Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 30, 2020


Episode 803 Scott Adams： Dale the Anti-Trumper Argues Against Alan Dershowitz, ME Success, Word-Thinking


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Length

50 minutes

Words per Minute

141.5796

Word Count

7,119

Sentence Count

491

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

26


Summary

In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, host Scott Adams talks about the latest episode of the impeachment hearings, and his favorite part of it: Kamala Harris's question to the Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts.


Transcript

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00:01:16.480 Well, we have to
00:01:17.480 talk about the impeachment,
00:01:19.160 the impeachment theater that's been going
00:01:21.480 on. And
00:01:23.080 I've got to say,
00:01:25.480 I don't think this could be
00:01:27.640 more entertaining.
00:01:29.440 You would think, you know,
00:01:30.740 you see a lot of people saying,
00:01:32.460 oh, it's boring,
00:01:33.520 and it's certainly boring because of the length
00:01:35.660 of it and the repetition of the
00:01:37.600 arguments.
00:01:38.380 But there's really a lot of
00:01:40.080 entertaining stuff happening
00:01:41.580 if you pull out the nuggets.
00:01:43.480 So let's pull out some nuggets.
00:01:46.300 All right, here's my favorite part
00:01:47.900 of the testimonies
00:01:50.620 yesterday.
00:01:51.900 So apparently,
00:01:52.860 the way the Constitution is
00:01:54.460 written,
00:01:55.220 and at least interpreted,
00:01:57.520 Justice,
00:01:58.900 Chief Justice Roberts,
00:02:00.900 presides over the
00:02:02.520 Senate impeachment
00:02:04.000 proceedings,
00:02:04.960 but apparently he's not allowed to do
00:02:07.420 anything important.
00:02:08.720 So he's just,
00:02:09.860 he's just there to
00:02:10.840 bang the gavel and say who's next
00:02:13.040 and recognize people.
00:02:15.460 Now,
00:02:16.020 what opportunity did that give
00:02:18.640 the clever people
00:02:20.420 in the Senate?
00:02:22.400 Because at some point,
00:02:24.080 yesterday was the phase where
00:02:26.140 any senator could
00:02:27.880 submit a question,
00:02:30.020 and then Justice Roberts
00:02:31.820 would read the question out loud,
00:02:33.880 and then one of the two,
00:02:35.480 or both the lawyers for both sides,
00:02:38.040 would respond,
00:02:38.900 depending on who the question was for.
00:02:40.320 Apparently Kamala Harris,
00:02:44.380 who has more game
00:02:47.260 than maybe I suspected,
00:02:49.300 because she did something
00:02:50.580 really smart.
00:02:54.140 Disgusting,
00:02:55.160 but really smart.
00:02:57.920 And I'm going to,
00:02:58.720 I'm going to make an assumption here.
00:03:01.100 All right?
00:03:01.540 Now this is speculation,
00:03:02.760 because I can't read her mind,
00:03:03.940 right?
00:03:04.380 But what I'm going to assume
00:03:05.980 is that Harris knew exactly
00:03:07.980 what she was doing,
00:03:09.000 because she embedded
00:03:10.540 a grotesque lie
00:03:12.760 in the body of her question,
00:03:14.780 and she made the Chief Justice
00:03:16.460 of the United States
00:03:17.600 read her lie
00:03:19.700 in front of the entire world
00:03:22.120 in the Senate,
00:03:24.020 and he couldn't call it out
00:03:26.560 as a lie.
00:03:27.840 He had to just read it.
00:03:30.620 It was so clever.
00:03:33.920 I'm wondering why nobody else
00:03:35.260 thought of it.
00:03:35.800 So I think,
00:03:37.200 if I can recall,
00:03:38.140 I think the lie was the,
00:03:39.960 they take out of context
00:03:41.420 Trump saying,
00:03:42.880 I can do anything
00:03:43.560 because I'm president,
00:03:44.640 something like that.
00:03:45.640 But of course,
00:03:46.580 it's a lie.
00:03:47.900 Because the actual quote
00:03:49.960 was about something specific
00:03:51.660 he can do,
00:03:52.660 which is hire and fire a Kobe.
00:03:54.700 Because that's his job.
00:03:56.260 So what Trump was actually saying
00:03:58.880 is that the president
00:04:00.080 has the authority
00:04:01.080 to hire and fire people
00:04:02.240 in the executive branch
00:04:03.900 is literally nobody disagrees with.
00:04:07.760 There's nobody in the world
00:04:09.080 who's on the other side
00:04:11.240 of what Trump clearly
00:04:13.280 and unambiguously said.
00:04:15.320 So what the Democrats
00:04:16.260 have been doing
00:04:16.760 is taking that out of context
00:04:18.140 and repeating it
00:04:19.880 until they repeat it
00:04:21.340 into reality.
00:04:23.080 And you've seen them do this
00:04:24.540 with the Charlottesville hoax,
00:04:26.340 you know,
00:04:26.560 saying that the president
00:04:27.920 called the racist fine people.
00:04:29.560 Didn't happen.
00:04:30.860 Never happened.
00:04:31.660 You can look at the transcript.
00:04:32.620 You can look at the video
00:04:33.640 and find out for yourself.
00:04:35.500 It never happened.
00:04:36.460 But they've repeated it so much,
00:04:39.300 it just sort of morphed
00:04:40.540 into a fact
00:04:41.440 for half the country.
00:04:43.760 Well,
00:04:44.240 now they're doing the same thing
00:04:45.380 with the impeachment.
00:04:46.880 And actually,
00:04:47.920 they're doubling down on that.
00:04:49.360 I'll talk about that later.
00:04:50.940 So Harris,
00:04:52.640 very cleverly,
00:04:53.760 embeds this grotesque,
00:04:56.720 obvious lie,
00:04:58.580 which is really central
00:04:59.620 to their case.
00:05:00.440 that little quote
00:05:02.240 gives them the frame
00:05:04.580 to put their entire,
00:05:05.960 he's trying to be a dictator.
00:05:07.860 You can tell
00:05:08.720 because he said so.
00:05:10.040 He must be trying
00:05:11.040 to be a dictator.
00:05:12.460 So if they lose that narrative
00:05:15.180 that he's trying
00:05:15.960 to be a dictator,
00:05:17.660 they don't have
00:05:18.640 as much of a case.
00:05:19.580 They don't have a framework
00:05:20.500 to attach everything to.
00:05:22.420 So that lie
00:05:24.320 is very central
00:05:25.040 to what they're doing.
00:05:26.020 And getting the chief justices
00:05:27.360 of the United States
00:05:28.480 to read it
00:05:30.100 on live television
00:05:31.940 in the Senate
00:05:33.480 was really good.
00:05:36.620 But wait,
00:05:37.640 but wait,
00:05:38.240 it gets better.
00:05:39.280 It gets better.
00:05:40.480 That's not the end
00:05:41.180 of the story.
00:05:42.280 That's the beginning
00:05:43.160 of the story.
00:05:44.900 So it turns out
00:05:46.200 that
00:05:46.620 Kamala Harris
00:05:49.520 is not the only smart person
00:05:51.040 in the Senate.
00:05:53.660 Over on the
00:05:54.660 quasi-Republican side,
00:05:57.140 you've got
00:05:57.520 this guy called
00:05:59.540 Rand Paul.
00:06:01.340 Rand Paul,
00:06:02.380 now here again,
00:06:03.340 I'm going to make
00:06:03.840 an assumption.
00:06:05.100 And I try to call it out
00:06:06.360 when I'm, you know,
00:06:07.320 just speculating
00:06:08.160 because mind reading
00:06:09.640 is always
00:06:11.120 a thinking error.
00:06:13.420 I think Rand Paul
00:06:14.980 saw what she did.
00:06:17.040 This is just a guess.
00:06:19.060 And said,
00:06:20.120 good Lord,
00:06:21.040 look what she did.
00:06:22.160 This is, you know,
00:06:22.620 my imagination
00:06:23.480 of what he might
00:06:24.180 have been thinking.
00:06:25.220 Let's see if I can do that.
00:06:27.960 So Rand Paul
00:06:29.100 submits a question
00:06:30.240 to the Chief Justice
00:06:31.440 of the United States,
00:06:32.820 which has embedded
00:06:33.920 in the question
00:06:34.760 the name of the whistleblower.
00:06:39.380 Will you join me
00:06:40.420 in a slow clap?
00:06:42.140 I want you to play
00:06:43.180 along at home.
00:06:44.860 Rand Paul.
00:06:45.480 Oh, my God.
00:06:52.700 That was probably
00:06:53.760 the funniest
00:06:54.400 political move
00:06:55.660 you have ever seen
00:06:56.460 in your life.
00:06:57.440 Now,
00:06:58.040 what happened
00:06:59.100 when Chief Justice
00:07:01.380 saw that the whistleblower
00:07:02.700 name was in the question?
00:07:04.880 He rejected it.
00:07:07.540 Can he do that?
00:07:09.720 Does the Chief Justice
00:07:11.100 in this context,
00:07:13.780 does he have
00:07:14.940 the option
00:07:15.580 of rejecting
00:07:16.780 the question?
00:07:17.920 Well, he did.
00:07:19.420 Now,
00:07:19.860 I'm just guessing
00:07:21.280 that his reasoning
00:07:23.020 might be
00:07:23.520 that he didn't want
00:07:24.220 to be party
00:07:24.740 to a crime.
00:07:27.480 So,
00:07:28.260 I think Rand Paul's
00:07:29.540 question,
00:07:30.560 if the Chief Justice
00:07:31.780 had read it,
00:07:32.920 I don't know,
00:07:33.760 I'm not sure about this,
00:07:35.820 but it might have made him
00:07:36.880 party to a crime.
00:07:39.100 Okay,
00:07:39.420 there's nothing
00:07:39.880 funnier than that.
00:07:41.140 Rand Paul trying
00:07:41.900 to trick the Chief Justice
00:07:43.100 into being a party
00:07:44.420 to an actual crime
00:07:45.620 and outing the whistleblower
00:07:47.320 because Kamala Harris
00:07:49.220 used that same trick
00:07:50.320 just before.
00:07:52.100 This is gray stuff.
00:07:54.200 If you are not
00:07:55.160 entertained by this,
00:07:56.840 you're dead inside.
00:07:58.000 You're dead inside.
