Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1337 Scott Adams： Fake News Guilty of Third-Degree Murder, Imaginary News, and Lots of Surprises

00:00:00.320 Hey, everybody. Come on in here. It's time. Yeah, it's time for a coffee with Scott Adams.

00:00:07.760 What a great day this is. Yes.

00:00:13.380 And you're all here for it, which I think is pretty, pretty special.

00:00:18.280 And here's a philosophy question for you, which might have some practicality in your real life.

00:00:24.360 So, hypothetically, if somebody invented a button that you could push and it would make your life substantially better, would you push it?

00:00:36.280 In the comments, tell me, if you know this for sure and there's no trick to it, right?

00:00:43.000 There's no trick. There's a button, if it existed, and you pushed it, it would make your life better with no downside.

00:00:51.180 Would you push it?

00:00:52.000 Well, let's find out, because there's a little button on the bottom of your screen called Notifications.

00:00:59.500 And if you were to push that button at the same time as you did the simultaneous sip, it would make your life better.

00:01:05.780 And that's a promise.

00:01:07.620 But if you'd like to fully enjoy pushing that button and having the simultaneous sip at the same time,

00:01:12.780 you need a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice of thine, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind,

00:01:17.080 filled with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

00:01:19.660 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day,

00:01:26.040 the Turbo Simultaneous Sip, which comes with a button press for some of you.

00:01:32.140 Subscription button, too. That works.

00:01:35.100 Go.

00:01:35.380 It was as good as I told you, wasn't it?

00:01:42.140 Yeah, it was.

00:01:45.460 All right.

00:01:47.600 Now, let's talk about the news.

00:01:49.700 I guess the Tiger Woods cause of his crash will be revealed today or tomorrow.

00:01:56.620 Do you believe that?

00:01:59.220 So the news says that we will know the result of the cause of the Tiger Woods crash.

00:02:06.480 I'm going to say that's not going to happen.

00:02:10.000 And what I mean is there will be a report.

00:02:13.900 But I feel like we're going to look at that report and we're going to say something like this.

00:02:18.280 Maybe, maybe not.

00:02:26.660 Do you really think we're going to find the cause of the crash?

00:02:30.180 And that Tiger will say, oh, yeah, that was the cause.

00:02:33.680 And you'll look at it, you'll say, yeah, that looks about right.

00:02:36.780 I don't see anything left out.

00:02:39.000 Seems like all of the context is there.

00:02:41.240 I don't feel like that's going to happen, but we'll see.

00:02:46.180 Apparently, there are a couple of suspected terrorists who are on the list came over the southern border.

00:02:54.120 Well, I don't know how many suspected terrorists come over the southern border, but two is way too many.

00:03:02.760 It's way too many.

00:03:03.940 Now, what I don't know is if border security could ever stop terrorists.

00:03:08.700 I don't know.

00:03:09.220 I feel like terrorists would just find some other way to do it.

00:03:13.540 There must be a way to get into the country.

00:03:16.000 So I think the border wall has a lot more to do with immigration in general and probably has a little limited value for stopping terrorists, but it's part of the story.

00:03:27.560 There's a different level of motivation for the terrorists, and there are fewer of them, so it seems like they could get across no matter what.

00:03:36.120 But it's part of the story now.

00:03:37.460 Now, I would like to talk about the things I've been right about lately.

00:03:43.360 Do you remember that I predicted that Biden would be forced to beef up security at the border?

00:03:51.440 No matter what he wanted to do, no matter what philosophically he thought was right, that he was going to kind of have to keep building it.

00:03:59.860 And apparently that's been announced.

00:04:02.180 But they're going to play it down because he's just going to fill in the gaps.

00:04:06.160 No, no, no.

00:04:06.960 We're not building a wall.

00:04:08.320 That's crazy talk.

00:04:09.820 We're filling in the gaps.

00:04:11.200 Do you know what the Trump administration was doing?

00:04:15.880 Fill it in the gaps.

00:04:17.740 That's what they were doing.

00:04:19.160 Because the gaps are exactly where you would put a wall first.

00:04:23.700 Would you put a wall where there's already a perfectly good wall?

00:04:27.380 Or would you put a wall in a part of the border where nobody was crossing anyway?

00:04:31.440 No, you would put the wall where the gaps are, the gaps that might actually be used for crossing.

00:04:39.660 So it's sounding suspiciously like exactly the same policy in effect, not in the details, but in effect as Trump.

00:04:50.060 Who told you that was going to happen?

00:04:52.340 I did.

00:04:53.020 Now, a fun story.

00:04:56.700 There's a new study that said exhaled aerosols, increases with COVID-19 infection, age and obesity.

00:05:05.720 So if you're old and overweight, you're more of a super spreader, at least in the specific sense of exhaling more virus.

00:05:15.520 Now, this is just one study.

00:05:18.300 How often does one study turn out to be right?

00:05:21.200 I don't know.

00:05:21.660 But I think the best part of this story is where this study was published.

00:05:26.000 It was published in a publication whose initials are P-N-A-S.

00:05:32.680 That's right.

00:05:34.400 How do you pronounce that acronym?

00:05:38.080 Do you think people try to pronounce it?

00:05:40.840 P-N-A-S. 1.00

00:05:44.320 How would you pronounce that? 1.00

00:05:48.340 Penis? 1.00

00:05:49.940 Sounds like penis. 1.00

00:05:51.660 So, there's a gigantic penis study about aerosols. 0.99

00:05:59.240 I'm not going to say that I'm necessarily right about that, but I feel like I'm creeping toward being right that the super spreaders are the older obese people.

00:06:08.500 And wouldn't it have been nice for our medical experts to tell us that so we knew especially who to stay away from?

00:06:16.600 And don't tell me that we were doing social isolating in general so that covered everything, because it doesn't.

00:06:25.060 You don't try exactly as hard, but if you told me, you know, kids under 12 are totally safe, and people over 50 with more weight are not so safe, I would definitely act differently.

00:06:40.040 I wouldn't treat them the same.

00:06:44.660 Well, here's something else I was sort of right about.

00:06:49.420 Well, I said that in the George Floyd trial, they should put video evidence on trial in general, not just the video evidence for this case, but they should make the larger point that video evidence is misleading commonly, commonly misleading.

00:07:07.100 And the defense did that, put an expert on the stand who was looking at where the knee was placed on top of George Floyd, where the officer's knee was.

00:07:20.600 And I guess the defense, Nelson, asked one of the witnesses if he'd ever heard of, I think it's camera bias or something like that.

00:07:33.400 And the witness said no.

00:07:35.400 And then he showed him side-by-side pictures, one that looked like the knee was on the neck and one that looked like it was on the shoulder blades.

00:07:43.120 And it's the same time.

00:07:45.160 And I guess there were multiple pictures that make that here. 0.98

00:07:51.520 Excuse me, allergies are kicking my ass today. 0.98

00:07:55.440 Anyway. 0.93

00:07:55.840 Anyway, so in a way, the defense did put video evidence in general on trial.

00:08:04.100 Exactly right.

00:08:05.700 Because you have to get the jury to the place where they would at least imagine the video evidence could be real.

00:08:14.800 Now, it probably would have been a great distraction to bring in these examples that I'd mentioned, like the fine people hoax and the bleach hoax,

00:08:21.920 because the people in the jury probably believe those things to be true, so they wouldn't work as examples, even though they're not true.

00:08:30.580 So I think Nelson did it exactly right.

00:08:32.900 He used exactly the camera angle that was relevant to the case.

00:08:36.600 He made the larger point that not only is it possible to be fooled by video, but there's a word for it.

00:08:43.380 But have I told you that when there's a word for it, it carries more weight?

00:08:49.940 We are more persuaded.

00:08:52.400 We are more persuaded.

00:08:59.340 Somebody's calling me a super spreader out here, which is pretty funny.

00:09:03.220 You never know.

00:09:04.440 But I've had so little contact with humans that I doubt it.

00:09:07.740 All right.

00:09:12.000 Did you know that the Greg Gutfeld show is five days a week at night?

00:09:17.020 It's competing in the 11 p.m. slot in the East Coast and 8 p.m. on my coast.

00:09:24.760 And apparently the first night of ratings for the Gutfeld show, how do you think he did on the first night?

00:09:31.460 On the first night, he beat all the other shows at the 11 o'clock thing.

00:09:37.740 Now, it's a little bit of apples and oranges because Gutfeld runs it two times.

00:09:41.800 But apparently he's already dominating.

00:09:44.240 You know, technically he's dominating late night on the first night.

00:09:47.220 Second night was last night.

00:09:48.960 And by the way, if you haven't seen the clip that's a parody of CNN coverage, it's really good.

00:09:54.800 It was on the first night.

00:09:55.780 So watch that.

00:10:01.240 Somebody alerted me.

00:10:02.740 Actually, a few people alerted me to the fact that Ron DeSantis has apparently adopted the Trump body language.

00:10:11.420 You know this.

00:10:12.460 You talk like this.

00:10:15.640 You know, you've seen it.

00:10:17.080 And when I first heard it, I thought, well, it doesn't look, I'm sure it doesn't look exactly like Trump.

00:10:23.980 It probably looks, you know, maybe reminds you of it.

00:10:26.560 But, and then I looked at it.

00:10:28.480 It's exactly, it looks like, I mean, I can't explain why, but it looks like actually an imitation of Trump.

00:10:37.000 It's so spot on with the hand movements.

00:10:39.440 And Trump's hand movements were very distinct.

00:10:41.440 I've never seen, I don't think I've seen anybody do it before.

00:10:45.880 So I have to ask, is that intentional?

00:10:49.860 Is it?

00:10:51.560 And would you even practice that stuff?

00:10:54.340 Would you do those hand motions like this?

00:10:57.400 Would those be the ones you do?

00:11:00.080 I'm actually a little confused.

00:11:02.340 Because I thought it would be sort of obvious whether he was doing it intentionally or not.

00:11:07.600 And I can't tell.

00:11:08.940 I just can't tell.

00:11:09.780 It could literally just be influence, and he picked it up, and he doesn't know why.

00:11:15.100 So we'll keep an eye on that.

00:11:18.380 Somebody smart suggested that Ron DeSantis should lower his speaking voice to have more authority.

00:11:25.760 What do you think of that idea?

00:11:27.580 What do you think of DeSantis lowering his voice just a little bit to get a little more weight?

00:11:36.080 If he could do it, it'd be good.

00:11:37.760 It might be hard to pull off.

00:11:41.380 And I think in the same suggestion, there was a suggestion that he's speaking from his diaphragm, which makes him sound a little less literally.

00:11:53.340 And he should be speaking from the bottom of his stomach instead of the tight part.

00:11:58.480 So I do think that he would benefit from voice, the little voice technique.

00:12:03.800 And there is technique in voice.

00:12:07.260 I've taught you this before.

00:12:08.680 If you'd like a really quick technique to tune your voice, you hum the first part of Happy Birthday.

00:12:16.200 You hum it, and you feel it in what's called the mask of your face, the front part.

00:12:20.980 And if you can hum so it vibrates in the front part of your face, then you stop humming.

00:12:27.360 The very next thing you speak will be close to your perfect speaking voice.

00:12:33.200 All right?

00:12:33.540 So I'll give you a demonstration.

00:12:34.600 It goes like this.

00:12:35.940 You would go...

00:12:36.980 And now my voice would be just about my perfect speaking voice because it tunes me and it relaxes me, puts the voice up in the right mechanism.

00:12:51.920 So I think Ron DeSantis could benefit from a five-minute voice lesson, really.

00:12:57.700 We'll see.

00:13:02.400 And by the way, I'd like to thank all the people who send me suggestions and stuff because it really helps.

00:13:10.600 And that was a good suggestion.

