Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 24, 2020


Episode 797 Scott Adams PART1： Extra Cursing Today, Mopey Dick Trying to Harpoon Trump, Coronavirus, FISA Abuse


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The government shut down all travel between China and the United States because of a deadly virus outbreak that has infected hundreds of thousands of people across the country. Is there a reason the government is blocking all travel with China? Or is there something else going on?

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, come on in here.
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00:01:01.140 So, as you're aware, the biggest news of the day is this coronavirus that seems to have
00:01:11.220 started in China from eating bats or something.
00:01:18.280 I'm not sure I believe the story of where it's starting.
00:01:22.720 But, as you know, it's a major outbreak.
00:01:26.720 It's killed 26 people.
00:01:28.700 Hundreds of people have been infected.
00:01:31.140 China is closing entire cities.
00:01:33.860 Entire cities are being closed.
00:01:36.840 You can't get in, you can't get out unless you're a medical professional.
00:01:39.840 So, obviously, this is the biggest story in the world.
00:01:44.640 And equally obvious, if there's this gigantic virus problem, we don't have any kind of cure
00:01:51.360 for it.
00:01:51.940 We don't have shots for it.
00:01:53.700 So, I think it's obvious that the United States government would shut down all travel between
00:02:01.180 China and the United States.
00:02:02.340 Now, I haven't seen any stories on that, but it's obvious, right?
00:02:07.480 I mean, there can't be this gigantic, you know, deadly virus in China that's breaking out
00:02:13.640 everywhere and they can't contain it.
00:02:15.780 It's fairly obvious that the U.S. government has closed all travel between China and the
00:02:24.500 United States.
00:02:25.080 But I wanted to read you the official statement on this, so if you'll bear with me, let me
00:02:30.840 find this on CNN.
00:02:32.700 Looking for the official statement from our government about how they're closing all travel
00:02:37.700 with China to shut down that virus.
00:02:41.940 Okay, I don't see it on CNN, CNN.com, but I don't know, maybe they're just focusing on
00:02:48.080 the impeachment or something.
00:02:50.360 So, let's go to Fox News, because obviously it's the biggest story in the country.
00:02:53.640 And obviously our government is shutting down all travel.
00:02:57.460 I mean, that would be the only way to keep us safe.
00:02:59.700 Let's see, Fox News.
00:03:05.160 No, no, it doesn't seem to be on Fox News either, which would suggest that it's not happening.
00:03:14.940 I may have warned you in the title to this periscope that there would be some extra cursing.
00:03:22.200 This would be the point of the extra cursing.
00:03:29.700 So, if you don't want to hear any extra cursing, this would be the time to turn down your sound.
00:03:35.600 Because there's a gigantic virus outbreak in China that's deadly.
00:03:43.560 And as far as I can tell from my major news sources, the government of the United States
00:03:50.140 has not yet shut down all travel with China.
00:03:55.200 Here it comes.
00:03:56.280 Are you fucking kidding me?
00:03:59.180 Are you fucking, fucking kidding me?
00:04:01.740 We have not shut down all travel with China.
00:04:04.680 Are you fucking kidding me?
00:04:06.280 Give me a reason.
00:04:07.860 Any reason.
00:04:09.060 This is fucking impeachable right here.
00:04:11.620 Now, maybe there's a reason.
00:04:13.420 Maybe there's a reason.
00:04:14.860 But tell us the fucking reason.
00:04:16.560 If you're not going to cut down, if you're not going to shut down all traffic with China 1.00
00:04:22.240 right now, until you figure out what's going on, you owe us a fucking reason. 0.93
00:04:29.280 All right?
00:04:30.520 Government, give us a fucking reason. 0.89
00:04:33.640 Or shut it down.
00:04:35.480 Otherwise, what the hell are you doing?
00:04:37.920 So China, so far, if you connect our technology to China's technology, what do you get?
00:04:46.620 You get a fucking spy virus, and they steal your intellectual property. 0.89
00:04:52.860 So we can't connect to them technologically, because they'll just steal our shit and send
00:04:57.840 us spyware.
00:04:59.580 We can't have travel with them, because they'll send us their fucking bat virus. 1.00
00:05:05.100 We can't have any kind of economic agreement with them, because apparently, they fucking
00:05:11.720 cheat.
00:05:13.580 So, is there anything that we can do with China that isn't toxic? 1.00
00:05:20.940 Oh, okay, sure.
00:05:22.840 We can at least accept mail from China.
00:05:26.020 That's safe.
00:05:27.020 No, it's not.
00:05:28.120 Their mail is full of fucking fentanyl.
00:05:32.040 We can't take their mail.
00:05:33.620 We can't connect to them with a goddamn fucking technology.
00:05:38.400 We can't let their people travel here, because they're filled with their fucking bat virus. 1.00
00:05:42.880 And we can't even do business with them.
00:05:45.160 The fucking country is completely toxic.
00:05:48.500 We need to decouple.
00:05:51.100 Let's just decouple. 0.84
00:05:52.360 All right.
00:06:01.820 That's enough of that topic.
00:06:03.880 But seriously, we need to shut down the travel, like right now.
00:06:08.640 Let me give you a little update on Twitter and Google and the questions about some alleged
00:06:21.580 shadow banning.
00:06:22.880 I have a new hypothesis for why Twitter seems to sometimes, for some accounts, in some situations,
00:06:31.100 you can follow people and then be unfollowed.
00:06:34.200 If you're following the story, you know that Ambassador Grinnell, his account, many people,
00:06:41.040 lots and lots of people, including me, reported following him multiple times, only to find later
00:06:47.660 that they had somehow been unfollowed.
00:06:50.420 So I did contact Jack Dorsey.
00:06:52.760 I was asking about it, and he's looking into it.
00:06:55.620 And I don't have an official answer yet.
00:06:58.760 He asked some follow-up questions that I answered.
00:07:01.580 So Twitter's looking into it.
00:07:04.680 But while they were looking into it, and as I mentioned before, this TikTok app that is
00:07:10.900 owned by a Chinese company can, under some situations, ask for permission to control your
00:07:19.440 Twitter account.
00:07:20.320 I guess if you're going to post your TikTok videos to Twitter, it needs some permissions.
00:07:25.260 So one of the possibilities is that there's a third-party app that's controlling your Twitter.
00:07:32.820 And so I looked into my Twitter permissions.
00:07:37.200 I'm sorry.
00:07:37.960 I looked into my permissions for any apps to see if I had any apps that had permission to
00:07:45.460 change my Twitter account.
00:07:47.980 And here's the thing.
00:07:49.060 Anyway, I would never give an app, a third-party app, permission to control my Twitter feed.
00:07:57.960 I would never do that.
00:07:59.260 Now, there are a few exceptions.