00:08:01.000 So,
00:08:01.600 anyway,
00:08:01.900 the Chief Justice
00:08:02.580 declined
00:08:04.100 to read that question.
00:08:06.120 And what do you think
00:08:06.940 predictably happened?
00:08:09.400 Well,
00:08:09.700 it turned into a tweet.
00:08:12.080 And what do you think
00:08:13.020 when the news story
00:08:14.600 got turned into a tweet
00:08:15.800 about what Rand Paul
00:08:17.700 tried to do?
00:08:18.900 Well,
00:08:19.220 of course,
00:08:19.540 the news story
00:08:20.180 doesn't mention
00:08:20.900 the name of the whistleblower.
00:08:23.740 But every person
00:08:25.220 in the comments did.
00:08:27.660 Every person.
00:08:29.120 In fact,
00:08:29.640 you're seeing the name
00:08:30.440 fly by on the screen
00:08:31.920 here in the comments.
00:08:33.560 So,
00:08:33.680 Rand Paul's play
00:08:35.960 completely successful
00:08:37.640 because he got
00:08:39.200 the entire country
00:08:40.140 to be angrily,
00:08:42.520 you know,
00:08:43.280 putting that guy's name,
00:08:44.660 the whistleblower,
00:08:45.380 into every communication
00:08:46.700 that they can.
00:08:48.820 So,
00:08:49.720 that was the funniest thing.
00:08:52.120 All right?
00:08:52.920 I don't know
00:08:53.760 if it's as funny
00:08:54.540 as Joe Biden
00:08:55.900 on the campaign trail
00:08:57.380 reminding people
00:08:59.000 that he's going
00:08:59.660 to die soon
00:09:00.440 because he's old.
00:09:01.340 he actually said that.
00:09:04.160 I mean,
00:09:04.660 it's my own words,
00:09:05.980 but he actually said
00:09:06.820 he's an old guy
00:09:07.580 so he needs
00:09:08.100 a young vice president.
00:09:09.780 There's no way
00:09:10.540 to interpret that
00:09:11.880 other than
00:09:12.440 he might die
00:09:13.160 in office.
00:09:15.360 Right?
00:09:16.060 There's no other way
00:09:16.860 to interpret it.
00:09:18.300 And I actually
00:09:18.940 give him credit
00:09:19.560 for being
00:09:20.280 completely candid
00:09:21.640 about that.
00:09:22.940 So,
00:09:23.240 it actually made me
00:09:23.920 like him more,
00:09:24.520 frankly.
00:09:25.280 But it's a,
00:09:25.860 it's a,
00:09:26.460 it's a good point.
00:09:29.160 He might die
00:09:29.800 in office
00:09:30.280 at his age.
00:09:31.160 That's a,
00:09:32.100 that's a risk
00:09:33.180 that you've got
00:09:33.640 to consider.
00:09:34.680 So,
00:09:35.600 there's a,
00:09:36.320 a viral video
00:09:37.800 of Joe Biden
00:09:39.060 telling people
00:09:39.800 not to vote for him.
00:09:41.380 He has this little,
00:09:42.400 uh,
00:09:42.760 quirk
00:09:43.380 where when he gets
00:09:44.680 challenged at a,
00:09:45.980 some public event,
00:09:47.780 you know,
00:09:48.040 you'll push back
00:09:48.740 a little,
00:09:49.360 but then he will
00:09:50.360 dismissively say,
00:09:51.720 well,
00:09:51.840 don't vote for me.
00:09:52.640 Vote for the other guy.
00:09:54.260 Vote for the other guy.
00:09:55.140 And I'm thinking
00:09:56.740 to myself,
00:09:58.240 that,
00:09:59.120 I don't know,
00:09:59.720 in some context,
00:10:01.040 that might be
00:10:01.780 the right play
00:10:02.560 because it's sort of
00:10:03.840 folksy and
00:10:04.780 seems plain spoken
00:10:06.480 and all that.
00:10:07.780 But if you keep
00:10:08.920 saying it,
00:10:09.860 it turns into
00:10:10.520 something else.
00:10:11.920 And I think he's
00:10:12.640 said it enough now
00:10:13.580 that it's turned into,
00:10:15.560 you start wondering
00:10:16.920 if he really wants
00:10:17.740 to win this thing.
00:10:20.000 Let me ask you this.
00:10:21.760 Do you think
00:10:22.740 that Joe Biden
00:10:23.480 wants to spend
00:10:24.500 the last years
00:10:25.320 of his life
00:10:26.040 doing one of the
00:10:27.740 hardest jobs
00:10:28.360 in the world?
00:10:30.140 I think he's
00:10:31.260 barely handling
00:10:32.080 the campaign.
00:10:33.980 And I say that
00:10:34.620 just because
00:10:35.220 he doesn't,
00:10:36.180 you know,
00:10:36.480 I'm assuming,
00:10:37.160 unless something
00:10:37.600 has changed,
00:10:38.340 that he's not
00:10:39.140 keeping an intense
00:10:40.140 campaign schedule
00:10:41.140 because they're,
00:10:42.140 they're,
00:10:42.880 you know,
00:10:44.100 acknowledging his age.
00:10:46.180 Do you think
00:10:46.700 he really wants
00:10:47.480 to be president?
00:10:48.900 I think he would
00:10:49.740 rather win than lose
00:10:50.820 because everybody
00:10:52.340 likes to win
00:10:53.020 more than they
00:10:53.520 like to lose.
00:10:54.500 So I think
00:10:55.180 he's,
00:10:55.680 you know,
00:10:55.920 going to try,
00:10:57.240 but I don't
00:10:58.200 think his heart
00:10:58.860 is in it.
00:11:00.700 Remember I taught
00:11:01.620 you that when I
00:11:03.420 was learning hypnosis
00:11:04.300 to become a hypnotist,
00:11:06.040 one of the things
00:11:06.820 we were taught
00:11:07.440 is that people
00:11:08.100 tell you exactly
00:11:09.120 what they want
00:11:10.720 in direct words,
00:11:12.800 but sometimes
00:11:13.580 you have to pick
00:11:14.280 it out of the
00:11:14.780 paragraph.
00:11:16.540 And in this case,
00:11:17.680 Joe Biden
00:11:18.140 repeatedly is
00:11:19.340 telling people
00:11:19.860 to not vote for him.
00:11:21.180 Now,
00:11:21.320 the context,
00:11:21.980 of course,
00:11:23.200 is that he thinks
00:11:23.900 there are people
00:11:24.280 who won't vote
00:11:24.820 for him anyway,
00:11:25.460 probably.
00:11:26.400 So it's,
00:11:27.700 you know,
00:11:27.900 there's a reason
00:11:28.520 for why he's saying
00:11:29.280 it the way he's
00:11:29.760 saying it.
00:11:31.100 But the hypnotist
00:11:32.280 says,
00:11:32.780 you know,
00:11:33.660 there were other
00:11:35.080 ways to say that.
00:11:37.100 If all he was
00:11:38.020 trying to say
00:11:38.760 is that,
00:11:40.680 you know,
00:11:41.220 he's not for everyone,
00:11:43.440 there could have
00:11:44.080 been a less
00:11:45.080 direct way to say it.
00:11:46.360 He could say,
00:11:47.360 you know,
00:11:47.680 I acknowledge
00:11:48.920 your argument
00:11:49.500 and I know
00:11:49.980 I'm not going
00:11:50.380 to change
00:11:50.760 every mind.
00:11:52.160 But,
00:11:52.480 you know,
00:11:52.660 I hope we can
00:11:53.500 change your mind,
00:11:54.420 you know,
00:11:55.000 with the other stuff.
00:11:55.940 I hope that's not
00:11:56.560 your only,
00:11:57.300 the only thing
00:11:58.060 that you're worried
00:11:58.660 about.
00:11:59.180 It's a big country,
00:12:00.260 lots of topics.
00:12:01.980 You know,
00:12:02.320 I hope you'll
00:12:02.780 stay with me.
00:12:04.000 He could have
00:12:04.600 said that.
00:12:05.880 There are a thousand
00:12:07.060 ways that Biden
00:12:09.300 could respond
00:12:10.440 to people in public
00:12:11.840 disagreeing with
00:12:12.760 a policy or two.
00:12:14.380 But he keeps
00:12:15.200 telling him not
00:12:15.780 to vote for him.
00:12:16.520 I think he means
00:12:18.860 it.
00:12:20.200 I think he means
00:12:20.900 it.
00:12:21.240 On some level,
00:12:22.420 it looks like he's
00:12:23.280 revealing that he's
00:12:24.220 not fully into it.
00:12:29.180 Let's talk about
00:12:30.220 the play of the day.
00:12:31.540 All right,
00:12:31.820 so,
00:12:32.680 as you know,
00:12:33.400 the Democrats
00:12:33.940 coordinate their
00:12:35.620 messaging,
00:12:36.960 their anti-Trump
00:12:37.780 messaging,
00:12:38.560 and it's very clear
00:12:40.020 that they have
00:12:40.800 landed on the
00:12:42.700 following strategy
00:12:43.640 for today.
00:12:45.080 And the strategy
00:12:45.860 is to take
00:12:46.560 what Alan Dershowitz
00:12:47.500 said in his
00:12:48.300 arguments yesterday
00:12:49.240 and prior to that
00:12:50.980 and misinterpret
00:12:52.360 them.
00:12:54.320 So,
00:12:55.460 let me,
00:12:58.800 this is what
00:13:00.140 Stephan,
00:13:01.600 or Stephen
00:13:02.200 Collinson,
00:13:02.980 wrote on
00:13:04.200 CNN today.
00:13:06.580 And let's see
00:13:07.640 if this sounds
00:13:08.260 familiar from
00:13:09.500 something you've
00:13:10.140 heard from me.
00:13:10.620 so he said
00:13:11.960 the Republicans
00:13:12.620 have variously
00:13:13.700 argued,
00:13:14.220 so he's going
00:13:14.580 to talk about
00:13:15.320 the different
00:13:15.820 ways that the
00:13:17.340 Trump defenders
00:13:18.080 have argued
00:13:19.020 that Trump is
00:13:19.680 innocent.
00:13:20.480 They variously
00:13:21.580 argued that
00:13:22.020 Trump did
00:13:22.480 nothing wrong,
00:13:24.380 the Democrats
00:13:25.180 made up
00:13:25.920 impeachment
00:13:26.320 charges,
00:13:27.680 or that there
00:13:28.720 was no quid
00:13:29.420 pro quo.
00:13:31.080 But they have,
00:13:32.060 and this is
00:13:32.500 according to
00:13:33.040 Collinson,
00:13:33.940 but they have
00:13:34.400 apparently been
00:13:35.080 pushed to this
00:13:35.860 final fallback
00:13:37.000 position in the
00:13:38.960 light of Bolton's
00:13:39.800 claim about
00:13:40.420 the manuscript,
00:13:41.740 blah, blah,
00:13:42.480 that Trump
00:13:43.360 did indeed
00:13:44.500 tell him to
00:13:45.140 withhold aid
00:13:45.920 to Kiev,
00:13:47.660 but,
00:13:48.080 so now they're
00:13:48.860 going with the
00:13:49.500 Dershowitz thing
00:13:50.620 that it doesn't
00:13:51.400 matter because
00:13:51.900 it's not
00:13:52.300 impeachable.
00:13:53.860 Now,
00:13:55.280 who was the
