talk
00:06:57.820 without interrupting him,
00:06:59.700 maybe he'll have
00:07:01.120 an own goal
00:07:02.000 or he'll force himself
00:07:03.400 into a gaffe
00:07:04.280 and you'll be better off
00:07:05.760 letting him talk.
00:07:07.600 I think there's something
00:07:08.780 to that.
00:07:10.160 But beyond that,
00:07:11.280 even a bigger deal
00:07:12.200 is having Trump
00:07:13.360 look more presidential
00:07:14.780 just because he was forced to.
00:07:17.160 If you force Trump
00:07:19.920 not to interrupt,
00:07:21.540 he's just going to look
00:07:22.680 more presidential.
00:07:24.060 It's going to help him.
00:07:25.480 So I don't know
00:07:26.320 if the people
00:07:26.860 who made that rule
00:07:27.840 in the back of their mind
00:07:29.720 were hoping
00:07:30.500 to handicap Trump,
00:07:32.600 but I don't think
00:07:33.220 that's what's happening.
00:07:34.700 I think this is going
00:07:35.580 to work to his favor.
00:07:39.100 You may recall
00:07:40.260 that early in the pandemic,
00:07:43.240 I was saying
00:07:44.040 don't judge
00:07:45.300 who are the countries
00:07:46.520 that are winners
00:07:47.120 and who are losers
00:07:47.920 because it's only halftime.
00:07:51.340 And you can't say
00:07:52.220 that the United States
00:07:53.440 did worse
00:07:54.100 than some other country
00:07:56.080 if the game isn't over.
00:07:58.580 Now, of course,
00:07:59.080 it's not a game
00:07:59.900 because it's life and death,
00:08:01.160 but you understand
00:08:01.860 the analogy.
00:08:03.380 So we're seeing now
00:08:04.820 a big uptick
00:08:05.780 in some countries
00:08:07.100 in Eastern Europe
00:08:08.480 and South America
00:08:09.860 where they're getting
00:08:11.200 a second wave
00:08:12.300 that's pretty bad.
00:08:14.400 So we hope
00:08:15.360 that it doesn't get worse,
00:08:16.580 but I would remind you
00:08:17.940 that we don't know
00:08:19.160 how this ends.
00:08:20.580 We still don't know
00:08:21.800 why some countries
00:08:23.080 do better.
00:08:24.360 I mean, think of that.
00:08:25.540 We still don't know
00:08:26.760 why some countries
00:08:27.940 do better.
00:08:29.300 Now, of course,
00:08:31.180 you're going to say,
00:08:32.160 well, it's masks
00:08:33.060 or it's social distancing
00:08:34.180 or whatever.
00:08:35.500 And those things,
00:08:36.580 I'm pretty sure,
00:08:37.440 make a difference.
00:08:38.220 But they don't seem
00:08:39.600 to make enough difference
00:08:40.940 to explain the massively
00:08:43.000 different outcomes
00:08:44.200 from different places.
00:08:45.600 So it's still kind of
00:08:46.580 a mystery
00:08:46.980 what the big variables are.
00:08:48.640 We know some
00:08:49.060 of the small ones.
00:08:50.720 All right.
00:08:52.240 I was trending
00:08:53.340 on Twitter yesterday.
00:08:54.560 Anybody notice that?
00:08:56.760 So I didn't see it myself,
00:08:59.100 but a number of people
00:08:59.820 told me that I was trending.
00:09:02.080 And I think that was
00:09:02.700 after I appeared
00:09:03.920 on MSNBC.
00:09:06.000 Now, you might say
00:09:06.680 to yourself,
00:09:07.140 what?
00:09:08.960 You were on MSNBC?
00:09:11.640 Do they let people
00:09:12.820 who support President Trump
00:09:14.540 on MSNBC?
00:09:15.820 I didn't even know
00:09:16.520 that was a thing.
00:09:18.040 Well, yes.
00:09:19.560 Apparently,
00:09:20.060 it doesn't happen
00:09:20.480 that often,
00:09:21.080 but I was invited
00:09:22.500 on Ari Milber's show.
00:09:24.900 And I have to admit,
00:09:26.320 I thought it was
00:09:26.980 going to be contentious.
00:09:28.920 I thought he was going
00:09:30.140 to try to embarrass me
00:09:32.960 or put me in an awkward
00:09:34.460 situation
00:09:35.200 or accuse me
00:09:37.400 of being a racist
00:09:38.140 for supporting the president
00:09:39.620 or something.
00:09:40.700 I didn't know
00:09:41.460 how it was going to go.
00:09:43.680 But it did not go
00:09:44.740 that way at all.
00:09:45.760 And I would say
00:09:46.320 that Ari did
00:09:48.420 a great job
00:09:50.640 of just,
00:09:51.140 you know,
00:09:52.140 playing it
00:09:52.740 right down the middle.
00:09:53.820 and it wasn't
00:09:55.420 a biased interview
00:09:56.240 in any way.
00:09:58.420 And he was
00:09:59.260 very complimentary.
00:10:00.500 So apparently,
00:10:01.380 he's read my books
00:10:02.360 and had a good feeling
00:10:03.960 about at least
00:10:05.440 my other work.
00:10:07.880 So it was very disarming
00:10:10.600 to me as well
00:10:11.660 because I had in my mind,
00:10:13.660 you know,
00:10:14.060 sort of a combat plan.
00:10:16.240 And I thought,
00:10:17.080 okay,
00:10:17.380 as soon as the bullets
00:10:19.200 start flying,
00:10:19.940 this is going to get good.
00:10:20.980 And I knew what
00:10:21.860 I was going to do
00:10:22.480 if it got testy.
00:10:25.280 But it never got testy.
00:10:26.520 It just stayed friendly,
00:10:27.580 which was excellent
00:10:29.420 because I think
00:10:30.820 the country needs
00:10:31.580 to see people
00:10:32.420 getting along
00:10:33.720 once in a while.
00:10:35.160 Right?
00:10:37.320 It was weird
00:10:38.360 in one sense
00:10:39.240 because
00:10:40.020 I was introduced
00:10:42.180 with somebody else's work.
00:10:44.860 I've never seen
00:10:45.440 that before.
00:10:46.220 Have you?
00:10:47.160 Have you ever seen
00:10:47.880 somebody introduced
00:10:49.160 by showing somebody
00:10:50.880 else's work
00:10:51.560 who's a competitor
00:10:52.500 to the person
00:10:53.280 who's being introduced?
00:10:54.880 So they started off
00:10:55.960 by showing a clip
00:10:56.860 of the movie
00:10:57.840 Office Space,
00:10:59.720 which some have said
00:11:01.820 is a ripoff
00:11:03.320 of Dilbert
00:11:03.880 because it
00:11:04.460 came into being
00:11:07.080 at the time
00:11:07.600 that Dilbert
00:11:08.040 was becoming popular,
00:11:09.540 which proved
00:11:10.900 that there could be
00:11:11.820 a movie on that topic.
00:11:13.720 And then
00:11:14.100 Mike Judge made one.
00:11:15.820 Now,
00:11:16.060 there's no indication
00:11:16.780 that he was looking
00:11:17.560 at Dilbert
00:11:18.060 when he made it,
00:11:19.140 but many observers say
00:11:20.820 that it was
00:11:22.560 at least a little bit
00:11:24.200 influenced
00:11:25.200 by Dilbert.
00:11:28.620 So that was weird.
00:11:29.840 I've never seen
00:11:30.480 anything like that
00:11:31.420 before,
00:11:31.940 to use somebody
00:11:32.920 else's property
00:11:33.820 to introduce
00:11:35.120 somebody who competes
00:11:36.660 with that property.
00:11:38.000 It was strange.
00:11:39.140 But they were
00:11:39.600 very nice to me.
00:11:40.280 They showed the clips
00:11:41.560 and mentioned my book,
00:11:43.040 et cetera.
00:11:43.980 So here's where
00:11:45.340 I ended up trending.
00:11:49.920 I didn't realize
00:11:51.360 just how bad
00:11:52.300 the silo was,
00:11:53.600 the news silo,
00:11:55.200 and how the people
00:11:56.860 who watch MSNBC
00:11:58.400 really, really
00:12:00.080 don't know
00:12:00.760 what the rest
00:12:01.360 of the country
00:12:01.860 is thinking.
00:12:03.300 And while you know
00:12:04.420 that intellectually,
00:12:06.320 when you see it
00:12:07.400 in real life,
00:12:08.100 it's still jarring,
00:12:09.360 even though you
00:12:09.920 sort of know it
00:12:10.720 on some intellectual level.
00:12:12.700 So I went through
00:12:17.540 my explanation
00:12:18.420 of what the election
00:12:20.400 would look like
00:12:21.020 and the way I framed it
00:12:22.000 was that people
00:12:23.220 vote based on
00:12:24.280 their fears
00:12:24.920 and that President Trump
00:12:27.080 was working against
00:12:28.260 his own re-election
00:12:29.360 interests
00:12:29.900 because he had solved
00:12:31.660 some of our
00:12:32.460 biggest fears.
00:12:33.880 And I mentioned
00:12:34.440 that I'm no longer
00:12:35.480 afraid of ISIS,
00:12:36.800 for example.
00:12:37.840 I used to think
00:12:38.640 about terrorist attacks
00:12:39.660 all the time.
00:12:41.200 And while,
00:12:41.660 of course,
00:12:42.060 there's always
00:12:42.560 that risk,
00:12:43.300 I don't think
00:12:44.100 about it.
00:12:45.060 It's not in my mind
00:12:46.020 anymore.
00:12:47.000 So I'm not afraid
00:12:48.500 of ISIS.
00:12:49.960 And that's new
00:12:51.460 within,
00:12:52.100 I would say,
00:12:52.620 within the
00:12:53.240 Trump administration.
00:12:56.000 I also mentioned
00:12:57.260 that when Trump
00:12:58.160 is president,
00:12:58.920 I'm not afraid
00:12:59.800 of the economy
00:13:01.020 melting down
00:13:01.760 because there's
00:13:04.080 good evidence
00:13:04.840 to suggest
00:13:05.640 that he's
00:13:06.600 the most capable
00:13:08.260 hand for the economy.
00:13:10.400 But then I also,
00:13:11.400 just to be fair,
00:13:12.060 said that if
00:13:13.100 President Trump
00:13:14.640 loses the election,
00:13:15.660 it'll be because
00:13:16.240 of the coronavirus
00:13:16.920 because that fear
00:13:18.660 is in our faces
00:13:19.440 all the time.
00:13:20.580 Every time you reach
00:13:21.440 for your mask,
00:13:22.920 you're reminded
00:13:24.040 of the coronavirus.
00:13:25.940 And so the immediacy
00:13:27.260 of it
00:13:27.860 and the fact
00:13:28.580 that it permeates
00:13:29.500 just everything
00:13:30.360 makes it our
00:13:31.740 most important
00:13:32.540 topic.
00:13:33.960 And it's probably,
00:13:34.860 objectively,
00:13:35.440 it probably is
00:13:35.940 the most important
00:13:36.580 topic.
00:13:36.880 And so
00:13:38.340 then I was asked
00:13:43.680 what my
00:13:45.180 prediction would be
00:13:46.820 and they had
00:13:47.480 already shown
00:13:48.220 my prediction
00:13:48.860 from 2016,
00:13:49.800 which I was right,
00:13:51.460 that President Trump
00:13:52.320 would be elected.
00:13:54.400 And then I said
00:13:55.660 in my most confident
00:13:58.220 voice
00:13:58.880 that as of
00:14:00.940 today,
00:14:02.460 President Trump
00:14:03.160 will get re-elected.
00:14:04.240 Now, I don't know
00:14:06.340 if the viewers
00:14:07.060 of MSNBC
00:14:08.240 have ever heard that.
00:14:11.280 And the reason
00:14:12.180 I was trending
00:14:12.880 is because the
00:14:14.240 MSNBC viewers
00:14:15.680 just sort of went nuts.
00:14:18.120 And I want to read
00:14:19.340 to you some of
00:14:20.080 the reactions
00:14:20.720 from the MSNBC
00:14:23.000 viewers
00:14:24.240 who heard me
00:14:25.540 say confidently
00:14:26.540 one of the few
00:14:28.220 people who was
00:14:28.960 right in 2016
00:14:29.980 in public.
