Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1163 Scott Adams： Who Won the Debate and Why, Bobulinski Bombshell, Fake News Galore

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00:00:12.680 I know you were up late last night watching the debates,

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00:01:00.640 Oh, yeah.

00:01:02.200 Oh, yeah.

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00:01:06.360 All right.

00:01:07.100 Well, the big news of the day turned out to be invisible.

00:01:12.500 My mind is so blown by what's happening right in front of us

00:01:21.520 in terms of the mainstream media manipulating and brainwashing the public.

00:01:28.900 I've never seen it done so ham-handedly and so obviously

00:01:36.320 and not trying to hide it.

00:01:38.040 And it's totally working, which is just killing me

00:01:42.420 because you don't want something that devious to work

00:01:45.780 when it's obvious what they're doing.

00:01:48.040 Let me give you some context.

00:01:49.980 So Hunter Biden's old business partner, Bobulinski,

00:01:54.980 gave a press conference to talk about his direct knowledge

00:02:01.420 that the Biden family worked to secure payments from China,

00:02:07.760 a Chinese company in particular,

00:02:09.800 that did not seem in any way related to anything

00:02:13.560 except access to the U.S. government.

00:02:17.540 Now, why would it be that somebody would want access

00:02:21.480 to the U.S. government?

00:02:23.480 Is it because they're just big fans?

00:02:27.380 Is that why?

00:02:28.580 They're just fans.

00:02:29.280 They love the government.

00:02:31.460 No, no, that's not why people like access to governments.

00:02:35.540 People want to influence governments.

00:02:38.600 So even though Joe Biden was not in office during some of it,

00:02:43.920 but apparently he was in office during some other parts of it,

00:02:47.220 the Ukrainian parts of it,

00:02:49.520 the emails that were on the Hunter Biden laptop

00:02:53.620 have been verified, essentially,

00:02:56.620 by the business partner to say they're true.

00:02:59.280 And he added some detail that indeed the emails do refer

00:03:03.560 to Hunter Biden holding the 10% payment

00:03:07.440 that was intended for his father.

00:03:11.240 And then the father is asked about it.

00:03:13.500 And what does he say?

00:03:15.060 He said, we've already shown our tax returns.

00:03:18.040 Now, if you only watched CNN and New York Times and you heard that,

00:03:25.420 you'd say, oh, okay, well, he's already given us his financial records.

00:03:30.480 I guess if there were anything there, we would know.

00:03:33.320 And nobody's noticed anything with his financial records.

00:03:36.460 So no problem.

00:03:38.280 No, that's not the story.

00:03:42.560 The story is very specifically that the Joe Biden payments were intended by design

00:03:50.240 not to show up on Joe Biden's tax returns.

00:03:53.560 How do you do that?

00:03:54.720 That's exactly what the email said.

00:03:57.520 That Hunter Biden would be holding his father's 10%.

00:04:01.080 So it would show up as Hunter Biden's money.

00:04:04.380 And sometime down the line, Hunter would figure out how to benefit his family.

00:04:09.440 But that would be a separate transaction.

00:04:12.260 So how is this not the biggest story in the world?

00:04:16.340 When we find out that the guy who is leading in the polls, allegedly, to be president,

00:04:24.340 has accepted gigantic payments from a Chinese company that is, of course, associated with

00:04:29.800 the government.

00:04:31.420 And he's the most bribable politician in the history of bribable politicians.

00:04:38.940 Is that a story?

00:04:41.300 Anything?

00:04:41.860 Anything?

00:04:41.980 Yeah, it's money laundering, if nothing else, as somebody said.

00:04:47.280 Now, it might not be illegal.

00:04:50.020 It's still money laundering in the general sense of the word, even if it's technically legal.

00:04:56.640 They may have found a way to be legal.

00:04:58.800 But every bit of it looks like the biggest crime or something that's unethical, at least,

00:05:06.000 that you've ever seen.

00:05:08.060 And only Fox News covered it.

00:05:11.980 So CNN just didn't cover it.

00:05:15.940 MSNBC?

00:05:17.060 Let's just not show our customers or our audience.

00:05:21.640 Now, five years ago, that wouldn't have worked, right?

00:05:27.180 You can't just say, it's the biggest story in the world.

00:05:30.880 But watch this.

00:05:32.260 The people who consume the news on the left, they're never going to see it.

00:05:36.580 If anybody told you that five years ago, you would just laugh.

00:05:41.100 And you would say, no, no, the news business is so porous and overlapping.

00:05:47.140 Everybody sees everything, right?

00:05:49.560 Nope.

00:05:53.200 Nope.

00:05:53.600 Not even close to that.

00:05:55.520 Everybody sees just their own news sources.

00:05:58.580 So if those news sources on the left collude, which is what they did, they colluded.

00:06:06.080 And really, it's sort of, gosh, I wonder if the government could sue them for monopoly behavior.

00:06:12.800 Is there any kind of collusion law that's being broken?

00:06:15.620 If a number of major news outlets clearly conspire with each other to hide from the public an important story,

00:06:26.300 specifically for the point of getting their own candidate elected, is that a crime?

00:06:32.380 Can anybody tell me if there's any crime hiding in that?

00:06:36.720 Somebody's saying RICO.

00:06:38.260 I don't know about that.

00:06:39.300 But is there not some kind of law that says that competitors can't agree with each other to work against the public?

00:06:51.720 Maybe this doesn't fit into that category quite, but doesn't it feel like it should be illegal?

00:06:59.820 Doesn't it feel as if you're in the news business and you collude either by directly contacting

00:07:07.120 or you just know what the other is going to do?

00:07:09.300 And you collude with them to keep the public in the dark for political gain?

00:07:17.880 No law? No law is broken by that? Possibly.

00:07:21.640 I mean, I can't think of a law that's broken by that.

00:07:24.960 Now, I'm seeing in the comments somebody saying it might be an antitrust problem, but I don't know.

00:07:30.060 Antitrust is probably defined so specifically that you couldn't get any kind of a conviction from it.

00:07:36.420 But anyway, the fact that this happened is absolutely mind-bendingly, jaw-droppingly spectacular.

00:07:46.060 We're going to talk a little bit more about it.

00:07:48.280 But watching this play out right in front of you, where there's no question of what's happening,

00:07:53.660 you're watching it.

00:07:56.220 You just watched the mainstream media disappear the biggest story of the year successfully.

00:08:05.580 Successfully.

00:08:06.460 That's the weird part.

00:08:07.880 It's not weird that they tried.

00:08:09.840 It's not weird that they tried to downplay it.

00:08:11.820 But they actually succeeded.

00:08:14.740 If you did a poll today and you said, was there any news about Hunter Biden yesterday?

00:08:20.680 I think 60% of America would say, I didn't hear anything.

00:08:26.600 That actually happened.

00:08:28.480 I mean, I don't even know what to say about it.

00:08:29.920 I just want to keep babbling about it because it's so spectacular, so mind-blowing,

00:08:35.220 and so describes everything about the human condition and about our systems.

00:08:43.100 It's just all in that one story right there.

00:08:45.700 All right.

00:08:46.320 So let's talk about the debate.

00:08:48.660 I got an unusual number of retweets on one of my tweets after the debate

00:08:53.640 because I said that it was a solid debate and Trump won.

00:08:58.620 And I found out this morning that Trump had retweeted me,

00:09:02.320 along with a number of other people who said he won.

00:09:05.220 So a lot of Trump supporters said he won, of course.

00:09:09.080 And then you switch over to CNN, and CNN is all about how Biden won

00:09:14.760 and that the polls show that he won overwhelmingly.

00:09:19.340 And I think to myself, really?

00:09:22.000 Because I would have expected the polls to be a little closer based on party affiliation.

00:09:28.320 Really?

00:09:28.900 There's some poll that said 75% of viewers thought that Trump lost.

00:09:34.120 And then you click over to Fox News.

00:09:37.100 75% of people say Trump won.

00:09:40.680 I'm like, okay.

00:09:42.100 It's literally opposite news.

00:09:45.460 75% according to one say he lost.

00:09:49.980 75% according to the other said he won.

00:09:52.180 Now, of course, nobody's claiming that these flash polls are any scientific anything.

00:09:58.040 But the fact that either network would even bother showing them is just propaganda.

00:10:04.700 All right?

00:10:05.000 And it works both ways.

00:10:06.200 It's not just the left.

00:10:08.200 But, yeah, the instant polls after the fact are just propaganda polls.

00:10:12.420 Here's why I say Trump won.

00:10:18.560 And the thing that I'm not counting is any fact-checking.

00:10:24.620 So I'm not even saying this mattered in the least if somebody lied and then they were let it fact-check.

00:10:31.480 Because both candidates were telling some whoppers according to the other side.

00:10:36.300 So it was sort of a tie when it comes to who was telling the truth.

00:10:41.140 Because neither of them looked truthful to the other side, which are the people you're trying to convince at that point.

00:10:48.140 So on the facts, I would say it was a tie.

00:10:52.900 On the policies, I would say I think everybody left not really knowing what the policies were.

00:10:59.060 You know, because it wasn't really the kind of event where you would get much in the way of details, and you didn't.

00:11:07.600 So we don't know anything more about policies than we did going into it.

00:11:11.340 So I don't think policies had much to do with it, except for the fracking thing might make it end.

00:11:16.440 But here's what I think is the biggest impact.

00:11:18.860 Trump presented himself as a controlled, not angry, not bully, not interrupting kind of a guy.

00:11:33.360 And what that does is it sends the following signal.

00:11:38.000 Oh wait, he can turn it on and he can turn it off.

00:11:42.180 If you don't think that was the biggest takeaway from last night, you're wrong.

00:11:47.060 Well, because a week from now, or however many days we're going to be voting,

00:11:54.020 people aren't going to remember any of those details.

00:11:58.500 None of the details.

00:11:59.980 But what they might remember is sort of how it made them feel.

00:12:04.040 And they might remember a vibe.

00:12:06.100 What do you remember from the debate before last night?

00:12:10.400 Well, you know, let's say the real debate, not the town halls.

00:12:13.460 What do you remember from it?

00:12:15.460 Do you remember any policies?

00:12:18.020 Nope.

00:12:19.600 I don't.

00:12:20.780 Do you remember the good point one of them made?

00:12:25.200 Nope.

00:12:26.400 I don't.

00:12:27.760 Now, if you really dig into your memory, you could come up with something.

00:12:32.340 But what's at the top of your head?

00:12:34.080 Because that's the stuff that's going to matter.

00:12:36.560 You know, you're not going to do a deep analysis when you vote.

00:12:39.580 Unfortunately, we don't vote that way.

00:12:41.240 It's sort of how you feel, what's at the top of your head, what's at the front of your mind.

00:12:46.600 So when you think of that first contentious debate, you mostly feel about what you remember about it,

00:12:54.560 is that Trump was doing a lot of interrupting and bullying, wouldn't you say?

00:12:59.420 And, you know, Biden was giving it back pretty well.

00:13:03.160 But you probably remember it as mostly a Trump-dominating performance.

00:13:08.440 But maybe you don't like the dominating part if you're not a fan.

00:13:12.260 And even if you are a fan, you might say, well, maybe that was a little bit too much of dominating for the situation.

00:13:21.100 But I was just reading an analysis, I think I retweeted it this morning,

00:13:25.980 in which smart people were saying, you know, that interrupting thing that Trump was doing in the prior debate,

00:13:33.900 it probably works.

00:13:35.640 And it probably works because he registers as the dominant character on the stage.

00:13:43.020 Whoever does the most interrupting and talking over looks dominant.

00:13:46.920 But apparently it matters how you interrupt.

00:13:50.480 If you interrupt to change the subject, said this one analysis, that makes you look weak.

00:13:56.800 Why'd you have to change the subject?

00:13:59.040 Looks like you're weak there, right?

00:14:00.780 So that kind of interrupting seemed to be negative.

00:14:02.900 But if you interrupt to fact check and, you know, basically claim that the other person is lying,

00:14:10.200 there is some thought that that actually just makes you look dominant

00:14:13.460 and it looks like the other person might be lying.

00:14:16.240 And maybe that works for your favor.

00:14:17.960 So there was some thought that the president's obnoxious, some would call it,

00:14:24.600 others might call it just dominant, performance in that prior debate was maybe good.

00:14:30.980 You know, in a very non-rational way, we may have just processed it as one of them was more dominant

00:14:39.180 and you don't know how much that affects you.

00:14:41.780 It's a lot because that gets right to your basic biology.

00:14:45.020 You know, you want the dominant animal to be ahead of the herd.

00:14:51.120 So this time he decided to turn that off.

00:14:54.400 Did that cost him?

00:14:57.200 Because if the interrupting looked a dominant and it helped, doesn't it hurt him if he turns it off?

00:15:04.320 Well, here's what I say.

00:15:06.720 It might have hurt him if Biden had been doing it and he was the only one interrupting

00:15:12.040 and then Trump is being polite.

00:15:14.640 That would look weak.

00:15:15.740 But Biden is not an interrupter unless, you know, unless he's in an interrupting contest like the other debate was.

00:15:24.880 And so Biden could be trusted to be a follower.

00:15:28.700 See where I'm going here?

00:15:30.680 Biden is a follower.

00:15:32.500 When Trump was doing the interrupting in the prior debate,

00:15:36.480 Biden followed him and had to match him and tried to interrupt himself.

00:15:40.280 When Trump led by not interrupting, what did Biden do?

00:15:46.020 He didn't interrupt.

00:15:47.820 So in both cases, you watched Trump, the leader, on the stage of two people.

00:15:55.040 Once he led Biden to interrupt and once he led Biden not to interrupt.

00:15:59.660 And you watched it.

00:16:01.000 You watched Trump control Biden in real time on the stage.

00:16:07.220 Now, you could say to yourself, yeah, but that's not really what's going on.

00:16:11.420 It was just, you know, Biden reacting to the situation as anybody would.

00:16:16.240 Yeah, but I'll tell you what it looked like and what it felt like.

00:16:21.260 What it feels like is that Trump determines what's going to happen and Biden follows.

00:16:29.500 Right now, you probably never processed that the way I described it.

00:16:33.260 I'll bet almost none of you thought of it in those terms.

00:16:36.540 But think of it now.

00:16:38.740 Do you think that on your subconscious sort of animal level,

00:16:42.560 did you pick up that in both cases, Trump determined what happened on the stage?

00:16:48.280 It wasn't Biden.

00:16:49.900 Biden was almost irrelevant to what happened.

00:16:54.320 It was only Trump and then Biden followed.

00:16:57.880 So that has a little bit of effect, right?

00:17:00.880 Even if you're not thinking of it consciously, you feel that because you're wired to recognize dominance.

00:17:09.340 It's your most basic, you know, wiring because you need to know who's dominant, who's not in any given situation.

00:17:15.160 So that was good.

