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00:00:32.000The reason it's very scary stuff is because no one knows anything.
00:00:34.000And so when you hear folks in the media talking as though they know something, as though either they know that this is not going to become a major issue or they know that it is going to become a major issue.
00:00:42.000Understand, no one knows anything at this point.
00:00:45.000And one of the reasons nobody knows anything at this point is because China has been actively quashing the information coming out of China about the extent of the coronavirus.
00:01:04.000Is it transmissible via bodily fluids like Ebola, for example, or is it transmissible via air?
00:01:09.000If it is transmissible via air, how hard is it to acquire the virus?
00:01:12.000This virus appears to have a very high rate of transmission, meaning it appears to be very easily transmissible.
00:01:18.000This is why you saw that situation with the cruise ship, the South Korean cruise ship, or the Japanese cruise ship, in which the cruise ship, the Diamond Princess ship, was quarantined For like two weeks and suddenly everybody on board had this virus.
00:01:31.000The problem is we don't actually know the death rates because we don't actually have good statistics from China as to how many people have acquired this virus and how many people have died from this virus.
00:01:40.000So latest statistics suggest about 80,000 people in China have acquired the virus and about 3,000 people in China have died from the virus.
00:02:14.000I'm gonna give you the information that we have to start.
00:02:16.000Because I think that we ought to start with the information that we do have before we start all the speculation.
00:02:20.000Because everyone, in terms of politics and the economy, is politicizing this thing.
00:02:24.000You have people on the Democratic side of the aisle who are already claiming that President Trump is responsible for the spread of coronavirus, despite the fact that we are still in double digits as far as the number of Americans we know who have acquired coronavirus.
00:02:34.000And then you have President Trump out there suggesting that this thing is all a media creation, that there's no reason to worry about coronavirus at all.
00:02:40.000You got the stock market, which has plummeted 10% since it's open on Monday.
00:02:44.000The stock market closed to an all-time high on Friday at close to $29,000, and it is all the way down at about $26,000 as of this morning.
00:02:53.000That obviously is driven by lack of information rather than plethora of information, right?
00:02:58.000If there were more information, we'd know whether this thing is a buy market or a sell market, right?
00:03:03.000If we knew that this thing were going to cool off and that it was going to die out, people would be buying stocks.
00:03:07.000I mean, it would be a great time to buy stocks.
00:03:08.000If, however, this thing is going to get worse and the supply chains are going to be disrupted, then that sell-off continues and a market readjustment occurs that Really is significant.
00:03:18.000The best article I've seen on this comes from Quentin Fatrell over at MarketWatch talking about a study from JAMA, which is a medical journal, the Journal of American Medicine.
00:03:28.000They released a paper analyzing whatever data was available from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
00:03:32.000Now again, the big problem here is that China was literally imprisoning people who were talking about this thing early on.
00:03:39.000It turns out that authoritarian regimes have a horrible record of stopping pandemics, specifically because they are more worried about the image of the regime than they are about stopping the pandemic.
00:03:47.000So they will take low-level officials who are trying to raise this thing up the chain, and they will punish them.
00:03:52.000They try to take people who are disseminating information to the public outside of China, and they will throw them in jail.
00:03:57.000I mean, all of that is not a good move when you are trying to shut down a pandemic and keep people informed, because people are flying in and out of China every single day.
00:04:06.000While the Chinese government is more focused on its image-making publicly, Okay, we'll get to more of what exactly the statistics show, at least the statistics that we have available.
00:04:22.000Anybody who tells you differently, anybody who's engaging in sort of irresponsible speculation about where this thing is going without giving you the facts first is doing you a disservice.
00:04:31.000You should be taking whatever precautions are necessary.
00:04:34.000What I mean by that is not that you should be barricading yourself in your home, but it does mean that, like any other emergency, you probably should have a two-week supply of food and water.
00:04:42.000They recommend this if you have got tornadoes or earthquakes.
00:04:44.000That really should not change things dramatically.
00:04:46.000We're not yet at the point where we are talking about full-scale school shutdowns, but we've seen other countries that are engaging in that sort of thing.
00:05:04.000Because what you look to from the government is sort of the protection that you would get from God if you prayed, right?
00:05:09.000That government is going to come in and solve all your problems.
00:05:11.000Government can't even solve all your problems where you have an authoritarian government in China.
00:05:15.000The notion that government is going to be able to preemptively tell you that everything is going to be fine in an area of great uncertainty is obviously not true.
00:05:22.000So being realistic about what government can tell you, government can do things, but being realistic about what government is capable of telling you in an area of grey information, at the very least?
00:05:31.000That I think is the responsible thing to do.
00:05:33.000So we'll bring you some more information on this thing in just one second.
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00:07:14.000China particularly is going to have a stake in claiming that it really is only claiming old people because it makes them look really bad if young people are dying from the virus.
00:07:21.000The sample's overall case fatality rate was 2.3%, which is approximately 230 times higher than the flu's death rate.
00:07:29.000I mean, that is a very, very high death rate.
00:07:32.000Again, the flu's death rate in the United States last year was about 0.1%.
00:07:37.000If you multiply that by 10, sorry, it's about 23 times higher.