00:13:12.520 So Rasmussen is reporting that...

00:13:17.380 He asked the question, do you trust political news you are getting?

00:13:21.340 Now, here's one of the reasons that you can't do polling questions,

00:13:25.540 meaning unless you're trained at it.

00:13:28.620 It's really hard to ask a question that doesn't get a misleading answer, you know, that people interpret differently.

00:13:35.380 I was looking at this question.

00:13:36.580 It's a simple question.

00:13:37.500 Do you trust the political news you are getting?

00:13:40.840 And if they had not added the you are getting at the end of that, it would completely change it.

00:13:47.580 Because trusting that all the news is accurate is different from trusting that the news you choose to consume is accurate.

00:13:55.540 Because that's your choice, to consume it.

00:13:58.840 So liberals said 55% said they do not trust the political news they are getting.

00:14:07.560 I'm sorry.

00:14:09.060 I'm sorry.

00:14:09.700 55% of liberals do trust the political news they are getting.

00:14:15.320 What do you think of that?

00:14:16.540 You would have to be asleep for years to trust the news, wouldn't you?

00:14:23.440 Even your own news, even the news that you've decided is the best of the best.

00:14:28.300 Wouldn't you have to be asleep for years to think that's true?

00:14:31.340 Even if you said the honest mistakes happen.

00:14:36.760 Even the honest mistakes.

00:14:38.400 Let's say if you believed that the Russia collusion thing was an honest mistake by the news.

00:14:46.000 Even if you believed it was an honest mistake, it's still misleading.

00:14:49.820 Why would you trust it?

00:14:52.140 How in the world can 55% of liberals have that opinion?

00:14:56.820 What reality are they experiencing?

00:15:01.540 Conservatives were at 23%.

00:15:03.840 And I'm going to ask the same question.

00:15:07.640 What 23% of conservatives failed to notice the fake news?

00:15:15.340 Or do they trust it anyway, even knowing that often it's fake?

00:15:19.480 How in the world could you be a self-identified conservative

00:15:23.240 watching presumably at least some conservative coverage

00:15:27.820 and still think that you could trust the news?

00:15:31.280 Where do they find this?

00:15:32.620 Do you remember I told you that on any poll question

00:15:36.000 something like 25% of the public will just have a whack response?

00:15:41.400 It will just look like they're not even human beings

00:15:43.600 if they could answer that way.

00:15:44.980 Here's another example.

00:15:46.800 Like, who are these 23%? 0.95

00:15:49.240 I don't know if you'd ever meet anybody like that.

00:15:52.560 If you spend your whole life, do you think you'll ever meet somebody

00:15:55.740 who says, yeah, I'm a conservative and you know what?

00:15:58.600 The news is pretty accurate.

00:16:01.240 Have you ever met anybody?

00:16:03.360 23% is enough that you would have met somebody with that opinion, wouldn't you?

00:16:10.240 So here's the problem.

00:16:11.220 I think some people just interpret the question differently.

00:16:13.540 If you said to a bunch of conservatives, do you trust the political news you are getting?

00:16:19.500 I believe that 23% probably thought, you know, I can't read their minds, of course,

00:16:25.920 but probably something like 23%, well, the conservative news that I choose to follow is the good stuff.

00:16:34.100 Yeah, they could get it wrong, but, you know, I trust them in general.

00:16:36.540 So I think maybe that's just a question interpretation issue.

00:16:41.120 So let's talk about the Floyd trial.

00:16:47.220 So as of today, there's really no chance he's going to get convicted of murder.

00:16:52.200 I don't know if there's some lesser charge.

00:16:54.920 But based on the testimonies and the trial facts that came out yesterday, the odds of a conviction of Derek Chauvin,

00:17:02.940 in my opinion, have reached zero.

00:17:06.140 Actually, zero.

00:17:06.900 Like, you could say, well, anything's possible, but I don't know in this case.

00:17:12.340 It just became so clear.

00:17:13.960 And I'll run you through some of the things.

00:17:16.340 Now, what do you think CNN reported when the Minneapolis police use of force expert,

00:17:23.560 the actual training expert, this is the guy who trains the police on use of force.

00:17:30.560 And how did CNN cover that testimony?

00:17:32.980 They said that this fellow testified that Derek Chauvin's kneeling on George Floyd's neck

00:17:39.540 is not a trained neck restraint technique.

00:17:44.120 And that's what they reported.

00:17:47.860 Do you think that covered it?

00:17:50.520 Do you think anything was left out?

00:17:53.640 Do you think CNN got everything you needed to know about that situation right in that headline, right?

00:17:59.920 Because it kind of sounds, if you read that, that doesn't make any sense

00:18:04.840 when I just told you there's zero chance he's going to get convicted, right?

00:18:10.980 And somebody in the comments is saying, same on ABC News.

00:18:14.600 Maybe.

00:18:15.600 Probably.

00:18:16.880 Now, let me tell you what actually happened.

00:18:19.920 Now, the only reason I know what actually happened

00:18:22.060 is that I'm reading a blog site called Legal Insurrection.

00:18:29.220 And Andrew Branca is live blogging this and gets into the details.

00:18:34.860 Now, if you read what actually happened at the trial,

00:18:37.620 it's closer to the opposite of what CNN reported.

00:18:41.960 Because this use of force training guy absolutely destroyed the narrative.

00:18:48.000 Here's how you get two different stories.

00:18:52.360 When the prosecution is talking to this use of force expert,

00:18:58.560 they narrow the question so narrow

00:19:00.840 that the use of force guy is answering on a sort of hypothetical, technical way.

00:19:07.480 So one of the questions, and this is a general example, right?

00:19:10.760 This might be a little off, but the general example would be this.

00:19:13.600 Expert, do you think that, is it appropriate to continue applying force

00:19:21.240 when the risk has passed?

00:19:25.620 What would the expert say?

00:19:27.420 Is it appropriate to continue applying this hold when the danger has passed?

00:19:33.840 How would he answer?

00:19:35.480 Well, I imagine he'd answer, if there's no danger,

00:19:38.340 then you do not use an aggressive hold, right?

00:19:44.280 And that's, you know, I'm paraphrasing here,

00:19:46.940 but basically that's what happened.

00:19:49.700 But then the defense says,

00:19:52.260 and again, I'm paraphrasing lots of stuff into a little summary.

00:19:56.960 Then the defense says, well, is every situation the same?

00:20:00.300 No.

00:20:01.340 Can you factor in the whole situation?

00:20:05.680 Yes.

00:20:06.220 If you factor in the whole situation,

00:20:10.000 did Derek Chavin do anything against policy?

00:20:14.740 Nope.

00:20:16.300 No.

00:20:17.820 The guy who trains it,

00:20:20.020 the main guy who trains the police,

00:20:23.340 says that if you consider all of the variables,

00:20:27.460 he followed procedure.

00:20:30.060 That's the end of the case.

00:20:32.820 Oh, it's worse.

00:20:34.200 The medical professional even did more.

00:20:38.620 So here, let me just run through,

00:20:40.120 and this is, most of this is cribbed from the legal insurrection blog,

00:20:44.920 which I recommend for the best thorough look at this.

00:20:48.480 What did I tell you about the drug dealer?

00:20:54.100 So Floyd had a drug dealer who provided him the drugs,

00:20:57.360 and apparently the autopsy showed that Floyd had three times the amount

00:21:02.240 that might be enough for an overdose, three times.

00:21:05.760 And I told you that that seems like a third-degree murder charge could be applied to the dealer.

00:21:13.840 And I recommended that the defense, you know, try to get that going,

00:21:18.260 because if somebody else is being tried for the same murder,

00:21:21.780 that's kind of some reasonable doubt, isn't it?

00:21:24.180 If two people are being tried for the same murder for different circumstances at the same time,

00:21:29.940 how in the world can one of them find him guilty?

00:21:34.840 That's the most reasonable doubt you could ever have.

00:21:37.820 Well, it turns out that the lawyer for the drug dealer

00:21:41.720 has testified that he's going to take the fifth and not talk at trial

00:21:48.640 because it might incriminate him in a possible third-degree murder,

00:21:53.760 which apparently is a thing in Minneapolis.

00:21:57.560 Yes.

00:21:58.620 So, for all of you people who said,

00:22:01.940 Scott, Scott, Scott,

00:22:03.420 you seem to know absolutely nothing about the law

00:22:06.120 because it would be ridiculous to charge the drug dealer for the death.

00:22:12.120 Otherwise, all the ODs in the country would be somebody to be getting charged with the death.

00:22:16.380 To which I said,

00:22:19.120 I don't think you quite know what fentanyl is.

00:22:22.960 Fentanyl is not comparable to heroin.

00:22:26.700 Heroin is some dangerous stuff,

00:22:28.720 but it's not even close.

00:22:30.480 Fentanyl is way more dangerous.

00:22:33.080 So if you're a dealer and you give somebody fentanyl,

00:22:36.520 and they die, 0.66

00:22:37.720 that's different,

00:22:38.840 because you kind of should have expected it,

00:22:41.240 or at least the risk if it was high enough

00:22:43.580 that you have some legal culpability.

00:22:46.880 So, the Scott Adams non-lawyer theory

00:22:50.260 that the drug dealer should be on trial for third-degree murder

00:22:54.600 is confirmed.

00:22:57.260 It is confirmed.

00:22:58.620 It doesn't mean he'll be found guilty,

00:23:00.260 or even tried.

00:23:01.780 But it's confirmed that it's a real thing,

00:23:03.840 and that the circumstances completely justify it,

00:23:08.860 in my opinion.

00:23:10.440 All right.

00:23:11.980 As Andrew Branca said,

00:23:16.400 if you're looking at two possible causes of death,

00:23:19.580 and this is the way he laid it out.

00:23:21.560 I thought it was a real good way to lay it out.

00:23:23.720 He said,

00:23:24.220 Certainly, if I had to choose between two situations,

00:23:28.240 one in which I was placed in a prone position

00:23:31.040 while handcuffed for 10 minutes,

00:23:33.700 and I think you'd have to assume that

00:23:35.320 there's a knee on you as well,

00:23:37.780 and another in which I was forced to ingest

00:23:40.100 a three-fold fatal dose of fentanyl,

00:23:43.360 I know which I'd pick,

00:23:44.880 and quickly.

00:23:46.400 There's simply no reasonable comparison

00:23:48.940 between those two risks of life.

00:23:52.540 You get that, right?

00:23:54.300 Putting somebody in a police hold

00:23:56.280 that is an approved police hold,

00:23:58.780 according to the person who teaches it,

00:24:01.220 versus,

00:24:02.220 Hey, I could do this to you,

00:24:04.620 or I could ask you to voluntarily take

00:24:07.160 three times the lethal dose of fentanyl.

00:24:10.760 Which would you choose?

00:24:12.060 It's not even close.

00:24:13.700 Not even close.

00:24:15.160 No reasonable person would think those risks

00:24:17.540 are in the same universe.

00:24:20.160 Really.

00:24:21.180 One has a high risk of killing you,

00:24:23.060 like, really high.

00:24:24.540 And the other would be sort of a surprise.

00:24:28.140 Not even close.

00:24:31.500 All right, let's go on.

00:24:32.740 Andrew Branca called the prosecution's case

00:24:42.340 basically a train wreck of a disaster,

00:24:45.360 which is a pretty strong statement

00:24:47.040 from somebody who knows what they're talking about.

00:24:48.700 So the training guy was asked

00:24:55.360 if he himself had ever disbelieved

00:24:58.180 a suspect's claim of a medical emergency.

00:25:02.660 Because that's a big part of the case,

00:25:04.580 that Floyd himself was saying

00:25:06.300 he had a medical emergency, essentially.

00:25:09.680 And the expert answered that he personally had done so,

00:25:13.640 disbelieved somebody.

