It turns out, we were right all along about the ban of Donald Trump. The oversight board was made up of a bunch of people who don't even live in the United States. And yet, they agreed that the company was correct in their decision to ban Trump. What does that mean for the future of free speech on social media? And what does it mean for our economy and the economy in general? Today's show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. To secure your internet access, thousands of listeners have already secured their internet connections, join them at Express VPN.org/secureinternet and secure their internet access today. You can get a FREE information kit on Precious Metals IRA, or to speak with a Birchgold representative today. Text "BZ" to 474747 and get 20% off your first month with discount code "preciousmetals" at checkout! If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and become a supporter of the show! Subscribe to the show and receive immediate access to all the latest episodes of The Ben Shapiro Show wherever you get your eardrums are listening to the newest episodes. You'll get access to the latest and greatest shows and the most up-to-date news and information, including the newest podcasts on the most popular podcasts, social medias, blogs, and everything else going on in the world. Ben Shapiro's newest podcast, wherever you listen to the most of the things going on around the internet. It's the most authentic, the best source for everything you can get the most information about the world's most authentic and the truth and culture, including blogs and everything you need to know about the most stuff going on anywhere and everywhere you're going to get the freshest and most authentic anywhere and anywhere you can find it anywhere, including your most authentic source of it, no matter what you're listening to it anywhere and everything that's going to be the most amazing thing, including everything you'll get it on it. . Links mentioned in the show is: This is The Daily Mail, The Financial Times, The Huffington Post, The Economist, The Independent, The New York Times, and more! The Independent Journalist, The Hill, The Daily Beast, The Atlantic, The Telegraph, The Sun, The Wall Street Journal, The Globe and much more. The Root, the Independent, and The Independent The Atlantic and more
00:00:00.000The Facebook Oversight Board says that the company was right to ban President Trump, war breaks out inside the House GOP over Liz Cheney, and the Democratic Party continues to promote economic, immigration, and COVID idiocy.
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00:01:35.000Alrighty, so the big news today is that Facebook has decided, hey, yeah, it turns out that when we banned Trump on January 6th, we were right.
00:01:45.000Facebook, last year, set up what they called their Facebook Oversight Board.
00:01:49.000And the Facebook Oversight Board was supposed to be this sort of outside independent group that Facebook did not control, that was supposed to make decisions.
00:01:56.000It was sort of like an appellate court, that if somebody appealed a decision made by Facebook, it's either it's algorithms or it's employees, that you could appeal to this Facebook court, and the Facebook court would make a decision as to whether that person should have been suspended or banned or something.
00:02:09.000And the constituency of the court was already weird, right?
00:02:11.000The Oversight Board was already strange because it included a bunch of Various sort of advocates from a variety of countries, which, first of all, doesn't make any sense because the United States has the most open free speech standards on planet Earth.
00:02:25.000We are more pro-free speech in the United States than they are in Canada or than they are in the UK, certainly in the rest of Europe.
00:02:31.000And yet, the Oversight Board was made up of a bunch of people who don't even live in America.
00:02:34.000There is like one third of the board was made up of Americans and the other two thirds were people who are not American.
00:02:39.000Then it was made up of a bunch of people who are politically active.
00:02:44.000There were like a couple of people who were on the Facebook oversight board who could theoretically be considered conservative, and then the rest were not.
00:02:51.000So they created basically an oversight board that was supposed to act as what sounded more like a PR agency for Facebook.
00:02:59.000It would relieve Facebook of the responsibility.
00:03:01.000They could always just say, listen, it wasn't us.
00:03:03.000It was this independent body over here who decided that we were right or wrong to do what we did.
00:03:07.000And the truth is that Facebook has always sort of wanted to do this.
00:03:10.000This is why Facebook has said, we'd rather that you guys regulate us in government than that we regulate ourselves because they don't want the responsibility for this.
00:03:18.000There's never been any clear standard applied either by Facebook within or by any party without.
00:03:23.000So they've been searching for some way to shift responsibility from the decision makers at Facebook to some other body so they can just go about their business and do the social media-ing and not have to worry about what standards of free speech ought to apply or ought not to apply.
00:03:37.000Now, that is a shift in Facebook's perspective from the past.
00:03:40.000If you go back to 2010, if you go back to 2014, Mark Zuckerberg used to make statements routinely about how the goal here was to allow more speech, not less.
00:03:49.000In 2019, he gave an excellent speech at Georgetown University in which he said the messiness of free speech is part and parcel of the right of free speech.
00:03:56.000And we can either have a less messy First Amendment and more tyranny, or we can have a more messy First Amendment and less tyranny, which is exactly correct.
00:04:05.000His standards on free speech sounded very much like the normal constitutional standards of free speech.
00:04:31.000They were looking for an excuse as to why Hillary Clinton had lost the 2016 election.
00:04:35.000And the excuse they came up with was not that she was the world's crappiest candidate, awful, ran a terrible campaign, and nobody liked her.
00:04:42.000Their excuse was, simultaneously, it was the Russians, and also it was social media.
00:04:46.000If social media had just cracked down on the misinformation from Republicans and the disinformation from the Russians, Hillary Clinton certainly would have won, right?
00:04:54.000This was the lie that was told, as opposed to, you know, Hillary Clinton was just a crappy candidate, which happens to be the truth.
00:05:00.000And the social media companies, because they are run by people who generally vote Democrat, they were resonant to this.
00:05:05.000They were like, oh, well, maybe that's true.
00:05:06.000Maybe we need to start cracking down on speech.
00:05:08.000Maybe we need, instead of just worrying about upholding people's power to speak, we need to cultivate conversations.
00:05:15.000We need conversations that foster better public dialogue, right?
00:05:19.000Which means that they were now going to insert themselves into the business of deciding what content could go up and what content could go down.
00:05:28.000The basis for social media has always been in the United States, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996.
00:05:35.000That Section 230 was specifically designed in order to allow companies like Facebook or like YouTube to create platforms for people to post their own content without the company gaining the liability of the content.
00:05:49.000If you post some sort of defamatory material on Facebook, Facebook is not responsible for the defamatory material.
00:05:56.000That was the purpose of the Communications Decency Act.
00:05:59.000And it was meant to foster more conversation.
00:06:02.000Then, because there were some court decisions that suggested that if a website started taking down comments that were obscene and lewd they would then be held liable for the other comments that they left up.
00:06:16.000Section 230 said that there could be some cultivation of the comments sections, right?
