Disney has dropped the actress Gina Carano from The Mandalorian because she is conservative. It's not because she made a comparison to Nazi Germany, it's because she's a conservative. Ben Shapiro breaks it all down and explains why this is a good thing. Plus, why big tech companies don't trust their own users with their data, and why they want to monetize the data that you give them. Don't let Big Tech track what you do - anonymize your web browsing at ExpressVPN! Take back your online privacy with the VPN I Trust! Take 3 months of ExpressVPN service for FREE on a 1 year package. Use the promo code: PODCAST at checkout to get 3 months free on the ExpressVPN app, and make sure that you have protected your data. You just tap one button on your phone or computer and you are protected. Today's show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. To protect your data, go check out ExpressVPN today! It could not be easier to use! You'll get 100% of your data for free on your favorite VPN service! If you've ever wondered how free to access social media companies make all their money by tracking your data? Well, now you can find out by using the VPN, and you'll be much more than you'd ever dreamed of using a VPN! Connect with ExpressVPN to get 20% off your first month free on a ONE YEAR PASSION FREE trial when you sign up for a 1-only offer! Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire is giving you'll get 10% off a year of Express VPN? Subscribe to my show! Subscribe, rate, rate and review the show, and get 5% off the first month and get an ad-free version of the show only discount when you get the VIP membership, and I'll be getting a whole bunch of VIP access to the show that gets you access to all my ad-only version of The Daily Wire Provenza, plus I'll get a discount on my entire course, plus a free ad-plan, plus all my other perks, and a FREE PROMOTION AND VIP PROMO, AND MORE! FREE PRODUCEDUCATION AND VIP SUPPORTING VIP SUPPORT AND PROMETORIZED TO VIP REVIEW AND PATREONATION AND TUTORIZING INCLUSION AND SUPPORTING INCLUOR VOTING IN PERSONALIZED!
00:00:23.000It is very obvious that they would prefer to shut down some information from the side of the political aisle they do not like, and then they monetize the data that you give them.
00:01:37.000It is not because she did anything that is truly terribly offensive to anybody.
00:01:40.000It's not because she made a comparison to Nazi Germany.
00:01:43.000Because, let's be frank about this, people on the left make comparisons to Hitler and Nazi Germany all the damn time.
00:01:48.000It is perfectly clear that they were looking for an excuse to can her because she is conservative.
00:01:52.000In fact, The Hollywood Reporter said yesterday that they were looking to can her for months because she is conservative.
00:01:59.000According to The Hollywood Reporter, on Wednesday, the hashtag FireGinaCarano was trending, following an Instagram post from the outspoken conservative actor and former mixed martial artist that was met with severe backlash.
00:02:10.000The post has since been deleted, but screenshots were widely shared by users on social media who called for her firing from the hit Disney Plus Star Wars show.
00:02:18.000According to a source with knowledge of Lucasfilm's thinking, they told The Hollywood Reporter they have been looking for a reason to fire her for two months.
00:02:26.000Well, because after the election, she tweeted that voter fraud should be combated with voter ID, which is a mainstream conservative position, and because she had tweeted that people are essentially wearing masks over their eyes because they don't want to see the truth, which, again, fairly mainstream conservative position.
00:02:41.000Well, the other day she put up an Instagram post, the main point of which was that liberals needed to see that if they treated conservatives as an other, that has a dangerous ending.
00:02:50.000Now, as I said on the show, not a big fan of Holocaust analogies generally, but the general point she was making here was certainly not anti-Semitic in any way.
00:02:59.000Certainly not anti-semitic in any way.
00:03:01.000In fact, she was saying, to avoid the evils of the future, you have to stop acting evil in the present.
00:03:56.000So, according to Hollywood Reporter, Lucasfilm, Disney, they've been looking to dump her for months because she's outspokenly conservative.
00:04:03.000They found an excuse and they dumped her.
00:05:11.000They're not vulnerable to major attack from the outside, but they are vulnerable to their own cancel culture, which allows us to build X-Wings to take them on.
00:06:15.000I could not be more excited to work with Gina Carano, who certainly could beat me up 87 times over.
00:06:22.000I could not be more excited to bring her on board and work with her here at The Daily Wire.
00:06:27.000We can't wait to keep you updated on the film and what it's going to be.
00:06:32.000And we're working with her to develop the film.
00:06:33.000She is integrally involved in the process.
00:06:37.000We wouldn't have had this opportunity were it not for the cancel culture that is the left.
00:06:40.000We would not have had this opportunity were it not for the authoritarian left mob controlling authoritarian left companies that seek to cancel out dissent and destroy it.
00:06:50.000And again, this should not be a right-left point.
00:06:52.000This is an authoritarian left versus everybody else point.
00:06:55.000Jonathan Chait over at New York Magazine, a man with whom I disagree strenuously, he said, this is no different from McCarthyism.
00:08:07.000Gina's doing something heroic by stepping outside the Hollywood system and doing something with us, and we are so glad and so excited to be helping her pursue that vision and pursue that dream.
00:08:58.000Use promo code GINA right now and you get 25% off.
00:09:01.000But mostly, we are so excited to be going up against this monolith.
00:09:06.000This is the first time that somebody has been able to have the option to stand up against the monolith and still have a career.
00:09:12.000We are making that possible because you're making that possible.
00:09:14.000Because you're the folks who are watching the content.
00:09:17.000Because you're the folks who are eager to see us step into an arena of competition with folks who really hate your point of view.
00:09:24.000Who really despise what it is that you stand for and your values.
00:09:28.000So instead of giving them your money, why not instead help us out in fighting the sort of value system that they're promulgating, which is not just a liberal value system.
00:10:16.000Use the promo code Gina for 25% off your annual membership over at Daily Wire.
00:10:22.000The big breaking news of the day is not this impeachment thing.
