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00:00:00.000Hillary Clinton trashes Bernie Sanders just two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, the Senate impeachment trial rules are set, and the media try to spin a pro-gun rally into a white nationalist terror gathering.
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00:00:24.000Well, today is the beginning of the Senate impeachment trial.
00:00:28.000It is expected to last for perhaps a week and a half, maybe two weeks at most.
00:00:32.000We'll get into the Senate impeachment trial stuff in just a second because the media are fighting mad at Mitch McConnell.
00:00:37.000Mitch McConnell, of course, is expediting the process after the Democrats had submitted a wholly insufficient impeachment memorandum suggesting why they had impeached without actually mentioning a crime.
00:01:24.000So, Hillary Clinton has been sitting off to the side ever since she lost the 2016 election.
00:01:29.000And she's been kind of taking pot shots and sniping at Trump, and she'll go on Twitter, and she'll fire off some passive-aggressive tweet, and then we'll see a weird picture of her standing behind some sort of mock Oval Office Resolute Desk abroad, and we're all like, okay, what's Hillary doing these days?
00:02:10.000And not only does she open up on President Trump, which you would expect, and on the Monica Lewinsky scandal and all the rest, she opens up her guns on Bernie Sanders.
00:02:16.000And I mean, goes directly at Bernie Sanders.
00:02:51.000There is one surefire rule in American politics over the last 12 years or so, and that is, if you run against Hillary Clinton, that's awesome.
00:02:59.000Barack Obama found that out in 2008, and then Bernie Sanders found it out again in 2016, and then Donald Trump found it out in 2016.
00:03:06.000If you want to be popular, all you have to do is run directly against Hillary Clinton.
00:03:10.000And as we are about to see, Hillary Clinton took off the gloves and just went right at Bernie Sanders.
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00:04:45.000So the documentary apparently doesn't feature Monica Lewinsky, nor Bernie Sanders, nor Donald Trump.
00:04:49.000The director says, I didn't want to re-litigate 2016, which, listen, that's the only reason that you're making a documentary about Hillary Clinton, who has not been relevant for four years at this point.
00:05:00.000But the director explained that she didn't want to relitigate 2016 as much as just be able to show Hillary in this unobtrusive way.
00:05:07.000But a bunch of other people did talk to the documentarians, including Bill Clinton, who holds back tears as he walks through the Lewinsky chapter.
00:05:14.000Well, it's good to know that Bill Clinton can still turn on the crocodile tears, even at age 97.
00:05:20.000There's really only one question for Bill Clinton that is worthy of answering, and it's whether that prostate is still in action.
00:05:26.000Hulu's head of documentaries, Melissa Balaban, says, No, it doesn't sound like propaganda at all.
00:05:29.000It's an authored piece of work that looks at a very long slice of personal and political history.
00:05:33.000No, it doesn't sound like propaganda at all.
00:05:35.000It sounds like it is perfectly balanced in its approach to Hillary Clinton.
00:05:40.000The important part is that Hillary is now just taking out a machete and she is hobbling around the house yelling at Bernie Sanders while he says, Well, my slippers.
00:05:49.000I don't understand what my slippers are.
00:05:51.000She's like, I'm coming after you with the machete.
00:06:19.000I mean, this, by the way, this Hillary Clinton would have won walking away in the primaries.
00:06:25.000She did end up winning the primaries with more votes than Bernie, but it was very narrow.
00:06:29.000This Hillary Clinton, who basically just dismissed Bernie as a know-nothing communist, would have done much better in the primaries than she actually did.
00:06:35.000Instead, she sort of tut-tutted Bernie all the way to the finish line.
00:06:38.000And as we have learned in the game of American politics, this is actually not a smart strategy.
00:06:43.000People did this with Donald Trump in 2016.
00:06:45.000They sort of patted him on the back all the way until he won the nomination.
00:06:49.000And Hillary Clinton basically patted Bernie Sanders on the head all the way until he almost stole her thunder.
00:06:54.000But here are her real feelings, which is that Bernie's a useless commie.
00:07:07.000He doesn't have his name on one significant piece of legislation.
00:07:10.000He sat outside the Democratic Party and did nothing for 40 years while taking taxpayer dollars and then proclaiming himself pure of heart while literally accomplishing zero things and being wrong about all of them.
00:07:22.000So they ask her, does that assessment still hold?
00:07:56.000She's going after his entire constituency base.