00:17:18.640 And then the other thing, as I mentioned, is that when people are worried about Trump and they've got the TDS bad,

00:17:26.220 they feel as though he's this uncontrolled, uncontrollable, irrational, angry, just sort of a monster, and he needs to be controlled.

00:17:38.440 And then you watch him last night, and he clearly just made a decision that he wasn't going to be the guy he was in the prior debate,

00:17:46.800 and then he wasn't.

00:17:48.460 Did it look like it was hard?

00:17:50.460 No.

00:17:51.420 No, it looked like he effortlessly switched frames and just became the person he needed to be for this debate.

00:17:59.400 And if you're watching that, does he look as scary today as he looked two weeks ago?

00:18:07.720 Nope.

00:18:09.000 No.

00:18:10.200 President Trump took the scare away from his personality.

00:18:15.700 That's what he did.

00:18:17.100 Now, did anybody talk about that?

00:18:19.300 Does anybody say, hey, I used to be afraid, but now I'm less afraid?

00:18:23.380 No.

00:18:23.580 Now, these are completely below-the-conscious-level types of impressions that you get.

00:18:30.560 Oh, there's a guy who can be as calm as he needs to be if it's a good strategy.

00:18:36.440 Now, of course, we see this when he deals with dictators and all the people who don't understand how things work.

00:18:44.060 The ones who don't understand how things work say, wait a minute, why is he being nice to dictators?

00:18:50.800 That doesn't make sense.

00:18:51.920 And the reason is that he can be whatever mode he needs to be to make something work.

00:18:59.040 So being nice to leaders of other countries, even if they're adversaries, is a very functional, practical thing to do,

00:19:06.480 so long as, when you actually create policies, that you're not making them friendly policies.

00:19:13.960 And the president does exactly that.

00:19:16.080 Friendly to the leaders?

00:19:18.040 Tough on policies.

00:19:19.180 If you were going to draw down on paper and say, all right, let's design, design from scratch, a perfect leader, what would be the qualities?

00:19:28.640 Number one, would always be friendly to every leader, because that's good for us.

00:19:34.140 But our policies would still be independent of that.

00:19:37.300 And if they have to be tough, they're just tough.

00:19:38.920 That's how you would draw down on paper.

00:19:41.740 And that's what he gives you.

00:19:43.500 And the people who don't understand anything about how the world works say, well, that's inconsistent.

00:19:49.300 Yeah, it's inconsistent by design, because that's exactly the way you want it.

00:19:54.860 Anyway, I think that Trump won simply by being normal and simply demonstrating that it can be done,

00:20:02.860 and that his personas are a matter of strategy, not mental defect.

00:20:09.540 That's important, because a lot of Democrats are under the impression that he just can't handle it.

00:20:14.800 He's just this crazy, chaotic guy who's going to spout anything at any time, and it's just hate and racism and all that.

00:20:22.940 And what you saw last night was a counterargument to that from the first moment to the last moment.

00:20:28.660 In fact, and I love this, by the way, one of these little things that Trump does that are magic.

00:20:38.300 So he's got an African-American woman who's the moderator, and he's been abusing the moderators in general,

00:20:46.240 and her in particular, ahead of the event.

00:20:50.580 And he was pretty hard on her for being, in his opinion, kind of left biased.

00:20:55.980 But in the middle of the debate, he drops an aside to compliment her on how well she's doing on the debate.

00:21:04.600 Now, part of the reason that was so effective is that you were sitting at home thinking the same thing,

00:21:09.840 and he matched you.

00:21:11.620 Have I ever told you before that one of the most powerful persuasion things you can do

00:21:17.100 is to say out loud what somebody else is thinking, but they haven't said it yet?

00:21:22.360 It's really powerful.

00:21:24.760 It's in the top, at least top four of techniques for persuasion.

00:21:32.620 Sometimes it's top one.

00:21:34.040 It's really powerful.

00:21:35.660 And when I was watching this thing, I was thinking to myself,

00:21:38.300 wow, we got ourselves a good moderator.

00:21:41.700 This moderator is hitting the dead of the park.

00:21:45.240 And then the president says, out loud, when you don't expect it, exactly what you're thinking.

00:21:53.040 Oh yeah, she's really good.

00:21:54.640 But to have the additional benefit, and he doesn't have to say it out loud,

00:21:59.080 she's a woman, she's a person of color,

00:22:02.880 he didn't need to compliment her.

00:22:05.640 He didn't need to.

00:22:06.440 I mean, you could argue it was part of his strategy or whatever,

00:22:09.340 but he didn't need to.

00:22:10.280 So it was kind of brilliant to drop that in,

00:22:14.560 because maybe Biden would have said it later, and he gets to be first.

00:22:18.740 And it's the sort of thing where saying it first is the one that matters.

00:22:22.220 Biden can't really say it after that.

00:22:24.040 He's not going to get any press for it.

00:22:25.940 So even though it was a little small thing, it was kind of brilliant,

00:22:30.540 because he'd been so hard on her, and then he just wasn't fair,

00:22:34.340 and it had more of an impact because he'd been so hard on her

00:22:37.560 that when she did a good job and he complimented her,

00:22:41.160 you registered that as more powerful, because it looked real.

00:22:46.020 First of all, it looked entirely real, and you were thinking it.

00:22:50.340 All right.

00:22:51.880 So here's the biggest thing that Trump did wrong.

00:22:56.600 I would say that he did not have errors of the kind that throw you out of the race

00:23:06.860 or cost you votes.

00:23:08.920 So I would say Trump did nothing to cost himself a vote.

00:23:13.800 Agree?

00:23:14.660 He didn't make anything that would look like an error that loses a vote.

00:23:19.600 Maybe he gained votes, but he definitely didn't lose any votes.

00:23:22.740 I thought Biden also was solid.

00:23:24.300 You know, I've been a big critic of Biden,

00:23:28.220 so let me just say that he got through two debates and a town hall,

00:23:33.780 and I'm going to say that I was probably wrong.

00:23:38.280 Well, no, I'll take the probably away.

00:23:41.180 I would say that I was wrong, that he couldn't make it to the finish line.

00:23:46.160 Now, I think he limped.

00:23:47.760 I think he limped to the finish line,

00:23:49.960 meaning all the lid days and the time off and staying out of the public.

00:23:55.640 But he found a way.

00:23:57.680 He found a way.

00:23:58.520 And that's not nothing, right?

00:24:01.140 You know, if I'm being even a little bit objective,

00:24:04.560 kind of impressive.

00:24:05.880 At his age,

00:24:07.540 that he got as far as he did,

00:24:09.700 and he managed, I think, to cover up his weaknesses

00:24:13.460 and looked strong.

00:24:15.840 It was actually pretty impressive.

00:24:17.300 I got to hand it to him.

00:24:19.100 And unexpected.

00:24:23.300 So here's what Trump could have done that he didn't do.

00:24:27.680 And I think the net effect of it is a really, really big money left on the table,

00:24:34.740 which he doesn't do.

00:24:37.460 Typically, Trump doesn't leave free money laying on the table,

00:24:40.960 but boy, did he do it last night.

00:24:43.240 So the debate followed this Bobulinski guy,

00:24:47.060 Hunter's ex-business partner,

00:24:49.320 who just completely eviscerated the Bidens.

00:24:53.060 And it should have been the biggest story.

00:24:54.740 But Trump would have known, should have known,

00:24:57.880 and this was his error,

00:24:59.720 Trump should have known

00:25:00.880 that the media didn't cover it,

00:25:04.320 except for Fox News.

00:25:06.220 So when Trump went on stage,

00:25:08.320 this should have been in his head,

00:25:10.280 and I don't think it was.

00:25:12.020 This is a mistake.

00:25:14.080 And it goes like this.

00:25:15.560 He didn't understand that when he referred to it,

00:25:18.920 about the laptop and stuff,

00:25:20.500 he didn't know

00:25:21.820 that the people he wanted to persuade

00:25:24.460 the people who were on the left

00:25:26.360 or anybody who was still undecided.

00:25:28.420 He didn't know

00:25:29.520 that they don't know anything about that story

00:25:32.640 because it wasn't covered.

00:25:35.320 And because he didn't give a summary

00:25:37.120 before he talked about it

00:25:38.940 to say what it was,

00:25:41.640 the viewers from the CNN viewers

00:25:43.900 who were watching it just said,

00:25:45.620 I don't know what that's all about.

00:25:46.960 So it should have been a kill shot.

00:25:50.900 It should have been the end

00:25:52.120 of the mystery about who was going to win.

00:25:55.580 It should have been over last night.

00:25:57.720 All President Trump needed to do

00:25:59.640 was what I'm going to do.

00:26:01.720 And again, I always mock people

00:26:03.180 for saying how the president

00:26:05.020 should word things

00:26:06.120 because you and I didn't become president, right?

00:26:10.020 So whatever he's been doing

00:26:11.320 is clearly working,

00:26:13.020 and if you were ever opposed to it,

00:26:14.760 well, you're wrong because it worked.

00:26:17.760 So, you know,

00:26:18.920 you always have to have a little humility

00:26:20.520 when you say what Trump should have said

00:26:23.940 or should have not have said.

00:26:25.400 Like, I always keep that in mind

00:26:27.060 because as soon as you think

00:26:28.620 you're smarter than he is,

00:26:29.900 you just have to explain

00:26:31.000 how he became president

00:26:32.640 and you didn't, right?

00:26:34.340 You can't, you just can't,

00:26:36.560 you can't avoid that fact.

00:26:38.100 That said,

00:26:41.420 here's how he could have played it

00:26:44.080 if he had been maybe more aware

00:26:46.800 that most of the public

00:26:48.180 had not seen the story.

00:26:49.980 I would have started this way.

00:26:51.740 I would have said,

00:26:53.120 less than an hour ago,

00:26:55.440 Hunter Biden's business partner

00:26:57.060 revealed with the text messages,

00:27:01.200 his phones, and his laptop

00:27:02.740 that the emails we've seen

00:27:04.760 from Hunter Biden were authentic

00:27:06.580 and that he did describe a scheme

00:27:09.080 in which China was paying the Bidens

00:27:11.040 and that Hunter Biden

00:27:12.400 would hold the money for his father.

00:27:16.040 It's all in the emails

00:27:17.320 and now we have a human

00:27:18.700 who verified the emails.

00:27:21.020 This should be disqualifying for Joe Biden.

00:27:24.960 Now, on top of this,

00:27:25.960 here are my comments.

00:27:27.360 So that's the part that was missing.

00:27:29.680 If the president had laid out

00:27:31.640 what we had seen on Fox News

00:27:33.920 but nowhere else within an hour,

00:27:35.920 just within the last hour,

00:27:38.280 all of the CNN people

00:27:39.580 would have watched that and said,

00:27:41.440 what?

00:27:42.880 What's this about?

00:27:45.040 Hunter's business partner?

00:27:46.700 I don't know anything about that.

00:27:48.620 And at the very least,

00:27:50.060 and here would have been the kill shot.

00:27:51.860 Are you ready?

00:27:52.900 If the president had said,

00:27:54.600 I know your news source

00:27:56.020 doesn't show you this.

00:27:57.920 Google this last name,

00:28:00.260 Bob Alinsky,

00:28:01.200 and then spell it

00:28:02.240 so people can Google it.

00:28:03.620 If the president had told the public,

00:28:06.840 you know,

00:28:07.140 looked not at Joe Biden,

00:28:09.400 looked not at the moderator,

00:28:11.860 but looked at the camera

00:28:12.780 and said,

00:28:13.840 do me a favor,

00:28:14.780 your news sources

00:28:15.640 are not serving you right.

00:28:18.080 Google this word,

00:28:20.160 Bob Alinsky,

00:28:21.200 and find out

00:28:21.820 what just happened an hour ago

00:28:23.520 that your news sources

00:28:25.140 won't tell you about.

00:28:26.180 And you'll see why

00:28:27.620 they won't tell you about it.

00:28:29.660 That's the end of the election.

00:28:33.540 Right?

00:28:34.520 Now, again,

00:28:36.620 I have to end with some humility,

00:28:38.980 so I'll bookend it.

00:28:44.280 I'm not the president

00:28:45.500 of the United States,

00:28:47.020 so if I knew more than Trump does

00:28:49.060 about how to communicate

00:28:50.260 to the public,

00:28:51.680 well, maybe I would be.

00:28:53.020 Right?

00:28:54.020 So,

00:28:55.060 can't say he makes mistakes

00:28:56.560 until you see

00:28:58.020 that the results are not good.

00:28:59.640 He has good instincts

00:29:00.580 about this stuff.

00:29:01.840 The other thing

00:29:02.540 that he did

00:29:03.160 accidentally wrong,

00:29:04.740 it seems like a small thing,

00:29:06.160 but maybe it isn't.

00:29:07.840 He referred to

00:29:09.000 Biden

00:29:11.080 as being referred to

00:29:13.180 in those emails

00:29:13.840 I mentioned

00:29:14.440 as

00:29:14.920 the big man.

00:29:16.700 But the actual phrase

00:29:17.980 was the big guy.

00:29:18.940 And it might matter

00:29:21.980 because somebody

00:29:23.100 might have tried

00:29:23.680 to Google that

00:29:24.680 and say,

00:29:25.640 what is this

00:29:26.720 about the big man?

00:29:28.220 You wouldn't find anything.

00:29:29.920 But if he had

00:29:30.860 correctly said

00:29:31.720 big guy,

00:29:33.140 and again,

00:29:33.580 it seems like

00:29:34.040 such a small difference,

00:29:35.660 right?

00:29:36.120 But it's a difference

00:29:37.060 between can it be Googled

00:29:38.520 and not.

00:29:39.320 And I wonder

00:29:39.780 if that matters

00:29:40.440 to the extent

00:29:41.520 that there are

00:29:42.060 lots of people watching.

00:29:44.120 Somebody probably

00:29:45.160 tried to Google

00:29:46.160 big man

00:29:47.400 if they even thought

00:29:48.380 it was connected

00:29:49.160 to a story,

00:29:50.040 and I'm not even

00:29:50.540 sure they did.

00:29:52.140 So,

00:29:53.560 all right,

00:29:54.740 what else

00:29:55.280 we got going?

00:29:57.200 Joe Biden's

00:29:58.320 tax plan,

00:29:59.440 his proposed tax plan,

00:30:01.060 according to him

00:30:02.700 last night,

00:30:03.860 would turn

00:30:04.380 the Proud Boys

00:30:05.100 into what he calls

00:30:06.240 the Poor Boys.

00:30:07.980 Now,

00:30:08.520 he didn't connect

00:30:09.180 those two thoughts.

00:30:10.700 He just called

00:30:11.320 the Proud Boys

00:30:12.020 accidentally

00:30:12.660 the Poor Boys.

