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00:00:00.000Flights across America are grounded as the FAA falls down on the job, but at least Pete Buttigieg isn't on paternity leave this time.
00:00:05.000House Republicans move forward with a committee to investigate the deep state, and Joe Biden denies knowing anything at all about missing classified documents.
00:00:12.000Alrighty, so this morning, a bunch of flights were grounded.
00:00:22.000They are now flying again, but with severe delays.
00:00:25.000According to the New York Times, the Federal Aviation Administration lifted an order to ground all flights across the United States shortly before 9 a.m.
00:00:31.000Eastern on Wednesday after a system failure left pilots, airlines, and airports without crucial safety information for hours on end.
00:00:37.000The agency said normal air traffic operations are resuming gradually across the United States.
00:00:41.000There are more than 4,000 flights within, into, and out of the United States.
00:00:45.000It had been delayed on Wednesday, according to FlightAware.
00:01:02.000The former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, mostly famous for not being able to fill potholes very well in South Bend, Indiana, and also being gay.
00:01:10.000He's been just a stellar Secretary of Transportation, from near railroad strikes, to failures of supply chains, to the airlines actually not being able to get their planes in the air, thanks to FAA failures.
00:01:25.000And it's really his leadership and the leadership of President Biden that's so inspiring.
00:01:28.000According to Ron Klain, the White House Chief of Staff, he said, The president directed the Department of Transportation, FAA, to restore the system quickly and safely and to determine causes.
00:01:39.000Secretary Pete will provide the president an update later this morning.
00:01:44.000I mean, that is leadership right there.
00:01:45.000You mean Joe Biden called up Pete Buttigieg and he directed them to restore the system quickly and safely and to determine the causes?
00:01:53.000That is some ballsy leadership right there.
00:01:55.000I mean, other leaders, they might have directed Secretary Pete to leave the system down and then to gradually, slowly and dangerously restore the system and never figure out the causes.
00:02:05.000But Joe Biden, that man is on the ball.
00:02:07.000He says that the system had to be restored.
00:02:11.000That is just grand leadership there from the president of the United States.
00:02:14.000Of course, no one's going to really ask, you know, what sort of leadership failures led to this problem in the first place, because that might move too far up the chain.
00:02:22.000I've never seen as many transportation problems as Undersecretary Pete.
00:02:24.000He's just been doing a stellar, stellar job.
00:02:27.000Apparently, the disruption was caused by an outage to a system the FAA uses to send real-time safety alerts to pilots.
00:02:33.000Those NOTAM alerts, they're short for Notice to Air Mission, are crucial to planning flights and are used to share information about hazards in the air or on the ground, such as closed runways, airspace restrictions, and navigational signal disruptions.
00:02:48.000This follows shortly on the holiday snafu with regard to Southwest Airlines, which became overwhelmed and canceled thousands of flights over the course of the last couple of weeks.
00:02:58.000That airline alone canceled about 16,700 flights in the last 10 days of December.
00:03:13.000But he does appear on national television and explain why it is deeply important that he take his husband, Chasen, to various international events.
00:03:19.000Because after all, other secretaries of transportation have also taken their wives to those events.
00:03:23.000And that is standing up to the man, is talking about that sort of stuff.
00:03:26.000So, you know, we've got the best men on it.
00:03:30.000Meanwhile, the House Republicans are moving forward to form a committee to investigate government overreach.
00:03:37.000This particularly would be true of the so-called deep state.
00:03:39.000These are career employees and bureaucrats in some of the most powerful areas of the federal executive branch, the FBI, the CIA, the DOJ.
00:03:48.000And people are fighting mad about it in the press and in the Democratic Party, which is amazing because you'll recall that there have been times in America's past where it's been the Democratic Party that has been very, very upset with the FBI.
00:03:58.000Go back to the 1960s or go back to the 1930s.
00:04:01.000You'll recall that the Democratic Party and the media have been very upset with the idea that the federal government should have the power to reach into people's lives and uncover information.
00:04:11.000And in fact, they've been very much in favor of oversight.
00:04:12.000The media particularly like oversight committees into things like the DOJ and the FBI because it is that way that the media gain all sorts of information.
00:04:18.000However, when the shoe is on the other foot, and when it seems as though a lot of Democrat staffers are now occupying places of power in these particular agencies, now any sort of oversight is bad.
00:04:28.000According to the Washington Post, the House on Tuesday approved a GOP resolution to create a select subcommittee Republicans say will launch a far-reaching investigation of the agencies and people that investigated Donald Trump and the Democrats described as an unprecedented breach of protocol on criminal probes and national security matters.
00:04:43.000Ah yes, now the Democratic Party is very, very upset with the possibility of implying bad things about the FBI, the CIA, our DOJ, when they spent literally decades doing just that.
00:04:56.000You'll recall they spent nearly all of the 2000s claiming that it was our nation's intelligence agencies that lied us into war because they just wanted oil or some such nonsense.
