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00:00:42.000It's not Totally clear who killed Iran's nuclear chief over the weekend.
00:00:46.000But whenever somebody in the Iranian nuclear industry goes down, it's a fair bet that probably the Israelis had something to do with it.
00:00:52.000According 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.
00:01:03.000Fakhrizadeh, 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.
00:01:13.000The killers, apparently including a pair of snipers, formed part of a 62-person group of plotters.
00:01:17.000The remaining 50 people were responsible for logistical support.
00:01:20.000According 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.
00:01:30.000This is coming courtesy of the Iranians, so always take it with a grain of salt.
00:01:35.000Fakhrizadeh'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.
00:01:44.000Iran'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.
00:02:38.000You might want to wait a couple of weeks until the Trump administration is in place.
00:02:41.000And then Obama's intelligence agencies decided that they were basically going to persecute Michael Flynn over this.
00:02:46.000They decided that Michael Flynn had broken the law.
00:02:47.000You have John Brennan now saying openly the same thing.
00:02:50.000Just wait until our guys are back and then we'll be nice to you again, Iran.
00:02:54.000John Brennan, who again, is a ridiculous liar.
00:02:57.000Yeah, given the fact that he actually did overtly lie to Congress, probably should have done some prison time.
00:03:02.000He said, I do not know whether a foreign government authorized or carried out the murder of Faghrizadeh, such an act of state-sponsored terrorism.
00:03:08.000It'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.
00:03:21.000Right, that apparently is now state-sponsored terrorism to kill a guy who is the head of the nuclear program for a terrorist state.
00:03:28.000John Brennan, who helped preside over the drone war that Barack Obama launched on a wide variety of continents.
00:03:34.000Apparently, 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.
00:03:43.000So when Iran runs around the globe killing foreign officials and killing foreign Foreign people and intervenes in other nations and kills American soldiers.
00:03:53.000But 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.
00:04:10.000Brennan 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.
00:04:24.000So 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.
00:04:45.000Once again, it is an unmitigatedly good thing that the Iranian nuclear scientist at the head of their nuclear program is no longer with us.
00:04:54.000Anything 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.
00:05:04.000It 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.
00:05:10.000And naturally, the Biden team is very, very angry about this.
00:05:14.000Now you see this from Europe too, right?
00:05:16.000Britain is saying the same sort of stuff.
00:05:17.000Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is concerned about the possible escalation of tensions.
00:05:21.000The foreign policy establishment, they have a basic idea.
00:05:24.000The 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.
00:05:35.000Little secret about the Iranians, they don't need the West to raise tensions.
00:05:39.000They've been consistently and persistently responsible for terrorism against a wide variety of targets, from Jewish to Christian to Muslim, for decades on end.
00:05:50.000And 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.
00:05:57.000And you can see this in how the media are covering this.
00:05:59.000There's this bubble that is being formed once again, anew.
00:06:02.000This bubble that is being formed, the Biden media bubble.
00:06:06.000It existed during the Obama era, where Barack Obama could lie to the American public and to the media and just get away with it.
00:06:13.000Ben 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.
00:06:23.000Maybe the only true thing Ben Rhodes has ever said.
00:06:27.000The 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.
00:07:14.000I mean, all they do is just parrot whatever the Democratic talking points are.
00:07:16.000That's not a good thing for the country.
00:07:18.000You need objective journalism, or at least quasi-objective journalism, or at least people who admit their biases.
00:07:23.000Now, people who are masquerading as objective journalists while parroting the Biden line, it's not good for the country.
00:07:27.000Two, 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.
00:07:44.000Barack 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.
00:07:54.000And all the while, he was being talked about as though he was a wonderful foreign policy president.
00:07:58.000Barack Obama has never met a critic in the actual mainstream media.
00:08:02.000And that creates bad policy, because when you're insulated from the effect of your own policies, you start to believe your own press.
00:08:07.000And 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.
00:08:14.000So, there are a lot of bad consequences to the media creating this impenetrable bubble around the democratic foreign policy and domestic policy establishment.
00:08:21.000Here's what the New York Times tweeted about this, okay?
00:08:30.000Here'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.
00:08:42.000Oh, well, I mean, if the Iranians say it's for peaceful purposes, then, of course, we should take them at their word.
00:08:46.000I mean, it's not as though Iran has resources.
00:08:49.000It's not like they're a resource-rich country when it comes to oil and natural gas or anything.