00:30:15.200 But I think

00:30:15.980 it's funny

00:30:16.400 that his tax plan

00:30:17.520 would make them poorer.

00:30:19.380 Not according to him,

00:30:20.540 but according to

00:30:21.240 critics of his plan.

00:30:25.740 The Democrats

00:30:26.700 like to say

00:30:27.500 that Trump

00:30:28.560 has no plan.

00:30:30.480 Have you noticed that?

00:30:31.400 That's like

00:30:31.820 the big thing.

00:30:33.220 Why is it

00:30:33.780 that the Democrats

00:30:35.420 say

00:30:36.300 Trump has no plan

00:30:38.100 for, let's say,

00:30:38.740 coronavirus

00:30:39.180 or for his second term?

00:30:41.440 Why do they say

00:30:42.140 he has no plan?

00:30:44.040 It's because

00:30:44.840 their news sources

00:30:45.880 don't say enough

00:30:47.220 about what he's doing.

00:30:49.360 So the Democrats

00:30:50.760 could just say

00:30:51.380 he has no plan

00:30:52.360 and the Democratic

00:30:54.160 base will never

00:30:55.180 see news

00:30:56.000 that contradicts that.

00:30:58.000 So they will

00:30:58.620 actually go away

00:30:59.960 thinking,

00:31:00.540 oh,

00:31:01.200 well,

00:31:01.440 Biden has a plan

00:31:02.540 and Trump

00:31:04.380 doesn't have a plan.

00:31:05.960 Is that the truth?

00:31:07.860 Because

00:31:08.420 every time I hear

00:31:09.280 that,

00:31:09.620 I say to myself,

00:31:10.520 I know his plan

00:31:12.760 and he didn't

00:31:14.280 talk to me

00:31:14.820 personally,

00:31:15.360 I'm just reading

00:31:17.140 the news.

00:31:18.660 And to me,

00:31:19.360 as just a

00:31:20.180 news consumer,

00:31:22.600 I know all of,

00:31:24.280 I know all of

00:31:25.200 Trump's plans.

00:31:26.920 Why don't you?

00:31:28.580 Like,

00:31:28.780 what is it about

00:31:29.420 what you're doing?

00:31:30.480 Oh,

00:31:30.800 you're watching CNN,

00:31:32.240 you're reading

00:31:32.560 the New York Times.

00:31:33.500 And so you don't know

00:31:34.700 what his plan is.

00:31:36.460 And secondly,

00:31:37.840 sometimes a plan

00:31:39.420 is better expressed

00:31:41.600 as a system.

00:31:43.460 And I think that's

00:31:44.120 what Trump does

00:31:44.960 and people who can't

00:31:46.160 tell the difference

00:31:46.780 between a goal,

00:31:48.380 which sometimes

00:31:49.060 could be okay,

00:31:50.000 but it's not optimal,

00:31:51.700 compared to a system,

00:31:53.300 which is almost

00:31:54.300 always the right choice.

00:31:56.200 For example,

00:31:57.520 what is Trump's goal

00:31:59.280 for the economy?

00:32:02.820 Well,

00:32:03.340 I don't know.

00:32:04.340 Like,

00:32:04.840 he doesn't really

00:32:05.540 express it as a goal.

00:32:07.200 He expresses it

00:32:08.380 as a number of systems,

00:32:10.200 which if you look at them,

00:32:11.460 you'd say,

00:32:11.840 oh yeah,

00:32:12.160 that's pretty smart.

00:32:13.420 Here's a system.

00:32:14.880 Get rid of

00:32:15.540 unnecessary regulations.

00:32:18.420 Right?

00:32:19.060 It doesn't have

00:32:19.720 a specific goal,

00:32:21.320 as in,

00:32:21.780 we're going to get rid

00:32:22.440 of 14,700 regulations.

00:32:25.940 No,

00:32:26.200 that would be a goal.

00:32:27.740 He simply has a system

00:32:29.040 that as you discover

00:32:30.940 unnecessary regulations,

00:32:32.520 you get rid of them.

00:32:34.520 Right?

00:32:34.920 How about taxes?

00:32:37.240 Does he have a goal

00:32:38.480 for taxes?

00:32:39.220 Well,

00:32:39.480 he likes lower taxes.

00:32:41.140 That's his system.

00:32:42.760 Keep your taxes low.

00:32:44.320 Any chance you get

00:32:45.680 wherever you can,

00:32:47.780 lower them a little bit more.

00:32:50.080 It's kind of a system

00:32:51.000 that pays off.

00:32:53.220 How about negotiating trade deals

00:32:54.980 and pushing harder

00:32:56.160 to get better trade deals?

00:32:58.160 That's not specifically a goal,

00:33:00.720 because you're not saying

00:33:01.740 we will get this deal

00:33:03.020 with this country.

00:33:03.860 you're saying

00:33:05.260 everywhere we can push,

00:33:07.400 we'll push.

00:33:08.860 That's a system.

00:33:10.480 Everywhere that we can ask

00:33:11.860 for more

00:33:12.440 and maybe we can get it,

00:33:14.140 we'll ask for more.

00:33:16.220 That's a system.

00:33:17.980 So,

00:33:18.900 and then,

00:33:19.740 if you look at the coronavirus,

00:33:21.280 the president says

00:33:22.080 we're going to use

00:33:22.680 the military

00:33:23.320 to roll out

00:33:24.680 the vaccines.

00:33:27.420 Isn't that a plan?

00:33:28.500 How is that not a plan?

00:33:33.260 Does the president

00:33:34.480 recommend

00:33:35.140 that people wear masks

00:33:36.680 under situations

00:33:38.160 where they can't

00:33:39.320 social distance?

00:33:40.740 Yes.

00:33:41.560 Is that a plan?

00:33:43.440 Or is that just

00:33:44.140 a good recommendation

00:33:45.240 that everybody

00:33:46.100 hears

00:33:47.420 no matter what?

00:33:49.380 It's just what we're doing.

00:33:51.360 How about

00:33:51.860 opening up the economy

00:33:53.480 wisely

00:33:55.040 and carefully?

00:33:56.380 That's what the president

00:33:57.560 wants to do.

00:33:58.500 Is there anybody

00:33:58.960 who doesn't know that?

00:34:00.520 Are you telling me

00:34:01.360 there's some Democrats

00:34:02.180 who don't understand

00:34:03.420 that the president

00:34:04.840 wants to show

00:34:05.840 some balance?

00:34:07.480 Yeah,

00:34:07.780 we want to be safe,

00:34:09.340 but part of being safe

00:34:10.400 is having a functioning economy,

00:34:12.200 so he's a little more biased

00:34:13.960 toward opening up.

00:34:15.340 Does anybody

00:34:15.840 not understand that?

00:34:17.700 Why can you say

00:34:18.480 there's no plan

00:34:19.300 when that's so obviously

00:34:21.920 what he plans to do

00:34:23.420 and is promoting

00:34:24.360 every single day?

00:34:27.140 It's baffling.

00:34:28.500 Now,

00:34:29.800 letting the states

00:34:30.980 make local decisions

00:34:32.040 and letting private companies

00:34:33.920 develop their vaccines

00:34:35.240 with government help,

00:34:37.140 but mostly they're taking the lead,

00:34:39.300 that's a plan,

00:34:40.860 but I would describe it

00:34:42.440 as a system

00:34:43.220 in which you let

00:34:44.520 the private industry

00:34:45.640 really step up

00:34:47.280 and then you just support them

00:34:48.800 with money

00:34:49.460 and whatever else they need,

00:34:51.060 removing obstacles as well.

00:34:53.740 So,

00:34:55.500 it is,

00:34:56.200 again,

00:34:57.220 mind-boggling

00:34:57.900 to watch the Democrats

00:34:59.200 claim

00:34:59.900 that Trump

00:35:01.200 doesn't have plans

00:35:02.460 when they are so obvious,

00:35:05.120 but they're more like systems.

00:35:07.680 They happen to be

00:35:08.500 a better version

00:35:09.400 of a plan.

00:35:10.460 If you had a choice

00:35:11.660 of a plan

00:35:12.480 versus a system,

00:35:15.380 take the system

00:35:16.200 every time,

00:35:17.340 and that's what

00:35:17.920 Trump offers you,

00:35:18.920 but the consumers

00:35:20.500 of news

00:35:21.400 are not sophisticated

00:35:22.360 to know that distinction.

00:35:26.820 We finally figured out

00:35:28.180 what malarkey is.

00:35:29.980 All this time,

00:35:30.900 didn't you wonder

00:35:31.340 what malarkey is?

00:35:33.040 And the way

00:35:33.840 Biden used it

00:35:35.100 last night

00:35:35.660 is that all of these stories

00:35:37.560 about Hunter's laptop

00:35:39.420 and the emails

00:35:40.760 and the deals

00:35:41.720 with China,

00:35:42.920 that that's all malarkey.

00:35:44.080 so apparently

00:35:46.340 if there's a story

00:35:47.680 that gets covered

00:35:49.460 accurately

00:35:50.100 by some news outlets

00:35:52.060 but is completely ignored

00:35:54.140 by the Biden-friendly

00:35:56.460 news outlets,

00:35:57.780 the description

00:35:58.800 of the news

00:35:59.980 not covering the news

00:36:01.160 is called malarkey.

00:36:03.320 So malarkey,

00:36:04.540 any time,

00:36:05.740 it's only covered

00:36:06.500 by conservative news.

00:36:08.700 All right.

00:36:12.380 Amazingly,

00:36:13.060 and if you didn't

00:36:14.400 do this last night,

00:36:15.440 it is just

00:36:16.540 so entertaining.

00:36:18.020 I turned on CNN

00:36:19.020 immediately after

00:36:20.220 the debates

00:36:21.640 because you know

00:36:22.940 what Fox News

00:36:24.200 is going to say,

00:36:24.940 right?

00:36:25.360 I don't really have

00:36:26.140 to watch Fox News

00:36:27.660 to know what

00:36:28.240 they're going to say.

00:36:29.260 They're going to say

00:36:30.060 Trump did well.

00:36:31.920 And sure enough,

00:36:33.140 they did.

00:36:34.040 On CNN,

00:36:34.780 I turned on Jake Tapper

00:36:36.180 who,

00:36:37.640 you know,

00:36:39.200 I don't want to do

00:36:40.260 mind reading

00:36:40.960 but he looked like

00:36:42.740 he was in pain,

00:36:44.400 like some kind

00:36:45.260 of psychic pain

00:36:47.420 last night.

00:36:48.700 And one of the things

00:36:49.820 he and the others

00:36:50.720 said

00:36:51.460 is that

00:36:53.720 the things

00:36:55.780 that Trump

00:36:56.240 was referring to

00:36:57.280 didn't make sense

00:36:58.460 to the audience.

00:37:00.900 In other words,

00:37:01.640 the Biden laptop stuff,

00:37:03.660 people didn't really

00:37:04.800 know what that was about.

00:37:05.920 But amazingly,

00:37:09.600 so Jake Tapper

00:37:10.580 is sort of

00:37:11.020 criticizing the president

00:37:12.220 for using language

00:37:14.020 that you would only see,

00:37:15.480 I think he referred to

00:37:16.660 on Sean Hannity's show,

00:37:18.840 the sort of insider

00:37:19.960 language

00:37:21.340 that doesn't make sense

00:37:22.800 to the general public.

00:37:23.800 You'd have to watch

00:37:24.680 these right-leaning

00:37:25.960 outlets to even know

00:37:27.900 what he was talking about.

00:37:30.020 That's a little bit true 0.83

00:37:31.400 and that's

00:37:32.280 the complaint

00:37:33.620 I had as well,

00:37:35.000 except

00:37:35.420 when it comes

00:37:36.380 from CNN

00:37:37.100 it sounds different

00:37:39.240 because CNN

00:37:40.580 is the one

00:37:41.400 who is keeping

00:37:42.120 their own audience

00:37:43.800 in the dark.

00:37:45.440 So yes,

00:37:45.980 it is true

00:37:46.600 that Trump

00:37:47.880 made references

00:37:48.720 to things

00:37:49.400 that the audience

00:37:50.180 would not have

00:37:51.100 understood.

00:37:52.540 But why?

00:37:54.200 It's because

00:37:54.800 of CNN.

00:37:56.680 CNN is the reason

00:37:57.820 the audience

00:37:58.400 doesn't understand

00:37:59.280 what Trump is saying.

00:38:01.140 It's not exactly

00:38:02.340 completely

00:38:03.000 Trump's fault.

00:38:04.800 If Trump

00:38:05.660 talks about

00:38:06.320 the news,

00:38:07.720 the headline news,

00:38:09.460 the most important

00:38:10.580 news in the news,

00:38:13.060 and the audience

00:38:13.820 of CNN

00:38:14.580 doesn't know

00:38:15.680 what he's talking about,

00:38:17.000 that's a little bit

00:38:18.100 on CNN,

00:38:19.560 don't you think?

00:38:21.120 And the fact

00:38:22.000 that they could

00:38:22.440 put that on Trump

00:38:23.360 was kind of ballsy.

00:38:25.440 even Jake Tapper

00:38:29.620 referred to it

00:38:30.400 as disgusting

00:38:31.420 and said that

00:38:32.640 the stories

00:38:34.040 about the laptop

00:38:35.080 stuff and the emails

00:38:36.060 is a Breitbart land.

00:38:39.300 He called it

00:38:39.760 an example

00:38:40.240 of like Breitbart

00:38:41.960 as if just saying

00:38:43.640 that word

00:38:44.260 is all you need

00:38:45.760 to know.

00:38:47.140 Now,

00:38:47.600 I would love

00:38:48.660 to see this comparison

00:38:49.840 if it were possible

00:38:50.900 to have actual

00:38:51.780 fact-checking.

00:38:53.020 I don't know

00:38:53.440 if anybody

00:38:53.860 can do real

00:38:54.460 fact-checking.

00:38:55.120 But if it were possible

00:38:56.900 and you were to do

00:38:58.660 Breitbart

00:38:59.460 versus CNN

00:39:00.540 and somehow

00:39:01.700 you could find

00:39:02.520 somebody in the world

00:39:03.640 who would be

00:39:04.600 an objective

00:39:05.180 fact-checker,

00:39:06.480 do you think

00:39:07.280 Breitbart would be

00:39:08.160 less than CNN?

00:39:10.240 I don't see that

00:39:12.180 because I read

00:39:13.640 Breitbart quite a bit

00:39:14.860 and I read CNN,

00:39:17.040 you know,

00:39:17.240 watch CNN quite a bit

00:39:18.460 and CNN

00:39:19.440 is non-stop lies.

00:39:21.760 I don't see that

00:39:23.000 on Breitbart.

00:39:24.080 Do you?

00:39:25.120 I mean,

00:39:25.920 I don't know

00:39:26.260 if I'm reading

00:39:27.440 the wrong articles

00:39:28.340 or something.