00:05:05.000The subcommittee approved on a party line 221 to 211 vote will be empowered to investigate any federal agency that collects information about Americans, even in cases of an ongoing criminal investigation, a carve out at odds with the Justice Department's longstanding practice of not providing information about ongoing investigations. And the reason for this, of course, is because the FBI has completely botched itself over the course of the last seven years, going all the way back to 2015, 2016, when they were investigating the Donald Trump campaign over supposed Russian collusion based on a
00:05:34.000very thinly veiled report commissioned by the Hillary Clinton campaign and then laundered into the FBI and then used as the predicate for spying on Carter Page, who is a sort of low level Trump campaign associate.
00:05:47.000The FBI has done a horrific job throughout this entire process.
00:05:50.000And unfortunately, the DOJ under Merrick Garland has done a similarly terrible job.
00:05:55.000It is the DOJ under Merrick Garland that, for example, said that it was going to investigate parents who complained about school boards because the National School Boards Association was upset that some parents were upset That school boards were in fact indoctrinating their kids and or covering up in the case of Loudoun County, Virginia, a rape.
00:06:10.000So the fact that the legislative branch of the federal government would like to do oversight over the executive branch of the federal government, this has always been an area of controversy.
00:06:19.000It has always been an area Where the executive branch likes to claim that it has some sort of free hand from the legislative branch and the legislative branch likes to subpoena the executive branch.
00:06:27.000There's always been an area of constitutional battling.
00:06:31.000And in fact, it is very good that we have legislative oversight of the most powerful branches of the executive.
00:06:36.000If we did not, the executive would be completely unfettered in its ability to peer into every area of American life.
00:06:43.000So normally, as I say, the media would be in favor of this because, again, more transparency is something supposedly the media likes, except if a Democrat is running the government, in which case investigating the excesses of the executive branch, that in and of itself is an act of treason.
00:06:56.000It's an act of so-called insurrection to do basic legislative oversight.
00:07:00.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:09:13.000According to the Washington Post, the broad resolution explicitly authorizes the Select Committee to seek access to highly classified information provided by intelligence agencies to the House Intelligence Committee.
00:09:22.000Members of that panel are often briefed on extremely sensitive information with contents that, if widely shared, could damage national security and endanger the lives of American intelligence officers and their assets.
00:09:30.000And again, one of the reasons that the resolution authorizes the Select Committee to seek that access is because we had years of Adam Schiff lying, by who's a member of the House Intelligence Committee, lying that he had seen evidence of Russian collusion by Donald Trump Going into the press and saying that sooner or later the other shoe was going to drop and never dropped, but that did not stop him from leaking like a sieve.
00:09:50.000By the way, the intelligence agencies have leaked like a sieve.
00:09:53.000Every time there is a raid on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago, for example, we get details leaked to the press in very conveniently placed fashion.
00:10:01.000I mean, as it turns out, you have people like Andy McCabe who are working for the FBI and we're coordinating with the press to leak things beneficial to people like Andy McCabe.
00:10:09.000So investigating all of these agencies, this again, would be a basic, proper function of government.
00:10:15.000One congressional investigator who works on oversight issues says its mandate is whatever Jim Jordan wants to do.
00:10:21.000Republicans who have accused Attorney General Merrick Garland of abusing investigative powers to target conservatives have compared the new committee to the Senate Church Committee formed by Democrats in 1975 to investigate civil liberties abuses by intelligence agencies.
00:10:32.000Democrats have countered that the committee has been born out of a grudge match over the FBI's investigation of one person, Donald Trump.
00:10:38.000Now, let's just say that that's actually true for a second.
00:10:41.000Let's say that the reason Republicans are really, really exercised is because of the FBI's investigation of Donald Trump.
00:11:02.000They were doing all of this while implying, if not openly stating, that Donald Trump was in fact a Russian plant.
00:11:10.000Eli Lake has done excellent work reporting about all of this for years on end.
00:11:13.000So-called Russiagate was a complete ginned-up bag of nonsense and the intel community continued to push it.
00:11:19.000In fact, members of the intel community like James Comey specifically went out of their way to present Donald Trump in the very early days of his presidency.
00:11:27.000But the Steele dossier simply said he could then, presumably, leak that to the press and then the press would run with the allegations of the Steele dossier and all of those allegations would be out in public view because the news could then claim that it was newsworthy what was in the Steele dossier even though none of it had been substantiated.
00:11:42.000The DOJ has declined so far to comment on the proposal.
00:11:45.000Representative Thomas Massey of Kentucky told reporters Tuesday he'll be serving on the subcommittee.
00:11:49.000It's unclear who else is going to be tapped by GOP leadership.
00:11:53.000While the resolution establishing the subcommittee is ambitious, alarmingly so to Democrats who view the panel as a political attack machine disguised as an oversight body.
00:12:00.000Ah, well, you know, Democrats, they've never used government as a political attack machine except for every single time they put their hands on government.
