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00:01:47.000So just to get this straight, in his first six months, He has now proposed a $2 trillion stimulus plan, which actually got passed.
00:01:55.000He has proposed a $2 trillion infrastructure plan that has not yet been passed.
00:01:59.000He's proposed a $2 trillion American Families Plan, which has not yet been passed.
00:02:03.000And now a $6 trillion budget, which is $12 trillion.
00:02:07.000The entire GDP of the United States in 2019 was $21 trillion.
00:02:11.000The highest levels that we have spent in terms of government spending to GDP ratio in the past decade, You're looking at from 2015 and forward, it's like 35%.
00:02:22.000Okay, now you're talking about spending well in excess of 50% of GDP.
00:02:26.000Okay, and people are like, well, yeah, but that's just spending this year.
00:02:29.000I mean, next year, he's not gonna spend all that this year that's tranched out over 15.
00:02:34.000Right, but then he's gonna propose a $6 trillion budget next year.
00:02:37.000As we have seen, once the ratchet moves in one direction, it never moves back down.
00:02:41.000The reality of the situation is that once Barack Obama created the $4 trillion budget, every single year we've had a $4 trillion budget, including under Donald Trump.
00:03:07.000They probably always did, but now he's super confused about them, because like regular household objects confuse the President of the United States at this point in his career.
00:03:14.000According to the New York Times, President Biden will propose a $6 trillion budget on Friday that would take the United States to its highest sustained levels of federal spending since World War II, while running deficits above $1.3 trillion for the next decade.
00:03:28.000So he wants to add, make that calculation yourself, $13 trillion minimum to the national debt over the next decade.
00:03:36.000The national debt right now in the United States is, if you included things like You know, unfunded liability is like $132 trillion.
00:03:46.000But if you're just looking at the published national debt right now, the published national debt right now in the United States is like $28.3 trillion.
00:03:52.000Joe Biden is proposing, he's proposing this, to add over the next decade $13 trillion to the national debt.
00:04:14.000As one of our producers said earlier, Bitcoin to the moon.
00:04:17.000Documents obtained by the New York Times show that Mr. Biden's first budget request as president calls for the federal government to spend $6 trillion in the 2022 fiscal year and for total spending to rise to $8.2 trillion by 2031.
00:04:31.000And again, he ain't gonna be president in 2031.
00:04:35.000So if he wants the total spending to rise to $8.2 trillion, you're really talking about Rising a lot more than that.
00:04:39.000that. The growth is driven by Biden's two-part agenda to upgrade the nation's infrastructure and substantially expand the social safety net contained in his American Jobs Plan and American Families Plan, along with other planned increases in discretionary spending. The proposal shows the sweep of Mr. Biden's ambitions to wield government power to help more Americans attain the comforts of a middle-class life and to lift U.S.
00:04:59.000industry to better compete globally. I love that. I love how the New York Times is just, let's just read right off of Joe Biden's press release right here.
00:05:05.000You know, sure, we're gonna blow out the debt to an unprecedented degree.
00:05:11.000See, during World War II, we had to spend a lot of money because, you know, we were in the middle of a world war in which we were fighting a two-front gigantic war, one against the Axis powers in Germany and in the Atlantic, and another where we were fighting another entirely separate war in the Pacific.
00:05:27.000That's a good reason to blow out the federal spending is because you're in an existential war with fascist powers.
00:05:31.000You know what's a bad reason to blow out the spending?
00:05:33.000Because Joe Biden can't control his Metamucil.
00:05:36.000That's a real bad reason to blow out the spending.
00:05:38.000Because Joe Biden needs his legacy before he puts in for time at the nursing home.
00:06:02.000Sure, he's not going to get any of this stuff because, frankly, he doesn't have the votes in the Senate, but he can.
00:06:07.000I mean, I don't think that you're going to see Manchin or Sinema move along with us on the Democratic side of the aisle, let alone getting to the filibuster-proof majority.
00:06:16.000You could use reconciliation to pass the budget, but I can't imagine he gets this through.
