Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 794 Scott Adams： Impeachment Strategy, Hillary Neuters Bernie, Climate Non-Hoaxes, Zombie Killers

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00:01:14.980 Yup. Just as good as I thought it would be. Every time. It's amazing. All right. Let's talk about impeachment. Here's the way I think it should go.

00:01:33.580 Now, there are going to be lots of clever legal maneuvering. There will be surprises. There will be shocks. There will be outrage.

00:01:43.660 So we can't totally predict where things are going. But here's how it should go.

00:01:50.480 It should start with Alan Dershowitz making his argument about the constitutionality or lack thereof of the claims themselves.

00:01:59.220 So apparently, Alan Dershowitz will be arguing that the allegations do not rise to the level of impeachable.

00:02:10.060 Now, given that Alan Dershowitz is, in my personal opinion, the impeachment kill shot, to me, it looks like he's going to drive a stake through the heart of this whole thing.

00:02:22.440 And the Republican senators are going to look at each other and say, do you need to hear any more? Probably not. I think we're done here. Shall we have a vote?

00:02:33.780 So one way it could go is if Dershowitz has his say, the other side responds to it, and the Republicans say, it's all we need.

00:02:42.740 Because if it's not an impeachable offense, and we accept Dershowitz's argument, which I think the Republicans will, you don't need to dig into the details.

00:02:52.440 There's nothing there to impeach on.

00:02:53.780 But here's the fun part. CNN had Dershowitz back on after, I think, a pretty long hiatus.

00:03:03.540 And I believe the reason, if I interpret this right from the things that Dershowitz himself has said,

00:03:09.480 I believe that CNN sort of put an embargo on him for a long time.

00:03:14.960 He used to be on CNN all the time, also Fox.

00:03:17.480 You know, he would appear on the big networks.

00:03:20.360 But CNN sort of shut him out because he was a little too, let's say his arguments were a little too favorable for the president,

00:03:28.780 and that was not allowable, apparently.

00:03:31.760 But they had him back on, and I thought to myself, well, that's interesting.

00:03:36.880 It looks like Alan Dershowitz is going to drive a stake through their most favored topic, impeachment.

00:03:44.080 Why would they have Alan Dershowitz on CNN again after this long embargo if he's just going to get on the air and drive a stake through the heart of the thing they love the most?

00:03:55.760 It doesn't make sense, right?

00:03:57.360 But then I find out it's an ambush.

00:04:00.480 And here's the ambush.

00:04:02.480 So it was Anderson Cooper's show, Anderson Cooper talking to Dershowitz.

00:04:06.240 Dershowitz, and they played a 1998 video of Dershowitz with a total opposite opinion.

00:04:15.620 Oh no.

00:04:17.200 They've got him now.

00:04:19.400 I thought Dershowitz was like the vampire slayer, but darn it.

00:04:27.140 These people have been around for a while.

00:04:29.040 They've got a long video record.

00:04:30.700 And it's now hard to go back and find out that they said exactly the opposite thing, let's say in this case, about the Clinton impeachment.

00:04:39.840 So let me give you, I'll paraphrase, but this is what Alan Dershowitz said in 1998.

00:04:45.940 And I want you to compare this to his embarrassing flip-flop in 2020, all right?

00:04:51.540 In 1998, he said, and again, I'm paraphrasing, that it doesn't need to technically be a crime in order for the impeachment to be valid, all right?

00:05:02.280 That's what he said in 1998, that it doesn't need to be technically a crime to be impeachable.

00:05:10.440 And he's totally flip-flopped, and CNN has got him.

00:05:14.000 I mean, they've got him to goods right now.

00:05:15.640 In 2020, he said that it doesn't need to be a technical crime to be impeachable.

00:05:21.920 Do you see the difference?

00:05:23.380 Let me give it to you again.

00:05:24.760 And how embarrassing for Dershowitz that he's caught in this flip-flop.

00:05:29.380 In 1998, he said it doesn't need to be technically a crime to be impeachable.

00:05:34.340 But in 2020, complete reversal, he says it doesn't need to be a crime to be impeachable.

00:05:41.340 Now, if you're not smart like Anderson Cooper, you're probably saying to yourself,

00:05:48.040 Scott, are you misspeaking, or am I losing my mind?

00:05:52.980 Because those do sound like exactly the same things.

00:05:57.220 So what did Alan Dershowitz do when shown video proof on live TV of how he's flip-flopped?

00:06:05.500 Well, here's another example of why you don't want to be on the other side of arguing against Alan Dershowitz.

00:06:13.240 It's not going to go well.

00:06:15.420 Dershowitz's reply, which I've been laughing about for a full day, is he said,

00:06:19.900 I was right then, and I'm more right today.

00:06:22.520 I was right then, and I'm more right today.

00:06:30.360 And he went on to say that he's done further research,

00:06:33.800 and his more refined argument, which has no conflict whatsoever with his prior argument,

00:06:42.940 in both cases he said it didn't need to technically be a crime,

00:06:45.880 but he's adding a little flavor to it now, saying that it would have to at least be crime-like.

00:06:54.500 Now, put a bunch of politicians in a room, let's call them Congress, 0.50

00:06:59.840 and have them argue what people who have been dead for hundreds of years actually meant.

00:07:06.440 What were their inner thoughts, literally,

00:07:09.240 what were the inner thoughts of people who have been dead for hundreds of years

00:07:14.660 when they said crime-like?

00:07:18.460 What did that mean?

00:07:20.140 Who the hell knows what that means?

00:07:23.100 Don't you think you could get a hundred people to argue a hundred different opinions

00:07:26.400 about what it means to be crime-like?

00:07:31.220 So, I think we'd all agree that if something doesn't look a lot like a crime,

00:07:37.660 I mean, so much so that you ask yourself, why is it not illegal?

00:07:42.960 You know, it's just not going to be impeachable.

00:07:46.500 And how many crimes on the book are there for this thing called abuse of power from the president?

00:07:53.400 None.

00:07:55.080 Why is it, why is it, I ask,

00:07:58.500 that Congress, in all of its hundreds of years,

00:08:02.760 have never thought to make it a crime to abuse your power?

00:08:08.620 Well, maybe it's because it's a little subjective.

00:08:12.520 You can't really have a crime if you're not sure a crime has been committed.

00:08:16.860 In other words, you can't have a law that says it's a crime to do X

00:08:20.840 when nobody can even agree what X looks like.

00:08:23.960 What the hell is X?

00:08:25.680 Okay, great.

00:08:26.740 It's illegal to do X, but I don't even know what X is.

00:08:29.180 That's not a law you want on the books.

00:08:33.200 And indeed, we don't have that law on the books.

00:08:35.960 So I think Dershowitz's point that these do not rise to the level of impeachable

00:08:44.600 will be well received, at least by the Republicans.

00:08:48.300 But maybe there's one level more you have to go.

00:08:53.520 Because if you're going to try to nail down that case,

00:08:56.580 that these are not crime-like,

00:08:59.760 you might have to dig into it a little bit further.

00:09:02.720 And I would say that there's only one remaining question.

00:09:07.180 Was there a legitimate national interest in finding out about Biden and Burisma?

00:09:14.860 Because you don't want Ukraine and maybe Russia, 1.00

00:09:19.480 because you know Russia's listening to everything that Ukraine is doing,

00:09:22.680 one way or another.

00:09:24.180 You don't want Russia and Ukraine to have potential blackmail

00:09:28.560 over the guy who might be the next president, Biden.

00:09:32.260 So I would say of all of the potential Ukrainian corruption issues,

00:09:37.800 of which there are many,

00:09:39.280 there's one that's sitting at the top.

00:09:41.940 There's one that matters to the United States.

00:09:44.640 I mean, the other ones might matter more to Ukraine.

00:09:46.880 But the ones that matter the most to the United States is,

00:09:49.780 do you have something on our potential next president?

00:09:54.120 Because if we don't know if you can control him or not,

00:09:57.840 we have a risk.

00:10:00.100 So, of course, President Trump had a legitimate national interest.

00:10:03.800 Now, here's where it gets fun.

00:10:06.760 What were President Trump's inner intentions?

00:10:11.300 Was his inner intention to protect the United States

00:10:14.800 from a potential future president who has some blackmail potential?

00:10:20.280 Doesn't matter.

00:10:22.000 No, it doesn't matter.

00:10:23.620 It only matters that an objective observer would say,

00:10:27.560 yeah, that was an important issue.

00:10:29.400 It was a top priority.

00:10:30.600 It was a national interest.

00:10:32.080 If it also helps the president politically,

00:10:36.200 is that a reason that he can't do it?

00:10:38.960 No.

00:10:40.220 Everything the president does is intended,

00:10:43.440 by design, by the system itself,

00:10:48.700 is designed to be good for the president.

00:10:50.660 If you didn't have that system,

00:10:52.980 why would anybody do anything that you wanted?

00:10:55.580 Because people are selfish and have their own interests in mind.

00:10:59.820 It has to be...

00:11:00.800 The only way you can have a good system,

00:11:02.580 it's the way capitalism works as well,

00:11:04.780 is that selfish behavior, in general,

00:11:09.640 is somehow good for the system.

00:11:11.960 You want your politicians to selfishly try to get re-elected,

00:11:15.860 because the only way they can do that really well

00:11:18.560 is by doing the work of the people.

00:11:20.780 So, selfishness is built in as not just something we tolerate,

00:11:26.060 it's the most important part of the system.

00:11:29.740 A president pursuing his own self-interest

00:11:32.560 is exactly the system we want,

00:11:35.280 because how do you do that when everybody's watching?

00:11:37.580 Only one way.

00:11:39.360 There's only one way to do it when everybody's watching,

00:11:42.480 and that's to do the work of the people.

00:11:45.880 So, here's an interesting little thing.

00:11:48.080 I've been telling you recently how my world has just become weird,

00:11:52.980 you know, with a number of, well, just contacts and influence

00:11:57.980 that I seem to be having on very unrelated areas.

00:12:03.100 But, so, you know that if you've been watching.

00:12:06.380 So, yesterday, I guess Rush Limbaugh did an extended piece

00:12:09.580 about my Twitter thread on the topic of impeachment.

00:12:14.180 Now, how weird is that?

00:12:15.760 I mean, so, Rush Limbaugh,

00:12:18.380 probably the biggest audience on the right.

00:12:22.320 But he said some very complimentary things,

00:12:24.760 which I appreciate.

00:12:25.860 Thank you, Rush.

00:12:27.820 But he was emphasizing the same point,

00:12:30.820 that as long as,

00:12:33.380 and he was presenting my opinion,

00:12:35.940 he wasn't, I don't think he gave an opinion on my opinion.

00:12:39.260 So, this was my opinion he talked about,

00:12:41.200 not necessarily his own opinion,

00:12:43.840 at least the way it was framed.

00:12:45.780 And,

00:12:46.340 I think that's the next question.

00:12:49.700 But here's your tell

00:12:51.460 that it's exactly how the president's team

00:12:55.480 is going to go forward.

00:12:57.060 If you look at the legal document that came out,

00:13:02.140 I think it was 109 pages or something,

00:13:04.260 from the president's lawyers,

00:13:06.000 I think that came out yesterday.

00:13:08.040 One of the top arguments,

00:13:10.060 I mean,

00:13:10.500 I think the top argument is that

00:13:12.280 these are not impeachable offenses.

00:13:15.180 But,

00:13:15.500 I think it was number two,

00:13:17.440 and I'm just running off on memory here,

00:13:19.960 but I think the second biggest one

00:13:21.700 was that you can't impeach,

00:13:23.900 or it wouldn't be good for the country,

00:13:25.560 to impeach a president

00:13:27.500 based on your assumption of,

00:13:30.680 wait for it,

00:13:32.860 wait for it,

00:13:34.340 you don't want to impeach a president

00:13:36.180 for your assumption of,

00:13:38.780 their intentions.

00:13:43.460 Mind reading is on the table.

00:13:47.560 Mind reading.

