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00:02:03.000He is no longer going to be governor of New York.
00:02:06.000He's giving himself 14 days to slow the spread.
00:02:09.000Apparently he is not going to resign for another two weeks, but he says he is leaving right as of now.
00:02:15.000He said on Tuesday he will resign, relinquishing under extraordinary pressure his decade-long grip on power, heading off a potential impeachment by New York's Democratic-led legislature a week after the release of a report by the state AG found that he had sexually harassed 11 women.
00:02:30.000Here is what it sounded like when Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation.
00:02:35.000I think that given the circumstances, the best way I can help now is if I step aside and let government get back to governing.
00:03:14.000Honestly, the guy's gonna have to step down from office after killing every old person in the state of New York and then covering it up because he allegedly groped a woman's breasts.
00:04:09.000They could either rethink how they approach the pandemic and throw Cuomo under the bus on that score, or they could find another reason to throw him under the bus.
00:04:16.000And conveniently enough, earlier this year, out came these allegations that he had been grabbing people's asses.
00:04:21.000And that was a perfect excuse to go after Andrew Cuomo.
00:04:24.000Beyond that, Andrew Cuomo has no allies, because here's the thing.
00:04:27.000The media spent a year treating Andrew Cuomo like he was some sort of beloved figure in New York.
00:06:03.000And for that, I deeply, deeply apologize.
00:06:06.000Okay, so his line here is that he is very, very sorry that somebody was offended, but also he didn't do anything wrong.
00:06:12.000He just sort of breached some etiquette by allegedly grabbing women and kissing them on the lips and touching them in weird ways and asking them weird questions and all the rest.
00:06:22.000And this was his line throughout the presser, right?
00:06:24.000He said, my sense of humor can offend people sometimes.
00:06:27.000He just, you know, it's really on them because they get offended.
00:06:40.000Once it became clear he was going to be impeached, he had to resign because if he had been impeached, he could never come back.
00:06:45.000But if he resigned, he could theoretically come back four years from now saying, well, you know, those allegations really never panned out.
00:06:52.000And I stepped down because it was necessary for me to step down at the time.
00:06:56.000But now that we know that those things didn't pan out, well, I think maybe I'll come back.
00:07:00.000This is what happened with, for example, Senator Al Franken, right?
00:07:03.000When Al Franken stepped down as senator from Minnesota over allegations of grasping women's behinds and rope lines.
00:07:09.000We made New York State the progressive capital of the nation.
00:07:11.000No other state government accomplished more to help people.
00:07:13.000Andrew Cuomo then going on to try and defend his legacy, right? So even as he's leaving, he's defending his garbage legacy. We made New York State the progressive capital of the nation.
00:07:24.000No other state government accomplished more to help people.
00:07:31.000Just think about what we did. We passed marriage equality, creating a new civil right, legalized love for the LGBTQ community, and we generated a force for change that swept the nation.
00:07:56.000Like so many people leaving the state that you couldn't even raise taxes anymore because you were afraid that if you raised taxes anymore, every wealthy person in the state of New York was going to leave.
00:08:05.000Again, What he's really doing here is he's just attempting to preserve a future political lifeline.
00:08:10.000So don't take this the way the Democrats are taking this.
00:08:21.000Okay, we'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:09:24.000All right, just as the proof that Andrew Cuomo is not actually apologetic about any of this, let's recall that before Andrew Cuomo actually resigned, his personal lawyer, a woman named Rita Glavin, Give a 42-minute monologue in which you just tore into everybody who had made an allegation about Andrew Cuomo.
00:09:41.000So, for example, Cuomo's attorney trashed two accusers specifically.
00:09:46.000She, of course, is the woman who alleged that Andrew Cuomo had rubbed her butt and that he had then called her into his office and stuck his hand up her shirt.
00:09:55.000And Lindsey Boylan, who had suggested that he had kissed her on the lips and then he had made inappropriate comments, Cuomo's attorney just There was also testimony by several witnesses about potential motives in what was going on with Ms.
00:10:04.000about Andrew Cuomo actually admitting fault is precisely the opposite, right?
00:10:08.000He wants to leave on his own terms before his impeachment sort of seals his record into stone.
00:10:14.000There was also testimony by several evidence, by several witnesses about potential motives and what was going on with Ms. Camiso in late 2020 and early 2021.
00:10:28.000And concerns she had about her job, that she had been turned down for a raise, and concerns that there was a possibility that because her work hours might change, she could be transferred.
