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00:01:49.000It happened basically within the space of a year.
00:01:51.000And he was acquitted twice by the Senate.
00:01:54.000This time there were more votes to impeach him or convict him in the Senate than there were last time around.
00:01:58.000Last time it was a straight party vote with only Mitt Romney breaking ranks.
00:02:00.000This time there were seven Republicans breaking ranks, according to ABC News, exactly a month and a week after insurrectionists incited a riot at the Capitol on January 6th.
00:02:09.000And you got to love the loaded language there from ABC News.
00:02:12.000Former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial came to a climactic end on Saturday afternoon, with Trump being acquitted for his alleged role in inciting the deadly event.
00:02:19.000A majority of senators voted to convict, but failed to reach the supermajority threshold needed for conviction. Trump said in a statement, this has been yet another phase of the.
00:02:27.000The reality is that since he was elected in 2016, there were many, many people who simply could not accept the fact that Trump was president.
00:02:31.000because our opponents cannot forget the almost 75 million people, the highest number ever for a sitting president who voted for us just a few short months ago.
00:02:38.000He's not totally wrong about this particular fact.
00:02:40.000The reality is that since he was elected in 2016, there were many, many people who simply could not accept the fact that Trump was president.
00:02:46.000And then there were a lot of people who were so upset that 75 million Americans voted for him in November that they attempted to essentially lump in all of those people with the Capitol I've been saying this since the day it happened.
00:02:56.000It was pretty obvious that the left wing and media agenda here was to lump everybody in together with the people who committed actual criminal and evil acts on January 6th.
00:03:05.000President Trump said, Our historic, patriotic, beautiful movement to make America great again has only just begun.
00:03:10.000In the months ahead, I have much to share with you.
00:03:11.000I look forward to continuing our incredible journey together to achieve American greatness.
00:03:14.000For all of our people, there has never been anything like it.
00:03:18.000Drama ensued on the Senate floor on Saturday morning when senators voted to hear from witnesses.
00:04:14.000Because if Democrats had actually believed that, then they would have moved fast in the Senate, which they did not.
00:04:19.000Remember, Nancy Pelosi passed the impeachment in the House with essentially a straight party line vote, 10 Republicans voting in favor.
00:04:25.000And then instead of transmitting the articles of impeachment to the Senate right away, she waited.
00:04:30.000For like a very long weekend in order to get it to the Senate.
00:04:33.000And by that point, it was basically five days from the time that Trump was to leave office anyway.
00:04:37.000So that wasn't enough time for the Senate to actually do its work.
00:04:40.000So if the idea is we need to get rid of this guy like ASAP, right now, because he's so dangerous, then she would have transmitted it right away.
00:04:46.000Which was the explanation for, of course, why they had a snap impeachment in the first place.
00:04:50.000If, however, the idea here is that you have to punish a president who's no longer in office because we can't let a future president think he can get away with this sort of stuff, well, then you wouldn't have had the snap impeachment, would you?
00:04:59.000You would have had a full-scale investigation.
00:05:13.000So what that meant is that you ended up with the Democrats basically catching as catch can, which suggests that again, their strategy here was not really to get a conviction.
00:05:21.000Their strategy here was almost entirely about painting one side of the political aisle as complicit in January 6th.
00:05:43.000Well, the Senate could have called witnesses.
00:05:44.000And this is what it came down to over the weekend.
00:05:46.000There was this really, really bizarre situation in which Democrats reversed themselves on witnesses.
00:05:53.000So what happened is that there was a Republican congressperson who basically was going to testify that she had talked to Kevin McCarthy, and Kevin McCarthy had talked to Trump, and Kevin McCarthy had told Trump to call off the dogs, and Trump didn't call off the dogs, or any of this.
00:06:09.000And so, this came out late on Friday night, early Saturday morning, and the Democrats in the House then voted, you know what, maybe we should call witnesses.
00:06:18.000And then the Senate Democrats voted, maybe we should call witnesses.
00:06:20.000And then, within an hour, they reversed themselves.
00:06:23.000On Saturday morning, they said, you know what, forget it, we're not gonna call witnesses, let's just take a vote.
00:06:27.000According to the Washington Post, the debate among the House impeachment managers raged through the night, as the hours and then minutes ticked down early Saturday before what was widely expected to be the final day of former President Donald Trump's Senate trial.
00:06:38.000After weeks of bending to political pressure to ensure a speeding proceeding, some on the House team wanted to make one final furious push to demand a more intensive investigation, to call witnesses to talk about Trump's behavior before, during, and after the mob attack on the Capitol on January 6th.
00:06:51.000Right, which again, that is a position that makes sense.
00:06:54.000If you believe that this was such a grave evil and injustice on the part of Trump, right, not on the part of the rioters, on the part of Trump, that you required a full-scale 9-11 style commission, well then you should have done that.
00:07:04.000And so how some of the House impeachment managers were like, okay, well, you know what?
00:07:07.000I know we're supposed to vote on this thing, but why don't we go ahead and do that?
00:07:10.000And Senate Democrats initially were like, well, okay.
00:07:16.000According to the Washington Post, should they seek to call a Republican lawmaker who is willing to talk about her knowledge of Trump's dismissive comments to the House GOP leader who pled with him during a riot to call off his supporters?
00:07:25.000Should they call the leader himself, Kevin McCarthy?
00:07:27.000What about aides to former Vice President Mike Pence, whose dramatic evacuation was caught on security video played for the first time publicly last week?
00:07:34.000Any of these moves risked extending the proceedings for weeks, but nonetheless, these potential surprise developments consumed the managers late into Friday night and in the wee hours on Saturday, according to multiple Democrats In the end, the managers backed off, allowing the Senate vote to take place as expected, but not before a chaotic back-and-forth caught senators off guard, sent Trump's legal team into a fury, and exposed long-simmering tensions among Democrats over how aggressively to hold the former president accountable.
