The Ben Shapiro Show - Full Court Press | Ep. 991

00:00:00.000 As data begins to trickle in about the true case fatality rate for coronavirus, governors begin to talk about reopening, President Trump goes to full-scale war with the press, and Bernie finally endorses Biden.

00:00:10.000 And by the way, so does Obama.

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00:00:28.000 Okay, so we'll get to it a little bit later on in the show, but apparently Barack Obama is going to endorse Joe Biden.

00:00:33.000 All it took was everyone else to not be in the race for him to endorse Joe Biden.

00:00:36.000 That endorsement means everything right now.

00:00:38.000 Barack Obama, keeping with that leading from behind strategy that worked so well for him during his presidency.

00:00:43.000 Literally every single other person in the race had to be removed and then endorsed Joe Biden.

00:00:49.000 We'll get to that a little bit later on in the show.

00:00:50.000 First, we're going to get to everything coronavirus related.

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00:02:51.000 Okay, so the continuing question right now is when we And this has led to a pretty major conflict between President Trump and the governors.

00:03:01.000 The governors suggesting that they have the authority to reopen.

00:03:03.000 President Trump claiming he has the authority to reopen.

00:03:06.000 But the big question, of course, is when the hell are we supposed to reopen and how the hell are we supposed to reopen in the absence of data?

00:03:12.000 And I've been saying this over and over and over.

00:03:13.000 We do not have the data yet.

00:03:15.000 We are waiting for antibody tests to be rolled out.

00:03:16.000 Now, the problem is that no matter which way you go, there are obstacles, right?

00:03:20.000 Antibody tests are not perfect.

00:03:21.000 Let's say that they're 95% effective.

00:03:22.000 Well, that means they're 5% ineffective.

00:03:25.000 You could be getting a 5% false positive rate for people who are quote-unquote asymptomatic, and then you end up with the perception that the disease is significantly less deadly than it actually is.

00:03:33.000 Because you think a lot of people have tested positive who actually never had it, and none of them died because they never actually had it.

00:03:38.000 But then you're like, oh, this thing isn't so deadly, right?

00:03:40.000 So that's a possibility.

00:03:41.000 On the other hand, if you don't have any data gathered at all, then you are simply stabbing in the dark at what exactly The true case fatality rate is for COVID-19.

00:03:51.000 And one thing we do know is that all the models that have been used up to now kind of suck.

00:03:55.000 So the University of Sydney has a study out today led by an international group of data scientists and their center for translational data science found that over 70% of US states had death rates inconsistent with the IMHE predictions.

00:04:10.000 So remember that famous UW study, right?

00:04:12.000 The one that everybody was citing, the White House was citing it, saying 100,000 to 240,000 people could die.

00:04:17.000 And the IMHU study has now been updated again to say that it'll be closer to 70,000 dead by the time we hit August. 0.62

00:04:22.000 Well, the University of Sydney Center for Translational Data Science say, um, the study just sucks.

00:04:28.000 Basically, they say the study is just terrible.

00:04:30.000 Apparently, this group of statisticians from the University of Sydney, Northwestern University, and University of Texas have collaborated to fully investigate the predictive performance of the COVID-19 model developed by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

00:04:43.000 And what they found is that the thing stinks.

00:04:45.000 Right, 70% of US states had an actual death rate outside the 95% prediction interval for that state, casting doubt on whether the model is suitable to inform COVID-19 resource allocation at all.

00:04:56.000 The model, which provides forecasts on a state-by-state basis across the United States, has been circulated widely by the media and on social media.

00:05:03.000 It was cited by the White House directly on March 31st.

00:05:05.000 University of Sydney Statistician Director of the Center for Translational Data Science, Professor Sally Cripps, says the discrepancy between predicted deaths and the actual death rate in the United States has serious implications for the U.S.

00:05:16.000 government's future planning and provision of ventilators, PPE, and the staffing of medical professionals equipped to respond to the pandemic.

00:05:22.000 They say the thing is basically useless.

00:05:24.000 Professor Martin Tanner from Northwestern University, he says, I'm concerned that the UW-IHME model has had difficulty in predicting the next day.

00:05:32.000 How will the predictions fare over the long term?

00:05:35.000 They usually say that statisticians give a range called the prediction interval in which the actual future values are likely to lie, and that involves estimating uncertainty.

00:05:43.000 A 95% prediction interval is an interval where we would expect 95% of actual future values to lie.

00:05:48.000 So with 95% certainty, it will lie between one value on the low end and one value on the high end.

00:05:53.000 And this study is just wrong, like a lot of the time.

00:05:56.000 Only 30% of US states have actual death counts lying within the 95% prediction interval.

00:06:01.000 70% of the actual death counts lie outside the 95% prediction interval. 0.91

00:06:05.000 So in other words, the study's garbage, right? 0.83

00:06:07.000 That's what the University of Sydney is saying. 0.92

00:06:09.000 And that was used as the largest basis for all of the decision-making going on about lockdown.

00:06:15.000 That's not the only information that suggests that the information we've been using has been highly flawed.

00:06:19.000 Scott Gottlieb, the former FDA commissioner, he tweeted out a study That was quoted by the New England Journal of Medicine, and he points out, more data on the COVID-19 attack rate in New York.

00:06:29.000 Doctors screened all expectant moms at one New York hospital, and they found that out of 210 mothers, 29 were asymptomatic and positive.

00:06:36.000 Exposure in New York to COVID could be very high, given emerging data on the scope of prevalence.

00:06:40.000 This suggests that in hotspots like New York City, the level of COVID-19 exposure and rates of some immunity once serology studies are in place could be really, really high.

00:06:49.000 Not the 50-66% needed to confer herd immunity, but much more than 10% in hotspots like part of New York City.

00:06:56.000 According to the actual statistics, what it shows is that of the pregnant women who came in and they were tested across the board because they're pregnant, they want to make sure that the baby did not get COVID-19.

00:07:05.000 85% were negative.

00:07:07.000 84.6% were negative.

00:07:09.000 13.5% were positive and asymptomatic.

00:07:12.000 And 1.9% were positive and symptomatic as well.

00:07:15.000 It's a very small sample size.

00:07:17.000 But that does suggest that at least in New York City, the prevalence is extremely high.

00:07:21.000 Because again, a lot of these women were really asymptomatic. 1.00

00:07:24.000 And if those statistics were to hold, if you were to see basically for every one symptomatic person, you were to see seven or eight people who are asymptomatic, then the death rates are way, way lower for COVID-19 than anybody has suggested previously.

00:07:38.000 Because again, people keep using case fatality rate incorrectly.

00:07:41.000 People keep looking at the fact that there are about 200,000 diagnosed people in New York State and about 10,000 dead people in New York State, and they say, oh, well, that means 10,000 over 200,000, that means there's like a 5% death rate if you get this thing in New York State.

00:07:52.000 That's not true.

00:07:54.000 And let's take that stat that was being used here by the hospital.

00:07:58.000 Okay, let's say that approximately, we're doing some rough math, some rough mental math here, that for every symptomatic person, there were seven asymptomatic people.

00:08:06.000 That means that not 200,000 people had this thing in New York state, that probably it's a lot more, right?

00:08:11.000 Probably it's 1.4 million people had that.

00:08:13.000 Well, 1.4 million people, 10,000 dying out of 1.4 million is a lot less, okay?

00:08:15.000 had that.

00:08:15.000 Well, 1.4 million people, 10,000 dying out of 1.4 million is a lot less.

00:08:21.000 Okay.

00:08:21.000 Then now you're talking about, now you're talking about a death rate of 0.4 million.

00:08:27.000 point of 0.7 percent 10,000 over 1.4 million okay so if it's point if it's 0.7 percent 0.7 of 8 percent you're talking about definitely higher than the you're talking about definitely higher than the flu but it's more in line with kind of south korean values because what you've seen in south korea is 0.6 percent death rate and that is heavily located among the elderly and people who have obesity

00:08:51.000 By the way, the number one factor for coming down with a case of SARS COVID-19 that lands you in the hospital is obesity.

00:08:59.000 Obesity is the number one factor according to medical sources at this point.

00:09:04.000 And that would be clinical obesity, meaning a body mass index above 30.

00:09:07.000 So if you're overweight, that doesn't necessarily mean you're obese.

00:09:10.000 Overweight is a different classification in the body mass index than obesity is.

00:09:15.000 So that New England Journal of Medicine study tends to show that there is very, very high prevalence of this thing.

00:09:21.000 Which also means it's going to be extremely difficult to engage in any testing regimen over the course of 330 million people that locks everything down.

00:09:28.000 Instead, what you're going to have to do is probably end up with some sort of tranching scenario.

00:09:32.000 Not a scenario where you give immunity certificates again.

00:09:35.000 Even the immunity certificates are not Number one, they're not a good idea because you will end up with people faking immunity certificates just to go back to work if they're asymptomatic. 0.99

00:09:43.000 But beyond that, and not only do you have privacy concerns, beyond all of that, you could have a situation.

00:09:50.000 Where you are testing tons and tons and tons of people and they are coming up negative because you're testing them in the wrong area.

00:09:57.000 And as we just discussed, the antibody tests are 5% false positive rate or 5% false negative rate, so the same issue applies there.