00:12:07.000The workings of the subcommittee are still a little bit mysterious.
00:12:12.000The DOJ has at times quarreled with congressional committees over what information should or should not be shared with Congress.
00:12:18.000The new panel will consist of eight Republicans and five Democrats.
00:12:20.000Unlike other committees, members of the subcommittee do not have to serve on the Judiciary Committee to be appointed.
00:12:25.000Democrats are not planning to boycott the committee, according to people familiar with the matter, as McCarthy did, Kevin McCarthy, the new Speaker of the House, when he pulled his picks to serve on the House January 6th panel.
00:12:33.000Well, that is presumably because Democrats wish to actually hamper the ongoing investigation.
00:12:38.000Republicans refuse to participate in the January 6th committee, except for Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, specifically because they felt that the Democrats are going to rig the game.
00:12:46.000Here, Democrats understand Republicans are probably not going to rig the game in nearly the same way, and so they may as well serve on the committee and attempt to stand in favor of these agencies.
00:12:54.000The great irony is who Democrats are trotting out to try and protect these agencies.
00:12:58.000So Adam Schiff, who should be summarily impeached given his role in lying to the American public repeatedly, overtly, and often about the Russiagate investigation.
00:13:06.000He was out there ripping on any investigation to investigate the investigators.
00:13:10.000I'm sure that he is quite afraid that maybe his name is going to come up once or twice.
00:13:14.000And if you had any doubt about what this committee is really about, about its true focus, my colleague from Montana just confirmed this is all about deep state nonsense.
00:13:27.000Republicans claim without merit that this subcommittee will investigate the so-called weaponization of the federal government, but what it's really intended to do ...is to undermine the legitimate investigation of President Trump's incitement of a violent attack on this building, on this Capitol, on this citadel of democracy.
00:13:48.000Okay, this is a complete misdirection from Adam Schiff that has nothing to do with January 6th.
00:13:52.000This has to do with the fact that the intelligence agencies did, in fact, exceed their boundaries.
00:13:57.000Intelligence agencies did, in fact, move beyond their regulatory authority and their investigative authority to lie to courts.
00:14:05.000And the fact that Adam Schiff is now standing for these people is because he was complicit in all of that.
00:14:11.000Adam Schiff is one of the worst members of Congress in modern American history, and he is out there standing in favor of these investigative agencies having no oversight.
00:14:21.000That is because they wish for these investigative agencies who are largely staffed with career Democrats at this point, at least in the highest level positions, not the low level FBI agents who are doing a really good job, not the people who are staffing up the CIA who are doing their best, the people who are at the upper middle level management, and the people who have been put in political positions by the Biden administration.
00:14:37.000They are doing the job that Democrats wish them to do.
00:14:40.000Merrick Garland is overtly doing that over the DOJ, so no wonder Democrats are in favor of protecting these particular institutions.
00:14:47.000Meanwhile, Democratic Representative Jim McGovern of the Massachusetts 2nd District, he is suggesting that Republicans are now anti-police for wanting to do oversight, which is an amazing, amazing thing.
00:14:57.000Remember, the Republicans overall are not suggesting a complete defunding of these agencies.
00:15:02.000There are some Republicans who have suggested defunding the FBI.
00:15:04.000That does not have any really core level support inside the Republican caucus.
00:15:09.000The notion that Republicans are anti-law enforcement as opposed to anti-the abuse of authority by law enforcement is absurd, and Jim McGovern has no leg to stand on right here.
00:15:18.000And Jim McGovern, it is a ridiculous thing for Jim McGovern to suggest that he is somehow in favor of law enforcement.
00:15:25.000He's one of the most liberal members of Congress.
00:15:55.000It's about destroying people's careers and lives.
00:15:57.000It's about undermining the Department of Justice, defunding the police, and settling scores on behalf of the twice impeached and disgraced former occupant of the Oval Office.
00:16:10.000The insane gaslighting here is about defunding the police and being anti-law enforcement.
00:16:14.000Here is a tweet from Representative Jim McGovern.
00:16:18.000Ayanna Pressley, one of the most radical members of Congress, tweeted this, quote, For too long, black and brown bodies have been profiled, surveilled, policed, lynched, choked, brutalized, and murdered at the hands of police officers.
00:16:30.000We cannot allow these fatal injustices to go unchecked any longer.
00:16:33.000Today, I'm introducing a resolution to condemn police brutality.
00:16:36.000Representative Jim McGovern, who you just heard there saying, law enforcement must be protected at all costs.
00:16:40.000We can never question law enforcement.
00:16:41.000Law enforcement, they're the greatest people.
00:16:53.000Then we must turn our outrage into action and demand an end to the systems of oppression and racism that lead to black and brown lives being threatened and lost.
00:17:00.000Same exact guy saying, oh, we can't talk about defunding.
00:17:35.000Mr. Cole, I remember after 9-11 when we all worked together to ensure the protection of the American people through the Patriot Act and dealing with the FISA courts.