00:06:21.000That these big companies didn't become publishers just by virtue of taking down pornographic material in the comment sections or spamming material in the comment sections.
00:06:31.000So there's this catch-all provision in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act that says that you don't really need an excuse to take down material.
00:06:39.000So an act that was designed to foster free conversation was then used post-2016 by the social media tech bros in order to stop conversation.
00:06:47.000Because now the idea was, well, you know, it says in Section 230 we can take down whatever we want and we're not liable for the stuff that we leave up.
00:06:54.000So they actually flipped the purpose of Section 230 on its head.
00:06:58.000And you started to see the social media companies get much more heavily invested in censorship, in banning people.
00:07:03.000You'd see these coordinated censorship campaigns, where people who I personally think are terrible, but certainly had not violated rules, started to see their accounts just disappear.
00:07:13.000I started to see people who I think are just garbage.
00:07:16.000You know, the Alex Joneses, the Milo Yiannopouloses of the world.
00:07:18.000They would lose their account, but I would say, like, why are they losing their account?
00:07:22.000Even though they personally target me, I can take it.
00:07:24.000That's the way things are supposed to work.
00:07:26.000But these social media companies rarely gave any sort of consistent excuse because they would leave up Louis Farrakhan and Ayatollah Khamenei, and they would take down Milo Yiannopoulos or Alex Jones.
00:07:35.000And then finally, they got to President Trump on January 6th.
00:08:48.000As these social media companies, particularly Twitter, started to crack down more and more heavily on content, there was additional pressure brought on places like Facebook to crack down additionally on content.
00:08:57.000And Democrats started openly threatening places like Facebook.
00:09:00.000Senator Dianne Feinstein would call in Zuckerberg in front of her and say things like, if you don't crack down on content, well, then we will.
00:09:06.000Which, of course, they can't because of this thing called the First Amendment.
00:09:10.000But the threat has been there from Democrats for a very long time.
00:09:13.000Either the social media companies Would become tools of the Democratic Party or they would meet the heavy hand of government.
00:09:19.000This was the threat because here's the thing about social media.
00:09:22.000What social media actually did in effect is it allowed alternative media like the Daily Wire to flourish.
00:09:27.000I'm very grateful for the presence of Facebook because otherwise I couldn't get my material to you.
00:09:32.000And the reality is that these giant social media companies blew up the monopoly that had been held heretofore by the giant establishment media companies.
00:09:40.000These establishment media companies and the Democrats then got angry.
00:09:43.000They didn't like the fact that there were so many alternative sources of media that were capable of reaching the American people directly.
00:09:49.000So then they started trying to blackmail these companies saying, okay, you need to shut down all these alternative sources of media and then we will let you thrive.
00:09:55.000And this is why you see people like Nancy Pelosi Again, the tech bros are all Democrats.
00:10:00.000This is why you see people like Nancy Pelosi saying, you know, I don't really like Facebook.
00:10:06.000They have had a business model that is a business model built on making money on misrepresentations.
00:10:15.000So for a long time, they made money on Russian money, coming in and distorting our elections and saying, oh, we didn't know it was Russian.
00:10:43.000So Democrats decided that social media are only their friends when they do what they want.
00:10:47.000So Facebook decided, you know what, I don't want to be in the middle of this.
00:10:49.000Zuckerberg said, I don't want to be in the middle of this.
00:10:51.000Facebook's board basically said, we'll create this outside oversight board and you want to blame somebody, blame them.
00:10:57.000In the same way that the legislature of the United States has basically set up all these executive branch agencies to do the regulations so they don't get blamed.
00:11:06.000So we've set up this oversight board filled with people who are not American, most of whom are not in compliance with sort of basic American standards of free speech, and they'll do the work.
00:11:45.000You now have the social media bros deplatforming the sitting president of the United States because he said stuff that doesn't explicitly even violate their policies.
00:11:54.000So they did that on January 6th, and Trump has just disappeared.
00:11:57.000And if you're a conservative, you're thinking, okay, if they can do that to the president of the United States, they can certainly do that to me.
00:12:02.000Like, I haven't violated policies either, but Trump really kind of didn't.
00:12:06.000I may not say things that are as inflammatory as Trump does, but that's a matter of arbitrary kind of decision-making.
00:12:12.000There are people at Facebook who hate my guts, there are people at YouTube who hate my guts, and Twitter who hate my guts.
00:12:28.000So somebody built Parler as an alternative to Twitter.
00:12:31.000And then after January 6th, Parler is completely taken off the Internet by Amazon Web Services.
00:12:36.000Okay, so the social media companies just have too much control over American life, which brings us to the Facebook Oversight Board.
00:12:41.000So, if the Facebook Oversight Board had done the right thing here, what they would have said is, Trump, we don't like anything you said, he shouldn't have been banned.
00:12:48.000And certainly, even if he had been banned, he shouldn't have been banned indefinitely, and he should be back already.
00:12:53.000Instead, Facebook's Oversight Board found today, and they released a decision.
00:12:58.000And their decision is, Facebook was right to ban Trump at the time, And while they cannot suspend Trump indefinitely, they need to, you know, re-meet on this thing in six months.
00:13:07.000So, all the way until the middle of June, late June, then they probably have to reconsider about Trump.
00:13:16.000We'll get to this in just one second, the Facebook decision, because it really is a fairly absurd decision on nearly every level.
00:13:25.000First, let us talk about your sleep quality.
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00:14:34.000The Board has upheld Facebook's decision on January 7, 2021 to restrict then-President Donald Trump's access to posting content on his Facebook page and Instagram account.
00:14:44.000However, it was not appropriate for Facebook to impose the indeterminate and standardless penalty of indefinite suspension.
00:14:50.000Facebook's normal penalties include removing the violating content, imposing a time-bound period of suspension, or permanently disabling the page and account.
00:14:57.000The board insists that Facebook review this matter to determine and justify a proportionate response that is consistent with the rules that are applied to other users of its platform.
00:15:05.000Facebook must complete its review of this matter within six months of the date of this decision.
00:15:08.000The board also made policy recommendations for Facebook to implement in developing clear, necessary, and proportionate policies that promote public safety and respect freedom of expression.
00:16:05.000There's never been a time like this where such a thing happened, where they could take it away from all of us, from me, from you, from our country.
00:16:10.000This is a fraudulent election, but we can't play into the hands of these people.
00:16:46.000At 5.41 Eastern Standard Time, Facebook removed this post for violating its community standard on dangerous individuals and organizations.
