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00:00:48.000How could the president rip into Elijah Cummings?
00:00:50.000How could the president rip into Baltimore?
00:00:52.000And then people were like, oh yeah, it's Baltimore, and that city is not well run, and there were riots there like four years ago, and it has some of the highest crime rates in America, and it has tremendous pockets of poverty, and people living in absolute penury and run-down conditions.
00:01:06.000People who are trying to splice in their home water to fire hydrants just so that they can live in these derelict houses.
00:01:21.000Racist to point out that Baltimore is not a great place to live.
00:01:25.000It doesn't matter that Trump has said before that New Hampshire was a drug-infested den.
00:01:28.000If he used the word infestation, that means he was referring to black and brown people.
00:01:32.000And when he said that no people want to live there, he didn't mean that people are actively moving out and that, as of the last census, Baltimore had lost population, as it has been doing for decades.
00:01:41.000No, what he meant was that everyone who lives there is not a human being.
00:01:44.000And the media painted this ridiculous narrative.
00:01:46.000Okay, so then the president decided to open up his guns on another front.
00:02:27.000There's something hilarious about the fact that President Trump does not see the contradiction between the first half of his statement and the other half.
00:03:10.000Al Sharpton has done more damage to the black cause than George Wallace.
00:03:14.000He has suffocated the decent black leaders in New York.
00:03:16.000His transparent venal blackmail and extortion schemes taint all black leadership.
00:03:20.000RFK Jr. called Sharpton a buffoon who gave him the creeps.
00:03:24.000And then because Sharpton was given all sorts of media attention, then RFK Jr.
00:03:28.000backed down when the diary became public.
00:03:30.000Then he called him an extraordinary national leader over the past decade, which is the way that all of this works, always.
00:03:35.000This always works where you criticize people correctly, and then the media go crazy, and then you back down.
00:03:42.000Well, Trump is not one for backing down on all of this.
00:03:45.000The reason that Sharpton ended up with a primetime spot on MSNBC, if you go back, is that in 2011, MSNBC president Phil Griffin decided to hire Sharpton after Sharpton got into a spat with Young Turks host Cenk Aygar, who used to have a show on MSNBC.
00:04:01.000And Aygar accused Griffin of kowtowing to the White House.
00:04:06.000He said, His show has never gotten anything close to good ratings.
00:04:08.000I'm going to talk about exactly how Al Sharpton was revitalized in the American public eye because he was basically out of the American public eye for a couple of decades there because everybody knew what a con man he was.
00:04:31.000And then he was restored to a point of glory by none other than Barack Obama.
00:04:35.000We'll get to that in just a second, but first President Trump.
00:04:37.000He tweeted out, if the Democrats are going to defend the radical left squad and King Elijah's Baltimore fail, it will be a long road to 2020.
00:04:44.000I'm not sure where he's getting the King Elijah stuff.
00:04:47.000I guess that's his new nickname for Elijah Cummings, who, by the way, is pretty well respected on both sides of the aisle as somebody who at least treats Republicans with some modicum of decency.
00:04:55.000Trump tweeted, if the Democrats are going to defend the radical left squad and King Elijah's Baltimore fail, it will be a long road to 2020.
00:05:01.000The good news for Dems is that they have the fake news media in their pocket.
00:05:03.000Okay, fact check true on everything except for the King Elijah thing.
00:06:02.000He says, just reminded my staff that Morning Joe and Psycho This is his nickname for Mika Brzezinski, which is just delightful that the President of the United States just calls people psycho.
00:06:11.000Just reminded my staff that Morning Joe and Psycho were with me in my room at their request the night I won New Hampshire.
00:06:18.000Likewise, followed me to other states.
00:06:20.000Don't watch show, but heard Mika say I asked to preside over the marriage.
00:07:31.000It is very difficult to find sunglasses that are quality, and that last a while, and then it will break right off, and that don't cost you a fortune.
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00:08:56.000And then they wonder why people on the right don't take them seriously every time they scream racist.
00:09:01.000Because this is the boy who cried racist.
00:09:03.000You keep calling racist, eventually, when the wolf shows up, nobody's gonna believe you anymore.
00:09:07.000But according to the New York Times, in a third straight day of broadsides against black figures, Mr. Trump denounced Mr. Sharpton on Twitter as a conman who hates whites and cops, and again assailed Representative Elijah Cummings and his Baltimore-based district, drawing rebukes from Maryland Republicans as well as Democrats.
00:09:22.000Mr. Trump's determination to intensify the furor rather than move on guaranteed it would continue to dominate the political debate in Washington and force many of the president's fellow Republicans to choose whether to stand by him, break with him, or, in the case of most, find a way to keep out of the discussion.