00:08:02.000 One is Periscope itself, because it's a Twitter product.
00:08:05.840 So I don't have a problem with Periscope being able to change my Twitter account.
00:08:10.200 It's all the same company.
00:08:11.020 And I did have Hootsuite connected, because Hootsuite is an app that lets you post to different
00:08:18.520 social platforms.
00:08:20.380 But here's the surprise.
00:08:23.380 I had several apps, minor apps, ones that you haven't even heard of, that had Twitter permissions
00:08:31.860 that I was unaware of until I checked my phone.
00:08:35.960 That's right.
00:08:38.280 A person, me, who would never intentionally give a third-party app access to my Twitter
00:08:44.620 account, had given eight different, I think there were eight of them, eight different apps
00:08:51.440 actually had permission to change my Twitter account.
00:08:56.620 If you had asked me, I would have said zero, because I would never consciously make that decision,
00:09:01.560 except in those few cases that are obviously safe.
00:09:04.500 But there were several on there that were just apps I'd try down at one point and another.
00:09:10.180 Now, at what part in the process did I not see that those apps were asking for that permission?
00:09:20.280 Because I never would have given that permission.
00:09:22.280 Not in a million years.
00:09:23.400 Not intentionally.
00:09:25.200 So here's my new hypothesis.
00:09:28.580 It's third-party apps.
00:09:29.980 So I would like to ask those of you who have had any experience of following and unfollowing
00:09:37.820 anybody, or maybe even if you've been followed and unfollowed.
00:09:42.720 So anybody who's had the experience of having an automatic unfollow that was not yours, check
00:09:49.980 your phone.
00:09:52.560 How do you check?
00:09:53.420 I don't remember enough to tell you, but just Google it.
00:09:58.180 How do you check your phone's app permissions?
00:10:01.700 It'll pop right up.
00:10:02.900 Just Google it, and you'll see the directions.
00:10:05.660 So if I had to rank the possibilities, the names of the apps actually don't matter.
00:10:12.880 Because, as I said, it was a variety of them.
00:10:17.120 I had like eight different apps.
00:10:18.500 So you need to just check all of your permissions.
00:10:21.680 Don't start with, do I have those specific apps?
00:10:24.420 Just check all the permissions.
00:10:25.980 Because it's the ones that are sneaking in there that are the problem, maybe.
00:10:29.840 So if we were to look at all the possible explanations for why Twitter seems to be performing in a way
00:10:36.180 that we would not expect and had not authorized, you know, the one is that it's senior management
00:10:42.860 and Twitter trying to influence the election.
00:10:46.600 Personally, I give that essentially zero credibility.
00:10:51.220 Because human nature is not such that people who are already winners, in other words, if you're a senior
00:10:57.480 management or, you know, you've got a ton of stock in Twitter, you're a winner in the game of life.
00:11:03.080 I mean, you've done well, right?
00:11:05.260 It would be insane for them to collectively decide that they would risk their reputations,
00:11:13.480 their stock, their company, risk it all for a scheme that would be so obvious to detect.
00:11:20.780 Because we're all looking at it.
00:11:22.520 We can detect it.
00:11:23.340 We can see that you followed and unfollowed.
00:11:25.520 So I would say the odds that Twitter management is behind it is basically zero.
00:11:30.720 You know, I'll always allow that there's always, you know, anything could happen.
00:11:34.300 You could never put really zero on anything.
00:11:37.280 But it's close to zero.
00:11:39.080 The other possibility is that it's some kind of a bug.
00:11:41.960 I think that's also close to zero because it's so obvious.
00:11:46.100 It's just so obvious that how would Twitter not know about it?
00:11:50.180 How would they develop a product that's this ubiquitous, but it couldn't do the simplest thing technology can do?
00:11:57.620 A little handshake between the app and the central servers that says, did you get my signal?
00:12:04.300 Yes, I did.
00:12:05.480 Okay, now I'm done.
00:12:06.960 Simplest thing you could do in technology.
00:12:08.680 So it's not a bug, and it almost certainly is not a senior management.
00:12:14.740 But having seen now how many third-party apps could have done this, I would say the odds are something like 80% that there are bad actors from the outside who are messing with your Twitter feed.
00:12:30.680 So that's my current speculation, current hypothesis.
00:12:37.740 I'll keep you updated.
00:12:39.180 I'm trying to schedule a discussion with Google about my demonetization on YouTube.
00:12:45.880 Maybe I'll talk to them Monday.
00:12:49.700 I'll update you on that as it happens.
00:12:52.000 All right.
00:12:54.980 You've heard, of course, about the FISA warrant story.
00:12:59.700 Apparently, the Department of Justice looked at all the FISA warrants regarding this Russia collusion stuff
00:13:04.840 and found that at least the last two, because there were several renewals, the last two renewals they found were not based, were not legitimate, basically.
00:13:16.440 They did not have a basis in law.
00:13:18.980 Now, it was the last two.
00:13:21.660 What does that tell you?
00:13:23.700 Well, unfortunately, we have at least two hypotheses that are reasonable.
00:13:29.260 One hypothesis is that it was always biased, and it was rigged.
00:13:39.440 So one possibility is that bad actors were using this process and abusing it,
00:13:45.380 and they were using it to spy on the president and his team, and it was all bad actors.
00:13:50.300 So that's possible.
00:13:50.820 The other possibility that cannot be eliminated, based on what we know, is that once you get a little bit invested in your plan, it's hard to change.
00:14:01.880 So it could be that people were just a little bit stuck in confirmation bias.
00:14:09.800 There was a little bit of inertia going on, a sprinkle of incompetence.
00:14:14.640 It would be easy to imagine that because the other ones had been renewed, that people just let their guard down.
00:14:21.940 They just let their guard down.
00:14:23.160 Well, the last one's got renewed.
00:14:24.680 Here's another one.
00:14:25.980 Blah.
00:14:26.940 Sign it.
00:14:28.040 Do the judges read every word of everything they sign?
00:14:33.080 You hope so.
00:14:34.620 But probably not if it's a renewal.
00:14:37.840 If it's a renewal, you probably skim it, don't you?
00:14:40.500 If you say, well, I've approved this thing three times in the past, it looks like it's just more of them,
00:14:46.380 the same people I trusted last time, say to sign it, maybe you give it a cursory review, get on to other business.
00:14:53.420 So I don't think you can eliminate the possibility of incompetence.
00:14:59.480 But certainly, if you believe that there are bad actors, it's going to lead you in that direction.
00:15:06.780 The president very cheekily retweeted a meme that I think came out a few years ago that showed him standing,
00:15:14.780 it's a painting that showed him standing next to a window inside Trump Tower, one assumes,
00:15:20.660 with a Barack Obama on the outside of the window looking in.