00:25:14.480 So it is a routine thing

00:25:16.980 to disbelieve somebody saying

00:25:19.420 that they have medical problems

00:25:20.820 when they're being held by police.

00:25:23.360 It's routine.

00:25:25.260 Or at least common enough

00:25:27.040 that this guy's seen it as well.

00:25:30.860 So that tears apart that part.

00:25:34.680 And it even gets...

00:25:35.760 I'm not even getting to the good stuff yet,

00:25:37.780 like of how bad the case is at this point.

00:25:39.740 So let's see.

00:25:45.800 And also,

00:25:47.600 the police procedures

00:25:52.160 demonstrated that Chauvin putting his knee

00:25:55.260 on the person was,

00:25:57.680 the reason that it's allowed

00:25:59.140 is that it's the least dangerous thing to do.

00:26:05.420 That in other words,

00:26:06.240 given the totality of the situation,

00:26:08.120 which included...

00:26:10.120 I guess Chauvin had called in at one point

00:26:11.980 and said that there might be

00:26:13.020 this delirium tremens or whatever there is.

00:26:15.820 Some medical situation

00:26:16.940 they suspected that Floyd was in,

00:26:19.400 in which his very large body and muscles,

00:26:24.160 combined with the fact

00:26:25.520 that he had some mental thing going on

00:26:28.860 that may have been drug-related,

00:26:30.920 if you have that much strength

00:26:32.840 and you're on some drugs

00:26:35.240 and having a reaction

00:26:36.160 that makes you unpredictable,

00:26:38.060 you can't even control yourself,

00:26:39.840 it turns out that the safest thing to do

00:26:42.840 is what Derek Chauvin did.

00:26:46.060 It was the safest thing to do,

00:26:48.440 according to the procedures.

00:26:50.940 Excited delirium, thank you.

00:26:52.760 Excited delirium is the phrase.

00:26:55.680 Now,

00:26:56.380 do you get convicted for murder

00:26:58.080 by being reckless

00:27:00.160 when the police who train this technique

00:27:03.660 say that he used the right procedure

00:27:06.880 and it was the least dangerous thing

00:27:09.640 he could have done under the circumstances?

00:27:11.880 The case is over.

00:27:13.720 The case is completely over.

00:27:15.840 I don't know if there's any precedent for this,

00:27:18.000 but it feels like the jury

00:27:19.540 should just send everybody home

00:27:20.840 and say,

00:27:21.800 look, we don't even need a trial

00:27:23.420 because there's no evidence been presented

00:27:26.160 that has any weight at all.

00:27:28.000 Now, I don't think that's a thing,

00:27:29.160 but it should be.

00:27:32.160 All right.

00:27:33.920 Let's see.

00:27:36.120 And then the other factor,

00:27:37.700 which you and I and Common Sense already knew,

00:27:41.740 is that the expert said that

00:27:43.780 if a suspect had been forcibly resisting

00:27:48.020 the officer's only Mormons before,

00:27:52.280 it wouldn't matter so much

00:27:53.640 that he looked even unconscious

00:27:54.980 because specifically the expert was asked,

00:27:58.920 even if he's unconscious,

00:28:01.200 should you remove the restraint?

00:28:03.200 And the answer was no

00:28:04.040 because there's enough of cases

00:28:05.940 where people pop awake fighting.

00:28:09.820 And if somebody as big as Floyd

00:28:11.380 and with whatever was happening to him mentally,

00:28:14.200 with the drugs or whatever,

00:28:15.600 if he were to pop back to consciousness,

00:28:18.280 which is a thing,

00:28:19.580 apparently it happens often enough

00:28:21.620 that the police are trained to what to do about it,

00:28:24.760 because he could have popped back awake,

00:28:27.260 it was proper to keep him down in that position.

00:28:32.280 I mean, what's left of the prosecution at this point?

00:28:36.720 All right.

00:28:36.980 And if the suspect is believed to be on drugs,

00:28:43.980 you have more flexibility for keeping them under control.

00:28:51.680 And let's see.

00:28:54.900 When asked explicitly,

00:28:57.220 the expert here,

00:28:58.480 when asked explicitly if any of the video of the event

00:29:01.480 showed Chauvin placing Floyd in a chokehold,

00:29:05.300 quote, chokehold,

00:29:06.700 which in this context means a respiratory choke,

00:29:10.980 and the guy said no.

00:29:14.240 So the expert said it was not a chokehold.

00:29:17.920 Then he was asked if it was this other thing,

00:29:20.260 a, what is it, a blood,

00:29:21.520 oh, was it, was he being subject to a carotid choke,

00:29:30.040 which would have been pressure on the,

00:29:32.800 is it the arteries?

00:29:35.240 Arteries, right?

00:29:36.260 On both sides of the neck.

00:29:38.680 You know what the problem is that?

00:29:40.660 He wasn't putting pressure on both sides of the neck,

00:29:43.360 so it couldn't have been.

00:29:45.460 A blood choke, yes.

00:29:46.840 Thank you.

00:29:47.700 So the blood choke is, I guess,

00:29:49.400 the common name for this carotid choke or whatever.

00:29:53.860 And the expert said,

00:29:55.220 no, it couldn't have been

00:29:56.160 because it was only pressure on one side.

00:29:58.840 And you can't make somebody pass out

00:30:00.520 with pressure on one side.

00:30:02.320 Two sides would do it.

00:30:03.740 And even then,

00:30:04.480 they might pop back after 10 seconds.

00:30:07.120 So apparently the amount of time

00:30:08.480 you would be unconscious,

00:30:09.840 even if that had happened,

00:30:11.400 which it clearly did not,

00:30:13.040 the video doesn't show any of it,

00:30:14.920 it shows only pressure on one side,

00:30:16.320 that he probably would have popped back in 10 seconds.

00:30:22.020 So all the experts talking about their blood chokes.

00:30:29.740 So apparently, based on the video,

00:30:31.660 there's no evidence that he was asphyxiated

00:30:33.820 by closing off the air,

00:30:35.780 and there's no evidence that he was,

00:30:38.860 that carotid,

00:30:41.000 that whatever thing,

00:30:42.160 that other thing happened,

00:30:43.260 the blood choke.

00:30:43.860 But then there's a more interesting part.

00:30:46.920 Apparently, according to police procedures,

00:30:49.560 the police officers are not supposed

00:30:51.480 to medically help the suspect

00:30:54.060 when there is a situation

00:30:57.280 in which the police are not expected

00:31:00.880 to medically assist the person

00:31:03.500 who has a medical problem

00:31:04.640 right in their custody.

00:31:06.280 What would that be?

00:31:07.780 What would be the situation

00:31:09.340 in which police would not be allowed

00:31:12.180 to have medical attention

00:31:16.520 given to the suspect?

00:31:18.080 It turns out that the situation

00:31:19.900 is exactly the one he was in,

00:31:22.300 which is if the crowd is looking dangerous.

00:31:25.800 Apparently, there was an MMA fighter

00:31:27.560 who somebody was physically holding back

00:31:30.100 from getting involved.

00:31:32.700 Let me say that again.

00:31:33.900 An actual trained MMA fighter

00:31:36.640 was yelling things at the police

00:31:39.380 belligerently,

00:31:40.920 was making moves toward the police,

00:31:43.580 and was physically held back

00:31:45.380 by somebody else.

00:31:47.300 Under that exact situation,

00:31:49.700 the correct police procedure

00:31:51.420 is to not give medical help.

00:31:54.640 They are instructed

00:31:55.560 to take care of their own safety first

00:31:58.100 as the statistically best way

00:32:00.660 to help everybody.

00:32:01.420 The same way when you're on a plane

00:32:03.860 and they say put your mask on first

00:32:07.260 and then help the child

00:32:08.780 that's next to you.

00:32:10.540 Statistically,

00:32:11.140 that's just the best way to play it.

00:32:13.340 An adult puts the mask on,

00:32:14.840 then you've got time

00:32:15.720 to help the child.

00:32:17.820 Same thing with the police procedure.

00:32:20.220 First, the police have to get safe.

00:32:22.900 That's it.

00:32:24.080 First, the police have to make sure

00:32:25.480 that they're safe,

00:32:26.260 and then they can help the suspect.

00:32:27.380 The mob murdered Floyd

00:32:31.860 because the mob's actions

00:32:35.800 created the danger

00:32:37.780 which made medical intervention

00:32:40.680 in what maybe would have been in time.

00:32:42.920 We don't know.

00:32:43.680 I mean, that's a big if.

00:32:45.680 Could be the mob killed them

00:32:46.900 because they prevented the police

00:32:48.800 from doing their job,

00:32:49.860 and that's now in evidence.

00:32:51.420 That's in evidence.

00:32:52.840 That's not me saying it.

00:32:53.900 That's in evidence now.

00:32:54.820 Sworn under oath

00:32:57.880 from the expert

00:32:59.260 who would know the most.

00:33:00.820 In fact,

00:33:01.300 this expert for the prosecution

00:33:03.260 was so damning

00:33:04.940 that the defense,

00:33:06.560 in a clever persuasion move,

00:33:08.900 said they were going to call

00:33:09.900 the prosecution's own star witness

00:33:12.300 as a defense witness.

00:33:16.800 That is what you don't want to hear

00:33:19.740 if you're the prosecution,

00:33:21.440 that your star witness

00:33:23.420 did so poorly

00:33:25.240 that the defense

00:33:26.740 is going to call him next.

00:33:30.180 Ouch.

00:33:31.260 Because there's nothing left.

00:33:33.040 I mean,

00:33:33.580 the case is already destroyed,

00:33:35.560 so I guess

00:33:36.500 the defense

00:33:38.280 is just going to walk on it

00:33:39.380 a little bit.

00:33:43.120 So, let's see.

00:33:44.340 What else is amazing about this?

00:33:46.240 Then the defense

00:33:49.660 asked the expert,

00:33:51.400 I think the medical expert,

00:33:53.220 if agonal breathing

00:33:54.980 could be misinterpreted

00:33:56.740 by officers

00:33:57.960 as just breathing.

00:33:59.220 Now,

00:33:59.420 this agonal breathing,

00:34:01.260 I guess,

00:34:01.600 is some special

00:34:02.380 kind of identifiable

00:34:04.340 last gasps

00:34:06.260 of breath

00:34:06.860 before you die.

00:34:08.260 And apparently,

00:34:09.020 if you're in law enforcement

00:34:10.120 or medical world,

00:34:11.680 this is something

00:34:12.240 you might be able

00:34:13.260 to recognize.

00:34:13.840 And if the officers

00:34:15.940 had recognized it,

00:34:17.960 they would have more

00:34:18.760 of an obligation

00:34:19.420 to do something about it,

00:34:20.400 right?

00:34:20.900 But the question was,

00:34:22.420 would they be able

00:34:23.940 to recognize that

00:34:24.880 given the crowd noise?

00:34:27.040 And the answer was no.

00:34:29.600 That given the crowd,

00:34:33.020 Shaven probably

00:34:33.940 could not recognize

00:34:35.220 a change in breathing

00:34:36.320 that would have alerted him

00:34:38.400 that it might be

00:34:39.180 this agonal breathing.

00:34:40.380 Again,

00:34:44.040 it looks like,

00:34:44.720 I think this is

00:34:45.220 a prosecution witness,

00:34:47.660 basically said

00:34:48.480 the crowd killed him.

00:34:50.760 They said the crowd

00:34:51.800 killed him,

00:34:52.340 basically. 0.99

00:34:53.440 Because if it,

00:34:54.260 you know,

00:34:54.700 that's too far.

00:34:56.240 Let me take that

00:34:57.060 back a little bit.

