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00:02:15.000For many, many years in this country, whenever there would be a problem with the president, the press, trying to do its best to cover for that president, would just cover it up.
00:02:22.000So Woodrow Wilson was basically a vegetable for the last couple of years of his administration, and Edith was actually running the country.
00:02:28.000And the press, fearful of the American public knowing this, just refused to report it.
00:02:32.000FDR was clearly in decline in the last years of his presidency, and the press, deeply afraid to cover that accurately, just didn't cover it.
00:02:41.000The press, in his pocket, just didn't cover it.
00:02:43.000It was something that they just left under the table.
00:02:45.000It's been a while in America since presidents got the kind of treatment that Joe Biden is getting right now.
00:02:51.000Barack Obama got kid glove treatment from the press, but he wasn't obviously in decline.
00:02:54.000There was not this massive gap between what he was publicly and what he was behind closed and how the media were covering him.
00:03:00.000With Joe Biden, what is perfectly obvious to you in front of your eyes is being overtly denied by a media that is declaring that Joe Biden is not only with us, he is in control.
00:03:39.000To watch, again, the elected president of the most powerful country in the history of humanity not be with us, and then to simultaneously be told that he is with us so he can push forward a radical agenda.
00:03:55.000The combination was a man who can't get through a sentence without a binder of notes in front of him and an agenda that would make LBJ blush.
00:04:05.000And the media are papering over that because they like the agenda.
00:04:07.000The media are just, they're not even histonographers.
00:04:09.000The media are indistinguishable from the press wing of the Democratic Party.
00:04:14.000There shouldn't even be a White House press room.
00:04:15.000They should just actually absorb the press into the White House.
00:04:18.000Because at this point, the establishment press are a propaganda outlet for the President of the United States, so long as he is of the correct party.
00:04:26.000Here's the headline from the Washington Post today, after this press conference.
00:04:29.000President's policy approach is, quote, the art of the possible.
00:04:33.000I mean, they make the man sound as though he is a transformational leader who is aspirational and somebody who's gonna bring us forward to a brighter future, as opposed to a man who is managing his own decline as well as the decline of the nation in pretty poor fashion.
00:04:47.000The Washington Post says, President Joe Biden, answering the 29th question in his first presidential news conference on the 65th day in office, offered one of the clearest distillations of his theory of his presidency and how its success will be measured.
00:05:10.000And can you explain just how transformational you're going to be?
00:05:14.000So according to the Washington Post, he said, quote, it's a matter of timing.
00:05:17.000He said in an answer in which he was referring to gun control measures, but could have been referencing almost any part of his agenda.
00:05:22.000As you've all observed, successful presidents, better than me, have been successful in large part because they knew how to time what they're doing, order it, decide it, and prioritize what needs to be done.
00:05:31.000The arc of history in Biden's view comes down to pragmatism.
00:05:40.000I mean, this guy, he's bringing together the best people.
00:05:42.000and how he is looking at the coming years.
00:05:44.000It illustrates how he can describe some Republican policies as sick and un-American, while not doing everything in his power to immediately stop them.
00:05:50.000He called the filibuster a racist relic of Jim Crow, while also insisting he wasn't ready to remove it entirely in the hopes there would be some compromise.
00:05:56.000Successful electoral politics is the art of the possible.
00:07:10.000We can all pretend everything is fine.
00:07:11.000I'll just note that for four long years, every single thing that Donald Trump said or did was used as an excuse by the left and by the media as a hook to suggest that the 25th Amendment should be invoked because he was not competent to fulfill high office.
00:07:28.000Joe Biden wanders off in the middle of sentences.
00:07:30.000He doesn't know where he is or what he is doing.
00:07:33.000And the media proclaim him to be an incredible president, an incredible order.
00:07:37.000Five minutes into this press conference, there were reporters who were tweeting out about how in control he was.
00:07:42.000By the end of the press conference, he had to be mopped off the floor.
00:07:45.000And it wasn't as though he was asked enough questions, because he really was not.
00:07:49.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:09:42.000I'm going to say something outrageous.
00:09:45.000I have never been particularly poor at calculating how to get things done in the United States Senate.
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00:10:11.000Remember, he's completely in command, he's in control.
00:10:14.000The Drudge Report, which has basically turned hard left now.
00:10:17.000The Drudge Report's headlines today are Joe's No Drama Press Conference, Chill Style, Grand Vision for FDR Presidency, Art of the Possible.
00:10:26.000Those are the headlines over at Drudge Report, which as you'll recall, used to be a critic of presidents who are of the left side of the aisle.
00:10:32.000Now, the Drudge Report is apparently joining the stenography club over at the Democratic Press Establishment outlets.
00:10:41.000By the way, Joe Biden couldn't get through this press conference without notes.
00:10:45.000Okay, he was reading from actual podium notes throughout the press conference.
00:10:51.000He was reading from a briefing book at the press conference because he cannot be trusted to go out there and simply riff on topics.