00:07:43.000My bad, it's not 230 times, but about 23 times higher by the statistics that I've seen.
00:07:48.000No deaths occurred in those aged nine or younger, which makes me a little suspicious of these statistics, but cases in those aged 70 to 79 had an 8% fatality rate for people aged 80 years or older, fatality rate of 14.8%.
00:08:02.000No deaths reported among mild and severe cases, but if you have a secondary condition that exacerbates it, then you got a real problem on your hands.
00:08:09.000If you have diabetes or cardiovascular disease or chronic respiratory disease or hypertension, then this exacerbates whatever underlying condition you have, and you're likely to have a higher mortality rate.
00:08:19.000In the latest China-based study, not peer-reviewed by U.S.
00:08:22.000scientists, of course, because China will not let anyone in, China is a bad actor on the world stage, man.
00:08:26.000They're a bad actor on the world stage, and it's causing a lot of people to rethink investments in China now and in the future.
00:08:33.000It found that men had a fatality rate of 2.8% versus 1.7% for women.
00:08:38.000Probably a large part of that is due to the fact that men in China smoke at a much higher rate than women apparently.
00:08:44.000And so if you have an underlying lung condition, you have emphysema or something, then it is more likely that you're going to die from exacerbation of that condition via coronavirus.
00:08:54.000According to this JAMA study, there are about 82,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, that's what it's called, and at least 2,768 deaths as of Wednesday.
00:09:03.000That is according to the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering's Centers for System Science and Engineering.
00:09:07.000There are more than 440 cases in northern Italy.
00:09:10.000So this has indeed become a pandemic because it is well outside of China.
00:09:14.000On Thursday, China's National Health Commission said there were 433 new confirmed cases of coronavirus and 29 more deaths as of Wednesday, bringing the total number of cases in that country near 80,000, the total number of deaths near 3,000.
00:09:25.000South Korea has also reported 334 new cases.
00:09:28.000That means that there are more than 1,500 cases in South Korea.
00:09:31.000Denmark and Estonia have confirmed their first cases of the coronavirus.
00:09:34.000Brazil confirmed its first case of coronavirus late on Wednesday.
00:09:37.000And of course, in the United States, there are about 80 people who have been locked down in various areas of the United States.
00:09:43.000The first The first case of an American who has coronavirus from an untraceable source emerged in Northern California.
00:09:49.000What that means is that everybody else we've been able to trace to some sort of flight out of China or contact with somebody else who had coronavirus.
00:09:56.000The fact that we're now seeing cases that are cropping up in which people are getting it from we don't know where, that's obviously very scary.
00:10:03.000One of the big problems with coronavirus as opposed to, for example, Ebola, is that Ebola is only transmissible once the symptoms hit.
00:10:09.000So once you start vomiting blood, that's when you are transmissible.
00:10:11.000Coronavirus apparently has up to a two-week latency period where you are exhibiting no symptoms, and yet you're hanging around people, and you're sneezing on them, and you're shaking hands with them, and you can transmit the virus.
00:10:21.000That means that this thing does have a very, very high transmissibility rate.
00:10:25.000Naturally, stocks are continuing to tumble.
00:10:28.000The virus has spread to some 4,700 countries and has put pressure on business and supply chains around the world, according to the New York Times.
00:10:35.000Stocks on Wall Street fell sharply in early trading on Thursday as the sixth straight day of losses for the S&P 500, as investors continued to react with fear to the spreading of coronavirus outbreaks.
00:10:45.000The selling could push major benchmarks into the United States into a correction, which would indicate that an index is down more than 10% from its most recent high.
00:10:55.000Again, it is very unclear at this point How far the coronavirus crisis is going to go.
00:11:00.000Analysts at Goldman Sachs predicted that companies in the S&P 500 would generate no profit growth as a result of the crisis because of a severe decline in Chinese economic activity, disruption in the supply chain for American companies, and a slowdown in the United States economy.
00:11:15.000Again, this is not a specifically American problem.
00:11:17.000In fact, America is getting hit by coronavirus at a rate far lesser than virtually every other country.
00:11:22.000But it is a problem pretty much everywhere else.
00:11:26.000We have seen coronavirus crop up in dozens and dozens of countries.
00:11:30.000In Iran, it's hitting like every major person in the government, which is pretty incredible.
00:11:34.000According to an Iranian official, this is Joyce Karam, who is a reporter.
00:11:41.000She's a Washington correspondent for The National at UAE.
00:11:45.000She is reporting four Iranian officials testing positive for coronavirus, including the vice president for women and family affairs, one lawmaker, the deputy health minister, and another lawmaker.
00:11:55.000One Iranian official says there have been 254 cases of known coronavirus in Iran and 26 deaths, which would put their death rate at about 10%.
00:12:01.000They've actually canceled Friday prayers in Iran, which is a big deal in Iran, obviously, very religiously oriented country.
00:12:09.000Also over in Japan, you have seen the government of Japan ordering a close to all schools in Japan for like a month.
00:12:15.000Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was asking all elementary, middle, and high schools to remain shut until spring holidays begin in late March.
00:12:23.000The measure affects 12.8 million students at 35,000 schools nationwide, according to the Education Ministry.
