The dawn has finally come, the clouds have parted, and the rays of light shine down because Joe Biden is President of the United States. And never, ever, again will we be lied to again because now we have the greatest, wisest, and most honest human being in the White House, Joe Biden. Ben Shapiro explains why this is a good thing, and why we should all be grateful that the adults are back in the room. He also explains why the Biden administration will be more transparent than any other administration in recent memory, including the one under President Obama, Jen Psaki, who lied routinely for a living while she was with the Obama administration. Ben Shapiro is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show on Fox News Radio and host of the conservative podcast The Weekly Standard. He is also a regular contributor on Fox Business and CNN and hosts the conservative radio show The Opinionsated. Subscribe to Ben Shapiro's new show, "The Weekly Standard," wherever you get your news and opinions from the right-wing media. If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts and leave us a rating and review the show on iTunes. It helps us spread the word to the world about what's going on! and we'll be sure to update you on our efforts to make sure you're getting the most out of this podcast! wherever you listen. Thank you for listening! - Ben Shapiro - Subscribe, rate, review, and subscribe to our new show on all of our social medias, and social media platforms! Thanks for listening and sharing the podcasting to let us know what you think of what you're listening to and what you thought of it? we're listening about it! Tweet us in your thoughts, what would you'd like to hear from Ben Shapiro? and what's your favorite moment of the show? or what you would like to see him listening about what he's listening about? in the comments section? Thanks Ben Shapiro did you think about what else is going to be mentioned in his next episode? - Timestamps: Tweet him on Insta or your thoughts on this episode or what s your favorite thing he's the most effective way to do more of Ben Shapiro s latest podcast episode or tweet him on his podcast or what he should be listening to me on the podcast?
00:00:00.000President Joe Biden, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki fib about the administration's COVID plans, but the media cover for them anyway.
00:00:06.000Leftist commentators push for more media sycophancy and norm-breaking.
00:00:10.000And Trump prepares for a Senate impeachment trial.
00:02:21.000And it's not that Jen Psaki is an actual overt liar who lied routinely for a living while she was with the Obama administration.
00:02:26.000No, these are the adults in the room So much adulthood happening.
00:02:31.000In fact, this is what CNN's Dana Bash has said, right?
00:02:33.000That anyone who has a connection to reality knows the adults are back in Washington, and that means that we can all just sleep on this, right?
00:02:42.000Now we can sleep securely knowing that when the call comes in the middle of the night, only the greatest, wisest, and most honest of human beings will be occupying the White House.
00:02:50.000Here is Dana Bash journalisming all over the place about the wonderful, innate honesty and decency of all the people who are in power now.
00:02:59.000Here's Dana Bash Objective Journalism-ing.
00:03:02.000If you take what you just saw and heard in totality, anybody who has any connection to reality about what is going on around them should have watched that and said, the adults are back in the room.
00:03:19.000That is what the kind of vibe was that President Biden was clearly trying to get out there.
00:03:28.000And it made it easier because he has a plan.
00:03:32.000That would be Breonna Keillor who is sitting there going, hmm, yes, hmm, wow, hmm, yes.
00:03:48.000Again, a person who lied routinely to the media while she was at the State Department under Barack Obama.
00:03:52.000Now she says, we're bringing transparency back.
00:03:55.000It's like Justin Timberlake, but with politics.
00:03:57.000Here she is explaining how wonderful transparency will be under the Biden administration.
00:04:03.000And it's also being straight and transparent, straightforward and transparent.
00:04:07.000And, you know, there's no better example than that, than COVID-19 and our efforts to get the pandemic under control.
00:04:14.000There are going to be days where people are not going to be hearing what they want to hear, where the data is going to be concerning and troubling.
00:04:20.000But we want to bring transparency back.
00:04:22.000And so we're just going to try to deliver on that in the briefing room.
00:04:26.000But really, the job, the back and forth is the job.
00:05:15.000Not only did Joe Biden say that he has a solution, which is to wear a mask, he actually signed an executive order that anyone who enters federal property Right, if you use cross-border transportation, if you move between states, anything that the federal government has a hand in, you must wear a mask, and this, this will solve COVID.
00:05:34.000Again, I'm not an anti-mask guy, right?