00:10:41.000Boylan had ran in a primary against Congressman Jerry Nadler.
00:10:46.000And in March of 2020, when COVID started, the governor issued an executive order which narrowed the timeframe for people to get petitions so they could get on the ballot.
00:10:59.000Boylan was very unhappy about this and felt that that had been directed at her.
00:11:13.000And the answer, of course, is that Cuomo had alienated so many people inside the Democratic Party that it didn't matter what evidence he provided on the other side.
00:11:23.000I mean, Cuomo's attorney basically acknowledged this, and she said the investigators brought their own bias.
00:11:27.000I mean, she's going after Attorney General Letitia James here, pointing out that Letitia James has her eye on the governor's seat, which of course is true.
00:11:34.000The two investigators that were charged with this report, certainly, and it comes through when you read it, they brought their own biases.
00:11:46.000Mr. Kim had pursued and supervised criminal investigations against the governor for years at that office.
00:11:54.000And he actually personally interviewed him.
00:11:57.000Personally interviewed Governor Cuomo in one of the criminal investigations.
00:12:27.000It's not just Andrew who's not going to go away.
00:12:29.000Apparently Chris is going to stick around too.
00:12:31.000You know Chris is still advising him from CNN?
00:12:34.000There's a report in the Washington Post that mentions, buried in paragraph 11, that Chris Cuomo is still advising his brother, despite the fact that basically he's been suspended from duty for advising his brother.
00:12:43.000Now, the angle that Democrats are taking with regard to Cuomo leaving, it's a really strange angle.
00:12:50.000Normally when somebody leaves, you don't celebrate them.
00:12:52.000You don't talk about what a wonderful job they did.
00:12:54.000Letitia James just put out 168 page report about what a terrible person Andrew Cuomo is.
00:12:59.000And then she put out a statement saying, I thank Governor Cuomo for his contributions to our state.
00:13:07.000Joe Biden did the same thing, by the way.
00:13:09.000He started off by saying he respected Cuomo's decision, and then he had to be told what Cuomo's decision was, and also who Andrew Cuomo was, because obviously the President of the United States is no longer with us, unfortunately.
00:13:19.000But as we say, no one ever really dies.
00:13:20.000Here is Joe Biden saying that he respects Andrew Cuomo's decision.
00:13:24.000What is your reaction to Governor Cuomo's, uh, his announcement that he's stepping down?
00:14:02.000Andrew Cuomo had a COVID policy by which he shipped COVID positive elderly patients back into nursing homes, who then went on to infect everybody in the nursing homes.
00:14:12.000And then, when these people got so sick they had to be shipped to the hospitals, he promptly had his death count not count them as nursing home patients.
00:14:20.000Instead, they were counted as people who died outside nursing homes.
00:14:24.000That was like somewhere between 9,000 and 11,000 elderly people who were counted as non-nursing home patients when they were actually nursing home patients when they got the disease and they were shipped out like a day before they died to the local hospital.
00:15:17.000And so if they cannot dissociate from Andrew Cuomo's actual record on COVID, they will dissociate from Andrew Cuomo on other grounds.
00:15:24.000That is what we are seeing right here.
00:15:25.000And that brought Joe Biden to this bizarre impasse where he had to talk about what a wonderful person and governor Andrew Cuomo was, and then express that that's why his personal behavior was sad.
00:17:46.000And she followed up with Biden, and she said, um, you know, you said he did an amazing job, but, um, he did sexually harass half the women he ever met in the office.
00:18:26.000You can't separate the two, but you can separate the two.
00:18:29.000Weird, because we were told when Trump was president, you definitely could not separate the two.
00:18:32.000Remember, this was Joe Biden's pitch for the presidency, is that his character made him fit for the presidency, unlike that evil, dullard Donald Trump, who was so terrible to women.
00:18:41.000Also, we were supposed to ignore the Terry Reid allegations, because Joe Biden is obviously a wonderful, wonderful person.
00:18:46.000Jen Psaki then tried to explain her way out of this little conundrum.
00:18:50.000She tweeted out, President responded to a specific question today about New York Governor Cuomo's work on infrastructure.
00:18:55.000He also made clear it was right for Cuomo to step down, reiterated his support for women who come forward, and made clear he can't separate personal behavior from other work.
00:19:02.000Okay, unless we're talking about Tara Reid alleging that back in the 1990s, Joe Biden, then a senator from Delaware, actively digitally raped her.