00:10:56.000Not because, like President Trump, he makes wild statements or wild generalizations, but because he literally is unable to speak with coherence on a topic for more than five minutes.
00:11:17.000It seemed on every foreign policy question, not the others, but on foreign policy, he went to his briefing book like Jen Psaki does, sometimes in the briefings, and was reading, obviously, White House guidance, White House talking points, covering Ronald Reagan for six years.
00:11:54.000According to the New York Post, however, a newspaper that is not in the pocket of the Democratic Party, President Biden appeared to repeatedly lose his train of thought early on in his first press conference as Commander-in-Chief Thursday, asking reporters if they wanted him to go into detail in his answers, forgetting questions, relying heavily on cue cards from a binder he brought along.
00:12:10.000The president took 10 questions at the 62-minute presser, repeatedly consulting his binder before calling on the next reporter.
00:12:14.000By the way, When the Washington Post suggested he took 29 questions, they meant that he took, like, little follow-ups from the same reporters.
00:12:21.000But overall, he filibustered a bunch of these questions.
00:12:24.000If he didn't want to answer it, he would just ramble for several minutes on completely unrelated topics.
00:12:29.000The first awkward moment occurred when the president was answering a question on the crisis at the southern border from PBS journalist Yamiche Alcindor, who, by the way, again, another press stenographer for the president of the United States.
00:12:40.000He cut himself off in the middle of the answer.
00:12:44.000He took Alcindor's follow-up questions, in which she asked about the deliberations for migrants being permitted to stay as well as the filibuster, and then he took her question on migrants and needed to be reminded about her filibuster query.
00:12:58.000We have a robust system that is capable of carrying on even if the President of the United States does not seem to be with us.
00:13:02.000But it is the gap between the reality and how the media wish you to perceive the reality that is really worth talking about today.
00:13:09.000Biden was struggling to... He had a list of reporters he was going to call on.
00:13:12.000On that list was not Fox News, we'll get to in a second.
00:13:15.000Imagine if President Trump, because he did this a couple of times, took press conferences and didn't once call on anyone from the left side of the aisle.
00:14:45.000Okay, then we'll get to his actual policy, because here's the thing.
00:14:49.000The combination of the Trojan horse that is Biden, and I've suggested that he's a houseplant because he's hiding the water stain.
00:14:54.000The water stain is the radical policy.
00:14:56.000When you bring out a person who is clearly feeble, and then you put him out there, and it's impossible to make jokes about a person like this.
00:15:03.000Honestly, like it's very difficult to make jokes about Joe Biden, not because in the Democratic view, he's just so wonderful, but because in reality, making jokes about people like Biden in Biden's particular position, it seems mean and it seems cruel because the man is clearly not with us.
00:15:17.000And then they use the fact that he's not with us in order to ram through a bunch of untruths, a bunch of lies, a bunch of radical policy positions that in extraordinary fashion reshape the relationship between the American people and their government.
00:15:47.000Let us talk about the fact that, you know, if you are a dude, you start to lose your hair typically in your mid-30s, and you value that hair, okay?
00:18:49.000Here's Joe Biden doing that yesterday.
00:18:52.000Now today I'm setting a second goal, and that is we will, by my 100th day in office, have administered 200 million shots in people's arms.
00:19:03.000That's right, 200 million shots in 100 days.
00:19:07.000I know it's ambitious, twice our original goal, but no other country in the world has even come close, not even close, to what we're doing.
00:19:41.000He gets up every morning and he looks at the sky and he goes, the sun is gonna rise in the east and set in the west under my administration.
00:19:58.000Okay, so when he is not setting goals that he has already met to the cheers of a rabidly partisan media, he is also just saying absurd, radical, insane things.
00:20:15.000Now, those of us during the last campaign who pointed out that Joe Biden was not a moderate, that he was a Trojan horse for radicalism, the media were like, why would you say that about that nice old man?
00:20:33.000He says more radical things than Barack Obama did.
00:20:35.000Obama sometimes tried to moderate his message because he didn't want to appear radical before the American people.
00:20:39.000Because Biden knows that he appears to be a houseplant to the American people, he can basically say whatever the hell he wants, and the media just treat it as though it is a moderate thing.
00:20:47.000So, for example, Yeah, he's he he uttered one of the most radical and yet weirdly strangely just bizarre statements yesterday about the GOP's voting policy.
00:20:58.000So there's this lie that is out there right now that the GOP in Georgia is passing a voting bill That is extraordinarily radical.
00:21:06.000This is Stacey Abrams talking about voter suppression.
00:21:08.000The big lie from the right in the last election was that voter fraud and voter irregularity decided the election.
00:21:13.000The big lie from the left for the last several years is that voter suppression was going to decide elections.
00:21:17.000And the media continue to promulgate that lie.
00:21:19.000That Republicans, in asking for voter ID so we know who you are when you vote, that they are performing some sort of voter suppression act.