00:06:16.000I mean, we should be wearing masks and we should be socially distancing until we can get people the vaccines that they need.
00:06:21.000There's only one problem, which is that Joe Biden immediately, upon being inaugurated, started walking around federal property without a mask.
00:06:30.000To a normal journalist, that might seem like a question, but we know that asking those sorts of questions are completely unnecessary now, because this is the most honest and transparent administration we have ever seen.
00:06:40.000We knew this from the moment they were ushered into power.
00:06:43.000So, Peter Doocy of Fox News has the temerity, the temerity, that bastard, to ask Jen Psaki this question.
00:06:51.000You know, Joe Biden says that he wants masks for everybody.
00:06:54.000In fact, he put into law an actual mask mandate on federal property.
00:06:58.000But Joe Biden wasn't wearing a mask on federal property yesterday.
00:07:03.000Here is Peter Doocy asking the question, and Jen Psaki is like, well, here's that vaunted transparency, openness, honesty, and just that straight talk that we can look forward to for four years.
00:07:14.000I think he was celebrating an evening of a historic day in our country.
00:07:21.000Yesterday was a historic moment in our history.
00:07:23.000He was inaugurated as President of the United States.
00:07:41.000Do you think that would wash for one iota of one second?
00:07:45.000Okay, all we heard throughout the Trump administration was that if Donald Trump was in a room with a bunch of other people who had been tested, if he was out there with his family and he wasn't wearing a mask, why won't he mask up?
00:07:56.000By the way, I didn't realize that there was an exception in federal law for the federal property mask mandate for historic ceremonies.
00:08:04.000You know how many people have not been able to hold weddings during this pandemic because it's a pandemic?
00:08:08.000You know how many people have not been able to hold funerals for their loved ones?
00:08:11.000That seems, by the way, a lot more important than Joe Biden celebrating himself.
00:08:16.000I like, just to be honest with you, you honoring your grandmother who died, you honoring a friend or family member who died by going to a funeral, that seems like on a raw level, more important, both emotionally and psychologically, than Joe Biden getting to have that triumphant walk without wearing the mask.
00:08:30.000But Jen Psaki says it, and so it is so.
00:08:33.000So much transparency, so much honesty.
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00:09:58.000I mean, like, Gavin Newsom going and eating at the French Laundry while having a restaurant mandate and violating the restaurant mandate.
00:10:32.000That the vaccines that have been shot into the arms of several million Americans at this point, right?
00:10:36.000We are shooting into the arms of about a million Americans a day.
00:10:39.000We learned this morning that the Trump administration had no real plan for the production and distribution of the vaccine.
00:10:45.000said this yesterday, Trump had no plan for distribution, none, which is incredible.
00:10:48.000I mean, without a plan, the man was able to ramp up vaccine distribution to a million a day. My goodness, if he'd had a plan, how great would that be? Here is Nancy Pelosi spilling out this lie yesterday.
00:10:59.000We learned this morning that the Trump administration had no real plan for the production and distribution of the vaccine, just another in a series of their terrible, ineffective approach to it.
00:11:17.000From the start, in denial, delay, distortion, calling it a hoax.
00:11:24.000And now we find that they didn't even have a plan.
00:11:29.000OK, so this was the Biden line, right?
00:11:31.000The Biden administration line, the Democratic line, is there's no plan for vaccine distribution.
00:12:06.000What you're seeing now is this acknowledgment, you're absolutely right, by Zeinst and other top officials here who are saying, look, the Trump administration did not leave us with any working plan to roll out this vaccine.
00:12:20.000But I think that what Fauci was saying, and we'll have to press him on this today when we get to ask him some questions, is that at least now we're looking in the mirror and acknowledging, OK, we need to start from scratch.
00:13:00.000Anyway, he's a godlike figure we should all light votive candles to.
00:13:04.000I was informed of this over the course of the last year.
00:13:06.000Well, what if I told you that Anthony Fauci said from the White House podium yesterday that they are not starting from scratch?
00:13:12.000And yet the media repeated the lie because it sets the expectation that anything that Biden does is a success because they are just stenographers for the Biden administration.
00:13:19.000Here's Anthony Fauci overtly contradicting the administration that he now works for.
00:13:25.000We certainly are not starting from scratch because there is activity going on in the distribution.