00:08:53.000Obviously, the Iranians need nuclear energy.
00:08:55.000I mean, clearly, that's top priority over there.
00:08:58.000They would never lie about developing a nuclear weapon, the Iranians.
00:09:01.000I love the New York Times just taking that at face value.
00:09:03.000And they're taking it at face value because, of course, they have an agenda.
00:09:05.000And their agenda is to do the press work for the Iranians.
00:09:08.000This has been true ever since the Obama administration pushed the Iran deal.
00:09:11.000It basically turned the Obama administration into a PR wing of the Iranian mullahs.
00:09:16.000They had to go out and do defense for how the Iranians were actually friendly partners.
00:09:20.000Because 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.
00:09:32.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:11:11.000The precious is whatever Democrat is in the White House.
00:11:14.000So 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.
00:11:29.000If 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?
00:12:07.000So 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?
00:12:17.000The 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?
00:12:27.000Anytime 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.
00:12:40.000And suddenly, it's like bad if something bad happens to the Iranian regime?
00:12:46.000Anyway, 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.
00:12:55.000And Israelis have done nothing to dispel that view.
00:12:57.000Prime 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.
00:13:08.000But, says the New York Times, Mr. Netanyahu also has a second agenda.
00:13:13.000There must be no return to the previous nuclear agreement, he declared shortly after it became clear that Biden would be the next president.
00:13:35.000Then they could just go about building a nuclear weapon completely free and clear.
00:13:37.000There'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?
00:14:18.000But because the media are creating this bubble around Joe Biden, Biden is going to try to pursue a deal with the Iranian mullahs anyway.
00:14:24.000And thus it becomes bad when the chief Iranian nuclear scientist, again, serving one of the worst regimes on earth, is killed.
00:14:31.000So the New York Times is doing heavy lifting here.
00:14:33.000Whatever the mix of motives, Mr. Biden must pick up the pieces in just seven weeks.
00:14:37.000The 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.
00:14:54.000The answer lies largely in how Ron reacts in the next few weeks.
00:14:57.000Three times since the start of the year, Ron has been on the receiving end of highly visible, highly damaging attacks.
00:15:05.000And the media is going to cheer this on.
00:15:08.000Here, 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.
00:15:17.000You remember that the entire foreign policy establishment screamed and whined, oh, it was going to lead to nuclear war.
00:15:23.000It was an excellent move by the Trump administration.
00:15:25.000In 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.
00:15:33.000and Israel attacked more than a decade ago with sophisticated cyber weapons.
00:15:48.000And 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.
00:16:03.000And just because you've had the, the, sycophantic tongues of the media at your disposal does not make your policy any better.
00:16:11.000In 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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00:17:38.000Okay, 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.
00:17:45.000He 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.
00:17:51.000President-elect Biden knows the region well.
00:17:53.000But if I had one piece of advice for him, it would be this.
00:17:55.000This is not the Middle East you left four years ago.
00:17:58.000The 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.
00:18:14.000Iranian 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.
00:18:21.000Israeli military analysts, who were stunned by the capabilities the Iranians displayed, argued this was the Middle East's Pearl Harbor, and they were right.
00:18:27.000The 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.
00:18:37.000Instead, 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.
00:18:47.000The clear shift in American posture in which the U.S.
00:18:49.000basically said to the Saudis, listen, you're going to have to defend yourselves here.
00:18:51.000It 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.
00:19:05.000The 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.
00:19:16.000Because 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.
00:19:25.000Naturally, the Biden administration's response will be to try and undercut all of those peace deals.
00:19:30.000So 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.
00:19:39.000She 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.
00:19:50.000According 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.
00:19:59.000The latest killing may not provoke Iran to build nuclear weapons, but it will likely feed the animosity between the U.S.
00:20:03.000and Iran making diplomacy that much harder.
00:20:06.000It could strengthen hardline factions in Iran arguing against a return to diplomacy.
00:20:09.000Okay, this is one of the great myths that was purveyed by the Obama administration.
00:20:32.000She says, with temperatures running so high, the incoming Biden administration now faces a serious challenge.
00:20:37.000Biden 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.
00:20:45.000I 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.
00:20:56.000For a variety of reasons, Iran's nuclear program, says Barbara Slavin, has been slow-moving.
00:21:00.000In the more than 60 years since Iran's nuclear efforts began, Israel, India, Pakistan, North Korea have all developed bombs.
