Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1283 Scott Adams： I Tell You How Trump's Lawyers Eviscerated Democrats' Impeachment Case, Lots More

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody. Come on in. Come on in. Gather round. It's going to be a barn burner today.

00:00:09.980 Yeah, I'm in a good mood. Good mood because of the news. Do you know what it takes to put me

00:00:16.260 in a good mood because of the news? Lots of juicy fake news. I love digging into the fake news,

00:00:24.820 but I especially like it when President Trump is in the headlines. Because have you noticed the

00:00:33.000 great darkness that has descended upon us when we have nothing to talk about?

00:00:38.680 Because Biden's strategy is to make politics so boring that nobody really checks too much on what

00:00:47.720 he's doing. And it's working. But we miss the excitement. The excitement of Trump back in the

00:00:56.020 fight, even when he's not there personally. Even not there personally. He's still the most exciting

00:01:02.720 thing happening. Well, before I tell you how his defense team eviscerated the Democrats' case,

00:01:10.160 let us prepare for this properly. All you need is a cup or a mug or a glass of tank or chalice or

00:01:15.560 stein, a canteen, a jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like

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00:01:36.080 I got a very sincere, let's say, constructive criticism about my live streams yesterday.

00:01:45.560 And one of my viewers said, I'm paraphrasing, I hate to tell you this, don't take it wrong,

00:01:54.880 but you're a slow talker. You're a slow talker. And when I watch your live streams, I have to speed

00:02:01.940 it up to 1.5 times the speed just to get through it. To which I say, is there any other way to listen

00:02:11.500 to a podcast? When I heard that, I thought to myself, are you telling me there's some people

00:02:17.660 who don't speed up podcasts? And I think that the difference is, and I'd like to check this with you,

00:02:27.740 the audience. Tell me if this is true or false. I believe there are two ways that people consume

00:02:35.280 my live streams. One is they're just trying to pick out some good ideas or any tips or just useful

00:02:41.780 stuff. In which case, listening to it at 1.5 speed is a good idea. Speed it up a little bit. Get to the

00:02:48.580 point. But I also believe that some of you use it almost like having company. Almost like it's more

00:02:58.920 about the hour and the coffee than it is about the specific information that's being transmitted.

00:03:07.540 Now, that's the way I watch the TV show The Five. When I watch The Five, which I try to watch pretty

00:03:15.560 much every episode, when I watch it, it's more like watching five people that I like talking about

00:03:23.060 stuff I'm interested in. And I like the time. So it's not just the information. I just like the time

00:03:30.560 that we spend together, so to speak. So there are two reasons to watch this. One is you just enjoy the

00:03:37.040 time, and the other is to get some nuggets out. But certainly, if you didn't know you could speed

00:03:42.300 these up, now you do. Just look in YouTube menus. You'll find out how. All right. Here's some

00:03:49.580 thoughts. We'll get to the impeachment, of course. You know, we're trying to figure out who,

00:03:56.380 what Republican will be the strongest candidate in 2024. I had been thinking that Tom Cotton would

00:04:03.700 be the strongest candidate eventually. You know, there's a lot of bubbling around, but he seemed

00:04:10.840 like he would be a strong candidate. And then I realized he has one really big problem working

00:04:16.740 against him, which is, and this is going to sound like some kind of a racial joke, but it's not.

00:04:25.060 All right. So this is not a racial joke. This is deadly serious. It's also funny, but I'm not making

00:04:32.780 fun of any racial group. Okay. So this is not disrespectful. It is an honest observation that

00:04:40.640 just happens to be funny. How can you expect the black population of America to literally pick 0.98

00:04:49.240 Cotton? Think about it. His last name is Cotton, and we're asking people to pick him for president.

00:04:58.940 Now, there's no way that people are not going to realize that that's got a little, there's a little,

00:05:05.780 just doesn't feel right. And how do you win the presidency if you don't get, you know, an unusually

00:05:12.560 big share of the black vote in this country? Now, again, I'm not making fun of any group.

00:05:19.280 This is not a joke, right? It's funny. It is funny just because of the simulation and the coincidence

00:05:25.300 and the irony, but I swear to God, I'm not being disrespectful to anybody. This is a genuine problem.

00:05:31.740 It's like an actual problem. Because just do this exercise. Put yourself in the head

00:05:40.920 of any black American who's got the legacy of slavery. I don't know. I just wouldn't,

00:05:50.300 it would be hard to pick a candidate named Cotton. It actually would be hard. No joke. So I just put

00:05:59.280 that out there. The fake news that I'm enjoying the most today is about the nuclear football.

00:06:05.440 Now, the nuclear football, as you know, is sort of this attache case with the nuclear codes,

00:06:12.020 allegedly, so that the president and or the vice president as a backup, because both of them have

00:06:17.880 a football. I understand there might be one at the at the White House as well. So there might be three

00:06:23.540 footballs. But there's a person who carries it around wherever the vice president or the president

00:06:28.400 is. And during the capital assault, we now know that at least the one that was following the vice

00:06:36.760 president got really close to the protesters. In other words, there was a real risk that the

00:06:42.780 protesters could have gotten a hold of the football. Do you think that's true? And if they did,

00:06:50.460 if they had gotten a hold of that football, do you think that would have been something really bad?

00:06:55.400 No. No. All right. I don't know for sure that anything that I say next is true. I don't know

00:07:06.960 it's true. I'm just going to speculate. Okay. Let's say that you got close enough to the guy with the

00:07:15.740 football that you actually got your hands on it and you're a protester. How long would you still be

00:07:21.980 alive once you, as a protester, physically touched the football? What would be the expected life

00:07:31.520 expectancy of any citizen who touched the football in a protest? Well, it should be zero, right? You

00:07:41.560 should die almost instantly because don't we assume that the guy who carries the football is armed?

00:07:46.660 Doesn't he have one hand on the football and the other hand is going to go right in here and take

00:07:53.140 out a very large weapon, I would think? Right? I don't know that. I have no reason to know that

00:08:00.480 that's true. But if you're letting the guy who carries the football walk around without being strapped,

00:08:07.660 I don't think so.

00:08:08.780 No. So the first thing that I would say is that if the protesters had gotten that close to the

00:08:15.160 football, there would have been massive bloodshed and it would not have gone the way of the

00:08:19.960 protesters. So in reality, them actually getting their hands on it, unless they were going to bring

00:08:26.400 out their own weapons, and we didn't see that, we didn't see the intention to bring out their own

00:08:33.120 weapons. The protesters, that is. If they were, we assume some of them had had firearms, but didn't

00:08:40.020 brandish them, at least in terms of aiming them at anybody. So that's the first thing. The first

00:08:48.220 thing is probably it would not have been a close call. There would have been a lot of dead people,

00:08:54.500 but I don't think it would have been a close call. Somebody would not have actually gotten their

00:08:58.660 hands on the football. That's my guess. Now, I don't know that, so I would look for a fact check

00:09:04.160 on that. Number two, do you believe that in the year 2021, that if somebody captured the football,

00:09:11.960 they could launch the nuclear arsenal? Of course not. There are no experts who tell you that if you

00:09:19.380 captured the football, no matter who you are, that you could then use it to launch an attack. It doesn't

00:09:25.760 work that way. They would still need to know that you're really the president, and there are other

00:09:30.240 safeguards that it's better if we don't know about them, right? But there was no risk that somebody was

00:09:38.000 going to capture the football and launch a nuclear strike. None. Zero. Just no risk, right? But one

00:09:46.940 expert did say if they had stolen the football and acquired its contents, which include pre-planned

00:09:54.200 nuclear strike options, nuclear strike options, that they could have shared the contents with the

00:09:59.140 world, he told the network. Now, do you believe that if somebody captured the football, they could

00:10:05.660 open it up? Maybe they'd have to do some hacking to get into the system, right? You know, it must be

00:10:12.040 some kind of password or whatever. But let's say they could hack it. Could they hack it and figure out

00:10:19.160 from the contents of the football, the pre-planned nuclear strike options? Do you believe that that

00:10:27.540 information is contained on the football? I hope not. I hope not. I hope not. Right? Do you think

00:10:41.800 that you can literally get that information from the football? I mean, maybe. But if so,

00:10:51.540 it's really designed poorly. Like, really poorly. So I don't believe that for a second. I do not

00:10:59.720 believe that there was anything that anybody could have gotten from the football that would have been

00:11:04.440 useful or you could sell it or enemies would care about it. And secondly, what if you did find out

00:11:10.840 where we plan to attack with our nuclear weapons, what exactly was the other team going to do?

00:11:18.880 What were they going to do about that? If we were aiming our, let's just say hypothetically,

00:11:26.200 somebody found out we had nukes aimed at Moscow. What are they going to do? Put up an anti-nuclear

00:11:34.780 shield? I'm sure they already figured out Moscow might be one of the targets.

00:11:40.840 If they have, if it's a military location, I suppose they could relocate their military. But

00:11:48.520 aren't we watching that stuff? I mean, I feel like we're watching. If they were to move some

00:11:54.720 gigantic military assets somewhere, enough military assets that we would have targeted them with a

00:12:01.400 nuclear weapon. I mean, you'd have to have a lot of them to make it worth a nuclear weapon.

00:12:05.140 So the whole thing is rather ridiculous. All right. I remember when people were mocking me for saying

00:12:12.360 that Trump was both smart and persuasive. Do you remember that? Years of me being mocked. Oh,

00:12:19.100 he's so persuasive. Isn't he, Scott? Oh, why are you saying he's persuasive? Why couldn't he do this or

00:12:25.760 that? Or why don't Democrats like him if he's so persuasive? Oh, you think he's smart when he's

00:12:32.220 clearly just a clown? He's just flailing around. He's a flailing clown. For four years, I listened to

00:12:40.460 that nonstop. And what are they going to impeach him for? Being too persuasive

00:12:46.820 and being smart enough to know exactly what was going to happen. They had to reverse

00:12:56.380 four years of belief system to gin up some kind of a claim against him. So you have to automatically

00:13:04.260 assume that everything you've been saying for years didn't matter. Well, he actually is smart

00:13:09.700 enough to know, even though you and I wouldn't have known, but he was smart enough to know exactly what

00:13:16.280 his words would cause. In fact, he was smart enough to know that his words would cause action in the

00:13:23.260 past. Yeah. Yeah. Apparently the, the, uh, assaulters of the Capitol had planned it before the speech

00:13:29.900 and Trump was so smart that he knew talking about it today would cause them to plan it in the past.

00:13:38.340 Pretty smart. So I just enjoy watching them, uh, reframe Trump as being, uh,

00:13:46.280 both highly capable and persuasive, which is the entire basis, entire basis for the claim.

00:13:52.520 Now you heard the, uh, I heard CNN pushing back on the, uh, the clips that the defense showed,

00:13:59.820 Trump's defense showed lots of Democrats using angry fighting words. And even Jake Tapper said,

00:14:06.420 you know, he wouldn't support what Schumer said in some instances, because they were a little bit

00:14:11.940 beyond the political realm into a little bit, uh, irresponsible talk. So everybody agrees that

00:14:20.960 Democrats talk this way, similar to the way Trump talks, similar to the way everybody talks,

00:14:27.760 but why is Trump being impeached by Schumer's not? Do you know why? Because Schumer is assumed

00:14:35.660 not to be persuasive. It's assumed that his talking didn't cause anything to happen.

00:14:42.800 Why? I guess he's not very good at his job. He's not persuasive. Oh, but Trump is. Trump is so

00:14:50.480 persuasive. He can cause a coup just by the way he talked. So, uh, little inconsistencies there in the

00:15:01.680 way people have looked at this. Um, here's a question from Scott Moorfield, who writes for

00:15:07.900 town hall. And he tweeted this. Let's see if you agree with this. He said, uh, if Trump had won

00:15:14.060 instead of Biden, these are the things that would have happened. So if Trump had won instead of Biden,

00:15:19.580 the riots that would have ensued would have made January 6th look like a Girl Scout cookie convention.

00:15:26.120 I feel like that's a safe statement. Don't you? I mean, there's no guarantees in this world,

00:15:32.800 but I feel as if a Trump victory would have been national, you know, nationwide,

00:15:38.360 every major metropolitan area. It would have been massive bloodshed, wouldn't it? I mean,

00:15:46.000 I think so. Am I being unreasonable to say that that's obvious? Because I don't even think that that

00:15:52.000 was much in question, right? Would anybody doubt that? Would even Democrats doubt it? Do you think

00:15:59.580 Democrats would doubt the statement that there would have been widespread riots under the, you know,

00:16:06.100 under the umbrella of protests, but you know that it would turn into bad stuff? All right, here's the

00:16:11.520 second thing. Uh, anyone shot by police like Ashley, uh, Babbitt, the woman who was shot going through the

00:16:17.660 door window there, would have been a celebrated martyr. Is that an unreasonable assumption?

00:16:26.660 Speculation? Is that unreasonable? That if a, uh, a protester, um, associated with the Democrat side

00:16:34.340 had been shot by police protesting in a Trump election, that the person shot would be a martyr.

00:16:42.440 I feel like that's a safe, safe speculative assumption. All right. How about the third one?

00:16:50.920 Uh, Democrats would have defended it and called for more of it. I think so. I think so. Because

00:16:59.820 everything that we saw about how they handled the BLM, uh, Antifa business would suggest that this is

00:17:07.140 accurate, that the situation we got was the least violent potential outcome. It was the least violent

00:17:17.620 potential outcome. It was the best outcome for violence-wise. So just keep that in mind. Um,

00:17:26.540 here's what I like to say every now and then to make sure that I maintain my, uh, freedom of speech.