00:16:52.000At 6.07 Eastern Standard Time, as police were securing the Capitol, Trump posted a written statement on Facebook.
00:16:57.000Again, there's that conflicting message.
00:16:58.000and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly unfairly treated for so long.
00:17:05.000Go home with love in peace. Remember this day forever.
00:17:08.000Again, there's that conflicting message.
00:17:09.000Same message. Okay. At 6 15, 6 p.m. 15 p.m.
00:17:14.000Eastern Standard Time, Facebook removed this post for violating its community standard on dangerous individuals and organizations, and then it blocked Trump from posting on Facebook.
00:17:22.000And then Facebook extended the block indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete.
00:17:28.000On January 20th, Trump ceased to be president.
00:17:31.000On January 21st, Facebook announced it had referred this case to the board.
00:17:36.000They say, the board found that the two posts by Trump on January 6th severely violated Facebook's community standards and Instagram community guidelines.
00:17:44.000We love you, you're very special in the first post.
00:17:46.000And great patriots and remember this day forever in the second post, violated Facebook's rules prohibiting praise or support of people engaged in violence.
00:17:52.000Okay, here is where you start going a little mad with the Facebook standards.
00:17:56.000How many members of the media said that rioters and looters, even though they shouldn't riot, even though they shouldn't loot, are good people?
00:18:05.000How many said these are people who are justly aggrieved at the situation in the United States?
00:18:14.000You had Kamala Harris actively promoting bailout funds for people who were arrested for rioting and looting.
00:18:20.000So in what way do those people get to say, but Trump has to go?
00:18:23.000The question isn't just whether Trump violated the standard.
00:18:26.000The question is whether this standard even exists.
00:18:29.000And the answer is no, it clearly does not exist.
00:18:31.000It was implemented and snapped into place with regard to Trump.
00:18:34.000It was left completely irrelevant for months on end while people rampaged through American cities, resulting in dozens of deaths, $2 billion in property damage, the most damaging riots in American history.
00:18:45.000Politicians, media members, commentators came out and defended the people who were doing the rioting and looting.
00:18:50.000Were any of those people banned from Facebook or even suspended indefinitely?
00:18:55.000The board found that in maintaining an unfounded narrative of electoral fraud and persistent calls to action, Mr. Trump created an environment where a serious risk of violence was possible.
00:19:03.000Okay, so now, if you're going to blame Trump for creating a serious risk of violence through creating an environment, how about the entire media that has claimed that police are systemically racist, America is systemically racist, and all of the injustices of the criminal justice system cannot be corrected?
00:19:18.000Because it is buried deep in the roots of all of America's institutions.
00:19:29.000At the time of Mr. Trump's post, there was a clear immediate risk of harm, and his words of support for those involved in the riots legitimized their violent actions.
00:19:37.000As president, Mr. Trump had a high level of influence.
00:19:39.000The reach of his post was large, with 35 million followers on Facebook and 24 million on Instagram.
00:19:43.000Facebook was justified in suspending Trump's accounts on January 6th.
00:19:47.000Okay, so the answer here is that anytime they want to suspend anybody for pretty much any reason, they can.
00:19:53.000They can jerry-rig a system in order to make that happen.
00:19:56.000That's what you should take away from this.
00:19:57.000That if you are of the left and you openly promote excuses for violence, if you're Peter Beinart and you're constantly promoting excuses for violence from actual terrorist groups in the Middle East, you're fine.
00:20:07.000If you are a person who promoted riots and looting throughout the summer, or even if you said that those people shouldn't be doing that, but you understand why they're doing it, they're great people, they're patriots.
00:20:18.000I mean, there are people on CNN who compared it to the Boston Tea Party, right?
00:20:30.000And that these folks have way too much power in American life.
00:20:34.000They literally took the sitting president of the United States off the internet.
00:20:37.000If you take somebody off of Facebook, and Instagram, and YouTube, and Twitter, you've effectively destroyed their ability to disseminate information at all.
00:20:46.000And that's the sitting president of the United States.
00:20:49.000Okay, so here's where the Oversight Board then goes.
00:20:51.000Then they do what is, I think, the funniest thing here.
00:20:53.000They just toss the ball back into the court of Facebook, right?
00:20:57.000So the Facebook Oversight Board is supposed to be independent, and they're going to relieve pressure on Facebook and all this.
00:21:02.000Instead, they just take the ball and throw it right back to Facebook.
00:21:04.000So they say, In applying this penalty, Facebook did not follow a clear published procedure.
00:21:09.000Indefinite suspensions are not described in the company's content policies.
00:21:13.000Facebook's normal penalties include removing the violating content, imposing a time-bound period of suspension, or permanently disabling the page and account.
00:21:20.000It is Facebook's role to create necessary and proportionate penalties that respond to severe violations of its content policies.
00:21:26.000The board's role is to ensure that Facebook's rule and processes are consistent with its content policies, its values, and its human rights commitments.
00:21:32.000In applying a vague, standardless penalty, and then referring this case to the board's resolve, Facebook seeks to avoid its responsibilities.
00:21:39.000The board declines Facebook requests and insists Facebook apply and justify a defined penalty.
00:21:43.000So they've said you have three choices.
00:21:45.000You can remove the violating content and leave the account.
00:21:48.000You can impose a time bound period of suspension, like six months, or you can permanently disable the page and you guys have to make the decision.
00:21:53.000So the great irony here is that Facebook was attempting to throw the ball away from itself and the board just threw it right back at them.
00:22:33.000There are a lot of members of this board that are free speech advocates, First Amendment absolutists in some cases, that are going to make an argument that these platforms should not be in the position of making these choices at all.
00:22:45.000If Trump is brought back on Facebook, it'll likely be for those reasons.
00:22:50.000But a lot of this has to do with the memory hole, right?
00:22:55.000That's what Fox and Right-Wing Media has been trying to do, and I worry that this may be another result of that.
00:23:01.000Okay, so he's very worried that Facebook might be too pro-free speech.
00:23:05.000That would be such a disaster for the media, because if they're pro-free speech, then maybe CNN actually has competitors in the online space.
00:23:14.000Meanwhile, there is a vast debate breaking out in the House GOP.
00:23:19.000There is chaos inside the Republican Party over a simple question, whether Donald Trump won or lost the 2020 election.
00:23:27.000Apparently, this is a grave consequence To the media, it is a grave consequence inside the Republican caucus.