00:10:03.000 So the idea that you could give somebody an immunity certificate and they're not actually immune, they've never actually had the thing before, that's a fairly significant possibility.

00:10:10.000 And those numbers look enormous when you're talking about testing 100 million people.

00:10:14.000 Which means that in the end, as I've been suggesting, we may end up with something that is just quick and dirty.

00:10:18.000 Quick and dirty to get the economy going. 0.75

00:10:20.000 And what that is, is if you are elderly, if you are in ill health, if you are obese, if you're clinically obese, if you have a clinical heart condition, if you are suffering from an immunological deficiency, if you have any of these things, then you will probably be told to self-quarantine and stay at home until a vaccine is developed.

00:10:38.000 And if you are young, and if you are healthy, you will be told to go back to work.

00:10:42.000 You'll be told that you probably shouldn't congregate in super large groups, but you should be able to go back to work and you should socially distance as much as possible.

00:10:48.000 You should wear a mask and that's how we all go back to work.

00:10:50.000 That is the most likely scenario at this point because I think that all of the talk about contact tracing, again, if the prevalence is 14% in the population, ain't no contact tracing happening there.

00:10:59.000 You're just not going to be able to contact trace.

00:11:02.000 Especially because, again, that does raise some fairly serious privacy concerns.

00:11:05.000 We discussed yesterday on the program some of the solutions being put forward, including you download an app and then you're automatically notified if somebody who came within a particular distance of you is going to, comes down with COVID-19.

00:11:18.000 That's not going to be good enough, frankly, because not everybody's going to download the app unless you make it mandatory, in which case you have serious Fourth Amendment concerns.

00:11:25.000 Now, I have a little bit more good news for you in just one second.

00:11:29.000 We'll get to the possibilities here, because again, in the absence of certainty and in the knowledge that we cannot resolve the uncertainty, we're going to have to make some decisions.

00:11:39.000 Okay, right now I've been willing to kind of hold off with the belief that the scientists are going to come up with some more data that's going to allow us to make more specific decisions.

00:11:48.000 What if the data ain't forthcoming?

00:11:49.000 At a certain point, we're going to have to say, okay, here is what we think our risk level is based on percentage of the population, based on who you are, based on your youth, based on your health conditions.

00:11:58.000 And then we're going to have to say to people, you're going to have to make best available decisions about saving your own life.

00:12:03.000 By the way, that's called living human life generally.

00:12:05.000 That's called freedom, is that you are going to have to make decisions about what is riskiest for you.

00:12:09.000 If you're a young person who is immunocompromised, you will, I think, I don't think the government has to mandate you stay home.

00:12:14.000 I think that you will be staying home.

00:12:16.000 I think that you will understand that this is a risky situation for you.

00:12:19.000 We'll get to more of this...

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00:13:33.000 So by the way, when I mention the prevalence of the disease in places like New York City, recognize it's going to be extraordinarily high in New York because of the population density.

00:13:41.000 New York is not like other areas of America. 0.98

00:13:43.000 And to pretend that we have to use a one-size-fits-all policy with regard to vast swaths of the United States, where population density is one one-hundredth of what population density is in New York City is idiotic. 0.96

00:13:54.000 You should not be treating a rural area of Kentucky the same way that you are treating a big city in New York. 0.97

00:13:58.000 By the way, you shouldn't be treating LA like you treat New York.

00:14:01.000 Okay, LA has had two days, something like 300 deaths total.

00:14:07.000 Like, New York has seen literally thousands of deaths.

00:14:10.000 New York City, so New York State, has seen, at this point, a little over 10,000 deaths.

00:14:16.000 The entire state of California, which is 40 million people, has seen 731 deaths total.

00:14:21.000 The city of Los Angeles has seen approximately 300 deaths.

00:14:24.000 Why?

00:14:25.000 Because the city of Los Angeles is really spread out.

00:14:27.000 I live in the suburbs.

00:14:28.000 You know why?

00:14:29.000 Because L.A.

00:14:29.000 is one giant sprawling suburb.

00:14:31.000 So for all you people in Hollywood who've been ripping on the suburbs all these years, I got some news for you. 1.00

00:14:34.000 It turns out the suburbs are saving your ass. 0.97

00:14:35.000 The fact that you're not living on top of each other in small apartments is a very good thing for you. 0.99

00:14:41.000 But the reality is that treating all of the United States as though the New York pattern is going to abide is really foolish. 0.99

00:14:50.000 It's really silly. 0.99

00:14:52.000 And treating the rest of the world like it's going to be Wuhan or like it is going to be Northern Italy is foolish as well. 0.99

00:14:57.000 You have to control for differences in population. 0.95

00:14:59.000 You have to control for differences in living patterns.

00:15:01.000 You have to control for intergenerational contact and all the rest of this stuff.

00:15:05.000 And that's very difficult to control for.

00:15:07.000 And you have to look at how other countries are handling this sort of stuff because there are differences in how other countries are handling this stuff at this time.

00:15:14.000 To pretend that every country is handling this thing with equal sort of capacity is just not true.

00:15:22.000 Again, I'm going to note that if you take a look at Sweden, everybody is ripping on Sweden.

00:15:26.000 Look how Sweden is experiencing the spike.

00:15:28.000 Again, you cannot evaluate whether Sweden did the right thing in keeping most of their country open until you have about a year of experience.

00:15:36.000 Because right now Sweden has had about a thousand deaths out of 11,000 diagnosed cases.

00:15:41.000 And if you look at other surrounding countries, You know, they're doing slightly better, but on a per million population basis, they're not really doing all that much better.

00:15:50.000 Right?

00:15:51.000 Switzerland has had about 26,000 diagnosed cases and about 1,100 deaths.

00:15:54.000 Netherlands has had about 27,000 diagnosed cases and about 3,000 deaths.

00:15:59.000 So Netherlands is not doing significantly better than Sweden is on a percentage basis.

00:16:04.000 So the notion that Sweden is just getting blown up because they decided to be a little bit more open and basically do what I've been talking about for the United States, the evidence does not suggest that yet.

00:16:13.000 Also, we have to determine whether in fact it is the lockdowns that are burning this thing out or whether there's a natural burnout period of viruses because we really have yet to see a virus that just continues to span the globe over and over and over and over until it wipes out all of human population or until everybody gets it.

00:16:26.000 We'll talk in a second about a chairman of the Israeli Space Agency and National Council for Research and Development.

00:16:32.000 He's suggesting there might be a natural kind of terminus to this thing, which would be the best news of all, obviously.

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00:17:50.000 Okay, so in other news that could theoretically be good, there is a story that comes out of Israel from the Israel National News Agency.

00:17:59.000 According to analysis of international graphs and comparisons, Major General Professor Isaac Ben-Israel concludes, it is possible we are already in the final stages of the coronavirus epidemic.

00:18:07.000 Professor Ben-Israel is the chairman of the Israeli Space Agency and the National Council for Research and Development.

00:18:12.000 He's head of the security studies program at Tel Aviv University.

00:18:16.000 And he explained his position.

00:18:18.000 He points out that when you measure the rate of additional patients to existing patients, the trends can be clearly identified and adjusted in all countries.

00:18:24.000 If, at the rate of the beginning of the epidemic, the rate of hospitalization was increasing at a rapid rate, this reality has changed radically pretty much every day since.

00:18:32.000 And you've seen this consistently across countries, is a flattening of the curve.

00:18:35.000 He says the incidence of patients was greater by the day.

00:18:37.000 This was during the first four weeks after the epidemic was discovered in Israel.

00:18:40.000 As of the sixth week, the increase in the number of patients has been moderate, peaking in the sixth week at 700 patients per day.

00:18:45.000 Since then, it's been declining.

00:18:47.000 Today, there are only 300 new patients.

00:18:48.000 In two weeks, it will reach zero and there will be no more new patients.

00:18:52.000 He says this is how it is all over the world, in countries where they took closure steps like Italy, and in countries that didn't have closures like Taiwan or Singapore.

00:18:58.000 In such and such countries, there is an increase until the fourth to sixth week, and then immediately thereafter, moderation until the eighth week, it disappears.

00:19:05.000 Now, that is the most optimistic vision, of course.

00:19:08.000 It is possible there is a second wave because we just don't have the time lag information at this point.

00:19:13.000 With that said, that would be an optimistic vision.

00:19:15.000 Also, it is possible that there will be a reduction in the virus and the viral load that is carried when we all get outside during the warm weather.

00:19:23.000 See, there's this idea that warm weather kills the virus.

00:19:25.000 It's true.

00:19:25.000 Warm weather does have an effect on viruses generally, but it is also true that when you spend a lot of time outdoors and not indoors, that is actually better for you.

00:19:31.000 So let me point out that the government's policy, particularly in places like California where it's getting warm already, to keep you inside is almost full-scale idiocy. 0.84

00:19:40.000 Okay, what you really should be is socially distancing outside. 0.92

00:19:43.000 Sunlight, fresh air, distance from human beings, that is what is going to allow this thing to die out.

00:19:49.000 And the fact is that the more time you spend outside and not in, you know, a cramped, confined space with other human beings, less chance you are going to infect other human beings.