00:17:33.460 So you know that any right you don't exercise gets lost, right? There's sort of a, a principle

00:17:40.640 in the legal system that if you have a right, but you don't exercise it to establish that, you know,

00:17:48.220 it's a real right that you're going to keep, you can lose it. So that's true with copyrights,

00:17:53.400 for example. If you make no attempt to enforce a copyright, you can lose it. You can lose it.

00:17:59.840 If you make no attempt to enforce, let's say, trespassing on your land,

00:18:04.660 I think there's some danger there. You can lose some rights. I'm not sure of the details of that.

00:18:09.440 So, um, it's, uh, it's important to, uh, stretch the boundaries of your rights to make sure you can

00:18:19.380 keep them. So I'm going to do that right now. So I'm going to say something that if I said it wrong,

00:18:23.980 I would get kicked off of social media, but I'm going to say it right so that I don't,

00:18:30.340 but I'm going to push the boundary a little bit. Okay. And it's this, it is entirely reasonable to

00:18:37.100 say that the courts found no proof of widespread fraud in the election. That's true. The courts

00:18:45.260 found no widespread fraud in the election. That's just true. But at the same time, we can say the result

00:18:52.520 of the election was not credible. There's no conflict there. There's no conflict in saying

00:18:59.500 that the courts found no proof of widespread fraud. At the same time, we can say that the

00:19:04.860 election was not credible because credibility is based on a perception, right? You know, we,

00:19:12.020 the public, how do we perceive it? Now you can perceive things accurately or inaccurately,

00:19:17.900 but we're talking about perceptions and the credibility would be based, I would say an

00:19:24.180 election's credibility would be based on either full transparency. So you can see every vote and

00:19:31.100 it went all the way in and it got counted correctly or, and or is a big word here, a lack of motive to

00:19:39.400 cheat. So if nobody had any reason to cheat and everybody involved had a reason to prevent cheating,

00:19:46.560 well, I wouldn't worry too much because nobody had a reason, nothing to gain. Everybody wanted it to

00:19:53.100 be fair. If that were the case, I'd say, well, that's a pretty credible system, but we don't have

00:19:58.740 that, right? Nor do we have full transparency. We have some level of transparency. We can do a recount

00:20:07.320 in some cases. There's some things we can look at, but if you were to say, how transparent is our

00:20:13.640 entire election process from, from beginning to end to the final count in the, in the digital

00:20:20.260 database, what percentage of that entire path for each vote is transparent, meaning that you could

00:20:28.360 easily check to see if it got recorded right and nothing was left out, no votes got thrown away,

00:20:34.940 no votes got counted wrong. What percentage of the whole system do you think has that quality where

00:20:42.620 you really could check and find out if anything was wrong? What percentage? Now, I don't know the

00:20:49.940 answer to that, but we, we have a, a fake news industry that won't, won't tell you either. Now,

00:20:58.380 I don't know that you could put a percentage on it. That, that might be a nonsense idea because it's a

00:21:06.160 whole bunch of different situations. It's sort of weird to say, well, it's 75, 75% transparent. That

00:21:13.360 would just be a sort of a weird subjective estimate. But we do live in a world where we have to make

00:21:19.580 weird subjective estimates about just about everything in order to function. So I'll give you,

00:21:24.760 I'll give you my weird subjective estimate of how much of our election process is transparent.

00:21:32.980 I could be wrong by a lot, right? It's just my feeling. Based on, you know, the totality of

00:21:40.640 what I observed, plus the totality of my life and experience, I would say 10 to 20%. That's my best

00:21:48.220 guess. 10 to 20%, you could actually check and find out if that part you were checking was legitimate

00:21:55.380 or not. I'm guessing something like 80 to 90% of it isn't checked or can't be checked, at least in all

00:22:05.460 the ways that you'd want to check. For example, how would you know if ballots had been thrown away

00:22:12.060 just by the post office? Would, do we have a system that would tell us if we checked later

00:22:19.080 that somebody's ballots had been thrown away? Now, I have no evidence that anything like that

00:22:24.460 happened. You know, no court has found anything like that happened. But would we find it? Do we

00:22:31.280 have enough transparency that you could possibly know that that happened? What about when the votes

00:22:37.280 get into the digital system? So they've left the paper world behind and now they're in the system.

00:22:43.780 What level of transparency do we have to make sure that each precinct, their votes get all the way

00:22:51.400 into the system and never change and all that? I don't know. I don't know. But I'll bet it's not

00:22:57.320 much. It's probably 20% transparent. Now, if I'm completely wrong about that, and the real answer is,

00:23:05.760 let's say, 95% transparent, I would consider that a fairly credible system. Wouldn't you?

00:23:13.780 What percentage credibility, or let's say transparency, what percentage transparency

00:23:20.200 would tell you that things are okay? Because I don't think you need 100% because nothing really

00:23:27.040 could be 100%. But maybe over 90% would make you feel that if anybody tried to game the system,

00:23:35.060 they'd get caught. So it wouldn't be a good play to even try because you got a 90% chance of getting

00:23:39.920 caught. Unless you only targeted the place they can't check. I suppose you got that risk.

00:23:47.300 All right. So the reason I put that out there is that the fake news industry and all the bad people

00:23:54.340 in the country want you to believe that because the courts, which are the wrong tool for this,

00:24:00.340 right? It's a very rough tool for checking an election. The courts can only check those few

00:24:06.400 things that courts can check. The courts can't do an audit. They can't change the rules. You know,

00:24:13.620 there are a lot of things the courts can't do. So they're the wrong tool. It's the only tool we have.

00:24:18.700 But it's the wrong tool, or a bad tool, I'll say, for finding out if an election is real.

00:24:26.820 All right. But at the same time, it could be low credibility. All right.

00:24:30.480 All right. Let me ask you this. When did intentions stop mattering? Because a lot of our

00:24:40.280 political stuff that we debate about is imagining other people's intentions as if we could do that.

00:24:48.860 We can't. We don't know other people's intentions, generally. I mean, there's some few cases where you

00:24:54.280 would know for sure. But generally, you don't know other people's intentions. And especially if you have

00:24:58.340 a crowd of people, they've probably got different intentions. So knowing people's intentions tends

00:25:05.040 to be pretty important. And let me ask you this. Of the total number of protesters,

00:25:12.980 you could call them rioters if you like, protesters plus rioters, who marched on the Capitol on January 6th,

00:25:21.560 what percentage of them do you think were thinking in terms of overthrowing the legitimate government

00:25:29.200 of the United States? What percentage of them were thinking in those terms? Like, I think I would like

00:25:35.320 Trump to be the president, even if he didn't get enough votes. Do you think there was anybody in the

00:25:42.740 crowd who wanted Trump to be president if it could be shown with confidence so that everybody believed it

00:25:50.140 was true? If it could be shown that Biden had legitimately won this election, got the right

00:25:56.980 amount of votes in the right places, how many people who went to the Capitol to protest would have

00:26:04.420 protested that? Who would have protested Biden getting elected legitimately? I think the answer is zero.

00:26:15.820 I mean, I haven't heard anybody say that they would support that. And when I see the Democrats in their

00:26:25.460 fevered imagination, that the people who attacked the Capitol wanted to overthrow the will of the

00:26:33.500 people. That's exactly the opposite of what they were doing. Clearly, right? Am I wrong about this?

00:26:42.240 Were the protesters not very clearly trying to make sure that the will of the people, as expressed in

00:26:50.920 their votes, was the only thing that determined who the president was? I mean, that plus the electoral

00:26:56.520 college, right? The rules. I don't know that there was even one person there who would have accepted

00:27:04.580 the following proposition. Hey, one person, if you could find out that Trump didn't get enough votes

00:27:11.560 legitimately, would you still want him to be president? Because you know that would destroy the

00:27:17.420 system, right? Could you even get one person to say that? Even one? Because I think Democrats are very

00:27:26.200 confused about what a Republican is, or a conservative, or whatever the people who marched would

00:27:32.540 would identify themselves as, because I don't know any Republicans or conservatives who don't like

00:27:38.320 the Constitution. That's sort of built into the whole conservative Republican thing, right? There is no

00:27:45.820 Republican who wants the Constitution torn up. None. And we're having this whole impeachment trial over

00:27:56.400 this fevered hallucination that there was anybody there who didn't want the system fortified. See, I'm using

00:28:05.120 their own word. Every person there wanted the current system to be stronger, right? And they said there's a

00:28:15.940 weakness in the current system. There's a lack of transparency. We've got these questions. And we still have

00:28:22.100 enough time to do a little bit more of auditing. That's what Ted Cruz was pushing for. That, every

00:28:31.440 bit of that, is to protect the system as it exists. And we allowed, you know, CNN and MSNBC and all the

00:28:40.720 rest of the illegitimate people to sell us on the idea that it was literally the opposite of that, that they

00:28:47.340 were trying to do a coup when they were trying to prevent one. They were trying to prevent one that they thought

00:28:56.660 had happened right in front of them, meaning that the election was not credible in their view. So how did we get to

00:29:04.620 the point where people trying to prevent a coup are labeled as insurrectionists and coup people? Now, nothing I've said

00:29:17.060 should excuse any of the violence or any of the people who actually entered the Capitol. The legal

00:29:22.520 system does what it does. I'm out of that, right? It's not my business. The legal system will do what

00:29:30.520 the legal system does. I don't need to pile on, right? It wouldn't matter who it was. I would still say

00:29:36.580 the legal system has to do what it does. That's just not on me. But I think it's just shocking

00:29:43.240 that literally the opposite of what we can clearly observe, and you could talk to anybody who was

00:29:49.940 there and ask them this direct question. Hey, you were there. If you knew that Trump didn't win

00:29:56.760 fair and square, would you still want him to be your president? Now, they might say, yeah,

00:30:01.840 I still prefer him, but I wouldn't want the system to be destroyed that way. All right.

00:30:07.260 Let's talk about Trump's lawyers. As you all know, I and many people criticized their very first

00:30:18.220 opening statements the other day, and I thought that was exceptionally weak and rambling. But boy,

00:30:27.020 did they save the good stuff for later. Boy, did they save the good stuff. I've never seen anybody win

00:30:33.340 an argument that hard. Generally, you see people debate, and you can go away saying,

00:30:39.000 well, I prefer one over the other, but they both had some good points or whatever. But the Trump

00:30:44.500 lawyers, for all that people said about, you know, Trump isn't going to be able to get good lawyers

00:30:51.660 because, you know, this or that, he got good lawyers. I don't know how good they have been in the

00:30:58.440 past, but my God, they were really good. Like, it was thrilling to just watch them work. I'm always

00:31:08.340 thrilled by anybody who operates at, like, a higher level. You know, I'm not a sports fan per se, but I

00:31:14.860 love watching, you know, Curry shoot three-point shots from half court. Like, everybody likes to watch

00:31:21.400 the best that there is. That's just fun to watch. And watching these lawyers work was just impressive.

00:31:28.220 It was just impressive. They were just good. And so, Schoen and Van Der Veen were the two main

00:31:34.760 stars. And let me tell you what I liked about their presentation. You know where I'm going with some of

00:31:42.000 this, but the first thing I'd like to say is there was a real difference in skill level,

00:31:48.720 especially around voice and mannerism. And I'm going to teach you a little trick about

00:31:56.260 persuasion. If you are arguing your case and somebody else is arguing their case, do not argue

00:32:04.160 your case sounding like a bleating sheep. All right. And I'll have to give you an impression of

00:32:10.680 that. So let me take, I'll take the same argument and show you what it is with a bleeding sheep

00:32:16.560 versus, well, no, it'd be easier if I just give you the example. All right. A bleeding sheep

00:32:22.960 argument sounds like this. And then he, he told people to go and fight in the, in the Capitol.

00:32:30.700 And he made the violence and people hurt. And you can almost, you can almost hear the sheep

00:32:37.560 bleating, bleating, bleating, B-L-E-A-T-I-N-G, bleat. And do you know why people talk that way?

00:32:47.700 They talk that way because they don't believe their own argument, but they're trying to sell it.

00:32:55.220 People don't talk that way when they believe their own argument. They just don't.

00:33:01.060 And you can watch it in real time. The Trump lawyers talk like two people who believe their

00:33:08.380 own argument. All right. Here's what it sounds like, if I can do a good impression of it,

00:33:14.320 of somebody who believes their own argument. And it goes like this. Behind me, you'll see some slides.

00:33:21.240 I'm going to show you what the Democrats showed you. And then next to it, I'm going to show you the

00:33:26.340 full edited thing. And you'll see pretty clearly that they're intentionally trying to fool you by

00:33:32.520 leaving out this part of the video. Go. Was there any bleeding involved? Was I begging you to feel bad

00:33:42.680 with your emotions about how bad we felt in the Capitol? Because the president, he's, he's inciting

00:33:48.940 insurrections. None of that. People who believe their own arguments just tell you what the facts are.

