The Ben Shapiro Show - Joe Biden's Disconnect From Reality | Ep. 1146

00:00:00.000 Iran's top nuclear scientist is assassinated to the consternation of the Biden foreign policy establishment.

00:00:05.000 Joe Biden continues to receive startling notices from our very objective media.

00:00:10.000 And the Supreme Court slaps down Andrew Cuomo's anti-religious bigotry.

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00:00:28.000 Well, a lot of news broke over Thanksgiving weekend.

00:00:31.000 So apparently the Israelis is the is the sort of suspected source of this.

00:00:37.000 Apparently the Israelis knocked off Iran's nuclear chief.

00:00:40.000 Now that's not been clarified.

00:00:42.000 It's not Totally clear who killed Iran's nuclear chief over the weekend.

00:00:46.000 But whenever somebody in the Iranian nuclear industry goes down, it's a fair bet that probably the Israelis had something to do with it. 0.88

00:00:52.000 According to the UK Daily Mail, remarkable detail of the elaborate plot to assassinate prominent and distinguished Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has been leaked as the rogue nation claim Israel is behind the hit.

00:01:03.000 Fakhrizadeh, dubbed the father of Iran's bomb program, was shot dead in his car by 12 highly trained assassins following an explosion in the city of Absard, 50 miles east of Tehran.

00:01:13.000 The killers, apparently including a pair of snipers, formed part of a 62-person group of plotters.

00:01:17.000 The remaining 50 people were responsible for logistical support.

00:01:20.000 According to the Daily Mail, extraordinary detail about Favrizadeh's final moments have been revealed by Iranian journalist Mohammad Awazadeh, who claims he received leaked information from the country's authorities.

00:01:30.000 This is coming courtesy of the Iranians, so always take it with a grain of salt. 1.00

00:01:35.000 Fakhrizadeh's death sent tensions in the region skyrocketing as Iran has repeatedly blamed Israel's National Intelligence Agency, Mossad, for the assassination, with several prominent figures vowing revenge.

00:01:44.000 Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on all matters of state yesterday, said Iran's first priority after the killing was the definitive punishment of the perpetrators and those who ordered it.

00:01:52.000 He did not elaborate.

00:01:53.000 In an intervention that risks inflaming conflict even further, a former head of the U.S.

00:01:57.000 CIA labeled the assassination a criminal act and branded it highly reckless. 0.96

00:02:01.000 This came courtesy of piece-of-crap John Brennan, who was director of the CIA from 2013 to 2017. 0.94

00:02:06.000 At least a couple major Iranian scientists were knocked off during that time. 0.95

00:02:09.000 He had no words to say about it when he was actually in the government.

00:02:11.000 Now, of course, it's the end of the world. 0.99

00:02:13.000 Brennan is a ridiculous figure. 0.96

00:02:15.000 He said he did not know who was to blame for the murder, but said he, quote, risks lethal retaliation and a new round. 0.99

00:02:20.000 A couple of notes on this.

00:02:29.000 First of all, remember that time that Michael Flynn did exactly that?

00:02:32.000 You remember that?

00:02:33.000 Remember the Russians and the U.S. 1.00

00:02:35.000 were at odds and Michael Flynn called up the Russians.

00:02:37.000 He said, you know what?

00:02:38.000 You might want to wait a couple of weeks until the Trump administration is in place.

00:02:41.000 And then Obama's intelligence agencies decided that they were basically going to persecute Michael Flynn over this.

00:02:46.000 They decided that Michael Flynn had broken the law.

00:02:47.000 You have John Brennan now saying openly the same thing.

00:02:50.000 Just wait until our guys are back and then we'll be nice to you again, Iran. 1.00

00:02:54.000 John Brennan, who again, is a ridiculous liar. 0.97

00:02:57.000 Yeah, given the fact that he actually did overtly lie to Congress, probably should have done some prison time. 0.98

00:03:02.000 He said, I do not know whether a foreign government authorized or carried out the murder of Faghrizadeh, such an act of state-sponsored terrorism.

00:03:08.000 It's state-sponsored terrorism to kill the man who is responsible for the Iranian nuclear program, a program designed, according to the highest leaders of the Iranian government, who openly state this, to nuke the Jews into oblivion. 0.51

00:03:21.000 Right, that apparently is now state-sponsored terrorism to kill a guy who is the head of the nuclear program for a terrorist state.

00:03:27.000 Interesting take.

00:03:28.000 John Brennan, who helped preside over the drone war that Barack Obama launched on a wide variety of continents.

00:03:34.000 Apparently, Brennan says such an act of state-sponsored terrorism would be a flagrant violation of international law and encourage more governments to carry out lethal attacks against foreign officials.

00:03:42.000 Oh, I see how this works.

00:03:43.000 So when Iran runs around the globe killing foreign officials and killing foreign Foreign people and intervenes in other nations and kills American soldiers.

00:03:52.000 That's kind of just how they work.

00:03:53.000 But if somebody in the West kills an Iranian scientist responsible for the development of a nuclear program that would be in and of itself responsible for the threat against some 7 million Jews living in Israel as well as people all over the region who are not Jews, including many Arab Muslims, then apparently that's totally fine. 0.99

00:04:10.000 Brennan continued, these assassinations are far different than strikes against terrorist leaders and operatives of groups like Al Qaeda, an Islamic state, which are not sovereign states, as illegitimate combatants under international law that can be targeted in order to stop deadly terrorist attacks.

00:04:22.000 Oh, I see how this works again.

00:04:24.000 So you're going to pretend that the Iranian government is completely legitimate, even though it is a terrorist state that has been in charge since 1979, with no free and fair elections in the entire country since 1979. 0.89

00:04:36.000 But terror groups, they're different.

00:04:38.000 Okay, fine.

00:04:38.000 So John Brennan is part of this foreign policy establishment that is being brought back into power by Joe Biden.

00:04:44.000 It is a good thing.

00:04:45.000 Once again, it is an unmitigatedly good thing that the Iranian nuclear scientist at the head of their nuclear program is no longer with us. 0.98

00:04:52.000 That is a very, very good thing.

00:04:54.000 Anything that stops Iran from getting a bomb is a good thing for the region, not just for Israel, but also for Saudi Arabia, also for Bahrain, also for anybody else in that area.

00:05:04.000 It is a very good thing that the Iranian terrorist state, that the Iranian mullahs, are not going to gain a nuclear weapon all that quickly. 0.61

00:05:10.000 And naturally, the Biden team is very, very angry about this.

00:05:14.000 Now you see this from Europe too, right?

00:05:16.000 Britain is saying the same sort of stuff.

00:05:17.000 Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is concerned about the possible escalation of tensions.

00:05:21.000 The foreign policy establishment, they have a basic idea.

00:05:24.000 The basic idea is anytime the West does something in order to knock off people who are involved in terrorism or the development of weapons that could be used by terrorists, then the West is responsible and the West has raised tensions.

00:05:35.000 Little secret about the Iranians, they don't need the West to raise tensions.

00:05:39.000 They've been consistently and persistently responsible for terrorism against a wide variety of targets, from Jewish to Christian to Muslim, for decades on end.

00:05:50.000 And what this really is, is the basic notion, it's setting the stage for the media and Biden pushing once again to make concessions to an Iranian terror state.

00:05:57.000 And you can see this in how the media are covering this.

00:05:59.000 There's this bubble that is being formed once again, anew.

00:06:02.000 This bubble that is being formed, the Biden media bubble.

00:06:05.000 And it's really despicable.

00:06:06.000 It existed during the Obama era, where Barack Obama could lie to the American public and to the media and just get away with it. 0.82

00:06:13.000 Ben Rhodes, who's the architect of the Iran deal, one of the architects of the Iran deal, that guy admitted openly that he lied to members of the media and created an echo chamber because he said, they're so ignorant, they'll just print anything that I say.

00:06:23.000 Maybe the only true thing Ben Rhodes has ever said.

00:06:26.000 And that was true.

00:06:27.000 The media continued to parrot the line that Iran had been ratcheted down in its extremism, that Iran's nuclear program had been ended, that Iran was now safe for the world. 0.99

00:06:37.000 The media just parroted this crap. 0.96

00:06:39.000 And then Donald Trump came into office, and then they became the Democracy Ties in Darkness crowd. 0.99

00:06:42.000 Then they became the people who are going to stand up truth to power at every moment because Donald Trump is a threat to the republic.

00:06:49.000 Well, now that they think that Trump is gone, now they're going right back to parroting whatever Biden's people tell them to parrot. 0.96

00:06:55.000 It's really disgusting. 0.99

00:06:56.000 It's really disgusting.

00:06:58.000 The absolute echo chamber that is created, this bubble that is created by the media, it's bad for a couple reasons.

00:07:03.000 Well, several reasons.

00:07:04.000 One, whatever credibility the media have, they've completely blown out.

00:07:07.000 They just do not have any credibility at this point.

00:07:10.000 You should cut the cable.

00:07:11.000 You should stop subscribing to the New York Times.

00:07:13.000 It's a joke.

00:07:14.000 I mean, all they do is just parrot whatever the Democratic talking points are.

00:07:16.000 That's not a good thing for the country.

00:07:18.000 You need objective journalism, or at least quasi-objective journalism, or at least people who admit their biases.

00:07:23.000 Now, people who are masquerading as objective journalists while parroting the Biden line, it's not good for the country.

00:07:27.000 Two, these sort of bubbles create bad policy because Joe Biden and Barack Obama and everybody else in that orbit, they've been protected for decades by a foreign policy media that basically speaks sweet nothings into their ear as they destroy foreign policy around the globe.

00:07:44.000 Barack Obama was considered by the media an excellent foreign policy president while he emboldened Russia, emboldened China, and led to the fall of friendly regimes in the Middle East and the rise of the Iranian regime in the Middle East.

00:07:54.000 And all the while, he was being talked about as though he was a wonderful foreign policy president.

00:07:58.000 Barack Obama has never met a critic in the actual mainstream media.

00:08:01.000 They don't exist.

00:08:02.000 And that creates bad policy, because when you're insulated from the effect of your own policies, you start to believe your own press.