00:19:58.000 The Wall Street Journal has a piece today talking about this, asking whether warmer temperatures bring a coronavirus reprieve.

00:20:04.000 Many scientists are predicting a reduced spread in warm months, but it's hard to tell.

00:20:07.000 The good news is that the novel coronavirus comes from a family that can't take the heat.

00:20:10.000 Coronaviruses in general are enveloped in a coat of fat and protein that tends to lose its shape at high temperatures, a process likened to melting that effectively disables the virus.

00:20:18.000 They also tend to survive longest in conditions of low humidity.

00:20:23.000 If you look at the confirmed cases per one million people, it is much higher in kind of cold countries than it is in warm countries.

00:20:31.000 The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 appears to behave like its siblings in this regard.

00:20:35.000 A team of researchers at University of Hong Kong who studied the virus in a lab found it was stable in cool temperatures of around 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

00:20:41.000 It deteriorated over time when stored at 72 degrees Fahrenheit, which implied the virus would perish quicker on surfaces like door handles when it is hot out.

00:20:49.000 Many scientists predict reduced spread and warmer temperatures.

00:20:51.000 They cannot say by how much.

00:20:53.000 But as we move towards summer, as we move towards summer, we are going to see, we hope, some sort of die out from COVID-19.

00:21:02.000 And so the question is going to become, how long can we wait here?

00:21:05.000 That really is the question.

00:21:06.000 How long can we wait?

00:21:08.000 Is the answer forever?

00:21:09.000 Because I don't think that that is survivable.

00:21:11.000 I don't think that the American people are willing to do it.

00:21:13.000 I don't think it is practical.

00:21:14.000 And I don't think it's good for the economy.

00:21:15.000 And again, to pretend that you don't care about human life, When you're talking about the destructions of ten of mil- like, there are people who are going to food banks who never thought in their entire- hard-working human beings who never thought in their entire life they'd have to rely on a check from the government or a can from a food bank.

00:21:30.000 Literally never thought this, because they wouldn't have had to in the absence of a massive government shutdown.

00:21:34.000 And now is not the time to discuss, because we don't have the data, whether the shutdown was completely useful or whether it was a good idea or not.

00:21:41.000 The question now is how we get out of all of this.

00:21:44.000 And as I say, I think that a lot of these sort of more high-tech solutions, you know, vast testing, millions of tests, tests being run out of employers.

00:21:51.000 We're testing right now in the United States something like 130,000 people a day.

00:21:55.000 How many people would you have to test per day in the United States to ensure that nobody was out in public with COVID-19?

00:22:01.000 Instead, perhaps, we should be looking, as the summer approaches, toward keeping our scientists working hard on coming up with medication that mitigates the effects of this thing, keeping our scientists full-scale, full-bore going on a vaccine, and then letting people who are healthy go back to work understanding there's a risk factor that, if you get it, that there's a shot that something bad could happen to you.

00:22:21.000 But dividing the popu- Like, it is still amazing to me That when we discuss overall case fatality rate, we're still not being told every day by the government what the case fatality rate is for different types of people.

00:22:33.000 Not on a racial-ethnic basis, which is what everybody seems to want to know in the media, the racial-ethnic basis.

00:22:38.000 I care a lot less about the racial-ethnic basis because it doesn't identify, in cross-cutting fashion, in the strongest possible correlative fashion, with risk factor.

00:22:47.000 It may be true that it is riskier to be black and get COVID-19 than it is to be white and get COVID-19. 0.74

00:22:52.000 But I will tell you this.

00:22:53.000 It is significantly, significantly riskier to be obese and get COVID-19 than it is to be not obese.

00:22:57.000 If you're looking for correlative factors that allow us to make decisions about who should go back to work and who should not go back to work, why don't you pick the strongest possible correlations, not the cross-cutting weaker correlations?

00:23:06.000 It's just a demonstration of our PC idiocy that we won't discuss the fact that older people are more vulnerable to this thing, which is why they should take more protective measures and we should take more protective measures around them.

00:23:15.000 And people with immunocompromised systems should be taking more protective measures. 0.87

00:23:20.000 And people who are 30 and in good health, yes, is there a risk to you of...

00:23:24.000 Of course.

00:23:25.000 Is that risk any greater than you driving to work on a normal day?

00:23:28.000 Driving 10 miles to work on a normal day Probably not.

00:23:32.000 Seriously, if you're 30 years old and you're not living in New York City, the chances, and you're healthy, the chances that you're going to die from COVID-19 are, I would imagine, about the same as being killed in a car accident.

00:23:45.000 And that's not me suggesting that, by the way.

00:23:46.000 That's John Ioannidis from Stanford.

00:23:48.000 That's been his statistical Suggestion.

00:23:51.000 By the way, his statistic is even broader.

00:23:52.000 He says if you're under 65 and in good health, your chances are about the same of dying in a car accident driving over nine miles in a day as they are of dying from COVID-19.

00:24:02.000 So what exactly does reopening look like amidst all this?

00:24:05.000 Nobody has actually put forward a plan.

00:24:06.000 Some of the plans that are put forward, Morgan Stanley put forward a plan yesterday suggesting that people should only go back to work in the middle of July, which is just not sustainable.

00:24:13.000 That's not a thing that's going to happen, especially when you have lockdowns of this nature.

00:24:17.000 I mean, people are human beings.

00:24:19.000 They are living very different lives right now.

00:24:21.000 I have a friend, Bethany Mandel, and she's been tweeting consistently about what it's like for parents who have kids with some sort of Condition.

00:24:29.000 Right? 0.97

00:24:29.000 If you have kids who have ADD, or kids who have OCD, you have kids who have, who have a problem at home, the reversions that kids are experiencing because they are locked up at home, I mean, like, these are real life situations, and to pretend that suffering is binary, that either you're dead or you're alive, that there isn't a tremendous amount of suffering that goes on for people who lose their livelihoods, their jobs, who watch their kids transform by being locked inside, that's idiocy too, and it's unsympathetic idiocy as well. 0.97

00:24:52.000 Can we get to I'm reopening the states and what exactly people are talking about in doing so. 0.98

00:24:57.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:25:14.000 And frankly, I have little kids.

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00:26:21.000 Okay, so the big debate that is broken out is how these states are going to be reopened.

00:26:28.000 It is unclear exactly what is being planned in terms of reopening.

00:26:33.000 There are a series of governors yesterday who announced that they were going to put together a plan for reopening.

00:26:39.000 Governors of Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island and Pennsylvania all suggested that they were going to create a committee of public health officials, economic development officials, and their chiefs of staff.

00:26:49.000 And on the West Coast, the governors of California, Oregon, and Washington announced a joint approach to reopening economies.

00:26:54.000 They called it a Western States Pact.

00:26:55.000 They said our states will only be effective by working together.

00:27:00.000 Governor Gavin Newsom of California said on Tuesday he would outline the California-based thinking on reopening, promised that it would be guided by facts, evidence, and science.

00:27:08.000 The city of Los Angeles has already extended stay-at-home order through May 15th.

00:27:12.000 It is hard to imagine that it can be extended much beyond that.

00:27:15.000 In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott says that he is working closely with the White House on his plan to reopen the state's business, and he's called for a staggered approach in which businesses that have a minimal impact on the spread of virus would open up first.

00:27:27.000 Okay, now all of this broke out into the open because governors, rightly so, are talking about reopening their states.

00:27:33.000 They should be talking about this.

00:27:34.000 This should be a local and state process.

00:27:36.000 Number one, because local and state governments should be, they're closest to the people, they're closest to their own areas.

00:27:43.000 I mean, frankly, I think that there's a good case to be made that mayors should be making these decisions of local towns, looking at what is the population in my area?

00:27:50.000 How dense is the population in my area?

00:27:52.000 How bad do we know the infection is in my area?

00:27:55.000 I mean, those are the people who are most concerned.

00:27:56.000 I don't see why somebody 3,000 miles away from me should be making this decision.

00:27:59.000 Frankly, I don't see why even Eric Garcetti should be making this decision for people who live in the Valley.

00:28:04.000 I just think that I think the local rule is the best rule when it comes to this sort of stuff because populations are indeed at different risks.

00:28:12.000 People live in different ways.

00:28:13.000 The associations are different.

00:28:15.000 I think aside from a few sort of basic provisos like don't gather in crowds of 50,000 and Try to socially distance and try to wear face masks so you're not infecting other people.

00:28:24.000 I think other than that, the national government really doesn't have a lot to say about any of this.

00:28:29.000 Nonetheless, President Trump bizarrely yesterday suggested that he was going to go to war with governors over their own policies on this.

00:28:35.000 I think he is in the belief that he's going to say, open the economy, and then governors are going to say, I don't want the economy open.

00:28:41.000 And then he is going to look as though he doesn't care about human life.

00:28:44.000 So he's worried about the idea that governors are going to keep the economy closed beyond when he wants to keep the economy closed.

00:28:50.000 Well, it seems to me that he has a pretty easy counter argument, which is your governor is basically keeping you in your home.

00:28:56.000 And there's not a lot of evidence that the state next door is doing poorly.

00:29:00.000 So why don't you talk to your governor about it?

00:29:03.000 It's not my fault.