00:09:37.000The president linked the clash with Mr. Cummings to his earlier demand that four Democratic Congresswomen of color go back to their home countries and he cast it in electoral terms.
00:09:55.000Now, what Trump is neglecting to mention is that while a lot of members of his base are sort of cheering this sort of thing on, he does have to win some suburban women.
00:10:24.000Now, I guess that what Trump is going for here is that it's a year and a half out from the election.
00:10:29.000And hopefully by the time of the election, things will have died down, but the quotes will remain forever because all the Democrats came out to defend Al Sharpton.
00:10:40.000So you had Kamala Harris defending Al Sharpton.
00:10:42.000And she tweeted out, Al Sharpton is a blot on our republic in terms of politics.
00:10:45.000what's right and working to improve our nation, even in the face of hate, it's shameful yet unsurprising that Trump would continue to attack those who have done so much for our country.
00:10:53.000Al Sharpton has done zero things for our country.
00:10:55.000He has done an incredible number of horrible things for our country.
00:10:58.000Al Sharpton is a blot on our Republic in terms of politics.
00:11:10.000This is a man who has injected himself into every race debate in the United States for the past several decades, never to the positive.
00:11:17.000This is a man who created one of the worst rape hoaxes in modern American history and slandered a prosecutor as a rapist for no reason.
00:11:27.000Other than his own self-aggrandizement, a man who has earned his living by shaking down company after company on the basis of false accusations of racism.
00:11:34.000And yet every Democrat is out of the woodwork defending this guy.
00:11:36.000So I guess if the strategy here is that we'll get to use these quotes next year in the election, then maybe it's a strategy.
00:11:42.000Or it could just be that Trump is a creature of instinct, and he says whatever he feels is on his mind at the time.
00:11:49.000If this were all strategy, then you would imagine that a year from now, as the election approaches, Trump would quiet it down.
00:11:54.000Do you really think Trump is going to stop this stuff before the election?
00:11:57.000Or do you think that he's just going to continue to ratchet it up and alienate a lot of suburban women?
00:12:01.000As I've been saying, for this entire election cycle, if Trump shuts up, if we duct tape him, If President Trump duct-tapes himself and goes down into the basement of the White House and watches Shark Week and Stormy Daniels pornography until the election, the dude will be president forever.
00:12:14.000If he continues to talk, he will remind people that he exists.
00:12:56.000Al Sharpton is one of the worst public actors of our lifetime.
00:13:00.000Most black folks in America do not see Al Sharpton as a true racial leader.
00:13:04.000They may see attacks on Sharpton as racially motivated because the media have taught everybody in the country, black, white, and green, that any attack on somebody who is quote-unquote a black leader, even if that black leader is a bad person like Al Sharpton, must be racially based.
00:13:17.000It can't be based on the fact that Al Sharpton is a garbage human.
00:13:20.000Nonetheless, I don't think most black people in America, when they look for leadership, look to Al Sharpton.
00:13:25.000He's a media-appointed and self-appointed arbiter of race in the United States, and here are all the Democrats coming out to tout him.
00:13:32.000Specifically, we know why this is happening, right?
00:14:07.000So Joe Biden should know better, but of course he doesn't, because Joe Biden, for all the talk about Joe Biden being moderate, not really all that moderate.
00:14:13.000He's moderate when you look at the other Democrats, which is like saying that Trotsky was moderate compared to Lenin.
00:14:18.000Joe Biden says, The fact that President Trump continues to use the power of the presidency to unleash racist attacks on the people he serves is despicable.
00:14:27.000This hate has no place in our country.
00:14:29.000It's beneath the dignity of the office.
00:14:31.000Kind of ironic for all these Democrats to be talking about the evils of hate while touting Al Sharpton.
00:14:54.000In one second we're going to get to Al Sharpton's response to President Trump and then I want to go through Sharpton's record just so you know who the Democrats are defending today.
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00:16:36.000Where we start challenging the Republicans, particularly those up for Senate races this year, that you are going to stand up and really deal with the head of your party, Donald Trump, or you're the one that's going to suffer the consequences.
00:16:53.000And make him look to his own base inconsistent, but use that to go after the senators and the Republican leadership that have lorangeitis while he's peddling racism and dividing this country.
00:17:06.000My favorite thing here is that Al Sharpton keeps tweeting out pictures of himself with Trump.
00:17:11.000And Trump keeps saying I'm like best friends with Sharpton and we hate each other.
00:17:16.000They walked in the same circles in New York City.
00:17:18.000Al Sharpton tweeted out, he put out on Instagram, actually, a photo of himself.
00:17:22.000He said, this is a 2006 photo of Donald Trump at the National Action Network Convention in New York.
00:17:26.000In the photo, he's telling the godfather of soul, James Brown, and Reverend Jesse Jackson, why despite the fact I marched on him throughout the years, he respected my work.