00:08:02.000The debate over witness testimony continued to loom large after the vote, as key questions about Trump's actions and motives remained unanswered.
00:08:09.000There were two big problems with the Democrats' impeachment push.
00:08:12.000One was the actual impeachment charge, which centered around incitement.
00:08:16.000Incitement is very difficult to prove.
00:08:18.000Suggesting that Trump quote-unquote incited the riot when he said to peacefully and patriotically march down to the Capitol to show displeasure.
00:08:24.000That is not a particularly convincing argument.
00:08:27.000Because, again, incitement is a pretty high bar.
00:08:29.000And suggesting that it was incitement to insurrection is a double high bar.
00:08:32.000Because, again, you have to show, number one, that it was incitement.
00:08:35.000And number two, that Trump actually wanted an insurrection.
00:08:38.000Not just people to go and do something criminal.
00:08:39.000He wanted an insurrection to overthrow the United States government.
00:08:43.000Which, again, there's very little evidence of.
00:08:45.000So that was problem number one with all of this.
00:08:48.000The second problem over all of this is that many of the accusations that were being made about Trump's behavior were being made second or third hand.
00:08:54.000It was unnamed staffer inside the White House talking to New York Times.
00:08:58.000And the Democrats didn't bother to call witnesses.
00:09:00.000They just cited the New York Times report.
00:09:02.000That ain't gonna be good enough to support an impeachment effort.
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00:10:44.000First, they said that it was about incitement for insurrection.
00:10:47.000And then they said it was about Trump's general activity between November and January 6th.
00:10:52.000Well, they didn't try to bring an impeachment charge against him in December, and he was saying exactly the same things in January as he was saying in December, for example.
00:10:59.000And as it turns out, a lot of the language that they say that Trump was using that was quote-unquote incitement is language that has been used by Democrats over and over.
00:11:05.000This is the point that Trump's team made on Friday when they were closing their argument.
00:11:09.000They just played tape over and over of Democrats saying exactly the same kind of stuff that Trump has said, and nobody batting an eye.
00:11:15.000In the Senate, Democrats are going to fight like hell to make this a reality.
00:11:20.000We are going to fight like hell to protect your vote?
00:11:23.000Well, I'll tell you I'm confident that we're going to fight like hell to make sure they can.
00:11:27.000We are going to fight like hell to make sure that everyone who wants to vote can exercise that right to vote.
00:11:33.000This election is coming whether the president wants it or not, and we're going to fight like hell in Congress to make sure that the mail still works.
00:11:39.000Today, Biden's VP Kamala Harris told supporters in a fundraising note that it is time to quote, fight like hell to protect the Supreme Court.
00:11:47.000Okay, so the fact that the Trump impeachment managers, the defense team, that they were saying, you know, you guys use this kind of language all the time and you have no problem with it.
00:11:57.000I've said all along, there is no neutral standard that Democrats are going to uphold here in going after Trump on the basis of incitement.
00:12:03.000If they'd gone for a vaguer charge, I said this early on, if they just wanted to say abusive power, then it would have given Republicans some wiggle room.
00:12:09.000But at the same time, it would have given them less wiggle room.
00:12:11.000On the one hand, more wiggle room because abusive power is not an actual legal charge.
00:12:14.000On the other hand, abusive power is probably a more accurate description of what they think Trump did between November 4th and January 6th.
00:12:23.000In any case, here was Trump's lawyer saying, you guys keep saying incitement over and over and over.
00:12:27.000I'm not sure that that word means what you think it means.
00:12:30.000At no point in their presentation did you hear the House managers play a single example of Mr. Trump urging anyone to engage in violence of any kind.
00:12:43.000At no point did you hear anything that could ever possibly be construed as Mr. Trump encouraging or sanctioning an insurrection.
00:12:54.000Senators, you did not hear those tapes because they do not exist.
00:12:59.000Because the act of incitement never happened.
00:13:02.000Meanwhile, the Democrats are still trying to make an excuse for why exactly they didn't call the witnesses.
00:13:06.000Because again, if they wanted to show not only incitement, but that there was action by Trump on January 6th to, for example, hold up the sending of law enforcement, Well, then now would have been the time.
00:13:16.000Jamie Raskin was trying to make excuses for this.
00:13:18.000He's like, well, you know, but you know what?
00:13:20.000No, no matter what we said, no matter what we said, Republicans would have just voted to acquit.
00:13:25.000Number one, that may very well be true, but that's not the point.
00:13:27.000The point is that if you wanted to actually bring the strongest possible impeachment charge, what you actually would have done is, you know, the basic research.
00:13:33.000Here was Jamie Raskin trying to make an excuse for what was very obviously a politically moted impeachment.
00:13:39.000Trump knew exactly what they were doing.
00:13:41.000He knew that that mob, which he had deployed, was there, you know, occupying people's offices and threatening Congress.
00:13:49.000So we could have had a thousand witnesses, but that could not have overcome the kinds of silly arguments that people like McConnell and Capito were hanging their hats on.
00:14:01.000You still have to provide the evidence.
00:14:02.000If you don't provide the evidence, you actually leave Republicans with the Perfectly plausible defense that you guys didn't provide the evidence of the chief charge that you were attempting to make.
00:14:10.000But again, this was all political from the get-go.
00:14:12.000There were seven Republicans who joined with the Democrats to vote in favor of the conviction.
00:14:16.000That'd been Senators Mitt Romney of Utah, not a surprise, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Richard Burr of North Carolina, and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
00:14:27.000The latter two, kind of interesting, I believe both of those guys are retiring after this particular round because they don't want to be primary, presumably.
