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Episode 898 Scott Adams: How Many Grandmas Would You End to Get Back to Work? Make Your Case


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Summary

Jake Tapper gets into hot water for retweets of other people's tweets, and Congress debates a plan to get our medical supply chain back from China. Plus, a special guest joins the show to talk about the latest in the President's war on the press.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, come on in.
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00:00:52.020 Fill it with your favorite liquid.
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00:00:59.240 including the pandemic.
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00:01:03.520 Go.
00:01:03.780 Better than hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and zinc all put together
00:01:15.360 doesn't equal one cup of coffee.
00:01:17.760 I have spoken.
00:01:19.440 That is my medical opinion.
00:01:21.160 Do not doubt my medical opinions.
00:01:22.760 All right.
00:01:27.760 So there's something called the Medical Supply Chain Act
00:01:31.680 being noodled about in Congress
00:01:34.800 to get our medical supply chain back from China
00:01:38.780 so that we don't find ourselves in this situation again.
00:01:42.020 Can you believe we're even debating that?
00:01:44.020 Is there anybody in Congress who,
00:01:49.000 if you brought this act up for a vote today,
00:01:51.240 is there anybody in Congress who would say,
00:01:53.600 you know, I've thought about it,
00:01:55.220 and I really do think we should keep our most critical
00:01:59.420 pharmaceutical products in China.
00:02:03.920 Yeah.
00:02:04.420 I think I'm going to back keeping it where we're in the most risk.
00:02:09.640 Why don't they just pass that right now?
00:02:12.080 Why does that take 30 minutes to debate?
00:02:14.960 Is there anybody on the other side?
00:02:17.460 Why do we even have a Congress to debate stuff like that?
00:02:21.120 They should just say, does anybody, any objections?
00:02:23.820 No?
00:02:24.260 Okay, we're going to go do this.
00:02:29.780 So Jake Tapper got in a little,
00:02:33.760 well, I'm not going to say trouble,
00:02:34.940 but he got, he did something provocative today
00:02:37.660 because he retweeted Trump critic George Conway.
00:02:43.760 And George Conway had said that
00:02:46.040 the president is 100% insane,
00:02:49.300 which was in response to somebody else's tweet.
00:02:53.460 So Jake Tapper retweeted George Conway
00:02:56.300 saying that the president is 100% insane,
00:02:58.620 and then people said,
00:03:00.360 hey, Jake Tapper, you're taking sides.
00:03:03.820 You can't agree with somebody who says
00:03:05.840 the president's insane.
00:03:07.660 And then Jake Tapper had to tweet back
00:03:10.720 and explain to people how Twitter works.
00:03:14.260 Now, I'm just going to take Jake's side completely.
00:03:18.540 Sorry.
00:03:19.400 I know you don't like it.
00:03:21.040 But sometimes things are unambiguous.
00:03:24.800 This is one of those unambiguous situations.
00:03:28.580 A retweet doesn't mean you agree with it.
00:03:31.740 Who started that rule?
00:03:33.200 That's not a rule.
00:03:35.820 There's no rule that says if you retweet someone else's opinion,
00:03:39.380 therefore it means you endorse it or agree with it,
00:03:42.940 especially if you're a news person.
00:03:45.200 If somebody makes news with their opinion,
00:03:48.720 you can retweet that stuff.
00:03:50.160 So the reason this bugs me is because it happens to me.
00:03:57.520 I will often like a tweet that I don't agree with
00:04:02.400 because I like that it happened,
00:04:04.800 or I might want to look at it again,
00:04:06.800 or I might want to call your attention to it.
00:04:09.060 There's something noteworthy about it.
00:04:10.840 You know, it's worth looking at.
00:04:13.280 So, you know, I'll just hit it with a heart,
00:04:16.160 maybe so it's easier to find later
00:04:17.840 or so other people can see it.
00:04:20.260 Liking and retweeting things is not an endorsement.
00:04:23.420 So you need to get rid of that thought from your head.
00:04:26.180 So Jake was completely right about that.
00:04:33.340 Let's see.
00:04:35.220 How much do you love watching Trump treat the press
00:04:40.000 the way the press treats Trump?
00:04:43.140 Because everybody's complaining that the president
00:04:45.700 is sort of inappropriately insulting
00:04:48.600 and pushing back on the press in the press briefings,
00:04:51.620 and I'm thinking to myself, I don't think so.
00:04:54.280 I don't think he's pushing back in a way
00:04:58.500 that's out of scale with what they're doing.
00:05:01.920 I think he's just responding in kind,
00:05:04.260 and it's just the first time you've ever seen it.
00:05:07.140 You've never seen anybody who is being abused in public
00:05:10.880 just abuse the abuser in public.
00:05:14.440 Usually if somebody is being abused in public,
00:05:16.640 they just sort of take it.
00:05:18.360 You know, the press will be asking all these gotcha questions,
00:05:21.020 and the politician might act a little peeved,
00:05:25.140 but they basically play along with the charade
00:05:28.660 that any of this is good for the public
00:05:30.860 if they answer the question.
00:05:32.820 Trump just doesn't play along.
00:05:34.900 When they ask a gotcha question,
00:05:37.060 he attacks them personally.
00:05:40.740 To which I say, is that unfair?
00:05:43.040 If somebody goes into the most important room
00:05:47.560 in the United States at the moment,
00:05:50.420 wherever the president is, I guess,
00:05:52.000 would be the most important room,
00:05:54.000 and they waste the public's time
00:05:56.100 by asking questions that only serve
00:05:58.820 the business model of the press
00:06:00.420 and don't help the public whatsoever,
00:06:03.560 not even potentially,
00:06:05.780 there's no argument for it.
00:06:07.400 I mean, all that conversation about
00:06:09.320 is Trump making doctor advice
00:06:12.980 when he talks about the hydroxychloroquine,
00:06:15.500 that's nothing but a whole bunch of gotcha stuff.
00:06:18.080 There's no content there.
00:06:19.700 Because everybody knows the content.
00:06:22.800 The content is,
00:06:24.740 as clearly as anybody can say it a hundred times,
00:06:27.900 it's not proven.
00:06:30.600 There is some optimism,
00:06:32.200 and here are the reasons for being optimistic.
00:06:34.140 There's not much downside.
00:06:35.260 That's it.
00:06:35.620 That's the whole story.
00:06:37.400 And the press wastes the country's time
00:06:40.220 to try to turn this into a story
00:06:43.820 about how cleverly the question was asked
00:06:46.940 to catch the president in an imperfect answer.
00:06:52.180 Do you want to watch that?
00:06:54.260 Is that why you turned on the TV
00:06:55.740 to get information about the coronavirus crisis?
00:07:00.040 And instead of that,
00:07:00.980 you're watching some reporter
00:07:04.560 trying to make a star turn
00:07:06.060 and make it about themselves
00:07:07.660 in the clever way they ask the question
00:07:09.380 so they can get some time in the news tonight,
00:07:11.880 I want to see the president
00:07:13.940 absolutely eviscerate them in public,
00:07:18.780 which is what he does.
00:07:20.880 He just, in front of the whole public,
00:07:24.300 he just tells the world
00:07:25.420 that you're a piece of crap
00:07:26.860 and you're wasting everybody's time.
00:07:28.880 And if the second question is the same thing,
00:07:31.700 the president will take the time
00:07:33.520 to tell the second reporter,
00:07:35.440 well, you know, you're also a piece of crap
00:07:37.260 and you're wasting the public's time.
00:07:39.540 You know, fix yourself.
00:07:41.420 I could watch that all day long.
00:07:44.340 I wouldn't, you know,
00:07:44.920 you could line up 35 reporters
00:07:47.100 and I'll have them ask
00:07:48.820 the same stupid gotcha questions
00:07:50.620 and I would never get tired
00:07:52.320 of the president saying,
00:07:53.880 you're a stupid reporter
00:07:54.880 asking a stupid gotcha question.
00:07:57.020 Next.
00:07:58.440 Oh, well, you're a stupid reporter
00:08:00.000 asking a stupid gotcha question too.
00:08:02.660 Next.
00:08:03.360 I mean, I would never get tired of it.
00:08:04.940 I swear to God,
00:08:05.800 I could watch it all day long.
00:08:08.160 So, good on the president
00:08:10.520 for pushing back
00:08:12.060 in what I think is proportionate way.
00:08:16.480 There's a graph going around the internet,
00:08:18.520 which everybody feels
00:08:21.260 they need to forward to me.
00:08:23.840 It, and it looks like a fake one to me.
00:08:26.820 So, I called it out
00:08:28.120 as looking like a fake
00:08:29.800 and I'm going to see
00:08:30.860 how good my instincts are.
00:08:32.800 So, what the graph shows is
00:08:34.700 in prior years,
00:08:36.960 what the, I guess,
00:08:38.920 the curve for pneumonia looked like,
00:08:40.640 the number of people
00:08:41.340 who get diagnosed with pneumonia.
00:08:44.560 And every year,
00:08:45.400 it looked like it was going down
00:08:46.640 from the year before,
00:08:47.700 but this current year,
00:08:50.040 when it got to about COVID season,
00:08:52.640 according to the graph,
00:08:54.380 it just fell off the table
00:08:55.980 as if nobody was getting
00:08:58.600 a pneumonia diagnosis.
00:09:00.540 They were only getting
00:09:01.720 coronavirus diagnoses.
00:09:05.160 And the implication of the graph,
00:09:07.100 which I believe is not real,
00:09:09.540 I think it's a fake data,
00:09:11.740 but we'll find out.
00:09:12.880 That's the fun part,
00:09:13.900 is finding out.
00:09:14.380 And the point of it is
00:09:16.080 that it seems to indicate
00:09:17.600 that the coronavirus
00:09:19.580 is not so bad
00:09:20.880 and all people are doing
00:09:22.860 is interpreting
00:09:24.260 regular pneumonia
00:09:25.440 as coronavirus
00:09:26.880 because, you know,
00:09:28.020 they're not doing
00:09:28.580 a real check
00:09:30.460 to find out
00:09:30.940 why somebody died.
00:09:32.400 And so,
00:09:32.660 the thinking is
00:09:33.340 that the coronavirus
00:09:34.020 is just over,
00:09:35.380 over categorized,
00:09:38.160 over counted.
00:09:39.900 So,
00:09:40.620 here's the thing.
00:09:42.320 Here's what I think
00:09:43.280 is sketchy about it.
00:09:44.840 It refers to a source
00:09:46.380 but it doesn't link
00:09:47.460 to a source.
00:09:48.880 If you see a graph
00:09:50.280 that's that provocative
00:09:51.480 and on the graph
00:09:53.460 it says, you know,
00:09:54.380 here's the link
00:09:55.340 but it's just described,
00:09:58.080 it's not an actual link
00:09:59.340 you can click
00:10:00.080 and go look at.
00:10:01.380 And you can't even
00:10:02.220 really easily type it in
00:10:03.440 because it's like
00:10:04.040 a long link,
00:10:05.820 a URL,
00:10:06.540 you wouldn't really
00:10:07.080 type that in.
00:10:07.700 So,
00:10:08.940 yeah, I'm seeing
00:10:11.600 other people say
00:10:12.200 fake graph.
00:10:13.220 So, hint number one
00:10:14.640 is it mentions
00:10:16.880 a source
00:10:17.460 but it doesn't
00:10:18.160 link to it.
00:10:19.700 In 2020,
00:10:21.500 if you mention
00:10:22.520 a source
00:10:22.980 and don't link
00:10:23.700 to it,
00:10:24.660 it's probably
00:10:25.700 fake.
00:10:27.520 Right?
00:10:28.360 Secondly,
00:10:29.520 it's too
00:10:29.940 on the nose.
00:10:31.760 Have you ever
00:10:32.340 heard that phrase?
00:10:33.600 It's sort of a
00:10:34.660 Hollywood script writer
00:10:35.920 phrase,
00:10:36.420 that's the first
00:10:36.860 place I heard it,
00:10:38.560 where you're
00:10:39.000 writing a script
00:10:39.700 and then you write
00:10:40.700 something into the script
00:10:41.740 that's just a little
00:10:43.060 too perfect.
00:10:44.560 It's like,
00:10:45.100 oh, yeah,
00:10:46.080 that's a pretty
00:10:46.840 big coincidence.
00:10:48.080 That doesn't look
00:10:48.640 real at all.
00:10:49.680 That's called
00:10:50.220 being too on the nose.
00:10:52.320 It's so perfect
00:10:53.380 it can't be real.
00:10:55.180 So, when they show
00:10:56.040 this graph
00:10:56.640 and all the other lines
00:10:57.800 are, you know,
00:10:58.360 conforming really well
00:10:59.760 and then this one
00:11:00.400 goes blah, blah, blah
00:11:01.020 and then it just
00:11:01.580 drops straight down,
00:11:03.660 that's a little
00:11:04.420 too on the nose.
00:11:05.920 Right?
00:11:06.480 That's a little
00:11:07.240 too exactly
00:11:08.200 what the message
00:11:09.120 is trying to be.
00:11:10.560 Now, that doesn't
00:11:11.120 mean it's false.
00:11:12.320 I mean,
00:11:12.700 that by itself
00:11:14.300 because sometimes
00:11:15.660 data is surprising.
00:11:17.420 But you start
00:11:18.240 putting it together,
00:11:19.060 it's like,
00:11:19.320 okay,
00:11:19.920 it's a little
00:11:20.600 too on the nose
00:11:21.620 and it doesn't
00:11:23.960 have a clickable
00:11:25.600 link.
00:11:28.320 I say fake.
00:11:30.300 So, I'm seeing
00:11:31.240 different opinions
00:11:31.880 here.
00:11:32.160 Some of you
00:11:32.520 think it's fake,
00:11:33.180 some of you
00:11:33.440 think it's real.
00:11:34.020 maybe somebody
00:11:36.920 can give me
00:11:37.520 an idea.
00:11:38.180 The first person
00:11:39.180 I saw,
00:11:40.280 who I know
00:11:41.240 to be credible
00:11:41.880 from other
00:11:42.660 comments,
00:11:43.820 said he looked
00:11:44.660 at the graph
00:11:45.440 and then looked
00:11:46.060 at the source
00:11:47.040 it's supposed
00:11:48.100 to be from
00:11:48.700 and it doesn't
00:11:49.200 seem to match.
