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00:02:15.000Okay, so the controversy of the morning is that Dr. Anthony Fauci testified before the Senate, where he explained that if people do not pay attention to the federal guidelines, maybe they will be reopening too soon, and then there will be consequences to reopening too soon.
00:02:28.000Okay, so the controversy of the morning is that Dr. Anthony Fauci testified before the Senate where he explained that if people do not pay attention to the federal guidelines, maybe they will be reopening too soon.
00:02:38.000And then there will be consequences to reopening too soon.
00:02:40.000There were several health experts testifying before the Senate Health Committee on Tuesday morning.
00:02:46.000Pretty much everybody was doing this via internet.
00:02:48.000Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the CDC, warned the Senate Health Committee on Tuesday morning, we're not out of the woods yet.
00:02:53.000That was the day after President Trump declared, we've met the moment and we have prevailed.
00:02:56.000Dr. Redfield is one of four top health officials testifying remotely by video, three of whom in some form of self-isolation after exposure to a White House official that includes Dr. Anthony Fauci and Stephen Hahn, the FDA commissioner.
00:03:08.000When Dr. Fauci had submitted his testimony beforehand, he was expected to tell the panel there could be needless suffering and death if the country opens prematurely.
00:03:25.000He did say in his opening statement that the idea of having a treatment or vaccine available to facilitate the reentry of college students into the fall term would be a bit of a bridge too far.
00:03:35.000One of the big problems here is that nobody is posing any alternative to reopening in cautious and calculated fashion.
00:03:41.000It just seems to be this idea out there that if you just keep saying that we need to be locked down that this amounts to some sort of strategy and that obviously is not the case.
00:03:49.000Fauci said the consequences could be really serious if states skip federal guidelines in order to reopen.
00:03:54.000He said it's not just about reopening at the right time but having the capability to respond when some infections return.
00:04:00.000That is a situation you would imagine that the governors are going to be best qualified to answer.
00:04:07.000If you're a governor of a state and you know what exactly your state's medical capacity is, aren't you better qualified to say what your state's medical capacity is than the federal government?
00:04:15.000In fact, isn't the federal government getting its information on what you need from you?
00:04:20.000Andrew Cuomo was dictating to the federal government what kind of resources he needed.
00:04:35.000I think that Dr. Fauci knows more than I do about this stuff, for sure.
00:04:39.000I think that he is an expert on epidemiology, for sure.
00:04:42.000I also do not think that he is the sole repository of all risk assessment when it comes to the best public policy.
00:04:47.000And I also think that Dr. Fauci only gets blamed if there is an inordinate number of deaths.
00:04:52.000He does not get blamed if the economy is locked down.
00:04:54.000In other words, it is normal human, it is just The normal human tendency to stick within your area of expertise.
00:05:01.000In the area of epidemiology, it is true that if you want to prevent more deaths, then what you're going to do is you're going to call for extended lockdown for long periods of time until it is quote-unquote safer to go outside, until some sort of therapeutic or vaccine has been found.
00:05:14.000Realistically speaking, that is not a balancing of interests.
00:05:16.000That is just you being an expert in your field.
00:05:18.000If you asked an economist, what is the best for the economy?
00:05:20.000The economist would probably say, best for the economy?
00:05:26.000In other words, it is the job of policymakers to balance all these competing interests.
00:05:29.000Dr. Fauci isn't the only voice in the room.
00:05:31.000The media are treating him that way because he is saying the sort of stuff that they would like to hear.
00:05:35.000In other words, let's lock down for a very, very long period of time.
00:05:38.000So Dr. Fauci, for example, suggested that it might be too much to reopen campuses in September.
00:05:44.000Well, that is a risk reward calculation because, again, these are a bunch of 20 year olds.
00:05:47.00020-year-olds are not really at risk from COVID-19.
00:05:50.000The level of risk to 20-year-olds is extraordinarily minimal.
00:05:53.000And it may actually be better for the general health for a bunch of 20-year-olds to be on campus than at home hanging out with their 60-year-old parents.
00:06:00.000Dr. Fauci didn't really explain why people should not go back to campus.
00:06:04.000Well, Dr. Fauci did talk a little bit about vaccinations.
00:06:51.000Here's Anthony Fauci talking about warning against reopening.
00:06:54.000And again, nobody wants to reopen in an uncalibrated fashion.
00:06:56.000I'm just bewildered by the media's coverage that Brian Kemp is doing something deeply wrong by reopening in somewhat calibrated fashion and Ron DeSantis is doing something totally wrong.
00:07:06.000But Jared Polis in Colorado isn't doing anything wrong, and Tim Walton in Minnesota isn't doing anything wrong, and Steve Bullock in Montana isn't doing anything wrong.
00:07:13.000Why is it that when it comes to Democratic states, they can do no wrong, but when it comes to Republican states doing exactly the same thing, then all they do is wrong?
00:07:20.000Anyway, here's Dr. Fauci talking about reopening.
00:07:24.000What I've expressed then and again is my concern that if some areas, cities, states, or what have you, jump over those various checkpoints and prematurely open up without having the capability of being able to respond effectively and efficiently, my concern is that we will start to see little spikes that might turn into outbreaks.
00:07:49.000Okay, notice what he says there, because it's very important.