00:13:55.960 first person
00:13:56.740 when this
00:13:57.400 whole impeachment
00:13:58.640 thing started,
00:14:00.240 who was the
00:14:00.840 first person
00:14:01.480 who said,
00:14:02.600 stop arguing
00:14:03.360 about the
00:14:03.980 details because
00:14:05.140 it's not a
00:14:05.700 winning,
00:14:06.460 it's not a
00:14:07.100 winning strategy.
00:14:07.740 Did I call
00:14:09.680 it?
00:14:11.160 Who could
00:14:11.840 have called
00:14:12.240 this more
00:14:12.680 accurately?
00:14:13.860 I said those
00:14:14.740 little weed
00:14:15.340 arguments of
00:14:16.140 it's not a
00:14:16.700 quid pro quo,
00:14:17.600 blah, blah,
00:14:17.920 blah, blah,
00:14:18.060 are not going
00:14:19.180 to win.
00:14:20.060 The only
00:14:20.740 argument is
00:14:21.400 it doesn't
00:14:21.840 matter because
00:14:22.460 it's not
00:14:22.780 impeachable
00:14:23.260 anyway.
00:14:24.860 So,
00:14:25.640 as even
00:14:26.480 Collinson is
00:14:27.240 saying that
00:14:28.020 the Republicans
00:14:29.160 have apparently
00:14:30.080 sort of taken
00:14:32.240 their bruising
00:14:32.980 on the weeds
00:14:33.700 and they're
00:14:34.900 backing up,
00:14:35.880 and by the
00:14:36.220 way,
00:14:36.480 I think
00:14:38.000 they won
00:14:38.480 on the
00:14:38.760 weeds.
00:14:39.860 If you
00:14:40.160 were to
00:14:40.360 look at
00:14:40.640 their actual
00:14:41.140 arguments
00:14:41.720 from a
00:14:42.280 legal
00:14:42.520 perspective,
00:14:43.580 I do
00:14:43.920 think the
00:14:44.300 president's
00:14:45.180 attorneys
00:14:45.620 won on
00:14:47.240 all the
00:14:47.760 details.
00:14:48.500 It's just
00:14:49.180 that the
00:14:49.620 public can't
00:14:50.240 follow it.
00:14:51.600 So,
00:14:51.940 winning on
00:14:52.720 the details
00:14:53.220 is exactly
00:14:54.020 like losing
00:14:54.740 because the
00:14:55.960 public can't
00:14:56.620 follow the
00:14:57.060 details,
00:14:57.500 so they
00:14:57.760 don't know
00:14:58.180 you won,
00:14:59.320 but they
00:14:59.980 can certainly
00:15:00.480 hear all
00:15:00.980 the points,
00:15:02.160 and the
00:15:02.420 more they
00:15:02.840 hear,
00:15:03.680 quid pro quo,
00:15:04.740 the president
00:15:05.160 wants to
00:15:05.560 be a
00:15:05.800 dictator.
00:15:06.680 That's all
00:15:07.260 they're hearing.
00:15:08.560 So,
00:15:09.140 it doesn't
00:15:09.780 matter if
00:15:10.140 you win on
00:15:10.520 the weeds,
00:15:10.900 you still
00:15:11.260 lose that
00:15:11.740 way.
00:15:12.460 Dershowitz,
00:15:13.020 being the
00:15:13.380 smartest person
00:15:14.040 in the
00:15:14.320 game,
00:15:14.760 apparently,
00:15:16.020 brought the
00:15:17.140 only argument
00:15:17.760 that has a
00:15:19.600 chance of
00:15:19.960 winning,
00:15:20.500 which is,
00:15:21.120 it's not
00:15:21.520 impeachable.
00:15:23.500 But here's
00:15:24.140 the fun
00:15:24.460 part.
00:15:25.800 Here's how
00:15:26.400 the various
00:15:27.060 critics are
00:15:29.880 wading in to
00:15:30.760 misinterpret
00:15:31.560 Dershowitz.
00:15:32.660 Now,
00:15:33.020 keep in
00:15:33.300 mind,
00:15:34.600 Dershowitz's
00:15:35.340 argument is
00:15:36.500 a total
00:15:37.280 kill shot.
00:15:38.640 It's simple
00:15:39.480 to understand,
00:15:40.840 and it's
00:15:41.580 the stake
00:15:42.740 driven through
00:15:44.060 the heart of
00:15:44.560 impeachment.
00:15:46.800 Dershowitz killed
00:15:47.760 impeachment as
00:15:48.680 dead as
00:15:49.540 anything can
00:15:50.120 be dead.
00:15:51.280 It doesn't
00:15:52.180 live anymore.
00:15:53.720 Even its
00:15:54.340 undead vampire
00:15:58.220 life, he just
00:15:59.020 killed that,
00:15:59.660 too.
00:15:59.800 He put a
00:16:00.700 stake right
00:16:01.200 through the
00:16:01.820 vampire's
00:16:02.440 heart.
00:16:03.480 Impeachment's
00:16:04.000 over.
00:16:05.060 He killed
00:16:05.780 it.
00:16:06.500 So what do
00:16:06.860 you do?
00:16:08.200 The Democrats
00:16:09.060 are going to
00:16:09.680 their go-to
00:16:10.260 strategy.
00:16:11.420 They're going
00:16:11.880 to grossly
00:16:12.740 misinterpret
00:16:13.360 him and
00:16:14.560 repeat the
00:16:15.340 misinterpretation
00:16:16.480 until their
00:16:17.660 team thinks
00:16:18.420 it's true.
00:16:19.820 They did it
00:16:20.600 with Charlottesville.
00:16:22.300 They did it
00:16:23.360 with that
00:16:24.580 quote,
00:16:25.120 take it out
00:16:25.560 of context,
00:16:26.380 I can do
00:16:26.840 anything I
00:16:27.300 want.
00:16:27.580 It was out
00:16:28.740 of context.
00:16:29.800 And now
00:16:30.080 they're doing
00:16:30.400 it with
00:16:30.680 Dershowitz's
00:16:31.200 argument.
00:16:33.600 Let me
00:16:33.900 tell you,
00:16:36.540 here's what
00:16:39.060 Dershowitz
00:16:41.780 actually said.
00:16:42.760 This is a
00:16:43.340 quote on
00:16:44.140 CNN's page,
00:16:45.440 one of their
00:16:46.080 pages.
00:16:47.460 And I think
00:16:47.940 it's in Paul
00:16:48.640 Begala's
00:16:49.340 thing or
00:16:50.840 someplace.
00:16:51.960 But Paul
00:16:53.140 Begala was
00:16:53.740 writing on
00:16:54.160 CNN.
00:16:54.580 He's one of
00:16:54.980 their anti-Trump
00:16:55.900 go-to guys.
00:16:57.780 So here's
00:16:59.660 what Dershowitz
00:17:00.100 actually said.
00:17:01.400 And then I'll
00:17:01.740 tell you how
00:17:02.280 he was
00:17:02.580 interpreted.
00:17:03.260 All right?
00:17:03.660 This is the
00:17:04.300 actual quote
00:17:05.020 from Dershowitz.
00:17:07.100 And if a
00:17:07.500 president did
00:17:08.280 something that
00:17:09.160 he believes
00:17:09.820 will help him
00:17:10.480 get elected,
00:17:11.960 comma,
00:17:13.060 in the public
00:17:13.740 interest,
00:17:14.860 that's the
00:17:15.280 important part,
00:17:16.000 in the public
00:17:16.580 interest,
00:17:17.740 comma,
00:17:18.500 that cannot be
00:17:19.560 the kind of
00:17:20.140 quid pro quo
00:17:20.900 that results in
00:17:21.680 impeachment.
00:17:22.040 So what
00:17:23.380 Dershowitz is
00:17:24.040 clearly saying
00:17:24.840 is if there
00:17:26.040 are two
00:17:26.440 conditions,
00:17:28.100 you know,
00:17:28.380 one is that
00:17:29.260 there's something
00:17:29.920 that will help
00:17:30.440 somebody get
00:17:30.920 elected,
00:17:31.840 that's the
00:17:32.240 first condition,
00:17:33.480 but also,
00:17:34.540 at the same
00:17:35.040 time,
00:17:36.060 comma,
00:17:36.820 it's in the
00:17:37.360 public interest,
00:17:39.040 that's not an
00:17:39.820 impeachable thing,
00:17:40.580 right?
00:17:41.040 So two things
00:17:41.780 are true,
00:17:42.380 it's good for
00:17:43.100 the politician,
00:17:44.300 it's good for
00:17:44.840 the country,
00:17:46.060 that's not
00:17:46.960 impeachable.
00:17:48.020 So how did
00:17:48.520 Paul Begala
00:17:49.360 and all of the
00:17:50.300 other people
00:17:50.740 misinterpret this?
00:17:52.620 Here's Paul
00:17:53.620 Begala's
00:17:54.300 interpretation
00:17:55.200 of that.
00:17:57.800 He's putting
00:17:58.600 these words
00:17:59.360 basically in
00:17:59.960 Dershowitz's
00:18:00.440 mouth.
00:18:01.420 If a president
00:18:01.960 thinks his
00:18:02.540 re-election is
00:18:03.340 in the public
00:18:03.840 interest,
00:18:05.040 anything he
00:18:05.660 does in
00:18:06.080 pursuit of
00:18:06.640 his re-election
00:18:07.320 is legal.
00:18:09.580 What?
00:18:12.260 What?
00:18:13.860 That is not
00:18:14.900 anything like
00:18:15.700 what Dershowitz
00:18:16.300 said.
00:18:17.340 So he makes
00:18:18.280 this completely
00:18:19.200 false statement,
00:18:20.540 this stupid
00:18:21.280 on his face
00:18:22.080 that a
00:18:23.460 president can
00:18:24.040 do anything
00:18:24.560 he wants.
00:18:25.440 I'll read it
00:18:26.240 again.
00:18:26.980 If a president
00:18:27.560 thinks his
00:18:28.100 re-election is
00:18:28.860 in the public
00:18:29.340 interest,
00:18:30.340 anything he
00:18:30.840 does in
00:18:31.220 pursuit of
00:18:31.700 his re-election
00:18:32.280 is legal.
00:18:34.100 No, that's
00:18:34.700 not the
00:18:35.080 quote that
00:18:35.720 you gave
00:18:37.040 Dershowitz in
00:18:37.680 your own
00:18:38.020 article.
00:18:38.800 That's
00:18:39.300 completely
00:18:39.940 wrong.
00:18:41.040 All right?
00:18:41.180 So then
00:18:42.000 Bogala
00:18:42.420 goes on
00:18:42.880 to argue
00:18:43.400 against his
00:18:44.060 own
00:18:44.240 misinterpretation.
00:18:45.800 All right.
00:18:46.060 How about
00:18:46.640 Stephen
00:18:50.760 Collinson?
00:18:51.460 This is
00:18:51.900 his
00:18:52.220 misinterpretation.
00:18:54.220 All right?
00:18:54.380 And these
00:18:54.720 are actually
00:18:55.340 Collinson's
00:18:55.980 actual words
00:18:56.840 that he's
00:18:57.980 putting in
00:18:58.380 Dershowitz's
00:18:58.960 mouth as
00:18:59.560 the
00:18:59.960 misinterpretation.
00:19:00.760 The Harvard
00:19:02.140 emeritus
00:19:02.740 professor
00:19:03.260 claimed on
00:19:04.340 the Senate
00:19:04.660 floor that
00:19:05.760 if a
00:19:06.120 politician
00:19:06.640 thinks his
00:19:07.420 re-election
00:19:08.060 is in the
00:19:08.860 national
00:19:09.220 interest,
00:19:10.620 any action
00:19:11.240 he takes
00:19:11.680 toward that
00:19:12.180 end cannot
00:19:13.200 by definition
00:19:14.060 be impeachable.
00:19:16.300 Dershowitz
00:19:16.720 didn't say
00:19:17.240 that or
00:19:18.720 anything like