00:21:14.000Everybody knew that Iran was going for weapons.
00:21:16.000That's why all of these alliances were formed in the first place.
00:21:18.000But 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.
00:21:29.000Because they've been able to create this ridiculous echo chamber.
00:21:33.000And that's what the Biden team would be counting on.
00:21:37.000They would be counting on the fact that no matter what they do, the media will just echo how wonderful it is.
00:21:42.000I mean, Ben Rhodes had that for several years.
00:21:44.000Again, Ben Rhodes, the former national security advisor to Barack Obama.
00:21:48.000Jared 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.
00:21:54.000And Ben Rhodes is tweeting out about how Jared Kushner is taking payoffs, okay, with no evidence of that.
00:22:01.000Are the media going to say anything about that?
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00:24:01.000So over the weekend, Joe Biden, it was initially reported, sprained his foot.
00:24:07.000According to Ryan Savedra over at Daily Wire, Joe Biden apparently fell over his dog, apparently.
00:24:14.000His injuries stemmed from a fall over the weekend, and apparently they are more serious than initially thought.
00:24:19.000New imaging tests revealed he fractured his foot.
00:24:22.000President-elect Joe Biden sustained a sprain of his right foot, said Biden's doctor, Kevin O'Connor.
00:24:26.000He initially said this on Sunday evening.
00:24:27.000Initial x-rays are reassuring there's no obvious fracture.
00:24:29.000He will be getting an additional CT for more detailed imaging.
00:24:32.000But follow-up tests revealed that Biden, 78, sustained fractures in his foot from a fall he sustained while playing with one of his dogs.
00:24:38.000According to O'Connor, follow-up CT scans confirmed hairline fractures of Biden's lateral and intermediate cuneiform bones, which are in the midfoot.
00:24:45.000He will probably require a walking boot for several weeks.
00:25:46.000Now, 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.
00:25:52.000We were told every couple of weeks that he was probably going to die of a heart attack because he was fat and old.
00:25:55.000We got this every week from the media.
00:25:58.000Joe Biden, before he even takes office, he's breaking his foot while playing with his dogs.
00:26:02.000He can't make it through a sentence and we're told everything is perfectly fine.
00:26:26.000So 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.
00:26:35.000Now, this has always been a puzzle to me.
00:26:37.000The 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.
00:26:46.000The same party that thinks that if you are an actual biological woman, you could probably best be termed a vagina owner.
00:26:54.000That's pretty much like the best we can do because you might actually be a man, right?
00:26:57.000Okay, 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.
00:27:25.000They're like, oh, I know why they did that.
00:27:27.000Okay, so that's the Joe Biden team at this point.
00:27:30.000Biden'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.
00:27:41.000On top of that, several of the most prominent women from Team Biden have been tagged for their own major White House roles.
00:27:45.000Deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield will be communications director.
00:27:48.000Corrine Jean-Pierre will be deputy press secretary.
00:27:50.000And Symone Sanders has been exiled to chief spokeswoman for VP Kamala Harris, which hardest hit Symone Sanders.
00:27:56.000Because remember, she was the one who was out there like a lot more like Jen Psaki was just working at CNN.
00:28:01.000Then she was apparently she was desperately lobbying to be press secretary for Biden.
00:28:04.000He's like, well, how about you just go work for Kamala over there?
00:28:19.000You know what I don't like in meetings when people inject empathy and humanity?
00:28:21.000the 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.
00:28:29.000Which 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.
00:28:37.000But 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.
00:28:44.000Anyway, 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.
00:28:52.000Well, I mean, actually, actually it's not the most diverse team in history because there are no men.
00:28:57.000I'm just going to put that out there that if you're all women, that's not super diverse.
00:29:02.000Also, 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?
00:29:33.000truthfully 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.
00:29:44.000Oh my God, these stenographers, these stenographers.
00:29:51.000Did you know the only person who has ever lied during a White House press meeting is a member of the Trump administration?
00:29:58.000Before that, Jay Carney, he never lied.
00:30:00.000When he got up there and he said, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, he wasn't lying.
00:30:03.000He was just mostly mistaken on purpose.
00:30:06.000He was like, dissembling, but not lying, not lying.
00:30:10.000When 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.
00:30:23.000And when Barack Obama's administration was sicking the DOJ on reporters, that was not an attack on journalism.