00:13:48.460 Because the only way you know

00:13:50.360 somebody's secret inner intentions,

00:13:53.740 unless they tell you,

00:13:55.240 and you believe them,

00:13:56.420 which is hard enough,

00:13:58.220 is you read their mind.

00:14:00.180 This entire impeachment case

00:14:02.080 is built on the assumption

00:14:04.060 that the president's critics

00:14:06.820 can read his mind,

00:14:08.480 and the only thing they see there

00:14:10.240 is his intention to help himself.

00:14:12.340 Is that an evidence?

00:14:16.180 Has the president ever said,

00:14:18.320 my only intention

00:14:19.240 is to help myself?

00:14:20.920 No,

00:14:21.600 that's not an evidence.

00:14:23.240 Is there any of these

00:14:24.420 fact witnesses

00:14:25.360 who has ever claimed

00:14:27.440 that they heard the president say

00:14:29.880 that the only reason

00:14:32.320 I'm doing this

00:14:32.940 is for my re-election?

00:14:34.280 It has nothing to do

00:14:35.140 with the good of the country.

00:14:37.260 There's no evidence of that.

00:14:39.520 So,

00:14:40.380 quite reasonably,

00:14:41.640 the president's lawyers

00:14:42.820 are going to argue,

00:14:43.880 apparently,

00:14:44.380 since they've already put this

00:14:45.360 in that document,

00:14:46.460 that you don't want to live

00:14:48.420 in a world

00:14:49.080 where you can be punished

00:14:51.520 by other people's opinion

00:14:54.380 of what you're thinking.

00:14:57.600 And that's what the case rests on.

00:15:00.420 The case rests entirely

00:15:02.220 on critics' opinions

00:15:05.160 of what somebody else

00:15:06.880 is thinking secretly.

00:15:09.400 Secretly thinking.

00:15:11.500 That's actually the case.

00:15:13.720 And the Republicans

00:15:14.420 are calling him out for it now,

00:15:16.040 directly.

00:15:17.000 It's one of the top points.

00:15:20.080 First of all,

00:15:20.760 it's not impeachable.

00:15:22.780 Dershowitz will handle that

00:15:24.000 quite well, I'm sure.

00:15:26.460 And, secondly,

00:15:28.320 you don't want a world

00:15:29.500 where you're impeaching presidents

00:15:31.020 for your opinion

00:15:32.400 of what they're thinking.

00:15:34.820 It's not a system

00:15:36.040 that's supportable.

00:15:37.760 So,

00:15:38.620 I'm going to have to say

00:15:40.300 that the president's case

00:15:42.620 is looking super strong.

00:15:44.440 You know,

00:15:44.640 from the beginning,

00:15:45.380 we've been saying

00:15:45.960 we can't see a situation

00:15:47.760 where the president

00:15:48.640 won't get at least

00:15:49.860 enough Republican votes

00:15:51.400 to dismiss this thing.

00:15:53.120 But I would say,

00:15:54.100 at this point,

00:15:54.920 on top of the politics of it,

00:15:56.700 which I think we know

00:15:58.080 is going to go one way,

00:15:59.040 the argument is solid.

00:16:02.220 There is an airtight,

00:16:04.060 in my opinion,

00:16:04.780 you know,

00:16:05.020 I'm no legal scholar,

00:16:06.680 but as a citizen,

00:16:08.180 when I look at this,

00:16:09.040 I think,

00:16:09.860 wow,

00:16:10.980 one of these two sides

00:16:12.200 has a rock-solid argument,

00:16:13.780 and the other side

00:16:14.420 has just nothing.

00:16:16.460 Just nothing.

00:16:18.280 So,

00:16:18.780 I think the Republicans

00:16:19.600 have plenty of cover,

00:16:21.580 and in that sense,

00:16:22.680 the president's team

00:16:24.260 will have done

00:16:24.980 what it needed to do,

00:16:26.560 which is provide cover

00:16:28.460 for the Republicans

00:16:30.860 who might be

00:16:31.440 in a weaker position.

00:16:32.900 This is really good,

00:16:34.520 because the Republicans

00:16:37.020 would have failed

00:16:37.980 if they did what I'll call,

00:16:39.920 I hate to throw them

00:16:40.720 under the bus,

00:16:41.300 but I'm going to call it

00:16:42.040 the Jim Jordan approach

00:16:43.400 to defending this thing.

00:16:45.120 The Jim Jordan approach,

00:16:47.980 and maybe it was

00:16:48.820 the only choice he had

00:16:50.040 given the cards

00:16:51.420 that were played,

00:16:52.680 but I think it's a mistake

00:16:54.340 to delve into the details

00:16:56.520 of who said he said,

00:16:58.360 who did what,

00:16:59.160 when did it happen,

00:17:00.060 what was on the document,

00:17:01.320 who whispered to who,

00:17:02.520 what did they believe.

00:17:03.720 As soon as you get

00:17:04.580 into those weeds,

00:17:05.500 the public doesn't know

00:17:06.260 what's going on.

00:17:08.020 And since the entire point

00:17:09.480 is to convince the public,

00:17:11.620 which gives cover

00:17:12.520 for the other Republicans,

00:17:13.600 and also it's good

00:17:15.540 for the Republic

00:17:16.160 just to educate the public,

00:17:18.180 you've got to keep it simple.

00:17:20.480 You've got to keep it simple.

00:17:22.740 Dershowitz keeps it simple.

00:17:25.300 That's one of his superpowers.

00:17:27.380 How simple is this?

00:17:29.040 The Constitution says

00:17:30.460 it's got to be

00:17:31.020 high crimes or misdemeanors,

00:17:32.680 and they allow that

00:17:33.840 it could be criminal-like.

00:17:36.400 The things alleged

00:17:37.400 are not in that category.

00:17:40.020 You can look at them yourself.

00:17:41.140 They're not in that category.

00:17:41.880 That's it.

00:17:42.600 How simple is that?

00:17:44.060 Here's the one sentence

00:17:45.360 that says what is impeachable.

00:17:48.540 Here's what they allege.

00:17:50.040 They don't match.

00:17:51.580 Can't beat that.

00:17:53.040 That's why he's

00:17:53.940 Alan Dershowitz

00:17:54.700 and you're not.

00:17:55.820 Because he went right

00:17:56.680 to the heart of it,

00:17:58.060 put the dagger in it,

00:17:59.300 and said,

00:17:59.940 all right,

00:18:00.260 you don't need

00:18:00.640 the rest of this stuff.

00:18:01.580 I just put a dagger

00:18:02.360 in the heart.

00:18:03.400 You don't need to

00:18:04.060 kick him in the shins. 0.99

00:18:06.060 Keep kicking him

00:18:06.860 in the shins if you want to, 0.76

00:18:07.820 but I just put a dagger

00:18:09.620 in the heart.

00:18:10.780 I think that's going

00:18:11.440 to take care of it.

00:18:14.080 All right.

00:18:15.240 So,

00:18:16.180 there's that.

00:18:18.700 Let's talk about

00:18:19.340 something else.

00:18:23.320 Iran,

00:18:23.980 some Iranian lawmaker,

00:18:25.840 I don't know

00:18:26.660 how high up

00:18:27.680 on the Iranian

00:18:28.840 lawmaker

00:18:29.780 scale this guy is,

00:18:31.520 but he's placed

00:18:32.100 a $3 million bounty

00:18:33.780 on President Trump's head.

00:18:36.140 This guy's name

00:18:36.760 is Ahmad Hamza.

00:18:40.400 And there's some question

00:18:42.200 about whether he has

00:18:43.200 any support

00:18:43.900 from the top

00:18:44.640 on this,

00:18:45.520 but apparently

00:18:46.520 we haven't seen

00:18:47.340 any,

00:18:47.840 at least public,

00:18:48.900 pushback on it.

00:18:49.880 And I don't think

00:18:50.480 we could.

00:18:51.060 It's the sort of thing

00:18:51.740 the Ayatollah

00:18:52.220 probably wouldn't

00:18:52.920 push back on.

00:18:54.340 But,

00:18:54.960 how do you take this?

00:18:57.100 An Iranian lawmaker,

00:18:58.200 and we know his name,

00:18:59.880 we know where he lives,

00:19:02.320 we probably know

00:19:03.340 what he looks like.

00:19:05.140 Probably know

00:19:05.820 what car he uses.

00:19:07.640 Probably know

00:19:08.380 where he commutes.

00:19:09.980 Where's the office?

00:19:11.280 Where's your house?

00:19:13.460 Do we have authority

00:19:14.900 to take this guy

00:19:16.840 out with a drone

00:19:17.620 now that he's put

00:19:18.680 a $3 million bounty

00:19:19.920 on the President's head?

00:19:21.800 I say yes.

00:19:23.960 I say yes.

00:19:25.280 I say that

00:19:26.060 if he had just been

00:19:27.680 talking trash,

00:19:28.800 I would say no.

00:19:30.400 But when you put

00:19:31.160 a $3 million bounty

00:19:32.480 on my President's head,

00:19:35.620 my President can kill you.

00:19:38.680 And I will support him.

00:19:40.940 Now,

00:19:41.460 I don't know

00:19:41.940 if that's the best play.

00:19:43.980 I'm not saying

00:19:44.900 that it would be wise.

00:19:47.380 In fact,

00:19:48.040 wisdom would probably

00:19:48.860 say to ignore it.

00:19:50.760 But,

00:19:51.700 just from a personal

00:19:53.260 citizen perspective,

00:19:55.220 this is just my opinion.

00:19:56.880 I'm not asking you

00:19:57.900 to adopt this opinion.

00:19:59.660 And I don't suggest

00:20:00.700 that the government

00:20:01.360 do this,

00:20:02.020 because probably

00:20:02.520 causing more trouble,

00:20:03.760 it's just not the right time.

00:20:05.840 But,

00:20:06.400 in terms of legitimacy,

00:20:09.120 in my opinion,

00:20:10.360 he could be taken out now.

00:20:12.900 But,

00:20:13.440 probably don't do it.

00:20:14.600 there's a,

00:20:18.480 Steve Cortez,

00:20:20.920 who I call,

00:20:21.560 I'm going to start

00:20:22.340 calling him

00:20:22.820 the zombie hoax killer,

00:20:24.620 because he kills hoaxes,

00:20:26.980 specifically the

00:20:28.320 Charlottesville hoax.

00:20:29.760 Now,

00:20:30.020 speaking of people

00:20:30.720 who have been banned

00:20:31.560 from CNN,

00:20:33.060 Steve Cortez,

00:20:34.500 probably one of the most

00:20:36.980 eloquent,

00:20:39.640 effective,

00:20:40.480 I don't like to use

00:20:42.220 the word eloquent,

00:20:43.040 let's say,

00:20:43.760 most effective

00:20:44.700 supporters of the president,

00:20:47.840 especially when it comes

00:20:48.800 to knocking down

00:20:49.480 these hoaxes,

00:20:51.360 about every week

00:20:52.480 he has to come out of,

00:20:53.700 you know,

00:20:53.980 he has to go back

00:20:54.740 in the ring,

00:20:55.620 kill another zombie hoax,

00:20:57.260 and it's usually

00:20:57.800 the Charlottesville hoax.

00:20:59.340 And he was actually,

00:21:00.540 he was actually

00:21:01.800 also embargoed

00:21:03.280 from CNN

00:21:03.940 after he did his,

00:21:07.160 what was it,

00:21:08.400 the video

00:21:10.240 on the Charlottesville hoax,

00:21:11.900 calling it out

00:21:12.480 as the hoax that it was,

00:21:13.920 at PragerU.

00:21:15.400 And I guess the president

00:21:16.420 retweeted that

00:21:17.420 and it got

00:21:17.780 six million views,

00:21:19.420 and it just completely

00:21:20.740 flies in the face

00:21:22.480 of all the reporting

00:21:23.480 CNN has been doing

00:21:24.560 on this topic.

00:21:25.880 And so he was sort of

00:21:27.040 uninvited from CNN

00:21:28.240 until his contract

00:21:29.320 runs out.