00:21:41.000There will be a special election in 2037, and you should be able to vote right now for it.
00:21:45.000In fact, if you are not in favor of voting in advance for a party, before candidates have been chosen, before you even know what the race is, I think that you're trying a voter suppression act.
00:21:55.000Now, of course, that's absurd on its face.
00:21:57.000Why should you vote six months in advance of an election?
00:21:59.000Why should you vote four weeks in advance of an election?
00:22:02.000Half of the news about an election vote breaks in the week before the election.
00:22:07.000But according to the Democrats, if you do things like you say, don't try to bribe people in line is what Georgia says.
00:22:11.000Georgia says you're not allowed to give gifts of money or food or drink to people in line for voting.
00:22:17.000The way the media portrayed that is Republicans try to block people from giving water to people in line.
00:22:24.000The bill is attempting to block people from bribing people in line to vote.
00:22:28.000That is what it says in the text of the law that the media created this lie.
00:22:32.000And the lie was Republicans are engaged in a vast act of voter suppression, all of which led up to the most bizarre line of Joe Biden's very bizarre and disquieting press conference.
00:25:08.000Abrams and her allies also opposed efforts to toughen signature verification for mail-in ballots, but Colorado has what's likely the toughest such procedures in the country, which is important since it conducts elections primarily by mail.
00:25:19.000Last fall, roughly one of every 112 ballots, 29,000 altogether, was rejected because the signature didn't match the one on file with election officials.
00:25:27.000That was after voters were allowed to cure problems by responding to a text asking for a copy of their driver's license or other photo ID bearing their signature.
00:25:48.000They're about shoring up voting procedures.
00:25:49.000But because Democrats wish to federalize election law and make it easier than ever for the Democratic Party to skew election results with things like ballot harvesting, Ballot harvesting is, to my mind, the most dangerous voting procedure that you could have in a free country right now.
00:26:05.000Having the party basically just deploy activists door-to-door to go pick up ballots from just blue voters, for example, is a great way of skewing elections.
00:26:12.000It makes elections not about who decides to vote that day, but about how much money the Democratic Party can spend on going door-to-door to actually gather ballots and then have party activists who cannot be trusted with the ballots drive those things over to the post office, for example, or drive them to a ballot box.
00:26:26.000It is ballot stuffing by any other name.
00:26:30.000In any case, Joe Biden says that if you wish to actually shore up voter ID, that this is an act of racism.
00:26:38.000Not only is it an act of racism, also he makes a reference that nobody understands right here because this is what Joe Biden does.
00:26:44.000Again, the combination of incoherence and radicalism in this one statement, pure Biden.
00:27:24.000I looked this up yesterday in the mistaken impression that perhaps I just missed some sort of cultural reference from 1832.
00:27:31.000Because he has a different frame of reference than I do, does Joe Biden, considering that he was actually around when the pyramids were built.
00:27:39.000So I thought maybe this was just some reference I didn't get.
00:28:14.000I mean, there's the race baiting, of course.
00:28:16.000He kept using terms like Jim Crow with a level of comfort that even Barack Obama did not use Jim Crow.
00:28:22.000Joe Biden, who, again, used to work with people who were in favor of Jim Crow in the United States Senate, as Kamala Harris pointed out before she decided that he was actually the greatest civil rights fighter of her lifetime.
00:28:33.000Joe Biden said that he might get rid of the filibuster.
00:28:35.000So we're going to have this addled human, this addled radical human talking about getting rid of the filibuster and the media are cheering it.
00:28:43.000By the way, the real story here, again, is not that Biden is flipping on the filibuster.
00:28:46.000He spent years and years and years defending the filibuster.
00:28:49.000He was the guy who was going to stand up for the deliberative body that is the Senate and its magical procedures that allow for conversation to take place.
00:28:56.000Now, of course, he's like, you know what?
00:29:25.000Here is Joe Biden saying, you know, after all, Maybe we should get rid of the filibuster.
00:29:30.000This was the great defender of the filibuster.
00:29:32.000The Democrats have come up with a new narrative.
00:29:34.000The new narrative is that when Republicans are in charge of the Senate, the filibuster is a deeply necessary tool for deliberative democracy.
00:29:40.000And when Democrats are in charge of the Senate, then the filibuster is a Jim Crow-era relic that is really a holdover from America's racist past.
00:29:47.000Here is Joe Biden spewing out this garbage.
00:29:51.000With regard to the filibuster, I believe we should go back to a position of the filibuster that existed just when I came to the United States Senate 120 years ago.
00:30:00.000I strongly support moving in that direction, in addition to having an open mind about dealing with certain things that are just elemental to the functioning of our democracy, like the right to vote.
00:30:35.000That is what it is about, about engendering compromise and moderation.
00:30:38.000Here's Barack Obama circa 2005 talking about how important the filibuster is.