00:18:03.000By the way, Sheila Jackson Leahy is also a fan of the generalized movement of money away from cops and instead toward social programming or whatever.
00:18:15.000And you have to wonder, why are so many people who generally hate law enforcement suddenly so in favor of the powers of law enforcement?
00:18:22.000Why, almost as though they believe, not on a principled level in law enforcement, but in the use of law enforcement apparatuses in order to target their political opponents.
00:18:30.000And they don't want any oversight of that sort of stuff.
00:18:34.000Well, maybe again, one of the reasons they're so mad is because if law enforcement actually does its job, And if law enforcement does not exceed its boundaries, maybe the law will be equally applied, and that would be a real problem for them.
00:18:45.000Instead, they prefer the sort of media-driven law enforcement, the way that that's done.
00:18:49.000Because that means that if Joe Biden hides classified documents at his presidential, vice presidential library or whatever, the Biden-Penn Center for International Diplomacy, if those documents are found over there, that's totally fine.
00:19:02.000And we should all just kind of ignore it.
00:19:05.000Joe Biden yesterday was asked about this breaking story about how there were documents that were found by his attorneys, classified documents, were packing up his Washington office he used after serving as vice president and turn the materials over to the National Archives in November.
00:19:19.000Here is Joe Biden reading a prepared statement about how surprised he was those documents were found.
00:19:26.000They found some documents in a box in a locked cabinet, or at least a closet.
00:19:31.000And as soon as they did, they realized there were several classified documents in that box.
00:19:38.000I was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any government records that were taken there to that office.
00:19:47.000But I don't know what's in the documents.
00:19:49.000My lawyers have not suggested I ask what documents they were.
00:19:56.000He is literally reading from a piece of paper right now.
00:19:58.000And normally, when you're protesting your innocence, you don't read from a piece of paper.
00:20:02.000But apparently, listen, he wants to be very careful about what he says legally here because, of course, the wall was broken.
00:20:06.000And so he's reading from a prepared piece of paper.
00:20:08.000We're supposed to pretend that everything is fine and on the up and up now.
00:20:34.000It turns out that they were classified.
00:20:35.000The difference, of course, is the vice president can't summarily declassify.
00:20:37.000The president of the United States can.
00:20:40.000However, there is one slight problem with the Joe Biden story here, and that is the timing.
00:20:46.000If you go back to the actual calendar with regard to when this story broke.
00:20:51.000As it turns out, the documents were discovered according to Bloomberg on November 2nd, 2022, six days before the midterm election.
00:20:58.000Their existence was only made public on Monday.
00:21:01.000The revelation of the documents came as the Justice Department has appointed a special counsel to investigate former President Donald Trump's handling of classified materials at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
00:21:09.000Federal investigators recovered dozens of classified files during an FBI search of the former president's residence.
00:21:15.000So it turns out that there were 10, 12 documents under Joe Biden's auspices.
00:21:21.000Biden's lawyer says the documents were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the archives.
00:21:25.000Since that discovery, the president's personal attorneys have cooperated with the archives and the DOJ in a process to ensure that any Obama-Biden administration records are appropriately in the possession of the archives.
00:21:35.000There is one problem, however, again, the timing.
00:21:39.000Why is it that this was all reported to law enforcement, to the National Archives, November 2nd, six days before the election?
00:21:46.000And again, I may not be an expert on chronology, but it is now January 11th, 2023.
00:21:52.000We are months after this happened, and this is when we find out.
00:21:56.000Now, I have a feeling that if this sort of raid had happened on Donald Trump, Or if Donald Trump had turned over documents, that this would have been in the news legitimately five minutes later.
00:22:05.000It would have been leaked by members of the so-called deep state to the press immediately because all malfeasance by members of the Trump administration was immediately leaked to the press by people who are in the Intel community.
00:22:14.000Somehow the DOJ stayed super silent on this.
00:22:28.000Almost as though the politicization of law enforcement is a bad thing and has a real impact on how people view the institutional trust they have with regard to law enforcement.
00:22:37.000Because we all know that this is the case.
00:22:40.000If, in fact, we had been talking about a high-ranking prominent Republican who had to call up the National Archives and turn in documents six days before the election.
00:22:51.000Well, we all know that would have been in the press five seconds later.
00:22:53.000But if it's the president of the United States, far be it for us to say anything about this.
00:22:58.000It's the same exact thing with the Hunter Biden story.
00:23:00.000It turns out that Hunter Biden was under investigation by the FBI for literally a year before the 2020 election.
00:23:05.000And that was revealed safely after the election.
00:23:09.000Now, again, I'm all for law enforcement not leaking material, but selectively leaking material, which is what law enforcement routinely does now at the federal level.
00:23:17.000That sort of stuff ought to be investigated.
00:23:21.000This has become a habit throughout government.