00:23:33.000Because the idea that is being promulgated by the media is that unless you go out on TV every single day and say that Joe Biden won the election fair and square in every possible way, then this means that you are a liar and a bad person and you are promoting the quote-unquote big lie.
00:23:48.000And on the other side, Trump is saying you're promoting the big lie if you say that he lost the election and all of this.
00:23:52.000Well, I want to talk about that in a second.
00:23:55.000But I want to first mention that there is a big lie that is promoted by the Democratic Party, like, continuously.
00:24:01.000This is not a whataboutism thing because I'm not a fan of lies in either case.
00:24:06.000There's a lie that is promoted by the Democratic Party, and it is ensconced in every area of media coverage.
00:24:12.000It is ensconced in every area of Democratic policymaking.
00:24:15.000And that lie is that there is widespread voter suppression happening throughout Republican states, and that voter suppression is directed at Black Americans.
00:24:21.000See, one of the things the Democrats have banked on for a very, very long time is the idea that they will always, and forever, have an increasing share of minority votes.
00:24:29.000And it turns out that the demographics is destiny argument is not a perfectly good argument.
00:24:34.000Democrats basically bet after 2008 when Barack Obama won the sweeping victory with large majorities of nearly every subgroup in the United States, including white Americans.
00:24:43.000It turns out that after 2008, Barack Obama was not a popular president.
00:24:49.000His Congress was swept out of power in 2010.
00:24:51.000And so Barack Obama did something different.
00:24:54.000He said, I'm going to put together this intersectional coalition of historically dispossessed groups.
00:24:58.000And we are going to build a new coalition, a coalition of the ascendant.
00:25:01.000And this ascendant coalition is demographically different than the old coalition.
00:25:06.000And basically, this new coalition is growing, the Republican coalition is going to be whiter, and it's going to die off.
00:25:11.000This was not something that was hiding the ball.
00:25:13.000There were Democrats like Ronald Brownstein overtly saying this sort of stuff for years, talking about the Browning of America, how this inevitably meant that the Republican Party was on the outs and Democrats would win forevermore.
00:25:23.000And there are some people on the right who responded to this in similarly unconscionable fashion, suggesting that demographics was destiny, and that if we had too many people of particular races, that this meant that Republicans could never win again, and conservative principles were dead, and all this.
00:25:37.000Okay, so the reality is that this isn't true.
00:25:40.000The reality is that human beings are individuals, and that what we are seeing in the United States is, in fact, shifting in voting patterns.
00:25:45.000And in 2020, Donald Trump won an outsized chair compared to other Republicans of the Latino vote, for example.
00:25:51.000Donald Trump actually did better with black voters in 2020 than he did in 2016.
00:25:56.000Even the New York Times is now acknowledging that rising diversity might not help Democrats as much as they hope.
00:26:02.000According to Nate Cohn, the Census Bureau released two important sets of data last week that have big implications for American politics, and that challenged some prevailing assumptions for both Democrats and Republicans.
00:26:12.000The first set of data lays out long-term demographic trends widely thought to favor Democrats.
00:26:16.000Hispanics, Asian Americans, and multiracial voters grew as a share of the electorate over the last two presidential races, and white voters, who historically tended back the GOP, fell to 71% in 2020 from 73% in 2016.
00:26:28.000The other data set tells a second story.
00:26:30.000Population growth continues to accelerate in the South and the West, so much so that some Republican-leaning states in those regions are gaining more electoral college votes.
00:26:38.000The states won by President Biden will be worth 303 electoral votes down from 306 electoral votes in 2020. The demographic, the democratic disadvantage in the electoral college just got worse again, says the New York Times. These demographic and population shifts are powerfully clarifying about electoral politics in America.
00:26:55.000The increasing racial diversity among voters isn't doing quite as much to help Democrats as liberals hope, or to hurt Republicans as much as conservatives fear.
00:27:24.000There is a difference in how people vote.
00:27:26.000Some of it is cultural, and much of it is individual.
00:27:28.000One of the things that people who study demographics have been noticing is that an increasing share of Hispanic and Latino voters identify as white now.
00:27:36.000Well, because they don't wish to see themselves particularly as displaced people from a home country, but rather as really non-ethnically based.
00:27:47.000This is a weird kind of thing that's been happening.
00:27:49.000It's why you see on Census Bureau data, people will ask you, are you Hispanic?
00:27:54.000Are you Hispanic who identifies as white?
00:27:56.000These are actual demographic categories that appear on Census Bureau forms now.
00:28:01.000What this suggests is that demographics are not destiny, and so the entire democratic Agenda item, which was, we will get more people in the intersectional coalition vote for us and we'll ignore the rest of America, is not likely to win them everlasting victory.
00:28:14.000And so what they have to do is scare the living hell out of people of minority persuasion.
00:28:17.000People who are ethnic minorities in the United States, the Democrats are going to scare the living hell out of them.
00:28:22.000In order to scare the living hell out of them, they have to lie.
00:28:25.000This is why you see the Democrats continually suggesting that voter laws that call for voter ID are in fact a form of voter suppression.
00:28:32.000And the idea from people like Stacey Abrams is that limiting voting rights is on the Republican agenda, that they want to stop black people from voting, that they want to stop Hispanic people from voting, that they desperately want to stop minority people from voting, the Republican Party.
00:28:45.000And this is why you see Joe Biden out there suggesting over and over that voting laws that are looser in Georgia than they are in places like New York in many ways are actually Jim Crow.
00:28:55.000So this is the big lie being told by the Democratic Party is that there is a threat to black America, not only from white America, but particularly from conservative America.
00:29:02.000And Stacey Abrams pushes this every day and the media eat it up.
00:29:05.000The media feature her on the covers of magazines.
00:29:07.000The Democratic Party featured her during the DNC in a gubernatorial round table as though she had won the governorship of Georgia, even though she lost by 50,000 votes.
00:29:23.000They say that Governor Stacey Abrams is governor, even though she lost by 50,000 votes in the same state.
00:29:28.000But Stacey Abrams promotes this day in and day out.
00:29:31.000Here she was, for example, yesterday, talking about how Republicans want autocracy.
00:29:37.000The forerunners of autocracy and authoritarianism begin with limiting who has access to the right to vote, making it so difficult that people give up and abandon the perquisites of democracy.
00:29:49.000That makes it much easier for those who do not intend to share power to hoard it.
00:29:54.000And so I am deeply afraid, and it seems like slightly hyperbolic, but in a nation like the US with its changing demography, if the response to increased participation by communities of color, By young people, by women, if the response is to restrict their access and impede their participation, that is a very, very strong signal that we are heading in the wrong direction.
