The Ben Shapiro Show - How The Democrats Blew Impeachment II | Ep. 1195

00:00:00.000 President Trump gets acquitted by the Senate despite seven Republicans voting in favor of conviction.

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00:01:40.000 Okay, so over the weekend on Saturday, President Trump Became the first president ever to go two for two in impeachment acquittal.

00:01:47.000 So he's been impeached twice.

00:01:49.000 It happened basically within the space of a year.

00:01:51.000 And he was acquitted twice by the Senate.

00:01:54.000 This time there were more votes to impeach him or convict him in the Senate than there were last time around.

00:01:58.000 Last time it was a straight party vote with only Mitt Romney breaking ranks.

00:02:00.000 This 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.

00:02:09.000 And you got to love the loaded language there from ABC News.

00:02:12.000 Former 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.

00:02:19.000 A 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.

00:02:27.000 The 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.

00:02:31.000 because 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.

00:02:38.000 He's not totally wrong about this particular fact.

00:02:40.000 The 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.

00:02:46.000 And 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.

00:02:56.000 It 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.

00:03:05.000 President Trump said, Our historic, patriotic, beautiful movement to make America great again has only just begun.

00:03:10.000 In the months ahead, I have much to share with you.

00:03:11.000 I look forward to continuing our incredible journey together to achieve American greatness.

00:03:14.000 For all of our people, there has never been anything like it.

00:03:18.000 Drama ensued on the Senate floor on Saturday morning when senators voted to hear from witnesses.

00:03:21.000 So here's the reality here.

00:03:23.000 The reality is that Democrats made it kind of easy on Republicans.

00:03:26.000 I should be frank about this.

00:03:27.000 Democrats blew this one.

00:03:28.000 The reason that they blew this one is because they recognized a simple reality.

00:03:32.000 The longer this trial dragged out, the more Americans were going to ask a very easy question.

00:03:36.000 Why are we doing this?

00:03:38.000 Like, really.

00:03:39.000 This is what always happens with impeachments.

00:03:40.000 At the very beginning, there's a fair bit of support for them.

00:03:42.000 And then as they drag on, the polls start to turn against the party that's doing the impeachment.

00:03:46.000 That is particularly true when the person they're attempting to impeach and convict has been out of office for months.

00:03:51.000 Because Democrats did not want to call witnesses.

00:03:53.000 They wanted to get this thing done fast.

00:03:54.000 So Democrats made two mistakes here.

00:03:56.000 Like, very early, they made two mistakes.

00:03:58.000 One was, they had a snap impeachment in the House.

00:04:00.000 Now, the argument for the snap impeachment in the House was that this happened on January 6th.

00:04:05.000 We'll impeach him by January 10th.

00:04:06.000 We'll get him out of there by January 15th.

00:04:08.000 And then we won't have to worry about the last five days, him leading some sort of insurrection.

00:04:12.000 But here's the thing.

00:04:13.000 Democrats didn't believe that.

00:04:14.000 Because if Democrats had actually believed that, then they would have moved fast in the Senate, which they did not.

00:04:19.000 Remember, Nancy Pelosi passed the impeachment in the House with essentially a straight party line vote, 10 Republicans voting in favor.

00:04:25.000 And then instead of transmitting the articles of impeachment to the Senate right away, she waited.

00:04:30.000 For like a very long weekend in order to get it to the Senate.

00:04:33.000 And by that point, it was basically five days from the time that Trump was to leave office anyway.

00:04:37.000 So that wasn't enough time for the Senate to actually do its work.

00:04:40.000 So 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.

00:04:46.000 Which was the explanation for, of course, why they had a snap impeachment in the first place.

00:04:50.000 If, 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?

00:04:59.000 You would have had a full-scale investigation.

00:05:01.000 The House would have done its work.

00:05:02.000 It would have taken months.

00:05:03.000 They would have deposed probably hundreds of witnesses.

00:05:05.000 They would have had to talk to everybody immediately around Trump about his activities that day and immediately before and after.

00:05:12.000 They didn't do any of that.

00:05:13.000 So 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.

00:05:21.000 Their strategy here was almost entirely about painting one side of the political aisle as complicit in January 6th.

00:05:27.000 That's really what this was about.

00:05:28.000 Because again, if it was about snap impeachment, they would have moved faster in the first place.

00:05:32.000 And then once they got past Trump leaving office, the rationale for the snap impeachment was gone because he was out.

00:05:39.000 Right now would be the time for the full scale investigation.

00:05:42.000 So what could have happened?

00:05:43.000 Well, the Senate could have called witnesses. 0.88

00:05:44.000 And this is what it came down to over the weekend.

00:05:46.000 There was this really, really bizarre situation in which Democrats reversed themselves on witnesses.

00:05:53.000 So 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.

00:06:09.000 And 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.

00:06:18.000 And then the Senate Democrats voted, maybe we should call witnesses.

00:06:20.000 And then, within an hour, they reversed themselves.

00:06:23.000 On Saturday morning, they said, you know what, forget it, we're not gonna call witnesses, let's just take a vote.

00:06:27.000 According 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.

00:06:38.000 After 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.

00:06:51.000 Right, which again, that is a position that makes sense.

00:06:54.000 If 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. 0.60

00:07:04.000 And so how some of the House impeachment managers were like, okay, well, you know what?

00:07:07.000 I know we're supposed to vote on this thing, but why don't we go ahead and do that?

00:07:10.000 And Senate Democrats initially were like, well, okay.

00:07:13.000 And then they reversed themselves.

00:07:16.000 According 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?

00:07:25.000 Should they call the leader himself, Kevin McCarthy?

00:07:27.000 What about aides to former Vice President Mike Pence, whose dramatic evacuation was caught on security video played for the first time publicly last week?

00:07:34.000 Any 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.

00:08:02.000 The debate over witness testimony continued to loom large after the vote, as key questions about Trump's actions and motives remained unanswered.

00:08:08.000 See, this was the big problem.

00:08:09.000 There were two big problems with the Democrats' impeachment push.

00:08:12.000 One was the actual impeachment charge, which centered around incitement.

00:08:16.000 Incitement is very difficult to prove.

00:08:18.000 Suggesting that Trump quote-unquote incited the riot when he said to peacefully and patriotically march down to the Capitol to show displeasure.

00:08:24.000 That is not a particularly convincing argument.

00:08:27.000 Because, again, incitement is a pretty high bar.

00:08:29.000 And suggesting that it was incitement to insurrection is a double high bar.