00:06:46.000And studies demonstrate that if you wish to attain that middle class lifestyle in the United States, you need to do three things, and three things only, and all of them, if you are mentally capable, are not that hard.
00:06:55.000One is graduating high school, which in the United States basically means you need to be able to write your name.
00:07:04.000In a country that has more job openings than people seeking jobs, again, not super difficult, so long as you put your As you put your shoulder to the millstone, to the grindstone.
00:07:15.000And three, don't have babies before you're married.
00:07:20.000And you will not live in poverty in the United States.
00:07:22.000But according to Joe Biden, we need to blow out the budget to the tune of a $1.3 trillion debt for the next 10 years, every year, in order to attain a middle-class lifestyle.
00:07:32.000Because nothing says middle-class lifestyle quite like complete redistribution of wealth by punishing entrepreneurialism.
00:08:10.000Again, before COVID, the United States had the most dominant economy on planet Earth by a long stretch, not close.
00:08:17.000And Joe Biden's like, well, forget all of that.
00:08:20.000Mr. Biden's plans to fund his agenda by raising taxes on corporations and higher earners would begin to shrink budget deficits in the 2030s, which means it's never going to shrink budget deficits.
00:08:27.000I mean, this is literally, I'll buy a hamburger today and I will pay for it 30 years from now.
00:08:34.000It'll shrink budget deficits in the 2030s?
00:08:37.000Now, I may be out of line here, but I checked the calendar, like, right now, and the calendar says it is now 2021.
00:08:46.000If Joe Biden says, oh yeah, long after I'm dead, we're gonna shrink the budget deficit?
00:08:51.000If you believe this, you are a stupid person.
00:08:54.000If you believe that he's going to blow up, like he's admitting that he's blowing out the deficit at 1.3 trillion dollars a year for the next decade, every year.
00:09:01.000But don't worry, guys, when you get to 2031, when, by the way, Joe Biden will be.
00:09:06.000I counted in his late 80s, if he is still alive.
00:09:32.000Again, you're not even using the same length of time.
00:09:35.000That's like saying, you know, I'm going to blow out my credit card this month.
00:09:38.000I'm going to spend like a million dollars on my credit card this month, but probably over the course of the next 10 years, I might earn $10 million.
00:09:44.000Yes, but the spending is happening now.
00:09:57.000In the meantime, the United States would run significant deficits as it borrows money to finance his plans.
00:10:01.000Under Mr. Biden's proposal, the federal budget deficit would hit $1.8 trillion in 2022, even as the economy rebounds from the pandemic recession to grow at what the administration predicts would be its fastest annual pace since the early 1980s.
00:10:13.000So first of all, we shouldn't be growing at our fastest annual pace since the early 1980s.
00:10:16.000We should, theoretically, be growing at our fastest annual pace ever.
00:10:25.000Like, look how fast the economy is growing.
00:10:27.000Well, yes, when you forcibly kill tens of millions of jobs by telling people they can't go to work, then when they can go back to work, the economy will grow.
00:10:34.000Wow, that's like a shocking statistic.
00:10:37.000This is like saying, you know, Bob today, he had his most, the transition, like his energy level, the difference between the morning and the evening in his energy level today was the highest change ever.
00:10:49.000Now what I'm not going to tell you is that we had Bob in an artificial coma until this morning.
00:10:53.000So the difference between an artificial coma and him just like drinking a cup of coffee, that's like a thousand percent difference.
00:10:57.000That is such an unbelievable energy, but you just don't tell people that.
00:11:03.000It depends what you use as the baseline.
00:11:05.000Yes, it's true that if you use as the baseline the economic statistics from the middle of a pandemic, then we have very high growth rates.
00:11:13.000It would recede slightly in the following years before growing again to nearly $1.6 trillion by 2031.
00:11:18.000Total debt held by the public would more than exceed the annual value of economic output, rising to 117% of the size of the economy in 2031.
00:11:29.000By 2024, debt as a share of the economy would rise to its highest level in American history, eclipsing its World War II-era record.
00:11:47.000What if we just spend a load of money for no reason at all?
00:11:51.000What if we blow out the debt to the tune of the worst debt as a share of the economy ever?