00:11:50.680 But that was
00:11:51.020 just, you know,
00:11:51.760 the first person
00:11:52.500 who commented.
00:11:54.540 So, beware
00:11:55.240 of graphs
00:11:55.920 with no
00:11:57.240 clickable link.
00:11:58.480 I would think
00:12:00.820 75% of those
00:12:02.620 are fake
00:12:03.100 just in general.
00:12:04.600 It doesn't
00:12:04.880 mean that one
00:12:05.360 is, but it
00:12:05.940 might be.
00:12:08.080 Once again,
00:12:08.840 I put on my
00:12:09.580 headphones
00:12:10.000 and started
00:12:12.460 Periscope
00:12:13.480 without clicking
00:12:14.300 the option
00:12:14.860 for you to
00:12:15.520 ask questions.
00:12:16.700 So, my plan
00:12:17.880 for filling
00:12:18.420 this hour
00:12:18.920 with questions
00:12:19.680 that you
00:12:20.100 asked me live
00:12:20.880 is once again
00:12:22.480 ruined by the
00:12:23.540 oddity of
00:12:24.480 this user
00:12:25.740 interface,
00:12:26.220 which doesn't
00:12:27.540 let me do
00:12:28.340 things in the
00:12:28.940 order that I
00:12:29.560 think I want
00:12:30.100 to do them.
00:12:31.360 The order
00:12:32.080 that I want
00:12:32.620 to do them
00:12:33.160 is I wanted
00:12:34.640 to start it up
00:12:35.400 and then invite
00:12:36.120 people in,
00:12:36.700 but apparently
00:12:37.100 I have to
00:12:37.480 invite people
00:12:38.480 in and then
00:12:39.120 start it up,
00:12:39.860 but it's too
00:12:40.820 late to go
00:12:41.280 back now.
00:12:42.340 So, how
00:12:43.400 about those
00:12:43.840 apples?
00:12:47.700 A lot of
00:12:48.400 stories on
00:12:48.780 Facebook of
00:12:49.700 survivors who
00:12:50.620 took the
00:12:51.200 hydroxychloroquine.
00:12:52.960 So, yeah,
00:12:53.440 I just saw a
00:12:54.240 story on
00:12:55.560 Laura Engram's
00:12:56.560 show in
00:12:57.440 which a
00:12:58.680 Democratic
00:12:59.180 politician said
00:13:01.200 that the
00:13:01.640 hydroxychloroquine
00:13:02.660 probably saved
00:13:04.420 her life.
00:13:05.660 Here's a
00:13:06.420 problem with
00:13:07.140 every one of
00:13:07.900 those stories.
00:13:09.780 They're a
00:13:10.340 thing called
00:13:10.920 anecdotal.
00:13:12.100 There's a
00:13:12.840 reason that
00:13:13.720 anecdotal has
00:13:14.880 its own word,
00:13:16.240 and it's not
00:13:16.800 the same word
00:13:17.420 as scientifically
00:13:18.400 demonstrated or
00:13:20.280 clinical trials.
00:13:22.560 Anecdotal is
00:13:24.080 never reliable.
00:13:27.320 It can be
00:13:27.860 true, but you
00:13:29.540 can't rely on
00:13:30.340 it.
00:13:30.920 There's no
00:13:31.620 information really
00:13:32.500 being transmitted
00:13:33.360 with anecdotal
00:13:34.780 stuff.
00:13:35.280 There's only the
00:13:35.860 possibility of
00:13:36.800 information.
00:13:38.200 So, anecdotal
00:13:38.840 information can
00:13:39.680 tell you where
00:13:40.260 to look.
00:13:41.680 It can tell
00:13:42.300 you, well, it
00:13:43.060 might be a good
00:13:43.540 idea to do a
00:13:44.240 study on this,
00:13:45.580 but by itself it
00:13:46.700 doesn't tell you
00:13:47.200 stuff.
00:13:47.820 So, just keep
00:13:49.520 that in mind.
00:13:50.460 I suppose
00:13:50.960 everybody's saying
00:13:51.640 the same thing,
00:13:52.400 but you can't
00:13:53.440 be reminded of
00:13:54.320 that enough.
00:13:55.820 So, I put
00:13:56.560 very low
00:13:58.820 credibility in
00:13:59.920 the individual
00:14:00.860 reports of
00:14:02.060 people who
00:14:02.540 say, I took
00:14:03.220 the drug and
00:14:03.920 an hour later
00:14:05.700 I was already
00:14:06.260 feeling better.
00:14:07.060 And by the
00:14:07.380 way, I have
00:14:07.840 heard those
00:14:08.260 stories.
00:14:09.340 I have very
00:14:10.100 much heard the
00:14:10.700 stories from
00:14:11.820 even personally.
00:14:12.980 I've heard at
00:14:13.880 least one story
00:14:14.660 of somebody who
00:14:15.380 took it and
00:14:16.880 it seemed to
00:14:17.600 turn things
00:14:18.100 around so
00:14:18.660 quickly that it
00:14:20.120 was hard not
00:14:21.040 to attribute
00:14:21.580 it to the
00:14:22.060 drug because
00:14:22.720 the timing
00:14:23.380 was just, it
00:14:24.400 would have been
00:14:24.700 a coincidence
00:14:25.160 if things
00:14:26.020 turned around
00:14:26.580 at exactly
00:14:27.340 that time.
00:14:29.180 So, I think
00:14:30.060 there's a good
00:14:30.400 chance.
00:14:31.160 There's a good
00:14:31.580 chance it
00:14:31.960 works.
00:14:32.900 I think India
00:14:33.680 decided to
00:14:34.640 open up and
00:14:35.640 allow us to
00:14:36.820 buy some from
00:14:37.440 India because
00:14:37.980 that's one of
00:14:38.500 our biggest
00:14:38.820 sources.
00:14:41.820 I'm seeing
00:14:43.580 ridiculous stories
00:14:44.720 about how
00:14:45.380 people are
00:14:46.940 trying to make
00:14:47.820 it look like
00:14:48.320 President Trump
00:14:49.000 has some kind
00:14:49.580 of financial
00:14:50.180 gain from
00:14:51.800 pushing the
00:14:52.420 hydroxychloroquine.
00:14:54.740 Do you
00:14:55.040 really need
00:14:55.660 to, like
00:14:58.220 suppose it
00:14:58.640 was true,
00:14:59.380 when I saw
00:15:00.860 those articles
00:15:01.520 suggesting that
00:15:02.520 the President
00:15:02.920 had some
00:15:03.380 financial gain
00:15:04.220 in this, I
00:15:05.100 couldn't even
00:15:05.540 open them and
00:15:06.200 look to see
00:15:06.700 what the
00:15:06.980 argument is
00:15:07.580 because on
00:15:08.940 its surface
00:15:09.460 it's so
00:15:10.020 ridiculous.
00:15:11.300 You don't
00:15:11.620 even have to
00:15:12.100 read that
00:15:12.900 article.
00:15:13.860 Let me
00:15:14.220 explain why
00:15:14.780 that's so
00:15:15.180 ridiculous.
00:15:15.580 The idea
00:15:17.540 is that the
00:15:18.020 President is
00:15:18.780 acting in a
00:15:19.540 way that,
00:15:21.120 even without
00:15:21.840 reading the
00:15:22.820 article, I'm
00:15:23.580 assuming this
00:15:24.140 is what it's
00:15:24.580 about, that
00:15:25.660 pushing this
00:15:26.260 drug, somehow
00:15:27.140 he has some
00:15:27.820 direct or
00:15:28.400 indirect financial
00:15:29.440 interest in the
00:15:30.180 company, and
00:15:31.280 really it's just
00:15:32.020 a big old
00:15:32.500 trick to pump
00:15:33.840 up the value
00:15:34.460 of this stock
00:15:35.640 and somehow
00:15:36.620 he'd gain from
00:15:37.600 that or his
00:15:38.120 friends would or
00:15:38.780 something.
00:15:39.840 Here's how
00:15:40.320 ridiculous this
00:15:41.040 is.
00:15:42.120 Have you
00:15:42.580 noticed he's
00:15:43.280 the President
00:15:43.780 of the United
00:15:44.400 States, and
00:15:46.420 he's got a
00:15:46.920 big old
00:15:47.300 company?
00:15:48.300 The only
00:15:49.020 thing that
00:15:49.480 Trump can
00:15:49.900 do that is
00:15:51.540 good for him
00:15:52.140 personally is
00:15:53.700 to do a
00:15:54.200 really good
00:15:54.720 job for the
00:15:55.400 country where
00:15:56.600 everybody's
00:15:57.180 watching.
00:15:58.300 That's the
00:15:58.900 end of the
00:15:59.260 story.
00:16:00.040 If you have
00:16:00.780 to throw
00:16:01.140 in, oh,
00:16:01.980 he's really
00:16:02.740 managing his
00:16:03.640 job as
00:16:04.160 President of
00:16:04.640 the United
00:16:05.000 States for
00:16:06.180 this one
00:16:06.660 little stock
00:16:07.320 deal, you're
00:16:09.140 so far from
00:16:10.020 reality and
00:16:10.940 understanding how
00:16:11.700 the world
00:16:12.060 works that you
00:16:13.220 should not
00:16:13.640 talk in
00:16:14.060 public anymore.
00:16:15.600 Because here's
00:16:16.280 the deal.
00:16:17.140 If Trump does
00:16:18.120 a good job
00:16:18.760 with this
00:16:19.080 coronavirus, the
00:16:20.460 public decides,
00:16:21.380 oh, it wasn't
00:16:22.760 perfect, but I
00:16:23.520 think you got
00:16:24.680 us through, he
00:16:26.080 will get
00:16:26.400 re-elected.
00:16:27.520 Being re-elected
00:16:28.380 is the best
00:16:28.840 thing he could
00:16:29.300 do for himself,
00:16:30.080 his family, his
00:16:30.680 family business.
00:16:32.000 Just simply
00:16:32.440 doing a good
00:16:33.140 job for the
00:16:33.740 country is
00:16:35.440 where all of
00:16:36.300 his gain lies.
00:16:38.060 There is no
00:16:38.860 situation where
00:16:40.440 President Trump
00:16:41.160 could find some
00:16:42.100 way, some
00:16:43.260 little angle
00:16:43.940 that's good
00:16:45.160 for him and
00:16:45.760 his family
00:16:46.460 personally, and
00:16:47.860 yet was somehow
00:16:48.460 bad for the
00:16:49.120 country.
00:16:49.620 It just doesn't
00:16:50.580 exist.
00:16:51.800 It can't
00:16:52.560 exist.
00:16:54.440 Logically, you
00:16:55.840 can't have a
00:16:56.720 situation where
00:16:57.980 you're watching
00:16:58.540 this guy so
00:16:59.340 closely and he
00:17:01.000 could possibly
00:17:01.640 find anything,
00:17:03.100 find some
00:17:03.700 clever way to
00:17:05.180 enrich himself
00:17:06.000 and his family
00:17:06.600 at the expense
00:17:07.340 of the country.
00:17:08.340 That's not a
00:17:09.160 thing.
00:17:10.060 It would be a
00:17:10.780 thing if we
00:17:11.260 weren't watching.
00:17:13.280 I'm not saying
00:17:14.200 that he would
00:17:14.700 do it if we
00:17:15.200 weren't watching.
00:17:15.840 I'm saying that
00:17:16.440 it could be a
00:17:17.720 thing if a
00:17:19.480 president were
00:17:20.180 not being
00:17:20.640 watched.
00:17:22.140 You could
00:17:22.520 imagine any
00:17:23.100 leader could do
00:17:23.780 nefarious things
00:17:24.600 if nobody's
00:17:25.200 watching.
00:17:26.080 But we're all
00:17:26.760 watching.
00:17:28.020 You can't
00:17:29.360 possibly come up
00:17:30.260 with any
00:17:30.680 reasonable
00:17:31.220 scenario where
00:17:32.720 the president
00:17:33.840 directly screws
00:17:35.700 300x million
00:17:37.740 people, but
00:17:39.440 he makes,
00:17:39.940 hey, I made
00:17:40.380 a 20% gain on
00:17:41.460 this one stock.
00:17:42.660 It's so crazy.
00:17:44.480 It's beyond
00:17:45.280 crazy.
00:17:47.120 It's 100% crazy,
00:17:48.440 as George
00:17:48.840 Conway would
00:17:49.420 say.
00:17:50.940 All right.
00:17:54.280 Here are the
00:17:55.040 things we know.
00:17:56.580 It does seem
00:17:57.540 that worldwide
00:17:58.980 there's some
00:18:00.180 kind of an
00:18:01.140 elbow happening.
00:18:02.060 there's some
00:18:03.500 kind of a
00:18:04.060 thing happening
00:18:04.680 right now in
00:18:05.580 which it
00:18:07.300 looks like things
00:18:08.000 are getting
00:18:08.320 better, or at
00:18:09.940 least things are
00:18:10.780 getting worse
00:18:11.960 less quickly,
00:18:13.400 which looks like
00:18:14.400 the beginning of
00:18:15.120 things getting
00:18:15.580 better.
00:18:16.980 And I will
00:18:18.800 remind you what
00:18:19.580 I told you,
00:18:20.640 that if it
00:18:21.460 looks like you
00:18:22.380 get a report
00:18:22.980 that that
00:18:23.480 hydroxychloroquine
00:18:24.600 is working,
00:18:25.780 you better own
00:18:26.660 some stocks,
00:18:27.800 because two
00:18:28.900 days in a row,
00:18:30.560 that's a lot
00:18:31.580 of green.
00:18:32.060 A lot of
00:18:34.060 green.
00:18:35.840 Amazon is
00:18:36.660 up.
00:18:38.420 Everything's
00:18:38.940 up.
00:18:39.780 Even poor
00:18:40.360 little Bitcoin
00:18:41.180 is up.
00:18:43.040 Wow.
00:18:44.360 Things are up
00:18:44.880 a lot.
00:18:48.000 So,
00:18:48.760 yesterday, I
00:18:49.860 think, was
00:18:50.240 that day.