00:19:12.000I mean, that's her actual allegation, Tara Reade, from the 1990s.
00:19:15.000And we're supposed to pretend that that never happened, of course.
00:19:17.000Okay, so Democrats felt that this was a time to celebrate their own incredible moral compass.
00:19:25.000So, Mehdi Hasan from MSNBC, he led the way.
00:19:28.000He gave this whole impassioned monologue about, this just shows that Democrats are amazing at policing their own.
00:20:19.000In fact, you had Democratic commentators like Nina BrulĂŠ from Time Magazine saying that she literally would have performed oral sex on Bill Clinton to keep abortion legal.
00:20:34.000But here's Mehdi Hassan playing this game.
00:20:36.000Republicans have been all over the Andrew Cuomo story.
00:20:39.000But have they looked in the mirror recently?
00:20:42.000Just take former Missouri Republican Governor Eric Greitens, who resigned in 2018 amidst an ethics probe, two criminal charges, reports he had an affair, and allegations of blackmail.
00:20:56.000We have even seen this on the Supreme Court.
00:20:58.000Clarence Thomas was confirmed despite Anita Hill's accusation of sexual harassment.
00:21:03.000So was Brett Kavanaugh more recently after Christine Blasey Ford's accusation of sexual assault.
00:21:09.000Not a single Republican voted no on Kavanaugh's confirmation.
00:21:13.000I like some of the examples he uses here.
00:21:14.000He says, well, how about Eric Greitens?
00:21:16.000Eric Greitens is going to run for Senate again.
00:21:18.000You'll recall that in 2018, he was the governor of Missouri and he resigned in the same way that Andrew Cuomo resigned.
00:21:24.000He also mentions in the same breath as Andrew Cuomo, about whom there was a 168 page attorney general report detailing all of the allegations.
00:21:32.000Meri Hassan puts that in the same breath as Brett Kavanaugh, for which there was zero actual evidence of contemporaneous evidence that any of the allegations about him were true.
00:21:42.000And also Clarence Thomas, which was rooted in one woman testifying that he said a thing to her which was unsubstantiated by any outside conduct.
00:21:53.000So that's exactly like Andrew Cuomo, according to Meri Hassan.
00:21:56.000No, you guys do not get to do this routine where you pretend that you have the moral high ground.
00:22:39.000Cuomo's announcement and his exit, it actually highlights a glaring double standard that we've got to discuss.
00:22:45.000As Republicans, who for four years excused Donald Trump trying to join in on the outrage and even claim a sort of victory.
00:22:53.000But honestly, the truth is, Cuomo's exit was entirely, 100%, the product of Democratic pressure.
00:23:00.000Because Democrats hold their own to a higher standard of conduct.
00:23:04.000Meanwhile, we still await the resignation announcements from alleged teen sex trafficker Matt Gaetz, creepy car guy Madison Cawthorn, and Jim Jordan.
00:23:12.000Okay, when it comes to Jim Jordan, the allegations were that he was a member of the coaching staff at like Ohio State when one of the upper-level coaches was sexually abusing some of the people who were there.
00:23:22.000There is no evidence he was involved in a cover-up.
00:23:26.000And again, Democrats are somehow the people who we are supposed to believe have a higher moral hierarchy.
00:23:31.000By the way, who else would have pressured Andrew Cuomo in New York?
00:23:34.000Democrats literally have a supermajority in the state Senate.
00:23:38.000There are 63 seats in the state Senate in New Jersey, in New York rather, and 43 of them are Democrats.
00:23:51.000Okay, in just a second though, I want to remind you, I just want to remind you, that while we all knew what Andrew Cuomo had done to the olds in New York, the entire Democratic Party and media establishment were celebrating him.
00:24:00.000So don't give me the, we have high moral standards routine.
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00:25:09.000Alrighty, so just a reminder, the same people who are proclaiming themselves the great moral standard bearers for the United States spent the entire last year pretending that Andrew Cuomo was a great governor while he was killing all the old people and covering it up.
00:25:20.000We knew that he was doing this, by the way, last summer.
00:25:21.000I mean, there was open reporting from a wide variety of right-wing sources about how Andrew Cuomo had changed the reporting standards in New York with regard to nursing home deaths.
00:25:31.000But that was the exact same time the media were too busy fawning over the so-called LoveGov.
00:25:35.000They literally called him the LoveGov.
00:25:37.000I mean, the irony of this is just beyond the pale.