00:14:34.000There's already some talk of doing that in these particular home states.
00:14:37.000But it does show that if you're in a purple state, they are less Trump-y in the purple states than they would be in the non-purple states, and that's something that Republicans should keep in mind going forward, which leads to Mitch McConnell's response to all of this.
00:15:53.000The reality is that politically speaking, Trump underperformed nearly every Republican across the country in 2020.
00:15:59.000I know that that is counter to the sort of prevailing view among Republicans, which is that Trump boosted turnout on the right side of the aisle.
00:16:05.000He did boost some turnout on the right side of the aisle, but not for him.
00:16:08.000He boosted turnout on the right side of the aisle, but he also boosted turnout on the left side of the aisle, which is why Joe Biden, a dead candidate, a person who has not been living for several years, ended up winning 80 million votes in the popular vote.
00:16:18.000So you can see why McConnell is doing what he's attempting to do here, which is, I'm not going to separate off from the party.
00:16:23.000I understand that people are using the impeachment as a litmus test of loyalty to the Republican Party.
00:16:33.000Meanwhile, the Democrats, are attempting pretty strongly to tie all Republicans to Trump's knee here.
00:16:40.000Here's Nancy Pelosi suggesting that every Republican is complicit in January 6th, not just Trump, every single Republican who didn't vote in favor of impeachment.
00:16:48.000The goal here was never that they were actually going to get a conviction of Trump or even that they were going to do the legwork necessary to support an impeachment of Trump.
00:16:57.000Instead, it was really about how can we best politically lump in everybody all together really quickly and then move on with our lives.
00:17:11.000Because maybe they can't get another job.
00:17:14.000What is so important about any one of us?
00:17:20.000What is so important about the political survival of any one of us that is more important Okay, let me just say this about political leaders.
00:17:34.000When political leaders grin and stand this way, you should never believe them, because political leaders are not meant to be moral leaders.
00:17:41.000We're getting to the portion of the Bible, in Judaism, every week we read a different portion of the Bible.
00:17:46.000We're getting to the portion of the Bible, at this point, where the Jews build the Golden Calf.
00:17:49.000It's right after they receive the Torah, they receive the Old Testament, and then Moses goes back up the mountain, and they freak out, and they build the Golden Calf.
00:17:56.000And the question is, why do they build a golden calf?
00:17:58.000What's so special about a golden calf?
00:18:00.000And the reason that they build a golden calf is because they want something that is going to lead them, but also be a reflection of them, right?
00:18:05.000Something in which they had a part, right?
00:18:07.000It says in the Bible that all of the Israelites, all the Jews, they take out their nose rings and their earrings and they melt them down and they make this God, right?
00:18:14.000And then they're gonna worship that God.
00:18:15.000They worship the neon God that they'd made, right?
00:18:17.000This is what we do with our politicians.
00:18:22.000And then we look to them and we say, why can't they lead us?
00:18:24.000Well, they can't lead you because they're reflections of you.
00:18:25.000They're not going to tell you things you don't want to hear.
00:18:27.000Their literal job is to tell you things that you want to hear.
00:18:29.000This is what politicians do for a living.
00:18:31.000So when Nancy Pelosi stands there and she says things like, why do these politicians, why do they think that their own job is so much more important than this institution?
00:18:39.000Yeah, Nancy, I'm sure that that consideration has never crossed your mind under any circumstances.
00:18:44.000But here's the reality when it comes to Pelosi and the Democrats and this impeachment.
00:18:48.000It was perfectly obvious what this was from the beginning.
00:18:49.000As soon as January 6th happened, they saw it not as a tragedy, but as an opportunity for the most part.
00:18:58.000It can also be an opportunity politically for them to ram down their entire agenda, which is why they rushed this thing.
00:19:06.000They've openly said this, by the way, is that Joe Biden's agenda is more important than taking their time with the impeachment to determine whether Trump is actually guilty and convictable.
00:19:14.000What this is really about is making the political point and then using that as fuel to push forward Joe Biden's ridiculous agenda.
00:19:25.000It was nearly two weeks ago that Jill and I paid our respects to Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who laid in honor in the rotunda after losing his life protecting the Capitol from a riotous violent mob on January 6th, 2021.
00:19:34.000By the way, we're still finding out some of the details as to what exactly happened with Officer Sicknick.
00:19:38.000The original reports that he was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher apparently are untrue.
00:19:42.000That doesn't mean he didn't die in defense of the Capitol.
00:19:43.000We just don't know really much what happened at this point.
00:19:47.000Biden said today, 57 senators, including a record seven Republicans, voted to find former President Trump guilty of inciting that deadly insurrection on our very democracy.
00:19:55.000This Senate vote followed the bipartisan vote to impeach him by the House of Representatives.
00:20:00.000While the final vote did not lead to a conviction, the substance of the charge is not in dispute.
00:20:03.000Even those opposed to the conviction, like Senate Minority Leader McConnell, believe Trump was guilty of a quote-unquote disgraceful dereliction of duty and practically immorally responsible for provoking the violence unleashed on the Capitol.
00:20:14.000Okay, well, this would be the time, presumably, for, if that's true, if that's what he believes, that it's not in dispute, now would be a good time to recognize that everybody's on the same side, right?
00:20:24.000But that's not what's going to happen here.
00:20:26.000So Biden says that we have to realize that we all have a duty and responsibility as Americans to defend the truth and defeat the lies.
00:20:35.000Okay, and the very first move the left makes immediately is, oh yeah, and by the way, you need to agree with all of the elements of our agenda.
00:20:41.000So Charles Blow over at the New York Times symbolizing this point of view.