00:07:52.000What he says is he is afraid of overwhelming the healthcare system.
00:07:57.000What he's afraid of is that there will be a big spike and you don't have the capacity to at least test the spikes, and you don't have the capacity to handle the spikes over the healthcare system.
00:08:04.000He is not saying that we have to remain locked down until this thing is dead.
00:08:07.000And this is a major distinction, because the media are reading this as Fauci saying that we have to lock this thing down until basically the end of time, until a vaccine is developed.
00:08:15.000And it seems like the American people are taking it that way.
00:08:18.000I mean, if you read the media coverage of this, it's really intensely bad.
00:08:24.000I've been honing in on this for a while because the fact is that the media, the so-called experts in our media, are not actually properly quoting even the experts in the health field.
00:08:33.000So you get pieces like this from the New York Times.
00:08:39.000Officials are under pressure to restart the economy, but many states are moving too quickly, researchers say.
00:08:43.000The cost may be measured in lost lives.
00:08:45.000In other words, people are rushing, and now they're killing people.
00:08:50.000According to the New York Times, millions of working people and small business owners who cannot earn money while sheltering at home are facing economic ruin, so dozens of states seeking to ease the pain are coming out of lockdown.
00:08:58.000Most have not met even minimal criteria for doing so safely, and some are reopening even as coronavirus cases rise, inviting disaster.
00:09:05.000The much-feared second wave of infection may not wait until fall, many scientists say, and instead may become a storm of wavelets breaking unpredictably across the country.
00:09:12.000The reopenings will proceed nonetheless.
00:09:14.000The question now, scientists say, is whether the nation can minimize the damage by intelligently adopting new tactics.
00:09:20.000Evidence is mounting that masks are far more effective at stopping transmission than previously realized.
00:09:24.000And remember, these same experts two months ago were telling us, don't wear a mask.
00:09:28.000Across the nation, testing remains wholly inadequate, but home use nasal swabs and saliva tests are on the way that may provide a clearer picture of where the virus is.
00:09:35.000Americans are lining up for antibody tests that may reveal who has some immunity.
00:09:38.000Early surveys suggest more Americans may carry antibodies than initially thought.
00:09:41.000Employers are moving to design safer workplaces.
00:09:44.000But while it may still be possible to blunt the impact of reopenings, the nation is finding even this goal difficult.
00:09:49.000And then they talk about how people are not staying six feet apart and there may be silent carriers of the virus.
00:09:55.000And they talk about how some epidemiological models are worrying about the possibility of an outbreak.
00:10:01.000But again, the point here is not that the number of cases is going to go up.
00:10:05.000Everybody knows the number of cases is going to go up.
00:10:07.000The question is whether it overwhelms the health care system.
00:10:09.000And I feel like I'm repeating myself here, but that's because the media refused to get the message.
00:10:13.000And so you end up with people like Chris Cuomo saying idiotic things on national TV nearly every night.
00:10:19.000Chris Cuomo gets out there and he says, we don't have the testing and tracing in place in order to stop the virus.
00:10:25.000Chris Cuomo said, none of the states that have reopened, none, has the capacity to test and trace the way they need to.
00:10:31.000Okay, first of all, I think that the guy who violated his own quarantine rules so that he could go visit his second house, that guy probably is not your best source on this.
00:10:39.000The guy who gives SOP interviews to his brother, who was involved in some of the worst policy planning for the coronavirus of anybody in America.
00:10:46.000Probably he's not a great source, but beyond that, beyond the fact that Chris Cuomo isn't a great source, what does it mean?
00:10:50.000Has the capacity to test and trace the way they need to?
00:10:53.000I would love to hear him describe exactly what a test and trace regimen looks like that is sufficient for reopening.
00:10:59.000And the answer is that nobody is providing any of that.
00:11:01.000Instead, there's always safe to be found in saying, we're not ready yet.
00:11:05.000Saying we're not ready yet, it's, look, there are inherent risks in opening up.
00:11:10.000But the question is, when are those risks well calibrated?
00:11:14.000And when are you willing to take the risks?
00:11:15.000Because it turns out that there are risks to inaction as well.
00:11:19.000So take a war analogy, which apparently people like doing these days, trying to compare the virus to a war.
00:11:23.000Back during the Civil War, President Lincoln had a general named George McClellan.
00:11:26.000George McClellan was, he liked to style himself as little Napoleon.
00:11:31.000And he was this kind of short dude who was very, very good at providing military training to his troops, but extraordinarily, extraordinarily reticent in using his troops to break the back of the Confederacy.
00:11:44.000And President Lincoln became increasingly agitated with McClellan.
00:11:47.000And eventually, he ended up firing McClellan.
00:11:49.000This actually caused enough of a controversy that in 1864, George McClellan actually ran against Abraham Lincoln for the presidency.
00:11:55.000But George McClellan, who was, again, this supposed great warrior, was really, really reticent to use his army.
00:12:02.000And so eventually, Lincoln fired him, and he put in place generals who were willing to use the army, people like Grant, and people like Sherman.
00:12:08.000That came with additional risks to troops, no question.
00:12:11.000But also, it turns out that it was kind of important to win the Civil War.
00:12:13.000Now, again, this isn't a war and we're trying to preserve as many lives as humanly possible.
