Rebel News Podcast - Coronavirus pandemic： Trump harnesses America’s industrial might. What’s Trudeau doing？

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I go through the great industrialization in the United States

00:00:06.320 as Donald Trump harnesses industry to take on the virus. And I ask, how come Canada's

00:00:13.260 not doing that? Hey, let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus. It's

00:00:18.840 basically the video version of these podcasts, as well as a couple other shows. It's eight

00:00:23.240 bucks a month. Not too bad. Gives you something good to watch if you're stuck at home. Just

00:00:28.840 go to rebelnews.com and you can find the subscribe button pretty easy. Okay, here's the podcast.

00:00:48.980 Tonight, Donald Trump is harnessing America's industrial might in the battle against the

00:00:53.900 virus. What's Trudeau doing? It's March 31st, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:01.340 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:05.040 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:09.100 The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody

00:01:14.000 right to do so.

00:01:14.960 Tomorrow is a very special day for Justin Trudeau. First of all, he gets a raise. Seriously,

00:01:26.100 in the middle of the pandemic, one million newly unemployed Canadians, Trudeau and the rest 0.92

00:01:30.760 of Parliament are giving themselves a raise. A handful of Conservative MPs have announced

00:01:35.920 that they're donating their raise to charity, but not most of them. You'd think that's something

00:01:40.820 that a Conservative Party leader would ask his whole caucus to do, would whip them to

00:01:45.020 do, not only because it's the right thing to do, but to put the Liberals and the other

00:01:48.860 parties on the back foot, to show how out of touch the elites are in this pandemic.

00:01:55.100 Alas, Andrew Scheer loves Perks as much as any Liberal. He still lives in Stornoway, still

00:01:59.600 has the limo, and you'll recall he pocketed huge payments from the party in secret to pay

00:02:04.660 for his kids' private school costs. For some reason, he didn't want to pay his school costs

00:02:09.560 himself despite his quarter million dollar a year salary and a free house. I don't know

00:02:14.960 why Peter McKay and Aaron O'Toole haven't made a fuss about it either, but really we're

00:02:19.680 learning who the most important people in society are, aren't we? The essential people,

00:02:24.160 those who aren't essential. I've joked a bit about how we're not hearing much these days

00:02:29.220 from gender studies professors. They seem a bit irrelevant. Trouble is, those gender studies

00:02:34.620 professors are all still getting paid. Universities have closed, but they haven't stopped paying their

00:02:40.780 professors. Professors who once worked 20 hours a week now work zero hours a week, but they

00:02:46.840 still get paid. Same thing with members of Parliament. Parliament is cancelled, but they're

00:02:51.860 all getting paid and they're getting a raise tonight at midnight. But back to Trudeau, he's

00:02:56.500 the one guy you'd think would be working in this crisis, but he's now approaching his third

00:03:01.200 week in seclusion even though he doesn't have the virus. And his wife is living apart from

00:03:06.440 him. He just likes hanging out at home in his pajamas, not having to do any real work.

00:03:12.580 Of course he's going to take the raise. Are you nuts? So tonight at midnight, he gets his 0.98

00:03:17.880 raise. He makes more than a third of a million bucks a year right now, and he has three official

00:03:22.620 homes. He lives at Rideau Cottage, a 22-room house called the Cottage, must be nice. His wife

00:03:28.720 is at Harrington Lake, and his cook, I'm not kidding, his cook uses 24 Sussex. So tonight,

00:03:36.380 Trudeau gets a raise. And tonight, the carbon tax goes up by 50%. Who are the most important

00:03:44.160 people in the country these days? I'd put farmers and truckers on that list, obviously. So this

00:03:49.220 is a special tax on farmers and truckers. That's what they use. I mean, it's a bloody miracle

00:03:54.860 how grocery stores' shelves stay so full. There were a couple of days, a couple of weeks

00:04:02.020 ago when some staples were briefly sold out, and there were a few empty shelves. But I don't

00:04:07.140 know, for some reason, everyone was panicking about toilet paper, of all the things to panic

00:04:10.660 about. Well, there's no shortage of toilet paper or food. The shelves are full again.

00:04:17.620 The two things we seem to lack, the things we really need, are disinfectant wipes for things

00:04:24.020 and face masks. They remain stocked out because people truly are hoarding those, because they're

00:04:30.440 really the only way to protect themselves by getting a mask, by getting the cleaning fluids.