00:34:57.940 They're saying that

00:34:58.540 if the agonal breathing

00:35:00.060 had been detected,

00:35:01.220 but it couldn't

00:35:01.860 because of the crowd,

00:35:03.460 you know,

00:35:03.660 or at least it's reasonable

00:35:04.600 to assume it couldn't

00:35:05.540 because of the crowd,

00:35:07.300 that that could have been

00:35:07.980 a contributing factor

00:35:08.920 in his death.

00:35:09.480 If there was some way

00:35:10.900 to save him,

00:35:11.380 we don't know that.

00:35:14.660 The fact that

00:35:15.840 Shaven mentioned

00:35:17.660 what is this called?

00:35:20.340 This excited delirium.

00:35:24.800 And he mentioned it

00:35:25.600 on a call to,

00:35:26.640 you know,

00:35:26.840 I guess the headquarters

00:35:27.900 or something.

00:35:28.720 So we know that

00:35:29.600 Shaven was thinking

00:35:30.700 that Floyd had maybe

00:35:31.940 this super strength problem

00:35:34.620 where if you have

00:35:35.640 this excited delirium

00:35:36.800 and you're already

00:35:38.080 really strong,

00:35:38.900 it just makes you stronger

00:35:40.160 and then you're like

00:35:40.840 the Hulk suddenly.

00:35:43.160 So we know that

00:35:44.080 he was worried about that,

00:35:45.760 which puts everything

00:35:46.860 in the right context

00:35:48.380 for the defense.

00:35:50.720 So here's what

00:35:51.740 I wonder about this.

00:35:53.880 Are we in the

00:35:54.600 super ironic situation

00:35:56.120 where Derek Shaven

00:35:58.440 has a wrongful prosecution

00:36:00.300 lawsuit after he gets cleared

00:36:02.480 in which he will take

00:36:04.840 so much money from the city

00:36:06.600 that it will effectively

00:36:08.760 wait for it?

00:36:11.640 See if you can finish

00:36:12.740 the sentence.

00:36:13.700 I'll try it again.

00:36:14.640 But you have to finish

00:36:15.360 the sentence for me.

00:36:16.740 Is it possible

00:36:17.800 that Derek Shaven

00:36:19.360 will be cleared

00:36:20.320 and so cleared

00:36:21.640 that it's obvious

00:36:22.580 that it was a wrongful prosecution?

00:36:24.420 Because remember,

00:36:26.400 the people who were

00:36:27.420 involved in prosecuting him,

00:36:29.260 you know,

00:36:29.460 if you say

00:36:30.520 it's the city's

00:36:31.480 legal system,

00:36:34.200 and the police

00:36:35.020 kind of threw him

00:36:35.740 under the bus too,

00:36:37.640 while their own experts

00:36:38.900 said there's no evidence

00:36:40.860 of a crime.

00:36:42.020 Their own expert.

00:36:43.360 The police expert

00:36:45.020 says there's no evidence

00:36:47.460 of a crime.

00:36:48.000 Does he have a lawsuit?

00:36:53.760 Now,

00:36:54.300 I don't know enough

00:36:54.940 about this area of the law

00:36:56.120 to know,

00:36:56.580 but I feel like he does.

00:36:59.240 I feel like he has

00:37:00.240 the world's biggest lawsuit,

00:37:01.660 doesn't he?

00:37:03.720 I'm looking at your comments.

00:37:05.400 Jeffrey says no.

00:37:07.440 Is anybody,

00:37:08.280 well,

00:37:08.820 I know there are

00:37:09.740 lots of attorneys on here.

00:37:11.020 I always have

00:37:11.480 lots of attorneys on here.

00:37:13.380 Is there an attorney

00:37:14.480 on here

00:37:14.960 who can tell me

00:37:16.020 if he'll have

00:37:17.340 a lawsuit

00:37:17.840 after this is done

00:37:19.040 for wrongful prosecution?

00:37:22.140 All right,

00:37:22.360 here's the definition.

00:37:23.240 Wrongful prosecution

00:37:24.120 occurs when someone

00:37:25.200 who is accused

00:37:25.920 of committing a crime

00:37:26.960 is tried

00:37:28.560 based on

00:37:29.300 false information.

00:37:32.460 Hmm.

00:37:33.800 But wait.

00:37:35.000 Any guilty judgment

00:37:35.960 that is based on

00:37:36.840 false prosecution

00:37:38.380 can be appealed.

00:37:39.820 Now,

00:37:40.140 I believe that

00:37:40.820 the prosecution

00:37:41.540 would have to know

00:37:42.600 that the information

00:37:44.320 was false.

00:37:45.560 I think that's the key,

00:37:46.540 right?

00:37:46.700 It can't be that

00:37:47.780 they're just bad

00:37:48.440 at their job.

00:37:49.340 They would have to know

00:37:50.380 in advance

00:37:50.980 that they were

00:37:52.540 presenting fake information.

00:37:55.720 Do you think

00:37:56.600 that the prosecution

00:37:57.440 ever talked

00:37:58.360 to the main,

00:38:00.360 their own main witness?

00:38:02.180 Do you think

00:38:03.000 that the prosecution

00:38:03.880 ever interviewed

00:38:05.820 their main witness

00:38:08.080 before he went on trial?

00:38:11.320 Do you?

00:38:12.420 Do you think

00:38:13.160 they ever said

00:38:13.660 to themselves,

00:38:14.040 I think we'll just

00:38:14.720 find out

00:38:15.140 what he has to say

00:38:16.000 when he's on trial?

00:38:18.460 Do you think

00:38:19.060 that's how it went?

00:38:20.160 Or did the prosecution

00:38:21.280 say,

00:38:22.000 we're going to put you

00:38:22.920 on trial?

00:38:24.160 Do you see evidence

00:38:25.300 of a crime here?

00:38:26.780 Because that's what

00:38:27.380 we need to prove.

00:38:28.180 There's evidence

00:38:28.680 of a crime.

00:38:29.960 Do you believe

00:38:30.520 that the guy

00:38:31.000 who testified

00:38:32.540 under oath

00:38:34.000 told them

00:38:35.640 a different story?

00:38:36.900 And if he did,

00:38:37.780 I guess,

00:38:38.320 you know,

00:38:38.680 he'd have some problems.

00:38:40.440 But it seems to me

00:38:41.940 that the prosecution

00:38:42.920 must have known

00:38:44.200 that their star witness

00:38:46.140 was going to be

00:38:48.580 a witness

00:38:48.920 for the defense.

00:38:50.680 If you'd know that,

00:38:52.840 and they had to know it,

00:38:54.180 right?

00:38:55.200 I mean,

00:38:56.140 you'd have to establish this,

00:38:58.100 of course.

00:38:59.020 But do you think

00:38:59.840 there's any chance

00:39:00.940 they didn't talk

00:39:02.240 to their own star witness

00:39:03.820 before they put him

00:39:05.320 under oath

00:39:05.820 in public?

00:39:07.080 But I don't think

00:39:09.020 there's any chance

00:39:09.680 of that.

00:39:10.240 Is there?

00:39:11.140 I mean,

00:39:11.460 if you're a lawyer,

00:39:12.120 tell me,

00:39:12.460 did I miss something?

00:39:13.760 Isn't that just

00:39:14.340 common sense?

00:39:15.420 So I think we have

00:39:16.600 in evidence

00:39:17.440 extraordinarily strong

00:39:19.660 evidence that this

00:39:20.540 is a wrongful prosecution.

00:39:23.720 And I believe

00:39:24.440 you can sue for that.

00:39:28.280 So,

00:39:28.680 are we in the

00:39:29.900 ironic situation

00:39:30.940 in which

00:39:31.840 Derek Chavin

00:39:33.300 will be the

00:39:35.020 primary person

00:39:35.980 who,

00:39:37.480 fill in the blanks,

00:39:39.360 who

00:39:39.800 defunds the police?

00:39:44.800 That could actually happen.

00:39:47.280 Derek Chavin

00:39:48.000 could be the guy

00:39:48.780 who defunds the police

00:39:50.020 because the police 0.92

00:39:51.740 just screwed him. 0.92

00:39:55.100 And let me say, 0.89

00:39:56.000 if he bankrupts

00:39:57.060 the police,

00:39:58.080 they have it coming

00:39:58.920 because somehow

00:40:00.620 the police

00:40:01.260 let this go

00:40:01.960 all the way to trial.

00:40:03.540 Well,

00:40:03.940 maybe that was smart,

00:40:05.560 right?

00:40:05.980 It was probably

00:40:06.900 better to let it

00:40:07.720 go to trial

00:40:08.340 because then

00:40:08.800 all the evidence

00:40:09.940 gets out.

00:40:11.060 But it sure seems

00:40:11.840 to me like

00:40:12.460 a wrongful prosecution.

00:40:14.640 But for political

00:40:15.740 reasons,

00:40:16.240 they probably

00:40:16.620 had to do it.

00:40:18.140 I think they had

00:40:18.940 to prosecute him

00:40:19.820 for political reasons,

00:40:21.940 right?

00:40:22.220 For the public opinion.

00:40:24.160 But can you get

00:40:25.420 a wrongful prosecution

00:40:26.580 if the reason

00:40:27.620 they're putting him

00:40:28.220 on trial

00:40:28.740 is their own

00:40:30.060 safety

00:40:30.640 from the public?

00:40:32.300 like they're

00:40:33.240 trying to prevent

00:40:33.880 a riot.

00:40:35.120 And so they

00:40:35.920 decided to put him

00:40:36.800 on trial for murder

00:40:37.960 so it'll solve

00:40:40.600 some other problem

00:40:41.520 that there might

00:40:42.900 be violence?

00:40:44.120 Because it looks

00:40:44.980 like that's what's

00:40:45.680 happening.

00:40:46.420 It looks like the city

00:40:47.560 was trying to save 1.00

00:40:48.440 its own ass 1.00

00:40:49.400 by throwing this 1.00

00:40:51.140 guy under the bus. 0.99

00:40:52.880 And I should

00:40:55.760 throw into this

00:40:57.060 that I'm not

00:40:58.360 sure that

00:40:59.420 Chavin did 1.00

00:40:59.900 everything right.

00:41:01.500 I'm not saying that.

00:41:02.480 I'm just saying that

00:41:03.100 in terms of

00:41:03.580 what's technically

00:41:04.340 illegal,

00:41:05.160 I don't think

00:41:05.620 there's any chance

00:41:06.220 of being prosecuted

00:41:07.040 for murder

00:41:07.640 specifically.

00:41:10.840 So now you've

00:41:11.800 got CNN

00:41:12.320 who willfully

00:41:14.100 reported this

00:41:15.280 trial the opposite

00:41:16.240 of what happened.

00:41:17.980 That's true,

00:41:18.780 right?

00:41:19.120 Because they

00:41:19.620 reported this

00:41:20.720 witness as though

00:41:22.340 he had the goods.

00:41:23.680 And in fact,

00:41:24.660 it was the opposite

00:41:25.540 of that.

00:41:26.220 He was so far

00:41:27.080 from having the goods

00:41:28.120 that he will be used

00:41:29.420 as the defense

00:41:30.260 witness next.

00:41:32.480 So CNN

00:41:33.060 is misreporting

00:41:34.420 this wildly.

00:41:36.460 I mean,

00:41:36.860 misreporting it

00:41:37.580 to the point of

00:41:38.060 it's just opposite

00:41:38.840 of what happened.

00:41:41.600 Isn't

00:41:42.160 CNN

00:41:43.620 guilty

00:41:45.660 of

00:41:46.340 creating

00:41:47.740 a

00:41:48.420 riot?