00:12:29.000Abe said the coming week or two is an extremely important time.
00:12:32.000This is to prioritize the health and safety of the children and take precautions to avoid the risk of possible large-scale infections for many children and teachers who gather and spend hours together.
00:12:41.000Japan now has more than 890 cases, so much more severe than the United States, including 705 from that quarantined cruise ship.
00:12:48.000An eighth death from the virus was confirmed Thursday in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, now considered to be the site of a growing cluster.
00:12:56.000There have been a bunch of local governments who had already announced their decisions to suspend classes.
00:13:00.000We've already seen outbreaks in Northern Italy.
00:13:03.000Israel has shut down travel to Asia because there are a lot of Asian flights that go in and out of Israel.
00:13:08.000Israel has shut down travel out of there.
00:13:09.000There's a lot of worries about permeability of borders in the Middle East, that if Iran is sending people across the border to Iraq, you could see outbreaks in Iraq, you could see outbreaks in Syria.
00:13:18.000So the problem with pandemics is obviously pandemics grow in a couple of very specific situations.
00:13:24.000Well, in general situations too, but very specific conditions.
00:13:28.000One, transmissibility of borders, permeability of borders, people moving freely in large groups of people.
00:13:34.000That is going to spread this thing much more quickly.
00:13:37.000And so there's been a lot of talk about immigration and how this is really shutting down a lot of Europe's open immigration policies.
00:13:42.000And two, The health conditions and informational conditions in a country make a big deal, make a big difference.
00:13:47.000If you don't have great health facilities, if you are understaffed, then the possibility of this thing really running rampant through a population is very high.
00:13:54.000If your medical workers, for example, don't have masks, this has been a huge problem in China.
00:13:58.000They don't have the proper masks, they don't have the proper gear.
00:14:00.000If you don't have the proper masks and the proper gear, the first line of defense is your medical personnel.
00:14:05.000And if your medical personnel are obtaining this stuff and then dealing with a bunch of other people who are coming in for checkups, And the transmissibility rate is going to go up wildly.
00:14:12.000So how well you deal with this depends on the resources that are available and yes, your capacity to shut down the movement of human beings in largely permeable areas.
00:14:22.000And in the Middle East, that's a huge problem because these borders are largely wide open.
00:14:26.000In the United States, NASA health officials are warning residents to remain vigilant as over 80 people remain under voluntary quarantine for possible coronavirus exposure.
00:14:35.000The county's Department of Health Commissioner, Dr. Lawrence Eisenstein, this is according to WCBS 880, says 175 residents have had some sort of voluntary isolation from the public, family and friends after traveling to China.
00:14:46.000Though there have not been any confirmed cases in the county or the rest of New York, there are 83 people still under isolation.
00:14:51.000They have to remain under quarantine for 14 days to prevent the possible spread of coronavirus should they be infected.
00:14:56.000Because again, we may not even be able to detect if somebody has coronavirus until they become symptomatic and they can still pass that thing along.
00:15:02.000So people are now being put in quarantine for a couple of weeks at a time.
00:15:07.000Meanwhile, in Germany, Germany is warning over the virus epidemic.
00:15:10.000Germany's health minister said Wednesday the country was at the beginning of an epidemic, as authorities in the West tested dozens of people who had contact with a couple infected with the coronavirus, gaining a foothold in Europe.
00:15:19.000Germany has been bracing for an increase in confirmed cases because of the number of infected people spiking in nearby Italy.
00:15:24.000Again, that permeability of borders in the EU not serving well.
00:15:29.000The people of various countries in Europe.
00:15:32.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:17:03.000So as I say, the Associated Press reporting that Germany has been bracing for an increase in confirmed cases because Italy has been hit with a wave of cases.
00:17:09.000Testing in Western Germany came after a 47-year-old man with the virus was hospitalized in serious condition in Dusseldorf.
00:17:16.000The man's wife works in a kindergarten, which is great.
00:17:18.000She was confirmed to have contracted the virus as well.
00:17:20.000A soldier in the German Air Force who had contact with the hospitalized man has also tested positive as well.
00:17:25.000That means there are 21 total cases in Germany.
00:17:29.000Meanwhile, the President of the United States is finally speaking out about all of this.
00:17:35.000And this is where things get quite political, quite quickly.
00:17:40.000We'll get to President Trump in just one second.
00:17:42.000One piece of good news, so there's good news and bad news.
00:17:46.000The more cases of coronavirus that are reported, and the fewer cases of death that are reported, the lower the death rate is, which is good.
00:17:53.000I mean, you want a low death rate, it means that your chances of dying are presumably lower.
00:17:57.000At the same time, it makes it very difficult to contain because the more mild cases there are, the more this thing is being transmitted.
00:18:02.000This is being reported by Vivian Wang for the New York Times in Hong Kong.
00:18:05.000As a dangerous new coronavirus has ravaged China and spread throughout the rest of the world, the outbreak's toll has sown fear and anxiety.
00:18:10.000Nearly 3,000 deaths, more than 81,000 cases, six continents infected.
00:18:14.000But government officials and medical experts in their warnings about the epidemic have sounded a note of reassurance.