00:25:38.000They called him the LoveGov while he was grabbing his subordinate's ass.
00:26:18.000You spoke to National Guard troops today in a stirring speech that, if I wasn't listening carefully, I thought you were sending soldiers off to war.
00:26:38.000Thanks to his handling, his approval rating has soared to a seven-year high.
00:26:44.000And he's even becoming something of a crush for many people.
00:26:49.000Yeah, people online are falling in love with him.
00:26:53.000I'm not gonna lie, those people include me.
00:26:55.000My Tinder profile now lists me as a Cuomo sexual.
00:26:59.000Okay, Randy Rainbow, who of course puts together these very uncomfortable videos on TikTok and YouTube and Twitter, he had an entire video about how much he wanted to have sex with Andrew Cuomo.
00:27:13.000From now on I identify as Cuomo sexual.
00:27:13.000Randy Rainbow, you're so strong and rational. He's a smarty.
00:27:30.000You're kind and smart. You touch my heart. Your polo shirts are nice. So I'm glad we've had my Andy.
00:28:00.000Now, my favorite thing is that even amidst their newfound moral fervor for getting rid of Andrew Cuomo and their apparent hatred It is so funny how they bounce around on the Me Too stuff.
00:28:11.000If it's Joe Biden, we don't pay attention to any of the Me Too stuff.
00:28:13.000If it's Donald Trump, we pay super a lot of attention to the Me Too stuff.
00:28:17.000If it's Andrew Cuomo, and there were sort of these dark rumors last year, then we don't pay attention to it too much.
00:28:23.000And in fact, we actually mobilized some people who were involved with Time's Up to attack his accusers.
00:28:28.000If, however, he becomes inconvenient, then we all remember that Me Too is still a thing.
00:28:33.000Well, Democrats are having trouble right now determining whether they're actually happy or sad that Andrew Cuomo is going.
00:28:38.000Alec Baldwin, for example, he says this is a tragic day.
00:28:41.000He put out a statement on Twitter, quote, regardless of what you think of Cuomo, this is a tragic day.
00:28:45.000Party politics in this country draw ambitious, but ultimately isolated, even socially maladjusted men and women who, given the current cancel culture, will likely have their shortcomings exposed and magnified.
00:30:30.000Normally, when you talk about the first New York woman governor or something, that person has to be elected.
00:30:37.000If you don't elect the person, we don't all get credit for that.
00:30:41.000There is a certain irony, by the way, to the fact that the person who is taking over for Andrew Cuomo is a woman named Kathy Hochul.
00:30:47.000So, she is an ex-representative, ex-congressional representative, Kathy Hochul.
00:30:51.000What's hilarious about this is that the way that she apparently rises in the world, through no fault of her own, this is not her fault, is that she just comes in after a dude can't keep it in his pants and takes over his office.
00:31:04.000That's like her actual career history.
00:31:13.000Well, Republican Representative Chris Lee was caught sending shirtless selfies to a woman he met through Craigslist.
00:31:18.000Okay, so she ended up winning that race because her Republican opponent was sending shirtless pictures on Craigslist while running for office.
00:31:28.000Then, of course, she ended up losing subsequent races.
00:31:31.000She rebounded from there into the lieutenant governor's office and all she had to do was wait for another dude who couldn't keep it in his pants, Andrew Cuomo.
00:31:37.000So that's pretty, I mean, listen, it does say something about male politicians that a pathway toward victory is Just be second in line behind a male politician.
00:31:54.000In the end, what Andrew Cuomo's resignation says is not much about the status of democratic morality or about the status of the MeToo movement or anything like that.
00:32:04.000It says a lot about the politically expedient way in which Andrew Cuomo was capped off the side of the road.
00:32:22.000He was inconvenient, so they got rid of him.
00:32:25.000Okay, in just one second, we're going to be getting to the latest on COVID because the Democrats are now in full-scale Totalitarian centralization of power mode.
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00:35:33.000Meanwhile, Democrats across the land are calling for centralization of power in the federal government.
00:35:38.000Particularly Joe Biden came out yesterday and said that he is now investigating whether he has the federal capacity to crack down on states and essentially issue a national mask mandate.
00:35:48.000Here is the president of the United States trying to centralize the power to tell Texas and Florida that they're not allowed to tell schools exactly how to operate and allow students to go to school unmasked.