00:08:07.000 And there's no question that Joe Biden and his team believe their own press at this point, and that leads to really, really bad policy.

00:08:14.000 So, there are a lot of bad consequences to the media creating this impenetrable bubble around the democratic foreign policy and domestic policy establishment.

00:08:21.000 Here's what the New York Times tweeted about this, okay?

00:08:23.000 This is the New York Times, right?

00:08:24.000 You're very objective.

00:08:25.000 They're just journalisming all over the place.

00:08:27.000 Journalism here, journalism there.

00:08:28.000 Sticky, sticky journalism everywhere.

00:08:30.000 Here's the New York Times reporting, quote, Iranian officials, who have always maintained that their nuclear ambitions are for peaceful purposes, not weapons, expressed fury and vowed revenge over the assassination, calling it terrorism and warmongering.

00:08:42.000 Oh, well, I mean, if the Iranians say it's for peaceful purposes, then, of course, we should take them at their word. 0.98

00:08:46.000 I mean, it's not as though Iran has resources.

00:08:49.000 It's not like they're a resource-rich country when it comes to oil and natural gas or anything.

00:08:53.000 Obviously, the Iranians need nuclear energy.

00:08:55.000 I mean, clearly, that's top priority over there.

00:08:58.000 They would never lie about developing a nuclear weapon, the Iranians.

00:09:01.000 I love the New York Times just taking that at face value.

00:09:03.000 And they're taking it at face value because, of course, they have an agenda.

00:09:05.000 And their agenda is to do the press work for the Iranians.

00:09:08.000 This has been true ever since the Obama administration pushed the Iran deal.

00:09:11.000 It basically turned the Obama administration into a PR wing of the Iranian mullahs. 0.92

00:09:16.000 They had to go out and do defense for how the Iranians were actually friendly partners. 0.56

00:09:20.000 Because if it turned out that the American public were ever informed that we had just made massive concessions to a huge terror state that hates us, hates Israel, and hates Western civilization, then people might have been a bit more skeptical than the Obama administration wanted them to be.

00:09:32.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

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00:10:58.000 Okay, so the media immediately turned to the domestic American political consequences for Joe Biden.

00:11:05.000 That's all that matters now.

00:11:06.000 Protect the precious.

00:11:07.000 When it was Obama, it was protect the precious.

00:11:09.000 Now it's protect the precious.

00:11:10.000 They're gonna protect the precious.

00:11:11.000 The precious is whatever Democrat is in the White House.

00:11:14.000 So the New York Times reports, the assassination of the scientist who led Iran's pursuit of a nuclear weapon for the past two decades threatens to cripple President-elect Joe Biden's efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal before he can even begin his diplomacy with Tehran.

00:11:26.000 So question, why?

00:11:28.000 Seriously, why?

00:11:29.000 If Iran wants to give up its nuclear program in exchange for some sort of concessions from the West, and presumably at this point they would also have to give up terrorism, if they actually wanted to do that, why would the killing of their top nuclear scientist matter?

00:11:41.000 Seriously, I don't get it.

00:11:43.000 I mean, they can do it anytime they want. 0.96

00:11:45.000 This is the great irony of this whole Iran deal crap. 0.95

00:11:48.000 Anytime the Iranians want to start acting like a normal country and stop pursuing terrorism and regional domination, they can. 0.99

00:11:55.000 It doesn't take concessions by the West to make that happen.

00:11:57.000 In fact, if they want to rejoin the rest of the world in peace and harmony, they can do that literally at any time, any day.

00:12:03.000 They can just snap their fingers.

00:12:05.000 I make all this go away.

00:12:06.000 They don't want to do that.

00:12:07.000 So what exactly, why would it undermine this process to kill the guy who's at the head of a program that you say is going to be made defunct anyway by a peace deal?

00:12:15.000 That doesn't make any sense.

00:12:17.000 It doesn't matter.

00:12:17.000 The idea is that anytime, anytime there is something bad that happens to Iran, this is something bad for the United States, which is a crazy notion, right?

00:12:25.000 That's nuts.

00:12:27.000 Anytime something bad happens to the Iranian regime, that is generally something that is good for the West, considering that Iran is responsible for the murder of hundreds, if not thousands, of American soldiers in Iraq, is responsible for terror acts all over the globe, ranging from Buenos Aires all the way to Europe. 0.99

00:12:40.000 And suddenly, it's like bad if something bad happens to the Iranian regime?

00:12:44.000 Color me confused.

00:12:46.000 Anyway, the New York Times says, intelligence officials say there is little doubt Israel was behind the killing and had all the hallmarks of a precisely timed operation by Mossad, the country's spy agencies.

00:12:55.000 And Israelis have done nothing to dispel that view. 0.82

00:12:57.000 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long identified Iran as an existential threat and named Mohsen Fakhrizadeh as a national enemy, number one, capable of building a weapon that could threaten a country of 8 million in a single blast.

00:13:08.000 But, says the New York Times, Mr. Netanyahu also has a second agenda.

00:13:13.000 There must be no return to the previous nuclear agreement, he declared shortly after it became clear that Biden would be the next president.

00:13:18.000 Now, here's the thing. 0.98

00:13:19.000 The previous nuclear agreement was garbage. 0.94

00:13:21.000 And in fact, the death of the nuclear agreement led to the rise of Arab-Israeli peace in the region. 0.99

00:13:26.000 There are several reasons why the Iran deal was garbage. 0.76

00:13:29.000 Number one, all it did was basically postpone the Iranian nuclear payday. 0.94

00:13:34.000 Until 10 years down the road.

00:13:35.000 Then they could just go about building a nuclear weapon completely free and clear.

00:13:37.000 There's nothing in the deal that restricted them from building a nuclear weapon 10 years down the road, which by the way, has now basically expired, right?

00:13:44.000 We're basically there now.

00:13:45.000 And then we're 8 years into the Iran nuclear deal, or 9 years, or 7 years into the Iran nuclear deal.

00:13:50.000 Okay.

00:13:51.000 With all of that said, the notion that Iran had put aside terror was also a lie.

00:13:55.000 They were developing ballistic missile technology.

00:13:57.000 It was not covered by the treaty.

00:13:58.000 They were continuing to use the money for terrorism, as even John Kerr acknowledged.

00:14:03.000 Okay, and when Iran's nuclear deal went away, suddenly they were boxed in.

00:14:06.000 They weren't getting money from the outside world.

00:14:08.000 They couldn't spend that money on terrorism abroad.

00:14:10.000 And the Arabs recognized that maybe Israel was not actually their chief enemy.

00:14:14.000 Iran was. 0.91

00:14:15.000 So maybe they ought to form some alliances.

00:14:17.000 That is the new Middle East. 1.00

00:14:18.000 But because the media are creating this bubble around Joe Biden, Biden is going to try to pursue a deal with the Iranian mullahs anyway.

00:14:24.000 And thus it becomes bad when the chief Iranian nuclear scientist, again, serving one of the worst regimes on earth, is killed. 0.98

00:14:31.000 So the New York Times is doing heavy lifting here.

00:14:33.000 Whatever the mix of motives, Mr. Biden must pick up the pieces in just seven weeks.

00:14:37.000 The question of whether the deal that the president-elect has outlined, dropping the nuclear-related sanctions Trump has imposed over the past two years if Iran returns it strictly to the nuclear limits in the 2015 accord, was shot to pieces along with Mr. Fakhrizadeh's SUV in the mountain town of Absard east of Tehran.

00:14:54.000 The answer lies largely in how Ron reacts in the next few weeks.

00:14:57.000 Three times since the start of the year, Ron has been on the receiving end of highly visible, highly damaging attacks.

00:15:01.000 What victims they are.

00:15:02.000 Joe Biden's going to have to come in and he's going to have to sue them.

00:15:05.000 Don't you understand?

00:15:05.000 And the media is going to cheer this on.

00:15:08.000 Here, the New York Times mourns the killing of Major General Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian commander who ran the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in a drone strike.

00:15:17.000 You remember that the entire foreign policy establishment screamed and whined, oh, it was going to lead to nuclear war.

00:15:21.000 It didn't lead to anything.

00:15:22.000 It led to nothing.

00:15:23.000 It was an excellent move by the Trump administration.

00:15:25.000 In July came the mysterious explosion at a centrifuge research and development center at Natanz, a few hundred yards from the underground fuel production center the U.S.

00:15:33.000 and Israel attacked more than a decade ago with sophisticated cyber weapons.

00:15:37.000 And apparently this is all very bad.

00:15:39.000 Because now, how is Biden going to be able to broker a peace with the Iranians?

00:15:39.000 It's all very bad.

00:15:43.000 And if there's no peace with the Iranians, then what?

00:15:45.000 Seriously, then what?

00:15:46.000 The answer is, then nothing.

00:15:48.000 And the fact that John Brennan continues to go out there and say all of this nonsense about how Middle Eastern peace has now been put under the evil boot heel of Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump.

00:15:58.000 Okay, you know what guys? 0.98

00:16:01.000 You're a joke. 0.97

00:16:01.000 You always were a joke. 0.97

00:16:02.000 Your foreign policy is garbage. 1.00

00:16:03.000 And just because you've had the, the, sycophantic tongues of the media at your disposal does not make your policy any better. 0.98

00:16:11.000 In just a second, we're going to see how Thomas Friedman, who's wrong on nearly every issue and has been a democratic sycophant, like nearly his entire career, even he is looking at the Biden administration going, your policy here on Iran, it's really not very good.

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00:16:25.000 Probably not.

00:16:26.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:17:38.000 Okay, so even Thomas Friedman is on board with how stupid Biden's foreign policy looks like it's going to be with regard to Iran. 0.88

00:17:45.000 He says, with the assassination by Israel of Iran's top nuclear warhead designer, the Middle East is promising to complicate Joe Biden's job from day one. 0.97

00:17:51.000 President-elect Biden knows the region well.

00:17:53.000 But if I had one piece of advice for him, it would be this.

00:17:55.000 This is not the Middle East you left four years ago.

00:17:58.000 The best way for Biden to appreciate the new Middle East is to study what happened in the early hours of September 14th, 2019, when the Iranian Air Force launched 20 drones and precision-guided cruise missiles at Abqaq, one of Saudi Arabia's most important oil fields and processing centers, causing huge damage.