00:30:27.000We need a giant overhaul of America's electoral law so that people like Stacey Abrams can promote ballot harvesting and can promote no voter I.D.
00:30:39.000Voter suppression is not a major problem in the United States.
00:30:42.000In fact, voter suppression is so much of a not major problem in the United States that black voters in many of these swing states, going all the way back to 2008, outvote their share of the population.
00:31:10.000Census figures released Thursday show that turnout in 2020 reached a near historic high for a presidential election, with 66.8% of voting-age citizens casting ballots, 0.9 percentage points shy of the 1992 record.
00:31:22.000Turnout was 5.4 percentage points higher than in 2016, 3.2 points higher than in 2008, when Barack Obama drove scores of young people and minorities to the polls.
00:31:31.000The share of Hispanics, 53.7%, and Asians, 59%, of voting age, who cast ballots also hit new peaks.
00:31:38.000Black voting, 62.6%, surpassed any presidential year save 2008 and 2012 when Barack Obama was on the ballot.
00:31:45.000Notably, GOP states with stricter voting rules didn't experience significantly lower minority turnout.
00:31:50.000Black turnout was highest in Maryland, 75.3%, followed by Mississippi, 72.8%, and lowest in Massachusetts, 36.4%. Liberals have lambasted Georgia for purging voters and restricting ballot access, but Georgia had a smaller black-white voting gap than Illinois, New Jersey, Virginia, and California, all states controlled by Democrats.
00:32:08.000The states with the biggest black-white voting gaps?
00:32:10.000Massachusetts, Oregon, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Colorado.
00:32:16.000Good luck trying to discern a link between a state's voting rules, partisan control, and minority turnout.
00:32:21.000So in other words, it's just not true.
00:32:23.000The idea that there is a vast attempt to stop the demographic wave of the United States, the new demographic wave, through voter suppression, it's not true.
00:32:31.000But it is a key talking point for Democrats because it fosters their entire agenda.
00:32:35.000It suggests that Republicans are racist, trying to stop black people from voting.
00:32:38.000It suggests you need federalized control, top-down, of voting protocols taking power away from the states.
00:32:44.000And it underlines the idea that as the demographics of the United States change, the destiny of the United States changes, right?
00:32:50.000So this is the lie that is being pushed by Democrats, and every Democratic leader mirrors it.
00:32:55.000There's an entire article in the Washington Post today about how two black CEOs got corporate America to pay attention to voting rights.
00:33:04.000And of course, it is this sycophantic, slobbering piece about how Kenneth Chenault It has pushed people in corporate America to mirror his political priorities.
00:33:16.000Chenault went on to run American Express for 17 years, one of just 19 black chief executives ever at a Fortune 500 company.
00:33:22.000Chenault recently used his formula of fighting for change when he and another black chief executive, Kenneth Frazier of the pharmaceutical giant Merck, helped push much of corporate America to publicly oppose the restrictive voting rights bills being considered in dozens of states.
00:33:36.000So again, the idea here from the media, from the Democrats, from everybody in power, is a lie.
00:33:42.000It is a lie that black voters are being suppressed at the polls.
00:33:45.000And Stacey Abrams, the great heroine of the Democratic side of the aisle, she's been promoting that lie ad nauseum.
00:33:51.000OK, all of which goes to show you why the Democratic Party, among polls of Republicans, I mean, among polls of Democrats, Democratic base loves the Democratic Party.
00:33:59.000There's a big difference between that and the Republican base, which basically hates the Republican Party.
00:34:03.000If you take polls of Democrats and their approval ratings for the Democratic Party, very, very high.
00:34:07.000For as long as I can recall, Republican base been a giant gap with the Republican Party.
00:34:13.000And one of the reasons for that is because they believe, I think quite correctly, that Republicans publicly do not mirror their priorities.
00:34:20.000It's one of the reasons that they had a very strong attachment to Trump.
00:34:23.000Because Trump, whatever else you can say about the guy, and there's a lot to say about him, he did have his finger on the pulse of what the base wanted to talk about.
00:34:29.000Now, maybe he said things in dumb ways.
00:34:31.000Maybe he shouldn't have talked about those things.
00:34:34.000But he certainly had his finger on the pulse of what the base wanted to talk about more than your typical Republican leadership did.
00:34:42.000This is breaking out into the open right now with regard to the future of the Republican Party, and it's really breaking out into the open in controversy surrounding Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming.
00:34:51.000We'll get to the issue in just one second.
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00:37:41.000Okay, so while the Democratic Party tends to reflect the priorities of its own voters, the Republican Party very often does not.
00:37:53.000So, Liz Cheney has gotten into hot water with other members of the Republican Party, particularly including President Trump, because she keeps saying over and over that Trump lost the 2020 election.
00:38:03.000Now, I've been saying literally since the day of the election that I was waiting to see evidence of massive voter fraud and massive voter irregularity that would explain Trump's loss in the swing states.
00:38:14.000I really didn't see that presented by anybody.
00:38:15.000Doesn't mean there wasn't voter fraud.
00:38:17.000Doesn't mean there wasn't voter irregularity.
00:38:19.000In an election that included hundreds of millions of Americans, presumably there would be.
00:38:23.000But that does not mean that the margins were small enough that you would see a shift of 13,000 votes in Georgia, or 12,000 votes in Arizona, or 80,000 votes in Pennsylvania, or 120,000 votes in Michigan, or 14,000 votes in Wisconsin.
00:38:36.000Those are not tiny margins when it comes to absolute number of votes that you would have to show were either falsified or were thrown out.
00:38:44.000And in fact, the Trump campaign didn't even make those allegations in its court filings.
00:38:47.000Its court filings were mainly about the unfairness of the rules, In some cases, like Pennsylvania, there was credence to that.
00:38:53.000But that still does not change the fact that you have to demonstrate actual evidence that voter fraud or regularity decided an election if you're going to claim that voter fraud or regularity decided the election.
00:39:02.000And I've said at the same time that I think that the real rigging of the election was not done on the level of voting.
00:39:07.000I think the real rigging of the election was done by the media throughout the election cycle and before.
00:39:11.000I think the media routinely lied about Trump.
00:39:13.000I think they routinely lied about Biden.
00:39:14.000I think that they hid Biden's radicalism.
00:39:16.000I think they allowed Biden to hide in the basement and not answer a single difficult question.