00:14:31.260 A lot of the
00:14:31.840 voters were right,
00:14:32.800 but there weren't
00:14:33.260 too many pundits
00:14:34.520 saying confidently
00:14:36.220 that Trump
00:14:37.080 would win
00:14:37.440 in 2016.
00:14:39.280 So Tom Arnold
00:14:40.900 tweeted at me
00:14:42.060 today
00:14:42.580 and he said
00:14:45.900 they used a clip
00:14:46.680 of Mike Judge's
00:14:47.600 genius office space
00:14:48.920 to intro
00:14:50.180 Dilberguy
00:14:50.940 and that he
00:14:52.340 refers to me,
00:14:53.620 Tom Arnold does,
00:14:54.760 as Donald Trump
00:14:55.740 apologist
00:14:56.240 and world's
00:14:57.120 most disingenuous
00:14:58.160 human,
00:14:59.040 Scott Adams.
00:14:59.640 And so I tweeted
00:15:02.220 back to ask him
00:15:03.040 if there's any
00:15:03.520 kind of a trophy
00:15:04.320 that comes with
00:15:05.760 being the world's
00:15:06.420 most disingenuous
00:15:07.400 human.
00:15:08.400 And I thought
00:15:08.980 to myself,
00:15:10.900 there are a lot
00:15:12.200 of,
00:15:12.540 I've been insulted
00:15:13.380 in every way
00:15:14.200 that you can be
00:15:14.800 insulted,
00:15:15.740 but when somebody
00:15:16.760 says I'm
00:15:17.380 disingenuous
00:15:18.360 about the
00:15:19.480 political stuff,
00:15:21.440 I stop and
00:15:22.580 think,
00:15:23.900 disingenuous?
00:15:24.780 In what
00:15:26.680 possible way?
00:15:27.680 I mean,
00:15:27.880 I don't even
00:15:28.320 understand the
00:15:29.380 insult.
00:15:30.800 I mean,
00:15:30.980 if somebody
00:15:31.260 calls me
00:15:31.780 stupid or
00:15:32.880 untalented,
00:15:34.020 I know what
00:15:34.880 that means,
00:15:36.280 you know,
00:15:36.540 even if I think
00:15:37.300 they're not right.
00:15:38.460 At least I
00:15:39.000 understand it.
00:15:40.300 But disingenuous?
00:15:42.660 Why?
00:15:44.040 Why would I be
00:15:44.800 disingenuous?
00:15:46.380 Because
00:15:46.900 saying that
00:15:48.760 Trump will win
00:15:49.600 or saying
00:15:50.220 anything good
00:15:51.020 about Trump
00:15:51.780 is certainly
00:15:52.900 not good for me.
00:15:53.960 it's not good
00:15:55.220 for my career.
00:15:56.520 It costs me
00:15:56.920 a fortune.
00:15:57.880 It's not good
00:15:58.540 for my social
00:15:59.420 life.
00:16:00.500 It costs me
00:16:00.960 most of my
00:16:01.500 friends.
00:16:02.300 It's not good
00:16:03.080 for me safety
00:16:04.220 wise,
00:16:05.160 because I,
00:16:05.820 you know,
00:16:06.400 I worry that
00:16:07.080 if I go outside
00:16:07.880 and I'm
00:16:08.160 recognized,
00:16:08.860 somebody will
00:16:09.500 hit me with
00:16:10.620 a big object.
00:16:12.680 So,
00:16:13.480 why would I
00:16:14.240 be lying
00:16:14.960 about it?
00:16:16.320 What would
00:16:17.260 be my motive
00:16:18.680 to be
00:16:19.920 disingenuous?
00:16:21.340 Am I trying
00:16:22.180 to lose money
00:16:22.920 and be
00:16:23.660 in physical
00:16:24.240 danger?
00:16:25.500 Is it
00:16:26.080 because I
00:16:26.500 like the
00:16:26.880 attention?
00:16:28.220 Of course
00:16:28.900 I like
00:16:29.300 attention,
00:16:29.940 but I'm
00:16:30.380 pretty sure
00:16:30.940 I could
00:16:31.240 have gotten
00:16:31.580 it in a
00:16:31.980 different way.
00:16:33.400 You know,
00:16:33.660 Alyssa Milano
00:16:34.460 got plenty
00:16:35.100 of attention,
00:16:36.140 and she
00:16:36.380 wasn't backing
00:16:37.020 Trump.
00:16:37.600 So I know
00:16:38.160 I can get
00:16:38.660 attention.
00:16:39.800 I don't
00:16:40.100 need to
00:16:40.420 get it
00:16:40.680 this way.
00:16:43.360 So,
00:16:43.980 you know,
00:16:44.780 I'm not
00:16:45.100 mocking Tom
00:16:46.940 Arnold.
00:16:47.540 I'm just,
00:16:48.740 it's jaw-dropping
00:16:50.920 when you
00:16:51.460 see somebody
00:16:52.140 else's
00:16:52.580 interpretation
00:16:53.360 that you
00:16:54.760 have the
00:16:55.200 advantage of
00:16:56.180 because it's
00:16:56.720 your own
00:16:57.040 mind they're
00:16:57.560 talking about.
00:16:58.700 I mean,
00:16:58.880 this is a
00:16:59.360 stranger,
00:16:59.940 someone I've
00:17:00.340 never met,
00:17:01.540 who is
00:17:02.060 evaluating in
00:17:03.000 public my
00:17:03.720 inner thoughts.
00:17:05.920 How likely
00:17:06.620 is he right
00:17:07.420 about that?
00:17:07.960 Well,
00:17:08.340 he's not
00:17:08.680 right.
00:17:09.600 Because I
00:17:10.180 certainly don't
00:17:10.780 think of
00:17:11.280 anything I'm
00:17:11.800 doing as
00:17:12.200 being disingenuous.
00:17:13.300 I think of
00:17:13.680 it as
00:17:14.100 precisely the
00:17:15.480 opposite by
00:17:16.200 design.
00:17:17.660 Here's what
00:17:18.200 some other
00:17:18.660 people said
00:17:19.260 in the
00:17:19.500 comments.
00:17:21.320 These are
00:17:21.980 people who
00:17:22.440 saw me
00:17:22.840 appear on
00:17:23.740 MSNBC.
00:17:25.380 And keep
00:17:25.840 in mind,
00:17:26.880 this is the
00:17:27.500 first time
00:17:28.380 they've heard
00:17:29.680 anybody say
00:17:30.560 confidently that
00:17:32.220 President Trump
00:17:33.100 is likely to
00:17:34.660 win re-election.
00:17:35.680 First time
00:17:36.260 they've heard
00:17:36.620 it in months.
00:17:37.640 Here were
00:17:37.940 some comments.
00:17:39.420 Quote,
00:17:40.220 I felt
00:17:40.760 physically ill
00:17:41.700 when he said
00:17:42.320 this.
00:17:43.600 Another one,
00:17:44.520 it made me
00:17:45.200 sick.
00:17:45.640 actually it
00:17:47.540 made them
00:17:47.980 physically
00:17:48.640 sick to
00:17:50.040 hear this.
00:17:51.760 Depressed
00:17:52.120 the hell
00:17:52.440 out of me
00:17:52.740 that he
00:17:53.040 made such
00:17:53.500 a declaration.
00:17:54.660 I hope he
00:17:55.140 regrets his
00:17:55.740 prediction.
00:17:56.700 Notice that
00:17:57.260 there's always
00:17:57.680 a little bit
00:17:58.120 of revenge
00:17:58.860 built into
00:17:59.420 the comments.
00:18:00.700 They actually
00:18:01.140 want me to
00:18:01.860 suffer because
00:18:03.920 of my
00:18:04.300 prediction.
00:18:06.160 Literally
00:18:06.680 want me to
00:18:07.480 feel pain
00:18:08.280 because I
00:18:09.940 have an
00:18:10.260 opinion of
00:18:10.880 what might
00:18:11.260 happen in
00:18:11.760 the future.
00:18:13.800 This is
00:18:14.500 really sick
00:18:15.120 stuff.
00:18:16.260 Here's
00:18:16.660 another one.
00:18:18.220 After the
00:18:18.660 interview,
00:18:19.100 my husband
00:18:19.500 said,
00:18:19.980 quote,
00:18:20.220 I'm throwing
00:18:20.760 Scott Adams
00:18:21.420 autographed
00:18:22.220 book in
00:18:22.520 the trash.
00:18:23.560 Another one
00:18:24.060 said,
00:18:24.280 I was
00:18:24.540 devastated
00:18:25.140 when I
00:18:25.540 heard that.
00:18:26.620 Who is
00:18:27.320 devastated
00:18:28.020 watching
00:18:28.480 television?
00:18:29.820 When was
00:18:30.220 the last
00:18:30.560 time you
00:18:30.960 were watching
00:18:31.480 something on
00:18:32.220 the news
00:18:32.900 and it
00:18:34.280 wasn't
00:18:35.180 about some
00:18:36.520 terrible tragedy
00:18:37.500 or something?
00:18:38.540 When have
00:18:39.140 you ever
00:18:39.400 watched just
00:18:40.100 some ordinary
00:18:40.880 political
00:18:41.700 pundit thing
00:18:43.080 in the news
00:18:43.660 and felt
00:18:44.260 to yourself
00:18:44.880 sick in
00:18:45.900 your stomach
00:18:46.500 or devastated
00:18:48.600 or here's
00:18:51.200 some more
00:18:51.520 of them.
00:18:53.140 I don't
00:18:53.900 agree with
00:18:54.340 anything said
00:18:54.960 by Scott
00:18:55.460 Adams.
00:18:56.180 He's a
00:18:56.700 well
00:18:56.920 poisoner.
00:18:58.340 He shows
00:18:59.460 up to
00:18:59.800 create havoc.
00:19:01.240 I'm a
00:19:01.580 well
00:19:01.840 poisoner?
00:19:03.200 Why would
00:19:03.820 I want to
00:19:04.260 poison a
00:19:04.760 well?
00:19:05.720 Why would
00:19:06.180 I want to
00:19:06.580 poison anybody's
00:19:07.460 well?
00:19:08.520 Why would
00:19:09.200 I want
00:19:09.540 anything that's
00:19:10.300 not generally
00:19:11.500 good for the
00:19:12.240 United States
00:19:13.020 as a whole?
00:19:14.180 Why would
00:19:14.600 I want that?
00:19:15.920 In what
00:19:16.400 world would
00:19:17.680 any of that
00:19:18.260 make sense?
00:19:20.440 Here's some
00:19:21.100 more.
00:19:21.640 That was
00:19:22.040 frightening.
00:19:22.720 I'm still
00:19:23.180 bothered.
00:19:23.780 So people
00:19:24.160 were shaking.
00:19:25.740 They were
00:19:26.080 just like
00:19:26.580 shaking with
00:19:27.780 anger and
00:19:28.660 pain and
00:19:29.820 stomach aches
00:19:30.700 because they
00:19:31.680 heard somebody
00:19:32.300 who didn't
00:19:32.780 look crazy
00:19:33.580 say that
00:19:35.340 Trump could
00:19:36.740 win re-election
00:19:37.520 and he
00:19:38.020 could do
00:19:38.360 it on the
00:19:38.760 strength of
00:19:39.360 being good
00:19:39.740 for the
00:19:40.060 economy and
00:19:40.920 good for
00:19:41.620 international
00:19:42.180 stuff.
00:19:43.500 Here's another
00:19:43.980 one.
00:19:44.300 I threw up
00:19:44.800 in my
00:19:45.080 mouth when
00:19:45.600 I heard
00:19:45.860 him say
00:19:46.180 that.
00:19:48.820 So it
00:19:52.840 was really
00:19:53.720 really
00:19:54.200 interesting to
00:19:56.180 see the
00:19:56.820 depth of
00:19:58.520 how low
00:20:00.140 the information
00:20:00.920 is on
00:20:02.080 the left.
00:20:02.800 I would
00:20:03.300 argue as
00:20:03.900 I've argued
00:20:04.480 many times
00:20:05.020 that the
00:20:05.660 people on
00:20:06.020 the right
00:20:06.520 they can't
00:20:07.720 avoid seeing
00:20:08.540 the information
00:20:09.160 from the
00:20:09.640 left because
00:20:10.380 it permeates
00:20:11.680 everything.
00:20:12.820 So whatever
00:20:13.260 the left
00:20:14.340 narrative is
00:20:15.480 everybody knows
00:20:16.240 that.