00:08:00.000Okay, and if Joe Biden, who is the hand-picked Hillary Clinton successor, is the person who wins the nomination, do you think maybe some of the Bernie bros are going to remember that Hillary Clinton and Team Obama stood aside while Hillary Clinton just savaged Bernie Sanders and his entire band of Merry Commie supporters?
00:08:25.000It's his online Bernie bros and their relentless attacks on lots of his competitors, particularly the women.
00:08:29.000And I really hope people are paying attention to that because it should be worrisome that he has permitted this culture.
00:08:34.000Not only permitted, he seems really to be very much supporting it.
00:08:37.000And I don't think we want to go down that road again where you campaign by insult and attack.
00:08:41.000And maybe you try to get some distance from it, but you either don't know what your campaign and supporters are doing, or you're just giving them a wink, and you want them to go after Kamala, or after Elizabeth.
00:08:49.000I think that's a pattern that people should take into account when they make their decisions.
00:08:52.000So here she is saying, we shouldn't wink and nod at attacks.
00:09:09.000So the interviewer then says, Speaking of, Bernie allegedly told Senator Elizabeth Warren in 2018 he didn't think a woman could win, a statement he vigorously denies.
00:09:17.000Hillary Clinton, quote, Well, number one, I think that sentiment is untrue, which we should all say loudly.
00:09:22.000I mean, I did get more votes in both in the primary by about four million and in the general election by about three million.
00:09:27.000I think that both the press and the public have to really hold everybody running accountable for what they say and what their campaign says and does.
00:09:33.000That's particularly true with what's going on right now with the Bernie campaign having gone after Elizabeth with a very personal attack on her.
00:09:40.000Then this argument about whether or not or when he did or didn't say that a woman couldn't be elected.
00:09:53.000Okay, first of all, that part, not so true.
00:09:55.000Bernie Sanders has been in the Senate since before Methuselah was born.
00:09:59.000Hillary Clinton was elected to the Senate in 2000.
00:10:01.000She served like a term and a half and then she ran for President of the United States.
00:10:06.000It was only after that that she became Secretary of State and then ran again.
00:10:11.000He says, she says, I just think people need to pay attention because we want, hopefully, to elect a president who's going to try to bring us together and not either turn a blind eye or actually reward the kind of insulting, attacking, and demeaning, degrading behavior we've seen from this current administration.
00:10:24.000So in this interview, she has called him a sexist.
00:10:26.000She has suggested that his entire campaign has been built around viciously attacking other people.
00:10:32.000And she has suggested she won't even commit to endorsing him if he wins the nomination.
00:10:47.000She says, I still answer their questions.
00:10:48.000I've talked to practically everybody who had run and is still running.
00:10:52.000And then she was asked, well, you haven't talked to Bernie.
00:10:53.000So no, I can't say I've talked to all of them, but I answer their questions.
00:10:56.000I always say to the female candidates, look, you can run the best campaign, but you're going to have to be even better than your best campaign to overcome some of the unfairness that will be directed at you.
00:11:05.000And here, Hillary's victimhood complex is so strong here.
00:11:08.000It's so strong and it is so off-putting.
00:11:11.000And I am so... I can't express to you how excited I am that Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are finally opening up their guns on one another.
00:11:19.000And I would encourage Bernie Sanders supporters to remember that Hillary Clinton, two weeks out from the Iowa caucuses, decided to sandbag Bernie Sanders in this, what will be a highly publicized interview.
00:11:29.000And that Bernie Sanders was sandbagged by Elizabeth Warren, and that the DNC has tried to sandbag Bernie over and over and over.
00:11:35.000Just remember you that when it comes time for a general election if Bernie doesn't win the nomination.
00:11:39.000Hillary says, whoever gets the nomination, you've got to deal with the structural challenges that the Republicans and their allies have put in the way.
00:11:46.000So that means you've got to deal with voter suppression because they'll steal votes or they'll prevent votes from happening.
00:11:50.000Remember that time that all of Hillary's supporters were like, Trump won't accept election results!
00:11:54.000Yeah, Hillary doesn't sound like she is really up for accepting election results.
00:11:58.000She says they're now trying to purge voters so they can try to limit the electorate, which of course there's no evidence for.
00:12:02.000You've got to deal with the theft of your personal information, particularly your emails.
00:12:06.000Okay, lady, you're the one who put your private emails on a server that was not protected.
00:12:18.000She says, I say to them, if your emails haven't been stolen yet, they will be.
00:12:21.000Look what the Russians just did, hacking into that Ukrainian oil company to try to dig up something or make something up about Joe Biden's son, Hunter.
