The Ben Shapiro Show - Biden Is Already Wrecking The Economy | Ep. 1253

00:00:00.000 The Biden economy misses wildly on job expectations while the White House pays people to stay home.

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00:01:32.000 Just before the weekend, we got this April jobs report, and it was just egregiously bad.

00:01:37.000 Now, when I say egregiously bad, I mean compared to expectations.

00:01:40.000 We had about 266,000 jobs added to the American economy, and there's a downgrade of the number of jobs that had been expected to grow the prior month as well.

00:01:47.000 It was supposed to be in March, it was supposed to be like 900.

00:01:53.000 And 16,000 jobs ended up being about 770,000 jobs.

00:01:55.000 In April, it ended up being 266,000 jobs.

00:01:58.000 Now, most economists expected a million job increase, a million job increase.

00:02:03.000 Obviously, expectations wildly missed.

00:02:05.000 According to the Washington Post, U.S.

00:02:07.000 economy added just 266,000 jobs in April, a disappointing month of growth that fell well below economists' estimates, despite declining virus caseloads and increased vaccine distribution.

00:02:16.000 The White House rejected that notion on Friday.

00:02:17.000 Instead, they said, no, no, no.

00:02:18.000 relatively unchanged at 6.1%, although economists caution the number is misleadingly low given how many people have dropped out of the labor force in the past year.

00:02:26.000 The news increased political pressure in Washington amid concerns about whether a labor shortage reported in some pockets of the economy is slowing down the recovery.

00:02:34.000 The White House rejected that notion on Friday.

00:02:36.000 Instead, they said, no, no, everything is fine.

00:02:39.000 Here, for example, was President Biden saying these job numbers, they show that we're on Well, except for the fact that this was a completely unexpected slowing.

00:02:46.000 We had, as of just before the pandemic, some 152.5 million people who were employed.

00:02:52.000 We have right now about 144.3 million people who are employed.

00:02:56.000 So we are still 8 million jobs short of where we were.

00:02:59.000 Here's the thing.

00:02:59.000 We have 7.4 million job openings right now.

00:03:01.000 But nobody is filling those job openings.

00:03:03.000 Why?

00:03:03.000 Because when you pay people to stay home, you know what they do?

00:03:05.000 They stay home.

00:03:06.000 Here's Joe Biden pretending that his idiotic economic recovery packages haven't somehow softened the economy.

00:03:12.000 This month's job numbers show we're on the right track.

00:03:16.000 We still have a long way to go.

00:03:18.000 As I said, my laser focus is on growing the nation's economy and creating jobs.

00:03:24.000 Well, I mean, his real laser focus is on ensuring that he makes sure that he Tivo's Matlock.

00:03:28.000 But aside from that, his laser focus apparently is on pursuing policies that greatly soften the economy, greatly soften the economy.

00:03:36.000 Because here's the thing, what we are currently experiencing is exactly what you would expect if you know anything about economic history.

00:03:41.000 When you blow a bunch of money into an economy that was already in a state of recovery, and when you talk about how you're going to tax everybody who creates jobs out the wazoo, what you end up with is slow economic growth and massive inflation.

00:03:53.000 And indeed, even CNN is picking up on this.

00:03:56.000 According to CNN, over the weekend, Everywhere you look, there are headlines about higher prices.

00:04:00.000 Some are tied to commodities, which are getting snapped up as the global economy emerges from its long slumber.

00:04:04.000 Lumber prices are at an all-time high thanks to an epic home-building boom.

00:04:07.000 Copper and steel prices have also reached records.

00:04:09.000 Agricultural products aren't exempt.

00:04:11.000 The price of corn is at its highest level since 2012, same for soybeans.

00:04:15.000 Even sales of block cheese futures have been soaring in anticipation of grilling season.

00:04:18.000 Then there are consumer products.

00:04:20.000 Diaper prices have gone up.

00:04:21.000 Two major producers, Kimberly Clark and Procter Gamble, have warned customers that fresh hikes are coming as well.

00:04:26.000 Shortages of computer chips are helping to push up car prices.

00:04:29.000 Soon could do the same for electronics and household appliances.

00:04:33.000 Says CNN, this doesn't just matter for Americans guarding their pocketbooks.

00:04:36.000 Price increases are also being closely scrutinized by investors and economists who are desperate to know, is this a passing phenomenon as the country emerges from a once-in-a-lifetime economic shock or a more sustained trend that evokes the 1970s?

00:04:47.000 Now, normally, It is true that you would end up with higher prices in a time with greater demand and lower supply.

00:04:53.000 But the point is that then demand would be caught up to by supply, right?

00:04:57.000 As the demand is high and supply is low, you'd be able to ramp up the supply to meet the demand.

00:05:01.000 That's usually how supply and demand curves work.

00:05:03.000 But when you are artificially preventing people from employing anybody, well then it turns out what you get is hyperinflation, right?

00:05:10.000 This is when you end up with the money that you have in the bank being worth less than it was yesterday because the products are just more expensive.

00:05:16.000 And this is happening across labor markets.

00:05:18.000 You know, I was talking yesterday to a small business owner.

00:05:21.000 We went out for Mother's Day for brunch for my wife and for my wife's mom.

00:05:26.000 And we went to this restaurant and there was like one waiter and the restaurant was packed.

00:05:31.000 There's one waiter and the owner came out and we were talking to the owner and the owner said, yeah, I had seven people who were supposed to show up for work this week.

00:05:37.000 And instead they said, no, no, no, I'm not going to show up for work because I'm getting paid too much to stay home.

00:05:43.000 I mean, that is a common story that you're hearing from small businesses across the country.

00:05:48.000 You're hearing it over and over.

00:05:49.000 Small business owners are saying openly that the reason that they cannot ramp up supply is because they cannot get people to come into work.

00:05:56.000 There are people who are paying bonuses just to get people to interview for jobs.

00:06:02.000 I was hearing rumors that there are chain restaurants that are now paying people like 50 bucks just to show up for an interview because people are not showing up when you pay.

00:06:10.000 Unemployment benefits have now been extended all the way through September, even though the pandemic is effectively over in many states in the union right now, so far as the economy is concerned.

00:06:19.000 There's a reason that Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida is saying, listen, you need to show actual effort that you're going to try and get a job if you're going to continue to get unemployment benefits.

00:06:26.000 The White House has not been nearly so forthcoming.

00:06:29.000 They're trying to deny all of this.

00:06:30.000 They're trying to pretend that none of this is happening.

00:06:33.000 So Janet Yellen over at the Federal Reserve, who last week admitted that inflation is going to kick in and then said, well, you know, we can handle it if it does, presumably by By getting rid of some of their bond holdings instead of buying bonds in the open market and trying to ramp up the open markets rate, the overnight rate for the feds.