00:18:12.000 It was a seminal event.

00:18:14.000 Iranian drones and cruise missiles flew solo and with such stealth, neither their takeoff nor their impending attack was detected in time by the Saudis or the U.S.

00:18:21.000 Israeli military analysts, who were stunned by the capabilities the Iranians displayed, argued this was the Middle East's Pearl Harbor, and they were right. 1.00

00:18:27.000 The Middle East was reshaped by the Iranian precision missile strike, and by Trump's response, and by the response of Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE to Trump's response.

00:18:35.000 Trump didn't do anything.

00:18:37.000 Instead, he reflected the fact that there needed to be some sort of alliance between the Israelis and the Arabs in order to defend against Iran.

00:18:47.000 The clear shift in American posture in which the U.S.

00:18:49.000 basically said to the Saudis, listen, you're going to have to defend yourselves here.

00:18:51.000 It gave birth to the first new element that Biden will confront in the new Middle East, the peace agreements between Israel and the UAE, between Israel and Bahrain, and a whole new level of secret security cooperation between Israel and Saudi Arabia, which will likely flower into more formal relations soon.

00:19:05.000 The key result is that Trump, is that Biden can expect to find Israel, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and UAE operating as a loose anti-Iran coalition, which will certainly complicate things for Biden.

00:19:16.000 Because the bottom line is that he wants to make some sort of deal with the Iranians, and the entire region is now allied against that sort of deal. 0.56

00:19:22.000 Which is very good, right?

00:19:24.000 That is a good thing.

00:19:25.000 Naturally, the Biden administration's response will be to try and undercut all of those peace deals.

00:19:30.000 So Barbara Slavin, Who directs the Future of Iran Initiative at the Atlantic Council and has been known to be pretty close to some of the Biden folks.

00:19:39.000 She has a piece in the New York Times talking about how the United States should make concessions to the Iranians even after the killing of Iran's top nuclear scientist.

00:19:50.000 According to Barbara Slavin, she says the killing of Mr. Fakhrizadeh, the reputed mastermind of Iran's past weaponization efforts, will not dent Iran's nuclear expertise, which is considerable.

00:19:59.000 The latest killing may not provoke Iran to build nuclear weapons, but it will likely feed the animosity between the U.S.

00:20:03.000 and Iran making diplomacy that much harder.

00:20:06.000 It could strengthen hardline factions in Iran arguing against a return to diplomacy.

00:20:09.000 Okay, this is one of the great myths that was purveyed by the Obama administration.

00:20:12.000 It was an open lie.

00:20:13.000 Penrod said it was a lie.

00:20:14.000 That there was a moderate side to the Iranian administration versus the hardliners.

00:20:18.000 And in order to get the moderates to win, you had to make concessions to them so the hardliners would not pursue their hardlineness.

00:20:24.000 It was completely made up.

00:20:25.000 It was completely a fiction.

00:20:27.000 So they're just going to return to this fiction.

00:20:30.000 And Barbara Slavin is pushing it. 1.00

00:20:32.000 She says, with temperatures running so high, the incoming Biden administration now faces a serious challenge.

00:20:37.000 Biden has vowed to return to negotiations with Iran, but he and his team cannot do much more than message through the media to Iran to stay patient until the inauguration on January 20th.

00:20:45.000 I mean, first of all, the fact that Biden is even trying to tell the Iranians again, one of the probably the worst terror state on earth to stay patient because he wants to make concessions is a pretty damning indictment of just how bad his foreign policy is.

00:20:56.000 For a variety of reasons, Iran's nuclear program, says Barbara Slavin, has been slow-moving.

00:21:00.000 In the more than 60 years since Iran's nuclear efforts began, Israel, India, Pakistan, North Korea have all developed bombs. 0.52

00:21:05.000 Iran has not. 0.96

00:21:06.000 It still has only one functioning nuclear power plant.

00:21:08.000 It would be the ultimate tragedy if Israel's aggression now led Iran to change its calculus and go for weapons. 0.69

00:21:13.000 Okay, this is just a joke.

00:21:14.000 Everybody knew that Iran was going for weapons.

00:21:16.000 That's why all of these alliances were formed in the first place.

00:21:18.000 But again, the idea here is that the Biden administration, if it takes place, the Biden administration is going to pursue a bunch of crappy policy, guarded and protected and egged on by the media. 0.64

00:21:29.000 Because they've been able to create this ridiculous echo chamber.

00:21:33.000 And that's what the Biden team would be counting on.

00:21:37.000 They would be counting on the fact that no matter what they do, the media will just echo how wonderful it is.

00:21:42.000 I mean, Ben Rhodes had that for several years.

00:21:44.000 Again, Ben Rhodes, the former national security advisor to Barack Obama.

00:21:48.000 Jared Kushner is over in the Middle East right now, trying to broker some sort of agreement between the Saudis and the Qataris and the Israelis.

00:21:54.000 And Ben Rhodes is tweeting out about how Jared Kushner is taking payoffs, okay, with no evidence of that.

00:22:01.000 Are the media going to say anything about that?

00:22:02.000 Of course not.

00:22:03.000 Because again, the idea here is that the Praetorian Guard for Joe Biden throughout this election cycle, and now moving forward, no matter what happens, the Praetorian Guard will always be there for the Democrats.

00:22:03.000 Of course not.

00:22:14.000 And you can see that in full living color when it comes to the past weekend, when it comes to Joe Biden's personal activity.

00:22:20.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:23:57.000 Okay, so.

00:23:59.000 The Praetorian Guard out there for Joe Biden.

00:24:01.000 So over the weekend, Joe Biden, it was initially reported, sprained his foot.

00:24:07.000 According to Ryan Savedra over at Daily Wire, Joe Biden apparently fell over his dog, apparently.

00:24:14.000 His injuries stemmed from a fall over the weekend, and apparently they are more serious than initially thought.

00:24:19.000 New imaging tests revealed he fractured his foot.

00:24:22.000 President-elect Joe Biden sustained a sprain of his right foot, said Biden's doctor, Kevin O'Connor.

00:24:26.000 He initially said this on Sunday evening.

00:24:27.000 Initial x-rays are reassuring there's no obvious fracture.

00:24:29.000 He will be getting an additional CT for more detailed imaging.

00:24:32.000 But follow-up tests revealed that Biden, 78, sustained fractures in his foot from a fall he sustained while playing with one of his dogs.

00:24:38.000 According to O'Connor, follow-up CT scans confirmed hairline fractures of Biden's lateral and intermediate cuneiform bones, which are in the midfoot.

00:24:45.000 He will probably require a walking boot for several weeks.

00:24:48.000 Don't worry guys.

00:24:49.000 Don't worry.

00:24:49.000 He's in excellent health.

00:24:50.000 Everything is going to be just fine.

00:24:51.000 Kamala Harris had no comment on this.

00:24:52.000 X-rays did not show any obvious fracture, his clinical exam warranted more detailed imaging.

00:24:57.000 Apparently, he fell while playing with one of his two German shepherds on Saturday, and then he visited an orthopedist.

00:25:02.000 Kamala Harris had no comment on this.

00:25:07.000 I will say that if mysteriously we find that Joe Biden's brakes have been cut sometime in the future.

00:25:14.000 Or if we find that there's a tripwire on the stairs of the White House for no apparent reason.

00:25:19.000 Or if it turns out that the floor just outside Joe Biden's bedroom has been heavily greased.

00:25:24.000 Like for some reason there's just oil on the floor.

00:25:27.000 I'm not saying it might be Kamala Harris.

00:25:30.000 I'm not saying that Kamala Harris desperately wants to be president and Joe Biden is super old and kind of fragile.

00:25:35.000 I'm not saying any of those things.

00:25:36.000 I'm just saying Some of those things.

00:25:40.000 A little bit.

00:25:41.000 Just a little bit.

00:25:42.000 Anyway.

00:25:43.000 So the media, of course, everything's fine.

00:25:45.000 Everything's fine, guys.

00:25:46.000 Now, we were told for four years, Donald Trump didn't have any serious physical problems over the course of his four years in the White House. 0.92

00:25:52.000 We were told every couple of weeks that he was probably going to die of a heart attack because he was fat and old. 0.61

00:25:55.000 We got this every week from the media.

00:25:58.000 Joe Biden, before he even takes office, he's breaking his foot while playing with his dogs.

00:26:02.000 He can't make it through a sentence and we're told everything is perfectly fine.

00:26:05.000 Everything is perfectly fine.

00:26:06.000 And of course, why would we worry?

00:26:08.000 Because we have the media there are beautiful, objective media there to tell us how wonderful Joe Biden is.

00:26:14.000 See, what's amazing is the democracy was dying in darkness while Trump was president.

00:26:18.000 Now they think Biden's going to be president.

00:26:19.000 And now the light has come.

00:26:20.000 So I guess that we don't have to be we don't have to be in any way critical anymore.

00:26:25.000 It's really exciting stuff.

00:26:26.000 So over the weekend, Joe Biden announced his communications team and everybody's really excited about his communications team because it's filled with the ladies.

00:26:35.000 Now, this has always been a puzzle to me.

00:26:37.000 The same party that will tell you that there are 87 genders and that the word woman doesn't mean anything and that, in fact, Caitlyn Jenner is a woman and that many women are not women. 0.98

00:26:46.000 The same party that thinks that if you are an actual biological woman, you could probably best be termed a vagina owner. 1.00

00:26:54.000 That's pretty much like the best we can do because you might actually be a man, right? 0.96

00:26:57.000 Okay, this party has determined it is also extremely important for there to be lots of women at the highest echelons of the incoming Biden administration. 0.98

00:26:57.000 We actually don't know. 0.98

00:27:07.000 According to Mediaite, President-elect Biden chose Jen Psaki to be his White House Press Secretary.

00:27:13.000 Ooh, this comes amid news that Biden is crafting an all-female senior communications team.

00:27:17.000 It's gonna be like that shot at the end of The Avengers where they randomly assemble all the female superheroes in one area.

00:27:22.000 And you're like, why did they do that?

00:27:23.000 That doesn't make any sense.