00:36:01.000I don't believe that I do thus far we're checking that we but there are on federal workforce I can't and I think that people should understand seeing little kids I mean four or five six years old in hospitals on ventilators and some of them passing not many but some of them passing
00:36:30.000It's almost, I mean, it's just... Well, I should not characterize beyond that.
00:36:37.000Okay, well, you shouldn't characterize it beyond that because it's factually incorrect.
00:36:40.000Okay, there are small children who have died of COVID.
00:36:44.000The number who died who didn't have a severe underlying condition before dying, so far as I'm aware, is currently zero.
00:36:52.000That's according to Johns Hopkins University statistics.
00:36:55.000As Phil Kirpin points out from American Communications, the 2009-2010 swine flu was five times deadlier to kids than COVID has been.
00:37:05.000But nobody talks about masking up kids in schools.
00:37:07.000The only reason we're even talking about this right now is because you have a bunch of freaked out adults and they don't understand how to read data.
00:37:13.000And Democrats are trying to scare the living hell out of everybody so you all get vaccinated.
00:37:17.000Listen, I would love for more people to get vaccinated.
00:37:28.000You get to make the decision as to whether you think the vaccine is going to do you more harm than good.
00:37:32.000I can, all I can do is provide you the data and then allow you the ability to make an independent decision because this is still a free country.
00:37:38.000But Joe Biden is saying that he, like when he says he doesn't think he has the authority to do the national mask mandate stuff, but he's going to check into it.
00:37:46.000I am less than assured considering that one week ago he said he did not have the authority to issue an eviction moratorium and then he went ahead and issued an eviction moratorium.
00:37:55.000So I don't trust that his belief in the constitutionality of what he's doing matters one iota to Joe Biden.
00:38:21.000Here's the current, this isn't me, this is Francis Collins, the current NIH director, saying there is no rigorous data showing that the Delta variant is more dangerous to kids than the Alpha variant, and the Alpha variant is responsible for the deaths of under 400 children in the United States out of a subpopulation of 75 plus million.
00:38:41.000Is the Delta variant more serious for children?
00:38:46.000You know, we don't have rigorous data to show for sure that they are, but I certainly am hearing from pediatricians that they're concerned that this time the kids who are in the hospital are both more numerous and more seriously ill.
00:39:01.000We'll have to get better comparisons to be sure of that.
00:40:08.000Is that Governor Ron DeSantis' fault in Florida?
00:40:11.000Or does it turn out that this thing is really contagious, a lot of people are getting it, and that's pretty much it?
00:40:16.000But again, Democrats have to suggest that they have the solution if only you would listen to them.
00:40:20.000So here's Jen Psaki ripping Ron DeSantis, of course.
00:40:23.000If you're not interested in following the public health guidelines to protect the lives of people in your state, to give parents some comfort as they're sending their kids to school.
00:40:34.000Schools are opening in Florida this week, I know, in many parts of Florida.
00:40:38.000Then get out of the way and let public officials, let local officials do their job to keep students safe.
00:40:45.000This is serious and we're talking about people's lives.
00:40:49.000Okay, no, there's no evidence that masking in schools has a huge impact.
00:41:05.000So today, there's an article in the New York Times, and if you read the headline, You would assume that what Saki is saying is true, right?
00:41:29.000They say for more than a year, we've worked with North Carolina school districts and charter schools, studying the rate of new COVID cases, the efficacy of mitigation measures, such as masking, and the increased risks of participating in school-sponsored sports.
00:41:41.000We have learned a few things for certain.
00:41:43.000Although vaccination is the best way to prevent COVID-19, universal masking is a close second.
00:41:47.000And with masking in place, in-school learning is safe and more effective than remote instruction, regardless of community rates of infection.
00:41:53.000Okay, then they actually get to the data and the data don't show any of that.
00:41:58.000They say vaccination is the strongest method for preventing the ill effects of COVID, but students under 12 are ineligible for the vaccines.
00:42:03.000Masking, then, is one of the best, most readily available methods to protect them from disease, with universal masking being one of the most effective and efficient strategies for preventing SARS-CoV-2 transmission in schools.
00:42:16.000According to these scientists, in July 2020, we and our colleagues developed the ABC Science Collaborative to pair scientists with school and community leaders to make sure that school leaders had the most up-to-date scientific information pertaining to COVID-19 in K-12 schools.
00:42:32.000In conjunction with North Carolina, our collaborative collected data from more than 1 million students and staff members in the state's schools from March to June of 2021.