00:06:51.000 Well, I mean, maybe you can do that, or maybe this is going to run out of control because you've created too much of a barrier in the economy to people getting back to work.

00:06:59.000 Here is Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, saying, no, no, no, everything's fine.

00:07:03.000 If I had had to write down a number as my best guess, it would have been higher.

00:07:08.000 But I've watched data for a long time, and I know that it is extremely volatile.

00:07:15.000 There are often surprises and temporary factors, and one should never take one month's data as an underlying trend.

00:07:24.000 Besides, remember I said, actually what happened is stronger, I think, than the headline number looks.

00:07:32.000 Okay, in other words, don't believe the numbers.

00:07:35.000 Believe me that it'll be fine.

00:07:37.000 Or maybe it won't because this job report, this jobs report missed by three quarters of a million jobs.

00:07:44.000 Okay, that is a lot of jobs.

00:07:46.000 A lot of jobs.

00:07:48.000 In a second, we're going to talk about all the various ways the White House is trying to spin this.

00:07:51.000 But again, the reality is that when you spend a bunch of money that nobody needed, and by the way, when Americans were paid to stay home last year, so actually the amount of money that Americans have in the bank right now is actually higher than it was before the pandemic by statistics.

00:08:03.000 So people are ready to spend, but they're not ready to work.

00:08:06.000 And that is a massive gap that is going to have significant downstream effects on the economy.

00:08:10.000 And that is what you are seeing right now.

00:08:11.000 We'll get to more of that in just one second.

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00:09:22.000 Alrighty, so Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, he says, listen, I can tell you right now what the problem is.

00:09:27.000 You can't pay people to stay home and then expect they're not going to stay home.

00:09:30.000 We've been so generous with our plus-ups to unemployment insurance and the checks that we've been sending everybody that a great many Kentuckians and Americans look at the situation and find they're better off financially To stay home rather than go back to work.

00:09:50.000 So we have inflationary issues and we have difficulty in getting people to do the work to meet the new demand.

00:09:57.000 Okay, this is perfectly true.

00:09:58.000 I mean, and obviously so, right?

00:10:00.000 It is absolutely clear that this is the case.

00:10:03.000 Okay, so what's weird about this, of course, is that then you have Jen Psaki saying, no, no, it's not the unemployment support.

00:10:08.000 The fact that we tried to extend it all the way to September.

00:10:10.000 It's not the fact that we are paying people to stay home.

00:10:12.000 It's not the fact that we have just decided that we are not only going to toss $2 trillion into the economy, but we are also calling for an additional infusion of $4 trillion.

00:10:20.000 None of that has any impact on the economy, according to Jen Psaki.

00:10:23.000 In order to receive any kind of unemployment benefit, claimants must be able...

00:10:28.000 available and actively seeking work. And workers are not permitted to refuse suitable work and continue to receive benefits. That all remains true, including under the pandemic UI program. You're only allowed to refuse work and continue to receive benefits if you are sick with COVID, taking care of someone sick with COVID or offered a job in an unsafe workplace.

00:10:51.000 OK, and here's the problem. How are you going to check on all of that? How are you going to check on all that?

00:10:56.000 People game that system all the damn time.

00:10:59.000 Like seriously, they game it all the time.

00:11:00.000 You know how many people are paying people under the table so they can keep their unemployment benefits?

00:11:05.000 Tons of people in this economy are paying people under the table so they can claim unemployment and pick up the money on the other end.

00:11:10.000 That is happening on a routine basis.

00:11:12.000 If you think that's not happening, I urge you to check the disability rules in the United States, where literally tens of millions of Americans who are not actually disabled are on the disability rules.

00:11:19.000 This sort of stuff happens all the time.

00:11:22.000 This is not a shock.

00:11:23.000 Well, the kind of last-ditch defense here is coming courtesy of Stephanie Ruhle over at MSNBC. 0.98

00:11:29.000 So James Pathakoukas quoted Goldman Sachs.

00:11:31.000 Goldman Sachs have kind of a stake in how the economy goes.

00:11:34.000 They apparently said, quote, In other words, when you pay people to stay home, they do.

00:11:37.000 employment rate suggests, likely reflecting the impact of unusually generous unemployment benefits and lingering virus-related impediments to working.

00:11:44.000 In other words, when you pay people to stay home, they do.

00:11:47.000 And if you're a small business trying to hire somebody, you can't pay more than unemployment.

00:11:51.000 Hey, well, Stephanie Ruhle, genius that she is, she tweeted out, why is it that the unemployment benefits are too generous, rather than the pay offered by employers too low?

00:11:59.000 Pay more money equals find more workers.

00:12:01.000 If margins are so thin that you cannot increase pay without passing it through, losing customers, your business model doesn't work.

00:12:07.000 So literally in a time of high unemployment, she is calling for businesses to shut down unless they can pay for higher labor costs, which leads to, wait for it, more unemployment.

00:12:17.000 Because when you artificially boost the price of labor such that businesses cannot pay it, those businesses don't simply pass on the prices to consumers if the consumers are not able to support the business.

00:12:27.000 Instead, the business is just shut down.

00:12:30.000 Effectively, what she is calling for is a gigantic and ever-increasing minimum wage program.

00:12:35.000 That's really what she's calling for.

00:12:37.000 A universal basic income that drives unemployment.

00:12:41.000 And then she blames the businesses for not paying more money. 0.98

00:12:43.000 Okay, so let's say that the businesses do.

00:12:45.000 Let's say that the businesses increase prices.

00:12:47.000 That's called inflation.

00:12:48.000 Right now, all the businesses are increasing prices in order so they can afford to pay for the labor.

00:12:53.000 And then, you have a bunch of people who can't afford to pay for those prices, and then you get more unemployment because a bunch of demand falls off.

00:13:00.000 This is how you get a stagflationary cycle.

00:13:03.000 What the Democrats are pushing right now is driving a stagflationary cycle.

00:13:06.000 And I'll be honest with you, you've heard me on the show talk about the economy in the past, and I thought that the underlying economy is strong enough And the economic recovery is naturally strong enough that it was going to be a couple of years before you saw all of this stuff start to kick in in serious fashion, especially because Joe Biden is planning tons and tons of new spending, right?

00:13:22.000 He's planning $10 trillion in spending if he could get his way this year.

00:13:26.000 So I was expecting you'd get at least a year of solid economic growth before this stuff started to kick in.

00:13:30.000 But literally three months into his administration, you're already seeing misses on jobs reports by three quarters of a million jobs.

00:13:39.000 It's insane.

00:13:39.000 And then meanwhile, you have all of these Democrats at the same time pushing vaccination ideas and ideas about COVID that are also keeping the economy a lot slower than they should be.

00:13:49.000 By the way, some members of the Biden administration are admitting as much.