00:20:16.940 But the
00:20:17.300 left does
00:20:17.960 not see
00:20:18.520 the right
00:20:19.100 and the
00:20:20.060 first time
00:20:20.500 they see
00:20:20.880 somebody who
00:20:21.500 doesn't look
00:20:22.020 insane
00:20:22.560 with an
00:20:24.520 opinion that
00:20:25.080 actually is
00:20:25.760 coherent
00:20:26.220 they didn't
00:20:27.400 know what
00:20:27.660 to do.
00:20:28.080 It actually
00:20:28.620 made them
00:20:29.100 sick to
00:20:30.740 hear a
00:20:31.100 different
00:20:31.320 opinion.
00:20:32.700 I mean
00:20:32.880 seriously
00:20:33.300 when was
00:20:33.700 the last
00:20:33.980 time you
00:20:34.320 got sick
00:20:35.020 hearing an
00:20:36.040 opinion.
00:20:37.720 I think
00:20:38.460 it's zero
00:20:39.020 times for
00:20:39.600 me.
00:20:40.760 All right
00:20:41.060 let's talk
00:20:41.540 about the
00:20:42.680 best story
00:20:43.500 of the
00:20:43.720 day,
00:20:45.020 Jeffrey
00:20:45.300 Toobin.
00:20:46.520 Are you
00:20:47.180 ready for
00:20:47.520 this?
00:20:49.900 So I
00:20:50.580 believe by
00:20:51.040 now you've
00:20:51.660 all heard
00:20:52.020 the story
00:20:52.540 that CNN's
00:20:54.280 legal analyst
00:20:55.560 Jeffrey Toobin
00:20:56.420 was on a
00:20:57.540 Zoom call
00:20:58.180 with some
00:20:59.140 of his
00:20:59.460 professional
00:21:00.060 colleagues,
00:21:01.320 believed that
00:21:02.120 he had
00:21:02.440 turned off
00:21:02.900 his camera
00:21:03.540 and sound
00:21:04.300 but he
00:21:05.120 had not.
00:21:06.460 And then
00:21:06.720 he proceeded
00:21:07.580 to,
00:21:09.060 since this
00:21:09.800 is a
00:21:10.180 family show,
00:21:12.000 let's say
00:21:12.540 he decided
00:21:13.240 to address
00:21:15.040 a package
00:21:15.620 to his
00:21:16.220 home address
00:21:16.940 if you
00:21:17.420 know what
00:21:17.640 I mean.
00:21:18.540 Let's say
00:21:19.240 he decided
00:21:20.000 to be
00:21:20.440 an army
00:21:22.060 of one
00:21:22.640 if you
00:21:23.360 know what
00:21:23.580 I mean.
00:21:24.820 Let's
00:21:25.340 just say
00:21:25.780 he decided
00:21:26.340 to take
00:21:26.780 matters
00:21:27.120 into his
00:21:27.560 own hands
00:21:28.200 if you
00:21:29.200 see where
00:21:29.520 I'm coming
00:21:29.860 from.
00:21:31.360 And
00:21:31.620 apparently
00:21:32.080 he did
00:21:32.540 that on
00:21:33.120 camera
00:21:33.540 with his
00:21:35.540 colleagues
00:21:36.000 aghast
00:21:38.820 apparently
00:21:39.360 and he
00:21:41.500 was asked
00:21:43.220 to go
00:21:43.660 on a little
00:21:44.060 bit of
00:21:44.400 leave of
00:21:44.860 absence
00:21:45.280 from his
00:21:46.120 two jobs
00:21:48.200 including
00:21:48.640 CNN.
00:21:51.300 So
00:21:51.900 we had
00:21:54.000 a little
00:21:54.220 fun with
00:21:54.760 it,
00:21:55.340 didn't we?
00:21:56.760 But
00:21:57.160 I'm going
00:21:58.440 to trip you
00:21:58.920 up here.
00:21:59.520 Are you ready?
00:21:59.900 you don't
00:22:01.660 see this
00:22:02.180 coming.
00:22:03.540 I'm going
00:22:04.280 to fully
00:22:06.000 support
00:22:06.640 Jeffrey
00:22:07.880 Toobin.
00:22:08.720 Now I
00:22:09.320 don't agree
00:22:09.800 with his
00:22:10.280 political
00:22:10.800 opinions
00:22:11.360 quite often
00:22:12.100 but the
00:22:14.220 mistake he
00:22:14.860 made was
00:22:16.380 not a
00:22:17.080 crime.
00:22:18.860 Nobody
00:22:19.280 was hurt.
00:22:21.540 His
00:22:22.140 intentions
00:22:22.660 were not
00:22:23.220 bad.
00:22:24.620 It was a
00:22:25.180 very human
00:22:26.180 mistake which
00:22:27.200 is what
00:22:27.500 makes it so
00:22:28.120 delightfully
00:22:28.780 entertaining.
00:22:29.940 It was
00:22:30.580 the most
00:22:31.060 human of
00:22:32.560 human
00:22:33.000 mistakes.
00:22:34.320 I can
00:22:34.920 personally
00:22:35.480 not dislike
00:22:37.140 him or
00:22:37.740 mock him
00:22:38.260 for being
00:22:38.760 a human
00:22:39.420 being who
00:22:40.660 does a
00:22:41.060 very human
00:22:41.820 thing that
00:22:43.500 just happened
00:22:44.320 to be the
00:22:44.740 funniest human
00:22:45.800 mistake you
00:22:46.380 could possibly
00:22:47.060 make in the
00:22:48.080 entire world.
00:22:49.820 So I
00:22:51.980 want to be
00:22:52.340 completely clear
00:22:53.300 that I
00:22:55.060 don't think
00:22:55.500 he should
00:22:55.800 lose his
00:22:56.200 job.
00:22:56.540 I think
00:22:57.860 he became
00:22:58.360 more
00:22:58.680 interesting.
00:22:59.920 In other
00:23:00.180 words,
00:23:00.860 the first
00:23:01.320 time that
00:23:01.700 I hear
00:23:01.980 that Jeffrey
00:23:02.500 Toobin is
00:23:03.180 back on
00:23:03.720 CNN,
00:23:04.280 and I
00:23:04.460 hope they
00:23:04.740 take him
00:23:05.060 back seriously
00:23:06.160 because I
00:23:06.900 don't think
00:23:07.200 this is any
00:23:07.700 kind of a
00:23:08.100 crime or
00:23:08.560 anything,
00:23:09.600 he will be
00:23:11.000 more
00:23:11.200 interesting.
00:23:12.440 I hope
00:23:13.220 that he
00:23:14.420 has a sense
00:23:15.100 of humor
00:23:15.480 about it.
00:23:16.480 I hope
00:23:16.840 that his
00:23:17.240 wife and
00:23:18.960 his,
00:23:19.660 I think he
00:23:20.340 has a
00:23:20.600 teenage
00:23:20.840 daughter or
00:23:21.500 something,
00:23:21.980 I may be
00:23:22.360 wrong about
00:23:22.820 that,
00:23:23.120 but imagine
00:23:24.200 how horrified
00:23:25.100 she was
00:23:26.460 and the
00:23:27.040 wife had
00:23:27.460 to deal
00:23:27.780 with this.
00:23:28.720 And I
00:23:28.880 would like
00:23:29.140 to speak
00:23:29.520 directly to
00:23:30.400 Jeffrey Toobin's
00:23:31.960 family and
00:23:33.100 say,
00:23:33.740 give him a
00:23:34.480 break.
00:23:35.420 Just cut him
00:23:36.180 a break.
00:23:37.280 He didn't
00:23:37.820 want to do
00:23:38.480 it, it was
00:23:38.940 just a human
00:23:40.040 mistake, that's
00:23:41.120 all it was.
00:23:41.940 So don't take it
00:23:42.580 seriously, but
00:23:43.720 let's have fun
00:23:44.320 with it because
00:23:45.520 it was the
00:23:46.520 coolest human
00:23:47.180 mistake anybody
00:23:48.220 ever made.
00:23:48.800 Now, I
00:23:51.080 ran a little
00:23:51.700 poll on
00:23:52.780 Twitter, of
00:23:55.660 course it's
00:23:56.100 not a
00:23:56.440 scientific poll,
00:23:57.420 but I
00:23:57.680 asked this
00:23:58.160 question.
00:23:59.120 I said,
00:23:59.640 have you
00:24:00.000 ever
00:24:00.260 pleasured
00:24:00.820 yourself on
00:24:01.420 a Zoom
00:24:01.860 or conference
00:24:02.580 call?
00:24:03.380 I got over
00:24:04.160 12,000
00:24:04.920 responses, and
00:24:06.740 here were
00:24:07.840 the three
00:24:08.520 choices.
00:24:09.660 Number one,
00:24:10.420 that's the
00:24:10.920 best time.
00:24:12.280 38% of
00:24:15.460 respondents said
00:24:16.980 that they have
00:24:17.580 pleasured
00:24:18.040 themselves on
00:24:18.740 a Zoom
00:24:19.060 or conference
00:24:19.620 call because
00:24:20.820 quote, that's
00:24:21.680 the best
00:24:22.060 time.
00:24:24.300 Number two,
00:24:25.600 the other
00:24:25.920 choice was I
00:24:26.700 hate pleasure.
00:24:27.620 28% signed
00:24:28.740 up for hating
00:24:29.420 pleasure, so
00:24:30.380 they have not
00:24:30.880 done that
00:24:31.280 activity.
00:24:32.260 And then
00:24:32.480 34% answered
00:24:33.880 too scared.
00:24:35.900 And I, of
00:24:36.800 course, created
00:24:37.940 the third
00:24:38.780 choice so that
00:24:40.160 the only reason
00:24:40.840 you would not
00:24:41.420 do it is you
00:24:41.980 were afraid of
00:24:42.460 getting caught.
00:24:44.920 So I would
00:24:46.520 not assume
00:24:47.600 that this is
00:24:48.240 too scientifically
00:24:49.060 accurate as
00:24:50.180 a poll, but
00:24:51.420 38% said
00:24:52.780 that's the
00:24:53.220 best time.
00:24:58.920 So, I
00:25:00.980 would like to
00:25:01.460 give you my
00:25:02.300 confession.
00:25:03.600 Are you ready
00:25:03.980 for this?
00:25:06.060 I'm going to
00:25:07.000 confess to you
00:25:07.760 in public,
00:25:08.840 right now,
00:25:09.840 no joke,
00:25:11.060 this is an
00:25:11.660 actual confession,
00:25:12.560 confession, that
00:25:13.800 at least once
00:25:14.800 in my entire
00:25:17.020 decades of
00:25:17.980 life on this
00:25:18.860 planet, at
00:25:20.100 least once,
00:25:21.400 totally true,
00:25:23.000 at least once
00:25:24.220 in my whole
00:25:24.900 life, not
00:25:25.900 recently, but
00:25:27.240 at least once,
00:25:28.480 I have been on
00:25:30.200 a phone call
00:25:31.220 and or conference
00:25:32.320 call and or
00:25:33.300 Zoom, and I
00:25:35.360 have multitasked.
00:25:36.780 I have
00:25:37.240 multitasked.
00:25:38.160 I would be
00:25:38.720 in the 38%
00:25:40.080 who answered
00:25:41.520 my survey by
00:25:42.360 saying that's
00:25:42.880 the best time.
00:25:44.620 But if it's
00:25:46.200 any comfort
00:25:46.880 to Jeffrey
00:25:49.080 Toobin,
00:25:50.120 you know,
00:25:52.240 and I'm just
00:25:53.020 going to say
00:25:53.520 I am
00:25:54.460 Spartacus.
00:25:55.620 This is the
00:25:56.500 closest I've
00:25:57.180 ever come to
00:25:57.820 an I am
00:25:58.320 Spartacus
00:25:58.960 moment, and
00:26:00.200 I want to
00:26:00.680 say hashtag
00:26:01.840 me Toobin,
00:26:03.120 hashtag me
00:26:05.180 Toobin.
00:26:08.460 But I
00:26:09.340 would like to
00:26:09.780 also add a
00:26:11.240 defense to
00:26:12.500 Jeffrey Toobin
00:26:13.220 because I know
00:26:13.860 this will come
00:26:14.460 up.