00:11:57.000Like including World War II when we were fighting world wars and had mobilized the entire male civilian population between the ages of 18 and 40 and put them in barracks.
00:12:09.000And the media is like, well, you know, he is trying to shore up that middle class.
00:12:12.000Oh, you mean the middle class that ended this year with more savings than it had last year, thanks to government largesse?
00:12:19.000According to the New York Times, the levels of taxation and spending in Mr. Biden's plans would expand the federal fiscal footprint to levels rarely seen in the post-war era.
00:13:07.000It also envisions funding for affordable childcare, universal pre-K, a national paid leave program, and a host of other initiatives.
00:13:13.000Spending on national defense would also grow, though it would decline as a share of the economy.
00:13:17.000We'll get to national defense in just a second because the Biden administration is continuing its quest to woke-ify the military.
00:13:23.000The documents suggest Mr. Biden will not propose major additional policies in the budget, or that his budget will flesh out plans that the administration has thus far declined to detail.
00:13:31.000For example, Biden pledged to overhaul and upgrade the nation's unemployment insurance program as part of the American Families Plan, but such efforts are not included in his budget.
00:13:38.000Right, that's a separate plan that he's still proposing.
00:13:41.000The budget is simply a request to Congress, which must approve federal spending.
00:13:45.000But with Democrats in control of both chambers of Congress, Biden faces some of the best odds of any president in recent history in having much of his agenda approved, particularly if he can reach agreement with lawmakers on parts of his infrastructure agenda.
00:14:00.000If Mr. Biden's plans were enacted, the government would spend what amounts to nearly a quarter of the nation's total economic output every year over the course of the next decade.
00:14:09.000It would collect tax revenues equal to just under one-fifth of the total economy.
00:14:12.000How are they going to make up that difference?
00:14:16.000Or by having the Federal Reserve essentially manufacture money in order to pay for all of this.
00:14:22.000In each year of Biden's budget, the government would spend more as a share of the economy than all but two years since World War II, 2020, and 2021, which is because we blew out the budget in order to shore up the pandemic response.
00:14:33.000By the way, who thinks that his budget is gonna be his total spending?
00:14:37.000Which president has the budget been the only budgetary move that's been made over the course of the year?
00:14:44.000By 2028, the government would be collecting more tax revenue as a share of the economy than almost any point in modern statistical history.
00:14:51.000The documents also show the conservative approach Biden's economic team is taking with regard to projecting the economy's growth.
00:14:57.000Biden's aides predict that even if his full agenda were enacted, the economy would grow at just under 2% for most of the decade after accounting for inflation, which is sluggish.
00:15:06.000I mean, at least they're being realistic about that.
00:15:30.000The Biden forecast continued to show his administration has little fear of rapid inflation breaking out across the economy, despite recent data showing a quick jump in prices.
00:15:37.000Under the Biden team's projections, consumer prices never rise faster than 2.3% per year.
00:15:41.000Well, weird, because year on year, according to the last available metric, The inflation was like 4.2%, like twice, almost twice that.
00:15:51.000Biden says that now is a great time because the interest rates are low for us to basically just blow money into the economy, which is actually a terrible time to blow money into the economy because that creates bubbles.
00:16:31.000Okay, so his plan is to blow out the spending in the middle of a natural economic recovery and in the middle of an inflationary spiral in order to do what?
00:16:54.000And also, it's incredible that supposedly, if you confiscate 25% of the American GDP every year from taxpayers, which by the way is a minimum, it'll be more.
00:17:02.000If he does that, then that's going to have no impact on GDP growth, which will continue to grow steadily at 2%, and inflation, which will continue to just be 2% a year.
00:17:10.000I'm sorry, this is fantasyland bullcrap.
00:17:13.000We all get what we deserve if we decide to go forward with this, seriously.
00:17:15.000Okay, in just a second, we'll get to Joe Biden's plans for the military, because our military unpreparedness is growing, because we continue to woke-ify the military.
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00:18:45.000Alrighty, meanwhile, the Biden administration continues to woke-ify the nation's military-industrial complex.