00:39:29.720 Am I reading

00:39:30.660 the wrong articles?

00:39:31.760 Because I don't see

00:39:32.540 Breitbart just

00:39:33.160 making up news

00:39:34.160 and I don't see them

00:39:35.460 just, you know,

00:39:36.120 ignoring major stories.

00:39:38.160 But I see it

00:39:39.120 on CNN.

00:39:41.380 All right.

00:39:43.700 The other thing

00:39:45.880 that CNN does

00:39:47.500 is that they

00:39:48.360 conflate

00:39:49.100 every part

00:39:50.800 of the Rudy

00:39:52.220 Giuliani

00:39:53.020 laptop,

00:39:54.740 Hunter Biden

00:39:55.260 stuff,

00:39:55.860 they conflate it

00:39:57.020 as if it's all

00:39:57.780 one big ball

00:39:58.600 of thing.

00:39:59.560 So if there's

00:40:00.360 any part of it

00:40:01.560 that doesn't look

00:40:03.060 completely

00:40:04.160 legitimate,

00:40:05.380 then they can just

00:40:06.640 throw out the whole thing.

00:40:08.460 Now,

00:40:08.840 in some cases

00:40:09.600 that makes perfect sense.

00:40:11.640 You know,

00:40:11.920 if there's somebody

00:40:12.860 telling you a story

00:40:13.800 and you can find out

00:40:14.740 that one part of it

00:40:15.660 is not true,

00:40:16.780 that does tell you

00:40:18.100 less credibility

00:40:19.740 for the rest of it.

00:40:21.200 But what about

00:40:21.840 the Rudy Giuliani

00:40:22.960 stuff?

00:40:23.500 What we have here

00:40:25.740 is stuff that

00:40:26.440 has been verified,

00:40:28.160 let's say,

00:40:28.800 at least by

00:40:29.440 Bobulinski,

00:40:30.240 by having a witness

00:40:31.320 who says,

00:40:32.420 yes,

00:40:32.660 that email

00:40:33.220 is real

00:40:34.320 and it means

00:40:35.260 exactly what

00:40:35.920 you think it is.

00:40:36.980 So there's some

00:40:37.600 part of it

00:40:38.180 that's pretty

00:40:39.580 well documented.

00:40:41.780 But then there

00:40:42.540 are other parts

00:40:43.140 of it,

00:40:43.520 such as there

00:40:44.200 are some

00:40:44.600 alleged photos

00:40:46.140 on the laptop

00:40:47.440 and I'm going

00:40:49.680 to follow

00:40:50.060 CNN's lead

00:40:51.100 this much,

00:40:52.640 which is

00:40:53.760 those don't

00:40:54.660 seem as relevant

00:40:55.840 and they don't

00:40:57.160 seem as

00:40:58.340 confirmed

00:40:59.560 as the emails

00:41:01.080 do.

00:41:01.760 That doesn't mean

00:41:02.500 they're not true.

00:41:04.020 It's just

00:41:04.440 it's a different

00:41:05.040 class of credibility.

00:41:07.180 So CNN

00:41:07.680 would take

00:41:08.260 that stuff

00:41:09.080 which has

00:41:09.620 low credibility,

00:41:10.840 could be true,

00:41:12.020 we just don't

00:41:12.640 have a way

00:41:13.160 to verify it

00:41:14.080 and it's kind

00:41:14.940 of sketchy

00:41:15.440 stuff.

00:41:17.000 And they act

00:41:18.020 as if that's

00:41:18.620 all it was.

00:41:19.400 but there's

00:41:21.780 a real big

00:41:22.240 difference

00:41:22.660 between there

00:41:23.580 were some

00:41:23.980 sketchy photos

00:41:24.900 on it,

00:41:26.400 who knows

00:41:27.000 if the photos

00:41:27.620 are real

00:41:28.200 or they were

00:41:29.220 put there

00:41:29.580 later,

00:41:30.140 who knows.

00:41:31.680 But the emails,

00:41:33.060 that's a whole

00:41:33.820 different level

00:41:34.440 of credibility.

00:41:36.400 So that's their

00:41:37.080 trick,

00:41:37.440 just throw that

00:41:38.000 in there.

00:41:38.940 So here's

00:41:39.360 the sequence

00:41:41.680 that I see.

00:41:43.000 Trump says,

00:41:44.120 here's my

00:41:44.560 coronavirus plan

00:41:46.040 and then

00:41:46.460 the media

00:41:46.820 says,

00:41:47.620 Trump has

00:41:48.160 no

00:41:48.380 coronavirus

00:41:48.800 plan,

00:41:50.440 even though

00:41:50.900 he just

00:41:51.200 told you

00:41:51.500 what it

00:41:51.720 was.

00:41:53.060 And then

00:41:53.480 Biden says,

00:41:55.100 here's my

00:41:55.560 coronavirus

00:41:55.940 plan.

00:41:57.620 And then

00:41:57.980 Trump says,

00:41:58.740 you just

00:41:59.820 described my

00:42:00.500 plan and

00:42:01.980 we're already

00:42:02.980 implementing

00:42:03.480 that plan.

00:42:05.120 And then

00:42:05.900 the media

00:42:06.300 says,

00:42:07.280 Trump has

00:42:07.800 no

00:42:08.020 coronavirus

00:42:08.780 plan.

00:42:10.520 They can

00:42:11.300 just make

00:42:11.980 reality

00:42:12.500 disappear

00:42:13.200 right in

00:42:13.600 front of

00:42:13.920 your eyes.

00:42:14.400 they just

00:42:15.580 have to

00:42:15.940 act like

00:42:16.620 it's not

00:42:17.100 true in

00:42:18.320 the media.

00:42:19.500 And even

00:42:19.860 if you're

00:42:20.240 positive it's

00:42:21.220 not true or

00:42:22.080 positive they're

00:42:23.280 leaving something

00:42:23.820 out, over

00:42:25.340 time they

00:42:26.320 can wear you

00:42:26.880 down.

00:42:27.360 They will

00:42:27.640 make their

00:42:28.140 reality your

00:42:28.840 reality.

00:42:30.300 The big

00:42:31.120 story that

00:42:32.000 the conservatives

00:42:32.880 want to take

00:42:33.560 away from

00:42:33.980 the event

00:42:35.360 was that

00:42:35.980 Joe Biden

00:42:36.720 is inconsistent

00:42:37.720 on fracking.

00:42:39.140 He seems

00:42:39.720 to be against

00:42:40.480 it, but

00:42:41.020 then he's

00:42:41.460 not against

00:42:42.040 it, but

00:42:42.500 he's sort

00:42:42.920 of against

00:42:43.360 it or

00:42:43.960 against it

00:42:44.580 in a

00:42:44.760 little way

00:42:45.340 or he's

00:42:46.400 not against

00:42:47.020 it fully

00:42:47.480 now, but

00:42:48.120 he wants

00:42:48.440 to phase

00:42:48.920 it down.

00:42:49.680 So he's

00:42:49.960 sort of, his

00:42:50.800 messaging on

00:42:51.520 that is all

00:42:51.960 over the

00:42:52.320 map.

00:42:53.780 Even CNN

00:42:54.540 fact-checked

00:42:55.400 him on

00:42:55.680 that.

00:42:57.560 Keep that

00:42:58.020 in mind.

00:42:59.040 CNN just

00:43:00.980 brutally

00:43:01.480 fact-checked

00:43:02.400 Biden on

00:43:03.060 the fracking

00:43:03.540 stuff, and

00:43:04.620 they said

00:43:05.120 too, that's

00:43:06.880 not what he's

00:43:07.560 been saying.

00:43:08.780 He has

00:43:09.500 been saying

00:43:09.960 he's anti-fracking.

00:43:11.480 Here's the

00:43:11.980 video of him

00:43:12.840 saying it.

00:43:13.300 So I

00:43:13.920 didn't

00:43:14.080 really, I

00:43:15.200 didn't know

00:43:15.640 if CNN

00:43:16.340 would do

00:43:16.820 that.

00:43:18.120 And I

00:43:18.660 have to

00:43:18.960 think that

00:43:19.340 that one's

00:43:19.800 going to

00:43:20.000 make a

00:43:20.340 dent.

00:43:21.160 The primary

00:43:21.800 reason that

00:43:22.380 would matter

00:43:22.900 and others

00:43:23.500 would not

00:43:23.980 is that

00:43:24.360 CNN fact-checked

00:43:25.420 it.

00:43:26.580 And if you

00:43:27.800 cared about

00:43:28.340 fracking, and

00:43:29.220 you should,

00:43:31.040 let me give

00:43:32.300 you an 0.64

00:43:32.820 economic lesson.

00:43:34.220 You ready?

00:43:35.080 There are a

00:43:35.520 few things

00:43:36.000 about economics

00:43:36.760 that you can

00:43:37.220 say are just

00:43:37.820 always true.

00:43:39.280 There's a

00:43:40.820 lot of

00:43:41.040 stuff that

00:43:41.480 well, it

00:43:41.900 depends on

00:43:42.400 the specific

00:43:42.960 situation.

00:43:44.200 But there

00:43:44.520 are other

00:43:44.840 things just

00:43:45.960 kind of

00:43:46.380 always true.

00:43:48.020 That the

00:43:49.200 economy of

00:43:50.360 a country

00:43:50.860 seems to

00:43:52.040 be directly

00:43:52.660 related to

00:43:53.760 their ability

00:43:54.560 to create

00:43:56.760 cheap energy.

00:43:58.660 So the

00:43:59.080 availability of

00:44:00.600 inexpensive or

00:44:02.700 economical

00:44:03.280 energy is

00:44:04.940 the single

00:44:05.720 biggest factor

00:44:06.820 for whether

00:44:07.820 a country

00:44:08.440 does well.

00:44:09.620 Now, countries

00:44:10.160 that don't

00:44:10.480 have their

00:44:10.780 own energy

00:44:11.340 situation can

00:44:12.360 do well in

00:44:13.000 special cases.

00:44:14.400 They might

00:44:14.660 have some

00:44:15.160 advantage going

00:44:16.160 on.

00:44:16.960 But generally

00:44:17.460 speaking, if

00:44:18.100 you want to

00:44:18.420 make a

00:44:18.920 generalization,

00:44:20.860 big modern

00:44:22.140 economies are

00:44:23.860 pretty much

00:44:24.400 driven by

00:44:25.000 energy.

00:44:26.020 Now, Trump

00:44:26.780 knew this.

00:44:28.400 He knew

00:44:28.700 this.

00:44:29.500 So Trump

00:44:29.960 said, the

00:44:30.620 best thing I

00:44:31.160 can do for

00:44:31.620 this country is

00:44:32.960 to make sure

00:44:33.400 our energy

00:44:33.960 situation is

00:44:34.840 good, and

00:44:36.080 especially

00:44:36.800 if our

00:44:37.560 gas energy

00:44:38.480 is good,

00:44:38.980 that will

00:44:39.240 actually lower

00:44:40.000 CO2, because

00:44:42.080 gas would be

00:44:42.860 replacing more

00:44:44.100 polluting methods,

00:44:45.800 coal, for

00:44:46.200 example.

00:44:47.300 So the

00:44:47.940 United States

00:44:48.480 has actually

00:44:48.920 done well

00:44:49.480 with CO2.

00:44:50.740 At the same

00:44:51.400 time, it

00:44:51.960 became independent

00:44:53.000 energy producer,

00:44:54.720 which allows

00:44:55.560 us to pursue

00:44:56.840 peace in the

00:44:57.500 Middle East

00:44:58.000 because we

00:44:58.860 just have less

00:44:59.520 of a fighting

00:45:00.740 interest over

00:45:01.460 there, allows

00:45:02.060 us to pull

00:45:02.640 our soldiers

00:45:03.720 home.

00:45:04.440 So Trump's

00:45:05.540 understanding

00:45:06.440 of the

00:45:07.680 importance of

00:45:08.880 energy to

00:45:09.940 an economy

00:45:10.600 and therefore

00:45:11.760 to its

00:45:12.280 foreign policy

00:45:13.160 is perfect.

00:45:15.860 He has a

00:45:16.620 perfect

00:45:17.160 understanding

00:45:17.980 of the

00:45:18.580 importance of

00:45:19.260 the energy

00:45:19.740 industry to

00:45:21.200 make everything

00:45:21.840 else work.

00:45:23.720 And Biden

00:45:25.500 doesn't.

00:45:26.580 So that's a

00:45:28.780 pretty big

00:45:29.460 difference in

00:45:30.380 their economic

00:45:31.380 capabilities.

00:45:32.820 Pretty big.

00:45:33.580 so that

00:45:34.020 one could

00:45:34.320 hurt him.

00:45:36.400 Biden said

00:45:37.120 something that

00:45:37.620 was just a

00:45:38.160 real head

00:45:39.520 shaker.

00:45:40.720 They were

00:45:41.440 talking about

00:45:42.120 increasing the

00:45:43.200 minimum wage to

00:45:44.060 $15 and

00:45:45.700 Biden said

00:45:46.420 that that would

00:45:47.040 help small

00:45:47.620 businesses that

00:45:49.100 were struggling

00:45:49.780 because of the

00:45:50.520 coronavirus.

00:45:52.540 To which I

00:45:53.360 said, does

00:45:55.280 Biden not

00:45:55.960 understand that

00:45:57.560 the small

00:45:58.080 business is

00:45:58.880 paying the

00:46:00.440 wage?

00:46:00.860 They don't

00:46:01.800 receive the

00:46:02.660 wage.

00:46:03.880 It's the

00:46:04.660 employee who

00:46:05.380 receives the

00:46:06.000 wage that

00:46:07.200 is paid by

00:46:08.660 the small

00:46:09.200 business.

00:46:10.180 So if the

00:46:10.720 small business

00:46:11.320 is forced to

00:46:12.660 pay more

00:46:13.640 while their

00:46:15.060 revenue is

00:46:15.780 the same,

00:46:17.640 that should

00:46:18.260 be bad.

00:46:19.720 I don't want

00:46:20.280 to get into

00:46:20.720 the details.

00:46:21.700 I don't want

00:46:22.080 to get all

00:46:22.460 economical

00:46:22.980 here.

00:46:24.220 But does

00:46:26.500 Biden not

00:46:27.200 understand that

00:46:29.220 wages are

00:46:29.920 paid by

00:46:30.700 companies to

00:46:31.540 employees?

00:46:33.320 Or was

00:46:34.440 that a

00:46:34.860 senior moment?

00:46:36.600 And certainly

00:46:37.520 if you gave

00:46:38.260 Biden a

00:46:39.540 quiz and

00:46:40.200 said, do

00:46:40.580 you understand

00:46:41.180 that wages

00:46:41.700 are paid to

00:46:42.680 the employees,

00:46:43.320 he would get

00:46:43.660 it right.