00:26:15.200 One of the
00:26:15.700 things you're
00:26:16.100 asking yourself
00:26:16.860 is, is it
00:26:18.000 because there
00:26:18.560 was somebody
00:26:19.180 on his Zoom
00:26:20.260 call who
00:26:21.580 was unusually
00:26:22.620 attractive and
00:26:24.240 that he was
00:26:24.820 sort of
00:26:25.220 responding to
00:26:26.280 an actual
00:26:27.040 person on
00:26:27.700 the call,
00:26:28.380 which would
00:26:29.080 make it worse,
00:26:30.100 right?
00:26:30.960 You would be
00:26:31.820 extra creeped
00:26:32.820 out if it
00:26:33.460 was because
00:26:33.960 there was
00:26:34.260 somebody on
00:26:34.740 the call.
00:26:35.640 Now, we've
00:26:36.300 seen a picture
00:26:36.900 of the people
00:26:37.620 on the call.
00:26:40.220 Somebody was
00:26:41.320 nice enough to
00:26:42.160 show some
00:26:43.000 public photos
00:26:44.120 of the other
00:26:45.100 people who
00:26:45.640 were alleged
00:26:46.120 to be on
00:26:46.600 the call.
00:26:47.900 I would rule
00:26:49.100 out the
00:26:49.560 possibility that
00:26:50.960 he was inspired
00:26:51.740 by the other
00:26:52.360 people on the
00:26:52.960 call.
00:26:53.340 I don't want
00:26:53.720 to be unkind.
00:26:55.380 I'm just
00:26:55.940 saying it's
00:26:57.140 very unlikely
00:26:58.020 that the
00:26:59.020 people on
00:26:59.600 the call
00:27:00.060 were who
00:27:00.660 inspired him.
00:27:01.420 And I
00:27:02.720 would also
00:27:03.060 like to
00:27:03.420 say that,
00:27:05.040 and this
00:27:05.600 is only for
00:27:06.840 the benefit
00:27:07.220 of the women
00:27:07.720 who are
00:27:08.660 listening to
00:27:09.180 this,
00:27:09.860 because all
00:27:10.500 the men
00:27:11.100 already know
00:27:12.620 this.
00:27:13.580 So this is
00:27:14.080 universal male
00:27:15.080 knowledge that
00:27:16.320 if you're a
00:27:16.760 woman, you'll
00:27:17.200 be hearing it
00:27:17.700 for the first
00:27:18.200 time.
00:27:19.320 We don't
00:27:20.000 really need a
00:27:20.600 reason.
00:27:23.280 If you're
00:27:23.940 saying to
00:27:24.300 yourself,
00:27:24.880 what was it
00:27:25.940 that inspired
00:27:26.800 Jeffrey Toobin
00:27:27.660 at that
00:27:28.600 very moment
00:27:29.400 to engage
00:27:30.220 in that
00:27:30.600 activity,
00:27:32.460 ladies,
00:27:34.280 we don't
00:27:34.800 need a
00:27:35.100 reason.
00:27:37.400 We don't
00:27:37.520 really have
00:27:40.380 to be
00:27:40.680 inspired by
00:27:41.800 anything.
00:27:43.000 We don't
00:27:43.820 really need
00:27:44.240 a reason.
00:27:45.660 Being bored
00:27:46.520 is enough
00:27:47.100 of a reason.
00:27:48.960 And let
00:27:49.580 me say
00:27:49.880 this.
00:27:50.820 If you've
00:27:52.360 ever been
00:27:52.800 bored on a
00:27:53.700 conference call,
00:27:54.980 and you're a
00:27:55.720 guy, and
00:27:56.780 you're alone,
00:27:58.580 and it's a
00:27:59.100 really long
00:27:59.640 conference call,
00:28:00.480 and you
00:28:00.680 don't have
00:28:01.040 to talk,
00:28:02.240 and you're
00:28:02.680 just all
00:28:04.260 by yourself
00:28:04.940 at your
00:28:05.320 home office,
00:28:06.600 you've
00:28:07.520 probably at
00:28:08.140 least thought
00:28:08.680 to yourself,
00:28:09.960 is there
00:28:10.280 anything else
00:28:10.780 I could be
00:28:11.180 doing now?
00:28:13.740 So that's
00:28:15.100 just for the
00:28:15.540 benefit of the
00:28:16.040 women who
00:28:16.480 don't know
00:28:16.920 how men
00:28:17.540 think.
00:28:17.900 But let
00:28:18.120 me read
00:28:18.420 to you
00:28:18.700 some of
00:28:19.520 the jokes
00:28:20.040 that came
00:28:20.580 out of
00:28:20.880 this that
00:28:21.320 were just
00:28:21.700 precious.
00:28:22.860 Now,
00:28:23.160 one of the
00:28:23.460 advantages I
00:28:24.180 have, and
00:28:25.240 I did this
00:28:25.840 intentionally,
00:28:26.780 is I do
00:28:27.280 this Periscope
00:28:28.000 early in the
00:28:28.580 morning, so
00:28:29.660 if there's
00:28:30.020 anything that's
00:28:30.720 new, I
00:28:31.800 can get it
00:28:32.380 while it's
00:28:32.780 fresh.
00:28:33.860 Because anybody
00:28:34.540 who goes on,
00:28:35.560 like, I feel
00:28:36.100 sorry for, you
00:28:37.480 know, the
00:28:38.280 people on the
00:28:39.140 five, you
00:28:40.380 know, because
00:28:40.620 they have to
00:28:40.900 wait until the
00:28:41.360 afternoon to
00:28:42.000 talk about
00:28:42.480 this.
00:28:43.700 Actually, they
00:28:44.240 may have
00:28:44.460 talked about
00:28:44.820 it yesterday.
00:28:45.660 But anybody
00:28:46.140 who has to
00:28:46.600 wait, you
00:28:47.900 know, all the
00:28:48.300 good jokes are
00:28:48.980 already gone.
00:28:49.920 So I created
00:28:50.920 that web
00:28:51.920 cartoon called
00:28:52.800 Robots Read
00:28:53.900 News, where
00:28:54.900 it's just a
00:28:55.520 robot reading
00:28:56.120 the news, and
00:28:56.760 he never
00:28:57.040 changes, so I
00:28:57.780 don't have to
00:28:58.120 do the art, and
00:28:59.200 I can just
00:28:59.660 quickly retype
00:29:00.600 new words into
00:29:02.060 the comic and
00:29:02.780 publish it.
00:29:03.720 So I can be
00:29:04.580 the first one to
00:29:05.540 use up all the
00:29:06.280 good jokes before
00:29:07.200 other people get
00:29:07.900 to them.
00:29:08.960 But people were
00:29:09.980 very fast, and
00:29:11.460 here are some of
00:29:12.440 the jokes that
00:29:13.460 came out of
00:29:13.920 this.
00:29:16.340 First of all,
00:29:16.980 the hashtag
00:29:17.700 MeTubin.
00:29:20.980 MeTubin is the
00:29:21.960 best hashtag
00:29:22.660 ever.
00:29:23.060 And if you're
00:29:24.680 wondering if we
00:29:25.400 live in a
00:29:25.920 simulation, I
00:29:27.700 would like to
00:29:28.400 offer this
00:29:30.840 evidence of the
00:29:32.420 simulation.
00:29:33.780 What are the
00:29:34.340 odds that the
00:29:35.380 one guy who
00:29:36.120 gets caught in
00:29:37.400 this behavior
00:29:38.160 also has a
00:29:39.860 last name that
00:29:41.440 sounds a little
00:29:42.280 bit like the
00:29:43.420 behavior?
00:29:44.700 You hear me?
00:29:45.840 Let's say I had
00:29:46.980 been caught making
00:29:48.060 the same mistake.
00:29:49.580 Could anybody
00:29:50.240 make fun of my
00:29:51.120 last name?
00:29:51.860 Would they
00:29:52.780 say, yeah, he
00:29:54.220 was Adamsing?
00:29:56.200 Doesn't really
00:29:56.940 work, right?
00:29:58.560 How about, you
00:29:59.780 know, any other
00:30:00.360 name?
00:30:00.880 Yeah, he was
00:30:01.420 Smithing.
00:30:03.520 Nothing.
00:30:04.860 Nothing.
00:30:05.820 But if you say he
00:30:08.100 was Tubin, doesn't
00:30:10.980 that sound a little
00:30:12.020 bit like the thing
00:30:12.960 he was actually
00:30:13.640 doing?
00:30:14.800 Yeah.
00:30:15.680 Yeah, Jeffrey
00:30:16.320 was Tubin.
00:30:18.500 He was Tubin,
00:30:19.660 all right.
00:30:20.000 So I don't
00:30:21.700 know what the
00:30:22.100 odds of having
00:30:22.980 a last name
00:30:23.660 that sounds
00:30:24.080 exactly like
00:30:24.800 the thing you
00:30:25.240 got caught
00:30:25.660 doing, but
00:30:26.960 it's probably
00:30:27.320 small.
00:30:28.260 It's probably
00:30:28.720 small.
00:30:30.840 The odds are
00:30:31.780 small, that is.
00:30:33.060 Here's some
00:30:33.700 more jokes.
00:30:35.400 Somebody said
00:30:36.240 that it was
00:30:36.820 Russian disinformation
00:30:37.960 and that that
00:30:38.960 was not actually
00:30:39.720 his penis.
00:30:41.420 That was
00:30:42.100 Russian
00:30:42.500 disinformation.
00:30:43.160 I said, I
00:30:50.220 used a joke
00:30:50.860 that my
00:30:51.260 father had
00:30:51.960 taught me
00:30:52.600 when I was
00:30:53.000 a kid, but
00:30:53.840 I said, I
00:30:56.160 wonder what
00:30:56.540 the market
00:30:56.980 price is for
00:30:57.940 a screenshot
00:30:58.720 of Jeffrey
00:30:59.420 Tubin trying
00:31:00.640 to count to
00:31:01.300 11 on
00:31:01.980 Zoom.
00:31:03.320 I'll pause
00:31:04.040 for a moment
00:31:04.580 while you
00:31:05.120 explain that
00:31:06.740 joke to
00:31:07.200 whoever you're
00:31:07.740 with who
00:31:08.060 didn't get
00:31:08.460 it.
00:31:09.740 Count to
00:31:10.500 11.
00:31:10.860 Okay, you
00:31:12.160 with me?
00:31:12.920 Everybody
00:31:13.280 caught up?
00:31:13.960 Okay, we'll
00:31:14.360 go on.
00:31:16.520 And then
00:31:16.960 for my
00:31:17.660 Robots Read
00:31:18.520 News comic,
00:31:20.160 this was the
00:31:21.040 robot reading
00:31:21.940 the news,
00:31:22.980 he said,
00:31:23.560 Jeffrey Tubin
00:31:24.160 has been
00:31:24.560 yanked off
00:31:25.180 of CNN
00:31:25.760 for lubing
00:31:26.960 his Tubin
00:31:27.480 on a Zoom
00:31:28.020 call.
00:31:29.100 Brian Stelter,
00:31:30.360 also known
00:31:30.980 as the
00:31:31.360 poor man's
00:31:32.040 Jeffrey
00:31:32.360 Tubin,
00:31:33.020 I was
00:31:33.360 proud of
00:31:33.740 that,
00:31:34.720 defended his
00:31:36.080 well-haired
00:31:36.600 clone by
00:31:37.260 hunterizing the
00:31:38.580 story into
00:31:39.180 oblivion.
00:31:39.940 So I'm
00:31:40.160 trying to
00:31:40.480 create that
00:31:41.060 verb,
00:31:42.540 hunterizing,
00:31:43.600 that means
00:31:44.460 making a
00:31:44.980 story disappear.
00:31:46.580 Dr. Fauci
00:31:47.240 advised that
00:31:47.940 it will be
00:31:48.380 safe to
00:31:48.800 go back to
00:31:49.260 shaking hands
00:31:49.880 after the
00:31:50.320 pandemic with
00:31:51.600 quote,
00:31:52.040 everyone except
00:31:52.820 Tubin.
00:31:54.660 All right,
00:31:54.960 so that was
00:31:55.560 my contribution.
00:31:57.060 Then the
00:31:57.720 Panda Tribune
00:31:58.480 said in a
00:32:00.320 tweet,
00:32:00.880 what's the
00:32:01.280 big deal?
00:32:01.980 The motion
00:32:02.540 was sustained.