00:19:19.580 that.
00:19:20.940 This is
00:19:21.520 completely
00:19:21.980 made up.
00:19:23.360 And then
00:19:23.820 he goes on
00:19:24.320 to write
00:19:24.620 his article
00:19:25.100 based on
00:19:26.340 his
00:19:26.600 completely
00:19:27.340 false
00:19:27.960 interpretation.
00:19:29.460 it gets
00:19:30.960 better.
00:19:32.440 Here's how
00:19:33.080 Adam Schiff
00:19:33.820 misinterpreted
00:19:35.580 Dershowitz.
00:19:38.380 He's
00:19:39.140 putting this
00:19:39.640 he said
00:19:41.340 he's
00:19:43.260 basically
00:19:43.620 doing another
00:19:44.280 fake quote
00:19:45.260 and putting
00:19:46.180 it in
00:19:46.580 Dershowitz's
00:19:47.160 mouth.
00:19:47.600 All right?
00:19:48.000 So this is
00:19:48.780 Adam Schiff
00:19:49.560 making up
00:19:50.980 a hypothetical
00:19:51.740 fake quote
00:19:52.920 to mischaracterize
00:19:55.440 what Dershowitz
00:19:56.900 says.
00:19:57.760 Fake quote
00:19:58.900 you can't
00:19:59.920 do anything
00:20:00.320 about it
00:20:00.800 because if
00:20:01.420 he views
00:20:01.900 it as in
00:20:02.420 his personal
00:20:02.940 interest
00:20:03.260 meaning the
00:20:03.720 president
00:20:04.040 if he views
00:20:05.000 it as in
00:20:05.980 his personal
00:20:06.480 interest
00:20:06.840 that's just
00:20:07.740 fine.
00:20:08.520 He's allowed
00:20:08.960 to do it.
00:20:10.280 None of the
00:20:10.660 founders would
00:20:11.260 have accepted
00:20:11.780 that kind
00:20:12.320 of reasoning
00:20:12.880 Schiff
00:20:13.260 said.
00:20:15.100 Well Schiff
00:20:15.600 you are
00:20:16.260 correct that
00:20:17.560 none of the
00:20:18.160 founders would
00:20:19.560 have recognized
00:20:20.260 that kind
00:20:20.940 of reasoning
00:20:22.060 because it
00:20:23.420 didn't happen.
00:20:25.400 Dershowitz
00:20:25.960 never said
00:20:26.520 that.
00:20:26.860 These are
00:20:28.040 complete
00:20:28.600 misinterpretations
00:20:29.740 but my
00:20:30.660 favorite
00:20:31.020 came from
00:20:32.560 Stephen Colbert
00:20:33.960 so he
00:20:35.580 accepts the
00:20:36.880 Democrat
00:20:37.260 misinterpretation
00:20:38.720 and then he
00:20:39.820 does this
00:20:40.180 whole
00:20:40.400 cringeworthy
00:20:41.440 I'm calling
00:20:42.360 it cringetainment
00:20:43.520 sometimes when
00:20:45.080 you watch
00:20:45.420 something that's
00:20:46.000 cringeworthy
00:20:46.740 but it
00:20:47.060 entertains you
00:20:47.720 because it's
00:20:48.280 cringeworthy
00:20:48.940 I'm calling
00:20:50.200 that cringetainment
00:20:51.340 you can use
00:20:52.560 that.
00:20:52.840 And he
00:20:54.260 does this
00:20:54.600 whole bit
00:20:55.100 where he
00:20:55.980 very mockingly
00:20:56.960 makes fun
00:20:57.760 of Alan
00:20:58.400 Dershowitz
00:20:58.940 for being
00:21:00.080 illogical.
00:21:02.220 That's
00:21:02.940 right.
00:21:04.200 Stephen
00:21:04.680 Colbert
00:21:05.220 with not
00:21:08.460 a trace
00:21:09.380 of irony
00:21:10.700 or self
00:21:12.220 reflection
00:21:12.800 claims on
00:21:14.700 national
00:21:15.100 television
00:21:15.660 in a
00:21:16.160 mocking
00:21:16.480 sarcastic
00:21:17.200 way
00:21:17.660 that he
00:21:18.880 Stephen
00:21:19.320 Colbert
00:21:19.840 can tell
00:21:21.520 with his
00:21:22.360 great powers
00:21:22.940 of reason
00:21:23.400 that one
00:21:24.960 of the
00:21:25.180 most
00:21:25.540 or maybe
00:21:26.260 the most
00:21:26.940 famous
00:21:27.940 experienced
00:21:29.600 constitutional
00:21:31.120 scholars
00:21:31.920 in the
00:21:32.920 world
00:21:33.300 had an
00:21:35.600 illogical
00:21:36.340 argument.
00:21:37.640 Let me
00:21:37.960 say this.
00:21:41.540 You can
00:21:42.480 have
00:21:42.960 arguments
00:21:44.140 that you
00:21:44.900 disagree
00:21:45.360 with.
00:21:46.360 That's a
00:21:46.820 thing.
00:21:47.040 And some
00:21:47.560 people have
00:21:48.020 illogical
00:21:48.640 arguments.
00:21:49.840 Let me
00:21:50.420 tell you
00:21:50.780 what Alan
00:21:51.340 Dershowitz
00:21:51.940 does not
00:21:53.160 have.
00:21:55.120 An
00:21:55.440 illogical
00:21:56.140 argument.
00:21:57.620 Not this
00:21:58.280 one.
00:21:59.660 Probably
00:22:00.140 not ever.
00:22:01.760 Now there
00:22:02.060 are arguments
00:22:02.560 which he's
00:22:03.220 lost, I'm
00:22:03.900 sure.
00:22:04.380 I mean, I
00:22:04.720 don't know,
00:22:05.160 but I
00:22:05.380 imagine he's
00:22:06.400 argued cases
00:22:07.660 and lost
00:22:08.300 in the
00:22:08.680 past.
00:22:09.800 I don't
00:22:10.100 know that
00:22:10.380 that's true,
00:22:10.880 actually.
00:22:11.220 Maybe you
00:22:11.520 won them
00:22:11.780 all.
00:22:12.420 But it's
00:22:14.680 one thing
00:22:15.220 to lose
00:22:16.060 because the
00:22:16.820 other
00:22:17.040 argument
00:22:17.360 just carries
00:22:18.040 more weight.
00:22:19.440 But when
00:22:20.160 was the
00:22:20.600 last time
00:22:21.300 Alan Dershowitz
00:22:22.540 was illogical
00:22:24.360 in his
00:22:24.820 argument?
00:22:26.600 Never?
00:22:27.940 How about
00:22:28.700 never?
00:22:29.880 How about
00:22:30.540 probably never?
00:22:32.280 All right?
00:22:32.940 Certainly not
00:22:33.680 in this case.
00:22:34.600 The only way
00:22:35.260 you can get
00:22:35.740 to illogical
00:22:36.680 is by
00:22:37.140 believing the
00:22:37.760 Democrats
00:22:38.280 with their
00:22:39.160 misinterpretation
00:22:40.060 of what he
00:22:40.480 said.
00:22:40.800 And then,
00:22:41.100 of course,
00:22:41.300 it looks
00:22:41.660 illogical.
00:22:43.920 And so,
00:22:44.960 I say to
00:22:45.380 this,
00:22:46.820 I say to
00:22:47.600 Colbert,
00:22:49.020 just something
00:22:49.920 to consider.
00:22:51.460 Just put
00:22:52.380 this in the
00:22:52.940 hopper of
00:22:54.220 something you
00:22:54.880 should maybe
00:22:55.480 reflect on.
00:22:57.360 I'm not going
00:22:58.120 to suggest you
00:22:58.800 change anything
00:22:59.380 you're doing.
00:22:59.920 Just keep
00:23:01.200 this thought
00:23:01.900 in the back
00:23:02.380 of your head
00:23:02.900 when you're
00:23:03.320 mocking a
00:23:04.480 preeminent
00:23:05.180 constitutional
00:23:06.520 scholar
00:23:07.180 because you
00:23:08.560 believe he's
00:23:09.120 being illogical.
00:23:10.340 Just keep
00:23:11.080 this thought
00:23:11.500 in mind.
00:23:13.280 Maybe?
00:23:14.920 Just maybe?
00:23:16.660 The problem
00:23:17.460 is on your
00:23:17.940 end?
00:23:19.800 I'm just
00:23:20.120 putting that
00:23:20.460 out there.
00:23:21.740 Can you
00:23:22.260 rule it
00:23:22.640 out?
00:23:23.580 I don't
00:23:23.940 think so.
00:23:25.400 So,
00:23:25.740 I think
00:23:26.040 next we'll
00:23:29.420 see on
00:23:29.980 the late
00:23:30.520 show with
00:23:30.940 Colbert
00:23:31.360 his snide
00:23:34.660 takedown
00:23:35.940 of Einstein.
00:23:37.180 So,
00:23:39.200 you know
00:23:39.360 that's
00:23:39.960 coming.
00:23:40.420 It's like
00:23:40.660 Einstein?
00:23:41.780 He could
00:23:42.220 barely do
00:23:42.720 math.
00:23:43.780 Are you
00:23:44.100 kidding me
00:23:44.520 with his
00:23:45.020 physics?
00:23:45.700 Who is he
00:23:46.080 trying to
00:23:46.500 kid that
00:23:47.160 Einstein
00:23:47.600 guy?
00:23:49.040 Oh my
00:23:49.420 God.
00:23:50.460 All right.
00:23:52.300 So,
00:23:53.040 I would
00:23:53.680 like to
00:23:54.000 give you
00:23:54.420 a one
00:23:57.620 act play
00:23:58.260 in which
00:24:00.020 Dale the
00:24:00.640 anti-Trumper
00:24:01.340 will be
00:24:02.160 arguing the
00:24:02.820 Democrats
00:24:03.400 side of
00:24:04.300 this.
00:24:05.240 I will
00:24:05.960 take the
00:24:06.360 role
00:24:06.660 of
00:24:07.840 Alan
00:24:08.140 Dershowitz,
00:24:09.680 famous
00:24:10.800 constitutional
00:24:11.620 scholar.
00:24:13.400 You know,
00:24:14.160 Dale,
00:24:15.420 it looks
00:24:16.120 like this
00:24:16.580 impeachment
00:24:16.980 will probably
00:24:17.820 be over
00:24:18.860 soon
00:24:19.260 because
00:24:20.080 the founders
00:24:21.660 would agree
00:24:22.580 that the
00:24:24.720 allegations or
00:24:26.420 the impeachment
00:24:27.520 articles do
00:24:29.400 not come
00:24:29.860 anywhere near
00:24:30.600 what they
00:24:31.600 intended as
00:24:32.760 a crime or
00:24:33.500 misdemeanor or
00:24:34.280 anything that's
00:24:34.920 like a crime
00:24:35.640 because there's
00:24:37.000 no abuse of
00:24:37.600 power or
00:24:38.300 anything that's
00:24:39.140 really a crime
00:24:39.740 and that the
00:24:41.420 abuse of
00:24:41.900 Congress is
00:24:42.500 ridiculous for
00:24:43.380 other reasons.
00:24:44.320 What do you
00:24:44.720 think about that,
00:24:45.340 Dale?
00:24:47.820 Well,
00:24:49.140 it's obvious
00:24:51.840 that if you
00:24:52.880 accept that
00:24:53.540 argument,
00:24:54.460 the president's
00:24:55.200 just a dictator
00:24:55.920 and he can do
00:24:56.560 anything he wants.
00:24:57.760 That's what you're
00:24:58.260 saying,
00:24:58.580 Alan Dershowitz.
00:24:59.100 the president's a
00:25:00.100 dictator.
00:25:00.780 He can do
00:25:01.140 anything he
00:25:02.080 wants.
00:25:04.020 No,
00:25:04.840 no,
00:25:05.600 I actually
00:25:06.500 didn't say
00:25:06.840 anything like
00:25:07.360 that.
00:25:08.360 Let me explain
00:25:09.100 it to you.
00:25:09.880 If the president
00:25:10.820 does something
00:25:12.340 that is good
00:25:13.440 for the nation
00:25:14.320 or even
00:25:15.400 arguably,