00:04:35.940 That's the only thing we can do as people that doesn't rely on politicians and deep state health

00:04:41.880 bureaucrats. And Chinese expats around the world have bought all those supplies up and shipped them

00:04:48.940 to China. And then Trudeau went ahead and did that with our national stockpile, too.

00:04:56.440 So let's sum up. Tonight, pay raise for a guy who spends all day in pajamas, just stays home. Check.

00:05:02.400 Carbon tax for the actual parts of the economy that are keeping us going. Check. And of course,

00:05:07.500 tonight is the eve of his spiritual birthday, April Fool's Day. Very big day for Trudeau.

00:05:13.980 But back to what I mentioned about the one thing that stocked out. Patty Hajdu, the health minister, 1.00

00:05:20.020 told Canadians to panic, told them to stockpile items a few weeks ago. What kind of advice is that?

00:05:26.800 That was her official advice as health minister. So people took her advice. It made no sense for most

00:05:32.380 things. But really, back to the masks. Where are they? You can't find any. At least I can't. And I

00:05:39.180 spent some time driving around and calling around. You just can't find any masks. Ontario Premier Doug

00:05:44.380 Ford heard there were some in some warehouse that weren't getting shipped. So he literally drove there

00:05:48.940 to deliver them himself. I guess it was a photo op, but he was just getting it done in that Ford family

00:05:54.720 style. Trudeau won't even leave his own house. China, which infected the world, is now making a big show 1.00

00:06:01.040 of sending gifts of masks and virus tests and thermometers to European countries. Hundreds

00:06:07.400 of thousands. Wow, they're so nice. Here they are in the UK with a big photo op and just so,

00:06:14.960 everything labeled just so, except they're shipping faulty goods. The gear they're sending, the tests

00:06:21.240 they're sending, they don't work. The masks and the other equipment are faulty. I'm sorry, they just

00:06:26.240 don't work. I'm not sure which is worse when it comes to a virus test. A false positive, that is a test

00:06:32.900 that makes you think you do have the virus when you don't, or a false negative. A test that is wrong and

00:06:39.940 it says you don't have the virus when actually you do. That's China's gift to the world now. Here's a 1.00

00:06:47.600 Chinese mask factory worker rubbing face masks on his shoes and laughing about it. I'm guessing those 0.99

00:06:56.920 masks are for export to the West. Do you really want things from China right now? Do you really want

00:07:05.520 anything from China right now? And here's the boss of a Chinese electronic thermometer company laughing

00:07:13.580 about a scheme to preset electronic thermometers to give false readings, to say that someone only has

00:07:19.760 a 36 degree Celsius temperature, which is normal, when in fact they have a 39 degree temperature,

00:07:25.580 which is a fever, but only for those thermometers exported to America. Was he joking? Is that a

00:07:31.440 threat? Is that a plan? Is that an official Chinese decision? I don't know. Do you want to risk it?

00:07:38.220 After all, China's official diplomats have said the West is to blame for the virus, America in 0.99

00:07:44.740 particular. My point is two things. Number one, we have a critical shortage of actual protection

00:07:50.040 from the virus. There's no masks, there's no sanitizer. Try finding that in the store.

00:07:55.840 And number two, what is coming from China is defective, either by accident or on purpose. I see 1.00

00:08:01.960 reports of Chinese goods with counterfeit 3M labels on them, just like they have counterfeit

00:08:08.200 Gucci or Prada. They have counterfeit safety gear. So what can we do about this?

00:08:14.760 Well, in Canada, our prime minister hides in his house, and the mainstream media are fine with that.

00:08:20.860 And his partisan health officer keeps lying about masks. Here's her version yesterday.

00:08:25.760 Our position right now is that put a mask on someone with symptoms if they should need essential

00:08:33.460 services. Like, if you have symptoms, you have to stay at home. You should not be

00:08:38.180 wandering around the community. If you need to get to a medical facility, at that point

00:08:44.740 in time, that mask might actually be useful because you now have infectious droplets that

00:08:50.700 you might send to others. But the key is to keep that two-meter distance. Masks have to be

00:08:58.300 utilized appropriately, too. Most people haven't learned how to use masks. So there's many practical

00:09:03.240 aspects of this. So our advice right now is there is no need to use a mask for well people.