00:20:48.000I noticed that you weren't a big supporter of blue lives matter for like this entire time.
00:20:51.000That in fact, if you said blue lives matter, then Charles Blow got very, very upset with you because he was saying that that is some sort of denigration of the idea that black lives matter if you suggest the police lives matter.
00:21:00.000But now he says blue lives matter is over.
00:21:02.000Blue lives matter is over because there were people who didn't vote in favor of convicting President Trump in the Senate, which means they don't care about cops.
00:21:10.000Now, that argument could very well be extended to Black Lives Matter, which obviously does not give two craps about the vast number of black people who are being killed by other black people in the United States.
00:21:19.000This is a point that has been very well made by a bunch of advocates for civil rights who happen to be on the right side of the aisle, which is that Black Lives Matter, if it wanted to be taken seriously, maybe they ought to worry about things like the vast number of young black men who are being killed by young black men in cities that actually lack a police presence.
00:21:35.000But Charles Blow would never say that Black Lives Matter doesn't care about black lives because of their absolute willingness to ignore the risk to young black life in removing the police.
00:21:44.000But here he is saying Blue Lives Matter doesn't matter to all Republicans because they didn't vote in favor of conviction.
00:22:00.000It was obvious from how they laid out the charge.
00:22:01.000And it was perfectly obvious from everything up to and including the very last day of this impeachment, when they could have called witnesses and decided not to out of political expedience, one of the Democrats even admitting, we just wanted to get home for the weekend.
00:22:12.000Yeah, that sounds like principal to me, Nancy Pelosi.
00:22:14.000All righty, in just a second, we're gonna get to that radical Biden agenda, because I gotta say, they have now set out the CDC standards for COVID in schools, for reopening the schools, that are madness.
00:22:26.000We're gonna get to this in a second, because the party of science is just the party of garbage.
00:22:29.000We'll get to this in one moment first.
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00:24:11.000So meanwhile, the, the, Impeachment ends, and Democrats ended it early because they really wanted to push forward with this massive Biden agenda.
00:24:53.000Sooner or later, people are going to realize we ain't paying back this money without inflating the currency or without killing the American economy through austerity measures.
00:25:00.000And so it is perfectly obvious where this is all headed.
00:25:02.000But you want to know how politicized the Biden administration approach to things is?
00:25:06.000All you have to do is look at their COVID policy with regard to schools.
00:25:31.000Dr. Fauci, who has never switched his mind on anything and has always been crystal clear and has been perfectly consistent and absolutely honest and forthright with the American public.
00:25:38.000I'm being super sarcastic right here in case you can't hear it in my voice.
00:25:42.000But even Dr. Fauci said, this is just a lie.
00:25:44.000Of course, there is a COVID vaccination strategy.
00:25:46.000We were giving a million shots a day by the time that Joe Biden took office.
00:25:49.000You'll recall that Joe Biden then declared he was going to give 100 million shots in the next 100 days, which averages out to, I'm not amazing at math, but 100 divided by 100 is 1.
00:25:57.000So it's going to average out to 1 million shots a day.
00:26:00.000Amazingly, we were already giving a million shots a day by the time Biden took office, but apparently they inherited no plan.
00:27:01.000I want more people to be vaccinated because if you look at the statistics from Israel, what you have seen is that now the death and illness from COVID is almost entirely in the under 60 crowd because everybody over the age of 60 has gotten the vaccine.
00:27:22.000Because the standards they are currently setting are not plausible under any circumstances.
00:27:27.000They're talking about closing schools until the end of time.
00:27:29.000They're talking about socially distancing until the end of time.
00:27:32.000So, they brought out these ridiculous CDC standards over the weekend.
00:27:37.000Now, recall that when Donald Trump was president, there was an article every single day, every day, about how Trump was putting pressure on the CDC to change its standards.
00:27:45.000And they admitted, after Trump's presidency, yeah, the changes that we made were pretty minor.
00:28:02.000Okay, the chart separated American counties into four separate categories, ranked from red on the upper end to blue on the lower end, sort of like the old terror chart in the United States.
00:28:12.000It was like the fire charts, like red zone of terror, orange zone of terror.
00:28:17.000Amazingly, America has never been in the blue zone of terror, like the entire time.
00:28:20.000Okay, well, the same thing is true of COVID.
00:28:21.000So high transmission was a certain number, and then substantial transmission, and then moderate transmission was yellow, and then low transmission was blue.
00:28:29.000Okay, so they say in all of these circumstances, we have to implement five key mitigation strategies.
00:28:35.000One, universal and correct use of masks required.
00:28:38.000Universal and correct use of masks required for presumably three and four year olds.
00:28:45.000You can't educate most adults on how to use a mask properly.
00:28:47.000My four-year-old son's pretty good at it.
00:28:49.000Like, he'll wear the mask, but I gotta tell you, like, I'm sure there are times where he takes off his mask.
00:28:54.000Physical distancing, hand washing, and respiratory etiquette.
00:28:57.000Yes, I'm sure you're gonna teach a five-year-old how not to cough.
00:28:59.000Cleaning and maintaining healthy facilities, contact tracing in combination with isolation and quarantine.
00:29:04.000The CDC standards, by the way, recommend that if somebody in the class has COVID, the entire class be put out of class for 14 days, even if they have a negative test after five.
00:29:16.000They say that symptomatic students, teachers, and staff in close contact should be referred for diagnostic testing.
00:29:21.000Then, for low transmission and moderate transmission counties, they say that K-12 schools should be open for full in-person instruction, physical distancing of six feet or more to the greatest extent possible, and they say that sports and extracurricular activities can occur, but there should be physical distancing of six feet or more to the greatest extent possible, which is like, okay, I don't understand how you can play basketball with six feet of distancing, but sure.