00:39:19.000I think that they overtly stymied the New York Post story about Hunter Biden in the month before the election.
00:39:24.000I think they lied about Trump being a Russian asset for four years.
00:39:26.000I think a lot of things impacted the 2020 elections.
00:39:30.000And that included, of course, Donald Trump making some rather large boo-boos during the election campaign.
00:39:36.000But the reality is that if the media had covered that thing, anything like they should have covered that thing, it would have been a much closer election at the very least.
00:39:42.000And because it was a pretty close election in the swing states, I have very little doubt that if they had, for example, fairly covered what was going on with COVID, as opposed to presenting Andrew Cuomo with the Man of the Year award every single day while he proceeded to kill all the olds in New York, And if they had covered the Black Lives Matter riots that were happening throughout the country in June, as they should have, then I think Trump probably would have won, despite the pandemic.
00:40:08.000Okay, so do I think that Trump, it depends on your definition of fairly, I suppose.
00:40:13.000If you think that Trump lost the election because of voter fraud and irregularity, I disagree.
00:40:16.000If you think that Trump lost the election because all the institutions of power were basically rigged against Trump, I think there is certainly some truth to that.
00:40:24.000Okay, so you can say all of that, And the Republican base may disagree on some of the fraud and irregularity arguments, but the Republican base is willing to hear that.
00:40:32.000What they don't want, and this is really what it comes down to for Liz Cheney, is Liz Cheney keeps going out on places like MSNBC, and then she keeps telling those anchors exactly what they want to hear.
00:40:46.000You can say everything that I've just said, and the Republican base will not be angry with you.
00:40:50.000The Republican base understands that there are a lot of decent arguments for the notion that Trump Lost the election in terms of the number of votes, but that there are a lot of mitigating factors that led to him losing that really were rigged against him.
00:41:06.000What the Republican base does not want to hear is that if you are somebody who believes that Trump got jobbed in some way during the election, this means that you are a promulgator of the big lie.
00:41:15.000And this means that you are a traitor to the United States and you're undermining American politics and politics.
00:41:21.000In other words, if you are in a leadership position in the Republican Party, what you say matters because you are considered a representative of the base.
00:41:28.000I agree with Liz Cheney that voter fraud and irregularity did not decide the 2020 election.
00:41:34.000I just think that Liz Cheney's public-facing priorities are not at all the public-facing priorities of the Republican Party.
00:41:41.000The Republican Party right now should not be focused on answering questions from the media about whatever Donald Trump's latest missive is about the 2020 election.
00:41:49.000The 2020 election happened in November.
00:41:52.000The Electoral College voted in December.
00:41:55.000Last I checked, the calendar now says it's May.
00:41:58.000Hey, it is not time to talk about that.
00:42:00.000And if the media insists on talking about that, as a Republican, you have every right and indeed every obligation to say, I don't know why we're talking about that.
00:42:06.000Why aren't we talking about the fact that the current president of the United States, Joe Biden, is doing a terrible job?
00:42:12.000Why aren't we talking about the looming inflationary crisis that's gonna hit the country?
00:42:15.000Why aren't we talking about the border crisis that you and Politico refuse to even say is a crisis?
00:42:21.000Why aren't we talking about the fact that Joe Biden's economic plans spend more money than has ever been created in human history?
00:42:28.000Why are you still talking about Trump?
00:42:30.000And the answer is the media want to talk about Trump because the media want to misdirect.
00:42:34.000The media don't want to cover what's going on in the White House.
00:42:36.000The media would prefer not to talk about the fact that Democrats are lying about things like voter suppression.
00:42:41.000In fact, they wish to promulgate those myths.
00:42:42.000So you'll see the media on their high horse about Voter fraud and irregularity, and we can't feature people on our networks who say this kind of stuff?
00:43:05.000And this is what Liz Cheney fails to appreciate, apparently.
00:43:09.000So, Kevin McCarthy, who is the House Minority Leader, and he wishes to be the House Majority Speaker.
00:43:13.000He wishes to be the Speaker of the House.
00:43:15.000And by the way, if Republicans somehow find a way to lose, maintain a minority in the House in 2022, every single person in a leadership position in the Republican Party should be fired.
00:43:25.000There is no way Republicans should lose the House in 2022.
00:43:52.000So Liz Cheney has sort of been under fire for a while.
00:43:55.000And you'll remember a few months ago, Liz Cheney was merely asked about January 6th, and she said that January 6th was terrible, which is true, and then there were some people in the Republican Party who basically tried to vote of no confidence against her and it failed.
00:44:06.000And she got up in conference, and she said that she believes what she believes, and then the majority of the conference basically said, okay, fine, you can stay.
00:44:13.000Well then, Liz Cheney felt like she had to get into a bleep fight with Trump.
00:44:16.000Trump said something about how Liz Cheney's the worst, and instead of Liz Cheney just ignoring him, which is what she should have done politically, instead she decided to jump right in and be like, Donald Trump's a prevaricator, Donald Trump is the promoter of the big lot.
00:44:29.000Even if she believes that, which she's perfectly entitled to do, I have a question.
00:44:33.000What does that have to do with your job as the number three in the House?
00:44:38.000Seriously, like, speaking the truth is always your job.
00:44:50.000So, are you forwarding the conservative and Republican agenda?
00:44:53.000Not by saying that sort of stuff, but by making that your chief focus in the media, by earning strange new respect from Chris Hayes at MSNBC.
00:45:10.000And he said, listen, I'm not sure I can hold back the tide here against Liz Cheney.
00:45:13.000And frankly, it seems like her focus is more on getting attention for saying this sort of stuff, even if it's true, than it is on forwarding the agenda.
00:45:20.000Again, two things can be true at once.
00:45:21.000One, she can be saying some true things.
00:45:22.000And two, it ain't forwarding the agenda of the Republican Party.
00:45:24.000It is serving, I don't even know what her agenda would be like on a practical level, but it is certainly forwarding the agenda of a media that wished to keep focus on Donald Trump at all times, under all circumstances.
00:45:38.000I've had it with... I've had it with... It's, you know, I've lost confidence.
00:45:44.000Well, someone just has to bring a motion, but I assume that will probably take place.
00:45:49.000Okay, so there were a bunch of polls that came out, and they suggested that Liz Cheney is in trouble in Wyoming, and Trump had tweeted at her, and it turned into this bleep fight.
00:45:56.000And, again, here is the issue for Liz Cheney.