00:09:10.400 Yeah. She keeps saying that. She keeps saying masks don't work. And then she also says that we're too

00:09:19.480 dumb to know how to use a mask properly. But if so, why do nurses and doctors need the masks if they 1.00

00:09:26.420 don't work? Why is everyone in Taiwan and Hong Kong and South Korea and Singapore, places that have kept

00:09:31.400 safe despite being so close to China? Why do they all wear them if they don't work? 1.00

00:09:38.240 Teresa Tam, Trudeau's hand-picked health officer, lies about the use of masks because Canada doesn't

00:09:45.940 have any. So what else could she say that wouldn't get her fired? Yeah, I wish we had masks, but we don't.

00:09:53.840 Now, it's the same in the United States, too. They don't have masks either.

00:09:57.240 3M announced a few weeks back that they're ramping up production of masks, both the cheap variety

00:10:04.380 and the fancier N95 variety. Millions and millions. But America needs billions, actually.

00:10:13.820 Billions a month. If Taiwan is making 10 million a day for a country of 25 million people, then America

00:10:21.980 proportionately needs 150 million a day. Proportionately, we here in Canada need

00:10:29.280 15 million a day. And we don't have any.

00:10:35.160 So the Centers for Disease Control in the United States, they're lying, too, about masks.

00:10:40.360 But at least American industry is slowly waking up to this.

00:10:44.340 Trump has been phoning captains of industry and even meeting with them

00:10:48.120 and talking to them in groups and one-on-one and twisting their arms to make things America needs.

00:10:53.360 And when General Motors didn't respond or tried to wriggle out of things, Trump dropped the hammer

00:10:58.300 on them and used a rarely used wartime power to compel them to make ventilators when they were

00:11:03.480 resisting him. They got the message and so did everybody else. Trump gets on the phone personally

00:11:09.480 and he goes to work on people. Art of the deal style.

00:11:13.360 They're happy to comply out of patriotism and business interests.

00:11:19.000 But Trump is there to make sure they do it and do it now and do it quickly.

00:11:22.180 And he gives them some love. He gives them some spotlight as heroes.

00:11:26.480 I want to show you a parade of industry leaders stepping up just yesterday

00:11:29.960 at the White House announcing their efforts. Here's Jockey.

00:11:33.980 When we learned of the critical need for PPE, we knew we had to help. That meant restarting

00:11:39.860 production on Tier 3 isolation gowns. Monumental lifting by Jockey, Encompass, FEMA, and the FDA

00:11:48.640 was done in just a few days to be production ready. As a result, we expect to begin delivering

00:11:55.000 30,000 to 50,000 gowns per week, helping those that need it the most right now.

00:12:00.160 In addition, this week, we are also donating 10,000 units of scrubs to the frontline doctors

00:12:06.880 and nurses at the Javits Convention Center in New York City.

00:12:10.920 Here's another industrial supplier.

00:12:13.140 Last week, we donated about 90,000 pieces of personal protective equipment to FEMA.

00:12:17.780 Next week, we'll have another almost million. Again, working through our supply chain partners

00:12:22.100 around the world. We're also today, this week, beginning the manufacture of face shields

00:12:27.980 using the additive technologies that we have and the machines that we have available within

00:12:32.160 UTC, we'll be able to produce approximately 10,000 shields in the next four weeks. Again,

00:12:37.940 all needed equipment.

00:12:39.640 I won't go on, but you get the picture. I want to show you one more, though. There's this guy

00:12:43.260 who's had a rough life. He used to be a drug addict. He used to have a terrible life, but then

00:12:48.400 he found God and he turned his life around and he built a big company called MyPillow.

00:12:52.640 And he's just a great rags to riches story. And he was at the White House announcing that his company

00:12:59.840 is now going to make masks. Just 50,000 a day. It's a drop in the bucket, to be honest,

00:13:06.040 but he's donating them to doctors and nurses. And he says it's going to be the most comfortable mask

00:13:11.660 you could ever buy. Could be. I mean, he makes pillows for a living. Seems like a really good guy.

00:13:17.400 And so Trump gave him, I think it was 90 seconds of spotlight yesterday. And because he's a Christian

00:13:23.600 and a Republican, oh my God, did the lazy left attack him. Here's a guy who has retooled his factory

00:13:32.640 to make and donate 50,000 comfortable masks a day for nurses. And the media, which is like,

00:13:44.540 yeah, I mean, they love Trudeau lazing around at home in his pajamas. And they're like that. The

00:13:48.980 media, like this reporter here, staying at home, watching Netflix, look up from their Netflix. They

00:13:55.100 see this guy who's a Christian Republican and they raged at him. That's typically, that's America. 0.99

00:14:04.440 Industry is rising to the challenge slowly, not so slowly, I don't know, but they're finally doing it.