00:21:31.860 But he has to get

00:21:32.760 back in the ring,

00:21:33.460 because after this

00:21:34.960 Virginia

00:21:36.060 Second Amendment

00:21:37.880 rally thing,

00:21:39.160 the press was trying

00:21:40.120 to set this up

00:21:41.080 like it was going

00:21:41.760 to be Charlottesville 2,

00:21:43.760 as if

00:21:44.720 Charlottesville 1

00:21:46.560 happened the way

00:21:48.620 they said it happened.

00:21:49.560 Now, of course,

00:21:50.080 there was a tragedy there.

00:21:51.220 That part's real.

00:21:52.640 But the way that

00:21:53.900 the CNN reported it

00:21:55.520 is that the president

00:21:56.260 called the racist

00:21:57.260 fine people.

00:21:58.400 He literally said

00:21:59.480 the opposite of that.

00:22:00.640 They just report it

00:22:01.680 opposite of the video

00:22:02.900 and the transcript.

00:22:04.640 Amazingly,

00:22:05.120 they still do it.

00:22:06.700 It's opposite of the

00:22:07.840 transcript and opposite

00:22:09.340 of the video of the

00:22:10.220 event, and they still

00:22:11.140 report it that way.

00:22:13.380 Steve Cortez points

00:22:14.620 that out on the air,

00:22:15.820 and that's it for him.

00:22:17.240 You don't get to be

00:22:17.860 on the air if you

00:22:18.560 report it the way

00:22:19.200 it actually happened.

00:22:23.300 All right,

00:22:23.720 so an interesting

00:22:24.640 and one more word

00:22:27.260 about that Virginia

00:22:28.320 gun rally.

00:22:30.440 That was a lot of

00:22:31.620 gun owners in one

00:22:32.580 place with no trouble.

00:22:35.120 That's the story.

00:22:38.220 I don't know how

00:22:38.980 many people were there,

00:22:39.780 but the crowds

00:22:40.320 looked pretty big.

00:22:43.040 Probably every one

00:22:44.220 of the pro-Second

00:22:45.380 Amendment people,

00:22:46.780 or at least,

00:22:47.540 you know,

00:22:47.960 high 90%

00:22:48.920 were gun owners.

00:22:52.080 They may or may not

00:22:53.160 have had guns with them.

00:22:54.080 I don't know how

00:22:54.540 that worked.

00:22:55.740 But that is a lot

00:22:58.980 of gun owners

00:22:59.580 in one place

00:23:00.260 to have no violence.

00:23:01.260 And I understand

00:23:03.060 the Antifa

00:23:03.760 decided to take

00:23:04.600 a pass.

00:23:07.720 I'm seeing some

00:23:08.720 numbers in the comments.

00:23:09.920 22,000,

00:23:10.960 somebody said

00:23:11.500 different numbers.

00:23:13.720 22,000

00:23:15.020 armed Americans.

00:23:18.180 No trouble.

00:23:19.900 Cause or effect?

00:23:21.940 Is it a cause?

00:23:24.540 Was there no trouble

00:23:25.740 because there were

00:23:26.760 22,000

00:23:27.800 armed patriots

00:23:28.820 in the same zip code?

00:23:30.900 Well,

00:23:32.060 probably.

00:23:33.780 Probably.

00:23:34.380 I don't think

00:23:34.800 it was a coincidence.

00:23:36.100 You put that many

00:23:37.020 patriots with guns

00:23:38.120 in one place,

00:23:39.700 I guess people

00:23:40.620 don't cause trouble.

00:23:41.380 So,

00:23:44.480 that,

00:23:45.200 in some ways

00:23:46.780 the Virginia

00:23:47.400 Second Amendment

00:23:48.200 rally

00:23:48.700 is the greatest

00:23:50.120 non-story

00:23:51.240 of the year.

00:23:52.640 Right?

00:23:52.960 It's a non-story

00:23:53.920 because there was

00:23:54.480 no trouble.

00:23:55.540 That's the story.

00:23:57.940 I mean,

00:23:58.160 that's a big story.

00:24:00.080 22,000

00:24:01.400 you know,

00:24:03.120 gun owners

00:24:03.860 not happy.

00:24:06.680 22,000

00:24:07.880 pissed off

00:24:09.560 gun owners.

00:24:10.680 That makes it

00:24:11.620 a better story

00:24:12.200 because it's true,

00:24:12.860 right?

00:24:13.660 They weren't

00:24:14.180 just there for fun.

00:24:15.980 They were

00:24:16.420 pissed off.

00:24:18.460 No trouble.

00:24:19.960 It's phenomenal.

00:24:21.420 It's inspirational,

00:24:22.420 really.

00:24:23.800 There were

00:24:24.220 criticisms

00:24:24.740 that the crowd

00:24:25.800 looked,

00:24:26.980 if you were

00:24:27.700 watching the news

00:24:28.540 on the left

00:24:29.100 or at least

00:24:29.920 social media,

00:24:31.460 you would see

00:24:31.920 them noting

00:24:33.080 that the crowd

00:24:33.740 looked insanely

00:24:34.860 white.

00:24:35.660 It was like

00:24:36.040 the whitest crowd 0.74

00:24:36.760 you've ever seen.

00:24:37.840 But then you go

00:24:38.400 over to the

00:24:39.240 the news

00:24:40.680 sources that

00:24:41.480 are on the

00:24:42.080 right.

00:24:43.000 And it was

00:24:43.480 just continuous

00:24:45.300 clips and

00:24:46.620 interviews with

00:24:47.380 African-American

00:24:48.180 mostly men,

00:24:49.020 I think,

00:24:49.900 who also

00:24:51.020 attended the

00:24:51.620 rally,

00:24:52.020 were also

00:24:52.460 Second Amendment

00:24:53.180 proponents.

00:24:54.700 So you saw

00:24:55.140 two completely

00:24:56.020 different worlds.

00:24:57.880 On the left,

00:24:58.740 they just showed

00:24:59.260 pictures of

00:24:59.820 white people.

00:25:00.740 On the right,

00:25:01.960 ironically,

00:25:02.460 a whole bunch

00:25:04.180 of pictures

00:25:04.700 of African-American,

00:25:06.620 mostly men,

00:25:08.040 promoting their

00:25:09.960 Second Amendment

00:25:10.460 rights.

00:25:11.360 So you saw

00:25:11.980 really two worlds

00:25:13.360 completely differently

00:25:14.200 there.

00:25:17.900 And I keep

00:25:19.680 saying this,

00:25:20.980 but watch how

00:25:22.240 true this becomes.

00:25:23.740 I think this will

00:25:24.440 be the story

00:25:25.040 after the election.

00:25:26.560 I'm assuming

00:25:27.320 that Trump wins,

00:25:28.760 and I think

00:25:29.840 you're going to

00:25:30.240 find this split.

00:25:31.220 we've talked

00:25:33.740 forever about

00:25:34.460 how the

00:25:36.060 black vote

00:25:37.120 goes for

00:25:38.760 the Democrats.

00:25:39.740 Let's say

00:25:40.180 Biden gets

00:25:40.740 the nomination

00:25:41.420 just for fun.

00:25:42.940 He would

00:25:43.380 absorb

00:25:44.220 most or

00:25:45.640 the lion's

00:25:46.720 share of the

00:25:47.140 black vote

00:25:47.620 because he's

00:25:49.020 always had

00:25:49.360 great black

00:25:49.880 support,

00:25:50.440 which I give

00:25:50.780 him credit

00:25:51.140 for.

00:25:53.480 I'm not

00:25:54.220 sure that

00:25:55.600 the black

00:25:56.100 vote is

00:25:56.780 going to be

00:25:57.120 a unified

00:25:57.700 bloc anymore.

00:26:00.120 Now,

00:26:00.320 of course,

00:26:00.640 it's never

00:26:01.160 been a

00:26:01.540 unified

00:26:01.880 bloc in 0.99

00:26:02.580 a real

00:26:03.120 sense.

00:26:03.860 But I

00:26:04.260 feel as

00:26:04.780 though the

00:26:05.240 men are

00:26:07.040 going to

00:26:07.320 move toward

00:26:07.940 Trump while

00:26:08.580 the women 0.97

00:26:08.980 are moving

00:26:09.460 away.

00:26:10.500 And I

00:26:10.740 think that

00:26:11.120 we're going

00:26:11.400 to have

00:26:11.660 to start

00:26:12.060 talking about

00:26:12.660 the black

00:26:13.140 vote as

00:26:14.360 the male

00:26:15.220 black vote

00:26:15.940 and the

00:26:16.420 female black 0.95

00:26:17.080 vote.

00:26:18.040 And I

00:26:18.560 think it's

00:26:19.060 going to

00:26:19.280 look different

00:26:19.980 by election

00:26:22.140 day and

00:26:23.060 that we're

00:26:23.600 going to

00:26:23.800 have to

00:26:24.200 talk about

00:26:24.680 it as

00:26:25.400 they're no

00:26:25.760 longer one

00:26:26.360 block,

00:26:27.220 but it may

00:26:27.920 have separated

00:26:28.440 by gender.

00:26:30.860 So look

00:26:31.680 for that.

00:26:33.980 I love

00:26:35.080 this next

00:26:35.620 story.

00:26:36.760 I love

00:26:37.220 this.

00:26:39.060 Hillary 0.96

00:26:39.660 Clinton

00:26:40.220 apparently has

00:26:41.380 a documentary

00:26:42.080 out in which

00:26:43.140 she trashes 0.95

00:26:44.000 Bernie Sanders.

00:26:45.560 And she

00:26:46.260 says that no

00:26:46.840 one likes

00:26:47.300 him.

00:26:47.940 He only

00:26:48.340 had one

00:26:48.760 friend in

00:26:49.300 Congress.

00:26:49.740 and then

00:26:52.940 in interviews

00:26:53.540 she's saying

00:26:56.700 that Bernie

00:26:58.120 is basically

00:26:59.760 a sexist

00:27:00.720 and that

00:27:02.740 the charge

00:27:03.280 against him

00:27:03.800 is not so

00:27:04.860 much about

00:27:05.860 what Bernie

00:27:06.600 himself may

00:27:07.620 have or may

00:27:08.420 have not

00:27:08.900 said.

00:27:10.340 But Hillary 0.99

00:27:11.240 is trying to

00:27:11.760 have it both

00:27:12.280 ways.

00:27:13.420 She's trying to

00:27:14.040 paint Sanders

00:27:14.780 as a sexist

00:27:15.760 because a lot

00:27:17.160 of his Bernie

00:27:17.900 bros

00:27:18.540 supporters

00:27:19.620 are clearly

00:27:21.160 sexist in

00:27:22.260 their online

00:27:22.960 behavior.

00:27:24.800 Now,

00:27:25.240 is that

00:27:25.880 claim going

00:27:26.680 to stick?

00:27:28.440 Does it

00:27:28.820 feel like

00:27:29.620 it sticks?

00:27:30.700 A little

00:27:31.500 bit.

00:27:32.520 It kind

00:27:33.020 of does.

00:27:34.300 It's not

00:27:34.960 that dumb.

00:27:36.780 Well,

00:27:37.000 it's not

00:27:37.240 dumb at all.

00:27:37.840 In fact,

00:27:38.200 it's actually

00:27:38.600 quite smart.

00:27:39.460 Let me

00:27:39.720 take any

00:27:41.080 negative off

00:27:41.680 that at all.

00:27:42.680 It's really

00:27:43.540 clever. 0.51

00:27:44.280 And let me

00:27:44.620 connect some

00:27:45.180 dots.

00:27:46.000 There's

00:27:46.260 something

00:27:46.540 happening

00:27:46.980 here that

00:27:48.500 I don't

00:27:49.660 know,

00:27:49.860 I feel

00:27:50.240 like I

00:27:50.580 can see

00:27:50.940 it coming

00:27:51.260 from a

00:27:51.720 mile away

00:27:52.320 and I

00:27:53.120 know that

00:27:53.520 not one

00:27:54.040 of you

00:27:54.340 agrees.