00:23:23.000I mean, by the way, isn't it kind of amazing that we still don't know who at the Supreme Court leaked out the early draft of Roe v. Wade being overturned?
00:23:42.000And even if you turn out to be a person who is thrown out of your job at the FBI for leaking, like Andy McCabe, who I've mentioned before, you just end up as a contributor on CNN.
00:23:52.000At least props to Mark Warner in Virginia, who must be feeling the heat in Virginia, a state that is turning purple again after being blue for quite a while.
00:23:58.000Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, is calling for his committee to receive a briefing on the classified documents discovered in an office used by Joe Biden.
00:24:06.000He said in a statement, Our system of classification exists in order to protect our most important national security secrets.
00:24:10.000We expect to be briefed on what happened to both Mar-a-Lago and at the Biden office as part of our constitutional oversight obligations.
00:24:17.000So we will find out what exactly happened, I hope, under Republican auspices.
00:24:22.000Suffice it to say, the reason the Democrats are very upset with the Republicans taking over Congress is not because Republicans are going to move an awful lot of serious legislation.
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00:25:54.000And meanwhile, democratic governance across the nation continues to be an absolute bleep show.
00:26:01.000There are two governors who addressed their respective states over the course of the last 48 hours.
00:26:07.000Both of them laid out plans that basically demonstrate they understand their states are failing, and now they have to take, wait for it, conservative responses to their own states failing.
00:26:15.000In New York, Governor Kathy Hochul is promising a safer and more affordable New York, according to Politico, that will reassure both residents and outsiders to build their lives in the state suffering sharp population losses.
00:26:25.000During her second State of the State speech, but her first full-fledged event due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the newly elected governor on Tuesday introduced a plan to restore access to what she called the New York Dream, one in which people feel safe in their communities and supported by their government.
00:26:38.000And here's what she says, quote, The question we must all ask ourselves is, are New Yorkers living their best possible lives?
00:26:44.000If the answer is no, we have more work to do.
00:26:46.000The reality is that dream is out of reach for too many New Yorkers.
00:26:49.000And she alluded to the fact that there are too many people who are leaving New York.
00:26:52.000Quote, we're already seeing signs of out migration.
00:27:16.000Maybe because you're really bad at governance.
00:27:18.000Maybe it's because of that, which is the reason, presumably, why Kathy Hochul won a relatively slim victory over a Republican opponent in a state that is entirely blue.
00:27:27.000So, what exactly is she planning to do?
00:27:29.000Well, she's planning to, presumably, end all cash bail.
00:27:33.000She's talking about reinvestigating that one.
00:27:35.000So people on the left are very upset with her.
00:27:37.000But of course, that is something that had to happen and something Lee Zeldin focused in on.
00:27:39.000And so now she's going to triangulate on that particular issue.
00:27:42.000Also, she is now going to spend an enormous amount of money on building 800,000 new homes in the next decade with specific growth targets for each municipality.
00:27:51.000She also announced a minimum wage increase above the current $15 that is tied to inflation.
00:28:12.000If you think that this is enough triangulation to save your state, not going to happen.
00:28:17.000But again, it is fascinating to see the certain sort of moves that Hochul is making in a more conservative direction.
00:28:24.000She now wants a $1 billion proposal to create thousands of new units of mental health housing and open a thousand hospital beds for psychiatric patients, which, last I checked, is something that conservatives have been pushing for because they are properly pointing out that the homelessness crisis and the crime crisis in New York City is largely driven by mental illness and drug use, which of course is exactly true.
00:28:42.000Meanwhile, the same thing is happening over in California.
00:28:43.000You'll recall that Gavin Newsom, who desperately wants to run for president if Joe Biden should fall down the stairs conveniently for Gavin Newsom, the Androgynous Kendall of California politics, he gave his own budget proposal.
00:28:55.000That budget proposal is now projecting climate change spending cuts and cutting spending on transportation programs because they have a $22.5 billion budget shortfall.
00:29:05.000As it turns out, you can't just spend endless amounts of money forever, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:29:11.000The $297 billion spending plan released on Tuesday represents an $11 billion decrease from the current year's budget.
00:29:16.000It comes just months after the Democrats signed a record-busting $308 billion budget, buoyed by a $100 billion surplus.
00:29:23.000So just a few months after they claimed a $100 billion surplus, they are now claiming a $23 billion deficit.
00:29:29.000And so now, they're going to radically decrease the spending.
00:29:33.000Newsom said the whiplash demonstrates the effect of California's progressive tax system on state revenues, which rely heavily on personal income taxes, particularly from the ultra-wealthy.
00:29:41.000So in other words, your garbage progressive tax income system, which taxes the wealthy, and then the wealthy leave, and it undermines your state revenue.
00:29:50.000Yeah, maybe you should spend less money and tax less.
00:29:52.000And then maybe people like me and my family would not have moved from California, my business wouldn't have taken its hundred employees and moved to Nashville.