00:14:10.620 The FDA down there, the Food and Drug Administration, they have cleared out bureaucratic

00:14:14.780 tape, red tape for testing and approving new drugs. Normally that takes years. They're doing it in

00:14:21.040 weeks. Vaccines, therapies, just being rushed out as fast as possible. It's hopeful. They're also

00:14:26.820 trying out existing drugs that might work on this virus, which brings me to the obvious point as a

00:14:33.240 Canadian, what are we doing here? And by we, I don't mean you and me. I mean, what could we do?

00:14:40.900 We can't even protect ourselves because there's no masks in the stores.

00:14:45.460 Here's a press release by a Toronto jacket manufacturer called Canada Goose.

00:14:50.220 The company will begin making scrubs and patient gowns, which are in short supply across the country,

00:14:54.460 and will begin distributing them to hospitals next week. To help address the urgent need facing

00:14:58.880 healthcare workers and patients across the country, Canada Goose has committed to producing medical gear

00:15:02.760 at two of its manufacturing facilities, starting in Toronto and Winnipeg, with the opportunity to

00:15:07.820 extend production across additional facilities as needed. With production set to begin early next

00:15:12.620 week, approximately 50 employees per facility will work to manufacture the gear and have an initial

00:15:18.320 goal of producing 10,000 units.

00:15:20.700 All right. That's really great. Thank you. 10,000 medical scrubs. That's what they call it. So the

00:15:27.620 overalls that nurses and doctors wear 10,000 donated. That's pretty nice. And it's a drop in the bucket,

00:15:34.300 but still thank you. That's great. And I see some hockey manufacturers are making visors too. That's

00:15:42.000 great. Thank you. And I see some liquor companies are retooling to make alcohol-based hand sanitizers.

00:15:50.100 I think that's great too. Thank you to all of them. That's great.

00:15:56.220 And without sounding in any way diminishing, that's just a drop in the bucket. We need a great

00:16:01.960 push to industrialize like we did in the Second World War. We need to bring our supply chain home

00:16:09.300 from China. We got to start the factories and the distribution here. You know, Taiwan

00:16:12.960 knows it can never trust China because China wants to conquer and absorb Taiwan, right?

00:16:17.480 So Taiwan doesn't trust the UN, doesn't trust China. And in February, when they saw this virus

00:16:23.780 getting going, Taiwan retooled Taiwanese industry to get ready, to make 10 million masks a day,

00:16:34.260 as I mentioned. And they are. It took them almost a month to get ready. And now they're making them,

00:16:39.640 and now they're safe. Only five people have died in Taiwan throughout the whole thing.

00:16:44.720 Where are our 15 million masks a day in Canada? Has Trudeau even thought about it?

00:16:52.460 Or does he still believe Teresa Tam, his hand-picked health officer, saying, no, no, no,

00:16:57.960 you don't need a mask? We have the laziest leader in the world. He's quarantined himself even though

00:17:05.840 he doesn't have the virus. He's giving himself a pay raise. He's raising taxes on farmers and truckers,

00:17:11.860 and he's not lifting a finger to get Canadian industry to rally to the fight. They're doing

00:17:15.600 so on their own, if at all. Trudeau is like an emotional teenager, sleeping in, watching Netflix

00:17:21.880 and avoiding any responsibility. We Canadians deserve better. Stay with us for more.

00:17:31.040 Let me ask you something. With all of this adulation that you're getting for doing your job,

00:17:47.600 are you thinking about running for president? Tell the audience.

00:17:51.100 No. No.

00:17:52.060 No. No, you won't answer?

00:17:56.900 No. I answered. The answer is no.

00:17:59.580 No, you're not thinking about it? Sometimes it's one word. I said no.

00:18:02.540 Have you thought about it?

00:18:05.260 No.

00:18:06.920 Are you open to thinking about it?

00:18:09.720 No.

00:18:10.980 Might you think about it at some point?

00:18:14.380 No.

00:18:15.620 How can you know what you might think about at some point right now?

00:18:18.220 Because I know what I might think about, and what I won't think about. But you're a great

00:18:23.960 interviewer, by the way.

00:18:25.620 Appreciate it. Learn from the best.

00:18:28.100 Those are two brothers on the left. Chris Cuomo, a host for CNN. On the right, his brother,

00:18:34.000 Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York State, who is widely regarded as having done a good job

00:18:41.060 and putting aside partisanship to work fairly closely with Donald Trump, the two men securing,

00:18:46.980 for example, the U.S. Navy hospital ship, and Andrew Cuomo not being stingy about praising

00:18:53.220 Trump when he does good things for New York State. It's given him a national prominence,

00:18:59.280 and polls show he's very popular in his home state. There he is bantering as he does with

00:19:04.360 his brother, but it is a real question. Would Andrew Cuomo be a better candidate than Joe Biden?