00:08:32.000 Because, again, you have to show, number one, that it was incitement.

00:08:35.000 And number two, that Trump actually wanted an insurrection.

00:08:38.000 Not just people to go and do something criminal.

00:08:39.000 He wanted an insurrection to overthrow the United States government.

00:08:43.000 Which, again, there's very little evidence of.

00:08:45.000 So that was problem number one with all of this.

00:08:48.000 The 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.

00:08:54.000 It was unnamed staffer inside the White House talking to New York Times.

00:08:58.000 And the Democrats didn't bother to call witnesses.

00:09:00.000 They just cited the New York Times report.

00:09:02.000 That ain't gonna be good enough to support an impeachment effort.

00:09:05.000 We're going to get to more of this in just one second.

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00:10:33.000 Okay, so.

00:10:35.000 The Democrats put themselves in a very difficult position with this impeachment because they were very inconsistent in their pursuit.

00:10:41.000 First, they said it was a crisis.

00:10:43.000 Then they said it was not a crisis.

00:10:44.000 First, they said that it was about incitement for insurrection.

00:10:47.000 And then they said it was about Trump's general activity between November and January 6th.

00:10:52.000 Well, 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.

00:10:59.000 And 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.

00:11:05.000 This is the point that Trump's team made on Friday when they were closing their argument.

00:11:09.000 They just played tape over and over of Democrats saying exactly the same kind of stuff that Trump has said, and nobody batting an eye.

00:11:15.000 In the Senate, Democrats are going to fight like hell to make this a reality.

00:11:20.000 We are going to fight like hell to protect your vote?

00:11:23.000 Well, I'll tell you I'm confident that we're going to fight like hell to make sure they can.

00:11:27.000 We are going to fight like hell to make sure that everyone who wants to vote can exercise that right to vote.

00:11:33.000 This 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.

00:11:39.000 Today, 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.

00:11:47.000 Okay, 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.

00:11:56.000 That is accurate.

00:11:57.000 I'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.

00:12:03.000 If 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.

00:12:09.000 But at the same time, it would have given them less wiggle room.

00:12:11.000 On the one hand, more wiggle room because abusive power is not an actual legal charge.

00:12:14.000 On the other hand, abusive power is probably a more accurate description of what they think Trump did between November 4th and January 6th.

00:12:23.000 In any case, here was Trump's lawyer saying, you guys keep saying incitement over and over and over.

00:12:27.000 I'm not sure that that word means what you think it means.

00:12:30.000 At 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.

00:12:43.000 At no point did you hear anything that could ever possibly be construed as Mr. Trump encouraging or sanctioning an insurrection.

00:12:54.000 Senators, you did not hear those tapes because they do not exist.

00:12:59.000 Because the act of incitement never happened.

00:13:01.000 Okay.

00:13:02.000 Meanwhile, the Democrats are still trying to make an excuse for why exactly they didn't call the witnesses.

00:13:06.000 Because 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.

00:13:16.000 Jamie Raskin was trying to make excuses for this.

00:13:18.000 He's like, well, you know, but you know what?

00:13:20.000 No, no matter what we said, no matter what we said, Republicans would have just voted to acquit.

00:13:25.000 Number one, that may very well be true, but that's not the point.

00:13:27.000 The 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.

00:13:33.000 Here was Jamie Raskin trying to make an excuse for what was very obviously a politically moted impeachment.

00:13:39.000 Trump knew exactly what they were doing.

00:13:41.000 He knew that that mob, which he had deployed, was there, you know, occupying people's offices and threatening Congress.

00:13:46.000 So it was there for everybody to see.

00:13:49.000 So 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.

00:13:57.000 They're trying to have it both ways.

00:13:59.000 OK, but here's the problem.

00:14:01.000 You still have to provide the evidence.

00:14:02.000 If 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.

00:14:10.000 But again, this was all political from the get-go.

00:14:12.000 There were seven Republicans who joined with the Democrats to vote in favor of the conviction.

00:14:16.000 That'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.

00:14:27.000 The 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.

00:14:34.000 There's already some talk of doing that in these particular home states.

00:14:37.000 But 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.

00:14:48.000 So Mitch McConnell did two things.

00:14:50.000 One, he voted against the impeachment because he said, listen, you can't impeach somebody who's already out of office, right?

00:14:55.000 Otherwise, you could just impeach private individuals.

00:14:56.000 That's not what this is really for.

00:14:58.000 But he also slammed Trump in pretty personal terms.

00:15:01.000 It's pretty obvious that McConnell and many in the Republican higher echelon would like to separate off from Trump at this point.

00:15:06.000 Thanks for all the cheese, but we're done at this point.

00:15:08.000 Here's Mitch McConnell going after Trump while simultaneously not voting for his impeachment.

00:15:13.000 They did this because they'd been fed wild falsehoods by the most powerful man on Earth.

00:15:25.000 Because he was angry, he lost an election.

00:15:30.000 Former President Trump's actions preceded the riot were a disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty.

00:15:42.000 Okay, so that is an argument that's been made by a lot of Republicans is that Trump's behavior here was really, really bad.

00:15:47.000 But what this is really about for McConnell and for a lot of Republicans is minimizing Trump's influence going forward on the party.

00:15:52.000 And you can see why.

00:15:53.000 The reality is that politically speaking, Trump underperformed nearly every Republican across the country in 2020.

00:15:59.000 I 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.

00:16:05.000 He did boost some turnout on the right side of the aisle, but not for him.

00:16:08.000 Right.

00:16:08.000 He 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.

00:16:18.000 So 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.

00:16:23.000 I understand that people are using the impeachment as a litmus test of loyalty to the Republican Party.

00:16:28.000 I'm not going to vote against that.

00:16:29.000 At the same time, Trump should not be a key figure going forward.

00:16:32.000 That's McConnell's attempt.

00:16:33.000 Meanwhile, the Democrats, are attempting pretty strongly to tie all Republicans to Trump's knee here.

00:16:40.000 Here'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.

00:16:47.000 That was always the goal here.

00:16:48.000 The 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.

00:16:57.000 Instead, it was really about how can we best politically lump in everybody all together really quickly and then move on with our lives.

00:17:03.000 Mike Pence.

00:17:04.000 Hang Mike Pence was the chant and they just dismissed that.

00:17:10.000 Why?

00:17:11.000 Because maybe they can't get another job.

00:17:14.000 What is so important about any one of us?