00:27:24.000 This is a battlefield.

00:27:25.000 They're like, oh, I know why they did that.

00:27:27.000 Okay, so that's the Joe Biden team at this point.

00:27:30.000 Biden's campaign and transition teams confirmed on Sunday that Jen Psaki, a former White House communications director for the Obama administration and CNN contributor, which is the same thing, will succeed Kayleigh McEnany as press secretary.

00:27:41.000 On top of that, several of the most prominent women from Team Biden have been tagged for their own major White House roles. 0.97

00:27:45.000 Deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield will be communications director.

00:27:48.000 Corrine Jean-Pierre will be deputy press secretary.

00:27:50.000 And Symone Sanders has been exiled to chief spokeswoman for VP Kamala Harris, which hardest hit Symone Sanders. 0.81

00:27:56.000 Because remember, she was the one who was out there like a lot more like Jen Psaki was just working at CNN. 0.91

00:28:01.000 Then she was apparently she was desperately lobbying to be press secretary for Biden.

00:28:04.000 He's like, well, how about you just go work for Kamala over there?

00:28:06.000 Just over there.

00:28:07.000 Just like, OK, just enjoy yourself over with Kamala.

00:28:10.000 And really, like, have a good time.

00:28:11.000 Psaki then released a Twitter thread to express her gratitude for the position and solidarity with her colleagues.

00:28:18.000 Which, by the way, sounds terrible.

00:28:19.000 You know what I don't like in meetings when people inject empathy and humanity?

00:28:21.000 the Obama-Biden administration as he helped lead economic recovery, rebuilt our relationships with partners, and injected empathy and humanity into nearly every meeting I sat in.

00:28:29.000 Which by the way, it sounds terrible. You know what I don't like in meetings when people inject empathy and humanity? Just as a meeting person? I don't like meetings, period.

00:28:37.000 But if we're in a meeting and we're talking business and all of a sudden you just start telling me personal stories with empathy and humanity, maybe it's just me.

00:28:43.000 I'm not super into it.

00:28:44.000 Anyway, Jen Psaki says, this is a team of some of the most talented, battle-tested communicators out there who are also all women, most diverse team in history.

00:28:52.000 Well, I mean, actually, actually it's not the most diverse team in history because there are no men.

00:28:57.000 I'm just going to put that out there that if you're all women, that's not super diverse.

00:29:00.000 That's actually just monolithic.

00:29:02.000 Also, six moms of young kids, which, by the way, we were told was a bad thing when it was like Kayleigh McEnany, because she has kids, right?

00:29:09.000 I mean, that's that's not good.

00:29:10.000 We're told whenever there is a woman in a prominent position who has kids, that's not a good thing. 1.00

00:29:14.000 Unless they're a Democrat, then we can talk about how their mom, right?

00:29:16.000 When it was Amy Coney Barrett, then it was like, why isn't she at home with her children?

00:29:19.000 But if it's Jen Psaki, it's like she's a young mom and she's out there fighting for the best.

00:29:24.000 Okay, so here is the statement that Biden put out, and the media just ate this up.

00:29:28.000 You ready for this?

00:29:28.000 Here is the quote from the New York Times.

00:29:29.000 Annie Carney, White House correspondent from the New York Times reporting, Oh my God, these stenographers.

00:29:33.000 These stenographers!

00:29:33.000 truthfully to the American people is one of the most important duties of a president, said Biden, drawing an implicit contrast with Trump's use of the briefing room to disseminate falsehoods and undermine the credibility of the press.

00:29:44.000 Oh my God, these stenographers, these stenographers.

00:29:51.000 Did you know the only person who has ever lied during a White House press meeting is a member of the Trump administration?

00:29:57.000 No one's ever lied before that.

00:29:58.000 Before that, Jay Carney, he never lied.

00:30:00.000 When he got up there and he said, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, he wasn't lying.

00:30:03.000 He was just mostly mistaken on purpose.

00:30:06.000 He was like, dissembling, but not lying, not lying.

00:30:10.000 When they got up there and they just lied to you about the Iran deal during the Obama administration, or when they went up there and they said that Barack Obama found out about everything on the news, he found out about Fast and Furious on the news, and the IRS scandal on the news, and the failures at HHS on the news, that wasn't dissembling.

00:30:23.000 And when Barack Obama's administration was sicking the DOJ on reporters, that was not an attack on journalism.

00:30:30.000 Joe Biden has now informed the Democracy Dies in Darkness crowd that he is going to be communicating in clear and truthful fashion.

00:30:39.000 And they're just eating this bleep up.

00:30:40.000 They're eating it up.

00:30:41.000 Annie Carney from White House, New York Times, communicating directly and truthfully.

00:30:45.000 Wow, it's back!

00:30:47.000 Oh, the best era ever!

00:30:48.000 This is gonna be so unbelievably amazing!

00:30:51.000 Woo! 0.99

00:30:53.000 Yeah, um, don't give these people your money, really.

00:30:57.000 That's some reporting right there.

00:30:58.000 That's some reporting.

00:30:58.000 Daily Beast. Very reporter-y and very politically, very objective McFace. Here is what she tweeted.

00:31:04.000 Joe Biden has already started making good on his promise to staff his administration in a way that looks like the country. He is building a highly diverse team at major levels of government. That's some reporting right there. That's some reporting. I mean, it's reporting from directly inside Joe Biden's colon, but still it's reporting, is it not?

00:31:22.000 I mean, come on.

00:31:23.000 She didn't find the polyp, but she definitely found his talking points directly in his gullet.

00:31:27.000 So, excellent job, Hannah Trudeau, over at the Daily Beast.

00:31:30.000 Like, really good stuff.

00:31:31.000 Meanwhile, Yamiche Alcindor, also super pumped.

00:31:34.000 She tweeted out about the new Biden staff announcement.

00:31:37.000 It's the first time all the top aides have tasked with speaking on behalf of an administration and shaping its message, we'll be female. 1.00

00:31:43.000 So much girl power! 0.99

00:31:44.000 Also, girls don't exist! 1.00

00:31:46.000 Woo! 0.99

00:31:48.000 Super exciting.

00:31:48.000 Now, I just have, like, a few questions.

00:31:51.000 I know it's impolitic.

00:31:52.000 We're not supposed to ask questions about the people that Joe Biden picks.

00:31:55.000 I know we're not supposed to do that.

00:31:56.000 That's silly talk. 0.70

00:31:57.000 We're just supposed to say how great it is, because they all have lady parts, right? 1.00

00:32:01.000 I mean, because we can't say they're women. 1.00

00:32:03.000 Again, it's not me.

00:32:04.000 I didn't set the standard here, guys.

00:32:05.000 I'm firmly of the opinion that biological women are women. 0.89

00:32:09.000 But Democrats are not.

00:32:09.000 So to be fair, I don't know how these women self-identify.

00:32:13.000 Also, I don't know why it's important how they self-identify.

00:32:15.000 But apparently it is.

00:32:16.000 And we'll get to more of this in just one second.

00:32:18.000 But what I want to get to actually is like how I have some questions about the people he's selecting because it turns out they're actual humans, not just sets of genitals.

00:32:25.000 I know.

00:32:26.000 It gets awkward when you start mentioning people's actual qualifications for offices.

00:32:29.000 And how the Biden administration, supposedly, how that's not going to be great.

00:32:35.000 I know.

00:32:36.000 Democracy dies in darkness, guys.

00:32:37.000 I'm not supposed to mention this stuff.

00:32:39.000 But I will.

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00:35:06.000 ♪♪ Okay, so let's talk a little bit about the people that are now being appointed to Biden's incoming, supposedly, allegedly incoming team.

00:35:19.000 Let's talk about that for just a second, because I know we're only supposed to just be marveling in awe at the fact that it's girl power without an I, right?

00:35:26.000 It's just G-R-R-L is how it's spelled, I'm informed, reliably, by the most powerful and empowered of female sources. 0.99

00:35:33.000 So Jen Psaki, right? 0.93

00:35:34.000 She comes straight from the Obama administration and then from CNN, which is basically just That's basically what Obama administration officials do in their off time.

00:35:41.000 It's like summer vacation.

00:35:42.000 You just go to CNN.

00:35:43.000 They continue to pay you to be a flack for Barack Obama.

00:35:46.000 And then, if somebody Obama once knew ends up as president, then you just go right back into government.

00:35:50.000 It's really fun.

00:35:51.000 You just bounce in and out.

00:35:52.000 What a great lifestyle it must be to be a member of a White House, like the wonderful, wonderful Barack Obama White House.

00:35:58.000 Anyway, Jen Psaki is the same character who spent her time at the State Department defending some of the dumbest policy of all time. 0.99

00:36:04.000 My personal favorite, Jen Psaki, quote, When she was the spokesperson for the State Department.

00:36:11.000 This is one of my favorites.

00:36:12.000 You remember after Russia invaded Ukraine?

00:36:14.000 Remember this?

00:36:15.000 There's all this bad stuff that happened during the Obama administration.

00:36:17.000 We don't talk about any of that because the only bad thing that ever happened with Barack Obama is he wore a tan suit one time.

00:36:22.000 Again, reliably informed by our objective news media, he wore a tan suit.

00:36:25.000 It's the only thing he ever did that was wrong.

00:36:27.000 Every other thing he did was unbelievably great.

00:36:30.000 Like the man never took a dump, ever, in his entire life.

00:36:32.000 Isn't that incredible?

00:36:33.000 You didn't know that, but it's true. 0.95

00:36:34.000 The only thing that Barack Obama has ever done his entire life that is bad is one time he wore a tan suit and people went crazy.

00:36:40.000 And even then it wasn't bad because the tan suit was kind of handsome.

00:36:42.000 I mean, he's a dapper gent.

00:36:43.000 So other than that, he's basically just like Jesus.

00:36:46.000 I mean, the guy's unbelievable.

00:36:47.000 He's incredible in every possible way.

00:36:49.000 He can part the seas, walk on water, like all these things.

00:36:52.000 So Jen Psaki, she was the State Department spokesperson when Russia invaded Ukraine and Barack Obama did nothing.

00:36:57.000 I know, that actually happened here on Earth.