00:15:26.400 So in other words, it was a meme about Obama or his administration wiretapping or spying on the president.
00:15:33.600 So rather than add any commentary, he just tweets the humorous meme,
00:15:38.400 which I thought was kind of brilliant because it makes everybody talk about what it means.
00:15:45.420 Anytime you can get people to talk themselves into the thing you wanted to say,
00:15:50.560 as opposed to saying it to them, it's good.
00:15:54.220 It's more persuasive to get somebody to work on the idea and come up with it on their own based on a few clues,
00:16:00.920 if you can get them to do that, because that really makes them focus.
00:16:04.860 And that's what he wants people to do, focus on his point of view, that he was right all along,
00:16:10.140 that the government, members of the government were spying on him and his campaign.
00:16:14.780 At this point, you can just say it's true, right?
00:16:18.800 I mean, it's two movies on one screen, so some people are going to say it's not true.
00:16:23.280 But I think we can say, yeah, it's true.
00:16:27.600 A funny story coming out, well, it's funny even though the topic is not funny.
00:16:32.800 So there's nothing funny about discrimination, except maybe this story.
00:16:39.680 So let me say that again.
00:16:41.100 There's nothing funny about discrimination, except maybe this.
00:16:45.560 There was a man, an African-American man, who is suing a Michigan bank for racial discrimination
00:16:53.200 after he says the staff refused to deposit a settlement check from his other racial discrimination case.
00:17:02.020 So the story, as it's reported, is that an African-American man successfully sued somebody,
00:17:10.360 doesn't matter who, for racial discrimination and won.
00:17:13.100 And he got a big check.
00:17:15.140 So he takes his big check into a bank, and they look at him, and they look at the check,
00:17:20.500 and they think, this doesn't fit.
00:17:23.060 And they called the police on him.
00:17:25.240 Now, like I say, there's nothing funny about discrimination, except this story, which is kind of funny.
00:17:32.180 Because first of all, he won a bunch of money.
00:17:34.020 So in the end, he's kind of a winner.
00:17:36.120 He's getting some attention.
00:17:38.420 I'm sure he cares that his topic is getting attention, too.
00:17:41.420 So he's kind of a winner.
00:17:43.420 And he's also a fighter.
00:17:45.400 I like the fact that he's a fighter.
00:17:47.880 He fought the first case, and he won.
00:17:50.620 It happened again.
00:17:51.640 He's fighting it again.
00:17:53.120 I kind of like this guy.
00:17:55.280 I don't know the details of the case, so I'm not going to presume who's guilty or innocent.
00:18:00.120 But I like a fighter.
00:18:00.960 But here's the thing.
00:18:04.800 The story, as it's told, is that it's a story of discrimination being so bad that this one guy runs into two major examples of it, one after another.
00:18:16.360 And that's entirely possible.
00:18:17.680 So it might be that the way this is reported is exactly accurate.
00:18:23.760 There's so much discrimination in the country that sometimes, maybe not often, but there's enough that sometimes you'll have two really bad cases right in a row.
00:18:34.180 Maybe that's what happened.
00:18:35.120 But there are at least two other possibilities.
00:18:38.840 Two possibilities.
00:18:40.640 The other possibility is it's fake news.
00:18:43.300 Because it fits in that category of news where by its nature you should doubt it's true.
00:18:52.780 Right?
00:18:52.980 Because it's a little too clean, it's a little too perfect, it's a little too, the edges are wrapped up, but just a little too nicely on this story.
00:19:03.580 So I'm not saying it's a fake news.
00:19:06.080 I'm saying that the nature of the story fits into the category of stories that are probably fake news at least 80% of the time.
00:19:15.640 That doesn't mean his is.
00:19:16.880 I'm just saying it's in that category where you should just automatically put a filter on it and say, maybe, maybe, but it's in that category.
00:19:26.360 It's a little too perfect.
00:19:28.280 Here's the other possibility, a third possibility.
00:19:31.280 And again, I'm not saying that there was not two cases of grotesque discrimination.
00:19:37.560 It's entirely possible, if not likely, that that's what happened.
00:19:42.420 But here's the other possibility.
00:19:44.960 Maybe it's him.
00:19:46.880 Maybe it's him.
00:19:49.340 Now, I'm not saying it is, but I think it's funny that that possibility is not considered.
00:19:54.460 There's one of my favorite comics from long ago was a guy sitting in jail, and he was saying to his bunkmate, he goes,
00:20:02.920 17 arrests, 17 convictions.
00:20:06.380 Maybe it's me.
00:20:07.160 I've been laughing about that for years, because it's a joke about how the last thing we consider is that it's us, because it's always something else.
00:20:18.000 It's other people.
00:20:19.420 And when I say it's maybe it's him, I'm not saying it is.
00:20:22.780 I'm just saying that if you're looking at all the possibilities of this story, one you can't rule out is that he looks suspicious.
00:20:31.400 Not because he's black, but because some people just look suspicious.
00:20:38.080 Am I right?
00:20:38.880 You know who else looks suspicious?
00:20:42.380 Me.
00:20:43.780 I have a lifelong problem that I look suspicious.
00:20:47.780 I can't tell you how many times I've been accused of things I haven't done.
00:20:52.580 All the time.
00:20:54.580 And I think the reason that people regard me as suspicious is because they think I'm clever enough to get away with stuff.
00:21:03.600 And if you're clever enough to get away with stuff, well, maybe you're doing it now.
00:21:08.200 So, in my own way, I'm one of those people who has gone through life continually being questioned about my honesty or my credibility when I'm actually being honest and totally credible.
00:21:22.500 I am one of those personalities that people don't trust, for whatever reason.
00:21:27.840 You know, I hope you do, and I hope I've created enough of a track record that I have credibility on here.
00:21:35.080 But I'm just saying that in my interpersonal life, it's common for people to imagine I've done all manner of bad things when I haven't.
00:21:44.280 So, one possibility is that there's something about this individual that has nothing to do with his color that made the teller at the bank say,
00:21:53.200 there's something wrong with this situation.
00:21:56.020 It has nothing to do with his ethnicity.
00:21:58.300 So, that's a possibility.
00:21:59.760 Anyway, but good luck to the individual involved.
00:22:02.560 I do not mean to suggest anything beyond what the story itself said, that he got discriminated against twice.
00:22:11.060 He's a fighter.
00:22:11.920 Good for him.
00:22:13.380 I hope he fights and wins this if the story is accurately reported.
00:22:18.140 Let's talk about Joe Rogan.
00:22:20.100 Joe Rogan has lit the Twittersphere on fire by saying recently, I guess, on his podcast,
00:22:29.480 that he'll, he says, quote, I think I'll probably vote for Bernie.
00:22:35.440 And here's the reasoning he offered.
00:22:37.620 He's been insanely consistent his entire life.