00:19:11.520 I think the obvious answer to that is yes. And if so, would the Democrats make a switcheroo?

00:19:18.080 Could they do that? I think the answer is obviously yes. And the final question is,

00:19:22.700 so why is he saying no? Well, I think the answer is because it would be unseemly to say anything

00:19:28.220 other than that, at least until the virus messes through. Joining us now via Skype from his home

00:19:33.880 in Los Angeles area is our friend Joel Pollack, senior editor at large at Breitbart.com. What do

00:19:40.040 you think, Joel? Do you think he has to say no at least until the crisis has passed and anything else

00:19:46.740 would look shallow and self-serving? How could he not be thinking about running for president when

00:19:52.520 he looks at Joe Biden? Well, yes, he has to say no regardless. It is worth asking the question.

00:20:00.600 People are talking about it, but let's just take a step back and understand why before we get to the

00:20:05.280 quality of the candidates. Joe Biden is stuck in his house in Wilmington, Delaware. He can't go

00:20:11.120 anywhere. He has no reason to be in Washington. Nobody's traveling. Most of the country is not

00:20:17.260 leaving their homes except for going to the grocery store, going to the pharmacy, seeing a doctor and so

00:20:22.860 forth. So there is nothing Joe Biden can do in terms of the things Joe Biden is best at as a

00:20:29.100 candidate, meeting people, shaking hands, slapping people on the back and so forth.

00:20:33.180 He can't raise money, can't do anything. So he is stuck in a bunker. Same with Bernie Sanders.

00:20:39.220 Bernie Sanders at least has played some role in the Capitol. He goes to the Senate,

00:20:42.960 votes on things when they're in session. But he too is basically in Burlington, Vermont,

00:20:48.020 unable to do anything. It hurts Sanders particularly because he depends on rally style campaigning and

00:20:53.840 door-to-door campaigning. So that's going to hurt Sanders and his organization. The only person who

00:20:58.620 is a free agent is Donald Trump. And that's because he is expected to be running the country.

00:21:03.680 And so while he's not out and about all over the place, he is there every day in the White House,

00:21:09.200 whether in the briefing room or in the Rose Garden. And he is busy and in front of the nation.

00:21:15.080 The only reason Andrew Cuomo has come up is because Andrew Cuomo is also visible out there,

00:21:21.740 expected to do things. Now, there are 49 other governors who are also out there. Gavin Newsom here in

00:21:27.380 California is having daily press conferences. Other governors are as well. But Andrew Cuomo is in

00:21:32.460 the media capital of the world. He's in New York City. So he's near all the cable news networks.

00:21:37.260 Gavin Newsom, our own governor here in California, goes on Facebook Live and on local television,

00:21:41.800 but he is not getting cable news attention. So Andrew Cuomo is there where all the news networks

00:21:46.380 are. They can't really travel anywhere either. They're stuck in New York. So they get his daily

00:21:50.580 briefings. And New York is also the epicenter right now of the coronavirus pandemic,

00:21:55.840 the first early cases a month ago, we're all in Washington state in the Seattle area.

00:22:00.040 But now New York City is the place where cases are spreading most rapidly. And so he's in the

00:22:05.980 middle of it all. And he's the only Democrat who people can see doing something like what President

00:22:11.060 Trump is doing. So the comparison naturally invites itself. The problem that Andrew Cuomo has is that he

00:22:17.280 hasn't been running so far. He ought to have been running so far if he wanted to run. Bernie Sanders is

00:22:22.180 still in second place. And he went on Seth Meyers' show from his home, as I believe Seth Meyers was

00:22:27.560 from his home as well. And Bernie Sanders said yesterday, this is Monday, that he still believes

00:22:32.780 there's a path to the nomination, that he can beat Joe Biden. So it's still very much a race as far as

00:22:38.620 the two top contenders are concerned. I don't think they're going to bow out. I don't think their donors

00:22:43.820 are willing to back off either. However, Democrats really do have a problem if Joe Biden is the

00:22:49.020 candidate. He does not appear to be 100 percent, just to put it mildly. He stumbles on television

00:22:55.100 interviews. He seems to check his notes, lose his train of thought. And it's just not clear what he's