00:29:04.000 Not my fault is a pretty good position to be in when you're president of the United States.

00:29:06.000 And by the way, it also happened to be true a while ago, right?

00:29:09.000 The media have been trying to blame Trump for all things coronavirus related.

00:29:13.000 The media have been trying to suggest that the Trump administration's response It was way out of line with everybody else on earth.

00:29:19.000 And that that is not really true.

00:29:21.000 OK, if you take a look, for example, at the timelines for other countries, what you see is that the United States declared a public health emergency on January 31st.

00:29:31.000 President Trump declared a national emergency on March 13th.

00:29:34.000 He announced his 15 days to slow the spread coronavirus guidance on March 16th.

00:29:38.000 It wasn't until March 14th that the Spanish government declared a two-week state of emergency and instituted a lockdown.

00:29:42.000 It was only on March 16th that the French President Macron announced mandatory home confinement for 15 days.

00:29:47.000 And it was that same day, during his daily press briefing, that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged citizens to work from home and avoid pubs and restaurants.

00:29:55.000 It wasn't until March 21st that the French National Assembly approved a legal text that would introduce a state of health emergency.

00:30:04.000 Also, the Trump administration banned travel from China on January 31st.

00:30:07.000 Italy did too.

00:30:08.000 The UK and France didn't do any of that stuff.

00:30:10.000 So the idea that the Trump administration was notoriously late on all this stuff... Yeah, they were later than they should have been.

00:30:15.000 They should have been like early March.

00:30:17.000 But they were not significantly later in major ways than a lot of other European countries.

00:30:21.000 Okay, with all of that said, I'm bewildered as to why Trump is trying to claim total authority over these governors.

00:30:26.000 He should be saying, listen, you know who screwed up in New York, truly?

00:30:29.000 Who is closest to this and who screwed up?

00:30:30.000 Bill de Blasio and Andrew Cuomo.

00:30:31.000 So if you're going to claim I screwed up, you got to look at the people in charge in New York.

00:30:35.000 And also, they do have the authority to declare reopening.

00:30:38.000 States have all sorts of plenary authority in this area.

00:30:41.000 If they want to keep people locked down, that's on them.

00:30:44.000 I've recommended that we reopen.

00:30:46.000 They're keeping you locked down.

00:30:47.000 So if you don't like that, talk to your governor.

00:30:49.000 And conversely, if your governor reopens and you think that you should be closed, talk to your governor.

00:30:54.000 That is how federalism works.

00:30:56.000 And I'm frankly shocked.

00:30:57.000 I don't know why Trump said this.

00:30:58.000 He said, I have total authority.

00:30:59.000 I'm going to go to war with the governors.

00:31:00.000 For what purpose?

00:31:02.000 To what end?

00:31:03.000 Here's President Trump yesterday.

00:31:03.000 It was bizarre.

00:31:05.000 If a governor issued a state home order... When you say my authority, the president's authority.

00:31:10.000 Not mine, because it's not me.

00:31:11.000 This is... When somebody's the president of the United States, the authority is total.

00:31:17.000 And that's the way it's got to be.

00:31:18.000 Total.

00:31:19.000 The authority is total.

00:31:20.000 It's total.

00:31:21.000 It's total.

00:31:21.000 And the governor's know that.

00:31:23.000 The governor's know that.

00:31:24.000 Now you have a couple of bands of... Excuse me.

00:31:26.000 Excuse me.

00:31:27.000 You have a couple... Could you rescind that order?

00:31:30.000 You have a couple of bands of Democrat governors, but they will agree to it.

00:31:35.000 They will agree to it.

00:31:36.000 But the authority of the President of the United States having to do with the subject we're talking about is total.

00:31:43.000 No, it is not.

00:31:44.000 It is, in fact, not total.

00:31:45.000 Okay, this is not Emperor Palpatine absolute power.

00:31:47.000 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:31:52.000 We have a constitution for precisely this reason.

00:31:55.000 We have states for precisely this reason.

00:31:56.000 Then, bizarrely, Trump tweeted out this morning, tell the Democrat governors that Mutiny on the Bounty was one of my all-time favorite movies.

00:32:02.000 A good old-fashioned mutiny every now and then is an exciting and invigorating thing to watch, especially when the mutineers need so much from the captain.

00:32:09.000 Too easy.

00:32:10.000 What does that even mean?

00:32:13.000 Like, what now?

00:32:16.000 And also, if we're gonna talk mutiny right now and you're talking like this, it sounds more like Captain Quig from the Kane mutiny than it sounds like mutiny on the bounty right here.

00:32:25.000 By the way, mutiny on the bounty was about a captain who wanted to lock his ship down tight and sailors who did not want to be locked down for a period of time.

00:32:32.000 So it is actually the opposite of the situation you're talking about.

00:32:35.000 Is the assumption of this tweet that Trump is going to leverage authority?

00:32:40.000 In order to force the states to reopen because I don't understand how he can do that or why he would do that, frankly. 0.99

00:32:47.000 And it's just it's political idiocy. 0.97

00:32:50.000 I do not understand why any of this would be the point. 0.99

00:32:53.000 Like, what is why?

00:32:54.000 Just why?

00:32:55.000 But there's so much why happening right now.

00:32:58.000 There's so many things that Trump could be doing right now to unify the country.

00:33:01.000 And this is just not one of them.

00:33:02.000 Now, that doesn't mean that he is not fighting a Continuing war with the media.

00:33:07.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:33:13.000 Like, you run a business, you gotta have your legal house in order.

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00:33:21.000 Health and safety.

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00:34:20.000 So President Trump said that at his briefing.

00:34:23.000 And again, it's because Trump is a counterpuncher and because people have been questioning him incessantly, and so he ends up going off on the press.

00:34:31.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:36:05.000 So, you know that President Trump is trying to figure out exactly how to reopen.

00:36:09.000 Everyone is trying to figure out exactly how to reopen and there is no great answer because there are certain businesses that are just going to be hard hit.

00:36:16.000 We know that big theme parks, amusement parks like Disneyland, it's going to be a while before any of that reopens.

00:36:25.000 Even in Shanghai Disney Resort in China, guests at Shanghai Resort have to wear masks at all times.

00:36:30.000 They can only remove them for eating.

00:36:31.000 Hours and capacity are limited to gain entry.

00:36:33.000 Visitors have to submit to a temperature check and present the government-controlled QR code on their phone that indicates they're virus-free.

00:36:39.000 Okay, that stuff ain't happening in the United States.

00:36:42.000 That's just not gonna happen.

00:36:43.000 Disneyland just won't reopen until there is a vaccine, presumably, or until the levels of death from COVID-19 reach incredible lows, hopefully over the summer, and then we hope that there is no second wave here.

00:36:55.000 With all of that said, airlines are going to be hard hit.

00:36:57.000 Travel is going to be hard hit.

00:36:58.000 Hotel is going to be hard hit.

00:37:00.000 Small businesses are just going to get crushed.

00:37:02.000 And one of the things that people should be talking about is how to continue to support small businesses in the absence of any sort of market.

00:37:10.000 Because right now there is no market.

00:37:12.000 And so there's a good case to be made that small businesses should continue to be floated grants from the federal government in order to maintain There are employees on a non-profit going forward basis, and then if they want to start earning profit again, then they can stop taking those grants.

00:37:29.000 Business leaders and the CDC are warning that the economic recovery is going to be slow.

00:37:33.000 According to the New York Times, the evidence suggests it's not just stay-at-home orders and other government restrictions that have chilled economic activity.

00:37:38.000 It's a behavioral response from workers and consumers scared of contracting the virus.

00:37:41.000 That, of course, is true. 0.83

00:37:42.000 One of the things that is happening here, and this is one of the reasons why I think people We need to figure out how to get out of this as soon as possible is there is a sort of mentality setting and I can feel it myself.

00:37:51.000 So I assume that I'm feeling in others, which is you feel that the safer at home orders make you feel safer at home.

00:37:57.000 And so you start to get into this rut, which is like, is it really truly that scary to go out to the mall right now?

00:38:02.000 Like if I went out to the mall with a mask and I socially distance, would I feel truly frightened?

00:38:06.000 And the answer is that when you are in the news all day long, kind of, Right, kind of.

00:38:11.000 You go to the grocery store and you feel freaked out.

00:38:13.000 Okay, the chances that you're going to acquire this thing at a grocery store if you're wearing a mask and socially distancing are basically nil.

00:38:18.000 But everybody is freaked out all of the time, and the longer this goes on, the more freaked out people are going to be, and the longer it's going to be before people engage in precisely this sort of economic activity that supports small businesses.

00:38:28.000 And so it actually is imperative, not just for, you know, plain business reasons, but for psychological reasons for people to go out and re-engage with the world, which is why, again, I'm suggesting that Quick and dirty might, in fact, be much more practical and practicable than anything that anybody else is talking about right now.

00:38:46.000 Okay.

00:38:46.000 With all of that said, as I say, Trump got in a fight with governors yesterday, and then he got in a fight with the press yesterday.

00:38:52.000 Now, let me start with this premise.

00:38:54.000 The press have been awful on this.

00:38:56.000 They've been awful from day one.