00:22:40.520 He's basically been saying the same thing, been for the same thing his whole life.
00:22:45.680 That, in and of itself, is a very powerful structure to operate from.
00:22:50.300 What's that mean?
00:22:52.220 What does it mean to say that consistency is a powerful structure to operate from?
00:22:56.700 Well, I would put a different word on it.
00:22:58.920 I would call it authenticity.
00:23:01.380 Because I think that's what both Trump and Bernie have in common, in a weirdly different way.
00:23:08.700 But there's something about the fact that Bernie is always Bernie that makes you trust
00:23:12.960 that at least he has good intentions,
00:23:15.280 and that at least he believes what he says, which is a lot, right?
00:23:21.200 So when Joe Rogan says that, you know, that alone, that consistency,
00:23:26.260 and I do believe that all of the people running for president
00:23:28.980 actually have the best interests of the country in mind.
00:23:33.420 I really do believe that.
00:23:34.340 I don't think you put that much work and risk into running for president
00:23:38.120 until you've really bought off on the idea that you're trying to help the country.
00:23:43.720 I just don't, in our system, I don't think you get that far unless you really believe that.
00:23:49.220 So I believe Bernie believes that, as well as all the other candidates.
00:23:53.860 So how did that work out for Joe Rogan?
00:23:57.460 Well, not so well.
00:24:01.380 You would think, you would think that backing Bernie would be the safest thing he could ever do, right?
00:24:08.100 Because if you want the social justice warriors to be happy,
00:24:11.040 well, pick a Democrat, right?
00:24:14.860 Safest thing you could do in this country if you're a public figure
00:24:17.780 and you're in the entertainment field,
00:24:20.760 by far the safest thing you could do for your career,
00:24:23.740 your own personal safety, for everything.
00:24:26.100 Pick a Democrat.
00:24:27.860 That did not work out as well as he may have hoped.
00:24:31.320 Because it turns out he's now being accused of being a white nationalist transphobe.
00:24:36.000 You can't even win.
00:24:39.920 There's just no way to win.
00:24:42.740 Now, obviously, if anybody has spent any time watching Joe Rogan,
00:24:48.560 he's definitely not a white nationalist, or even close.
00:24:54.080 He's not even in the zip code of a white nationalist.
00:24:57.380 So this accusation against him,
00:25:00.920 this is what, you know, idiots on Twitter saying this stuff, 0.66
00:25:04.820 this is the most grotesquely defamatory,
00:25:09.880 it's just horrible, just horrible,
00:25:12.580 that he would be slimed by that kind of accusation.
00:25:16.040 Now, the transphobe thing,
00:25:17.880 at least there's a little meat on that,
00:25:19.720 in the sense that he's talked about athletes,
00:25:22.640 and that there's a risk to female athletes, 1.00
00:25:26.220 if there's a larger,
00:25:27.400 somebody who was born with male body parts and testosterone,
00:25:32.100 competes, you know, blah, blah, blah,
00:25:33.900 that the smaller person can get hurt.
00:25:36.600 So that has targeted him for,
00:25:39.560 you know, for abuse from the left.
00:25:43.340 So he kind of created a position where he can't win.
00:25:47.740 But let me pile on a little bit.
00:25:50.080 May I pile on?
00:25:51.040 Well, sure, why not?
00:25:53.640 So, I love Joe Rogan,
00:25:57.120 personally and as an entertainment professional,
00:26:00.760 one of the best people in the world,
00:26:02.460 one of the best entertainers in the world.
00:26:04.900 Nothing negative to say about him.
00:26:08.420 But,
00:26:09.220 but,
00:26:11.660 I don't think he's an economist.
00:26:15.260 Is that fair to say?
00:26:17.080 You know, if I said that to Joe Rogan in front of him,
00:26:19.480 I said, Joe, you know,
00:26:21.260 I understand why you're backing Bernie,
00:26:24.700 but would you agree that you do not have a deep understanding of economics?
00:26:29.980 I think he'd say yes.
00:26:31.900 Would that be an unfair statement?
00:26:34.140 That's not an insult.
00:26:35.120 It's not an ad hominem.
00:26:37.080 It's the same thing I said about Greta.
00:26:39.280 And I'm not insulting Greta,
00:26:41.400 you know,
00:26:41.620 Tunberg on climate change.
00:26:43.660 It's not an insult.
00:26:45.340 It is simply a statement
00:26:47.240 that some people have experience in different domains.
00:26:50.300 And I think that,
00:26:52.620 well,
00:26:52.920 I completely appreciate it.
00:26:54.440 In fact,
00:26:54.800 I've said the same thing.
00:26:56.340 That Bernie's authentic personality
00:27:00.080 is much to be admired.
00:27:02.160 On many levels,
00:27:03.100 I admire it.
00:27:04.520 I have mad respect for Bernie
00:27:06.540 for that reason.
00:27:09.400 But it's still an economic decision,
00:27:11.760 isn't it?
00:27:13.160 I mean,
00:27:13.420 no matter what you think of Bernie's character,
00:27:15.620 the ultimate decision of Bernie versus not Bernie
00:27:19.620 is really an economic decision.
00:27:22.120 And I don't know how you could make
00:27:24.040 a decision about voting for Bernie
00:27:27.140 without a background,
00:27:29.240 or at least enough background,
00:27:31.020 on the basic concepts of economics.
00:27:36.180 So,
00:27:37.500 I feel sorry for Joe Rogan.
00:27:41.020 I'm sure he doesn't feel sorry for himself.
00:27:42.680 I doubt that's in his mental vocabulary
00:27:46.720 to feel sorry for himself.
00:27:48.220 I get the sense that
00:27:49.360 that's just an unproductive feeling
00:27:51.660 that he would be unlikely to experience
00:27:53.640 because he's mentally very tough.
00:27:57.320 Or so it appears.
00:27:58.660 We can't read his mind.
00:28:01.560 But if he ever thought that
00:28:03.500 backing Bernie was going to be the safe harbor,
00:28:06.620 I don't know if he thought that.
00:28:08.840 But if he did think that,
00:28:10.240 I guess he found out otherwise.
00:28:12.680 here's another story.
00:28:15.340 I'll be talking about impeachment
00:28:16.660 in a minute.
00:28:17.820 Did you hear about the pillowcase rapist?
00:28:21.940 So there was somebody named
00:28:23.220 the pillowcase rapist
00:28:24.980 because he would put a pillowcase
00:28:26.280 over his head many times.
00:28:27.860 And he was a serial rapist.
00:28:30.620 There were lots of unsolved rapes.
00:28:33.280 And he was just caught.
00:28:35.180 They're pretty sure they caught him.
00:28:36.380 because his son got in some legal trouble
00:28:39.440 and they got the son's DNA.