00:10:25.000We all know where the impeachment thing is going.
00:10:27.000The Republicans are gonna vote to acquit.
00:10:28.000Today represents the beginning of Team Trump's rebuttal to the Democratic case.
00:10:33.000It's only supposed to last about four hours, and it's basically gonna be, you didn't meet the legal level of incitement, and if you think that's incitement, you have a bunch of Democrats to show you.
00:10:43.000Instead, why don't we talk about the fact that somebody probably committed a criminal act, and the media treated this person as an absolute hero for months and months and months at a time.
00:10:54.000This person was considered the best governor in America by folks on the left.
00:10:57.000And we knew early on that this was untrue.
00:11:00.000We knew very, very early on that Andrew Cuomo was covering up nursing home deaths.
00:11:03.000As early as May of 2020, there were reports that Andrew Cuomo was covering up nursing home deaths by changing the metrics by which he counted nursing home deaths.
00:11:11.000We talked about it on the show at the time.
00:11:14.000There are a lot of people who got COVID in nursing homes but died in hospitals.
00:11:18.000Andrew Cuomo did not count those as nursing home deaths because that would have made clear how bad his COVID policy was.
00:11:23.000Instead, he suggested that these were deaths in hospitals as opposed to deaths at nursing homes, which is really silly because a lot of people die in hospitals.
00:11:33.000We have known this for a very long time.
00:11:35.000And then, a couple of weeks ago, finally, Letitia James, the Attorney General of the State of New York, she came out and said, oh yeah, by the way, he covered that up.
00:11:42.000And now, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's aide, one of his top aides, is now privately apologizing to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state's nursing home death toll from COVID-19.
00:11:51.000Apparently, she told them, quote, we froze out of fear that the true numbers would be used against us by federal prosecutors.
00:11:58.000Which would be a crime if you are covering up evidence of bad policy and bad decision-making in order to avoid the tender embrace of federal prosecutors?
00:12:07.000That looks a lot like obstruction, does it not?
00:12:09.000According to the New York Post, the stunning admission of a cover-up was made by Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa during a video conference call with state Democratic leaders in which she said the Cuomo administration had rebuffed a legislative request for the tally in August because, quote, right around the same time, Trump turns this into a giant political football, according to an audio recording of the two-hour-plus meeting.
00:12:27.000He starts tweeting that we killed everyone in nursing homes.
00:12:29.000He starts going after New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy.
00:12:32.000He starts going after California Governor Gavin Newsom.
00:12:34.000He starts going after Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
00:12:37.000In addition to attacking Cuomo's fellow Democratic Governor, DeRosa said, Trump directs the Department of Justice to do an investigation into us.
00:12:42.000And basically, we froze, she told the lawmakers on the call.
00:12:46.000So in other words, because Trump was saying a true thing about their treatment of the nursing homes and because the DOJ was investigating, they just lied about it.
00:12:55.000Now remember, the media treated this guy not just with kid gloves, but with full-on massage oils.
00:13:01.000And they didn't just treat Cuomo as though he was doing a decent job trying to muscle his way through the pandemic.
00:13:06.000They treated him as the greatest governor.
00:13:08.000He wrote an entire book on what an amazing leader he had been during COVID.
00:13:12.000Chris, his brother, interviewed him nearly nightly on CNN to give him the propaganda hour.
00:13:18.000You remember that famous picture of Chris Cuomo holding up a giant nasal swab to make fun of his brother's nostril size while they did the Smothers Brothers comedy hour over there on CNN?
00:13:28.000It turns out that not only was Cuomo covering up the data, they were covering up the data specifically with an eye toward federal prosecutors, which is really, really bad stuff.
00:13:35.000And again, we knew that he was covering this up for months.
00:13:55.000Who could have uncovered that information?
00:13:57.000You guys, if you actually did your job.
00:13:59.000I mean, this story is not just about Cuomo.
00:14:01.000It is about the malpractice, and it is malpractice, by the journalistic establishment, which ignored a story that everyone on the right was reporting on, but it just didn't surface.
00:14:19.000And Andrew Cuomo doesn't like Trump, and so he was a perfect foil, except for the fact that he was garbage at his job.
00:14:24.000And not just garbage at his job, he was covering up his own terrible activity that ended with the deaths of thousands and thousands of seniors who probably didn't need to die.
00:14:32.000And the reason I say they didn't need to die is because you know who didn't do this?
00:14:35.000You know who didn't ship COVID-positive seniors back into nursing homes?
00:14:39.000Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida, who is simultaneously receiving the hate and scorn of the entire establishment media.
00:14:45.000We had a story every single day about how Florida was the center of death, how Florida was going to be the place where everyone died.
00:14:51.000Florida is, by a long shot, the oldest state in America.
00:15:08.000Okay, so the entire media, which was committed to the idea that Andrew Cuomo was an amazing governor, they knew full well he wasn't an amazing governor.
00:15:14.000They knew full well that he had botched this thing from here to Sunday.
00:15:17.000But it didn't matter to them, because they were too busy covering for him.
00:15:21.000He knew he could get away with the lie.
00:15:23.000Only now are the media reporting on it, because now it's safe to report on it.
00:15:26.000And this is the pattern for your establishment media.
00:15:28.000It is not just a matter of, will they report on the story?
00:15:31.000It's, when do they report on the story?
00:15:33.000If they report on the story a year after it happened, when it is now politically convenient, For people to know that Andrew Cuomo is a terrible governor?
00:15:42.000If they're reporting on Hunter Biden a month after the election, but shutting it completely down in the month before the election, that makes a difference.
00:15:48.000If, as we are going to see in a second, they're reporting on the predations of the Lincoln Project, which people knew about for a year, but only a couple of months after the inauguration, well, that is politically motivated.