00:23:00.260 able to do. The other issue, of course, is just the natural advantage that any governor has in this

00:23:05.800 situation. So it's possible Democrats might look at the upcoming primaries and say, look, we've had a

00:23:11.880 lot of the votes already, but the majority of delegates is somehow still outstanding. I think it's a

00:23:16.340 majority. Or at least there are enough delegates still outstanding where we could in some way reset

00:23:21.340 this process. Let's make up new rules. Yes, it involves changing the game as we go along, but

00:23:25.480 that's not beyond them. They could say, we're going to change the rules. We're going to find a different

00:23:29.820 way of nominating our candidate. And then they basically start the whole thing over with candidates

00:23:34.820 who are at least able to campaign during the coronavirus pandemic. I could see that happening.

00:23:39.620 And in fact, I would expect that sort of talk to increase over the next several weeks, because

00:23:43.940 otherwise Democrats are basically stuck. Now, Joe Biden is ahead of Donald Trump by 10% in some

00:23:50.060 national polls because the economy is doing very poorly. But when you compare them side to side,

00:23:54.280 there really is no comparison. Donald Trump's been managing this crisis and Joe Biden can barely

00:23:58.220 manage a live stream webcast from his house. So it's going to be a problem for Democrats. They're

00:24:04.040 going to have to address it. Nothing stays this lopsided forever. And I do think the party is going to

00:24:08.680 have to come up with some alternative. I'd be surprised if they didn't at least find some way

00:24:13.820 of making their candidates more accessible, more out there, maybe putting a governor as the vice

00:24:21.520 presidential pick. That's going to be hard because Biden's already committed to picking a female 1.00

00:24:25.360 candidate. And there aren't too many female governors who are Democrats. Very short list. So we'll see 1.00

00:24:31.480 what happens. But this is a big problem for Democrats. And they're right now having the same

00:24:35.280 discussion you and I are having, which is how are we going to move forward from here?

00:24:38.680 I don't know a lot about Andrew Cuomo. I mean, I remember when I was much younger following his

00:24:45.980 father. So he comes from a political family. His brother is in CNN. I guess that's another advantage

00:24:54.160 that he has. But I tell you, he looks good. He sounds good. He's not a septuagenarian like Biden

00:25:02.160 and Bernie. He can say honestly that he's had executive experience, not just as a governor of

00:25:10.020 a very important state, but in other national positions. I think he's got a sense of humor.

00:25:15.900 That's what I've learned about him in the last week watching his TV banter. I can't think of another

00:25:21.420 Democrat who's got a sense of humor. And Trump has a wicked sense of humor, which he uses effectively.

00:25:26.800 That's about all I know about Andrew Cuomo. Do you know more about him? Does he have some great

00:25:33.560 strengths? Does he have some grave flaws or weaknesses that would manifest during a real

00:25:40.900 presidential campaign?

00:25:44.560 Well, Cuomo is not a very strong candidate in a national election. And that's because his positions

00:25:49.780 on most of the issues are very, very far to the left. One of the reasons that New York is particularly

00:25:55.580 vulnerable to economic disruptions is that New York decided not to do fracking. When the shale

00:26:01.900 industry started booming 10, 15 years ago, New York and Andrew Cuomo decided not to exploit that

00:26:08.260 resource. Pennsylvania, just across the state line, did decide to get into fracking and is enjoying,

00:26:15.080 or at least until now, was enjoying a boom as a result. So Cuomo is very much part of the Green New 0.53

00:26:21.560 Deal far left environmental movement. He also signed one of the most liberal abortion laws in the country

00:26:28.140 last year. They lit up the Empire State Building in pink, color of Planned Parenthood, extending abortion 0.78

00:26:34.020 all the way through birth. He also has raised taxes in New York state. So he's done a lot of things that

00:26:41.220 are very far left in terms of policies. And while he may be visible right now as an administrator during

00:26:48.900 the coronavirus pandemic, so is Donald Trump. It's not clear that Cuomo has an advantage over Trump,

00:26:54.400 whereas many of his positions are so far to the left that when you start discussing what his policies

00:26:59.140 are, he really is at a disadvantage next to Trump. Most of Trump's policies, at least the unique things

00:27:04.720 that Donald Trump has done, like confronting China, rearranging trade deals and so forth, those things are

00:27:10.060 very popular. So I think that Donald Trump is going to have an edge in any national election.