00:12:27.000Then you've got to worry about the propaganda, the fake news, the made up stories.
00:12:30.000Now you have the additional worry of the deep fakes and people putting words in your mouth.
00:12:33.000I've tried to tell all the candidates the same thing, but with the women, I say, you're probably not going to be treated fairly.
00:12:40.000And then she talks about Elizabeth Warren and we'll get to Hillary Clinton's words on Elizabeth Warren because Hillary is definitely in the Warren camp, but this is just- And it's great.
00:13:14.000But let's say that McKenna just happens to be like the Amelia Bedelia of The Office, just unbelievably clumsy.
00:13:20.000Let's say that in one day, she takes your favorite glass and she just shatters it directly in the sink.
00:13:23.000And then let's say that same day, you have a guest who's gonna come on and tape something with you, and she decides, you know what, I'm just gonna spill this entire gallon, this jug of milk right in the lobby.
00:13:33.000Just like we're going to spill the milk directly in line.
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00:14:26.000Hillary Clinton concludes this interview by talking about how Elizabeth Warren should fight President Trump.
00:14:31.000She says, it's still very hard to fight Trump.
00:14:33.000She said, I thought Elizabeth did a good job at the last debate with the only people on the stage who have won every one of their races are Amy and me.
00:16:06.000She's asked, is there any piece of you that has considered jumping into the race?
00:16:10.000She said, and then she answers, I've had so many people urge me to every day, and I'm grateful for people's confidence, but I did think it was right for me to step back.
00:16:17.000I'll do anything I can to defeat the current incumbent and traverse a lot of his damaging policies.
00:16:22.000Thankfully, I still have a voice and a following.
00:16:24.000Well, Actually, you don't have much of a following, but you do have a voice.
00:16:29.000And I do love that she says she'll do anything to stop.
00:18:05.000But the fact is that if he understood what AOC understands, which is that a lot of Democrats inside the Democratic Party aren't happy with the Democratic Party, he'd be running directly against Warren, directly against Biden, directly against Hillary Clinton.
00:18:18.000And Hillary is such a perfect target right now because she lost to Trump.
00:18:25.000And here she is attacking me two weeks before the primaries because she's very upset that she was not able to beat Donald Trump and now I'm the bad guy?
00:18:39.000But, in order for him to get that, he has to be just as aggressive as one of his surrogates.
00:18:43.000The venerable, intellectually brilliant, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
00:18:48.000Now in a second we're going to get to AOC because AOC did a big interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates, another intellectual luminary from the left.
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00:20:51.000Bernie's program has become the mainstream of the Democratic Party.
00:20:54.000The New York Times recognized this yesterday in their idiotic editorial endorsing Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren, saying that all of his programmatic ideas have now been implemented as part of the Democratic Party platform.
00:21:06.000So, what Bernie needs to do is he needs to run from the inside.
00:21:08.000He says, listen, they're stealing all of my good ideas, and then they don't implement any of them because they're a bunch of partisan political hacks?
00:21:15.000But if they truly were standing up for the people, then they would stand up for my plans and they would just have given me the nomination and give me the nomination.
00:21:46.000And so does a huge swath of the Democratic Party, which is why you had an insurgency against Nancy Pelosi, who is now considered a moderate in the Democratic caucus.
00:21:53.000Here is the intellectually intellectually stimulating AOC.
00:21:59.000We have a left party in the United States.
00:22:01.000The Democratic Party is not a left party.
00:22:04.000The Democratic Party is a center or center conservative party.
00:22:09.000We do not advocate for, we do not, we can't even get a floor vote on Medicare for All.
00:22:16.000Not even a floor vote that gets voted down.
00:22:22.000There are left members inside the Democratic Party.
00:22:26.000Okay, so this is the campaign, honestly, that Bernie should be running.
00:22:29.000He should be running an insurgent campaign inside the Democratic Party.
00:22:31.000What's weird is that thus far, he's been running a campaign about the Republican Party's evils from inside the Democratic Party.
00:22:38.000The only reason why Bernie Sanders is even a top candidate inside the Democratic Party is because of deep and abiding lack of interest in the Democratic Party by a huge swath of the Democratic Party voting base.
00:22:50.000Bernie says all the stuff that AOC says, but she's like the even more honest version of Bernie.
00:22:56.000She just says all the quiet parts out loud.
00:22:59.000And honestly, I'm all for it, because let's have a clear choice.