00:29:59.000Middle and high schools in hybrid learning mode or reduced attendance in the substantial transmission or orange area, physical distancing of six feet or more is required.
00:30:07.000No sports or extracurricular activities unless they are held outdoors with physical distancing.
00:30:12.000And then in the high transmission or red zones, then you can only attend in hybrid learning mode or reduced attendance.
00:30:18.000Middle and high schools in virtual only instruction.
00:30:20.000Okay, so no middle and high schools open at all in the red zones, right?
00:30:26.000And unless they can strictly implement all mitigation strategies and have few cases, schools that are already open can remain open, but only if they strictly implement mitigation strategies and have few cases.
00:30:37.000And all sports and extracurricular activity should be virtual only.
00:31:08.000It turns out that the studies show there is no additional risk to teachers against the baseline of just being a normal human adult moving around in American society to teaching in a school.
00:31:18.000I'm as of yet unaware of a single teacher in America.
00:31:21.000If you can name me one, I'm happy to hear it.
00:31:23.000I am not personally aware of a teacher in America who has died as a result of obtaining COVID at a school from a student.
00:31:29.000There are people who have obtained COVID and died, I believe, from other teachers, but not from the students, as far as I'm aware, in the United States.
00:31:35.000So the CDC says that everybody in a red and an orange zone should be back in hybrid learning mode or not in school at all.
00:31:55.000First one shows which schools are open and which schools are not open.
00:32:00.000Okay, the ones that are the darkest purple here are the ones that are essentially completely open and then it kind of gradates down, right?
00:32:09.000So 80 to 100% open would be like Florida, Texas, Louisiana, most of the upper Midwest, people, places like North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, right?
00:32:21.000Those places are going to be almost all open.
00:32:23.000And then there are a bunch of states that are mostly open.
00:32:25.000Right, that remains most of the South, most of the Midwest, Arizona, right?
00:32:32.000Then there are places that are kind of halfway open.
00:32:35.000That'd be like Michigan, Wisconsin, right?
00:32:40.000Those states are kind of like halfway open, like 40 to 60% open.
00:32:43.000And then there are places that are almost not open at all.
00:32:45.000And that would be essentially California, Washington, Oregon, going up the West Coast of the United States.
00:32:50.000But bottom line is this, at least half of American states are 60% or more open.
00:32:56.000Okay, and there are some states like Florida that are completely open.
00:32:58.000And by the way, Florida has been completely open for months.
00:33:01.000My kids have been in school the entire year.
00:33:04.000When there was a teacher who was sick, she went home.
00:33:07.000When there was a student who was sick in the middle school, the class went home until a few days had passed and then people took negative tests and came back.
00:33:14.000The schools have been open in Florida.
00:33:18.000And here is what the map would look like.
00:33:22.000If it were up to the CDC, every red or orange area in the United States would be closed for business with regard to schools.
00:33:29.000They'd go back to hybrid learning or virtual learning only, if you're in a red or an orange zone.
00:33:34.000If you can't see this map, it is safe to say that literally 100% of all counties in the United States are yellow, orange, or red, and probably 99% are red or orange.
00:33:47.000Okay, so in other words, if it were up to the Biden administration and the CDC for the Biden administration, they would reshut all the schools that are already open.
00:34:19.000And she says, in the red zones, everything should be shut.
00:34:22.000And nearly all of America is red zone.
00:34:23.000Here's Rochelle Walensky from the CDC with Jake Tapper on CNN.
00:34:26.000Tapper, by the way, did a good job in this interview.
00:34:29.000In that red zone, we advocate for hybrid elementary school because we believe those K-5 kids are A, transmitting less, and B, really essential to have back in the classroom.
00:34:42.000And if you're in middle school or high school, we would advocate for virtual learning for that group, or if you're able to do strict six feet of distancing in those classrooms, to open remotely in a hybrid way.
00:35:09.000And then the Biden administration said, oh, she was speaking in her personal capacity.
00:35:14.000And then magically, the CDC completely shifted, and they changed their guidance to be completely anti-scientific.
00:35:19.000There is now significantly more evidence that the Biden administration is cramming down its political teachers' union's standards on the science than that Trump ever did this.
00:35:28.000The rap on Trump with regard to the science, that Trump was ignoring the science and forcing scientific agencies to mirror him.
00:35:33.000And this is the rap on Trump all the time, going all the way back to Trump redrawing the hurricane path with regard to Alabama.
00:35:41.000When it comes to actual hard scientific standards, there's way more evidence that the CDC just radically shifted its own standards in order to meet the demands of Joe Biden specifically and the teachers' unions that run him than there is that Trump ever did anything like that.
00:35:55.000And Fauci's doing the same thing, by the way.
00:35:57.000Right, Anthony Fauci is... Yeah, I've grown increasingly critical of Fauci over the past year.
00:36:01.000At the beginning, I was like, you know, I think he's a guy trying to do his best.
00:36:04.000Then he started appearing on the cover of In Touch magazine.
00:36:06.000I was like, okay, this is a guy who's really enjoying his celebrity way too much.
00:36:09.000He's given us conflicting guidance on a variety of issues ranging from masks to school reopenings.
00:36:14.000Now, Anthony Fauci, who five minutes ago, It's imperative, actually, that we reopen the schools.
00:36:20.000You know how much cost it's having in terms of our kids, that we can't reopen the schools?
00:36:24.000Now you have Anthony Fauci, the greatest doctor outside of Joe Biden in American history, saying that we actually should not reopen the schools.
00:36:31.000The only way we should reopen the schools, according to Anthony Fauci, is if, wait for it, wait for it, Joe Biden's stimulus plan passes.