00:25:16.100 you could
00:25:16.460 disagree,
00:25:17.000 but let's
00:25:17.420 say he does
00:25:17.900 something that's
00:25:18.420 good for the
00:25:18.840 country,
00:25:19.600 but it's also
00:25:20.680 good for his
00:25:21.520 re-election.
00:25:22.760 As long as
00:25:23.480 those two
00:25:23.900 conditions are
00:25:24.640 met,
00:25:25.620 it's not
00:25:26.500 impeachable
00:25:27.020 because that's
00:25:28.160 our system.
00:25:28.800 Our system
00:25:29.200 allows you
00:25:30.000 to pursue
00:25:31.280 your best
00:25:32.260 re-election
00:25:33.860 result by
00:25:35.360 doing good
00:25:36.000 work for the
00:25:36.520 nation.
00:25:37.020 That's how
00:25:37.320 the system
00:25:37.740 works.
00:25:38.680 You get
00:25:39.000 that,
00:25:39.280 Dale?
00:25:40.320 Oh,
00:25:40.860 I get it
00:25:41.240 plenty.
00:25:42.020 I get it
00:25:42.360 plenty.
00:25:42.700 You're saying
00:25:43.080 that the
00:25:43.360 president can
00:25:43.980 just ignore
00:25:45.120 what's good
00:25:45.620 for the
00:25:45.880 people and
00:25:47.520 do whatever
00:25:48.800 will get him
00:25:49.520 re-elected.
00:25:50.560 Shoot somebody
00:25:51.140 on Fifth Avenue,
00:25:51.940 for example.
00:25:54.140 No!
00:25:55.260 I'm not saying
00:25:56.120 anything like that.
00:25:57.020 All I'm saying
00:25:58.940 is if there
00:25:59.480 are two
00:25:59.800 conditions,
00:26:01.100 and one of
00:26:01.560 them is that
00:26:02.300 it's good
00:26:02.600 for the
00:26:02.860 country,
00:26:03.700 but it's
00:26:04.220 also good
00:26:04.980 for the
00:26:05.280 politician,
00:26:06.520 that cannot
00:26:07.120 be impeachable
00:26:08.220 unless it's
00:26:08.880 actually a
00:26:09.340 crime,
00:26:09.640 I suppose.
00:26:11.340 And Dale
00:26:11.780 would say,
00:26:12.680 so,
00:26:13.860 you admit
00:26:14.740 that the
00:26:15.380 president can
00:26:15.980 commit gross
00:26:17.380 crimes for
00:26:19.920 his re-election,
00:26:21.440 digging up
00:26:21.960 dirt,
00:26:23.240 using foreign
00:26:24.020 interests,
00:26:24.980 and that's
00:26:25.320 okay with
00:26:25.660 you.
00:26:25.760 If that's
00:26:26.040 okay with
00:26:26.400 you,
00:26:26.560 Alan Dershowitz,
00:26:28.180 no,
00:26:29.400 no,
00:26:29.980 I'm not
00:26:30.360 saying even
00:26:30.940 anything
00:26:31.360 remotely like
00:26:32.920 that,
00:26:33.540 not even in
00:26:34.360 the same
00:26:34.700 universe as
00:26:35.540 whatever the
00:26:36.040 hell you're
00:26:36.680 hallucinating,
00:26:37.800 Dale.
00:26:38.640 It's just
00:26:39.300 real simple.
00:26:40.100 If he's
00:26:40.640 doing the
00:26:41.020 people's work,
00:26:42.180 but it's
00:26:42.960 also good
00:26:43.380 for re-election,
00:26:44.600 and it's
00:26:45.440 all legal,
00:26:46.680 you're fine.
00:26:48.020 There's nothing
00:26:48.500 impeachable.
00:26:51.140 Wouldn't you
00:26:51.680 be happy with
00:26:52.460 that dictator
00:26:53.080 situation?
00:26:53.760 Wouldn't you?
00:26:55.360 Next thing
00:26:55.940 you know,
00:26:57.740 he's dictator
00:26:58.780 for life,
00:27:00.000 because you
00:27:00.540 just said,
00:27:01.560 Alan Dershowitz,
00:27:02.260 you just
00:27:02.580 admitted that
00:27:04.440 he can have
00:27:05.080 foreign countries
00:27:06.160 dig up dirt
00:27:07.440 on an opponent
00:27:08.700 for just his
00:27:10.320 personal interest,
00:27:11.660 and you're okay
00:27:12.480 with that.
00:27:12.840 You're okay
00:27:13.200 with that.
00:27:13.760 Are you willing
00:27:14.200 to say that in
00:27:14.780 public, that
00:27:15.220 you're okay
00:27:15.680 with that?
00:27:17.000 No!
00:27:18.160 No, Dale!
00:27:19.160 I'm not okay
00:27:20.180 with that.
00:27:20.820 I didn't say
00:27:21.380 that.
00:27:21.720 I didn't say
00:27:22.060 anything like
00:27:22.580 that.
00:27:23.160 Nothing like
00:27:24.000 that!
00:27:24.860 Dale!
00:27:25.740 What is
00:27:26.180 wrong with
00:27:26.580 you?
00:27:32.200 Scene.
00:27:36.920 So,
00:27:37.880 watch this
00:27:39.420 one-act play
00:27:40.480 play out
00:27:41.460 all day
00:27:41.880 today.
00:27:43.120 All day
00:27:43.860 long,
00:27:44.600 the Democrats
00:27:45.160 are going
00:27:45.540 to be
00:27:45.920 misinterpreting
00:27:46.720 Dershowitz
00:27:47.300 just like
00:27:49.180 I did.
00:27:50.400 And here's
00:27:51.660 the bad
00:27:53.040 part.
00:27:54.160 It's going
00:27:54.880 to work.
00:27:56.780 Now,
00:27:57.360 I don't
00:27:57.580 think it'll
00:27:57.940 work in
00:27:58.340 terms of
00:27:58.780 reversing
00:27:59.360 the outcome
00:28:00.000 of the
00:28:00.560 Senate
00:28:01.200 vote.
00:28:02.000 The president
00:28:02.900 will be
00:28:03.300 cleared,
00:28:04.100 but it's
00:28:05.100 going to
00:28:05.300 work on
00:28:05.640 the public.
00:28:06.940 The public
00:28:07.600 is definitely
00:28:09.260 going to
00:28:09.720 believe that
00:28:10.840 the Democrats
00:28:11.580 have
00:28:12.400 interpreted
00:28:12.980 Dershowitz
00:28:13.760 correctly.
00:28:14.900 Do you
00:28:15.080 know why?
00:28:16.240 Because for
00:28:17.120 every one
00:28:17.900 person who
00:28:18.940 watched
00:28:19.500 Dershowitz
00:28:20.260 live,
00:28:21.680 there will
00:28:22.100 be a
00:28:23.000 thousand
00:28:23.400 people who
00:28:24.980 only hear
00:28:25.600 the Democrats
00:28:26.360 version of
00:28:27.260 what Dershowitz
00:28:28.640 said.
00:28:29.440 So it's
00:28:30.040 a thousand
00:28:30.660 to one
00:28:31.240 more effective
00:28:32.680 for them
00:28:33.500 to lie
00:28:34.020 than to
00:28:35.140 do anything
00:28:35.600 that would
00:28:35.940 be in the
00:28:36.540 realm of
00:28:36.940 truth.
00:28:37.440 And so
00:28:37.700 they are.
00:28:38.600 There's no
00:28:39.320 penalty for
00:28:40.120 lying in this
00:28:41.060 context,
00:28:41.520 which you
00:28:42.720 have to
00:28:43.000 think is
00:28:43.300 a flaw
00:28:43.740 in the
00:28:44.600 process.
00:28:46.960 All right,
00:28:47.360 let's see
00:28:47.580 what else
00:28:47.840 we've got
00:28:48.120 going on
00:28:48.500 here.
00:28:52.220 I like
00:28:53.580 permission to
00:28:54.320 curse.
00:28:55.580 Everybody
00:28:55.960 okay with
00:28:56.440 that?
00:28:57.280 There is
00:28:57.700 some cursing
00:28:58.540 coming up,
00:28:59.980 mild cursing.
00:29:01.880 All right,
00:29:02.600 so if you
00:29:03.420 don't like
00:29:03.820 that,
00:29:04.200 you might
00:29:05.180 want to
00:29:05.740 mute your
00:29:07.740 phone for
00:29:08.260 that.
00:29:09.660 And it
00:29:10.800 has to
00:29:11.140 do with
00:29:11.400 the topic
00:29:11.840 of General
00:29:12.780 Flynn,
00:29:13.920 because there's
00:29:14.660 an update.
00:29:15.860 So apparently
00:29:16.260 the Department
00:29:16.860 of Justice
00:29:17.340 is not
00:29:18.820 going to
00:29:19.220 seek jail
00:29:19.660 time.
00:29:20.820 Originally
00:29:21.220 they were
00:29:21.540 going to
00:29:21.820 seek jail
00:29:22.460 time,
00:29:23.980 and Flynn
00:29:24.820 had withdrawn
00:29:26.020 his guilty
00:29:27.920 plea,
00:29:28.880 because apparently
00:29:30.200 he just
00:29:30.520 got,
00:29:31.180 he got
00:29:32.260 basically
00:29:32.660 blackmailed
00:29:33.400 into it
00:29:33.820 because they
00:29:34.380 said they
00:29:34.760 take down
00:29:35.200 his family.
00:29:35.960 It sounds
00:29:36.320 like he
00:29:37.860 was trying
00:29:38.160 to protect
00:29:38.580 his family
00:29:39.120 and he
00:29:39.580 said I'm
00:29:40.000 guilty,
00:29:40.860 even though
00:29:41.220 he wasn't.
00:29:41.760 So he
00:29:41.940 basically took
00:29:42.700 a bullet
00:29:43.020 for his
00:29:43.400 family.
00:29:44.500 But now
00:29:45.240 that more
00:29:45.620 information
00:29:46.060 has come
00:29:46.440 out about
00:29:46.860 the faked
00:29:48.260 FISA and
00:29:48.960 all the
00:29:49.220 other stuff
00:29:49.720 and Russia
00:29:50.360 collusion
00:29:50.800 disappeared,
00:29:52.660 he changed
00:29:53.080 his plea
00:29:54.620 to not
00:29:55.620 guilty.
00:29:57.820 And the
00:29:58.440 Department
00:29:58.760 of Justice
00:29:59.260 said no,
00:30:01.280 they're only
00:30:01.600 going to be
00:30:01.980 looking at
00:30:02.880 probation.
00:30:05.200 So they're
00:30:06.740 only going
00:30:07.300 to look
00:30:07.520 at
00:30:07.660 probation.
00:30:11.000 There's
00:30:11.600 a little
00:30:11.820 swearing
00:30:12.200 coming.
00:30:14.380 Okay?
00:30:16.540 If our
00:30:17.340 justice system
00:30:18.260 plans to
00:30:20.300 find General
00:30:21.700 Flynn guilty
00:30:23.160 in this
00:30:25.100 situation,
00:30:27.320 and whether
00:30:28.760 they want
00:30:29.920 to sentence
00:30:31.520 him to
00:30:32.040 jail or
00:30:32.860 probation,
00:30:35.200 fuck
00:30:38.120 that.
00:30:39.120 I got
00:30:40.020 60 million
00:30:41.160 people who
00:30:42.900 say to
00:30:43.400 you,
00:30:43.820 Department
00:30:44.120 of Justice,
00:30:45.400 fuck that.
00:30:47.320 Fuck that.
00:30:49.300 Innocent
00:30:50.060 or nothing.
00:30:52.140 Fuck that.
00:30:53.300 You can
00:30:53.640 have 60
00:30:54.480 million really
00:30:55.680 fucking pissed
00:30:56.600 off people if
00:30:58.440 under these
00:30:59.000 current conditions
00:30:59.940 he's still
00:31:01.160 found guilty,
00:31:02.460 probation or
00:31:03.360 not.
00:31:03.740 fuck that.
00:31:05.800 And if
00:31:06.680 they do
00:31:06.940 find him