00:12:18.000But it is also true that if we all cower behind the lockdown mentality without doing the capable calculation of risks, The safest thing to do is never to fight a battle.
00:12:27.000The safest thing to do is never to come out of lockdown, presumably.
00:12:30.000But it is not the safest thing in terms of having a functioning economy and having a free America and having a functioning and prosperous nation.
00:12:39.000And by the way, in terms of saving lives on the other end, from suicide and drug overdose and from deaths of despair and from the complete collapse of the American way of life.
00:12:47.000So unless somebody's providing like an absolute metric and an explanation for those metrics, I don't want to hear vague terms like the testing and tracing are simply not up to snuff from Chris Cuomo.
00:12:58.000He doesn't know more than I do about this.
00:13:00.000And if I'm going to hear from an expert, I want to hear why the testing and tracing needs to be at a certain stage and what exactly those stages look like.
00:13:06.000Because if you listen to Mike DeWine, he's reopening before they have hit the 14-day consistent downturn in diagnosed cases in Ohio.
00:13:12.000But he says our testing and tracing has now been ramped up so that we're okay and our resources are okay.
00:13:16.000I trust Mike DeWine on that more than I trust Chris Cuomo, and frankly, more than I trust Anthony Fauci, because guess who's going to bear the brunt of the fallout if that thing goes wrong?
00:13:23.000It's going to be Mike DeWine, not Anthony Fauci.
00:13:26.000In a second, we're going to get to some theories of reopening and what that would look like.
00:13:30.000And I also want to talk about the effect of bad media coverage, because there's a poll number today that just demonstrates the wild disconnect that has been created in the American mind between what is rational to expect and what is irrational to expect at this point.
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00:14:51.000Okay, so when I say the media coverage leads to some pretty egregious public relations results and expectations that simply do not meet with reality, here's an example.
00:15:13.000But if what you mean by normal life is like going back to work and you're waiting for a vaccine, there is the significant possibility that a vaccine will appear never.
00:15:21.000That there will not be a successful vaccine for this thing.
00:15:24.000In fact, there are new reports out today, the NIH is suggesting it might need more than one round of vaccine.
00:15:31.000And now Americans are also fibbing about this.
00:15:33.000So 68% of Americans are saying they need a vaccine before they return to normal life.
00:15:37.000But Gallup is finding that more people now say they're going to visit others in their homes.
00:15:42.00016% of Americans reported they visited somebody else's home or apartment in the last 24 hours alone, which is an uptick since March.
00:15:49.000The avoidance of small gatherings has decreased mostly among independents and Republicans.
00:15:52.000It's down 10 percentage points among independents and down 7 percentage points among Republicans.
00:15:58.000Which, by the way, I mean, that's a bigger change among independents than among Republicans.
00:16:01.000So for all the talk about partisanship, the reality is that most Americans are just not willing to continue to avoid other human beings because this is not natural to human beings.
00:16:09.000Normally, I've talked about this before, but normally in times of crisis, you go and you seek out other human beings for commonality.
00:16:14.000You find other people you can find solidarity in.
00:16:16.000During 9-11, people sought out crowds to be in.
00:16:19.000Because not only does there feel like inherent safety in numbers, also we're all grieving together and mourning together.
00:16:24.000This is really, really difficult because you're being told that the only way to prevent further tragedy is basically to stay away from other human beings as far as possible, which is really deeply unnatural.
00:16:59.000Physical activities, like running, swimming, and surfing, will be allowed.
00:17:02.000Sedentary activity, like sunbathing and picnicking, will be prohibited.
00:17:05.000I don't even know what the hell that means.
00:17:07.000Like, seriously, I don't know what that means.
00:17:09.000Have these people ever been to a beach?
00:17:10.000What do they think people do on a beach?
00:17:12.000Like, if my kids go into the water and then they get out of the water, do they think that my kids are going to run straight from the car into the water and then straight back into my car?
00:17:27.000Masks or face coverings must be worn unless you're in the water, which makes perfectly zero sense when you are more than six feet away from people.
00:17:35.000Again, the media are so irresponsible about this stuff.
00:17:36.000So they were making a big deal yesterday in the media about the fact that over at the White House, people were supposed to be wearing masks.
00:17:43.000And so the members of the media were all wearing masks, but they were also socially distancing, which again, this is like wearing a mask in your own car when you're by yourself.
00:18:03.000And the American people are taking in the bad information, and they are also mis-evaluating their own risk because of this, and mis-evaluating the likelihood of a vaccine arriving any time in the near future.
00:18:13.000According to Bloomberg, several vaccines will likely be needed to combat the coronavirus and immunize groups of people in America and abroad, according to the U.S.
00:18:19.000National Institute of Health Director Francis Collins.
00:18:22.000Collins is a physician and geneticist who leads the agency overseeing the U.S.
00:18:27.000He said, "My expectation is, and I'm a bit of an optimist, we don't find out there's only one of these vaccines that work, but rather two or three of them come through the trials looking as though they're safe and effective.
00:18:34.000They'll have somewhat different characteristics of where they work best, so we might need to do some matching then of which vaccine goes to which particular population." So according to Collins, the plan, which is a very optimistic one, is to begin to have doses this fall, first with 10 million, then maybe 100 million by late fall, maybe 300 million by January.