00:18:52.000So the truth is that the government has been engaging in woke In woke priorities with regard to national defense for quite a while now.
00:19:03.000The GAO, the US Government's Accountability Office, put out a report in 2017 in which they openly talk about the fact that the Department of Defense actually obligates billions of dollars every single year to buy products and services from types of businesses Okay, and a business, this is according to the GAO, a business generally must self-identify as a minority-owned business or a women-owned business as applicable in the federal government's contractor registry.
00:19:31.000So, there's like a specific part of the budget that is basically dedicated that it has to be given to a female or minority-owned business.
00:19:40.000Now, I don't know about you, but when I think about the military making missiles, for example, or making military hardware for jets, I don't care.
00:19:48.000Who owns the businesses that sell that product to the Department of Defense?
00:19:52.000I just want that stuff to work, and I want to pay the lowest price for it, because it's coming at taxpayer expense.
00:19:57.000government for a very long time has been engaged in this sort of affirmative action program for female-owned businesses and black-owned businesses designed to direct money toward specific... I mean, in violation of civil rights law.
00:20:11.000They've picked, specifically, Minority owned businesses in order to direct dollars toward those businesses, even if it's a greater cost to taxpayers, even if it means that there's a delay in the procurement process because you have to actually demonstrate apparently that you couldn't have gotten it from a black owned or a minority or a minority or female owned business in order to actually procure certain military parts is what I'm hearing from people inside the Defense Department.
00:20:32.000So that's been going on for quite a while.
00:20:34.000And Joe Biden was set to ramp that into high gear.
00:20:37.000According to governmentexecutive.com, this is back in 2020, the oncoming Biden administration is likely to increase contracting opportunities for small and minority-owned businesses.
00:20:46.000President Biden-elect said that he wants to use equity as a guide.
00:20:50.000Andy Howard, partner in the law from Alston and Byrd's government contracts group, says, I think we're going to see more regulation generally promoting competition and furthering the socioeconomic policies of the new administration, which is different in many respects from the current administration.
00:21:03.000Apparently, there was speculation early on that the Biden team is now effectuating that would expand the Small Business Administration's Small Business Development Program to increase participations of small disadvantaged firms, require prime contractors to increase subcontracting opportunities for small disadvantaged businesses, and protect small business from contact bundling, because that would prevent Smaller firms, especially those owned by black and brown people, from effectively bidding on procurement contracts.
00:21:30.000Now, contract bundling is generally a good thing because that means that you have, like, a defense, say, Lockheed Martin.
00:21:36.000And now Lockheed Martin wants that subcontractor to go out and get a bunch of parts.
00:21:40.000Well, now you're going to have regulations inside the Biden administration to prevent them from doing that.
00:21:44.000Instead, they have to buy every part separately and show that every single part could not have been obtained from a black-owned or female-owned business before they can just go over to Walmart and pick up the part.
00:21:53.000How that helps America's military readiness is absolutely beyond me.
00:21:56.000It has nothing to do with America's military readiness, especially in a time of rising conflict with states like China.
00:22:04.000But beyond that, we have now decided that it's very important that America's defense contractors get engaged with the new woke military priorities of the Biden administration.
00:22:13.000There's a reason the Biden administration is putting out these bizarre ads in which they're recruiting for the CIA by being like, here is a cisgender, but very tolerant, Hispanic woman with generalized anxiety disorder.
00:22:33.000Well, again, this is about woke-ifying the American military and turning it from what is a quote-unquote de facto right-wing institution into something that is much more woke.
00:22:41.000Well, now this is being crammed down on America's contracting companies.
00:22:45.000Things like Lockheed Martin, for example.
00:22:47.000So, Christopher Rufo does excellent work on this sort of stuff.
00:22:53.000It says, last year, Lockheed Martin Corporation, the nation's largest defense contractor, sent white male executives to a three-day diversity training program aimed at deconstructing their white male culture and encouraging them to atone for their white male privilege.
00:23:05.000The program, hosted on Zoom for a cohort of 13 Lockheed employees, was led by the diversity consulting firm White Men as Full Diversity Partners, which specializes in helping white males awaken together.