00:41:49.740 And if

00:41:50.460 somebody dies

00:41:51.460 and I'm

00:41:53.000 sure there

00:41:53.380 will be,

00:41:53.880 there'll be

00:41:54.380 at least

00:41:54.740 injury,

00:41:55.760 if somebody

00:41:56.400 dies,

00:41:57.960 isn't CNN

00:41:58.560 guilty of

00:41:59.620 third-degree

00:42:00.080 murder?

00:42:02.180 Now,

00:42:02.760 there may be

00:42:03.100 some legal

00:42:03.660 protection for

00:42:04.380 the press.

00:42:05.420 I don't know

00:42:05.820 how that works.

00:42:06.960 But,

00:42:07.780 in a functional

00:42:08.800 sense,

00:42:10.080 is it true

00:42:10.720 that CNN

00:42:11.240 knows they're

00:42:12.160 lying?

00:42:13.440 I would say

00:42:14.000 yes.

00:42:15.120 I feel

00:42:15.820 we could say

00:42:16.600 safely that

00:42:17.280 they know

00:42:17.680 they're

00:42:18.460 misinterpreting

00:42:19.500 the news

00:42:20.040 intentionally.

00:42:21.500 It's very

00:42:21.980 clear.

00:42:22.740 I don't think

00:42:23.200 there's any

00:42:23.500 doubt about

00:42:23.960 it based

00:42:24.340 on what's

00:42:25.440 obviously

00:42:25.960 right in

00:42:27.160 front of

00:42:27.400 us.

00:42:28.320 So,

00:42:28.720 if they're

00:42:29.020 misrepresenting

00:42:29.960 it intentionally,

00:42:31.220 the obvious

00:42:31.900 outcome of

00:42:32.520 that will

00:42:33.080 be riots.

00:42:34.400 The obvious

00:42:35.100 outcome of

00:42:35.620 riots is

00:42:36.140 people get

00:42:36.580 hurt.

00:42:37.680 Let's say 0.95

00:42:38.060 somebody dies.

00:42:39.900 Should they

00:42:40.520 have known

00:42:41.060 that was

00:42:41.500 going to

00:42:41.780 happen?

00:42:42.780 Well,

00:42:43.100 I know

00:42:43.420 it's going

00:42:43.700 to happen.

00:42:45.040 Don't you?

00:42:46.040 If I know

00:42:46.740 it's going

00:42:47.040 to happen,

00:42:47.400 months before

00:42:48.680 it happens,

00:42:50.100 and I'm

00:42:50.440 saying it

00:42:50.800 in public,

00:42:51.640 hey,

00:42:52.280 they're going

00:42:52.640 to cause

00:42:52.940 a riot.

00:42:53.420 Somebody's

00:42:53.720 going to 0.90

00:42:53.920 get killed 0.99

00:42:54.280 and it's 0.99

00:42:54.600 because of

00:42:54.980 the way

00:42:55.180 they're

00:42:55.340 handling it.

00:42:56.380 If I

00:42:56.960 know it

00:42:57.380 and you

00:42:58.420 know it,

00:42:59.520 do you

00:42:59.760 think CNN

00:43:00.300 can claim

00:43:00.820 they didn't

00:43:01.140 know it?

00:43:02.260 Because they

00:43:02.820 know it.

00:43:04.520 I don't

00:43:05.060 have to be

00:43:05.420 a mind

00:43:05.760 reader to

00:43:06.160 know that

00:43:06.480 they know

00:43:06.780 the obvious.

00:43:08.560 So,

00:43:09.080 that's

00:43:09.300 happening

00:43:09.580 right in

00:43:09.880 front of

00:43:10.080 you.

00:43:11.420 At the

00:43:11.960 same time,

00:43:14.940 is it

00:43:15.500 Chairman or

00:43:16.000 President Xi

00:43:16.960 of China

00:43:17.720 has been

00:43:18.980 sending

00:43:19.380 fentanyl

00:43:20.020 to us

00:43:20.460 for years,

00:43:21.880 probably

00:43:22.660 killed

00:43:23.220 George Floyd,

00:43:24.440 my stepson,

00:43:25.420 and I'm

00:43:25.920 guessing a

00:43:26.480 quarter million

00:43:27.160 Americans by

00:43:27.920 now.

00:43:29.340 Intentionally,

00:43:30.960 intentionally,

00:43:32.460 that's right,

00:43:33.600 President Xi,

00:43:34.760 Chairman,

00:43:35.280 whatever the 1.00

00:43:35.580 fuck he 1.00

00:43:35.860 is, 1.00

00:43:36.600 is allowing

00:43:38.380 the fentanyl

00:43:39.160 trade to

00:43:39.540 happen.

00:43:39.820 Because we

00:43:40.140 know even

00:43:40.860 who's doing

00:43:41.320 it.

00:43:42.100 If Xi

00:43:42.520 wanted him

00:43:43.060 to stop,

00:43:43.680 he would

00:43:43.840 just go

00:43:44.320 pick him

00:43:44.600 up.

00:43:44.740 We

00:43:45.700 know his

00:43:46.000 name.

00:43:47.100 Probably

00:43:47.500 know where

00:43:47.820 he lives.

00:43:49.200 It's a

00:43:49.800 public

00:43:50.060 record.

00:43:51.380 The

00:43:51.520 United

00:43:51.760 States

00:43:52.080 has

00:43:52.240 already

00:43:52.480 fingered

00:43:52.880 the guy

00:43:53.240 who's

00:43:53.460 the

00:43:53.620 dealer

00:43:53.860 over

00:43:54.100 there,

00:43:54.720 the

00:43:54.940 main

00:43:55.140 source

00:43:55.460 anyway.

00:43:56.680 So,

00:43:57.000 Xi has 0.92

00:43:58.500 murdered a

00:43:59.020 quarter million

00:43:59.480 people in

00:44:00.340 the same

00:44:00.980 standard,

00:44:01.640 which is

00:44:01.920 the third

00:44:02.320 degree

00:44:02.600 murder,

00:44:03.100 in other

00:44:03.340 words,

00:44:03.960 did things

00:44:04.540 which he

00:44:04.920 knew would

00:44:05.220 cause

00:44:05.480 murder,

00:44:06.280 cause 0.99

00:44:06.680 death.

00:44:08.700 And that's

00:44:09.340 happening right

00:44:09.820 in front of

00:44:10.220 us,

00:44:10.640 and it's

00:44:10.920 not a

00:44:11.220 story,

00:44:12.560 right?

00:44:12.840 Is it

00:44:13.760 on the

00:44:14.040 front page

00:44:14.700 of

00:44:14.940 anything?

00:44:15.440 Nope.

00:44:16.100 Nope.

00:44:16.600 It's not.

00:44:18.000 Should be.

00:44:19.100 It's the

00:44:19.500 big story.

00:44:21.220 So,

00:44:21.660 now we

00:44:22.000 know that

00:44:22.400 the crowd

00:44:23.280 may have

00:44:23.960 been guilty

00:44:25.120 of at least

00:44:26.640 contributing to

00:44:27.340 the death

00:44:27.640 of Floyd.

00:44:28.660 We know

00:44:29.560 that CNN

00:44:31.280 and the

00:44:32.240 news that

00:44:32.760 is not

00:44:33.080 covering

00:44:33.380 this

00:44:33.600 appropriately

00:44:34.040 will be

00:44:34.920 contributing

00:44:35.460 to the

00:44:35.900 deaths of

00:44:36.400 the coming

00:44:36.780 riots that

00:44:37.440 they're

00:44:37.660 sparking,

00:44:38.660 probably

00:44:39.500 won't be

00:44:39.860 charged.

00:44:40.760 And we

00:44:41.080 know that

00:44:41.520 China's 0.76

00:44:42.160 Xi is

00:44:43.440 guilty of

00:44:43.920 third-degree

00:44:44.380 mass murder,

00:44:45.680 actually,

00:44:46.080 probably a

00:44:46.540 quarter of a

00:44:46.940 million people.

00:44:48.520 And that's

00:44:49.440 what we

00:44:49.680 know.

00:44:50.620 Like,

00:44:50.920 we know

00:44:51.220 that.

00:44:52.360 There isn't

00:44:52.760 a single

00:44:53.420 thing I

00:44:53.880 said that

00:44:55.180 is in

00:44:55.500 question.

00:44:56.600 Is there?

00:44:57.920 Right?

00:44:58.980 Have I

00:44:59.420 said one

00:45:00.020 thing so

00:45:00.540 far about

00:45:01.020 this case

00:45:01.660 of which

00:45:03.420 there's any

00:45:03.820 real doubt?

00:45:04.940 Not at

00:45:05.380 this point.

00:45:07.680 Let's

00:45:08.160 talk about

00:45:08.540 the imaginary

00:45:09.120 news.

00:45:09.840 Most of

00:45:10.260 our news

00:45:10.600 is imaginary.

00:45:11.520 As you

00:45:12.040 know.

00:45:13.020 And let

00:45:13.380 me list

00:45:13.720 a few

00:45:14.000 that are

00:45:14.300 in the

00:45:14.520 headlines

00:45:14.800 right now.

00:45:16.040 So right

00:45:16.320 now,

00:45:16.980 the headline

00:45:17.460 New York

00:45:18.120 Times is

00:45:18.580 saying that

00:45:19.200 Matt

00:45:19.680 Gates

00:45:20.040 asked Trump

00:45:21.460 for a

00:45:22.040 preemptive

00:45:22.660 pardon

00:45:23.020 when the

00:45:24.180 Department

00:45:24.500 of Justice

00:45:25.000 were questioning

00:45:25.760 his associates

00:45:26.580 about sex

00:45:27.440 trafficking

00:45:28.140 allegations.

00:45:30.540 Now let

00:45:31.120 me read

00:45:31.420 this sentence

00:45:31.900 again and

00:45:32.500 see how

00:45:32.800 you interpret

00:45:33.340 it.

00:45:34.760 Matt

00:45:35.000 Gates

00:45:35.340 asked Trump

00:45:40.320 for a

00:45:40.760 preemptive

00:45:41.300 pardon when

00:45:41.880 the Department

00:45:42.420 of Justice

00:45:42.840 were questioning

00:45:43.620 his associates

00:45:44.440 about sex

00:45:45.700 trafficking

00:45:46.240 allegations.

00:45:48.680 But what

00:45:49.360 they go on

00:45:50.180 to say is

00:45:50.600 they don't

00:45:50.940 know if he

00:45:51.400 was aware

00:45:51.940 of those

00:45:52.360 charges.

00:45:52.780 do you

00:45:56.160 think he

00:45:56.460 was aware?

00:45:59.180 We don't

00:45:59.820 know.

00:46:00.820 This is

00:46:01.340 news

00:46:01.880 because he

00:46:03.280 might have

00:46:03.640 been aware

00:46:04.140 according to

00:46:04.820 them.

00:46:06.220 That he

00:46:06.460 might have

00:46:06.740 been aware.

00:46:08.660 Why do we

00:46:09.360 make news

00:46:09.940 about things

00:46:10.480 that might

00:46:10.840 have been

00:46:11.080 true?

00:46:12.240 Do you

00:46:12.760 know what

00:46:13.000 might have

00:46:13.400 been true?

00:46:15.240 Anything.

00:46:16.820 This isn't

00:46:17.600 news.

00:46:18.620 This is

00:46:19.200 something that

00:46:19.680 might have

00:46:19.980 been true.

00:46:22.000 So how

00:46:22.420 does that

00:46:22.640 become a

00:46:22.960 headline that

00:46:23.480 something

00:46:23.700 might be

00:46:24.120 true?

00:46:25.000 Just about

00:46:25.540 everything

00:46:25.980 might be

00:46:26.460 true.

00:46:27.600 There's

00:46:27.900 literally no

00:46:28.560 evidence of

00:46:29.200 this thing

00:46:29.600 which might

00:46:30.040 be true.