00:27:55.700 So let

00:27:56.340 me stipulate

00:27:57.540 that the

00:27:58.800 hypothesis I'm

00:27:59.900 about to

00:28:00.360 describe,

00:28:01.260 I know

00:28:01.940 none of

00:28:02.480 you believe

00:28:02.880 this.

00:28:04.520 But just

00:28:04.940 watch.

00:28:06.120 Just for

00:28:06.760 fun.

00:28:07.880 Let's

00:28:08.140 see.

00:28:08.620 Here's the

00:28:08.980 hypothesis.

00:28:11.200 Hillary 0.96

00:28:11.760 is taking

00:28:13.240 out Bernie

00:28:13.880 and she's

00:28:15.640 going hard

00:28:16.180 at him.

00:28:17.460 And I

00:28:17.700 think that

00:28:18.100 Hillary has 0.98

00:28:18.580 the power

00:28:19.140 to make

00:28:20.460 a dent.

00:28:21.440 So it

00:28:21.820 looks like

00:28:22.180 Hillary's 0.68

00:28:22.620 going to

00:28:23.000 try to

00:28:23.400 paint

00:28:23.680 Bernie as

00:28:24.360 a sexist,

00:28:25.320 not because

00:28:26.180 of something

00:28:26.680 Bernie did.

00:28:27.440 And she

00:28:27.720 was very

00:28:28.120 clever when

00:28:29.340 she talked

00:28:29.780 about the

00:28:30.360 disputed

00:28:31.500 meeting between

00:28:32.300 Warren and

00:28:32.940 Sanders.

00:28:34.040 And did he

00:28:34.780 really say that

00:28:35.460 a woman can't 1.00

00:28:36.360 win?

00:28:37.000 Or did he

00:28:37.660 say it would

00:28:38.020 be harder?

00:28:38.920 What did he

00:28:39.400 exactly say?

00:28:40.920 So Hillary 1.00

00:28:41.800 takes this

00:28:42.460 great,

00:28:43.900 when I say

00:28:44.380 great, I mean

00:28:45.020 evil, but

00:28:45.780 very effective

00:28:46.380 take on it.

00:28:47.980 She says,

00:28:48.380 you know,

00:28:49.160 if that had

00:28:49.800 happened in

00:28:51.120 isolation,

00:28:53.200 you wouldn't

00:28:53.940 make much of

00:28:54.580 it.

00:28:54.960 I'm paraphrasing

00:28:55.720 her.

00:28:56.360 And I'm

00:28:56.660 thinking, yeah,

00:28:57.080 that's true.

00:28:57.660 If it was the

00:28:58.320 only thing that

00:28:58.880 ever happened

00:28:59.440 that was an

00:29:00.280 accusation about

00:29:01.100 Bernie and

00:29:01.680 sexism, you'd 1.00

00:29:02.480 probably discount

00:29:03.200 it.

00:29:04.100 And maybe even

00:29:04.880 say, well, it

00:29:05.340 probably didn't

00:29:05.720 happen, because

00:29:06.480 it's inconsistent

00:29:07.340 with everything

00:29:08.780 Bernie has said

00:29:09.480 and done for

00:29:10.020 his entire

00:29:10.460 career.

00:29:10.820 Totally

00:29:11.080 inconsistent.

00:29:12.180 So you'd

00:29:12.540 probably just

00:29:12.980 brush it

00:29:13.340 away.

00:29:14.540 But Hillary, 1.00

00:29:15.960 very cleverly,

00:29:17.840 says, no, it's

00:29:19.400 sort of part of

00:29:20.080 a pattern.

00:29:21.460 And it's not

00:29:22.040 necessarily a

00:29:22.840 pattern of what

00:29:23.680 Bernie is doing.

00:29:25.400 It's more of a

00:29:26.460 pattern of what

00:29:27.380 he's not doing.

00:29:28.920 And what he's

00:29:29.600 not doing is

00:29:31.520 tamping down on

00:29:32.900 his own

00:29:33.400 supporters, the

00:29:34.680 Bernie bros,

00:29:35.740 who are doing

00:29:36.460 sexist stuff

00:29:37.400 online.

00:29:38.140 Now, is it

00:29:40.040 true that

00:29:41.400 Bernie is not

00:29:42.360 tamping down on

00:29:43.640 his own

00:29:44.040 supporters, some

00:29:45.540 of whom, and

00:29:46.700 not many, but

00:29:47.900 some of whom are

00:29:49.340 trolls and

00:29:50.160 sexists? 0.54

00:29:50.740 Is it true that

00:29:51.460 he's not

00:29:52.000 clamping down on

00:29:53.620 them?

00:29:54.300 Yeah.

00:29:55.120 Yeah, it's

00:29:55.500 kind of true,

00:29:56.300 because it's not

00:29:57.300 something that you

00:29:59.580 see candidates do.

00:30:01.240 Now, if a

00:30:01.780 candidate has, you

00:30:02.860 know, just

00:30:03.220 horrible, horrible

00:30:04.180 people supporting

00:30:05.040 him, you know,

00:30:05.520 terrorists or

00:30:06.140 something, they're

00:30:06.640 going to say

00:30:06.980 something about

00:30:07.500 that, but it's

00:30:08.740 not really a

00:30:09.660 thing that

00:30:11.020 candidates turn

00:30:12.040 against their

00:30:12.580 own supporters

00:30:13.380 for bad

00:30:14.040 behavior.

00:30:15.260 Trump doesn't

00:30:15.980 do it.

00:30:17.480 Bernie doesn't

00:30:18.040 do it.

00:30:19.100 Hillary doesn't 1.00

00:30:19.720 do it.

00:30:19.900 It's just not a

00:30:20.400 thing.

00:30:21.400 No smart

00:30:22.260 candidate is

00:30:23.140 going to turn

00:30:23.700 against their

00:30:24.300 own supporters

00:30:26.200 for just bad

00:30:27.720 social media

00:30:28.480 behavior, even

00:30:29.360 if they don't

00:30:29.780 like it.

00:30:30.460 It's just not

00:30:30.960 a thing.

00:30:31.880 So it's a

00:30:32.700 great attack,

00:30:34.300 because Bernie

00:30:34.840 can't change

00:30:35.860 his being a

00:30:37.180 little bit

00:30:37.480 silent on

00:30:38.200 it, and

00:30:40.020 she can paint

00:30:40.960 it as a

00:30:41.400 pattern.

00:30:42.480 So it looks

00:30:42.980 like Hillary's 0.94

00:30:43.600 trying to take

00:30:44.160 Bernie out.

00:30:45.100 That seems

00:30:45.580 very clear.

00:30:48.060 I think

00:30:48.960 Elizabeth Warren

00:30:50.940 will be taken

00:30:52.720 out by Wall

00:30:53.400 Street.

00:30:54.640 In other words,

00:30:55.340 there are

00:30:55.540 enough rich

00:30:56.840 Democrats that 0.57

00:30:58.620 Warren doesn't

00:30:59.420 really maybe

00:31:01.180 have the energy.

00:31:02.140 so I can

00:31:03.460 see Bernie

00:31:04.220 being taken

00:31:05.160 out by

00:31:05.560 Hillary.

00:31:06.500 I can see

00:31:07.100 Elizabeth Warren

00:31:07.980 just not getting

00:31:08.760 past the fact

00:31:09.960 that rich

00:31:10.460 Democrats don't

00:31:11.760 want to give

00:31:12.100 away all the

00:31:12.560 money.

00:31:14.120 And I think

00:31:14.880 Buttigieg will

00:31:16.280 take himself

00:31:16.880 out.

00:31:17.600 In other words,

00:31:18.220 Buttigieg will

00:31:18.880 just be Buttigieg,

00:31:19.880 but he's got

00:31:20.260 kind of a cap

00:31:20.960 on his support,

00:31:21.760 I think.

00:31:22.700 I just don't

00:31:24.200 know that his

00:31:26.060 vibe, his

00:31:26.820 smarmyness,

00:31:27.720 his looking

00:31:29.260 too young,

00:31:30.320 his experience

00:31:31.160 as a mayor.

00:31:31.980 I just don't

00:31:33.600 see that

00:31:34.060 breaking through.

00:31:35.600 So if we

00:31:36.040 take the

00:31:36.400 assumption that

00:31:37.120 those three

00:31:38.060 are out of

00:31:38.500 the race,

00:31:39.220 that gives us

00:31:40.040 Biden, and

00:31:40.660 of course he's

00:31:41.140 already leading

00:31:41.680 the polls,

00:31:42.220 so that's

00:31:42.540 not a thing,

00:31:44.260 but here's

00:31:45.720 some reading

00:31:46.500 between the

00:31:47.100 lines.

00:31:47.440 Are you ready?

00:31:49.780 When Hillary

00:31:50.700 talked about it

00:31:51.580 and she

00:31:52.280 mentioned

00:31:52.800 Bernie

00:31:53.420 bros being 1.00

00:31:54.240 sexist, 0.84

00:31:55.540 she name 1.00

00:31:56.180 checked

00:31:56.500 two people

00:31:57.320 in this

00:31:58.600 order.

00:31:59.980 Here's the

00:32:00.400 important part.

00:32:01.160 in this

00:32:02.440 order.

00:32:03.640 If you

00:32:04.000 were going

00:32:04.300 to

00:32:04.640 criticize

00:32:06.280 Bernie

00:32:06.780 Sanders

00:32:07.160 this

00:32:07.660 week

00:32:08.100 for being

00:32:09.500 sexist, 0.84

00:32:10.480 which he's

00:32:10.980 not,

00:32:11.960 by the way,

00:32:12.940 there's no

00:32:13.740 evidence of

00:32:14.300 that,

00:32:14.560 zero evidence

00:32:15.560 that Bernie

00:32:16.260 is sexist, 0.75

00:32:16.980 zero evidence.

00:32:18.560 Probably one of

00:32:19.320 the most

00:32:19.540 consistently

00:32:20.380 pro-everybody

00:32:22.420 candidate you've

00:32:23.400 ever seen.

00:32:24.080 You've got to

00:32:24.460 respect that,

00:32:25.120 right?

00:32:25.940 But still,

00:32:26.760 she makes the 0.66

00:32:27.300 claim.

00:32:27.560 Now,

00:32:28.180 if you were

00:32:28.440 going to

00:32:28.640 talk about

00:32:29.080 Bernie being

00:32:29.700 sexist in

00:32:30.420 this fake

00:32:31.140 accusation,

00:32:33.000 wouldn't you

00:32:33.540 mention Elizabeth

00:32:34.400 Warren as

00:32:35.000 your first

00:32:35.540 example of

00:32:36.200 that?

00:32:37.460 You would,

00:32:38.020 wouldn't you?

00:32:38.980 Because that's

00:32:39.840 the news.

00:32:40.340 It's about

00:32:41.020 Bernie and

00:32:41.940 Warren.

00:32:42.700 So if you were

00:32:43.180 going to mention it,

00:32:43.720 you'd say,

00:32:44.100 yeah,

00:32:44.380 Elizabeth Warren,

00:32:45.180 that's my best

00:32:45.780 example.

00:32:46.840 What does she 0.78

00:32:47.400 mention instead?

00:32:50.140 Kamala Harris.

00:32:50.920 She says,

00:32:52.760 yeah,

00:32:53.020 you've got

00:32:53.340 these two

00:32:53.740 examples,

00:32:54.400 the way she

00:32:54.800 treated Kamala

00:32:55.660 Harris and

00:32:57.100 the way the

00:32:57.660 Bernie bros

00:32:58.300 are treating

00:32:59.580 Elizabeth Warren.

00:33:01.360 In both cases,

00:33:02.160 it's the

00:33:02.440 Bernie bros,

00:33:03.100 not necessarily

00:33:04.100 Bernie.