00:18:51.000But is that a realistic assessment of the situation?
00:19:01.000And if it is, then you better give me a damn guarantee that there's going to be a vaccine by January because you're talking about destroying the entire world economy.
00:19:07.000Like literally the entire world economy not existing by January.
00:19:11.000Every small business in America is already going under.
00:19:14.000In fact, people are getting so desperate for speeding up a vaccine that scientists are debating whether to try a so-called human challenge trial.
00:19:21.000Normally, you give somebody a vaccine and then you wait for somebody to sort of naturally acquire the disease to see if the vaccine worked.
00:19:26.000Now what they're talking about is we give you the vaccine and then we deliberately infect you with coronavirus to see if the vaccine works.
00:19:31.000And there's some scientists who are suggesting that maybe we need to do this in order to speed everything up.
00:19:37.000Okay, there's another possibility here, and that possibility is That we need to tranche populations.
00:19:42.000Again, the fact that we are treating all populations as equally susceptible to death, that we are treating all populations as equally susceptible to having severe health problems from COVID-19 is just foolishness.
00:19:53.000Now, again, there will be some people who are young who get very sick from this.
00:19:57.000Statistical probability does not mean that people who are on the wrong side of the statistical probability aren't affected.
00:20:04.000If 2 in 1, if 2 in 10,000 people die from COVID-19, that means that 9,998 people don't die from COVID-19, but it means that 2 people do, right?
00:20:11.000So, I mean, if somebody, you'll hear anecdotal evidence, and this is one of the, again, my bugaboos in the media, they will say things like, it's true that people above the age of 80 are dying en masse from this thing, and it's really dangerous for those above 80, but People who are 30 are dying too.
00:20:32.000Over in the Irish Times, Andrew Oswald is a professor of economics and behavioral science at University of Warwick.
00:20:39.000And he says that his strategy would be allow the young people to restart their lives and the economy.
00:20:45.000He says the young are far, far safer than older people.
00:20:47.000This is because for biological reasons, young humans have a much stronger immune response to almost all viral attacks on the body, including to a COVID-19 attack.
00:20:53.000And we forced our youth inside as though they were at serious risk, like the old, when they're not.
00:20:57.000In the UK, the fatality rate among those in their early 20s, for example, is 2 in 10,000.
00:21:02.000Among those aged in their 60s, it's 80 times that.
00:21:06.000Or if you told young people, okay, here's the deal.
00:21:08.000Older people are highly likely to be damaged by this, as in like 160 out of every 10,000 people who are above the age of 60 are going to die of this.
00:21:49.000How many people would actually pick the marble?
00:21:52.000The vast majority of young people would pick the marble.
00:21:54.000If you're older, you probably would not pick the marble, because again, the odds are better that you're gonna pick the wrong marble, and if it's the black marble, then you die, right?
00:22:01.000That is the actual statistical calculation.
00:22:03.000It is an amazing thing that so many members of the media are unwilling to give people the tranched information on health risks here.
00:22:10.000And I just don't understand why, when Anthony Fauci testifies, when Dr. Birx testifies, when they do this sort of stuff, the first thing they don't say is, let me explain the risk factors for each particular population.
00:22:22.000Why is that not like the first thing that we talk about?
00:22:24.000And the answer is because, in some ways, the vagueness, the miasmatic sense that we are all equally at risk, that is the largest factor stumping for the lockdowns.
00:22:33.000The largest factor stumping for the lockdowns is this belief that you or your friends are equally likely to die as an 80-year-old, or if you're less likely to die, it's only marginally so, not exponentially so.
00:22:48.000According to this piece in the Irish Times, the key advantages of a rolling age release strategy, which would begin with youngest adult age groups and then work gradually up the age range, are it recognizes we cannot wait indefinitely to reopen the economy.
00:22:58.000It's fair because it targets and helps the group currently hit hardest financially because we'll actually pay people to stay home if you're older.
00:23:04.000It is the safest way to have an exit strategy until a vaccine is available.
00:23:09.000By the way, it is also true that the jobs most likely to require you to be there are probably the jobs that are most likely to need young bodies.
00:23:17.000In other words, if you are 60 and you are working, there's a good chance that you're working on your computer and that you're not in manual labor because you're 60, right?
00:23:24.000The reality is that if you are in a physical labor-intensive industry, it is highly likely that you are disproportionately young because younger people are capable of lifting heavier objects.
00:23:32.000They're capable of driving longer hours.
00:23:33.000They're capable of driving trucks for longer, right?
00:23:36.000This columnist suggests the young are going to be the most troublesome and the hardest to keep inside anyway.
00:23:40.000Like, this policy is geared towards something that looks like reality.
00:23:50.000As I've said before, vagary is the enemy of obedience.
00:23:54.000If you are vague about your rules, people are not going to obey them.
00:23:56.000If you are pretty specific about your rules and what you expect people to do, people at least know what to expect.
00:24:00.000And if they know what to expect, then they can obey the rules.
00:24:02.000But this idea that we're just going to hold out indefinitely and we'll kind of let you know when it's kind of safe, but then we'll rip you if it's not safe, none of that is effective.