00:33:56.340 They just tell you what happened. And now you probably didn't notice that little persuasion

00:34:03.560 element. Did you? Did anybody notice that, by the way, without my mentioning it? But it's really stark

00:34:09.720 if you go back and watch it. After you hear it, after you hear me explain it, you go back, you will feel

00:34:15.680 that they clearly don't believe the things they're saying. Clearly don't. Now, the things, the number one

00:34:23.460 thing that I liked about the Trump lawyer presentation, you know where I'm going with

00:34:28.260 this, don't you? To say that yesterday was one of my favorite days in the last several years would

00:34:36.320 be an understatement. I'm going to be a little bit revealing here. I actually cried. I actually

00:34:45.200 cried. Now that's good lawyering. If a lawyer can make you cry, that's some good lawyering. Now,

00:34:54.080 of course, I have a personal connection to this, right? So I've been, I've been trying to debunk

00:34:59.920 the find people hoax for, since 2018. I've put a good deal of my reputation on the line,

00:35:07.200 a good deal of my energy, as have a number of other people, Joel Pollack, Steve Cortez,

00:35:13.140 Greg Goffeld, a number of people have been very vocal in debunking this and debunking it. But it

00:35:19.160 hasn't gotten any attention on the left, where the people who need to understand it's not real,

00:35:24.460 all live. So it was, you know, the silo was quite robust. So the people on the right

00:35:32.160 knew it was a hoax. People on the left had never even heard the argument, never even heard the full

00:35:37.840 video. So what I was happy about, and I had said ahead of the defense, I had said that if they don't

00:35:46.640 go directly at the find people hoax, which the Democrats had used as part of their argument for

00:35:51.920 why Trump is evil, if you don't show that that is a complete hoax by showing the whole video,

00:35:58.860 you don't deserve to get paid. And I meant that. I meant if they had not debunked that,

00:36:06.360 they didn't deserve to get paid. You would almost think they weren't even working for the president

00:36:10.780 if they hadn't debunked it. But what did they do? They debunked it. First, they started

00:36:19.520 with debunking it, which is exactly the right place to do it. Because it created, well, first

00:36:27.880 of all, I wonder how many Democrats saw that debunked for the first time. Because don't you

00:36:34.380 wonder what happened to a lot of heads? Must have been millions of people watching it. I'm guessing

00:36:40.560 somewhere in the low millions of people who believed that the find people hoax was an actual

00:36:46.220 real thing, meaning that the president called neo-Nazis fine people, which we know didn't

00:36:52.780 happen. We know that that was a fake edit. So what happened to the brains of the people who saw that

00:36:58.980 for the first time? Now, if you're a normal person, many of you are normal, you would say to yourself,

00:37:06.260 wow, a lot of people have just learned for the first time that they've been lied to by their media

00:37:11.440 for over three years. And that the fine people hoax, which has been reported as fact for years,

00:37:17.380 never happened. And I just found that out. Wow, I guess I'll turn on my own side now and stop

00:37:23.580 believing the people I've been believing. Because now I can clearly see that they lied to me. And when

00:37:28.740 I see the nature of the lie, I believe it probably was intentional. So now I denounce my democratic ways,

00:37:36.940 and I become a Republican. Nobody had that experience. Nobody. So if you're thinking that

00:37:47.560 the lawyers doing a good job changed any minds, no, no, that wasn't even one of the options,

00:37:55.540 right? It wasn't an option that anybody was going to change their mind. And neither did I particularly

00:38:01.260 care because it's a political process. It's going to go the way the politics go. Now, if the lawyers had

00:38:06.840 done a terrible job, it might have made it safer for some Republicans to cross over into the pro 0.90

00:38:13.060 impeachment camp. But if they do a marvelous job, like a world class good job, which I believe they

00:38:21.240 did, it doesn't make any difference. Because people will just vote their political side because it's a

00:38:27.660 political process. But it mattered to me. It mattered to me. Because for the first time, historians can't

00:38:40.060 ignore it. You can ignore what the cartoonist says on his live stream, if you're a historian, you know,

00:38:46.080 20 years from now. You can ignore everything that was in Breitbart, Fox News. You can ignore everything

00:38:52.940 on social media that anybody associated with Trump of the right has ever said. You can ignore all of that and

00:38:59.120 write your own little history. But you know what you can't ignore? An impeachment process. You can't ignore that

00:39:09.160 lawyer shown, showed you the video that the prosecution and the impeachment showed, and then right next to it, on the

00:39:19.420 same screen, showed you how they edited it to reverse the meaning. That's history.

00:39:37.520 This is just for the defense team. Trump defense team.

00:39:40.840 Had to give a standing ovation.

00:39:47.000 They changed history.

00:39:50.080 They changed history.

00:39:53.020 Not the real history, but they changed how history will be recorded.

00:39:57.580 Because when I saw the prosecution use the fine people hoax as part of their case,

00:40:04.080 I said to myself, and you may have seen the tweet,

00:40:08.180 I could win this case from here.

00:40:11.300 From that starting position

00:40:12.760 that the Democrats gave

00:40:15.140 Trump's defense team,

00:40:17.120 they gave them the win.

00:40:19.060 Because all they had to do

00:40:20.640 was do what they did, which is show

00:40:22.840 what they claimed.

00:40:25.140 Show the lie on a video,

00:40:26.920 so you can just see it yourself.

00:40:29.460 And then they can make the following claim,

00:40:31.140 that if any of the evidence was falsified,

00:40:35.020 you should, as a reasonable person,

00:40:37.780 there's a sort of a legal standard for this,

00:40:40.120 but it's also a reasonable person standard,

00:40:43.480 that if you know the prosecution made up some of the evidence,

00:40:46.980 clearly falsified it intentionally,

00:40:49.600 you should believe that everything else they say

00:40:52.340 is likely to be false as well.

00:40:55.060 Not guaranteed.

00:40:56.360 But you should treat it as not credible.

00:40:58.980 But that's the end of the case.

00:41:02.720 Now, if it had been a regular legal trial,

00:41:04.800 it actually would have been the end of the case.

00:41:06.860 I think, I'll take a fact check on this too,

00:41:10.400 but I think that a judge

00:41:13.560 would have ended the case

00:41:16.040 once he found out that the evidence was falsified.

00:41:19.760 I think that would have been the end of the case.

00:41:21.960 Now, that's what the Trump lawyers were indicating,

00:41:23.980 but I'm not a lawyer.

00:41:25.380 So, doing the fine people hoax first was pure brilliance.

00:41:36.260 It was exactly the right thing to do.

00:41:38.600 But how do you think the major networks

00:41:41.040 handled this major piece of news,

00:41:44.660 which would show that their own networks

00:41:47.880 had been really illegitimate for years,

00:41:51.420 and had been intentionally promoting fake news

00:41:54.880 for political purposes, we assume.

00:41:57.640 We don't know.

00:41:58.280 We can't read minds.

00:41:59.280 But we know that they've been pushing

00:42:01.240 this obvious fake news.

00:42:03.220 And the thing that's really striking about it is

00:42:05.320 it's so easy to debunk.

00:42:07.320 You just show the video.

00:42:09.180 You don't need anything else.

00:42:11.360 You just show how the video was edited.

00:42:13.580 That's it.

00:42:13.980 None of the major networks are showing it.

00:42:23.220 It's the biggest story in the country.

00:42:25.920 Or should be.

00:42:27.400 Imagine if they really took this seriously,

00:42:31.540 given just what is presented right now.

00:42:34.620 What if ABC or NBC or CBS said,

00:42:37.800 you know, everybody's been saying for years

00:42:40.760 that the president called the neo-Nazis fine people,

00:42:43.980 but the Trump lawyers have now shown us

00:42:46.520 that that was always fake news.

00:42:50.120 What the hell are they going to do?

00:42:52.380 Because nobody can do that.

00:42:54.620 Can ABC say,

00:42:55.660 yeah, we've been telling you fake news

00:42:56.960 about this for three years?

00:42:59.240 Oops.

00:43:00.660 Oops.

00:43:01.940 Can CNN say,

00:43:03.280 yeah, we've been saying

00:43:04.520 he called the neo-Nazis fine people,

00:43:06.680 and it was because we used the fake edit?

00:43:11.840 Sorry.

00:43:13.980 They can't.

00:43:14.960 There's only one thing they can do,

00:43:17.840 which is ignore it

00:43:18.920 and make it go away,

00:43:21.120 at least in our minds.

00:43:23.160 But historians are not going to ignore this anymore.

00:43:28.020 If you're a historian,

00:43:30.180 you're just not doing your job

00:43:32.620 if you don't mention that this was always a fake story.

00:43:35.700 Now, of course,

00:43:37.820 at some point,

00:43:38.960 they might try to back up to the,

00:43:40.640 well, yeah, that part was fake,

00:43:43.260 but weren't there bad people there?

00:43:45.340 So they always go down the hoax funnel

00:43:47.820 to back up to some other position.

00:43:50.480 But certainly,

00:43:51.360 the main thing was fake.

00:43:52.380 Now, once they set up

00:43:53.240 that the managers had lied,

00:43:55.080 and here's another example,

00:43:56.540 there was a tweet used by Swalwell,

00:43:59.460 who you know as the Chinese puppet, 0.99

00:44:01.760 allegedly,

00:44:03.660 well, allegedly,

00:44:04.760 a Chinese puppet. 0.86

00:44:06.360 We don't have any evidence of that,

00:44:08.280 except that he was apparently sleeping with a Chinese spy.

00:44:10.980 So, use your own judgment.

00:44:17.460 You can connect those dots.

00:44:19.920 But he showed a tweet

00:44:21.760 from a woman who said

00:44:23.600 that they would bring the cavalry,

00:44:25.840 which turned out to be a complete misinterpretation

00:44:29.160 because it wasn't even spelled the same

00:44:31.000 because it was referring to the Calvary hill

00:44:33.620 that Christ gave a sermon on.

00:44:37.920 And it's basically a prayer group.

00:44:39.260 And Swalwell tried to sell this

00:44:42.140 as some kind of, like, militia.

00:44:46.240 So he tried to sell the American public

00:44:49.260 that a prayer group,

00:44:51.080 that a prayer group

00:44:52.820 was a dangerous militia.

00:44:55.320 And it gets better.

00:44:56.720 They showed the tweet,

00:44:57.720 and somehow they added a blue check

00:45:00.140 to make it look like

00:45:01.500 it was somebody more important.

00:45:03.860 Now, I'm not going to say

00:45:04.740 somebody who doesn't have a blue check

00:45:06.060 is not important,

00:45:06.940 but you know what I'm saying, right?

00:45:09.260 In the context of social media,

00:45:11.700 the blue check people get more attention.

00:45:13.760 They're not better people.

00:45:15.000 They just get more attention.

00:45:16.900 And so,

00:45:18.200 a verified badge was added to the tweet

00:45:21.780 when they showed it at the impeachment trial.

00:45:25.420 So now you've got one lie about the cavalry,

00:45:29.740 a second lie about saying who the person was

00:45:32.400 in terms of verified or not.

00:45:35.080 That's three lies so far.

00:45:37.480 They're just easily demonstrable.

00:45:40.160 And then the lawyer showed

00:45:41.680 that the planning for the event

00:45:45.860 had happened before Trump's speech.

00:45:48.300 They pretty much just completely demolished

00:45:52.120 the other argument.

00:45:53.220 And then the free speech,

00:45:54.540 this free speech argument

00:45:56.040 by showing that the other side

00:45:57.520 had used similar speech

00:45:59.680 completely eviscerated their argument

00:46:02.360 about Trump knowing his free speech

00:46:05.820 or knowing that his kind of speech

00:46:07.720 would have caused violence, etc.

00:46:10.220 I saw Mike Wallace say

00:46:12.020 that he thought that it was weak

00:46:14.040 when the lawyers showed the compilation

00:46:18.120 of all the Democrats saying

00:46:19.640 fight, fight, fight, we're going to fight.

00:46:21.860 And Chris Wallace made the point

00:46:23.020 that you're leaving out the context.

00:46:26.900 That if somebody's just using this word fight

00:46:29.420 in sort of traditional talk,

00:46:32.340 they know it's not going to be interpreted

00:46:33.880 to cause any violence.

00:46:35.520 But that wasn't the situation with the president.

00:46:38.460 His situation was different

00:46:40.120 and therefore he should have known

00:46:41.700 that these common words

00:46:43.600 could have caused violence.

00:46:46.300 Would you have known that?

00:46:48.920 Is that reasonable?

00:46:51.120 Would you have known

00:46:52.540 if you were him

00:46:53.660 and you said that the

00:46:55.280 Congress people should fight,

00:46:58.740 people in Congress should fight

00:47:01.540 because they clearly showed

00:47:03.040 that's what he was talking about.

00:47:04.800 So the Democrats had removed

00:47:07.160 the context

00:47:08.240 that Trump was saying fight

00:47:10.620 about Congress people

00:47:12.360 fighting politically.

00:47:13.600 They removed that context.

00:47:16.140 That's just a lie.

00:47:17.980 If you remove the context

00:47:19.620 and the context would change

00:47:21.560 the meaning completely,

00:47:23.000 well, that's just a lie.

00:47:24.980 And so the defense's case

00:47:26.680 was built on the lie

00:47:29.060 of removing context

00:47:30.300 from the word fight.

00:47:31.820 It was built on the lie

00:47:33.960 of this Calvary thing.

00:47:37.320 It was built on the lie

00:47:38.660 about the fine people hoax.

00:47:40.900 How many more lies

00:47:43.220 do you have to identify

00:47:44.960 before the whole thing

00:47:47.160 is just ridiculous?

00:47:48.960 So what kind of response

00:47:53.080 are you seeing

00:47:54.240 after the Trump lawyers

00:47:56.960 just eviscerated the other side?

00:48:00.640 I mean, this was a massacre.

00:48:03.060 Well, apparently impeachment manager

00:48:04.800 Stacey Plaskett

00:48:05.960 suggested that

00:48:07.440 Trump's videos

00:48:09.880 with the compilation

00:48:10.840 of all the people

00:48:11.560 saying fight, fight, fight

00:48:12.700 homed in on people of color 0.99

00:48:15.280 and that really

00:48:17.460 their defense was racist

00:48:19.060 because there were

00:48:20.160 so many women especially, 0.77

00:48:22.180 women and people of color

00:48:23.580 who were quoted in it

00:48:25.140 as saying, you know,

00:48:26.040 fight, fight, fight.