00:29:59.000California's projected deficit comes as many other states are currently enjoying large surpluses, in large part due to a deluge of federal funds over the past three years to fight COVID.
00:30:07.000On Monday, Texas announced a record $188.2 billion in general fund revenue and projected a $32.7 billion surplus over the two-year period ending August 2023.
00:30:17.000In West Virginia, Governor Jim Justice is proposing tax cuts because they have a $1.3 billion surplus in that state.
00:30:22.000In fact, an October analysis of the 15 largest states showed California was the only state experiencing year-over-year tax revenue declines.
00:30:31.000That is largely because people are moving out of state.
00:30:35.000It is because people are not investing in California the way they once were.
00:30:39.000All of this has led to a $29.5 billion decline in expected state revenues over three years.
00:30:44.000According to Newsom's budget proposal, that assumes continued but slowing economic growth.
00:30:49.000An economic downturn would worsen those conditions even more.
00:30:51.000A mild recession would leave California coffers $20 to $40 billion poorer.
00:30:56.000A more severe downturn could lead to $60 billion in revenue loss.
00:31:01.000So good luck to Governor Gavin Newsom.
00:31:03.000Sadly, he's going to have to now cut on the spending on climate change.
00:31:06.000And all of this is because he decided that he had endless amounts of money to spend.
00:31:10.000And as it turns out, reality does not agree.
00:31:13.000Meanwhile, failures of governance continue all across Democratic areas.
00:31:18.000County has now declared a state of emergency over homelessness.
00:31:23.000They say that the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles County is such a disaster area that they need extra governmental powers in order to fight it.
00:31:32.000According to CBS News, officials in L.A.
00:31:33.000County Tuesday approved a motion to declare a state of emergency over the region's homeless crisis.
00:31:38.000The declaration will expedite supportive and material services for people who are unhoused.
00:31:42.000This, of course, follows after years of allowing the homeless crisis in L.A.
00:31:47.000You're talking about tens of thousands of homeless people.
00:31:51.000Almost 100,000 homeless people last time I tracked in LA County.
00:31:54.000And they allowed them to not just be congregated on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles, but now to move into the suburbs where they are leaving open needles, where they are threatening public safety, where they're breaking into cars and homes.
00:32:06.000And all of this is leading people to leave these areas.
00:32:10.000Much of this is driven, of course, by left-wing policy that suggests that the police should not be able to remove people from the streets for trespass or for loitering, that they should just leave their garbage on the streets, because thanks to an ACLU settlement with the police department, this is now considered personal property.
00:32:23.000If you just leave your garbage on a street corner, this is considered your personal property, so the cops can't move it.
00:32:28.000County has decided to pretend that homelessness is a civil rights issue, as opposed to an issue of crime, drug use, and mental illness, which is what it largely is.
00:33:40.000So, for example, back in December, El Paso declared a state of emergency thanks to migrant problems that led to a massive homelessness crisis on the streets.
00:33:47.000Here is the mayor of El Paso saying just that at the time.
00:33:51.000As we see the increase in asylum seekers into our community, and we see the temperatures dropping, and we know that Title 42 looks like it's going to be called back on Wednesday, we felt that it was the proper time today to call a state of emergency.
00:34:13.000Or you could try San Francisco, which declared in 2022 a state of emergency in the Tenderloin district because people were dying of drug overdoses on the streets.
00:34:22.000It's only maybe 1% who come and mess it up for a few seconds and they leave.
00:34:26.000It's a neighborhood where many felt the problems were spinning out of control.
00:34:31.000So the mayor said it was time to launch an intervention.
00:34:35.000Of all the bull**** that has destroyed our city.
00:34:38.000How an array of city departments and service providers are taking on the Tenderloin's problems.
00:34:44.000They gravitate here, they just shuffle it somewhere else.
00:34:47.000It's been a couple of months since Mayor London Breed declared a state of emergency in the neighborhood.
00:34:53.000So what's changed since then and what still needs to be done?
00:34:58.000Or maybe you'd like to try Chicago on for size.
00:35:00.000Governor JB Pritzker of Illinois, who is widely considered a possible presidential candidate by the left wingers, he said back in 2021 that Chicago was essentially in a state of emergency over crime.
00:35:11.000I am regularly in contact with state's attorneys across the state, and particularly the one in Cook County, and with the leaders of our court system.
00:35:22.000And so I want to make sure that we are coordinating all the resources necessary to bring down crime in the city of Chicago.
00:35:29.000Look, we are nearly at a state of emergency in our need to address crime.
00:36:22.000People go through to have to make it through jungles and A long journey to the border, and many are victimized, not only in terms of what they have to pay, but victimized physically in other ways.
00:36:37.000And so we're trying to make it easier for people to get here, opening up the capacity to get here, but not have them go through that god-awful process.
00:37:37.000And then when the results of the governance materialize, you triangulate like just a little bit, just and you claim massive new government powers in order to fix the problem that you created in the first place.