00:42:40.000During that time, more than 7,000 children and adults acquired the coronavirus and attended school while infectious.
00:42:45.000Because of close contact with those cases, more than 40,000 people required quarantine.
00:42:49.000Through contact tracing and testing, however, we found only 363 additional children and adults acquired the coronavirus.
00:42:56.000We believe this low rate of transmission occurred because of the mask-on-mask school environment.
00:43:01.000Both the infected person and the close contact wore masks.
00:43:48.000Instead, they just pulled a bunch of, like, outlying cases from Israel, for example.
00:43:54.000They say, by contrast, one school in Israel without a mask mandate or proper social distancing protocols reported an outbreak of COVID-19 involving 153 students and 25 staff members.
00:44:04.000So you had no comp, so you just picked an outlier and used that as your comp?
00:44:10.000Okay, so there's a really interesting Twitter thread from a columnist, science columnist for Wired and the New York Times and the Atlantic named David Zweig.
00:44:19.000He said, I corresponded with the authors of the Duke study behind this opinion piece weeks ago.
00:44:24.000A top line finding of the Duke-ABC Science Collaborative report and what they claim here is that masks in schools help lower transmission.
00:44:31.000Except all their schools were under a mask mandate.
00:44:33.000I asked the authors how they could make a claim on masks when there was no control.
00:44:37.000In order to claim an effect, you have to compare one group with an intervention to a second group without the intervention, which they didn't do.
00:44:44.000Instead, they talked about this Israeli school, but... 1.
00:44:48.000You cannot use another study as evidence for a claimed finding in your study.
00:45:09.000The schools in Florida and more so throughout many parts of Europe did not and do not have mask mandates for kids with varying age cutoffs.
00:45:14.000There is no correlated explosion of cases originating in those schools.
00:45:20.000When this particular columnist for Wired and the New York Times, this doesn't sound like a conservative columnist, when this person emailed the people who wrote for the New York Times and mentioned these points about the Israeli study, they cut off all communications.
00:45:35.000But based on the skimpy data, we're supposed to believe that it's time to mask up all students, and if you don't, this is because you're evil, like Rhonda Tantus is evil.
00:45:53.000Scientifically, they're going to take us continuing to escalate up and the people of Florida are going to suffer unnecessarily.
00:46:01.000There will be unnecessary hospitalization and tragically unnecessary deaths.
00:46:08.000That's exactly what is going to happen.
00:46:11.000It is entirely predictable on the one hand and entirely preventable on the other hand.
00:46:19.000If what he's talking about there is vaccines, Agree.
00:46:22.000If what he is talking about there is the evils of Florida for not doing mask mandates, which again, do not correlate with high death rates or low death rates.
00:46:32.000Then he doesn't know what he's talking about.
00:46:33.000By the way, it is worth noting that it appears that Florida has already hit its peak.
00:46:38.000Hey, so in two weeks, nobody's going to be talking about Florida anymore.
00:46:41.000So they may already have hit their peak.
00:46:42.000Scott Gottlieb from the FDA says the same thing, by the way.
00:46:44.000count by date for Florida Friday 21,500 Saturday 19,500 Sunday 15,300 and 319 so they may already have hit their peak Scott Gottlieb from the FDA says the same thing by the way so it'll be a trailing peak in hospitalizations and deaths okay but again the key comes down to here's Anthony But you're not going to get mandates centrally from the federal government.
00:47:09.000He gets to decide for you what sort of freedoms you get to enjoy.
00:47:13.000You would wish that people would see why it's so important to get vaccinated, but you're not going to get mandates centrally from the federal government.
00:47:24.000But when you're talking about local mandates, mandates for schools, for teachers, for universities, for colleges, I'm sorry.
00:47:32.000I mean, I know people must like to have their individual freedom and not be told to do something, but I think we're in such a serious situation now that under certain circumstances, mandates should be done.
00:48:20.000And if Democrats keep pursuing these mask mandates and lockdowns and vaccine mandates, I don't think the American people are going to respond well to this, nor do I think that they should respond well to it, frankly.
00:48:30.000I think they should be resisting a lot of this stuff.
00:48:33.000Because it is not rooted in reason and it is not rooted in any sort of real moral sensibility that allows for the individuality of human choice making that you don't like personally.
00:48:43.000Alrighty, we'll be back here tomorrow with much, much more.
00:48:47.000In the meantime, go check out the Michael Knowles show that is available right now.