00:13:31.000But if you look at the plan that the president has put forth about the things that he is going to do, namely get community vaccine centers up, get pharmacies more involved, where appropriate, get the Defense Production Act involved, not only perhaps with getting more vaccine, but even the things you need to get a good vaccine program For example, needles and syringes that might be more useful than that.
00:13:57.000So it's taking what's going on, but amplifying it in a big way.
00:14:01.000Wait, so it sounds like they're not starting from scratch.
00:14:03.000Actually, that's exactly what it sounds like.
00:14:45.000What if I told you that we're already basically giving people a million shots a day?
00:14:49.000And kind of were when Biden took office.
00:14:51.000And so he's not fundamentally changing anything.
00:14:53.000So here's Jen Psaki being super honest and super transparent by telling you that it is an enormous, enormous increase in the number of vaccinations being provided for Joe Biden to provide basically the same number of vaccinations we're already providing on a daily basis.
00:15:05.000Here's Jen Psaki, super honest, super transparent, amazing stuff here.
00:15:09.000The Trump administration was given 36 million doses when they were in office for 38 days.
00:15:15.000They administered a total of about 17 million shots.
00:15:18.000That's about less than 500,000 shots a day.
00:15:22.000What we are proposing is to double that.
00:15:50.000What she says is that the Trump administration was providing about, on average, on average, over the past 40 days, about half a million shots a day.
00:15:59.000Now, you say to yourself, well, that probably means that they were, like, every day putting out half a million shots, right?
00:16:38.000When you average numbers, but there's an escalating number that is actually the year-on-year or day-on-day number, what you want to look at in terms of are you ramping it up is the last day before you took office.
00:16:49.000You don't get to do the, well, you know, on average, here's what it was.
00:17:15.000So instead, what you have to do is you have to lie to the press, and the press will dutifully just report that out.
00:17:20.000In fact, when a reporter asked Biden about this, when a reporter said, by the way, we're already doing like a million vaccinations a day, Biden just snapped at the reporter, because how dare he?
00:17:30.000I've been told that if you snap at the press, if you get mad at the press, if you treat the press badly, this is a fundamental assault on our most basic institutions.
00:18:18.000No one said it was not possible when you announced it.
00:18:20.000Literally zero people who knew anything said it was not possible when you announced it.
00:18:23.000In fact, virtually everybody who knew anything said when you said 100 million vaccinations in 100 days, they said, uh, shouldn't it be higher than that?
00:18:53.000The very first night, the very first night of the Biden White House, Jen Psaki did a presser.
00:18:59.000And she was asked about Joe Biden's policy with regard to the Hyde Amendment.
00:19:02.000The Hyde Amendment is a federal amendment that says that you are not allowed to use federal taxpayer dollars to fund abortion.
00:19:08.000And she said, we have no position on that, but Joe Biden is a good Catholic.
00:19:11.000And as we know, Catholics are pro-life.
00:19:13.000Okay, within 24 hours, Anthony Fauci had announced the return of the Mexico City policy, which uses federal taxpayer dollars in order to sponsor abortion overseas.
00:20:25.000In a second, I'm gonna get to some more terrible, terrible COVID policy, because there are a couple of policies that are now being trotted out that are pretty amazing.
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00:21:44.000Okay, so there's another story that has been making the rounds and the media are like, I can't believe this is happening, but who is to blame?
00:21:52.000Remember how 15,000 American troops were sent to Washington, D.C.
00:21:55.000to protect against the possibility of another January 6th, and then no one showed up?
00:21:58.000In fact, all across the country, the only violence that was done was done by Antifa in Portland and Seattle, who were attacking, again, government buildings.
00:22:07.000Or it didn't happen because Antifa is an ideology.
00:22:10.000I mean, according to Joe Biden, Antifa doesn't exist.
00:22:12.000Okay, in any case, what happened to the National Guardsmen?
00:22:16.000According to Politico, thousands of National Guardsmen were allowed back into the Capitol on Thursday night, hours after U.S.
00:22:21.000Capitol Police officials ordered them to vacate the facility, sending them outdoors or to nearby parking garages after two weeks pulling security duty after the deadly riot on January 6th.