00:33:06.820 Now,

00:33:07.380 do you know

00:33:08.140 that Kamala

00:33:09.560 Harris is

00:33:11.720 the most

00:33:12.120 closely associated

00:33:13.500 in terms of

00:33:14.260 her advisors

00:33:16.180 and her

00:33:16.800 political campaign

00:33:17.900 that's in

00:33:18.320 hiatus?

00:33:19.180 Do you know

00:33:19.580 she was the

00:33:20.140 one who had

00:33:20.600 the most

00:33:21.200 Hillary Clinton

00:33:22.740 supporters

00:33:24.180 on her team?

00:33:26.180 Did you know

00:33:26.840 that?

00:33:27.920 Because here's

00:33:28.840 where we're

00:33:29.180 going.

00:33:30.340 We're heading

00:33:31.220 toward Biden

00:33:32.780 in charge,

00:33:33.900 you know,

00:33:34.100 Biden in the

00:33:34.680 top spot,

00:33:35.740 and Kamala

00:33:36.760 Harris as his

00:33:37.700 running mate.

00:33:39.780 Because it

00:33:40.540 looks like

00:33:41.020 that's what

00:33:41.500 it feels to

00:33:43.320 me that's

00:33:44.280 where Hillary 0.71

00:33:46.300 is heading.

00:33:47.920 Now,

00:33:48.980 if you get

00:33:50.340 that,

00:33:51.340 you're going

00:33:52.000 to have a

00:33:52.340 situation that

00:33:53.900 I call

00:33:54.400 Bush's brain.

00:33:56.580 Do you

00:33:57.220 remember when

00:33:57.860 George Bush

00:33:59.060 Jr.

00:34:00.520 was president

00:34:01.400 and everybody

00:34:02.100 said he's not

00:34:02.840 the real

00:34:03.240 president because

00:34:04.800 he's just not

00:34:06.080 bright enough?

00:34:07.400 Now,

00:34:07.820 I don't think

00:34:08.180 that's true,

00:34:08.920 but they said

00:34:09.880 he's not the

00:34:10.360 real president,

00:34:10.920 it's really

00:34:11.400 Dick Cheney,

00:34:12.380 because Dick

00:34:12.800 Cheney is more

00:34:13.360 experienced and

00:34:14.220 he's connected

00:34:14.840 with the deep

00:34:15.440 state and

00:34:15.840 everything.

00:34:16.060 So that

00:34:17.040 was the

00:34:17.380 big claim

00:34:17.860 about him,

00:34:18.680 is that the

00:34:19.140 real president

00:34:19.840 was not even

00:34:21.380 him, the

00:34:21.840 real president

00:34:22.680 was Dick

00:34:23.660 Cheney.

00:34:24.380 What happens

00:34:25.180 if you get

00:34:25.880 a wobbly

00:34:27.560 Joe Biden

00:34:28.540 as president

00:34:29.780 or even

00:34:30.240 candidate for

00:34:30.900 president,

00:34:31.620 and a

00:34:32.420 young

00:34:32.920 go-getter

00:34:34.840 with Hillary's 0.96

00:34:36.520 entire team

00:34:37.520 behind her,

00:34:38.960 Kamala Harris?

00:34:39.700 Well, it's

00:34:41.680 going to start

00:34:42.340 a little bit

00:34:42.940 like she's 0.64

00:34:43.500 Biden's brain,

00:34:44.780 and it won't

00:34:45.500 be coming from

00:34:46.220 her necessarily,

00:34:47.280 it will be

00:34:47.680 coming from

00:34:48.460 Clinton.

00:34:51.400 Hillary Clinton

00:34:52.360 has a path

00:34:53.980 to the presidency

00:34:55.020 without running

00:34:55.840 for office.

00:34:57.280 In other words,

00:34:58.660 Hillary Clinton

00:34:59.220 has great

00:35:00.300 control over

00:35:02.540 the people

00:35:02.960 who are

00:35:03.380 great supporters.

00:35:05.360 Those supporters

00:35:06.200 apparently are

00:35:07.300 on the Kamala

00:35:08.060 Harris team,

00:35:08.980 and if

00:35:10.060 Kamala Harris

00:35:10.640 becomes the

00:35:11.180 vice president,

00:35:12.540 what are

00:35:13.040 people going

00:35:13.540 to say

00:35:14.000 about who's

00:35:15.020 really in

00:35:15.540 charge?

00:35:19.380 I rest my

00:35:20.380 case.

00:35:21.860 Do you see

00:35:22.560 it yet?

00:35:23.420 Because it's

00:35:24.140 as clear as

00:35:24.860 day.

00:35:25.880 It's as clear

00:35:26.880 as day,

00:35:27.760 and this is

00:35:28.500 one of the

00:35:28.880 reasons why

00:35:29.440 Hillary Clinton

00:35:30.160 is not going

00:35:31.080 to jump into

00:35:31.720 the race

00:35:32.160 late.

00:35:33.020 The reason

00:35:33.740 she's not

00:35:34.240 going to

00:35:34.600 jump into

00:35:35.060 the race

00:35:35.640 is because

00:35:36.560 she already 0.99

00:35:37.020 has a path

00:35:37.740 to power

00:35:38.340 that doesn't

00:35:39.500 involve the

00:35:40.040 work.

00:35:42.100 And there

00:35:42.880 you go.

00:35:44.860 Now,

00:35:45.760 I'll say

00:35:46.500 this again.

00:35:47.520 Sometimes my

00:35:48.440 predictions are

00:35:49.120 just for fun,

00:35:50.440 and sometimes

00:35:51.400 they're actual

00:35:52.060 predictions.

00:35:52.960 This one's

00:35:53.580 sort of a

00:35:54.140 hybrid.

00:35:57.060 I think

00:35:58.020 there's more

00:35:58.480 chance of this

00:35:59.140 happening than

00:35:59.720 not happening,

00:36:00.880 but I wouldn't

00:36:01.640 put it in my

00:36:02.680 usual confident

00:36:03.580 predictions where

00:36:04.360 I feel like

00:36:04.820 there's a 100%

00:36:05.500 chance.

00:36:05.920 So it's not

00:36:06.780 a 100%

00:36:07.260 chance,

00:36:07.960 but certainly

00:36:08.760 that's where

00:36:09.220 things are

00:36:09.620 lining up.

00:36:10.480 All right.

00:36:13.140 Something

00:36:13.580 really

00:36:14.340 interesting

00:36:15.140 on climate

00:36:16.160 change is

00:36:16.860 happening.

00:36:17.960 This is the

00:36:18.820 biggest story

00:36:19.680 in the world,

00:36:21.120 and it's

00:36:22.200 not reported.

00:36:23.880 These are the

00:36:24.400 fun ones.

00:36:25.040 The biggest

00:36:25.640 story in the

00:36:26.260 world,

00:36:27.120 and the first

00:36:28.000 time you're

00:36:28.420 going to hear

00:36:28.820 it is from

00:36:29.260 me.

00:36:29.740 You ready?

00:36:30.740 This is kind

00:36:31.400 of fun.

00:36:32.480 You may not

00:36:33.040 even hear this

00:36:33.600 on the regular

00:36:34.200 news,

00:36:34.840 maybe not even

00:36:35.540 once.

00:36:36.480 And it's

00:36:36.760 because of

00:36:37.220 the way I'm

00:36:37.540 going to

00:36:37.720 frame this

00:36:38.160 and put it

00:36:38.560 together.

00:36:39.680 President Trump,

00:36:40.440 one of his

00:36:40.840 biggest weaknesses

00:36:41.700 is his statement

00:36:45.260 from long ago

00:36:46.060 that climate

00:36:46.540 change was a

00:36:47.300 hoax,

00:36:48.260 a Chinese

00:36:48.860 hoax.

00:36:50.080 And of course,

00:36:51.000 he has paid

00:36:51.620 for that

00:36:52.040 statement

00:36:52.440 forever.

00:36:54.520 And

00:36:54.880 something's

00:36:56.340 happening.

00:36:58.140 Watch this.

00:36:59.540 I'm going to

00:36:59.900 give you some

00:37:00.340 data points

00:37:00.920 and then

00:37:01.360 connect them.

00:37:02.060 Are you ready?

00:37:03.120 Data point

00:37:03.700 number one.

00:37:04.320 I think it

00:37:05.400 was a week

00:37:05.740 or so ago,

00:37:07.040 Trump was

00:37:07.640 being interviewed

00:37:08.620 by somebody,

00:37:09.420 I don't remember,

00:37:10.540 and whoever it

00:37:11.240 was said,

00:37:12.340 you said that

00:37:14.060 climate change

00:37:14.800 was a hoax.

00:37:16.680 And then he

00:37:17.440 responded to

00:37:18.240 that.

00:37:19.000 How did he

00:37:19.440 respond when

00:37:21.180 an interviewer

00:37:22.380 said, you said

00:37:23.360 climate change

00:37:24.460 was a hoax?

00:37:26.040 He said,

00:37:27.060 and I'm

00:37:27.300 paraphrasing,

00:37:28.100 this is not his

00:37:28.760 exact quote,

00:37:29.380 and he

00:37:30.120 said,

00:37:30.920 no hoax.

00:37:33.080 Those words,

00:37:33.920 no hoax.

00:37:35.100 There's no

00:37:35.560 hoax.

00:37:36.440 And then he

00:37:36.940 quickly said

00:37:38.040 what he wanted

00:37:38.480 to say about

00:37:39.020 clean air

00:37:39.580 and clean

00:37:39.960 water.

00:37:40.680 He usually

00:37:41.560 frames it

00:37:42.060 that way.

00:37:42.580 It's not,

00:37:43.520 he's not

00:37:43.920 focusing on

00:37:44.680 the CO2

00:37:45.240 content.

00:37:46.300 He says,

00:37:47.080 clean air,

00:37:47.540 clean water,

00:37:48.020 we get to

00:37:48.400 the same

00:37:48.700 place.

00:37:49.620 So data

00:37:50.100 point number

00:37:50.620 one,

00:37:51.700 he has

00:37:52.080 expressly

00:37:53.120 disowned

00:37:54.280 his own

00:37:55.840 choice of

00:37:56.800 words from

00:37:57.320 long ago

00:37:57.920 that was

00:37:58.260 really

00:37:58.500 hyperbole

00:37:59.080 that is

00:37:59.960 a hoax.

00:38:01.520 But as he

00:38:02.340 completely

00:38:02.840 released,

00:38:03.540 because the

00:38:03.940 hoax

00:38:04.220 covered two

00:38:05.400 points.

00:38:06.580 One of those

00:38:07.340 points was

00:38:08.400 that China 0.93

00:38:08.920 is cleverly

00:38:09.900 agreeing to

00:38:10.500 the Paris

00:38:11.540 Accords

00:38:11.960 because it's

00:38:12.540 good for

00:38:12.960 China,

00:38:13.400 they get

00:38:13.680 lots of

00:38:14.180 freedom to

00:38:14.940 do what

00:38:15.180 they want,

00:38:16.080 but it

00:38:16.400 would be

00:38:16.660 very

00:38:16.940 restrictive

00:38:17.520 on the

00:38:18.100 United

00:38:18.700 States

00:38:19.140 economy,

00:38:20.140 and that

00:38:20.420 would be

00:38:20.680 good for

00:38:21.100 China.

00:38:21.940 So China 0.92

00:38:22.360 is sort

00:38:22.720 of cleverly

00:38:23.280 going along

00:38:23.840 with this

00:38:24.320 because they

00:38:25.320 know it's

00:38:25.620 just bad

00:38:25.980 for our

00:38:26.380 economy.

00:38:27.060 It has

00:38:27.240 nothing to

00:38:27.680 do with

00:38:28.120 the

00:38:29.080 environment

00:38:29.500 at all.

00:38:30.540 That's the

00:38:31.060 hoax part,

00:38:32.120 is China's 0.97

00:38:33.240 intention.

00:38:34.360 Now I'm

00:38:34.620 not saying

00:38:34.980 if it's

00:38:35.320 true or

00:38:35.760 false.