00:17:20.000 What 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.

00:17:34.000 When political leaders grin and stand this way, you should never believe them, because political leaders are not meant to be moral leaders.

00:17:39.000 They're just not.

00:17:41.000 We're getting to the portion of the Bible, in Judaism, every week we read a different portion of the Bible.

00:17:46.000 We're getting to the portion of the Bible, at this point, where the Jews build the Golden Calf. 0.96

00:17:49.000 It'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.

00:17:56.000 And the question is, why do they build a golden calf?

00:17:58.000 What's so special about a golden calf?

00:18:00.000 And 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?

00:18:05.000 Something in which they had a part, right?

00:18:07.000 It 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? 0.99

00:18:14.000 And then they're gonna worship that God.

00:18:15.000 They worship the neon God that they'd made, right? 0.65

00:18:17.000 This is what we do with our politicians. 1.00

00:18:19.000 We elect these schmucks. 1.00

00:18:21.000 I guess it's our fault. 1.00

00:18:22.000 And then we look to them and we say, why can't they lead us?

00:18:24.000 Well, they can't lead you because they're reflections of you.

00:18:25.000 They're not going to tell you things you don't want to hear.

00:18:27.000 Their literal job is to tell you things that you want to hear.

00:18:29.000 This is what politicians do for a living. 0.95

00:18:31.000 So 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?

00:18:39.000 Yeah, Nancy, I'm sure that that consideration has never crossed your mind under any circumstances.

00:18:44.000 But here's the reality when it comes to Pelosi and the Democrats and this impeachment.

00:18:48.000 It was perfectly obvious what this was from the beginning.

00:18:49.000 As soon as January 6th happened, they saw it not as a tragedy, but as an opportunity for the most part.

00:18:54.000 It was both.

00:18:55.000 It was both for them.

00:18:56.000 It can be both, right?

00:18:56.000 It can be tragedy.

00:18:57.000 It can be a criminal act.

00:18:58.000 It can also be an opportunity politically for them to ram down their entire agenda, which is why they rushed this thing.

00:19:06.000 They'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.

00:19:14.000 What this is really about is making the political point and then using that as fuel to push forward Joe Biden's ridiculous agenda. 0.96

00:19:20.000 And his agenda is ridiculous. 0.91

00:19:22.000 Joe Biden himself put out a statement. 0.96

00:19:23.000 He says.

00:19:25.000 It 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.

00:19:34.000 By the way, we're still finding out some of the details as to what exactly happened with Officer Sicknick.

00:19:38.000 The original reports that he was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher apparently are untrue.

00:19:42.000 That doesn't mean he didn't die in defense of the Capitol.

00:19:43.000 We just don't know really much what happened at this point.

00:19:47.000 Biden 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.

00:19:55.000 This Senate vote followed the bipartisan vote to impeach him by the House of Representatives.

00:20:00.000 While the final vote did not lead to a conviction, the substance of the charge is not in dispute.

00:20:03.000 Even 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.

00:20:14.000 Okay, 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?

00:20:24.000 But that's not what's going to happen here.

00:20:26.000 So 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.

00:20:33.000 That's how we end this uncivil war.

00:20:35.000 Okay, 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.

00:20:41.000 So Charles Blow over at the New York Times symbolizing this point of view.

00:20:45.000 He says, blue lives matter is over.

00:20:46.000 Weird.

00:20:48.000 I noticed that you weren't a big supporter of blue lives matter for like this entire time.

00:20:51.000 That 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.

00:21:00.000 But now he says blue lives matter is over.

00:21:02.000 Blue 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. 0.91

00:21:10.000 Now, 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.

00:21:19.000 This 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.

00:21:35.000 But 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.

00:21:44.000 But here he is saying Blue Lives Matter doesn't matter to all Republicans because they didn't vote in favor of conviction.

00:21:48.000 This is all about the politics.

00:21:50.000 And Democrats never played it any other way.

00:21:52.000 There was no point at which they said that this was about a higher principle, or at which they plausibly said that anyway.

00:21:57.000 It was never about a higher principle.

00:21:58.000 That was obvious from their conduct.

00:22:00.000 It was obvious from how they laid out the charge.

00:22:01.000 And 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.

00:22:12.000 Yeah, that sounds like principal to me, Nancy Pelosi.

00:22:14.000 All 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. 0.98

00:22:26.000 We're gonna get to this in a second, because the party of science is just the party of garbage. 0.95

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00:24:11.000 So meanwhile, the, the, Impeachment ends, and Democrats ended it early because they really wanted to push forward with this massive Biden agenda.

00:24:11.000 Okay.

00:24:21.000 Now, here's the thing. 1.00

00:24:22.000 Biden's COVID agenda is a bunch of garbage. 1.00

00:24:24.000 It is garbage, okay? 0.99

00:24:25.000 This $1.9 trillion stimulus plan is about four times too large for even the gap that is going to be created by COVID this year. 0.98

00:24:33.000 It includes a bunch of terrible economic policies like $15 minimum wage.

00:24:38.000 It is gonna blow a hole in the national debt and deficit.

00:24:40.000 Some of us have been very opposed to this, even when Donald Trump was president.

00:24:44.000 We already are going to spend over 100% of our GDP this year.

00:24:47.000 It's going to be well above that once we add that $1.9 trillion in.

00:24:51.000 Inflation will come.

00:24:53.000 Sooner 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.

00:25:00.000 And so it is perfectly obvious where this is all headed.

00:25:02.000 But you want to know how politicized the Biden administration approach to things is?

00:25:06.000 All you have to do is look at their COVID policy with regard to schools.

00:25:09.000 Because this is insane.

00:25:10.000 So let's begin with this. 1.00

00:25:12.000 They're liars over there. 1.00

00:25:13.000 They are. 1.00

00:25:14.000 The truth-telling team in Team Biden, they are liars. 0.80

00:25:16.000 Here's Kamala Harris, the Vice President of the United States, suggesting again that there is no COVID vaccination strategy.

00:25:22.000 When the Biden team entered office.

00:25:24.000 This is just overtly a lie.

00:25:26.000 Dr. Anthony Fauci, the greatest of all doctors, second only to Joe Biden.

00:25:29.000 He's such an amazing doctor.

00:25:31.000 Dr. 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.

00:25:38.000 I'm being super sarcastic right here in case you can't hear it in my voice.

00:25:42.000 But even Dr. Fauci said, this is just a lie.

00:25:44.000 Of course, there is a COVID vaccination strategy.