00:23:27.000So you got Joe Biden and Amy Klobuchar and even Elizabeth Warren who are suggesting a more incrementalist approach to the sort of insanity that AOC is promulgating here and that Bernie Sanders has promulgated for years.
00:23:40.000And AOC and Bernie Sanders are mad about it.
00:23:44.000This is relevant because AOC is a Bernie surrogate and she is drawing huge crowds on the campaign trail with Bernie because she is promising revolution, not evolution.
00:23:53.000She's saying all the quiet parts out loud.
00:23:55.000And every Republican in Trump's campaign should be recording all of these things and making attack ads saying that this is the Democratic Party because it is the Democratic Party.
00:24:02.000But Bernie should be saying this stuff inside the Democratic primaries because he's got no other shot otherwise.
00:24:18.000So he may as well just be mirroring what AOC says.
00:24:21.000So AOC yesterday talked about the free markets, and it is amazing.
00:24:24.000I mean, this is what so many Democrats believe about free markets.
00:24:27.000She suggests that if you're a business person, if you're an entrepreneur, if you're a capitalist, then you don't get to make a profit off of the products in which you have invested and risked.
00:24:37.000You didn't actually make those widgets.
00:24:39.000Here's AOC trying to explain economics, which is sort of like watching a badger try to explain calculus.
00:25:24.000This idea that the people who generate the value in a product are not the consumers who decide what a product is worth.
00:25:31.000It's the quote-unquote laborers who put their labor into the product.
00:25:34.000And so if you are a capitalist and you invested all the capital, you bought all of the equipment, you built the factory, You hired all the workers.
00:26:06.000Instead, you have the person who deals with the graphite.
00:26:08.000And then you have the person who deals with the wood.
00:26:09.000And then you have the person, it's Leonard Reed, and then the person who deals with the paint.
00:26:12.000And then you have the person who creates the eraser.
00:26:14.000And all of these things have their own supply chains.
00:26:16.000And all those supply chains involve hundreds, if not thousands of people to generate all of these, to generate really one pencil.
00:26:23.000And the cost of that pencil to the consumer is then like 25 cents.
00:26:28.000According to AOC, the cost of the pencil presumably should be thousands of dollars because you've had thousands of workers involved in the making of this one pencil and they all invested their labor and it wasn't the capitalists who did anything except it was the entrepreneur who created the entire supply chain that created the pencil in the first place.
00:26:43.000It requires the labor of thousands of people but it requires the coordination of all of that labor and the risk investment of somebody at the top who's quote-unquote sitting on the couch.
00:27:18.000And then AOC goes on to suggest that the government is us.
00:27:21.000What she's talking about here is the complete overthrow of the American philosophy of individual rights.
00:27:25.000Individual rights, pre-existing government, is the basic idea of the Declaration of Independence.
00:27:30.000The idea was that we create a government in order to protect those individual rights, and if the government were to Invade those individual rights.
00:27:39.000This is the basic premise of the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution.
00:27:43.000But according to AOC and Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama and the entire Democratic Party, she just says the quiet part out loud, the government is us.
00:27:49.000We have nothing to fear from the government, the collective, the collective.
00:28:08.000That when we fight for full enfranchisement, when we don't deny the vote, when we don't have subjects, when we fight for a democracy for the people and by the people, the government is the public.
00:28:23.000And the public decides what is good for itself.
00:28:27.000OK, I'm deeply amused at Ta-Nehisi Coates sitting there and nodding through this one.
00:28:31.000Ta-Nehisi Coates has written extensively and in quite passionate fashion about the evils of Jim Crow, which indeed were evil and were also majority passed laws in the South that cracked down on minorities.
00:28:45.000Was the government us, or did it turn out that majorities sometimes invade the rights of minority and the individual is the ultimate minority?
00:29:04.000Like, what the hell is wrong with you?
00:29:07.000She has not generated a single thing that has done anybody any good for her entire life except she mixed a few drinks.
00:29:12.000That is the only thing of value she has generated in her entire short life.
00:29:16.000If she's not created a job, she's not run a business, she's not created a product or service that anybody wants to buy, but she wants the power of people who have done all of that, because after all, those people didn't create anything.
00:29:26.000The only people who created anything are the workers.
00:29:27.000Weird, because for literally millions of years, at least hundreds of thousands of years, there have been workers, there have been people who labored.
00:29:35.000But prosperity only began when people started investing in the labor of others and engaging in free trade and commerce.
00:29:41.000As I mentioned yesterday, the global GDP multiplied between 1800 and 2015 by 15,700%.
