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

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00:00:20.120 right, Kyle. Welcome to your first day on Periscope. Somebody just called out your name.

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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. 1.00

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 0.98

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. 0.94

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 0.94

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! 0.99

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 0.85

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 0.87

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 0.67

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 0.86

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 1.00

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 0.99

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. 0.51

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 0.97

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 1.00

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 0.98

00:39:50.160 just go down their 0.65

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 0.99

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 0.99

00:40:36.160 countries or Arab 0.91

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 1.00

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 0.53

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 0.98

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 0.99

00:41:50.940 control of that with

00:41:52.200 their wall, etc.

00:41:54.820 So, Israel has no 0.97

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? 0.74

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 1.00

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 0.93

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 0.99

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 0.96

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 0.99

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 1.00

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 1.00

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. 0.73

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.

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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