00:30:30.000Joe Biden has now informed the Democracy Dies in Darkness crowd that he is going to be communicating in clear and truthful fashion.
00:30:39.000And they're just eating this bleep up.
00:30:58.000Daily Beast. Very reporter-y and very politically, very objective McFace. Here is what she tweeted.
00:31:04.000Joe 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?
00:32:16.000And we'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:32:18.000But 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.
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00:33:54.000Okay, we're going to actually vet some of the people that Joe Biden is talking about in a second, because the media is too excited telling you about their ex-chromosomes to tell you about, you know, who they are.
00:34:02.000We'll get to more of that in just one second.
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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.
00:35:19.000Let'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?
00:35:26.000It's just G-R-R-L is how it's spelled, I'm informed, reliably, by the most powerful and empowered of female sources.
00:35:34.000She 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.
00:38:14.000So Jen Psaki, who's never lied to you, she is going to be back running comms over at the White House press shop.
00:38:22.000Also, she lied to you and admitted to lying to you on an open mic while she was, you know, over at the State Department.
00:38:28.000Back 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.
00:38:40.000She 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.
00:38:51.000Reporters 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.
00:39:01.000Now, it's fun to remember this kind of stuff, because remember, nothing bad ever happened during the Obama administration.
00:39:05.000So 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.
00:39:13.000And this was a big story for like weeks on end.
00:39:16.000You'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.
00:39:24.000Everybody's like, well, you know, that's Obama.
00:39:26.000That guy, he, I mean, what can we say?
00:39:30.000So Jen Psaki was caught on a hot mic at the time.
00:39:33.000Saying that Egypt line is ridiculous, right?
00:39:35.000So 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.
00:39:43.000Honesty and decency, they are back and they are back and they are better than ever.
00:39:48.000Meanwhile, speaking of back and better than ever.
00:39:50.000Apparently, a woman named Neera Tanden is back.
00:39:53.000So, Neera Tanden is an extremely online person.
00:39:56.000What I mean by that is she's on Twitter saying dumb crap all the time.
00:39:59.000But Joe Biden doesn't know what the Twitter is because he still has an AOL hardline.
00:40:08.000He still has that routine going, Joe Biden.
00:40:12.000In 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.
00:40:21.000Anyway, Neera Tanden has said many, many dumb things online over the years.
00:40:26.000She's the president and CEO of the Center for American Progress.
00:40:30.000He wants her to serve as the first White House budget director, which is pretty much putting the fox in charge of the hen house.
00:40:36.000I 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.
00:40:44.000Like just, I don't even have a program for the spending of the money.
00:40:47.000We'll just literally put money into a giant fire hose with a huge nozzle and just fire it at things.
00:41:04.000That's kind of Neera Tanden's general policy.
00:41:06.000But put that aside, Neera Tanden has been one of the more controversial figures online.
00:41:10.000Many, many years of saying dumb crap online.
00:41:13.000In fact, her first act over the weekend was to delete 1,100 tweets, which is always a good sign.
00:41:18.000So, she is going to be coming in to run the OMB, supposedly.
00:41:24.000And 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.
00:41:35.000She previously was at Department of Health and Human Services.
00:41:40.000You 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.
00:41:52.000She was a senior aide to Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential bid, and was the domestic policy advisor to Bill Clinton.
00:41:58.000Here are just some of Neera Tanden's best hits.
00:42:01.000So, she said online that the Steele dossier was mostly true.
00:42:11.000Also, 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.
00:42:34.000That apparently, Neera Tanden named an anonymous harassment victim in an all-staff meeting, which is always a good move.
00:42:40.000Two 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.
00:42:53.000But during the meeting Wednesday afternoon, Tanden named the anonymous victim at the center of the story.
00:43:10.000It destroys whatever small level of confidence in the system remained.
00:43:12.000As 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.
00:43:55.000He 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.
00:44:12.000According 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.
00:44:24.000Pine 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.
00:44:35.000Flournoy and Austin are reportedly among leading candidates being considered for Secretary of Defense.
00:44:39.000Blinken is Biden's designated nominee for Secretary of State.
00:44:42.000Pine Island's chairman is John Thain, former top executive at Merrill Lynch.
00:44:46.000Flournoy 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.
00:45:05.000The 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.
00:45:16.000It sounds like they are basically openly saying, yeah, we're going to take advantage of our connections.