00:18:19.000Though the virus can be deadly, the vast majority of those infected so far have only mild symptoms and make full recoveries.
00:18:24.000It is an important factor to understand, medical experts said, both to avoid unnecessary global panic and to get a clear picture of the likelihood of transmission.
00:18:34.000Some actually are exaggerating the risk.
00:18:35.000And Dr. Jin Dongyan, a virology expert at University of Hong Kong, for governments, for public health professionals, they also have to deal with these because these will also be harmful.
00:18:43.000Again, it is important to remember that even if the death rate is 2.3 percent, right, that sounds really scary.
00:18:49.000It means two out of every hundred people die, but this is a brain trick to a certain extent.
00:18:52.000Number one, your chances of obtaining coronavirus are not 100%.
00:18:56.000Two, even if you do have coronavirus, there's a 98 out of 100 chance that you will not die from it.
00:19:01.000Hey, which sounds a lot better than 2 out of 100 that you will die.
00:19:04.000It's a weird way that the human brain works, is that if you say to somebody, your chances of death are 2 in 100, they're like, oh, bleep.
00:19:10.000If you say to, honestly, 49 out of 50 people who obtain this do not die.
00:19:14.00098 out of 100 people who obtain this do not die, and the chances that you're going to obtain it are fairly low.
00:19:23.000With that said, again, because there are so many mild cases, that means that it is hard to determine how far and how fast this thing is going to move.
00:19:33.000Apparently, the overall fatality rate in China is 2.3%, but the number is inflated by the much higher fatality rate in Hubei province, which is 2.9%.
00:19:42.000So that's a lot more, that makes it a lot more sanguine, right?
00:19:45.000I mean, the fact is that Hubei, which is where this thing started and before the government really started to crack down, and happens to be one of the more impoverished areas of China, Right, that's why they're eating food from wild animal markets.
00:19:56.000Right, that area has a 2.9% death rate, but 0.4% death rate means that 99.6% of people who obtain the virus do not die from it.
00:20:06.000Right, 996 people, well, yes, 996 people out of 1,000 will not die from the virus.
00:20:13.000So that is somewhat, I mean, it's a little bit more, it's a little bit more, I would say, calming With that said, we still don't know what it would mean if the coronavirus outbreak hit the United States, what exactly people would do in schools.
00:20:30.000Presumably a lot of people would be sent home.
00:20:33.000And here we get into the Trump administration response.
00:20:36.000So, the Trump administration response is the same as every other government response, which is, we're doing the best we can.
00:20:41.000And now, one of the things that you don't want from the government is you don't want mixed messages, you don't want them downplaying the risk to the point where it seems like they're not taking it seriously, and you also don't want the President of the United States just going out there and shooting off the cuff, right?
00:20:53.000This is an area where message discipline really does matter.
00:20:56.000And the fact that President Trump has this habit of going on Twitter and firing off missives on the topic is really dumb.
00:21:01.000Now, as we will see, the Democrats are trying to blame Trump for a pandemic that, number one, has nothing to do with Trump, and number two, Trump hasn't botched yet.
00:21:09.000So it's very, they're obviously trying to take advantage of this, but two things can be true at once.
00:21:13.000It can be true that Trump's handling of public relations is very haphazard, and that President Trump tends to speak, again, like a talk radio caller, and that puts him And that makes people uneasy.
00:21:26.000The president over the last week, since this has started to explode in the news, the president over the last week tweeted out that the media were making the most of coronavirus, C-A-R-O, spelling it wrong.
00:21:35.000And then he suggested that a vaccine was going to be developed within the month.
00:22:34.000So, President Trump held a press conference yesterday.
00:22:37.000And he explained that Americans should be feeling pretty good about this thing.
00:22:41.000He said we made Americans much safer early on.
00:22:44.000Which is, honestly, it's hard to take super seriously when you're seeing the first cases in the United States of community infection crop up.
00:22:50.000Community infection meaning somebody got infected we don't know from where.
00:22:53.000Here's President Trump yesterday saying, we made Americans safer early on.
00:22:57.000We have through some very good early decisions, decisions that were actually ridiculed at the beginning.
00:23:02.000We closed up our borders to flights coming in from certain areas.
00:23:08.000Uh, areas that were hit by the coronavirus and hit pretty hard.
00:24:13.000Let your people talk and don't downplay.
00:24:15.000Rich Lowry, who's certainly an ally of the president over at the National Review, he was pointing out at Politico that the president should be pointing out that this is like a thing that people should be taking seriously.
00:25:50.000Bad Trump is, I'm gonna argue with the assessment of my own scientific community about the quote-unquote inevitability of some sort of outbreak in the United States.
00:25:59.000Dr. Anne Schuchat is the Principal Deputy Director of the CDC.
00:26:02.000She said, Which again, is the responsible thing to do.
00:26:26.000We're going to do whatever we have to do to shut this down.
00:26:28.000We're going to make resources available and all of the rest.
00:26:31.000And frankly, I don't think that the president is unjustified in blasting Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democrats.
00:26:36.000As we will see momentarily, the Democrats have been jumping on this to claim that President Trump is responsible for the spread of coronavirus, which is just insane.