00:23:16.000Which, frankly, sounds a little creepy.
00:23:17.000Like, I wouldn't want to awaken with a bunch of other white males.
00:23:23.000The Lockheed employees, all senior leaders in the company, included Aaron Huckabee, director of global supply chain operations, retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel David Starr, director of the Hercules C-130 military transport program, retired Air Force Lieutenant General Bruce Litchfield, vice president of sustainment operations, and Glenn Woods, vice president of production for the Air Force's $1.7 trillion F-35 fighter jet program.
00:23:45.000At the beginning of the program, the diversity trainers led a free association exercise asking the Lockheed employees to list connotations for the terms white men.
00:23:52.000The trainers wrote down old, racist, privileged, anti-women, angry, Aryan nation, KKK, founding fathers, guns, guilty, and can't jump.
00:24:02.000According to the participants, these perceptions have led to assumptions about white men and diversity, with many employees believing.
00:24:08.000That white men don't care about diversity, have a classical perspective on history and colonialism, and don't want to give away our power.
00:24:15.000The White Men as Full Diversity Partners team, Jim Morris, Mark Havens, Michael Welp, framed the purpose of the training session as providing a benefit for white men who embrace the diversity and inclusion philosophy.
00:24:25.000In response to a prompt about what's in it for white men, the participants listed benefits such as, I won't get replaced by someone who is a better full diversity partner.
00:24:35.000I will improve the brand image, reputation of white men, and I will have a less nagging sense of guilt that I am the problem.
00:24:42.000The firm's founders, Welp and Bill Proudman, have argued that white males must work harder to understand their white privilege, male privilege, and heterosexual privilege, which affords them unearned benefits.
00:24:49.000This is what we are now teaching people at Lockheed Martin.
00:24:52.000Now, why exactly is Lockheed Martin doing this?
00:24:56.000The reason they're doing this is because they want to be able to say to the Biden Defense Department, we have complied with all of your woke diktats.
00:25:03.000Keep directing those trillion-dollar checks over here, please.
00:25:07.000This is not the first time that White Men as Full Diversity Partners has been involved in a controversial training program.
00:25:12.000Last year, the company's white male training program for employees at Sandia National Laboratories was performed.
00:25:20.000Consultants such as White Men as Full Diversity Partners are peddling this sort of stuff to bloated government contractors, and the government contractors are going right along with it because, of course, they want the contract.
00:25:34.000Republicans right now are warning of this.
00:25:38.00030 House Republicans have now sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, warning him that creeping left-wing extremism and politicization is jeopardizing the U.S.' 's military status, according to Breitbart News and Christina Wong Reporting.
00:25:49.000The letter, led by Representative Matt Rosendale, a Republican in Montana, said, We write to express our concern about the growing trend of left-wing extremism and politicization of our armed forces. The military's long history of standing above politics has made it one of the most respected institutions in America. That legacy is now in jeopardy. They listed some examples of politicization. First was the Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan for our Special Forces.
00:26:13.000The United States Army also released a recruitment video describing marching and left-wing social protests as defending freedom and depicting two moms raising a child and featured a lesbian wedding.
00:26:24.000Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Lohmeyer, commander of the 11th Space Warning Squadron at Buckley Air Force, warned of radical ideology being pushed on the military and stated, quote, the diversity, inclusion, and equity industry and the trainings we are receiving in the military is rooted in critical race theory.
00:26:38.000He was relieved of his command for this.
00:26:41.000All of this is deeply, deeply troubling stuff.
00:26:43.000And again, remember, Joe Biden thinks the way that you compete with China is spending $6 trillion in a budget and also wokefying the American military-industrial complex.
00:27:45.000My race does not dictate my abilities.
00:27:47.000My race does not dictate my priorities.
00:27:50.000Christopher, what do you like about being white?
00:27:52.000Chris Rufo, because if Chris Rufo says that I'm not proud of being white, then Michael Monhill goes, well, why not? Why not? What are you guilty for? And if he says, well, here's the thing I'm proud of being white about. And he said, oh, look at you, you racist.