00:45:19.000We believe there will be increased demand in the US defense market for advanced electronics, communications, sensor and detection processing, and other technologies.
00:45:26.000We believe this demand represents strong growth.
00:45:28.000Our 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.
00:45:39.000This is so explicit, it's astonishing.
00:45:41.000Pyte 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.
00:45:48.000This is not an example of people who happen to work at a big company.
00:45:50.000These are partners at a firm whose stated business model is to profit from the revolving door and connections gained from time in government.
00:46:03.000Nathan 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.
00:46:17.000But the fact remains that so long as the media create this bubble, Joe Biden can do whatever he wants.
00:46:20.000Now, 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.
00:46:29.000The 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.
00:47:03.000In 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.
00:47:10.000So, 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.
00:47:22.000Okay, 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.
00:47:38.000The 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.
00:47:47.000Now, this should be perfectly obvious.
00:47:49.000The fact that it was not is really disturbing for the prospects of American liberty.
00:47:53.000Cuomo's policy basically did not make church attendance dependent on various safety measures in place for COVID.
00:48:00.000It basically just said churches, synagogues, shut down.
00:48:03.000You 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.
00:48:13.000Now, 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.
00:48:40.000They have taped off places on the floor.
00:48:42.000So everybody is separated by 10 to 15 feet.
00:48:45.000The 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.
00:48:58.000Also, over the weekend, because again, Florida is not a garbage state like my former state of California, my family went over to Disney World.
00:49:24.000In other words, people can be responsible with this.
00:49:26.000But 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.
00:49:37.000So the editors of National Review have a good piece about this.
00:49:39.000this. 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.
00:49:49.000A majority of the court thinks the restrictions proposed by Andrew Cuomo cross the line.
00:49:55.000Under long-standing precedent, states typically may enact religiously neutral, generally applicable laws without running afoul of the First Amendment.
00:50:01.000But if a law burdens religion and is not generally applicable, it must satisfy quote-unquote strict scrutiny.
00:50:06.000It means it must be as narrowly tailored as possible to promote a compelling government interest.
00:50:12.000Cuomo's restrictions in areas classified as orange or red, in terms of COVID-19 prevalence, are neither generally applicable nor narrowly tailored.
00:50:19.000Within these areas, different types of establishments are treated differently.
00:50:39.000None could host more than 25 people, period.
00:50:41.000And it doesn't matter the size of the room.
00:50:43.000It's idiotic because Andrew Cuomo is, in fact, idiotic.
00:50:46.000His policies have been terrible basically throughout.
00:50:48.000All the court is doing here is reiterating the law and pointing out the discrimination that is being carried out by Andrew Cuomo.
00:50:55.000Naturally, 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.
00:51:03.000In 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.
00:51:48.000You can't treat churches different than you treat bike stores.
00:51:50.000As 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.
00:52:04.000Justice 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.
00:52:14.000It is hard to tell how these regulations were designed to help religious communities.
00:52:17.000secular institution, particularly when those regulations save lives. Because New York's COVID-19 restrictions do just that, I respectfully dissent.
00:52:23.000It is hard to tell exactly how that is the case. It is hard to tell how these regulations were designed to help religious communities.
00:52:32.000Exactly. 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.
00:52:46.000I can say this because I don't believe in papal infallibility since I'm not Catholic.
00:52:49.000as if measures that governments must impose for the good of their people constitute some kind of political assault on autonomy or personal freedom.
00:52:55.000I gotta say, not a huge fan. I can say this because I don't believe in papal infallibility since I'm not Catholic.
00:53:01.000But I believe even if you're a Catholic, this does not follow under the status of doctrine.
00:53:05.000This is more dicta, unless I'm getting this completely wrong.
00:53:09.000That 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.
00:53:16.000Speaking of government edicts on COVID that make no sense, L.A.
00:53:18.000County announced over the weekend that they would be banning all outdoor dining starting on Monday, which makes perfect sense because they have no data.
00:53:25.000There was an actual public health meeting last week in which zero data was presented to explain why it was bad to eat outdoors.
00:53:32.000It is not, in fact, bad to eat outdoors.
00:53:33.000There's no evidence that eating outdoors is a vehicle for transmission.
00:53:37.000Eating 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.
00:53:43.000If you're eating outdoors with tables socially distanced from each other, it's not a risk.
00:53:46.000Doesn't matter, LA County's shutting it down.