00:29:48.000And she's sitting here explaining that she wants the power.
00:29:55.000What qualifies this dolt to run anything?
00:29:58.000Now, that's my perspective, but inside the Democratic Party, this bleep is popular.
00:30:02.000To be ethical, if you're a billionaire today, the thing that you need to do is give up control and power.
00:30:10.000So I don't want your money as much as we want your power.
00:30:30.000And by the way, the power that Jeff Bezos has is relegated to the fact that he hires hundreds of thousands of human beings and allows other hundreds of thousands of human beings to receive and ship products.
00:31:22.000But instead, AOC says that Bezos, who created Amazon, right, from a used book company into one of the great companies on planet Earth, she says that Bezos should turn his company into a worker collective.
00:31:34.000This coming from the lady who just drove 20,000 jobs out of her own district.
00:31:38.000First of all, change your business model.
00:31:57.000And if, usually if you're a billionaire, that means that you control a massive system.
00:32:05.000Okay, if you are a billionaire, what that means is that you have engaged in a billion voluntary transactions in a free country.
00:32:13.000But again, this is very popular inside the Democratic Party.
00:32:15.000Bernie Sanders, by the way, of course, feels exactly the same way.
00:32:18.000About all of this yesterday, he tweeted out that we need national rent control, which is presumably the worst economic idea in human history.
00:32:25.000National rent control basically suggests that you're going to dictate to everybody what they are allowed to charge for rent, which means that it will become not profitable to create new developments, which means housing shortages, which means that the government will have to get involved, and then we'll have to build public housing.
00:32:38.000And this has worked fantastic in places like Pruitt-Igoe in St.
00:32:41.000Louis, a massive, disgusting, horrific, ugly government housing area that was ripped down because it turned into a trash heap thanks to people who live there and to local and to local law enforcement and and local politicians and national politicians and the nationalization of all of this stuff is the ultimate agenda Listen, all I'm saying here is that Bernie should run on it.
00:33:08.000Because Tucker Carlson, sadly, is right.
00:33:11.000Because Tucker kind of agrees with Bernie when it comes to economics.
00:33:14.000I mean, I've talked to Tucker on my show about it.
00:33:17.000Here is Tucker explaining that Bernie Sanders will win Trump voters.
00:33:20.000One of my favorite things about Tucker's take on economics in this sort of context is he will very often say socialism is really bad but also Republicans should figure out a way to relieve the student loan crisis.
00:33:30.000You're gonna have to define why you think socialism is bad if you actually think that government should be relieving the student loan crisis where people voluntarily took on debt and then refused to pay back the debt.
00:33:42.000Bernie Sanders may get the Democratic nomination, and if he does, every Republican in Washington will spend the next 10 months reminding you that socialism does not work and never has worked.
00:34:14.000Okay, now let's talk about impeachment.
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00:35:55.000All righty, All righty, so the Mitch McConnell-led Senate is now planning to give House impeachment managers and President Donald Trump's legal team each 24 hours, divided over two days, for their opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial.
00:36:14.000And Democrats are fighting mad about all of this.
00:36:16.000Now, The impeachment trial of President Clinton did involve each side getting 24 hours, but those 24 hours were split over a four-day period, so that dragged this thing out as like six hours per day for four days.
00:36:29.000This time, it's going to be 12 hours per day for two days for each side, which means late-night sessions.
00:36:33.000Oh no, we're going to make our senators work?
00:36:35.000It's so funny to hear senators complain about this on the Democratic side.
00:36:38.000I thought this was the most urgent thing that ever happened.
00:36:40.000And if we don't impeach Trump right now, then he's going to steal the election.
00:36:43.000But you guys don't want to stay up to one in the morning?
00:36:45.000I mean, normally you're up to one in the morning banging hookers anyway, so what do you care?
00:36:48.000Seriously, you're just going to have to be on the floor of the Senate listening to people jabber.
00:36:52.000I understand it's a letdown from the heavy drinking that you normally do in your off hours, but presumably you could stick around for a couple extra hours and listen to some of this.
00:37:27.000I'm not going to offer the night, not going to cover this stuff.
00:37:31.000According to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, he said it's clear Senator McConnell is hell-bent, hell-bent on making it much more difficult to get witnesses and documents and intent on rushing the trial through.
00:37:41.000It's hilarious to watch the House say, we need to rush it through, we need to rush it, rush it now, it's important, do it now, we can't wait for witnesses, do it now, now, now.
00:37:47.000And McConnell's like, okay, let's also rush it through, we'll rush it through now, we'll get to a vote.