00:38:57.000 They've been focused laser-like on the suggestion that President Trump blew this.

00:39:02.000 They've been suggesting that since the first day.

00:39:04.000 And they've been focusing incessantly on failures during late January and February.

00:39:08.000 And as I've said before, when the book is written about how all of this went down, there will be failures in late January and February, particularly from the CDC and the FDA and testing authorities.

00:39:17.000 There are going to be failures inside the Trump administration.

00:39:19.000 Trump should have taken it seriously maybe two, three weeks earlier minimum.

00:39:23.000 Okay, all of that is going to be written.

00:39:25.000 But the other thing that's going to be written is that there was a series of failures for 20 years leading up to this thing.

00:39:29.000 There were failures at the state and local level.

00:39:31.000 Because that's what always happens in the lead-up to a government disaster.

00:39:34.000 Yes, there was a memo in the lead-up to 9-11.

00:39:36.000 It said Al-Qaeda determined to attack in the United States.

00:39:38.000 It was vague.

00:39:39.000 It was not clear what exactly the United States should do about that.

00:39:41.000 It said they were going to use airplanes, but it didn't say what they were going to do with the airplanes.

00:39:45.000 Yes, that was a screw-up by the Bush administration.

00:39:46.000 You know what else was a screw-up?

00:39:47.000 Letting bin Laden live for 15 years before that under the Clinton administration.

00:39:52.000 Everybody's been focused in on Trump.

00:39:54.000 And one of the things that really is most despicable that I think some members of the media are trying to do is divide off Dr. Anthony Fauci from Trump.

00:39:59.000 Now, listen, I don't think that Trump should simply be listening to everything Fauci says and then greenlighting it.

00:40:04.000 I think that he's the president of the United States.

00:40:06.000 He ought to have a variety of voices in his ear.

00:40:08.000 To come up with a good policy does mean balancing not just the epidemiological approach, but also the economic approach.

00:40:15.000 And also the public health approach beyond epidemiology.

00:40:18.000 I mean, the fact is that nobody has taken into account the mental effects on the American people of 30 million people losing their jobs and people being forced to stay in their homes.

00:40:25.000 Nobody has taken into account the public health effects of people staying home for elective surgeries.

00:40:30.000 What we're watching right now is hospitals actually going out of business in the middle of a coronavirus pandemic because the only thing they're being allowed to care for is coronavirus.

00:40:37.000 They're not allowed to go out and do all of the surgeries that actually pay the doctors and pay the nurses and keep the hospitals open.

00:40:43.000 So we're going to have to have them go back to doing those sorts of things, obviously.

00:40:47.000 OK, well, President Trump is in the middle of this thing, is being questioned about Fauci because the media are trying to divide him off from Fauci.

00:40:54.000 I don't know what the purpose is.

00:40:55.000 Maybe so they can claim that Trump is not listening to the experts or something.

00:40:58.000 And it really is gross.

00:40:59.000 So Trump the other day made a big boo-boo, right?

00:41:01.000 He retweeted a bizarre tweet suggesting that he fire Fauci.

00:41:05.000 Now, the rest of the tweet was about how Fauci had been saying in late February everything was going to be OK, which happens to be true.

00:41:10.000 And Trump probably retweeted it without reading the end of the tweet, right?

00:41:13.000 The actual answer here is that Trump doesn't read entire tweets.

00:41:16.000 He has retweeted criticism of him before without knowing it because he reads the first seven words of a tweet and then just hits retweet.

00:41:22.000 But Trump was asked about why he retweeted this thing about Fire Fauci, the media drooling, hoping to open a rift between the two of them.

00:41:28.000 Today I walk in, I hear I'm going to fire him.

00:41:30.000 I'm not firing him.

00:41:30.000 I think he's a wonderful guy.

00:41:32.000 Why did you retweet it?

00:41:35.000 I retweeted somebody.

00:41:36.000 I don't know.

00:41:38.000 They said fire.

00:41:38.000 It doesn't matter.

00:41:39.000 Did you notice that when you retweeted it?

00:41:41.000 Yeah, I noticed everything.

00:41:42.000 So you retweeted it even though it said time to fire?

00:41:44.000 No, no.

00:41:45.000 That's somebody's opinion.

00:41:46.000 All that is is an opinion.

00:41:47.000 And you elevated it?

00:41:48.000 No.

00:41:49.000 I was told about that.

00:41:50.000 I said, I'm not firing.

00:41:51.000 In fact, if you ask your friends in the office, in the public relations office, I was immediately called upon that.

00:41:58.000 And I said, no, I like him.

00:42:00.000 I think he's terrific.

00:42:02.000 Okay, so Fauci was asked about this, and Fauci's just so irritated by this point.

00:42:05.000 Like, Trump actually enjoys the back and forth with the media.

00:42:07.000 Like, Trump lives for this.

00:42:08.000 Trump loves being the center of attention.

00:42:10.000 The dirty little secret, the media love the media.

00:42:12.000 Trump loves Trump, and so they love it.

00:42:14.000 Trump loves it when people talk about him, and the media love it when somebody talks about them.

00:42:17.000 So the only people enjoying this whole Trump versus the media thing are Trump and the media.

00:42:21.000 Those are the people enjoying this.

00:42:22.000 Everybody else out here who's like, so am I gonna die or not?

00:42:25.000 And we're all like, what are you talking?

00:42:26.000 Like, I don't care about this.

00:42:27.000 Fauci is one of those people, right?

00:42:29.000 Fauci was asked about this and he's like, I'm not being fired. 0.99

00:42:31.000 Stop with this garbage. 1.00

00:42:33.000 This is so stupid. 1.00

00:42:34.000 You can see how irritated Fauci is here. 1.00

00:42:36.000 Somebody didn't like the way I answered it, so they hashtagged it, fire Fauci.

00:42:42.000 That's it.

00:42:42.000 That's the world we live in.

00:42:43.000 I accept it.

00:42:44.000 It doesn't bother me.

00:42:45.000 But can the president fire you?

00:42:50.000 Well, it depends on what you mean by fire me.

00:42:53.000 I'm on the task force serving at his pleasure.

00:42:56.000 He could remove me from the task force.

00:42:58.000 I was with him for quite a while today.

00:43:01.000 He has no intention of doing that.

00:43:03.000 Okay, and then Fauci was asked about whether Trump acted quickly, because remember, he was on Jake Tapper, and Tapper had said, would we have saved more lives if we did something in February?

00:43:11.000 And Fauci was like, well, I mean, sure, but if we had acted last August, we would have saved more lives, right?

00:43:18.000 Here was Fauci clarifying himself.

00:43:20.000 The first and only time that Dr. Birx and I went in and formally made a recommendation to the president to actually have a, quote, shutdown in the sense of, not really shutdown, but to really have strong mitigation, we discussed it.

00:43:38.000 Obviously, there would be concern by some that, in fact, that might have some negative consequences.

00:43:45.000 Nonetheless, the president listened to the recommendation.

00:43:49.000 And went to the mitigation.

00:43:51.000 Okay, and then Fauci was asked if he was being put up there as a puppet by Paul O'Reid from CBS News.

00:43:56.000 And CBS was touting this as like, what great questioning.

00:43:59.000 And Fauci's like, are you serious right now?

00:44:02.000 Like you think that I'm just Trump's meat puppet?

00:44:04.000 Is that your actual suggestion?

00:44:05.000 This guy's been working in government for decades.

00:44:08.000 It's just absurd.

00:44:08.000 Here's Fauci again being tried, the media trying to manipulate it so that Fauci will say something bad about Trump so Trump will get mad and fire him.

00:44:15.000 You said there was pushback.

00:44:17.000 Where did that pushback come from?

00:44:18.000 No, it wasn't.

00:44:19.000 That was the wrong choice of words.

00:44:20.000 You know what it was?

00:44:21.000 When people discuss, not necessarily in front of the president, when people discuss, they say, well, you know, this is going to have maybe a harmful effect on this or on that.

00:44:30.000 So it was a poor choice of words.

00:44:31.000 There wasn't anybody saying, no, you shouldn't do that.

00:44:34.000 Are you doing this voluntarily?

00:44:35.000 No, I'm doing it.

00:44:37.000 Everything I do is voluntarily.

00:44:39.000 Please don't even imply that.

00:44:43.000 Okay, and good for Fauci.

00:44:44.000 So the media was doing this routine yesterday.

00:44:46.000 And so President Trump, at the presser, decided to go directly back after the media.

00:44:49.000 Now, full credit to Chris Cuomo.

00:44:51.000 So Chris Cuomo did a radio show yesterday in which he was asked specifically about his job at CNN. 0.99

00:44:58.000 And he basically said, since I've had coronavirus, I'm realizing my job is really stupid. 0.98

00:45:05.000 Yeah, honestly, like slow clap for Chris Cuomo. 0.99

00:45:08.000 Correct.

00:45:09.000 Correct. 1.00

00:45:09.000 If your entire job consists of just sitting there and bitching about Trump all day, then yes, that's a stupid job. 1.00

00:45:14.000 Here's Chris Cuomo basically admitting as much. 0.99

00:45:16.000 I don't want to spend my time doing things that I don't think are valuable enough to me personally.