00:45:59.000Your job is to fight the forwarding of the Democratic agenda, which, by the way, is the most radical, progressive agenda that we have seen in our lifetimes.
00:46:07.000It makes Barack Obama look like a piker.
00:46:10.000And if your chief focus, day in and day out, is how do I answer questions from MSNBC, you are not doing your job properly.
00:46:17.000The Democrats are jumping on this, of course.
00:46:19.000Nancy Pelosi, of course, is out there defending Liz Cheney.
00:46:22.000There should be, again, when Nancy Pelosi is defending you, it's a pretty good indicator that even if you're right, you've sort of walked down the wrong path politically here.
00:46:33.000There's a difference between pragmatism and You know, what is happening right now, I will say.
00:47:17.000I don't welcome their participation in our caucus, and I'm sure they don't welcome my participation in theirs.
00:47:24.000Okay, so Liz Cheney's response to all of this has been to double down and to basically give the media the issue they want, which is the Republican infighting over January 6th or the Republican infighting over Trump.
00:47:36.000Again, there are two responsibilities.
00:47:38.000One is to tell the truth, and the other is to forward the Republican agenda.
00:47:41.000And what people hired you to do was both.
00:47:44.000Okay, so Liz Cheney put out a statement, her spokesman did.
00:47:47.000This is about whether the Republican Party is going to perpetuate lies about the 2020 election and attempt to whitewash what happened on January 6th.
00:48:02.000I've been very clear what I think about January 6th, which was a bunch of droogs and morons participating in an act of anti-democratic authoritarianism.
00:48:10.000I thought January 6th was quite terrible.
00:48:22.000Also, I think the Democratic agenda to take over every institution in America and then weaponize it against American freedoms is a significantly greater threat than a bunch of morons and droogs running into the Capitol building and promptly getting their asses arrested.
00:48:34.000And by the way, failing in their mission to stop the electoral certification taking place.
00:48:39.000And as far as Donald Trump and his beliefs about the voter regularity and voter fraud of the election, it was Republican secretaries of state, and it was Republican Mitch McConnell, and it was Vice President Mike Pence who certified that election.
00:48:50.000Okay, you can say all of those things and still not fall into the trap of, I'm going to run over to the Democratic media to talk about how terrible the rest of my Republican colleagues are for saying different things.
00:49:01.000And this is why Liz Cheney is on the outs today.
00:49:04.000Republicans have a tendency to want to answer every question from the media, and they don't have to do it.
00:49:12.000You see this from the governor of West Virginia, went on, I think it was CNN, to talk about his push for a ban on transgender athletes playing in opposite sports leagues, so men playing in women's leagues if they believe that they are women, for example.
00:49:28.000He went on CNN, he got browbeaten by a report.
00:49:33.000There's no law that says you have to do that.
00:49:36.000There's no law that says that you have to answer every question from MSNBC.
00:49:39.000And by the way, if you do answer a question from MSNBC, you can give your honest opinion and then you can also swivel and clock MSNBC for its bias and for the lies that it tells.
00:49:52.000It is honesty to say that you don't think the 2020 election was stolen via voter fraud and irregularity.
00:49:58.000You do think that the media did an awful job.
00:50:00.000You think they perverted the minds of Americans and told them a pack of lies and continue to tell them packs of lies that pervert the cause of American freedom.
00:50:09.000But where you put your focus does matter when you're in a position of political leadership.
00:50:13.000So, that is where things stand with Liz Cheney today.
00:50:16.000My understanding is that Liz Cheney is in trouble inside the House Republican Caucus, and then if she gets ousted, presumably we will have a bevy of wonderful stories from the media about how the Republicans have doubled down on the fraud and lies of January 6th and November.
00:50:30.000Or alternatively, they just don't think Liz Cheney is being an effective leader on behalf of the party.
00:50:39.000Liz Cheney is not incorrect in her assessment of voter fraud and regularity in 2020, or in her assessment of January 6th, and also she's not being an effective leader for the Republican Party right now.
00:50:49.000Both of those things can be true absolutely at once.
00:50:52.000Alrighty, so meanwhile, the Democratic agenda continues to roll out.
00:50:55.000Janet Yellen, the Secretary of the Treasury, Really spooked investors yesterday.
00:50:59.000And she spooked investors because she is not great at her job.
00:51:03.000I understand that everybody thinks Janet Yellen's great at her job because she just keeps inflating the currency.
00:51:07.000But the reality is that the Federal Reserve acted for years As the chief economic policymaker in the United States, as opposed to Congress.
00:51:15.000And now, you have Congress blowing out the spending in extraordinary ways.
00:51:19.000And Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, being like, yeah, what if we just kept printing money?
00:51:23.000So yesterday, she made a boo-boo, and she actually spooked the markets, the markets dropped, because she was like, there might be inflation, but don't worry, the Fed can handle it.
00:51:30.000Which is like, um, I thought you said a minute ago there wasn't going to be any serious inflation.
00:51:34.000So here's Janet Yellen spooking the markets.
00:51:37.000It may be that interest rates will have to rise somewhat to make sure that our economy doesn't overheat, even though the additional spending is relatively small relative to the size of the economy.
00:51:53.000So it could cause some very modest increases in interest rates to get that reallocation.
00:52:01.000Okay, and everybody went, um, what now?
00:52:02.000Because you were saying five seconds ago that you weren't worried at all about inflation.
00:52:08.000According to the Washington Post, Treasury Secretary Yellen insisted Tuesday she's not concerned about the risks of economic overheating, hours after earlier comments about inflation caused a brief panic on Wall Street and invited fresh scrutiny about the White House's position.
00:52:20.000In an interview with The Atlantic released Tuesday morning, Yellen defended the administration's new spending proposals and said that the central bank could handle inflationary pressures with modest interest rate increases.
00:52:31.000Raising interest rates can slow the pace of economic growth by increasing the cost of borrowing.
00:52:37.000At a separate event with the Wall Street Journal later on Tuesday, Yellen was adamant she was not concerned about inflation and stressed she was not predicting or recommending an imminent increase in rates.
00:52:45.000She said, Well, here's the problem, of course.
00:52:51.000All of these folks keep suggesting that they can keep blowing up the currency and nothing will happen.
00:52:56.000Economists at the Bank of America Global Research said U.S.
00:52:59.000policymakers are testing the limits of Goldilocks.
00:53:01.000They are trying to heat up the economy as fast as possible without generating serious inflation.
00:53:06.000But what we have seen is that there is serious inflation, particularly for commodities.