00:22:30.000One unit, which had been resting in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, was abruptly told to vacate the facility on Thursday, according to one Guardsman.
00:22:36.000The group was forced to rest in a nearby parking garage without internet reception, with just one electrical outlet and one bathroom with two stalls for 5,000 troops, the person said.
00:22:46.000Temperatures in Washington were in the low 40s by nightfall.
00:22:49.000The guardsman said, yesterday, dozens of senators and congressmen walked down our lines, taking photos, shaking our hands, thanking us for our service.
00:22:55.000Within 24 hours, they had no further use for us and banished us to the corner of the parking garage.
00:23:00.000All of the National Guard troops were told to vacate the Capitol and nearby congressional buildings on Thursday, and to set up mobile command centers outside or in nearby hospitals, another guardsman confirmed.
00:23:09.000They were told to take their rest breaks during 12-hour shifts outside and in parking garages, the person said.
00:23:14.000Top lawmakers from both parties took to Twitter to decry the decision and call for answers after Politico first reported the news.
00:23:20.000Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer tweeted, if this is true, it's outrageous.
00:23:24.000Senator Tom Cotton noted the Capitol complex remains closed to members of the public, so there is plenty of room for troops to take a break in them.
00:23:31.000A guard source confirmed late Thursday all the troops in the parking garages were ordered to return to the Capitol.
00:23:36.000Brigadier General Jeanine Burkhead, the guard's inauguration task force commander, confirmed in a statement to Politico a little after midnight the troops are out of the garage and now back in the Capitol building, and they will take their breaks in Emancipation Hall going forward.
00:23:47.000In a statement, Capitol Police spokesperson Eva Malecki said the department recently asked the truce shifts be reduced from 12 hours to eight in order to allow for additional rest hours away from the Capitol complex.
00:23:59.000It did not explain why guardsmen were forced into parking garages.
00:24:03.000Now, you'll notice that nowhere in this piece does it explain who exactly is in charge here.
00:24:42.000Amazing how as soon as something bad happened under the Trump administration, it was like every Republican we see in like a four mile radius is to blame for this.
00:24:50.000When Democrats are in charge and something bad happens, like, How could such a bad thing happen in America?
00:25:18.000If you are a doctor who is working routinely with COVID patients, you should probably also get one.
00:25:23.000We should not be vaccinating people who work in grocery stores or people who are delivering packages at the same rates that we are vaccinating people who are 65 and older.
00:25:37.000How are they actually tranching out the vaccines?
00:25:39.000According to the Washington Post, the district plans to give priority for coronavirus vaccines to the broadest possible swath of people with pre-existing health conditions.
00:25:47.000A decision that will make hundreds of thousands eligible for scarce doses of the vaccine and that some public health experts say might not make medical sense.
00:25:57.000The plan would offer vaccines to people whose wait and medical history would not qualify them for early access to the vaccine in almost any state in the country.
00:26:07.000Health Director LaQuandra Nesbitt told members of the D.C.
00:26:09.000Council last week she decided to open up vaccine access possibly as soon as February to such a large group in the hopes of quickly vaccinating anyone.
00:26:55.000Okay, so the bizarre notion that you're going to tranche out hundreds of thousands of vaccines to anyone who is slightly overweight, as opposed to, you know, the people who are elderly and at risk, total craziness.
00:27:06.000But of course, the goal here is racial equity above all, right?
00:27:13.000Experts like David Kass, a Johns Hopkins cardiology professor, said some of the conditions the district is including have not been proved to put people at higher risk of complications from COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
00:27:24.000In terms of body weight, some recommended prioritizing people with BMIs over 40, rather than anyone whose weight is above a level considered healthy.
00:27:32.000I mean, BMI over 40 is severe obesity?
00:28:31.000The vast majority of members of the American public believe that journalists and reporters are purposely trying to mislead them, And 58% think news organizations are more interested in ideology than facts.
00:29:27.000I mean, every single day I show you clips of members of your esteemed journalistic media who are basically just doing dirty work for the Biden administration or for the Democrats or for the Biden campaign during the campaign.
00:29:38.000So, for example, here is CNN's Alison Camerota literally asking members of the Biden administration if they will retaliate against news networks if they lie.