00:28:05.000Right. This is the trap. This is the catch 22. Chris Rufo refuses to fall for it. And Michael Monhill is proud of himself for asking this dumb question.
00:28:12.000Christopher, what do you like about being white? What would you say?
00:28:28.000I understand you see it as all these things, but you surely recognize that the world sees you as white.
00:28:32.000You know the world reads you as white.
00:28:34.000And if you were to ask me some things I like about being black, I could talk about cultural norms, I could talk about tradition, I could talk about the kind of commonalities I feel around the diaspora.
00:28:41.000If I were to ask you, particularly if you're saying whiteness is a thing that is being constructed as negative and shouldn't be, Name something positive that you like about being white.
00:28:52.000Okay, and Chris Rufo rejects the premise, but Michael Mann Hill can't understand why he should reject the premise.
00:28:57.000Okay, first of all, it is absolutely reductionist to say what I like about being black is all of these various characteristics that really don't have to do with race and really have more to do with culture and history.
00:29:11.000You can be black and agree with none of the things that Markle and Hildreth said there.
00:29:14.000But again, this racial reductionism is now being taught in America's military settings.
00:29:20.000Now, speaking of America's unreadiness to face down China, the continuing failures of the Biden administration to face down China are becoming clearer and clearer to the point where Biden is having to back down on some of them.
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00:32:05.000Okay, so meanwhile, remember that time that Joe Biden and his team were saying that this lab leak theory, like they're trusting the WHO to pursue it?
00:32:21.000Well, then news broke from CNN that the Biden administration had shut down a State Department effort launched late in the Trump administration to prove that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese lab over concerns about the quality of its work That's the way CNN reports it.
00:32:33.000That's the quality of the work that's a problem, not the lab leak theory itself.
00:32:36.000Now, the reality is that the Biden administration shut down that investigation because it was a point of faith for the left that the lab leak theory was not true.
00:32:45.000And it was a point of faith for two reasons.
00:32:48.000Racist to suggest that perhaps the lab leak Was the responsibility of the Chinese government that this had been developed in a Chinese lab and then released that?
00:33:01.000That would have been racist to point out.
00:33:04.000And two, Trump talked about it, right?
00:33:05.000Those are the two reasons why this had to be shut down.
00:33:08.000Now, it's very weird that people considered it more racist, like people on the left today, consider it more racist to talk about the lab leak theory than to talk about Chinese people randomly eating bats.
00:33:23.000But, you know, they've got their ways.
00:33:26.000But if you think I'm joking about this whole racist thing, let me point you to a New York Times COVID reporter who tweeted yesterday, quote, someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit it's racist roots.
00:33:49.000An apple is an apple, a banana is a banana, and a lab leak theory is racist if the New York Times says it's so.
00:33:53.000Okay, so anyway, the Biden administration shut down Mike Pompeo's investigation into the origins of the virus.
00:34:01.000Those involved in the previously undisclosed inquiry, which was launched last fall by allies of Pompeo, say it was an honest effort to probe what many initially dismissed, that China's biological weapons program could have had a greater role in the pandemic's origin in Wuhan, according to two additional sources.
00:34:16.000But then it was mired in internal politicization about whether this was cherry-picked by Trump, because everything Trump did was bad, according to the left, and therefore even investigations into baseline facts, that was bad too.
00:34:28.000And by the way, the original investigation was fully justified.
00:34:31.000Because everybody at the WHO, which is a deeply corrupt organization, a profoundly corrupt organization, they just took China's word for it from the beginning.
00:34:39.000In late January, the WHO released a statement saying there was no human-to-human transition of COVID.
00:34:47.000And there were like hundreds of people, thousands of people running around in Wuhan transmitting it to each other at the time.
00:34:54.000If the information we have is correct, this thing was probably out of a virus in November.
00:34:59.000I mean, the WHO lead investigator admits they took China's word for everything.
00:35:04.000So of course Pompeo needed invest— of course the United States needed its own investigation.
00:35:08.000And yet yesterday you had Jen Psaki and company say, well, you know, there is an international investigation led by the exact same people who just played second place in the human centipede to the Chinese government.