00:28:42.100 And as soon as they ran the son's DNA
00:28:44.460 through the database,
00:28:46.600 boop, 0.99
00:28:47.620 they found that it matched
00:28:49.340 close enough to be a close relative
00:28:52.700 of whoever was the actual rapist.
00:28:55.360 And then it was a simple matter
00:28:57.760 to find out that that guy's father
00:28:59.300 also had some,
00:29:01.120 I think,
00:29:02.280 some prior criminal record
00:29:04.240 in that domain.
00:29:05.940 And then it was an easy matter
00:29:07.560 to pick him up,
00:29:08.260 test his DNA,
00:29:09.020 and they got him.
00:29:09.780 Here's my point to all this.
00:29:14.040 We are at a point,
00:29:15.460 right now,
00:29:16.560 we don't have to wait for anything.
00:29:18.180 We already have everything we need,
00:29:19.760 and this is going to happen guaranteed.
00:29:23.160 100% of serial murderers
00:29:26.440 and serial rapists
00:29:28.660 will now be caught
00:29:30.780 probably in the next 12 months.
00:29:34.120 Think about that.
00:29:35.580 We now have the technology
00:29:37.120 that if we have some DNA,
00:29:38.840 and I would say that
00:29:39.580 in the case of a serial anything,
00:29:42.100 you're always going to have DNA, right?
00:29:44.140 Serial rapist,
00:29:45.160 you're going to get some DNA somewhere.
00:29:47.280 Serial murderer,
00:29:48.120 you're going to get some DNA.
00:29:50.520 Guaranteed.
00:29:51.240 You're going to get some.
00:29:52.000 If they keep doing that kind of crime,
00:29:53.440 you're always going to get some.
00:29:55.020 So in the next 12 months,
00:29:57.120 thanks to companies like Othram
00:29:59.040 that can do this kind of thing,
00:30:01.280 they can look at a database
00:30:02.220 and find out if you're related to anybody
00:30:04.140 and then track you down,
00:30:06.520 2020 is the year.
00:30:09.000 Think about this.
00:30:09.860 This is enormous.
00:30:11.520 2020 is the year 0.91
00:30:12.740 that 100% of serial violent crimes
00:30:17.960 get solved.
00:30:18.800 All of them.
00:30:19.920 Every one of them.
00:30:21.360 I think.
00:30:22.540 I don't think we'll have
00:30:23.540 a single one left on the books
00:30:25.460 by the end of this year.
00:30:28.640 I mean, just think about that.
00:30:30.360 That's mind-blowing.
00:30:32.060 You know, I predicted years ago
00:30:34.280 in my book,
00:30:34.820 The Dilber of Future, 0.99
00:30:35.620 that all crime would be solved
00:30:37.740 in our lifetime.
00:30:39.240 And here's the first concrete example.
00:30:41.900 All serial crimes,
00:30:43.260 violent ones,
00:30:44.080 will be solved.
00:30:45.140 All of them.
00:30:46.140 If you're tracking my predictions,
00:30:53.520 and you should,
00:30:55.060 here's one that's starting to shape up.
00:30:57.360 How many of you have laughed at me?
00:31:01.100 Ha, ha, ha, cartoon boy.
00:31:03.820 Stick to Garfield,
00:31:05.080 as they like to say.
00:31:07.740 When I said that Kamala Harris
00:31:09.380 would be the Democratic nominee,
00:31:12.640 ha, ha, ha, you're so wrong, Scott,
00:31:15.080 because of all the reasons.
00:31:16.920 And then she suspended her campaign. 0.98
00:31:19.900 Double, ha, ha, ha, Scott.
00:31:22.700 Ha, ha, ha.
00:31:23.920 You're so wrong,
00:31:24.720 she's not even in the race anymore.
00:31:27.180 And then I said,
00:31:29.200 hold, hold, hold.
00:31:34.460 Because she has another path
00:31:35.900 to the White House.
00:31:37.280 And that path
00:31:38.060 is now being talked about
00:31:39.980 by more people than me,
00:31:41.460 including the New York Times,
00:31:44.980 including the Sacramento Bee.
00:31:46.800 They're now talking up,
00:31:49.220 Senator Harris has been weighing
00:31:51.780 an endorsement of Joe Biden.
00:31:54.100 Oh, that's interesting.
00:31:55.880 Kamala Harris is now,
00:31:57.260 it's being reported
00:31:58.300 in the New York Times,
00:31:59.840 that Kamala is considering
00:32:01.560 endorsing Joe Biden.
00:32:03.820 Huh.
00:32:05.300 Interesting, isn't it?
00:32:07.340 And Sacramento Bee reports
00:32:09.760 that they interviewed Joe Biden,
00:32:11.500 and they asked him
00:32:12.200 about picking Kamala Harris
00:32:15.460 as a VP,
00:32:16.140 and he said,
00:32:17.800 would he consider it?
00:32:20.260 He said he'd consider her
00:32:21.560 for anything she wants,
00:32:23.320 including vice president.
00:32:25.520 He would consider her
00:32:26.700 for anything she wants,
00:32:28.100 including vice president.
00:32:29.900 Now,
00:32:30.720 if you were to look
00:32:31.560 at Kamala Harris
00:32:32.260 on her own,
00:32:33.560 you'd say,
00:32:34.180 not so strong.
00:32:35.700 In fact,
00:32:36.220 that's why she had
00:32:36.860 to suspend her campaign,
00:32:38.580 because compared
00:32:39.380 to the other Democratic candidates,
00:32:40.820 she didn't quite have
00:32:41.800 the necessary parts.
00:32:43.760 but she's a really good
00:32:48.100 compliment for Joe Biden,
00:32:50.940 meaning that she's tiptoed
00:32:53.140 into the progressive field
00:32:54.680 a little bit,
00:32:55.620 but not so much
00:32:56.720 that she can't pull back
00:32:58.320 and become a little bit
00:32:59.240 more mainstream,
00:33:00.500 and still have a little bit
00:33:01.520 of credentials
00:33:02.220 in that progressive field.
00:33:03.680 because we like people
00:33:05.440 who used to be something
00:33:06.480 and then changed their mind,
00:33:07.900 even though we say
00:33:08.660 we didn't,
00:33:09.640 because we at least know
00:33:10.680 that they've lived
00:33:11.440 in both heads.
00:33:13.640 They lived in,
00:33:14.360 you know,
00:33:14.480 they used to be a Democrat,
00:33:15.600 now they're a Republican.
00:33:16.780 That's an advantage,
00:33:17.680 I would say,
00:33:18.520 is somebody who's lived
00:33:19.560 in both worlds.
00:33:20.680 They've got a little
00:33:21.420 appreciation.
00:33:22.580 We treat it as if
00:33:23.860 it's flip-flopping
00:33:24.760 as if it's a fault,
00:33:27.700 but probably not.