00:16:00.000The New York Post reports that De Rosa, who is Cuomo's aide, said, we were then in a position where we weren't sure if what we were going to give to the DOJ or what we give to you guys, what we were saying, was gonna be used against us.
00:16:11.000Well, we weren't sure if there was gonna be an investigation.
00:16:13.000That played a very large role in this.
00:16:16.000After dropping that bombshell in which he essentially admitted to covering up a crime potentially, right, the obstruction is the crime in that particular case, De Rosa asked for, quote, a little bit of appreciation of the context and offered what appeared to be the Cuomo administration's first apology, Remember, when Janice Dean talked about this from Fox News, Andrew Cuomo made fun of her, even though she'd had a parent who died in a nursing home.
00:16:40.000Instead of a mea culpa to the grieving family members of more than 13,000 dead seniors or the critics who say the health department spread COVID-19 in the care facilities with a March 25th health department directive that nursing homes admit infected patients, DeRosa tried to make amends with the fellow Democrats because of the political inconvenience it caused them.
00:16:57.000Okay, when people say that it's political partisanship on the right, just let it be known.
00:17:00.000Political partisanship is all the way down on both sides.
00:17:03.000Okay, and this is a perfect example of it.
00:17:05.000The only people receiving apologies today from the Cuomo administration are Democratic lawmakers in the state.
00:17:10.000Not all the old people's families who died in nursing homes.
00:18:49.000When thousands of seniors die for no reason other than bad policy.
00:18:53.000Clearly, the person who deserves the apology is Democrats that life was made a little more politically awkward for.
00:18:59.000Assembly Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried, Democrat of Manhattan, immediately rejected DeRosa's expression of remorse.
00:19:04.000He said, I don't have enough time today to explain all the reasons why I don't give that any credit at all.
00:19:08.000He had demanded the death toll data back in August.
00:19:11.000State Senate Aging Committee Chairwoman Rachel May, Democrat of Syracuse, also ripped into DeRosa, saying her former opponent had launched another broadside earlier in the day.
00:19:18.000She said, The issue for me, the biggest issue of all, is feeling like I needed to defend, or at least not attack, an administration that was appearing to be covering something up.
00:19:25.000And in a pandemic, when you want the public to trust the public health officials, and there's a clear feeling they're not coming and being forthcoming with you, that is really hard and it remains difficult.
00:19:33.000Assemblyman Ron Kim, Democrat of Queens.
00:19:35.000Remember, these are all Democrats talking about Cuomo and his team.
00:20:10.000It seems to me an investigation is warranted if they were purposefully covering up material relevant to the state, material that the legislature had requested specifically in order to avoid federal investigation.
00:20:50.000OK, meanwhile, the Lincoln Project is now completely falling apart.
00:20:55.000So, again, in the world of journalistic timing, this is yet another example of the journalistic establishment completely refusing to do its job for months on end because the people who they were covering up for were politically useful to Democrats.
00:21:07.000The Lincoln Project was a bunch of grifters.
00:21:08.000It was a bunch of grifters from the beginning.
00:21:10.000There's a bunch of people who are making money from Democrats who believed that the Lincoln Project was going to do serious damage in the election.
00:21:40.000The Lincoln Project, they were paying, the heads of it were paying themselves millions and millions of dollars and raising a bunch of money off of sucker Democrats who believed that these quote-unquote Republicans, by the way, it ain't Republicans who opposed Susan Collins in Maine.
00:21:52.000Whenever you think of Trump, These people were opposing Susan Collins in Maine.
00:21:56.000They were campaigning for Raphael Warnock and John Ossoff in Georgia.
00:22:29.000He's getting disappeared like somebody who's a top aide for Stalin in some of the old pictures where you see Stalin with his arm around somebody and then next picture you see Stalin just with his arm and there's nobody there.
00:22:38.000That's what's happening to John Weaver right now.
00:22:41.000According to New York Magazine, quote, Alex Johnson was a senior at the University of Texas at Austin.
00:22:47.000Pursuing a career in politics when he first heard from John Weaver, the legendary Republican operative living nearby.
00:22:52.000It started with a direct message on Twitter.
00:22:57.000Johnson told Intelligencer, his New York magazine, but then, you know, his intentions became clear.
00:23:01.000Weaver, who worked on both of Senator John McCain's presidential campaigns, started by discussing politics or college football before asking Johnson about his dating life and sexual interests.
00:23:09.000Weaver wrote in December 2018, I want to see you, Weaver wrote four days later.
00:23:16.000The pattern continued into 2020, when Weaver reached out to Johnson about working for a new political action committee he had co-founded, the Lincoln Project.
00:23:23.000We've restarted the group with some of the biggest names in Republican politics to defeat Donald Trump.
00:23:27.000Joining him was Steve Schmidt, a Karl Rove protege, during George W. Bush's re-election campaign, known for his no-holds-barred style of attack, who later worked on McCain's 2008 campaign.
00:23:36.000Joining them was another McCain veteran, Reid Galen, and Republican strategist Rick Wilson.
00:23:40.000Other co-founders included Republican super lawyer George Conway, as well as veteran Republican political operatives Mike Madrid, Ron Steslow, and Jennifer Horne.
00:23:48.000Now, Jennifer Horne is gonna become relevant to another Lincoln Project story that is breaking in just one moment.
00:23:53.000We'll get to more of the Lincoln Project's scandalous activities, which we can now report on them.
00:23:58.000Right now it's okay, because we're past the election.
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00:25:20.000Okay, so the New York Magazine continues.
00:25:23.000It didn't take long for the Lincoln Project to become a haven for never-Trump Republicans and capture the political world's attention with its brutal television ads against the president.
00:25:30.000Actually, it was just a sort of media masturbation crew.
00:25:34.000It was basically, all these guys would appear on MSNBC, MSNBC would pump the ads.