00:36:39.000Now, we still have half a billion dollars, apparently, in funding for schools that has not been used yet from the last tranche of spending.
00:36:47.000Does it sound like a scientific standard to you?
00:36:49.000Or does it sound like Anthony Fauci has his head up Joe Biden's ass and Joe Biden has his head up the teachers' union's ass?
00:36:55.000I think that the schools really do need more resources, and that's the reason why the National Relief Act that we're talking about getting passed, we need that.
00:37:07.000The things we didn't have before, there wasn't anything that was put down solidly on paper on saying, these are the kind of things that you should consider, these are the kind of things that you should follow.
00:37:19.000I mean, there was talk about it, but it wasn't actually put down in a single document that you could access the teachers, the educators, and everyone else can.
00:37:33.000It has nothing to do with the science.
00:37:34.000It never had anything to do with the science.
00:37:36.000It always had to do with political manipulations, how Andrew Cuomo became a hero while Ron DeSantis in Florida was the great villain of this ridiculous morality play.
00:37:43.000DeSantis has been the best governor in America on this stuff.
00:37:45.000He runs the oldest state in the country.
00:37:47.000It ranks in terms of deaths per million somewhere in the 26 range?
00:37:51.000Okay, and DeSantis has been crapped on by the media while Andrew Cuomo, who is actively lying to the American public and to seniors and to members of his own party about killing seniors by putting them back in COVID-infested nursing homes?
00:38:02.000I mean, that guy was treated as a hero by CNN and the rest of the media.
00:38:05.000But this guy's the villain, Ron DeSantis.
00:38:07.000Here is DeSantis pointing out quite clearly yesterday that, listen, these lockdown policies have not worked.
00:38:23.000If you look right now, states that are always held up by people in Biden's administration, like New York, have way higher per capita patients hospitalized for COVID right now.
00:38:54.000We're not turning back, Maria, and they will not be able to get away with targeting Florida.
00:39:00.000Good for DeSantis, who's been excellent on this stuff, and yet somehow he's the villain of the piece.
00:39:04.000By the way, there's now evidence emerging that what I'm accusing the Biden administration of, which is being run by the teachers unions and twisting the science in order to achieve their desired ends, That that is well supported.
00:39:13.000I'm going to give you that evidence in just one second.
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00:40:22.000Okay, we're going to get to more on the CDC standards, plus Joe Biden continuing to try out more and more radical policy.
00:40:27.000I thought this was the moderate administration.
00:40:29.000First, gotta remind you, I'm sure you know, actress Gina Carano has been making her way through the news cycle recently.
00:40:34.000She starred in the hit Disney Plus show, The Mandalorian, and then she was cancelled from the series and by her talent agency because she criticized the tyranny of the woke Hollywood mob.
00:40:43.000Now, at one point in time, That would have been the end of the story, right?
00:40:46.000That just would have been another conservative who was thrown out of the culture, and then the news cycle would have moved on.
00:40:51.000That is no longer the case, because we here at The Daily Wire, we reject cancel culture and everything the authoritarian left stands for, and we are prepared to fight back, and we are putting our money where our mouth is.
00:41:01.000That is why we just announced a movie deal with Gina.
00:41:04.000So she will be developing, producing, and starring in an upcoming film that will be released exclusively to Daily Wire members.
00:41:11.000Conservatives need to do more than complain and critique and whine about the culture.
00:41:15.000We have to stop running away from the culture.
00:41:16.000We need to be the creators and influencers who challenge the leftist narrative in Hollywood.
00:41:20.000We do that by creating excellent art that stands on its own in the world of entertainment, and that's why we are so excited to be announcing our new partnership with Gina.
00:41:28.000The woke mob, they thought they were going to get away with this.
00:41:49.000You're listening to the largest, fastest growing conservative podcast and radio show in the nation.
00:41:52.000So here's the thing, I actually have evidence.
00:41:59.000When I say that the Biden administration is run by the teachers' unions, that we have the human centipede of poop politics, and at the very top of that chain is the teachers' union, followed by Joe Biden, followed by the CDC, and then apparently followed by the media.
00:42:13.000So we are four deep in this human centipede right now.
00:42:17.000Okay, so a Friday press conference, CDC said this, that the standards that they are using, quote, must be based on a thorough review of what the science says.
00:42:27.000Works and an understanding of the lived experiences, challenges, and perspectives of teachers and school staff, parents, and students.
00:42:35.000Apparently they conducted in-depth reviews.
00:42:37.000This is from the CDC transcript of their last press conference.
00:42:40.000We've conducted an in-depth review of the available science and evidence base to guide our recommendations.
00:42:45.000And we've also engaged with many education and public health partners to hear firsthand from parents and teachers directly about their experiences and concerns.
00:42:52.000These sessions were so informative and direct changes to the guidance were made as a result of them.
00:42:59.000The decision to go back to in-person instruction is not one any of us take lightly.
00:43:02.000Believe me, I know this is what Walensky was saying.
00:43:04.000At CDC, we have thoroughly reviewed the science and engaged with stakeholders as we worked to produce an operational strategy to support safe in-person instruction and protect teachers, students, and other school staff.
00:43:16.000That is spectacular stuff right there.
00:43:21.000That you now have the, you now have Rochelle Walensky openly admitting that they changed the scientific standards based on input from the stakeholders.
00:43:31.000And now you may have heard of this term stakeholders before because it's very often used with regard to stakeholder versus shareholder capitalism.
00:45:10.000So now we have a Biden administration that is openly ignoring the science on schools, and ignoring the science on vaccines, in favor of two outside considerations that have nothing to do with the science.
00:45:21.000One is what the teachers unions want to do.