00:37:51.000And Democrats say, wait, slow, whoa, whoa, there, Mitch, hold your horses.
00:37:56.000Now we gots to call the witnesses and we gotta do it for months at a time.
00:38:00.000If we can carry this thing all the way through to like 2029, we would make that happen.
00:38:05.000Chuck Schumer said, on something as important as impeachment, Senator McConnell's resolution is nothing short of a national disgrace.
00:38:13.000Here is Chuck Schumer saying, this is so tough.
00:38:18.000It is now certain that Leader McConnell ...is going along with President Trump's cover-up, hook, line, and sinker.
00:38:29.000When you look at his resolution, it's no wonder he delayed it till the last minute.
00:38:35.000He didn't want people to study it or know about it.
00:38:39.000After reading McConnell's resolution, it's clear McConnell is hell-bent on making it much more difficult to get witnesses and documents, and intent on rushing the trial through.
00:38:53.000Again, they rushed the entire thing through the House.
00:38:55.000They still have the ability, as Senator Tim Scott pointed out yesterday of South Carolina, they still have the ability anytime they want to call new witnesses in the House.
00:39:10.000Here's Tim Scott saying, I don't understand.
00:39:12.000We're supposed to call witnesses that the House refuses to call, and then we're bad if we don't do what they wouldn't do?
00:39:20.000They do have the opportunity to have votes.
00:39:23.000I look forward to voting no on any witness that was not a witness during the House.
00:39:28.000It is not our responsibility as Senators to help improve or expand the case.
00:39:33.000The way that we understand the process, the House sends over a completed case and we make a decision based on that completed case.
00:39:42.000If the House doesn't like the case they sent over, then they need to do something in the House to change that case.
00:39:48.000Okay, well, they're not going to do anything in the House, obviously, which is why they're militating against Mitch McConnell's rules and complaining about them.
00:39:54.000By the way, the notion that they're not going to call witnesses, again, they still have to take a vote on whether to call witnesses.
00:40:00.000And there's nothing different about that than the Clinton impeachment in 1999, when it was unclear how many witnesses were going to be called once the thing actually hit the Senate.
00:40:08.000According to CNN, the organizing resolution is the opening salvo in what's shaping up to be a bitterly contested impeachment trial after the House passed two articles of impeachment last month, charging Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
00:40:20.000And I'm just going to point out, the media back in 1999 thought that witnesses were a sham, that the Senate shouldn't call new witnesses.
00:40:25.000These are the same members of the media who today are like, we need new witnesses or it's a cover-up.
00:41:07.000McConnell's organizing resolution puts off the question of witnesses until after the two sides present their opening arguments, and there are 16 hours of questions for senators, which they will ask through Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who's presiding over the trial.
00:41:18.000He has the worst schedule in Washington.
00:41:19.000He has to go hear Supreme Court cases in the morning, and then he has to rush on over to the Senate in the afternoon and preside over this dumb impeachment.
00:41:26.000At that point, the resolution includes a proposal in which the Senate would vote on a motion on whether it shall be in order to consider and debate under the impeachment rules any motion to subpoena witnesses or documents.
00:41:36.000Should enough Republicans vote with Democrats to call witnesses, says CNN, the White House and Republican allies will be ready.
00:41:41.000A senior administration official and a person familiar confirmed the White House has been involved in discussion with GOP allies over the last several days to make sure they're ready in the event that Democrats get enough votes to allow witnesses to be called to testify.
00:41:52.000Well, you would imagine they would be, right?
00:41:53.000I mean, like, this is a very long telegraph punch right here.
00:41:55.000executive privilege concerns if John Bolton, Mick Mulvaney, Office of Management and Budget Official Mike Duffy, and White House aide Rob Blair are forced to publicly testify.
00:42:03.000There are a series of contingencies were prepared, said a senior administration.
00:42:07.000Well, you would imagine they would be, right?
00:42:08.000I mean, like, this is a very long telegraph punch right here.
00:42:11.000Meanwhile, President Trump's legal team has released a 110-page brief rebutting a lot of the charges put forth by Democrats in their own impeachment brief.
00:42:21.000Byron York has a good synopsis of all of this over at Washington Examiner.
00:42:25.000He says, On Monday, the White House released a 110-page defense memorandum signed by White House counsel Pat Cipollone and Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow.
00:42:32.000In it, the two lawyers addressed the substance of the Democratic charges against the president, Trump's phone call with the Ukrainian president on July 25, 2019, the decision to withhold and later deliver security assistance to Ukraine, the legitimacy of Trump's concerns about Ukrainian activities in the 2016 election and the case of Hunter Biden, and more.