00:37:47.000Plus, you decide that you can get involved in every single aspect of everybody's lives.
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00:38:28.000OK, so Democrats really bad at running things like cities and the border and, you know, many, many things.
00:38:34.000Because here's the thing, any politician Who refuses to actually recognize reality is bad at running things.
00:38:40.000That's true, Republican or Democrat, whenever people say they can fix all your problems, they're just lying to you.
00:38:43.000But everybody who's in a position of power always thinks they can fix all of the problems, or at least they're going to force you to fix the problems on your dime.
00:38:51.000This is the secret of the new regulatory attempt to ban gas stoves, according to the Washington Post.
00:38:57.000For years, scientists and health advocates have tried to bring attention to a secret source of air pollution sitting in 40 million homes around the United States, which jumpstarts childhood asthma, increases the risk of respiratory problems, and emits planet-warming gases.
00:39:10.000And now, those efforts are gaining traction.
00:39:12.000On Monday, Richard Trumka Jr., one of the four commissioners of the U.S.
00:39:15.000Consumer Product Safety Commission, said in an interview the agency was considering a ban on gas stoves.
00:39:20.000Or at least standards around the amount of toxic fumes such stoves can spew into America's kitchens.
00:39:25.000Some cities, including L.A., Seattle, and New York, have already moved to ban gas stoves in certain new homes and apartments.
00:39:30.000And now Kathy Hochul is proposing banning gas hookups for gas stoves in new buildings in the entire state.
00:39:36.000So, the claim is that gas stoves are burning natural gas, which means that when a gas stove is on, it releases not only fine pieces of particulate matter that can invade the lungs, but also nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and formaldehyde, all of which have been linked to various health risks.
00:39:49.000Scientists have identified nitrogen dioxide, for example, as contributing to childhood onset of asthma and worsening asthma symptoms.
00:39:55.000According to one study, children living in a household with gas stoves have a 42% increased likelihood of already having asthma and a 24% increased risk of developing asthma at some point in their lifetime.
00:40:05.000Last week, scientists from the Clean Energy Think Tank RMI estimated in a peer-reviewed study that 12.7% of childhood asthmas could be attributed to living in a household with a gas stove.
00:40:14.000Some scientists have compared the risks of gas stove use to having a smoker in the home.
00:40:40.000The reality is that the science on gas stoves killing your kids of asthma is really shoddy.
00:40:46.000It turns out that you actually have to compare the use of what you are cooking Typically, if you're talking about what generates smoke, it is the cooking materials you use that generate the smoke based on the hot pan that you are using in order to cook the thing.
00:41:00.000And it doesn't matter if you're using an electric stove and you are frying things and it creates lots of heat, which means lots of smoke.
00:41:08.000That is going to create particulate matter.
00:41:10.000Same thing if you're using natural gas.
00:41:12.000By the way, I've cooked with both of them, and let me just say, natural gas stoves are way better than electric stoves.
00:41:17.000They work better, the fire works better, but cooking on electric stoves sucks.
00:41:24.000It's also much more expensive for people in the moment, because natural gas is actually super, super cheap.
00:41:29.000The American Gas Association pushed back against the recent research.
00:41:32.000They said any effort to ban highly efficient natural gas stoves should raise alarm bells for the 187 million Americans who depend on this essential fuel every single day.
00:41:41.000And again, many of the reports that are being relied upon here are just not true.
00:41:44.000So, for example, Menier Christopher wrote in October of 2021 at Energy in Depth, California, about the municipalities in California that are seeking to pass ordinances banning the use of natural gas in homes and businesses.
00:41:56.000But a report sponsored by the California Restaurant Association shows how many of these studies are really, really flawed.
00:42:03.000The California Restaurant Association president said, quote, California chefs rely on gas stoves to grill vegetables, sear meats, and create meals of all kinds, inspired by cuisines from all over the world.
00:42:12.000We are concerned misleading health claims could lead to the loss of flame cooking, which would dramatically impact restaurants and the work of chefs and cooks, all of whom have endured enough during COVID-19.
00:42:21.000So there are a bunch of shortcuts and biases that have been used in many of these studies.
00:42:26.000There was one UCLA study, by the way, showing the supposed damages of natural gas cooking.
00:42:31.000And they ignored their own findings that indoor air quality is more a function of what is being cooked than the cooking fuel itself.
00:42:38.000And also they don't take into account any of the unanticipated consequences of replacing natural gas with electric stoves and ovens.
00:42:44.000The UCLA study notes, quote, there are no mitigation methods for using cooking oils with regard to foods other than the use of ventilation devices like range hoods.
00:42:53.000We do not claim the transition to electric appliances would make a substantial difference in terms of emissions from cooking oils and foods.
00:43:00.000And again, as it turns out, people don't have the money to just install these electric stoves.
00:43:03.000But the idea is we are going to run your life and we are going to take away your gas stove.