00:46:44.680 But he said

00:46:45.680 it completely

00:46:46.200 wrong last

00:46:46.960 night, which

00:46:48.400 makes me wonder

00:46:49.060 if that was

00:46:49.480 just sort of a

00:46:50.080 senior moment

00:46:50.760 and he was

00:46:51.260 confused.

00:46:52.720 It looked

00:46:53.440 like confusion

00:46:55.340 and not in a

00:46:56.900 good way.

00:46:57.500 I didn't see

00:46:58.200 anybody pick

00:46:58.780 that up.

00:46:59.240 I heard

00:47:00.040 people note

00:47:00.780 that he

00:47:01.320 had said

00:47:01.680 it wrong

00:47:02.080 and it

00:47:02.460 didn't make

00:47:02.880 sense, but

00:47:03.920 I haven't

00:47:04.240 seen anybody

00:47:04.740 go to the

00:47:05.260 next level

00:47:06.060 to say,

00:47:06.720 was that

00:47:07.040 a senior

00:47:07.440 moment?

00:47:08.660 What did

00:47:09.180 we witness

00:47:09.700 there?

00:47:11.980 Now,

00:47:12.560 Trump, on

00:47:13.140 the other

00:47:13.400 hand, he

00:47:14.040 has, by

00:47:14.720 analogy,

00:47:15.340 there's a

00:47:15.700 similar thing

00:47:16.300 he does,

00:47:17.460 where he

00:47:17.800 says that

00:47:18.260 China has 0.91

00:47:18.880 been paying

00:47:19.340 the United

00:47:19.840 States because

00:47:20.940 he raised

00:47:21.560 tariffs on

00:47:22.540 imports.

00:47:23.000 now, the

00:47:25.140 people who

00:47:25.640 understand

00:47:26.180 economics say

00:47:28.620 this every

00:47:29.080 time.

00:47:29.380 It doesn't

00:47:29.600 matter if

00:47:30.000 you're pro

00:47:30.440 or anti-Trump.

00:47:31.880 The people

00:47:32.320 who understand

00:47:32.900 economics say,

00:47:34.080 uh, that's

00:47:35.900 not what's

00:47:36.380 happening.

00:47:37.460 That's not

00:47:37.920 what a

00:47:38.200 tariff is.

00:47:39.500 A tariff is

00:47:40.160 not paid by

00:47:40.820 the company

00:47:41.620 that's selling

00:47:42.580 us the goods.

00:47:43.680 The tariff is

00:47:44.500 paid by the

00:47:45.700 consumer.

00:47:46.840 The tariff is

00:47:47.520 paid by the

00:47:48.140 Americans who

00:47:48.800 buy the

00:47:49.140 product.

00:47:49.540 There's a

00:47:50.400 tax on top

00:47:51.140 of the

00:47:51.360 product, and

00:47:52.720 that goes to

00:47:53.320 the United

00:47:53.660 States government.

00:47:55.020 So a tariff

00:47:55.760 is our own

00:47:57.380 citizens paying 0.99

00:47:58.360 our own

00:47:58.800 government.

00:48:00.160 And then

00:48:00.460 the president

00:48:01.820 takes that

00:48:02.360 money, because

00:48:03.540 that becomes a

00:48:04.260 little windfall

00:48:04.940 for the

00:48:05.280 government that

00:48:05.920 wasn't there

00:48:06.340 before, and

00:48:07.360 he pays some

00:48:08.320 or all that

00:48:08.860 to the

00:48:09.200 farmers, for

00:48:10.080 example, so

00:48:11.200 that they

00:48:11.560 have some

00:48:12.260 cushion against

00:48:14.480 the fact that

00:48:15.560 the Chinese

00:48:16.400 are targeting

00:48:17.060 them.

00:48:17.300 Now, does

00:48:20.140 Trump not

00:48:22.180 know what a

00:48:23.000 tariff is?

00:48:24.400 He does.

00:48:25.740 If you

00:48:26.660 privately gave

00:48:27.600 him a quiz

00:48:28.480 and said,

00:48:29.140 President Trump,

00:48:30.620 the way you

00:48:31.160 talk about

00:48:31.740 this doesn't

00:48:32.320 exactly match

00:48:33.520 what the

00:48:34.420 economists would

00:48:35.260 say is going

00:48:35.820 on here, do

00:48:37.020 you not

00:48:37.420 understand that

00:48:39.280 a tariff is

00:48:40.620 just Americans

00:48:41.400 paying Americans,

00:48:42.320 has nothing to

00:48:42.900 do with the

00:48:43.260 Chinese?

00:48:44.100 I believe he

00:48:45.080 would say,

00:48:45.540 of course I

00:48:46.100 know that.

00:48:47.300 But it's

00:48:48.200 complicated.

00:48:49.600 And it's

00:48:50.140 complicated to

00:48:51.020 describe to

00:48:51.720 the public.

00:48:53.160 I think he's

00:48:53.940 just oversimplifying

00:48:55.140 it to the point

00:48:55.720 where it's just

00:48:56.200 not even true.

00:48:57.660 But it's easier

00:48:58.620 to sell it that

00:48:59.340 way.

00:49:00.400 Is it

00:49:00.880 directionally

00:49:02.320 correct?

00:49:03.740 This is what I

00:49:04.480 always say about

00:49:05.040 the president.

00:49:06.020 He is

00:49:06.540 inaccurate

00:49:07.180 often, but

00:49:08.920 he is

00:49:09.300 directionally

00:49:10.120 correct pretty

00:49:11.180 much every

00:49:11.620 time.

00:49:12.580 Yeah, pretty

00:49:13.100 much.

00:49:14.000 And this is a

00:49:14.920 case where it

00:49:16.580 is directionally

00:49:17.800 accurate, and

00:49:19.080 here's why, but

00:49:19.840 it's hard to

00:49:20.280 explain.

00:49:21.480 If China can 0.98

00:49:22.780 no longer sell

00:49:23.820 these goods

00:49:24.900 because the

00:49:26.040 price has been

00:49:26.660 jacked up, because

00:49:27.540 the tariffs have

00:49:28.240 been added on

00:49:28.860 top, then

00:49:29.900 Americans will

00:49:30.580 buy less from

00:49:31.520 China, and

00:49:32.620 they will look

00:49:33.120 for other

00:49:33.640 sources.

00:49:34.560 We hope that

00:49:35.720 they look for

00:49:36.540 American sources.

00:49:38.260 So the real

00:49:39.360 benefit is that

00:49:40.340 Americans can

00:49:41.520 sell more things

00:49:42.360 to Americans,

00:49:43.080 because they

00:49:43.800 don't have to

00:49:44.300 compete with the

00:49:45.000 Chinese goods,

00:49:46.280 because the

00:49:46.660 Chinese goods

00:49:47.300 just got a

00:49:47.860 little extra

00:49:48.320 cost added to

00:49:49.280 them called

00:49:49.720 the tariff, and

00:49:51.020 the president

00:49:51.440 did that.

00:49:52.280 So is it a

00:49:53.040 good idea to

00:49:53.920 have tariffs, and

00:49:54.860 is it a good

00:49:55.580 idea to have a

00:49:56.600 trade war?

00:49:57.460 And the answer

00:49:57.880 is yes.

00:49:59.160 It's good for

00:49:59.940 America to

00:50:01.240 have tariffs if

00:50:02.960 what you're doing

00:50:03.620 is making

00:50:04.500 Chinese goods

00:50:05.300 less valuable.

00:50:07.020 It's good for

00:50:07.880 America to have 0.74

00:50:08.620 a trade war if

00:50:10.360 what you're doing

00:50:11.100 is showing that

00:50:11.980 the other country

00:50:12.740 isn't going to

00:50:13.500 push you around,

00:50:14.260 and you're

00:50:15.120 even willing

00:50:15.980 to tax

00:50:16.720 yourself, which

00:50:18.600 is what a

00:50:19.020 tariff is kind

00:50:19.740 of, you're

00:50:20.620 even willing to

00:50:21.180 tax yourself to

00:50:22.800 say F you to

00:50:23.740 that other

00:50:24.140 country.

00:50:25.280 That's how much

00:50:26.220 we're not going

00:50:26.820 to do a trade

00:50:27.380 deal with you.

00:50:28.340 We'll even tax 0.98

00:50:29.340 ourselves not to

00:50:30.460 do a trade deal

00:50:31.100 with you.

00:50:31.860 So if you want

00:50:32.420 a trade deal,

00:50:33.480 you're going to

00:50:33.800 have to step

00:50:34.360 it up.

00:50:35.000 You're going to

00:50:35.260 have to offer

00:50:35.780 us something you've

00:50:36.440 never offered

00:50:36.960 before, or we

00:50:37.960 don't care.

00:50:39.040 We don't need a

00:50:39.700 trade deal.

00:50:40.560 We will tax 0.99

00:50:41.340 ourselves with

00:50:43.080 tariffs, because

00:50:44.240 before we'll

00:50:44.740 buy your

00:50:45.200 stuff.

00:50:46.580 So it's a

00:50:47.340 negotiating thing,

00:50:48.280 and I think it

00:50:49.060 can work in the

00:50:49.640 long run.

00:50:50.520 All right.

00:50:51.440 So if you look

00:50:54.840 at Biden's

00:50:56.220 confusion about

00:50:58.020 the minimum

00:50:58.400 wage, that's

00:50:59.320 not directionally

00:51:00.340 correct.

00:51:01.460 That's directionally

00:51:02.560 opposite.

00:51:03.760 But you look

00:51:04.320 at Trump's

00:51:05.180 claims about

00:51:05.960 tariffs, technically

00:51:07.640 completely incorrect,

00:51:09.460 but directionally,

00:51:10.580 it's good for the

00:51:11.760 United States.

00:51:13.720 That's the

00:51:14.300 point.

00:51:15.100 He does it

00:51:15.660 because it's

00:51:16.080 good for the

00:51:16.480 United States,

00:51:17.140 not in every

00:51:18.040 way, and not

00:51:19.660 immediately.

00:51:20.920 But he does it

00:51:21.940 because it should

00:51:22.660 have a payoff.

00:51:26.520 All right.

00:51:28.620 I was looking

00:51:29.420 at some other

00:51:30.540 media and how

00:51:31.320 they're treating

00:51:31.760 this laptop

00:51:32.460 stuff, the

00:51:33.160 Hunter Biden

00:51:33.660 stuff.

00:51:34.580 The Huffington

00:51:35.040 Post a few

00:51:35.780 days ago said

00:51:36.640 that the

00:51:39.880 emails are

00:51:40.540 not confirmed,

00:51:41.560 so you

00:51:41.900 shouldn't pay

00:51:42.300 attention to

00:51:42.880 them because

00:51:43.200 the emails on

00:51:44.060 that laptop

00:51:44.620 are not

00:51:45.040 confirmed.

00:51:46.400 To which I

00:51:47.140 say, how

00:51:47.900 hard would it

00:51:48.340 be to confirm

00:51:48.920 them?

00:51:50.300 Don't they

00:51:50.660 just have to

00:51:51.160 ask whoever

00:51:51.700 received it or

00:51:52.540 whoever sent

00:51:53.180 it?

00:51:53.360 Is this real?

00:51:54.520 And the fact

00:51:55.100 that the

00:51:55.460 Bidens have 1.00

00:51:56.540 not denied

00:51:57.220 the emails,

00:51:58.040 that really

00:51:58.680 tells you

00:51:59.060 they're real.

00:52:01.940 There's some

00:52:02.620 report that the

00:52:03.420 metadata and

00:52:04.320 the PDF files

00:52:05.520 on the

00:52:07.740 Biden emails

00:52:08.740 don't match,

00:52:10.020 that they're

00:52:10.420 the wrong

00:52:10.800 dates.

00:52:11.800 Have you

00:52:12.080 heard that

00:52:12.480 news?

00:52:13.480 Because just

00:52:14.260 as the

00:52:15.300 left doesn't

00:52:16.660 hear everything

00:52:17.160 from the

00:52:17.560 right,

00:52:18.340 certainly it's

00:52:19.100 true that

00:52:19.480 there's some

00:52:19.980 things on

00:52:20.380 the left

00:52:20.740 that is never

00:52:21.400 heard by the

00:52:21.900 right.

00:52:22.400 I've never

00:52:22.880 heard this

00:52:23.240 before.

00:52:23.980 I saw it

00:52:24.540 this morning

00:52:25.000 and I

00:52:25.780 thought,

00:52:26.140 what?

00:52:27.180 The metadata

00:52:27.800 on the

00:52:28.300 emails are

00:52:28.940 the wrong

00:52:29.360 dates?

00:52:30.540 Have you

00:52:30.900 heard that?

00:52:32.580 I think I

00:52:33.380 need a fact

00:52:33.880 check on

00:52:34.300 that one.

00:52:35.520 Especially

00:52:36.740 since the

00:52:37.500 emails have

00:52:37.960 been confirmed

00:52:38.640 by the

00:52:39.140 business

00:52:39.440 partner.

00:52:40.660 All right.

00:52:42.840 And then

00:52:43.500 they like to

00:52:43.980 say that

00:52:44.640 in the

00:52:47.360 Ukraine

00:52:48.540 situation,

00:52:49.320 the Burisma

00:52:49.780 thing,

00:52:50.980 the reporting

00:52:51.760 is that

00:52:52.260 a Republican

00:52:53.460 inquiry,

00:52:54.240 and it's

00:52:54.500 important that

00:52:55.020 it was the

00:52:55.380 Republicans who

00:52:56.100 did this,

00:52:56.980 found no

00:52:57.660 evidence of

00:52:58.320 wrongdoing

00:52:58.920 by Biden.

00:53:00.360 In other

00:53:00.660 words,

00:53:00.940 there was no

00:53:01.360 evidence that

00:53:02.060 Biden ever

00:53:03.520 tried to

00:53:04.540 influence

00:53:05.080 American

00:53:05.600 policy

00:53:06.280 in favor

00:53:09.280 of

00:53:09.500 Burisma 0.98

00:53:09.820 or Ukraine

00:53:10.440 or anything.

00:53:11.580 But I

00:53:12.260 don't think

00:53:12.760 that understands

00:53:14.840 how influence

00:53:16.340 works.

00:53:17.760 Influence

00:53:18.280 doesn't

00:53:18.700 necessarily

00:53:19.340 mean something

00:53:20.000 you can see

00:53:20.760 with your

00:53:21.300 eyes if

00:53:22.360 you're

00:53:22.540 observing.

00:53:24.340 Influence

00:53:24.920 is sort

00:53:25.460 of things

00:53:26.680 that happen

00:53:27.120 at the

00:53:27.460 meeting that

00:53:27.980 you weren't

00:53:28.340 in,

00:53:28.640 how much

00:53:30.460 somebody

00:53:30.920 pushes on

00:53:31.560 something,

00:53:32.620 what kind

00:53:33.040 of words

00:53:33.460 they use

00:53:34.200 to push

00:53:34.940 against

00:53:35.300 something.