00:42:49.000In other words, all the things the president's adversary said he could not address, all those things are addressed in the Cipollone-Sekulow memo.
00:42:56.000Lawyers also criticized the process of impeachment.
00:42:59.000On the substance of the abuse of power article against the president, Cipollone and Sekulow present a detailed analysis of the July 25th call and the events surrounding it.
00:43:06.000The rough transcript of the call released by the White House on September 25th, 2019, quote, shows the president did nothing wrong, they write.
00:43:13.000Trump's discussion of burden sharing has been a consistent theme of his presidency.
00:43:16.000As far as the president's discussion of the 2016 election was concerned, uncovering foreign interference in U.S.
00:43:21.000elections is always a legitimate goal, whatever the source of that interference and whether or not it fits with Democrats' preferred narrative.
00:43:27.000There were in fact legitimate concerns about Ukrainian efforts to influence the 2016 election.
00:43:31.000It was also legitimate to bring up the issue of Hunter Biden and Burisma, argued Trump's lawyers, quote, Then there was the issue of the temporarily withheld assistance, There was no discussion of the paused security assistance on that July 25th phone call, said Cipollone and Sekulow.
00:43:56.000The Ukrainians have said there was no pressure on them.
00:43:57.000They did not know that security assistance had been paused at the time of the call.
00:44:01.000House Democrats' charges further disproved by the straightforward fact that not a single witness with actual knowledge ever testified that the president suggested any connection between announcing investigations and security assistance.
00:44:54.000Even if you have a few witnesses, you're gonna get, like, maybe five witnesses if you get any witnesses.
00:44:59.000And those witnesses may take another week.
00:45:01.000Okay, well that means that today's date is January 21st.
00:45:04.000So, by early February, there's a good shot that by the time Trump speaks in the State of the Union, he's already been acquitted in the Senate.
00:46:53.000There's, at best, support for carving around the edges of gun rights, but the kind of right-to-the-heart-of-it, restricting ownership of assault weapons, there just is not widespread support for that in a gun-heavy state like Virginia.
00:47:08.000Because there was this pro-gun rally at the Virginia Capitol, the media decided that they were going to treat this thing as though it was an incipient terror attack.
00:47:14.000And this was exacerbated by the fact that there were some actual white supremacists who said that they were arrested.
00:47:19.000They wanted to come to the actual event and then start shooting.
00:47:24.000You know, not clear exactly whether they were going to shoot the constituents, shoot at cops.
00:47:28.000They wanted to start trouble because this is what white supremacists do because they're the worst people on planet Earth.
00:47:31.000They're just awful, evil pieces of human debris.
00:47:34.000The media decided instead to play it as though this rally was filled with white supremacists.
00:47:38.000The headline from the Huffington Post yesterday suggested that thousands, this is a close paraphrase, maybe a direct quote, thousands of pro-gun activists and far-right extremists rally in Richmond.
00:47:51.000I love how they just sort of conflate pro-gun activists and far-right extremists.
00:47:54.000No breakdown as to what exactly that looks like.
00:47:57.000How many far-right extremists were there?
00:48:00.000The media yesterday were just itching for something bad to happen.
00:48:03.000Like they would have loved nothing better than for shots to be fired because then they could suggest that all gun owners are actually crazed kooks who want to start violence, who want to disobey the law.
00:48:12.000And that is why we have to seize their guns from them.
00:48:14.000I mean, it's why the favorite argument of the left is finding crazy people with guns and they They never want to talk about law-abiding citizens with guns protecting themselves and their families and their rights.
00:48:23.000Instead, they want to portray gun owners as legitimately nuts.
00:48:25.000And so, when they get 22,000 people in one place, all it takes is one shot fired for the media to get what they want, and the media were just drooling for it yesterday.
00:48:49.000And I'm old enough to remember when the media portrayed tea parties as incipient terror hotbeds.
00:48:55.000When it was a bunch of Americans gathering together to say the Pledge of Allegiance and talk about founding principles and then clean up their garbage.
00:49:00.000Here's the media doing the same thing at this pro-gun rally in Virginia yesterday.
00:49:29.000There is real concern there about what the intention is behind this.
00:49:32.000There's a lot of concern about the potential for violence.
00:49:35.000And this was the constant chatter yesterday.
00:49:38.000And Governor Ralph Northam, of course, exacerbated that by declaring a state of emergency as though this is going to be another Charlottesville.