00:33:28.740 Now the reason that
00:33:29.420 she's a good compliment
00:33:30.240 to Biden
00:33:30.760 is that Biden's opinions
00:33:32.540 will be the focus,
00:33:34.020 and she would just
00:33:34.700 be a supporter.
00:33:35.960 And as a justice supporter,
00:33:38.040 she's not going to say
00:33:38.800 too much that isn't
00:33:39.760 just what Biden is saying,
00:33:41.080 and so there won't be
00:33:41.740 much ammunition
00:33:42.540 to go after her
00:33:43.980 for her own opinions.
00:33:44.900 Nor does she need
00:33:46.480 to be especially charismatic.
00:33:49.060 Remember I told you
00:33:49.920 that it's going to be
00:33:50.520 very hard for Biden
00:33:51.660 to pick a running mate
00:33:52.980 if he gets nominated,
00:33:54.360 because he's got to
00:33:55.580 pick a running mate 0.99
00:33:56.360 that's a worse version
00:33:58.300 of himself,
00:33:59.220 because that's the best look.
00:34:01.740 Because you want to think,
00:34:02.980 oh, the top person
00:34:03.960 is definitely the top person,
00:34:05.880 but you've got
00:34:06.680 an emergency spare,
00:34:08.080 it's a little smaller,
00:34:09.320 it can get you 50 miles.
00:34:11.160 That's all you need.
00:34:12.140 Just a good,
00:34:13.420 small-tire emergency
00:34:14.880 spare.
00:34:16.200 It won't take you
00:34:17.020 all around the world,
00:34:18.160 but it'll get you
00:34:18.760 to the service station.
00:34:23.140 Kamala is the exact 0.98
00:34:24.980 antidote to Biden.
00:34:27.940 She's young,
00:34:29.440 and she's experienced.
00:34:31.120 She's a senator,
00:34:31.960 she knows where
00:34:32.500 all the parts are,
00:34:33.440 so she knows
00:34:34.000 how the town works.
00:34:37.320 Her weaknesses
00:34:38.140 will be somewhat hidden
00:34:39.520 by being a vice
00:34:40.660 presidential candidate,
00:34:42.060 but her strengths 0.52
00:34:43.100 will be magnified,
00:34:44.200 because every time
00:34:45.380 you see them
00:34:45.960 or talk about them,
00:34:46.760 you say,
00:34:47.080 okay,
00:34:47.380 he did pick a woman, 0.69
00:34:48.800 he did pick a person
00:34:49.680 of color,
00:34:50.740 check, check.
00:34:51.780 We have less to worry about.
00:34:53.400 Now you say to yourself,
00:34:54.680 but Scott,
00:34:55.160 Scott,
00:34:55.400 Scott,
00:34:56.400 Kamala Harris
00:34:56.940 is not popular
00:34:57.840 is not popular
00:34:57.860 in the black community.
00:35:01.040 Does it matter?
00:35:02.020 It doesn't matter,
00:35:03.100 because Biden is.
00:35:04.580 Biden will give her
00:35:05.920 what she needs
00:35:06.920 at the same time
00:35:07.720 that she's giving him
00:35:08.700 what he needs,
00:35:09.540 which is the emergency
00:35:10.780 spare tire
00:35:11.700 in case he fails.
00:35:13.220 And he's unlikely to,
00:35:15.340 even if he were to win,
00:35:16.540 which is deeply unlikely,
00:35:18.260 he is very unlikely
00:35:19.460 to go for a second term
00:35:20.900 because of age.
00:35:22.680 Who's the obvious
00:35:23.560 next candidate
00:35:24.540 if he doesn't go
00:35:25.500 for a second term?
00:35:26.500 His vice president pick.
00:35:28.120 If he picks
00:35:29.080 the right vice president,
00:35:30.620 she would be established.
00:35:32.480 Now,
00:35:33.180 the best part of this
00:35:34.600 is that Kamala
00:35:35.340 and Biden
00:35:35.880 have the most
00:35:36.760 endorsements
00:35:38.460 from establishment Democrats,
00:35:40.240 which means
00:35:40.680 the establishment
00:35:41.380 likes them.
00:35:42.460 And I believe
00:35:43.040 that Warren
00:35:43.440 has the most connections
00:35:44.560 to the Hillary Clinton
00:35:47.040 machine,
00:35:48.680 if you will.
00:35:49.140 So it looks like
00:35:50.800 Hillary Clinton
00:35:51.380 will be
00:35:52.140 the shadow president
00:35:53.800 under the scenario
00:35:55.400 that Biden wins
00:35:56.600 and has Warren
00:35:58.300 as the vice president.
00:35:59.520 That would basically
00:36:00.540 put Hillary Clinton
00:36:02.400 back in the White House
00:36:03.400 without having to run
00:36:04.280 because of the chain
00:36:06.580 of influence.
00:36:08.120 All right,
00:36:08.420 let's talk about,
00:36:11.320 so I put that out there
00:36:13.340 if you're tracking
00:36:14.060 my predictions,
00:36:15.240 that would be the,
00:36:16.340 one of the most
00:36:17.260 wild predictions
00:36:18.160 I've made.
00:36:19.760 And it's shaping up
00:36:21.040 to be more likely
00:36:23.880 than you think.
00:36:25.700 That's more likely
00:36:26.920 than you think.
00:36:28.260 Here's another one.
00:36:29.740 Do you remember
00:36:30.220 that from the start
00:36:31.440 of this whole
00:36:32.040 impeachment business,
00:36:33.500 I kept saying
00:36:34.640 that there was
00:36:36.300 one defense
00:36:37.120 that I'm not hearing
00:36:38.720 from even the supporters
00:36:39.920 of the president
00:36:40.520 that needs to be
00:36:41.400 the defense.
00:36:41.980 and what I said
00:36:44.860 was that you need
00:36:46.620 to establish
00:36:47.220 that there was
00:36:48.880 a national interest
00:36:50.140 in looking into
00:36:51.500 the Biden-Burisma
00:36:52.460 situation.
00:36:54.600 And did you know
00:36:55.760 how frustrated
00:36:56.640 I was getting?
00:36:57.900 Because for weeks,
00:36:59.220 you know,
00:36:59.600 I don't know how long,
00:37:00.500 but it seemed like weeks,
00:37:01.540 I kept saying,
00:37:02.360 you just have to say
00:37:04.840 there was a national interest
00:37:06.340 and you're done.
00:37:08.100 That's it.
00:37:08.700 That's the whole story.
00:37:10.200 Was there a national interest?
00:37:12.100 Yes.
00:37:12.980 If it's yes,
00:37:13.640 it doesn't matter
00:37:14.580 that it's also good
00:37:15.380 for the president.