00:36:59.000 While you were paying attention to the Tansu, that was the thing that happened, was Russia just took over a large swath of Ukraine.

00:37:05.000 Remember that?

00:37:06.000 And Jen Psaki had this to tweet. 0.96

00:37:07.000 Okay, you ready?

00:37:08.000 She tweeted this out.

00:37:09.000 This is one of the great all-time tweets.

00:37:12.000 Pretty spectacular.

00:37:13.000 Quote, the world stands hashtag united for Ukraine.

00:37:17.000 Let's hope that the hashtag Kremlin and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Russia will live by the promise of hashtag She tweeted that.

00:37:26.000 Live by the promise of hashtag.

00:37:28.000 Remember hashtag diplomacy?

00:37:29.000 This was a big deal during the Obama era.

00:37:33.000 When they weren't busy being godlike wonder figures.

00:37:37.000 When they weren't busy healing the sick by laying of the hands upon them.

00:37:40.000 When they weren't busy doing that, they were allowing, like, Boko Haram to go wild and just kidnap girls.

00:37:44.000 And then they were doing things like holding up pieces of paper that said, like, hashtag bring back our girls. 0.97

00:37:48.000 And Boko Haram was like, holy crap. 0.98

00:37:50.000 Holy crap. 0.97

00:37:50.000 Michelle Obama held up a piece of paper and it said hashtag bring back our girls. 0.97

00:37:54.000 Damn it. 0.99

00:37:54.000 We got to bring back the girls. 0.99

00:37:55.000 I mean, like, who could resist power of hashtag?

00:37:59.000 And then you have Jen Psaki saying to the Russian, you know, you guys, you really shouldn't invade Ukraine.

00:38:03.000 Live by the power and promise of hashtag.

00:38:06.000 The promise of hashtag.

00:38:09.000 Remember how great it was?

00:38:10.000 I mean, it was such a great year.

00:38:11.000 I'm so glad that these people want to bring it back.

00:38:13.000 It's just wonderful.

00:38:14.000 So Jen Psaki, who's never lied to you, she is going to be back running comms over at the White House press shop. 0.93

00:38:22.000 Also, she lied to you and admitted to lying to you on an open mic while she was, you know, over at the State Department.

00:38:28.000 Back in 2014, in fact, ABC News reported that she made an impromptu remark after a briefing in which she read a one-sentence reaction to an Egyptian court dropping all of the charges against Hosni Mubarak related to the murder of protesters during the Arab Spring.

00:38:40.000 She said, generally, we continue to believe that upholding impartial standards of accountability will advance the political consensus on which Egypt's long-term stability and economic growth depends, but beyond that, I would refer you to the Egyptian government for any further comment.

00:38:51.000 Reporters in the room expressed confusion about what that meant, and incredulity that the United States could react to the reversal in Mubarak's sentencing with such a lukewarm response.

00:39:01.000 Now, it's fun to remember this kind of stuff, because remember, nothing bad ever happened during the Obama administration.

00:39:05.000 So during the Trump administration, the Trump administration was pretty lukewarm in their response to the Jamal Khashoggi murder at the hands of the Saudi Arabian government.

00:39:13.000 And this was a big story for like weeks on end.

00:39:16.000 You'll recall that the Obama administration did not react at all to an Egyptian regime simply dropping all charges against Hosni Mubarak after a bunch of protesters were killed.

00:39:24.000 Everybody's like, well, you know, that's Obama.

00:39:26.000 That guy, he, I mean, what can we say?

00:39:27.000 Looks amazing in a tan suit.

00:39:29.000 Unbelievable.

00:39:30.000 So Jen Psaki was caught on a hot mic at the time. 0.99

00:39:33.000 Saying that Egypt line is ridiculous, right?

00:39:35.000 So she had gone out there and just lied to the press about what exactly the Obama administration was saying and saying this was good policy. 0.82

00:39:42.000 And then she just lied about it.

00:39:43.000 Don't worry, guys.

00:39:43.000 Honesty and decency, they are back and they are back and they are better than ever.

00:39:48.000 Meanwhile, speaking of back and better than ever.

00:39:50.000 Apparently, a woman named Neera Tanden is back.

00:39:53.000 So, Neera Tanden is an extremely online person. 1.00

00:39:56.000 What I mean by that is she's on Twitter saying dumb crap all the time. 0.98

00:39:59.000 But Joe Biden doesn't know what the Twitter is because he still has an AOL hardline. 0.99

00:40:08.000 He still has that routine going, Joe Biden.

00:40:12.000 In fact, in order to get his information, he actually goes up on top of a hill and waves a flag around, and somebody else waves a flag from the next hill, and that's how information is exchanged with regard to Joe Biden. 0.72

00:40:21.000 Anyway, Neera Tanden has said many, many dumb things online over the years. 0.99

00:40:25.000 He wants to make her. 0.87

00:40:26.000 She's the president and CEO of the Center for American Progress.

00:40:30.000 He wants her to serve as the first White House budget director, which is pretty much putting the fox in charge of the hen house. 0.70

00:40:36.000 I mean, The Center for American Progress is basically, why don't we spend all the money that has not yet existed on all of the things that have ever not yet existed.

00:40:44.000 Like just, I don't even have a program for the spending of the money.

00:40:47.000 We'll just literally put money into a giant fire hose with a huge nozzle and just fire it at things.

00:40:50.000 For no reason at all.

00:40:52.000 It'll be like you're at a baseball game when they shoot the t-shirts, the t-shirt cannons into the crowd.

00:40:55.000 We'll do that with money.

00:40:56.000 Except it won't even necessarily be directed at crowds, it'll just be like directed at anything.

00:41:00.000 Like people, dogs. 0.92

00:41:02.000 Potholes don't really matter.

00:41:04.000 That's kind of Neera Tanden's general policy. 0.94

00:41:06.000 But put that aside, Neera Tanden has been one of the more controversial figures online. 0.99

00:41:10.000 Many, many years of saying dumb crap online. 0.90

00:41:13.000 In fact, her first act over the weekend was to delete 1,100 tweets, which is always a good sign. 0.99

00:41:18.000 So, she is going to be coming in to run the OMB, supposedly.

00:41:24.000 And and Drew Brandy, we a spokesperson for John Cornyn of Texas said Neera Tanden has an endless stream of disparaging comments about Republican senators stands zero chance of being confirmed. 1.00

00:41:35.000 She previously was at Department of Health and Human Services.

00:41:37.000 Again, this is the way that it works.

00:41:38.000 You bounce around in politics.

00:41:40.000 You bounce around from being a part of an administration to a think tank, and then back to being part of an administration, or if you're a Democrat, from a administration to the media, to a think tank, to the media, to the administration.

00:41:52.000 She was a senior aide to Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential bid, and was the domestic policy advisor to Bill Clinton.

00:41:58.000 Here are just some of Neera Tanden's best hits.

00:42:01.000 So, she said online that the Steele dossier was mostly true.

00:42:06.000 She said this repeatedly.

00:42:08.000 That would be the P file.

00:42:10.000 That that was mostly true.

00:42:11.000 Also, she repeatedly tweeted about how terrible Susan Collins is, which is always a wise move when you actually turn out to need Susan Collins' vote for your own confirmation.

00:42:19.000 Always a good move.

00:42:21.000 She said she is the worst direct quote near as candid about Senator Susan Collins, so good luck.

00:42:26.000 For that.

00:42:26.000 Also, Joe Biden wants to put her in charge of the Office of Management and Budget.

00:42:31.000 BuzzFeed reported in 2018.

00:42:34.000 That apparently, Neera Tanden named an anonymous harassment victim in an all-staff meeting, which is always a good move. 1.00

00:42:40.000 Two days after BuzzFeed News unveiled allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation at one of the nation's top liberal think tanks, the Center for American Progress's president, Neera Tanden, met with staff to restore confidence in the organization's ability to handle the issue and ensure that employees feel safe.

00:42:53.000 But during the meeting Wednesday afternoon, Tanden named the anonymous victim at the center of the story.

00:42:58.000 Whoops!

00:42:59.000 Whoops!

00:43:00.000 That's not super a good idea.

00:43:03.000 One CAP employee said, quote, there's literally one thing you cannot do in this meeting, and that is out the victim.

00:43:08.000 Neera did it multiple times.

00:43:10.000 It destroys whatever small level of confidence in the system remained.

00:43:12.000 As a manager, I don't know how I can tell staff to trust the system when the head of the organization just outed the victim in front of the entire organization.

00:43:19.000 It is impossible to trust her.

00:43:20.000 But don't worry, guys, because in democratic politics, you just keep failing upward.

00:43:25.000 But don't worry, look, bottom line is she's a female. 1.00

00:43:27.000 That's all that matters.

00:43:28.000 It doesn't matter that she outed a sexual harassment alleged victim at her old company.

00:43:32.000 Doesn't matter.

00:43:32.000 She's a lady.

00:43:34.000 And we know she's a lady, not because she's objectively a lady, but because she says she is a lady.

00:43:38.000 And by Biden administration standards, this means she's wonderful, and the media are into it, and it is just great.

00:43:43.000 Now, things the media are not really paying attention to.

00:43:45.000 So David Sirota, who is of the left, right?

00:43:48.000 He has his own newsletter called Daily Poster.

00:43:51.000 He used to work at Slate and Salon, I believe.

00:43:53.000 David Sirota.

00:43:55.000 He had a piece over the weekend Covering the fact that a bunch of the supposed Biden incoming administration insiders, some of the people that are supposedly going to be incoming to the supposed Biden administration, apparently they're openly now talking about how their old firms are going to make money.

00:44:12.000 According to the Daily Poster, two former government officials who may now run President-elect Joe Biden's national security team have been partners at a private equity firm, now promising investors big profits off government business because of ties to those officials.

00:44:24.000 Pine Island Capital Partners lists former Undersecretary of Defense Michelle Flournoy and retired General Lloyd Austin as a partner in the firm, and lists former Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken as a partner on a leave of absence.

00:44:35.000 Flournoy and Austin are reportedly among leading candidates being considered for Secretary of Defense.

00:44:39.000 Blinken is Biden's designated nominee for Secretary of State.