00:18:51.000 You know, I
00:18:51.320 warned you that
00:18:52.160 you would not
00:18:53.420 want to not
00:18:54.520 own stocks on
00:18:56.400 the day that
00:18:56.920 somebody says,
00:18:57.640 you know, this
00:18:58.080 hydroxychloroquine
00:18:59.000 looks like it's
00:18:59.580 working.
00:18:59.840 And sure
00:19:01.800 enough,
00:19:02.840 yesterday was
00:19:03.660 that day.
00:19:04.320 I mean, we've
00:19:04.740 had lots of
00:19:05.300 hints, but I
00:19:06.460 feel like the
00:19:07.160 weight of the
00:19:08.320 hints didn't
00:19:10.140 become significant
00:19:11.740 until yesterday,
00:19:12.980 wouldn't you
00:19:13.340 say?
00:19:14.840 Wouldn't you
00:19:15.520 say that
00:19:15.960 yesterday was
00:19:16.560 sort of the
00:19:17.020 moment that
00:19:18.440 the whole
00:19:18.800 country started
00:19:19.540 to say,
00:19:20.160 maybe, yeah,
00:19:22.040 maybe, maybe
00:19:22.660 it does work.
00:19:23.540 Now, I think
00:19:24.040 what we needed
00:19:24.580 to see was
00:19:25.880 more anecdotal
00:19:26.700 stories, because
00:19:27.560 they're convincing
00:19:28.320 even though
00:19:28.940 they're not
00:19:29.280 scientifically
00:19:29.900 valid.
00:19:30.900 But on top
00:19:31.580 of that, we
00:19:32.020 needed to see
00:19:32.620 that the
00:19:33.020 curve was
00:19:33.460 changing, because
00:19:35.320 you wouldn't
00:19:35.800 believe that
00:19:36.320 the drug
00:19:36.700 worked unless
00:19:38.440 it was actually
00:19:39.320 showing a
00:19:39.900 change in the
00:19:40.420 curve, and I
00:19:41.040 think New York
00:19:41.500 City is starting
00:19:42.140 to demonstrate
00:19:42.660 that.
00:19:44.020 And I think
00:19:45.160 the news in
00:19:46.560 the coming
00:19:46.940 weeks will be
00:19:48.900 mostly about
00:19:49.900 hospitals that
00:19:50.920 are not
00:19:51.380 over capacity.
00:19:55.180 So I think
00:19:56.180 that's it.
00:19:58.020 I'm seeing
00:19:58.720 many questions
00:19:59.740 about what I
00:20:00.280 think of Dr.
00:20:01.080 Shiva's opinion
00:20:02.260 on this, and I
00:20:03.800 have not
00:20:04.200 followed it, so I
00:20:05.020 don't have an
00:20:05.420 opinion on that.
00:20:07.900 So you can
00:20:08.600 stop asking,
00:20:09.460 because I don't
00:20:09.900 know his
00:20:10.980 opinion.
00:20:14.880 So here's
00:20:15.800 the deal.
00:20:18.780 I think we've
00:20:19.720 entered the
00:20:21.180 period where
00:20:21.720 things are going
00:20:22.200 to get better.
00:20:22.680 Now, the big
00:20:23.080 question is going
00:20:23.720 to be how to
00:20:25.600 get back to
00:20:26.060 work.
00:20:35.440 Sometimes I
00:20:36.300 see comments
00:20:36.940 that so
00:20:37.560 disappoint me
00:20:38.460 in the, I
00:20:42.020 don't know, I'm
00:20:42.580 just so
00:20:42.980 disappointed,
00:20:43.600 because I
00:20:46.280 consider myself
00:20:47.200 relatively
00:20:48.060 ungullible.
00:20:50.640 You know,
00:20:50.800 everybody's
00:20:51.360 gullible a
00:20:51.980 little bit.
00:20:52.460 Everybody can
00:20:52.940 be fooled.
00:20:53.440 Everybody can
00:20:54.540 be wrong.
00:20:55.100 Everybody can
00:20:55.760 retweet something
00:20:57.240 that turns out
00:20:58.240 to be fake
00:20:58.760 news.
00:20:59.480 So nobody's
00:21:00.080 immune to it.
00:21:01.200 But I feel,
00:21:02.900 you know, if
00:21:03.920 you were to
00:21:04.280 rank human
00:21:05.580 capabilities,
00:21:06.580 you know,
00:21:06.860 everybody's
00:21:07.440 somewhere on
00:21:09.040 the line.
00:21:10.860 I feel like I'm
00:21:11.700 relatively immune
00:21:13.060 from believing
00:21:14.780 the craziest
00:21:15.440 stuff.
00:21:15.960 and when I
00:21:17.960 see people who
00:21:18.680 still believe
00:21:19.300 the craziest
00:21:19.860 stuff, as
00:21:21.420 in the
00:21:21.700 comments, it
00:21:23.640 just actually
00:21:24.240 shocks me for
00:21:25.100 a moment.
00:21:26.500 And I
00:21:26.740 think, wow,
00:21:27.800 people will
00:21:28.380 really believe
00:21:29.100 just about
00:21:29.620 anything,
00:21:30.060 won't they?
00:21:32.360 All right.
00:21:33.020 So, the
00:21:38.040 big question
00:21:38.940 in the
00:21:39.460 coming week
00:21:40.840 and more
00:21:42.180 is,
00:21:44.060 somebody says
00:21:45.440 you're gullible
00:21:46.020 to support
00:21:46.700 Tapper.
00:21:47.800 Well, you
00:21:49.400 get the
00:21:49.740 block.
00:21:51.760 Now, I
00:21:52.480 remind you
00:21:53.160 that you
00:21:55.560 can disagree
00:21:56.200 with my
00:21:56.680 opinions all
00:21:57.280 you want,
00:21:57.980 but whenever
00:21:58.540 your comments
00:21:59.320 are about my
00:22:00.760 internal thought
00:22:01.580 process,
00:22:02.120 you'll always
00:22:03.480 get blocked.
00:22:08.720 Do I have
00:22:09.780 to, it
00:22:10.700 looks like I'm
00:22:11.240 going to have
00:22:11.500 to go do
00:22:11.880 homework and
00:22:12.680 listen to
00:22:13.220 Dr. Shiva
00:22:13.960 so that I
00:22:15.480 can tell you
00:22:15.920 my opinion
00:22:16.400 because I
00:22:18.500 didn't say I
00:22:18.960 don't like
00:22:19.360 him.
00:22:19.700 I said I
00:22:20.220 haven't listened
00:22:20.820 to his
00:22:21.140 opinion on
00:22:21.640 this topic.
00:22:23.180 So, if,
00:22:25.320 will you be
00:22:26.500 happy if I
00:22:27.020 go listen to
00:22:27.520 his opinion?
00:22:28.180 Is the
00:22:28.580 reason that
00:22:29.040 you want me
00:22:29.680 to listen
00:22:30.480 because you're
00:22:31.580 not confident
00:22:32.120 in it or
00:22:33.100 do you
00:22:33.360 think, or
00:22:34.520 is it because
00:22:35.280 you are
00:22:35.660 confident in
00:22:36.560 his opinion
00:22:37.320 and you
00:22:37.700 think I
00:22:38.080 can extend
00:22:38.860 it?
00:22:39.940 Because I
00:22:40.420 don't really
00:22:40.840 understand your
00:22:42.260 interest in
00:22:43.240 me getting
00:22:43.900 interested in
00:22:44.560 him.
00:22:45.600 I mean, his
00:22:46.300 specific opinion
00:22:47.200 on this
00:22:47.600 topic.
00:22:48.500 Is there
00:22:48.700 some reason
00:22:49.220 that,
00:22:52.320 well, all
00:22:53.460 right, I'll
00:22:53.760 look into
00:22:54.080 it.
00:22:55.780 Let me do
00:22:56.720 it right now.
00:22:58.220 Let me look
00:22:58.800 up, no,
00:23:00.320 it'll take too
00:23:00.740 long.
00:23:00.900 Forget it.
00:23:03.560 So, anyway, I
00:23:04.440 tweeted this
00:23:05.200 question, this
00:23:05.880 survey.
00:23:07.640 I said, how
00:23:07.900 many net
00:23:08.320 lives would
00:23:09.500 you accept
00:23:10.100 as lost?
00:23:11.380 How many
00:23:12.020 extra people
00:23:12.640 would you be
00:23:13.160 willing to
00:23:13.640 see die
00:23:14.260 in order to
00:23:15.920 reopen the
00:23:16.440 economy?
00:23:17.960 And so my
00:23:18.700 choices were,
00:23:19.500 and of course,
00:23:20.340 these polls are
00:23:21.360 unscientific and
00:23:22.180 everything, but
00:23:23.440 they can give
00:23:24.280 you maybe a
00:23:25.040 directional sense
00:23:25.960 of where
00:23:26.280 people are
00:23:27.500 leaning.
00:23:27.760 and so I
00:23:29.240 gave them
00:23:29.500 the choices
00:23:29.920 of up to
00:23:30.880 50,000
00:23:31.520 people extra
00:23:32.340 dead to
00:23:33.080 get back to
00:23:33.560 work, up
00:23:34.500 to 100,000
00:23:35.360 or up to
00:23:35.900 200,000.
00:23:36.960 I capped
00:23:37.580 the survey at
00:23:38.400 200,000 because
00:23:39.280 I don't think
00:23:39.920 there's any
00:23:40.340 chance it's
00:23:40.900 going to go
00:23:41.200 over that,
00:23:42.340 wouldn't you
00:23:42.780 say?
00:23:43.140 Is it fair to
00:23:43.920 say at this
00:23:44.540 point that the
00:23:46.020 number of
00:23:46.460 deaths from
00:23:46.940 coronavirus are
00:23:48.140 unlikely to be
00:23:49.020 over 200,000
00:23:50.020 for this
00:23:50.480 country?
00:23:51.780 So I capped
00:23:52.560 it at that.
00:23:53.060 And the
00:23:53.940 answers were
00:23:54.720 interesting because
00:23:56.600 they were
00:23:57.260 clustered on
00:23:59.540 the two
00:23:59.820 extremes.
00:24:01.220 So there
00:24:01.880 were 32% who
00:24:03.100 said only up
00:24:04.660 to 50,000
00:24:05.460 extra deaths,
00:24:06.560 but there
00:24:07.440 were 48% who
00:24:08.640 said up to
00:24:09.100 200.
00:24:10.740 And then in
00:24:11.400 the middle was
00:24:12.300 the smallest
00:24:12.740 group of 19%
00:24:13.840 said up to
00:24:14.380 100.
00:24:15.020 So it seems
00:24:15.560 that people,
00:24:16.860 and I think,
00:24:17.680 I'll bet this
00:24:18.140 would hold
00:24:18.580 up.
00:24:19.600 I think this
00:24:20.500 would hold
00:24:20.920 up.
00:24:21.280 And what I'm
00:24:21.880 saying is that
00:24:22.620 people either
00:24:24.500 say it's
00:24:25.720 got to be as
00:24:26.200 close to
00:24:26.680 zero as
00:24:27.180 possible,
00:24:27.660 or they
00:24:29.260 say it
00:24:29.860 almost doesn't
00:24:30.560 matter.
00:24:32.080 Those seem
00:24:32.740 to be the
00:24:33.120 views.
00:24:33.580 I don't think
00:24:34.220 people are
00:24:34.640 going to be
00:24:34.920 able to
00:24:35.220 fine-tune
00:24:35.920 where it
00:24:36.360 is in
00:24:36.840 that range.
00:24:37.800 So the
00:24:38.380 people are
00:24:38.740 going to
00:24:38.900 say it's
00:24:39.580 got to be
00:24:39.900 as close
00:24:40.300 to zero
00:24:40.740 as possible,
00:24:41.520 so give
00:24:41.940 me the
00:24:42.220 smallest
00:24:42.520 number.
00:24:43.780 And then
00:24:44.220 other people
00:24:44.760 are going
00:24:45.000 to say the
00:24:46.120 economy is
00:24:46.780 so important
00:24:47.340 that 200,000,
00:24:49.000 sure.
00:24:49.680 A million?
00:24:50.600 Yep.
00:24:51.320 Yeah, I
00:24:51.740 would let a
00:24:52.120 million people
00:24:52.600 die to not
00:24:53.860 destroy the
00:24:54.400 entire economy.
00:24:55.220 Totally worth
00:24:55.680 it.
00:24:56.540 So given
00:24:57.020 that nobody
00:24:57.680 can really
00:24:58.260 calculate the
00:24:59.340 pluses and
00:24:59.940 minuses of
00:25:00.680 these, we're
00:25:01.360 just going by
00:25:01.980 our bias,
00:25:02.680 whether we
00:25:03.060 think the
00:25:03.380 economy will
00:25:04.100 kill more
00:25:05.040 people or the
00:25:05.820 coronavirus, we
00:25:06.760 don't really
00:25:07.180 know.
00:25:08.160 We just feel
00:25:09.620 like we know
00:25:10.260 or we've got a
00:25:10.940 hunch or an
00:25:12.240 instinct about it
00:25:13.060 that may or
00:25:13.500 may not be
00:25:13.880 good.
00:25:15.520 So the reason
00:25:16.300 this is important
00:25:17.040 is that you
00:25:17.720 need to get a
00:25:18.280 sense of the
00:25:18.920 mood of the
00:25:19.380 country, because
00:25:20.340 whatever the
00:25:20.960 government comes
00:25:21.620 up with, we
00:25:22.520 need to buy
00:25:23.040 into it.
00:25:24.500 And the
00:25:25.480 reason I'm
00:25:25.880 making a big
00:25:26.400 deal about
00:25:27.140 the public's
00:25:28.140 opinion is
00:25:29.360 that the
00:25:29.640 public needs
00:25:30.380 to give our
00:25:31.120 government cover
00:25:32.180 to make the
00:25:33.540 right decision.
00:25:34.540 At the
00:25:35.100 moment, I
00:25:35.580 think our
00:25:35.980 system requires
00:25:37.580 that our
00:25:38.060 president continue
00:25:39.160 to say things
00:25:40.040 such as, I
00:25:41.280 will accept
00:25:41.820 zero deaths.
00:25:43.720 Now, as a
00:25:44.740 politician and
00:25:46.240 a leader, that's
00:25:48.040 really good.