00:25:46.000The buzz led to big business, which raised more than $87 million in the 2020 election cycle, according to the FEC.
00:25:53.000Much of the money was paid to firms run by Lincoln Project's co-founders, including nearly $25 million to Summit Strategic Communications, a firm run by Reid Galen.
00:26:01.000More than $20 million was paid to Tusk Digital, run by Cesslo, which employed people who worked as contractors at the Lincoln Project.
00:26:09.000So that was John Weaver, co-founder of the Lincoln Project.
00:26:41.000Weaver also made phone calls to Johnson.
00:26:43.000Once, he said, Weaver called to ask him his thoughts on the Lincoln Project and its ads, then quickly segued into what felt like an attempt at phone sex.
00:26:50.000Johnson said he rarely answered Weaver's calls after that, but despite his discomfort with the Lincoln Project's co-founder, he took the internship there, started in July 2020, working remotely from his home in Texas.
00:27:00.000Weaver continued harassing Johnson at the Lincoln Project.
00:27:12.000We operate in the same kind of political culture of being never-Trumpers.
00:27:15.000Johnson said he didn't tell Lincoln Project Management about Weaver fearing retribution.
00:27:19.000Well, Johnson didn't know about it then.
00:27:21.000The Lincoln Project had already been told that Weaver was preying on young men in and outside the company.
00:27:26.000On June 17th, a person working at the Lincoln Project sent an email to co-founder Seslow that reported 10 allegations of Weaver's harassing men, including at least one employee at the Lincoln Project.
00:27:35.000Three people independently described the contents of the email to Intelligencer and said it warned Weaver could be using his position at the company to make promises of career advancement to prey on young men.
00:27:46.000The complaint called Weaver's predatory behavior an immediate threat to the company that if it became public, could render a death blow to the Lincoln Project's reputation.
00:27:53.000In the meantime, the Lincoln Project itself was attacking Trump as a sexual predator.
00:27:57.000Steslow raised the email with the co-founder of Galen and corporate counsel Matthew Sanderson, but Weaver's harassment continued.
00:28:02.000Okay, so they then said, oh, well, it was just chatter.
00:28:06.000But it turns out that Weaver had been sending messages that ranged from provocative to sexually explicit to 21 men going back through the years, including to one recipient who was 14 years old.
00:28:29.000So the Lincoln Project was very angry at Trump for having these non-disclosure agreements, right?
00:28:33.000There are a bunch of women who said, I want to talk freely about Trump, but he's got these NDAs and I can't violate the NDAs.
00:28:37.000And the Lincoln Project was like, he should release them from the NDAs.
00:28:41.000It turns out, half their employees can't speak freely about this stuff because of, wait for it, NDAs.
00:28:48.000Apparently these four former members of the Lincoln Project said, quote, Lincoln Project contractors and employees are calling on the organization to release anyone with knowledge of harassment or who has been harassed by John Weaver from their non-disclosure agreements so they can speak freely about what happened to them or what they know about what happened to others.
00:29:04.000Johnson said, I really wanted to believe everyone that they didn't know the extent of it.
00:29:07.000They made it seem like this was out of the blue.
00:29:13.000Johnson was not alone among the interns who say they were harassed by Weaver.
00:29:15.000One of them was Charlie Stephens, a 19-year-old rising sophomore at LSU.
00:29:19.000Weaver asked him if he or any of his peers might be interested in an internship to help kick the bleep out of Trump and against Senate Republican incumbents.
00:29:49.000It turns out that not only are they not releasing people from their NDAs, but now the Lincoln Project last night, in order to defend against itself, decided to publish screenshots of private Twitter direct messages belonging to one of its co-founders, Jennifer Horne.
00:30:04.000Warren left the Lincoln Project last week amid the John Weaver scandal, and she has been spatting with the anti-Trump group ever since her departure, according to Fox News.
00:30:11.000But the Lincoln Project escalated tensions on Thursday night with tweets that appeared to be an exchange she had with 19th News correspondent Amanda Becker.
00:30:34.000She did not give them to her, to the Lincoln Project.
00:30:37.000The Lincoln Project began a lengthy thread earlier this evening.
00:30:40.000We became aware that Amanda Becker of 19th News was preparing to publish a smear job on the Lincoln Project with the help of Jennifer Horne.
00:30:47.000You hear a lot of talk about hit jobs in journalism.
00:30:49.000Rarely do you get to see their origin story in joy.
00:30:52.000And meanwhile, George Conway is sitting at home, and he's a lawyer, and he's looking at this and going, um, guys?
00:31:20.000One, it seems like a crime was just committed.
00:31:22.000Two, Twitter has not barred the Lincoln Project, as far as I'm aware, from its service.
00:31:27.000This will become relevant in just one second when we get to Project Veritas, which they did bar from their service.
00:31:31.000Remember, they barred the New York Post for publishing quote-unquote, hacked materials, even though there was no evidence that the materials on Hunter Biden were hacked.
00:31:38.000They came from a laptop in Delaware that Hunter Biden had left at a repair shop, apparently.
00:31:43.000So there was no evidence that it was hacked material.
00:31:45.000Twitter took down the story and took down the New York Post account.
00:31:47.000The Lincoln Project apparently is posting material that is not its own.
00:31:51.000The Lincoln Project has not yet been suspended.
00:31:57.000According to Fox News, it is unclear how the Lincoln Project obtained screenshots of Horn's private messages or how, if it did, the group gained access to Horn's Twitter account.
00:32:05.000Tablet magazine associate editor Noah Bloom tweeted, this is legitimately outrageous.