00:38:36.720 All I'm

00:38:37.160 going to

00:38:37.320 say is

00:38:37.660 that there

00:38:37.900 are two

00:38:38.180 parts to

00:38:38.700 the hoax.

00:38:39.700 The second

00:38:40.300 part is

00:38:40.800 the question

00:38:41.220 of whether

00:38:41.620 the science

00:38:42.980 is right,

00:38:44.420 or right

00:38:45.140 enough that

00:38:45.820 there's a

00:38:46.480 big problem

00:38:46.980 there.

00:38:47.720 I believe

00:38:48.540 the president,

00:38:50.140 quite cleverly,

00:38:51.400 is in the

00:38:51.960 middle of

00:38:53.020 an historic

00:38:54.140 pivot that

00:38:55.660 he will

00:38:56.000 never call

00:38:56.520 a pivot,

00:38:57.360 but just

00:38:57.660 watch the

00:38:58.220 data points

00:38:58.760 coming together.

00:38:59.500 Are you

00:38:59.620 ready?

00:39:00.500 I believe

00:39:01.240 he's going

00:39:01.800 to loosen

00:39:03.100 up on

00:39:04.660 part of

00:39:05.600 the hoax.

00:39:06.660 In other

00:39:06.940 words,

00:39:07.240 he'll probably

00:39:07.720 keep going

00:39:08.480 with the

00:39:08.960 it was good

00:39:09.520 for China's

00:39:10.140 economy and

00:39:10.940 the joke

00:39:11.380 was on us.

00:39:12.460 If we

00:39:13.100 stayed with

00:39:13.480 the Paris

00:39:13.880 Accords,

00:39:14.940 the climate

00:39:15.440 accords,

00:39:15.900 the joke

00:39:16.220 would be on

00:39:16.620 us.

00:39:17.200 I think he's

00:39:18.460 going to keep

00:39:18.860 that framing,

00:39:20.200 but he's

00:39:20.960 starting to

00:39:21.520 release on

00:39:23.760 the question

00:39:24.840 of the

00:39:25.240 scientific

00:39:25.800 validity of

00:39:26.780 it,

00:39:27.560 and he

00:39:27.960 should,

00:39:29.200 because the

00:39:29.820 scientific

00:39:30.320 consensus is

00:39:31.340 pretty darn

00:39:31.840 strong that

00:39:32.980 there's

00:39:33.220 something to

00:39:33.720 worry about.

00:39:35.900 Data point

00:39:36.820 number two,

00:39:37.540 over at

00:39:37.900 Davos,

00:39:39.120 the president

00:39:39.680 has signed

00:39:40.460 on to

00:39:41.700 the trillion

00:39:42.540 tree plan

00:39:44.260 to plant

00:39:45.440 a trillion

00:39:45.960 trees by

00:39:46.740 2050 around

00:39:48.000 the world,

00:39:48.860 to help

00:39:50.080 absorb

00:39:50.460 CO2.

00:39:52.080 Huh.

00:39:53.300 Why would

00:39:54.100 the president

00:39:54.620 of the

00:39:54.920 United States

00:39:55.680 sign on

00:39:57.160 to a deal

00:39:57.660 to help

00:39:58.580 plant a

00:39:59.040 trillion

00:39:59.360 trees

00:40:00.000 unless he

00:40:02.520 had bought

00:40:02.920 into the

00:40:03.360 concept,

00:40:04.000 and he's

00:40:04.460 telling us

00:40:04.900 right now

00:40:05.400 that there's

00:40:06.660 too much

00:40:07.040 CO2 in

00:40:08.040 terms of

00:40:08.580 the risk

00:40:09.220 to the

00:40:09.500 climate.

00:40:10.340 Why would

00:40:10.960 he say

00:40:11.320 yes to

00:40:11.860 the trillion

00:40:12.360 trees unless

00:40:13.780 he's pivoting,

00:40:16.340 evolving,

00:40:17.200 to the view

00:40:18.260 that, well,

00:40:19.360 trees are

00:40:19.780 good,

00:40:20.920 clean air

00:40:21.480 is good,

00:40:22.600 we like

00:40:23.160 trees,

00:40:24.360 it's probably

00:40:25.080 not that

00:40:25.640 expensive in

00:40:26.400 the big

00:40:27.160 scheme of

00:40:27.660 things,

00:40:27.960 it's not

00:40:28.260 going to

00:40:28.440 hurt our

00:40:28.780 economy,

00:40:30.220 but it

00:40:30.600 feels as

00:40:32.240 though,

00:40:33.420 no, I'm

00:40:34.080 not mind

00:40:34.480 reading,

00:40:34.980 I'm just

00:40:36.200 giving you

00:40:36.560 the data

00:40:36.900 points,

00:40:37.560 you can do

00:40:38.120 all of

00:40:38.440 this without

00:40:39.080 the mind

00:40:40.300 reading,

00:40:40.840 so we'll

00:40:41.580 speculate,

00:40:42.880 all right,

00:40:43.480 so let's

00:40:43.960 call this

00:40:44.300 speculating,

00:40:44.980 which is

00:40:45.240 always fair,

00:40:46.480 mind reading

00:40:46.980 is not,

00:40:47.480 mind reading

00:40:47.900 is when

00:40:48.200 you're sure

00:40:48.640 you see

00:40:49.020 something in

00:40:49.480 there,

00:40:49.660 I'm not

00:40:49.920 saying that,

00:40:51.000 I'm looking

00:40:51.460 at the

00:40:51.780 data and

00:40:52.360 saying,

00:40:52.660 well,

00:40:53.340 it looks

00:40:53.840 like this,

00:40:55.020 all right,

00:40:55.460 here's another

00:40:55.920 data point,

00:40:58.680 Kevin McCarthy

00:41:01.680 is part of

00:41:05.820 a group who

00:41:07.040 are putting

00:41:07.440 together a

00:41:08.760 group to

00:41:09.200 talk about,

00:41:11.840 let's say,

00:41:13.240 McCarthy held a

00:41:14.020 caucus event on

00:41:14.960 climate change

00:41:15.720 Thursday,

00:41:16.140 what?

00:41:17.360 Kevin McCarthy,

00:41:19.480 a high-ranking

00:41:20.660 Republican,

00:41:22.060 is having a

00:41:23.040 caucus event on

00:41:23.940 climate change?

00:41:25.040 Do you have a

00:41:26.300 caucus event on

00:41:27.280 climate change

00:41:28.040 if what you're

00:41:29.260 really trying to

00:41:29.920 say is there's

00:41:30.700 no risk here,

00:41:31.520 there's no

00:41:31.840 problem?

00:41:33.380 No,

00:41:33.640 you don't.

00:41:34.740 So suddenly,

00:41:35.600 the president is

00:41:36.900 not calling it a

00:41:37.660 hoax,

00:41:38.580 the president is

00:41:39.540 signing on with

00:41:40.360 no fight,

00:41:42.040 he's fully

00:41:42.760 embracing a

00:41:43.460 trillion trees,

00:41:44.200 which you

00:41:45.120 don't need to

00:41:45.620 do unless

00:41:46.080 there's a

00:41:46.440 real problem.

00:41:48.160 And then

00:41:48.480 Kevin McCarthy,

00:41:49.360 high-ranking

00:41:49.980 Republican,

00:41:50.620 of course the

00:41:51.460 president knows

00:41:52.100 what he's

00:41:52.480 doing,

00:41:52.940 you know,

00:41:53.360 because they're

00:41:54.020 at that same

00:41:54.600 level,

00:41:55.380 I mean the

00:41:55.820 highest level

00:41:56.360 of the

00:41:56.680 Republican

00:41:57.360 Party.

00:41:58.380 Why would

00:41:59.040 he hold a

00:41:59.560 caucus event

00:42:00.300 on climate

00:42:00.820 change unless

00:42:01.460 he thought that

00:42:02.060 was real?

00:42:03.420 Why would

00:42:03.840 he do that?

00:42:05.040 He wouldn't.

00:42:05.560 again,

00:42:07.820 we're

00:42:07.980 speculating,

00:42:08.660 not mind

00:42:09.000 reading.

00:42:09.880 And here

00:42:11.980 are the

00:42:12.240 points that

00:42:13.120 his little

00:42:13.920 group,

00:42:14.760 let's see,

00:42:16.500 so he's a

00:42:17.580 House Minority

00:42:18.300 Leader,

00:42:18.940 Kevin McCarthy,

00:42:19.920 and he's

00:42:20.300 working with

00:42:21.240 Representatives

00:42:21.940 Garrett Graves

00:42:23.580 and Bruce

00:42:25.200 Westerman.

00:42:26.740 And the

00:42:27.680 three of them

00:42:28.160 are proposing

00:42:29.640 policies that

00:42:30.800 focus on

00:42:31.680 three efforts.

00:42:33.300 The first is

00:42:34.360 the capturing

00:42:35.040 of carbon

00:42:35.640 dioxide.

00:42:37.120 And part of

00:42:37.800 that is the

00:42:38.400 trillion trees,

00:42:39.540 but another

00:42:40.060 part, I

00:42:40.680 assume, I

00:42:41.380 didn't see

00:42:41.740 this expressly,

00:42:42.660 but one

00:42:43.080 assumes that

00:42:44.620 all of the

00:42:45.080 startups that

00:42:45.840 have machines

00:42:46.580 that can

00:42:47.000 directly suck 0.95

00:42:48.580 the carbon

00:42:49.020 out of the

00:42:49.400 air is going

00:42:50.000 to be part

00:42:50.280 of that.

00:42:50.980 So why

00:42:51.480 would the

00:42:52.720 House Minority

00:42:53.980 Leader propose

00:42:55.760 policies for

00:42:56.780 capturing carbon

00:42:57.720 dioxide if he

00:42:59.520 didn't think it

00:42:59.980 was a problem?

00:43:01.760 He would.

00:43:02.580 He wouldn't.

00:43:04.040 All right?

00:43:04.360 So Republicans

00:43:05.800 have, it

00:43:07.640 seems to

00:43:08.320 me, at

00:43:09.780 the leadership

00:43:10.240 level, have

00:43:11.520 clearly embraced

00:43:12.660 that the

00:43:13.380 scientific part,

00:43:15.040 and again,

00:43:16.180 watch me

00:43:17.840 closely, just

00:43:18.900 the scientific

00:43:19.480 part, looks

00:43:20.920 valid in terms

00:43:21.800 of the risk.

00:43:23.220 The second

00:43:23.860 part is

00:43:24.580 promoting clean

00:43:25.400 energy.

00:43:27.640 Oh, they're

00:43:29.760 looking to

00:43:30.220 expand tax

00:43:30.860 credits for

00:43:31.400 carbon capture,

00:43:32.120 typical Republican

00:43:33.320 stuff.

00:43:34.080 And the

00:43:34.460 second part

00:43:34.900 of the plan

00:43:35.280 is the

00:43:35.640 promotion of

00:43:36.200 clean energy,

00:43:37.780 which includes

00:43:38.540 investments in

00:43:39.480 doubling of

00:43:41.040 investments if

00:43:41.900 the proposals

00:43:42.740 go forward.

00:43:43.480 It would be a

00:43:43.860 doubling of

00:43:44.360 investment in

00:43:45.700 clean air

00:43:46.200 research and

00:43:48.560 lowering taxes

00:43:49.240 for companies

00:43:49.820 that export

00:43:50.480 clean air

00:43:51.240 tech.

00:43:53.200 That's

00:43:53.760 interesting.

00:43:54.500 If they

00:43:55.120 export the

00:43:56.800 clean tech,

00:43:57.800 in other words,

00:43:58.440 it's the other

00:43:58.960 companies, other

00:44:00.080 countries that

00:44:00.700 probably need

00:44:01.180 it more than

00:44:01.720 us.

00:44:02.360 If they

00:44:02.800 export, they

00:44:03.360 get a tax

00:44:03.980 break.

00:44:05.020 That makes

00:44:05.380 sense.

00:44:05.860 At least the

00:44:06.460 incentives are

00:44:07.080 in the right

00:44:07.360 place.