00:24:10.000In just a second, we'll get to what would be effective policymaking.
00:24:14.000Beyond simply tranching out young populations, namely protecting the nursing homes as I've been talking about.
00:24:18.000First, let's talk about the fact that if you are a male, there's a good shot that you will start losing your hair by the time you are 35 years old.
00:24:25.000Male pattern baldness does run in my family.
00:24:28.000It's one of the reasons that I have been using keeps.
00:24:29.000Two out of three dudes are going to experience some form of male pattern baldness by the time they are 35.
00:24:33.000The best way to prevent hair loss is to do something about it while you still have hair on your head.
00:24:37.000You used to have to go to a doctor's office for your hair loss prescription.
00:24:40.000Now, thanks to Keeps, you can visit a doctor online and get hair loss medication delivered directly to your home.
00:25:28.000Save your hair now because you ain't going to be able to save it later.
00:25:30.000Meanwhile, as I say, one of the keys to actually crafting an effective policy here would be protecting the nursing homes, which is, of course, exactly what so many failed to do.
00:25:41.000And the fact is that if you look at the population in nursing homes, a good piece by Chris Pope at cityjournal.org, looking at the effect of nursing homes, it basically says, in 2016, nursing homes housed 1.3 million Americans, 39% aged 85 or over, 800,000 more lived in assisted living facilities, over 2 million Americans living in nursing homes or assisted living as of 2016.
00:26:03.000Nursing home residents are extremely vulnerable to coronavirus due to multiple comorbidities.
00:26:07.00072% have hypertension, 38% heart disease, 32% diabetes.
00:26:11.000Even under normal circumstances, this population faces disproportionately high mortality risks.
00:26:16.000In 2016, nursing home residents made up 0.4% of the U.S.
00:27:37.000We've doubled the amount of testing in the last week.
00:27:40.000We're going to double it again in the next week.
00:27:42.000We're able to go after every single first responder, everybody in our nursing homes.
00:27:48.000We're testing the door to the electric boat factories.
00:27:52.000Everybody going in and out knows that they've been tested and safe.
00:27:56.000So, this is all... May 20th was oriented around making sure we have the protective gear in place, we have the testing in place, and the track and trace.
00:29:10.000So the Trump administration has been ripped up and down.
00:29:12.000The Trump administration got people their ventilators.
00:29:14.000The Trump administration gave governors what they need.
00:29:16.000I will say that it is a dereliction of political duty for the Trump campaign not to have cut an ad just showing Democrats over and over and over again saying, we got what we needed from the White House.
00:29:27.000Every single major Democrat has said this.
00:29:29.000The governor of California has said it.
00:29:31.000The governor of New Jersey has said it.
00:29:32.000Every major governor in every blue state has said when we asked the federal government for something, we got what we needed.
00:29:39.000How the Trump campaign has not put out a video just demonstrating the gap between the media coverage and what the governors are saying is absolutely beyond me.
00:29:52.000But Jared Kushner yesterday, he is correct.
00:29:54.000He said, if you needed a ventilator, you got one.
00:29:55.000Remember when Jared Kushner was ripped up and down for suggesting that maybe people were exaggerating the number of ventilators that they needed?
00:30:00.000Remember he suggested, by the way, we're a backup system and states should actually primarily be looking for ventilators on their own, but we're here to help.
00:30:12.000In fact, now we're talking about a surplus in this country of tens of thousands of ventilators because all the media could shout about for months on end was the need for ventilators, which by the way, are about 10% effective once you're in the ICU.
00:30:34.000The goal here was just to make sure that we can get all the resources we needed to the front line to make sure the people who were in danger from the virus got what they needed.
00:30:42.000And thankfully, in New York and throughout the country, anyone who needed a ventilator got a ventilator, and we've been able to bring good results to the country.
00:30:52.000But the media have an agenda, and the agenda is Trump is evil and Trump is wrong.
00:30:55.000So yesterday, President Trump talked about meeting the moment.
00:30:58.000He said, we've met the moment, we've prevailed.
00:31:00.000Okay, well, again, I would have been very hesitant on a political level ever to declare victory in the middle of a pandemic, right?
00:31:05.000That's just not something that you want to do.
00:31:07.000And I don't think Trump was fully doing that, but that's certainly how the media covered it, because they were always going to cover it that way.
00:31:12.000But when President Trump says that we gave people what they needed, he is right.
00:32:01.000There are plenty of times when Trump says stuff where I'll criticize him and I'll say, that was incredibly dumb.
00:32:04.000He certainly should not have said that.
00:32:05.000There are times when he'll say something that's vulgar and vile.
00:32:07.000He certainly shouldn't have said that.
00:32:09.000Today, President Trump is on Twitter and he's talking about Joe Scarborough being a murderer or something idiotic and ridiculous like that.
00:32:45.000There are health reporters at various outlets that are actually doing a good job.
00:32:48.000And then there's the political media, and the political media absolutely suck.
00:32:52.000The people who are the White House reporters, they are just garbage.
00:32:54.000The people who are on TV, and all they are interested in doing is getting their momentary clip, that moment of fame where they took on the president like Sam Donaldson in the old days, or Dan Rather in the old days, standing up and lecturing Ronald Reagan.