00:26:53.000It doesn't make the American people feel better.
00:26:55.000With that said, has the president done anything to merit the kind of insane media coverage that is blaming him for a pandemic that has not yet happened?
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00:30:24.000It is called Church of Cowards, a wake-up call to complacent Christians.
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00:30:29.000How many American Christians are even willing to put down their smartphones for their faith?
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00:31:38.000So Democrats, super, super easy, super eager to blame President Trump for coronavirus.
00:31:49.000They're very upset because Trump appointed his vice president, Mike Pence, to lead up the coronavirus task force.
00:31:54.000Here was Mike Pence yesterday paying tribute to President Trump, as only Mike Pence can do.
00:31:59.000But Democrats are going nuts over all of this.
00:32:01.000Trump's made clear from the first days of this administration, we have no higher priority than the safety, security, health and well-being of the American people.
00:32:10.000And from the first word of a outbreak of the coronavirus, the president took unprecedented steps.
00:32:16.000to protect the American people from the spread of this disease.
00:32:21.000He recounted those briefly, but the establishment of travel restrictions, aggressive quarantine effort of Americans that are returning, the declaration of a public health emergency and establishing the White House Corona Task Force are all reflective of the urgency that the president has brought to a whole-of-government approach.
00:32:43.000Okay, so, you know, people are very angry at Pence because he's saying nice things about Trump, which is literally his job description, right?
00:33:24.000You have a virus, a coronavirus, that has popped up, COVID-19, that has popped up In China, on the basis of a wild animal market, people eating freaking bats and weird animals nobody's ever heard of before.
00:33:38.000And then they get a virus, they spread it throughout this particular area.
00:33:41.000The Chinese government shuts down all information.
00:34:19.000We have a bevy in various other areas of the world.
00:34:22.000We are still in double digits as far as the number of people we know actually have coronavirus in the United States, and we have one, count them, one confirmed case of somebody with a community infection in the United States.
00:34:31.000And Gayle Collins wants to call this Trump virus.
00:34:35.000I'm fairly certain that the Trump virus has infected her brain, and now like syphilis, it's corkscrewing through the soft tissues.
00:36:37.000Meanwhile, according to Gail Collins, Trump has come up with a totally new explanation for the stock market skid.
00:36:41.000It turns out investors were frightened not so much by the pandemic as the Democratic debate, and then Trump pointed out that people are frightened by the Democratic candidates.
00:36:48.000And Trump said that he had discovered that the flu in our country kills 25,000 people to 69,000 people a year.
00:36:54.000So the problems are Democrats and the flu.
00:36:55.000Again, like, I don't like that the president doesn't know how many people die from the flu every year, but that does not mean that he is not deploying the resources that are necessary.
00:37:02.000By the way, this was not even the dumbest response.
00:37:04.000Okay, the dumbest response came courtesy of genius with the plan, Elizabeth Warren.
00:37:07.000So Senator Warren, Stumping for president in a quixotic campaign to be Bernie Sanders's second, which is really what's going on here.
00:37:15.000She did a CNN town hall last night, and she was asked about coronavirus.
00:37:19.000Her response is so all-fired moronic, it is almost difficult to describe how stupid this is.
00:37:23.000And this was cheered because people are idiots.
00:37:26.000I'm glad to see that she has broken into the primary color section of the Ann Taylor Loft sweater closet.
00:37:34.000So here is Elizabeth Warren explaining that she is going to redirect money from border control to coronavirus.
00:37:43.000Here is Elizabeth Warren's plan for dealing with coronavirus.
00:37:47.000The way I think about this is first we think about allocation, kind of our overall approach.
00:37:54.000I'm going to be introducing a plan tomorrow to take every dime that the president is now spending on his racist wall at our southern border and divert it to work on the coronavirus.
00:38:06.000We also need someone in the White House who is coordinating all of the work and all of the messaging and all of the information.
00:38:14.000And we need someone who is not actively disqualified from doing that the way the Vice President is.
00:38:20.000Why is Mike Pence actively disqualified from doing that?
00:38:23.000She kind of failed to explain that point, other than she doesn't like Mike Pence and he needs a new haircut.
00:38:27.000Like, that's pretty much her only case.
00:38:29.000I do love that she, like, just to boil this down, she is going to shut down Trump's racist border wall.
00:38:35.000By the way, walls are inanimate objects, so it's weird that it's racist.
00:38:40.000Like, inanimate objects typically don't have personality that way.
00:38:42.000But she says that Trump's racist, we're going to shut down the border wall to flips through card, checks card, Stop global pandemics.
00:38:52.000So your answer to pandemics, where the problem is people transmitting a virus through personal travel and crossing borders, your solution is less border security.
00:39:06.000So the American government spends $4 trillion a year.
00:39:08.000It seems to me there are a few grab bags of cash in there somewhere that we could use in an emergency.
00:39:12.000Plus, we do sell an awful lot of bonds here in the United States.
00:39:16.000In fact, bond yields are at an all-time high, so taking out additional debt is probably not going to be a problem at this point, but the bond yields are at an all-time low rather than the demand is at an all-time high.