00:37:15.980 So here's what's developing.
00:37:20.400 So as I started out
00:37:21.840 being,
00:37:22.340 I think,
00:37:23.340 just about the only person
00:37:24.800 who was saying that,
00:37:26.120 and now we see
00:37:26.960 that it's Lindsey Graham's
00:37:28.740 primary argument.
00:37:30.600 So Lindsey Graham 0.99
00:37:31.580 is saying,
00:37:32.180 you know,
00:37:32.380 we don't want to call
00:37:33.200 witnesses
00:37:33.680 because we don't think
00:37:34.560 we need them.
00:37:35.720 But if we did,
00:37:36.980 the central question
00:37:38.100 is going to be,
00:37:39.280 did the president
00:37:40.240 have a legitimate reason
00:37:41.520 to look into
00:37:42.680 Burisma and Biden
00:37:43.680 and there's
00:37:45.380 there's a suggestion
00:37:46.520 yes.
00:37:47.980 On top of that,
00:37:49.520 the Democrats'
00:37:50.320 own defense,
00:37:51.440 or not defense,
00:37:52.880 but the Democrats'
00:37:53.460 own lawyers
00:37:55.100 have made the case
00:37:56.940 that President Trump
00:37:58.800 believed what they call
00:38:00.100 conspiracy theories
00:38:01.480 about Ukraine.
00:38:03.060 They say he believed
00:38:04.180 that Ukraine was,
00:38:05.880 you know,
00:38:06.080 had interfered
00:38:06.820 in the elections.
00:38:08.460 That, my friends,
00:38:09.980 should be the end
00:38:10.980 of the impeachment.
00:38:12.800 Because all you need
00:38:13.840 to know
00:38:14.280 is the evidence
00:38:15.820 that the Democrats
00:38:16.600 themselves have introduced.
00:38:18.700 All you have to do
00:38:19.540 is accept it,
00:38:20.840 accept their case.
00:38:22.300 Don't accept even
00:38:23.020 the Republicans'
00:38:23.740 case.
00:38:24.160 If you accept
00:38:25.100 the Democrats'
00:38:26.600 own framing for this,
00:38:28.160 it's over.
00:38:29.000 Because the Democrats
00:38:29.900 have suggested
00:38:30.980 strongly,
00:38:32.880 and based on
00:38:33.740 actual evidence
00:38:34.940 of the president's
00:38:36.140 conversations
00:38:36.740 with real people
00:38:37.640 who report them,
00:38:39.140 there is real reporting
00:38:40.320 from direct
00:38:41.180 evidence people
00:38:42.660 that the president
00:38:44.180 seemed,
00:38:45.740 as far as they could
00:38:46.540 tell, 0.94
00:38:47.560 to believe
00:38:48.380 that Ukraine 0.91
00:38:49.760 was legitimately
00:38:50.960 something to be
00:38:52.280 looked into.
00:38:53.480 Now,
00:38:54.160 as long as the
00:38:55.000 president believed
00:38:56.080 that to be the case,
00:38:57.860 does it matter
00:38:58.880 if it's true?
00:39:00.760 It doesn't.
00:39:02.400 Because the entire case
00:39:04.200 revolves around
00:39:05.520 the president's
00:39:06.480 intentions.
00:39:07.100 and if it was
00:39:09.020 true that he
00:39:09.780 legitimately believed,
00:39:11.800 as the Democrats
00:39:12.860 themselves are
00:39:13.680 reporting,
00:39:14.340 this is not even
00:39:15.240 the Republicans'
00:39:16.060 case.
00:39:16.500 This is the
00:39:17.180 Democrats'
00:39:17.760 case against him.
00:39:19.260 They say he
00:39:19.920 believed the
00:39:20.580 conspiracy theories
00:39:21.640 about Ukraine.
00:39:23.380 We're done.
00:39:24.520 If he believed it,
00:39:27.180 their own case,
00:39:28.400 that's what they say,
00:39:30.360 that's all you need.
00:39:31.960 Because he can be
00:39:32.960 wrong and not
00:39:35.380 get impeached.
00:39:36.000 It is not
00:39:37.300 impeachable to
00:39:38.700 make an assumption
00:39:39.520 which is wrong.
00:39:41.080 It is not
00:39:41.660 impeachable to
00:39:43.780 believe something
00:39:45.880 that turns out
00:39:47.320 to not be true.
00:39:49.520 But beyond that,
00:39:51.640 if we have
00:39:52.300 witnesses,
00:39:53.020 you can guarantee
00:39:53.800 that Hunter Biden's
00:39:54.880 right on the top
00:39:55.760 of the list.
00:39:56.680 So Lindsey Graham 0.99
00:39:57.400 has focused on this.
00:39:59.120 By far,
00:39:59.740 he has the best
00:40:00.340 framing for how
00:40:01.440 this whole thing
00:40:02.000 should be run.
00:40:03.040 The best framing
00:40:03.840 outside of
00:40:04.440 Alan Dershowitz,
00:40:05.540 who says,
00:40:06.000 you don't even
00:40:06.400 need to talk
00:40:06.920 about the details
00:40:07.680 because it just
00:40:08.660 doesn't meet the
00:40:10.000 constitutional test
00:40:11.060 on the surface,
00:40:12.520 so the details
00:40:13.400 are irrelevant.
00:40:14.200 You don't even
00:40:14.600 need to get that far.
00:40:16.040 But you saw I did
00:40:17.260 a big tweet thread
00:40:18.520 on this same point
00:40:19.340 saying that the main
00:40:20.700 question is whether
00:40:21.520 Burisma was worth 1.00
00:40:22.700 looking into
00:40:23.280 from a national interest.
00:40:24.200 you saw that Rush Limbaugh
00:40:26.260 did an extended segment
00:40:30.620 talking about my tweets
00:40:31.920 and talking about
00:40:33.740 the same point
00:40:34.780 that there was
00:40:37.160 a national interest
00:40:38.020 to look into this stuff.
00:40:40.000 And now we see
00:40:40.640 in the New York Times,
00:40:41.880 they've printed
00:40:42.380 an opinion piece
00:40:43.400 by Josh Blackman,
00:40:46.260 a constitutional law
00:40:47.560 professor
00:40:48.420 at South Texas
00:40:50.300 College of Law
00:40:51.400 in Houston.
00:40:52.960 And he basically
00:40:54.120 explains that
00:40:55.920 it's completely
00:40:58.100 acceptable
00:40:58.860 in our system
00:40:59.800 to have a president
00:41:01.940 do something
00:41:02.600 that's
00:41:03.000 in his own mind
00:41:05.020 primarily
00:41:06.000 for re-election,
00:41:07.800 that that's not
00:41:08.560 impeachable
00:41:09.140 as long as
00:41:10.300 there's also
00:41:10.800 an argument
00:41:11.340 that has something
00:41:12.100 to do with
00:41:12.580 the national good.