00:32:08.000New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said, it's hardly the most important thing happening today amid impeachment, tens of millions of doses of COVID vaccine becoming available, changes coming to Medicaid work requirements, but can't say I've ever seen something like what just happened involving Horn's account. Yeah, my favorite is that we have to make sure that we downplay what's happening with the Lincoln Project, because what it really demonstrates is that the media were engaged in malfeasance for a year, for a solid year.
00:32:32.000So there's a lot of other important stuff happening today.
00:32:34.000And also, here is a group that we promoted for a year and fostered, receiving tens of millions of dollars while its co-founder was harassing young men.
00:32:44.000And also, it turns out they just committed a federal crime.
00:33:01.000We're gonna get to Twitter's standards for removing stuff in just one second because, once again, inconsistency being the hobgoblin of large minds, apparently.
00:33:10.000Here we go, we'll get to that in one second.
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00:34:22.000You will sleep Okay, so, as I say, when we speak of inconsistency, so Twitter has apparently not banned the Lincoln Project yet, right, for putting out DMs that do not belong to them, right?
00:34:30.000Okay, so as I say, when we speak of inconsistency, so Twitter has apparently not banned the Lincoln Project yet, right, for putting out DMs that do not belong to them, right?
00:34:47.000I mean, it's pretty frightening, by the way, that social media will just now ban people.
00:34:51.000And it's pretty explicitly based on political content.
00:34:54.000They'll ban the New York Post account saying that they don't allow people to publish hacked materials based on non-hacked materials when it comes to the Hunter Biden story.
00:35:03.000They won't suspend or ban the Lincoln Project for pushing out what apparently are hacked materials in violation of federal law.
00:35:14.000According to the New York Post, Twitter on Thursday yanked the accounts of conservative activist group Project Veritas over repeated violations of the company's rules on sharing other people's private information after they posted leaked footage of communications between Facebook executives.
00:35:27.000By the way, I really do enjoy that this is how the standards now work on Twitter.
00:35:30.000So if you just report on what happened in the conversation, like the New York Times does routinely, Anonymous Source reports that Facebook executives were talking about X. That's every Kevin Roos column and every Kara Swisher column at the New York Times.
00:35:59.000A Twitter spokesperson said the Project Veritas account was permanently suspended for breaching its private information policy.
00:36:05.000The ban came after the group had posted leaked clips on Wednesday from a meeting with Facebook executives where they discussed development of censorship tools.
00:36:12.000Vice President of Integrity Guy Rosen can be seen explaining, quote, we have a system that is able to freeze commenting on threads.
00:36:17.000In cases where our systems are detecting, there may be a thread that has hate speech or violence sort of in the comments. In a second video posted by Project Veritas, one of the staffers is seen confronting Rosen about his remarks outside his home as he returned from a jog, quote, when you talk about freezing comments containing hate speech, what do you mean by that?
00:36:37.000The numbers on the exec's home address were visible in the clip, but the street name was not.
00:36:40.000License plates on surrounding cars are blurred.
00:36:43.000Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe was also temporarily locked on Thursday for violating the policy.
00:36:48.000O'Keefe told The Wrap he was wrestling with whether to delete the tweets flagged by Twitter in order to regain access to his personal account.
00:36:53.000So what I'm trying to understand is, what about what we did is, quote, posting private information. Reporters with microphones and cameras engage in reporting activities on the streets all the time in residential communities. I'm trying to understand what Twitter considers violating the rules against posting private information. Does Twitter consider reporting information the public has a right to know private information?
00:37:11.000This is quite the Rubicon we're crossing if Twitter wants to ban this particular piece of information.
00:37:16.000O'Keefe said Twitter claimed the video published private information.
00:37:19.000He said Twitter invited Project Veritas 2, and we did appeal that decision with Twitter.
00:37:23.000In an apparent act of retaliation for daring to question their authority, Twitter responded to our appeal by suspending our account, continuing to tell us that Project Veritas could delete the tweet and have our account reinstated.
00:37:35.000Again, these rules only apply to one side of the political aisle.
00:37:40.000We have people who released, without consent, calls of like Melania Trump and her friend, right?
00:37:46.000Even in two-party consent areas, this sort of stuff will not be banned by Twitter, presumably.
00:37:53.000If there was an internal discussion, a daily wire, revealed by the New York Times, and they just put out the tape, do you think Twitter would ban them?
00:38:01.000But this is how it works in social media.
00:38:04.000The left is in control of the levers of information, and it is dangerous.
00:38:07.000They're not using them in fulsome ways yet, but they are using them to quash dissemination of information they don't like.
00:38:12.000It's one of the reasons I've been telling you, you need to come subscribe at Daily Wire, you need to go to your favorite conservative outlets, and you need to subscribe now.
00:38:19.000Because these folks in charge of the levers of information are not trustworthy.
00:38:44.000The same people who presumably are cheering the banning of James O'Keefe's Project Veritas from Twitter, those same people are now very angry that there are apps that exist that protect privacy.
00:38:56.000So Poynter, which is a supposed, it's responsible for PolitiFact.
00:39:03.000The Poynter Center is a journalistic center, supposedly.
00:39:06.000They published a piece yesterday, and it's talking about Clubhouse.
00:39:09.000So Clubhouse is a new app where basically you have private calls with multiple people, and there's no tape that is capable of being taken of it, and there's no record that is kept of it, right?
00:39:22.000Poynter is suggesting that what needs to happen is that we need to be able to record those phone calls and we need to be able to archive those phone calls because there are prominent people who use Clubhouse.
00:39:31.000So we can't have private conversations, says Poynter.
00:40:06.000To be a Clubhouse user, you must know the right people.
00:40:08.000As reported by tech websites and popular newspapers, Clubhouse aims to be the most exclusive social media platform ever launched.
00:40:13.000It offers users the opportunity to enter different chat rooms and clubs and share live audio feeds, not text or images, with thousands of other people.