00:13:53.000 Labor Secretary Marty Walsh came out over the weekend.

00:13:55.000 He was like, yeah, you know what's actually keeping people home also?

00:13:57.000 The fact that all the schools are closed.

00:13:58.000 Oh, why are the schools closed, Marty?

00:14:00.000 Why don't you explain?

00:14:02.000 Why is it that not all the schools are open?

00:14:05.000 Down here in Florida, all the schools are open.

00:14:06.000 They've been open since September.

00:14:09.000 What are you doing over there in the White House?

00:14:10.000 Here's Labor Secretary Marty Walsh admitting what he wasn't supposed to admit.

00:14:14.000 We also have to deal with childcare and schools.

00:14:17.000 And those are two barriers right now, in my opinion, that are keeping people from getting back into the workforce as well.

00:14:23.000 Because their children are at home, they're learning remotely, or their childcare facilities aren't open.

00:14:28.000 Okay, so who's making sure that the schools are closed?

00:14:32.000 Oh, that's right, it's the CDC.

00:14:34.000 That's right, it's Democrats in blue states who are keeping the schools closed and talking about how they're gonna keep them closed maybe in the fall.

00:14:39.000 The CDC director, Rochelle Walensky, who should be summarily fired, she's been awful all the way through, she now admits that the teachers' unions changed the guidance here.

00:14:46.000 Okay, so you're getting it from all sides here.

00:14:49.000 The assault on the American economy from this administration is breathtaking.

00:14:53.000 They're blowing money into the economy to create inflation.

00:14:56.000 They're dramatically increasing the number of people who aren't even looking for work.

00:15:00.000 And then they're artificially shutting down schools at the behest of teachers unions so that people have to stay home from work to take care of their kids. 0.67

00:15:06.000 And then they're pumping it.

00:15:07.000 Here's Rochelle Walensky from the CDC explaining that, yeah, you know, we're supposed to be science-based, but we got the teachers unions to help us write the guidelines for school reopenings.

00:15:16.000 As a matter of practice, when we put out guidance, we engage with our stakeholders and users of that information, consumers of that information, to understand what it is that they need from the guidance when we put it out.

00:15:31.000 We do that before we release the guidance so we understand and confirm that what we put out is what they need to move forward.

00:15:41.000 Unbelievable.

00:15:42.000 So there she is admitting that they rewrote the standards for school reopenings at the behest of teachers unions.

00:15:46.000 Why?

00:15:46.000 Because those teachers unions spend hundreds of millions of dollars every single election cycle on Democrats.

00:15:52.000 So in the end, what do the Biden White House folks say?

00:15:55.000 They say, you know what?

00:15:56.000 Stop being impatient.

00:15:57.000 You're just being impatient.

00:15:58.000 We're being impatient.

00:15:59.000 We waited a year for recovery to happen.

00:16:02.000 We're being impatient.

00:16:03.000 The recovery should be happening already.

00:16:05.000 Things are wide open.

00:16:06.000 People are taking off their masks after they're vaccinated.

00:16:09.000 Like, it's done.

00:16:10.000 At least it's moving toward done.

00:16:12.000 And here's Jennifer Granholm, the Energy Secretary, saying, you know, it's just everybody's being impatient about this whole thing.

00:16:16.000 We haven't vaccinated to the point where we can open up fully.

00:16:21.000 And I would say too, and the numbers show this, that more women stayed home because their kids are not in school.

00:16:26.000 And that is still, and their daycare centers may not be open.

00:16:30.000 So we are not through this yet.

00:16:32.000 You know, things are going to get better.

00:16:34.000 It's just a question of the impatience of some, I think is unrealistic.

00:16:40.000 It's impatience, you see.

00:16:42.000 Yes, it is us who are telling people that they have to stay home to watch their kids because the schools are closed.

00:16:45.000 And sure, we're the ones pushing bad information on vaccines and when you can go back to work and enjoy your life.

00:16:50.000 Sure, all of that's true, but you're just being impatient.

00:16:52.000 It's you.

00:16:55.000 They're all principal skinner. 0.92

00:16:56.000 Is it me?

00:16:57.000 No, it's the kids who are the problem.

00:16:59.000 No, it's you.

00:16:59.000 It's you guys.

00:17:00.000 We'll get to the vaccination misinformation being put out by this administration in just one second.

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00:18:28.000 Alrighty, so, meanwhile, another factor that is leading to the slow recovery, the unexpectedly slow recovery, is the fact that this administration continues to downplay the efficacy of these vaccines.

00:18:38.000 And so you have the entire media now parroting the idea that if we don't have herd immunity, we can never go back to regular.

00:18:42.000 You know, here's the deal.

00:18:44.000 These vaccines are unbelievably effective.

00:18:46.000 Like, incredibly effective.

00:18:47.000 So effective, that once you are vaccinated, you should be looking to get back to regular life.

00:18:52.000 Right?

00:18:53.000 Once you're done, you're done.

00:18:55.000 The reality is that the vaccines are well in excess of 95% effective.

00:19:00.000 And we're talking Moderna or Pfizer.

00:19:02.000 They're well in excess of 95% effective at preventing serious disease and death.

00:19:07.000 And it also prevents you from getting it in something like 90% of cases, according to the latest Israeli data.

00:19:12.000 So you're in real good shape once you get the vaccines and you can go out and you can live your life.

00:19:17.000 Once you've had the vaccine, you don't need to wait for quote-unquote herd immunity in order for you to go out and lead your life and also take off your mask according to the best available data.

00:19:24.000 And I'm quoting there a number of doctors ranging from Dr. Marty McCary to one of the CNN in-house doctors.

00:19:30.000 This is fairly widely accepted at this point.

00:19:33.000 But instead of upplaying the efficacy of the vaccines, which, by the way, would encourage people to get the vaccines, this administration continues to declare that the pandemic will be a forever pandemic.

00:19:42.000 And the media mirror this.

00:19:44.000 So you have the New York Times today, headline, the world may need to learn to live with the virus.

00:19:48.000 OK, first of all, if that were true, then maybe you should have been saying that maybe a year ago when you instead of shutting down economies and forcing everybody back into their homes, maybe you should have said, OK, what if we actually just take precautions and go back to work?

00:20:00.000 But you weren't doing that then.

00:20:01.000 Now you're doing it when it's pretty clear that once you get the vaccine, you're pretty good to go.

00:20:05.000 The New York Times says, Early in the pandemic, there was hope the world would one day achieve herd immunity, the point when the coronavirus lacks enough hosts to spread easily.

00:20:12.000 But over a year later, the virus is crushing India with a fearsome second wave and surging in countries from Asia to Latin America.

00:20:18.000 Experts now say it is changing too quickly.