00:48:27.660 To which I say,

00:48:28.840 I feel like

00:48:30.480 you're missing

00:48:31.880 the big point here.

00:48:32.960 Do you know why

00:48:35.080 there were so many,

00:48:37.080 mostly black, I think,

00:48:38.900 but also some Hispanic,

00:48:40.600 I guess,

00:48:40.900 examples of

00:48:41.640 people in government

00:48:43.060 who were saying

00:48:44.120 fight, fight, fight.

00:48:44.960 Do you know why

00:48:45.400 there were so many of them

00:48:46.360 on that video?

00:48:48.660 Because they're doing great.

00:48:52.060 How hard do you have to look

00:48:53.620 for bad news?

00:48:55.480 How about accept the fact

00:48:56.900 that there are so many

00:48:58.220 black, Hispanic,

00:48:59.940 and women members

00:49:02.200 of the Democratic Party

00:49:03.740 that if you're talking

00:49:05.520 about them,

00:49:06.360 you're going to have

00:49:06.880 a lot of examples

00:49:07.800 of people who are black

00:49:09.220 and women and Hispanic.

00:49:11.220 Isn't that exactly

00:49:12.560 what you want?

00:49:14.720 That's exactly

00:49:15.640 what you want, right?

00:49:17.840 You want your group

00:49:19.000 to represent

00:49:20.040 the people who vote

00:49:22.140 for you, right?

00:49:23.060 So I feel as if

00:49:26.800 it's taking the best news

00:49:30.180 in the country.

00:49:31.640 If I were going to tell you,

00:49:33.080 let me tell you something.

00:49:34.700 I'm going to tell you

00:49:35.300 some good news.

00:49:37.060 Here's some good news.

00:49:38.560 This will tell you

00:49:39.300 how healthy

00:49:39.940 the United States is.

00:49:41.700 That there are more

00:49:42.840 women and minority 0.90

00:49:44.120 members in Congress,

00:49:45.380 especially in the

00:49:46.060 Democrat Party,

00:49:47.120 than ever before.

00:49:49.460 What would you say

00:49:50.320 to that?

00:49:51.180 You'd say,

00:49:51.760 well, that's progress.

00:49:53.060 That sounds good.

00:49:54.540 Are governments

00:49:55.500 looking more like

00:49:56.320 the public?

00:49:56.920 Yeah, that's what we want.

00:49:59.580 But suddenly,

00:50:00.320 they turned it

00:50:00.740 into a bad thing.

00:50:02.180 Because if you're

00:50:03.020 talking about politicians,

00:50:04.380 there's going to be

00:50:05.080 a lot of black ones, 0.84

00:50:06.320 a lot of women, 1.00

00:50:07.400 a lot of Hispanics.

00:50:08.760 That's supposed

00:50:09.500 to be good.

00:50:10.960 And the only reason

00:50:11.840 that they are targeted,

00:50:13.880 why were they targeted

00:50:14.920 for the video?

00:50:17.140 Because they're important.

00:50:19.520 Because they're important.

00:50:21.320 You don't get targeted

00:50:22.540 if you're unimportant.

00:50:25.580 This is like

00:50:26.340 the best compliment

00:50:27.220 you could ever have

00:50:28.200 that a whole bunch

00:50:29.360 of people that look

00:50:30.140 like you

00:50:30.680 are targeted

00:50:31.780 for being at the

00:50:33.000 height of power

00:50:34.640 and influence

00:50:35.380 of the United States.

00:50:37.200 It's kind of good news.

00:50:39.080 But they don't have

00:50:40.320 much to complain about,

00:50:41.580 so they went with that.

00:50:45.300 The funniest thing

00:50:46.800 I saw,

00:50:48.100 and I'd have to see

00:50:48.900 it replayed again

00:50:49.800 because I want to

00:50:50.720 make sure I remembered

00:50:52.420 it correctly.

00:50:53.780 But I was watching

00:50:54.400 the initial comments

00:50:56.400 after the defense

00:50:57.540 did its case,

00:50:59.840 and I was watching

00:51:00.400 Fox News,

00:51:01.420 and I saw there was

00:51:02.120 like a panel discussion,

00:51:03.580 a bunch of people on,

00:51:04.720 and I was waiting

00:51:06.080 to see if even

00:51:06.840 they would mention

00:51:07.760 the fine people hoax.

00:51:10.040 Because if you're

00:51:10.760 not aware of this,

00:51:12.940 and I'll take a fact

00:51:14.340 check on this too,

00:51:15.120 I believe that

00:51:17.200 a number of the

00:51:18.820 opinion people

00:51:19.600 on Fox

00:51:20.160 have called out

00:51:21.320 the fine people hoax,

00:51:22.700 but I don't think

00:51:23.660 the news people have.

00:51:26.220 So fact check me

00:51:27.420 on that.

00:51:28.320 I'm pretty sure

00:51:29.160 the opinion people

00:51:30.120 have called it

00:51:30.860 a hoax,

00:51:31.920 but I don't think

00:51:33.340 that the news people

00:51:34.760 have been allowed

00:51:35.600 to call it a hoax.

00:51:38.040 Just check that for me.

00:51:40.100 Because Brett Baer

00:51:41.300 commented,

00:51:42.460 and I don't know,

00:51:45.960 I might be reading

00:51:46.620 too much into this,

00:51:47.620 so Brett,

00:51:48.260 if you're listening

00:51:49.640 to this,

00:51:50.160 I apologize in advance.

00:51:51.480 I won't try

00:51:52.600 to read your mind.

00:51:55.240 But he said

00:51:56.660 something along

00:51:57.360 the lines of

00:51:58.220 that it would be

00:51:59.460 the debunking

00:52:01.860 of the fine people hoax

00:52:02.760 would be the first time

00:52:03.940 that a lot of people

00:52:05.440 ever saw it.

00:52:08.980 And he's the news.

00:52:11.040 He says it's the first time

00:52:12.340 anybody would have

00:52:12.940 seen it.

00:52:17.140 He's the news,

00:52:18.600 right?

00:52:18.980 He's not an opinion guy.

00:52:20.760 He's the news.

00:52:21.680 And he's telling you

00:52:22.340 it would be the first time

00:52:23.440 a lot of people saw it.

00:52:25.840 Now, again,

00:52:27.100 I'm reading too much

00:52:27.900 into this, right?

00:52:28.600 He might mean

00:52:29.240 first time Democrats

00:52:30.360 see it.

00:52:31.420 But I feel like

00:52:32.660 it felt like

00:52:34.760 he meant Fox News too.

00:52:38.320 It felt like,

00:52:39.940 and by the way,

00:52:40.620 this is why

00:52:41.220 I trust

00:52:42.700 Brett Baer,

00:52:44.240 I feel like

00:52:44.980 he was giving

00:52:45.420 a little dig

00:52:45.960 to his own network

00:52:46.780 there.

00:52:47.640 Now,

00:52:47.880 I might be wrong

00:52:48.580 and it's not fair

00:52:50.260 for me to imagine

00:52:51.120 what's in his mind,

00:52:52.180 right?

00:52:52.760 You know,

00:52:53.140 that's a mistake.

00:52:54.680 That's what it felt like.

00:52:56.460 And it made me

00:52:57.960 like him more

00:52:58.900 for putting that

00:53:00.220 out there.

00:53:00.720 There was no way

00:53:01.460 to handle that

00:53:02.120 exactly right,

00:53:03.640 but I like that

00:53:04.360 he took a shot at it.

00:53:05.380 Let's see.

00:53:12.000 There seems to be,

00:53:13.880 now CNN is making

00:53:15.840 the distinction,

00:53:16.620 I think Jake Tapper

00:53:17.320 made this distinction,

00:53:18.900 that although the Democrats

00:53:20.060 said things

00:53:20.920 that sound like

00:53:22.620 fight,

00:53:23.120 fight,

00:53:23.400 fight,

00:53:23.840 it did not precede

00:53:25.720 any actual violence.

00:53:27.440 I would question that

00:53:30.400 because I think

00:53:30.980 probably a lot

00:53:32.060 of the protests,

00:53:33.020 et cetera,

00:53:33.300 were at least

00:53:34.100 somewhat encouraged

00:53:35.400 by that kind of language.

00:53:37.380 But,

00:53:37.940 whereas Trump's

00:53:39.560 ended in violence

00:53:41.020 and therefore

00:53:41.780 you can't compare

00:53:42.860 Trump saying

00:53:43.940 you should fight

00:53:44.660 to anybody else

00:53:46.280 saying you should fight

00:53:46.880 because only one of them

00:53:47.740 led to violence.

00:53:49.360 To which I say,

00:53:51.360 isn't that kind

00:53:52.280 of blaming Trump

00:53:53.480 for the actions

00:53:55.040 of other people?

00:53:56.020 because

00:53:57.500 if other people

00:53:59.800 say fight,

00:54:00.500 fight,

00:54:00.760 fight,

00:54:01.140 and nothing happens,

00:54:02.820 are they free

00:54:04.820 from incitement

00:54:05.700 because they were

00:54:06.440 unsuccessful?

00:54:10.480 Even if they

00:54:11.420 weren't trying

00:54:11.960 to succeed.

00:54:13.760 So,

00:54:14.420 I don't know,

00:54:16.140 it feels like

00:54:17.320 blaming Trump

00:54:19.440 for something

00:54:20.380 that his base

00:54:21.100 was going to do anyway,

00:54:22.520 and we know that,

00:54:24.540 that doesn't feel

00:54:25.460 like a reasonable

00:54:26.120 statement,

00:54:27.420 does it?

00:54:31.140 I did notice,

00:54:32.580 and I doubt

00:54:33.080 this is completely

00:54:34.100 true yet,

00:54:35.060 but it seemed like

00:54:35.800 the CNN pundits

00:54:37.020 have pulled back

00:54:38.340 from calling this

00:54:39.660 an insurrection

00:54:40.440 or a coup,

00:54:41.740 and they're a little

00:54:42.880 more likely,

00:54:43.700 at least based on

00:54:44.520 the time I was

00:54:45.380 watching it last night,

00:54:46.820 they seem a little

00:54:47.580 more likely to use

00:54:48.700 the words

00:54:49.340 attack or assault

00:54:50.620 or violence,

00:54:52.880 because everybody

00:54:53.920 agrees with those

00:54:54.840 words.

00:54:55.980 But maybe it just

00:54:57.320 got embarrassing

00:54:58.200 promoting the idea

00:55:00.080 that the guy

00:55:00.680 in the Viking hat

00:55:02.100 and the other guy

00:55:02.980 with the zip ties

00:55:04.240 were actually going

00:55:06.540 to conquer

00:55:07.220 and hold the country.

00:55:09.040 And who exactly

00:55:10.100 was going to be

00:55:10.720 the leader

00:55:11.220 if they overthrew

00:55:12.800 the country?

00:55:13.820 So I think that

00:55:14.840 CNN,

00:55:15.620 and maybe this

00:55:16.220 will spread to others,

00:55:17.400 I think it just

00:55:18.240 becomes embarrassing

00:55:19.260 to call it a coup

00:55:21.280 or an insurrection

00:55:22.260 when there's no

00:55:23.440 evidence of that,

00:55:24.600 just none at all.

00:55:26.340 I mean,

00:55:26.860 there was bad stuff

00:55:27.780 that happened,

00:55:28.740 but the idea

00:55:29.780 that they were

00:55:30.300 going to,

00:55:31.160 you know,

00:55:32.060 that it was going

00:55:33.360 to be a coup,

00:55:34.120 per se,

00:55:35.020 is kind of ridiculous.

00:55:36.620 So maybe they

00:55:37.200 backed off it,

00:55:37.860 we'll watch.

00:55:40.920 And they've also

00:55:42.060 sort of backed off

00:55:43.040 from the claims

00:55:44.240 of the impeachment.

00:55:45.800 So the impeachment

00:55:46.800 claims were that

00:55:47.720 he knowingly

00:55:49.000 incited violence,

00:55:51.180 but now it's

00:55:51.980 sort of morphing

00:55:52.680 into,

00:55:53.520 well,

00:55:54.060 he could have

00:55:54.720 done more

00:55:55.140 to stop it,

00:55:56.700 but unfortunately

00:55:58.140 that is not

00:55:59.760 what the articles

00:56:00.700 of impeachment

00:56:01.700 are about.

00:56:02.940 He's not being

00:56:03.940 tried for impeachment,

00:56:06.480 tried to be

00:56:07.160 removed from office,

00:56:08.120 et cetera.

00:56:08.620 He's not being

00:56:09.180 tried for that.

00:56:12.300 Well,

00:56:13.020 I don't have to

00:56:13.900 finish that thought.

00:56:15.420 All right.

00:56:15.640 here's,

00:56:19.780 let's see.

00:56:24.300 So there's

00:56:25.000 some question

00:56:25.520 now about

00:56:26.200 whether Trump

00:56:27.920 knew how much

00:56:29.100 danger

00:56:29.760 Pence was in.

00:56:33.100 All right.

00:56:35.060 And here's

00:56:35.920 how CNN

00:56:36.920 lies to you.

00:56:39.100 And it's

00:56:39.420 kind of clever.

00:56:40.380 I'm going to read

00:56:40.920 just their own views.

00:56:42.020 Now,

00:56:42.180 this is not from

00:56:42.880 an opinion piece,

00:56:43.740 so this is

00:56:44.940 supposedly news

00:56:46.040 on CNN.

00:56:48.280 And I'll just

00:56:49.120 read their exact

00:56:49.780 sentence.