00:40:21.000You can even schedule your participation by scrolling through which discussions will be up in the next hours.
00:40:26.000As a fact checker working on the pandemic, I was eager to see if popular misinformation tropes, such as anti-vax content, had already landed at Clubhouse.
00:40:33.000Even though the platform's guidelines clearly say that users, quote, may not spread false information, I thought I'd try to find some.
00:40:39.000Okay, so I joined the club called All Things COVID after typing vaccines into the app's search bar.
00:40:45.000I found scholars from Johns Hopkins University, respected epidemiologists, physicians, and more.
00:40:51.000I moved on to search for misinformation and disinformation about politics.
00:41:13.000Olivia Smith, writing for Grit Daily, warned that on Clubhouse there's no path to accountability because the app doesn't keep old posts or audio files and doesn't allow users to record conversations.
00:41:23.000Smith said there's no way to prove someone said anything controversial at all.
00:41:27.000The lack of features will surely produce barriers for fact-checkers.
00:41:29.000It will not only be hard to choose what club to join, but Clubhouse also requires fact-checkers listen to hours and hours of conversations before selecting what claims should be assessed.
00:41:56.000On Monday, after a rare moment of cross-border dialogue between users from mainland China and others outside the country, Chinese censors moved in.
00:42:05.000If Xi Jinping's administration isn't ignoring Clubhouse, why should fact-checkers?
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00:43:54.000They publish the ridiculous musings of Nikole Hannah-Jones, and the insane navel-gazing of Charles Blow, and the ridiculous Solipsism of Michelle Goldberg.
00:44:06.000I mean, their columnist crew is just the dregs.
00:44:09.000It's just, it's an awful, awful New York Times op-ed page.
00:44:12.000I mean, just the list of horribles goes on.
00:44:15.000But Bret Stephens wanted to publish a column at the New York Times about the firing of Donald McNeil because that was a big story, right?
00:44:20.000Donald McNeil was the science reporter who was fired from the New York Times for the great sin of using the n-word in non-racist fashion.
00:44:27.000Because he was retelling, he was asking a question about how somebody used the n-word to create context and determine whether this was in fact a racist use of the n-word or not.
00:44:35.000This generated a massive blowback inside the New York Times woke staff, and they got him fired.
00:44:41.000And that ended with New York Times editor, executive editor Dean Beckett, who's an idiot, saying that intent is not an element of racism, which is ridiculous.
00:45:14.000In an internal email obtained by the Daily Beast on Thursday, Stevens, a conservative columnist, claimed he wrote a column defending McNeil, but it was put on ice by the Times publisher.
00:45:22.000His claim was first reported by NBC's Dylan Byers.
00:45:24.000If you're still wondering why it wasn't in the paper, it's because AG Sulzberger spiked it, he wrote atop the email.
00:45:29.000Sensitively titled Regardless of Intent, the column draft appeared to zero in on executive editor Dean Baquette's statement about McNeil.
00:45:36.000A copy of the column obtained and published by the New York Post late Thursday showed Stephen singling out Baquette and accusing the Times of hypocrisy, writing, quote, The Times has never previously been shy about citing racial slurs in order to explain a point.
00:45:48.000Stevens wrote, every serious moral philosophy, every decent legal system, every ethical organization cares deeply about intention.
00:45:54.000It is the difference between murder and manslaughter.
00:45:56.000It is an aggravating or extenuating factor in judicial settings.
00:45:59.000It is a cardinal consideration and pardons, or at least it was until Trump got in on the act because Stevens has to get his slap in.
00:46:04.000It's an elementary aspect of parenting, friendship, courtship, and marriage.
00:46:08.000The columnist added, a hallmark of injustice is indifference to intention.
00:46:14.000Kathleen Kingsbury, editor of the Times opinion section, disputed Stevens' account, telling Daily Beast that while she consulted with Sulzberger about the column, it was ultimately her decision to nix it.
00:46:23.000She said, I have an especially high bar of running any column that could reflect badly on a colleague.
00:46:28.000I didn't feel this piece rose to that level.
00:46:33.000So you guys basically ran Barry Weiss out of town on a rail because she wrote stuff that you didn't like.
00:46:38.000You allowed the Slack channel to be used as a hate board for Barry Weiss.
00:46:42.000But, you know, what we really cannot have is Bret Stephens writing that the New York Times is being ridiculous in firing Donald McNeil.
00:46:50.000The New York Times is a garbage heap, it remains a garbage heap, and it should not have your subscription or your trust.
00:46:55.000It's a ridiculous outlet, and that is being shown every single day.
00:46:59.000Okay, now, finally, we're gonna get to impeachment talk.
00:47:02.000Okay, so we will get to impeachment in just one second.
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00:49:48.000All righty, so today marks the day on which Trump's team is going to lay out his defense to the impeachment charge against him.
00:49:58.000And honestly, the defense is going to be fairly easy for him in the sense that the prosecution really did not prove the case they were seeking to prove.
00:50:04.000Now, if the case that they were proving was that Trump said really bad and dumb stuff between the election and January 20th, case proved, but we all knew that.
00:50:12.000If the case was that the people on January 6th did something evil and criminal, case proved, we already knew that.
00:50:16.000If the case was, we have to show that Trump incited the action Did not prove that because in order to show that Trump incited the action, you have to provide evidence that Trump actively incited, didn't say peacefully and patriotically protest, actively incited the riot.
00:50:31.000If you want to make the case that Trump is impeachable because of his behavior after and during the actual riot, then you have to have actual testimony from people who are in the room with Trump or Trump himself talking about what he did that day, why security forces weren't sent earlier.
00:50:44.000Democrats did not bother to do this because in the end, This is not going anywhere.
00:50:48.000Democrats know this isn't going anywhere.
00:50:49.000Democrats, by the way, have been throwing out wild accusations without evidence since January 6th about the complicity of fellow Republicans.