00:20:20.000 New more contagious variants are spreading too easily and vaccinations are happening too slowly for herd immunity to be within reach anytime soon.

00:20:25.000 Yes, but these vaccines are also unbelievably durable against the variants.

00:20:31.000 In field tests, these variants, the British variant, the South African variant, the Brazilian variant, all of these variants are not overcoming the natural immunity provided by vaccine or the vaccine immunity that's provided by the vaccine.

00:20:46.000 But we have to maintain this level of panic.

00:20:48.000 And so you end up with Dr. Anthony Fauci continuing to declare that, you know, maybe a year from now, things will be back to closer.

00:20:54.000 A year from now?

00:20:55.000 Are you insane?

00:20:55.000 Okay, so I live in the free state of Florida.

00:20:57.000 In the free state of Florida, let me tell you how things go.

00:20:59.000 Everybody's fine.

00:21:00.000 You get the vaccine, and then you go out and you live your life.

00:21:04.000 People who are free are done.

00:21:06.000 Once they feel safe, they're doing what they want.

00:21:07.000 And if you don't want to get the vaccine, and you want to put yourself at that level of risk, and we're not talking about somebody who has some sort of deep preexisting condition that prevents you from getting the vaccine, And you just don't want to get the vaccine?

00:21:17.000 Well, guess what?

00:21:18.000 Then it's on you.

00:21:19.000 I mean, then it's your decision.

00:21:19.000 Right?

00:21:20.000 You're a free human being.

00:21:21.000 That's the way we treat it down in Florida, and things are fine.

00:21:23.000 We are back to work.

00:21:24.000 We're back to regular life.

00:21:26.000 Things are fine.

00:21:27.000 But here's Anthony Fauci saying, you know, maybe like a year from now, Mother's Day will be different.

00:21:32.000 A year from now?

00:21:33.000 And then they wonder why the economy is slow.

00:21:35.000 Yes, because of you guys.

00:21:37.000 You are doing this.

00:21:38.000 This is on the White House.

00:21:41.000 I hope that next Mother's Day we're going to see a dramatic difference than what we're seeing right now.

00:21:46.000 I believe that we will be about as close to back to normal as we can.

00:21:51.000 And there's some conditions to that, George.

00:21:54.000 We've got to make sure that we get the overwhelming proportion of the population vaccinated.

00:22:00.000 When that happens, the virus doesn't really have any place to go.

00:22:03.000 There aren't a lot of vulnerable people around.

00:22:06.000 And where there are not a lot of vulnerable people around, you're not going to see a surge.

00:22:10.000 By the way, notice how the language of this administration has shifted from get the vaccine and everything will be fine to herd immunity.

00:22:17.000 Now, some people were talking about natural herd immunity early on.

00:22:20.000 Some people were saying that herd immunity, especially if you can have it among young people, is not a terrible thing because you're killing vectors of transmission.

00:22:26.000 And then you were told you're killing grandma if you're 20 and you get COVID, even if you don't go anywhere near grandma.

00:22:30.000 Now they're like herd immunity is the BLM doll. 0.91

00:22:32.000 Weird how the messaging changed just in time to slow down the economy.

00:22:36.000 And the message from this White House is, if the economy is slow, that requires more spending, even though it's our spending that's causing the economy to be slow.

00:22:42.000 Now, how much of this is based on actual science?

00:22:46.000 Pretty much none of it, okay?

00:22:47.000 So much of what is being promoted by this White House right now is steeped in anti-science.

00:22:51.000 So, for example, Joe Biden's COVID czar.

00:22:54.000 He was on with Jake Tapper, and he was being asked, you know, why is Biden wearing a mask when he goes outside?

00:23:00.000 Why is Biden wearing a mask when he's socially distanced?

00:23:02.000 The dude is vaccinated.

00:23:03.000 What is he doing?

00:23:05.000 And yet here, you have Jeffrey Zients explaining to Jake Tapper, or failing to explain, why Joe Biden continues to promote nonsense.

00:23:13.000 Is it really necessary for a fully vaccinated person to wear a mask at a limited indoor gathering if everyone there is vaccinated?

00:23:24.000 Well, the CDC has given guidance that when you're with family and friends that are vaccinated in small groups, you don't need a mask.

00:23:30.000 So why does President Biden, in a room full of vaccinated journalists, with everybody in that room vaccinated, why does he need to wear a mask?

00:23:36.000 The President is going to continue to follow the CDC guidance.

00:23:40.000 He's not!

00:23:41.000 He literally is not!

00:23:43.000 That was Jake Tapper's entire question.

00:23:44.000 He literally is not following the CDC guidance.

00:23:46.000 So when Jeffrey Zients says there, he's gonna follow, he's not, right?

00:23:50.000 Every day Joe Biden is making the tacit case that getting the vaccine makes no difference.

00:23:53.000 He's still masking up.

00:23:55.000 It's ridiculous.

00:23:57.000 Okay, and it's not just that.

00:23:58.000 The White House has so blown the COVID messaging here and the vaccine messaging here that they created the vaccine hesitancy.

00:24:03.000 The same people who are like, we need vaccines. 0.96

00:24:05.000 They created the vaccine hesitancy.

00:24:07.000 Okay, so let's talk about that for a second.

00:24:10.000 Just a few weeks ago, just a few weeks ago, the Biden administration announced via the FDA that they were holding up the J&J vaccine and they were holding up the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

00:24:19.000 Why?

00:24:19.000 Because out of the several, it was like six or seven or eight million people who had gotten the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, six people had a severe blood clotting reaction.

00:24:28.000 Six out of like seven million people, which by the way is kind of the proportion that you have seen in terms of the number of deaths from COVID.

00:24:38.000 From people who have gotten the vaccine.

00:24:40.000 And something like 88 million people as of a couple weeks ago.

00:24:44.000 There's like 82, 83, 84 million people who had been vaccinated and 88 deaths total in the United States from COVID among people who had been vaccinated.

00:24:51.000 So these things are unbelievably effective.

00:24:52.000 J&J also a very effective vaccine and much more durable in the sense that you can ship it very easily.

00:24:57.000 It only requires one shot as opposed to two.

00:24:59.000 Okay, and then this administration idiotically put a hold on the J&J vaccine and publicly announced that they were putting a hold on the J&J vaccine.

00:25:08.000 Okay, so here was Joe Biden's COVID czar, Jeffrey Zients, explaining that, you know, when we put that J&J vaccine on hold, it made no difference.

00:25:15.000 Now here's the problem.

00:25:16.000 It did make a difference.

00:25:16.000 A lot of people looked at that and they said, oh, okay, I'm not getting the vaccine because now I'm scared.

00:25:19.000 Now I'm afraid of the side effects.