00:31:07.300 guilty and
00:31:07.760 give him
00:31:08.040 probation,
00:31:08.820 I imagine
00:31:09.240 that gives
00:31:09.660 the president
00:31:10.200 just full
00:31:11.160 authority to
00:31:11.880 void the
00:31:12.980 whole thing
00:31:13.380 and wipe
00:31:13.740 the record
00:31:14.340 clear,
00:31:14.840 whichever
00:31:15.060 words you
00:31:15.580 use on
00:31:15.920 that.
00:31:16.100 But
00:31:17.040 there are
00:31:22.540 60 million
00:31:23.080 people who
00:31:23.740 are not
00:31:24.060 going to be
00:31:24.660 able to
00:31:25.060 live with
00:31:26.940 Flynn being
00:31:28.240 railroaded like
00:31:29.060 this.
00:31:29.820 It just
00:31:30.220 isn't going
00:31:30.560 to happen.
00:31:30.860 So the
00:31:32.160 Department
00:31:32.480 of Justice
00:31:32.900 just has to
00:31:33.660 figure out
00:31:34.060 how to
00:31:34.400 change their
00:31:34.900 mind.
00:31:36.300 60 million
00:31:37.360 fucking
00:31:38.200 pissed off
00:31:38.800 people.
00:31:39.840 It's not
00:31:40.640 going to be
00:31:40.980 pretty.
00:31:42.000 So if the
00:31:43.180 Department
00:31:43.460 of Justice
00:31:43.800 wants to
00:31:44.360 retain any
00:31:45.160 sense of
00:31:45.720 credibility,
00:31:47.280 rethink that.
00:31:48.080 Swearing is
00:31:48.780 off for
00:31:49.600 now.
00:31:51.560 Well,
00:31:51.980 maybe I
00:31:52.320 should put it
00:31:52.700 back on for
00:31:53.200 this next
00:31:53.580 topic.
00:31:54.820 Apparently,
00:31:55.840 six suspected
00:31:56.820 drug dealers
00:31:57.740 accused of
00:31:59.000 running a
00:31:59.560 $7 million
00:32:00.320 fentanyl
00:32:01.360 distribution
00:32:01.980 operation
00:32:02.540 were released
00:32:04.500 without bail
00:32:05.360 under the
00:32:06.960 new criminal
00:32:07.540 justice law.
00:32:10.620 What?
00:32:13.540 What?
00:32:15.700 These people
00:32:16.820 running a
00:32:17.540 $7 million
00:32:18.120 fentanyl
00:32:19.020 distribution
00:32:19.640 operation,
00:32:20.720 we're not
00:32:21.280 talking about
00:32:21.760 street dealers.
00:32:23.360 They were
00:32:23.860 major,
00:32:24.580 major fentanyl
00:32:26.360 dealers released
00:32:27.840 without bail.
00:32:30.040 Are you
00:32:30.860 happy with
00:32:31.280 that?
00:32:32.960 Well,
00:32:33.980 here's what
00:32:34.540 I wonder.
00:32:36.080 Would it
00:32:36.480 be legal to
00:32:37.280 build a
00:32:37.820 private website,
00:32:39.400 private meaning
00:32:40.300 privately built
00:32:42.340 and funded,
00:32:43.520 not private
00:32:44.460 from the
00:32:45.120 public,
00:32:46.080 that listed
00:32:47.760 the people
00:32:48.400 who are
00:32:48.740 known or,
00:32:49.680 and here's
00:32:50.080 the controversial
00:32:50.800 part,
00:32:51.940 suspected
00:32:52.700 fentanyl
00:32:54.180 dealers,
00:32:54.580 so that
00:32:56.000 parents can
00:32:57.160 just take
00:32:57.660 a photo
00:32:58.140 of their
00:32:58.540 kid's
00:32:58.960 friends and
00:32:59.900 run it
00:33:00.340 through a
00:33:00.640 system and
00:33:01.760 say,
00:33:02.280 ah,
00:33:03.060 you're
00:33:03.580 hanging
00:33:03.760 around
00:33:04.100 with a
00:33:04.420 fentanyl
00:33:04.880 dealer.
00:33:06.440 Maybe you
00:33:07.180 shouldn't
00:33:07.400 hang around
00:33:07.800 with that
00:33:08.080 kid anymore.
00:33:12.480 And,
00:33:13.180 of course,
00:33:14.180 your immediate
00:33:15.060 reaction is,
00:33:15.840 my God,
00:33:16.320 people will,
00:33:17.240 it's like the,
00:33:18.940 what is that,
00:33:20.220 the shitty
00:33:20.680 men's list?
00:33:22.040 Somebody made
00:33:22.720 a private
00:33:23.120 list of the
00:33:24.420 men who
00:33:24.780 had me-tooed
00:33:25.460 people,
00:33:26.140 but unfortunately
00:33:27.160 anybody could
00:33:27.920 contribute to
00:33:28.720 the list,
00:33:29.480 and so it
00:33:30.200 appears that a
00:33:30.940 number of
00:33:31.280 innocent people
00:33:31.980 were, you
00:33:33.480 know,
00:33:33.600 labeled as
00:33:34.200 me-towers,
00:33:35.400 when in fact
00:33:36.520 they were
00:33:37.360 not.
00:33:37.960 So that's a
00:33:38.720 gigantic risk,
00:33:39.720 wouldn't you
00:33:40.060 say?
00:33:41.020 But I
00:33:42.360 believe there's
00:33:43.020 probably a way
00:33:43.740 to do this.
00:33:45.320 And here,
00:33:46.060 the whole point
00:33:46.660 of this is it
00:33:47.280 looks like the
00:33:47.800 government is
00:33:48.680 helpless.
00:33:49.160 If the
00:33:50.700 government is
00:33:51.340 helpless to
00:33:52.040 stop fentanyl,
00:33:53.680 wouldn't it
00:33:54.260 help if you
00:33:55.380 could tell
00:33:55.980 every person
00:33:57.300 who sold
00:33:57.760 fentanyl
00:33:58.220 when you
00:33:58.520 saw them?
00:34:01.660 Socially,
00:34:02.440 it would be
00:34:02.860 hard to
00:34:03.520 operate in
00:34:06.880 normal society
00:34:08.220 if everywhere
00:34:09.060 you went,
00:34:09.640 everybody knew
00:34:10.180 you were a
00:34:10.600 fentanyl dealer.
00:34:12.640 Now,
00:34:13.540 is there a
00:34:14.480 way that you
00:34:15.020 can do this
00:34:15.560 without libeling
00:34:16.420 people?
00:34:16.700 I don't
00:34:19.160 know.
00:34:20.040 But I'll
00:34:20.360 bet there
00:34:20.700 is.
00:34:21.540 My intuition
00:34:22.440 says there's
00:34:23.480 a way to
00:34:24.140 do this
00:34:24.600 that does.
00:34:25.600 Let me
00:34:25.900 give you an
00:34:26.220 example.
00:34:26.700 This is just
00:34:27.160 brainstorming.
00:34:28.000 I'm not going
00:34:28.340 to say this
00:34:28.780 is the idea.
00:34:30.060 But suppose
00:34:30.520 anybody could
00:34:31.440 contribute to
00:34:32.420 the list,
00:34:33.340 but they had
00:34:34.240 to provide
00:34:34.780 their own
00:34:35.580 identification.
00:34:37.380 And they had
00:34:37.880 to provide a
00:34:38.620 paragraph that
00:34:39.840 says why they
00:34:40.720 know this to
00:34:41.680 be true.
00:34:42.940 Now,
00:34:43.320 perhaps you
00:34:43.860 don't make
00:34:44.300 that person
00:34:44.920 who contributed
00:34:45.880 to the list
00:34:46.540 public unless
00:34:48.420 there's a
00:34:48.980 dispute.
00:34:50.040 If there's
00:34:50.760 a dispute,
00:34:51.920 then the
00:34:52.240 person so
00:34:52.840 accused could
00:34:54.300 maybe hire
00:34:55.120 a lawyer or
00:34:55.640 something and
00:34:56.600 then at that
00:34:59.600 point, the
00:35:00.460 person who
00:35:00.940 made the
00:35:01.320 claim could
00:35:02.420 either remove
00:35:03.500 the claim or
00:35:05.560 make their name
00:35:06.400 public just to
00:35:07.380 the lawyer and
00:35:08.020 the person who's
00:35:09.260 got the dispute.
00:35:10.560 So in that
00:35:11.180 case, you would
00:35:11.760 always be able to
00:35:12.540 face your accuser
00:35:13.600 if you challenged
00:35:15.340 it.
00:35:15.640 If you don't
00:35:16.280 challenge it,
00:35:16.820 you just have
00:35:17.240 to live with
00:35:17.680 the fact that
00:35:18.160 you're on a
00:35:18.480 list of
00:35:18.820 fentanyl dealers.
00:35:20.140 But if you
00:35:20.440 challenge it,
00:35:21.420 there should be
00:35:21.840 a process where
00:35:22.720 at that point
00:35:23.480 you know who
00:35:23.960 your accuser
00:35:24.580 is, you know
00:35:25.040 what the
00:35:25.280 argument is,
00:35:26.340 the accuser
00:35:26.980 can modify it
00:35:27.820 or correct it,
00:35:28.900 or you can
00:35:29.960 argue your
00:35:30.420 case.
00:35:30.940 So there
00:35:31.220 might be
00:35:32.080 some way
00:35:33.860 to make it
00:35:36.120 safe against
00:35:37.240 people being
00:35:37.980 put on that
00:35:39.360 list.
00:35:40.400 All right,
00:35:41.080 so that's just
00:35:41.760 something to think
00:35:42.240 about.
00:35:42.480 I can't go
00:35:43.100 so far as
00:35:43.660 to say we
00:35:44.080 should do
00:35:44.400 it.
00:35:45.400 Speaking of
00:35:46.140 misunderstanding,
00:35:48.140 Elizabeth Warren
00:35:48.940 came out with
00:35:49.580 a plan on
00:35:51.240 digital
00:35:51.660 disinformation.
00:35:53.240 And the idea
00:35:53.760 is that she
00:35:54.240 wants to make
00:35:54.860 illegal some
00:35:56.760 forms of,
00:35:57.440 I'll read the
00:35:57.960 exact words,
00:36:01.220 so she wants
00:36:02.440 the social media
00:36:03.460 companies to
00:36:04.980 address false
00:36:06.240 posts.
00:36:07.760 I don't know
00:36:08.220 what that means.
00:36:08.800 having them
00:36:09.920 label certain
00:36:10.620 content.
00:36:11.680 I don't know
00:36:12.100 exactly what
00:36:12.660 that means.
00:36:13.560 Who gets to
00:36:14.260 decide how to
00:36:14.960 label stuff?
00:36:16.500 Ban accounts
00:36:17.360 trying to
00:36:17.840 interfere with
00:36:18.480 elections.
00:36:20.720 How do you
00:36:21.120 define that?
00:36:22.340 And alert
00:36:22.700 users who
00:36:23.380 have interacted
00:36:23.980 with content
00:36:24.740 determined to
00:36:25.500 be disinformation.
00:36:27.320 Again, who
00:36:28.360 gets to determine
00:36:29.240 what's disinformation,
00:36:30.840 among other
00:36:31.400 things.
00:36:31.780 She would also
00:36:32.220 lead a charge
00:36:32.880 to criminalize
00:36:34.140 spreading false
00:36:36.680 information about
00:36:37.780 voting.
00:36:38.800 In other
00:36:39.520 words, if you
00:36:40.320 had a social
00:36:40.960 media post that
00:36:41.760 said, hey,
00:36:42.780 everybody vote
00:36:43.580 the day after
00:36:44.420 election day,
00:36:45.780 and it was