00:41:13.340 It doesn't matter
00:41:14.580 if it's 90-10.
00:41:16.320 90% of it
00:41:17.320 is for my own good
00:41:18.180 or 99% of it
00:41:19.660 is for my own good.
00:41:20.420 It doesn't matter.
00:41:21.360 It doesn't even matter
00:41:22.040 if the candidate
00:41:22.800 thinks 100% of it
00:41:24.780 is only for
00:41:25.840 their self-interest
00:41:26.620 so long as
00:41:28.020 there's also
00:41:28.440 a national argument.
00:41:30.040 And there is.
00:41:31.060 There is a genuine
00:41:32.080 national concern.
00:41:34.800 So the New York Times,
00:41:36.140 of course,
00:41:36.620 it's an opinion piece.
00:41:37.540 That doesn't mean
00:41:38.040 that the New York Times
00:41:38.980 editorial board
00:41:39.880 or anybody else
00:41:40.500 agrees with it,
00:41:41.440 but they printed it.
00:41:43.340 So now you're seeing
00:41:44.460 that the weight
00:41:46.080 of argument
00:41:46.980 is shifting
00:41:48.520 in that direction.
00:41:50.040 So if you're
00:41:50.800 trying to determine
00:41:51.500 if I'm causing
00:41:53.500 the simulation
00:41:54.660 to change
00:41:55.340 or simply
00:41:55.960 predicting it,
00:41:58.340 well,
00:41:59.100 hard to tell,
00:42:00.280 isn't it?
00:42:01.400 I'll just leave
00:42:02.340 that out there.
00:42:04.200 And even
00:42:05.080 Jay Sekulow
00:42:06.080 has said
00:42:08.580 that that question
00:42:09.280 is now relevant
00:42:10.080 because he said
00:42:11.100 that the Biden
00:42:13.320 were now fair game
00:42:14.300 in the trial
00:42:14.840 because the Democrats
00:42:16.600 have, quote,
00:42:17.320 opened the door.
00:42:19.160 So in legal terms,
00:42:20.940 if one side
00:42:21.760 brings up a topic,
00:42:22.840 that makes it fair game
00:42:23.980 for the other side
00:42:24.740 to discuss it.
00:42:26.100 Now you could argue
00:42:26.840 that they shouldn't
00:42:27.440 have brought it up,
00:42:28.000 but they did.
00:42:29.220 So now the Democrats
00:42:30.380 have opened that question
00:42:31.600 of whether the
00:42:32.720 Burisma-Biden thing 0.82
00:42:33.600 was appropriate,
00:42:34.960 which means
00:42:35.680 if they want
00:42:36.920 more witnesses,
00:42:38.340 they're going to have
00:42:39.160 witnesses on that topic.
00:42:40.440 And also
00:42:46.740 Senator Josh Hawley,
00:42:48.820 Republican in Missouri,
00:42:50.220 is also echoing
00:42:51.180 the same point.
00:42:51.960 He says,
00:42:52.560 it's now clear
00:42:53.420 we absolutely
00:42:53.960 must call Hunter Biden
00:42:55.140 and we probably
00:42:56.820 need to call Joe Biden.
00:42:58.040 So you see that
00:42:58.860 the president's defense
00:43:00.200 is starting to move
00:43:01.600 toward that.
00:43:02.140 Now, the other day,
00:43:03.540 yesterday, I think,
00:43:04.400 some people
00:43:06.380 pushed back a little bit
00:43:07.840 because I said
00:43:08.500 that the president's
00:43:09.640 lawyers were very good.
00:43:11.000 They're excellent lawyers.
00:43:12.440 I said that they have
00:43:13.360 so far botched
00:43:14.560 the defense.
00:43:16.680 Let me clarify that.
00:43:19.320 They're not done
00:43:20.300 with the defense.
00:43:22.260 So one cannot say
00:43:23.820 that they have botched
00:43:24.720 the defense
00:43:25.340 like as a statement
00:43:26.560 of the end
00:43:27.540 because we're closer
00:43:29.100 to the beginning
00:43:29.760 than the end.
00:43:31.120 When the president's
00:43:32.460 defense
00:43:33.160 seriously kicks
00:43:35.220 into gear,
00:43:36.420 I think they're just
00:43:37.660 going to demolish
00:43:38.520 the Democrats.
00:43:39.940 What I said
00:43:40.780 in terms of it
00:43:41.560 botched so far,
00:43:43.140 I'm going to stick
00:43:43.880 to that
00:43:44.480 because now that
00:43:46.280 you've seen
00:43:46.680 the Lindsey Graham
00:43:48.160 framing
00:43:48.680 and now,
00:43:49.940 you know,
00:43:50.500 Sekulow's framing
00:43:51.340 and Josh Hawley's
00:43:52.400 framing,
00:43:52.900 my framing,
00:43:54.240 Rush Limbaugh,
00:43:55.080 you see a lot of people
00:43:56.260 thinking about this
00:43:57.100 and watching saying,
00:43:58.380 you know,
00:43:58.960 maybe the focus
00:43:59.900 should have been
00:44:00.420 that one question.
00:44:01.760 And if I said
00:44:03.760 to you,
00:44:04.380 tell me the
00:44:05.320 president's defense,
00:44:07.140 all right,
00:44:07.380 if you watched
00:44:08.020 the opening statements
00:44:09.620 from the president's
00:44:10.560 lawyers,
00:44:11.220 what's their defense?
00:44:13.220 I actually don't know.
00:44:15.700 I actually don't know.
00:44:17.340 Do you?
00:44:19.320 If I said,
00:44:20.320 what do you remember
00:44:22.120 from what the
00:44:23.040 Democrats are saying
00:44:24.300 about the president,
00:44:25.880 you probably remembered
00:44:26.940 because they've
00:44:27.820 repeated it so many times,
00:44:29.000 they're focusing on it,
00:44:30.320 they're withholding
00:44:31.800 the information
00:44:32.580 because he,
00:44:35.480 he tried,
00:44:36.520 the president tried
00:44:37.280 to force a foreign 1.00
00:44:38.760 country to interfere
00:44:40.240 with our elections.
00:44:41.800 You know what the
00:44:43.040 Democrats are saying,
00:44:44.160 right?
00:44:45.400 You know they're saying
00:44:46.680 he used it to dig up dirt
00:44:48.880 and that they're
00:44:50.020 withholding documents.
00:44:51.160 That's all you know,
00:44:52.280 all the details
00:44:53.100 the public doesn't know.
00:44:54.640 It's just too confusing.
00:44:56.020 But you know that.
00:44:56.900 Now do it the other way.
00:44:58.880 What's the president's