00:25:46.000 We were giving a million shots a day by the time that Joe Biden took office.

00:25:49.000 You'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.

00:25:57.000 So it's going to average out to 1 million shots a day.

00:26:00.000 Amazingly, we were already giving a million shots a day by the time Biden took office, but apparently they inherited no plan.

00:26:05.000 Everybody knew this was a lie.

00:26:06.000 The media know this is a lie, but they never bother following up on it, even though it is perfectly obviously a lie.

00:26:11.000 Here's Kamala Harris. 0.99

00:26:12.000 Presumably laughing over another lie.

00:26:16.000 I mean, the challenge, Mike, is, you know, what I explained to the mayors.

00:26:21.000 There was no stockpile.

00:26:24.000 It's in many ways... No stockpile of?

00:26:24.000 Right?

00:26:28.000 Of vaccines.

00:26:30.000 Right?

00:26:31.000 So we're looking at this.

00:26:33.000 There was no national strategy or plan for vaccinations.

00:26:38.000 We were leaving it to the states and local leaders to try and figure it out.

00:26:42.000 And so in many ways we are, we're starting from scratch.

00:26:47.000 Okay, so that's just a lie.

00:26:48.000 They are not starting from scratch.

00:26:49.000 They are not close to starting from scratch.

00:26:51.000 It's just untrue.

00:26:52.000 This is not to run down Biden's attempts to get new supply of vaccine.

00:26:57.000 And every president would have done it, but I'm glad that Biden did it, right?

00:26:57.000 That's fine.

00:27:00.000 That's a very good thing.

00:27:01.000 I 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.

00:27:12.000 Which is really good!

00:27:13.000 But here is the thing.

00:27:14.000 The end policy for Democrats right now seems to be we are going to lock down forever.

00:27:18.000 We're going to mask forever.

00:27:20.000 Until the end of time.

00:27:21.000 I'm not kidding.

00:27:22.000 Because the standards they are currently setting are not plausible under any circumstances.

00:27:27.000 They're talking about closing schools until the end of time.

00:27:29.000 They're talking about socially distancing until the end of time.

00:27:32.000 So, they brought out these ridiculous CDC standards over the weekend.

00:27:37.000 Now, 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.

00:27:45.000 And they admitted, after Trump's presidency, yeah, the changes that we made were pretty minor.

00:27:49.000 These are not minor changes. 0.96

00:27:50.000 The CDC's standards on school reopenings are just utterly asinine. 0.95

00:27:55.000 They make no sense at all. 1.00

00:27:57.000 They are ridiculous on their face. 1.00

00:27:59.000 So they put out A chart. 0.98

00:28:02.000 Okay, 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.

00:28:11.000 You remember this one?

00:28:12.000 It was like the fire charts, like red zone of terror, orange zone of terror.

00:28:17.000 Amazingly, America has never been in the blue zone of terror, like the entire time.

00:28:20.000 Okay, well, the same thing is true of COVID.

00:28:21.000 So high transmission was a certain number, and then substantial transmission, and then moderate transmission was yellow, and then low transmission was blue.

00:28:29.000 Okay, so they say in all of these circumstances, we have to implement five key mitigation strategies.

00:28:35.000 One, universal and correct use of masks required.

00:28:38.000 Universal and correct use of masks required for presumably three and four year olds.

00:28:43.000 Not going to happen.

00:28:45.000 You can't educate most adults on how to use a mask properly.

00:28:47.000 My four-year-old son's pretty good at it.

00:28:49.000 Like, he'll wear the mask, but I gotta tell you, like, I'm sure there are times where he takes off his mask.

00:28:54.000 Physical distancing, hand washing, and respiratory etiquette.

00:28:57.000 Yes, I'm sure you're gonna teach a five-year-old how not to cough.

00:28:59.000 Cleaning and maintaining healthy facilities, contact tracing in combination with isolation and quarantine.

00:29:04.000 The 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.

00:29:13.000 Which is totally anti-scientific. 0.77

00:29:15.000 It's ridiculous.

00:29:16.000 They say that symptomatic students, teachers, and staff in close contact should be referred for diagnostic testing.

00:29:21.000 Then, 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.

00:29:21.000 Okay.

00:29:42.000 Okay, then you get to the upper end counties, right?

00:29:44.000 Substantial transmission in orange and high transmission in red.

00:29:48.000 For these, the CDC now recommends elementary schools should be in hybrid learning mode or reduced attendance.

00:29:54.000 Physical distancing of six feet or more is not recommended.

00:29:57.000 It should be required.

00:29:59.000 Middle 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.

00:30:07.000 No sports or extracurricular activities unless they are held outdoors with physical distancing.

00:30:12.000 And then in the high transmission or red zones, then you can only attend in hybrid learning mode or reduced attendance.

00:30:18.000 Middle and high schools in virtual only instruction.

00:30:20.000 Okay, so no middle and high schools open at all in the red zones, right?

00:30:26.000 And 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.

00:30:37.000 And all sports and extracurricular activity should be virtual only.

00:30:40.000 Okay, now here's the thing.

00:30:42.000 The research on this has shown schools are not the chief vectors of transmission.

00:30:46.000 Particularly true for elementary schools.

00:30:47.000 Also true for younger middle schoolers.

00:30:49.000 But even if you're talking about high schoolers and junior highers, those kids are not getting seriously ill from this disease.

00:30:56.000 This disease is not deadly on the scale of other diseases with regard to people who are under the age of 20.

00:31:01.000 It is not.

00:31:03.000 It is significantly less deadly for people under the age of 20 than the flu is.

00:31:07.000 How about the risk for teachers?

00:31:08.000 It 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.

00:31:18.000 I'm as of yet unaware of a single teacher in America.

00:31:21.000 If you can name me one, I'm happy to hear it.

00:31:23.000 I am not personally aware of a teacher in America who has died as a result of obtaining COVID at a school from a student.

00:31:29.000 There 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.

00:31:35.000 So 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.

00:31:41.000 So, what does that mean?

00:31:42.000 I mean, using these zones.

00:31:43.000 Okay, but maybe most of these places are in blue.

00:31:46.000 Maybe most of America's in blue or yellow and not in red or orange.

00:31:50.000 Nope.

00:31:51.000 Here is the map of the United States.

00:31:54.000 Here's a map that shows two maps.

00:31:55.000 First one shows which schools are open and which schools are not open.