00:46:31.100 Now you'd

00:46:31.480 have to ask

00:46:31.940 yourself why

00:46:32.560 would anybody

00:46:33.160 ask for a

00:46:33.840 preemptive

00:46:34.380 pardon that

00:46:35.700 would just

00:46:36.020 sort of cover

00:46:36.620 everything?

00:46:38.500 Can you

00:46:39.180 think of a

00:46:39.620 reason?

00:46:40.500 Can you

00:46:40.860 think of any

00:46:41.480 other reason

00:46:42.240 that a

00:46:43.780 prominent

00:46:44.320 Republican

00:46:45.120 would think

00:46:46.720 that they had

00:46:47.260 general legal

00:46:48.420 danger even

00:46:50.920 without this

00:46:51.680 specific

00:46:52.320 charges that

00:46:53.040 are being

00:46:53.860 discussed

00:46:54.260 now?

00:46:57.220 Yes, a

00:46:58.660 reasonable

00:46:59.300 person would

00:47:00.640 reasonably

00:47:01.340 conclude that

00:47:02.680 they would

00:47:03.000 be targeted

00:47:03.620 for false

00:47:04.800 claims of

00:47:05.400 stuff.

00:47:06.680 Right?

00:47:07.700 Or maybe he

00:47:09.200 broke some

00:47:09.680 law and he

00:47:10.100 doesn't even

00:47:10.440 know it because

00:47:11.580 that's the

00:47:12.420 world we live

00:47:13.040 in is that

00:47:13.600 sometimes you

00:47:14.160 can break a

00:47:14.880 law and not

00:47:15.520 even know it.

00:47:16.660 Example, when

00:47:18.220 Trump gave his

00:47:19.020 speech on

00:47:19.660 January 6th,

00:47:21.520 some people

00:47:22.120 said he

00:47:22.540 broke the

00:47:23.000 law because

00:47:24.000 he incited

00:47:24.600 an insurrection.

00:47:26.240 Do you

00:47:26.480 think Trump

00:47:26.920 knew that?

00:47:28.300 Do you

00:47:28.580 think when he

00:47:29.020 was just

00:47:29.380 talking to

00:47:29.880 people the

00:47:30.280 way he

00:47:30.560 always talks,

00:47:31.500 he thought he

00:47:32.100 was breaking

00:47:32.540 the law?

00:47:33.660 I don't think

00:47:34.140 so.

00:47:35.300 But others

00:47:35.820 say he

00:47:36.180 might have.

00:47:37.500 So in a

00:47:38.240 world in which

00:47:38.840 you could just

00:47:39.320 be living your

00:47:40.300 life and doing

00:47:40.960 what you always

00:47:41.600 do in public,

00:47:43.620 can people say

00:47:44.460 that you broke

00:47:45.080 a law just

00:47:46.480 sort of doing

00:47:47.120 your job?

00:47:48.320 And the

00:47:48.580 answer is yes,

00:47:49.480 it just

00:47:49.820 happened to

00:47:50.220 Trump.

00:47:50.800 The exact

00:47:51.620 thing just

00:47:52.160 happened to

00:47:52.560 Trump.

00:47:53.320 He was blamed

00:47:54.020 for a crime

00:47:54.720 of something

00:47:55.240 that he

00:47:55.560 probably thought

00:47:56.040 was just

00:47:56.460 being Trump,

00:47:57.960 talking about

00:47:58.580 the stuff he

00:47:59.080 talks about.

00:48:00.220 Right?

00:48:02.160 So yes,

00:48:03.300 it was

00:48:03.740 completely

00:48:04.340 reasonable for

00:48:05.780 somebody with

00:48:06.720 his prominence

00:48:07.560 in the

00:48:08.000 Republican Party,

00:48:09.280 especially knowing

00:48:10.180 that the

00:48:10.580 Department of

00:48:11.140 Justice would

00:48:11.800 become a

00:48:12.540 Biden

00:48:12.820 Department of

00:48:13.520 Justice,

00:48:14.700 completely

00:48:15.320 reasonable to

00:48:16.100 say, you

00:48:16.440 know,

00:48:17.120 as long as

00:48:18.160 we're talking

00:48:18.600 about pardons,

00:48:19.940 it wouldn't

00:48:20.840 be the worst

00:48:21.400 idea just to

00:48:23.080 have one.

00:48:25.240 Right?

00:48:26.080 Now, we also

00:48:27.020 don't know how

00:48:27.700 hard he pushed

00:48:28.840 or anybody

00:48:29.700 pushed.

00:48:30.380 If it was just

00:48:31.180 something he

00:48:31.680 brought up just

00:48:32.660 to feel out the

00:48:33.580 room, that was

00:48:35.200 just smart.

00:48:36.980 If you were in

00:48:38.660 his position and

00:48:40.780 your buddy, the

00:48:42.060 president, because

00:48:42.820 apparently they were

00:48:43.420 pretty close, and

00:48:44.800 your buddy, the

00:48:45.420 president, was

00:48:45.940 handing out

00:48:46.420 pardons, and

00:48:46.940 you thought,

00:48:47.740 maybe, maybe

00:48:50.300 somebody's going

00:48:50.920 to come at me

00:48:51.500 with something

00:48:51.960 and I don't

00:48:52.420 even know what

00:48:52.900 it is, wouldn't

00:48:54.180 you float it?

00:48:56.420 Wouldn't you

00:48:56.700 just sort of, you

00:48:57.360 know, while you're

00:48:59.360 at it?

00:49:00.500 Wouldn't be the

00:49:01.080 worst idea to

00:49:01.780 protect your

00:49:02.360 buddy, because I

00:49:03.060 don't know what's

00:49:03.440 coming at me, but

00:49:04.180 probably something.

00:49:05.620 Probably we'll be

00:49:06.460 targeted by

00:49:07.100 enemies.

00:49:09.480 So, is this

00:49:10.400 news, or is

00:49:11.500 this just

00:49:12.020 speculation?

00:49:12.900 Well, the

00:49:14.140 news part is

00:49:14.860 that he asked

00:49:15.300 for the

00:49:15.540 pardon, which

00:49:16.500 qualifies as

00:49:17.800 what?

00:49:19.440 Smart?

00:49:20.700 So, is the

00:49:21.480 news that Matt

00:49:22.620 Gates is smart

00:49:23.940 and he thinks

00:49:24.620 sad?

00:49:25.460 Because that's

00:49:26.060 what they

00:49:26.340 reported.

00:49:27.580 That's what I

00:49:28.200 would have done

00:49:28.660 in the same

00:49:29.340 situation.

00:49:30.260 If I thought

00:49:31.040 maybe it could

00:49:31.640 be useful and

00:49:32.420 maybe I could

00:49:33.040 get it, I'd

00:49:33.520 float it, see

00:49:34.640 what happened.

00:49:36.680 All right, how

00:49:38.780 about other

00:49:39.160 fake news?

00:49:40.180 Well, of

00:49:40.620 course, the

00:49:41.120 Floyd murder

00:49:42.460 trial is mostly

00:49:43.380 based on fake

00:49:44.100 news.

00:49:46.400 Now we have

00:49:47.400 some reporting

00:49:49.540 on CNN.

00:49:50.400 Apparently

00:49:50.680 they've got a

00:49:52.100 documentary on

00:49:52.780 CNN called,

00:49:53.460 I think it's

00:49:54.460 on CNN, called

00:49:55.680 Q Into the

00:49:56.940 Storm.

00:49:58.100 And the guy

00:49:59.480 who made

00:49:59.860 this believes

00:50:01.100 that he has

00:50:01.540 found Q, the

00:50:04.000 actual person

00:50:04.680 who is Q.

00:50:05.700 And he bases

00:50:06.600 it on the

00:50:08.100 reaction of

00:50:09.260 this person

00:50:09.760 he thinks

00:50:10.200 is Q,

00:50:10.740 somebody named

00:50:11.340 Ron Watkins.

00:50:13.020 You might

00:50:13.520 know him from

00:50:14.140 Twitter as

00:50:15.420 Code Monkey.

00:50:17.380 How many of

00:50:18.120 you know

00:50:18.620 Code Monkey

00:50:19.920 from Twitter?

00:50:21.020 I don't know

00:50:21.400 if he's still

00:50:21.780 on Twitter.

00:50:22.240 I haven't seen

00:50:22.620 him in a long

00:50:23.040 time.

00:50:24.000 He may have

00:50:24.260 been booted

00:50:25.540 off, I don't

00:50:26.020 know.

00:50:27.200 So, somebody

00:50:29.620 says it's an

00:50:30.540 HBO show.

00:50:31.620 Is that right?

00:50:32.440 HBO show?

00:50:34.080 Okay, thank

00:50:34.680 you.

00:50:35.220 Correction, it

00:50:36.240 is an HBO

00:50:36.960 special called

00:50:37.740 Q Into 1.00

00:50:38.560 the Storm.

00:50:41.940 But Anderson

00:50:43.180 Coopin was

00:50:43.980 interviewing the

00:50:45.060 maker of the

00:50:45.840 documentary and

00:50:47.560 showed a clip

00:50:48.640 in which

00:50:49.320 reportedly this

00:50:51.840 fellow Ron

00:50:52.520 Watkins answered

00:50:53.960 a question in

00:50:54.820 which the way

00:50:55.960 he reacted or

00:50:57.000 laughed suggested

00:50:58.500 that he was

00:50:59.280 really Q.

00:51:00.780 Now, I

00:51:01.500 watched it, and

00:51:03.280 I know what

00:51:03.680 they're talking

00:51:04.060 about.

00:51:04.560 He did react.

00:51:05.640 But he

00:51:07.420 also said

00:51:08.360 unambiguously

00:51:09.120 he was not

00:51:09.780 Q.

00:51:10.480 Now, of course,

00:51:11.300 people could

00:51:11.860 lie about that,

00:51:12.600 so that doesn't

00:51:13.060 mean anything.

00:51:14.380 But I don't

00:51:15.600 feel that you

00:51:16.320 could quite say

00:51:17.200 he's Q because 0.51

00:51:18.140 he laughed at

00:51:18.980 the wrong

00:51:19.380 time.

00:51:21.660 Let me ask

00:51:22.520 you, husbands,

00:51:23.920 husbands, this

00:51:25.100 is a question

00:51:26.060 just for the

00:51:26.680 husbands, okay?

00:51:28.560 Have you ever

00:51:29.340 gotten in trouble

00:51:30.040 with your

00:51:30.580 spouse for

00:51:32.240 laughing at

00:51:32.980 something that

00:51:34.740 they thought the

00:51:36.000 spouse was

00:51:37.480 laughing at,

00:51:38.320 maybe them or 0.85

00:51:39.240 something different?

00:51:41.660 Have you ever

00:51:42.580 gotten in trouble,

00:51:43.480 husbands only,

00:51:44.700 for laughing at

00:51:46.100 something when

00:51:46.820 somebody thought you

00:51:47.520 were laughing at

00:51:48.100 the wrong thing?

00:51:48.780 In the

00:51:50.760 comments, how

00:51:52.000 many husbands

00:51:52.640 have been

00:51:53.760 busted by

00:51:54.340 their spouse

00:51:55.040 for laughing at

00:51:56.860 the wrong thing?

00:51:58.320 Look at the

00:51:58.780 comments.

00:51:59.980 Yes, of course,

00:52:01.380 all the time.

00:52:03.140 Yes, yup,

00:52:04.560 yes, yup.

00:52:05.800 Today.

00:52:06.620 Somebody said

00:52:07.320 today.

00:52:08.420 Yeah.

00:52:09.140 It's the most

00:52:09.940 universal thing

00:52:11.980 is that people

00:52:13.560 laugh at the

00:52:14.460 wrong thing

00:52:15.100 because what

00:52:15.940 they're laughing at

00:52:16.540 is something in

00:52:17.040 their head, right?