00:45:26.000 Like what?

00:45:29.000 I don't like what I do, professionally, I've decided.

00:45:34.000 I like doing this show, I like talking to you guys, but I don't value indulging irrationality, hyper-partisanship.

00:45:48.000 I don't think it's worth my time.

00:45:52.000 Okay, so again, he is correct about this, but the media love it, right?

00:45:56.000 So it took a life-and-death experience for Cuomo to recognize that the media are really all about this stuff, and they really are, right?

00:46:01.000 Trump loves it because Trump loves him some Trump, and the media love it because the media love them some media.

00:46:05.000 So yesterday, President Trump went after the media.

00:46:08.000 He said, listen, here's the timeline of me doing things, right?

00:46:11.000 Here is Trump ripping into the media.

00:46:13.000 How do you close down the greatest economy in the history of the world when on January 17th, you have no cases and no death?

00:46:22.000 When on January 21st, you have one case and no death.

00:46:26.000 One case.

00:46:26.000 Think of that.

00:46:27.000 Now, we're supposed to close down the country, but here's what happened.

00:46:31.000 When on January 31st, I instituted the ban, Joe Biden went crazy.

00:46:37.000 He said, you don't need the ban.

00:46:39.000 He didn't go crazy.

00:46:40.000 He didn't even know what the hell the ban was.

00:46:43.000 Okay, and he is not wrong about this.

00:46:45.000 And then Trump went on.

00:46:47.000 He actually showed a long video of members of the media talking about him and ripping him for the China flight ban.

00:46:53.000 It's like a three minute video talking about how he was right and everybody else was wrong.

00:46:58.000 And so the media lose it yesterday.

00:46:59.000 Like they completely lose it.

00:47:01.000 So just to show you the media bias.

00:47:02.000 So here's the difference between CNN's chyrons and the other chyrons.

00:47:06.000 Okay, so CNN's chyrons yesterday were just absurd, right?

00:47:10.000 New York Times experts aid tried to warn Trump of coronavirus threat.

00:47:13.000 Okay, Fox News says Trump defends reaction to virus outbreak.

00:47:16.000 Fox News' chyron is more accurate.

00:47:18.000 Okay, that is a more accurate chyron.

00:47:20.000 Okay, and then there were more chyrons.

00:47:22.000 Right, the CNN basically says Trump used, CNN was, Trump uses task force briefing to try and rewrite history on coronavirus response.

00:47:30.000 That's an editorial!

00:47:32.000 And then Fox News says Trump wants to correct fake news.

00:47:35.000 That's an accurate headline.

00:47:36.000 So the media were treating this as like CNN did a great job with its chyrons. 0.99

00:47:39.000 CNN did a crap job with its chyrons. 1.00

00:47:41.000 You wonder why Trump is dumping all over the media? 1.00

00:47:42.000 Because you are Trump.

00:47:43.000 Trump is you.

00:47:44.000 You guys are just the Marx Brothers without the mirror there, right?

00:47:48.000 And you're just doing the hand motion silently.

00:47:51.000 And it's Groucho on one end and Harpo on the other.

00:47:53.000 And eventually you just step through the mirror and you're still mirroring each other.

00:47:57.000 That's what you guys are.

00:47:57.000 Right?

00:47:58.000 CNN had a chyron said, angry Trump turns briefing into propaganda session.

00:48:03.000 Fox News said Trump wants to keep media honest.

00:48:06.000 Again, CNN was just like all in on this thing. 0.90

00:48:09.000 And it was ridiculous. 0.99

00:48:10.000 Ridiculous. 0.98

00:48:11.000 Okay, so CNN, John King, then he gets upset. 0.97

00:48:13.000 That was propaganda.

00:48:14.000 It was just pure propaganda.

00:48:16.000 What do you think press briefings are?

00:48:18.000 Have you ever been to a press briefing?

00:48:19.000 They are giving the administration side of the story.

00:48:22.000 And is it not similarly propaganda when the members of the media sit there and ask questions they would only ask to Republicans in the same way 97 times?

00:48:30.000 Here is John King going after Trump for being mean to the media.

00:48:32.000 Oh, poor media.

00:48:33.000 Oh, I feel so bad for you.

00:48:34.000 Oh, again.

00:48:36.000 Ask as many tough questions as you want of Trump.

00:48:38.000 Do I think Trump is handling this in the smartest possible way?

00:48:40.000 No.

00:48:41.000 I think he should be saying right now, listen, you guys are focused on all the wrong things.

00:48:43.000 You know what the American people care about?

00:48:45.000 How we stop people from dying.

00:48:46.000 You know what they don't care about?

00:48:47.000 Your petty little attempts to get on television.

00:48:49.000 That's it.

00:48:49.000 Right?

00:48:51.000 I think Trump would be well within his rights to say that.

00:48:53.000 But to pretend that the media and Trump are not two sides of the same coin is absurdity.

00:48:57.000 Here is John King going, hey, he was propagandizing. 0.93

00:48:59.000 The righteous indignation and pearl clutching is just ridiculous. 0.86

00:49:03.000 That was propaganda.

00:49:04.000 That was not just a campaign video.

00:49:05.000 That was propaganda aired at taxpayer expense in the White House briefing room.

00:49:10.000 And it was selective, cherry-picking information.

00:49:13.000 Again, the President has every right to be proud of imposing the travel restrictions on China. 0.99

00:49:18.000 He has every right to defend himself.

00:49:19.000 He has every right to push back.

00:49:21.000 He has every right to challenge things that are factually not true.

00:49:24.000 But to play a propaganda video at taxpayer expense in the White House briefing room You mean he's strung together clips that back his case and you don't like it?

00:49:41.000 Wow.

00:49:42.000 That sounds kind of like CNN, except like they do it to attack Trump.

00:49:46.000 And then you have Jim Acosta saying, this is the biggest meltdown I've ever seen.

00:49:49.000 Really?

00:49:50.000 Like, because I've seen Jim Acosta on TV a lot.

00:49:52.000 Here's Jim Acosta.

00:49:52.000 And ladies, find you a man who loves you like Jim Acosta loves Jim Acosta.

00:49:56.000 Here's Jim Acosta saying, it's the biggest meltdown I've ever seen.

00:49:58.000 And I've seen tons of meltdowns because I'm Jim Acosta.

00:50:01.000 And let me tell you, every morning in the mirror, when I look in the mirror and I see Jim Acosta, let me tell you, there's a handsome man, that Jim Acosta.

00:50:06.000 Here's Jim Acosta talking about Jim Acosta having viewed meltdowns as Jim Acosta while watching a press conference being Jim Acosta.

00:50:13.000 That is the biggest meltdown I have ever seen from a President of the United States in my career.

00:50:18.000 I don't think a reasonable person could watch what we just saw over the last hour and conclude that the President is in control.

00:50:26.000 He sounds like he is out of control.

00:50:28.000 And he was ranting and raving for the better part of the last hour during that news conference.

00:50:32.000 As John King was just saying, he's claiming that he has authorities that he doesn't have.

00:50:37.000 The Constitution does not give the President of the United States Okay, again, the fact that you've got the media who are so angry at this.

00:50:42.000 They're so angry.

00:50:42.000 Here's the truth.

00:50:43.000 The media love it.

00:50:44.000 They love every single solitary second of this.

00:50:46.000 Every single moment.

00:50:46.000 president's authority as plenary or absolute.

00:50:49.000 That is not the case.

00:50:51.000 That is a fact check false.

00:50:53.000 OK, again, the fact that you've got the media who are so angry at this, they're so here's the truth.

00:50:59.000 Media love it.

00:51:00.000 They love every single solitary second of this, every single moment, because anytime they get to talk about the battle between Trump and the media, then they are happy to You wonder why Trump's approval ratings are low and why the media approval ratings are low?

00:51:12.000 Because they are mirror images of one another.

00:51:13.000 The American people don't give two craps about any of this.

00:51:16.000 I don't care about it.

00:51:16.000 I don't care about Trump attacking Acosta.

00:51:18.000 I don't care about Trump attacking CBS News reporters.

00:51:20.000 I don't care about them trying to play gotcha with Anthony Fauci.

00:51:23.000 I think it's a complete waste of time.

00:51:24.000 Nobody will ask simple, solid, straightforward questions.

00:51:28.000 Like, honestly.

00:51:30.000 Questions like, you say that we need to have contact tracing.

00:51:34.000 What is the practical plan to have contact tracing be available?

00:51:37.000 You say that we are going to need hundreds of millions of tests.

00:51:41.000 What is the practical plan to make that available and what is the timeline for the availability?

00:51:44.000 You said we needed ICU bed increases and ventilator increases to the point where the curve would not exceed the line.

00:51:50.000 When do we know that that has been?

00:51:52.000 These are very simple questions.

00:51:53.000 Why have you not done random testing across the United States in terms of antibodies or in terms of just, forget about asymptomatic cases, just cases generally?

00:52:01.000 Why have you not done general testing so that we have some idea of what the base rate is here?

00:52:06.000 Like, these are simple, easy questions that I've been asking every day on the show, and no one in the media goes to the press briefing and asks those questions.

00:52:12.000 Instead, it's all, why are you so mean to everybody, Mr. Trump?