00:56:50.300 It says,

00:56:50.520 a source close

00:56:51.260 to Pence

00:56:51.820 said Trump's

00:56:53.200 legal team

00:56:53.680 was not

00:56:54.080 telling the

00:56:54.540 truth when

00:56:55.320 attorney Michael

00:56:56.120 Van Der Veen

00:56:56.760 said at the

00:56:57.380 trial that,

00:56:58.560 quote,

00:56:58.640 at no point

00:56:59.480 did the then

00:57:00.780 president know

00:57:01.720 his vice

00:57:02.500 president was

00:57:03.280 in danger.

00:57:04.300 All right.

00:57:04.760 So now they're

00:57:05.480 questioning whether

00:57:06.400 Trump knew the

00:57:07.500 vice president was

00:57:08.320 in danger.

00:57:10.180 And then they

00:57:11.660 go on,

00:57:12.220 asked whether

00:57:12.720 Van Der Veen

00:57:13.220 was lying.

00:57:14.140 The source

00:57:14.500 said yes.

00:57:15.720 So now they're

00:57:16.220 saying,

00:57:16.800 you know,

00:57:17.020 they're reporting

00:57:17.600 directly that

00:57:19.320 Trump,

00:57:20.100 there's evidence

00:57:21.100 that Trump

00:57:21.600 did know

00:57:22.320 that Pence

00:57:23.300 was in

00:57:23.680 danger.

00:57:24.980 But what is

00:57:25.840 the evidence

00:57:26.360 of that?

00:57:27.580 And it says

00:57:28.440 former Pence

00:57:29.400 aides are

00:57:29.820 still fuming

00:57:30.560 over Trump's

00:57:31.720 actions on

00:57:32.360 January 6th,

00:57:33.100 insisting he

00:57:33.720 never checked

00:57:34.360 on the vice

00:57:34.840 president as

00:57:36.080 Pence was

00:57:36.500 being rushed.

00:57:38.260 So it

00:57:39.300 starts with,

00:57:40.380 it starts with

00:57:41.440 Trump knew

00:57:42.520 that Pence

00:57:43.000 was in

00:57:43.480 trouble

00:57:43.780 and did

00:57:45.640 nothing about

00:57:46.240 it.

00:57:47.400 But then it

00:57:48.320 morphed as

00:57:49.660 the explanation

00:57:50.440 of how we

00:57:51.040 know that

00:57:51.720 into he

00:57:53.300 didn't check

00:57:53.880 on Pence.

00:57:56.400 Now,

00:57:57.440 that could be

00:57:59.800 true,

00:58:00.680 I think it is

00:58:01.580 true,

00:58:01.900 that he didn't

00:58:02.480 check on

00:58:03.020 Pence.

00:58:04.560 But does that

00:58:05.480 prove that he

00:58:06.220 thought he was

00:58:06.820 in trouble?

00:58:08.380 They're sort of

00:58:09.160 unrelated thoughts

00:58:10.280 that give you

00:58:11.440 the, it's like a

00:58:12.320 fake because in

00:58:13.220 persuasion.

00:58:14.240 If somebody

00:58:14.960 says, this

00:58:17.280 happened because

00:58:18.840 we know from

00:58:20.620 science that

00:58:21.900 just saying

00:58:22.460 there's a

00:58:23.040 reason will

00:58:24.240 persuade some

00:58:25.020 people that it's

00:58:25.620 true just because

00:58:26.340 you had a

00:58:26.720 reason.

00:58:27.460 Well, I had a

00:58:27.900 reason.

00:58:28.700 It doesn't have

00:58:29.240 to be a good

00:58:29.660 one, just I had

00:58:30.320 a reason.

00:58:31.040 That's good

00:58:31.540 enough to

00:58:31.920 persuade some

00:58:32.480 people.

00:58:32.740 So, CNN

00:58:37.260 uses that

00:58:37.920 technique where

00:58:38.660 they throw

00:58:39.120 something in

00:58:39.700 there that's

00:58:40.140 a statement

00:58:40.720 that Trump

00:58:42.640 didn't check

00:58:43.220 on Pence but

00:58:44.600 is somehow

00:58:45.020 connected to

00:58:45.840 the idea that

00:58:48.020 Trump knew

00:58:49.100 that Pence was

00:58:49.740 in trouble.

00:58:50.380 And they're

00:58:50.560 just different

00:58:51.060 ideas.

00:58:52.740 Right?

00:58:53.180 Just different.

00:58:55.040 So, that's how

00:58:55.980 they get you.

00:58:57.080 Now, of course,

00:58:57.900 the big fun in

00:58:59.060 the news is the

00:58:59.860 Lincoln Project

00:59:00.720 self-immolating.

00:59:02.740 And I keep

00:59:03.860 going back to

00:59:04.500 this thing that

00:59:05.140 damn it, I

00:59:06.340 don't want this

00:59:07.120 to be true

00:59:07.700 because I've

00:59:08.900 resisted it for

00:59:09.700 so long, which

00:59:11.140 is Tucker Carlson

00:59:12.220 often saying that

00:59:13.900 whatever the

00:59:14.500 Democrats accuse

00:59:16.540 you of is what

00:59:17.580 they're doing

00:59:18.040 themselves.

00:59:19.440 Now, the

00:59:19.820 Lincoln Project

00:59:20.480 are not

00:59:21.180 Democrats, but

00:59:22.380 they sort of

00:59:22.940 acted as

00:59:23.540 Democrats during

00:59:24.260 the election.

00:59:25.600 And sure

00:59:25.960 enough, if we

00:59:27.960 are basing it

00:59:28.760 on current

00:59:29.320 reporting, it

00:59:31.200 looks like they

00:59:31.920 accused,

00:59:32.740 Trump of

00:59:33.360 being a

00:59:33.800 grifter while

00:59:35.860 they were

00:59:36.160 grifting.

00:59:37.700 It was

00:59:38.420 literally, according

00:59:40.060 to reports, this

00:59:41.360 is not me saying

00:59:42.300 this, so I

00:59:43.180 don't get sued,

00:59:44.260 but they're being

00:59:45.000 accused of being

00:59:45.820 major grifters, and

00:59:47.140 there's certainly

00:59:47.920 evidence to

00:59:48.840 suggest that,

00:59:50.520 because there's a

00:59:51.520 lot of money

00:59:51.880 unaccounted for.

00:59:53.740 And they were

00:59:54.580 actually, they

00:59:56.020 built a grift,

00:59:57.400 allegedly, around

00:59:58.920 accusing somebody of

00:59:59.960 grifting, and

01:00:01.080 it worked, and

01:00:02.180 they made

01:00:02.480 millions,

01:00:03.180 allegedly.

01:00:04.740 All right.

01:00:06.520 So I so

01:00:07.600 don't want that

01:00:08.300 to be true.

01:00:09.420 I don't want

01:00:10.320 Tucker Carlson to

01:00:11.420 be correct when

01:00:13.160 he says everything

01:00:14.200 they accuse you

01:00:15.180 of is what

01:00:15.760 they're doing

01:00:16.200 themselves.

01:00:18.340 But it does

01:00:19.180 look correct.

01:00:20.420 It does look

01:00:21.700 correct, and I

01:00:22.500 can't figure out

01:00:23.260 why.

01:00:24.340 I can't figure

01:00:25.220 out if there's

01:00:25.740 some causal,

01:00:27.640 logical reason

01:00:28.560 why this should

01:00:29.420 be true.

01:00:30.580 Because I don't

01:00:31.100 think it's that

01:00:33.000 they're so clever

01:00:34.020 that they know

01:00:35.560 that doing this

01:00:36.320 works, because it

01:00:37.180 totally works.

01:00:39.620 I just don't

01:00:40.640 understand it.

01:00:41.380 That's why I was

01:00:41.960 resisting it.

01:00:43.180 The observation

01:00:44.100 is a good one,

01:00:45.480 meaning that it

01:00:46.320 sure looks like

01:00:47.020 that.

01:00:47.720 It looks like

01:00:48.720 they're just

01:00:49.120 accusing you of

01:00:49.900 what they're

01:00:50.200 doing.

01:00:51.640 But I don't

01:00:52.420 know why.

01:00:54.220 Like, is it

01:00:55.160 just because it

01:00:56.000 works?

01:00:56.860 Is that the

01:00:57.300 only reason that

01:00:58.180 we seem to

01:00:59.060 see this?

01:01:00.140 It's just sort

01:01:00.700 of a psychological

01:01:02.380 puzzle to me,

01:01:03.520 exactly what I'm

01:01:04.260 seeing.

01:01:05.700 So Steve

01:01:06.920 Schmidt resigned.

01:01:08.600 He's one of the

01:01:09.040 founders, one of

01:01:10.440 the more notable

01:01:10.920 founders, and he

01:01:11.600 resigned after

01:01:14.080 reports that he

01:01:14.900 bought a $2.9

01:01:15.940 million mansion

01:01:17.000 in Utah with

01:01:19.060 some of the

01:01:19.540 money he made

01:01:20.080 from the

01:01:20.960 Lincoln Project,

01:01:21.900 one assumes.

01:01:24.180 But here's the

01:01:24.820 funny part, that

01:01:26.880 he quit and

01:01:27.760 he said that

01:01:28.520 he was quitting

01:01:29.800 the board, I

01:01:31.540 guess he's still

01:01:32.100 associated, but

01:01:32.860 he quit the

01:01:33.280 board because

01:01:34.360 he wanted to

01:01:34.840 make room for

01:01:35.380 a woman because 0.98

01:01:36.560 that would be

01:01:37.160 part of the

01:01:38.200 healing process.

01:01:42.980 Now, I

01:01:43.840 suppose if you

01:01:44.560 were in his

01:01:45.000 situation, there's

01:01:46.060 no right way to

01:01:49.820 handle this.

01:01:50.640 You're just sort

01:01:51.280 of in trouble, so

01:01:52.260 there's no graceful

01:01:53.360 way to acquit

01:01:55.520 yourself.

01:01:56.880 But if you had

01:01:58.380 to take a swing

01:01:59.180 at it, because

01:02:00.280 you've got to

01:02:00.640 say something,

01:02:01.320 right?

01:02:01.540 You can't say

01:02:02.020 nothing.

01:02:03.340 Throwing in this

01:02:04.200 I'm going to

01:02:05.620 make room available

01:02:06.460 to add a woman

01:02:07.160 because there are

01:02:07.760 too many middle-aged

01:02:09.160 white guys on the

01:02:10.200 board, it's funny.

01:02:14.220 It's sort of

01:02:15.040 laughably weak, but

01:02:17.660 it might still kind

01:02:18.800 of work a little

01:02:19.780 bit in our weird

01:02:21.040 politically correct

01:02:22.440 world.

01:02:23.360 So I thought that

01:02:24.000 was hilarious that

01:02:24.800 he would even try

01:02:25.660 that move, but it

01:02:26.860 might work, who

01:02:27.600 knows?

01:02:29.000 The other thing

01:02:29.760 that's funny is that

01:02:30.540 CNN is promoting

01:02:31.500 their upcoming

01:02:32.180 special about

01:02:34.420 Abraham Lincoln,

01:02:36.640 and the theme of

01:02:39.780 their special about

01:02:40.580 Abraham Lincoln is

01:02:41.680 he wasn't all

01:02:43.600 good.

01:02:45.020 Now, I don't know

01:02:45.660 what the details

01:02:46.220 are, and I

01:02:47.940 certainly agree

01:02:48.880 with the

01:02:49.560 historical truth

01:02:52.100 that Lincoln, he

01:02:53.280 wasn't so honest.

01:02:54.960 If we're being

01:02:55.580 honest, he wasn't

01:02:57.920 so honest.

01:02:59.360 I think that's

01:03:00.140 well documented

01:03:00.820 that he was, he

01:03:02.600 had some dirty

01:03:03.200 tricks to get

01:03:03.820 elected.

01:03:06.540 But, and I

01:03:07.660 think that his

01:03:08.420 opinions on race

01:03:10.360 and slavery were

01:03:11.400 a little more

01:03:12.020 complicated than

01:03:13.120 history has told

01:03:14.960 the story.

01:03:15.340 So I don't

01:03:16.000 think CNN is

01:03:17.000 wrong.

01:03:18.620 I mean, I don't

01:03:19.300 know if they're

01:03:19.720 right or wrong,

01:03:20.560 but I'm not

01:03:21.100 going to

01:03:21.320 automatically say

01:03:22.200 that there's,

01:03:23.180 you know, that

01:03:24.120 Abe Lincoln was

01:03:25.040 free of any

01:03:26.840 criticism.

01:03:28.800 But what about

01:03:29.580 the timing of

01:03:30.400 it?

01:03:38.000 I hope this

01:03:39.200 is not, this

01:03:40.320 won't get me

01:03:40.920 canceled.

01:03:41.300 somebody said

01:03:44.180 of Abraham

01:03:44.640 Lincoln that he

01:03:45.360 was a little

01:03:45.800 bit gay. 0.94

01:03:47.480 And so, first

01:03:49.500 of all, that

01:03:49.840 makes me funny

01:03:50.420 that you could

01:03:50.820 be a little

01:03:51.180 bit gay. 0.94

01:03:52.260 But there is

01:03:53.260 a story about

01:03:53.960 how he used

01:03:56.900 to sleep with

01:03:57.440 a man routinely.

01:03:59.940 But the

01:04:00.580 sleeping,

01:04:01.580 allegedly, was

01:04:03.140 fairly common

01:04:04.060 in those days.

01:04:05.400 That sleeping

01:04:06.600 in the same

01:04:07.180 bed with a

01:04:08.220 man, if you

01:04:08.800 were a man,

01:04:10.140 wasn't that

01:04:11.020 unusual, I

01:04:12.080 guess.

01:04:12.940 So, I don't

01:04:13.600 know what the

01:04:13.940 truth of it

01:04:14.480 was, but I'm

01:04:16.480 laughing at your

01:04:17.060 comment that he

01:04:18.440 was a little

01:04:18.940 bit gay, just 0.99

01:04:20.560 because I don't

01:04:20.960 know what that

01:04:21.320 means.

01:04:23.540 So, there's

01:04:24.340 allegations about

01:04:26.020 Governor Cuomo

01:04:27.540 that are kind

01:04:28.940 of disturbing,

01:04:29.860 but I would say

01:04:30.360 they lack

01:04:30.920 evidence, or

01:04:32.160 proof, anyway,

01:04:33.400 at this point.

01:04:34.620 Because what we

01:04:35.260 know is that

01:04:35.900 Cuomo released

01:04:37.460 people to

01:04:38.120 nursing homes,

01:04:39.100 and that

01:04:39.280 caused a

01:04:39.940 number of

01:04:40.340 deaths that

01:04:40.900 could have

01:04:41.160 been prevented.

01:04:42.280 At the same

01:04:42.860 time, he was

01:04:43.440 leaving empty

01:04:44.180 the USS Comfort

01:04:46.000 and the Javits

01:04:46.940 Center, which

01:04:47.840 would have been

01:04:48.280 converted for

01:04:49.140 hospital beds,

01:04:50.540 and he didn't

01:04:51.300 use any of

01:04:51.880 those resources.

01:04:53.140 Now, those

01:04:53.500 resources were

01:04:54.440 provided by

01:04:57.300 the president.

01:04:58.600 So, there's

01:04:59.460 some thought

01:05:00.220 that maybe

01:05:00.940 Cuomo didn't

01:05:02.160 want the 0.55

01:05:02.740 president to

01:05:03.360 get any

01:05:03.740 credit for

01:05:04.340 helping, so

01:05:05.540 he left the

01:05:06.180 assets that

01:05:06.860 the president

01:05:07.360 provided,

01:05:08.200 empty, tried

01:05:09.960 to use

01:05:10.460 the senior

01:05:12.960 homes or

01:05:13.740 the nursing

01:05:14.120 homes to

01:05:15.500 store the

01:05:16.000 people who

01:05:16.480 had been

01:05:16.760 infected, and

01:05:17.620 that didn't

01:05:18.080 work out well

01:05:18.920 and people

01:05:19.340 died.

01:05:20.640 But, I

01:05:21.380 would caution

01:05:21.900 you this, I

01:05:23.700 don't think we

01:05:24.280 know what

01:05:24.680 anybody was

01:05:25.260 thinking.

01:05:26.720 We don't

01:05:27.140 know what

01:05:27.400 he was

01:05:27.940 thinking, do

01:05:28.940 we?

01:05:29.200 We do know

01:05:29.860 that his

01:05:30.220 aides covered

01:05:31.020 up the deaths

01:05:31.680 after the

01:05:32.260 fact, which

01:05:33.300 is a

01:05:33.880 separate

01:05:34.340 badness from

01:05:36.600 the decision.

01:05:37.360 I would

01:05:40.160 need to

01:05:40.560 know a

01:05:41.680 lot more

01:05:42.260 about what

01:05:42.940 happened.

01:05:44.380 Because I'd

01:05:45.080 like to hear

01:05:45.540 the argument.

01:05:46.720 If you put

01:05:47.320 me in this

01:05:47.780 situation, I

01:05:48.600 probably would

01:05:49.280 not have

01:05:49.740 used the

01:05:50.540 Javits Center

01:05:51.300 or the

01:05:51.720 USS Comfort 0.60

01:05:52.640 either.

01:05:53.580 I think I

01:05:54.400 would have

01:05:54.640 said, you

01:05:55.680 don't want to

01:05:56.180 put even one

01:05:57.000 infected person

01:05:57.900 into a new

01:05:58.600 environment until

01:06:00.100 you need to.

01:06:01.480 Until you

01:06:02.160 need to.

01:06:02.520 Because every

01:06:03.040 new environment

01:06:03.780 you create

01:06:04.520 for storing

01:06:06.000 infected people,

01:06:07.620 I feel like

01:06:08.440 that creates

01:06:08.920 new risk.

01:06:10.540 I mean, that's

01:06:10.820 just my common

01:06:12.200 sense of it is

01:06:12.980 you want to

01:06:13.420 have the

01:06:13.900 fewest number

01:06:14.760 of places

01:06:15.460 that have an

01:06:16.580 infection.

01:06:17.440 It just feels

01:06:18.060 like that would

01:06:18.560 make sense.

01:06:19.520 So if you

01:06:20.000 didn't need

01:06:20.700 those things,

01:06:21.600 and apparently

01:06:22.240 they didn't

01:06:22.920 need need

01:06:23.620 them,

01:06:23.840 or I

01:06:26.320 suppose you

01:06:27.920 could argue

01:06:28.340 that the

01:06:28.640 people they

01:06:29.020 sent back

01:06:31.640 to the old

01:06:32.380 folks' 0.80

01:06:32.800 homes should 0.74

01:06:33.420 have gone

01:06:33.700 there instead.

01:06:35.260 But I'd

01:06:35.980 like to hear

01:06:36.440 more about

01:06:36.980 how the

01:06:37.340 decision was

01:06:38.020 made.

01:06:38.560 I'm not

01:06:38.860 quite ready

01:06:39.580 to say

01:06:40.740 Cuomo

01:06:41.360 intentionally

01:06:43.960 killed people

01:06:45.540 for political

01:06:46.280 reasons.

01:06:46.860 I feel like

01:06:47.380 that's too

01:06:47.820 far.

01:06:49.360 I have a

01:06:50.320 general feeling

01:06:50.960 about our

01:06:51.480 leaders in

01:06:52.100 this country

01:06:52.580 that might

01:06:52.980 not be

01:06:53.360 fair.

01:06:53.840 but it's

01:06:54.500 how I

01:06:54.800 feel.

01:06:55.640 Which is

01:06:56.380 by the

01:06:56.800 time they

01:06:57.180 become

01:06:57.620 presidents

01:06:58.280 or governors,

01:06:59.780 they do

01:07:00.640 actually care

01:07:01.500 about the

01:07:03.140 people.

01:07:04.240 Even if they

01:07:05.120 didn't when

01:07:05.560 they were

01:07:05.820 running.

01:07:06.680 I think

01:07:06.980 there's

01:07:07.220 something about

01:07:07.820 having the

01:07:08.600 job.

01:07:10.100 You know,

01:07:10.320 the office

01:07:10.980 has its own

01:07:11.720 power upon

01:07:12.440 the person

01:07:12.920 who holds

01:07:13.300 the office.

01:07:14.260 I feel like

01:07:15.240 every president

01:07:16.480 cared about

01:07:17.140 the public.

01:07:19.920 I'm seeing

01:07:20.620 lots of

01:07:21.000 disagreement

01:07:21.400 about Cuomo.

01:07:22.880 Cuomo.

01:07:23.480 You know,

01:07:23.940 I'm not

01:07:25.040 telling you

01:07:25.560 that he

01:07:25.940 was innocent.

01:07:27.360 So I'm

01:07:27.960 not defending

01:07:28.780 him.

01:07:29.460 I'm just

01:07:30.000 saying that

01:07:30.500 I would

01:07:30.920 personally

01:07:31.420 like a

01:07:32.300 lot better,

01:07:33.720 a lot

01:07:34.380 better,

01:07:34.920 let's say,

01:07:35.800 visibility on

01:07:36.960 what happened

01:07:37.540 before I'm

01:07:38.840 willing to go

01:07:39.460 all the way

01:07:40.080 toward,

01:07:40.620 you know,

01:07:41.040 this guy

01:07:41.720 has to have

01:07:42.660 his career

01:07:43.300 ended,

01:07:43.820 etc.

01:07:44.000 Now,

01:07:44.760 his career

01:07:45.100 has probably

01:07:45.740 ended just

01:07:46.320 by the

01:07:47.020 scandal

01:07:48.700 itself.

01:07:49.420 We'll see.

01:07:51.580 Anyway,

01:07:52.200 it's not my

01:07:52.860 job to

01:07:53.700 defend him.

01:07:54.520 I just

01:07:54.920 want you to

01:07:55.760 make sure

01:07:56.280 you have

01:07:56.640 all the

01:07:56.900 information.

01:07:57.920 There's a

01:07:58.440 press secretary,

01:08:01.060 Jen Psaki,

01:08:02.960 was asked

01:08:04.040 if in the

01:08:05.480 Biden

01:08:05.700 administration

01:08:06.320 we still

01:08:06.860 consider

01:08:07.340 Israel

01:08:07.900 an ally.

01:08:08.680 She did

01:08:10.700 not answer

01:08:11.260 that directly.

01:08:15.220 What do

01:08:15.800 you make

01:08:16.060 of that?

01:08:17.680 She actually

01:08:18.240 wouldn't

01:08:19.020 directly say

01:08:19.940 Israel is

01:08:21.120 an ally.

01:08:24.000 Is that

01:08:24.640 just being

01:08:25.080 bad at

01:08:25.500 her job?

01:08:26.700 Or is that

01:08:27.360 something we

01:08:27.840 need to

01:08:28.140 know about?

01:08:29.740 That feels

01:08:30.460 like a

01:08:30.820 pretty big

01:08:31.400 deal,

01:08:32.160 doesn't it?

01:08:33.460 And I'd

01:08:34.460 have to say

01:08:34.920 that just

01:08:35.260 based on

01:08:35.680 the few

01:08:36.060 interactions

01:08:36.520 I've seen,

01:08:37.040 I've told

01:08:39.560 you before

01:08:39.960 that Trump

01:08:40.460 will look

01:08:40.960 better and

01:08:41.440 better as

01:08:42.000 time goes

01:08:42.640 by.

01:08:43.140 Once we

01:08:43.480 get past

01:08:43.880 the impeachment

01:08:44.460 and all

01:08:44.840 that.

01:08:45.840 Or actually,

01:08:46.780 once you

01:08:47.500 know Trump

01:08:48.080 will not

01:08:48.560 run for

01:08:48.980 office again,

01:08:50.360 and I

01:08:50.660 think there'll

01:08:50.980 be some

01:08:51.340 point where

01:08:51.780 we know

01:08:52.120 that,

01:08:52.920 whenever it

01:08:53.600 is that we

01:08:54.100 know Trump

01:08:54.960 will never

01:08:55.340 run for

01:08:55.720 office again,

01:08:56.620 that will

01:08:57.220 be the

01:08:57.540 point where

01:08:58.080 his reputation

01:08:58.840 starts

01:08:59.380 improving.

01:09:00.880 At the

01:09:01.480 moment,

01:09:02.420 the people

01:09:02.860 who don't

01:09:03.340 want him to

01:09:03.840 run for

01:09:04.200 president still

01:09:05.440 need to

01:09:05.920 suppress

01:09:06.660 fake news

01:09:07.880 and ruin

01:09:09.320 his reputation.

01:09:10.480 But the

01:09:10.880 moment he's

01:09:11.380 not a

01:09:11.780 risk,

01:09:13.220 he's almost

01:09:14.020 immediately

01:09:14.680 going to

01:09:15.080 start looking

01:09:15.580 better

01:09:15.980 historically.

01:09:17.660 Because there

01:09:18.220 are a lot

01:09:18.420 of stuff

01:09:18.680 he did

01:09:18.960 right that

01:09:19.800 Biden is

01:09:20.340 either going

01:09:20.700 to have

01:09:20.860 to copy

01:09:21.400 or explain

01:09:22.160 why he's

01:09:22.560 not.

01:09:26.880 Anyway,

01:09:27.800 so one

01:09:28.240 of the ways

01:09:28.880 that Trump

01:09:29.680 will look

01:09:30.020 good is

01:09:30.480 that his

01:09:31.680 hiring of

01:09:34.180 Kayleigh

01:09:34.700 McEnany

01:09:35.240 just looks

01:09:36.560 way better

01:09:37.260 than Biden's

01:09:38.240 hiring of

01:09:38.820 Jen Psaki.

01:09:39.720 They don't

01:09:40.120 even look

01:09:40.520 like they're

01:09:40.860 in the

01:09:41.080 same class

01:09:42.540 of capability.

01:09:44.960 So that's

01:09:45.740 just one

01:09:46.060 example where

01:09:46.640 Trump will

01:09:47.240 look better

01:09:48.180 as time

01:09:49.740 goes by.

01:09:53.540 I saw

01:09:54.360 a study

01:09:55.600 that I

01:09:56.560 hope I

01:09:57.080 tweeted if

01:09:57.700 you're looking

01:09:58.040 for it.

01:09:59.680 No, I

01:10:00.300 didn't tweet

01:10:00.700 it, but I

01:10:01.880 read it because

01:10:02.620 I got it by

01:10:03.060 email.

01:10:03.280 And the

01:10:04.140 study looked

01:10:04.740 at all

01:10:06.460 the studies

01:10:07.040 that say

01:10:07.520 masks work

01:10:08.900 and then

01:10:09.980 all the

01:10:10.440 studies that

01:10:11.060 say they

01:10:11.440 don't.

01:10:12.800 And they

01:10:13.100 were trying

01:10:13.380 to figure

01:10:13.700 out what's

01:10:14.120 going on

01:10:14.520 here.