00:36:46.520 designed to
00:36:47.740 keep people from
00:36:48.400 voting, she
00:36:49.000 would make that
00:36:49.440 illegal.
00:36:50.260 Now, that
00:36:50.740 part may not
00:36:52.180 be the worst
00:36:52.640 idea in the
00:36:53.140 world, because
00:36:53.800 it is direct
00:36:54.540 election interfering.
00:36:56.220 The part about
00:36:57.080 if you're telling
00:36:58.480 people that
00:36:59.140 election day is
00:36:59.820 on the wrong
00:37:00.280 day, or that
00:37:01.180 there's some
00:37:01.560 process that
00:37:02.880 makes it
00:37:03.200 impossible to
00:37:03.800 vote, maybe
00:37:05.140 that should be
00:37:05.640 illegal.
00:37:07.080 I can see
00:37:07.680 that argument.
00:37:08.800 But the
00:37:09.300 other stuff, I
00:37:10.740 would have to
00:37:11.260 hear a more
00:37:12.440 detailed argument
00:37:13.480 as to who it
00:37:15.040 is who gets to
00:37:15.800 decide what is
00:37:16.880 disinformation.
00:37:18.400 It would be
00:37:19.260 far better, in
00:37:20.640 my opinion, if
00:37:22.000 anything that was
00:37:22.740 in this
00:37:23.140 disinformation
00:37:24.160 category, if
00:37:26.620 you could provide
00:37:27.340 a link to the
00:37:28.160 other argument.
00:37:29.700 So in other
00:37:30.220 words, I
00:37:31.400 wouldn't be
00:37:32.280 too sad if
00:37:36.380 every time there
00:37:37.040 was a claim
00:37:37.600 that somebody
00:37:38.200 thought was
00:37:38.940 false, that
00:37:40.420 instead of
00:37:40.960 removing it or
00:37:41.940 making it illegal
00:37:43.120 or something, that
00:37:44.340 the social media
00:37:45.380 company attached
00:37:46.300 what they thought
00:37:47.320 is the counter
00:37:47.900 argument.
00:37:49.440 It might be a
00:37:50.380 little better than
00:37:50.900 our current
00:37:51.240 situation.
00:37:52.280 So I think
00:37:52.620 Warren's got a
00:37:53.360 big ask here.
00:37:54.860 In other words,
00:37:55.240 she's asking more
00:37:56.380 than I think the
00:37:57.280 nation could ever
00:37:58.520 accept.
00:37:59.240 But there's
00:38:00.260 something there.
00:38:01.380 There's a little
00:38:02.100 bit of something
00:38:02.680 in there that's
00:38:03.560 worth talking
00:38:04.140 about.
00:38:04.980 I don't know if
00:38:05.500 she's sussed that
00:38:06.680 out well enough.
00:38:09.220 Let's talk about
00:38:10.120 the Middle East
00:38:10.700 peace plan that
00:38:11.560 the major media
00:38:13.160 seems to want to
00:38:14.180 ignore.
00:38:15.480 I assume that
00:38:17.400 they're ignoring
00:38:17.980 it.
00:38:18.500 Why?
00:38:19.020 Because it's good
00:38:19.640 for Trump?
00:38:20.320 I don't know
00:38:20.780 exactly why.
00:38:21.960 But it is getting
00:38:23.020 less attention than
00:38:24.020 anything.
00:38:25.200 And there's
00:38:26.060 something emerging
00:38:27.380 about this peace
00:38:28.360 plan.
00:38:29.240 that is really
00:38:30.600 clever.
00:38:32.100 And you're not
00:38:33.960 going to see this
00:38:34.640 coming.
00:38:35.740 Here's my take on
00:38:36.880 it.
00:38:37.880 It's not a peace
00:38:39.280 plan.
00:38:41.380 Everybody's going
00:38:42.020 to call it a peace
00:38:42.700 plan.
00:38:43.280 I think it's
00:38:43.680 called, you know,
00:38:44.400 officially it's
00:38:45.240 probably called a
00:38:45.860 peace plan of some
00:38:46.900 kind.
00:38:47.820 But it's not.
00:38:50.160 It's peace plan
00:38:51.940 like.
00:38:53.400 It's peace plan
00:38:54.900 adjacent.
00:38:56.260 It's suggestive of
00:38:58.060 a peace plan.
00:38:59.240 It's in some
00:39:00.160 ways analogous to a
00:39:02.000 peace plan, but not
00:39:02.880 completely.
00:39:04.180 Here's what it
00:39:04.980 really is.
00:39:06.880 It's a path.
00:39:08.980 It's a path that the
00:39:10.520 Israelis, and here's
00:39:12.060 the fun part,
00:39:13.240 apparently in
00:39:14.880 Israel, both the
00:39:16.480 leading parties have
00:39:19.540 agreed on this.
00:39:20.440 That's a gigantic
00:39:21.180 thing.
00:39:21.600 To get all of the
00:39:23.160 people in Israel, at
00:39:24.120 least the two major
00:39:24.860 parties on the same
00:39:25.740 side, gigantic move
00:39:29.240 forward on just that
00:39:30.820 part.
00:39:31.740 But it's better than
00:39:32.700 that.
00:39:33.400 Saudi Arabia signed
00:39:34.520 on.
00:39:35.120 A few other Arab
00:39:36.900 countries have signed
00:39:37.800 on.
00:39:38.860 Egypt says it's worth
00:39:40.100 looking at.
00:39:41.540 So suddenly, the
00:39:43.780 Palestinian faction is
00:39:45.640 sort of abandoned and
00:39:47.240 surrounded.
00:39:48.660 Meanwhile, Israel can
00:39:50.160 just go down their
00:39:50.940 path without regard to
00:39:54.220 whether the
00:39:54.720 Palestinians like it.
00:39:56.500 This is what's
00:39:57.340 different.
00:39:58.120 A normal peace plan,
00:40:00.100 both sides have to
00:40:01.040 agree what it looks
00:40:01.760 like, right?
00:40:02.860 That's what a peace
00:40:03.780 plan is.
00:40:04.660 You agree, I'll do
00:40:05.920 this, you do this, we
00:40:07.040 both agree what we're
00:40:07.900 doing.
00:40:08.600 That's not this.
00:40:10.440 That's why it's not a
00:40:11.380 peace plan.
00:40:12.820 Israel is basically
00:40:14.060 saying, this is what
00:40:15.880 we're going to do.
00:40:17.540 We don't control what
00:40:18.840 you're going to do.
00:40:20.020 We're just going to
00:40:20.880 control what we do.
00:40:22.520 We are going to get
00:40:23.980 on the same page as
00:40:25.560 our whole country, the
00:40:28.000 majority anyway, and
00:40:29.620 the same page with your
00:40:31.220 neighbors, the Arab
00:40:32.140 countries who typically,
00:40:34.260 or I don't know if you
00:40:35.480 want to call them Muslim
00:40:36.160 countries or Arab
00:40:36.980 countries.
00:40:37.600 In this case, I think
00:40:38.560 they're all the same in
00:40:40.060 this one context.
00:40:41.140 because, you know, Iran,
00:40:45.840 blah, blah, blah.
00:40:46.400 Anyway, longer story.
00:40:49.720 So, we have this
00:40:51.400 situation where Israel
00:40:52.640 can just march forward
00:40:53.860 because they drew the
00:40:55.500 boundaries in a way
00:40:56.560 that it just captures
00:40:58.020 the places that they
00:40:59.220 already are.
00:41:00.100 All they have to do is
00:41:01.100 start building some
00:41:01.920 borders, and Israel
00:41:03.460 can say, well, we're
00:41:04.240 done.
00:41:05.140 Here's the fun part.
00:41:07.080 The Palestinians can
00:41:08.360 complain forever and,
00:41:10.480 you know, do some
00:41:11.340 terrorist attacks and
00:41:12.380 fire some rockets, but
00:41:14.020 they were going to do
00:41:14.780 that anyway, right?
00:41:17.640 If the Palestinians
00:41:20.180 decide to play along
00:41:21.900 and agree to the plan,
00:41:23.300 nobody thinks that's
00:41:24.480 going to happen, or if
00:41:25.880 they don't, which one
00:41:27.840 would have more terrorist
00:41:29.240 attacks against Israel?
00:41:31.300 Probably the same.
00:41:32.920 Probably exactly the
00:41:33.820 same.
00:41:34.460 If Abbas, the
00:41:36.040 Palestinian leader,
00:41:36.960 decided tomorrow to
00:41:38.700 sign off on the deal,
00:41:40.480 he can't control
00:41:41.800 everybody in his
00:41:42.620 country, you would
00:41:43.800 still have the same
00:41:44.660 amount of terrorist
00:41:45.500 attacks, which
00:41:46.940 fortunately are not
00:41:48.680 that terrible.
00:41:50.100 Israel's got a good
00:41:50.940 control of that with
00:41:52.200 their wall, etc.
00:41:54.820 So, Israel has no
00:41:56.280 downside risk in terms
00:41:57.520 of terrorism.
00:41:58.920 Make a deal, don't
00:41:59.740 make a deal, it's
00:42:00.420 probably going to look
00:42:01.160 exactly the same in
00:42:02.260 terms of terrorist
00:42:03.000 attacks.
00:42:03.500 And then, it puts the
00:42:07.060 Palestinians in this
00:42:08.180 weird, isolated
00:42:09.180 situation.
00:42:10.640 Correct me if I'm
00:42:11.320 wrong, I need a fact
00:42:12.240 check on this, but
00:42:13.680 hasn't the United
00:42:14.400 States already withdrawn
00:42:15.960 financial aid from the
00:42:17.660 Palestinians?
00:42:18.820 That's correct, right?
00:42:21.000 Who else gives the
00:42:22.800 Palestinians financial
00:42:24.260 aid?
00:42:25.360 Well, I don't know
00:42:26.060 this, but I'm
00:42:27.160 imagining other
00:42:28.620 countries in the
00:42:30.360 region, maybe Saudi
00:42:32.060 Arabia, right?
00:42:33.660 Now, somebody said
00:42:34.760 Iran.
00:42:35.260 I don't know exactly
00:42:36.180 what kind of support
00:42:37.940 Iran does, if it's
00:42:39.020 just supporting the
00:42:39.740 terrorist stuff, or if
00:42:41.220 it's more, but Iran is
00:42:42.820 broke.
00:42:44.400 So, you've got the
00:42:45.480 United States isn't
00:42:46.460 giving the Palestinians
00:42:47.320 money.
00:42:49.260 Saudi Arabia and the
00:42:50.500 others who say that
00:42:51.860 the peace plan looks
00:42:52.980 good, now have a
00:42:54.840 reason to stop funding
00:42:56.000 the Palestinians, if
00:42:57.460 they were.
00:42:57.940 I don't know the exact
00:42:58.700 situation there, but I
00:43:00.300 assume the Palestinians
00:43:01.140 were getting help from
00:43:02.040 a variety of places.
00:43:03.860 If they turn down the
00:43:04.980 deal, and other people
00:43:06.620 say, you know, you're