00:25:48.620 When Trump
00:25:51.160 says, I
00:25:51.980 will accept
00:25:52.500 zero deaths
00:25:54.160 are acceptable,
00:25:56.080 for once, he's
00:25:57.600 acting like a
00:25:58.300 standard politician
00:25:59.220 in the sense
00:26:00.000 that there's
00:26:01.040 no other
00:26:01.520 right answer
00:26:02.260 if you're the
00:26:03.060 leader of the
00:26:03.500 country.
00:26:04.520 Which, by the
00:26:05.120 way, I'm
00:26:05.440 going to tie
00:26:05.780 this into
00:26:06.200 something.
00:26:07.200 Regardless of
00:26:08.000 what you think
00:26:08.880 about abortion,
00:26:11.240 so forget
00:26:12.180 your own
00:26:12.680 opinion,
00:26:13.580 regardless of
00:26:15.300 what you think
00:26:16.300 of abortion,
00:26:17.020 whether you
00:26:17.320 like it or
00:26:17.820 hate it,
00:26:18.620 would you
00:26:19.580 not agree
00:26:20.160 that the
00:26:21.280 president of
00:26:21.840 the United
00:26:22.160 States should
00:26:23.020 always be
00:26:23.680 against it?
00:26:25.560 Here's my
00:26:26.240 argument.
00:26:27.200 Because you
00:26:27.900 want the
00:26:28.320 president of
00:26:28.760 the United
00:26:29.020 States to
00:26:29.600 say, in
00:26:30.600 every case,
00:26:31.820 no matter
00:26:32.240 what, if
00:26:33.000 there's a
00:26:33.400 gray area,
00:26:34.900 I'm in
00:26:35.320 favor of
00:26:35.920 maximizing,
00:26:37.180 saving
00:26:37.480 American
00:26:37.960 lives.
00:26:39.440 That was
00:26:39.780 restricted to
00:26:40.660 America,
00:26:41.140 because it's
00:26:41.520 an American
00:26:41.920 political
00:26:42.380 question.
00:26:44.520 Would you
00:26:45.180 ever want a
00:26:45.820 president,
00:26:46.200 regardless of
00:26:49.920 your own
00:26:50.300 views,
00:26:51.260 independent of
00:26:52.180 what you
00:26:52.500 think,
00:26:52.940 would you
00:26:53.200 ever be
00:26:53.560 comfortable
00:26:53.900 with a
00:26:54.280 president who
00:26:54.860 said,
00:26:55.580 look, I
00:26:57.200 think there
00:26:57.580 is a
00:26:58.020 case,
00:26:59.360 it seems
00:26:59.820 like a
00:27:00.140 little gray
00:27:00.560 area to a
00:27:01.160 lot of
00:27:01.340 people in
00:27:01.660 the country,
00:27:02.260 or a big
00:27:02.720 gray area to
00:27:03.360 a lot of
00:27:03.660 people in
00:27:03.960 the country,
00:27:04.740 but as
00:27:05.340 your leader,
00:27:05.960 yeah, I
00:27:06.960 think that
00:27:07.360 this class
00:27:08.020 of people,
00:27:09.420 according to
00:27:10.240 this number
00:27:11.360 of the
00:27:11.580 public,
00:27:11.940 who would
00:27:13.040 consider it
00:27:13.600 the unborn
00:27:14.140 real people,
00:27:16.240 that, yeah,
00:27:17.160 my opinion
00:27:17.660 is that they
00:27:18.400 can die.
00:27:20.260 Now,
00:27:20.960 regardless of
00:27:21.720 whether you
00:27:22.000 think abortion
00:27:22.540 is a good
00:27:23.100 idea or a
00:27:23.880 bad idea,
00:27:25.100 my opinion
00:27:25.780 is that the
00:27:26.760 leader of
00:27:27.140 the country,
00:27:28.700 the one who
00:27:30.780 has the most
00:27:31.440 impact in
00:27:32.200 leadership,
00:27:33.100 needs to
00:27:34.100 always be
00:27:34.960 on the
00:27:36.180 side of
00:27:36.600 maximum
00:27:37.000 life,
00:27:37.700 even if
00:27:38.320 it's not
00:27:38.660 practical.
00:27:39.880 Now, I
00:27:40.940 would still
00:27:41.360 be okay
00:27:41.960 with that
00:27:43.260 leader saying,
00:27:44.260 you know,
00:27:44.700 as your
00:27:45.460 president,
00:27:46.020 I have one
00:27:46.640 view and it
00:27:47.220 will never
00:27:47.580 change.
00:27:48.960 My view is
00:27:50.000 that we
00:27:50.320 should do
00:27:50.600 everything we
00:27:51.100 can to
00:27:52.060 protect every
00:27:52.720 life, every
00:27:53.960 possible life,
00:27:54.980 every gray area
00:27:55.700 life, every
00:27:56.460 life.
00:27:56.960 If you're an
00:27:57.340 American, I've
00:27:57.940 got one job.
00:27:59.240 Keep you safe,
00:28:00.020 keep you alive,
00:28:00.740 keep you happy.
00:28:02.000 It's not up to
00:28:02.740 me to decide if
00:28:03.680 you're worthy of
00:28:04.540 saving.
00:28:05.920 As president, I
00:28:07.060 will never weigh
00:28:07.840 in on the
00:28:08.280 question of
00:28:09.580 whether this
00:28:10.120 person or this
00:28:10.780 person,
00:28:11.360 is worth
00:28:12.280 saving their
00:28:13.000 life.
00:28:13.360 I will never
00:28:13.860 engage in
00:28:14.500 that because
00:28:15.580 my job is to
00:28:16.460 save you all.
00:28:17.600 Now, it's
00:28:18.660 also a
00:28:19.100 practical world.
00:28:21.080 Some decisions
00:28:21.960 are tough.
00:28:23.300 So this
00:28:23.640 abortion question
00:28:24.420 is going to be
00:28:25.000 to the states.
00:28:27.040 States, you
00:28:27.920 decided, maybe
00:28:29.140 even Supreme
00:28:29.760 Court, you
00:28:30.220 decided.
00:28:31.160 But because of
00:28:31.880 my special
00:28:32.960 job title, as
00:28:35.220 the person who
00:28:35.920 protects everybody,
00:28:37.260 I'm the only
00:28:38.240 person in the
00:28:38.940 country who
00:28:39.960 won't give you
00:28:40.620 an opinion on
00:28:41.260 abortion.
00:28:42.300 I won't give
00:28:43.140 you my opinion
00:28:43.800 because, as
00:28:45.800 president, I
00:28:47.140 shouldn't have
00:28:47.980 one on life
00:28:49.420 or death.
00:28:50.400 It's just
00:28:50.980 always life.
00:28:52.620 If you, the
00:28:53.440 state, want to
00:28:54.000 make a different
00:28:54.680 decision, I
00:28:56.240 accept that.
00:28:57.320 The country
00:28:58.180 needs to have
00:28:58.720 rules.
00:28:59.600 We have a
00:29:00.460 democratic process.
00:29:02.200 And if that's
00:29:02.720 the way it goes,
00:29:03.400 I'll support it.
00:29:04.540 But as your
00:29:05.080 president, never
00:29:06.540 put me in a
00:29:07.160 position where
00:29:07.960 I'm deciding
00:29:08.720 who lives and
00:29:09.980 who dies.
00:29:10.880 You don't want
00:29:11.380 that president.
00:29:13.200 And so, again,
00:29:14.920 as a practical
00:29:16.420 matter, you want
00:29:17.200 your president to
00:29:17.860 agree with you on
00:29:18.640 abortion because
00:29:19.320 it's more likely
00:29:20.020 things will go
00:29:21.200 your way.
00:29:21.680 So I get that
00:29:22.360 on a practical
00:29:23.440 level.
00:29:23.840 But on a
00:29:25.200 moral, ethical
00:29:26.000 level, I would
00:29:27.260 never, ever,
00:29:28.040 ever, ever want
00:29:29.700 the number one
00:29:31.220 leader of the
00:29:31.740 country to ever
00:29:33.300 decide who gets
00:29:35.500 to live and who
00:29:36.100 gets to die or
00:29:36.900 even who's a
00:29:37.460 person.
00:29:38.580 It just
00:29:39.060 shouldn't be
00:29:39.620 that person's
00:29:40.280 decision ever.
00:29:43.160 So, that
00:29:44.700 said, that
00:29:46.880 to my point
00:29:47.600 that the
00:29:48.120 public needs
00:29:48.920 to tell
00:29:49.440 Trump what
00:29:51.800 we're comfortable
00:29:52.460 with in the
00:29:53.420 life or death
00:29:54.040 situation.
00:29:55.540 So, some
00:29:56.240 things need to
00:29:56.900 come from the
00:29:57.460 leader and
00:29:58.500 sometimes the
00:29:59.440 leader just
00:29:59.860 needs to tell
00:30:00.440 the country
00:30:00.880 where we're
00:30:01.360 going and
00:30:02.320 that's your
00:30:02.720 best process.
00:30:04.300 There are lots
00:30:04.960 of cases,
00:30:05.540 certainly with
00:30:06.000 the commander-in-chief
00:30:06.820 situation where
00:30:08.200 you really, you
00:30:09.260 just need the
00:30:09.860 leader to just
00:30:10.500 tell you which
00:30:11.120 way you're
00:30:11.440 marching and
00:30:12.600 then if you're
00:30:13.140 being smart
00:30:13.780 about it, you
00:30:14.400 follow the
00:30:14.880 leader because
00:30:15.380 that's just your
00:30:15.920 best system in
00:30:17.140 some situations.
00:30:18.600 This is not
00:30:19.400 one of them.
00:30:20.540 This is a
00:30:21.180 situation in which
00:30:22.020 the leader is
00:30:22.980 necessarily
00:30:23.760 handicapped and
00:30:26.120 you want him to
00:30:26.800 be.
00:30:27.360 You don't want to
00:30:28.140 change that because
00:30:29.480 again, you don't
00:30:30.620 want your
00:30:31.040 president to
00:30:32.440 decide who's
00:30:33.280 worthy of life
00:30:34.120 and death.
00:30:35.180 I do not
00:30:35.940 want the
00:30:36.380 leader, the
00:30:36.940 number one
00:30:37.400 leader in the
00:30:37.860 country to
00:30:38.880 stand in front
00:30:39.480 of the world
00:30:39.900 and say, you
00:30:40.360 know, I
00:30:42.100 think that I'm
00:30:43.180 going to favor
00:30:43.660 the people who
00:30:44.440 want to get
00:30:44.760 back to work
00:30:45.500 and I'm going
00:30:46.780 to let 50,000
00:30:47.700 grandmothers die.
00:30:49.600 It shouldn't be
00:30:50.240 his decision.
00:30:51.600 It shouldn't be
00:30:52.240 in his job
00:30:52.800 description even
00:30:53.600 though it has
00:30:54.060 to be, right?
00:30:55.240 Ultimately, he
00:30:55.880 has to make the
00:30:56.420 decision.
00:30:56.920 You can't change
00:30:57.560 that.
00:30:57.800 But I think
00:30:59.620 we need to
00:31:00.300 give him some
00:31:01.400 cover.
00:31:03.180 And this is not
00:31:04.140 about Trump.
00:31:04.700 It's just about
00:31:05.200 whoever is
00:31:05.760 president.
00:31:06.700 The citizens
00:31:07.620 need to give
00:31:08.380 the leader
00:31:08.840 some cover.
00:31:10.520 And what I
00:31:10.920 mean by that
00:31:11.440 is that we
00:31:12.080 need to really
00:31:14.300 wrestle with
00:31:15.040 this question
00:31:15.680 of what we
00:31:17.220 are willing to
00:31:18.300 accept collectively
00:31:19.420 as a risk
00:31:21.680 to get back
00:31:23.420 to work.
00:31:24.540 So we as
00:31:25.780 non-politicians
00:31:26.860 can say this
00:31:28.300 and watch me
00:31:29.820 say it right
00:31:30.380 out loud.
00:31:31.140 And I can only
00:31:31.820 say this because
00:31:32.360 I'm not president.
00:31:33.600 If I were
00:31:34.320 president, I'd
00:31:35.120 just shut my
00:31:35.700 mouth.
00:31:36.660 But let me
00:31:37.320 say it as a
00:31:37.920 citizen.
00:31:39.540 Somewhere at
00:31:40.300 around less
00:31:41.460 than 50,000
00:31:42.580 extra deaths
00:31:43.540 over the course
00:31:44.300 of the year,
00:31:45.080 I would be
00:31:46.280 comfortable with
00:31:47.760 the trade-offs
00:31:48.520 to get us
00:31:49.860 back to work.
00:31:51.320 So that's my
00:31:52.140 number.
00:31:52.900 I feel that if
00:31:53.880 you want to give
00:31:54.440 the president
00:31:55.000 some cover,
00:31:55.780 which allows
00:31:57.260 the country
00:31:58.320 to make
00:31:58.720 rational decisions
00:31:59.720 and allows
00:32:00.380 the president
00:32:01.360 to do what
00:32:01.900 he needs to
00:32:02.420 do, as
00:32:03.680 opposed to
00:32:04.160 being bound
00:32:04.700 by what I
00:32:05.540 consider the
00:32:06.100 most sacred
00:32:06.740 rule of the
00:32:08.280 presidency, is
00:32:09.220 he doesn't get
00:32:09.820 to decide who
00:32:10.440 to kill.
00:32:12.100 So you need
00:32:13.000 to take that
00:32:13.700 away from him
00:32:14.400 because he
00:32:16.220 doesn't want
00:32:16.780 it.
00:32:17.720 I mean, I
00:32:18.820 can't read his
00:32:19.480 mind, but I
00:32:20.000 don't imagine
00:32:20.500 anybody would
00:32:21.220 want to have
00:32:22.580 that on their
00:32:23.080 conscience, want
00:32:23.980 that to be part
00:32:24.540 of their
00:32:24.720 decision, but
00:32:25.760 we can take
00:32:26.320 that away.
00:32:27.180 We can fix
00:32:28.000 that collectively.
00:32:29.580 And it doesn't
00:32:30.240 mean that we
00:32:30.680 all have to
00:32:31.120 agree, right?