00:39:25.000When Elizabeth Warren says that her solution is to raid the border fund, Like, just on principle, I understand the wall's not going to be built for a little while, but on principle, if your first move is, I'm going to go open the border to stop a pandemic, You are a full-scale idiot.
00:39:43.000If your solution to, we have too much transmissibility of viruses because of human travel, if your solution is get rid of the border wall, it's because you're an idiot.
00:39:53.000I love the people clapping like seals.
00:40:26.000Reporting from Brussels, for Europe, the coronavirus could not have arrived at a worse time.
00:40:30.000This was the year with Britain out, terrorism waning, and the migrant crisis at an ebb that the EU had hoped to repair and revive its cherished goal of open internal borders.
00:40:37.000But cases of the virus have emerged nearly daily in new European countries, Spain, Greece, Croatia, France, Switzerland.
00:40:42.000And on Wednesday in Germany, many of them can be traced back to Europe's largest outbreak in Italy, where more than 300 people are now infected.
00:40:48.000As the cases spread and multiply, calls for closing borders have grown louder, most predictably from the far right and populists who are never fans of the bloc's open border policy.
00:40:56.000So far, no country has taken that drastic step, but privately, European officials warn this could change quickly.
00:41:02.000On Wednesday, the bloc's top official for communicable diseases said that Europe needed to prepare more broadly for the kind of crisis that is hit Northern Italy.
00:41:09.000The official, Andrea Ammann, director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control says, our current assessment is that we will likely see a similar situation in other countries in Europe.
00:41:17.000We also need to consider the need to prepare for other scenarios, for example, large clusters elsewhere in Europe.
00:42:48.000They show Biden up by there's one from Monmouth today.
00:42:52.000It shows Joe Biden up by 20 points, 20 points in South Carolina with Bernie Sanders running even with Tom Steyer, which means that Steyer could actually finish ahead of Sanders.
00:43:01.000There's also an East Carolina University poll that came out yesterday showing Biden up eight over Sanders.
00:43:06.000And Sanders again running within spitting distance of Tom Steyer.
00:43:09.000And a public policy polling, it's a Democratic firm, a polling firm that found Biden up 15 points.
00:43:14.000In the RealClearPolitics poll average, Biden is up 14 points.
00:43:18.000If Biden wins by double digits, this race changes really dramatically.
00:43:21.000It changes really dramatically in a hurry because the conventional wisdom, and I will admit, I had helped buy it.
00:43:26.000Was that, as Joe Biden had collapsed in the first states, that his black support would start to collapse in South Carolina and you would see Bernie pull out, if not a victory, then a very narrow loss in South Carolina.
00:43:37.000But that doesn't appear to be the way that the polls are going right now.
00:43:41.000And that means that Super Tuesday all of a sudden looms very large.
00:43:44.000Bill Sherr, who is an analyst for Real Clear News and Politico, he put forward a couple of different scenarios on the math.
00:43:51.000In one scenario, he says Biden wins 40 to 25 in South Carolina over Bernie, and that translates to identical wins in the South on Super Tuesday, Alabama, Arkansas, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Bernie beats him badly in California, Colorado, Maine, Utah, and Vermont.
00:44:07.000He wins narrowly in Massachusetts over Warren, and he basically splits with Klobuchar in Minnesota.
00:44:13.000In that scenario, The Super Tuesday plus South Carolina delegate count looks like this.
00:44:19.000So basically a dead heat after Super Tuesday in that case.
00:44:24.000Let's say that Biden wins 30-20 in South Carolina and then duplicates that sort of response in a variety of other states in the South.
00:44:32.000Still, if Warren ends up picking up like 15% across these various states and ends up with 285 delegates, say, that means that Biden and Sanders end up within spitting distance of one another.
00:44:43.000So that would be Biden staying within reach.
00:44:45.000Now, if this turns into a two-candidate race, Sanders versus Biden, everything changes.
00:44:49.000Everything changes radically because the Democratic Party does not want Bernie to be the nominee.
00:44:54.000They don't want him to be the nominee.
00:44:56.000They are recognizing more and more that Bernie as nominee is absolutely disastrous.
00:45:17.000And these candidates, the candidates you mentioned, Bloomberg, really have to kind of look in the mirror and say, do I want to be a part of serving Bernie Sanders up, who I think has zero chance of beating Donald Trump?
00:45:37.000Also, Democrats, two superdelegates, are looking at this and saying, if this thing ends up pretty close to dead even, we are not handing it to Bernie.
00:45:44.000Article in the New York Times today, Democratic leaders willing to risk party damage to stop Bernie Sanders.
00:45:48.000House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, hear constant warnings from allies about congressional losses in November if the party nominates Bernie Sanders for president.
00:45:56.000By the way, Michael Bloomberg has already said he is pulling all of his money from Bernie if Bernie is the nominee.
00:46:00.000He will not give one thin dime to Bernie Sanders if Bernie is the nominee.
00:46:03.000He'll give money down ballot, but Bernie's gonna hurt people down ballot.
00:46:07.000Officials in the national and state parties are increasingly anxious about splintered primaries on Super Tuesday and beyond.
00:46:12.000Dozens of interviews with Democratic establishment leaders this week show they are not just worried about Sanders' candidacy, but are also willing to risk intraparty damage to stop his nomination at the national convention in July if they get the chance.