00:32:00.000 Okay, the ones that are the darkest purple here are the ones that are essentially completely open and then it kind of gradates down, right?

00:32:09.000 So 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?

00:32:21.000 Those places are going to be almost all open.

00:32:23.000 And then there are a bunch of states that are mostly open.

00:32:25.000 Right, that remains most of the South, most of the Midwest, Arizona, right?

00:32:31.000 Those places are mostly open.

00:32:32.000 Then there are places that are kind of halfway open.

00:32:35.000 That'd be like Michigan, Wisconsin, right?

00:32:40.000 Those states are kind of like halfway open, like 40 to 60% open.

00:32:43.000 And then there are places that are almost not open at all.

00:32:45.000 And that would be essentially California, Washington, Oregon, going up the West Coast of the United States.

00:32:50.000 But bottom line is this, at least half of American states are 60% or more open.

00:32:56.000 Okay, and there are some states like Florida that are completely open.

00:32:58.000 And by the way, Florida has been completely open for months.

00:33:01.000 My kids have been in school the entire year.

00:33:04.000 When there was a teacher who was sick, she went home.

00:33:07.000 When 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.

00:33:14.000 The schools have been open in Florida.

00:33:15.000 They never closed.

00:33:16.000 They didn't close in Florida.

00:33:18.000 And here is what the map would look like.

00:33:22.000 If it were up to the CDC, every red or orange area in the United States would be closed for business with regard to schools.

00:33:29.000 They'd go back to hybrid learning or virtual learning only, if you're in a red or an orange zone.

00:33:34.000 If 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.

00:33:47.000 Okay, 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.

00:33:54.000 That is what they would be doing.

00:33:56.000 In fact, Jake Tapper pointed this out with CDC Director Walensky.

00:33:59.000 He said, if it were up to you guys, 99% of all kids in all schools would be barred from going to school right now.

00:34:06.000 And Walensky was like, well, yeah, you know, in the red zone, we should even have hybrid elementary schools.

00:34:11.000 Walensky said two weeks ago that schools should be open and teachers don't need to be vaccinated.

00:34:17.000 Now she has flipped On a dime.

00:34:19.000 And she says, in the red zones, everything should be shut.

00:34:22.000 And nearly all of America is red zone.

00:34:23.000 Here's Rochelle Walensky from the CDC with Jake Tapper on CNN.

00:34:26.000 Tapper, by the way, did a good job in this interview.

00:34:29.000 In 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.

00:34:42.000 And 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.

00:34:57.000 Okay, this is madness.

00:34:58.000 And it's completely different from what she was saying five minutes ago.

00:35:01.000 Five minutes ago, Walensky was saying that the schools should be open and teachers should be going back to school.

00:35:06.000 Like, oh, we played it last week.

00:35:06.000 Really?

00:35:08.000 She literally said that last week.

00:35:09.000 And then the Biden administration said, oh, she was speaking in her personal capacity.

00:35:14.000 And then magically, the CDC completely shifted, and they changed their guidance to be completely anti-scientific.

00:35:19.000 There 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.

00:35:28.000 The rap on Trump with regard to the science, that Trump was ignoring the science and forcing scientific agencies to mirror him.

00:35:33.000 And this is the rap on Trump all the time, going all the way back to Trump redrawing the hurricane path with regard to Alabama.

00:35:39.000 You remember this with the Sharpie.

00:35:41.000 Okay, well, here's the thing.

00:35:41.000 When 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.

00:35:55.000 And Fauci's doing the same thing, by the way.

00:35:57.000 Right, Anthony Fauci is... Yeah, I've grown increasingly critical of Fauci over the past year.

00:36:01.000 At the beginning, I was like, you know, I think he's a guy trying to do his best.

00:36:04.000 Then he started appearing on the cover of In Touch magazine.

00:36:06.000 I was like, okay, this is a guy who's really enjoying his celebrity way too much.

00:36:09.000 He's given us conflicting guidance on a variety of issues ranging from masks to school reopenings.

00:36:14.000 Now, Anthony Fauci, who five minutes ago, It's imperative, actually, that we reopen the schools.

00:36:20.000 You know how much cost it's having in terms of our kids, that we can't reopen the schools?

00:36:24.000 Now you have Anthony Fauci, the greatest doctor outside of Joe Biden in American history, saying that we actually should not reopen the schools.

00:36:31.000 The 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.

00:36:39.000 Now, we still have half a billion dollars, apparently, in funding for schools that has not been used yet from the last tranche of spending.

00:36:47.000 But that doesn't matter.

00:36:47.000 Does it sound like a scientific standard to you?

00:36:49.000 Or 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? 0.95

00:36:55.000 I 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. 0.99

00:37:05.000 The schools need more resources.

00:37:07.000 The 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.

00:37:19.000 I 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.

00:37:29.000 I think it can be done. 0.92

00:37:30.000 This is a pathetic joke. 0.96

00:37:32.000 I'm sorry, this is a pathetic joke. 0.98

00:37:33.000 It has nothing to do with the science. 0.53

00:37:34.000 It never had anything to do with the science.

00:37:36.000 It 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.

00:37:43.000 DeSantis has been the best governor in America on this stuff.

00:37:45.000 He runs the oldest state in the country.

00:37:47.000 It ranks in terms of deaths per million somewhere in the 26 range?

00:37:51.000 Okay, 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?

00:38:02.000 I mean, that guy was treated as a hero by CNN and the rest of the media.

00:38:05.000 But this guy's the villain, Ron DeSantis.

00:38:07.000 Here is DeSantis pointing out quite clearly yesterday that, listen, these lockdown policies have not worked.

00:38:11.000 They do not work.

00:38:12.000 He is right.

00:38:12.000 I lived in a lockdown state.

00:38:14.000 California now has the most deaths of any state in the union.

00:38:18.000 And yet DeSantis is the bad guy somehow.

00:38:20.000 Here is DeSantis yesterday.

00:38:23.000 If 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.

00:38:33.000 So there's no basis in medical.

00:38:35.000 There's no basis in economics.

00:38:38.000 There's no basis in reality to do this except to punish a state that is doing it better than what his experts have recommended.

00:38:47.000 Biden is a lockdowner.

00:38:49.000 His advisors are lockdowners.

00:38:51.000 Lockdowns don't work.

00:38:53.000 We've demonstrated that.

00:38:54.000 We're not turning back, Maria, and they will not be able to get away with targeting Florida.

00:39:00.000 Good for DeSantis, who's been excellent on this stuff, and yet somehow he's the villain of the piece.