00:29:47.000So here's CNN asking if the Biden administration is going to target Newsmax, OANN, and Fox News.
00:31:06.000Margaret Sullivan is the media columnist for the Washington Post.
00:31:10.000And she has a piece that is titled, I kid you not, the media can be glad for the Biden White House's return to normalcy, but let's not be lulled.
00:31:17.000Okay, now if I just read you the title, you would think, presumably, that the piece is going to say to the media, yes, this is more of a return to normalcy, it's not quite as wild and crazy as the Trump years, it's not all about the tweets, but you still have to be watchdogs, right?
00:31:29.000Wouldn't you think that's what, I mean, that's the title of the piece, right?
00:31:31.000The media can be glad for the Biden White House's return to normalcy, but let's not be lulled.
00:32:15.000And she didn't peddle a whopper of the lie the way Sean Spicer did on day one four years ago with his alternative fact about the supposedly record-breaking size of the inaugural crowd.
00:32:24.000The first official words by President Biden's spokeswoman included truth and transparency.
00:32:28.000Rebuilding trust with the American people will be central to our focus, the former State Department spokeswoman told a small group of socially distanced reporters as she promised to return to daily briefings.
00:32:38.000In fact, Wednesday night's session with reporters, the first of the Biden administration, was so normal, so weirdly normal, that you could be forgiven for thinking you had mistakenly put on an old episode of the West Wing.
00:32:49.000My favorite thing about that is that she's touting the West Wing as like the way politics should work.
00:32:53.000It was a fantasy show written by Aaron Sorkin on behalf of Democrats.
00:33:34.000The national press, battered by four years of abuse by the president and by the incompetence and falsehoods of his spokespeople, is in a precarious position.
00:33:42.000We run the risk of being seduced by an administration that, in many cases, closely reflects our values.
00:33:48.000Multiculturalism, a belief in the principles of liberal democracy, a kind of wonky idealism.
00:33:53.000So she's openly admitting, by the way, that the media and Biden are the same, right?
00:33:56.000And she says, the commentary from TV broadcasters across the board all day long was at times embarrassingly complimentary.
00:34:01.000Maybe that's fine for a day or two while everyone takes a few sighs of relief that democracy has survived its stress test.
00:34:06.000But soon, I'd guess another normal return.
00:34:08.000The desire to appear combative and to blow things out of proportion to demonstrate toughness.
00:34:13.000She's chiding the media before they do it with being too combative with Biden after they basically provided him sexual favors on the day of the inauguration.
00:34:25.000That's what Margaret Sullivan is doing here.
00:34:26.000She says, you know what, you guys, we spent the last 48 hours celebrating with Biden and treating Biden with kid gloves.
00:34:33.000And, you know, we have to be really careful here not to stop treating him with kid gloves.
00:34:38.000Because journalists pride themselves, says Margaret Sullivan, media columnist for the Washington Post, on being tough and objective, they like to take an adversarial-seeming approach, especially to the party in power or the candidate with whom they most identify.
00:34:50.000And of course, actually holding power to account is the most important job journalists have.
00:34:55.000But there's a difference between truly holding power to account and grandstanding.
00:34:59.000It's the latter that gave rise to ridiculous dust-ups like the one over President Barack Obama's wearing of a tan suit, not to mention the vast and shameful overplaying of the Hillary Clinton email scandal during the 2016 campaign.
00:35:10.000The national media, says Margaret Sullivan, should show toughness, but of a different sort.
00:35:14.000If they've learned the lessons of the past four years, and I confess I have my doubts, they'll do things differently.
00:36:00.000So let's go harder on Republicans and let's not cover any of the things that Biden, I mean, like, do you know how in the bubble you have to be to believe this?
00:36:07.000These folks have decided beforehand, in preordained fashion, the Biden administration is transparent, wonderful, factual, and the biggest risk is that you will create a false equivalency between people who disagree with Biden and Biden because, of course, we all know on an objective level that Biden is wonderful and amazing and truly spectacular.
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00:40:18.000I mean, the man thought that he was just a messianic figure descended from the heavens to teach all of us about what it meant to be the best kind of human.
00:40:40.000There was a lot that was funny that was going on during the Obama administration, but not to comedians because they were too busy worshiping and you can't make fun of things that you worship, right?