00:32:32.580 So it's not
00:32:33.380 even about the
00:32:34.780 country getting
00:32:35.860 on the same
00:32:36.420 page and then
00:32:37.340 the president
00:32:38.180 can do that
00:32:39.020 too.
00:32:39.680 It's more
00:32:40.140 about the
00:32:40.520 public being
00:32:44.840 adults.
00:32:46.740 And here's
00:32:47.440 what I mean.
00:32:48.180 Here's the
00:32:48.660 adult view.
00:32:49.520 The adult view
00:32:50.320 is some number
00:32:51.700 of people are
00:32:52.240 going to die
00:32:52.740 either way.
00:32:54.060 I think this
00:32:54.880 will be the
00:32:55.340 path with the
00:32:56.200 least death and
00:32:56.880 destruction, so I
00:32:57.840 choose this.
00:32:58.420 That's what an
00:32:59.100 adult would say.
00:33:00.820 Here's what a
00:33:01.580 child would say.
00:33:04.600 A child would
00:33:05.540 say, oh, sure,
00:33:07.180 the 50,000 deaths
00:33:08.220 is fine as long
00:33:09.200 as it's not your
00:33:09.880 family, right?
00:33:11.340 I just saw this
00:33:12.360 on Twitter.
00:33:13.300 That's a child's
00:33:14.300 view.
00:33:15.600 The child's view
00:33:16.760 is, well, you'd
00:33:18.120 think differently if
00:33:19.200 it were your
00:33:19.660 family member.
00:33:20.320 That's just a
00:33:22.080 child's view.
00:33:23.320 I'm not even
00:33:24.000 going to tell you
00:33:24.400 what's wrong
00:33:24.940 with it, except
00:33:26.300 that it's not an
00:33:26.980 adult opinion.
00:33:28.280 So to the
00:33:28.920 extent we can,
00:33:30.780 let us see if we
00:33:32.000 can shame the
00:33:32.860 child opinions to
00:33:34.540 the sidelines.
00:33:36.080 The old, well,
00:33:36.900 you'd feel
00:33:37.360 differently if it
00:33:38.100 was your mother.
00:33:39.200 Yeah, of course
00:33:39.720 I would.
00:33:40.440 That's not new
00:33:41.660 information.
00:33:43.320 But we're
00:33:43.980 adults.
00:33:44.920 We're going to
00:33:45.480 make decisions,
00:33:46.360 and it might be
00:33:47.100 my family member
00:33:48.040 who gets killed
00:33:48.800 who's in the
00:33:49.500 $50,000.
00:33:50.580 It might be
00:33:51.320 yours.
00:33:52.240 Nobody wants
00:33:52.940 that.
00:33:54.340 We've still got
00:33:54.920 to get back
00:33:55.300 to work.
00:33:56.920 So I put down
00:33:59.200 my stake under
00:34:00.060 $50,000 because
00:34:01.060 I think we can
00:34:01.680 do that.
00:34:03.060 My guess is if
00:34:04.220 you netted out
00:34:05.060 the lives that
00:34:06.640 have been saved
00:34:07.420 and then you
00:34:07.840 add in maybe
00:34:08.420 there's more
00:34:08.840 domestic abuse,
00:34:10.100 unfortunately.
00:34:11.560 So if you do
00:34:12.500 the full net
00:34:13.200 of how many
00:34:13.700 people died
00:34:14.320 because of
00:34:14.980 the economy
00:34:16.220 taking a hit,
00:34:17.480 if you netted
00:34:18.260 it all up,
00:34:20.580 $50,000 is
00:34:21.800 where I'm
00:34:22.140 comfortable.
00:34:23.260 I'm not
00:34:23.600 happy.
00:34:24.900 Nobody's happy,
00:34:26.180 right?
00:34:26.460 About $50,000
00:34:27.300 people dying.
00:34:28.380 But there is
00:34:28.960 a point where
00:34:29.480 you just say,
00:34:30.080 all right,
00:34:30.980 got to be
00:34:31.520 adult.
00:34:32.620 Time to make
00:34:33.220 an adult choice.
00:34:34.160 Time to grow
00:34:34.680 up.
00:34:35.540 Time to get
00:34:36.280 on the team.
00:34:36.960 Time to do
00:34:37.320 what's good
00:34:37.640 for the country.
00:34:39.040 Time to take
00:34:39.760 some sacrifice
00:34:40.600 for the country.
00:34:41.960 So I
00:34:44.120 probably will
00:34:45.120 bore you
00:34:45.560 to death
00:34:46.200 on this
00:34:46.780 point.
00:34:47.420 I just
00:34:47.980 want it to
00:34:48.480 be more
00:34:49.080 a part of
00:34:49.520 the conversation
00:34:50.260 and not
00:34:51.380 ignored.
00:34:52.280 Because for
00:34:53.920 the next few
00:34:54.460 days, I think
00:34:55.040 what you're
00:34:55.420 going to see
00:34:55.820 is all the
00:34:56.440 talking heads
00:34:57.180 talking like
00:34:58.480 children.
00:34:59.980 Because it's
00:35:00.680 a little too
00:35:01.360 dangerous to
00:35:02.060 be an adult
00:35:02.740 in public
00:35:03.320 right now.
00:35:04.800 Because critics
00:35:06.120 will jump on
00:35:06.780 you.
00:35:07.520 But what I'd
00:35:08.140 like to see
00:35:08.780 is in
00:35:10.900 the next
00:35:11.220 week, I
00:35:12.140 want you to
00:35:12.560 see if at
00:35:13.340 least the
00:35:13.760 public pundits
00:35:14.840 and the
00:35:15.360 opinion people,
00:35:16.440 I want you to
00:35:16.860 see if I can
00:35:17.420 get them to
00:35:18.060 shift a little
00:35:19.060 bit from
00:35:20.460 talking about
00:35:21.120 the question
00:35:21.620 of orange
00:35:22.940 man bad,
00:35:23.760 orange man
00:35:24.220 good, and
00:35:25.300 stuff like
00:35:25.700 that, to
00:35:26.640 we are going
00:35:27.480 to have to
00:35:27.780 make a
00:35:28.080 decision about
00:35:28.820 people dying.
00:35:30.540 And let's
00:35:31.140 see if we
00:35:31.520 can even
00:35:31.900 have that
00:35:32.460 conversation
00:35:33.120 and are
00:35:34.820 we even
00:35:35.180 capable of
00:35:35.920 talking about
00:35:36.440 it in
00:35:36.700 public.
00:35:37.640 So I'd
00:35:37.940 like to
00:35:38.240 this week,
00:35:39.140 I would
00:35:40.180 like to
00:35:40.520 see the
00:35:41.240 public
00:35:42.000 pundits be
00:35:42.860 able to
00:35:43.480 give a
00:35:43.860 number and
00:35:45.020 say, you
00:35:45.320 know, there's
00:35:46.660 no way around
00:35:47.220 this, there's
00:35:47.680 going to be a
00:35:48.140 number on
00:35:48.860 the number of
00:35:49.320 people who
00:35:49.680 die.
00:35:50.100 There's going
00:35:50.440 to be a
00:35:50.720 number.
00:35:51.780 So if
00:35:52.420 you're not
00:35:52.740 willing to
00:35:53.120 say your
00:35:53.580 number out
00:35:54.080 loud, you
00:35:55.500 shouldn't be
00:35:55.940 in the
00:35:56.180 conversation.
00:35:57.680 Now, maybe
00:35:58.380 for this next
00:35:58.980 week, people
00:35:59.560 want to still
00:36:00.080 be children
00:36:00.880 and say,
00:36:01.660 well, let's
00:36:02.640 kill nobody.
00:36:04.100 Well, I'm
00:36:04.820 not going to
00:36:05.120 do anything
00:36:05.480 that would
00:36:05.700 kill my
00:36:06.100 grandma.
00:36:06.400 let's see
00:36:08.120 if we can
00:36:08.540 reduce that
00:36:09.320 opinion and
00:36:09.980 get people
00:36:10.500 to, you
00:36:11.380 know, if
00:36:11.980 it means
00:36:12.340 50,000 or
00:36:13.380 100,000, this
00:36:14.300 is where I'm
00:36:14.760 comfortable.
00:36:15.860 And it's
00:36:16.980 not until all
00:36:17.900 of us have
00:36:18.520 at least
00:36:19.020 given our
00:36:20.860 number that
00:36:22.800 the president
00:36:23.300 is safe.
00:36:23.900 because if
00:36:25.060 we've all
00:36:25.540 given our
00:36:26.020 number, then
00:36:27.400 he can say,
00:36:28.060 all right, given
00:36:28.500 all this
00:36:28.940 input, this
00:36:30.200 is where the
00:36:30.660 country is, this
00:36:31.540 is, you know,
00:36:32.160 the mood of
00:36:32.720 the room, I
00:36:34.100 can now pick
00:36:35.060 from that
00:36:35.520 palette of
00:36:36.160 options that
00:36:36.880 the country
00:36:37.320 has given
00:36:37.800 me.
00:36:38.540 But what
00:36:39.140 you don't
00:36:39.580 want is
00:36:40.820 your president
00:36:41.340 out there
00:36:41.860 naked.
00:36:42.840 He's got a
00:36:43.520 blank canvas,
00:36:44.700 and then he
00:36:45.280 just puts his
00:36:45.860 finger in the
00:36:46.380 middle of the
00:36:46.720 canvas and
00:36:47.220 says, that's
00:36:48.220 my number of
00:36:48.860 people I'm
00:36:49.300 going to kill
00:36:49.880 to get the
00:36:52.000 economy back up
00:36:52.920 so I can get
00:36:53.440 elected.
00:36:53.880 That's what it's
00:36:54.240 going to look
00:36:54.560 like, right?
00:36:55.340 It's going to
00:36:55.840 look like the
00:36:56.300 president decided
00:36:57.020 to kill however
00:36:59.040 many people so
00:37:00.020 he could get
00:37:00.440 reelected.
00:37:01.220 That's how it's
00:37:01.820 going to be
00:37:02.140 spun.
00:37:03.280 So if you
00:37:03.680 want to take
00:37:04.100 that risk away
00:37:07.300 from your
00:37:07.680 leader so he
00:37:08.300 can make a
00:37:08.740 decision that
00:37:10.100 makes sense
00:37:10.740 for the
00:37:11.060 country, give
00:37:12.580 a number.
00:37:13.920 Commit.
00:37:15.120 You don't have
00:37:15.680 to be right,
00:37:16.920 but at least
00:37:17.360 make it safe for
00:37:18.500 other people to
00:37:19.220 give a number.
00:37:20.340 You've got to
00:37:20.880 make it safe.
00:37:22.020 Here's a
00:37:22.480 little persuasion
00:37:23.580 rule that is
00:37:25.440 sort of implied
00:37:26.120 in what I'm
00:37:26.540 saying, but I'm
00:37:27.820 going to say it
00:37:28.240 explicitly.
00:37:29.680 People can get
00:37:30.680 used to almost
00:37:31.620 anything.
00:37:34.000 People can get
00:37:35.000 used to almost
00:37:36.140 anything.
00:37:37.120 So the first
00:37:37.980 time you hear,
00:37:38.940 hey, hey,
00:37:40.160 Bob, you're
00:37:40.720 going to have to
00:37:40.940 make a decision.
00:37:42.020 Are 100,000
00:37:43.480 people going to
00:37:44.080 die?
00:37:45.060 It's up to you.
00:37:45.900 Do you want
00:37:46.160 100,000 people
00:37:46.880 to die?
00:37:47.480 Well, the first
00:37:48.060 time you're
00:37:48.520 presented with
00:37:49.560 this decision
00:37:50.260 where you put
00:37:51.600 yourself in
00:37:52.080 the president's
00:37:52.660 shoes and you
00:37:53.160 say, okay, am
00:37:54.480 I going to let
00:37:55.020 50,000 people
00:37:56.300 die that might
00:37:58.380 not have died
00:37:59.060 in other
00:37:59.700 situations?
00:38:03.260 And the
00:38:05.440 first time that
00:38:06.140 you have to go
00:38:06.740 through that
00:38:07.160 thought process
00:38:07.960 is jarring and
00:38:09.820 you're going to
00:38:10.180 want to just
00:38:10.640 change the
00:38:11.140 subject.
00:38:12.660 But you need
00:38:13.560 to kind of get
00:38:14.240 used to it.
00:38:15.660 Because it's not
00:38:16.560 until we can
00:38:17.240 comfortably say
00:38:18.280 50,000 or
00:38:19.720 100,000 out
00:38:20.740 loud in
00:38:21.160 public just
00:38:22.940 to show we
00:38:23.440 can even talk
00:38:24.020 about the
00:38:24.400 topic, just
00:38:25.840 to show we're
00:38:26.340 no longer
00:38:26.740 shocked by it.
00:38:27.460 We're going
00:38:28.900 to have to
00:38:29.220 acclimate
00:38:29.780 ourselves to
00:38:30.580 being able to
00:38:31.200 talk about
00:38:31.700 these big
00:38:32.140 numbers just
00:38:33.580 so psychologically
00:38:34.440 we can get
00:38:35.160 to the other
00:38:35.580 side.
00:38:36.780 So I'll be
00:38:37.340 priming the
00:38:37.860 pump for
00:38:38.200 that.
00:38:39.300 What else
00:38:39.820 is happening
00:38:40.220 that you care
00:38:41.440 about besides
00:38:42.140 Dr. Shiva?
00:38:42.920 It was
00:38:48.580 called
00:38:48.780 Vietnam.
00:38:49.720 That is a
00:38:50.880 good analogy.
00:38:53.800 Analogies
00:38:54.480 don't win
00:38:54.940 arguments but
00:38:55.900 they're often
00:38:57.220 entertaining and
00:38:58.680 sometimes they
00:38:59.320 can educate.
00:39:00.940 And the
00:39:01.300 Vietnam example
00:39:02.820 was perfect.
00:39:04.900 Yeah,
00:39:05.120 Vietnam was
00:39:05.800 acceptable because
00:39:06.700 we sort of
00:39:07.320 inched our way
00:39:08.200 into it.
00:39:09.860 If we knew
00:39:10.740 from the
00:39:11.100 start, it's
00:39:11.540 like,
00:39:11.740 we're going
00:39:12.180 to lose
00:39:12.520 this many
00:39:13.520 people.