00:43:08.380 never going to get a
00:43:09.040 better deal than this,
00:43:09.920 so if you turn this
00:43:10.680 down, why the hell am I
00:43:12.500 going to waste my money
00:43:13.320 sending money to your
00:43:14.400 failed country?
00:43:15.920 You can't even help
00:43:16.580 yourself.
00:43:18.000 So, this situation we've
00:43:20.000 never been in, where the
00:43:21.840 Palestinians have a
00:43:23.040 choice, and it has
00:43:24.500 nothing to do with other
00:43:25.660 people's choices.
00:43:27.100 This is the cool part.
00:43:28.400 If the Palestinians decide
00:43:30.640 to not try to become a
00:43:32.680 recognized nation, they
00:43:35.560 can.
00:43:37.140 What will that change?
00:43:38.980 Well, it changes nothing
00:43:39.960 in Israel.
00:43:40.760 They're just going to draw
00:43:41.580 their borders and do
00:43:42.800 everything that they were
00:43:43.520 going to do anyway.
00:43:44.680 It doesn't change what
00:43:45.680 their, you know, so-called
00:43:47.340 allies in the region would
00:43:49.060 do.
00:43:50.140 Do the same thing.
00:43:51.780 So, I think the only thing
00:43:53.780 that the Palestinians have to
00:43:55.000 decide is whether they want
00:43:57.700 help and redevelopment and
00:43:59.500 money from other countries
00:44:00.620 or not.
00:44:02.840 Do they want to be a nation
00:44:04.280 building towards something
00:44:06.380 good or not?
00:44:08.160 But Israel doesn't have to
00:44:09.540 agree with what they do.
00:44:10.900 They don't even have to
00:44:11.760 care.
00:44:12.620 So, you actually have a
00:44:14.140 situation where the
00:44:14.980 Palestinians have been
00:44:15.960 isolated.
00:44:16.740 All their support is either
00:44:18.700 eroded to the point of
00:44:19.940 trivial or gone, and they
00:44:22.540 can just live their own life,
00:44:23.860 and it can be a good one
00:44:24.900 or a bad one, and nobody
00:44:26.020 cares.
00:44:26.860 You've never seen this
00:44:27.880 before.
00:44:28.880 This is not a peace plan.
00:44:31.120 It's a path, and we're
00:44:33.540 already walking down it.
00:44:34.920 We don't have to wait for
00:44:35.760 anybody.
00:44:37.740 I've never seen anything
00:44:38.960 like this, really.
00:44:40.340 It doesn't fit in any good
00:44:41.820 category, so I think that's
00:44:43.480 also why people are going to
00:44:44.840 have trouble understanding
00:44:46.740 it.
00:44:47.600 It doesn't fit any other
00:44:49.260 model.
00:44:49.620 Well, I guess our border
00:44:54.440 people have found the
00:44:55.700 longest border tunnel ever
00:44:57.620 that they've discovered
00:44:59.180 under the border between
00:45:02.260 Mexico and the United
00:45:03.060 States.
00:45:04.620 And there's such a thing
00:45:05.980 as a tunnel task force.
00:45:07.620 Did you know that?
00:45:08.680 There's a tunnel task force.
00:45:10.780 And I guess they find
00:45:11.880 tunnels.
00:45:12.720 And this one was really
00:45:13.840 well built.
00:45:14.660 It had ventilation and
00:45:15.620 lighting and electricity,
00:45:16.580 and it ran for a long,
00:45:18.920 long stretch.
00:45:19.880 I don't know what it was.
00:45:21.320 But here's the question I
00:45:22.640 asked myself.
00:45:24.580 Why do you need a tunnel?
00:45:27.420 Did you ever wonder that?
00:45:29.120 You know, I know they use
00:45:30.120 all kinds of different
00:45:30.960 means to ship drugs in,
00:45:33.320 probably some by land and
00:45:34.620 air and sea and everything
00:45:35.680 else.
00:45:36.800 But isn't a tunnel a pretty
00:45:38.980 hard thing to do?
00:45:40.380 I know that cartels have
00:45:41.460 lots of money and resources,
00:45:43.440 but it's kind of hard to
00:45:45.080 build a tunnel.
00:45:45.640 with all the resources
00:45:47.980 that it requires.
00:45:49.980 And I thought to myself,
00:45:50.980 would you be building this
00:45:52.800 tunnel if it were easy to
00:45:54.620 just go across the border
00:45:55.780 on land?
00:45:57.140 Have we gotten to the
00:45:58.260 point where it's just so
00:46:00.680 hard to cross where
00:46:02.400 there's a wall, or maybe
00:46:04.340 even where there is no
00:46:05.180 wall, that it's easier to
00:46:06.960 build a tunnel?
00:46:08.220 Why is it easier to build
00:46:09.500 a tunnel than all of those
00:46:11.560 other places?
00:46:13.540 The only thing I could take
00:46:14.760 away from this is that
00:46:15.720 we're getting a lot
00:46:16.480 better with our border
00:46:18.040 security.
00:46:19.320 Now, I know there have
00:46:20.180 been tunnels for a long
00:46:21.120 time, but the fact that
00:46:22.380 tunnels are needed at all
00:46:23.780 suggests that those
00:46:26.820 other mechanisms for
00:46:29.340 getting into the country
00:46:30.160 have higher risk.
00:46:31.980 So, I imagine we're getting
00:46:34.620 better at detecting tunnels.
00:46:36.120 There's got to be some
00:46:36.760 technology for that.
00:46:39.700 All right.
00:46:41.820 See?
00:46:43.360 Oh, here's a little
00:46:44.680 persuasion lesson for you.
00:46:46.840 This comes courtesy of
00:46:48.640 Mark Schneider, our
00:46:50.260 favorite
00:46:51.420 nuclear energy
00:46:54.880 advocate.
00:46:55.580 And he
00:46:58.420 had this
00:46:59.260 realization, which he
00:47:00.360 tweeted about, which I
00:47:01.960 thought was amazingly
00:47:03.200 clever and good
00:47:04.320 persuasion.
00:47:05.580 And it goes like this.
00:47:06.560 I'll just read you his
00:47:07.840 tweet.
00:47:08.760 It just occurred to me why
00:47:09.960 nuclear waste leaks
00:47:11.920 scare people.
00:47:14.320 The waste from weapons
00:47:15.440 production was stored as a
00:47:16.920 liquid.
00:47:18.460 All right.
00:47:18.700 So, you get it, right?
00:47:20.260 If you knew that nuclear
00:47:21.980 waste was liquid, that's
00:47:24.840 pretty scary.
00:47:26.340 Because you think, well, if
00:47:27.780 it's liquid, isn't it
00:47:29.840 going to melt through the
00:47:30.660 bottom of whatever you put
00:47:31.720 it in if you wait long
00:47:33.120 enough?
00:47:33.820 Are you sure that thing is
00:47:34.980 well sealed?
00:47:35.860 Can't that liquid get out?
00:47:38.740 And then Mark points out,
00:47:40.280 and I didn't know this.
00:47:41.160 This was brand new
00:47:41.920 information for me.
00:47:43.320 He says in his tweet,
00:47:44.620 inside the spent fuel
00:47:45.780 containers at commercial
00:47:47.160 sites, you know, the ones
00:47:48.520 that are just producing
00:47:49.300 electricity, inside those
00:47:51.980 fuel containers, the spent
00:47:54.140 fuel, are solid fuel
00:47:56.080 assemblies.
00:47:56.900 And they showed a picture
00:47:57.780 of one.
00:47:59.380 They're actually like
00:48:00.360 physical solid tubes in
00:48:02.920 sort of a structure that
00:48:04.200 holds them together.
00:48:05.740 And I thought, if you, I
00:48:07.520 was going to, I didn't have
00:48:08.820 time, I was going to put it
00:48:09.700 down in a picture and show
00:48:10.480 it to you.
00:48:10.760 Yeah, they're rods,
00:48:11.960 physical rods.
00:48:13.580 And I thought, that really
00:48:16.340 changes how you see this.
00:48:18.380 If you said to somebody, to
00:48:21.600 control nuclear waste, we've
00:48:23.960 got to put these hard rods
00:48:25.600 inside a container, isn't that
00:48:29.080 a completely different mental
00:48:30.740 model than any kind of a
00:48:33.240 liquid waste?
00:48:35.500 Am I right?
00:48:37.020 It completely changes how you
00:48:39.700 feel about the risk.
00:48:41.220 Doesn't it?
00:48:42.140 Let me test that on you.
00:48:43.180 If you knew that it was a
00:48:46.060 solid, doesn't that tell
00:48:48.540 you, well, yeah, we can
00:48:49.560 definitely put a solid in a
00:48:51.360 container and it'll probably
00:48:52.860 stay there forever.
00:48:55.540 Somebody says they already
00:48:56.580 knew that.
00:48:57.260 Well, I didn't know it.
00:48:58.120 And let me point out what
00:49:01.120 makes this so good.
00:49:03.940 So this is persuasion-wise.
00:49:06.160 First of all, it's visual.
00:49:08.500 Visual persuasion always wins.
00:49:10.060 So the way I'm telling you is
00:49:12.520 not nearly as persuasive as if
00:49:15.480 you saw the picture I'm merely
00:49:16.860 describing.
00:49:17.540 You see it and you go, oh,
00:49:19.320 that does look safe.
00:49:21.240 So it's visual.
00:49:22.360 It's simple.
00:49:25.300 Weapons used to use nuclear
00:49:26.960 waste, would have nuclear waste.
00:49:29.960 Commercial ones, the ones we
00:49:31.400 care about, don't.
00:49:33.760 Pretty simple.
00:49:35.320 And it's also a contrast play
00:49:37.820 because he's contrasting how
00:49:39.580 safe these solid ones are with
00:49:41.760 what you imagine was less safe,
00:49:43.460 the liquid version.
00:49:44.700 So you get contrast, simplicity,
00:49:46.940 it's visual, and it reframes
00:49:48.880 the argument.
00:49:50.620 Perfect.
00:49:52.060 Perfect.
00:49:52.960 Perfect.
00:49:53.600 Persuasion.
00:49:55.060 All right.
00:49:55.520 Let's see what else we got.
00:49:58.920 I think we've hit all the big
00:50:00.580 points.
00:50:01.940 I think that's all we got.
00:50:03.300 So watch today in delight and
00:50:07.640 entertainment as people
00:50:09.320 misinterpret Dershowitz and argue
00:50:12.280 against their own hallucination.
00:50:13.980 It'll be fun.
00:50:15.120 I will talk to you later.