00:53:36.540 This whole

00:53:37.200 idea that

00:53:39.200 Biden would

00:53:41.420 have potentially

00:53:42.040 just taken

00:53:42.640 money from

00:53:43.160 Burisma and

00:53:44.240 then pushed

00:53:45.460 for a law

00:53:46.120 that was only

00:53:46.680 good for

00:53:47.060 Burisma,

00:53:47.960 doesn't really

00:53:48.820 work that

00:53:49.400 way.

00:53:49.920 It's not

00:53:50.300 that on

00:53:51.020 the nose.

00:53:52.120 It's more

00:53:52.520 like if

00:53:53.600 there's something

00:53:54.140 that's in

00:53:54.580 the gray

00:53:54.980 area,

00:53:56.100 it's a

00:53:56.640 little bit

00:53:57.060 more likely

00:53:57.900 to bend

00:53:58.680 their

00:53:58.960 direction.

00:53:59.800 That's

00:54:00.020 sort of

00:54:00.740 the influence

00:54:02.040 that anybody's

00:54:02.600 trying to

00:54:02.920 buy.

00:54:03.880 So if you

00:54:04.320 don't find

00:54:04.940 any direct

00:54:05.700 evidence of

00:54:06.460 that influence,

00:54:07.640 that doesn't

00:54:08.160 mean there's

00:54:08.560 no influence.

00:54:09.920 That just

00:54:10.520 means they're

00:54:10.900 doing it the

00:54:11.420 smart way,

00:54:12.300 so there's

00:54:13.340 no smoking

00:54:14.140 gun.

00:54:15.900 Trump claimed

00:54:16.860 that he was

00:54:17.300 the least

00:54:17.780 racist person

00:54:18.720 in the

00:54:19.440 building.

00:54:21.180 Now,

00:54:22.380 of course,

00:54:22.920 the fact

00:54:23.300 checkers are

00:54:24.100 going crazy

00:54:25.000 on that.

00:54:25.420 Wait a minute,

00:54:26.280 I don't know

00:54:26.880 that he's

00:54:27.300 the least

00:54:28.360 racist person

00:54:29.120 in the

00:54:29.380 building,

00:54:30.080 but I

00:54:31.160 like it

00:54:31.620 as an

00:54:32.080 over-claim

00:54:32.840 because it

00:54:33.580 makes you

00:54:33.980 argue about

00:54:34.780 who is he

00:54:37.760 comparing it

00:54:38.380 to and all

00:54:38.960 this,

00:54:39.420 and it

00:54:39.760 makes you

00:54:40.020 focus on

00:54:40.640 his statement.

00:54:41.940 So this

00:54:42.400 is the

00:54:42.680 thing he

00:54:43.000 does all

00:54:43.380 the time

00:54:43.780 and does

00:54:44.080 so well.

00:54:44.780 He'll say

00:54:45.180 something that

00:54:45.760 you're sure

00:54:46.180 sounds wrong,

00:54:48.000 but it's

00:54:48.360 because he

00:54:48.760 wants you

00:54:49.040 to focus

00:54:49.440 on that

00:54:49.880 thing.

00:54:50.800 And the

00:54:51.020 message is

00:54:51.660 if he

00:54:52.840 says he's

00:54:53.280 the least

00:54:53.800 racist

00:54:54.240 person and

00:54:55.360 that he's

00:54:56.740 been best

00:54:57.220 for blacks

00:54:57.920 since maybe

00:54:59.180 Abraham Lincoln,

00:55:00.960 that doesn't

00:55:01.860 need to be

00:55:02.500 true.

00:55:03.720 It only

00:55:04.240 needs to be

00:55:05.120 provocative

00:55:06.420 enough that

00:55:07.220 you can't

00:55:07.600 look away.

00:55:08.900 So if you're

00:55:09.740 talking this

00:55:10.480 morning about

00:55:11.200 whether he's

00:55:11.920 better for black 0.99

00:55:13.300 people since

00:55:14.120 Abraham Lincoln,

00:55:15.280 or that's a

00:55:16.060 lie,

00:55:17.000 he wins.

00:55:17.940 if you're

00:55:19.620 even dealing

00:55:20.180 with the

00:55:20.600 topic of

00:55:21.860 whether he's

00:55:22.360 the best

00:55:22.680 president for

00:55:24.400 the black

00:55:24.920 population since

00:55:26.320 Abraham Lincoln,

00:55:27.300 if you're

00:55:27.800 even talking

00:55:28.460 about it,

00:55:29.960 he wins.

00:55:31.240 So that's

00:55:32.020 not a bad

00:55:32.500 strategy.

00:55:34.880 And even

00:55:35.740 CNN had an

00:55:36.820 article today

00:55:37.540 in which they

00:55:38.760 admitted, or

00:55:39.600 at least the

00:55:40.120 one opinion

00:55:40.680 person,

00:55:41.600 admitted there's

00:55:42.380 some puzzlement

00:55:43.060 about why so

00:55:44.060 many black

00:55:46.020 people like

00:55:46.640 Trump.

00:55:46.960 and this

00:55:49.900 is how they

00:55:50.660 wrote from

00:55:51.940 an opinion

00:55:52.420 piece.

00:55:53.380 It's one of

00:55:53.780 those seemingly

00:55:54.380 hard to explain

00:55:55.360 things.

00:55:56.520 President Donald

00:55:57.240 Trump holds

00:55:58.300 an allure for

00:55:59.140 some black

00:55:59.760 men despite

00:56:00.820 his history of

00:56:01.720 denigrating black

00:56:02.540 Americans.

00:56:04.240 Why history?

00:56:06.120 CNN will just

00:56:07.160 throw that in

00:56:07.880 there.

00:56:08.820 Despite his

00:56:09.580 history of

00:56:10.180 denigrating black

00:56:11.080 Americans, I

00:56:12.400 believe there are

00:56:13.140 literally zero

00:56:14.080 examples of

00:56:14.900 that.

00:56:15.200 what?

00:56:17.620 I mean, even

00:56:18.320 the people who

00:56:19.120 make claims

00:56:20.160 about him, I

00:56:21.500 don't think they

00:56:21.980 make that claim,

00:56:23.200 do they?

00:56:24.480 When has he

00:56:25.680 ever done

00:56:26.040 anything that

00:56:26.960 sounded like

00:56:27.540 denigrating?

00:56:29.380 I'm seeing in

00:56:30.220 the comments

00:56:30.660 somebody says,

00:56:31.560 Scott, Scott,

00:56:32.140 Scott,

00:56:32.980 Central Park

00:56:33.680 Five.

00:56:34.660 The Central

00:56:35.360 Park Five, he

00:56:36.120 didn't mention

00:56:36.620 race at all,

00:56:37.880 nor did he

00:56:38.680 mention the

00:56:39.200 Central Park

00:56:39.740 Five directly.

00:56:41.080 He talked

00:56:41.680 about crime in

00:56:43.020 general, and

00:56:44.200 that it would

00:56:44.580 be good to

00:56:45.020 have the

00:56:45.440 death penalty.

00:56:50.900 So, was

00:56:52.320 that denigrating

00:56:53.200 black people?

00:56:54.660 No.

00:56:55.800 That was just

00:56:56.760 anti-crime.

00:56:58.520 If you're

00:56:59.180 saying that

00:56:59.740 black people

00:57:00.380 and crime are

00:57:01.080 the same thing,

00:57:02.020 because Trump

00:57:02.640 did not say

00:57:03.360 that, well,

00:57:04.600 then I think

00:57:05.040 you need to

00:57:05.420 check your

00:57:05.860 racism, because

00:57:07.260 you're jumping

00:57:07.740 to some

00:57:08.740 conclusion that

00:57:10.860 if somebody's

00:57:11.520 talking about

00:57:12.100 crime, they 0.99

00:57:12.720 must be

00:57:13.220 talking about

00:57:13.820 black people.

00:57:15.000 That's on

00:57:15.620 you, because

00:57:17.020 Trump did

00:57:17.720 not mention

00:57:18.360 race, he

00:57:19.320 mentioned crime.

00:57:20.860 If you

00:57:21.480 leapt to the

00:57:22.380 assumption that

00:57:23.660 that means

00:57:24.180 black, that's 0.99

00:57:25.720 on you.

00:57:28.060 All right.

00:57:30.820 And so

00:57:31.280 they say,

00:57:33.260 and they

00:57:34.460 showed some

00:57:35.080 puzzlement

00:57:35.720 that, you

00:57:36.480 know, 50

00:57:37.260 cent was

00:57:38.080 pro-Trump,

00:57:38.960 et cetera.

00:57:39.960 And I'm

00:57:41.220 not surprised

00:57:42.040 by it at

00:57:42.600 all, really.

00:57:44.800 Not surprised

00:57:45.500 by it all.

00:57:46.340 One of the

00:57:46.760 things that I

00:57:48.500 always remind

00:57:49.220 you is that

00:57:50.180 you can't

00:57:51.000 really know

00:57:51.940 how other

00:57:52.540 people think.

00:57:53.940 So I can't

00:57:55.020 know how

00:57:55.480 black Americans

00:57:56.320 think, no

00:57:57.160 matter how

00:57:57.660 hard I try.

00:57:58.960 I mean, I

00:57:59.280 could do my

00:57:59.840 best, but

00:58:00.880 it's not

00:58:01.160 really, you

00:58:02.380 can't really

00:58:02.900 understand how

00:58:04.660 anybody else

00:58:05.480 thinks, same

00:58:06.220 as they can't

00:58:06.840 understand how

00:58:07.400 I think,

00:58:08.020 et cetera.

00:58:09.240 But here's

00:58:12.240 something I

00:58:12.980 wonder, so

00:58:14.100 I'll just put

00:58:14.580 it in the

00:58:14.960 form of a

00:58:15.480 question.

00:58:16.620 If you

00:58:17.240 were black

00:58:17.820 in America,

00:58:19.640 and let's

00:58:20.520 say you

00:58:20.920 were a

00:58:21.300 black man

00:58:22.160 in America,

00:58:23.760 do you

00:58:24.440 feel like

00:58:25.120 sometimes the

00:58:26.460 system is

00:58:27.560 biased against

00:58:28.940 you?

00:58:30.020 You do,

00:58:30.840 right?

00:58:31.380 That's probably

00:58:31.920 a dominant

00:58:32.460 feeling.

00:58:33.400 At least,

00:58:34.080 again, I'm

00:58:35.260 not inside

00:58:35.980 anybody's head,

00:58:36.780 but that's

00:58:38.000 what's

00:58:38.280 reported,

00:58:40.000 that black 1.00

00:58:40.840 men feel

00:58:41.720 that the

00:58:42.120 system is

00:58:42.800 biased against

00:58:43.980 them.

00:58:44.920 Do you

00:58:45.220 know who

00:58:45.520 else feels

00:58:46.040 that?

00:58:47.400 Donald

00:58:48.000 Trump.

00:58:49.940 Trump is

00:58:51.320 probably the

00:58:52.360 most attacked

00:58:53.220 person by

00:58:54.100 the system

00:58:54.740 that's the

00:58:55.840 same system

00:58:56.540 attacking black 1.00

00:58:57.300 people, or

00:58:57.900 it would feel

00:58:58.680 like it.

00:58:59.440 I feel like

00:59:00.380 if you were

00:59:01.620 black, you 0.99

00:59:02.380 would have

00:59:02.780 something that

00:59:04.700 feels like you

00:59:05.480 have in

00:59:05.880 common with

00:59:06.560 Trump, which

00:59:08.320 is that the

00:59:09.140 system is

00:59:09.800 against you,

00:59:10.680 has targeted

00:59:11.340 you.

00:59:12.320 And I don't

00:59:12.860 think that's

00:59:13.280 a small thing,

00:59:14.600 because, you

00:59:15.060 know, the

00:59:15.340 enemy of my

00:59:16.300 enemy is my

00:59:16.900 friend situation.

00:59:18.900 Trump is

00:59:19.820 targeted by

00:59:21.020 the same

00:59:21.500 system that

00:59:22.240 black people

00:59:23.540 probably think

00:59:24.420 is targeting

00:59:25.020 them.

00:59:26.280 That's

00:59:26.840 something.

00:59:28.060 How about

00:59:28.500 the fact that

00:59:29.460 if you're

00:59:29.840 black, you 0.99

00:59:30.760 feel like

00:59:31.460 racism isn't

00:59:32.620 something that

00:59:33.320 just pops up

00:59:34.700 now and

00:59:35.120 then, but

00:59:36.320 rather you're

00:59:37.040 marinating it

00:59:38.960 all the

00:59:39.460 time.

00:59:40.520 So what if

00:59:41.300 you were

00:59:41.580 black and

00:59:42.220 you just

00:59:42.520 thought, okay,

00:59:43.560 I can't

00:59:44.020 really get

00:59:44.660 away from

00:59:45.180 it.

00:59:46.180 It sort

00:59:46.960 of doesn't

00:59:47.360 matter who's

00:59:47.900 president.

00:59:48.400 It's just

00:59:48.740 sort of

00:59:49.100 everywhere all

00:59:50.320 the time.

00:59:51.260 Let's say

00:59:51.760 that's your

00:59:52.140 point of view.

00:59:53.920 Wouldn't you

00:59:54.520 then vote for

00:59:55.320 the president

00:59:55.800 who could at

00:59:56.360 least get you

00:59:56.880 the most

00:59:57.220 stuff?

00:59:58.160 If you think

00:59:58.960 it's going to

00:59:59.360 be racism all

01:00:00.360 the time,

01:00:00.860 everywhere, no

01:00:01.480 matter what,

01:00:02.160 and you've

01:00:03.400 got two

01:00:03.780 candidates,

01:00:05.080 one has

01:00:05.780 done a

01:00:06.380 bunch of

01:00:06.720 stuff for

01:00:07.360 black

01:00:07.660 Americans,

01:00:08.100 which the

01:00:08.660 president can

01:00:09.280 list from

01:00:10.520 Opportunity

01:00:11.380 Zones,

01:00:11.860 the Platinum

01:00:12.340 Plan,

01:00:13.620 prison reform,

01:00:17.620 historically black

01:00:18.360 colleges.

01:00:19.200 It's a pretty

01:00:19.640 long list now.

01:00:20.440 It's pretty

01:00:20.760 solid.

01:00:22.420 So if you're

01:00:22.860 black and

01:00:23.960 you say to

01:00:24.380 yourself, I

01:00:25.180 think it's

01:00:25.600 just going to

01:00:25.980 be racism all

01:00:26.960 the time, no

01:00:27.580 matter what,

01:00:28.620 maybe we can

01:00:29.160 make a little

01:00:29.680 dent in it,

01:00:30.480 but these two

01:00:31.640 presidential

01:00:33.460 candidates don't

01:00:34.380 make any

01:00:34.740 difference.