00:53:11.000There's been a big backlog of orders on basic commodities.
00:53:15.000We talked about this yesterday on the program.
00:53:18.000There's not enough labor in the economy.
00:53:19.000People are not re-entering the labor force because we are paying people to stay home.
00:53:24.000Jen Psaki said, we take inflationary risks incredibly seriously, except for how you don't.
00:53:29.000Because if you did, you wouldn't be talking about spending $2 trillion every three weeks.
00:53:34.000Biden has proposed more than $4 trillion of additional spending that would be infused into the economy over the course of the decade.
00:53:40.000The White House says those programs are accounted for with tax increases, but that's not true.
00:53:45.000So even Janet Yellen is starting to hint around the idea that perhaps there's going to be inflation, and everybody who's watching kind of knows this.
00:53:51.000Meanwhile, the crisis at the border continues to marinate.
00:54:01.000She always told the truth, according to Brian Stelter at CNN.
00:54:05.000After four years of an immigration system rooted in destructive and chaotic policies, President Biden is taking the challenge head on and is building a fair, orderly, and humane immigration system.
00:54:18.000After coming into office, our administration immediately jumped into action to address the influx of migrants at the border, something that began during and was exacerbated by the Trump administration.
00:54:29.000Nope, you haven't done any of that stuff.
00:55:14.000Or, alternatively, it's because you keep screwing with the police.
00:55:17.000Like, there's a major influx of migrants on the southern border who are openly saying to the media, we're coming because Biden's president.
00:55:22.000And you get Kamala Harris being like, oh, it's probably climate change.
00:55:25.000Or it could be, you know, the thing that is obviously causing the major influx to the southern border.
00:55:29.000Here was Kamala Harris blaming climate change for migration to the southern border, even though climate change is a slow and ongoing process over the course of the century.
00:55:37.000And yet we have seen a historic spike in the number of minors arriving on America's southern border without people or adults accompanying them.
00:55:45.000We are focused on addressing both the acute factors and the root causes of migration.
00:55:52.000And I believe this is an important distinction.
00:56:27.000So we need to stop migration on the southern border through a carbon tax that will have an incremental decrease in effect on the temperature over the course of 100 years.
00:56:38.000Or alternatively, you could enforce border law.
00:56:42.000This lady, by the way, still has not been down to the border.
00:56:44.000The vice president still has not been down to the border.
00:56:45.000They put her in charge of the border, what, two and a half months ago?
00:56:49.000And there she is speaking at some sort of conference about climate change and the border crisis.
00:57:05.000He put up like a blog on his website that allows you to tweet out his thoughts to everybody else.
00:57:09.000That's fine, but it's not a social media service.
00:57:11.000If your chief concern right now is Trump and going into 2022, Liz Cheney allows Trump to be the number one issue, then Republicans are somehow going to blow it, which is incredible because Democrats have blown it.
00:57:27.000I mean, for example, Jen Psaki at the White House yesterday defended the CDC.
00:57:31.000Okay, so it turns out the CDC used the American Federation of Teachers' guidance to create school guidelines.
00:57:37.000Now, the American Federation of Teachers, last I checked, are not scientists.
00:57:40.000The CDC is the Center for Disease Control.
00:57:42.000It is literally their job to just present the data to you.
00:57:45.000And instead, they had Randy Weingarten rewrite all of the school standards, and then they trotted that out as though it was scientific.
00:57:52.000The entire media declared throughout the Trump administration that Trump was perverting the science.
00:57:55.000This administration openly does it and then defends it and nobody seems to give a damn.
00:57:59.000Here's Jen Psaki at the White House saying it's totally fine to have the American Federation of Teachers and one of the worst people in American politics, Randy Weingarten, write the standards for school reopenings.
00:58:09.000It's actually long-standing best practice for the CDC to engage with organizations and groups that are going to be impacted by guidance and recommendations issued by the agency. It doesn't mean they are taking everything they want or even a percentage of what they want, but it's important to understand the implementation components. They do so to ensure that recommendations are feasible and that they adequately address the safety and well-being of the individuals the guidance is aimed to protect.
00:59:02.000All the epidemiologists that I know, and I've gotten to know several over the course of the last year, working at places like Johns Hopkins and Stanford, look at the fact that this guy's been working for the government.
00:59:11.000They look at government employees the same way you look at government employees.
00:59:43.000And your answer is, we're in the bottom of the sixth inning?
00:59:45.000If you're a crazy person, here's Anthony Fauci.
00:59:49.000What inning are we in as far as this COVID pandemic is concerned?
00:59:55.000Well, you know, We're at least halfway through.
00:59:58.000I hope we're seeing, and I do believe, Wolf, I'm not trying to be overly enthusiastic about what's going on vis-a-vis the vaccine program, which is so successful, but we've really got to not declare victory prematurely.
01:00:23.000has said over the last 24 hours. Anthony Fauci also said that the CDC guidelines on summer camps, quote, I wouldn't call them excessive. I would say they're conservative. Okay, here are the, here are the guidelines for summer camps. Okay, now we know a few things. One, kids do not die from COVID. Okay, the number of kids who have died from COVID, that is a, That is, of course, there are people who die from every cause, but the number of kids who die from COVID is significantly lower than the number of kids who die from the flu every year.
01:00:47.000Fewer than 300 kids have died in the United States of COVID out of hundreds of thousands who have been infected with COVID.
01:00:52.000Second, everybody who's older in the United States has already had the opportunity to get a vaccine.
01:00:58.000In fact, everybody over the age of 16 in the United States has had the opportunity to get a vaccine.
01:01:02.000So you shouldn't be telling little kids that they have to mask up in 90 degree weather outdoors and stay away from each other.
01:02:22.000You, you need to keep following the CCT, CLB, GT, Q guidelines.
01:02:31.000Now that we have the vaccine supply, we're focused on convincing even more Americans to show up and get the vaccine that is available to them.
01:02:39.000If we succeed in this effort, as we did with the last, then Americans will have taken a serious step towards a return to normal.
01:03:15.000You know why we have a demand fall-off?
01:03:16.000Because idiots like this and Anthony Fauci keep saying that even after you're vaccinated, you have to keep masking and mask your kids and send them outside in 95-degree weather and keep them six feet apart.
01:03:33.000Among GOPers, for example, there's an 18% gap between people who say they will get the vaccine if they have to keep the mask on, and then people who say they'll get the vaccine if they can take the mask off.
01:03:46.000An 18 percentage point jump in enthusiasm for the vaccine.