00:32:03.940 Oh, no,
00:32:04.240 the motion
00:32:04.620 wasn't sustained.
00:32:07.740 Hashtag
00:32:08.260 me Tubin.
00:32:08.780 And here's
00:32:11.120 the one that
00:32:11.480 made me
00:32:11.820 laugh the
00:32:12.340 hardest.
00:32:13.520 This is the
00:32:14.260 simplest one,
00:32:16.160 but it
00:32:16.480 made me
00:32:16.840 laugh the
00:32:17.460 hardest.
00:32:18.300 Somebody said
00:32:18.940 he fell on
00:32:19.680 his sword.
00:32:22.160 I'm sorry,
00:32:23.060 that's just
00:32:23.460 hilarious.
00:32:25.260 He fell on
00:32:25.820 his sword.
00:32:28.280 It's so
00:32:28.980 visual.
00:32:30.960 Somebody else
00:32:31.620 said,
00:32:33.120 who is
00:32:33.620 this?
00:32:35.040 Strayon,
00:32:35.600 I think,
00:32:35.920 said this,
00:32:36.960 that I
00:32:38.560 guess the
00:32:38.960 Zoom call
00:32:39.540 was supposed
00:32:40.680 to be an
00:32:41.640 election
00:32:42.160 simulation.
00:32:43.900 They were
00:32:44.180 talking about
00:32:44.740 an election
00:32:45.720 simulation.
00:32:47.540 So Strayon
00:32:48.860 said he
00:32:49.840 must have
00:32:51.440 misheard it
00:32:51.980 and he
00:32:52.180 thought it
00:32:52.420 was an
00:32:52.840 erection
00:32:53.320 stimulation.
00:32:54.000 Then Pete
00:32:57.600 on Twitter,
00:33:01.280 he got
00:33:01.980 inspired to
00:33:02.660 start a
00:33:03.160 video platform
00:33:04.880 he's going
00:33:05.400 to call
00:33:05.680 it YouTubin.
00:33:07.780 So on
00:33:08.600 YouTubin,
00:33:09.740 his new
00:33:10.440 video platform,
00:33:12.040 he says,
00:33:12.740 my new
00:33:13.060 channel will
00:33:13.620 give up
00:33:14.380 and coming
00:33:14.760 creators a
00:33:15.420 chance to
00:33:15.880 expose
00:33:16.280 themselves.
00:33:16.780 Then of
00:33:20.720 course there
00:33:21.080 was a
00:33:21.700 tweet that
00:33:22.280 said that
00:33:22.880 Jeffrey
00:33:23.440 Toobin had
00:33:24.120 quote,
00:33:25.080 asked for
00:33:25.620 some personal
00:33:26.300 time off
00:33:27.060 and I
00:33:28.060 tweeted an
00:33:28.620 update to
00:33:29.120 the update
00:33:29.600 and I
00:33:29.980 said,
00:33:30.500 update,
00:33:31.140 he only
00:33:31.480 needed 10
00:33:32.080 minutes.
00:33:35.300 So,
00:33:36.660 so,
00:33:37.560 and I
00:33:38.000 would just
00:33:38.300 like to
00:33:38.760 offer this
00:33:39.440 additional
00:33:40.760 pro tip
00:33:42.260 that apparently
00:33:44.420 the problem
00:33:45.760 was that
00:33:46.280 Toobin thought
00:33:46.940 that his
00:33:47.360 camera had
00:33:48.400 been turned
00:33:48.880 off and
00:33:50.680 here's my
00:33:52.240 pro tip.
00:33:53.580 If you
00:33:54.280 need to
00:33:54.680 turn the
00:33:55.140 camera off,
00:33:56.700 you're a
00:33:57.220 rookie because
00:33:58.900 you should
00:33:59.880 have prepared
00:34:00.320 before the
00:34:00.840 camera came
00:34:01.400 on and
00:34:02.260 then you
00:34:02.780 could enjoy
00:34:03.240 yourself all
00:34:03.920 the way
00:34:04.160 through the
00:34:04.500 Zoom.
00:34:05.700 Nobody
00:34:06.220 needs to
00:34:06.700 be the
00:34:06.960 wiser.
00:34:08.200 Now,
00:34:08.580 the other
00:34:08.900 thing that's
00:34:09.460 hilarious about
00:34:10.160 this is
00:34:11.500 there are a
00:34:12.380 number of
00:34:12.860 articles and
00:34:13.660 tweets and
00:34:14.180 stories about
00:34:14.740 Jeffrey Toobin
00:34:15.460 and, of
00:34:16.420 course, they
00:34:17.000 look for a
00:34:18.560 picture that's
00:34:19.440 available on
00:34:20.520 someplace that
00:34:22.040 they can grab
00:34:22.660 a photo and
00:34:23.320 run with a
00:34:23.880 tweet.
00:34:25.140 The photos
00:34:26.020 that people
00:34:26.560 are running
00:34:27.100 with these
00:34:27.840 Jeffrey Toobin
00:34:28.620 stories are
00:34:29.860 so freaking
00:34:30.580 funny because
00:34:32.080 Toobin is one
00:34:32.820 of these
00:34:33.140 wide-eyed
00:34:34.540 people where
00:34:35.700 when he
00:34:36.240 appears on
00:34:36.920 TV, his
00:34:37.560 eyes get
00:34:37.980 bigger.
00:34:39.200 And now
00:34:40.340 every photo
00:34:41.060 I see where
00:34:42.180 it's a video
00:34:43.800 or a photo
00:34:44.360 from, let's
00:34:44.960 say, the
00:34:45.260 chest up,
00:34:46.080 you can just
00:34:46.960 imagine what's
00:34:47.680 happening from
00:34:48.240 the chest
00:34:48.640 down, and
00:34:49.560 his face, by
00:34:51.520 coincidence, his
00:34:52.580 face looks
00:34:53.180 exactly like he's
00:34:54.160 not wearing
00:34:54.600 pants.
00:34:55.520 So he's
00:34:55.780 always got
00:34:56.120 this wide-eyed
00:34:58.340 face like
00:34:58.960 whatever's going
00:35:00.360 on below the
00:35:01.520 camera view is
00:35:03.420 probably more
00:35:04.020 exciting than
00:35:04.640 whatever's
00:35:05.060 happening above
00:35:05.740 the chest, if
00:35:06.460 you know what
00:35:06.840 I mean.
00:35:07.940 All right.
00:35:10.080 That's just the
00:35:11.020 best story
00:35:11.640 ever.
00:35:15.220 Let's talk
00:35:15.920 about something
00:35:16.480 else.
00:35:17.440 So rapper
00:35:19.320 50 Cent saw
00:35:21.460 Joe Biden's
00:35:22.440 tax plan,
00:35:23.500 which would
00:35:24.120 tax him in
00:35:24.880 California,
00:35:26.020 at 62%.
00:35:27.560 62%.
00:35:29.980 I don't know
00:35:30.580 why I'm laughing
00:35:31.100 because that
00:35:31.520 would be my
00:35:32.060 tax rate if
00:35:34.260 Biden wins.
00:35:35.440 62%.
00:35:36.720 And 50 Cent
00:35:38.140 said basically
00:35:38.980 screw that in
00:35:40.360 the endorsed
00:35:40.860 Trump.
00:35:42.620 And so I
00:35:43.540 tweeted about
00:35:44.320 50 Cent's
00:35:45.820 endorsement.
00:35:46.940 I said no
00:35:47.380 one wants to
00:35:47.900 be 19 Cent.
00:35:49.980 Now I don't
00:35:50.880 know how many
00:35:51.400 people check
00:35:52.020 my math, but
00:35:54.160 if you tax
00:35:54.980 50 Cent as
00:35:56.180 62%, you
00:35:57.380 end up with
00:35:57.820 19 Cent
00:35:58.500 left over.
00:35:59.940 So 50 Cent
00:36:01.040 doesn't want to
00:36:01.600 be 19 Cent.
00:36:05.400 So let's
00:36:06.240 talk about
00:36:06.760 the real
00:36:07.320 news.
00:36:08.960 So the
00:36:09.600 biggest,
00:36:09.960 it looks
00:36:10.440 like the
00:36:10.780 biggest
00:36:11.240 problem for
00:36:12.620 Biden that's
00:36:14.420 coming out of
00:36:14.960 these emails,
00:36:15.960 the Hunter
00:36:16.700 Biden emails
00:36:17.460 on the
00:36:17.820 laptops, is
00:36:19.380 the reference
00:36:20.180 to, it
00:36:21.960 says, 10
00:36:22.700 held by H
00:36:23.700 for the
00:36:24.140 big guy.
00:36:25.200 H, we
00:36:25.920 believe, is
00:36:26.420 Hunter.
00:36:27.220 The big
00:36:27.640 guy, we
00:36:28.200 believe, is
00:36:28.980 his dad.
00:36:31.060 And in
00:36:31.460 the context
00:36:32.300 of the
00:36:32.640 email, the
00:36:33.120 10 being
00:36:33.600 held was
00:36:34.380 money.
00:36:35.260 money.
00:36:36.540 So the
00:36:38.040 way the
00:36:38.540 email looks,
00:36:40.180 it's a little
00:36:40.700 cryptic, but
00:36:41.820 it sure looks
00:36:42.640 as if Hunter
00:36:43.920 is saying that
00:36:44.560 he's going to
00:36:45.080 hold some
00:36:45.580 money so
00:36:46.620 that there's
00:36:47.640 no digital
00:36:48.240 record of
00:36:49.020 his dad
00:36:49.520 getting the
00:36:49.980 money, but
00:36:50.380 it would be
00:36:50.780 for the
00:36:51.160 benefit of
00:36:51.680 his dad,
00:36:53.040 the big
00:36:53.580 guy.
00:36:53.860 And what
00:36:58.100 happened by
00:36:58.820 coincidence is
00:36:59.960 that because
00:37:00.520 the debate is
00:37:01.980 scheduled on
00:37:02.640 Thursday, it
00:37:03.900 allowed Joe
00:37:04.500 Biden to put
00:37:05.420 a lid on and
00:37:06.820 pretend that
00:37:07.480 he's using all
00:37:08.280 of that time to
00:37:09.040 practice and
00:37:10.020 get ready for
00:37:10.600 the debate.
00:37:12.400 Because he
00:37:13.120 can't be in
00:37:13.680 public because
00:37:14.820 he'll be asked
00:37:15.460 that question.
00:37:17.200 Right?
00:37:17.640 So he has to
00:37:18.860 stay completely
00:37:19.580 out of the
00:37:19.980 public because
00:37:20.860 even if he
00:37:21.540 refuses to
00:37:22.460 take questions,
00:37:23.860 the video will
00:37:24.720 be people
00:37:25.260 shouting questions
00:37:26.460 at him and
00:37:27.080 him not
00:37:27.440 answering, or
00:37:28.560 he might
00:37:28.940 answer awkwardly
00:37:30.620 or angrily or
00:37:32.300 something like
00:37:32.800 that.
00:37:33.640 But it is
00:37:35.420 amazing to
00:37:37.800 me that this
00:37:38.820 story is out
00:37:39.560 there and is
00:37:40.580 being completely
00:37:41.740 ignored by the
00:37:43.540 media on the
00:37:44.180 left.
00:37:44.900 Now, could it
00:37:45.580 be that if you
00:37:46.940 ask Joe Biden
00:37:47.760 what does this
00:37:48.360 mean, or you
00:37:49.080 ask Hunter
00:37:49.640 Biden what does
00:37:50.340 this sentence
00:37:50.860 mean, maybe
00:37:52.280 they have a good
00:37:52.860 explanation.
00:37:53.860 But they
00:37:54.580 haven't offered
00:37:55.120 one.
00:37:56.180 What does it
00:37:56.740 tell you that
00:37:57.720 neither Hunter
00:37:58.420 Biden nor
00:37:59.080 Joe Biden have
00:38:00.320 offered a
00:38:01.040 denial about
00:38:02.020 the laptops, a
00:38:03.560 denial about
00:38:04.400 the emails being
00:38:05.640 accurate, haven't
00:38:07.160 said a word about
00:38:07.980 the truth of
00:38:08.600 them, which of
00:38:09.260 course tells you
00:38:10.000 that they know
00:38:10.920 they're accurate.
00:38:13.240 Here's what one
00:38:14.860 of the articles
00:38:15.440 on CNN said.