00:54:37.000But Pasadena, which is its own city, Okay, again, this is all ridiculous, ridiculous stuff.
00:54:48.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:54:58.000Here was Fauci over the weekend saying what has been perfectly true for months, and we have known it for months at this point.
00:55:02.000Here 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.
00:55:09.000Close the bars and keep the schools open, is what we really say.
00:55:12.000Obviously, 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.
00:55:28.000So 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.
00:55:35.000It hasn't stopped the teachers' unions from writing pieces every single day.
00:55:37.000to 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.
00:55:49.000Okay, 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.
00:55:59.000People from the American Federation of Teachers have been saying this.
00:56:02.000They keep saying over and over, close the schools.
00:56:04.000They're not following the science because they don't care about the science.
00:56:06.000And now Bill de Blasio, shockingly, has decided post-election, wait, we're going to reopen the elementary schools.
00:56:16.000And now he's like, you know, we're going to reopen the schools.
00:56:18.000Why, it's almost as though electoral politics changed the math for somebody like Bill de Blasio.
00:56:24.000According 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.
00:56:36.000Under 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.
00:56:44.000Most students with disabilities will also be allowed to return to school several days after the elementary schools open.
00:56:49.000De Blasio says we'll have testing that is going to go from monthly in every school to weekly in every school.
00:56:54.000students will not be able to attend school unless they have a consent form signed by parents.
00:56:58.000In order to attend in-person school, students will already need to have been enrolled in hybrid learning classes.
00:57:03.000Right now about 335,000 students are hybrid enrolled, among them 190,000 elementary age or otherwise eligible students.
00:57:10.000So 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.
00:57:19.000The United Federation of Teachers put out a statement.
00:57:21.000While 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.
00:57:35.000By the way, speaking of New York City, it's funny.
00:57:38.000We've heard that it's the Jews who are responsible for all of the spread in New York City.
00:57:42.000We got to shut down the schools while leaving the bars open.
00:57:44.000Weird, 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.
00:57:57.000I would find it shocking if they were wearing any sort of proper coverings at all, actually, in any way, like, as in clothing.
00:58:04.000The sheriff's department said the party violated emergency orders and was operating without a liquor license.
00:58:08.000The department also shared photos of dozens of bottles of hard liquor confiscated by the authorities.
00:58:14.000Earlier this month, of course, Andrew Cuomo had restricted churches.
00:58:17.000So, 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.
00:58:24.000People who are unreasonable about COVID are going to be unreasonable, and the government is not the answer to all of your problems.
00:58:30.000Okay, meanwhile, gotta give you the update in election land.
00:58:33.000So, Wisconsin has now recounted its votes.
00:58:36.000They've confirmed that Joe Biden continues to be ahead in the recounts.
00:58:39.000There are still outstanding lawsuits, particularly in Pennsylvania, which we'll get to in just a second.
00:58:44.000According 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.
00:58:53.000It actually added votes to Biden's margin a little bit.
00:58:56.000In the end, Biden's lead over Trump grew by about 87 votes.
00:59:02.000There are some election lawsuits that were filed last week in Pennsylvania.
00:59:06.000One of them was briefly successful, actually.
00:59:08.000That was a lawsuit that was filed by Mike Kelly and Sean Parnell and a variety of sort of Trump associated figures.
00:59:15.000Suggesting that the mail-in process that Pennsylvania had embraced was actually illegal.
00:59:20.000And there's a fairly good legal case for the idea that it is illegal.
00:59:24.000The 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.
00:59:31.000That's sort of the basis of the rejection of the ruling.
00:59:35.000The 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.
00:59:47.000That 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.
01:00:06.000Instead, the voting procedure was simply rammed through through a majority vote.
01:00:12.000And this judge found that this violated the constitution of the state of Pennsylvania.
01:00:18.000She 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.
01:00:36.000Specifically, they contend no voters will be disenfranchised by the result of a slight delay in certifying the results.
01:00:40.000Conversely, 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.
01:00:48.000The 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.
01:01:10.000You know, whether you like the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruling or whether you don't, I'm not a huge fan.
01:01:14.000Whether you like that ruling or not, that is where the legal process stands at this time.
01:01:19.000Meanwhile, President Trump continues to fulminate over the election.
01:01:22.000He 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.
01:01:29.000Here he was on the phone with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News over the weekend.
01:01:33.000This 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.
01:01:51.000And the problem we have, we go to judges and people don't want to get involved.