00:27:15.400 Joe Biden, as left as he has become, is more moderate than Andrew Cuomo. So that gives you a

00:27:20.960 sense of where the party's ticket would shift. Now, you could argue the Democrats are already far left

00:27:26.120 anyway. It's too late to change that. But Andrew Cuomo would definitely be somewhere between Bernie

00:27:31.540 Sanders and Joe Biden. Maybe that would be good in terms of bringing the different factions of the party

00:27:36.140 together. But it would not be good in terms of appealing to the broad American electorate.

00:27:40.440 Let me ask you one last question. And that is, until this virus came along, the American economy was

00:27:45.980 very strong. There were a lot of things going Trump's way. And all of a sudden, the largest shock

00:27:55.800 of unemployment, I think ever measured not only in absolute, but relative terms. I mean, even the

00:28:02.000 stock market crash of 29 did not have basically one week where everything fell apart. I don't think

00:28:10.320 so. I don't know my history that well. I mean, I don't think anyone's blaming this on Trump. But

00:28:17.680 after a while, who do you blame but the guy who's in charge? What are your thoughts on Trump's

00:28:22.780 electability versus how he's handling the crisis? Well, here's the sad irony of it. If it had been

00:28:29.780 a moderate crisis, it would have been very bad for Trump. But because it is such a terrible crisis,

00:28:36.260 and not just here in the United States, but around the world, it actually doesn't hurt Trump. And

00:28:42.860 depending on how he manages his way out of it could very much help Trump. Had it been something that only

00:28:49.400 affected the United States, had it been modest rather than catastrophic, had it been something that

00:28:56.640 other countries had done a better job of dealing with, and there really aren't that many countries that

00:29:00.700 could have done better, then I think Trump would be in trouble. But given that Trump put a travel ban in

00:29:06.820 place very early, given that he's now on television every day, managing the industry of America, coordinating

00:29:14.700 efforts to change our production, our assembly lines to produce things we need in terms of medical goods,

00:29:20.540 he's a commander in chief, he's a wartime president. Given the fact that Canada's had trouble, Mexico's

00:29:25.560 having trouble, Europe is having, I mean, everybody's having trouble, and some countries in much worse

00:29:30.180 shape than we are. I think all of this makes Trump a very competitive candidate in November, still maybe

00:29:36.940 a slight underdog because the economic damage is so severe, and people just take that out on whoever's in

00:29:41.940 office. But I do think that there's a growing feeling, even among Trump's critics, that he's

00:29:47.200 the right leader for the job right now. You know, back during the 2016 campaign, Democrats liked to

00:29:52.840 talk about all of Trump's bankruptcies, and how he had failed in business and failed here and failed

00:29:57.140 there. Well, he always built his way out of those failures. And so that experience of bankruptcy and

00:30:02.400 failure and recovery now turns out to be great training for the position he's in. It's an unenviable

00:30:08.380 position. But whether he wins or loses in November, Donald Trump will be remembered as the guy who

00:30:12.680 gave up what mattered to him the most for the sake of the country. He gave up his personal fortune

00:30:17.780 as president. He gave up the economic performance of the country to put lives first. He is exemplifying

00:30:24.500 that sort of self-sacrifice. There may not be much of his businesses left when all is said and done,

00:30:29.260 because he's in the leisure and hospitality industries, which have been absolutely smashed by

00:30:33.880 coronavirus. So when he leaves office, he may have to start over again in terms of his personal

00:30:39.160 fortune, his personal business. So that's who he is. And I think over time, especially if the

00:30:44.680 government continues to draw high marks from Americans, and a majority of Americans approve

00:30:48.460 of the job he's doing handling coronavirus, if that continues, I think it makes him electable.

00:30:54.880 I won't say a favorite, but it certainly means he could be reelected in November. The Democrats are going

00:30:59.120 to have trouble finding someone with experience that's in any way similar. Andrew Cuomo may be

00:31:05.500 the only one. But again, this comes very late in the cycle when Joe Biden's already the presumptive

00:31:09.580 nominee. The entire party already rallied behind him a month ago, literally a month ago. It was March

00:31:14.360 2nd, March 3rd. I mean, it's four weeks ago today, really. So that was Super Tuesday, four weeks ago.

00:31:20.660 And that's when everybody was backing Biden and Mike Bloomberg backed Biden. And that's how little

00:31:27.280 coronavirus was on anybody's mind, really. Democrats were starting to complain about it,

00:31:32.020 but they hadn't anticipated this kind of scenario. So I think it's going to be okay. Politics is also

00:31:37.400 in a way on suspended animation for right now. People aren't really thinking about it that much.