01:10:15.220 How could

01:10:15.620 it be

01:10:16.100 that there

01:10:17.080 would be

01:10:17.300 lots of

01:10:17.760 studies on

01:10:18.340 masks and

01:10:19.720 you would

01:10:20.000 end up

01:10:20.380 with lots

01:10:20.880 of them

01:10:21.140 that say

01:10:21.460 masks

01:10:22.000 definitely

01:10:22.620 work,

01:10:23.740 and then

01:10:24.120 a whole

01:10:24.360 bunch of

01:10:24.760 others that

01:10:26.100 say no

01:10:26.800 masks don't

01:10:27.320 work,

01:10:28.160 here's the

01:10:28.620 study.

01:10:29.700 How could

01:10:30.320 that be?

01:10:30.680 I mean,

01:10:31.880 at this

01:10:32.460 point,

01:10:33.240 how could

01:10:33.820 we've gotten

01:10:34.200 to this

01:10:34.720 point,

01:10:35.420 2021,

01:10:36.740 and the

01:10:37.140 science?

01:10:38.720 I mean,

01:10:39.140 basically,

01:10:39.720 this is like

01:10:40.240 a key tool

01:10:41.260 in the

01:10:41.940 medical science

01:10:42.860 world,

01:10:43.280 right?

01:10:44.060 And the

01:10:44.900 medical science

01:10:45.740 world hasn't

01:10:46.500 figured out

01:10:47.000 if the

01:10:47.360 masks work,

01:10:49.660 and we've

01:10:50.100 got tests

01:10:50.620 that say

01:10:50.940 they don't,

01:10:52.320 or studies,

01:10:53.600 and we've

01:10:54.040 got studies

01:10:54.560 that say

01:10:54.900 they do.

01:10:56.240 What the

01:10:56.980 hell?

01:10:58.120 Right?

01:10:59.040 So this

01:10:59.720 study that

01:11:01.460 I'm mentioning,

01:11:02.340 which I wish

01:11:02.780 I could give

01:11:03.260 you more

01:11:03.540 details on,

01:11:04.300 but it

01:11:04.680 looked official,

01:11:05.540 it's been

01:11:05.860 submitted for

01:11:06.480 peer review,

01:11:07.920 it looked

01:11:10.320 at what's

01:11:10.660 different

01:11:11.180 about the

01:11:11.780 studies.

01:11:12.900 And because

01:11:13.320 I don't

01:11:14.480 understand

01:11:15.100 enough about

01:11:15.920 the

01:11:17.440 statistical,

01:11:18.720 you know,

01:11:20.040 let's say

01:11:20.600 the terms

01:11:21.080 of art,

01:11:21.980 I'm not

01:11:22.440 sure exactly

01:11:23.140 what they

01:11:23.560 mean,

01:11:24.020 but here's

01:11:24.440 what they

01:11:24.760 concluded.

01:11:25.760 So I'll

01:11:26.140 give it to

01:11:26.480 you in

01:11:26.780 layman's

01:11:27.360 terms.

01:11:28.700 All of

01:11:29.140 the studies

01:11:29.640 that say

01:11:30.080 masks don't

01:11:31.280 work had

01:11:32.620 something in

01:11:33.300 common.

01:11:35.360 They were

01:11:35.740 flawed studies.

01:11:37.660 So flawed

01:11:38.420 that if

01:11:39.240 masks had

01:11:39.920 been 100%

01:11:41.020 effective,

01:11:41.580 said the

01:11:42.000 study,

01:11:43.580 that even

01:11:44.100 if masks

01:11:44.760 had been

01:11:45.160 100%

01:11:46.180 effective,

01:11:47.120 the way

01:11:47.600 the studies

01:11:48.140 were built,

01:11:49.160 they wouldn't

01:11:49.500 have detected

01:11:50.080 it.

01:11:51.420 That's right,

01:11:51.920 the studies

01:11:52.380 were so

01:11:52.980 poor that

01:11:54.500 even if

01:11:55.360 masks had

01:11:56.100 been 100%

01:11:57.360 effective,

01:11:58.540 the study

01:11:59.040 couldn't

01:11:59.440 have detected

01:11:59.980 that.

01:12:01.580 That's how

01:12:02.220 bad they

01:12:02.620 were.

01:12:03.580 Now the

01:12:03.920 ones that

01:12:04.320 were done

01:12:04.800 with higher

01:12:06.540 quality,

01:12:07.880 meaning that

01:12:08.420 there are

01:12:08.640 more people

01:12:09.140 involved and

01:12:10.000 there are no

01:12:10.740 obvious problems

01:12:12.240 with it,

01:12:13.260 pretty much

01:12:14.440 all say the

01:12:15.060 masks work.

01:12:16.660 So if you're

01:12:17.260 looking for

01:12:17.900 understanding

01:12:18.680 why could

01:12:19.400 people show

01:12:20.500 me a link

01:12:21.240 to all these

01:12:21.840 studies that

01:12:22.440 say masks

01:12:22.980 don't work,

01:12:24.020 well somebody

01:12:24.640 else will

01:12:25.000 give me

01:12:25.240 a link

01:12:25.540 to the

01:12:25.900 studies that

01:12:26.440 say they

01:12:26.780 do work,

01:12:28.040 what am I

01:12:28.560 going to

01:12:28.780 do with

01:12:29.080 that?

01:12:29.580 Well I

01:12:30.440 can't

01:12:30.740 guarantee

01:12:31.100 that this

01:12:32.540 one study

01:12:33.260 that I'm

01:12:33.900 describing is

01:12:35.080 right,

01:12:35.900 but I'll

01:12:36.480 put it out

01:12:36.960 there that

01:12:37.540 one possibility

01:12:38.880 is that the

01:12:39.640 ones that

01:12:40.000 say masks

01:12:40.520 don't work

01:12:41.140 were underpowered

01:12:42.720 statistically.

01:12:45.220 Statistically

01:12:45.740 underpowered.

01:12:46.980 In other

01:12:47.220 words they

01:12:47.500 didn't have

01:12:47.840 enough data

01:12:49.140 of the right

01:12:49.740 kind to

01:12:50.540 really draw a

01:12:51.380 conclusion of

01:12:52.020 any kind.

01:12:53.660 So could

01:12:55.620 that be the

01:12:56.380 answer to

01:12:56.820 the mystery?

01:12:57.880 Why some

01:12:58.480 people think

01:12:59.020 they work

01:12:59.480 and some

01:13:00.080 people think

01:13:00.660 they do

01:13:01.020 not?

01:13:01.840 I think so.

01:13:03.060 I think that

01:13:03.740 might be the

01:13:04.260 answer to

01:13:04.620 the mystery.

01:13:05.160 Can't guarantee

01:13:05.720 it, but it

01:13:06.820 does sound

01:13:07.220 like it might

01:13:07.680 be.

01:13:08.700 Yeah, it's

01:13:09.200 a sample

01:13:09.600 size problem

01:13:10.360 I think for

01:13:11.380 the most

01:13:11.740 part.

01:13:17.540 Just looking

01:13:18.260 at your

01:13:18.540 comments,

01:13:19.100 because I

01:13:19.380 know that

01:13:19.680 you always

01:13:19.980 go nuts on

01:13:20.560 me when I

01:13:20.920 talk about

01:13:21.320 masks.

01:13:22.720 I drop

01:13:23.380 followers like

01:13:25.120 crazy whenever

01:13:25.760 I talk about

01:13:26.360 this.

01:13:29.320 Then we're

01:13:29.900 talking about

01:13:30.320 kids, blah,

01:13:31.460 blah, blah.

01:13:32.020 Well, my

01:13:32.520 take on

01:13:32.980 kids is if

01:13:33.860 kids do

01:13:35.220 not get

01:13:35.940 bad symptoms

01:13:37.740 themselves,

01:13:39.400 what are

01:13:39.780 the odds

01:13:40.200 that they

01:13:40.520 spread it?

01:13:42.180 I mean,

01:13:42.460 really.

01:13:43.060 If we know

01:13:43.820 that it's the

01:13:44.460 super spreaders

01:13:45.360 who are

01:13:45.620 responsible for

01:13:46.500 the vast

01:13:47.200 majority of

01:13:47.840 spread,

01:13:48.960 that even

01:13:49.420 an adult

01:13:50.080 who has

01:13:50.620 it,

01:13:50.840 might not

01:13:52.700 spread it

01:13:53.180 that much

01:13:53.680 unless they

01:13:54.240 have a

01:13:54.580 certain viral

01:13:55.280 load and

01:13:55.880 they're a

01:13:56.180 certain kind

01:13:56.580 of person,

01:13:57.000 I guess.

01:13:58.040 But kids

01:13:58.820 are almost

01:13:59.700 universally

01:14:00.460 unaffected.

01:14:02.140 So if you're

01:14:02.920 unaffected,

01:14:03.820 even if you're

01:14:04.620 infected,

01:14:05.860 you're unaffected,

01:14:07.300 even if you're

01:14:08.540 infected,

01:14:09.700 how much

01:14:10.700 virus could you

01:14:11.480 possibly be

01:14:12.300 spreading if

01:14:13.580 you don't have

01:14:14.120 enough in your

01:14:14.640 body to even

01:14:15.280 affect you

01:14:15.980 with a

01:14:16.720 symptom,

01:14:17.800 I would

01:14:18.140 imagine it's

01:14:18.800 just almost

01:14:19.900 nothing.

01:14:21.120 But I'm not

01:14:21.820 a medical

01:14:22.160 person,

01:14:22.840 so don't

01:14:23.340 take my

01:14:23.720 word for

01:14:24.080 anything

01:14:24.320 medical,

01:14:25.220 but just

01:14:25.560 we're all

01:14:26.800 in this

01:14:27.100 situation

01:14:27.540 where we'd

01:14:28.540 love to

01:14:28.900 trust the

01:14:29.400 science,

01:14:30.440 but we

01:14:30.800 just don't

01:14:31.820 know what

01:14:32.200 to trust.

01:14:33.840 You don't

01:14:34.440 know which

01:14:34.760 science to

01:14:35.300 trust.

01:14:36.280 So you're

01:14:37.080 sort of

01:14:37.380 trying to

01:14:37.700 use your

01:14:38.120 best judgment

01:14:38.840 and whatever

01:14:39.820 passes as

01:14:40.540 your common

01:14:41.000 sense to

01:14:41.560 figure this

01:14:41.960 stuff out.

01:14:42.420 So my

01:14:45.120 take is that

01:14:45.800 kids are not

01:14:46.320 dangerous,

01:14:47.120 certainly below

01:14:48.080 a certain age.

01:14:49.400 I would

01:14:49.960 treat them as

01:14:50.620 if there's no

01:14:51.200 danger at all.

01:14:53.300 And in fact,

01:14:54.380 I do treat

01:14:55.460 them as if

01:14:56.000 there's no

01:14:56.300 danger at all.

01:14:58.340 Don't know

01:14:58.720 if that's

01:14:59.000 right, but

01:14:59.860 that's where

01:15:00.240 my judgment

01:15:01.400 leads me.

01:15:04.200 Somebody says

01:15:04.940 I quit wearing

01:15:05.600 a mask last

01:15:06.420 week, I'm

01:15:07.080 over it.

01:15:07.960 Well, I

01:15:08.280 think, you

01:15:09.120 know, I'm

01:15:10.800 not a mask

01:15:11.800 rebel.

01:15:12.420 And here's

01:15:15.900 my thinking.

01:15:16.940 Number one, it

01:15:17.780 probably makes a

01:15:18.480 difference, so

01:15:19.740 it probably

01:15:20.100 matters.

01:15:21.180 Number two, it

01:15:23.120 is part of

01:15:24.380 showing that

01:15:25.780 we're all in

01:15:26.380 this together.

01:15:28.100 And I

01:15:29.680 feel like that

01:15:30.400 matters.

01:15:31.920 I feel like

01:15:32.540 that matters.

01:15:34.100 I think you

01:15:35.260 have to...

01:15:37.420 There's

01:15:38.480 something about

01:15:38.920 shared pain

01:15:39.980 that has

01:15:41.600 more benefit

01:15:42.360 than I

01:15:42.900 think is

01:15:43.660 obvious on

01:15:44.260 the surface.

01:15:45.420 In other

01:15:46.060 words, if

01:15:46.540 you said to

01:15:47.080 me, Scott,

01:15:48.100 you've

01:15:49.240 recovered from

01:15:49.920 the virus and

01:15:51.080 you took the

01:15:51.700 vaccination too,

01:15:53.220 there's no real

01:15:54.040 chance that you

01:15:54.700 specifically are

01:15:55.780 going to get the

01:15:56.380 virus and pass

01:15:57.940 it on.

01:15:58.420 I mean, it's

01:15:58.760 possible, but it's

01:16:00.040 such a low

01:16:00.600 chance that you

01:16:02.600 don't need to

01:16:03.020 wear a mask.

01:16:03.680 I feel like I

01:16:05.320 still would.

01:16:06.740 I feel like I

01:16:07.400 still would.

01:16:08.100 Because there's a

01:16:08.720 benefit to being a

01:16:09.560 team player.

01:16:11.300 Let me give you an

01:16:11.940 example.

01:16:12.520 During the

01:16:13.120 droughts of

01:16:16.520 whatever year that

01:16:17.220 was in California,

01:16:18.640 I have my own

01:16:19.960 well.

01:16:20.740 So I bought the

01:16:21.480 property I'm on

01:16:22.280 in large part

01:16:24.000 because it came

01:16:25.180 with a well.

01:16:26.320 Now in my town,

01:16:27.160 you can't drill a

01:16:28.020 well for your

01:16:28.740 house.

01:16:29.140 It's illegal.

01:16:29.820 You have to use

01:16:30.300 town water.