00:25:21.000 So here is Jake Tapper questioning Jeffrey Zients, and good for Jake on this.

00:25:25.000 In retrospect, was it a mistake to put a hold on the J&J vaccine in terms of confidence?

00:25:34.000 Did that make your task harder?

00:25:37.000 No, not at all.

00:25:37.000 I mean, the FDA is the gold standard in the world.

00:25:40.000 And the FDA is constantly monitoring for safety.

00:25:44.000 And doing the pause was the right thing.

00:25:46.000 That builds confidence that people know that the FDA and the CDC are monitoring.

00:25:51.000 Not necessarily.

00:25:51.000 I mean, it should build confidence.

00:25:53.000 It actually shows, the research showed after the pause, that confidence overall in the vaccines increased after the pause.

00:26:00.000 Wrongo! 1.00

00:26:01.000 Okay, here is an actual graph.

00:26:03.000 This is from Nate Silver.

00:26:05.000 Hey, Nate Silver is not a right-winger from FiveThirtyEight.

00:26:07.000 Nate Silver put out this graph.

00:26:09.000 It shows the daily count of people receiving the first dose reported to the CDC by the date administered in the United States.

00:26:14.000 And what you see is that the number of people who are getting the first dose grows up until about the beginning of April.

00:26:21.000 You see, it starts jumping really around, like, beginning of February.

00:26:26.000 It's steadily climbing from December all the way through February.

00:26:28.000 Then there's, like, a brief pause.

00:26:29.000 And then it starts going up pretty dramatically at the beginning of February, all the way up to about 2 million people a day who are receiving, on average, who are receiving their first dose of the vaccine.

00:26:38.000 On some days, you're getting over 2.4 million people who are receiving the vaccine.

00:26:42.000 And then it starts to plummet right around the beginning of April.

00:26:45.000 Right around there, it jumps, it starts to decline rapidly, like down to 1.6, down to 1.2, down to now, only about 400,000 or 500,000 people a day will be getting that first dose reported to the CDC.

00:26:57.000 So, what happened, you might ask, around the beginning of April?

00:27:00.000 That was the J&J pause.

00:27:02.000 The J&J pause is right at the peak on that chart, and then...

00:27:06.000 You can see it drop like a stone.

00:27:08.000 In other words, this administration has been garbage at everything.

00:27:11.000 They are messaging with data that is completely wrong.

00:27:13.000 Okay, and it is not people who are merely sort of freedom advocates like me, you know, people who are saying that you should be able to take off the mask once you've had the vaccine.

00:27:22.000 Scott Gottlieb, who's been as cautious as it is possible to be, the former FDA administrator under President Trump, he's been very cautious all the way, a big advocate of masking.

00:27:30.000 He says, once you've got the vaccine, really, you should be able to unmask inside.

00:27:35.000 We've always said from a public health standpoint that we would set as a metric maybe when we get down to 10 cases per 100,000 people on a daily basis.

00:27:43.000 Well, half the country's there right now.

00:27:45.000 If you want to be more conservative and say 5 cases per 100,000 people, well, this week, by this week, probably about a quarter of states will be there.

00:27:52.000 So we're at the point right now we could start lifting these ordinances and allowing people to resume normal activities.

00:27:57.000 Certainly outdoors, we shouldn't be putting limits on gatherings anymore.

00:28:00.000 We should be encouraging people to go outside.

00:28:02.000 In the states where prevalence is low, vaccination rates are high, and we have good testing in place, so we're identifying infections.

00:28:08.000 I think we could start lifting these restrictions indoors as well, on a broad basis.

00:28:12.000 Yes, correct!

00:28:13.000 Okay, and again, Gottlieb is not a hawk like me, when it comes to this sort of stuff.

00:28:18.000 Gottlieb has been very, very friendly to some of these restrictions.

00:28:21.000 So, suddenly, the science is not on the side of the administration, and not on the side of the media.

00:28:25.000 But the media still have to prop up the narrative, this isn't Biden's fault.

00:28:28.000 Vaccine hesitancy isn't his fault.

00:28:29.000 The economic downturn isn't his fault.

00:28:31.000 They're blaming Tucker Carlson.

00:28:31.000 So what are they doing?

00:28:32.000 So all CNN and MSNBC exist to do at this point is just cover Fox News.

00:28:36.000 It's pretty astonishing.

00:28:38.000 It's been all day long talking about how terrible it is that Fox News exists and that Tucker Carlson exists.

00:28:45.000 Okay, now, Tucker has been on his show talking about adverse reactions to the vaccines, and I think that he has not covered the vaccines in a way certainly that I would cover the vaccines.

00:28:55.000 But if you think that the chief cause of vaccine hesitancy in the United States is Tucker Carlson rather than, you know, the CDC, the FDA, the White House, you're out of your mind.

00:29:03.000 But the media have decided they have to blame somebody, and it can't be Biden, for this vaccine hesitancy.

00:29:08.000 This has, by the way, been the myth all along in the media, is that it's everybody who loves Trump has been refusing the vaccine.

00:29:14.000 Really?

00:29:14.000 Because Trump voters are older than the general population.

00:29:18.000 Some 82% of people above the age of 65 in the United States have already taken the vaccine.

00:29:23.000 In fact, if you want to look at communities where there's very, very low levels of vaccination, those communities tend to be predominantly minority communities, right?

00:29:31.000 That did not vote for President Trump.

00:29:33.000 But it's Tucker's fault, according to CNN, because it can't be Biden's fault.

00:29:36.000 It really is that simple.

00:29:38.000 I've heard Tucker Carlson repeatedly say that many Americans are dying after getting this shot.

00:29:44.000 And he says it with the implication that the shots are to blame, with no evidence at all.

00:29:48.000 He's scaring his audience so recklessly that even some of his own colleagues called him out for it on Twitter.

00:29:56.000 Carlson acts like he knows some secret truth that's been covered up by some shadowy enterprise.

00:30:01.000 You know what, maybe he should be writing some junk movie of the week for Netflix or Tubi.

00:30:05.000 Maybe he should go write horror novels for a living.

00:30:08.000 Because he's clearly not responsible enough to have a show that purports to pretend to be news.

00:30:12.000 Okay, so Brian Stelter's been on a crusade for a while to get Tucker kicked off the air.

00:30:17.000 I don't agree with what Tucker says about the vaccines.

00:30:18.000 As you know, I'm probably the strongest advocate on the right for vaccination.

00:30:22.000 I think vaccination is a godsend.

00:30:24.000 I think it's basically a scientific miracle.

00:30:26.000 At the same time, the notion that Tucker Carlson is the chief cause of vaccine hesitancy in the United States is absurd on its face.

00:30:32.000 It's the White House that is the chief cause, and there's a reason why the media have been swiveling and clocking Carlson.

00:30:37.000 They don't have Trump to kick around anymore, so Tucker is their new stand-in.

00:30:40.000 Alrighty, in just a second, we're gonna get to the latest in social justice warrior-ing, because it continues apace.

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00:33:15.000 And meanwhile, as though the economy were not already slowing, as though we didn't already have enough crises on our hands, the Biden administration is doing an unbelievable job of manufacturing crisis pretty much everywhere at home and abroad.

00:33:33.000 We'll start with at home and then we'll get to abroad, because it really is fairly incredible how they've somehow manufactured an economic crisis where there really ought not be one.

00:33:40.000 They're manufacturing a COVID crisis where the COVID crisis is on the wane and essentially done in a bunch of states.

00:33:46.000 And they continue to foment social panic with regard to race relations in the United States.

00:33:51.000 So, the Black Lives Matter movement continues to...

00:33:55.000 Create issues in cities across the country.

00:33:57.000 The latest example comes courtesy of Plano, Texas.

00:34:00.000 So Plano is about as red in the area as it is possible to find.

00:34:03.000 Plano is like 65-35 Republican-Democrat.

00:34:05.000 It may be higher than that.

00:34:07.000 Hey, Black Lives Matter took over an intersection anyway. 0.86

00:34:09.000 And the cops decided instead of clearing the intersection, they were just going to allow Black Lives Matter to take over the intersection and stop traffic.

00:34:16.000 Which is nuts!

00:34:17.000 Enough of this crap already.

00:34:18.000 Okay, you can get a license to protest.

00:34:20.000 You can get a license to shut down streets.

00:34:22.000 But if you just decide to show up in the middle of the street and shut down traffic, then everybody has a right to be pissed at you.

00:34:28.000 One driver got out of his car.

00:34:28.000 the police decided that he was the problem, not the people who were holding up the traffic.

00:34:31.000 This guy was ticked off.

00:34:39.000 He's, you know, and the cops show up.

00:34:42.000 People are screaming at him.

00:34:45.000 And people are flipping him off.

00:34:47.000 Why are the cops doing nothing?

00:34:48.000 The cops are just standing there doing nothing.

00:34:50.000 That's not the cops' fault.

00:34:51.000 That's not the cops' fault.

00:34:52.000 The cops have been told, presumably by their political higher-ups, to not stop this sort of nonsense.

00:34:58.000 It's an absurdity.

00:35:00.000 This sort of social division in the country is simply not a good thing.

00:35:03.000 And the fact that the police have been told to stand down in the face of this sort of stuff is really, really bad.

00:35:09.000 But again, this is all part and parcel of the giant equity push being put forward by the Biden administration.

00:35:15.000 It's part of the continuing fragmentation of American life on the basis of race. 0.68

00:35:20.000 Michelle Obama, who have all the people in the United States, should be Pretty grateful for how great the United States has been to her.

00:35:28.000 I feel this way about anybody who's in a position of high power.

00:35:30.000 I'm very, very grateful to the United States for all the opportunities that I've had.

00:35:34.000 Michelle Obama went to Princeton University and grew up in a two-parent family and became a highfalutin lawyer and earned a big salary and married the President of the United States.

00:35:43.000 You know, she really, it seems, should be pretty grateful for the fact that this country's been good to her, but she has not been grateful for that for quite a while.

00:35:54.000 I mean, you'll recall back in 2008, Michelle Obama suggested openly that the first time that she had been grateful for the country, or the first time that she'd been proud of the country, rather, is when her husband was nominated for the presidency.

00:36:06.000 That's the first time in her life, which is pretty amazing, considering, again, she went to Princeton University.

00:36:11.000 Well now, Michelle Obama and President Obama are speaking out a lot about race.

00:36:16.000 In an excerpt of an interview that's gonna be released later today with Gayle King of CBS this morning, Michelle Obama revealed her fears that the couple's daughters Malia and Sasha could fall victim to racist aggression as they go about their everyday lives.

00:36:28.000 She said, every time they get in a car by themselves, I worry about what assumption is being made by somebody who doesn't know everything about them.

00:36:33.000 Maybe they're playing their music a little loud.

00:36:35.000 Maybe somebody sees the back of their head and makes an assumption.

00:36:38.000 I, like so many parents of black kids, the innocent act of getting a license put fears in our hearts.

00:36:41.000 Again, this is just rooted in non-data.

00:36:44.000 The notion that young black women are being gunned down by the cops for the crime of being black is insane.

00:36:50.000 That is not backed by data.

00:36:52.000 But she's pushing it anyway.

00:36:54.000 Because the Democratic Party has decided to foment racial polarization for purposes of electoral victory.

00:36:59.000 In the same interview, Michelle praised BLM.

00:37:02.000 She said they're taking to the streets because they have to.

00:37:03.000 Do they have to, though?

00:37:05.000 You know, those $2 billion riots last year.

00:37:06.000 Was that a thing that had to happen?

00:37:08.000 They're trying to have people understand that we're real folks.

00:37:10.000 Oh, we get that you're real folks, and I'm treating you like a responsible human being.

00:37:14.000 Like any other responsible human being.

00:37:16.000 You know, like responsible for not shutting down traffic.

00:37:19.000 Like responsible for not telling lies about the police.

00:37:23.000 The bigotry of low expectations exists and it is quite prevalent on the American left.

00:37:28.000 And of course, the Obamas are earning strange new respect from the same left that had started to move away from them over all of this sort of stuff.

00:37:34.000 Don Lemon doing the same thing over on CNN.

00:37:37.000 He says that Tim Scott, the senator from South Carolina, who has said America is not a racist country.

00:37:42.000 He says, well, you know, Tim Scott's not an Oreo, which is a racial slur meaning black on the outside, white on the inside.

00:37:47.000 He's not an Oreo.

00:37:48.000 He just, you know, doesn't care about black folks.

00:37:51.000 So basically he's an Oreo, according to Don Lemon.

00:37:54.000 Obviously you don't need the name-calling, and anytime you call someone a name, anytime you do that, you don't want to become them.

00:38:02.000 So you stoop to their level, you give your competitors ammunition, and you give them a talking point, and you become them.

00:38:10.000 I think that it is damaging to Democrats if they're trying to do that and it gives Republicans talking points.

00:38:17.000 Tim Scott should be held accountable for what he's doing and if he is voting against the interests of his own people.

00:38:26.000 Stop calling him names.

00:38:27.000 Also, he's voting against the interests of his own people.

00:38:30.000 Well done, Don Lemon.

00:38:31.000 The fomenting of racial polarization in a country that, as of 2008, was at the height of a trajectory toward being non-racist Is impressive how we've reversed that over the course of the last decade and a half or so.

00:38:44.000 Pretty amazing how we've reversed that so quickly.

00:38:46.000 Meanwhile, wokeness infusing every part of American life. 0.59

00:38:49.000 This article is beyond, honestly, it's beyond parody.

00:38:52.000 From the Los Angeles Times.

00:38:54.000 Fat shaming, BMI and alienation.

00:38:56.000 COVID-19 brought new stigma to large sized people.

00:39:01.000 Because this is what we're worried about.

00:39:02.000 Now, here is the thing.

00:39:03.000 There's been this body positivity movement in the United States.

00:39:07.000 Okay, the body positivity movement has basically said, you're beautiful if you are fat.

00:39:10.000 Okay, that is a matter certainly of subjective opinion.

00:39:13.000 It depends on what you look like, and everybody has their different opinion of what beauty constitutes.

00:39:16.000 However, there is very little that suggests that you are healthier if you are fatter.

00:39:21.000 The reality is that COVID does not care about your subjective sense of self-esteem or beauty.

00:39:26.000 COVID kills people who are fatter.

00:39:27.000 End of story.

00:39:29.000 One of the leading indicators of complications from COVID was fat.

00:39:33.000 The body positivity movement kept saying, you're beautiful if you're fat, which again is a matter of subjective opinion and is not backed by very much data from around the world, but Put aside the subjective beauty question and instead focus on the body positivity movement's second answer, which is you are healthy if you are fat, which is just contrary to all known medical opinion.

00:39:55.000 Now, the problem is, according to the LA Times, that there is a stigma attaching to fat people during COVID.

00:40:00.000 Well, maybe it's not about the stigma.

00:40:01.000 Maybe it's because if you wanted to live through COVID, losing weight would be a good way of heightening your chances.

00:40:08.000 And my father had a few extra pounds.

00:40:11.000 And during the COVID pandemic, he was like, you know what I don't want to do?

00:40:13.000 Die from COVID.

00:40:14.000 So I am going to try and lose this weight as fast as I possibly can.

00:40:19.000 Instead, the LA Times is like, stop, you know, this is all about, it's all about self-esteem and shaming.

00:40:24.000 Crystal Bougain cried after the needle went into her arm, not because her first dose of the Moderna vaccine hurt, but because, finally, being fat actually paid off.

00:40:32.000 The 53-year-old was inoculated in the parking lot of Kaiser Permanente in San Jose on a rainy Friday in March, four days after eligibility in California was broadened to include people with underlying conditions.

00:40:41.000 Among them, a body mass index of 40 or more, 233 pounds for an adult who is five feet four inches tall, Begun's medical record at Kaiser shows she is morbidly obese.

00:40:50.000 As an activist, she prefers the word fat.

00:40:53.000 Her experience with medical providers has been one incident of size stigma after another, she said, like the time she went in with a scratched cornea and was told to lose weight.

00:41:01.000 She fears being hospitalized with COVID-19 and unable to advocate for herself.

00:41:05.000 Well, um, maybe you're healthier if you lose weight, and when you deal with medical providers, they will keep telling you that if you lose weight, you will be healthier.

00:41:13.000 But again, because so much of the woke movement is about subjective senses of self-esteem over objective fact, we're going to pretend that the big issue with COVID is all of this.

00:41:21.000 Okay.

00:41:21.000 So, when it comes to racial polarization in the United States, when it comes to wokeness, another crisis being fomented by this administration.

00:41:27.000 And then there's foreign crisis fomented by this administration.

00:41:30.000 So this administration came into office overtly suggesting that they were going to refund Palestinian terrorist groups.

00:41:36.000 Suggesting that they were going to side with Iran over Israel.

00:41:39.000 Suggesting that they were going to try to essentially put the Abraham Accords, which are these historic peace deals between a variety of Arab countries and Israel, in the rear view mirror, and instead incentivize violence in the Middle East.

00:41:50.000 And that's exactly what has been breaking out in the Middle East. 0.57

00:41:52.000 And make no mistake, the folks in the Middle East, Fatah, Hamas, terrorist groups, Iran, they know that with Biden in the White House, they now have somebody who is significantly friendlier to them than to Israel.

00:42:03.000 And this is true when Obama was in the White House as well.

00:42:05.000 Because the soft bigotry of low expectations certainly applies to Palestinian terrorist groups by American presidents in the same way that it does to a variety of other groups who are not expected to behave with decency.

00:42:16.000 And so what you've seen in the headlines over the last couple of weeks, and certainly over the last few days, riots in, you haven't seen riots, sorry, not riots, violence, cycles of violence breaking out in Jerusalem.

00:42:27.000 Just violence, random violence breaking out in Jerusalem.

00:42:29.000 And it's not random.

00:42:30.000 It's because the Israelis are really, really bad. 1.00

00:42:32.000 And if you listen, To Canada and the so-called Quartet.

00:42:35.000 The Quartet is the EU, the United Nations, the United States, and Russia.

00:42:39.000 If you listen to them, the Israelis are the problem. 1.00

00:42:41.000 It's terrible what the Israelis are doing in the Middle East. 1.00

00:42:43.000 Okay, so according to the Jerusalem Post, they condemned on Sunday the violence that took place on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and called on Israel to halt eviction plans for Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood as violence rises in the country's capital.

00:42:55.000 The EU and US also issued a statement against the violence and the pending Sheikh Jarrah evictions as did Jordan, Turkey, Qatar, Egypt, the UAE, and Bahrain.

00:43:03.000 Individual European countries, as well as South Africa, have spoken out as well.

00:43:07.000 Canadian Foreign Minister Marc Garneau said, So the easiest thing to do if you know nothing about this region is just to say, cycle of violence, everybody needs to calm down.

00:43:19.000 It's like a bad parent walking in on two of their kids who are fighting.

00:43:22.000 Well, just everybody should calm, just everybody stop it.

00:43:24.000 It's on everybody.

00:43:25.000 Okay, well that's not actually what's going on here.

00:43:27.000 Here is what is actually going on in the Middle East right now.

00:43:29.000 Okay?

00:43:31.000 Fatah, which is the ruling party of the Palestinian Authority.

00:43:35.000 They're the armed wing of the Palestinian Authority, which is Mahmoud Abbas's group.

00:43:38.000 They were supposed to hold an election.

00:43:40.000 It was going to be the first election since the last election, which was in, I believe, 2006.

00:43:45.000 Because Mahmoud Abbas is now in the 15th year of a four-year term.

00:43:48.000 So they have not actually held elections since 2006.

00:43:50.000 It's been a long time.

00:43:53.000 Okay, and so they were supposed to hold elections.

00:43:54.000 Then they canceled the elections.

00:43:56.000 They blamed the Israelis for it, of course.

00:43:57.000 And now, because they canceled elections, and because Joe Biden has signaled that he is going to be very pro-Palestinian, they've decided, you know, it's a great idea. 0.97

00:44:04.000 Let's ramp up the violence for some media cred.