00:39:04.000 By 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.

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00:40:22.000 Okay, we're going to get to more on the CDC standards, plus Joe Biden continuing to try out more and more radical policy.

00:40:27.000 I thought this was the moderate administration.

00:40:29.000 First, gotta remind you, I'm sure you know, actress Gina Carano has been making her way through the news cycle recently.

00:40:34.000 She 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.

00:40:43.000 Now, at one point in time, That would have been the end of the story, right?

00:40:46.000 That just would have been another conservative who was thrown out of the culture, and then the news cycle would have moved on.

00:40:51.000 That 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.

00:41:01.000 That is why we just announced a movie deal with Gina. 0.67

00:41:04.000 So she will be developing, producing, and starring in an upcoming film that will be released exclusively to Daily Wire members.

00:41:10.000 We've all said it.

00:41:11.000 Conservatives need to do more than complain and critique and whine about the culture.

00:41:15.000 We have to stop running away from the culture.

00:41:16.000 We need to be the creators and influencers who challenge the leftist narrative in Hollywood.

00:41:20.000 We 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.

00:41:28.000 The woke mob, they thought they were going to get away with this.

00:41:30.000 They've got another thing coming.

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00:41:52.000 So here's the thing, I actually have evidence.

00:41:59.000 When 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.

00:42:13.000 So we are four deep in this human centipede right now.

00:42:16.000 Listen to this report.

00:42:17.000 Okay, 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.

00:42:27.000 Works and an understanding of the lived experiences, challenges, and perspectives of teachers and school staff, parents, and students.

00:42:27.000 U.S.

00:42:35.000 Apparently they conducted in-depth reviews.

00:42:37.000 This is from the CDC transcript of their last press conference.

00:42:40.000 We've conducted an in-depth review of the available science and evidence base to guide our recommendations.

00:42:45.000 And we've also engaged with many education and public health partners to hear firsthand from parents and teachers directly about their experiences and concerns.

00:42:52.000 These sessions were so informative and direct changes to the guidance were made as a result of them.

00:42:59.000 The decision to go back to in-person instruction is not one any of us take lightly.

00:43:02.000 Believe me, I know this is what Walensky was saying.

00:43:04.000 At 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.

00:43:16.000 That is spectacular stuff right there.

00:43:19.000 I mean, truly spectacular.

00:43:21.000 That you now have the, you now have Rochelle Walensky openly admitting that they changed the scientific standards based on input from the stakeholders.

00:43:31.000 And now you may have heard of this term stakeholders before because it's very often used with regard to stakeholder versus shareholder capitalism.

00:43:37.000 Quick review on that.

00:43:38.000 So when it comes to corporations, the typical conservative viewpoint is that corporations live to serve their shareholders.

00:43:44.000 If you own a share in the corporation, it is the job of the corporation to maximize the potential value of your share.

00:43:50.000 Which makes sense.

00:43:51.000 You're the one with skin in the game, right?

00:43:52.000 You bought a share of Nike and now you want that share of Nike to go up.

00:43:55.000 So Nike has to make both short and long-term decisions designed at maximizing the stock price of your shares.

00:44:00.000 Then along come a bunch of people who are on the social left and they say, you know what?

00:44:03.000 Companies need to be thinking about the stakeholders.

00:44:03.000 No.

00:44:06.000 People who are not involved with the company, just people who are sort of outside the system, but may have an interest in what Nike does.

00:44:13.000 So if you care about shoes more generally, or the environment, or people who are living in China, then you ought to impact Nike's policy.

00:44:19.000 The problem is that this turns corporate boards into politicians.

00:44:22.000 Okay, the same thing is true when it comes to the CDC.

00:44:24.000 The CDC has one mandate and one mandate only, and that is to give scientific guidance.

00:44:29.000 I was told this over and over and over during the Trump era, right?

00:44:32.000 You are too.

00:44:33.000 Follow ta science.

00:44:34.000 Right?

00:44:34.000 The science is the only thing that matters.

00:44:36.000 The science.

00:44:37.000 And if you don't follow the science, this makes you a bad person.

00:44:40.000 Now you have the CDC openly acknowledging that they changed their scientific guidance based on the stakeholders.

00:44:46.000 People who don't actually have skin in the scientific game.

00:44:50.000 They have other arenas of concern.

00:44:52.000 They have other things they have to worry about.

00:44:53.000 Like, can we get our teachers more pay for sitting at home and doing nothing?

00:44:56.000 That's what the teachers unions are doing. 1.00

00:44:59.000 But apparently we're now going to take stakeholders into consideration.

00:45:02.000 Not the parents.

00:45:03.000 Not the parents.

00:45:04.000 The parents who want their kids back in school.

00:45:06.000 The teachers unions.

00:45:08.000 I mean, this is extraordinary stuff.

00:45:10.000 So 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.

00:45:21.000 One is what the teachers unions want to do.

00:45:23.000 Because when it comes to reopening schools, that's what they care about.

00:45:25.000 What 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.

00:45:34.000 They 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.

00:45:50.000 And 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. 0.54

00:45:55.000 It is openly corrupt.

00:45:56.000 There's not even a shred of cover for the corruption that exists here.

00:46:00.000 And those are the people making the scientific standards.

00:46:02.000 And then when it comes to vaccine, you have the Biden administration pushing equity, equity.

00:46:06.000 Because we have to determine what special racial group should receive additional privilege or non-privilege in the American system.

00:46:13.000 This is not an administration that gives a damn about science.

00:46:15.000 This is an administration that cares about outside values.

00:46:19.000 They're not following the science.

00:46:21.000 They're following value systems and value judgments that win them elections.

00:46:25.000 That's all this is.

00:46:26.000 So don't give me that this administration is motivated by higher values.

00:46:29.000 They are literally taking school reopening standards and they are twisting them inside the CDC.

00:46:35.000 The 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...

00:46:43.000 It's good because Joe Biden's doing it now.

00:46:45.000 Because 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.

00:46:55.000 It's the orange man bad who's not even in office anymore. 0.63

00:46:57.000 Keep your eye on that prize there, gang.

00:46:59.000 Okay, meanwhile, you've got the Biden administration pushing for more and more power.

00:47:04.000 So over the weekend, Joe Biden called for gun control.

00:47:06.000 You knew this was coming.

00:47:07.000 Remember a good old Joe?

00:47:08.000 He said that he doesn't oppose guns, good old Joe.