01:01:56.000The media doesn't even want to cover it.
01:02:00.000He is not wrong that the media refused to literally cover any allegations of voter fraud or voter irregularity at all.
01:02:05.000I 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?
01:02:14.000There are all sorts of allegations flying around Twitter all the time.
01:02:16.000Twitter doesn't just put any sort of fact check on the allegations.
01:02:19.000My 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.
01:02:26.000No fact check or this has been This tweet has been called into dispute.
01:02:30.000It's only with regard to certain claims, obviously.
01:03:15.000And he's getting court cases filed all over the place.
01:03:18.000Some 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.
01:03:25.000There 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.
01:03:32.000There's been some allegations, for example, about the miscount of ballots in Pennsylvania.
01:03:36.000The suggestion is that more mail-in ballots were actually filed than were requested in the first place.
01:03:41.000That 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.
01:03:48.000But 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.
01:04:04.000I'd love to see the response to that from the Pennsylvania Commonwealth to see exactly what happened there.
01:04:09.000But Victor Davis Hanson, I think, has the best take on this at this point, right?
01:04:12.000Which is that there is a legal process and it's going to move forward and Trump has a couple of paths.
01:04:15.000Victor Davis Hanson, by the way, is probably the biggest Trump fan in intelligentsia, right?
01:04:20.000Victor is a professor of classical studies.
01:04:22.000He's been a Trump fan since 2015, 2016.
01:04:24.000He wrote an entire book in defense of President Trump, who's a big bestseller.
01:04:28.000So here is his piece at National Review about the current status, because here is where we lie.
01:04:32.000Trump talking about voter fraud and voter irregularity in his own election?
01:04:38.000At a certain point, he's going to start undercutting the ability of Republicans to win races in places like Georgia.
01:04:42.000Undercutting 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.
01:04:55.000Right now, the control of the United States Senate is up for grabs.
01:04:58.000Right now, there are two seats in Georgia.
01:05:00.000If both of them go Democrat, the Democrats control the Senate.
01:05:03.000And 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.
01:05:13.000So, 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.
01:05:23.000This is Victor Davis Hanson saying this, right?
01:05:24.000He needs to do that because otherwise what you're doing is you're depressing the voter turnout in places like Georgia.
01:05:29.000And this is happening, like, in real time.
01:05:31.000For 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?
01:06:11.000That 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.
01:06:24.000Andrew Yang, former Democratic presidential candidate, right?
01:06:27.000Yang 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.
01:06:34.000It's vital that Democrats get every single voter out here in Georgia.
01:06:40.000And I believe there are going to be many Trump voters who may not participate.
01:06:45.000There's even some conspiracy theories out there.
01:06:57.000Okay, Victor Davis Hanson's making the same point again.
01:06:59.000Victor is a huge Trump fan, and here's what he says.
01:07:01.000He says, Trump has a couple of pathways.
01:07:02.000One is to keep addressing legitimate reports of voter irregularities.
01:07:05.000He can continue to ask the courts to set aside any illegal votes that do not conform to state voting laws.
01:07:10.000His supporters demand and deserve no less than the investigation of all charges of serial voting impropriety.
01:07:15.000But Trump within days will have to prove any such crimes and lapses warped state counts enough to have wrongly elected Joe Biden president.
01:07:21.000Trump realistically has perhaps a week or so left to either make his case or concede.
01:07:24.000Then, 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.
01:07:31.000His challenge will be to enthuse his conservative base to re-elect the state's two incumbent senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.
01:07:37.000After that, then Trump will have a shot at 2024.
01:07:42.000This is according, again, Victor Davis Hanson, not me.
01:07:44.000He says, currently, Trump affiliated lawyers claim they can prove their bombshell allegations of historic voting fraud by leftists and foreign interests.
01:07:50.000They further claim Trump was robbed not of a close election, but of a veritable landslide constituting the greatest scandal in American history.
01:07:56.000So far, none of these advocates have produced the requisite whistleblowers, computer data or forensic evidence to prove their astounding charges.
01:08:02.000If 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.
01:08:07.000And with that historic setback, Trump would endanger his own legacy, his influence, and perhaps a crack at a second presidential term.
01:08:14.000In 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.
01:09:25.000Joe Biden has pet problems, statistical impossibilities appear in Pennsylvania election hearings, and the Supreme Court defends religious liberty.