00:45:23.000Because when it comes to reopening schools, that's what they care about.
00:45:25.000What the teachers unions want to do, because one of the greatest scams in American life is that public sector unions exist in many states and in the federal government.
00:45:34.000They bargain not against their employers, they bargain against the taxpayers, because in the end, the taxpayers are the employers, but they also elect the people they are bargaining with, because they spend hundreds of millions of dollars every election cycle to elect a bunch of Democrats they can then bargain with, so the Democrats can give them taxpayer money.
00:45:50.000And then they, in turn, can take a portion of that and give it back to the politicians It's the most corrupt thing in American politics.
00:46:26.000So don't give me that this administration is motivated by higher values.
00:46:29.000They are literally taking school reopening standards and they are twisting them inside the CDC.
00:46:35.000The very thing they accused Donald Trump of doing, but didn't really occur inside the CDC, they are now openly doing in plain sight and our media are like...
00:46:43.000It's good because Joe Biden's doing it now.
00:46:45.000Because remember, the threat to your liberty is not the people who are openly threatening your liberty by ignoring hard data and ignoring their own jobs in order to gain power.
00:46:55.000It's the orange man bad who's not even in office anymore.
00:46:57.000Keep your eye on that prize there, gang.
00:46:59.000Okay, meanwhile, you've got the Biden administration pushing for more and more power.
00:47:04.000So over the weekend, Joe Biden called for gun control.
00:47:08.000He said that he doesn't oppose guns, good old Joe.
00:47:10.000He's the kind of guy who owns a shotgun.
00:47:12.000If you ever have a problem, by the way, Joe Biden's knowledge about shotguns, if you could somehow crystallize that knowledge into material form, Joe Biden's knowledge about guns could fit inside a very small thimble.
00:47:25.000The man is an idiot when it comes to this.
00:47:27.000I mean, when it comes to many things, but particularly this stuff.
00:47:29.000This is a guy who has suggested, I'm not kidding, in past interviews, that if somebody is at your door and you are afraid of them, you should blast a shotgun blast through the door, which is what Oscar Pistorius did and then ended up killing somebody in South Africa.
00:49:13.000In churches, mosques, synagogues, and temples, in movie theaters and concert halls, on city street corners that will never get a mention on the evening news, all across our nation, parents, spouses, children, siblings, and friends have known the pain of losing a loved one to gun violence.
00:49:24.000And in this season of so much loss, last year's historic increase in homicides across America, including the gun violence, disproportionately devastating black and brown individuals in our cities has added to the number of empty seats at our kitchen tables.
00:49:52.000Oh, maybe that increase in homicide was because you and your political allies decided to back a Black Lives Matter movement that actively suggested cutting funding to the police and instead Replacing those police officers with social workers.
00:50:05.000Maybe that has something to do with something.
00:50:07.000Maybe it's that you have spent the last several years declaring, along with Kamala Harris, that the police are systemically racist.
00:50:12.000And this has led to police officers being like, you know what?
00:50:45.000He blames the increase in murders across the United States and in inner cities, not On the Black Lives Matter movement's riotous offspring, but instead, or on the Black Lives Matter movement's policy push to get rid of cops.
00:51:06.000So he continues, today as we mourn with the Parkland community, we mourn for all who have lost loved ones to gun violence.
00:51:11.000Over these three years, the Parkland families have taught us all something profound.
00:51:14.000Time and again, they've showed us how we can turn our grief into purpose, to march, organize and build a strong, inclusive, durable movement for change, et cetera, et cetera.
00:51:21.000He says, this administration will not wait for the next mass shooting to heed that call.
00:51:25.000We will take action to end our epidemic of gun violence and make our schools and communities safer.
00:51:29.000So first of all, all of the sort of semantic game playing that happens with regard to gun control is evident in this statement.
00:51:35.000Whenever he says things like gun violence, understand guns don't violent themselves.
00:51:40.000Guns are tools, like the pen I am holding.
00:51:42.000This pen cannot write by itself, otherwise it would be magic.
00:51:46.000If you wish to disincentivize people shooting one another, perhaps we should have more cops on our streets.
00:51:50.000But again, this goes very much against what Joe Biden is in favor of.
00:51:54.000Also unanswered remains the question as to why there are certain areas of the United States with extraordinary levels of gun ownership, and yet very, very low gun murder rates.
00:52:03.000Places like, for example, Vermont, which has very, very lax gun laws.
00:52:08.000They never answer these particular questions, because the questions are awkward.
00:52:11.000Why is it that Switzerland has very high levels of gun ownership and very little gun violence?
00:52:16.000Perhaps people pulling the trigger is really the problem, not inanimate objects sitting there on the table.
00:52:21.000So there is that euphemism that's always used, gun violence, as opposed to, you know, the problem of murder.
00:52:25.000Because if you broaden it out and you say the problem of murder, Then, instead of focusing on the instrument of the murder, you might focus on the people responsible for the murder and try and capture them and put them in jail.
00:52:35.000That's not what Joe Biden wants to do.
00:52:36.000He's very much in favor of fewer people in jail, including people who are dangerous.
00:52:40.000Also, when he says the epidemic of gun violence, an epidemic is something that spreads from person to person.
00:52:46.000I have never been infected with this epidemic because it's not an epidemic.
00:52:54.000You have to decide to engage in an act of evil, like shooting a gun at another human being.
00:52:59.000Anyway, Joe Biden then gets to his policy preferences.
00:53:01.000He says, By the way, common sense in Democrat speak is, I don't have any evidence to back this, but I think it might be a good idea, so let's do it.
00:53:10.000Democrats have yet to provide a proposal that would have stopped what happened at Parkland.