00:35:49.000Because you also found it believable, correct, and convincing there was no human-to-human transmission of COVID-19, and thus it was not any sort of global threat in late January.
00:35:57.000So yes, I don't believe you guys, and I think that you are just bags of tools.
00:36:04.000Okay, so, Joe Biden got hit with this headline yesterday, which is that his administration had shut down an American intelligence investigation into the origins of COVID-19.
00:36:13.000And Joe Biden started to back up as quickly as he could without tripping over his feet and falling over and breaking a hip.
00:36:22.000I've now asked the intelligence community to read a bubble, their efforts to collect and analyze information that could bring us, come on man, closer to a definitive conclusion, and to report back to me in nine mammogram days.
00:36:40.000As part of that report, I've asked for areas of further inquiry that may be required, including specific questions for China.
00:36:45.000I've also asked that this effort include work by our national labs and other agencies of our government to augment the intelligence community's efforts.
00:36:51.000And I've asked the intelligence community to keep Congress fully apprised of its work.
00:36:55.000So you mean the same day CNN revealed that you shut down an investigation, you asked the intelligence community to perform an investigation?
00:37:03.000Meanwhile, literally the same day, the White House spokesperson, Corinne Jean-Pierre, she was asked about, you know, finding out the truth.
00:37:10.000And she says, well, we'll just have to ask China to cooperate.
00:37:12.000I mean, that's worked in the past, hasn't it?
00:37:14.000China's super cooperative when they're stealing our technology and invading Hong Kong and threatening Taiwan and unleashing a virus on the world that kills two million people.
00:37:21.000But other than that, they're super cooperative.
00:37:24.000Why do we think that China would cooperate?
00:37:26.000You know, this is this is something that you have to ask the Chinese government, right?
00:37:30.000This is something that should be important.
00:37:36.000Specifically asked or made this ask of President Xi of China for their cooperation in this effort.
00:37:41.000I'm not I'm not going to go into details of private conversation that the president may have may have had with with President Xi.
00:37:48.000She can't even commit that Biden's going to ask the Chinese to cooperate.
00:37:52.000By the way, that's not a question for the Chinese.
00:37:53.000We know they're not going to cooperate.
00:37:55.000The question is, what sort of leverage are you going to bring to bear to get China to cooperate?
00:37:59.000That's not a question for the Chinese.
00:38:01.000Why would an American media member go ask the Chinese government if they're going to cooperate in an internal investigation as to whether they unleashed a virus that killed two million people?
00:38:13.000And meanwhile, this White House spokesperson, then she was asked, you know, if it turns out that China actually, this did emerge from a Chinese lab, and not only that, that they lied about it all the way from November to the end of January, a three month period in which the world could have been developing a COVID vaccine and shutting down travel.
00:38:29.000If that happens, what sort of penalties will there be?
00:38:34.000Joe Biden really wants to compete with China by blowing out our spending and sinking our economy, by woke-ifying the military, and by never holding China's feet to the fire on a single damned thing.
00:38:44.000In terms of, you know, cooperating with the W.H.O.
00:38:47.000investigations, does that mean the White House is encouraging China or penalties for China if it does not cooperate with investigations going forward?
00:38:55.000I'm not going to prejudge or, you know, make any pre-announcements at this time.
00:38:59.000We're going to go with the 90-day investigation and see where it takes us from there.
00:39:03.000OK, but again, the 90-day investigation is going to be reliant on people talking to the Chinese.
00:39:10.000So they're not even going to be penalties for them not cooperating with the investigation.
00:39:14.000Yeah, there's a hard coordinate they want to find.
00:39:16.000They want to get to the bottom of this thing.
00:39:17.000They're deeply invested in getting to the bottom of this thing.
00:39:20.000The truth is, the Democrats want to put COVID behind us in terms of its origins, so they don't have to face up to a couple of things.
00:39:25.000One, their complete botchery of the actual lockdowns in the United States and their masking policies and all of the idiocies that they have pushed over the course of the last year.
00:39:34.000And also, they don't want to face up to the fact that they might actually have to get confrontational with an authoritarian communist state.