00:44:07.960 But here's the

00:44:08.400 other part.

00:44:09.420 Nuclear power

00:44:10.140 and natural gas

00:44:11.000 are also

00:44:11.580 featured in

00:44:12.220 the plan.

00:44:13.380 But what I

00:44:13.900 hate is that

00:44:14.600 it's like the

00:44:15.420 last sentence

00:44:16.140 on this thing.

00:44:17.320 Nuclear power

00:44:18.180 and natural

00:44:18.660 gas.

00:44:19.440 Now, natural

00:44:19.980 gas is less

00:44:21.840 polluting than

00:44:22.560 coal, for

00:44:23.060 example, and

00:44:24.020 we've got plenty

00:44:24.620 of it.

00:44:25.440 So it's a

00:44:25.940 good interim

00:44:27.400 fuel.

00:44:28.100 So if

00:44:28.900 you're using

00:44:29.280 natural gas,

00:44:30.640 you're still

00:44:31.080 adding CO2,

00:44:32.260 but not nearly

00:44:32.880 as much as

00:44:33.500 coal, for

00:44:34.160 example.

00:44:35.220 And maybe

00:44:35.860 you do that

00:44:36.580 for a while

00:44:37.060 until you

00:44:37.560 can get your

00:44:38.080 nuclear stuff

00:44:38.980 going.

00:44:39.720 At the same

00:44:40.320 time, over

00:44:41.140 in Davos, I

00:44:43.180 saw a mention

00:44:44.540 of this, but

00:44:45.100 have not seen

00:44:45.660 the actual

00:44:46.100 quotes, so I

00:44:46.920 need a fact

00:44:48.360 check on

00:44:48.800 this.

00:44:49.140 I think

00:44:49.380 Mark Schneider

00:44:50.240 is trying to

00:44:51.300 get a fact

00:44:51.740 check on

00:44:52.160 this as

00:44:52.520 well.

00:44:53.660 Did

00:44:54.140 President

00:44:54.680 Trump mention

00:44:56.240 nuclear and

00:44:57.240 generation

00:44:57.760 four nuclear

00:44:58.560 at Davos?

00:45:00.140 Because that's

00:45:01.440 a claim I

00:45:02.080 saw on the

00:45:02.520 internet that

00:45:03.060 is unconfirmed

00:45:05.180 at this

00:45:05.500 point.

00:45:06.180 Now put

00:45:06.500 the points

00:45:08.320 together.

00:45:09.320 The president

00:45:09.820 says it's

00:45:10.420 not a

00:45:10.780 hoax.

00:45:11.940 Still the

00:45:12.500 China economy

00:45:13.460 part is still

00:45:14.180 a little hoaxy,

00:45:14.900 but not the

00:45:15.440 science.

00:45:17.000 Trump says

00:45:17.940 okay to

00:45:18.720 planting a

00:45:19.240 trillion trees.

00:45:20.160 No reason

00:45:20.800 to do it,

00:45:21.900 unless there's

00:45:22.420 too much

00:45:22.780 CO2.

00:45:23.380 No reason.

00:45:25.560 Trump

00:45:26.020 apparently doesn't

00:45:27.340 have a problem

00:45:27.920 with, and I

00:45:28.560 assume they're

00:45:29.020 coordinating this,

00:45:30.340 the House

00:45:30.840 Minority Leader

00:45:31.920 McCarthy,

00:45:32.760 GOP,

00:45:34.040 having their

00:45:35.300 own Republican

00:45:36.320 version of

00:45:37.140 climate change

00:45:38.000 combat to

00:45:39.540 fight it.

00:45:41.200 Am I wrong

00:45:42.320 that this is the

00:45:44.180 biggest story

00:45:44.900 happening right

00:45:46.980 now?

00:45:47.220 The biggest

00:45:48.120 story is that

00:45:49.280 the GOP

00:45:50.400 just embraced

00:45:51.980 climate change

00:45:52.940 and is

00:45:53.720 acting

00:45:54.240 aggressively

00:45:56.000 to combat

00:45:57.520 it, but

00:45:57.980 doing it in

00:45:58.460 a Republican

00:45:59.000 way, not

00:45:59.680 a crazy

00:46:00.420 way.

00:46:00.920 The crazy

00:46:01.460 way is you

00:46:02.080 get rid of

00:46:02.540 all your

00:46:02.860 airplanes and

00:46:03.500 your cars,

00:46:04.220 and we all

00:46:05.060 ride horses,

00:46:05.940 and stuff

00:46:07.140 like that.

00:46:08.700 How long

00:46:09.440 have you been

00:46:09.940 waiting for

00:46:10.440 this?

00:46:11.860 My God.

00:46:13.740 The GOP

00:46:15.620 has had this

00:46:16.280 big gaping

00:46:17.300 hole in their 0.55

00:46:18.200 portfolio,

00:46:19.520 which is just

00:46:20.520 crazy talk about

00:46:21.560 climate, when

00:46:22.900 the whole time

00:46:23.560 they could do

00:46:24.120 stuff that was

00:46:24.680 completely

00:46:25.160 Republican, that

00:46:27.060 would at least

00:46:28.140 make their case

00:46:28.980 stronger, and

00:46:30.200 now they're

00:46:30.560 pursuing it.

00:46:31.380 So I would

00:46:31.760 say that the

00:46:32.260 GOP is taking

00:46:33.260 a path on

00:46:34.840 climate change,

00:46:36.340 which in my

00:46:36.980 opinion is

00:46:38.620 way stronger

00:46:39.560 than the

00:46:40.860 Green New

00:46:41.300 Deal, which

00:46:42.340 feels impractical.

00:46:43.860 The stuff that

00:46:44.380 Republicans are

00:46:45.340 suggesting seems

00:46:46.400 completely practical,

00:46:48.400 100% practical.

00:46:49.580 But here's the

00:46:50.960 kill shot.

00:46:51.720 Are you ready

00:46:52.040 for this?

00:46:52.760 I want you to

00:46:53.400 parse the

00:46:54.840 president's words

00:46:56.060 about it.

00:46:57.120 So he was

00:46:57.420 talking in

00:46:57.920 Davos, I

00:46:58.460 guess.

00:47:00.660 And he

00:47:01.960 wants a, I

00:47:03.640 guess, there's

00:47:05.920 a lot of

00:47:06.220 focus there on

00:47:07.000 a cohesive and

00:47:08.320 sustainable world.

00:47:09.320 So it's a big

00:47:09.780 theme over at

00:47:10.580 Davos at the

00:47:11.280 conference.

00:47:12.600 And so Trump

00:47:13.680 announced that

00:47:14.240 we'd be joining

00:47:14.820 the One Trillion

00:47:15.680 Trees Initiative,

00:47:17.140 blah, blah,

00:47:17.580 blah.

00:47:17.700 And then he

00:47:19.260 went on to

00:47:19.620 say, and

00:47:20.160 listen to the

00:47:20.940 exact words,

00:47:21.720 it's very

00:47:22.020 important.

00:47:22.860 Trump said

00:47:23.460 to embrace the

00:47:25.160 possibilities of

00:47:26.280 tomorrow, we

00:47:27.660 must reject the

00:47:28.820 perennial prophets

00:47:29.920 of doom and

00:47:31.460 their predictions

00:47:32.140 of the apocalypse.

00:47:33.060 So he's not

00:47:35.560 talking about

00:47:36.120 what's true or

00:47:37.020 false in terms

00:47:38.880 of the science.

00:47:40.200 Look how

00:47:40.720 carefully he's

00:47:41.460 chosen his

00:47:41.960 words.

00:47:43.380 To embrace the

00:47:44.180 possibilities of

00:47:45.220 tomorrow, and I

00:47:46.160 assume that would

00:47:46.700 mean, you know,

00:47:47.720 nuclear, green

00:47:48.760 technology, all the

00:47:50.780 possibilities tomorrow,

00:47:51.920 good economy, all

00:47:53.380 those.

00:47:53.720 To embrace that

00:47:54.400 good future, we

00:47:55.820 must reject the

00:47:56.780 perennial prophets

00:47:57.780 of doom and their

00:47:58.960 predictions of the

00:48:00.080 apocalypse.

00:48:00.560 And he goes

00:48:01.600 on, there are

00:48:03.360 errors of

00:48:04.020 yesterday's fortune

00:48:05.160 tellers, so he's

00:48:06.280 demeaning all the

00:48:07.040 people, all the

00:48:07.740 doomsayers, and

00:48:09.300 we have them, and

00:48:10.360 we have them, meaning

00:48:11.540 the United States, and

00:48:13.040 I have them, meaning

00:48:14.020 the United States, and

00:48:15.340 they want to see us

00:48:16.180 do badly.

00:48:17.640 Well, no, they 0.73

00:48:18.900 don't.

00:48:20.400 But, so that part

00:48:21.860 you should ignore.

00:48:22.660 That's just a

00:48:23.500 political statement.

00:48:24.900 Nobody wants to

00:48:25.900 see us do badly,

00:48:26.780 except maybe China.

00:48:27.820 But we don't let

00:48:30.360 that happen.

00:48:32.400 And here's the

00:48:33.780 kill shot.

00:48:34.460 This is from

00:48:35.040 President Trump in

00:48:35.860 Davos.

00:48:36.740 Quote, this is not

00:48:37.840 a time for

00:48:38.460 pessimism.

00:48:40.340 This is a time for

00:48:41.460 optimism.

00:48:43.580 Fear and doubt is

00:48:44.740 not a good thought

00:48:45.740 process.

00:48:48.660 Wow.

00:48:49.980 Because this is a

00:48:50.980 time for tremendous

00:48:51.840 hope and joy and

00:48:52.800 optimism and action.

00:48:54.920 How many times have

00:48:56.060 I told you that

00:48:56.800 President Trump

00:48:57.400 learned at the

00:48:58.360 knee of the

00:48:59.780 greatest, I

00:49:02.560 don't know, the

00:49:03.240 greatest positive

00:49:04.160 thinking prophet

00:49:05.380 ever, Norman

00:49:07.200 Vincent Peale, who

00:49:08.100 was actually Trump's

00:49:09.000 pastor or minister

00:49:10.680 or whatever, in

00:49:11.920 church when he was

00:49:12.560 a kid.

00:49:13.320 The power of

00:49:14.320 positive thinking.

00:49:15.320 And this is what

00:49:15.820 the president is

00:49:16.520 saying pretty

00:49:17.280 directly.

00:49:18.640 So if you put it

00:49:19.620 all together, it

00:49:20.480 does seem that the

00:49:21.380 president is now

00:49:22.520 embracing the

00:49:24.180 scientific consensus.

00:49:26.800 that CO2 is a

00:49:28.840 threat.

00:49:29.700 But he's doing it

00:49:31.220 in his Trump

00:49:31.940 way, which in

00:49:33.680 my opinion, is

00:49:35.300 perfect.

00:49:37.300 I wouldn't say

00:49:38.060 that about a lot

00:49:39.040 of things.

00:49:39.680 Well, maybe I do

00:49:40.380 say that about a lot

00:49:41.060 of things.

00:49:41.860 But his framing

00:49:44.060 of this, the new

00:49:45.560 frame, where he's

00:49:46.720 sort of evolving

00:49:47.300 to, is really

00:49:48.940 perfect.

00:49:50.080 Because he's

00:49:50.840 focusing on the

00:49:51.920 optimism versus

00:49:53.080 pessimism.

00:49:53.780 In other words,

00:49:54.960 he's basically

00:49:55.520 saying what I've

00:49:56.840 been telling you.

00:49:57.480 This is a version

00:49:58.200 of the Adam's 0.90

00:49:59.200 law of slow-moving

00:50:00.360 disasters.

00:50:01.780 If you have a

00:50:02.680 quick disaster, and

00:50:04.120 it catches us off

00:50:05.080 guard, us being the

00:50:06.140 United States, us

00:50:07.480 being humanity, if

00:50:08.920 something catches us

00:50:09.960 off guard, well, we

00:50:11.320 could be in trouble.