00:39:14.760 If we knew
00:39:15.440 that on
00:39:15.780 day one,
00:39:16.400 the public
00:39:16.740 would have
00:39:17.000 said,
00:39:17.260 I'm not
00:39:17.700 down for
00:39:18.060 that.
00:39:19.220 But if
00:39:19.580 you say,
00:39:19.960 well, we
00:39:20.300 lost 100
00:39:21.100 people today
00:39:21.800 and 110
00:39:23.040 the next
00:39:24.100 day, it
00:39:24.980 just sort of
00:39:25.400 sneaks up
00:39:25.880 on you.
00:39:26.840 That was a
00:39:27.200 good example.
00:39:29.960 But you
00:39:30.500 need to define
00:39:31.140 how to get
00:39:31.620 to that
00:39:31.900 number.
00:39:32.440 Okay, let
00:39:33.740 me define
00:39:34.240 it for the
00:39:34.740 billionth time.
00:39:36.620 I always
00:39:37.440 define it as
00:39:38.240 net, meaning
00:39:40.040 that you
00:39:40.520 look at what
00:39:41.540 the normal
00:39:42.000 number of
00:39:42.500 deaths are
00:39:42.980 every year,
00:39:43.920 and then you
00:39:44.560 look at this
00:39:45.080 period this
00:39:46.320 year, and
00:39:47.660 if normally
00:39:48.420 we'd lose
00:39:49.280 40,000 people
00:39:50.740 a month or
00:39:51.280 whatever it
00:39:51.660 is, and
00:39:52.900 this month
00:39:54.000 we lost
00:39:54.600 45,000, I'd
00:39:56.060 say the net
00:39:56.480 is five.
00:39:57.740 Now, I don't
00:39:58.160 care how many
00:39:58.740 of those are
00:39:59.160 coronavirus, and
00:40:00.060 I don't care how
00:40:00.580 many is the
00:40:01.220 reduced traffic
00:40:03.000 accidents, it's
00:40:03.720 just all in the
00:40:04.340 number.
00:40:05.260 Why would you
00:40:06.000 ever look at
00:40:07.860 any number that
00:40:08.520 wasn't net?
00:40:09.200 death count, and
00:40:10.020 this is the
00:40:11.040 part that if
00:40:12.240 you have any
00:40:12.660 training in
00:40:13.680 doing financial
00:40:15.520 analysis, it
00:40:17.180 gets really
00:40:17.700 annoying when
00:40:18.320 people ask you
00:40:19.060 if important
00:40:19.860 numbers are
00:40:20.420 included in
00:40:21.060 the figure,
00:40:22.020 because of
00:40:22.640 course they
00:40:23.080 are.
00:40:23.760 They're important
00:40:24.380 numbers, of
00:40:25.520 course they're
00:40:25.980 included, because
00:40:27.420 they matter.
00:40:28.980 So you don't
00:40:29.420 need to ask me
00:40:30.140 about, here's
00:40:31.540 what you don't
00:40:31.940 ever need to
00:40:32.500 do.
00:40:32.700 if you can
00:40:34.000 think of
00:40:34.500 something that
00:40:36.260 would be
00:40:36.600 different about
00:40:37.120 the death
00:40:37.460 count, either
00:40:38.260 more domestic
00:40:39.280 abuse, more
00:40:41.820 suicide, more
00:40:43.640 death from
00:40:44.100 economics, you
00:40:45.200 know, whatever
00:40:46.440 it is, it's in
00:40:48.800 the number.
00:40:50.080 So everything,
00:40:51.320 just everything,
00:40:52.080 you don't have to
00:40:52.520 ask about the
00:40:53.020 details.
00:40:53.740 If you can
00:40:54.540 calculate it, it's
00:40:55.520 in there.
00:40:57.320 All right.
00:41:01.260 How many
00:41:01.880 business owners
00:41:02.600 had a stroke?
00:41:03.720 No one's
00:41:04.340 counting that.
00:41:05.660 Well, again, if
00:41:06.840 you count just
00:41:07.740 the total number
00:41:08.540 of deaths this
00:41:09.460 year compared to
00:41:10.340 other years,
00:41:11.340 probably they
00:41:12.320 would be very
00:41:12.840 similar, meaning
00:41:14.240 you're probably
00:41:14.920 always within, I
00:41:16.060 don't know, 5%.
00:41:17.380 Any month, if
00:41:18.960 you looked at
00:41:19.320 any month in a
00:41:20.120 normal year to
00:41:20.840 the year before,
00:41:21.660 it's probably
00:41:22.140 about the same
00:41:22.800 number of
00:41:23.240 accidents, you
00:41:24.080 know, 5%
00:41:24.740 difference.
00:41:25.940 So if you see
00:41:26.520 a bigger difference
00:41:27.260 than that during
00:41:28.600 the coronavirus
00:41:29.200 deaths, you
00:41:31.020 could reasonably
00:41:31.880 attribute it
00:41:32.580 to this
00:41:33.140 situation.
00:41:38.140 Let's see.
00:41:40.220 Just remember
00:41:41.140 the lag, yeah.
00:41:43.600 The elderly are
00:41:44.700 more susceptible
00:41:45.380 and they tend
00:41:46.040 to vote for
00:41:46.660 Trump.
00:41:48.740 True.
00:41:49.700 Wouldn't you
00:41:50.120 like to see a
00:41:50.760 survey of people
00:41:51.980 over 60?
00:41:54.260 What if you
00:41:55.000 asked, if you
00:41:55.740 asked the people,
00:41:56.620 you know, say
00:41:57.580 under 40, how
00:41:59.220 many deaths
00:41:59.780 would you be
00:42:00.300 willing to
00:42:01.040 accept?
00:42:02.220 And I think
00:42:02.560 what you'd
00:42:03.040 find is a
00:42:03.980 lot.
00:42:05.260 I think you
00:42:05.760 would find
00:42:06.120 that the
00:42:06.560 younger people
00:42:07.300 resent the
00:42:09.180 elderly quite
00:42:10.740 a bit because
00:42:12.540 they feel like
00:42:13.260 the elderly
00:42:13.780 had a good
00:42:14.540 life and
00:42:15.660 used everything
00:42:16.360 up and
00:42:16.960 left them
00:42:17.340 nothing but
00:42:17.900 debt in a
00:42:19.020 smoldering
00:42:19.440 world.
00:42:20.660 It's a little
00:42:21.280 bit of an
00:42:21.640 exaggeration, but
00:42:22.480 not too
00:42:23.360 bad.
00:42:27.920 Somebody
00:42:28.360 asked, what
00:42:28.840 about the
00:42:29.240 surge?
00:42:29.860 Do we
00:42:30.080 need to
00:42:30.360 wait until
00:42:30.860 after that?
00:42:31.980 Well, we
00:42:32.360 do.
00:42:33.080 We do need
00:42:33.680 to wait.
00:42:34.540 I'd say
00:42:35.120 another week
00:42:35.800 we'll have a
00:42:36.220 good idea
00:42:36.660 what's happening.
00:42:37.680 So we
00:42:38.320 probably can't
00:42:38.900 make a final
00:42:39.480 decision for
00:42:40.720 at least a
00:42:41.660 week and
00:42:42.620 realistically we
00:42:44.000 wouldn't make
00:42:44.540 it then either.
00:42:45.220 We'd probably
00:42:45.540 wait two weeks.
00:42:46.640 But this is the
00:42:47.380 point where we
00:42:47.940 should start
00:42:48.280 making the
00:42:48.720 plans because
00:42:49.760 whether or not
00:42:50.360 that surge
00:42:51.740 is two weeks
00:42:53.240 away or one
00:42:54.040 week away.
00:42:54.800 I'm not sure
00:42:55.680 we can predict
00:42:56.360 that stuff so
00:42:57.180 well.
00:42:58.260 But no matter
00:42:59.140 when it
00:42:59.500 comes, you
00:43:01.100 need to get
00:43:01.540 to the other
00:43:01.980 side to make
00:43:02.580 the final
00:43:03.100 decision.
00:43:04.020 But I feel
00:43:04.640 like we can
00:43:05.560 feel it coming
00:43:06.460 in a way that
00:43:09.060 we probably
00:43:09.740 want to at
00:43:10.800 least make the
00:43:11.340 plan.
00:43:13.160 Yeah, I think
00:43:14.020 people over 60
00:43:14.960 might be more
00:43:16.700 flexible than
00:43:17.740 people assume
00:43:18.560 because, you
00:43:20.060 know,
00:43:20.160 when you
00:43:20.720 reach a
00:43:21.040 certain age,
00:43:21.580 especially if
00:43:22.100 you're 80,
00:43:23.080 I can imagine
00:43:23.860 a lot of
00:43:24.300 80-year-olds
00:43:24.960 saying, hey,
00:43:26.740 I had a good
00:43:27.500 run.
00:43:28.880 You know, if
00:43:29.340 you ask me,
00:43:30.400 do I want,
00:43:31.560 if you ask the
00:43:32.280 average 80-year-old,
00:43:33.740 here's the deal.
00:43:35.100 We could give
00:43:35.840 you an average
00:43:37.120 of three more
00:43:37.980 extra years of
00:43:38.760 life, but it's
00:43:40.360 three years in
00:43:41.280 your 80s and
00:43:42.600 you're probably in
00:43:43.280 the nursing home
00:43:43.860 anyway.
00:43:44.940 So you get
00:43:45.640 three more of
00:43:46.320 those worst
00:43:47.120 years of your
00:43:47.740 life, the last
00:43:48.520 three,
00:43:48.860 country, or
00:43:50.800 you could save
00:43:52.780 the country.
00:43:54.260 So you get
00:43:55.400 three years of
00:43:56.220 crappy end of
00:43:57.120 life, or you
00:43:58.960 can save the
00:43:59.620 economy of the
00:44:00.320 United States
00:44:00.960 for your
00:44:01.380 children and
00:44:01.960 grandchildren.
00:44:03.200 What does the
00:44:04.040 80-year-old say
00:44:05.040 to that?
00:44:08.200 I've got a
00:44:08.960 feeling that they
00:44:09.820 would very
00:44:10.320 strongly lean
00:44:11.680 toward, I
00:44:12.840 had a good
00:44:13.280 run.
00:44:14.520 Don't you
00:44:15.140 think?
00:44:15.700 I think if
00:44:16.340 you ask the
00:44:16.860 people who
00:44:17.320 are most at
00:44:18.000 risk, they
00:44:19.280 would say,
00:44:19.720 yeah, I'm
00:44:20.060 scared, you
00:44:20.920 know, and
00:44:21.480 all that, but
00:44:22.860 you know, if I
00:44:23.680 have to choose,
00:44:25.620 I'm going to
00:44:26.440 choose the
00:44:26.840 grandchildren.
00:44:27.880 I had a good
00:44:28.560 run.
00:44:28.880 I don't need
00:44:29.360 three extra
00:44:30.040 years of this,
00:44:31.100 whatever this is,
00:44:31.980 when you're 80.
00:44:33.580 So I would
00:44:37.100 not assume that
00:44:38.080 the elderly need
00:44:40.260 the kind of
00:44:40.780 protection as a
00:44:42.800 class.
00:44:43.240 obviously
00:44:43.740 individuals will
00:44:44.580 differ, but as
00:44:45.840 a class, I
00:44:46.560 don't know if
00:44:46.980 they're asking
00:44:47.480 for the
00:44:47.860 protection that
00:44:48.460 we're offering,
00:44:49.240 you know, given
00:44:49.680 the trade-off that
00:44:51.040 it would hurt
00:44:51.680 their grandchildren,
00:44:52.600 et cetera.
00:44:54.060 Somebody says,
00:44:54.760 you first.
00:44:56.180 Yeah.
00:45:01.280 Now, people in
00:45:02.400 their 70s, I
00:45:03.560 would expect to
00:45:04.160 have a different
00:45:04.680 opinion, because
00:45:05.440 70s are actually
00:45:06.380 still pretty good
00:45:07.120 years.
00:45:08.740 I'm expecting
00:45:09.600 that my 70s will
00:45:10.660 be a pretty good
00:45:12.120 decade, actually.
00:45:13.240 as long as I
00:45:14.200 stay healthy.
00:45:18.480 Now, the other
00:45:19.500 thing is that if
00:45:20.500 you're one of the
00:45:21.780 older people who
00:45:22.580 does not want to
00:45:23.520 sacrifice your
00:45:24.820 life, you do
00:45:26.620 have the option
00:45:27.280 of taking extreme
00:45:28.580 steps.
00:45:30.060 So you could,
00:45:31.480 you know, do
00:45:32.000 extreme social
00:45:32.920 isolation and
00:45:33.760 masking and stuff
00:45:34.660 for another
00:45:35.420 X months until
00:45:37.080 you felt safe.
00:45:38.240 So people who
00:45:39.060 did not want to
00:45:39.860 take the personal
00:45:40.560 risk, they were
00:45:41.580 willing to take
00:45:42.260 the class risk
00:45:43.640 of like, okay,
00:45:44.920 old people are
00:45:45.540 going to have a
00:45:46.000 tough time, I'll
00:45:46.580 take that risk, but
00:45:47.660 I don't want to
00:45:48.140 personally take the
00:45:48.960 risk.
00:45:49.700 They have that
00:45:50.460 option, too.
00:45:51.660 They can reduce
00:45:52.380 their own risk to
00:45:53.240 practically nothing
00:45:54.060 if they have the
00:45:56.200 wherewithal to get
00:45:56.900 social isolation.
00:45:57.860 I guess that's not
00:45:58.480 available to everybody.
00:45:59.300 So let's figure that
00:46:04.500 out.
00:46:06.180 A young life is
00:46:07.360 worth more than a
00:46:08.320 lived life, says
00:46:10.400 somebody.
00:46:11.520 Well, I would say
00:46:12.840 there's a lot of
00:46:13.740 individual difference
00:46:14.980 there.
00:46:16.500 As a good general
00:46:17.560 statement, sure.
00:46:19.380 Somebody says the
00:46:20.320 White House press
00:46:21.100 secretary is gone.
00:46:22.900 Is that news?
00:46:25.240 Did that just
00:46:26.060 happen?