00:44:42.000 Pine Island's chairman is John Thain, former top executive at Merrill Lynch.

00:44:46.000 Flournoy and Blinken's ties to Pine Island were first reported by the American Prospect, In Securities and Exchange Commission filings, Pine Island describes one of its investment vehicles as a newly organized blank check company incorporated in Delaware that will use its connections to top officials to take advantage of rising government expenditures on the national security agencies Flournoy and Blinken could oversee.

00:45:05.000 The company said in one SEC document, the reputations and networks of Pine Island Capital Partners' team, both individually and collectively, will ensure exposure to a significant number of proprietary opportunities.

00:45:16.000 It sounds like they are basically openly saying, yeah, we're going to take advantage of our connections.

00:45:19.000 We believe there will be increased demand in the US defense market for advanced electronics, communications, sensor and detection processing, and other technologies.

00:45:26.000 We believe this demand represents strong growth.

00:45:28.000 Our management team is uniquely positioned to capitalize on, given our combined investment expertise and deeply connected partner group of former US defense and government officials.

00:45:39.000 This is so explicit, it's astonishing.

00:45:41.000 Pyte and Eileen even put it on paper, said David Siegel of Demand Progress, a grassroots group pressing Biden to reject cabinet appointments tied to corporations.

00:45:48.000 This is not an example of people who happen to work at a big company.

00:45:50.000 These are partners at a firm whose stated business model is to profit from the revolving door and connections gained from time in government.

00:45:58.000 Pretty incredible stuff there.

00:45:59.000 Everything is awesome, guys.

00:46:01.000 Now, progressives are not super happy.

00:46:01.000 Everything is awesome.

00:46:03.000 Nathan Robinson, who is a socialist, he has an entire piece of The Guardian talking about how much he dislikes the various members of the incoming, supposedly, Biden administration.

00:46:13.000 Right.

00:46:14.000 And it's true. 0.56

00:46:15.000 Some of the progressives are upset.

00:46:17.000 But the fact remains that so long as the media create this bubble, Joe Biden can do whatever he wants.

00:46:20.000 Now, the good news for Republicans and conservatives and people who care about the future of the country outside of the sort of cozy rubber room they've created for Joe Biden.

00:46:29.000 The good news is that when you create bubbles, what you end up doing is isolating yourself from the criticism that could make your administration better.

00:46:35.000 That could make your policy better. 1.00

00:46:37.000 Instead, you just keep doubling down on stupid. 1.00

00:46:39.000 And I think that is exactly what you're going to see. 1.00

00:46:40.000 You're going to see doubling down on stupid from these same exact people. 0.99

00:46:44.000 Because Obama did it, and he did it, and he did it until the country said basically, like, I'd rather have Trump. 0.99

00:46:49.000 Like, anything but this.

00:46:50.000 Trump it is.

00:46:51.000 Anybody who kicks back against this system, we're on board.

00:46:56.000 This seems like what is being built here, because the media don't do their jobs.

00:46:59.000 The media actually don't end up helping Democrats in the end, I think.

00:47:02.000 I mean, they do in the short term.

00:47:03.000 In the long term, they don't, because they isolate them from all the sorts of criticism that are necessary in order to make for better policy.

00:47:10.000 So, Joe Biden's just gonna continue along his merry way, trying to appoint a bunch of corrupt and bad officials who stink at their jobs, and the media will just continue cheering it on.

00:47:21.000 Exciting, exciting news.

00:47:22.000 Okay, meanwhile, over the weekend, The Supreme Court also issued a major ruling, Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo, in which the Supreme Court ruled 5-4, John Roberts being that fourth vote with the left on the court.

00:47:38.000 The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Andrew Cuomo could not explicitly discriminate against churches as opposed to against other establishments in enforcement of COVID rules.

00:47:47.000 Now, this should be perfectly obvious.

00:47:48.000 This should have been a 9-0 case.

00:47:49.000 The fact that it was not is really disturbing for the prospects of American liberty.

00:47:53.000 Cuomo's policy basically did not make church attendance dependent on various safety measures in place for COVID.

00:48:00.000 It basically just said churches, synagogues, shut down.

00:48:03.000 You can still go into a grocery store, you can still go and gather at various places of business, but it is not essential for you to go to a church or go to a synagogue and therefore we are just going to shut this stuff down.

00:48:13.000 Now, the lack of faith that has been shown by Democrats across the country and the ability of the American people to make their own decisions is awe-inspiring in its sneering disdain for the American people.

00:48:24.000 It truly is incredible.

00:48:25.000 And so over the weekend, I went to synagogue, right?

00:48:28.000 I'm in Florida. 0.97

00:48:29.000 Our governor here, Ron DeSantis, is not garbage at his job. 0.91

00:48:31.000 And so he basically says, use your best judgment, right? 0.87

00:48:34.000 If you're very scared, don't go to synagogue, don't go to church.

00:48:36.000 The synagogue that I go to takes extreme COVID precautions.

00:48:39.000 Everybody is wearing masks.

00:48:40.000 They have taped off places on the floor.

00:48:42.000 So everybody is separated by 10 to 15 feet.

00:48:45.000 The area around the Bema in the synagogue is protected by plexiglass, so the people who are reading the Torah basically can't emit any of the spittle toward the rest of the congregation.

00:48:54.000 It's very, very well protected.

00:48:55.000 And again, that makes perfect sense.

00:48:57.000 We're being responsible.

00:48:58.000 Also, over the weekend, because again, Florida is not a garbage state like my former state of California, my family went over to Disney World.

00:49:04.000 And again, guess what?

00:49:05.000 There have been no outbreaks at Disney World.

00:49:07.000 Disney World has been open since June.

00:49:08.000 They're operating at probably 35 to 40% capacity.

00:49:11.000 You had to make a reservation ahead of time.

00:49:13.000 They insisted that everybody wear a mask, including children, over the mouth and the nose as well.

00:49:17.000 And they had people who were stationed all around kind of reminding you throughout the day to keep the mask up.

00:49:21.000 And everybody was wearing a mask, and guess what?

00:49:23.000 No outbreaks.

00:49:24.000 In other words, people can be responsible with this.

00:49:26.000 But governors have decided, because Democrats love running your life, they've decided that they get to run your life in every which way, and they're specifically going to single out religious communities.

00:49:37.000 So the editors of National Review have a good piece about this.

00:49:39.000 this. They say Andrew Cuomo thinks he can limit the capacity of churches and synagogues to 10 people in areas besieged by COVID-19, while other more essential activities face no limit at all. The Supreme Court rightly disagrees.

00:49:49.000 A majority of the court thinks the restrictions proposed by Andrew Cuomo cross the line.

00:49:55.000 Under long-standing precedent, states typically may enact religiously neutral, generally applicable laws without running afoul of the First Amendment.

00:50:01.000 But if a law burdens religion and is not generally applicable, it must satisfy quote-unquote strict scrutiny.

00:50:06.000 It means it must be as narrowly tailored as possible to promote a compelling government interest.

00:50:12.000 Cuomo's restrictions in areas classified as orange or red, in terms of COVID-19 prevalence, are neither generally applicable nor narrowly tailored.

00:50:19.000 Within these areas, different types of establishments are treated differently.

00:50:22.000 Houses of worship face strict rules.

00:50:23.000 Religious services are limited to 10 people in red areas, for example, no matter the size of the actual synagogue, right?

00:50:28.000 You can have a huge synagogue, still only 10 people.

00:50:31.000 The policy was not tailored to minimize damage to religious observance.

00:50:34.000 As the court noted, some churches in New York can see more than 1,000 people.

00:50:37.000 Others accommodate far fewer.

00:50:39.000 None could host more than 25 people, period.

00:50:41.000 And it doesn't matter the size of the room. 1.00

00:50:43.000 It's idiotic because Andrew Cuomo is, in fact, idiotic. 1.00

00:50:46.000 His policies have been terrible basically throughout. 1.00

00:50:48.000 All the court is doing here is reiterating the law and pointing out the discrimination that is being carried out by Andrew Cuomo.

00:50:55.000 Naturally, Andrew Cuomo immediately blamed Amy Coney Barrett, who ended up being one of the swing votes here because it was five to four, and because Justice John Roberts is absolutely gutless in his rulings.

00:51:03.000 In any case, here was the governor of New York, the greatest of all governors, who is now overseeing a second spike in New York after writing a book about how well he did during the first spike that killed 30,000 people.

00:51:12.000 Here is Andrew Cuomo.

00:51:14.000 You have a different court, and I think that was the statement that the court was making.

00:51:22.000 So I would agree with those people who say it's a different court and they wanted to make the statement that it's a different court.

00:51:32.000 And that's the statement they're making.

00:51:36.000 I understand that.

00:51:38.000 And that's to be expected.

00:51:40.000 I mean, we know who we appointed to the court.

00:51:43.000 We know their ideology.

00:51:45.000 We know their ideology.

00:51:46.000 This should have been a 9-0 ruling.

00:51:47.000 This is a perfectly obvious ruling.

00:51:48.000 You can't treat churches different than you treat bike stores.

00:51:50.000 As Justice Gorsuch, who actually wrote the opinion, wrote, it is time, past time to make plain that while the pandemic poses many grave challenges, there is no world in which the Constitution tolerates color-coded executive edicts that reopen liquor stores and bike shops, but shutter churches, synagogues, and mosques.

00:52:04.000 Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who is the most ideologically driven of the justices on the left, she said the Constitution does not forbid states from responding to It is hard to tell exactly how that is the case.

00:52:14.000 It is hard to tell how these regulations were designed to help religious communities.

00:52:17.000 secular institution, particularly when those regulations save lives. Because New York's COVID-19 restrictions do just that, I respectfully dissent.

00:52:23.000 It is hard to tell exactly how that is the case. It is hard to tell how these regulations were designed to help religious communities.

00:52:32.000 Exactly. Naturally, a bunch of people on the left immediately started citing an editorial by Pope Francis. He He authored something in the New York Times on Thursday telling people that they should approve of government coronavirus measures.

00:52:45.000 The Pope wrote, Not a huge fan.

00:52:46.000 I can say this because I don't believe in papal infallibility since I'm not Catholic.