01:00:35.920 I might as

01:00:36.320 well take the

01:00:36.780 one who gives

01:00:37.260 me more

01:00:37.640 stuff.

01:00:38.960 Is that

01:00:39.540 irrational?

01:00:41.140 If you can't

01:00:42.180 fix that other

01:00:42.820 problem, at

01:00:44.160 least fix the

01:00:45.320 problem you

01:00:45.680 can fix.

01:00:46.860 Get some

01:00:47.300 stuff.

01:00:50.880 Let's see.

01:00:55.000 Larry

01:00:55.520 Charles, my

01:00:57.220 old co-executive

01:00:58.580 producer on

01:00:59.380 the Dilbert TV

01:01:01.200 show years

01:01:01.780 ago, who is

01:01:04.480 famous for a

01:01:05.340 number of

01:01:05.680 things, including

01:01:06.600 being one of

01:01:07.380 the first

01:01:07.820 writers on

01:01:08.640 Seinfeld.

01:01:11.200 He was the

01:01:12.480 director of the

01:01:13.140 first Borat

01:01:14.000 movie, I

01:01:14.520 believe.

01:01:15.700 And he's very

01:01:16.400 anti-Trump.

01:01:17.660 And he tweeted

01:01:18.520 this yesterday, I

01:01:20.080 think.

01:01:20.600 He said,

01:01:21.100 long after Trump

01:01:22.040 is hopefully

01:01:22.600 gone, we will

01:01:23.820 still have to

01:01:24.400 deal with the

01:01:24.920 millions and

01:01:25.440 millions of

01:01:26.020 rabid people

01:01:26.840 who bought

01:01:27.760 into his hate.

01:01:28.560 They're not

01:01:29.720 going to have

01:01:30.240 a sudden

01:01:30.640 change of

01:01:31.180 heart just

01:01:31.780 because he's

01:01:32.340 gone.

01:01:33.180 That reckoning

01:01:33.900 is still to

01:01:34.740 come.

01:01:35.720 To which I

01:01:36.280 say to

01:01:36.580 myself, what?

01:01:39.220 Who's he

01:01:39.900 talking about?

01:01:41.480 Are you

01:01:41.980 aware of

01:01:42.780 any conservatives

01:01:44.120 or Trump

01:01:44.880 supporters who

01:01:48.080 are rabid

01:01:48.660 people who

01:01:49.180 bought into

01:01:49.680 his hate?

01:01:51.180 I'm not

01:01:51.860 aware of

01:01:52.220 any of

01:01:52.540 that.

01:01:53.600 Are you?

01:01:55.040 Now, of

01:01:56.260 course, there

01:01:56.720 are always

01:01:57.120 crazy people

01:01:57.980 who will

01:01:59.580 pick a

01:02:00.360 reason, they'll

01:02:01.060 pick a

01:02:01.400 religion, or

01:02:02.240 they'll pick a

01:02:02.760 leader, or

01:02:03.380 they'll pick

01:02:03.680 something.

01:02:04.760 So could

01:02:05.460 there be

01:02:05.880 some crazy

01:02:06.960 right-leaning

01:02:08.620 person who

01:02:09.240 does a bad

01:02:09.860 thing because

01:02:10.480 of him?

01:02:10.920 Yeah, I

01:02:11.640 suppose.

01:02:12.900 But is

01:02:13.600 it some big

01:02:14.280 general problem

01:02:15.180 that just

01:02:17.620 regular Trump

01:02:18.560 voters are

01:02:19.260 filled with

01:02:19.800 hate and

01:02:21.000 that it's

01:02:21.400 somehow worse

01:02:22.080 because of

01:02:22.560 Trump?

01:02:22.820 Trump, I

01:02:24.260 don't see

01:02:24.620 any of

01:02:25.100 that.

01:02:26.000 Do you?

01:02:27.040 The only

01:02:27.620 people who

01:02:28.160 seem to be

01:02:28.680 filled with

01:02:29.220 hate seem

01:02:30.840 to be the

01:02:31.300 left.

01:02:31.860 Is that?

01:02:33.420 Somebody says,

01:02:34.300 are you

01:02:34.580 kidding?

01:02:35.600 So that's

01:02:36.540 sort of a

01:02:38.840 perfect example

01:02:40.240 of the two

01:02:41.320 movies on one

01:02:42.100 screen.

01:02:42.940 So there's

01:02:43.660 somebody in

01:02:44.180 the comments

01:02:44.780 who is just

01:02:46.920 blown away.

01:02:47.580 It's like,

01:02:47.860 are you

01:02:48.120 kidding?

01:02:48.520 It's obvious,

01:02:49.480 I imagine

01:02:50.140 this person

01:02:50.680 would think,

01:02:51.680 it's obvious

01:02:52.280 that the

01:02:52.720 right is

01:02:53.080 just filled

01:02:53.640 with hate.

01:02:55.080 But I

01:02:55.800 spend all

01:02:56.480 of my

01:02:56.840 time with

01:02:57.340 the right,

01:02:58.140 I don't

01:02:58.840 see any

01:02:59.320 of it.

01:03:00.620 Like,

01:03:00.920 I've never

01:03:01.340 had a

01:03:01.700 private

01:03:02.020 conversation

01:03:02.740 with anybody

01:03:04.220 on the

01:03:04.620 right,

01:03:04.960 and I've

01:03:05.300 had a lot

01:03:05.880 of them

01:03:06.180 in the last

01:03:06.800 four years.

01:03:07.680 I've had a

01:03:08.300 lot of

01:03:08.960 private

01:03:09.320 conversations

01:03:10.020 with Trump

01:03:11.160 supporters.

01:03:12.020 I've never

01:03:12.640 seen anybody

01:03:14.180 who had

01:03:15.640 kind of a

01:03:16.300 hate

01:03:16.700 vibe about

01:03:19.160 them at

01:03:19.440 all.

01:03:20.660 Not at

01:03:21.200 all.

01:03:23.040 But yet,

01:03:24.100 I get

01:03:24.680 pure hate

01:03:25.500 from the

01:03:26.700 left.

01:03:27.920 Their

01:03:28.220 attitude,

01:03:29.400 even this,

01:03:31.280 the thing I

01:03:32.060 just read

01:03:32.540 from Larry

01:03:33.680 Charles,

01:03:34.600 that reads

01:03:35.560 a little bit

01:03:36.300 like hate,

01:03:37.560 doesn't it?

01:03:38.860 I don't know

01:03:39.600 that any,

01:03:40.680 I can't think

01:03:41.420 of any

01:03:41.700 conservative

01:03:42.220 who would

01:03:42.640 ever write

01:03:43.060 anything like

01:03:43.660 this.

01:03:44.400 I don't

01:03:44.820 know anybody

01:03:45.440 who would

01:03:45.720 write anything

01:03:46.300 as bad

01:03:47.020 as what

01:03:48.300 Larry wrote

01:03:48.940 about other

01:03:50.960 people being

01:03:51.460 bad.

01:03:53.320 So,

01:03:53.940 you know,

01:03:54.640 I'm aware,

01:03:55.660 now let me

01:03:56.760 give you a

01:03:59.160 little bit of

01:03:59.620 comfort if

01:04:00.320 you're

01:04:00.500 disagreeing.

01:04:01.680 Somebody says

01:04:02.260 try being

01:04:02.760 black.

01:04:03.780 Do you

01:04:04.100 think that

01:04:04.920 Republicans

01:04:06.620 are more

01:04:07.600 anti-black

01:04:08.580 because of

01:04:09.260 Trump?

01:04:10.520 Really?

01:04:11.760 Because Trump

01:04:12.720 does nothing

01:04:13.420 but brag

01:04:14.060 about what

01:04:14.500 he's done

01:04:14.820 for black

01:04:15.280 America.

01:04:16.340 Does that

01:04:16.920 make you

01:04:17.260 dislike

01:04:17.700 blacks? 0.92

01:04:18.680 I don't

01:04:19.320 think so.

01:04:20.660 I don't

01:04:21.380 think so.

01:04:23.500 Do

01:04:24.100 racists

01:04:25.420 exist?

01:04:26.160 Of course.

01:04:27.640 Are there

01:04:28.100 more of

01:04:28.580 them because

01:04:29.120 of Trump?

01:04:29.940 I don't

01:04:30.360 think so.

01:04:31.720 I'm

01:04:32.080 certainly

01:04:32.320 not seeing

01:04:32.900 anything

01:04:33.200 like that.

01:04:34.620 Now,

01:04:35.760 are there,

01:04:37.940 let's

01:04:38.820 dovetail

01:04:39.380 this story

01:04:39.920 into this

01:04:40.540 next point,

01:04:42.260 which is

01:04:42.860 CNN is

01:04:47.080 talking about

01:04:48.060 a white

01:04:48.520 supremacist

01:04:49.220 group,

01:04:50.360 according to

01:04:50.980 them,

01:04:51.860 that's

01:04:52.220 talking about

01:04:52.860 paramilitary

01:04:53.740 training in

01:04:54.660 secret vetting

01:04:56.220 calls.

01:04:57.640 So the

01:04:58.320 story is that

01:04:58.980 there are

01:04:59.240 these phone

01:04:59.960 calls and

01:05:00.660 these paramilitary

01:05:01.520 groups that

01:05:02.760 are really

01:05:03.160 white supremacists

01:05:04.300 are forming.

01:05:05.900 That's pretty

01:05:06.320 scary, isn't

01:05:07.020 it?

01:05:07.920 That's the

01:05:08.560 sort of thing

01:05:09.020 that Larry

01:05:09.560 might have

01:05:10.080 noted.

01:05:10.580 Wow,

01:05:11.700 if there's

01:05:12.100 a white

01:05:12.480 supremacy

01:05:12.940 group that's

01:05:14.800 gathering

01:05:15.980 weapons and

01:05:16.740 organizing,

01:05:17.480 you're afraid,

01:05:18.760 aren't you?

01:05:19.540 Well, let's

01:05:20.020 dig in a

01:05:20.640 little bit.

01:05:21.520 Let's find

01:05:22.000 out more

01:05:22.500 about this

01:05:23.120 white supremacist

01:05:24.540 group.

01:05:25.400 It's called

01:05:26.100 The Base.

01:05:27.340 Let me

01:05:27.700 start by

01:05:28.180 saying I

01:05:28.780 am not

01:05:29.280 defending

01:05:30.620 anybody.

01:05:32.860 I'm not

01:05:33.440 anybody's

01:05:34.060 apologist.

01:05:35.700 I'm just

01:05:36.100 going to

01:05:36.400 describe,

01:05:37.380 okay?

01:05:38.340 I can

01:05:38.740 describe without

01:05:40.040 defending.

01:05:40.880 Are you

01:05:41.140 okay with

01:05:41.480 that?

01:05:42.600 Some

01:05:43.100 things have

01:05:43.520 good things

01:05:44.080 and bad

01:05:44.460 things.

01:05:45.160 If I

01:05:45.560 describe the

01:05:46.160 good things

01:05:46.600 and the

01:05:46.860 bad things,

01:05:47.600 I'm not

01:05:48.220 defending,

01:05:49.300 just

01:05:49.600 describing.

01:05:51.480 All right?

01:05:52.220 And the

01:05:53.100 SPLC,

01:05:54.540 Southern

01:05:54.920 Poverty Law

01:05:55.700 Center,

01:05:56.080 whose job

01:05:56.760 it is to

01:05:57.340 look for

01:05:58.320 hate groups

01:05:58.920 and call

01:05:59.660 them out,

01:06:00.920 has decided

01:06:01.740 that The

01:06:02.180 Base is a

01:06:03.680 white supremacist

01:06:04.780 group.

01:06:05.700 What is it

01:06:06.600 that makes

01:06:07.300 them decide

01:06:08.140 that The

01:06:09.260 Base is a

01:06:09.960 white supremacist

01:06:10.800 group?

01:06:11.560 Is it the

01:06:12.640 mission statement

01:06:13.520 of the

01:06:14.160 group?

01:06:15.460 Nope.

01:06:16.460 Because the

01:06:17.140 mission statement

01:06:17.800 of the group

01:06:18.400 has nothing to

01:06:19.560 do with race.

01:06:21.120 They're a

01:06:21.460 militia.

01:06:22.680 They're a

01:06:23.160 militia whose

01:06:24.400 intention is to

01:06:25.620 be organized in

01:06:26.620 case society

01:06:27.600 falls apart.

01:06:29.020 Which part of

01:06:29.820 that is racist?

01:06:31.580 Now, oh, I

01:06:32.360 know what you're

01:06:32.700 saying, Scott,

01:06:33.320 Scott, Scott.

01:06:34.220 You're so

01:06:34.900 naive.

01:06:36.020 They're not

01:06:36.640 going to say it

01:06:37.340 directly, and

01:06:38.580 if anybody

01:06:39.000 asks them,

01:06:39.580 they're going

01:06:39.840 to deny

01:06:40.300 it, right?

01:06:41.720 But I ask

01:06:42.600 you this.

01:06:43.760 Who gets

01:06:44.280 to decide

01:06:45.080 who's a

01:06:46.460 white supremacist

01:06:47.260 group?

01:06:48.280 For example,

01:06:49.800 let's say you

01:06:50.460 start a bird

01:06:51.340 watching group

01:06:52.040 in your

01:06:52.360 neighborhood.

01:06:53.520 You get

01:06:53.940 50 people

01:06:54.760 in your

01:06:55.100 bird watching

01:06:55.620 group.

01:06:56.860 Two of

01:06:57.320 them, you 0.56

01:06:57.840 learn later,

01:06:59.380 posted some

01:07:00.120 racist things

01:07:00.940 on Facebook.

01:07:01.980 Is your

01:07:03.600 bird watching

01:07:04.200 group now

01:07:05.560 actually a

01:07:06.280 white supremacist

01:07:07.140 group?

01:07:08.100 Because you

01:07:08.720 do have, you

01:07:10.240 got some

01:07:10.600 racists in

01:07:11.220 there, and

01:07:12.140 that's just

01:07:12.560 a fact.

01:07:13.900 But it's

01:07:14.560 two of

01:07:14.900 them, and

01:07:16.560 they said

01:07:17.000 they're racist

01:07:17.460 stuff with

01:07:18.340 no connection

01:07:19.080 to your

01:07:19.520 bird watching,

01:07:20.560 and they're

01:07:21.500 not trying to

01:07:22.140 bring the

01:07:22.520 bird watching

01:07:23.060 into your

01:07:23.500 bird watching,

01:07:24.120 or the

01:07:24.500 racism into

01:07:25.300 the bird

01:07:25.620 watching,

01:07:26.280 because your

01:07:27.000 bird watching

01:07:27.480 group would

01:07:28.160 say, whoa,

01:07:28.580 whoa, whoa,

01:07:28.880 we're not a

01:07:29.380 racist group,

01:07:30.300 we just want

01:07:31.100 to watch

01:07:31.380 birds.