00:43:07.000And this leads people like Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez to tweet out about the severe damage caused by gas stoves all over the United States.
00:43:14.000This is one of the great juxtapositions of tweets of all time from the irrepressibly stupid Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
00:43:21.000She tweeted out, did you know that ongoing exposure to nitrogen dioxide from gas stoves is linked to reduced cognitive performance?
00:43:29.000Um, and then that's a picture of the stove in her apartment, which is in fact a gas stove.
00:43:37.000Maybe the use of gas stoves actually does lower your IQ.
00:43:41.000That's maybe the only thing that could explain AOC.
00:43:45.000Now, the reality is that the federal government should be getting involved in fewer and fewer areas, but regulators have a really tough time with this thing.
00:43:52.000And then when regulators do not get deeply involved in certain areas, they get ripped by the left-wing press.
00:43:57.000So to his credit, Jerome Powell, the head of the Fed, he says we are not going to become a climate policymaker, which is good.
00:44:01.000The left is trying to push the Federal Reserve into shaping monetary policy based on climate change, which is not so.
00:44:08.000Deliberately sinking the American economy in favor of climate change priorities from Greta.
00:44:13.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the Federal Reserve must avoid straying into political issues that aren't directly related to its economic management objectives to protect its ability to bring down inflation without interference from elected officials, according to Chair Jerome Powell.
00:44:25.000He said bringing inflation down when it is high can require measures that aren't popular in the short term as we raise interest rates to slow the economy.
00:44:31.000That made it all the more important for the central bank to stick to our knitting and not wander off into addressing issues that aren't directly linked to its mandate to keep inflation low and to support a strong job market.
00:44:40.000Many Democrats would love to use the Federal Reserve as a policymaker when it comes to climate change.
00:44:46.000The power of the regulatory state under Democrats is unbridled.
00:44:50.000And this is why they object so strongly when it comes to the DOJ or the FBI or the CIA.
00:44:54.000They don't like legislative oversight because the legislature is basically a vestigial organ of government, according to people on the left.
00:44:59.000It should be regulators who know better than you how often you should shower and what sort of shower heads you should use, whether or not you should be using a gas stove or an electric stove.
00:45:09.000And the Federal Reserve should be determining climate change policies.
00:45:13.000The problem is that many of the people who make these regulatory policies are idiots.
00:45:17.000Which is why you end up with the federal government now promoting diversity, equity and inclusion training that says that men can get pregnant, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
00:45:26.000Asking an Asian person for math help is a microaggression.
00:45:33.000These are just a few of the lessons imparted to government workers in diversity trainings and presentations in 2021, according to documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
00:45:41.000The materials, summarized in a December 30th editorial, show how one's fringe ideas have saturated the federal bureaucracy, from the Departments of Veterans Affairs to NASA and the military.
00:45:49.000One NASA training states that efforts to be colorblind actually limit us.
00:45:53.000Another identifies the words, America is a melting pot and don't you want a family as microaggressions, along with asking an Asian person to help with a math or science problem.
00:46:02.000A thirdless perfectionism and data is king, as examples of common leadership mistakes.
00:46:07.000Value and center lived experience, the presentation says, do not demand data in order to accept a person's individual perspective or to utilize that perspective in decision making.
00:46:15.000The focus on subjective experience extends to the army, where two separate trainings, one for commanders and another for special staff, feature a vignette about a soldier who wants to discuss his newly confirmed pregnancy.
00:46:27.000Another vignette collapses the distinction between gender and biological sex, imagining a urine collector who is uncomfortable observing soldiers who are not the same biological gender as the observer.
00:46:37.000Many of those presentations came after President Joe Biden signed an executive order in June 2021, instructing agencies to beef up their diversity programming.
00:46:44.000These lessons do not come cheap, by the way.
00:46:46.000From 2020 to 2021, the CDC alone spent over $300,000 on dozens of diversity trainings, including Let's Talk About Systemic Racism, Unconscious Bias, and Privilege, and Bambi vs. Godzilla, dealing with different, diverse, and sometimes difficult people.
00:47:02.000Solid stuff here from our federal regulatory agencies training their workers in left-wing nonsense.
00:47:08.000And then these are the people who say we don't need any oversight at all.
00:47:11.000Oversight is really, really bad, but we will oversee every aspect of your lives.
00:47:14.000And then when we blow it, we'll declare an emergency and say that the only way to fight this particular emergency is for you to give us more power.
00:47:20.000It's an ever-spiraling series of demands for more power.
00:47:24.000They exercise power in your life, they fail, the failure causes them to exercise even more power in their life, in your life, they fail, they demand ever more power.
00:47:35.000It is an amazing aspect of democratic governance.
00:47:39.000And this is why some oversight would go a long way.
00:47:42.000Because when people see the regulatory excesses and the overuse of executive branch power in the federal government, maybe they'll start to think twice before handing government that power in the first place.
00:47:51.000Alrighty guys, the rest of the show is continuing now.