00:46:26.340 70-year-olds
00:46:29.420 volunteered to
00:46:30.140 clean up the
00:46:30.640 mess of Fukushima.
00:46:32.200 That does not
00:46:33.140 surprise me.
00:46:34.740 Let's see if
00:46:35.940 there's any news
00:46:37.000 about the press
00:46:38.180 secretary.
00:46:41.660 Coroners cast doubt
00:46:42.880 on official
00:46:43.480 coronavirus death
00:46:44.600 tolls.
00:46:45.160 CNN exclusive.
00:46:47.140 Interesting.
00:46:49.220 Interesting.
00:46:49.820 Let me just see
00:46:51.880 what the headline
00:46:52.360 is.
00:46:53.940 Coroners.
00:46:56.940 Yeah, because
00:46:57.720 nobody's really
00:46:58.760 testing them to
00:46:59.640 see if they died
00:47:00.340 from the
00:47:01.000 coronavirus.
00:47:05.660 So apparently
00:47:06.660 there's just a
00:47:07.260 mess with the
00:47:08.020 reporting it.
00:47:09.620 So that's why I
00:47:10.260 come out to the
00:47:11.460 you have to look at
00:47:12.700 just the total
00:47:13.440 average deaths in
00:47:14.560 the country year
00:47:15.880 to year because I
00:47:16.980 think that's the
00:47:17.420 only thing that's
00:47:17.960 going to tell us
00:47:18.440 what's going on.
00:47:19.820 Somebody says
00:47:22.140 I'm 61 not
00:47:23.200 ready to go
00:47:23.860 still working
00:47:24.580 in essential
00:47:25.400 job.
00:47:26.880 Well, you know
00:47:27.280 for the people
00:47:27.940 who it seems
00:47:30.700 to me that
00:47:32.600 let me let me
00:47:33.520 ask you this.
00:47:34.220 So to the
00:47:34.700 person who is
00:47:35.260 61 who works
00:47:36.540 in essential
00:47:37.060 job and
00:47:37.720 definitely doesn't
00:47:38.420 want to die
00:47:38.900 which I
00:47:40.160 certainly understand
00:47:40.960 would you feel
00:47:43.320 more comfortable
00:47:43.960 if they gave
00:47:44.740 you the
00:47:45.440 the Z-Pak
00:47:47.240 hydroxy
00:47:49.120 chloroquine
00:47:49.740 if they gave
00:47:50.640 it to you
00:47:51.220 as a
00:47:51.700 preventative
00:47:52.260 for a few
00:47:54.620 months during
00:47:55.280 the worst
00:47:55.740 of the
00:47:56.160 coronavirus
00:47:56.940 would you
00:47:57.900 feel comfortable
00:47:58.540 going back
00:47:59.040 to work
00:47:59.480 assuming you
00:48:01.020 did all your
00:48:01.460 social isolating
00:48:02.320 and your
00:48:02.660 masking and
00:48:03.300 stuff.
00:48:04.360 Would that
00:48:04.800 make you
00:48:05.200 comfortable
00:48:05.600 enough if
00:48:06.620 you just
00:48:06.980 knew that
00:48:07.320 you had
00:48:07.560 that drug
00:48:08.000 in you?
00:48:08.780 Now my
00:48:09.300 understanding
00:48:09.720 is it
00:48:10.140 doesn't
00:48:10.460 prevent
00:48:11.020 you from
00:48:12.160 getting it.
00:48:14.020 Maybe it
00:48:14.620 does but I
00:48:15.580 don't think
00:48:15.940 that's been
00:48:16.380 demonstrated
00:48:16.960 even
00:48:17.420 anecdotally
00:48:18.120 what
00:48:19.500 the reason
00:48:21.420 you would
00:48:21.660 have it
00:48:21.980 is that
00:48:22.360 if you
00:48:22.820 got the
00:48:23.140 infection
00:48:23.500 it would
00:48:23.840 already be
00:48:24.280 in your
00:48:24.540 system
00:48:25.040 so it
00:48:25.540 would be
00:48:25.720 the
00:48:25.940 you know
00:48:27.740 Fauci is
00:48:29.460 80?
00:48:30.980 Is he?
00:48:32.420 Fauci isn't
00:48:33.140 80 is he?
00:48:33.880 He's in great
00:48:34.340 shape if he's
00:48:34.960 80.
00:48:40.440 Coroners want
00:48:41.140 to know where
00:48:41.720 are the
00:48:42.120 bodies?
00:48:42.480 Well I
00:48:44.760 don't think
00:48:45.420 that there's
00:48:45.860 any scandal
00:48:46.500 of hiding
00:48:47.060 bodies is
00:48:47.820 there?
00:48:48.540 Didn't you
00:48:48.880 just hear
00:48:49.280 that wasn't
00:48:49.960 it one of
00:48:51.700 the parks
00:48:52.180 in New
00:48:53.260 York City
00:48:53.640 was going
00:48:54.000 to be
00:48:54.200 dug up
00:48:54.660 for temporary
00:48:55.580 mass graves?
00:48:57.180 Do we do
00:48:57.980 that every
00:48:58.400 year with
00:48:58.780 the regular
00:48:59.140 flu?
00:49:00.200 Do we
00:49:00.460 build mass
00:49:01.640 temporary
00:49:02.140 graves in
00:49:02.780 Central Park?
00:49:04.120 There's
00:49:04.400 something going
00:49:04.960 on here.
00:49:09.780 You can
00:49:10.460 die with
00:49:10.920 the virus
00:49:11.500 but not
00:49:12.000 from the
00:49:12.960 virus
00:49:13.400 it says
00:49:13.860 somebody.
00:49:18.580 All right
00:49:19.240 yeah so
00:49:19.720 people are
00:49:20.120 saying yes
00:49:20.600 that they
00:49:21.160 would feel
00:49:21.980 comfortable
00:49:22.480 going back.
00:49:23.520 Now keep
00:49:23.840 in mind
00:49:24.200 that for
00:49:26.120 every person
00:49:26.740 who has an
00:49:27.180 actual medical
00:49:28.060 like physical
00:49:29.040 medical problem
00:49:29.900 from the
00:49:30.380 coronavirus
00:49:30.760 there are
00:49:32.080 25 people
00:49:33.140 who have a
00:49:34.000 mental problem
00:49:34.640 from it.
00:49:35.820 So the
00:49:36.140 psychological
00:49:36.780 problem
00:49:38.400 of coronavirus
00:49:39.880 virus is
00:49:41.660 pretty big
00:49:42.280 you know
00:49:42.660 the risk
00:49:43.080 of getting
00:49:43.440 in the
00:49:43.820 worry
00:49:44.160 and all
00:49:44.500 that.
00:49:45.600 So if
00:49:46.180 the
00:49:46.540 hydroxychloroquine
00:49:48.720 did nothing
00:49:49.420 except make
00:49:50.420 you feel
00:49:50.800 more comfortable
00:49:51.460 even if you
00:49:53.160 weren't
00:49:53.500 it'd still
00:49:55.080 totally be
00:49:55.660 worth it.
00:49:57.900 It causes
00:49:58.680 depression in
00:49:59.480 the long run.
00:50:00.080 I don't know
00:50:00.320 what you're
00:50:00.520 talking about.
00:50:02.220 Fauci is
00:50:02.900 79.
00:50:03.540 People are
00:50:03.860 saying he
00:50:04.280 must
00:50:04.520 he runs
00:50:06.760 every day.
00:50:08.100 It looks
00:50:08.440 like he's
00:50:08.760 in good
00:50:09.000 shape.
00:50:11.880 That's a
00:50:12.520 good argument
00:50:13.020 for being
00:50:14.440 fit all
00:50:15.200 of your
00:50:15.480 life.
00:50:16.660 If you
00:50:16.860 look at
00:50:17.160 Fauci
00:50:17.680 he certainly
00:50:20.100 presents
00:50:20.720 himself as
00:50:21.320 a much
00:50:21.640 younger man
00:50:22.380 and that
00:50:23.780 would make
00:50:24.140 sense if
00:50:24.560 he runs
00:50:24.880 every day.
00:50:28.540 So I
00:50:29.700 have seen
00:50:30.060 people saying
00:50:30.720 that the
00:50:32.160 White House
00:50:33.920 spokesperson
00:50:35.280 quit.
00:50:36.360 I don't
00:50:36.700 know about
00:50:37.000 that.
00:50:39.860 Shouldn't
00:50:40.380 the homeless
00:50:40.860 be getting
00:50:41.380 the virus?
00:50:42.400 Well maybe.
00:50:46.260 We'll need
00:50:47.040 to bury
00:50:47.400 all the
00:50:47.760 ventilators.
00:50:49.560 You know
00:50:50.220 if I had
00:50:50.740 to guess
00:50:51.280 I think
00:50:53.380 that a
00:50:53.720 whole bunch
00:50:54.180 of big
00:50:54.840 American
00:50:55.260 companies
00:50:55.760 are going
00:50:56.080 to be
00:50:56.280 really pissed
00:50:56.940 off that
00:50:58.280 they started
00:50:58.940 making
00:50:59.320 ventilators
00:51:00.060 that we
00:51:00.680 didn't need.
00:51:01.840 I feel
00:51:02.720 like it's
00:51:03.080 heading in
00:51:03.400 that direction
00:51:03.880 now of
00:51:04.980 course it
00:51:05.480 makes more
00:51:05.900 sense to
00:51:06.380 be more
00:51:06.900 prepared
00:51:07.400 versus
00:51:08.400 underprepared
00:51:09.220 so we
00:51:10.260 should still
00:51:10.700 be making
00:51:11.120 those
00:51:11.360 ventilators
00:51:11.840 like crazy
00:51:12.420 just in
00:51:12.900 case.
00:51:14.020 But
00:51:14.140 so somebody
00:51:17.020 says Stephanie
00:51:17.660 Grisham is
00:51:18.300 reported to
00:51:19.060 be leaving
00:51:19.500 so maybe
00:51:20.600 that's not
00:51:21.200 maybe that's
00:51:23.340 not confirmed.
00:51:26.440 All right.
00:51:28.620 Okay I'm
00:51:29.500 getting
00:51:29.660 confirmations
00:51:30.380 of the
00:51:30.660 comments
00:51:31.000 that Stephanie
00:51:31.620 Grisham
00:51:32.060 stepped down.
00:51:32.960 that kind
00:51:33.740 of makes
00:51:34.000 sense
00:51:34.300 doesn't
00:51:34.620 it?
00:51:35.380 I don't
00:51:35.900 even know
00:51:36.200 what she
00:51:36.380 looks like.
00:51:38.240 The
00:51:38.640 spokesperson
00:51:39.160 for the
00:51:39.920 president of
00:51:40.420 the United
00:51:40.620 States
00:51:40.980 I can't
00:51:42.000 tell you
00:51:42.220 what she
00:51:42.460 looks like
00:51:42.900 I wouldn't
00:51:43.220 recognize her
00:51:43.780 would you?
00:51:45.060 And
00:51:45.360 I think
00:51:47.280 this president
00:51:47.880 doesn't really
00:51:48.460 need one of
00:51:49.000 those.
00:51:50.680 It seems
00:51:51.500 like an
00:51:51.800 almost
00:51:52.140 or at least
00:51:53.380 in terms of
00:51:53.840 the public
00:51:54.440 part where
00:51:54.960 the spokesperson
00:51:55.440 talks to
00:51:56.320 the public
00:51:56.800 don't really
00:51:57.800 need that
00:51:58.140 part.
00:51:58.380 so I
00:52:00.040 can see
00:52:00.360 why she
00:52:02.160 might want
00:52:02.480 to move
00:52:02.700 on.
00:52:06.420 Says she's
00:52:07.180 returning to
00:52:08.080 the First
00:52:09.260 Lady staff.
00:52:11.540 All right.
00:52:15.860 She was
00:52:16.560 reassigned to
00:52:17.200 her previous
00:52:17.620 post.
00:52:18.160 Okay.
00:52:20.500 Prisoners
00:52:20.980 should get
00:52:21.340 the Trump
00:52:21.740 pills.
00:52:22.140 Well we
00:52:22.420 should all
00:52:22.700 get the
00:52:22.980 Trump pills.
00:52:23.720 Obviously
00:52:24.120 there's not
00:52:24.720 a supply
00:52:26.080 of them.
00:52:26.500 wouldn't
00:52:28.600 you like
00:52:28.940 to have
00:52:29.180 some
00:52:29.360 visibility
00:52:29.860 on the
00:52:30.260 supply?
00:52:31.880 So the
00:52:32.620 president
00:52:32.920 said we
00:52:33.520 got X
00:52:34.580 millions of
00:52:35.140 pills from
00:52:35.800 this source
00:52:36.300 or this
00:52:36.600 source.
00:52:37.200 Is that
00:52:37.520 enough?
00:52:38.380 Is that
00:52:38.700 a lot?
00:52:39.700 What are
00:52:39.980 they doing
00:52:40.300 with them?
00:52:40.820 Are they
00:52:41.060 allocating
00:52:41.540 them?
00:52:42.100 Can
00:52:42.280 prisoners
00:52:42.660 get them?
00:52:43.700 How about
00:52:44.080 old people?
00:52:44.740 What about
00:52:45.040 people who
00:52:45.740 don't show
00:52:46.300 symptoms?
00:52:47.200 So it's
00:52:48.140 the most
00:52:48.460 important
00:52:48.780 variable in
00:52:49.460 which we
00:52:49.800 have no
00:52:50.200 information
00:52:50.680 at all.
00:52:52.680 And if
00:52:54.040 Stephanie
00:52:54.460 Grisham
00:52:54.960 had been
00:52:56.280 pushing
00:52:57.720 the task
00:53:00.080 force to
00:53:00.760 give good
00:53:02.060 information,
00:53:03.540 maybe that's
00:53:04.240 why she
00:53:04.500 got fired.
00:53:05.840 So think
00:53:06.260 about this.
00:53:07.620 Nobody's
00:53:08.180 complained about
00:53:08.780 the communication
00:53:09.520 of the task
00:53:10.120 force more
00:53:10.580 than I have.
00:53:11.160 Is that
00:53:11.380 true?