00:30:45.000The American people want less partisanship in this town, but everyone in this chamber knows that if the majority chooses to end the filibuster, if they choose to change the rules and put an end to democratic debate, then the fighting and the bitterness and the gridlock will only get worse.
00:31:03.000I understand that Republicans are getting a lot of pressure to do this from factions outside the chamber.
00:31:10.000But we need to rise above the ends justify the means mentality because we're here to answer to the people, all of the people, not just the ones that are wearing our particular party label.
00:31:22.000Except for the fact that this is the way that the Democrats run things.
00:31:25.000The way Democrats run things is we love the procedures so long as the procedures protect us.
00:31:30.000But the minute that we are in charge, those procedures go directly out the window.
00:31:33.000Don't they wonder why politics has become a cynical exercise in partisan power grabbing?
00:32:21.000bill. There's no discussion. No discussion. We are sitting down. I am encouraging my colleagues to sit down with Republicans and move forward. There's a big difference in how we're conducting things in the way they're conducting. He's just an effing liar. The man's just an effing liar. He is a liar. That is a lie. OK, when Democrats pushed legislation like Obamacare, they didn't have a single Republican vote. When Democrats have the Democrats just passed a giant spending bill with no Republican support in the Senate.
00:33:14.000The same media, the same Democrats who decried Donald Trump's behavior between the election and January 6th and said that he was cynically using his power in order to manipulate elections.
00:33:23.000These are the same exact people who are out there right now saying that they have the ability to actively overturn elections.
00:33:29.000Nancy Pelosi said yesterday that she has the singular ability to bar people from entering Congress no matter how they got into Congress.
00:33:37.000Okay, this is authoritarian talk from the Speaker of the House.
00:33:42.000Now, if I wanted to be unfair, I wouldn't have seated the Republican from Iowa because that was my right on the opening day.
00:33:49.000I would have just said, you're not seated.
00:33:52.000And that would have been my right as Speaker to do.
00:34:21.000We're just gonna do whatever the hell we want.
00:34:23.000If we ever get power again, we're just gonna junk these systems and do whatever the hell we want because you guys don't care about the institutions.
00:34:28.000You wonder why that sentiment is rising.
00:34:30.000If you care about America's institutions, if you wish those institutions to remain so that we can actually have discussions about policy, come to some sort of broad ranging agreement for the 330 people 330 million people who live in America and may disagree about fundamental policies and politics.
00:34:44.000If you hope those institutions hold, because the institutions are kind of important, the left is wrecking those institutions, and the wrecking ball is an addled old man who is not with us.
00:34:55.000The Democratic Party is being run by a San Francisco leftist worth tens of millions of dollars, completely out of touch with the American people, who is 183 years old, and a president of the United States who can't string together a sentence.
00:35:10.000And the media are cheering it, because you know who's in charge?
00:35:12.000People keep asking, so who's in charge?
00:35:14.000Really, who's in charge over there at the White House?
00:35:20.000They're willing to cover for the agenda.
00:35:21.000What they are not willing to cover for is what gets covered.
00:35:24.000The media are the ones in charge, because politicians respond to incentive structures.
00:35:28.000And you know what creates the incentive structures these days?
00:35:30.000It is not the American people, predominantly.
00:35:32.000It is the media who create the narratives that shift how the American people think.
00:35:36.000The establishment media are the biggest obstacles to a defense of your individual rights in America today.
00:35:44.000Not the courts, not the government, the incentive structure being set up by an establishment media that continues to force its dominance on the American people day after day, and when they don't dominate, they seek to just destroy all methods of informational dissemination.
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00:36:04.000In a second, we'll get to Joe Biden on the border, because there are serious questions to be asked about Joe Biden's behavior on the border and his administration's policies on the border.
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00:37:20.000Alrighty, in just one second, we're going to get to Joe Biden on the border.
00:37:23.000Incredible how the media just, again, they're covering for him in the same way that the media covered for JFK stooping the interns in the White House swimming pool.
00:37:30.000That is how they are covering for his crappy, radical policies.
00:37:33.000They're covering for the fact that he is not with us.
00:37:36.000First, let me remind you, this Sunday, we do have a Ben Shapiro Sunday special.
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00:37:55.000Ayaan is not only a person with great personal bravery, but great insight into the radical left and the identity politics left that seems to be predominating at this time.
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00:39:50.000All righty, so Joe Biden, again, if you're wondering who exactly is in control, the answer is the establishment media that has set up all the incentive structures here.
00:40:02.000And if you want to see that in action, yesterday, Joe Biden was asked about this crisis at the border.
00:40:06.000The crisis at the border is of his own making.
00:40:09.000It is a crisis that has been driven by Joe Biden's warm embrace of illegal immigration.
00:40:14.000He encouraged an actual surge in the middle of the primaries last year.
00:40:18.000Joe Biden has said openly that he was not going to deport anyone when he got into office, and people rushed the border.