00:50:34.000I didn't see any video of people starting to get violent.
00:50:37.000And believe me, the media would have been all over it.
00:50:38.000And then the cops coming in and de-escalating the situation.
00:50:41.000In fact, the only people who didn't show up yesterday were the folks from Antifa, who are the ones who are going around the country precipitating conflict.
00:50:47.000So Ralph Northam pushing the idea that we narrowly avoided bloodshed in Richmond yesterday is perfectly insane.
00:50:53.000He has no evidence that bloodshed was in the offing from the people who were there.
00:50:57.000And the people who were going to show up and do bloodshed, thank God law enforcement did its job.
00:51:02.000Chris Hayes, though, suggests that carrying guns is in and of itself an implicit threat of violence.
00:51:07.000Here's Chris Hayes on MSNBC grabbing those Rachel Maddow glasses and going for it.
00:51:11.000Peaceable assembly to petition your government is protected under the First Amendment, even if, you know, you don't agree with people.
00:51:16.000I just, like, I guess I struggle with, like, just the implied message of armed folks.
00:51:21.000And sometimes the explicit message is that, like, we will use these if you try to enact your laws.
00:51:29.000I mean, I think there's no question when you look at those images and watch the TV screens of mostly white men marching armed to the hilt, the level of intimidation and fear that that can stoke is terrifying.
00:51:47.000I mean, like, none of these people were there.
00:51:49.000I know they feel afraid when they see a law-abiding American citizen with a gun, and I know it scares the bejesus out of them when you suggest to them that perhaps if the government violates fundamental rights under the Constitution of the United States, that people will disobey that.
00:52:00.000I know this scares them, but that happens to be a pretty rich tradition in American history.
00:52:45.000Well, one of the aspects of rule of law under the Constitution is that when you take an oath to the Constitution, you're supposed to obey the Constitution, not people who violate the Constitution in the name of the Constitution.
00:52:54.000So here's Sheriff Richard Vaughn explaining that he is not going to be mobilized in favor of disarming law-abiding American citizens just because a bunch of Democratic politicians don't like guns.
00:53:07.000If the bills go through as proposed, they will not be enforced.
00:53:18.000They're fine with local law enforcement saying we won't work with the feds to crack down on illegal immigration, which is an actual crime, but when a sheriff says, listen, I'm not going to go door to door and try to disarm law-abiding Americans just because Ralph Northam, Governor Koonman wants me to, then obviously very, very bad.
00:53:39.000The media is a black protester wearing a Make America Great Again hat, which just boggles the little minds in the media, because obviously if you're black, you're not allowed to support Trump.
00:53:47.000The protester says, Northam is trying to equate this with Charlottesville.
00:53:56.000Everybody is a wild right wing extremist who wants bloodshed.
00:53:59.000And by the way, if you're a tyrant who wants to remove fundamental American rights, then you're a moderate.
00:54:03.000If you're AOC, then you're just a peaceful moderate who is seeking to make the country better, even while you are calling for the nationalization of nearly every industry and the destruction of all American rights in the name of the government, because of course the government is us.
00:54:14.000But if you're a law-abiding American citizen who takes your gun to a pro-gun rally, then of course you're a terrorist.
00:54:19.000Here is this black protester talking about this.
00:54:22.000They want to liken this to Charlottesville, and they want to anticipate crime and violence, but these are peaceful people who come around with their weapons, and they're showing up here to send one message, and that is a message of unity.
00:54:35.000You know, this government thinks this is just white people, just a few black people.
00:54:41.000There are people here who are united from the hills, from the mountains, from the valleys, and the message is one message, and that is that we want the Second Amendment to remain intact.
00:54:52.000That tape is courtesy of Breitbart News.
00:54:53.000By the way, it's very weird to watch members of the media who are complaining that these rallies are too white then presumably ignore all the black people who are actually at the rallies and suggest also that black people should be against gun ownership, which is a weird take considering that the most victimized minority in American history are black Americans and that many black Americans have in fact defended themselves with firearms from the predations of white racists coming after them.
00:55:16.000Alrighty, we'll be back here a little bit later today with two additional hours of content.
00:55:19.000We'll see you here later today or tomorrow.
00:55:53.000Yesterday, white supremacist, Hitler-loving neo-Nazis wearing Make America Great Again hats and toting fully semi-automatic double-barreled AR-47 assault rifles descended on the Virginia State House to take over the government and establish a Prussian ethnostate in the fevered imagination