00:50:56.000Nancy Pelosi, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, this has become a mainstream Democratic talking point, is that Republicans wanted to murder their fellow Congress people.
00:51:04.000Alexander Ocasio-Cortez literally said that Ted Cruz wanted to have her murdered on January 6th, which is nuts.
00:51:12.000I mean, Ted is the Zodiac Killer, but besides that, he has not committed a murder since, last I checked, like 1979.
00:51:32.000In the end, what this is really about is PR, and everybody knows it.
00:51:34.000This is about the idea that every Republican is responsible for this.
00:51:38.000This is why they went for the incitement charge, guys.
00:51:40.000If they had wanted to impeach on the basis of abuse of power, it would have been a lot harder for Republicans to rebut that, frankly, because abuse of power is a vague, non-legal definition.
00:51:51.000I mean, it's rather difficult to rebut that, actually, because, again, if you charge somebody with a crime that is a political crime, but not an actual legal crime, then your opponents aren't going to be able to declare that you haven't fulfilled the elements.
00:52:06.000Abuse of power can be interpreted any variety of ways, but it's difficult to imagine that Trump didn't abuse his power when he spent two months railing against the veracity of the election and calling up election officials and all that kind of stuff, right?
00:52:19.000It's the reason why Jonathan Turley, the law professor from George Washington University, he said that he thinks that basically the Democrats tanked this thing from the beginning.
00:52:27.000He said they went for the incitement charge because they know that they want Republicans, in essence, to vote against impeachment so they can use that as a cudgel against Republicans.
00:53:07.000And this is also one of the secondary goals of using incitement as the standard.
00:53:10.000The goal here is that any time a Republican uses inflammatory language from now on, or even says something that Democrats don't like, that will be considered incitement.
00:53:18.000This is part and parcel of a broader Democratic and leftist attempt to treat everything they do not like as violence.
00:53:24.000So when I spoke in Berkeley a few years back, I will never forget this, I was speaking at Berkeley, 600 police officers required in order so that I could just give a speech about free speech.
00:53:32.000And protesters were outside with signs that said, speech is violence.
00:53:38.000So this is something the left has been pushing for quite a while, is the idea that if you say something with which I disagree, you are doing me harm.
00:53:44.000And that harm is, it should be considered a form of lawbreaking.
00:53:49.000We should change the First Amendment so anything that is considered harmful Is criminal.
00:53:54.000We got a First Amendment, and it isn't.
00:53:56.000Incitement, however, is a criminal standard.
00:53:58.000And so if you can establish that Trump's saying inflammatory things like, fight for the country, or you gotta fight, that kind of stuff amounts to incitement, it's pretty easy to go after people you don't like and claim that they are responsible for incitement.
00:54:09.000And this is used against Republicans all the time.
00:54:11.000It's been used going all the way back to Rush Limbaugh being blamed for the Oklahoma City bombing.
00:54:15.000It's been used going all the way back to Sarah Palin being blamed for the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords for no apparent reason and without any available evidence.
00:54:22.000So this is a long-standing kind of trope for the left.
00:54:25.000And to the left, in using incitement, what they're really trying to do is say that it's not just Trump, it's everybody.
00:54:31.000And they're not really making this particularly opaque.
00:54:33.000I mean, they're being pretty clear about this.
00:54:35.000Joy Reid over on MSNBC last night with Adam Schiff, who has not left his green, his green room tent, his pup tent in the green room at MSNBC and CNN for like years at this point.
00:54:47.000And they actually have an official Adam Schiff room over at these cable networks and he sleeps there and he does his laundry and everything.
00:54:55.000So she's with Adam Schiff and she's explaining that the GOP, the entire GOP is a radicalized anti-democratic institution.
00:55:01.000Congressman Schiff, do we need to start having a serious conversation, not just about Donald Trump being a bad guy, but about the Republican Party becoming a radicalized, anti-democratic institution?
00:55:12.000Because you can't have a regular party, like the Democrats who have their flaws and we can have issue with them, and a party that is willing to seize power by force.
00:55:20.000Because that's what that sounded like to me.
00:55:22.000Well, it's a party that's willing to seize power by force.
00:55:23.000Now, again, can you name the Republican who has backed the January 6th riots?
00:55:31.000But even the New York Times is recognizing that what this really is about is just the PR.
00:55:35.000So there's a piece by Peter Baker in the New York Times in the analysis section titled, if convicting Trump is out of reach, managers seek a verdict from the public and history.
00:55:44.000I always like when people say history is going to render its verdict.
00:55:47.000Yeah, well, history is like right now.
00:55:51.000to me. Peter Baker says as a day of violence and mayhem at the Capitol slid into evening last month with bloodshed, glass shattered and democracy besieged, President Trump posted a message on Twitter that seemed to celebrate the moment.
00:56:01.000Remember this day forever, he urged. The House Democrats prosecuting him at his Senate impeachment trial barely a month later hopes to make sure everyone does. With conviction in a polarized Senate seemingly out of reach, the House managers, as the prosecutors are known, are aiming their argument at two other audiences beyond the chamber.
00:56:17.000The American people, whose decision to deny Trump a second term was put at risk, and the historians who will one day render their own judgments about the former president and his time in power.
00:56:55.000Carl Rove said the managers had made a persuasive presentation.
00:56:57.000He said not clear if they met the legal definition of incitement and insurrection, but he's effectively tarnished for all time and incapable of running in 2024.
00:57:06.000And that, of course, is one of the goals.
00:57:08.000Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University who testified against impeachment, said the managers this time were just playing to the crowd rather than making a legal argument.
00:57:16.000He said the House is presenting an emotionally charged but legally deficient case in terms of a conviction.
00:57:20.000Indeed, much of the argument seemed designed to enrage rather than to convict.