00:31:41.840 There is a blame game going on. But what's undeniable is that Donald Trump was dealing with

00:31:47.460 coronavirus at a time when Democrats were impeaching him. And you can say what you want about

00:31:52.460 whether Donald Trump should have done more or less. But one thing's for certain, the Democrats did

00:31:56.220 absolutely nothing about coronavirus until impeachment was over. They wasted their time

00:32:01.360 and the country's time. And that's going to be a theme you hear more about in the coming weeks.

00:32:05.400 Wow. Let me throw one last thing at you just for fun, because I don't think most people outside

00:32:11.000 Canada know this. And I'm saying it just because I want to see your reaction. You know, Donald Trump

00:32:16.820 got a test for coronavirus and the test was negative. He didn't have the bug. Boris Johnson got the test

00:32:23.600 and he has it. So he's working from home and taking some steps. But he still seems healthy

00:32:28.820 enough. Justin Trudeau, his wife got coronavirus and gave it to Idris Elba, believe it or not.

00:32:36.680 And then she's been isolated. She's fine. Thank goodness. Trudeau has not had any symptoms.

00:32:45.020 Yet he's been in self-isolation for almost three weeks. He has not taken the test that would

00:32:52.100 obviously prove negative. Like I say, he has no symptoms. He's just choosing to stay at home.

00:33:00.620 And once a day he comes out and gives a little scripted press conference outside his house.

00:33:06.880 Then he goes back in his house till the next day. And Joel, my point is, he doesn't have the virus.

00:33:12.980 He just is quarantining himself like like he's a millennial laid off from, you know, a retail store.

00:33:22.260 What do you think of that?

00:33:25.180 Well, it sounds unfortunate. The good news in the United States is that if something happened to our

00:33:32.400 administration and God forbid that it did, but if something happened, the primary responsibility for

00:33:36.920 disaster response actually lies with the states, not with the federal government. So if Donald Trump

00:33:41.800 took a hiatus, you know, and we hope he doesn't, but if he did, the country could run itself for a

00:33:47.820 little while. You do need people to run things at the federal level. I can't say much about Trudeau

00:33:52.800 other than it's interesting how he has now been forced to close the boundaries, how he's been forced,

00:33:58.320 although I know you've been documenting how flights from China are still arriving in Canada and so forth,

00:34:02.580 but at least the border with the United States has been closed. It's sort of amazing how much

00:34:07.980 things have changed. Hopefully we'll get back to normal pretty soon. Yeah. Well, thanks for letting

00:34:11.400 me throw that at you. And I understand you don't have any expertise on Canadian things. I just think

00:34:16.100 it's globally embarrassing that our G20, G7 leader is just working from home in his pajamas just because

00:34:24.880 he doesn't have the bug. He just sort of likes being in his PJs all day. I think that's a remark.

00:34:32.420 Yeah. Well, as why? We call it pajama casual. Great to see you, Joel. Thanks for your time.

00:34:38.700 All right. All right. Take care. Joel Pollack, senior editor at large at Breitbart.com.

00:34:43.520 I'm not wearing pajamas, but I'm not wearing suit pants. But where's our prime minister? It's very

00:34:48.920 strange to me. All right. Stay with us. More ahead.

00:34:51.100 Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about Dr. Teresa Tam advising Canadians that face masks

00:35:04.460 don't work. Grant writes, she told us the risk was low. She told us to be more concerned about

00:35:10.060 stigmatizing China than the virus itself. She's been way behind the ball since the start. Absolutely. 0.87

00:35:15.300 She has not given genuine advice. She's given political advice. It's very different than what

00:35:21.860 a health officer should do. Ann writes, this woman is a liar and we should all be wearing a mask. You're 1.00

00:35:29.000 so right. It's pretty obvious. But what do you do when your idiot boss gave all the masks to China 0.98

00:35:36.420 last month? Valeria writes, she should resign immediately. I have a better idea because if 1.00

00:35:44.380 she resigned, some other think-alike, talk-alike Trudeau clone would take the position. How about 0.70

00:35:48.900 she just speaks honestly now? How about she does a Jody Wilson-Raybould and just decides that if she's 0.79

00:35:55.640 going to go down, she's going to go down telling the truth and just starts telling the truth. How about

00:36:00.900 that? All right. That's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us from here at

00:36:06.160 Rebel World headquarters to you at home, stay healthy and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - April 01, 2020

Coronavirus pandemic： Trump harnesses America’s industrial might. What’s Trudeau doing？

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript