The Ben Shapiro Show - Biden Speaks! | Ep. 1002

00:00:00.000 Joe Biden finally speaks about Tara Reade's accusations, the media preemptively declared Georgia's opening a failure, and evidence mounts of the FBI's manipulation of Michael Flynn.

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00:00:24.000 Joe Biden finally speaks.

00:00:25.000 It's like Garbo speaks.

00:00:26.000 For people who are movie history literate, there was an actress named Greta Garbo, a very famous silent actress, and when she finally appeared in talkies, That was the big headline was Garbo speaks.

00:00:34.000 Well, Joe Biden is unable to put together English sentences and has been hiding out in his basement for a while, and he'd been completely silent about the Tara Reid allegations.

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00:02:06.000 Okay, so Joe Biden's had himself a rough 24 hours, a very rough 24 hours.

00:02:11.000 So here's what happened.

00:02:13.000 Over the past 48 hours, the dam has started to break on the Tara Reade allegation.

00:02:17.000 So Tara Reade came out almost over a month ago, I believe, and made the allegation that back in 1993, when she was a Senate staffer for Joe Biden, he called her into a little used corridor in the Senate,

00:02:29.000 And there he proceeded to sexually molest her essentially like pick up her skirt and then put his fingers inside her like actual penetration penetrative sexual assault I mean it's a sexual assault by definition any penetration forcible penetration is sexual assault so she alleged this and then everybody ignored it and then she came forward with a bunch of people who she had told contemporaneously now That is not dispositive.

00:02:50.000 For people in the media who don't understand the word dispositive, dispositive means that does not mean that the case is disposed of because of these allegations.

00:02:58.000 Meaning, just because you told somebody at the time something happened doesn't mean it went down that way, doesn't mean that you remembered correctly, but it does mean You've been telling the story for 30 years.

00:03:06.000 You didn't make it up in the last five minutes.

00:03:08.000 So Tara Reade originally had a couple people she had told.

00:03:10.000 She told her mom.

00:03:11.000 She told her brother.

00:03:12.000 Her mom called into Larry King Live and actually made a sort of oblique reference to it back in 1993.

00:03:17.000 And then it turned out there were two additional people who said, on the record, that she had told them about this allegation.

00:03:22.000 So all of this starts to mount because, after all, the Democratic Party has been pushing the Believe All Women, Hashtag Me Too movement for years, mainly to get Trump.

00:03:31.000 Remember, nobody cared about Harvey Weinstein in Hollywood for years, and then Trump was elected, and it was like, okay, we're gonna have to get rid of all these bad, bad, terrible men.

00:03:37.000 Sure, we had Bill Clinton, and sure, we had JFK, and sure, we had Ted Kennedy, and sure, we had Chris Dodd, and sure, we had, you know, a lot of people who are sort of famously going around town and molesting women, but...

00:03:47.000 Or allegedly molesting women.

00:03:48.000 But at the same time, you know, they were important people.

00:03:51.000 Trump, we've got to get out of office now.

00:03:53.000 It's time to change the standard.

00:03:54.000 We'll hold ourselves to a better standard.

00:03:55.000 And they did overtly change the standard.

00:03:57.000 Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who had been hobnobbing with the Clintons, turned on a dime and said, if I had been around when Bill Clinton was doing this, maybe we should have gotten rid of Bill Clinton in 1998 after all, over the Monica Lewinsky and Paula Jones stuff. 0.58

00:04:07.000 Maybe we should have gone ahead and done that.

00:04:09.000 OK, well, now Joe Biden is the nominee and this allegation comes forward.

00:04:13.000 And Joe Biden's original strategy is, we'll put out a statement denying it, and then that's all we're going to do about it.

00:04:18.000 We're just going to sit here silently.

00:04:19.000 And the media basically go along with this.

00:04:21.000 Tara Reid, the person who made the allegation, is not asked on a single national news show.

00:04:25.000 There was an entire article in the New York Times yesterday about this by Ben Smith, who's actually doing a pretty good job over at the New York Times.

00:04:30.000 He used to be the editor-in-chief over at BuzzFeed.

00:04:32.000 Now he's reporting over at the New York Times.

00:04:34.000 He's their media columnist.

00:04:35.000 And he says, And he says, the mainstream American media in 1999, for reasons that are hard to explain or excuse today, got cold feet on a credible allegation of rape against the president.

00:04:44.000 He's referring to Juanita Broderick.

00:04:45.000 After NBC News sat for weeks on an exclusive interview, Broderick went on to the only people who would listen to her, Mr. Clinton's partisan enemies at the Wall Street Journal editorial page.

00:04:53.000 That move helped turn her straightforward allegation into a weaponized political story. 0.98

00:04:57.000 And while Americans watching at home could make up their own minds about Juanita Broderick's credibility, they were left with new reasons to shake their head at the media.

00:05:03.000 The same thing is about to happen again.

00:05:05.000 A former Senate aide for Joe Biden, Tara Reade, has accused the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee of sexually assaulting her in 1993. 0.99

00:05:11.000 Reporters have found other accounts that indicate she's been telling her version of events for a long time.

00:05:15.000 There are, as with Juanita Broderick, reasons to doubt her story.

00:05:18.000 There aren't good reasons not to hear her out.

00:05:20.000 And yet, Reid told me Wednesday the only offers she's had to appear on television have come from Fox News, including a call from primetime host Sean Hannity she has so far turned them down.

00:05:30.000 She said, I've been trying to just kind of wait to get someone in the middle.

00:05:32.000 I don't want to be pigeonholed as a progressive.

00:05:33.000 I don't want to be pigeonholed as a Trump supporter.

00:05:36.000 CNN, MSNBC, MSNBC, whose DNA, even a pandemic, is politics, have covered her on their websites and on air, but have not put her on camera.

00:05:44.000 Reid said, they're not offering to put me on TV.

00:05:46.000 No anchors, nothing like that.

00:05:46.000 They're just doing stories.

00:05:48.000 She'd most like to tell her story to a network television anchor she admires.

00:05:51.000 CBS's Gail King is one, she said, but they haven't called.

00:05:54.000 So she is planning to accept Fox News's offer for an interview to air this weekend, but with someone a little more up the middle.

00:05:59.000 Apparently she's going to talk with Chris Wallace.

00:06:01.000 That is something that she has been considering.

00:06:04.000 Ben Smith says some of the reasons this story seems muffled right now are fairly straightforward.

00:06:07.000 The global coronavirus pandemic.

00:06:09.000 There's also the way Ms. 0.99

00:06:10.000 Reid first tried getting attention, mostly on Twitter, stumbling forward with no PR person and no attorney.

00:06:14.000 She says, I emailed Ronan Farrow like four times to the point of stalking, and I didn't hear back.

00:06:18.000 Now, of course, he's one of the investigative reporters on this.

00:06:22.000 Reid said that she had meant that Farrell had not initially responded to her, but they were now actively communicating.

00:06:27.000 Then, she found partisans willing to hear her out.

00:06:29.000 Remember, this allegation first aired on a Bernie Sanders, pro-Bernie Sanders podcast by a woman named Katie Halper.

00:06:35.000 Then The Intercept, which is also a leftist website, reported that a friend and brother of Ms. 0.89

00:06:39.000 Reid's recalled her describing the incident.

00:06:42.000 The traditional media waded in carefully, then Business Insider had to report it.

00:06:45.000 The reporter, Rich McHugh, I'd first taken the story to Vanity Fair, and Vanity Fair wouldn't publish it.

00:06:50.000 Can you imagine Vanity Fair not publishing Christine Blasey Ford's story?

00:06:53.000 Of course not.

00:06:54.000 The broadcast television network CNN and MSNBC have covered the story on their websites, but there's been no clear explanation for why Reid was not booked on mainstream TV.

00:07:02.000 CNN and MSNBC declined to explain why they have not booked a woman who is, whether you believe it or not, one of the few newsmakers right now who could cut through the pandemic.

00:07:10.000 The posture is all the more strange.

00:07:11.000 I mean, this is a great piece by Ben Smith.

00:07:13.000 He's actually being honest here.

00:07:14.000 The posture is all the more strange because at this point, it's essentially symbolic.

00:07:17.000 In 1999, you could argue that NBC's decision to hold back Lisa Myers' interview with Broderick had real political consequences.

00:07:23.000 Taped in January, as the Senate took up impeachment charges against Clinton, it didn't air until after the Senate voted not to convict the president in February.

00:07:30.000 Back then, the only way Americans were going to hear her voice was on television.

00:07:33.000 But these days, if you want to judge Reed's story, you can listen to the original podcast interview.

00:07:37.000 You can find her talking about it in different places.

00:07:40.000 So it's pretty amazing that TV has refused to have Terror Read on, and it does demonstrate the bias of the media.

00:07:47.000 Remember, Christine Blasey Ford was put on the cover of Time magazine with her face comprised of various quotes from her about all the horrible things that happened to her in a hero's pose, holding up her hand and taking the oath to tell nothing but the truth, the whole truth.

00:08:02.000 But Tara Reade, they won't even have on national TV. 0.66

00:08:05.000 They'll have on clowns like Sean Penn to talk about the global pandemic, but they won't have on Tara Reade, who's making an actual allegation of direct sexual assault against a presidential candidate.

00:08:14.000 They're willing to have on everybody who's making those sorts of allegations against Trump back in 2016.

00:08:17.000 But when it comes to Joe Biden, complete silence from national TV.

00:08:21.000 So Joe Biden rightly thought he could hide out from this for quite a while.

00:08:25.000 And now it turns out, by the way, that Joe Biden is doing more to hide out from the story.

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00:09:42.000 Okay, so...

00:09:43.000 Joe Biden is also engaging in a bit of a cover up here.

00:09:47.000 What I mean by that is that Joe Biden has been asked to open his personal papers to inspection.

00:09:52.000 So he donated his Senate papers, his personal Senate papers, to the University of Delaware.

00:09:56.000 And now he's running for president.

00:09:57.000 Well, now would be a pretty good time to, you know, actually reveal those personal papers from the archive.

00:10:02.000 If you didn't want to donate them, Joe, you shouldn't have donated them.

00:10:04.000 But the idea that we are going to keep them in the dark and make them irrelevant, For years on end, in the middle of this, it's pretty ridiculous.

00:10:13.000 It's amazing.

00:10:14.000 The media will go totally after Trump about not releasing his tax records.

00:10:17.000 For the record, I said many times Trump should release his tax records.

00:10:20.000 I think full transparency from presidential candidates is a very good thing.

00:10:23.000 The American public deserves to know more.

00:10:25.000 By the way, I felt the same thing about things like Barack Obama's college records.

00:10:28.000 I thought that was interesting.

00:10:29.000 I thought it would be good to know what kind of classes he took back when he was in college and what kind of papers he was writing and all of that.

00:10:34.000 I mean, some of us have been public since we were 17.

00:10:36.000 So I sort of like the idea that if you are in the Senate on the taxpayer dime and you have notes that you have donated to a public university, I believe University of Delaware is a public university, that you should now have to release those as a condition of running.

00:10:48.000 Like this seems like a thing that you should do.

00:10:52.000 But apparently Joe Biden will not release those records.

00:10:55.000 Tara Reid says, I'm calling for the release of the documents being held by the University of Delaware that contain Biden's staff personnel records, because I believe it will have my complaint form, as well as my separation letter and other documents.

00:11:05.000 Maybe if other staffers that have tried to file complaints would come to light, why are they under seal?

00:11:08.000 Why won't they be released to the public?

00:11:10.000 So Biden's campaign has denied the claim from Reid.

00:11:13.000 Biden says that there won't be any references in the records to any of this, but you could just release the records.

00:11:19.000 You could.

00:11:19.000 You know, Biden today suggested that the records won't exist there, that they'll only exist at the National Archives.

00:11:25.000 There's only one problem.

00:11:26.000 People called up the National Archives and said, you have personnel records from Senate offices.

00:11:30.000 They said, no, that's not what we do here at the National Archives.

00:11:32.000 So no, you're actually going to have to release those records.

00:11:34.000 And Biden is holding those records pretty close to the chest.

00:11:36.000 So all of this starts to mount this week.

00:11:38.000 So it's amazing.

00:11:40.000 Media don't ask Biden about it for weeks on end, right?

00:11:42.000 They'll ask Stacey Abrams about it.

00:11:43.000 They'll ask Christian Gillibrand about it.

00:11:44.000 They'll ask Kamala Harris about it.

00:11:46.000 They'll ask Amy Klobuchar about it.

00:11:47.000 They'll ask Trump about it.

00:11:48.000 They asked Trump about it yesterday.

00:11:49.000 And frankly, Trump was kind of circumspect about it, considering that Trump is usually the guy who, like, you hand him a brick and he will clock you directly in the forehead with it.

00:11:56.000 Instead, Trump was actually kind of circumspect because, in Trump's opinion, he's been falsely maligned about this sort of stuff many times.

00:12:02.000 And so he's not going to jump to guilt.

00:12:04.000 Well, that's actually Trump being consistent, shockingly enough.

00:12:07.000 Trump saying, listen, I know all about false accusations, so I'm not going to suggest that Joe Biden is guilty merely because an accusation was made.

00:12:13.000 That's actually Trump being far more consistent than Joe Biden has ever been on this stuff.

00:12:16.000 Here is Trump.

00:12:17.000 I don't know anything about it.

00:12:19.000 I don't know exactly.

00:12:21.000 I think he should respond.

00:12:25.000 It could be false accusations.

00:12:26.000 I know all about false accusations.

00:12:28.000 I've been falsely charged numerous times.

00:12:32.000 And there is such a thing.

00:12:35.000 If you look at Brent Kavanaugh, this is an outstanding man.

00:12:39.000 But I don't know.

00:12:40.000 I can't speak for Biden.

00:12:41.000 I can only say that I think he should respond.

00:12:43.000 I think he should answer them.

00:12:45.000 Okay, and that is a fairly circumspect answer, again, from the President of the United States.

00:12:51.000 So, in the middle of all this, again, the momentum is gaining, and then Joe Biden has himself a couple of awful days, awful political days.

00:12:57.000 Here's an example.

00:12:58.000 Yesterday, Joe Biden was on national TV, and Joe Biden literally suggested, on national TV, Quote, I view myself as a transition candidate.

00:13:08.000 My job is to bring the Mayor Pete of the world into this administration.

00:13:12.000 So he's openly acknowledging that he's not actually the candidate for president, that he is just a dead person.

00:13:17.000 Right?

00:13:17.000 You can't openly acknowledge that and run for president.

00:13:20.000 I mean, if he had said that on the stage, imagine if he had said that on the stage.

00:13:22.000 Imagine if he had said on the stage, listen, I got nothing new to offer.

00:13:25.000 You know, people know my name.

00:13:26.000 I'm kind of a corpse.

00:13:28.000 And, you know, if you elect me, then Mayor Pete will be president.

00:13:31.000 Mayor Pete would have been like, I'm right here, dude.

00:13:32.000 Like, if I want to be, if people want me, they can vote for me.

00:13:35.000 Why exactly would you vote for a guy who, in a general election, who is actually Kamala Harris?

00:13:40.000 Or who is actually Mayor Pete?

00:13:42.000 Or who is actually Amy Klobuchar?

00:13:44.000 I mean, that's an amazing statement.

00:13:46.000 He's basically betting that people hate Trump so much that he's elected president.

00:13:48.000 That may not be a bad bet, but it's a horrible campaign tactic.

00:13:52.000 Suggesting that you are running, not because you have a vision for the country or because you add anything to the political debate, but because you are an empty vessel who is likely to collapse and die two years into your term.

00:14:02.000 This is the first time in my lifetime that the VP selection is actually going to matter a lot.

00:14:06.000 If Joe Biden selects Kamala Harris, Donald Trump will run against Kamala Harris. 0.95

00:14:09.000 He will not even run against Joe Biden.

00:14:11.000 He will say, Joe Biden has said he's a transition candidate.

00:14:14.000 Joe Biden is senile and not healthy.

00:14:16.000 By the way, Joe Biden does look senile and not healthy. 0.53

00:14:18.000 And that is perfectly acceptable to say.

00:14:22.000 People say, oh, that's ageist.

00:14:23.000 No, it's not ageist.

00:14:24.000 There are plenty of 80-year-old people who don't look like Joe Biden.

00:14:26.000 I used to take violin lessons from a guy named Abraham Stern.

00:14:28.000 Amazing violin teacher.

00:14:29.000 He was 80, vibrant, totally with it.

00:14:32.000 Not Joe Biden.

00:14:33.000 We all know this.

00:14:34.000 Maybe it's impolitic to say this.

00:14:36.000 Too bad.

00:14:37.000 In a presidential race, there's no such thing as impolitic.

00:14:40.000 By the way, everybody on the left has been speculating that Trump is a few apples short of a barrel for a long time.

00:14:47.000 So suggesting that Joe Biden does not, he's not even Joe Biden of eight years ago, right?

00:14:50.000 Joe Biden cannot string sentences together.

00:14:53.000 I'll show you proof that Joe Biden can string sentences together, actually.

00:14:57.000 Here's a video yesterday of Joe Biden suggesting that what he wants to do about coronavirus is fly flags at half-staff in the White House.

00:15:05.000 This is his big suggestion to cure coronavirus, is that he's going to lower the flag to half-staff at the White House.

00:15:09.000 Well, problem solved, Joe.

00:15:11.000 And this was a video the campaign released because they thought it made Joe Biden look good.

00:15:16.000 Joe Biden looks like he cannot string a sentence together.

00:15:18.000 He repeats himself no less than twice in the course of about a 45-second video.

00:15:22.000 He stumbles over himself, and his big suggestion for curing coronavirus is he is going to lower the flag at the White House, which is just, wow.

00:15:29.000 Problem solved here, Joe.

00:15:31.000 Here is the presidential candidate for the Democrats.

00:15:34.000 It's April the 29th.

00:15:37.000 By the end of this month, we have lost more people to coronavirus dead than we lost in the entire Vietnam War.

00:15:44.000 America's lost in the entire Vietnam War.

00:15:47.000 You know, I think the president should lower the flag on the White House to half-mast to recognize their loss and all they leave behind, all those families they leave behind.

00:15:59.000 Many of them were first responders who gave their lives trying to save other lives.

00:16:04.000 Folks, I think if he does not do that, When I'm president, I promise you that's what I'll do.

00:16:11.000 They thought that this was a good video for Joe Biden.

00:16:14.000 So he's campaigning as a corpse.

00:16:16.000 The problem is, a corpse who allegedly sexually molested someone in 1993 is not quite as good a candidate as a corpse who didn't do that.

00:16:22.000 Right?

00:16:22.000 Who doesn't have those allegations out there.

00:16:25.000 And so what you've seen is some of the Democrats starting to come out of the woodwork and a bit of a gap opening up in the Democratic Party.

00:16:30.000 All this is the lead up to his disastrous appearance on Morning Joe this morning.

00:16:33.000 It was really, really bad for him.

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00:17:46.000 Okay, so you start to see the gap open up in the Democratic Party, and this is when Biden has to go on TV.

00:17:49.000 So you have the true believers like Nancy Pelosi.

00:17:52.000 First, I need to show you this tape that's...

00:17:55.000 I'm not sure who compiled it, but it's totally correct.

00:17:58.000 Nancy Pelosi on Tara Reade versus Christine Blasey Ford.

00:18:01.000 So here's what she had to say about Christine Blasey Ford back when Justice Kavanaugh was being questioned.

00:18:06.000 Remember, the phrase credibly accused was being thrown around a lot.

00:18:10.000 Credibly accused.

00:18:11.000 Have you heard credibly accused about Tara Reade?

00:18:13.000 There is more evidence that Tara Reade actually has been telling the same story for 30 years than there ever was that Christine Blasey Ford was telling the truth.

00:18:21.000 Tara Reade is a much more credible witness than Christine Blasey Ford.

00:18:24.000 Flat out.

00:18:25.000 Christine Blasey Ford made an allegation and not a single thing that she said was verifiable.

00:18:29.000 None of it.

00:18:30.000 Tara Reade at least can point to a bunch of people she said, I told them at the time, right?

00:18:33.000 So here is Nancy Pelosi suggesting that Christine Blasey Ford should be believed, that Justice Kavanaugh was probably a rapist, and then we'll hear her on Tara Reade.

00:18:43.000 And suffice it to say, she is not consistent.

00:18:48.000 There's been statements from his campaign, not his campaign, but his former employees who ran his offices and the rest, that there was never any record of this.

00:18:59.000 Instead of asking questions, the Republican leadership fears the truth.

00:19:05.000 There was never any record.

00:19:07.000 And that nobody ever came forward or nobody... Really?

00:19:11.000 They're so afraid of the truth, and they're so afraid of women, that Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, for the truth that she will steal. 1.00

00:19:21.000 Wow.

00:19:22.000 So that's what she had to say about Christine Blasey Ford way back when.

00:19:25.000 Tara Reid, very different story.

00:19:27.000 Yesterday, Pelosi was asked about this, and she started getting angry at reporters.

00:19:31.000 By the way, we've been told that every time a politician gets angry at a reporter, ever since Donald Trump, that this is an attack on the free press.

00:19:38.000 Listen to this vicious attack on the free press, putting all of our freedoms at stake.

00:19:41.000 How dare Nancy Pelosi. 1.00

00:19:43.000 Here is Nancy Pelosi looking worse and worse these days, honestly. 1.00

00:19:45.000 I mean, this is a stressful time for her.

00:19:47.000 Being basically ripped up and down by the media and being forced to suggest she doesn't need a lecture.

00:19:53.000 I respect your question, and I don't need a lecture or a speech.

00:19:57.000 Here's the thing.

00:19:58.000 I have complete respect for the whole MeToo movement.

00:20:02.000 I have four daughters and one son.

00:20:05.000 And there's a lot of excitement around the idea that women will be heard and be listened to. 1.00

00:20:12.000 There is also due process and the fact that Joe Biden is Joe Biden.

00:20:22.000 Joe Biden is Joe Biden.

00:20:23.000 So this was trending yesterday.

00:20:24.000 Joe Biden is Joe Biden.

00:20:25.000 First of all, Joe Biden is Joe Biden.

00:20:26.000 I just don't know if Joe Biden knows that anymore.

00:20:29.000 Really, the man is not with us.

00:20:31.000 But Joe Biden is Joe Biden.

00:20:33.000 Isn't that exactly the case that was being made for Brett Kavanaugh?

00:20:36.000 People were saying, well, here's a bunch of women that Brett Kavanaugh knew who never could imagine that he would do anything like this.

00:20:41.000 People were saying, well, that's not good evidence.

00:20:43.000 You can't say that.

00:20:44.000 He isn't the woman making the... Those aren't the women making the accusations.

00:20:47.000 Joe Biden is Joe Biden is not a defense.

00:20:50.000 So some many Democrats begin to begin to buck against this.

00:20:55.000 Hakeem Jeffries from New York.

00:20:56.000 He says, well, you know what?

00:20:57.000 Maybe we should investigate this.

00:20:58.000 Maybe we should actually take a look at this.

00:20:59.000 And the dam starts to break.

00:21:01.000 It's got to be taken seriously because it's a serious allegation raised by a serious individual and needs to be investigated seriously.

00:21:10.000 But in terms of what the appropriate mechanism is, you know, that remains to be seen.

00:21:16.000 I've got to dive deeper into The evidence that has emerged.

00:21:22.000 And I've also got to dive deeper into Joe Biden's response.

00:21:26.000 And we probably should hear from him at some point directly as it relates to the allegation.

00:21:32.000 All right.

00:21:32.000 So the dam starts to break and people start asking, why isn't Joe Biden going on TV?

00:21:36.000 Why won't Joe Biden answer questions?

00:21:37.000 So, Morning Joe books Joe Biden on this.

00:21:40.000 And this morning, Joe Biden appears on Morning Joe, presumably because he thinks he's going to get a fairly warm treatment.

00:21:44.000 After all, Mika and Joe are not exactly warm to President Trump these days.

00:21:48.000 This is not 2016 anymore.

00:21:49.000 In 2016, they were fairly friendly with Trump all the way through the primaries.

00:21:52.000 Then, of course, Trump turned into Orange Man bad.

00:21:55.000 Joe Biden probably expected fairly easy treatment.

00:21:57.000 Instead, Mika Brzezinski clocked him with just a cartoon mallet.

00:22:02.000 She went directly at him and she asked precisely the kinds of questions that Democrats were asking about Brett Kavanaugh.

00:22:09.000 And by the way, people who are angry at Mika, you should have been angry when Democrats were asking this stuff about Brett Kavanaugh or about Donald Trump.

00:22:15.000 At least Mika Brzezinski is holding to a consistent standard. 0.99

00:22:18.000 Now, I think the standard is stupid, by the way. 0.95

00:22:20.000 I don't think the standard should be, if you are asked about an allegation, you say the allegation is false, you now have to justify why you say the allegation is false. 0.99

00:22:27.000 And if someone accuses you of rape and you say, that never happened, you then do not have to say, but the woman's story, you know, we should, we should totally take her story seriously. 0.98

00:22:35.000 You're allowed to say, no, that, that, that story is complete crap. 0.99

00:22:37.000 Sorry. 0.98

00:22:38.000 I don't know why she would do that. 0.88

00:22:38.000 The story is, it's garbage and I'm angry that I've been accused of something I didn't do. 0.88

00:22:42.000 That is called a normal human reaction. 0.99

00:22:44.000 And the fact that we live in a stupid time where if you are accused of a crime that you did not commit, you are supposed to be in some way tolerant of the person who is making the accusation is insane. 1.00

00:22:54.000 I mean, the standard itself is stupid. 1.00

00:22:55.000 That was the standard set by Democrats. 0.99

00:22:57.000 Okay, so, Mika Brzezinski actually holds the same standard for Brett Kavanaugh.

00:23:01.000 And Joe Biden can't hold up to the standard.

00:23:02.000 You know why? 1.00

00:23:03.000 Not because Joe Biden is guilty, but because no one can hold up to the standard because the standard's idiotic. 1.00

00:23:07.000 The standard is moronic from the very start. 1.00

00:23:09.000 The standard that if I, Ben Shapiro, were accused of sexual assault and I said, are you insane? 1.00

00:23:14.000 Are you an insane person? 0.99

00:23:15.000 I'm an Orthodox Jew. 1.00

00:23:16.000 I've only had sex with one person in my entire life and I'm married to her and it was after I was married to her. 1.00

00:23:21.000 Are you out of your damn mind? 1.00

00:23:23.000 And whoever makes that accusation is scurrilous. 1.00

00:23:25.000 It's disgusting.

00:23:26.000 And if I were to say that, people would be like, oh, you're not respecting the woman. 0.98

00:23:28.000 Why the hell should I respect someone who's making a false accusation about me? 1.00

00:23:31.000 It's an idiotic standard. 1.00

00:23:33.000 But that is the standard Democrats are using. 1.00

00:23:35.000 You have to believe all women, even if you're the one who knows it's not true. 1.00

00:23:40.000 So no one can hold up to that standard.

00:23:41.000 And predictably enough, Joe Biden, who held that standard, doesn't hold up to the standard, which is why, again, it was a terrible appearance by Joe Biden for a couple of reasons.

00:23:48.000 We'll get to those in just one second.

00:23:51.000 The biggest reason?

00:23:52.000 Because anybody who's asked these questions cannot answer them.

00:23:54.000 Basically, Mika Brzezinski asked Joe Biden, Senator, when did you stop beating your wife?

00:24:01.000 That's the famous sort of formulation of questions that cannot be answered.

00:24:03.000 When did you stop beating your wife, right? 0.93

00:24:04.000 Because the implication is, of course, that you started beating your wife.

00:24:09.000 The question itself is the condemnation.

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00:25:21.000 Okay, so finally, Joe Biden appears on Morning Joe, and it does not go well.

00:25:26.000 So Mika asked him a couple of different lines.

00:25:30.000 One is, so Joe, you used to say, believe all women.

00:25:34.000 You said that you thought that Christine Blasey Ford was credibly accusing Brett Kavanaugh.

00:25:39.000 What happened?

00:25:40.000 Why shouldn't we hold you to the same standard?

00:25:41.000 And here was Joe Biden's answer.

00:25:43.000 From the very beginning, I've said believing women means taking the woman's claims seriously.

00:25:49.000 When she steps forward and then vet it, look into it, that's true in this case as well.

00:25:57.000 Women have a right to be heard and the press should rigorously investigate claims they make. 1.00

00:26:02.000 I'll always uphold that principle.

00:26:04.000 But in the end, in every case, the truth is what matters.

00:26:07.000 And in this case, the truth is the claims are false.

00:26:11.000 He says that my standard was that we should rigorously investigate anything and the claims are false.

00:26:16.000 That was not his standard.

00:26:17.000 This was not his standard.

00:26:19.000 He says, I'm saying unequivocally, it never happened.

00:26:21.000 It didn't.

00:26:22.000 It never happened.

00:26:23.000 But again, the reality is that Joe Biden did not hold that standard until five seconds ago.

00:26:29.000 Joe Biden has completely shifted his standard.

00:26:31.000 His standard was, no.

00:26:33.000 His standard was, I'm not going to.

00:26:36.000 I think that if a woman makes an accusation, then we will believe her. 1.00

00:26:41.000 But now it's, unless it's me, in which case you should totally fully investigate this.

00:26:44.000 Here's what Biden said in 2018.

00:26:45.000 said in 2018, for a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus nationally, you've got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she's talking about is real, whether or not she forgets facts, whether or not it's been made worse or better over time.

00:26:56.000 So Brzezinski asked, is the essence of what she is saying real?

00:27:00.000 Why do you think she's doing this? 0.99

00:27:01.000 And Biden says, I'm not going to question her motive.

00:27:03.000 I'm not going to get into that at all.

00:27:04.000 I don't know why she's saying this.

00:27:06.000 I don't know why after 27 years, all of a sudden this gets raised.

00:27:09.000 I don't understand that.

00:27:10.000 But I'm not going to go in and question her motive.

00:27:11.000 I'm not going to attack her.

00:27:12.000 She has the right to say whatever she wants to say, but I have a right to say, look at the facts, check it out, find out if what she says is true.

00:27:18.000 Why?

00:27:18.000 Why is it real for Dr. Ford but not for Tara Reid?

00:27:20.000 As it pertained to Christine Blasey Ford, high level Democrats said she should be believed.

00:27:24.000 You said if someone like Dr. Ford were to come out, the essence of what she is saying has to be believed.

00:27:27.000 Why?

00:27:28.000 Why is it real for Dr. Ford but not for Tara Reid?

00:27:30.000 And Biden's saying, Biden says, I'm not suggesting she has no right to come forward.

00:27:34.000 Any woman, they should be heard and then it should be investigated. 0.96

00:27:36.000 And if there's anything that is consistent with what's being said and she makes the case or the case is made, it should be believed.

00:27:43.000 Again, he is now shifting back to due process, which should have been the original standard.

00:27:46.000 But the problem is, that was never his standard.

00:27:48.000 No one can, the point of this, no one can uphold the standards that Democrats set for Brett Kavanaugh.

00:27:53.000 And this is the point many of us were making at the time, that you have set a bar that is impossible to surpass.

00:27:58.000 It is impossible.

00:27:59.000 It is literally, the guilt is the accusation, because believe all women, all women have to be taken seriously no matter how outlandish their claims, no matter if they're claiming that Brett Kavanaugh was lining up women and boofing them, In high school?

00:28:11.000 And that boof actually meant not getting drunk, but raping people? 0.80

00:28:15.000 Right? 1.00

00:28:15.000 The whole thing was ridiculous. 1.00

00:28:17.000 And Joe Biden held by that. 0.81

00:28:19.000 And then she asked another follow-up, Mika Brzezinski, along the same lines.

00:28:22.000 She said, Stacey Abrams said during the Kavanaugh hearings, I believe women, I believe survivors of assault should be supported and with voices heard.

00:28:28.000 Kirsten Gillibrand tweeted, do we believe women?

00:28:29.000 Do we give women an opportunity to tell their story? 1.00

00:28:32.000 We must be a country that says yes every time.

00:28:33.000 They now both support you.

00:28:35.000 Are women to be believed unless it pertains to you? 1.00

00:28:37.000 And Biden says, women are to be believed, given the benefit of the doubt. 0.93

00:28:40.000 If they come forward and say something that they said happened to them, they should start off with the presumption that they are telling the truth.

00:28:47.000 Then you have to look at the circumstances and the facts, and the facts in this case do not exist.

00:28:50.000 They never happened.

00:28:51.000 Okay, so now he's shifting his standard.

00:28:53.000 Which makes him look pretty bad.

00:28:55.000 Because again, the standard was never capable of being upheld.

00:28:58.000 And maybe Democrats are willing to allow this sort of shifting standard.

00:29:01.000 And maybe it's better for the world if we go back to a rational standard.

00:29:03.000 I think it is.

00:29:04.000 But let's just acknowledge what happened here.

00:29:05.000 That the Democrats shifted their standard from Nina Berlay's Time magazine piece in which she claimed That she would perform a Lewinsky on Bill Clinton in order to maintain the propriety of abortion.

00:29:18.000 They moved from, we don't care about sexual assault if it's a Democrat, to every woman must be believed when it was Donald Trump who was in the crosshairs. 1.00

00:29:24.000 And then they moved from that to, you know what would be great?

00:29:26.000 Due process.

00:29:27.000 When it's Joe Biden back in the crosshairs.

00:29:28.000 So just understand, there are no standards for Democrats.

00:29:30.000 None.

00:29:31.000 I've held the same standard all the way through.

00:29:33.000 Allegations have to be substantiated by actual evidence.

00:29:36.000 That should be the standard for all of these things, should it not?

00:29:40.000 Okay, now Joe Biden, then Joe Biden was asked on Mika Brzezinski about the document release over at University of Delaware.

00:29:46.000 And he seems stunned that he's even being asked the question.

00:29:49.000 Now he's released a statement trying to clarify.

00:29:50.000 Here he was being stunned.

00:29:52.000 I mean, first of all, Joe Biden has a perennial look of being stunned these days because he, again, he is not with us.

00:29:56.000 But here is Mika Brzezinski and Joe Biden.

00:29:59.000 There are no personnel documents.

00:30:02.000 You can't do that.

00:30:03.000 You wouldn't, for example, if you worked with me or I worked for you and you had my income tax returns, you had my whatever.

00:30:12.000 They're private documents.

00:30:14.000 They don't get put out in the public.

00:30:16.000 They're not part of the public record that, in fact, any senator or vice president or president has in their documents.

00:30:26.000 So, question.

00:30:27.000 Why did you give them to the University of Delaware?

00:30:30.000 Like, basically you're okay with people perusing your notes, just not right now.

00:30:33.000 Then you shouldn't have turned him over, buddy.

00:30:36.000 He puts out a full statement today.

00:30:38.000 And the gall of the man.

00:30:39.000 Here's Joe Biden's full statement that he put out on Friday morning.

00:30:42.000 Quote.

00:30:43.000 April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

00:30:46.000 Every year at this time, we talk about awareness prevention and the importance of women feeling they can step forward, say something, and be heard.

00:30:51.000 That belief, that women should be heard, was the underpinning of a law I wrote over 25 years ago.

00:30:55.000 To this day, I am most proud of the Violence Against Women Act. 1.00

00:30:58.000 So, each April, we are reminded not only of how far we have come in dealing with sexual assault in this country, but how far we still have to go.

00:31:05.000 So, again, he's being I'm going to use the phrase, credibly accused, because I guess now that's the phrase that we use, credibly accused of sexual assault.

00:31:12.000 And he opened his statement with, here are all the great things I've done for women.

00:31:16.000 I was reliably informed that it does not matter whether you've treated women well your entire career, that has no relevance to a sexual assault allegation.

00:31:22.000 I was reliably informed of that when it came to both Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh, actually.

00:31:27.000 Biden continues.

00:31:28.000 When I wrote the bill, few wanted to talk about the issue.

00:31:30.000 It was considered a private matter, a personal matter, a family matter.

00:31:33.000 I didn't see it that way.

00:31:34.000 To me, freedom from fear, harm and violence for women was a legal right, a civil right and a human right.

00:31:38.000 And I knew we had to change not only the law, but the culture. 0.93

00:31:40.000 So we held hours of hearings and heard from the most incredibly brave women.

00:31:44.000 We opened the eyes of the Senate and the nation.

00:31:46.000 We passed the law.

00:31:47.000 In the years that followed, I fought to continually strengthen the law.

00:31:50.000 So when we took office and President Obama asked me what I wanted, I told him I wanted oversight of the critical appointments in the office on violence against women at the DOJ.

00:31:57.000 and I wanted a senior White House advisor appointing directly to me on the issue.

00:32:01.000 Both of those things happened.

00:32:03.000 As Vice President, we started the It's On Us campaign on college campuses to send the message loud and clear that dating violence is violence and against the law.

00:32:09.000 We had to get men involved.

00:32:10.000 So there's this long preamble about all of these wonderful things that he has done for women.

00:32:15.000 And then he says, It's on us, and it's on me as someone who wants to lead this country.

00:32:19.000 I recognize my responsibility to be a voice, an advocate, and a leader for the change in culture that has begun but is nowhere near finished.

00:32:25.000 So I want to address allegations by a former staffer that I engaged in misconduct 27 years ago.

00:32:30.000 Well, no, the allegation is that you forcibly sexually assaulted her, not that you engaged in misconduct.

00:32:34.000 He says, They aren't true.

00:32:35.000 This never happened.

00:32:37.000 While the details of these allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault are complicated, two things are not complicated.

00:32:42.000 One is that women deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, and when they step forward, they should be heard, not silenced.

00:32:46.000 The second is that their stories should be subject to appropriate inquiry and scrutiny.

00:32:49.000 Again, there's that shifting standard.

00:32:51.000 Appropriate inquiry and scrutiny apparently did not involve, you know, actual scrutiny and inquiry for Christine Blasey Ford, or any of the women Donald Trump was involved with, or any of the rest of us.

00:32:59.000 Responsible news organizations should examine and evaluate the full and growing record of inconsistencies in her story, which has changed repeatedly in both small and big ways.

00:33:06.000 But this much bears emphasizing.

00:33:08.000 She has said she raised some of these issues with her supervisor and senior staffers from my office at the time.

00:33:12.000 They, both men and a woman, have said unequivocally she never came to them and complained or raised issues.

00:33:17.000 News organizations that have talked with literally dozens of former staffers have not found one, not one, who corroborated her allegations in any way.

00:33:23.000 Indeed, many of them spoke to the culture of an office that would not have tolerated harassment in any way, as indeed I would not have.

00:33:29.000 There is a clear critical part of this story that can be verified.

00:33:33.000 The former staffer has said she filed a complaint back in 1993.

00:33:36.000 But she does not have a record of this alleged complaint.

00:33:38.000 The papers from my Senate years that I donated to the University of Delaware do not contain personnel files.

00:33:43.000 It is the practice of senators to establish a library of personal papers that document their public record.

00:33:47.000 Speeches, policy proposals, positions taken, and the writing of bills.

00:33:50.000 There's only one place a complaint of this kind could be.

00:33:53.000 The National Archives.

00:33:54.000 There's only one problem with this.

00:33:55.000 This is not true.

00:33:56.000 This is not true.

00:33:58.000 Okay, it is Nicole Einbinder, who is a reporter for, I'm trying to see which outlet, Business Insider.

00:34:06.000 She says, this is not right.

00:34:07.000 She says, the National Archives does not hold records from the Personnel Office, the Office of Fair Employment Practices.

00:34:13.000 Instead, a Senate Historical Office staffer said the Fair Employment Practices records are governed by Senate resolution mandating that records containing personal privacy information closed by statute and records of executive nomination are closed for 50 years.

00:34:26.000 That staffer said that the rules for filing a complaint to the Office of Fair Employment Practices were complicated, and it was possible a staffer attempting to do so without proper guidance may not have taken the necessary steps to get an investigation started.

00:34:38.000 According to the congressional testimony from 1995, 479 people contacted the office between 1992 and 1995 seeking assistance.

00:34:45.000 Of those, only 102 entered the office's five-step dispute resolution process, which included a formal complaint and hearing.

00:34:52.000 If Reid's complaint was filed to the Office of Fair Employment Practices, the record will remain closed until 2043. 2043!

00:35:00.000 Also, it is possible the reason that she wants the University of Delaware records exposed is because they're actual records because she met formally and informally with several Biden aides, according to her, including his former chief of staff, Ted Kaufman, about her concerns, which included allegations she was told she dressed too provocatively and asked to serve drinks at a fundraiser because Biden liked her legs.

00:35:20.000 She believes notes from those discussions would be in any personnel files the archive might contain.

00:35:25.000 So it's not just about a formal complaint.

00:35:26.000 It's also about, did Joe Biden ever mention her in any of his notes?

00:35:30.000 He refuses to release those notes.

00:35:32.000 And now he's putting out a statement lying about how he can't release those notes.

00:35:36.000 So he says, as a presidential candidate, I'm accountable to the American people.

00:35:39.000 We've lived long enough with a president who doesn't think he's accountable to anyone and takes responsibility for nothing.

00:35:44.000 And then he goes on and talks about how we need to stop gender-based violence, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

00:35:48.000 Bottom line is utterly insufficient from Joe Biden.

00:35:50.000 Not by his own standard.

00:35:51.000 Not by his own standard.

00:35:53.000 And by the standards that people held for Trump, by the way.

00:35:56.000 So, does that really damage Joe Biden in a race against Trump?

00:35:58.000 He can always point to Trump.

00:36:00.000 On a comparative level, he can say, listen, he has a far worse history than I do of bad allegations.

00:36:05.000 And that's true.

00:36:06.000 It is 100% true.

00:36:08.000 It is also true that Joe Biden was perceived widely by the media as pure as the driven snow.

00:36:12.000 Not anymore.

00:36:12.000 It's going to be difficult for him to have these allegations dogging him.

00:36:16.000 The rest of the race.

00:36:17.000 OK, in just a moment, we're going to get to all of your coronavirus updates.

00:36:21.000 By the way, quick further note on Joe Biden.

00:36:24.000 Joe Biden also has now enlisted Chris Dodd to aid in his search for a female vice president. 0.72

00:36:28.000 The Connecticut Democrat allegedly assaulted a waitress during his tenure there.

00:36:31.000 There's a famous story where Chris Dodd and Ted Kennedy were sandwiching waitresses.

00:36:36.000 That's literally what that was in a report from Michael Kelly writing for GQ.

00:36:40.000 Quote, "It is after midnight and Kennedy and Dodd are just finishing up a long dinner in a private room on the first floor of the restaurant's annex.

00:36:46.000 They are drunk.

00:36:47.000 Their dates, two very young blondes, leave the table to go to the bathroom. 0.99

00:36:49.000 The dates are drunk too.

00:36:51.000 They'd always get their girls very, very drunk," says a former brasserie waitress. 0.99

00:36:54.000 Betty Lowe, who served the foursome, also leaves the room.

00:36:57.000 Apparently, a woman named Carla Gaviglio is told that the senators want to see her.

00:37:03.000 Cavillio enters the room.

00:37:04.000 The six foot two, 225 pound plus Kennedy grabs the five foot three, 103 pound waitress and throws her on the table. 1.00

00:37:10.000 Kennedy then picks her up from the table and throws her on Dodd, who is sprawled in a chair. 0.85

00:37:15.000 And then Kennedy jumps on top and begins rubbing his genital area against her, supporting his weight on the arms of the chair. 0.86

00:37:20.000 Chris Dodd is there the whole time and involved in this in this sandwiching. 0.97

00:37:25.000 Dodd, she adds, says, it's not my fault.

00:37:28.000 OK, so that that's the guy that Joe Biden just chose to help him search for a female So good luck there from the Biden campaign.

00:37:35.000 Okay, we're going to move on to other matters that I think concern people more.

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00:39:14.000 Alrighty. 0.62

00:39:15.000 Well, we're going to get into everything coronavirus related because the idiotic controversy over when to reopen continues. 1.00

00:39:22.000 I say idiotic because we're not actually having the intelligent conversation. 0.97

00:39:25.000 At this point, it's basically people who want to lock down forever against a few people who want to open everything up in willy-nilly fashion, and then a bunch of people in the middle saying, how about we go back to work in tranches and act responsibly? 0.99

00:39:34.000 I think that's like 70% of the American public at this point.

00:39:37.000 Seriously.

00:39:37.000 I think if you poll people and you say, here's our three options.

00:39:41.000 Lock down until there's a vaccine.

00:39:43.000 And you lose your job, and the government will try to pay you, but the economy collapses.

00:39:48.000 Just get out there willy-nilly and start smooching strangers. 1.00

00:39:50.000 Or, we can responsibly reopen right now, starting with healthy populations.

00:39:55.000 We can wear masks and we can socially distance.

00:39:57.000 I think 70% of the American population will be in that last group.

00:40:00.000 We'll get to that in just a second.

00:40:01.000 First, this Sunday we have a great Sunday special for you.

00:40:04.000 It is with Amity Shlaes. 0.90

00:40:06.000 Super relevant. 0.80

00:40:06.000 So Amity is the author of a fantastic book called The Forgotten Man about FDR and the 1930s and why all the measures taken during the Great Depression were absolute garbage. 0.80

00:40:14.000 She also has a fantastic book on the Great Society and how government attempts to alleviate poverty have been a giant backfire and a giant fail.

00:40:20.000 It's deeply relevant at a time when you have the Democratic Party calling for a whole scale remaking of the economy yet again.

00:40:25.000 Here's a little bit of the preview.

00:40:27.000 Guaranteed income tends to break up families.

00:40:29.000 It makes it easier to be a single, autonomous adult.

00:40:32.000 With a guaranteed income, you don't have to stay together.

00:40:34.000 Families need to depend on one another in order to be strong.

00:40:43.000 Okay, it's really a great episode, a really informative episode, and her books are really tremendous.

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00:41:06.000 Couldn't have said it better myself, Laura.

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00:41:40.000 It seems that many in the media now have a vested interest in locking down forever.

00:41:49.000 And the case they are making is not that they have a good alternative.

00:41:52.000 That locking down forever is even credible.

00:41:53.000 It is not credible.

00:41:54.000 People are going to go out.

00:41:55.000 They are.

00:41:56.000 And politicians understand right now, because of the media coverage, That the best available option for them is blame Trump for the economy and then take credit for saving lives by locking down your city or locking down your neighborhood.

00:42:07.000 Unless you're a responsible governor, in which case you are looking to responsibly reopen.

00:42:10.000 And there are some bipartisan responsible governors.

00:42:12.000 Again, you're looking at people like Jared Polis in Colorado looking at reopening.

00:42:15.000 He doesn't get any sort of media play because they're too busy, the media, turning this into a polarized political issue when it shouldn't be politicized.

00:42:22.000 Here's the narrative the media are now generating.

00:42:24.000 The media is that if you want to reopen in any way, it's because you don't care about human life.

00:42:29.000 And this follows hard on the Joe Biden line.

00:42:32.000 So Joe Biden has been saying since the beginning of the week, his new line is, we need to fly flags at half staff, that this is going to fix everything.

00:42:38.000 So I played that clip a little bit earlier of Joe Biden stumbling and bumbling his way through that suggestion.

00:42:42.000 Within four hours, the New York Times on its front page put a piece suggesting that President Trump is mean and doesn't care about dead people.

00:42:50.000 The actual headline was, amid a rising death toll, Trump leaves the grieving to others. 0.95

00:42:54.000 You see, Trump's really mean and terrible.

00:42:56.000 By the way, here was Donald Trump yesterday talking about mourning for every life lost. 0.90

00:42:59.000 Tragically obscene, the virus poses the greatest risk to older Americans.

00:43:04.000 Together as one nation, we mourn for every precious life that has been lost.

00:43:10.000 And there have been many.

00:43:11.000 There have been many.

00:43:12.000 We're so saddened by it.

00:43:16.000 Through our aggressive actions and the devotion of our doctors and nurses, however, we have held our fatality rate Far below hard-hit other countries such as Spain and Italy and United Kingdom and Sweden.

00:43:31.000 Yeah, also, first of all, when it comes to the fatality per million rate, that's not actually true.

00:43:37.000 We are below UK, we are below Spain, we are below Italy, we are not below Sweden.

00:43:40.000 I don't know why he's beating up on Sweden these days other than Trump himself seems confused as to what his actual policy should be here.

00:43:45.000 The point here is that the media have generated a narrative.

00:43:47.000 The narrative is if you reopen, you're killing people.

00:43:49.000 And if you call for reopening, you're calling for killing people.

00:43:52.000 And so they're going to pick on Trump here.

00:43:54.000 The headline at the New York Times was, as the death toll from the coronavirus over eight weeks surpasses the total American military casualties in eight years of major combat in Vietnam, Mr. Trump has led no national mourning. 1.00

00:44:04.000 That sentence in and of itself demonstrates how stupid the media coverage is. 0.99

00:44:07.000 That's Peter Baker from the New York Times. 1.00

00:44:08.000 This is not a war.

00:44:10.000 This is not a war of choice like Vietnam.

00:44:14.000 This is not we got in and the military strategy decided how many people would die.

00:44:18.000 That is not how this works.

00:44:20.000 This is a pandemic disease. 1.00

00:44:22.000 Are you insane? 0.98

00:44:24.000 Anybody who makes a Vietnam War comparison, it's amazing. 0.99

00:44:26.000 You get blasted by the media if you compare this to the flu.

00:44:28.000 Because it is not like the flu in terms of deadliness or ease of spread.

00:44:31.000 But it's a lot more like the flu than it is like the Vietnam War. 1.00

00:44:34.000 The Vietnam War was not contagious, you morons. 1.00

00:44:37.000 The Vietnam War was about military strategy. 0.99

00:44:39.000 I'm gonna need a way in which this is like the Vietnam War other than there are a lot of dead people.

00:44:44.000 It is utterly unlike the Vietnam War.

00:44:45.000 And yet you keep hearing this comparison because the idea is that it's Trump's Vietnam.

00:44:49.000 Always, it's Trump's Katrina.

00:44:51.000 It's Trump's Vietnam. 0.96

00:44:53.000 Come on, it's just irresponsible nonsense. 0.83

00:44:56.000 And again, all of this is driving a narrative.

00:44:58.000 The narrative is that you're very mean and very bad if you try to reopen the economy.

00:45:03.000 And the media love picking the nuts, right?

00:45:06.000 They like picking on the people who are being most irresponsible in protesting this sort of stuff.

00:45:10.000 So for example, yesterday, there were a bunch of protesters who descended on the Michigan Capitol because Michigan legislators are voting on whether to extend the stay-at-home orders.

00:45:19.000 And in the dumbest possible fashion, protesters show up carrying guns, And by the way, I will note, even this was miscovered by the media. 0.94

00:45:28.000 Here's what's dumb about this. 0.97

00:45:29.000 Screaming at police officers who are attempting to enforce social distancing, getting right in their faces while the police officers are only wearing medical masks, which means that the police officers are protecting others from being infected. 0.94

00:45:38.000 But a medical mask, unless it's an N95, is not going to protect you from being infected by others because you intake air every time you breathe. 0.99

00:45:45.000 Getting right in the faces of police officers who are just trying to protect legislators and keep people safe is idiotic. 1.00

00:45:51.000 Do not do it. 1.00

00:45:52.000 It is idiotic. 1.00

00:45:53.000 And showing up here with guns as though you're going to invade the Capitol is a horrible look. 1.00

00:45:58.000 It is a stupid look. 1.00

00:45:59.000 I've been saying for a while, you want to protest this stuff? 1.00

00:46:01.000 Go right ahead and protest it.

00:46:02.000 Here's how you should do it.

00:46:03.000 You should go to the Capitol.

00:46:04.000 You should socially distance.

00:46:05.000 You should wear a mask.

00:46:06.000 Because the whole point you're making is you're responsible enough not to infect tons of other people.

00:46:10.000 You're responsible enough to be given your freedom. 0.95

00:46:12.000 So when you appear to be irresponsible and crazy, all you are doing is giving the other side the baton to smack you with. 1.00

00:46:18.000 It's really, really stupid. 1.00

00:46:20.000 Okay, these were bad optics. 1.00

00:46:21.000 It was stupid optics. 0.99

00:46:22.000 Again, I think most of the people there are well-meaning. 1.00

00:46:24.000 I think most of the people there are correct that the economy should reopen.

00:46:28.000 But you're really doing the opposite of what you are intending to do with stuff like this.

00:46:31.000 And the media loves it, right?

00:46:31.000 The media are totally into it.

00:46:33.000 By the way, when I say the medium has covered even this, let's be frank about this.

00:46:36.000 It is not against the law to come to the Capitol with a gun unless they can show hostile intent.

00:46:41.000 So members of the media, because they're scared of guns and they think the guns are inherently evil, they think it shows hostile intent to show up anywhere with a gun.

00:46:46.000 So they said a pro-gun rally in Virginia, which involved Like, 10,000 people bringing guns and involved zero actual violence was super, super threatening.

00:46:54.000 Anytime reporters see a gun, they freak out.

00:46:57.000 Like, absolutely freak out.

00:46:58.000 These are the same kinds of people who say that if I have armed security at my kid's school, that this is somehow damaging to my child, which is purely insane.

00:47:04.000 But, was it good optics?

00:47:06.000 Also, quick note on media malfeasance here.

00:47:06.000 No.

00:47:09.000 Every single one of those protesters was temperature checked before they entered the building.

00:47:12.000 That doesn't mean they're coronavirus free.

00:47:14.000 There's asymptomatic transmission.

00:47:16.000 It does mean that these people were nonviolent enough to submit to a temperature check before entering the Michigan Capitol.

00:47:22.000 Okay, put all that aside. 0.99

00:47:24.000 So on the one side you have the people in the media who obviously want to lock down forever, and then you have people like this who are being irresponsible in how they protest and creating bad optics and being stupid. 0.92

00:47:34.000 And then you have everybody in the middle who's like, you know what guys? 0.71

00:47:36.000 There are serious costs to this thing and we're gonna have to reopen.

00:47:39.000 I'm amused to see that the New York Times is finally recognizing that capitalism raises people out of poverty, and that when you shut down forcibly the world economy, that people get poor again.

00:47:48.000 There's an article in the New York Times that sort of tacitly admits this.

00:47:52.000 There's a headline, millions who had risen out of poverty are pulled back in by the pandemic.

00:47:56.000 Let's be frank.

00:47:57.000 It's not just the pandemic that has pulled people back into poverty.

00:48:00.000 It is governments forcibly shutting down the free market economy that has pulled people back into poverty and changing free market economy conditions based on people not going out and participating in a free market economy.

00:48:10.000 If government was the solution to poverty, I'm wondering, why did millions of people just sink back into poverty during the greatest government enforcement action in the history of mankind, transnationally?

00:48:20.000 Just wondering.

00:48:21.000 Just worth noting.

00:48:22.000 In the real world, shutting down the economy is actually quite a bad thing. 0.55

00:48:25.000 Quite a bad and foolish thing for doing it very long.

00:48:28.000 And what you're seeing is people who are taking actions that are completely unrelated to responsibility.

00:48:34.000 So Gavin Newsom in California.

00:48:35.000 Again, the media have created this bizarre perception, super bizarre, that Gavin Newsom in California has done an amazing job, Ron DeSantis in Florida has been evil and horrible, Greg Abbott in Texas has been evil and horrible.

00:48:46.000 Last I checked, California has about five deaths per 100,000 population from coronavirus.

00:48:51.000 Texas has three deaths per 100,000 population from coronavirus.

00:48:55.000 Florida has six deaths per 100,000 population from coronavirus.

00:48:59.000 So why is it that Gavin Newsom is a hero and Ron DeSantis is a fool when Ron DeSantis has about the same stats as Gavin Newsom except he didn't shut down his entire state and is not threatening to shut down every beach?

00:49:10.000 Gavin Newsom, by the way, even had to walk that back.

00:49:12.000 A couple of days ago, Gavin Newsom suggested he was going to shut down every state park and beach in the state because a bunch of people showed up at Newport Beach. 0.97

00:49:18.000 As I mentioned, this is like the dumbest possible policy. 0.91

00:49:20.000 Why? 0.98

00:49:21.000 If you're at the beach socially distancing from other people, that is basically the safest place you could be right now.

00:49:25.000 Sunlight and free air kill the virus.

00:49:28.000 Sunlight and free air keep you away from infecting other people in close proximity to you.

00:49:33.000 Like, this is it.

00:49:35.000 There was a study from China, two, count them, two cases of coronavirus transmission in the open air, and it was apparently two people talking to each other at like one foot distance with no masks.

00:49:45.000 So Gavin Newsom had to walk that back.

00:49:47.000 He said that he is, he's only going to close state and local beaches in Orange County.

00:49:52.000 Which means, of course, now he's closed L.A.

00:49:53.000 County, right?

00:49:54.000 L.A.

00:49:54.000 County is closed.

00:49:55.000 Orange County is closed.

00:49:56.000 So what is everybody gonna do?

00:49:57.000 They're going to drive to San Diego.

00:49:58.000 They can drive to Oxnard.

00:49:59.000 That's all that's going to happen.

00:50:01.000 And then there will be overcrowding there. 1.00

00:50:02.000 Because when you squeeze people out of certain areas, they go to other areas, you idiot. 0.99

00:50:06.000 They're going to go to the city parks that aren't closed. 0.99

00:50:08.000 People are doing that here.

00:50:09.000 In the area where I live, we're just going to drive over to Burbank or Pasadena.

00:50:12.000 We're not going to stick around in LA County.

00:50:14.000 We're just going to drive over to another city that isn't completely insane.

00:50:17.000 In Washington, D.C., there are officials saying the city may not reopen for three months.

00:50:23.000 For another three months in Washington, D.C.

00:50:25.000 To this point in Washington, D.C., there have been a grand total of 190 deaths.

00:50:28.000 And they're going to shut the entire city of Washington, D.C.

00:50:31.000 for another three months.

00:50:32.000 Based on what?

00:50:33.000 To accomplish what?

00:50:35.000 A testing and tracing regimen that is only operative to prevent spikes?

00:50:39.000 You know, by the way, when you're first going to see those spikes, you're first going to see those spikes not in the testing and tracing regimen, not unless you ramp up the testing to millions per day.

00:50:46.000 You're first going to see it in hospital cases, when people suddenly spike in a particular area.

00:50:51.000 I'm all for testing and contact tracing, but can we stop pretending that it's a utopian solution in which the virus stops spreading and that the R goes below 1 because of testing and tracing?

00:50:59.000 In a country of 330 million people where asymptomatic spread of the disease is prevalent and we have over a million cases that we've already identified, 900,000 of them that are still active?

00:51:10.000 Okay, none of this is going to happen in the near future.

00:51:12.000 So, let's be real about this. 1.00

00:51:14.000 There's stupid people who just say, go out there and swap spit with your local neighbors, no matter your age, doesn't matter. 1.00

00:51:20.000 There are very few of those, very few. 1.00

00:51:21.000 Then, there are the media elite who are like, locked down forever, and anybody who suggests differently is evil and terrible.

00:51:26.000 And then there's everybody in the middle.

00:51:28.000 And guess what?

00:51:28.000 Everybody's going to end up in the middle.

00:51:30.000 Every single person who is not insane is going to end up in the middle, no matter what the media try to push here.

00:51:34.000 They're not going to listen to Dr. Karen Landman over at the New York Times saying Georgia went first and it screwed up.

00:51:39.000 Because guess what?

00:51:40.000 Somebody was going to have to go first.

00:51:42.000 And there's no evidence that Georgia screwed this up.

00:51:44.000 And if you just say, oh, well, there'll be an elevation in cases, guess what?

00:51:47.000 That's called reality when you let people out of lockdown.

00:51:49.000 Of course there's elevation in cases.

00:51:51.000 Frankly, I'm kind of shocked that we still are not getting national data on who exactly is dying and from what.

00:51:57.000 There are stats out today, by the way, that demonstrate that the vast majority of people who are dying, again, and who are young, are people who have serious underlying conditions, not just hypertension if you're under 50.

00:52:06.000 People who are obese, people who have HIV, people who have asthma.

00:52:11.000 If you are young and you are healthy, statistically speaking, you are not going to die of this disease.

00:52:16.000 The chances of you dying of the disease, I read the stats yesterday, are extraordinarily low for young people.

00:52:21.000 And so what you're going to start seeing is everybody treating this like Sweden.

00:52:23.000 That's what's going to happen.

00:52:24.000 And that's the responsible way to treat this thing.

00:52:26.000 It's just everybody's late on it, of course.

00:52:29.000 And the polarized media production here is something to behold.

00:52:33.000 Okay, time for some things I like.

00:52:35.000 And then a quick thing that I hate, or not so quick thing that I hate.

00:52:38.000 So, things I like today.

00:52:40.000 So, there is a series that came out in 2018 on FX, I believe.

00:52:45.000 It is now on Netflix.

00:52:46.000 It is a mini-series called Waco, about the Waco assault by the federal government.

00:52:51.000 And it is the most absurdly libertarian series in the history of television.

00:52:56.000 I mean, absurdly libertarian.

00:52:58.000 Because the entire series is basically about how the FBI, like all other federal agencies, is staffed by people who are self-interested, by people who want to maximize their budget and not lose their jobs, and how they will use the elements of law enforcement in order to maximize their political They're political upside and take risks with the lives of other people that are completely unjustified.

00:53:19.000 That's really what this is about.

00:53:20.000 The series traces the FBI and its activities from Ruby Ridge through Waco.

00:53:25.000 It starts off with Ruby Ridge.

00:53:26.000 Now, a lot of people are not old enough to remember Ruby Ridge.

00:53:28.000 Frankly, I don't really remember Waco particularly well.

00:53:30.000 It happened in 1993.

00:53:31.000 I was nine at the time and I didn't follow it too closely.

00:53:34.000 But Ruby Ridge was a situation in which there was a gun charge.

00:53:39.000 That was brought against this guy who was sort of a quasi, what the accusations were that he was a white supremacist.

00:53:45.000 He was a sort of libertarian anarchist.

00:53:48.000 And he had a farm up in a place called Ruby Ridge in Idaho.

00:53:54.000 And the federal government came in, the ATF and the FBI came in.

00:53:58.000 And they proceeded to negotiate with him for like two minutes.

00:54:01.000 And then the FBI got in a gun battle with his son and killed his 13-year-old son.

00:54:06.000 They shot his 13-year-old son to death.

00:54:08.000 In a kind of confrontation in the woods.

00:54:10.000 Then they proceeded to shoot his wife and kill his wife.

00:54:13.000 Then he came out.

00:54:15.000 He was convinced to come out by negotiators with the FBI.

00:54:19.000 He was put on trial for the gun charge.

00:54:21.000 And he was acquitted.

00:54:23.000 So the FBI went in guns blazing in a situation for a gun charge.

00:54:27.000 This underscores a basic point that I've always made.

00:54:29.000 When you are calculating whether a law is worth enforcing or making, understand that at the end of every law is the threat of death from the government.

00:54:36.000 Every single law, the threat of death from the government exists at the end of that law.

00:54:40.000 Why?

00:54:40.000 Because let's say that you have a high flush toilet and you violate an EPA standard because your toilet flushes too much water.

00:54:46.000 And the federal government comes to your door and they say, we're going to fine you.

00:54:48.000 You say, you know, I'm not paying that fine.

00:54:49.000 They say, we're going to lien your property.

00:54:51.000 You say, well, I'm not liening my property.

00:54:53.000 And I say, well, then we're going to come arrest you.

00:54:54.000 You say, well, I'm not going with you. 0.93

00:54:56.000 At the end of every law, at the end of every law, is if you resist the law, they will shoot you.

00:55:00.000 And so, knowing that, you should take pretty seriously the kind of laws that we make in this country.

00:55:05.000 Understanding that most people are not going to resist the law, understanding that most people will pay the fine, understanding all of that, and understanding that there are certain areas where there is interest in regulation, right?

00:55:16.000 You are going to have to regulate people from damaging each other.

00:55:19.000 But, if you are doing something that doesn't damage another human being, and the federal government is threatening to murder you over it, then that's kind of a big problem.

00:55:27.000 The series makes that point with regard to the Branch Davidians in Waco.

00:55:32.000 The Branch Davidians were not good people. 1.00

00:55:34.000 The Branch Davidians were engaged in a cult in which the leader of the Branch Davidians, David Koresh, was essentially engaged in sexual assault of young girls, in which he was engaged in polygamy, in which he was fathering children by other men's wives with their permission.

00:55:51.000 But some of these people were girls. 1.00

00:55:53.000 I mean, it was like one of them was 14 when he married her.

00:55:55.000 Pretty gross stuff.

00:55:56.000 But the series makes the point that pretty much all of this was legal in the state of Texas.

00:56:01.000 And even the gun charges that the ATF went into police could have been alleviated with like a $25 fine.

00:56:06.000 And so they went in, guns blazing, to a compound of 130 people.

00:56:12.000 76 people died, including 25 children.

00:56:14.000 And the series traces, like every step of this, in apparently fairly accurate fashion, because they were consulting with somebody who was inside the compound and ended up escaping at last minute.

00:56:24.000 And they consulted with Gary Nesner, who was the negotiator on behalf of the FBI.

00:56:29.000 The series, you know, there's a case to make, the series is too sympathetic toward Koresh, that it really should have examined more of the bad stuff that Koresh was doing.

00:56:38.000 But as people in the series point out, there's an actual radio host in the series who is talking about it, almost as running commentary, the ATF is not an enforceable child abuse agency.

00:56:50.000 There were accusations that Koresh was abusing children.

00:56:52.000 We have agencies for that, right?

00:56:53.000 We have child protective services.

00:56:54.000 That's not the ATF's job.

00:56:55.000 The ATF going in guns blazing over gun charges that were fairly minute.

00:57:00.000 And then basically bringing tanks into the area for political gain is fairly insane.

00:57:06.000 Here's a little bit of the trailer.

00:57:07.000 It is, it's disturbing stuff.

00:57:09.000 And again, it is a great reminder That we should be very careful about the power you give to the federal government because you never know when that power of the federal government is turned against you.

00:57:16.000 And that power is enormous.

00:57:17.000 The government, as I've said before, is a giant gun.

00:57:19.000 And at the end of every law is that giant gun.

00:57:21.000 So be very careful how you deploy that giant gun.

00:57:26.000 You've looked to me to be your leader.

00:57:28.000 To guide you on this journey.

00:57:34.000 But I'm no leader.

00:57:35.000 I'm a follower.

00:57:36.000 Just like you.

00:57:40.000 God has instructed me to stay here and wait for his sign.

00:57:47.000 This is our time to prove through suffering that we are worthy of the miracle that's to come.

00:57:52.000 I mean, it is the most libertarian series I have ever seen in my life.

00:58:04.000 And it is fairly well-rounded in the sense that, you know, Koresh is obviously not a good person.

00:58:09.000 Koresh is obviously a bad guy, but he is a true believer in his own shtick. 0.60

00:58:13.000 They don't make it as though he's a cynical user, which he may very well have been, right?

00:58:16.000 He may have been a guy who just wanted to shtip everybody else's wife, and so he created a false prophecy in which he had to shtip everybody else's wife, and people went along with it.

00:58:23.000 But the series is pretty definitive on its own view that the federal government is responsible for the deaths inside that compound.

00:58:32.000 It does not make any bones about the idea that this was not a mass suicide, that this was in fact the federal government completely blowing it.

00:58:38.000 It's worth watching as it is an excellent reminder for all those who love government force and are willing to use it in nearly any circumstance, that it's all fun and games until the government decides that you're the bad guy based on whatever pretext they can raise that day.

00:58:50.000 Okay, time for a thing that I hate.

00:58:52.000 The utter and essential dishonesty of members of the media who are taking people out of context on this pandemic thing is truly, it's extraordinary.

00:59:04.000 It's extraordinary.

00:59:05.000 So you remember early on, President Trump suggested that the Democrats were engaged in a hoax by blaming him for all the impacts of coronavirus.

00:59:11.000 And this became a talking point for the Democrats who then claimed that Trump was actually saying that coronavirus itself was a hoax.

00:59:17.000 He never said coronavirus itself was a hoax, but this became the talking point.

00:59:20.000 And Nancy Pelosi went on TV and repeated it every day. 0.93

00:59:22.000 It didn't matter.

00:59:23.000 It was a four Pinocchio claim, according to the Washington Post.

00:59:25.000 Did not matter.

00:59:26.000 It has been trotted out ever since to claim that President Trump claims that coronavirus itself was a hoax.

00:59:31.000 Well, now the Democrats have a second round of this.

00:59:33.000 So Jared Kushner, who's the chief advisor to the president, he goes on television and he says, listen, the federal response to this thing has been a success story.

00:59:40.000 Not the coronavirus is a success story.

00:59:43.000 The federal government's response to this is a success story because we responded as governors need us to respond.

00:59:48.000 Here's what Jared Kushner said.

00:59:50.000 And then we will explain and then we'll show how it has been deliberately twisted by members of the media to suggest that Jared Kushner is celebrating 60,000 dead Americans. 0.99

00:59:57.000 It's just this kind of stuff is just sheer garbage. 0.95

01:00:00.000 Here is Jared Kushner on Fox and Friends the other day. 0.95

01:00:02.000 We're on the other side of the medical aspect of this, and I think that we've achieved all the different milestones that are needed.

01:00:08.000 So the government, federal government, rose to the challenge, and this is a great success story.

01:00:13.000 And I think that that's really, you know, what needs to be told.

01:00:17.000 Okay, so again, he is saying that the federal government's success here is a story that needs to be told.

01:00:22.000 100% true.

01:00:23.000 All you have seen, you saw it for weeks.

01:00:23.000 100% true.

01:00:25.000 Where are the ventilators?

01:00:26.000 Where are the ventilators?

01:00:27.000 Why isn't Trump doing a better job on ventilators?

01:00:29.000 People are going to die because they don't have ventilators.

01:00:31.000 First of all, that was always exaggerated to a certain extent because guess what the death rate on ventilators is?

01:00:35.000 It is, by most studies, in excess of 90%.

01:00:37.000 But beyond all of that, guess what didn't happen?

01:00:39.000 30,000 ventilators needed in New York.

01:00:41.000 It was not necessary.

01:00:42.000 And when Trump said, They're not going to need 30,000 ventilators in New York.

01:00:45.000 He was torn apart for it.

01:00:46.000 Andrew Cuomo says they will.

01:00:47.000 How many ventilators were needed?

01:00:48.000 I don't believe they need 10.

01:00:48.000 Not 30.

01:00:51.000 The federal government got them the ventilators.

01:00:53.000 The federal government has been responsible for getting people the personal protective equipment.

01:00:57.000 The federal government has been responsible for a $7 trillion bailout.

01:01:00.000 The federal government response here has been as active as any response in the history of America and more active than virtually all of them.

01:01:07.000 And you know who is saying that sort of stuff?

01:01:08.000 Democrats.

01:01:09.000 Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey.

01:01:11.000 No ally to the President of the United States.

01:01:13.000 He says, New Jersey's getting pretty hard hit right now.

01:01:16.000 He says, listen, the federal government is giving us the supplies we need.

01:01:18.000 We're receiving what we need from the Trump administration.

01:01:20.000 You've heard the same message from Andrew Cuomo.

01:01:22.000 You've heard the same message from Gavin Newsom.

01:01:24.000 Democrat Jay Inslee.

01:01:26.000 Democrats across the nation have been consistently saying over and over and over, we asked the federal government for this and we got it.

01:01:33.000 Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan says this.

01:01:35.000 Frankly, I'm shocked that the Trump administration has not cut an ad so far or the Trump campaign has not cut an ad.

01:01:41.000 It just has all the various Democrats saying we asked for what we need and we got it.

01:01:44.000 Because that is true.

01:01:45.000 Here is Phil Murphy yesterday saying this.

01:01:49.000 We can't thank the president and his team enough in terms of what we've gotten already in terms of ventilators, bed capacity for the Army Corps, PPE, etc.

01:02:01.000 But we are Embarking upon a very significant partnership to more than double expand our testing amounts and numbers in New Jersey by at latest the end of May.

01:02:18.000 Okay, so there he is explaining the federal government has done its job.

01:02:21.000 The federal government, I know.

01:02:23.000 Buried lead.

01:02:24.000 The federal government has done its job.

01:02:25.000 This is not Trump's Katrina.

01:02:27.000 By the way, Bush's Katrina wasn't Bush's Katrina.

01:02:29.000 But this is not Trump's Katrina.

01:02:31.000 It's not Trump's Vietnam. 0.99

01:02:32.000 The Trump administration, put aside the dumb stuff that Trump says in press conferences. 0.98

01:02:36.000 Because that's just Trump being Trump and we all get it. 0.98

01:02:38.000 And anybody who pretends not to get it is being deliberately obtuse.

01:02:41.000 We all understand what Trump is and what he has said and we understand what he does.

01:02:44.000 We all get it.

01:02:45.000 And anybody who doesn't is lying to you.

01:02:47.000 Here's the reality.

01:02:48.000 The federal government did its job.

01:02:49.000 That is a success story.

01:02:50.000 The media will not tell that success story.

01:02:52.000 I would guarantee that if you do a search for ventilators right now in the media, if you just search the word ventilators at the New York Times and the media, you will see this enormous spike in the early days when the demands were ventilators, ventilators, ventilators, ventilators.

01:03:05.000 And then the federal government got them the ventilators and then gone.

01:03:09.000 When's the last time you heard somebody on national TV mentioned the word ventilators?

01:03:12.000 It's been a while, huh?

01:03:14.000 Because New York didn't exhaust the supply of ventilators.

01:03:14.000 You know why?

01:03:18.000 No one has.

01:03:20.000 Remember when they said we don't have enough hospital beds in New York and the feds were like, okay, but we'll get you the hospital beds you need?

01:03:25.000 Guess what didn't happen?

01:03:27.000 An overrun of the hospital system.

01:03:29.000 Andrew Cuomo sent away the U.S.

01:03:30.000 Navy ship Comfort.

01:03:31.000 Remember the huge story when the Comfort arrived?

01:03:33.000 Not as big a story when it went away, was it?

01:03:36.000 So when Jared Kushner says it was a success story by the federal government, that's because it was a success story by the federal government.

01:03:41.000 And they continue to work to provide for the needs of states, many of which should have been providing for those needs themselves.

01:03:47.000 Okay, so this all leads up to the media deliberately misinterpreting Kushner because Kushner is very bad.

01:03:51.000 He's a very bad guy because Jared Kushner works for Trump and he's related to Trump because he's married to Trump's daughter. 0.79

01:03:57.000 And this means that Kushner is bad and evil and terrible and no good and very bad. 0.84

01:04:00.000 By the way, in the history of American politics, I understand.

01:04:03.000 I'm not a big fan of nepotism either.

01:04:04.000 But to pretend that Jared Kushner is unique in the history of American politics is a complete absurdity.

01:04:10.000 This goes back quite a way.

01:04:12.000 The person who was effectively running the country when Woodrow Wilson went down in 1919, right, he had a heart attack and he was basically not with us, was Edith.

01:04:20.000 His wife was running the country.

01:04:22.000 His son-in-law, McAdoo, William McAdoo, was the Secretary of War under, so the Jared Kushner of his time was the Secretary of War, not an advisor to the president, the Secretary of War under Woodrow Wilson.

01:04:33.000 I believe.

01:04:34.000 So nepotism, the Kennedys, the Clintons.

01:04:38.000 Tell me about nepotism.

01:04:39.000 Okay, so here was the view.

01:04:40.000 Here was the view yesterday, deliberately misinterpreting Kushner's comments to suggest that he was saying that it was a success that 60,000 people had died.

01:04:48.000 Those were some of the most tone-deaf comments I've heard from the administration.

01:04:54.000 We know that Jared Kushner has been sort of the behind-the-scenes task force leader, corona task force leader.

01:05:02.000 He's been instrumental in this response, this piss-poor response, and 60,000 Americans have lost Okay, Sunny Hostin, I'd like to hear you define the piss-poor response.

01:05:24.000 Really, what should they have done better?

01:05:26.000 What were the things they should have done better?

01:05:27.000 And the Democrats were stumping for heavily in February.

01:05:30.000 The widespread media lie that the federal government's response has been piss-poor is absolutely rebutted by Democratic governor after Democratic governor saying we asked for what we needed and then we got it from the feds.

01:05:42.000 And the attempt to twist what Kushner is saying into, yes, we're happy with 60,000 dead is insane.

01:05:48.000 It's totally insane.

01:05:49.000 But again, this is the media basically saying that Trump is a bad, mean man who doesn't care about human beings, and that's why he wants to reopen. 0.99

01:05:55.000 And it's all ridiculous. 0.87

01:05:58.000 Alrighty, so we'll be back here a little bit later today with two additional hours of content.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - May 01, 2020

Biden Speaks! | Ep. 1002

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