00:17:58.000Also, I will note here that Joe Scarborough sponsored a resolution condemning Al Sharpton back in the 1990s for exactly the race baiter and con man he is.
00:18:07.000Now, Joe Scarborough touts that they are friends.
00:18:30.000Maybe you should spare the comparisons of a president to George Wallace for the people who stand in school door houses, right?
00:18:38.000The schoolhouse doors, the doorways, blocking it and say segregation now, segregation today, segregation forever.
00:18:46.000Maybe you should save the comparisons to people who are like forcibly in favor of state sponsored segregation, not for a dude who mouths off as though he's a talk radio caller.
00:18:54.000Maybe that, but Al Shrapton says, no, no, he's just like George Wallace.
00:18:57.000It's a consistent pattern and a deliberate political strategy that would make George Wallace blush with this president's doing.
00:19:05.000I remember as a kid, I had just become youth director of Operation Breadbasket in New York.
00:19:38.000Now, let's go through Al Sharpton's record, since he's apparently a person of justice and wonder, according to MSNBC and NBC News.
00:19:45.000Apparently, he is a person who has fought for justice for all, according to Elizabeth Warren.
00:19:48.000He's a person who is a good friend of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
00:19:53.000Al Sharpton is one of the most despicable people in American public life and has been for years.
00:19:58.000I used to run an organization called Truth Revolt.
00:19:59.000It was specifically designed as a counter to Media Matters.
00:20:02.000Media Matters is a horrible left-wing organization and all they do is they spend their days listening to conservative shows and then trying to drive boycotts against advertisers on conservative shows.
00:20:12.000Even if those advertisers don't endorse the message, they just want access to the audience and the advertisers advertise on a range of products.
00:21:01.000So, according to Stuart Stevens over at the Daily Beast, this is circa 2017, He goes through what Al Sharpton has done, quote, The Tawana Browley case that captivated New York in the late 80s is a shocking reminder of the toxic mix racial exploitation and personal ambition can produce.
00:21:17.000The New York Times and Retro Report have just released a new 15 minute documentary on the despicable host hoax, which should be required viewing for NBC News executives who are heavily invested in rehabbing a key culprit of this loathsome episode, the Reverend Al Sharpton.
00:21:31.000Brownlee was 15 years old in 1987 when she was found in her hometown of Wappinger Falls, New York, with KKK and the N-word written on her stomach, her jeans burnt in the crotch, feces in her hair, and her tennis shoes sliced open.
00:21:42.000She said she'd been abducted and raped by a group of white men.
00:21:45.000A trio of increasingly prominent and radical New York City black activists represented her and her family, attorneys Alton Maddox and C. Vernon Mason and Reverend Al Sharpton.
00:21:53.000Brownlee told them a cop had been one of her attackers.
00:21:56.000Sharpton named that officer as Harry Chris Jr., A police officer from a nearby town who had committed suicide shortly after Browley was found.
00:22:02.000Sharpton also named a local prosecutor, Steven Pagones, as one of the attackers, offering no proof.
00:22:10.000Browley and her advisers refused to cooperate in any way with the prosecution and its team.
00:22:15.000Sharpton says that was the decision of the lawyers.
00:22:17.000When asked why Browley's team would not meet with New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams, Sharpton said it would be, quote, like asking someone who watched someone killed in the gas chamber to sit down with Mr. Hitler.
00:22:27.000Sharpton later accused Ryan, who's the veteran prosecutor Jack Ryan, of kicking a blind man in a scuffle with demonstrators.
00:22:35.000After a six-month investigation, a grand jury found the entire episode had been a hoax.
00:22:38.000Rowley had defaced herself to avoid the wrath of her stepfather after staying out late to visit a boyfriend.
00:22:45.000Sharpton was found guilty of defamation in a lawsuit brought by prosecutor Steven Pagonis.
00:22:50.000Okay, let me give you a clip of just who Al Sharpton was at the time.
00:22:52.000This is from Morton Downey Jr.' 's show.
00:22:55.000And this is Morton Downey Jr., on Morton Downey Jr.' 's show, this is Al Sharpton screaming at a member of the audience that that person is a punk f-word, and the f-word is a slur for gay people.
00:23:35.000Al Sharpton also had an active role in the Crown Heights riots of 1991.
00:23:40.000On August 19, 1991, a tragic accident left 70-year-old Gavin Cato dead, this is according to Truth Revolt, searching for an outlet.
00:23:47.000Many in the community placed the blame for the death of the young African-American child on the Jewish driver of the car and the Jewish emergency responders who failed to revive the child.
00:23:56.000Some discontented members of the neighborhood proceeded to exploit the situation by encouraging violence culminating in deadly riots that led to the death of Jewish community member Yankel Rosenbaum, who was repeatedly stabbed in the back and beaten by a group of young black men shouting, kill the Jew.