01:07:31.760 So if the

01:07:34.220 Southern Poverty

01:07:35.000 Law Center

01:07:35.580 observed that

01:07:37.460 bird watching

01:07:38.360 group, how

01:07:39.360 would they

01:07:39.660 label them?

01:07:40.980 Well, probably

01:07:41.780 exactly the way

01:07:42.700 they labeled

01:07:43.200 this group

01:07:43.820 called the

01:07:44.540 base.

01:07:45.580 And again,

01:07:46.340 I'm not

01:07:46.880 defending them,

01:07:48.280 I'm just

01:07:48.900 describing.

01:07:50.480 The base

01:07:51.320 does not

01:07:51.800 call themselves

01:07:52.600 a racist

01:07:53.580 group, and

01:07:54.220 in fact, none

01:07:55.240 of their

01:07:55.480 mission statement

01:07:56.240 involves race

01:07:57.020 at all.

01:07:58.160 It's just a

01:07:58.940 militia about

01:07:59.800 being prepared

01:08:01.160 for the

01:08:02.140 worst-case

01:08:02.600 scenario.

01:08:03.940 But there

01:08:05.420 does seem

01:08:05.880 to be

01:08:06.160 evidence that

01:08:07.420 members of

01:08:08.220 this group,

01:08:09.460 outside of

01:08:10.180 the group,

01:08:11.420 and separately

01:08:12.120 from what the

01:08:12.880 group is

01:08:13.240 doing, are

01:08:14.380 seriously

01:08:14.960 racist.

01:08:17.100 But are

01:08:18.160 they white

01:08:18.560 supremacists,

01:08:19.600 which is a

01:08:20.300 certain flavor?

01:08:21.520 Well, there's

01:08:21.900 no evidence

01:08:22.440 of that.

01:08:24.220 But it's

01:08:25.800 sort of a

01:08:26.440 standard now

01:08:27.860 that if

01:08:28.200 somebody is a

01:08:28.800 racist, that

01:08:30.060 they also are

01:08:30.780 called a

01:08:31.140 white supremacist,

01:08:32.620 which is

01:08:33.080 really a

01:08:34.160 different thing.

01:08:35.720 Equally

01:08:36.240 bad, in

01:08:37.580 its own

01:08:37.940 way, but

01:08:39.260 there's a

01:08:39.800 distinction that

01:08:40.540 matters, which

01:08:41.120 is do you

01:08:41.800 think you're

01:08:42.220 better than

01:08:42.740 other races,

01:08:44.200 or do you

01:08:44.700 just prefer

01:08:45.360 that you

01:08:45.760 stay away

01:08:46.200 from them?

01:08:47.300 Because that's

01:08:47.740 different.

01:08:48.760 The supremacists

01:08:49.700 think that

01:08:50.400 they're better.

01:08:51.920 I've never

01:08:52.540 met one, nor

01:08:53.740 have I ever

01:08:54.140 seen one.

01:08:55.040 Because the

01:08:55.620 only racists

01:08:56.500 that I know

01:08:57.140 in 2020

01:08:57.900 are worried

01:08:59.420 that they're

01:08:59.800 not as

01:09:00.260 good as

01:09:00.720 the other

01:09:01.180 groups, which

01:09:02.380 is why

01:09:02.700 they're worried,

01:09:03.560 because they

01:09:04.040 don't feel

01:09:04.420 they can

01:09:04.820 compete.

01:09:06.400 So it's

01:09:06.700 like the

01:09:07.240 racists are

01:09:08.600 more like

01:09:09.060 white

01:09:09.820 inferiorists

01:09:11.180 than

01:09:11.660 supremacists,

01:09:12.620 because they're

01:09:13.140 literally mostly

01:09:13.900 afraid of

01:09:14.500 losing ground.

01:09:16.320 They don't

01:09:16.560 think they

01:09:16.900 can compete.

01:09:17.540 all right, so

01:09:19.020 the SPLC

01:09:22.020 has called

01:09:22.520 this group

01:09:23.000 a white

01:09:23.460 supremacist

01:09:24.040 group, and

01:09:24.980 I would argue

01:09:25.560 that groups

01:09:26.860 only get to

01:09:28.240 label themselves.

01:09:29.840 I think groups

01:09:30.620 should label

01:09:31.180 themselves, and

01:09:32.480 just the fact

01:09:33.500 that they have

01:09:33.960 some bad

01:09:34.480 apples in their

01:09:35.180 group is no

01:09:36.400 different than

01:09:36.920 Democrats.

01:09:38.580 Would you

01:09:39.240 say that

01:09:39.900 CNN is a

01:09:43.620 Zoom

01:09:44.240 masturbating

01:09:45.260 group?

01:09:47.540 we have

01:09:48.400 evidence,

01:09:49.060 right?

01:09:49.860 Jeffrey

01:09:50.440 Toobin

01:09:50.960 was doing

01:09:52.840 a little

01:09:53.100 Toobin on

01:09:53.800 Zoom, so

01:09:55.320 he was a

01:09:56.660 member of

01:09:57.480 CNN.

01:09:59.320 Could we

01:09:59.720 not conclude

01:10:00.340 then that

01:10:01.280 CNN is a

01:10:02.460 Zoom

01:10:02.800 masturbating

01:10:03.700 organization?

01:10:05.140 Because that's

01:10:05.740 what the

01:10:06.020 SPLC does.

01:10:07.460 They say if

01:10:07.960 there's somebody

01:10:08.520 in your group

01:10:09.340 who did

01:10:10.200 something that's

01:10:11.120 disreputable,

01:10:13.900 then that's

01:10:14.380 the whole

01:10:14.640 group.

01:10:14.960 So,

01:10:17.980 anyway,

01:10:18.940 watch out

01:10:19.260 for that.

01:10:20.620 I saw an

01:10:21.560 answer to a

01:10:22.140 question that

01:10:22.680 I was pretty

01:10:23.240 sure was the

01:10:24.300 way I thought

01:10:24.800 it was,

01:10:25.260 which is the

01:10:26.240 question of

01:10:26.780 whether Trump

01:10:27.400 is building

01:10:28.300 the wall,

01:10:29.260 or he's

01:10:30.100 doing nothing

01:10:30.640 but improving

01:10:32.240 or replacing

01:10:33.920 wall that

01:10:34.500 already existed.

01:10:36.000 Now, the

01:10:36.680 Democrats say,

01:10:37.480 oh, he's not

01:10:38.320 building any

01:10:38.900 wall, he's

01:10:39.440 just doing

01:10:40.920 maintenance on

01:10:41.640 existing wall.

01:10:42.460 is he?

01:10:44.960 Or is he

01:10:45.620 building new

01:10:46.160 wall?

01:10:47.320 They can't

01:10:47.940 both be true,

01:10:48.680 right?

01:10:49.260 Now, what I

01:10:49.800 assumed was

01:10:50.460 true, it

01:10:51.080 turns out,

01:10:51.740 is true,

01:10:52.500 which is the

01:10:53.440 existing wall

01:10:54.500 was so

01:10:55.580 inadequate that

01:10:57.240 it wasn't

01:10:57.640 really a wall

01:10:58.240 at all.

01:10:58.660 It was like

01:10:58.940 some barbed

01:10:59.480 wire and

01:11:00.100 some things

01:11:00.560 you can just

01:11:01.000 move out of

01:11:01.480 the way,

01:11:02.380 some barriers.

01:11:04.260 The old

01:11:05.300 or existing

01:11:06.080 wall, there

01:11:06.980 was just

01:11:07.260 some barbed

01:11:07.760 wire and

01:11:08.340 an obstacle,

01:11:10.640 was essentially

01:11:11.600 no wall.

01:11:13.420 Because a

01:11:14.060 wall that

01:11:14.420 doesn't stop

01:11:14.960 anybody isn't

01:11:16.620 really a wall.

01:11:18.260 It's more

01:11:18.680 like it's a

01:11:19.380 little friction.

01:11:21.180 A wall that

01:11:21.840 stops most

01:11:22.980 people, that's

01:11:24.820 a wall.

01:11:25.940 So I would

01:11:26.760 say that they

01:11:27.220 are building a

01:11:27.840 wall for the

01:11:28.620 first time,

01:11:29.580 because what

01:11:30.040 they had there

01:11:30.540 was some

01:11:30.880 kind of a

01:11:31.440 barrier obstacle

01:11:32.800 that was very

01:11:33.540 un-wall-like.

01:11:35.040 So I think

01:11:35.560 that I would

01:11:36.160 fact-check the

01:11:37.540 president as

01:11:38.460 correct, saying

01:11:39.600 that it's

01:11:40.000 new wall,

01:11:41.040 even though

01:11:41.700 there was

01:11:42.160 some kind

01:11:42.800 of barrier

01:11:43.380 there before

01:11:44.020 that wasn't

01:11:44.560 effective.

01:11:49.020 Somebody says

01:11:49.920 that Biden's

01:11:50.960 drug cocktail

01:11:51.700 was clearly

01:11:52.620 wearing off.

01:11:53.920 Well, I was

01:11:54.500 looking carefully

01:11:55.380 at Biden's

01:11:57.320 eyes, because I

01:11:59.040 feel like you

01:11:59.560 can see his

01:12:00.320 soul in his

01:12:02.740 eyes, so to

01:12:03.580 speak.

01:12:04.340 And his

01:12:05.040 eyes, when he

01:12:06.380 is doing his

01:12:07.120 debates, do

01:12:08.620 not look the

01:12:09.400 same as his

01:12:10.920 eyes look all

01:12:12.260 the other times.

01:12:13.420 In other words,

01:12:14.080 he does look like

01:12:15.080 he's on something.

01:12:17.540 Now, I'm not a

01:12:19.000 doctor.

01:12:19.360 doctor, I

01:12:20.260 shouldn't be

01:12:20.680 saying this in

01:12:21.400 public.

01:12:22.440 I'm giving you

01:12:23.300 my impression,

01:12:24.980 because our

01:12:25.600 impressions of

01:12:27.480 how we felt or

01:12:28.820 what we thought

01:12:29.580 when we watch

01:12:30.760 our politicians,

01:12:31.640 that's valid.

01:12:32.700 It would be

01:12:33.460 invalid for me to

01:12:34.560 say he's on a

01:12:36.100 drug.

01:12:37.080 That would be

01:12:37.660 invalid, because

01:12:38.360 I'm not a

01:12:38.820 doctor.

01:12:39.620 It's completely

01:12:40.400 valid for me to

01:12:42.140 say the way he

01:12:42.880 was acting leads

01:12:44.440 me to feel like

01:12:45.420 he's on some

01:12:46.500 kind of

01:12:46.860 medication.

01:12:47.360 That's valid,

01:12:49.160 because I'm just

01:12:49.620 telling you how

01:12:50.060 I feel, and

01:12:51.400 how we feel

01:12:52.100 about our

01:12:52.520 politicians is

01:12:53.300 part of the

01:12:53.760 story.

01:12:55.160 So, you

01:12:56.340 know, would

01:12:57.060 I, if I had

01:12:58.460 to reach into

01:12:58.900 my pocket and

01:12:59.760 make a financial

01:13:01.060 bet on whether

01:13:03.160 Biden was,

01:13:04.660 let's say,

01:13:05.280 cranked up for

01:13:06.240 these events,

01:13:07.640 and maybe not

01:13:08.640 cranked up with

01:13:09.700 some medical

01:13:11.420 treatment the

01:13:12.880 rest of the

01:13:13.280 time, I

01:13:14.260 would bet on

01:13:14.740 it.

01:13:15.320 I'd bet $1,000

01:13:16.240 that he

01:13:17.120 takes some

01:13:18.020 kind of

01:13:18.460 medical

01:13:18.880 intervention

01:13:19.580 for the

01:13:20.240 debates that

01:13:21.900 he is not

01:13:22.460 typically on.

01:13:24.280 Would you?

01:13:25.840 Now, again,

01:13:26.880 I'm not a

01:13:27.540 doctor.

01:13:28.140 I don't

01:13:28.580 diagnose.

01:13:30.200 You know, I

01:13:30.780 could certainly

01:13:31.240 be wrong.

01:13:32.480 Don't take my

01:13:33.160 medical advice.

01:13:34.880 But that's

01:13:35.260 what it looks

01:13:35.620 like.

01:13:36.440 It looks like

01:13:36.920 that to me.

01:13:39.040 All right.

01:13:40.260 And that

01:13:41.140 is everything

01:13:43.860 we need to

01:13:44.440 know for

01:13:45.520 today.

01:13:45.840 Biden does

01:13:48.500 have this

01:13:48.960 look where

01:13:49.680 he looks

01:13:50.100 like he's

01:13:50.580 lost.

01:13:51.860 Have you

01:13:52.160 seen it?

01:13:52.960 Every now

01:13:53.460 and then

01:13:53.740 he just

01:13:54.760 has this

01:13:55.240 squinty

01:13:55.940 look, and

01:13:57.080 he'd look in

01:13:57.500 his eyes, and

01:13:58.100 it's like

01:13:58.360 there's nothing

01:13:58.840 there.

01:13:59.760 It's like

01:14:00.020 he's lost

01:14:01.620 the plot

01:14:02.540 for a little

01:14:02.980 bit, and

01:14:03.980 then he

01:14:04.240 covers it

01:14:04.700 up by

01:14:05.020 acting angry

01:14:05.780 and saying

01:14:06.540 things he

01:14:07.000 said in

01:14:07.380 the past

01:14:07.860 until he

01:14:08.780 gets back

01:14:09.360 on the

01:14:09.640 trail.

01:14:09.880 So, yeah,

01:14:12.320 there's

01:14:13.040 something about

01:14:13.660 a look he

01:14:14.740 has that

01:14:15.560 is pretty

01:14:16.360 disconcerting.

01:14:21.280 All right.

01:14:22.400 That's all I

01:14:22.880 got for now,

01:14:23.580 and I will

01:14:23.980 talk to you

01:14:24.560 tomorrow.

01:14:26.800 after a

01:14:43.720 billion

01:14:45.060 or

01:14:45.480 one

01:14:45.900 or

01:14:45.980 one

01:14:46.880 or

01:14:47.080 one

01:14:47.640 or

01:14:47.840 one

01:14:52.360 one

01:14:52.700 one

01:14:52.820 and

01:14:52.920 one

01:14:53.820 one

01:14:54.640 two

01:14:54.700 another

01:14:55.200 two

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - October 23, 2020

Episode 1163 Scott Adams： Who Won the Debate and Why, Bobulinski Bombshell, Fake News Galore

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