00:40:47.000It's very difficult for people to do that.
00:40:49.000Religious people tend not to mock They're gods, okay?
00:41:10.000So Joe Biden, who is legitimately one of the funniest people to ever be president of the United States, not because he means to be funny, but because he cannot spew four sentences without mixing himself up and walking into a wall.
00:43:29.000I cannot tell the difference in when he is trying to be funny and when he's not trying to be funny.
00:43:32.000Also, another person who used to be funny but now is just a woke pope, Jimmy Kimmel.
00:43:35.000He emerged wearing his black non-turtleneck, his long sleeve black shirt here, to explain to all of us that, you know, it's like a magical, magical day.
00:43:48.000Now this is actually supposed to be a funny line, but I'm wondering how, like where is the, where, how?
00:43:53.000Okay, here's Jimmy Kimmel, explain the humor.
00:43:56.000Joseph Rapunzel Biden is our 46th president.
00:44:01.000It feels like, I have to imagine this is what it feels like when the oncologist calls and tells you the tumor is benign.
00:44:07.000You know, I remember going back to the day Trump was inaugurated, such a terrible day, and wondering, can our country even survive four years of this?
00:44:40.000I will say that the last 12 years have killed comedy, they have killed objective journalism, There's not a lot left in terms of our institutions and our fun, and everything seems like sort of a bland gray going on from here, does it not?
00:44:54.000It is just boredom and annoyance stamping on the American face forever.
00:45:04.000So Ezra Klein has now moved over to the New York Times after turning Vox into a place that ostracizes everybody of dissenting views so bad that Matthew Iglesias had to leave and found his own substack.
00:45:15.000Now Ezra Klein has been rewarded with a slot over at the New York Times where he has a podcast and also he has an opinion piece because the New York Times, like, no one Who's voted for Trump will ever be allowed to write for the New York Times.
00:45:29.000The most right-wing person at the New York Times right now is Ross Douthat.
00:45:33.000And that's because he's sort of iconoclastic and because he is not super Trumpy, but he's also kind of in favor of... I like Ross's column, but Ross is not easy to pin down in sort of traditional conservative ways.
00:45:47.000The other columnists are, like the most right-wing columnist after that is Brett Stevens, who hates Trump with a fiery passion of a thousand suns, right?
00:45:54.000So you've got Ezra Klein over at the New York Times.
00:45:56.000Here is his pitch for what Democrats should do next.
00:46:08.000Ezra Klein says that what we need is we need a massive spending bill.
00:46:13.000We need a $1.9 trillion rescue plan that Biden is pushing.
00:46:16.000We need a For the People Act, which is a wild rewriting of how voting is done in the United States.
00:46:24.000We need a revision of immigration, but, says Ezra Klein, none of these bills will pass a Senate in which the filibuster forces 60 vote majorities on routine legislation.
00:46:32.000That clarifies the real question Democrats face.
00:46:34.000They have plenty of ideas that could improve people's lives and strengthen democracy, but they have repeatedly proven themselves more committed to preserving the status quo of the political system than fulfilling their promises to voters.
00:47:07.000I'm gonna read it slowly so you understand what he's saying.
00:47:10.000Democrats have repeatedly proven themselves more committed to preserving the status quo of the political system than fulfilling their promises to voters.
00:47:20.000They have preferred the false piece of decorum to the true progress of democracy.
00:47:51.000That perspective is how we got to this idiotic form of government that we currently experience, in which basically all that government is, is Congress as a vestigial organ that occasionally passes omnibus packages worth trillions of dollars, and mostly government is just presidents ping-ponging back and forth executive orders.
00:48:08.000Obama does a bunch of executive orders, then Trump undoes the executive orders, then Biden redoes the executive orders, then whoever comes next undoes those executive orders.
00:48:16.000But Ezra Klein wants to break the wheel of history.
00:48:18.000The way we're going to break the wheel is not by returning power to the legislature in its current form and minimizing the power of the executive.
00:48:24.000Instead, what it's going to be is we're going to kill the filibuster.
00:48:26.000We're going to ram through things on a bare majority basis.
00:48:29.000And then everybody's going to be better.
00:48:30.000We'll maximize power in the federal government.
00:48:32.000Probably that will bring everybody together.