00:40:25.000That is the most predictable thing in the entire world.
00:40:27.000And the media cheered him on throughout that process.
00:40:29.000Well, yesterday, he was asked some questions about the border, and his answers to these questions are not only incoherent, they were full of untruths that could have been fact-checked in real time.
00:40:43.000He made an entire career at fact-checking everything Trump said, taking everything extremely literally, trying to parse every single statement.
00:41:06.000He was asked by Cecilia Vega, who, good for her, actually asked a question about this.
00:41:09.000The ABC News chief White House correspondent.
00:41:13.000It does put me in a weird position when I now have to praise journalists for doing, like, the most basic element of their job, asking about the news.
00:41:56.000We haven't seen the facilities in which children are packed together to really give the American people a chance to see that.
00:42:01.000Will you commit to transparency on this issue?
00:42:02.000self-conflicting. They make no sense at all. So Biden, first of all, he's asked, when are you going to be transparent? Let the media in there. I don't know. I mean, OK, here we go. We haven't seen the facilities in which children are packed together to really give the American people a chance to see that. Will you commit to transparency on this?
00:42:24.000I will commit to transparency. And as soon as I am in a position to be able to implement what we're doing right now.
00:42:32.000I'm the one of the reasons I haven't gone down.
00:42:34.000I have all my, my chief folks have gone down as I don't want to become the issue.
00:42:40.000I don't want to be, you know, bringing all the secret service and everybody with me to get in the way.
00:42:46.000So this is being set up and you'll have full access to everything once we get this thing moving.
00:42:53.000Okay, just to be clear, how soon will that be, Mr. President?
00:44:17.000Why should you be flattered that we're having an inundation at our border?
00:44:21.000You know, there are other Americans in America besides Joe Biden.
00:44:24.000The fact that he sees everything through the prism of, they think I'm such a nice guy.
00:44:28.000Every president defines himself in a particular way.
00:44:30.000Joe Biden defines himself as the nice guy who quote-unquote gets things done.
00:44:34.000The problem is the things he's getting done are crappy and the nice guy routine is bringing literally tens of thousands, if not millions of people to the border over the course of this year.
00:44:41.000Okay, then Joe Biden says, he said a bunch of untrue things here.
00:44:45.000He said in the middle of this immigration talk in his presser yesterday, He said, for example, that the he said the Trump administration was simply sending people back to the desert to die.
00:46:05.000And this is really about the stenographer pool.
00:46:07.000This is about the stenographer pool that lives in that White House press room.
00:46:11.000And all of the people on CNN and MSNBC who just engage in the human centipede.
00:46:16.000Peter Doocy at Fox News, the only journalist who ever asks any tough questions, apparently, in that White House press room.
00:46:21.000He talked yesterday about the fact that he was not called on.
00:46:23.000Again, the president doesn't have to call on anybody, but the fact that Biden was standing there and going down a list of approved reporters demonstrates exactly what they think of the press pool.
00:47:22.000In a 62-minute press conference, he didn't answer a single question about COVID.
00:47:25.000Remember, the most important issue of our lifetimes.
00:47:28.000Remember, an issue so important that we not only have to blow out $2 trillion in spending that we just did this month, we need to blow out another $3 trillion in spending.
00:47:35.000And at no point was he asked about COVID by our intrepid press.
00:47:39.000At no point was he asked about, for example, Hunter Biden, because it turns out that there's a new breaking scandal with Hunter Biden.
00:47:50.000But the agenda is all that matters to the press.
00:47:52.000I'm not disappointed in Biden because I didn't have any expectations of Biden.
00:47:56.000I didn't think he was going to be some sort of moderate institutionalist who's going to uphold the great institutions of American democracy in pursuit of some sort of bipartisan compromise.
00:48:04.000I never thought he was going to be that.
00:48:09.000For years, if you pointed out that Joe Biden was not a moderate and that he didn't care about the institutions, you were told that you were out of your mind.
00:48:16.000He wasn't some crazy radical like Bernie.
00:48:18.000He was going to bring America back together.
00:48:21.000I'm not surprised when politicians lie to me.
00:48:24.000I'm not even surprised when the media lie to me.
00:48:26.000I'm just surprised at this point that anybody buys it anymore.
00:48:29.000I think fewer and fewer people are going to buy it over time.
00:48:32.000Alrighty, well, once in a while, we check in with our friends over at Birchgold.
00:48:35.000Over the past couple of days, I had a chance to talk with Philip Patrick.
00:48:39.000He's a precious metals specialist over at Birchgold.
00:48:41.000He had some pretty interesting insight into what exactly the Biden administration is doing and how that could impact your finances and, of course, why it may be worthwhile diversifying into precious metals.
00:48:50.000Here's something we recorded a little bit earlier this week.
00:48:53.000Joining us on the line is Philip Patrick.
00:48:54.000He's a precious metals specialist with our friends over at Birchgold, and we thought now would be an excellent time to talk about why investing in precious metals might just be a good idea.