00:50:12.660 But when the

00:50:13.420 United States, and

00:50:15.480 the world in

00:50:16.140 general, sees a

00:50:17.940 big problem coming

00:50:18.960 from 50 years

00:50:21.460 away, when we

00:50:23.240 see it coming, and

00:50:24.860 we're on the same

00:50:25.540 page, and now we

00:50:26.540 are, the President

00:50:27.760 of the United States

00:50:28.440 is very clearly on

00:50:29.640 the same page with

00:50:30.640 the scientific

00:50:31.240 consensus at this

00:50:32.280 point, when you've

00:50:33.840 got that, optimism

00:50:35.960 is the right

00:50:36.800 mindset.

00:50:37.980 Because it's the

00:50:38.740 optimism that plants

00:50:39.820 you a trillion

00:50:40.360 trees.

00:50:41.320 It's the optimism

00:50:42.120 that builds new

00:50:43.260 carbon-sucking

00:50:45.060 devices.

00:50:46.160 It's the optimism

00:50:47.060 that gets you to

00:50:47.760 generation four

00:50:48.640 nuclear power.

00:50:49.940 It's the optimism

00:50:50.580 that gets you to

00:50:51.460 everything you

00:50:52.480 need.

00:50:53.820 Pessimism is the

00:50:55.020 wrong mindset to

00:50:57.360 solve the problem.

00:50:58.600 So the President

00:50:59.180 just entered, fully

00:51:01.840 entered, in my

00:51:02.920 opinion, he has

00:51:03.620 fully entered the

00:51:05.000 climate topic in a

00:51:07.060 productive way, and

00:51:08.640 the same thing he

00:51:09.800 does every time he

00:51:10.540 enters a topic, he

00:51:12.220 hollows it out, and

00:51:14.120 he wears it as a

00:51:15.040 suit.

00:51:16.040 He didn't just

00:51:17.120 enter the contest.

00:51:19.000 He hollowed it

00:51:19.880 out, he

00:51:20.880 redefined it as a

00:51:22.220 war against

00:51:22.780 pessimists and

00:51:23.640 optimists, and

00:51:25.560 he's right.

00:51:26.920 This is a battle

00:51:28.240 between optimists

00:51:29.920 and pessimists, and

00:51:31.580 the pessimists have

00:51:32.900 a mindset, which

00:51:35.180 for all of our

00:51:36.840 human experience

00:51:37.720 we've learned, is

00:51:39.140 not productive.

00:51:40.780 So he's doing the

00:51:41.980 stuff you can do,

00:51:43.280 he's ignoring the

00:51:44.500 stuff that doesn't

00:51:45.140 make any difference,

00:51:45.980 let's say the

00:51:47.100 Paris Climate

00:51:47.860 Accord, didn't

00:51:48.480 make any

00:51:48.800 difference, so he

00:51:49.800 doesn't do it.

00:51:51.060 Planting a

00:51:51.740 trillion trees, does

00:51:53.580 that make a

00:51:54.020 difference?

00:51:55.020 Probably yes.

00:51:56.200 Going hard at

00:51:57.020 nuclear energy to

00:51:58.080 get clean power

00:51:59.400 that eats nuclear

00:52:00.440 waste as its own

00:52:01.340 fuel and doesn't

00:52:02.800 melt down, is

00:52:04.220 that someplace we

00:52:04.900 should go?

00:52:05.540 How do you get

00:52:06.040 there?

00:52:07.040 Does pessimism get

00:52:09.120 you to generation

00:52:10.000 four nuclear power?

00:52:11.200 No, it doesn't.

00:52:12.600 It gets you

00:52:13.000 nothing.

00:52:14.380 Pessimism gets

00:52:15.160 you nothing.

00:52:16.940 This president, and

00:52:19.820 you know, I say

00:52:21.000 this until you're

00:52:22.080 tired of hearing

00:52:22.640 it, but what I

00:52:24.480 like about this

00:52:25.620 president is not

00:52:26.840 that he does

00:52:27.340 everything the way

00:52:28.940 I want him to,

00:52:29.540 not that he

00:52:29.980 doesn't break

00:52:30.520 things, not that

00:52:31.720 there isn't some

00:52:32.320 cost to his

00:52:33.760 presidency.

00:52:34.380 There is.

00:52:34.680 He's expensive.

00:52:35.920 He's an expensive

00:52:36.920 president, and I

00:52:37.840 don't just mean

00:52:38.460 secret service cost

00:52:40.080 when he goes

00:52:40.620 golfing.

00:52:41.020 He's expensive.

00:52:43.200 He costs us a

00:52:44.260 lot of, you

00:52:44.920 know, anguish.

00:52:45.700 People are going

00:52:46.240 to their

00:52:46.600 psychiatrists and

00:52:47.540 stuff like that,

00:52:48.200 but the trade-off

00:52:49.820 is that he has a

00:52:51.640 set of tools that

00:52:53.440 nobody's ever seen

00:52:54.340 before.

00:52:55.060 I mean, you've

00:52:55.440 never seen this

00:52:56.120 before.

00:52:57.220 The president of

00:52:58.320 the United States

00:52:59.060 just paced the

00:53:02.200 hell out of the

00:53:03.760 Republican and

00:53:04.760 conservative parts

00:53:06.140 of this country.

00:53:07.100 He paced them.

00:53:08.880 In other words, he

00:53:09.660 agreed with those

00:53:10.640 who said, this

00:53:11.680 climate change

00:53:12.420 stuff looks a

00:53:13.280 little BS-y to

00:53:14.120 us.

00:53:15.420 It's not passing

00:53:16.820 the sniff test.

00:53:18.140 He was right

00:53:19.160 there, right in

00:53:20.340 the middle of it.

00:53:22.340 And this week, he

00:53:25.240 took a new path.

00:53:27.040 Who's going to

00:53:27.800 follow him?

00:53:29.360 Will the

00:53:30.300 Republican Party,

00:53:31.320 the conservatives,

00:53:32.080 let's say the

00:53:32.460 Republicans, who

00:53:33.160 have 95% or

00:53:34.640 something like

00:53:35.180 that, support for

00:53:36.420 this president?

00:53:37.500 Do they go with

00:53:38.500 him?

00:53:40.060 Do they go with

00:53:41.060 him?

00:53:42.080 I say yes.

00:53:44.400 I say yes.

00:53:46.000 I say this

00:53:46.660 president just

00:53:48.540 did the greatest

00:53:49.380 thing this country

00:53:50.440 has ever seen

00:53:51.180 according to

00:53:52.780 AOC.

00:53:54.300 You ready for

00:53:55.100 this?

00:53:56.020 This is not my

00:53:57.000 opinion.

00:53:58.060 I'm imagining

00:54:00.260 an opinion, so

00:54:01.040 it's just my

00:54:01.460 imagination.

00:54:02.460 I'm imagining

00:54:03.240 AOC.

00:54:04.780 And she's looking

00:54:05.640 at this.

00:54:06.820 How long has

00:54:07.480 AOC been

00:54:08.200 trying to

00:54:08.820 convince the

00:54:09.660 rest of the

00:54:10.160 country, the

00:54:10.800 other half, the

00:54:11.600 skeptics, to do

00:54:12.920 something about

00:54:13.480 climate change?

00:54:14.120 Well, it's her

00:54:14.460 main thing.

00:54:15.560 She's been trying

00:54:16.240 really, really

00:54:16.720 hard.

00:54:17.200 How has she

00:54:18.180 succeeded?

00:54:19.380 She hasn't.

00:54:20.460 Why does AOC

00:54:21.340 not change any

00:54:22.620 minds in the

00:54:23.360 Republican Party?

00:54:24.940 Simple.

00:54:26.120 She doesn't

00:54:26.740 pace them.

00:54:28.480 She's only

00:54:29.120 pacing her own

00:54:29.940 team.

00:54:30.740 She's being like

00:54:31.560 them until they

00:54:32.380 trust her, and

00:54:33.640 then they'll move

00:54:34.540 with her because

00:54:35.440 they trust her.

00:54:36.740 President Trump

00:54:37.680 has the trust of

00:54:39.460 conservatives and

00:54:40.420 the GOP.

00:54:41.700 He's been pacing

00:54:42.600 you for years, and

00:54:44.340 he just made a

00:54:44.960 move.

00:54:45.780 It's the biggest

00:54:46.660 move maybe you've

00:54:49.660 ever seen.

00:54:50.860 This is the

00:54:51.780 biggest persuasion

00:54:53.100 play happening

00:54:53.760 right now while

00:54:54.820 you're watching.

00:54:55.340 It's the biggest

00:54:55.820 persuasion play I've

00:54:59.020 ever seen, meaning

00:55:00.920 that it involves

00:55:01.720 the most people at

00:55:03.380 the highest level

00:55:04.300 level, and I

00:55:06.040 think it's going

00:55:06.540 to kind of work.

00:55:08.060 Now, obviously, he's

00:55:08.880 not going to get

00:55:09.360 everybody to move

00:55:10.200 over.

00:55:10.720 All the skeptics

00:55:11.400 will dig in.

00:55:13.680 Some of them may

00:55:14.380 start disliking the

00:55:15.600 president for it, but

00:55:17.420 this is the biggest

00:55:18.680 story, and there's

00:55:20.580 nothing even close.

00:55:22.500 Nothing even close.

00:55:23.900 But I like the fact

00:55:24.940 that he's keeping

00:55:25.740 some of the hoax

00:55:28.140 elements to it in

00:55:29.720 terms of our

00:55:30.400 projections of doom.

00:55:31.600 So let's not

00:55:32.960 project doom, because

00:55:33.960 we can't do that.

00:55:36.420 We are the United

00:55:38.260 States, and we are

00:55:39.360 humanity, and we

00:55:40.880 can solve this.

00:55:42.160 And the president

00:55:42.760 of the United States

00:55:43.460 just said, it's real,

00:55:46.020 and we can solve

00:55:46.820 this.

00:55:47.880 And then his team

00:55:50.140 with McCarthy told

00:55:52.180 you some details of

00:55:53.300 how that can happen,

00:55:54.340 and they're actually

00:55:55.120 completely practical.

00:55:56.300 Everything the

00:55:57.340 Republicans are

00:55:58.180 looking at looks

00:55:58.960 entirely practical.

00:56:00.120 Now, maybe AOC

00:56:01.460 would say it's

00:56:02.080 not enough, and

00:56:03.300 that's a productive

00:56:04.160 conversation.

00:56:04.960 We should have

00:56:05.340 that.

00:56:06.140 All right.

00:56:09.400 What else we got

00:56:10.320 here?

00:56:10.720 I think we hit

00:56:12.400 the big points.

00:56:20.040 What a day to be

00:56:20.940 alive, I'll tell

00:56:22.560 you.

00:56:25.100 This country's

00:56:25.900 never been better.

00:56:27.800 You know, I feel

00:56:28.400 bad for the people

00:56:29.360 who, for just

00:56:31.100 psychological reasons,

00:56:32.320 are sort of trapped

00:56:33.700 in their own

00:56:34.720 internal hell about

00:56:35.800 what's going on

00:56:36.420 here.

00:56:36.760 But, man, we have

00:56:38.340 never had better

00:56:39.160 leadership than we

00:56:39.980 have right now.

00:56:41.020 That's unambiguously.

00:56:42.340 There's nothing ever

00:56:43.400 that's been close to

00:56:44.120 this, I don't think.

00:56:45.540 All right.

00:56:46.880 Let's all go get

00:56:47.980 ready and watch the

00:56:49.000 impeachment show.

00:56:50.520 That show is going

00:56:51.600 to be great.

00:56:53.440 And I will talk to

00:56:54.800 you all later.

00:56:55.960 Here we are.

00:56:57.060 Here we are.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 21, 2020

Episode 794 Scott Adams： Impeachment Strategy, Hillary Neuters Bernie, Climate Non-Hoaxes, Zombie Killers

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