00:53:14.000They've yet to provide a proposal that would have stopped what happened at Sandy Hook.
00:53:17.000They've yet to provide a proposal that would have stopped what happened in the San Bernardino shooting.
00:53:21.000All of their proposals are actively geared toward not doing those things, and they admit as much.
00:53:35.000It might not have stopped Sandy Hook, but it might stop another shoot.
00:53:37.000Okay, well, yeah, but that's not what we're talking about, are we?
00:53:40.000Like, how about a gun law that's calibrated to the particular policy you're talking about?
00:53:45.000One of the reasons, by the way, that Democrats keep focusing in on mass shootings as opposed to the everyday problem of people killing each other with guns is because usually when people kill each other with guns, it is done with handguns.
00:53:55.000Mass shootings are disproportionately done with long guns.
00:53:58.000Democrats want to go after long guns because long guns look scary and also because long guns are easier to regulate and they're easier to track.
00:54:07.000There are too many handguns in circulation and they know this.
00:54:10.000So instead, they just ignore handguns.
00:54:11.000And so the reality is what Democrats would love more than anything else is a vast gun confiscation.
00:54:17.000Hillary Clinton has praised the Australian gun buyback plan, which was a mandatory gun buyback.
00:54:21.000By the way, still ended with only one third of the guns in Australia actually being turned in.
00:54:25.000So, Joe Biden says, I'm calling on Congress to enact common sense gun law reforms, including requiring background checks on all gun sales, which means that if I sell a gun to my brother-in-law, then this means that they want a background check.
00:54:38.000So in order for that to happen, you would need a national gun registry.
00:54:42.000That is the only way for that to happen, is for the government to know every single gun in America and where it is and how it is transmitted hands.
00:55:16.000Right, if I were to take a chainsaw, which is normally used for cutting down trees, and I were to go over to my neighbor's house, and I were to chainsaw my neighbor, you know who would not be liable is the chainsaw manufacturer.
00:55:28.000Because among the non-recommended uses, chainsawing my neighbor, if I were to woodchipper somebody, like Fargo, the person's family could not then sue the woodchipper and say, you know what?
00:55:40.000Not really your fault, but you sold the woodchipper to that guy, and that guy was bad news.
00:55:44.000The purpose of a gun is not to shoot an innocent person.
00:55:46.000The purpose of a gun is to defend yourself or to defend liberty in the final instance.
00:55:51.000But if that gun is misused, the notion that the gun manufacturer should be somehow liable for that is a way of putting gun manufacturers out of business.
00:56:25.000Good old moderate Joe who loves guns, we've been told.
00:56:27.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden is about to allow tens of thousands of illegal immigrants into Texas and California communities.
00:56:33.000According to John Binder reporting for Breitbart, President Joe Biden's Department of Homeland Security is planning to release about 25,600 migrants who have been in Mexico into American communities in Texas and California, according to Breitbart News.
00:56:45.000After Biden ended the Remain in Mexico policy, which drastically reduced asylum fraud by keeping migrants in Mexico while they await asylum hearings in the United States, DHS announced it would begin processing the 25,600 migrants in the program on February 19th.
00:56:58.000Ultimately, all of those migrants will enter the United States Interior.
00:57:02.000Internal communications that Breitbart News has reviewed show DHS plans to release the migrants in San Diego, El Paso, and Brownsville, Texas Those were locations the Biden administration refused to divulge to the AP when asked.
00:57:15.000In San Diego, DHS plans to process and release about 300 migrants a day within two weeks of February 19th.
00:57:20.000By the way, the remain in Mexico policy makes a lot of sense, but the Biden administration is attempting to end it because they don't actually oppose illegal immigration in any serious way.
00:57:29.000Meanwhile, in other radical Biden administration policy, so I had been informed by administrations of both parties that the American alliance with Israel was unshakable.
00:57:39.000Remember, they kept saying over and over, we're not an anti-Israel administration, no.
00:57:43.000They kept saying this in Obama's administration.
00:57:45.000Sure, they were allowing radically anti-Semitic UN resolutions to go forward in the last days of the Obama administration.
00:57:53.000Sure, they pushed forward an Iran nuclear deal that put at existential risk Israel, but they weren't anti-Israel.
00:57:58.000Well, now the mask is kind of slipping here.
00:58:01.000So Jen Psaki, the garbage White House press secretary, she was asked specifically if Saudi Arabia and Israel were allies of the United States.
00:58:09.000Now, normally the answer to that question is, yes, they are, because they've historically been allies to the United States.
00:58:14.000Doesn't mean you can't hold your allies accountable.
00:58:16.000We have lots of allies we disagree with, but to pretend that Israel is not an ally of the United States is crazy.
00:58:21.000And we are now, I mean, Joe Biden was put into office on February 20th.
00:58:27.000On January 20th, we have now had nearly a month and Joe Biden still has not put in a call to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.
00:58:41.000Because Joe Biden doesn't like Netanyahu.
00:58:43.000And because the Democrats in power do not like Israel.
00:58:46.000They made this rather clear yesterday.
00:58:47.000Jen Psaki refused to acknowledge Israel as an ally and said she'd have to circle back on that.
00:58:52.000Does the administration still consider the Saudis and the Israelis important allies?
00:58:57.000Well, you know, again, I think there are ongoing processes and internal interagency processes, one that we, I think, confirmed in an interagency meeting just last week to discuss a range of issues in the Middle East.
00:59:11.000We've only been here three and a half weeks, and I think I'm going to let those policy processes see themselves through before we give kind of a complete laydown of what our national security approaches will be to a range of issues.
00:59:22.000Okay, so she doesn't know where they are on that one.
00:59:23.000That seems like a pretty easy answer, but they can't give it because this administration is radical.