00:46:23.000Since Sanders' victory in Nevada, the Times has interviewed 93 party officials and found overwhelming opposition to handing Bernie the nomination if he arrives with the most delegates but fell short of the majority, which could result in a brokered convention.
00:46:37.000Jim Himes, Connecticut congressman and superdelegate, he says we're way, way, way past the date where party leaders can determine an outcome here.
00:46:43.000But I think there's a vibrant conversation about whether there is anything that can be done.
00:46:48.000Sanders continues to insist that he can win, but most Democrats do not think he can win.
00:46:52.000Most of them think he's going to drag them down on the ballot.
00:46:55.000And again, if Biden comes back, that may be enough of a story for Democrats to rally around Joe Biden.
00:47:01.000Now, the big problem for Joe Biden is that he hasn't done any of the legwork in a lot of the Super Tuesday states.
00:47:04.000At the same time, the New York Times is reporting that Biden has not actually spent any time in many of these southern states he's expected to win, places like Arkansas.
00:47:12.000Michael John Gray, chairman of the Democratic Party of Arkansas, says Arkansas was, in my opinion, going to be a default Biden state.
00:47:33.000The Biden campaign has been, has been lackluster in terms of the ground game.
00:47:38.000Gilberto Hinojosa, the Democratic Party chairman in Texas, which is the second biggest delegate prize on Super Tuesday, he said, Bernie has a ground game because he has a ground game.
00:48:15.000It is an absolute mess for the Democrats.
00:48:16.000Right now, over at 538, they've got their estimates on who is likely to win the nomination.
00:48:21.000They've got no majority at now the largest chance, a one in two chance, 50% chance that there is no majority and you have an open convention.
00:48:28.000They've got Bernie at about a 40% shot and they've got Biden at about a 1 in 8 shot at winning a majority of the delegates, which doesn't estimate the delegate leaders, right?
00:48:36.000I mean, it could be that Biden ends up as the delegate leader and there's still no majority.
00:48:54.000And it is incredible to me that Louis Farrakhan, who's been hobnobbed with by half the Democratic establishment.
00:48:59.000I mean, literally half the Democratic establishment.
00:49:02.000Bill Clinton is hobnobbed with Louis Farrakhan.
00:49:04.000Barack Obama used to hobnob with Louis Farrakhan.
00:49:06.000Half of the members of the Congressional Black Caucus have hobnobbed with Louis Farrakhan.
00:49:11.000He doesn't hide the bald as Louis Farrakhan.
00:49:12.000Not only is he a vicious anti-Semite, he also happens to be a terror supporter.
00:49:16.000So, here is Louis Farrakhan, yesterday, calling Qasem Soleimani, a man responsible for the death of hundreds of American soldiers in Iraq, his brother.
00:49:24.000This guy, Louis Farrakhan, you can't even get Linda Sarsour to denounce Louis Farrakhan.
00:51:21.000So you don't believe in the profit motive free enterprise?
00:51:23.000If I have a better mousetrap, I make more money.
00:51:25.000There's something to be said for free enterprise on a local level and the competition.
00:51:30.000But what we're happening in our society is we don't live in a free enterprise society.
00:51:33.000You live in a corporate capitalist society where in virtually every single industry, you have giant multi-billion dollar corporations competing, driving the small businessmen out.
00:51:42.000So he's not in favor of any of this stuff.
00:51:44.000He's on a local, maybe we will let a few local people, you know, compete to sell the eggs, but we are not going to allow national corporate, like, This is who he is.
00:51:55.000Okay, but everybody else is going to try to hide the ball for him.
00:51:57.000Al Sharpton, who's another disgusting human being.
00:52:00.000Again, the fact that Al Sharpton has been allowed to trot around in the media.
00:52:03.000I mean, the man has a show on MSNBC, and he was responsible, or at least involved in not one, but two race riots in New York City over the course of his career.
00:52:10.000I don't know how many race riots you've been involved in.
00:52:16.000Al Sharpton was comparing, yesterday in South Carolina, he compared Bernie Sanders to Martin Luther King because people opposed Martin Luther King and also they opposed Bernie Sanders' socialism.
00:52:30.000The civil rights movement always was targeted by those that would use the red scale.
00:52:39.000They accused Dr. King of being a communist.
00:52:43.000Every major leader in the 60s they tried to call socialist or communist.
00:52:49.000Whatever you decide to do on Saturday, Do not go by those that use the socialist tag to try to separate us from what we need to do for this country.
00:53:13.000It's sort of like in The Rise of Skywalker, the Kennedy team, or J.J. Abrams at least, he decided that he was going to retcon The Last Jedi.
00:53:22.000He was just going to make it that The Last Jedi never happened.
00:53:24.000And then he was going to retcon the entire history of Star Wars where Leia had actually been trained as a Jedi, spoiler alert, and all of this stuff, right?
00:55:11.000I don't think it's going to be particularly successful, and I think it's one of the reasons why Joe Biden has continued, at least in the last little while, it's why Joe Biden has continued to be a durable candidate, at least in South Carolina.