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00:36:59.000Those seem like those would be more relevant considerations.
00:37:01.000So how about you get your economic team up there and your health team up there and you have the economic and health teams from the newspapers ask the questions?
00:37:09.000Because these people are asking the dumbest questions ever.
00:37:11.000I mean, seriously, I've interviewed a lot of the same people who are being brought up to these press conferences, right?
00:37:20.000I've interviewed like a bevy of public health experts.
00:37:23.000And if you actually watch the interviews on the Sunday specials or listen to them, what you'll hear is me asking extremely specific questions about what is the nature of the testing?
00:37:32.000What level of prevalence do they have to have?
00:37:35.000What is the herd immunity that we need to reach?
00:37:38.000These are the questions that we need to know.
00:37:40.000What is the timeline for the rollout of vaccines?
00:37:42.000Those are the questions we need to know.
00:37:43.000Instead, we get this kind of posturing bull bleep Why is this a global competition to you if every day Americans are still losing their lives and we're still seeing more cases every day?
00:38:08.000OK, before we get to Trump's answer, that question is so bad and so ridiculous and so stupid.
00:38:13.000The reason it's bad and stupid and ridiculous is because Trump, before this, he claims that the United States is now testing more than any other country.
00:38:27.000Why is he comparing how we're doing to other countries?
00:38:30.000Because you guys keep saying that we are lagging based on other countries.
00:38:34.000And so he has been responding to that.
00:38:36.000So her question is, why do you keep comparing us to other countries when Americans are dying?
00:38:39.000Because it's sort of relevant to determine our success levels in testing to compare us to other countries.
00:38:45.000Because our test levels are never going to be sufficient to meet 50 million a day.
00:38:50.000So it seems more reasonable to compare us to how are other countries who are successful doing.
00:38:54.000It's a perfectly reasonable, it's a dumbass question and a perfectly reasonable thing for the President of the United States to compare how we're doing to other countries.
00:40:12.000She's of Chinese extraction, is my understanding.
00:40:14.000So, if no one knew that she was of Asian extraction or Chinese extraction before she removed the mask, then it's not racist for him to say it.
00:40:21.000By the way, it's not racist for him to say it anyway.
00:40:23.000He's been saying for months, ask China about the levels of death.
00:40:54.000But then she's like, why are you asking me that?
00:40:55.000Are you saying that because I'm Chinese?
00:41:00.000Okay, this is the most garbage, stupid form of media.
00:41:02.000Naturally, the entire media jump on this.
00:41:04.000So Brian Stelter, just journalism-ing up the wazoo, right?
00:41:07.000Media watchdog Brian Stelter, he says, this is rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I think what we saw in that exchange with Wei Zhejiang is something that has racial overtones.
00:41:23.000It is racist to look at an Asian-American White House correspondent and say, ask China.
00:41:31.000This is part of a pattern of behavior from the president that goes back many years.
00:41:34.000So he doesn't have the benefit of the doubt that someone might have if, for the first time ever in their life, they made a comment like that to a reporter.
00:41:43.000That wasn't the first time in his life he made that comment.
00:41:45.000He talks about China at every single press conference.
00:41:48.000Didn't we have a controversy like a month and a half ago where he kept calling it the Chinese virus?
00:42:26.000What great journalism in our media does.
00:42:29.000First, they tell us that we can't leave our houses without a vaccine.
00:42:32.000Then they refuse to give us statistics on the seroprevalence test so we know what the actual risk factors are by population.
00:42:36.000Then they suggest that everybody who's a Republican governor is bad, even if Democratic governors are doing the exact same thing.
00:42:41.000And then they suggest that if President Trump tells a reporter to ask China about deaths abroad, that that's because the reporter is Chinese.
00:42:49.000What the hell is wrong with these people?
00:42:50.000And then you wonder why American trust in the media is at an all-time low?
00:43:21.000I mean, whether or not you, you know, like the president or not, whether you enjoy his public affect or not on a regular basis, it's clear that there's something wrong.
00:43:36.000I'm old enough to remember when the media used to ask questions that were not entirely geared toward, Mr. Trump, you're very bad, orange, and large.
00:43:55.000Okay, meanwhile, the same media who are asking serious questions of Trump, like, why are you so mean, bad, and orange, refuse to ask any serious questions of anyone inside the Obama team about what they are now calling Obamagate.
00:44:05.000So, President Trump, yesterday, was asked about what Obama did, because he used the term Obamagate on Twitter.
00:44:10.000And he says, listen, everybody knows what Obama did, right?
00:44:28.000It's been going on from before I even got elected, and it's a disgrace that it happened.
00:44:33.000And if you look at what's gone on, and if you look at now, all of this information that's being released, and from what I understand, that's only the beginning.
00:44:41.000What is the crime exactly that you're accusing him of?
00:45:13.000And Joe Biden was specifically asked about whether he was in the loop on all the Mike Flynn stuff.
00:45:21.000And he says, no, I never knew about any of the Mike Flynn stuff.
00:45:23.000We know he was in an Oval Office meeting where Barack Obama specifically asked Sally Yates to her surprise about how things were going with all the Michael Flynn stuff.
00:45:32.000Here he was basically pretending he was not in the loop.
00:45:33.000This is an untrue statement from Joe Biden.