00:49:02.000Philip, thanks so much for joining the program.
00:49:06.000So let's talk for a second about the value of the United States dollar.
00:49:10.000So the Biden administration is clearly blowing out the spending.
00:49:12.000They just dropped $2 trillion on a brand new stimulus package, which is unnecessary given the fact that we are now in the waning days of the pandemic.
00:49:19.000And now at the Federal Reserve's meeting last week, Federal Chair Jerome Powell indicated he expects interest rates to remain at near zero through 2023, which is kind of a wild idea.
00:51:35.000A lot of people have been talking about bonds as a safe haven, but in a time when it appears that the bond yields are going up, there's less demand for bonds.
00:51:41.000Why do you think that the demand for bonds seems to be going down?
00:51:45.000I think it ties into interest rates, right?
00:51:47.000You buy a secure bond today, and I think they are, U.S.
00:52:15.000Inflation is higher than published today.
00:52:17.000Sitting in bonds becomes problematic in this sort of climate.
00:52:21.000So, if you were going to invest in precious metals, what would you suggest to folks as possible ways to invest in precious metals to dip a toe in, or maybe a little bit more?
00:52:30.000Look, it depends on, you know, the individual's comfort level, of course.
00:52:34.000But I think they're a very suitable tool for this sort of climate.
00:52:38.000If you look at our issues, potentially on the horizon, we have stock market correction, we have inflation, we have currency devaluation.
00:52:46.000These sort of issues actually drive safe havens like gold and silver up, right?
00:52:51.000When stocks crash, people can flood to gold and silver.
00:53:09.000So they're very conducive for climates like this specifically.
00:53:14.000Alrighty, well, that is Philip Patrick from Birch Gold.
00:53:17.000He, of course, is a precious metals specialist.
00:53:19.000Obviously, if you're looking to get involved in precious metals, I trust the folks over at Birch Gold, and for good reason, because they will give you all the straight answers about what kind of investment strategy you ought to pursue.
00:53:30.000The reality of the situation is that we are now watching an administration that is blowing out the dollar.
00:53:33.000It's only a matter of time before inflation does, in fact, kick in.
00:53:37.000You've seen this in the demand for gold.
00:53:38.000You've seen this in the demand for other assets that are not the U.S.
00:54:31.000We are now spending more money than any government has ever spent ever, ever.
00:54:36.000And we are doing so on the back of a pandemic that is already on the wane.
00:54:40.000He was not asked a single question about that and he was not asked a single question about, for example, school reopenings.
00:54:44.000He read some talking points about school reopenings where he talked about maybe we'll have to reopen some schools and that'll be great.
00:54:49.000By the way, if you actually look at a chart of the states that have reopened their schools versus the states that have not, it is a complete blue-red divide.
00:54:55.000The vast majority of blue states have kept kids out of school.
00:54:58.000The vast majority of red states have not.
00:55:00.000And then you're gonna tell me it's all about the science?
00:55:18.000One thing that I know as a former commissioner of education, COVID-19 numbers will dictate how we move to reopen schools.
00:55:26.000So it's not just about what's happening in the schools.
00:55:28.000It's about what's happening in the community.
00:55:30.000If, as members of our community, we can follow those mitigation strategies to make sure that our schools are safe places for our students and for our staff, we should have students in school next year.
00:55:41.000We should have them in school in the spring.
00:55:44.000Remember when this was the Party of Science?
00:55:46.000Yeah, not the Party of Science so much.
00:56:05.000Meanwhile, speaking of the party of science, remember, the school reopening policy has been driven almost entirely at this point by the teachers' unions.
00:56:11.000I was told that to deny the unique knowledge and power of the CDC and the American federal government, to do that was to engage in a sort of anti-scientific propagandizing.
00:56:22.000If you opposed Anthony Fauci anywhere in here, it's because you opposed the science.
00:56:26.000If you suggested, for example, that perhaps the virus that COVID-19 sprang from a lab leak in China, as Senator Tom Cotton suggested.
00:56:35.000You were ripped up and down because, hey, how dare you?
00:56:38.000Now it turns out the former CDC chair, Robert Redfield, he has now come out and he says, oh yeah, by the way, it probably leaks from a lab in China.
00:56:46.000He just said that today. Okay, but if you're talking about people who do not give a damn about science, they only care about the agenda, this is an amazing story.
00:56:55.000U.S. News and World Report, Lauren Camera, writing, quote, the president of the country's most politically powerful teachers union called into question the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's decision last week to revise from six feet to three feet, its social distancing guideline in schools, arguing the science backing the decision doesn't take into account the unique challenges most urban school districts face.
00:57:14.000Okay, so the CDC came out in the last couple of weeks and they announced that kids don't need to be six feet apart They probably only need to be three feet apart in schools.
00:57:21.000By the way, the six feet standard came from absolutely nowhere.