00:38:17.380 It was talking
00:38:18.200 about Trump
00:38:18.740 saying that Barr
00:38:19.520 should appoint
00:38:20.280 somebody before
00:38:20.980 the election to
00:38:21.680 investigate.
00:38:22.200 And this is
00:38:23.580 the sentence
00:38:24.160 on CNN.
00:38:25.020 It said,
00:38:25.960 Trump says
00:38:26.900 Barr must,
00:38:27.660 quote, appoint
00:38:28.240 somebody before
00:38:29.560 election to
00:38:30.400 investigate the
00:38:31.900 baseless Biden
00:38:32.920 claims.
00:38:34.600 Baseless?
00:38:35.840 What do you
00:38:36.560 mean baseless?
00:38:37.660 I just read you
00:38:38.680 the sentence in
00:38:40.260 the email on
00:38:41.980 the laptop that
00:38:44.120 indicates an
00:38:45.540 obvious crime,
00:38:47.200 crime, which
00:38:48.220 would be, if
00:38:49.260 true, would be
00:38:50.940 such a horrendous
00:38:53.120 crime and
00:38:54.080 abusive office
00:38:55.040 that it would
00:38:55.860 change the
00:38:56.920 entire nature
00:38:57.780 of politics
00:38:58.880 and if not
00:38:59.980 the world,
00:39:01.020 because whoever's
00:39:02.180 president in the
00:39:02.960 United States has
00:39:03.700 a big impact on
00:39:04.900 the world.
00:39:06.080 And CNN has
00:39:08.040 the gigantic
00:39:09.580 brass balls to
00:39:11.900 say it's
00:39:12.380 baseless.
00:39:13.000 what would
00:39:14.880 be their
00:39:15.380 backing to
00:39:17.700 say that
00:39:18.160 this evidence,
00:39:19.200 which might
00:39:19.720 not be true,
00:39:20.840 it might not
00:39:21.340 be exactly what
00:39:22.340 it looks like,
00:39:23.180 might not be,
00:39:24.360 but is it
00:39:24.980 baseless?
00:39:26.200 This is the
00:39:26.980 base.
00:39:28.500 This is the
00:39:29.140 base.
00:39:29.760 So they just
00:39:30.460 don't report
00:39:31.340 it and they
00:39:32.680 can call it
00:39:33.240 baseless.
00:39:34.440 Watching this
00:39:35.260 happen in real
00:39:36.040 time is so
00:39:37.380 mind-boggling to
00:39:39.080 see that, you
00:39:40.340 know, our
00:39:40.980 trusted institutions
00:39:43.020 have fallen this
00:39:43.980 far, you don't
00:39:46.320 even know what
00:39:46.780 to say about
00:39:47.480 it because it
00:39:48.640 is so beyond
00:39:50.420 imaginable,
00:39:51.920 really.
00:39:53.020 But, of
00:39:53.740 course, boosting
00:39:54.820 this ridiculous
00:39:56.200 stance that it's
00:39:57.800 a baseless
00:39:58.400 claim, as you
00:40:00.540 know, Clapper
00:40:01.320 and Brennan
00:40:01.900 and 50 other
00:40:04.300 ex-Intel
00:40:05.580 people have
00:40:07.140 put out a
00:40:07.800 letter in
00:40:08.560 which they
00:40:09.000 say, let's
00:40:10.580 see, what
00:40:10.860 did they
00:40:11.120 say, outlining
00:40:12.800 their belief
00:40:13.480 that the
00:40:14.040 recent disclosure
00:40:15.080 of emails
00:40:15.800 allegedly
00:40:16.940 belonging to
00:40:18.640 Joe Biden.
00:40:20.340 Really?
00:40:21.120 Allegedly?
00:40:22.300 Now, I
00:40:22.800 get that
00:40:24.340 anything could
00:40:25.000 be wrong,
00:40:25.940 but allegedly,
00:40:27.180 okay, I'll
00:40:29.160 keep it with
00:40:30.240 allegedly, because
00:40:31.180 they could be
00:40:32.680 fake, it's
00:40:33.420 not impossible,
00:40:35.120 just unlikely,
00:40:36.420 given that they
00:40:37.000 haven't denied
00:40:37.800 it.
00:40:38.020 And they
00:40:39.480 said they
00:40:39.860 outlined their
00:40:40.600 belief that
00:40:41.440 has all the
00:40:43.600 classic earmarks
00:40:44.680 of a Russian
00:40:45.400 information
00:40:46.120 operation, even
00:40:47.900 though they
00:40:48.420 acknowledge in
00:40:49.140 the letter that
00:40:50.360 there is no
00:40:51.140 evidence
00:40:51.700 whatsoever that
00:40:53.240 it is a
00:40:53.740 Russian
00:40:54.080 disinformation
00:40:55.360 operation.
00:40:57.180 Think about
00:40:58.040 the balls of
00:40:58.880 this.
00:40:59.640 These are the
00:41:00.340 same assholes,
00:41:01.800 Clapper and
00:41:02.540 Brennan, who
00:41:03.640 have been caught
00:41:04.620 pushing the
00:41:06.320 biggest
00:41:06.780 disinformation
00:41:08.000 campaign in
00:41:09.200 the history of
00:41:09.800 the United
00:41:10.200 States, I
00:41:10.900 think, which
00:41:11.920 is the Russia
00:41:12.520 collusion hoax.
00:41:14.320 They did it,
00:41:15.900 they got caught,
00:41:17.520 it's documented,
00:41:19.280 and they're just
00:41:20.500 doing it again.
00:41:22.040 They're doing it
00:41:23.060 again.
00:41:24.240 How can they
00:41:25.120 have the guts
00:41:25.960 to do this?
00:41:27.580 This is the
00:41:28.340 most gutsy,
00:41:29.920 just crazy,
00:41:31.700 thing that I've
00:41:32.620 ever seen.
00:41:33.180 Because is there
00:41:34.400 anybody in the
00:41:35.340 country who
00:41:36.580 reads this and
00:41:37.400 doesn't know that
00:41:38.600 these are the
00:41:39.340 same guys,
00:41:40.860 literally, who
00:41:41.940 just ran a
00:41:43.980 coup attempt
00:41:44.560 against the
00:41:45.100 United States
00:41:45.860 with a massive
00:41:47.080 disinformation
00:41:47.880 campaign against
00:41:49.320 the citizens of
00:41:50.240 this country,
00:41:51.500 blaming Russia,
00:41:52.920 and they're just
00:41:53.560 going to do it
00:41:54.060 again?
00:41:55.100 They're just
00:41:55.460 going to do it
00:41:55.960 again?
00:41:57.380 I don't know
00:41:58.440 even what to say
00:41:59.320 about that.
00:42:00.020 My head is
00:42:00.480 going blah, blah,
00:42:01.260 blah, blah, blah,
00:42:01.660 blah, blah.
00:42:01.940 Well, and
00:42:02.920 apparently there's
00:42:04.400 nothing we can
00:42:05.040 do about it
00:42:05.840 because as long
00:42:07.280 as the news
00:42:09.620 treats it like
00:42:10.360 it doesn't
00:42:10.840 exist, and
00:42:12.660 the Republicans
00:42:13.280 probably don't
00:42:13.900 have enough
00:42:14.400 power and
00:42:16.140 may have even
00:42:16.860 less power to
00:42:17.600 do anything
00:42:18.040 about it,
00:42:19.120 if Joe Biden
00:42:20.120 wins, it
00:42:22.220 just goes
00:42:22.640 away.
00:42:23.500 It just goes
00:42:24.460 away, and they
00:42:24.920 probably get
00:42:25.480 government jobs
00:42:26.460 and stuff.
00:42:26.880 So I tweeted
00:42:30.260 this this
00:42:30.920 morning that
00:42:31.500 got a lot
00:42:32.020 of pick
00:42:33.500 up.
00:42:33.940 I said,
00:42:34.480 is it my
00:42:34.820 imagination or
00:42:35.880 our ex-intel
00:42:36.720 heads from
00:42:37.740 the Obama
00:42:38.260 Biden
00:42:38.800 administration
00:42:39.540 running a
00:42:40.380 completely
00:42:40.860 obvious
00:42:41.620 disinformation
00:42:42.780 campaign on
00:42:43.720 the American
00:42:44.160 public while
00:42:45.500 asking to be
00:42:46.400 returned to
00:42:47.020 power?
00:42:48.340 That's actually
00:42:49.400 what's happening,
00:42:50.860 and I'm not
00:42:52.340 guessing.
00:42:53.580 I'm not
00:42:54.280 guessing.
00:42:56.080 It's right in
00:42:56.940 front of us.
00:42:57.880 There's nothing
00:42:58.420 hidden about it,
00:42:59.440 and they even
00:43:00.320 say in their
00:43:00.920 letter that they
00:43:01.700 have no evidence
00:43:02.460 that it's Russia.
00:43:03.600 It just looks
00:43:04.740 like a Russian
00:43:05.380 disinformation
00:43:06.000 campaign.
00:43:07.340 Do you know
00:43:07.720 what else it
00:43:08.260 looks like?
00:43:09.860 It has all
00:43:11.200 of the, let's
00:43:12.020 see, to use
00:43:12.560 their words, it
00:43:13.780 has all of the
00:43:14.560 classic earmarks
00:43:15.620 of the same
00:43:16.580 fucking thing you
00:43:17.620 did in 2016,
00:43:19.000 17, and
00:43:19.720 18.
00:43:20.500 Do you know
00:43:21.140 what classic
00:43:21.820 earmarks this
00:43:22.800 has?
00:43:23.580 It has the
00:43:24.520 classic earmarks
00:43:25.620 of you fucking
00:43:26.720 guys trying to
00:43:27.720 overthrow the
00:43:28.400 country again
00:43:29.200 with a
00:43:30.000 disinformation
00:43:30.560 campaign against
00:43:31.720 the American
00:43:32.280 people.
00:43:33.160 You should be
00:43:33.760 in jail.
00:43:35.160 This should be
00:43:35.740 jailable.
00:43:36.360 I don't know
00:43:36.680 what crime it
00:43:37.320 is, but it
00:43:38.680 should be
00:43:39.040 jailable.
00:43:39.660 If you've
00:43:40.260 ever been
00:43:40.860 a head of
00:43:42.700 a U.S.
00:43:44.020 intel agency,
00:43:45.480 and then
00:43:45.980 after you've
00:43:46.960 left office,
00:43:48.180 you run a
00:43:49.400 disinformation
00:43:49.940 campaign against
00:43:51.080 the American
00:43:51.740 people,
00:43:52.800 that ought
00:43:54.800 to be a
00:43:55.440 crime.
00:43:56.620 Can we
00:43:56.960 not make
00:43:57.480 a crime?
00:43:58.120 Can Congress
00:43:59.160 not pass a
00:44:00.640 law that
00:44:01.540 says you
00:44:01.860 can't run
00:44:02.480 a disinformation
00:44:03.360 campaign if
00:44:04.760 you used to
00:44:05.300 be the head
00:44:05.720 of the CIA
00:44:06.380 or head
00:44:07.440 of an
00:44:07.680 intel agency?
00:44:08.660 I feel like
00:44:09.500 that's important.
00:44:12.200 It's amazing.
00:44:13.900 All right.
00:44:14.180 And why
00:44:17.320 is it not
00:44:17.820 the only
00:44:18.340 headline?
00:44:20.340 Can you
00:44:20.740 think of
00:44:21.240 every story
00:44:21.920 that's
00:44:22.180 happening?
00:44:22.780 Of course,
00:44:23.200 the election
00:44:23.640 is a big
00:44:24.020 deal.
00:44:24.440 Coronavirus
00:44:24.800 is always
00:44:25.440 a big
00:44:25.740 deal.
00:44:26.500 But what
00:44:27.060 is a
00:44:27.460 bigger story
00:44:28.380 than 50
00:44:30.100 intel agencies,
00:44:31.560 including
00:44:31.880 two heads,
00:44:33.920 are running
00:44:34.600 an obvious,
00:44:36.300 and obvious
00:44:36.880 is the
00:44:37.340 key word.
00:44:38.240 There's not
00:44:38.640 any question
00:44:39.400 about it.
00:44:40.460 An obvious
00:44:41.120 disinformation
00:44:41.880 campaign against
00:44:42.900 the American
00:44:43.440 people, why
00:44:44.700 are we
00:44:45.020 talking about
00:44:45.560 anything else?