00:39:40.000You gave them money and you said, don't do gain-of-function research.
00:39:43.000happening this week. So Anthony Fauci was asked by Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana about American money going toward Chinese gain-of-function research. And Fauci admits, oh yeah, by the way, the Chinese could have, like that could have been funded by us maybe.
00:39:56.000You gave them money and you said don't do gain-of-function research.
00:40:42.000And that means that you're just going to have to trust them in the same way that we're just going to have to trust the Iranian government with money.
00:40:58.000Listen, we have promises that this is not going to be used for more rockets.
00:41:03.000Oh, wait, they did what with the money?
00:41:05.000You mean that if we give money to a Chinese laboratory, which is a black box, because we have no idea what they're doing there, that that might be used in ways we... Hmm.
00:41:34.000They're just anti-conservative censors, these fact-checkers, like PolitiFact and FactCheck.org, garbage organizations, all the way through.
00:41:41.000Meanwhile, your mainstream media tell you That they're dereliction of duty and never investigating any of this.
00:42:08.000An Intel report determined several researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized for an unknown illness in November 2019, the month before China reported its first COVID case.
00:42:23.000Because Trumpers who were complicit in playing down the pandemic reality in America are now seeing more interest in the China lab theory as some kind of vindication enough to play I told you so with Fauci.
00:42:40.000Well, I mean, what if Fauci was not telling the truth?
00:42:45.000Why is it that the underlying story... This is always the way the media treat this stuff, right?
00:42:50.000It is not that the underlying... When it's a good story for Republicans, or bad for the Democrats, then the story is Republicans pounce on the story.
00:42:56.000When it's a bad story for Republicans, the story is the story.
00:42:58.000When it's a bad story for Democrats, the story is Republicans pounce.
00:43:02.000When anti-Semitism in the streets of New York is emanating from the radical left and their allies in the pro-Palestinian movement, then the story is Republicans pounce on anti-Semitism, according to Michelle Goldberg.
00:43:12.000And meanwhile, Sarah Haynes on ABC's The View, she says that the real problem here is that the lab leak theory is racist.
00:43:50.000I think during that time when that theory started to be told, it was buried in an administration and a former president who often kind of troped in kind of racist terms and dog whistles and so it buried the message that could have been actually reasonable but no one was going to hear it because it came from under Trump's administration and the media at that time was used to what he doled out and they were going to push back on that.
00:44:18.000So they had to push back on Trump, and that was the most important thing.
00:44:21.000Because what our media became, as arms of the Democratic Party, was an anti-Trump machine during the Trump era, not an investigative-reportorial regime.
00:44:31.000Meanwhile, by the way, how corrupt are our media?
00:44:33.000Well, it turns out that China's state media paid $1.6 million for advertising from American media outlets, including Time Magazine, the LA Times, and the Financial Times.
00:44:42.000According to Mediaite, the cash China Daily forked over included $272,000 to the LA Times, $291,000 to Foreign Policy, $371,000 to the British Financial Times, $330,000 to the Canadian Globe and Mail, and $700,000 to Time Magazine.
00:44:49.000$371,000 to the British Financial Times, $330,000 to the Canadian Globe and Mail, and $700,000 to Time Magazine.
00:44:57.000That figures, those figures come after several large publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post ended advertising agreements with the newspaper last year.
00:45:09.000By the way, is it any coincidence that the vast majority of this money, as far as I'm aware, was going toward left-wing media outlets?
00:45:18.000I find that utterly unsurprising in the extreme.
00:45:21.000Meanwhile, speaking of America being weakened from within, so the Department of Homeland Security head, Alejandro Mayorkas, he is now admitting that too many illegal immigrants are being admitted into the country for us even to track them.
00:45:35.000If things are going really well, swell under the Biden administration, what if we spend some more money?
00:45:41.000Here's Alejandro Mayorkas admitting we have too many illegal immigrants in the country for us even to track them.
00:45:46.000I am not aware of the fact that we have the tools, resources, and capabilities to track with the more than 11 million unlawfully present individuals in the United States, which speaks to the fundamental broken system and the need for immigration reform.
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