01:16:31.400 But if you already

01:16:32.020 have a well,

01:16:32.800 it's a property

01:16:33.420 that's been there

01:16:34.060 a while, you can

01:16:35.060 use the well.

01:16:35.880 But you can only

01:16:36.440 use it for

01:16:36.920 outdoor stuff.

01:16:38.260 Now of course,

01:16:39.880 even though I

01:16:40.620 can only use my

01:16:41.320 well for landscaping,

01:16:43.500 it's still water.

01:16:44.780 So I wasn't going

01:16:45.880 to run out of

01:16:46.360 water.

01:16:46.800 I mean, I would

01:16:47.400 drink it.

01:16:47.880 It's just not

01:16:48.400 legal, but if

01:16:50.120 you need water,

01:16:50.760 you're going to

01:16:51.080 drink it.

01:16:51.740 It's not dangerous.

01:16:53.180 I get it tested.

01:16:54.680 But I got

01:16:55.920 complaints from

01:16:56.540 the neighbors

01:16:57.000 because I was

01:16:58.060 watering my lawn

01:16:59.040 with my own

01:17:00.300 water.

01:17:00.640 the water

01:17:01.880 that I owned

01:17:02.780 legally and

01:17:05.420 had plenty of

01:17:06.180 it.

01:17:06.460 As far as I

01:17:07.000 knew, it

01:17:07.740 was a well.

01:17:09.880 But I got

01:17:11.160 complaints from

01:17:11.740 the city because

01:17:12.360 the neighbors

01:17:12.740 complained and

01:17:13.440 they said,

01:17:14.500 we're letting

01:17:15.680 our lawns

01:17:16.460 die.

01:17:18.180 Maybe you

01:17:18.840 should let

01:17:19.160 your lawn

01:17:19.600 die too.

01:17:21.780 Now, there

01:17:22.680 were two ways

01:17:23.220 I could have

01:17:23.640 played this.

01:17:24.600 Number one,

01:17:25.380 a rebel.

01:17:27.160 Did that

01:17:27.740 really happen?

01:17:28.520 Hold on a

01:17:29.040 second.

01:17:30.640 Okay.

01:17:31.820 No.

01:17:34.060 One is I

01:17:34.820 could say,

01:17:35.280 I will fight

01:17:35.880 the city.

01:17:36.540 You have no

01:17:37.100 legal recourse.

01:17:38.060 I'm going to

01:17:38.360 get my lawyers

01:17:39.120 and I'm going

01:17:40.240 to use my

01:17:40.840 water that I

01:17:41.520 paid for

01:17:41.980 any way I

01:17:42.540 want.

01:17:42.860 It's a free

01:17:43.360 country.

01:17:44.520 I could have

01:17:44.920 done that and

01:17:45.600 I would have

01:17:45.920 been completely

01:17:46.600 within my

01:17:47.180 rights.

01:17:48.500 My argument,

01:17:49.600 I think,

01:17:50.020 would be

01:17:50.360 completely solid.

01:17:54.260 It's my

01:17:55.060 water.

01:17:55.700 That's the

01:17:56.120 end of the

01:17:56.560 story.

01:17:56.880 I'm going

01:17:58.000 to water

01:17:58.360 my lawn

01:17:59.080 with my

01:18:00.040 fucking

01:18:00.300 water.

01:18:01.220 That's not

01:18:01.820 the job of

01:18:02.440 the government

01:18:02.900 to tell me

01:18:03.400 I can't do

01:18:03.960 that.

01:18:04.560 So I

01:18:04.920 could have

01:18:05.120 played it

01:18:05.440 that way.

01:18:06.480 But I

01:18:06.900 chose instead 1.00

01:18:07.720 to be a

01:18:08.640 team player.

01:18:10.220 And I

01:18:10.580 chose instead 1.00

01:18:11.340 because not

01:18:12.600 everybody would

01:18:13.280 know if they

01:18:14.000 drove past my

01:18:14.820 property.

01:18:15.300 They wouldn't

01:18:15.600 know it was

01:18:16.000 my water.

01:18:17.200 They would

01:18:17.520 think it was

01:18:17.920 the city

01:18:18.240 water.

01:18:19.240 And what

01:18:19.520 message would

01:18:20.240 I be sending

01:18:20.880 having the

01:18:21.980 biggest house

01:18:22.580 on the block?

01:18:23.320 That's just

01:18:25.420 a fact.

01:18:26.440 It's the

01:18:26.780 biggest house

01:18:27.280 on the block.

01:18:28.400 And watering

01:18:29.280 my lawn in

01:18:30.080 the middle

01:18:30.400 of a drought.

01:18:32.320 So,

01:18:33.180 at very

01:18:34.360 large expense

01:18:35.260 to myself,

01:18:36.120 I let my

01:18:36.700 landscape die.

01:18:38.620 Because it

01:18:39.240 was a better

01:18:39.620 team play.

01:18:40.860 And I don't

01:18:41.400 regret that.

01:18:42.720 I don't

01:18:43.060 regret that.

01:18:44.220 There was no

01:18:44.960 reason I had

01:18:45.800 to do it

01:18:46.180 except for how

01:18:46.840 it felt to

01:18:47.640 other people.

01:18:48.740 But that is

01:18:49.260 a good reason.

01:18:50.260 That is a good

01:18:50.800 reason.

01:18:51.400 It's largely

01:18:52.140 the same

01:18:52.600 argument I

01:18:53.140 make about

01:18:53.620 confederate

01:18:54.220 statues.

01:18:55.700 It doesn't

01:18:56.440 matter what

01:18:56.880 I think of

01:18:57.440 the confederate

01:18:58.240 statues.

01:18:59.320 It's irrelevant.

01:19:01.060 It's impolite

01:19:02.140 to some

01:19:03.080 large part

01:19:03.720 of the

01:19:04.000 community.

01:19:05.080 I don't

01:19:05.440 want to

01:19:05.660 be impolite.

01:19:06.940 I don't

01:19:07.280 want to

01:19:07.520 live in a

01:19:07.860 country with

01:19:08.380 other people

01:19:08.860 who are

01:19:09.180 impolite.

01:19:10.140 So if I

01:19:10.780 can be

01:19:11.100 polite,

01:19:12.280 I'm going

01:19:12.640 to do

01:19:12.860 it.

01:19:13.860 And if

01:19:14.200 I can

01:19:14.680 be part

01:19:15.740 of maybe

01:19:16.300 helping

01:19:16.800 the,

01:19:17.560 let's say,

01:19:18.120 the psychology

01:19:18.840 of the

01:19:19.720 public to

01:19:20.320 get through

01:19:20.720 something,

01:19:21.660 be it a

01:19:22.140 drought or

01:19:22.880 be it a

01:19:23.500 pandemic,

01:19:24.880 I'm going

01:19:25.500 to be

01:19:26.560 biased toward

01:19:27.640 the thing

01:19:28.360 that's better

01:19:29.120 for the

01:19:29.600 message and

01:19:30.940 the psychology.

01:19:31.900 I'm going to

01:19:32.200 be biased

01:19:32.640 toward that

01:19:33.040 even if

01:19:33.480 it's a

01:19:34.360 substantial

01:19:34.900 discomfort on

01:19:36.060 my side.

01:19:36.760 I'm willing

01:19:37.160 to take a

01:19:37.680 pretty big

01:19:38.360 hit if

01:19:41.060 there's an

01:19:41.460 obvious

01:19:41.960 societal

01:19:43.320 benefit.

01:19:44.280 All right,

01:19:44.660 that's all I

01:19:45.280 got for now

01:19:45.860 and I will

01:19:46.260 talk to you

01:19:46.980 tomorrow.

01:19:47.920 All right,

01:19:51.500 YouTubers,

01:19:52.080 you have me

01:19:52.500 for another

01:19:52.860 minute.

01:19:54.720 That shows

01:19:55.460 you are

01:19:55.760 patriotic.

01:19:56.420 I don't

01:19:56.640 think so.

01:19:57.700 You know,

01:19:58.060 I don't

01:19:58.340 think you

01:19:58.820 have to

01:19:59.140 be patriotic

01:20:00.000 to do

01:20:00.980 what's

01:20:01.300 best.

01:20:02.980 I just

01:20:03.660 feel like

01:20:04.140 that should

01:20:05.060 be a

01:20:05.360 normal human

01:20:06.060 instinct and

01:20:07.100 it had more

01:20:07.700 to do with

01:20:08.120 good manners

01:20:08.760 or being

01:20:09.220 polite or

01:20:09.980 just not

01:20:10.920 being a

01:20:11.320 jerk.

01:20:11.660 erasing

01:20:17.380 history for

01:20:18.600 politeness

01:20:19.100 sake.

01:20:19.500 I don't

01:20:19.700 know what

01:20:19.940 that means.

01:20:22.940 I would

01:20:23.500 have taken

01:20:23.800 a different

01:20:24.200 approach,

01:20:24.640 somebody says.

01:20:25.280 Yeah, you

01:20:25.540 might have.

01:20:26.820 And I

01:20:27.140 wouldn't even

01:20:27.540 argue that.

01:20:28.100 If somebody

01:20:29.480 else had played

01:20:30.160 it differently

01:20:30.600 and said,

01:20:31.060 it's my

01:20:31.320 water, I'm

01:20:31.880 going to do

01:20:32.180 whatever I

01:20:32.600 want.

01:20:34.380 You know,

01:20:35.340 I'd say

01:20:36.660 that's a

01:20:37.160 legitimate

01:20:37.820 opinion.

01:20:38.920 I wouldn't

01:20:39.320 argue it.

01:20:41.660 somebody says

01:20:42.360 a Danish

01:20:42.800 mask study.

01:20:44.140 Let me

01:20:44.940 summarize

01:20:46.140 masks.

01:20:48.180 Ignore

01:20:48.660 every study.

01:20:50.480 If you

01:20:51.100 see a

01:20:51.460 study that

01:20:51.880 says masks 0.66

01:20:52.560 work,

01:20:54.080 ignore it.

01:20:55.120 If you

01:20:55.580 see a

01:20:55.920 study that

01:20:56.400 says masks 0.66

01:20:57.420 don't work,

01:20:59.180 ignore it.

01:21:00.420 No

01:21:00.700 individual

01:21:01.180 study on

01:21:01.760 masks has

01:21:02.240 any

01:21:02.460 credibility.

01:21:03.720 But if

01:21:04.000 you look

01:21:04.260 at the

01:21:04.540 totality

01:21:05.080 of them,

01:21:05.880 you might

01:21:06.660 be getting

01:21:07.080 to something

01:21:08.140 like knowledge.

01:21:09.300 But don't

01:21:09.700 look at

01:21:09.980 any one

01:21:10.320 study.

01:21:11.080 It

01:21:11.260 doesn't

01:21:11.440 mean

01:21:11.580 anything.

01:21:12.460 You

01:21:12.940 should

01:21:13.140 literally

01:21:13.580 give it

01:21:14.560 zero

01:21:15.200 credibility.

01:21:16.460 Not

01:21:16.700 even

01:21:16.880 one

01:21:17.140 percent

01:21:17.580 if

01:21:18.680 it's

01:21:18.840 just

01:21:19.000 one

01:21:19.260 study.

01:21:22.220 Oh,

01:21:22.780 yes,

01:21:23.140 the Senate

01:21:23.500 calling

01:21:23.820 witnesses.

01:21:24.880 So I

01:21:25.580 forgot to

01:21:25.960 talk about

01:21:26.340 this,

01:21:26.620 but on

01:21:26.900 CNN they

01:21:27.500 were

01:21:27.800 bleating

01:21:28.560 that they

01:21:31.260 should call

01:21:31.640 more witnesses.

01:21:32.840 Do you

01:21:33.140 know why

01:21:33.460 you need

01:21:33.780 more witnesses?

01:21:34.960 Because they

01:21:35.580 lost the

01:21:36.000 case.

01:21:37.240 They

01:21:37.420 lost the

01:21:37.840 case.

01:21:38.620 You

01:21:38.800 don't

01:21:39.000 want more

01:21:39.540 witnesses

01:21:39.980 if you

01:21:41.220 won.

01:21:43.000 The

01:21:43.600 Democrats

01:21:44.260 have just

01:21:44.720 lost.

01:21:45.980 They've

01:21:46.220 completely

01:21:46.660 lost.

01:21:47.180 And they've

01:21:47.440 given the

01:21:47.960 Republicans

01:21:48.440 all the

01:21:48.920 cover they

01:21:49.360 need to

01:21:49.940 vote against

01:21:51.060 this thing.

01:21:51.640 So it's

01:21:52.040 over.

01:21:53.320 But they're

01:21:54.000 like,

01:21:55.360 TDS,

01:21:56.400 I must

01:21:56.760 claw some,

01:21:58.700 I've got to

01:21:59.240 find,

01:22:00.480 got to get a

01:22:01.040 witness,

01:22:01.840 maybe,

01:22:02.880 maybe

01:22:03.720 some way.

01:22:04.560 So it's

01:22:06.340 mostly

01:22:06.640 desperation.

01:22:10.400 Five GOP

01:22:11.600 agreed.

01:22:13.940 Who cares?

01:22:15.360 It doesn't

01:22:15.700 matter.

01:22:17.400 It doesn't

01:22:18.100 matter.

01:22:20.220 All right,

01:22:20.880 that's all for

01:22:21.260 now.

01:22:21.560 I'll talk to

01:22:22.560 you YouTubers

01:22:23.060 later.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 13, 2021

Episode 1283 Scott Adams： I Tell You How Trump's Lawyers Eviscerated Democrats' Impeachment Case, Lots More

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