00:52:15.000 Why are you so mean, Mr. President?

00:52:16.000 You're being mean again. 1.00

00:52:17.000 Who gives a flying crap? 0.99

00:52:19.000 I don't care. 0.99

00:52:19.000 Do you care? 0.99

00:52:20.000 We're talking about the possibility of mass death here, and they're all like, oh, well, he was mean and he was propagandizing. 0.95

00:52:26.000 Talk about beltway insider garbage is the definition of it.

00:52:30.000 All right, we'll do a quick thing I like, and then we'll get to a thing that I hate.

00:52:33.000 So things that I like today.

00:52:35.000 So as I mentioned, I'm spending an awful lot of time indoors with my children, and that means reading them books.

00:52:40.000 So there is a book recommended, I believe it might have been by Tim Carney on Twitter, called The Blue Book of Stories by Tom Longano.

00:52:48.000 And it is just highly amusing.

00:52:50.000 The whole thing is a series of stories, kind of in Lewis Sacker style, about 5th grade boys, and being 5th grade boys.

00:52:58.000 They're very funny, they're very clever, and they're really enjoyable.

00:53:02.000 It's also pretty well written.

00:53:04.000 So go check that out if you've got a 5th grade boy, or kids who are younger.

00:53:07.000 Like my daughter's in kindergarten and she loved it.

00:53:08.000 She thought it was hilarious.

00:53:09.000 The Blue Book of Stories by Tom Longano.

00:53:11.000 And spend some time reading to your kids, it really is a pleasure.

00:53:14.000 Really one of the more joyous experiences of my life at this point.

00:53:17.000 Alrighty, time for A Thing That I Hate.

00:53:24.000 Alrighty, so this shall be many things that I hate.

00:53:27.000 Many things that I hate.

00:53:28.000 So, hilariously, the last two days have seen a bunch of endorsements for Joe Biden.

00:53:33.000 All it took was for everyone else to endorse Joe Biden, for Barack Obama to endorse Joe Biden.

00:53:36.000 So this morning, Barack Obama came out and endorsed Joe Biden.

00:53:39.000 He said, I'm proud to endorse my friend Joe Biden for President of the United States.

00:53:43.000 Let's go.

00:53:44.000 Well, here we are.

00:53:45.000 I guess everybody else is out of the race.

00:53:47.000 I guess it's a year since he declared and I didn't endorse him. 0.94

00:53:51.000 I'm basically useless.

00:53:52.000 I led from behind. 0.80

00:53:53.000 Did nothing for a year.

00:53:55.000 I am a good friend.

00:53:56.000 I'm the best friend.

00:53:57.000 I'm the guy you call when every other person will not drive you to the airport and all the cabs are broken and then maybe I'll drive you to the airport and maybe not.

00:54:05.000 Maybe I'll do it after the plane's left.

00:54:06.000 That's what I do.

00:54:07.000 I'm the president.

00:54:08.000 Barack Obama.

00:54:09.000 Love you, Joe.

00:54:10.000 That's what this is.

00:54:12.000 So I love the fact that Barack Obama's endorsement is actually less impactful than Bernie Sanders' endorsement at this point because he waited so long.

00:54:18.000 Like, imagine if Barack Obama had endorsed Joe Biden before South Carolina.

00:54:22.000 Then he'd be getting all the credit.

00:54:23.000 But Obama never had any coattails.

00:54:25.000 Not for any other Democrat.

00:54:27.000 His Democratic Party got wiped out while he was president.

00:54:29.000 Wiped out in Congress.

00:54:30.000 Wiped out in the Senate.

00:54:31.000 Wiped out on the gubernatorial level.

00:54:32.000 Wiped out in the state legislatures.

00:54:34.000 And this is one of the reasons why.

00:54:35.000 Because for all the talk about how Donald Trump is an egotist, which he assuredly is, Barack Obama is a massive egotist as well.

00:54:41.000 And he was not willing to jump on the Joe Biden bandwagon, specifically because he was concerned that Joe was old and senile.

00:54:46.000 Which, by the way, Joe Biden is old and senile.

00:54:49.000 You may have noticed this.

00:54:50.000 So, that was the second most important endorsement of the last 24 hours.

00:54:54.000 The first most important endorsement was Bernie Sanders.

00:54:56.000 I have to admit, I do love the fact that Bernie Sanders just cut off Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the knees.

00:55:02.000 It is beautiful.

00:55:03.000 So yesterday morning, There's a piece by Askiat Herndon over at the New York Times called, In an interview, Ms.

00:55:13.000 Ocasio-Cortez said she intended to support the presumptive Democratic nominee, but the process of coming together should be uncomfortable for everyone involved.

00:55:20.000 And so she wanted to make demands, demands of Joe Biden so that the entire progressive wing would get behind the Joe Biden campaign.

00:55:28.000 She said that the Biden campaign had not reached out to her.

00:55:30.000 She said, there's this talk about unity as this kind of vague kumbaya kind of term.

00:55:34.000 Unity and unifying isn't a feeling, it's a process.

00:55:36.000 And what I hope does not happen is that everyone just tries to shoo it along and brush real policies.

00:55:40.000 That means the difference of life and death or affording your insulin and not affording your insulin.

00:55:44.000 Just brush them under the rug as an aesthetic difference of style.

00:55:47.000 There's also this idea that if we all just support the nominee, voters will come along as well.

00:55:52.000 I don't think this conversation about changes that need to be made is one about throwing the progressive wing of the party a couple of bones.

00:55:57.000 I think this is how we can win.

00:55:59.000 So she says that she wants the Medicare age lowered to 60.

00:56:03.000 I love this.

00:56:04.000 It's almost insulting.

00:56:05.000 I think Hillary was looking at policies that lowered it to 50. 0.99

00:56:06.000 this olive branch to the progressive left, she says, of lowering the Medicare age to 60.

00:56:09.000 It's almost insulting.

00:56:11.000 I think Hillary was looking at policies that lowered it to 50. 0.99

00:56:13.000 So we're talking about a progressive concession that is 10 years worse than the nominee we had back in 2016.

00:56:18.000 Progressives aren't like a monolith.

00:56:21.000 Like every voting bloc is in a monolith.

00:56:22.000 But I know from a Latino perspective, I think we need a real plan to be better than what happened during his service with the Obama administration.

00:56:27.000 I love she says that progressives aren't a monolith, but there is a monolithic Latino perspective.

00:56:33.000 Very interesting.

00:56:34.000 And then she says that she wants some sort of concessions.

00:56:38.000 On deportations.

00:56:40.000 She says, if we're not talking about paths to citizenship for undocumented people, if we're just talking about policy changes of 5 or 10 percent, it's not about moving to the left.

00:56:47.000 It's about who is able to find hope in your administration.

00:56:50.000 So she has this long interview with the New York Times talking about all the things that she wants from Joe Biden in order for her to endorse.

00:56:57.000 And five seconds later, Bernie Sanders gets on a live stream with Joe Biden and endorses.

00:57:01.000 Now, the great shock here is that both of them were able to work the live stream.

00:57:05.000 That is clearly the great shock here.

00:57:06.000 There must have been a grandkid nearby who was able to work the camera.

00:57:10.000 But watching Stadler and Hofstadter from the Muppets talk to each other here was really an experience.

00:57:16.000 Or Sam the Eagle and Larry David.

00:57:19.000 That was really an experience.

00:57:20.000 That's kind of what they look like here.

00:57:23.000 Have you ever seen a show this bad?

00:57:25.000 No, I've not seen a show this bad since I walked out on the Ford's Theater in 1865.

00:57:29.000 That's what this was.

00:57:35.000 It was unbelievable.

00:57:37.000 So Bernie Sanders finally endorses Joe Biden for president.

00:57:41.000 Joe Biden's doing it from his well-lit basement.

00:57:45.000 And his forehead continues to climb up his entire head.

00:57:47.000 It now constitutes the entire front portion of his cranium.

00:57:51.000 Like his forehead actually starts midway through the top of his skull and now descends all the way to his nose.

00:57:57.000 Joe Biden's forehead.

00:57:59.000 And then you've got Bernie Sanders, who's like, I know I'm irrelevant now, but I have one more shot to say a thing.

00:58:03.000 And here I am.

00:58:04.000 The best part of this is that it was a live stream where they were supposed to be casual and fun.

00:58:08.000 And Joe Biden was desperately trying to read off a teleprompter.

00:58:11.000 During the entire thing, because Joe Biden has lost all capacity for independent human thought.

00:58:15.000 It's over for him.

00:58:16.000 He has no capacity.

00:58:18.000 He's a Joe Biden bot, but like a crappy bot version 0.7.

00:58:22.000 Not the one that was supposed to be released.

00:58:24.000 He's AOL 1.0 with the dial-up connection.

00:58:27.000 So here is Bernie endorsing Biden with sufficiently more enthusiasm than Joe Biden, who is not actually an alive person.

00:58:34.000 We've got to make Trump a one-term president, and we need you in the White House.

00:58:39.000 So I will do all that I can to see that that happens, Joe.

00:58:44.000 And I know that there is an enormous responsibility on your shoulders right now.