00:57:23.000The videos are provocative but not probative, he said.
00:57:35.000Which is, of course, why they fast-tracked this thing.
00:57:37.000According to the Washington Post, Democratic lawmakers had coalesced behind a plan to force Trump from office within days of the attack on the Capitol building.
00:57:46.000Biden told Pelosi he didn't oppose impeaching Trump, but Biden also made clear he had no intention of letting the prior president's conduct interfere with the early days of his own administration.
00:57:54.000So if they were really truly serious about this, this wouldn't be a wham-bam thank-you-man impeachment, right?
00:58:30.000Yesterday, the Democrats finished their case.
00:58:32.000Jamie Raskin, the House impeachment manager, he made an argument that essentially we have to use common sense.
00:58:38.000Now, here's the thing about using common sense with regard to this.
00:58:41.000Your common sense would tell you, because I've watched Trump for years as have you, that what Trump was doing on January 6th was fairly clear.
00:58:48.000He wanted a photo op of a bunch of angry people outside the Capitol building.
00:59:14.000Common sense tells you that this is not the case.
00:59:17.000But we are supposed to believe that common sense tells us this is the case, according to Jamie Raskin and the House impeachment managers.
00:59:24.000When Tom Paine wrote Common Sense, The pamphlet that launched the American Revolution.
00:59:31.000He said that common sense really meant two different things.
00:59:36.000One common sense is the understanding that we all have without advanced learning and education.
00:59:44.000Common sense is the sense accessible to everybody.
00:59:47.000But common sense is also the sense that we all have in common as a community.
00:59:57.000Senators, America, we need to exercise our common sense about what happened.
01:00:04.000Well, common sense tells me that Trump's rhetoric was inflammatory and that he was saying things that were not true, and that people who tend to storm Capitol buildings also did not do so at the direction of the President of the United States.
01:00:17.000I guess what common sense tells me, because That seems fairly obvious to me, frankly.
01:00:27.000I mean, you can impeach for any reason.
01:00:28.000You can impeach for the President of the United States clipping his toenails wrong.
01:00:32.000There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents the House from impeaching for literally anything.
01:00:37.000There is a certain irony to Jamie Raskin standing up there A man who literally challenged election electors back in 2016, standing up there and saying that there is no superpower immunity from impeachment for people who do bad things in government.
01:00:51.000It's also kind of ironic considering that there actually is special legislation that has been passed that grants immunity to members of the House who speak on the congressional floor from things like slander.
01:01:00.000You can say anything slanderous you want so long as you're doing it on the floor of Congress.
01:01:03.000So there actually is some special immunity there.
01:01:05.000But in any case, here is Raskin saying that when Trump says that he's using the First Amendment here, that that's not sufficient to defend him.
01:01:11.000I mean, it depends on the standard you're using.
01:01:13.000You are the ones who said that he was inciting to insurrection.
01:01:18.000So instead, now you're basically charging something that you're not even alleging.
01:01:22.000You're charging that he incited to insurrection and then you are not actually proving the case for incitement or that he facilitated an insurrection.
01:01:29.000He's the president of the United States.
01:01:30.000If he had gone to his military and said, I want you guys to invade the Capitol building right now and take all of those guys hostage.
01:01:55.000Here's Raskin trying to make it fulfill the charges.
01:01:58.000The First Amendment does not create some superpower immunity from impeachment for a president who attacks the Constitution in word and deed while rejecting the outcome of an election he happened to lose.
01:02:12.000If anything, President Trump's conduct was an assault on the First Amendment and equal production rights that millions of Americans exercised when they voted last year.
01:02:22.000So, meanwhile, Cory Booker was saying, we don't need more evidence.
01:02:25.000This is one of the most beautiful things about the Democrats is that they say they don't need evidence when they literally didn't provide any evidence other than just tape and tweets.
01:02:38.000The only thing that we learned over the course of this, and I watched a fair bit of it, the only thing that we actually learned is that the rioters were close to members of Congress and the Vice President, in terms of proximity.
01:02:51.000Which we already kind of knew, considering that members of Congress had openly talked about this.
01:02:54.000I talked to members of Congress at the time.
01:02:57.000But Cory Booker says, you know, we've presented enough evidence, you know, proving our case, that's not something we have to do.
01:03:03.000It is hard to even venture to say that the commander-in-chief who swore an oath to protect this sacred space did not fail in his duty, did not betray that oath.
01:04:18.000Like, what exactly is the standard here?
01:04:21.000And there's not going to be a good comeback.
01:04:23.000Rand Paul, the senator from Kentucky, he said, listen, this is pretty easy.
01:04:26.000We should condemn violence and extremism on both sides, but it's pretty obvious that's not what's happening here.
01:04:31.000My take is that we should condemn violence and extremism on both sides.
01:04:35.000For six months, our cities have been on fire because of extreme left-wing anarchists, and now we had right-wing people who have shown that it can be just as crazy.
01:04:45.000But I can tell you that the people creating mayhem would have physically attacked my wife and I, and were, at the very least, disorderly and not obeying commands.
01:04:54.000Not one of them even got a traffic ticket.
01:04:56.000So, you know, let's have the same standard.
01:04:59.000Well, I mean, that is not going to be the standard.
01:06:06.000In fact, you know who was saying that at the time?
01:06:07.000Mike Pence, on the floor of the Senate.
01:06:09.000Mitch McConnell, on the floor of the Senate.
01:06:11.000Instead, it immediately went to, and also, by the way, even if you oppose the January 6th riots, and even if you opposed Donald Trump's statements about the election, even if you said voter fraud did not decide the election, even if you said all those things, unless you are willing to impeach Trump after he is already out of office, this means you are complicit in all of this.
01:06:27.000There's a deliberate attempt to create division.