00:44:47.260 There's
00:44:47.600 nothing going
00:44:49.660 on that's
00:44:50.460 on the same
00:44:50.940 level as
00:44:51.560 this, and
00:44:52.480 CNN and
00:44:53.760 the whole
00:44:54.160 left will
00:44:54.760 just disappear
00:44:55.940 it.
00:44:56.780 They'll just
00:44:57.100 make it go
00:44:57.600 away.
00:44:58.540 And that's
00:44:58.940 what's happening
00:44:59.380 right in front
00:44:59.840 of you.
00:45:00.900 So Ice Cube,
00:45:02.160 you all know
00:45:02.680 Ice Cube,
00:45:05.220 he's decided
00:45:06.560 that he was
00:45:07.360 willing to
00:45:07.900 talk to the
00:45:08.420 Trump
00:45:08.620 administration
00:45:09.100 about his
00:45:09.920 plan for
00:45:11.220 black America,
00:45:12.280 and he's
00:45:12.760 also talked
00:45:13.380 to some
00:45:13.920 Biden people.
00:45:15.160 And of
00:45:15.400 course, he's
00:45:15.800 taking tremendous
00:45:16.640 heat from
00:45:17.260 the black
00:45:18.180 community for
00:45:19.880 talking to the
00:45:20.640 Trump campaign
00:45:21.300 at all, because
00:45:22.380 the feeling is
00:45:23.200 that you
00:45:23.560 shouldn't work
00:45:24.160 with them
00:45:24.580 because they're
00:45:25.060 so bad.
00:45:26.320 You're selling
00:45:27.160 out any
00:45:28.560 number of
00:45:29.080 names that
00:45:29.560 you get
00:45:29.860 called if
00:45:30.960 you work
00:45:31.440 with white
00:45:32.180 people in
00:45:32.900 power.
00:45:34.920 And here's
00:45:35.680 my take on
00:45:36.300 that.
00:45:37.040 And I tweeted
00:45:37.580 that Ice Cube
00:45:38.220 is demonstrating
00:45:38.920 a winning
00:45:39.420 strategy by
00:45:40.800 putting
00:45:41.160 effectiveness
00:45:41.880 ahead of
00:45:42.680 ego, and
00:45:44.480 that his
00:45:44.860 critics are
00:45:45.520 demonstrating
00:45:46.040 the opposite
00:45:46.660 by putting
00:45:48.820 their ego
00:45:49.540 ahead of
00:45:51.060 effectiveness.
00:45:53.240 Ice Cube
00:45:53.860 is doing
00:45:54.860 one of the
00:45:56.860 most important
00:45:57.640 things that's
00:45:59.440 happening today.
00:46:00.760 It's one of
00:46:01.440 the most
00:46:01.760 important things,
00:46:03.080 which is that
00:46:04.200 he's role
00:46:05.380 modeling how
00:46:07.100 to be
00:46:07.340 effective.
00:46:07.740 the thing
00:46:09.280 that I
00:46:09.640 don't think
00:46:10.080 black America
00:46:10.940 understands
00:46:11.680 about white
00:46:13.140 people is
00:46:14.540 that white
00:46:14.900 people don't
00:46:15.520 like acting
00:46:16.240 like white
00:46:16.780 people.
00:46:17.960 I don't
00:46:18.640 like dressing
00:46:19.500 the way I
00:46:20.080 dress, because
00:46:21.400 I would love
00:46:22.140 to dress like
00:46:22.980 any fashionable
00:46:24.360 black guy,
00:46:26.060 because why
00:46:26.460 does it seem
00:46:26.940 like black
00:46:27.380 guys are all
00:46:28.000 well-dressed?
00:46:29.740 Am I right?
00:46:30.960 And whereas
00:46:31.380 I've got my
00:46:32.300 stupid khakis
00:46:33.080 on or whatever
00:46:33.720 the hell I'm
00:46:34.200 wearing, and I
00:46:35.260 just look like
00:46:35.920 every other
00:46:36.480 white guy in
00:46:37.020 the world, I
00:46:37.860 don't want to
00:46:38.220 act like a
00:46:39.300 white guy, but
00:46:40.660 I can't pull
00:46:41.820 off the other
00:46:42.420 looks, so I
00:46:43.060 don't really
00:46:43.340 have that
00:46:43.660 option.
00:46:44.740 Likewise, I
00:46:46.020 don't want to
00:46:46.640 be nice to
00:46:48.140 my boss just
00:46:50.200 because I want
00:46:50.860 to raise
00:46:51.340 later.
00:46:52.460 There are a
00:46:53.060 whole bunch
00:46:53.360 of behaviors
00:46:53.940 where your
00:46:55.500 average white
00:46:56.360 guy is sort
00:46:57.500 of sucking it
00:46:58.380 up and playing
00:46:59.160 along and doing
00:47:00.400 what is expected
00:47:01.280 and going with
00:47:02.800 the flow.
00:47:03.920 We don't like
00:47:04.480 any of that.
00:47:05.120 But the
00:47:06.200 reason we do
00:47:06.840 it, the
00:47:07.860 reason we
00:47:08.420 sublimate our
00:47:09.660 egos, is
00:47:11.140 because it's
00:47:11.760 effective.
00:47:12.900 It works.
00:47:14.080 So if I can
00:47:15.440 manage my
00:47:16.240 ego down, then
00:47:17.960 I can take a
00:47:18.620 job with a
00:47:19.340 terrible boss and
00:47:20.500 terrible conditions,
00:47:21.840 but I can turn
00:47:23.020 that into something
00:47:23.780 good for me and
00:47:24.860 my family, right?
00:47:25.960 So I'm going to
00:47:26.920 lower my ego,
00:47:29.180 eat a pound of
00:47:30.620 crap, to get
00:47:32.660 something done.
00:47:34.520 And that's
00:47:35.740 what Ice Cube
00:47:36.860 is doing.
00:47:38.080 He, of course,
00:47:39.140 had to know that
00:47:40.580 talking to the
00:47:41.260 Trump administration
00:47:42.040 on this topic was
00:47:43.880 going to cause
00:47:44.460 him to eat ten
00:47:45.980 buckets of crap
00:47:47.000 from the people
00:47:48.240 that used to be
00:47:48.900 his friends a day
00:47:49.640 ago.
00:47:50.180 He knows it's a
00:47:51.100 reputation hit.
00:47:52.600 He knows it
00:47:53.300 doesn't make him
00:47:53.940 look cool to the
00:47:56.360 people he might
00:47:57.600 want to look cool
00:47:58.240 to.
00:47:59.320 He's taking a
00:48:00.280 risk.
00:48:01.160 It's a big
00:48:01.880 one.
00:48:02.920 And so he's
00:48:03.800 also modeling
00:48:04.580 how to succeed
00:48:05.920 because Ice Cube,
00:48:08.340 remember I've told
00:48:08.960 you this quote
00:48:10.980 that is just my
00:48:12.220 favorite quote
00:48:12.960 about success.
00:48:14.300 I always feel
00:48:15.880 bad because I
00:48:16.380 don't know who
00:48:16.800 said it first.
00:48:17.500 I just stole it
00:48:18.460 from somebody.
00:48:19.000 I heard it once.
00:48:20.400 And it's this.
00:48:21.920 If you want to
00:48:22.640 be successful,
00:48:24.340 figure out the
00:48:25.180 price and then
00:48:26.660 pay it.
00:48:28.380 Figure out the
00:48:29.200 price of success
00:48:30.160 and then pay
00:48:30.900 it and then
00:48:31.980 you'll be
00:48:32.260 successful.
00:48:33.480 Ice Cube
00:48:33.940 figured out the
00:48:34.680 price of success.
00:48:36.540 So not only did
00:48:37.940 he do the work
00:48:39.060 of putting
00:48:39.500 together a
00:48:40.540 plan, he did
00:48:42.480 the work.
00:48:43.280 He's not just
00:48:43.880 a celebrity who's
00:48:45.680 talking on Twitter
00:48:46.600 or something.
00:48:47.100 He did the work.
00:48:48.340 He put together
00:48:49.120 a plan.
00:48:50.640 Congratulations,
00:48:51.420 Ice Cube.
00:48:52.120 I appreciate that.
00:48:52.920 As a citizen
00:48:54.280 and as a
00:48:55.740 patriot, thank
00:48:57.280 you.
00:48:58.140 Thank you for
00:48:58.760 doing that.
00:48:59.180 Now, I might
00:48:59.700 not like any
00:49:00.360 of the ideas
00:49:00.920 on there.
00:49:01.680 I haven't
00:49:02.020 looked at
00:49:02.380 them in
00:49:02.620 detail, but
00:49:03.760 I certainly
00:49:04.740 appreciate the
00:49:07.200 American-ness of
00:49:09.460 putting the plan
00:49:10.100 together and
00:49:10.640 promoting it.
00:49:11.460 But he did
00:49:12.000 this at great
00:49:12.680 personal expense.
00:49:14.460 So he took
00:49:15.200 the advice.
00:49:16.460 You want to
00:49:17.200 succeed, figure
00:49:18.820 out the price,
00:49:20.520 and then pay
00:49:21.120 it.
00:49:21.980 So Ice Cube
00:49:22.760 figured out the
00:49:23.600 price, which
00:49:25.020 was you've got to
00:49:25.660 put a plan
00:49:26.180 together, and
00:49:27.320 you're going to
00:49:27.660 have to make
00:49:28.120 yourself look
00:49:29.080 really, really
00:49:29.840 bad, because
00:49:31.700 you're going to
00:49:31.980 have to work
00:49:32.440 with some
00:49:32.820 people that
00:49:33.880 other people
00:49:34.400 think you
00:49:34.800 shouldn't be
00:49:35.180 talking to.
00:49:36.080 He figured
00:49:36.700 out the
00:49:37.100 price, and
00:49:38.800 then he
00:49:39.060 paid it.
00:49:40.380 So if this
00:49:41.240 isn't one of
00:49:41.860 the best
00:49:42.700 American things
00:49:43.840 going on, I
00:49:45.240 don't know
00:49:45.460 what is.
00:49:47.600 Compare that
00:49:48.440 to Robert
00:49:49.300 Reich, noted
00:49:51.340 Democratic
00:49:52.500 booster, who
00:49:53.900 wrote this
00:49:54.440 tweet.
00:49:54.800 And just
00:49:55.560 compare these
00:49:56.260 two people,
00:49:57.420 not the
00:49:58.440 people, but
00:49:59.040 their strategies.
00:50:01.140 This is Robert
00:50:02.100 Reich.
00:50:02.540 He says,
00:50:03.420 when this
00:50:03.820 nightmare is
00:50:04.480 over, talking
00:50:05.220 about our
00:50:06.100 current situation,
00:50:07.400 we need a
00:50:07.960 truth and
00:50:08.600 reconciliation
00:50:09.320 commission.
00:50:11.100 All in
00:50:11.540 capitals,
00:50:12.120 truth and
00:50:12.600 reconciliation
00:50:13.160 commission.
00:50:13.800 It would
00:50:14.760 erase Trump's
00:50:16.220 lies, comfort
00:50:17.560 those who have
00:50:18.240 been harmed by
00:50:19.120 his hatefulness,
00:50:20.540 and name every
00:50:21.360 official,
00:50:22.060 politician,
00:50:22.600 executive, and
00:50:24.080 media mogul
00:50:24.860 whose greed
00:50:25.940 and cowardice
00:50:26.740 enabled this
00:50:27.660 catastrophe.
00:50:29.120 So Robert
00:50:29.600 Reich is
00:50:31.060 putting together
00:50:31.900 a strategy to
00:50:32.840 make Americans
00:50:33.540 hate each
00:50:34.080 other and
00:50:34.760 start a
00:50:35.440 civil war.
00:50:37.360 How does
00:50:38.040 that work?
00:50:39.680 How is that
00:50:40.620 good for
00:50:41.100 America?
00:50:42.340 This is
00:50:43.060 terrible.
00:50:44.640 Don't follow
00:50:45.300 this guy's
00:50:46.000 example.