00:58:51.000 And it's imperative that all of us work together to do what has to be done, not only in this moment, but beyond this moment, in the future of this country. 1.00

00:59:03.000 Okay, and then Biden did a bunch of stupid things. 0.63

00:59:05.000 So Biden thinks that the way that he is going to unify the party is by making all sorts of concessions to Bernie and by starting to mimic Bernie's policies. 1.00

00:59:12.000 And this is pretty much the dumbest thing you can do. 0.82

00:59:14.000 The reason that this is the dumbest thing you can do is because Biden's entire campaign, the reason he shellacked Bernie, and he shellacked Bernie way worse than Hillary shellacked Bernie in 2016, right? 0.98

00:59:23.000 Hillary narrowly beat Bernie. 0.99

00:59:25.000 Biden just killed him. 0.79

00:59:26.000 I mean, Biden whomped him.

00:59:28.000 He won 11 out of 14 Super Tuesday states.

00:59:30.000 The moment that people saw Bernie as a possible frontrunner, Bernie collapsed in on himself like the Soviet economy circa 1987.

00:59:38.000 Okay, and so why would you, at this point, attempt desperately to mimic Bernie Sanders' policies?

00:59:45.000 You just killed him. 0.92

00:59:47.000 He's dead already. 0.96

00:59:48.000 What are you doing?

00:59:49.000 What are you doing?

00:59:50.000 Like, the best move here that Joe Biden could have made was to completely joffrey Bernie Sanders, right?

00:59:54.000 Bernie bends the knee, and Biden just lops off his head and selects Amy Klobuchar as his VP or something.

01:00:01.000 Instead, Biden had to pay homage to Bernie.

01:00:01.000 Okay, but he didn't do that.

01:00:03.000 He says that Bernie is one of the most powerful voices ever.

01:00:06.000 Of course, he's reading from a teleprompter while he says this.

01:00:08.000 It means a great deal to me personally.

01:00:11.000 As I said in my statement when you suspended your campaign, I want to thank you for being the powerful voice.

01:00:16.000 And you've been the most powerful voice for a fair and more just America.

01:00:20.000 It's a voice like yours that refuses to allow us just to accept what is.

01:00:25.000 You've refused to accept that we can't change what's wrong in our nation.

01:00:29.000 You refuse to accept that health and well-being of our fellow citizens and our planet isn't the responsibility of somebody else.

01:00:36.000 It's our responsibility.

01:00:38.000 Act now.

01:00:38.000 And you don't get enough credit, Bernie.

01:00:41.000 You don't get enough credit because I've been denying you credit because I think you're a crazy old loon bag. 1.00

01:00:46.000 I am a crazy old loon bag! 1.00

01:00:47.000 Of course I'm a crazy old loon bag! 0.99

01:00:49.000 And you are going to give me all the things that... I don't need to do that. 0.98

01:00:51.000 I killed you. 0.99

01:00:52.000 No, no, no, no, no! 1.00

01:00:53.000 You are going to give... And so Biden's like, oh, okay, fine. 0.99

01:00:57.000 So then he starts saying crazy crap, which again is not going to benefit him in the election. 0.99

01:01:00.000 So here's Joe Biden saying crazy crap, right? 0.99

01:01:02.000 He says, you know what I think we should do? 0.97

01:01:04.000 We should use wartime authority to force banks to give small loans to businesses.

01:01:09.000 Wartime authority to force banks to give loans they would not otherwise give.

01:01:13.000 So we're not just going to use the government to give out bad loans like we did during the subprime crisis or like we did during CARP or something.

01:01:18.000 We are actually going to force small banks to give loans they don't want to give using wartime authority, which is just full-on economic fascism.

01:01:25.000 I mean, that is what that is.

01:01:27.000 When you seize control of the banks and force them to give loans, that is basically the definition of economic fascism.

01:01:32.000 Here is Joe Biden suggesting it openly because he doesn't know what he's talking about.

01:01:36.000 He's lost all connection with reality.

01:01:38.000 We should insist that the Trump White House and the Treasury Department move more aggressively to get those grants and loans to small businesses now, when they really need it.

01:01:48.000 And if the banks won't do it, to go back to your point, they won't process the loans for small business regardless of their size, then the federal government should use their wartime authority to compel them to do so.

01:02:01.000 Because otherwise, in six months, we're going to look back and see that this crisis has only made inequity worse in America.

01:02:09.000 So we're going to use the government for redistribution of wealth in the middle of a global pandemic.

01:02:14.000 And he says this again, right?

01:02:15.000 He says, let's do a Green New Deal. 0.82

01:02:16.000 Let's pursue progressive priorities.

01:02:18.000 Let me be clear about something.

01:02:19.000 One of the reasons you are not seeing like outright state refusal to listen to the federal government is the fact that Donald Trump is president.

01:02:26.000 If these people, the people who are insisting on full-scale federal control of every aspect of your life, were using this crisis as an excuse to take control of businesses and banks across the country, there would be, rightly, talk of disobeying the federal government.

01:02:39.000 There would be.

01:02:40.000 Like, one of the things that is keeping things on lockdown right now is the fact that Trump obviously does not want to fundamentally shift the nature of the relationship between citizen and government.

01:02:48.000 Joe Biden is scaring.

01:02:49.000 This is scary, OK?

01:02:49.000 Because this is Joe Biden being Bernie.

01:02:52.000 And this just shows that for the Democratic Party, their heart is still with Bernie, even though they're not willing to show it on the outside.

01:02:57.000 So here is Joe Biden being Bernie on progressive policies while Bernie sits there bored and staring at his fingernails.

01:03:03.000 Look, the United States has no choice but to seize this opportunity and create millions, millions of great paying jobs that your energy plan has suggested and mine as well.

01:03:13.000 An energy infrastructure of tomorrow, not going back to anything that was before, tomorrow.

01:03:19.000 And we take a backseat to no one when it comes to fighting climate change or when it comes to creating good paying jobs, middle class jobs, union jobs.

01:03:27.000 Union job.

01:03:28.000 What are you talking about?

01:03:29.000 We have 30 million people who are out of work.

01:03:31.000 Okay, we've gained 17 million people on the unemployment rolls.

01:03:34.000 You want to lose an election?

01:03:35.000 This is the way to lose an election.

01:03:36.000 Seriously.

01:03:37.000 Is to say crazy, radical things that Trump can actually pick on in the run-up to the election. 0.98

01:03:40.000 The other way to lose the election is to be a complete buffoon, and that Biden has done in spades. 0.93

01:03:45.000 He made three separate gaffes in this thing last night. 0.67

01:03:47.000 First, he named the economy twice in his working groups, which is like the full-on Rick Perry, but he doesn't get treated like Rick Perry because he's Joe Biden.

01:03:53.000 We just pretend he's old, senile Uncle Joe.

01:03:55.000 Here he is, gaffe number one.

01:03:57.000 Bernie and I have agreed to establish, as we said, we already talked about it, six policy working groups.

01:04:03.000 One on the economy, one on education, one on criminal justice.

01:04:08.000 It should be reform, not punishment.

01:04:10.000 One on immigration, climate change, and the economy.

01:04:16.000 Oh, like the economy twice.

01:04:17.000 Well, that's important.

01:04:18.000 Also, gaffe number two, then he's trying to get his aides' attention.

01:04:20.000 Remember that time that Marco Rubio swigged from a water bottle and it was a huge deal?

01:04:23.000 Here is Joe Biden trying desperately to get his aides' attention in the middle of a live stream.

01:04:28.000 With so many folks unemployed and underemployed, we've got to make sure that the government comes up with a continued set of policies that protect those workers.

01:04:42.000 And the pain all over the country is now horrific.

01:04:46.000 You have seen, as I have, these lines of cars And I mean, what is Joe Biden doing here?

01:04:54.000 He's like trying to spoon something.

01:04:56.000 What's going on?

01:04:57.000 This is song and dance at the old age home.

01:04:59.000 Finally, gaffe number three.

01:05:00.000 Biden says he's going to put millions of citizens on the pathway to citizenship, which would be weird because citizens don't need a pathway to citizenship, as the word citizenship would actually suggest.

01:05:09.000 I really think we should be thinking about having a new office, a new cabinet office on pandemics in the United States, but that's another issue.

01:05:17.000 But we're going to finally achieve comprehensive immigration reform as well, put millions of citizens on a pathway to citizenship, including so many who are on the front lines right now.

01:05:27.000 The number of undocumented who are out there now risking their lives.

01:05:37.000 What is he talking about? 0.99

01:05:39.000 Okay, so this crazy old kook. 0.87

01:05:40.000 I'm so glad that everyone is proud to endorse, including Barack Obama, who literally was left with only one option. 0.89

01:05:45.000 So good stuff there, Democrats.

01:05:46.000 Listen, Biden's a super vulnerable candidate.

01:05:48.000 He maintains that vulnerability.

01:05:49.000 But Trump is going to have to actually demonstrate some leadership.

01:05:52.000 He's going to have to forego the cheap and easy hit against the media and actually demonstrate some desire to unify the country.

01:05:57.000 Because basically this election right now is going to be a referendum on what Trump does with the worst crisis in modern American history, really since the Civil War.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - April 14, 2020

Full Court Press | Ep. 991

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