00:45:36.000And good for Stephanopoulos for asking it.
00:45:39.000I know nothing about those moves to investigate Michael Flynn, number one.
00:45:42.000Number two, this is all about diversion.
00:45:45.000You say you didn't know anything about it, but you were reported to be at a January 5th, 2017 meeting where you and the president were briefed on the FBI's plan to question Michael Flynn over those conversations he had with the Russian ambassador, Kislyak.
00:46:02.000No, I thought you asked me whether or not I had anything to do with him being prosecuted.
00:46:19.000Okay, well, it seems like it's kind of asking for an investigation when you know more than the DOJ, the acting director of the DOJ, Sally Gates, and that you bring it up in front of Sally Gates and James Comey.
00:46:33.000And serious questions should be asked here because Barack Obama goes out and he says things like the Trump administration is undermining the rule of law and then you get this posturing letter from 2,000 DOJ officials, what we call low-level DOJ officials, calling for Bill Barr's resignation.
00:46:51.000He was charged with lying to the FBI in the course of an investigation, which is a separate and far lesser offense, particularly given the fact that his alleged lie was immaterial to any underlying crime, which is something the FBI basically acknowledges at this point.
00:47:02.000In fact, as Americans have found out over the past couple of weeks, Flynn wasn't supposed to be the subject of any investigation at all.
00:47:08.000The FBI had decided to close an investigation into Flynn January 2017, maybe January 4th, 2017, even after the supposedly nefarious calls between Flynn and the Russian ambassador, Sergei Kislyak.
00:47:18.000In fact, the FBI had the transcripts of the calls.
00:47:21.000They knew that nothing inappropriate was said on the calls.
00:47:22.000That's when disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok, that's the same guy who pledged his lover, Lisa Page, that there would be an insurance policy against Trump, intervened and suggested that the investigation be kept open.
00:47:33.000The very next day, during an Oval Office meeting, President Obama himself asked the FBI Director James Comey about the Flynn-Kislyak communications.
00:47:59.000Or to get him to lie so we can prosecute him and get him fired?
00:48:02.000Flynn would later plead guilty to one count of lying to the FBI, at least in part because the FBI was threatening his son with prosecution.
00:48:07.000In other words, he took the plea deal because he didn't want his son to go to jail.
00:48:12.000And members of the Obama administration should be under the gun for it.
00:48:15.000Because the reality is that they perverted the rules of law in order to confirm what they thought was happening.
00:48:21.000Now, best case scenario here is that they were convinced that there was something nefarious going on inside the Trump campaign, and they were basically winking and nodding at the Carter Page FISA warrant and at the attempt to bend the rule of law regarding Michael Flynn.
00:48:33.000The more sinister idea is that they really knew there was nothing there with Trump and Russia, but they were willing to sort of create the impression that there was by really exaggerating.
00:48:43.000Now, I always tend to attribute to stupidity things rather than malice, right?
00:48:46.000If I'm given the choice between malice and stupidity, I always go with stupidity, but At a certain point, the stupidity becomes malicious.
00:48:54.000Once you're bending the rules in order to confirm your priors about an evidence-less charge that the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia, and you're bending the rules, that does undermine faith in law enforcement.
00:49:04.000And the fact that the Democrats are suggesting that Bill Barr is the problem here is truly an astonishing, astonishing development.
00:49:09.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:49:12.000All right, so let's talk about local policy because it is truly insane what local policy has wrought.
00:49:22.000As I mentioned, I have two good friends who, in the course of the last 48 hours, have been the victims of crime in Los Angeles.
00:49:28.000Nobody will be caught, nobody will be prosecuted.
00:49:29.000The police have basically told them that, you know, we don't even have bail anymore here.
00:49:33.000So, if we jail these people, they'll be out on the streets within 24 hours.
00:49:40.000County Sheriff released video yesterday of inmates infecting themselves in jail, trying to infect themselves in jail with COVID-19 so they could achieve release.
00:49:49.000They thought it would force their release.
00:49:53.000County Sheriff, inmates at a jail in Castaic were sharing a water bottle, then rubbing the same mask on their faces to purposely infect themselves with COVID-19 because they understand that the easy way out of jail is to get COVID-19.
00:50:07.000And so they're looking for release so they can go out and be criminals again because of the stupidity of the policy that suggests, well, you know, they're criminals, so I probably should just let them out of here.
00:50:15.000Just genius stuff from our local government.
00:50:19.000If you go to the beach and you are six feet away from somebody else, but you're not wearing a mask, then presumably they will arrest you or fine you.
00:50:26.000If you are in jail because you committed some sort of serious crime, you just broke into somebody's house, Then you will be released even if you don't have COVID-19 because we can't have bail right now.
00:50:39.000You explain to me how a law-abiding citizen doing something reasonable like being at a beach 10 feet away from somebody else and not wearing a mask, which is perfectly reasonable, how that is more of a problem than actual criminals in Los Angeles being criminals and then basically being let off by the cops.
00:50:54.000At the behest of the political actors, by the way, if you think the cops want to let these criminals off, you're dead wrong.
00:50:59.000The cops do not want to do any of that.
00:51:17.000Bedbug infestations, for example, was a big issue in New York a couple of years ago.