00:52:49.000 as if measures that governments must impose for the good of their people constitute some kind of political assault on autonomy or personal freedom.

00:52:55.000 I gotta say, not a huge fan. I can say this because I don't believe in papal infallibility since I'm not Catholic.

00:53:01.000 But I believe even if you're a Catholic, this does not follow under the status of doctrine.

00:53:05.000 This is more dicta, unless I'm getting this completely wrong.

00:53:09.000 That means that when the Pope says things like you have to approve of government edicts on COVID, I think that we are allowed to say, nope, that does not make any sense.

00:53:16.000 Speaking of government edicts on COVID that make no sense, L.A.

00:53:18.000 County announced over the weekend that they would be banning all outdoor dining starting on Monday, which makes perfect sense because they have no data.

00:53:24.000 I mean, seriously, none.

00:53:25.000 There was an actual public health meeting last week in which zero data was presented to explain why it was bad to eat outdoors.

00:53:32.000 It is not, in fact, bad to eat outdoors.

00:53:33.000 There's no evidence that eating outdoors is a vehicle for transmission.

00:53:37.000 Eating indoors is a vehicle for transmission because you're sitting there and chomping away and spittle's getting in the air and it's getting recirculated in a contained area.

00:53:43.000 If you're eating outdoors with tables socially distanced from each other, it's not a risk.

00:53:46.000 Doesn't matter, LA County's shutting it down.

00:53:48.000 Why?

00:53:48.000 Because once Democrats apparently have felt this power, they're just going to continue to wield this power.

00:53:53.000 I wonder whether they're going to relinquish it even after the vaccine.

00:53:57.000 I mean, seriously, whether there's just going to be this sort of quote-unquote public health outbreak every flu season.

00:54:01.000 I don't know the answer to this.

00:54:03.000 Because, I mean, it's got to be intoxicating to be able to shut down 30,000 restaurants in L.A.

00:54:07.000 County simply based on whim, without any data to back it up.

00:54:10.000 Here's CNN reporting.

00:54:12.000 California saying it's hit a record 7,400 hospitalizations.

00:54:17.000 And here in L.A.

00:54:18.000 County, the numbers also dire.

00:54:20.000 5,000 new cases in L.A.

00:54:22.000 County.

00:54:23.000 That number of deaths low.

00:54:24.000 That always lags behind.

00:54:26.000 And the hospitalizations in L.A.

00:54:27.000 County are up over 2,000 again.

00:54:30.000 So, throughout Los Angeles County, among the myriad of new restrictions, no more outdoor dining.

00:54:36.000 That went into effect. 0.96

00:54:37.000 But Pasadena, which is its own city, Okay, again, this is all ridiculous, ridiculous stuff.

00:54:48.000 Meanwhile, Anthony Fauci came out over the weekend, and I've noticed that a lot of the people who are saying follow the science don't actually want to listen to Fauci when he says something that is obviously true, like we need to keep elementary schools open.

00:54:58.000 Here was Fauci over the weekend saying what has been perfectly true for months, and we have known it for months at this point.

00:55:02.000 Here was Fauci saying, okay, if you're going to shut something, shut bars, because there's lots of transmission, but for God's sake, don't shut the elementary schools.

00:55:09.000 Close the bars and keep the schools open, is what we really say.

00:55:12.000 Obviously, you don't have one size fits all, but as I said in the past, and as you accurately quoted me, the default position should be to try as best as possible, within reason, to keep the children in school or to get them back to school.

00:55:28.000 So let's try to get the kids back, but let's try to mitigate the things Okay, well, we've known that for quite a while.

00:55:35.000 It hasn't stopped the teachers' unions from writing pieces every single day.

00:55:37.000 to avoid. And those are the things that you know well, the bars, the restaurants where you have capacity seating indoors without masks. Those are the things that drive the community spread, not the schools.

00:55:49.000 Okay, well, we've known that for quite a while. It hasn't stopped the teachers unions from writing pieces every single day. People like Leanna Wynn wrote one in the Washington Post the other day. Randy Weingarten has been saying this.

00:55:59.000 People from the American Federation of Teachers have been saying this.

00:56:02.000 They keep saying over and over, close the schools.

00:56:04.000 They're not following the science because they don't care about the science.

00:56:06.000 And now Bill de Blasio, shockingly, has decided post-election, wait, we're going to reopen the elementary schools.

00:56:11.000 Why?

00:56:12.000 Isn't that incredible?

00:56:12.000 Look at that.

00:56:13.000 Isn't that incredible?

00:56:14.000 So we've got to shut the schools. 0.86

00:56:15.000 It's really important.

00:56:16.000 And now he's like, you know, we're going to reopen the schools.

00:56:18.000 Why, it's almost as though electoral politics changed the math for somebody like Bill de Blasio.

00:56:24.000 According to the Daily Wire, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday he will reopen public elementary schools beginning in early December, a decision that comes less than two weeks after he pulled the rug out from underparents and students by closing the public school system for in-person learning.

00:56:36.000 Under the new rules, many elementary school-aged children will be allowed to return to school five days a week for in-person learning, as will children already enrolled in pre-K beginning on December 7th.

00:56:44.000 Most students with disabilities will also be allowed to return to school several days after the elementary schools open.

00:56:49.000 De Blasio says we'll have testing that is going to go from monthly in every school to weekly in every school.

00:56:54.000 So, funny.

00:56:54.000 students will not be able to attend school unless they have a consent form signed by parents.

00:56:58.000 In order to attend in-person school, students will already need to have been enrolled in hybrid learning classes.

00:57:03.000 Right now about 335,000 students are hybrid enrolled, among them 190,000 elementary age or otherwise eligible students. 0.80

00:57:10.000 So funny, it's almost as though, almost as though the teachers' union has been full of crap this entire time, but Democrats kept moving along with it anyway. 0.64

00:57:18.000 Meanwhile, I love this. 0.96

00:57:19.000 The United Federation of Teachers put out a statement.

00:57:21.000 While schools in the city's high-impact red and orange coronavirus zones will continue to abide, by the state's 3% closing rules, we are supportive of a phased reopening of schools in other neighborhoods, as long as stringent testing is in place.

00:57:33.000 Sure you are.

00:57:35.000 By the way, speaking of New York City, it's funny.

00:57:38.000 We've heard that it's the Jews who are responsible for all of the spread in New York City. 1.00

00:57:42.000 We got to shut down the schools while leaving the bars open.

00:57:44.000 Weird, because the New York Times reports that sheriff's deputies found 393 people packed into a makeshift nightclub over the weekend, where New York City Sheriff Joseph Fusito said the hundreds of partygoers were, quote, non-social distancing or wearing proper face coverings.

00:57:57.000 I would find it shocking if they were wearing any sort of proper coverings at all, actually, in any way, like, as in clothing.

00:58:04.000 The sheriff's department said the party violated emergency orders and was operating without a liquor license.

00:58:08.000 The department also shared photos of dozens of bottles of hard liquor confiscated by the authorities.

00:58:14.000 Earlier this month, of course, Andrew Cuomo had restricted churches.

00:58:17.000 So, it is good to know that all of these restrictions will eventually come to naught because people are going to do what they are going to do.

00:58:24.000 People who are unreasonable about COVID are going to be unreasonable, and the government is not the answer to all of your problems.

00:58:30.000 Okay, meanwhile, gotta give you the update in election land.

00:58:33.000 So, Wisconsin has now recounted its votes.

00:58:36.000 They've confirmed that Joe Biden continues to be ahead in the recounts.

00:58:39.000 There are still outstanding lawsuits, particularly in Pennsylvania, which we'll get to in just a second.

00:58:44.000 According to the Washington Post, the recount of presidential ballots in Wisconsin's two largest counties reconfirmed on Sunday that Biden beat Trump in the key swing state by more than 20,000 votes.

00:58:53.000 It actually added votes to Biden's margin a little bit.

00:58:56.000 In the end, Biden's lead over Trump grew by about 87 votes.

00:58:59.000 Trump was required to foot the bill.

00:59:02.000 There are some election lawsuits that were filed last week in Pennsylvania.

00:59:06.000 One of them was briefly successful, actually.

00:59:08.000 That was a lawsuit that was filed by Mike Kelly and Sean Parnell and a variety of sort of Trump associated figures.

00:59:15.000 Suggesting that the mail-in process that Pennsylvania had embraced was actually illegal.

00:59:20.000 And there's a fairly good legal case for the idea that it is illegal.

00:59:24.000 The problem that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania suggested is we're not going to disenfranchise some 7 million voters on the basis that you guys should have filed a lawsuit a year ago.

00:59:31.000 That's sort of the basis of the rejection of the ruling.

00:59:35.000 The original ruling was a memorandum opinion, and it prohibited the certification of the vote in Pennsylvania's by a judge named McCullough, in which this judge found That the complaint was correct.

00:59:47.000 That basically the Constitution of the state of Pennsylvania requires a majority vote of the members of both the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and the Senate in two consecutive legislative sessions and a proposed amendment to be published for three months ahead of the next general election in two newspapers and then submitted to qualified electors as a ballot question in order to change voting procedure.

01:00:06.000 Instead, the voting procedure was simply rammed through through a majority vote.

01:00:12.000 And this judge found that this violated the constitution of the state of Pennsylvania.

01:00:18.000 She wrote, petitioners contend that without an immediate temporary injunction, Pennsylvania's electoral votes will be cast, electors will be appointed, this court will lose any authority to provide relief to petitioners. Petitioners argue greater injury will result from allowing the certification of election results pursuant to an unconstitutional, no excuse mail-in voting scheme than from prohibiting it.

01:00:36.000 Specifically, they contend no voters will be disenfranchised by the result of a slight delay in certifying the results.

01:00:40.000 Conversely, they argue, if limited injunction is not granted, the harm to all Pennsylvanians is irreparable because they will suffer the fruits of an unconstitutional election.

01:00:48.000 The court then found in favor of the petitioners. That was immediately rejected by the Supreme Court of the state of Pennsylvania, which suggested they weren't going to disenfranchise the voters of Pennsylvania on the basis that this lawsuit should have been filed a year ago. If they really had a problem with the procedure, then why are they filing it only after the election results are in? Okay, so that lawsuit.