00:52:18.940 They're not

00:52:19.240 necessarily laughing

00:52:20.040 at you.

00:52:21.280 They're laughing

00:52:21.740 at some disconnect

00:52:23.300 in their head.

00:52:24.620 And so when I

00:52:27.640 saw the clip,

00:52:28.380 I saw somebody

00:52:29.120 laughing, but to

00:52:31.000 me, I could

00:52:32.660 have easily

00:52:33.280 interpreted it

00:52:34.100 this way.

00:52:34.840 Now, I'm not

00:52:35.260 saying this is

00:52:35.780 true because we're

00:52:36.880 not mind readers,

00:52:37.800 right?

00:52:38.240 So it would be

00:52:39.140 mind reading to

00:52:39.920 say he had

00:52:40.580 somewhat accidentally

00:52:42.000 admitted he was

00:52:42.720 Q.

00:52:43.220 I think that's

00:52:43.940 mind reading.

00:52:44.800 But it would

00:52:45.380 also be mind

00:52:46.100 reading the next

00:52:46.860 interpretation I'm

00:52:47.820 going to give

00:52:48.140 you.

00:52:48.520 It's just

00:52:48.880 speculation, okay?

00:52:51.000 When I saw him

00:52:52.080 like break into

00:52:52.880 a smile, I

00:52:54.820 thought he was

00:52:55.460 laughing at the

00:52:56.360 notion that he

00:52:58.740 would be fingered

00:52:59.480 as Q.

00:53:01.120 Because let me

00:53:01.800 ask you this.

00:53:02.760 I put myself in

00:53:03.920 the same interview

00:53:04.600 and somebody

00:53:05.920 asked a question

00:53:06.720 which, if I

00:53:07.400 answered a

00:53:07.900 certain way,

00:53:08.840 makes it sound

00:53:09.540 like I'm Q

00:53:10.720 and I just

00:53:11.260 admitted it.

00:53:12.760 What would be

00:53:13.480 my reaction to

00:53:14.820 realizing on live,

00:53:16.240 not live,

00:53:17.120 but recorded

00:53:17.760 video, what

00:53:19.020 would be my

00:53:19.640 reaction if I

00:53:20.600 thought I had

00:53:21.140 accidentally outed

00:53:22.260 myself as Q

00:53:23.080 and I wasn't

00:53:23.640 Q?

00:53:24.620 What would you

00:53:25.360 do?

00:53:26.980 You'd laugh.

00:53:28.620 I would.

00:53:29.900 To me, that

00:53:30.380 would be

00:53:30.640 hilarious.

00:53:31.940 What could be

00:53:32.500 funnier than

00:53:34.140 making the media

00:53:34.940 think I'm Q

00:53:35.840 when I'm not?

00:53:39.140 That would be

00:53:39.880 pretty funny.

00:53:40.520 And if you

00:53:42.000 don't laugh

00:53:42.420 at that, 1.00

00:53:43.500 you're dead 0.99

00:53:44.860 inside. 0.98

00:53:46.240 Now, I

00:53:48.060 don't know a

00:53:48.560 ton about the

00:53:49.920 person involved.

00:53:51.420 Ron Watkins,

00:53:53.480 who went by

00:53:54.220 the name

00:53:55.140 CodeMonkey on

00:53:55.900 Twitter.

00:53:56.680 I don't know a

00:53:57.460 lot about him,

00:53:58.140 but I feel as

00:53:59.880 if he's got a

00:54:00.800 little bit of a

00:54:01.840 joker in him,

00:54:03.300 wouldn't you

00:54:03.740 say?

00:54:04.340 Because even if

00:54:05.100 he really were

00:54:05.900 Q, it would

00:54:07.240 suggest he's a

00:54:07.960 bit of a

00:54:08.280 prankster.

00:54:08.780 You'd sort 0.82

00:54:11.200 of have to be

00:54:11.680 a little bit

00:54:12.160 of a prankster

00:54:12.940 to beat you.

00:54:15.040 So whether he

00:54:15.660 was or not,

00:54:17.120 I feel as if

00:54:17.960 he's a prankster.

00:54:21.120 Am I

00:54:23.100 pronouncing it

00:54:23.840 wrong?

00:54:25.180 Watkins?

00:54:26.520 I don't think

00:54:27.360 I'm pronouncing

00:54:27.840 it wrong.

00:54:28.940 All right.

00:54:29.900 More fake

00:54:30.700 news.

00:54:31.200 The story

00:54:31.900 about DeSantis

00:54:32.700 on 60

00:54:33.800 Minutes and

00:54:34.400 the Publix

00:54:35.100 store.

00:54:36.000 The story is

00:54:36.640 boring, but

00:54:37.280 just know that

00:54:38.200 it's just

00:54:38.700 fake news.

00:54:40.740 So we've

00:54:41.380 got fake

00:54:41.780 news about

00:54:42.380 DeSantis,

00:54:44.000 may or may

00:54:44.760 not be fake

00:54:45.380 news about

00:54:45.960 Q, fake

00:54:47.700 news about

00:54:48.200 Floyd.

00:54:50.760 Basically, it's

00:54:51.480 just all fake

00:54:52.340 news.

00:54:53.540 There's a new

00:54:54.240 national survey,

00:54:56.060 Corey DeAngelis

00:54:56.980 reports us,

00:54:57.660 that 71% of

00:54:59.420 voters support

00:55:00.000 funding students

00:55:01.080 instead of

00:55:01.640 systems.

00:55:03.020 Let me ask

00:55:03.760 you this.

00:55:04.160 Do you

00:55:05.500 remember

00:55:05.920 I was

00:55:09.840 telling you

00:55:10.180 there's this

00:55:10.640 weird thing

00:55:11.100 happening where

00:55:11.760 whenever I'm

00:55:12.900 persuading,

00:55:14.060 things go my

00:55:14.860 way?

00:55:15.960 Now, there's no

00:55:16.700 way to know that

00:55:17.380 I'm having any

00:55:18.200 influence, and I

00:55:19.320 wouldn't claim any

00:55:19.980 influence in this

00:55:20.620 particular case, but

00:55:21.880 why is it every

00:55:22.580 time I'm

00:55:23.680 persuading, things

00:55:24.640 do go my way?

00:55:26.120 And like fairly

00:55:26.700 quickly.

00:55:27.060 So this is one

00:55:28.940 of my main

00:55:29.460 topics, is that

00:55:30.680 students should be

00:55:32.240 funded instead of

00:55:33.060 schools because the

00:55:34.120 teachers' unions are

00:55:35.840 our source of

00:55:37.640 systemic racism.

00:55:40.760 And now a

00:55:42.380 solid majority of

00:55:43.460 Americans agree.

00:55:46.620 Now, I think

00:55:47.260 if I were to

00:55:48.940 explain it myself,

00:55:50.080 my track record is

00:55:51.160 just crazy, so

00:55:52.260 good, but I

00:55:53.480 think what's

00:55:53.840 happening is I'm

00:55:54.440 just good at

00:55:54.920 picking the right

00:55:55.540 issue.

00:55:55.820 I don't think

00:55:57.360 it's that I'm

00:55:57.760 changing it so

00:55:58.480 much, or at

00:55:59.300 all.

00:55:59.880 I think that I'm

00:56:00.780 just good at

00:56:01.300 knowing, well,

00:56:01.760 this has to

00:56:02.280 happen, because

00:56:02.820 the logic, you

00:56:04.220 know, the

00:56:04.580 argument is just

00:56:05.300 too strong, it's

00:56:06.080 going to go this

00:56:06.620 way.

00:56:07.100 So I think I'm

00:56:07.580 just good at

00:56:08.080 identifying strong

00:56:09.760 arguments.

00:56:10.700 Likewise, the

00:56:11.320 Biden administration

00:56:12.120 now opened a,

00:56:13.740 they're going to

00:56:14.120 build a Gen 4

00:56:15.900 test nuclear

00:56:17.780 reactor in the

00:56:20.260 United States,

00:56:21.400 which is big,

00:56:22.440 big, big news.

00:56:23.840 It's really big

00:56:24.480 news.

00:56:24.800 And, of

00:56:26.240 course, I've

00:56:26.580 been persuading

00:56:27.260 for that

00:56:27.940 forever, that

00:56:28.920 we should be

00:56:29.580 getting it to

00:56:30.320 that harder.

00:56:31.060 But again, the

00:56:31.620 argument for it

00:56:32.360 was so strong

00:56:33.120 that I think

00:56:34.260 maybe it was

00:56:34.660 just going to

00:56:34.980 happen anyway.

00:56:37.740 But keep that

00:56:38.580 in mind.

00:56:40.420 So, let's see

00:56:41.600 if I covered

00:56:42.160 everything I want

00:56:42.800 to cover.

00:56:43.160 Oh, we got

00:56:43.520 some more

00:56:43.800 things happening

00:56:44.300 here.

00:56:46.660 I issued a

00:56:47.540 challenge, the

00:56:48.720 voter ID

00:56:49.200 challenge.

00:56:50.680 It goes like

00:56:51.480 this.

00:56:53.200 Find one

00:56:54.120 Georgia citizen

00:56:54.940 who wants

00:56:55.980 to vote, but

00:56:58.820 is thwarted by

00:56:59.760 having no ID.

00:57:01.340 Just one.

00:57:02.800 Because it's a

00:57:03.480 national story

00:57:04.260 that these

00:57:04.760 people exist, but

00:57:06.540 curiously, a

00:57:08.140 national story

00:57:09.020 about, you

00:57:10.040 know, what,

00:57:10.760 hundreds of

00:57:11.300 thousands of

00:57:11.820 people, how

00:57:12.340 many, tens of

00:57:13.020 thousands, who

00:57:14.120 would be in this

00:57:14.780 category just in

00:57:15.660 Georgia?

00:57:15.920 And we

00:57:17.900 haven't seen

00:57:18.340 one.

00:57:19.960 Is that

00:57:20.400 weird?

00:57:21.640 Do you

00:57:22.100 believe the

00:57:22.480 news if you

00:57:23.020 haven't even

00:57:23.780 seen one?

00:57:25.700 What is the

00:57:26.340 most common

00:57:27.040 thing that the

00:57:27.680 news business

00:57:28.260 does?

00:57:28.980 They find a

00:57:29.920 human to

00:57:30.800 represent the

00:57:31.560 story.

00:57:32.420 It's the

00:57:32.860 number one

00:57:33.420 thing that the

00:57:34.000 news does.

00:57:34.900 In fact, they

00:57:35.460 hate telling

00:57:35.940 stories that

00:57:36.580 don't have a

00:57:37.320 person involved.

00:57:38.500 They need a

00:57:39.260 person.

00:57:40.980 So, you

00:57:41.940 don't think

00:57:42.280 they could find

00:57:42.840 one person?

00:57:44.600 In the whole

00:57:45.340 world.

00:57:45.920 Can't find

00:57:46.340 this one

00:57:46.700 person?

00:57:47.660 Now, to be

00:57:48.980 fair, it

00:57:49.360 might be

00:57:49.620 hard.

00:57:50.660 Because if

00:57:51.100 such people

00:57:51.660 exist, they

00:57:52.260 probably don't

00:57:52.640 have cell

00:57:53.060 phones.

00:57:54.460 How would

00:57:54.760 you find

00:57:55.120 them?

00:57:55.440 I guess

00:57:55.700 you'd have

00:57:55.980 to find

00:57:56.340 somebody who

00:57:56.920 could find

00:57:57.300 them.

00:57:58.240 Somebody who

00:57:58.840 knows a

00:57:59.260 relative or

00:57:59.740 something.