00:47:10.000 He's the kind of guy who owns a shotgun.

00:47:12.000 If 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. 1.00

00:47:25.000 The man is an idiot when it comes to this. 1.00

00:47:27.000 I mean, when it comes to many things, but particularly this stuff. 1.00

00:47:29.000 This 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.

00:47:45.000 Like, that's illegal.

00:47:46.000 You can't do that.

00:47:47.000 Also, he suggested that you never have to fire an anger at somebody, really.

00:47:50.000 You just go up to your balcony and you fire your gun in the air.

00:47:52.000 I don't know if he's been watching too many Cowboy movies with dog-faced pony soldiers or such.

00:47:58.000 But like, his knowledge about guns is just, like, he doesn't know anything. 1.00

00:48:00.000 He's a moron. 1.00

00:48:01.000 Okay, so. 1.00

00:48:03.000 He has now come out and he has suggested that he wants wide-scale gun bans, essentially.

00:48:09.000 Which should not be a shock to any of you.

00:48:10.000 Some of us were saying this at the time.

00:48:11.000 Remember, he invited up on the stage Beto.

00:48:15.000 He said that Beto O'Rourke, brah, was gonna run gun policy.

00:48:18.000 The same Beto O'Rourke who had suggested that he absolutely was in favor of gun confiscations.

00:48:23.000 Joe Biden said this upon his nomination, right?

00:48:27.000 On Super Tuesday, he said this.

00:48:29.000 So, Joe Biden has now called on Congress to pass what he calls, quote, common sense gun law reforms.

00:48:35.000 The statement comes from Biden on the three year anniversary of the school shooting massacre in Parkland.

00:48:40.000 Quote, three years ago today, a lone gunman took the lives of 14 students and three educators.

00:48:45.000 Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

00:48:47.000 In seconds, the lives of dozens of families and the life of an American community were changed forever.

00:48:51.000 For three years now, the Parkland families have spent birthdays and holidays without their loved ones.

00:48:55.000 They've missed out on the experience of sending their children off to college or seeing them on their first job after high school.

00:48:59.000 Like far too many families, they've had to bury pieces of their soul deep within the earth.

00:49:03.000 Like far too many families, and indeed, like our nation, they've been left to wonder whether things would ever be okay.

00:49:08.000 These families are not alone in big cities and small towns, in schools and shopping malls.

00:49:11.000 This is all Joe Biden's statement.

00:49:13.000 In 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.

00:49:24.000 And 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.

00:49:34.000 I love that he just slides that in.

00:49:36.000 So there's been this massive increase in homicide, particularly in America's major cities.

00:49:40.000 Did that have to do with lack of gun control?

00:49:42.000 Quick quiz question.

00:49:44.000 What are the gun control laws like in L.A., Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C.?

00:49:51.000 Loose, are they?

00:49:52.000 Oh, 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.

00:50:05.000 Maybe that has something to do with something.

00:50:07.000 Maybe it's that you have spent the last several years declaring, along with Kamala Harris, that the police are systemically racist.

00:50:12.000 And this has led to police officers being like, you know what?

00:50:15.000 I'm not going to go to that call.

00:50:16.000 Because if I am caught on tape doing the right thing, there's a good shot I end up getting prosecuted.

00:50:20.000 So you know what?

00:50:21.000 I'll just wait until the thing's over and then I'll respond.

00:50:24.000 It's led to the end of proactive policing.

00:50:27.000 Or maybe it's because you've seen departments across the United States withdraw funding.

00:50:31.000 By the way, you know who finally realized this?

00:50:32.000 Minneapolis.

00:50:33.000 Minneapolis yesterday came out with the announcement that they had to add $6.4 million to the police budget.

00:50:39.000 Oh, you mean that whole defunding the police thing didn't work?

00:50:42.000 I can't believe it.

00:50:43.000 So Joe Biden just sticks right in the middle of this.

00:50:43.000 I can't believe it.

00:50:45.000 He 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.

00:51:00.000 Instead, he puts it on gun control.

00:51:02.000 Which makes less than zero sense.

00:51:04.000 It is anti-sense.

00:51:06.000 So he continues, today as we mourn with the Parkland community, we mourn for all who have lost loved ones to gun violence.

00:51:11.000 Over these three years, the Parkland families have taught us all something profound.

00:51:14.000 Time 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.

00:51:21.000 He says, this administration will not wait for the next mass shooting to heed that call.

00:51:25.000 We will take action to end our epidemic of gun violence and make our schools and communities safer.

00:51:29.000 So first of all, all of the sort of semantic game playing that happens with regard to gun control is evident in this statement.

00:51:35.000 Whenever he says things like gun violence, understand guns don't violent themselves.

00:51:40.000 Guns are tools, like the pen I am holding. 0.60

00:51:42.000 This pen cannot write by itself, otherwise it would be magic.

00:51:45.000 Guns do not fire themselves.

00:51:46.000 If you wish to disincentivize people shooting one another, perhaps we should have more cops on our streets.

00:51:50.000 But again, this goes very much against what Joe Biden is in favor of.

00:51:54.000 Also 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.

00:52:03.000 Places like, for example, Vermont, which has very, very lax gun laws.

00:52:08.000 They never answer these particular questions, because the questions are awkward.

00:52:11.000 Why is it that Switzerland has very high levels of gun ownership and very little gun violence?

00:52:16.000 Perhaps people pulling the trigger is really the problem, not inanimate objects sitting there on the table.

00:52:21.000 So there is that euphemism that's always used, gun violence, as opposed to, you know, the problem of murder.

00:52:25.000 Because 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.

00:52:35.000 That's not what Joe Biden wants to do.

00:52:36.000 He's very much in favor of fewer people in jail, including people who are dangerous.

00:52:40.000 Also, when he says the epidemic of gun violence, an epidemic is something that spreads from person to person.

00:52:46.000 I have never been infected with this epidemic because it's not an epidemic.

00:52:49.000 It's people committing acts of evil.

00:52:51.000 Evil is not an epidemic.

00:52:53.000 It's not catchable.

00:52:54.000 You have to decide to engage in an act of evil, like shooting a gun at another human being.

00:52:59.000 Anyway, Joe Biden then gets to his policy preferences.

00:53:01.000 He 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.

00:53:10.000 Democrats have yet to provide a proposal that would have stopped what happened at Parkland.

00:53:14.000 They've yet to provide a proposal that would have stopped what happened at Sandy Hook.