00:44:07.000 And because Fatah wants to outflank Hamas.

00:44:09.000 Hamas is considered more terroristic and more radical than Fatah.

00:44:12.000 Fatah is a terrorist group, but Fatah also has authority over these Palestinian areas in terms of a certain level of domestic rule.

00:44:19.000 Hamas runs the Gaza Strip.

00:44:21.000 In an election, Fatah was afraid it would lose to Hamas, so now they're trying to outflank Hamas on the We Are Violent Terrorists front.

00:44:27.000 They're trying to outdo Hamas. 0.50

00:44:29.000 So what is the pretext that they have used in order to launch a new round of rioting?

00:44:33.000 A semi-intifada?

00:44:36.000 What exactly is that pretext?

00:44:38.000 Here is what the actual pretext is.

00:44:39.000 There are four families who are being ejected from homes for which they have not been paying rent for decades in a place called Sheikh Jarrah.

00:44:47.000 Sheikh Jarrah is a little outskirt of Jerusalem.

00:44:50.000 It's a bunch of, it's a almost entirely Arab area.

00:44:55.000 It is also known as Shimon HaTzadik because there is a grave of a very famous Talmudic sage named Shimon HaTzadik over there.

00:45:01.000 It was a historically Jewish area all the way up to 1948.

00:45:05.000 It was majority Jewish in Jerusalem up to that time.

00:45:08.000 And then the 48 war happens, right? 0.76

00:45:09.000 The establishment of the state of Israel happens.

00:45:11.000 And Jordan conquers the old city of Jerusalem, East Jerusalem, and Sheikh Jarrah. 0.80

00:45:16.000 And they expel every Jew. 0.99

00:45:17.000 Because the difference between Israel having territory and the Arab countries having territory is that when the Arab countries gain territory, they expel every Jew. 0.88

00:45:24.000 When the Israelis gain territory, the Arabs stay, right? 1.00

00:45:27.000 One fifth of the population of Israel is Arab.

00:45:30.000 And so, Sheikh Jarrah is made Judenrein from 48 to 67.

00:45:34.000 And then Israel in the 1967 war wins back that territory, including Sheikh Jarrah. 0.68

00:45:40.000 And there's a lawsuit that is filed by the original owners of the homes in Sheikh Jarrah seeking ownership of the buildings, of the land that they were forced out of in 1948.

00:45:50.000 So there's this ruling in 1970, and the ruling said that if you can show that you have a land record here, then these buildings belong to you.

00:46:03.000 Okay, and so these Jewish groups came along and said, okay, these buildings belong to us. 0.64

00:46:06.000 They registered.

00:46:07.000 The properties were registered with Israeli authorities under a couple of organizations named Vad Eidar Hasfardim and Vad Haklali L'Knesset Israel.

00:46:16.000 And in 1973, these were recognized to be Jewish homes.

00:46:21.000 Hey, the organizations then sold the properties to another organization in 2003.

00:46:24.000 According to a 1989 High Court decision in Israel, reaffirmed, as in the case of any tenant living on somebody else's property, residents living on the land were required to pay rent to the organizations that owned the property.

00:46:34.000 They didn't pay rent for literally decades.

00:46:37.000 Now, this has been elevated to a legal case, and the district courts found that the people who are living there are not paying rent, need to pay rent, or they need to vacate, and they can be evicted.

00:46:46.000 So this is all an eviction case.

00:46:48.000 A legal eviction case.

00:46:50.000 And the Israeli authorities said, okay, well, we're going to evict.

00:46:53.000 And they used this, the Palestinian Authority and Fatah, used this as a pretext to start a round of violence.

00:46:58.000 That is all this is.

00:46:59.000 It is just a pretext to start a round of violence in order for Fatah to avoid the implications of avoiding an election, in order for Hamas, because they're always good for some violence, to seek to outflank Fatah as the populist violence and terrorism generator. 0.58

00:47:14.000 The way the West treats this is as though Israel is the aggressor in this particular situation.

00:47:18.000 So in other words, you have a basic eviction case that has been adjudicated in Israeli courts, and in which, by the way, the defendants acknowledged that they never had any land deed to these areas.

00:47:28.000 And not only did they not have any land deed, they acknowledged Jewish ownership of these particular buildings.

00:47:32.000 And they refused to pay rent.

00:47:34.000 And this has turned into a regional issue and now a global issue.

00:47:38.000 And in the end, what that's really driven by more than anything else is the view by the Palestinians that if they can somehow sucker the Biden administration into taking their side, then they can generate concessions and they can avoid the implication of being horrible to their own people.

00:47:52.000 Hamas and Fatah are garbage for the Palestinian people.

00:47:54.000 They are garbage for them.

00:47:55.000 If they can generate all of that anger and direct it at Israel, Then this is the natural outcome. 0.97

00:48:00.000 The Biden administration knows this and they don't care because they have decided that the Israelis are the bad guys in this particular region, generating crisis wherever they go. 0.99

00:48:06.000 The Biden administration doing a wonderful, wonderful job as always.

00:48:10.000 And by the way, the violence you're seeing on the Temple Mount is pre-planned.

00:48:13.000 The violence that you're seeing in Jerusalem is pre-planned. 0.65

00:48:15.000 It is part of a broader terrorist campaign.

00:48:18.000 We have plenty of tape of it.

00:48:19.000 Anybody who's telling you that this is a spontaneous uprising or that Israeli police are the aggressors is patently lying to you.

00:48:24.000 They're just lying.

00:48:25.000 It is not true.

00:48:27.000 But the media know nothing.

00:48:29.000 I saw a great Michael Crichton quote over the weekend.

00:48:31.000 So Michael Crichton said about the media at one point that if you have any expertise in a particular topic and you watch media coverage of that topic, you know the media don't know anything.

00:48:38.000 Then you flip over to a different page of the paper, you're like, oh, well, they must know about this.

00:48:42.000 Well, nope, they don't.

00:48:43.000 They don't know anything about the Middle East.

00:48:44.000 They don't know anything about the players on the ground.

00:48:46.000 They don't care.

00:48:47.000 All they are doing is reflecting a pre-set narrative that they wish to run with and that the Biden administration wishes to foster.

00:48:54.000 And the result?

00:48:55.000 More violence, more poverty, more suffering.

00:48:58.000 Why not?

00:48:59.000 It's the Biden White House way.

00:49:00.000 All righty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

00:49:02.000 In the meantime, go check out The Michael Mowles Show.

00:49:04.000 On today's episode, Michael will be talking about an insane incident where a SWAT team in Canada took down a Christian pastor.

00:49:09.000 You can hear more details about that story over on Michael's Show.

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