01:01:10.000 You know, whether you like the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruling or whether you don't, I'm not a huge fan.

01:01:14.000 Whether you like that ruling or not, that is where the legal process stands at this time.

01:01:19.000 Meanwhile, President Trump continues to fulminate over the election.

01:01:22.000 He was on Maria Bartiromo's show on Fox News over the weekend, and he actually suggested that the intelligence agencies or the DOJ may have been involved in rigging the election.

01:01:29.000 Here he was on the phone with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News over the weekend.

01:01:33.000 This is total fraud and how the FBI and Department of Justice, I don't know, maybe they're involved, but how people are allowed to get away with this stuff is unbelievable.

01:01:43.000 This election was rigged.

01:01:45.000 This election was a total fraud.

01:01:48.000 And it continues to be as they hide.

01:01:51.000 And the problem we have, we go to judges and people don't want to get involved.

01:01:56.000 The media doesn't even want to cover it.

01:02:00.000 He is not wrong that the media refused to literally cover any allegations of voter fraud or voter irregularity at all.

01:02:05.000 I mean, if you actually put up such an allegation, even if you're just reporting on the allegation, Twitter will actually put a fact check on the allegation itself, which is pretty wild, right?

01:02:14.000 There are all sorts of allegations flying around Twitter all the time.

01:02:16.000 Twitter doesn't just put any sort of fact check on the allegations.

01:02:19.000 My business partner, Jeremy Boring, a couple of weeks ago put up a tweet just to see what would happen, saying Stacey Abrams is the legitimate governor of Georgia.

01:02:26.000 No fact check or this has been This tweet has been called into dispute.

01:02:30.000 It's only with regard to certain claims, obviously.

01:02:34.000 President Trump went further.

01:02:35.000 He then suggested that he was upset with Brian Kemp, who's the governor of Georgia, because Brian Kemp is a Republican.

01:02:39.000 The Secretary of State is a Republican.

01:02:40.000 They've certified the vote in Georgia in favor of Joe Biden.

01:02:43.000 Here's Trump saying that he's ashamed that he ever endorsed Brian Kemp.

01:02:47.000 They had judges making deals, and they had electoral officials making deals, like this character in Georgia who's a disaster.

01:02:55.000 And the governor's done nothing.

01:02:56.000 He's done absolutely nothing.

01:02:58.000 I'm ashamed that I endorsed him.

01:03:00.000 But I look at what's going on, it's so terrible.

01:03:03.000 But what happened in this election, Maria, I can't imagine has ever happened before.

01:03:09.000 Okay, so, again, you want to make these allegations, he's perfectly, he can make whatever allegations he wants.

01:03:14.000 It's a free country, right?

01:03:15.000 And he's getting court cases filed all over the place.

01:03:18.000 Some of them are better substantiated than others, like that Pennsylvania court case that was really more about procedure than it was about specific allegations of voter fraud.

01:03:25.000 There have been some specific allegations that have yet to be fully rebutted, and I'm actually curious to see some of the answers, and some that have been fully rebutted.

01:03:32.000 There's been some allegations, for example, about the miscount of ballots in Pennsylvania.

01:03:36.000 The suggestion is that more mail-in ballots were actually filed than were requested in the first place.

01:03:40.000 That is mismatching the data.

01:03:41.000 That is looking at data for the number of mail-in ballots requested for the primaries, not the number of ballots requested for the general election.

01:03:48.000 But there's one allegation made, I believe it was last Thursday, by the Trump team in Pennsylvania, maybe it was Wednesday, in which they suggested that there are these sort of late ballot dumps that went heavily for Joe Biden, like 99.6% for Joe Biden, which of course looks rather suspicious.

01:04:04.000 I'd love to see the response to that from the Pennsylvania Commonwealth to see exactly what happened there.

01:04:09.000 But Victor Davis Hanson, I think, has the best take on this at this point, right?

01:04:12.000 Which is that there is a legal process and it's going to move forward and Trump has a couple of paths.

01:04:15.000 Victor Davis Hanson, by the way, is probably the biggest Trump fan in intelligentsia, right?

01:04:20.000 Victor is a professor of classical studies.

01:04:22.000 He's been a Trump fan since 2015, 2016.

01:04:24.000 He wrote an entire book in defense of President Trump, who's a big bestseller.

01:04:28.000 So here is his piece at National Review about the current status, because here is where we lie.

01:04:32.000 Trump talking about voter fraud and voter irregularity in his own election?

01:04:36.000 He's perfectly entitled to do that.

01:04:38.000 At a certain point, he's going to start undercutting the ability of Republicans to win races in places like Georgia.

01:04:42.000 Undercutting the governor of Georgia and suggesting that he's corrupt or that his own FBI and DOJ are corruptly trying to rob an election from him is going to make it very hard for Republicans to win races in races they actually need to win.

01:04:55.000 Right now, the control of the United States Senate is up for grabs.

01:04:58.000 Right now, there are two seats in Georgia.

01:05:00.000 If both of them go Democrat, the Democrats control the Senate.

01:05:03.000 And if things continue along the lines they are continuing right now, Joe Biden ends up as president, and you end up with Kamala Harris breaking a tie in the Senate, which is just a full-scale disaster area.

01:05:13.000 So, Trump needs to bring the goods, you know, in terms of actual proof of voter fraud and voter irregularities, he needs to bring all of those goods right now, in court, not on Maria Bartiromo, in court, right now.

01:05:23.000 This is Victor Davis Hanson saying this, right?

01:05:24.000 He needs to do that because otherwise what you're doing is you're depressing the voter turnout in places like Georgia.

01:05:29.000 And this is happening, like, in real time.

01:05:31.000 For example, Over the weekend, Ronna McDaniel, who's the head of the RNC, she was out speaking to folks, and one voter asked about voter fraud and said, like, why should I even bother voting in Georgia if all of the elections are already rigged?

01:05:43.000 And it didn't go great.

01:05:45.000 It's not decided.

01:05:47.000 This is the key.

01:05:53.000 It's not decided.

01:05:55.000 First of all, David Perdue still has a 100,000 vote lead over Jon Ossoff.

01:06:01.000 Right now.

01:06:03.000 With the certification.

01:06:04.000 So if you lose your faith and you don't vote and people walk away, that will decide it.

01:06:09.000 Okay, that's it.

01:06:10.000 Okay, and she's right.

01:06:11.000 That is the disaster area, is that if Trump doesn't bring the proof and if things don't change and if he doesn't actually just move with the process here and bring it actually in court, and all we get is a bunch of Republican voters who are discouraged from voting because they think this thing is already rigged, that's a full-scale disaster.

01:06:23.000 And Democrats want it, right?

01:06:24.000 Andrew Yang, former Democratic presidential candidate, right?

01:06:27.000 Yang came out, he says basically that's what he's hoping for, is that Republicans are going to buy into what Trump is selling with regard to Georgia and just not show up to the polls.

01:06:34.000 It's vital that Democrats get every single voter out here in Georgia.

01:06:40.000 And I believe there are going to be many Trump voters who may not participate.

01:06:45.000 There's even some conspiracy theories out there.

01:06:47.000 It's interesting.

01:06:48.000 If you say to the folks in Georgia that the election is rigged, But then you also say, and come out and vote January 5th.

01:06:55.000 It's kind of an incongruous message.

01:06:57.000 Okay, Victor Davis Hanson's making the same point again.

01:06:59.000 Victor is a huge Trump fan, and here's what he says.

01:07:01.000 He says, Trump has a couple of pathways.

01:07:02.000 One is to keep addressing legitimate reports of voter irregularities.

01:07:05.000 He can continue to ask the courts to set aside any illegal votes that do not conform to state voting laws.

01:07:10.000 His supporters demand and deserve no less than the investigation of all charges of serial voting impropriety.

01:07:15.000 But Trump within days will have to prove any such crimes and lapses warped state counts enough to have wrongly elected Joe Biden president.

01:07:21.000 Trump realistically has perhaps a week or so left to either make his case or concede.

01:07:24.000 Then, to maintain the Senate majority for Republicans, and to save the very rules and protocols of the Senate, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution, Trump will have to barnstorm Georgia.

01:07:31.000 His challenge will be to enthuse his conservative base to re-elect the state's two incumbent senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.

01:07:37.000 After that, then Trump will have a shot at 2024.

01:07:40.000 Or, the other alternative is bleaker.

01:07:42.000 This is according, again, Victor Davis Hanson, not me.

01:07:44.000 He says, currently, Trump affiliated lawyers claim they can prove their bombshell allegations of historic voting fraud by leftists and foreign interests.

01:07:50.000 They further claim Trump was robbed not of a close election, but of a veritable landslide constituting the greatest scandal in American history.

01:07:56.000 So far, none of these advocates have produced the requisite whistleblowers, computer data or forensic evidence to prove their astounding charges.

01:08:02.000 If they don't, and if Trump pivots to put his fate in their hands, the pilloried Republicans may well lose the Senate races in Georgia.

01:08:07.000 And with that historic setback, Trump would endanger his own legacy, his influence, and perhaps a crack at a second presidential term.

01:08:14.000 In blunter terms, Trump may be forced to choose within days whether he wishes to emulate Andrew Jackson, the aggrieved victim of a crooked bargain in 1824 that denied him victory in that year's presidential election.

01:08:24.000 Jackson stormed back in 1828.

01:08:26.000 Otherwise, Trump would risk being reduced to the status of sore presidential losers like Al Gore and Hillary Clinton.

01:08:30.000 So right now, it is a very fine line.

01:08:33.000 Trump can keep talking about voter fraud and voter irregularity all he wants.

01:08:36.000 He's going to have to bring the proof.

01:08:38.000 And then at a certain point, he's gonna have to work to win those Senate races for Georgia's Republicans.

01:08:43.000 Because otherwise, a world of hurt is coming for Republicans in Georgia.

01:08:48.000 That is a major upcoming issue.

01:08:49.000 And if Republicans ignore that, they do so at their own peril.

01:08:52.000 Okay, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.

01:08:55.000 Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - November 30, 2020

Joe Biden's Disconnect From Reality | Ep. 1146

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