00:57:23.000If you are somebody who is like a deep believer in six feet, six feet, six feet, there was like no scientific basis to six feet.
00:57:29.000If somebody sneezes, it goes like 15 feet.
00:57:31.000And if you're not sneezing, it doesn't go six feet.
00:58:09.000The American Federation of Teachers President, Randy Weingarten, one of the worst people in America, wrote Tuesday in a letter to CDC Director, Rochelle Walensky and Education Secretary, Miguel Cardona, quote, although I was very worried about the implications of the shift, I reviewed judgment until we could review the new studies that were presented.
00:58:25.000We appreciate that the body of knowledge regarding the impact of COVID-19 in school environments is expanding, but we're not convinced the evidence supports changing physical distancing requirements at this time.
00:58:35.000Our concern is that the cited studies do not identify the baseline mitigation strategies needed to support three feet of physical distancing.
00:58:41.000Moreover, they were not conducted in our nation's highest density and least resourced schools, which have poor ventilation, crowding, and other structural challenges.
00:58:48.000Okay, my favorite part of that is when Randy Weingarten is like, we haven't tried this in the schools, so we don't know if it works.
00:58:54.000Right, because the schools are closed.
00:58:57.000The question is under what circumstances you are going to reopen the schools.
00:59:00.000You want to talk about anti-scientific?
00:59:02.000It's like, okay, so here's our theory.
00:59:13.000Once you've debunked a hypothesis, you don't go back to that hypothesis five seconds later based on the fact you haven't tried another hypothesis.
00:59:51.000On October 23rd, 2018, President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, and daughter-in-law, Hallie, were involved in a bizarre incident in which Hallie took Hunter's gun and threw it in a trash can behind a grocery store, only to return later to find it gone.
01:00:03.000Delaware police began investigating, concerned that the trash can was across from a high school, and that the missing gun could be used in a crime, according to law enforcement officials and a copy of the police report obtained by Politico.
01:00:13.000But a curious thing happened at the time.
01:00:15.000Secret service agents approached the owner of the store where Hunter, a derelict, bought the gun and asked to take the paperwork involving the sale, according to two people, one of whom has first-hand knowledge of the episode, and the other was briefed by a secret service agent after the fact.
01:00:27.000The gun store owner refused to supply the paperwork, suspecting, correctly, that the secret service officers wanted to hide Hunter's ownership of the missing gun in case it were to be involved in a crime, the two people said.
01:00:35.000The owner, Ron Palmieri, later turned over the papers to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, which oversees federal gun laws.
01:00:42.000The Secret Service says it has no record of its agents investigating the incident.
01:00:45.000Joe Biden, who was not under protection at the time, said through a spokesperson he has no knowledge of any Secret Service involvement. Days later, the gun was returned by an older man who regularly rummages through the grocery store's trash to collect recyclables, according to people familiar with the situation. The incident did not result in charges or arrests.
01:01:00.000Okay, so just to get this straight, what happened, apparently, is that Hunter, he was dating his brother's widow, I think is the story here, and they, she, for some odd reason, took his gun and threw it in the garbage bin behind a store, which is across from a high school.
01:01:22.000And the Secret Service then went and tried to clean it up.
01:01:24.000And there will be no charges resulting.
01:01:26.000These are the same people who are like, we need strict gun laws, guys.
01:01:30.000We need strict gun laws so that people who mistreat, mishandle weapons get prosecuted.
01:01:33.000Unless your name is Hunter Biden, apparently.
01:01:36.000The gun store incident occurred during a period after Hunter Biden's administrative discharge from the Naval Reserves for his positive cocaine test and a subsequent divorce from his first wife Kathleen.
01:01:44.000At the time of the gun incident, Hunter was in a romantic relationship with Hallie, the widow of his late brother Beau.
01:01:50.000Apparently, he illegally obtained a gun.
01:01:55.000He responded no to a question on the transaction record that asked, quote, Are you an unlawful user of or addicted to marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?
01:02:06.000Five years earlier, he'd been discharged from the Navy Reserve after testing positive for coke.
01:02:10.000He and family members have spoken about his history of drug use, lying on the form as a felony, though prosecutions are extremely rare.
01:02:16.000So it sounds like he bought the gun illegally.
01:02:20.000Because there's fairly good contemporaneous evidence that Hunter was not off the sauce.
01:02:24.000And then, he was dating his brother's widow, and apparently, the incident began when Hallie searched Hunter's pickup, which was parked at her home in Wilmington, because of unspecified suspicions she had, according to a Delaware State Police report.
01:02:37.000Inside the truck, she found a .38 revolver.
01:02:39.000Hallie took the gun to Janssen's Market, a nearby high-end grocery store where the Bidens are longtime regular customers.
01:02:44.000There, she tossed the gun wrapped in a black shopping bag into a trash bin outside of the store.
01:02:49.000Which, by the way, is not the way that you get rid of guns.