00:58:01.200 But then, do

00:58:01.980 you think if

00:58:02.440 you put that

00:58:02.900 person on

00:58:03.400 camera and

00:58:04.020 said, okay,

00:58:04.640 you want to

00:58:05.220 vote, but

00:58:06.240 the only thing

00:58:06.740 stopping you is

00:58:07.540 that you don't

00:58:08.040 have ID, how

00:58:09.520 fast would 0.66

00:58:10.960 they get ID

00:58:11.740 once they

00:58:13.040 became publicly

00:58:13.780 known?

00:58:14.100 In fact,

00:58:16.540 don't you

00:58:17.020 think that

00:58:17.760 Republicans

00:58:18.640 would pay

00:58:20.560 for his

00:58:21.000 ID if

00:58:22.940 this person

00:58:23.940 exists?

00:58:24.840 The day you

00:58:25.840 saw somebody

00:58:26.460 go on

00:58:26.900 television and

00:58:27.520 say, yeah, I'm

00:58:28.180 one of those

00:58:28.600 people, I'd

00:58:29.860 like to vote,

00:58:30.980 but I don't

00:58:31.960 have the $30 or

00:58:33.280 whatever it is in

00:58:33.940 Georgia, $33 to

00:58:35.880 get an ID, or I

00:58:36.920 don't know how.

00:58:37.500 How long would

00:58:39.420 it take one

00:58:40.380 Republican to

00:58:41.100 say, really?

00:58:42.580 That's why you're

00:58:43.360 not voting?

00:58:45.840 Here's $50.

00:58:47.120 Go vote.

00:58:48.460 Get yourself an

00:58:49.160 ID.

00:58:50.960 I would buy

00:58:51.820 somebody an

00:58:52.860 ID if I

00:58:53.920 could, you

00:58:54.860 know, if I

00:58:55.220 knew it was

00:58:55.860 not going to

00:58:56.520 the wrong

00:58:56.820 thing.

00:58:57.640 If somebody, a

00:58:59.160 citizen of this

00:58:59.900 country, and

00:59:00.960 let's say they're 0.87

00:59:01.520 a black citizen

00:59:02.220 because that's

00:59:02.900 the group we're

00:59:03.980 talking about with

00:59:04.720 not having enough

00:59:05.940 IDs, if a

00:59:07.500 black citizen, a

00:59:08.360 real person, had

00:59:09.900 this real problem

00:59:10.840 and really wanted

00:59:12.120 to solve it, and

00:59:13.620 I was standing

00:59:14.240 right next to

00:59:14.900 him, I'd say,

00:59:15.520 seriously, your

00:59:16.620 whole problem

00:59:17.180 would be solved

00:59:17.960 for an Uber

00:59:20.160 ride and $33 or

00:59:23.920 not even that.

00:59:24.780 You just have to

00:59:25.440 send in a letter

00:59:26.040 and a check.

00:59:26.660 That's it.

00:59:27.480 You just need

00:59:28.060 $33.

00:59:29.460 I would just

00:59:30.100 reach in my

00:59:30.580 pocket and hand

00:59:31.100 them $33.

00:59:32.200 Say, all right,

00:59:32.600 problem solved.

00:59:33.700 And I'm pretty

00:59:34.400 sure most

00:59:35.120 Republicans

00:59:35.600 would.

00:59:36.280 I mean, not

00:59:36.820 necessarily just

00:59:37.860 like that, but

00:59:38.960 you could find

00:59:39.440 plenty of

00:59:39.940 Republicans who

00:59:40.620 would say,

00:59:41.520 seriously, that's

00:59:42.340 your problem?

00:59:43.280 All right, we'll

00:59:43.680 fix that.

00:59:45.040 We'd like

00:59:45.500 everybody to

00:59:45.960 have an ID.

00:59:49.520 Taiwan is

00:59:50.440 being surrounded

00:59:51.260 by a Chinese

00:59:53.500 fleet.

00:59:55.160 So China's 0.97

00:59:56.020 flexing its

00:59:56.700 muscles and

00:59:57.500 showing that

00:59:58.920 they can surround

00:59:59.680 Taiwan with

01:00:00.420 their fleet and

01:00:01.020 stuff.

01:00:01.480 Here's a

01:00:01.900 question I ask.

01:00:02.660 We keep

01:00:04.140 talking about

01:00:04.740 China dominating 0.94

01:00:06.500 the South

01:00:07.680 China Sea, which

01:00:08.460 they are, and

01:00:09.660 they're building

01:00:10.480 aircraft carriers.

01:00:13.080 Here's my

01:00:13.600 question.

01:00:14.500 How long does

01:00:15.300 an aircraft carrier

01:00:16.520 last in a

01:00:18.280 modern war with

01:00:19.220 a superpower?

01:00:20.820 Five minutes?

01:00:23.300 It doesn't

01:00:24.200 matter whose

01:00:24.640 country it is,

01:00:25.300 whether it's an

01:00:25.860 American vessel or

01:00:27.380 a Chinese vessel,

01:00:28.320 would it take

01:00:29.620 more than five

01:00:30.360 minutes for us

01:00:31.740 to remove all

01:00:33.060 of the battleships

01:00:34.400 and aircraft

01:00:36.440 carriers?

01:00:37.900 Would it?

01:00:38.980 Because we have

01:00:40.100 lots of missiles.

01:00:41.620 Now, I know

01:00:42.120 they all have

01:00:43.080 defense, you 1.00

01:00:44.020 know, perimeters,

01:00:46.420 and they've got

01:00:46.740 other ships that

01:00:47.560 are putting up

01:00:48.180 anti-anything

01:00:49.440 missiles, and

01:00:50.260 they've got radar,

01:00:51.840 and they've got

01:00:52.320 all kinds of

01:00:53.700 things.

01:00:54.320 But it's really

01:00:55.100 just a volume

01:00:55.800 question, right?

01:00:57.040 If one missile

01:00:58.260 is going toward

01:00:59.080 an aircraft carrier,

01:01:00.160 well, you've got

01:01:01.180 a pretty good

01:01:02.240 shot of knocking

01:01:03.560 it down.

01:01:04.740 But America has

01:01:05.860 more than one

01:01:06.500 missile.

01:01:08.320 We would show,

01:01:09.400 our submarines

01:01:10.260 would be sitting

01:01:10.900 right under those

01:01:11.640 things.

01:01:12.880 The Chinese 0.89

01:01:14.260 aircraft carrier

01:01:15.220 is up here on

01:01:15.960 the surface.

01:01:17.340 Our nuclear

01:01:18.260 sub is going

01:01:19.240 to be right

01:01:19.620 under it.

01:01:20.560 I'm exaggerating.

01:01:21.460 You wouldn't want

01:01:21.920 it to be right

01:01:22.420 under it.

01:01:23.020 But the point

01:01:23.440 is, it would

01:01:25.240 be sort

01:01:27.020 of fast

01:01:27.480 work.

01:01:28.420 And I think

01:01:28.920 that would

01:01:29.200 work either

01:01:29.620 way.

01:01:30.180 I can't

01:01:30.540 imagine an

01:01:31.120 American fleet

01:01:32.000 would last

01:01:33.060 more than a

01:01:33.620 day in the

01:01:34.240 South China

01:01:35.220 Sea.

01:01:36.120 Am I wrong

01:01:36.600 about that?

01:01:40.180 Somebody

01:01:40.700 said that

01:01:41.600 somebody, some

01:01:42.680 military experts

01:01:43.420 said the next

01:01:44.320 war would be 0.99

01:01:45.720 nothing but

01:01:46.200 submarines and

01:01:47.020 targets.

01:01:49.760 That's more

01:01:50.760 insightful than I

01:01:51.640 wish it were.

01:01:55.240 Taiwan has a

01:01:56.220 big problem.

01:01:56.800 I've said that

01:01:57.260 there isn't

01:01:57.620 any way that

01:01:58.140 they can stay

01:01:58.660 independent in

01:01:59.500 the long run.

01:02:00.520 And China has

01:02:01.180 a long run

01:02:01.920 mentality.

01:02:02.940 I just don't

01:02:03.420 think we're in

01:02:03.960 a world where

01:02:04.500 you can defend

01:02:05.420 a neighboring

01:02:06.780 piece of land

01:02:07.920 that a superpower

01:02:09.620 has surrounded.

01:02:10.940 I just don't

01:02:11.480 think it's a

01:02:11.940 thing.

01:02:13.280 And I also

01:02:14.080 wonder about the

01:02:15.100 rightness of us

01:02:16.240 being there.

01:02:16.780 Now at this

01:02:17.180 point we're

01:02:17.620 committed to an

01:02:19.100 ally because Taiwan's

01:02:20.180 an ally.

01:02:20.940 So we're in a

01:02:21.560 situation where we

01:02:23.340 sort of have to

01:02:24.620 do what we

01:02:25.140 can.

01:02:26.200 But I don't

01:02:28.820 know that a

01:02:29.380 superpower should

01:02:30.400 have a presence

01:02:31.220 or any kind of

01:02:32.860 strong influence

01:02:33.860 that close to

01:02:34.860 another superpower.

01:02:36.300 I feel as if the

01:02:37.340 superpowers ought to

01:02:38.240 have a little

01:02:38.640 buffer between

01:02:39.420 them.

01:02:40.220 And I feel that

01:02:40.940 China has a

01:02:41.580 completely legitimate

01:02:42.580 interest in not

01:02:44.120 having the United

01:02:44.880 States have an

01:02:46.060 ally that's that

01:02:48.260 close to them.

01:02:50.680 But of course I

01:02:51.760 support Taiwan

01:02:52.800 completely.

01:02:58.000 Why do they

01:03:00.920 want Taiwan?

01:03:02.160 Well I think they

01:03:03.080 want it first of

01:03:03.740 all for defense

01:03:04.520 because you don't

01:03:05.500 want an American

01:03:06.320 ally with a big

01:03:08.320 economy and who

01:03:09.420 knows what kind

01:03:09.980 of weapons right

01:03:10.700 there.

01:03:11.880 So I think

01:03:12.600 there's a

01:03:13.580 legitimate defense

01:03:15.640 need.

01:03:16.200 The same way if

01:03:17.220 Russia had put 0.88

01:03:18.560 missiles in Cuba,

01:03:20.780 we don't have any

01:03:21.580 missiles in Taiwan

01:03:22.440 but if they

01:03:23.440 militarized it a

01:03:25.480 little more you

01:03:26.240 could see how it

01:03:26.800 could become bad

01:03:27.860 pretty quickly.

01:03:29.800 Yeah.

01:03:32.540 Oh let me see

01:03:33.440 this.

01:03:37.640 So Admiral

01:03:38.660 Ridenour said

01:03:40.240 World War III

01:03:41.160 would sink all

01:03:42.040 the carriers in

01:03:43.020 an hour.

01:03:43.440 Yeah.

01:03:44.300 I think it would

01:03:45.380 be less than an

01:03:45.900 hour.

01:03:46.400 Well it would

01:03:47.060 take an hour for

01:03:47.800 them to actually

01:03:48.340 sink.

01:03:49.460 It would take 15

01:03:50.640 minutes for them to

01:03:51.500 be sinking.

01:03:52.720 I think.

01:03:57.260 Okay.

01:03:58.000 That's all for now.

01:03:58.720 I will talk to you

01:03:59.540 tomorrow.

01:04:00.540 And if you forgot

01:04:02.140 to hit the

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01:04:04.020 and the

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01:04:06.540 all you have to do

01:04:08.140 is touch them

01:04:09.160 and your life

01:04:10.160 will be better.

01:04:11.160 It will be.

01:04:12.120 Because you'll get

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 07, 2021

Episode 1337 Scott Adams： Fake News Guilty of Third-Degree Murder, Imaginary News, and Lots of Surprises

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