00:51:20.000They are bedbugs for, they are hotspots for infection and epidemics.
00:51:24.000And so there have been a lot of expectations that people are going to move out of big cities now, which, by the way, would be good for the country.
00:51:29.000It'd be good for the country if these cities would become a little bit less centralized.
00:51:32.000But New York, obviously, the New York Times wants to save New York.
00:51:36.000Their suggestion on how to save New York, it's truly incredible.
00:51:38.000They say the biggest problem is that in New York, there are some areas that are nice and some areas that are not nice.
00:51:44.000They say this pandemic has prompted some affluent Americans to wonder whether cities are broken for them.
00:51:48.000It has suspended the charms of urban life while accentuating the risks, reviving a hoary American tradition of regarding cities with fear and loathing as such pools of disease, an image that all too easily aligns with prejudices about poverty and race and crime.
00:51:59.000So if you're worried that New York has a lot of disease, it's because you're a racist now.
00:52:03.000It's not because New York City actually has tons of disease and is the epicenter of this epidemic, like literally on planet Earth.
00:52:08.000No, the real problem here is that you're a racist if you're worried about levels of disease in New York and you're thinking about moving out of town.
00:52:14.000Even New York's governor, Andrew Cuomo, has described New York City's density as responsible for its suffering.
00:52:26.000They say the problem is that the crisis has prompted a flurry of fantasies about abandoning cities altogether, rooted in the idea that we'd all be a little better off at least a little further apart.
00:52:34.000Social distancing is the salvation of society.
00:52:38.000Our cities are broken because affluent Americans have been segregating themselves from the poor, and our best hope for building a fairer, stronger nation is to break down these barriers.
00:52:46.000So, in other words, because there are places of differential spread in New York City, the best thing to do would be to have a uniform spread inside New York City.
00:52:53.000And that way, everybody feels like they are in the same boat.
00:52:56.000How that solves an epidemic spread is beyond me.
00:52:57.000I'm not sure why that would actually solve the problem.
00:53:00.000But they say that the big problem in New York is of course that there is basically de facto self-segregation in New York City by housing price, that if you live on Fifth Avenue, that's not the same thing as living in Crown Heights, which obviously is true.
00:53:16.000How do they solve the problem of New York City?
00:53:18.000The problem of New York City is not solved by For example, ensuring that every student has the ability to go to a good school.
00:53:26.000The problem of New York City is solved by forcing the building of affordable housing in the richest areas of the city.
00:53:34.000Which is a genius idea that was tried in Detroit and completely wrecked the city of Detroit because everybody who had the money then left.
00:53:39.000Because it turns out that people don't actually want to live next to an affordable housing area where perhaps there are higher levels of crime or drug use, for example.
00:53:48.000This is not to suggest that all the poor people in New York City are engaged in crime or drug use.
00:53:52.000It is to suggest that areas that have high crime and high drug use Also happen to be very poverty stricken.
00:53:57.000And if you take entire tenements and you move them from one area into another area, that will increase the life quality of people who have moved from the poor area into the richer area.
00:54:06.000But it also means that some of the people who are living in the poor area who were some of the criminals, right?
00:54:12.000Some of those criminals will be moving along with you, presumably.
00:54:15.000And it turns out that people don't really want to do that or living in those areas.
00:54:18.000The reason they're living in the higher income areas is because they would like to live in the higher income areas.
00:54:24.000By the way, also affordable housing, how are you going to incentivize that?
00:54:27.000When New York City tried this with rent control, they basically destroyed the capacity to build housing in New York City.
00:54:33.000According to the New York Times, Yet, we can use this crisis as basically the idea.
00:54:59.000The haves depend on each other, the rich need labor, the poor need capital, and the city needs both.
00:55:04.000Building more diverse neighborhoods, disconnecting public institutions from private wealth, will ultimately enrich the lives of all Americans.
00:55:11.000If you're worried about Americans in New York City buying second homes and leaving the city, definitely what you should probably do is pick up a, you should probably put public housing to, like a, like a, an actual Publicly built housing.
00:55:24.000You should probably put national housing, essentially.
00:55:28.000You should put tenements directly next to those Fifth Avenue walk-ups.
00:55:45.000The New York Times, never failing to astonish.
00:55:46.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I like.
00:55:48.000So, I had the opportunity to read a novel over the weekend.
00:55:52.000It's a novel about free birth of Israel, Israel.
00:55:56.000It's about the lead up to the declaration of the independence of the state of Israel.
00:55:59.000It takes place in the period 1937 to 1939, and it's about the Jewish settlers who are moving from Europe into the land of Israel, about the British mandate that was very pro-Arab and very anti-Jewish.
00:56:14.000It was about the shutdown of immigration from Europe into British Mandate Palestine.
00:57:21.000New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is blaming Europe for the coronavirus, even as evidence mounts that China knew about the virus, covered it up, destroyed the world economy, and killed lots of people.
00:57:30.000But American leftists keep defending the Chinese Communist Party because no less than their whole political program rides on it.
00:57:36.000Then, a New York Times writer wants you to pay for raising her own children.
00:57:41.000A judge issues a major ruling on transgenderism before the case even begins.
00:57:45.000And Slate Magazine comes up with a new term for monogamy.