00:53:17.000 They've yet to provide a proposal that would have stopped what happened in the San Bernardino shooting.

00:53:21.000 All of their proposals are actively geared toward not doing those things, and they admit as much.

00:53:26.000 Barack Obama used to admit this.

00:53:27.000 He used to say this, right?

00:53:29.000 People would ask him, so you want to pass a gun law after Sandy Hook that wouldn't have stopped Sandy Hook?

00:53:34.000 And he'd be like, it's true.

00:53:35.000 It might not have stopped Sandy Hook, but it might stop another shoot.

00:53:37.000 Okay, well, yeah, but that's not what we're talking about, are we?

00:53:40.000 Like, how about a gun law that's calibrated to the particular policy you're talking about?

00:53:45.000 One 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.

00:53:55.000 Mass shootings are disproportionately done with long guns.

00:53:58.000 Democrats 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.

00:54:07.000 There are too many handguns in circulation and they know this.

00:54:10.000 So instead, they just ignore handguns.

00:54:11.000 And so the reality is what Democrats would love more than anything else is a vast gun confiscation.

00:54:16.000 That's what they would want.

00:54:17.000 Hillary Clinton has praised the Australian gun buyback plan, which was a mandatory gun buyback.

00:54:21.000 By the way, still ended with only one third of the guns in Australia actually being turned in.

00:54:25.000 So, 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.

00:54:38.000 So in order for that to happen, you would need a national gun registry.

00:54:42.000 That 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.

00:54:48.000 Banning assault weapons.

00:54:50.000 He doesn't define assault weapons, but assault weapons presumably include all the scary-looking ones.

00:54:54.000 And high-capacity magazines.

00:54:56.000 And eliminating immunity for gun manufacturers.

00:54:58.000 Okay, now this is the big one.

00:54:59.000 So Democrats have been pushing for a long time this idea that gun manufacturers should be on the hook liably.

00:55:05.000 They should have liability.

00:55:06.000 They should be liable for a bad person misusing their gun.

00:55:12.000 This does not exist in any other category of products liability.

00:55:15.000 It doesn't.

00:55:16.000 Right, 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.

00:55:28.000 Because 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?

00:55:40.000 Not really your fault, but you sold the woodchipper to that guy, and that guy was bad news.

00:55:44.000 The purpose of a gun is not to shoot an innocent person.

00:55:46.000 The purpose of a gun is to defend yourself or to defend liberty in the final instance.

00:55:51.000 But 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.

00:55:58.000 That's what it is.

00:55:59.000 That's what it is designed to do.

00:56:01.000 It is not that gun manufacturers have some sort of exemption in law.

00:56:05.000 It's that gun manufacturers ought not be liable for the misuse of their products to do bad things.

00:56:10.000 It is a very silly suggestion that that be done, except it's not silly.

00:56:12.000 It's an attempt to destroy gun manufacturers. 0.74

00:56:15.000 That is what he wants.

00:56:16.000 He wants legal liability extended to people who misuse your product.

00:56:18.000 It doesn't exist in any other area of American law.

00:56:22.000 So that is what Joe Biden is pushing for.

00:56:24.000 Yeah, this is moderate Joe.

00:56:25.000 Good old moderate Joe who loves guns, we've been told.

00:56:27.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden is about to allow tens of thousands of illegal immigrants into Texas and California communities.

00:56:33.000 According 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.

00:56:45.000 After 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.

00:56:58.000 Ultimately, all of those migrants will enter the United States Interior. 0.98

00:57:02.000 Internal 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.

00:57:15.000 In San Diego, DHS plans to process and release about 300 migrants a day within two weeks of February 19th.

00:57:20.000 By 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.

00:57:29.000 Meanwhile, in other radical Biden administration policy, so I had been informed by administrations of both parties that the American alliance with Israel was unshakable.

00:57:39.000 Remember, they kept saying over and over, we're not an anti-Israel administration, no.

00:57:43.000 They kept saying this in Obama's administration.

00:57:45.000 Sure, they were allowing radically anti-Semitic UN resolutions to go forward in the last days of the Obama administration.

00:57:53.000 Sure, they pushed forward an Iran nuclear deal that put at existential risk Israel, but they weren't anti-Israel.

00:57:58.000 Well, now the mask is kind of slipping here.

00:58:01.000 So Jen Psaki, the garbage White House press secretary, she was asked specifically if Saudi Arabia and Israel were allies of the United States.

00:58:09.000 Now, normally the answer to that question is, yes, they are, because they've historically been allies to the United States.

00:58:14.000 Doesn't mean you can't hold your allies accountable.

00:58:16.000 We have lots of allies we disagree with, but to pretend that Israel is not an ally of the United States is crazy.

00:58:21.000 And we are now, I mean, Joe Biden was put into office on February 20th.

00:58:27.000 On 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.

00:58:33.000 A month!

00:58:34.000 He's talked to world leaders all over the place.

00:58:35.000 He's talked to enemy world leaders.

00:58:37.000 He's talked to friendly world leaders.

00:58:38.000 He still has not called Benjamin Netanyahu.

00:58:41.000 Why?

00:58:41.000 Because Joe Biden doesn't like Netanyahu.

00:58:43.000 And because the Democrats in power do not like Israel.

00:58:46.000 They made this rather clear yesterday.

00:58:47.000 Jen Psaki refused to acknowledge Israel as an ally and said she'd have to circle back on that.

00:58:52.000 Does the administration still consider the Saudis and the Israelis important allies?

00:58:57.000 Well, 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.

00:59:11.000 We'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.

00:59:22.000 Okay, so she doesn't know where they are on that one.

00:59:23.000 That seems like a pretty easy answer, but they can't give it because this administration is radical.

00:59:27.000 It was always going to be radical.

00:59:28.000 Some of us warned that it was a Trojan horse for radicalism.

00:59:32.000 Americans decided to vote for that anyway.

00:59:33.000 Well, now Americans are going to get the benefit of the bargain.

00:59:36.000 We are going to get it good and hard.

00:59:38.000 Alrighty, we're going to be here later today with an additional hour of content.

00:59:42.000 In the meantime, go check out The Michael Nolan Show.

00:59:43.000 He's discussing Meghan McCain's take on the Lincoln Project.

00:59:46.000 You can hear more details about that story over on Michael's show.

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01:00:21.000 The Senate votes not to convict Donald Trump, making him the most acquitted president in American history.

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How The Democrats Blew Impeachment II | Ep. 1195

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