00:55:22.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:55:28.000You remember there was this really wonderful moment, like everything good has to be ruined in America, that is the rule.
00:55:32.000You remember there was this really wonderful moment, maybe a couple of years ago, where Pete Davidson on SNL, he made a joke about my friend Dan Crenshaw, representative from Texas, Congressman Crenshaw.
00:55:41.000And Congressman Crenshaw's a Navy SEAL who lost his eye to an IED in Afghanistan.
00:55:46.000And Crenshaw made some sort of dismissive joke about how Crenshaw looked like a pirate.
00:55:51.000And then he said, well, you know, he probably just, I guess he, you know, got blown away by an IED or something, right?
00:55:58.000And people got very offended because it turns out that when you insult the physical appearance of people who have been wounded in war, that's not a particularly popular viewpoint, right?
00:56:17.000Okay, so, Crenshaw... So Davidson apologized, and he brought Crenshaw on, and they had this kind of wonderful moment on SNL where Davidson talked about how, I think it was his father, had died on 9-11, and Crenshaw talked about how he had served after 9-11, and they had this sort of kumbaya moment where Crenshaw went on, and he made fun of Pete Davidson, And everybody came away thinking that Pete Davidson was a bigger man than when he had started.
00:56:39.000The takeaway was, Pete Davidson realized he had said something nasty, and he took the hit, and he did the right thing, and he invited Crenshaw on, and Crenshaw handled it with class, and Davidson handled it with class, and everybody felt pretty good about this.
00:56:51.000Left, right, and center, you could feel good about this because Crenshaw had taken it like a man.
00:56:55.000He'd taken the hit, he'd treated it with good humor, he hadn't acted insulted or whiny about it.
00:56:59.000He'd just gone on there, made a few jokes, and then they'd basically hugged it out.
00:57:02.000And Davidson had realized that he had said something offensive, and so he did what a responsible person should do, and he had basically just eaten it.
00:57:11.000Well, now Pete Davidson, being apparently not a very manly sort of fellow, he's now coming back two years later with the jerk store response.
00:57:19.000He says, I never should have made Dan Crenshaw famous because it was my fault, never should have made Crenshaw famous, never should have apologized, just should have owned it.
00:57:29.000The answer is, there is no purpose to this other than Davidson trying to buy back his leftist bona fides.
00:57:34.000It's Davidson trying to now get back in the good graces of a vicious left that is fine with making fun of war heroes, contra Kirsten Powers of CNN.
00:57:43.000Here is Pete Davidson in his comedy routine talking about how bad it was that he made Dan Crenshaw famous.
00:57:52.000I said whatever and people were like, you hate America!
00:58:08.000I did not... I did not do anything for that guy.
00:58:10.000The only thing I did do, which I am guilty of and I apologize for, is I did make that guy famous and a household name for no reason, right?
00:58:18.000I did what, like, Ariana Grande did for me, right?
00:58:21.000It's a funny line about him and Ariana Grande, but at the same time, the line that he made Crenshaw famous for no reason and that he never should have done any of this, I understand it's a comedy routine.
00:58:33.000I'm not going to get offended by his comedy routine.
00:58:35.000His comedy routine is supposed to break barriers and all this, but I assume he actually means this.
00:58:39.000If he actually means this and it's not just part of his comedy routine, buying it back, then it's a pretty nasty thing to do, right?
00:58:45.000I mean, like, again, we had this nice bipartisan—can't we just have nice things?
00:58:49.000Like, a nice bipartisan moment where you realize you made a mistake and that it was kind of offensive, and then you backed off it.
00:58:53.000Nobody thought the worst of Pete Davidson.
00:58:55.000I thought much better of Pete Davidson in the aftermath.
00:58:57.000And by the way, I didn't think that Pete Davidson was, like, the worst guy in the world for making the Dan Crenshaw joke in the first place.
00:59:02.000I thought it was just dumb, and I thought that it betrayed a certain level of—of Carelessness about how you speak of people who are wounded in war, but at the same time, like, him now trying to buy that back and say, oh, well, I never should have done that.
00:59:17.000Like, especially because you've already done it.
00:59:20.000You don't have to be nice in the first place, but once you've been nice, buying back the niceness is not a really great trade.
00:59:24.000Once you've done a nice thing, it's like you give your wife a gift, and then the next day, and she's really happy about it, like, you make a mistake, and you bring your wife flowers, and the next day, for no reason at all, you're like, you know what, honey?
00:59:34.000And you just pick up the flowers and you trash them.
00:59:52.000Alrighty, well, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
00:59:56.000Otherwise, we'll be back here tomorrow for more content for you.
00:59:59.000By the way, next Tuesday, March 3rd, join me, God King Jeremy Boring, Andrew Klave, and Michael Knowles on Daily Wire backstage while we watch the results from Super Tuesday Rollin'.
01:00:06.000That means that my wife needs to have a baby or something, man, because we need to get that done before Super Tuesday, because that's gonna be a busy day.
01:00:17.000So while I suffer with my colleagues here, You know, I have to suffer sitting in a room while they perform performative masculinity, smoking cigars as they prepare us for coronavirus.
01:00:28.000You can at least join us and be part of the show.
01:01:08.000Hey everybody, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
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