01:02:51.000Just note to the wise, if you have a functional weapon...
01:02:54.000You know what you don't do to get rid of it?
01:02:55.000Just toss it in the garbage can, you morons.
01:02:57.000You know what you don't do to get rid of it?
01:02:59.000Just toss it in the garbage can, you morons.
01:03:00.000You know what you don't do to get rid of it?
01:03:01.000Just toss it in the garbage can, you morons.
01:03:02.000You know what you don't do to get rid of it?
01:03:04.000Just toss it in the garbage can, you morons.
01:03:06.000You know what you don't do to get rid of it?
01:03:07.000Just toss it in the garbage can, you morons.
01:03:08.000You know what you don't do to get rid of it?
01:03:09.000Just toss it in the garbage can, you morons.
01:03:10.000You know what you don't do to get rid of it?
01:03:11.000Just toss it in the garbage can, you morons.
01:03:12.000You know what you don't do to get rid of it?
01:03:13.000Just toss it in the garbage can, you morons.
01:03:15.000You know what you don't do to get rid of it?
01:03:16.000Just toss it in the garbage can, you morons Arriving on the scene, Delaware Stadies retrieved security camera footage from the store, interviewed Jansen, the store manager.
01:03:24.000Quote, we complied with the police, gave them whatever security footage we could, Jansen told Politico.
01:03:38.000In addition to questioning Hallie, police called Hunter to the scene.
01:03:41.000He was questioned outside the store's loading dock area, and explained he used the gun for target practice.
01:03:45.000At one point, two of Janssen's employees, described by the police report as Mexican males, walked past the loading dock area, and Hunter told a police officer the store had some suspicious people working for it.
01:03:55.000Asked if he was referring to those two staffers, Hunter responded, yeah, probably illegal, according to the report.
01:04:17.000The fact that they're of Mexican extraction?
01:04:20.000And based on the fact that you're apparently a criminal?
01:04:23.000When a police officer asked Hunter whether the gun had been used in a crime, the officer reported to Hunter, quote, became very agitated with me and asked if I was intentionally trying to make him mad.
01:04:31.000When the officer asked Hunter whether he had been doing drugs or drinking heavily, he said, listen, it isn't like that.
01:04:35.000I think she believes I was gonna kill myself, according to the report.
01:04:38.000An officer asked Hunter whether he had called his dad.
01:04:40.000Hunter said, I've never called my dad for anything, according to the police report, which we know is a lie.
01:04:44.000After being questioned, Hunter retrieved the case for the gun, which included the gun's serial number, from Hallie's house, returned to the grocery store, and handed it over to the cops.
01:04:53.000When police questioned Hunter and Hallie, two Secret Service agents arrived.
01:04:57.000They went to the store where Hunter purchased the gun.
01:04:59.000The agents showed their badges and ID cards to Palmieri, the store's owner, and asked to take possession of the firearms transaction record Hunter had filled out.
01:05:10.000Palmieri said, no, I'm not going to do that.
01:05:13.000The Secret Service left without the records, and Palmieri handed over the transaction record to the ATF.
01:05:21.000The ATF spokesperson referred questions to the Delaware Stadies.
01:05:24.000Jason Hatchell, spokesperson for Delaware State Police, said any freedom of information, any questions about the incident would have to be filed through a FOIA request.
01:05:32.000The Delaware State Police already rejected Politico's FOIA request for records related to the incident last November.
01:05:40.000There's been no major media coverage of this, because that's what the establishment media will never cover, is the fact that Hunter Biden is a derelict, and his dad knew about it for years, and apparently facilitated the dereliction in a wide variety of cases, including Hunter rushing about the globe, picking up bags of cash in different places.
01:05:59.000A White House spokesperson said Biden was not aware of any Secret Service involvement in the episode.
01:06:11.000So we don't cover what happened with Hunter.
01:06:13.000By the way, speaking of hypocrisy, authoritarianism, by the way, relies on hypocrisy.
01:06:18.000The Cuomo family also, apparently, has engaged in an enormous amount of hypocrisy.
01:06:22.000It turns out, according to the New York Times, Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration arranged special access to government-run coronavirus testing for members of his family and other influential people as the pandemic descended on New York last year.
01:06:32.000The move to make testing of people closely tied to Cuomo a priority was carried out by high-ranking state health officials, according to one of the people.
01:06:39.000Testing was still not widely available, but Andrew made sure that his family members had it.
01:06:44.000Just like our brand new Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. Rachel Levine, ensured that Dr. Levine's mom was not in a nursing home when all the COVID-positive patients were being shipped back into the nursing homes.
01:06:54.000Weird how this seems to keep happening with Democrats, how the rules don't apply to them.
01:06:59.000The gun control left has no worries about Hunter Biden, a drug-addicted derelict, Leaving his gun out and then having it thrown in a garbage can behind a high school.
01:07:11.000And lying, apparently, on his forums about obtaining the gun in the first place.