00:53:12.140 Would you
00:53:12.560 agree that
00:53:13.060 nobody has
00:53:13.700 had more
00:53:14.340 sharper,
00:53:16.440 deeper
00:53:16.720 complaints about
00:53:17.860 the quality
00:53:18.540 of the
00:53:18.840 communication
00:53:19.460 from the
00:53:20.700 task force
00:53:21.420 than me?
00:53:22.860 I've been
00:53:23.500 the harshest
00:53:24.340 about that.
00:53:24.900 I think a
00:53:25.400 total failure
00:53:26.300 in communication.
00:53:28.580 Specifically,
00:53:29.420 not telling
00:53:30.020 the public
00:53:30.560 a little
00:53:31.780 better idea
00:53:32.640 of at least
00:53:33.180 what they
00:53:33.580 know.
00:53:34.140 Even if
00:53:34.600 they don't
00:53:35.020 know things,
00:53:35.540 they should
00:53:35.780 tell us
00:53:36.080 what they
00:53:36.360 don't know
00:53:36.820 and what
00:53:37.080 they do
00:53:37.360 know about
00:53:38.320 the supply
00:53:38.900 situation
00:53:39.620 and the
00:53:41.000 hydroxychloroquine
00:53:41.960 and the
00:53:42.300 ventilators and
00:53:42.900 everything else.
00:53:43.780 So I've
00:53:44.040 been the
00:53:44.520 harshest
00:53:44.980 critic saying
00:53:45.860 that the
00:53:46.180 whole things
00:53:46.720 are just
00:53:47.200 a horrible,
00:53:51.720 I don't want
00:53:52.360 to use the
00:53:52.840 word I
00:53:53.100 was going
00:53:53.320 to use.
00:53:54.280 But would
00:53:56.780 it be a
00:53:57.240 surprise to
00:53:57.920 me to
00:53:59.300 watch a
00:53:59.800 person who
00:54:00.400 is a
00:54:00.800 professional
00:54:01.500 in charge
00:54:02.240 of this
00:54:03.560 kind of
00:54:03.960 communication
00:54:04.620 have some
00:54:06.740 conflict with
00:54:07.520 the people
00:54:07.900 who are
00:54:08.200 blowing it
00:54:08.860 in public
00:54:09.580 every day?
00:54:10.980 Now in
00:54:11.600 my opinion,
00:54:12.760 the task
00:54:13.280 force is
00:54:13.820 blowing it
00:54:14.400 every day.
00:54:15.360 Like they're
00:54:15.880 failing,
00:54:16.600 it's just
00:54:16.980 an F.
00:54:18.160 In
00:54:18.460 communicating
00:54:19.260 with the
00:54:19.740 public,
00:54:20.080 I would
00:54:20.280 say it's
00:54:20.820 just a
00:54:21.300 flat F
00:54:22.680 day after
00:54:23.260 day.
00:54:25.580 It's always
00:54:26.180 the same
00:54:26.520 reason.
00:54:27.100 It's not
00:54:27.420 that the
00:54:27.720 president isn't
00:54:28.520 entertaining,
00:54:29.260 it's not
00:54:29.560 that he
00:54:29.800 doesn't get
00:54:30.260 good ratings,
00:54:32.040 it's not
00:54:32.380 that the
00:54:32.860 public doesn't
00:54:33.960 enjoy it,
00:54:34.480 it's not
00:54:34.800 that we
00:54:35.500 don't learn
00:54:35.960 things,
00:54:36.340 because we
00:54:36.680 do.
00:54:37.420 And it
00:54:37.920 educates us
00:54:38.640 about how
00:54:40.060 to socially
00:54:41.260 isolate and
00:54:41.900 all that.
00:54:42.560 So there
00:54:43.140 are lots of
00:54:43.620 value to
00:54:45.300 the task
00:54:45.900 force
00:54:46.200 presentations.
00:54:47.020 I watch
00:54:47.460 most of
00:54:48.200 them,
00:54:48.980 so I would
00:54:49.660 say the
00:54:49.980 value is
00:54:50.640 very high,
00:54:51.760 but the
00:54:52.800 skill in
00:54:55.140 terms of
00:54:55.720 the primary
00:54:56.560 message,
00:54:57.560 which is
00:54:58.520 inform the
00:54:59.380 public of
00:55:00.200 the useful
00:55:00.680 information,
00:55:01.620 that's just
00:55:02.340 an F.
00:55:03.540 So imagine
00:55:04.240 you're the
00:55:04.860 professional
00:55:05.380 who's most
00:55:06.120 identified with
00:55:08.020 the messages
00:55:08.580 coming out of
00:55:09.200 the White
00:55:09.460 House.
00:55:10.240 You don't
00:55:11.040 get to
00:55:11.440 change how
00:55:12.000 they do
00:55:12.320 it,
00:55:12.700 because
00:55:12.840 obviously
00:55:13.300 they're not
00:55:13.740 listening to
00:55:14.280 her,
00:55:14.520 wouldn't
00:55:14.720 you say?
00:55:15.800 I mean,
00:55:16.240 I don't
00:55:16.480 think anybody
00:55:16.880 is listening
00:55:17.360 to her
00:55:17.700 opinion.
00:55:18.760 So here
00:55:19.080 she is
00:55:19.460 watching the
00:55:20.100 people who
00:55:20.540 are doing
00:55:20.820 the thing
00:55:21.220 she's supposed
00:55:21.680 to be in
00:55:22.040 charge of,
00:55:22.580 which is
00:55:22.960 communicating,
00:55:24.460 and they're
00:55:25.620 failing every
00:55:26.660 day,
00:55:27.580 and they're
00:55:28.200 not listening
00:55:28.720 to her
00:55:29.180 advice,
00:55:29.800 because you
00:55:30.140 know they're
00:55:30.460 not,
00:55:31.300 right?
00:55:32.760 I mean,
00:55:33.320 you don't
00:55:33.580 have to be
00:55:34.000 in the
00:55:34.260 room to
00:55:35.360 know that
00:55:35.780 if she
00:55:36.080 just resigned
00:55:36.780 it's because
00:55:37.300 they weren't
00:55:37.640 listening to
00:55:38.160 her,
00:55:38.760 right?
00:55:39.960 I don't
00:55:40.640 think there
00:55:40.960 was another
00:55:41.440 reason,
00:55:42.620 you know?
00:55:43.160 It had to
00:55:43.880 be that she
00:55:44.340 was not being
00:55:44.940 taken seriously,
00:55:46.060 her opinion
00:55:47.200 on how to do
00:55:47.860 this just
00:55:48.260 wasn't winning
00:55:48.860 the day,
00:55:49.420 apparently.
00:55:50.800 So,
00:55:52.580 yeah,
00:55:53.240 if I were
00:55:54.220 her,
00:55:54.540 I think I
00:55:54.980 would have
00:55:55.280 quit.
00:55:56.080 If I had to
00:55:57.100 be in charge
00:55:57.840 of communication
00:55:58.780 and wouldn't
00:55:59.860 have any
00:56:00.280 influence on
00:56:01.000 it,
00:56:01.160 and then I
00:56:01.480 had to watch
00:56:01.900 the people
00:56:02.340 who should be
00:56:04.020 taking my
00:56:04.520 advice go out
00:56:05.300 there and
00:56:05.720 fail,
00:56:06.780 just fail,
00:56:08.640 day after
00:56:09.480 day after
00:56:10.320 day,
00:56:10.980 and fail
00:56:11.720 exactly the
00:56:12.600 same way,
00:56:13.300 by not
00:56:14.340 giving us
00:56:14.840 any useful
00:56:15.400 information in
00:56:16.140 context,
00:56:17.020 that would
00:56:18.060 drive you
00:56:18.460 crazy.
00:56:19.300 How could
00:56:19.660 you keep
00:56:20.020 that job?
00:56:21.680 So,
00:56:22.320 of course
00:56:23.140 she should
00:56:23.520 leave.
00:56:25.780 All right,
00:56:26.560 that's about
00:56:26.900 all I got
00:56:27.260 for today.
00:56:28.340 I will
00:56:28.820 try to,
00:56:31.800 somebody
00:56:33.360 says,
00:56:33.900 so it's
00:56:34.200 not an
00:56:34.600 F.
00:56:35.260 Let me
00:56:35.580 be clear,
00:56:36.500 there's lots
00:56:37.400 of value
00:56:38.080 in the press
00:56:38.900 conferences,
00:56:39.480 so I'd
00:56:39.700 like to
00:56:40.000 see that.
00:56:41.460 Lots of
00:56:41.920 value,
00:56:42.680 but in
00:56:43.140 terms of
00:56:43.600 communicating,
00:56:45.180 the specific
00:56:45.900 skill of
00:56:46.500 communicating,
00:56:47.300 which is a
00:56:47.780 subset of
00:56:48.640 the value
00:56:49.120 of the
00:56:49.580 press
00:56:50.040 conference,
00:56:51.460 just the
00:56:52.200 communicating
00:56:52.640 part is
00:56:53.140 enough,
00:56:53.980 because they
00:56:55.460 simply don't
00:56:56.000 answer the
00:56:56.460 important
00:56:56.760 questions,
00:56:57.860 nor do
00:56:58.440 they even
00:56:58.880 tell you
00:56:59.240 they can't
00:56:59.740 answer them,
00:57:00.220 nor do
00:57:00.440 they tell
00:57:00.740 you they
00:57:01.060 will answer
00:57:01.600 them,
00:57:02.440 just
00:57:02.880 completely
00:57:03.500 avoiding
00:57:04.020 all the
00:57:04.480 important
00:57:04.820 questions
00:57:05.380 about
00:57:06.500 supply,
00:57:07.740 and about
00:57:08.880 getting back
00:57:09.300 to work.
00:57:10.620 All right,
00:57:10.940 somebody says
00:57:12.080 you're
00:57:12.320 speaking
00:57:12.700 from
00:57:13.180 fear.
00:57:15.520 Am I?
00:57:16.900 I don't
00:57:17.580 know,
00:57:18.160 that gets
00:57:18.520 you blocked.
00:57:19.820 So,
00:57:20.580 for those
00:57:21.120 of you
00:57:21.440 who haven't
00:57:22.040 figured out
00:57:22.500 the pattern
00:57:23.080 yet,
00:57:24.200 you never
00:57:25.080 get blocked
00:57:25.600 for disagreeing
00:57:26.460 with me.
00:57:27.500 That's a
00:57:28.180 hard rule.
00:57:29.140 You can
00:57:29.460 disagree all
00:57:30.260 you want,
00:57:31.340 but when
00:57:32.260 you tell me
00:57:32.780 what I'm
00:57:33.260 thinking,
00:57:34.200 you get
00:57:34.600 blocked,
00:57:35.280 because I
00:57:36.740 need,
00:57:37.660 I want an
00:57:38.320 audience that
00:57:38.880 understands the
00:57:39.600 difference,
00:57:40.060 between me
00:57:42.400 knowing what
00:57:42.920 I'm thinking,
00:57:43.620 and I can
00:57:44.020 be pretty
00:57:44.620 accurate about
00:57:45.180 that,
00:57:45.840 versus you
00:57:46.800 knowing what
00:57:48.300 I'm thinking.
00:57:49.160 If you say
00:57:50.020 in public,
00:57:51.280 your opinion
00:57:51.920 of what I'm
00:57:52.700 thinking,
00:57:53.720 I'm just
00:57:54.080 going to
00:57:54.300 block you,
00:57:54.960 because I
00:57:55.280 don't have
00:57:55.600 time for
00:57:56.000 people like
00:57:56.500 that in
00:57:56.760 my world.
00:57:58.080 That's the
00:57:58.980 lowest level
00:57:59.780 of understanding
00:58:00.540 your world,
00:58:01.600 imagining you
00:58:02.320 can read
00:58:02.660 somebody's
00:58:03.100 mind.
00:58:03.380 And on
00:58:07.260 that note,
00:58:08.400 I hope to
00:58:08.940 see you
00:58:09.360 later tonight,
00:58:11.860 10 and
00:58:12.280 10.
00:58:13.440 That's East
00:58:13.940 Coast time,
00:58:14.640 7 and 7 if
00:58:15.500 you're in
00:58:15.880 California,
00:58:16.560 and why
00:58:17.080 wouldn't you
00:58:17.460 be?
00:58:18.840 California is
00:58:19.580 actually doing
00:58:20.140 an unusually
00:58:20.960 good job now,
00:58:21.840 isn't that
00:58:22.100 weird?
00:58:23.280 It's weird
00:58:23.980 that California
00:58:24.740 is being
00:58:26.100 held up as
00:58:27.940 one of the
00:58:28.460 successful
00:58:29.160 states,
00:58:30.600 but I got a
00:58:31.360 feeling it
00:58:31.780 might be more
00:58:32.500 to do with
00:58:32.940 the fact
00:58:33.260 that we
00:58:33.640 Californians
00:58:34.360 don't bunch
00:58:35.120 up as
00:58:35.500 much.
00:58:36.560 We don't
00:58:36.980 get on
00:58:37.320 subways,
00:58:38.060 we don't
00:58:38.300 have public
00:58:39.140 transportation,
00:58:39.920 I'm talking
00:58:40.200 about Los
00:58:40.720 Angeles in
00:58:41.260 particular,
00:58:42.180 don't have
00:58:42.620 public
00:58:42.900 transportation,
00:58:44.320 don't have
00:58:45.820 as many
00:58:46.140 elevators.
00:58:48.440 I've got a
00:58:48.860 feeling that
00:58:49.480 there's just
00:58:50.660 something about
00:58:51.620 the fact that
00:58:52.260 Los Angeles
00:58:53.400 tend to
00:58:55.740 drive their
00:58:56.140 cars by
00:58:56.580 themselves.
00:58:57.640 They don't
00:58:57.940 have passengers
00:58:58.540 in their
00:58:58.920 cars.
00:58:59.740 So it's
00:58:59.980 probably as
00:59:00.560 much about
00:59:00.960 lifestyle as
00:59:01.700 it is about
00:59:02.340 good management.
00:59:03.960 But anyway,
00:59:04.480 it's working
00:59:04.840 out.
00:59:05.640 All right,
00:59:06.300 that's all
00:59:06.700 for now.
00:59:07.560 I'll talk to
00:59:08.120 you later
00:59:08.440 tonight.
00:59:09.740 Stay safe.
00:59:10.360 Thank you.