00:50:47.060 This is the
00:50:47.560 worst, this
00:50:49.800 may be one of
00:50:50.500 the worst
00:50:50.860 things you've
00:50:51.400 ever seen
00:50:51.880 tweeted, and
00:50:53.440 I mean that
00:50:53.940 seriously, one
00:50:54.980 of the worst
00:50:55.640 things ever
00:50:57.920 tweeted, because
00:50:59.440 this is giving,
00:51:02.260 sort of making
00:51:04.160 normal, essentially
00:51:07.080 a Nazi policy of
00:51:09.040 hunting down the
00:51:09.780 people who lost
00:51:10.480 the election and
00:51:11.680 punishing them.
00:51:13.380 He's trying to
00:51:14.300 normalize Nazi
00:51:15.600 behavior.
00:51:17.080 Now compare that
00:51:17.920 to Ice Cube,
00:51:19.200 who's putting a
00:51:20.060 plan together to
00:51:21.580 help a community
00:51:22.820 that needs some
00:51:24.120 help, and he's
00:51:25.480 working with
00:51:26.040 people that are
00:51:27.120 hard to work
00:51:27.720 with, and it's
00:51:28.540 going to cost
00:51:29.040 them a lot,
00:51:30.000 putting his
00:51:30.460 reputation, his
00:51:31.520 ego on the
00:51:32.180 line.
00:51:32.920 Don't compare
00:51:33.620 these two
00:51:34.100 people.
00:51:35.200 Ice Cube, A
00:51:36.140 Plus.
00:51:37.280 Robert Reich,
00:51:38.840 garbage.
00:51:40.420 Just garbage.
00:51:42.240 This is just
00:51:44.780 embarrassingly bad
00:51:47.240 for the country.
00:51:47.880 On a more
00:51:49.840 positive note,
00:51:51.480 every now and
00:51:52.200 then, I will
00:51:53.100 see a politician
00:51:54.080 doing good
00:51:55.000 things, and I'll
00:51:55.620 say to myself,
00:51:56.740 I'm glad that
00:51:57.500 person's on the
00:51:59.200 case.
00:52:00.160 And I say that
00:52:00.940 every now and
00:52:01.520 then about Ted
00:52:02.280 Cruz.
00:52:03.740 The context here
00:52:05.000 is that, I
00:52:06.520 guess, Mark
00:52:07.140 Zuckerberg and
00:52:08.100 Jack Dorsey,
00:52:09.480 separately, they're
00:52:10.420 going to testify
00:52:11.220 to Congress, and
00:52:13.000 I guess,
00:52:13.360 Google's CEO,
00:52:16.960 Sundar Pichet.
00:52:20.080 So next
00:52:20.840 Wednesday, they're
00:52:21.520 going to talk to
00:52:22.200 the Senate
00:52:22.500 Commerce Committee,
00:52:24.220 and they're going
00:52:24.840 to be talking
00:52:25.260 about Section
00:52:25.920 230, the
00:52:26.960 Communications
00:52:27.520 Decency Act,
00:52:28.540 and all that.
00:52:29.640 And Ted Cruz
00:52:30.640 is sort of, I
00:52:31.960 would say he's
00:52:32.520 leading this
00:52:35.160 issue.
00:52:36.500 And can you
00:52:38.780 think of anybody
00:52:39.380 better?
00:52:41.140 I mean,
00:52:41.540 really?
00:52:41.820 Yeah, as much
00:52:43.560 as I just, you
00:52:44.480 know, insulted
00:52:45.000 Robert Reich for
00:52:46.100 doing the wrong
00:52:47.240 thing, Ted Cruz
00:52:48.820 has, you know,
00:52:49.920 argued to the
00:52:50.820 Supreme Court a
00:52:51.720 number of times
00:52:52.460 and won.
00:52:53.440 I don't think he
00:52:54.240 won every one, but
00:52:55.140 he's won more
00:52:55.800 than he lost.
00:52:56.880 And he is really,
00:52:58.520 really good at
00:52:59.320 communicating.
00:53:00.280 He knows the
00:53:00.920 law at the
00:53:01.800 highest possible
00:53:02.580 level, and
00:53:03.640 that's what this
00:53:04.480 is about.
00:53:05.040 This is effectively
00:53:06.020 a Supreme
00:53:07.540 Court-y,
00:53:08.700 Congress-y
00:53:09.480 level thing.
00:53:10.960 And are you
00:53:12.300 glad that Ted
00:53:13.960 Cruz is on
00:53:14.760 the job?
00:53:16.220 Just sort of a
00:53:17.140 general compliment
00:53:17.900 to Ted Cruz.
00:53:20.340 You know, he's
00:53:21.120 not the only one
00:53:21.840 who does good
00:53:22.560 work, but, you
00:53:24.120 know, when I
00:53:24.500 see his name
00:53:25.180 attached to a
00:53:26.680 topic like this,
00:53:28.040 I feel better,
00:53:30.480 because he's
00:53:31.420 hyper-capable in
00:53:33.340 this exact
00:53:34.020 stuff.
00:53:34.460 And I guess
00:53:37.340 the Trump
00:53:37.780 administration is
00:53:38.740 going to sue
00:53:39.300 Google, maybe
00:53:41.040 today, I
00:53:43.460 don't know, or
00:53:44.160 next week, or
00:53:44.880 sometime soon.
00:53:46.420 They're going to
00:53:47.040 sue him over
00:53:47.820 allegations of
00:53:49.740 rigging search,
00:53:51.360 I guess.
00:53:53.120 So that's
00:53:53.880 coming.
00:53:54.880 So here's
00:53:55.400 something else on
00:53:56.140 CNN, which
00:53:56.860 probably explains
00:53:58.100 why they get
00:53:58.780 everything wrong.
00:53:59.860 So there's an
00:54:01.500 opinion article
00:54:02.160 here, which
00:54:04.200 they're talking
00:54:04.580 about Trump, and
00:54:05.060 he says his
00:54:05.560 entire campaign
00:54:06.460 is based on
00:54:07.200 triggering a
00:54:08.660 massive mobilization
00:54:09.920 of his political
00:54:10.760 base, blah, blah,
00:54:11.720 talks about masks
00:54:13.980 and stuff.
00:54:15.720 And then it
00:54:16.660 says of Trump
00:54:17.720 that as
00:54:19.180 president he
00:54:19.860 has, quote,
00:54:20.560 a duty to
00:54:21.440 keep all
00:54:21.960 Americans safe.
00:54:24.080 Would you
00:54:24.780 agree to that?
00:54:26.080 Is it
00:54:26.560 Trump's job
00:54:28.060 as president,
00:54:29.380 as CNN says
00:54:30.520 in this opinion
00:54:31.260 piece, to
00:54:32.140 to, is it
00:54:33.220 his duty to
00:54:34.100 keep all
00:54:34.700 Americans safe?
00:54:36.660 I don't think
00:54:37.720 it is.
00:54:39.000 Right?
00:54:40.420 Does CNN not
00:54:41.480 know the job
00:54:42.220 description of
00:54:43.020 the president?
00:54:44.420 Because I'm
00:54:45.640 pretty sure that's
00:54:46.440 not his job
00:54:47.220 description, to
00:54:48.140 keep all
00:54:48.620 Americans safe.
00:54:50.360 My understanding
00:54:51.680 is that his
00:54:53.100 job description
00:54:53.960 is to balance
00:54:56.020 the interests
00:54:56.780 of Americans.
00:54:58.880 Right?
00:54:59.220 safety would
00:55:01.020 be one of
00:55:01.780 the interests
00:55:02.380 which the
00:55:03.580 president balances.
00:55:04.960 If the
00:55:05.520 president decides
00:55:06.420 in his role
00:55:07.140 as commander-in-chief
00:55:08.140 to go to war
00:55:08.940 to protect the
00:55:10.180 country, is he
00:55:11.700 trying to keep
00:55:12.480 all Americans
00:55:13.060 safe?
00:55:14.280 No.
00:55:15.360 No.
00:55:15.660 He's sending
00:55:16.140 the military
00:55:17.360 into harm's
00:55:18.660 way because
00:55:20.020 all things
00:55:20.880 considered,
00:55:22.300 that's going
00:55:23.420 to be our
00:55:23.740 best outcome
00:55:24.540 of imperfect
00:55:26.020 options.
00:55:27.680 No.
00:55:28.100 It's not the
00:55:29.240 president's job
00:55:30.020 to keep all
00:55:30.640 citizens safe.
00:55:31.820 It is the
00:55:32.580 president's job
00:55:33.420 to make sure
00:55:34.560 the Constitution
00:55:35.360 is followed
00:55:36.120 and that our
00:55:37.680 interests are
00:55:38.380 balanced.
00:55:39.780 And one of
00:55:40.280 our interests
00:55:40.800 is freedom.
00:55:42.140 One of our
00:55:42.700 interests is
00:55:43.480 economics.
00:55:45.220 One of our
00:55:45.800 interests is
00:55:46.360 to lead a
00:55:46.860 quality life.
00:55:48.980 Safety is
00:55:50.100 another interest.
00:55:51.380 It's certainly
00:55:51.940 not our only
00:55:52.580 one.
00:55:52.880 And when
00:55:53.880 you see this
00:55:54.620 kind of a
00:55:55.120 take, that
00:55:56.060 it's the
00:55:56.520 president's
00:55:57.060 job to keep
00:55:57.680 all Americans
00:55:58.560 safe, I
00:56:01.160 would say to
00:56:01.600 myself, that
00:56:02.440 would explain
00:56:02.980 why their
00:56:03.400 coverage makes
00:56:04.060 no sense.
00:56:05.180 Because if
00:56:05.780 they believe
00:56:06.320 that's actually
00:56:07.020 the president's
00:56:08.100 job, to
00:56:09.260 keep us all
00:56:10.000 safe, the
00:56:12.400 most impossible
00:56:13.160 thing, then
00:56:15.060 everything they
00:56:15.760 said about the
00:56:16.320 president wouldn't
00:56:16.960 make sense.
00:56:17.840 Because they'd
00:56:18.500 be starting with
00:56:19.280 not understanding
00:56:20.040 his job.
00:56:21.120 How can they
00:56:21.820 evaluate his
00:56:22.720 job performance
00:56:23.540 when they
00:56:25.120 clearly don't
00:56:25.660 know what
00:56:25.920 his job is?
00:56:27.400 That's not
00:56:27.880 his job.
00:56:29.600 And so
00:56:30.000 everything they
00:56:30.860 say about the
00:56:31.460 coronavirus now
00:56:32.280 makes sense.
00:56:33.300 If they think
00:56:34.160 his job is to
00:56:34.960 keep us all
00:56:35.520 safe, it
00:56:37.480 would make
00:56:37.940 sense that
00:56:39.260 you would
00:56:39.620 really go hard
00:56:40.320 at him for
00:56:40.840 wanting to
00:56:41.240 open up the
00:56:41.720 economy.
00:56:42.820 That all
00:56:43.420 makes sense.
00:56:44.700 But if you
00:56:45.240 knew that his
00:56:45.780 job was to
00:56:46.500 balance our
00:56:47.300 interests and
00:56:48.460 to obey the
00:56:49.140 Constitution, you
00:56:50.780 would say,
00:56:51.260 yeah, what
00:56:52.940 he's doing is
00:56:53.540 right on that
00:56:54.300 target.
00:56:55.560 The president
00:56:56.200 is doing his
00:56:57.380 job of
00:56:58.840 balancing our
00:56:59.520 interests.
00:56:59.920 Now, you
00:57:00.240 might say, I
00:57:00.940 would have
00:57:01.240 balanced them
00:57:01.840 differently.
00:57:02.860 That's fair.
00:57:04.000 But don't
00:57:04.860 tell me it's
00:57:05.620 not his job to
00:57:06.420 balance our
00:57:07.100 interests.
00:57:08.360 That's just
00:57:09.240 wrong.
00:57:10.940 All right, I
00:57:11.640 hope you
00:57:11.940 enjoyed today's
00:57:13.320 Coffee with
00:57:14.480 Scott Adams.
00:57:15.600 It was one of
00:57:16.100 my favorites.
00:57:16.600 I like it
00:57:18.220 when the
00:57:18.500 news is
00:57:18.880 interesting.
00:57:19.880 But all
00:57:20.680 good things
00:57:21.480 have to
00:57:21.760 end, and
00:57:22.520 I will
00:57:22.800 talk to
00:57:23.180 you tomorrow.
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00:58:02.160 So that's all
00:58:03.080 for now, and
00:58:04.320 I will talk to
00:58:04.860 you tomorrow.