00:24:10.000Before, as the riots continued, Sharpton yelled, quote, if the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come on over to my house.
00:24:18.000A few days after the death of Rosenbaum, at a eulogy at Cato's funeral, and these riots continued for days, they were rolling riots, he said, quote, all we want is to say what Jesus said.
00:24:26.000If you offend one of these little ones, you got to pay for it.
00:24:28.000No compromise, no meetings, no coffee clash, no skinning and grinning.
00:24:32.000One banner at the rally read, quote, Hitler did not do the job.
00:25:10.000And he declared that white interlopers were trying to take over the property, even though the property was actually owned by a black church.
00:25:16.000And all of that ended with a crazy person trying to burn down the place and killing several people.
00:25:37.000And what's amazing is how Al Sharpton was brought back into the fold.
00:25:41.000So for a long time, Al Sharpton was out of the public eye.
00:25:45.000Now, this is why I say when people say that President Trump has racially polarized the country, President Trump has not calmed racial tensions in the country.
00:25:53.000His commentary is not helpful, but if you want to talk about rising racial polarization in America, Barack Obama was responsible for a lot of it.
00:26:00.000Barack Obama came into office on a wave of enthusiasm for the idea that he and his very personage was going to help bridge gaps between black and white.
00:26:08.000That he was going to help, he was going to help conciliate the conflict of a race that has riffed our country for hundreds of years.
00:26:23.000And one of the first things that he did, presumably in order to buy a certain level of legitimacy with certain activists, is he brought into the fold people like Al Sharpton.
00:26:34.000This is from The Wall Street Journal, circa 2010.
00:26:37.000Quote, Obama's new partner, Al Sharpton, Peter Walston writing with his wavy bouffant and medallion necklaces, the Reverend Al Sharpton famously confronted government officials on behalf of black Americans.
00:26:47.000Now he has found a new role, telling black leaders to quiet their criticisms and give the government a chance.
00:26:52.000President Barack Obama has turned to Sharpton in recent weeks to answer increasingly public criticism in the black community over his economic policy.
00:27:00.000Some black leaders are charging that the nation's first African-American president has failed to help black communities hit hard by the downturn, leaving party strategists worried that black Democrats will become dispirited and skip November's congressional elections.
00:27:12.000Sharpton has emerged as an important part of the White House response.
00:27:15.000On his national radio program, he is directly rebutting the president's critics, arguing that Mr. Obama is right to craft policies aimed at lifting all Americans Rather than specifically targeting blacks.
00:27:25.000One recent on-air fight with Tavis Smiley, a prominent talk show host and Obama critic, grew so heated it has created a small sensation among black leaders.
00:27:33.000Sharpton told Smiley, quote, the president does not need to get out there and do what we should be doing.
00:27:36.000He argued that expecting Obama to become, quote, a black exponent of black views was just stupid because it would create fodder for conservatives looking to defeat legislation that could ultimately help blacks.
00:27:47.000Sharpton said it was a double standard for Tavis Smiley and other critics to expect more from a black president than they would demand of a Democratic white president.
00:27:55.000The Wall Street Journal reported at the time, 2010, Mr. Sharpton is an unlikely White House partner.
00:28:01.000Given his racially polarizing history and efforts by Mr. Obama's 2008 campaign team to steer clear of the civil rights leader.
00:28:08.000But Sharpton could help ensure that blacks remain energized for November's election, an important task in a year that finds the Democratic base to be less enthusiastic about voting than are Republicans.
00:28:17.000Sharpton had been to the White House five times since Obama took office.
00:28:21.000Sharpton's radio program has become a friendly place for administration officials to address black leaders.
00:28:29.000And then Sharpton was given a show on MSNBC.
00:28:32.000Okay, that was Obama picking out a racially polarizing, not just racially polarizing, a race-baiting garbage human like Al Sharpton and revitalizing his career and making him an important person again, a person that Pete Buttigieg has to visit in order to get the blessing of the woke Pope over here.
00:28:50.000He has to go get the blessing of a guy who, again, does not represent the black community.
00:28:54.000Al Sharpton does not represent the black community.
00:28:56.000Jesse Jackson does not represent the black community.
00:28:58.000In fact, I think it's fair to say no one represents the black community.
00:29:02.000Because when it comes to the black community, everyone there is an individual.
00:29:05.000Just like nobody represents the quote-unquote white community or the Hispanic community.
00:29:09.000When people say that Al Sharpton is a black leader, all I can say is, show me the size of his support base.
00:29:28.000I took one of his classes when I was at Harvard Law School.
00:29:30.000And he and I disagree about nearly everything, but he is a reasonable human being.
00:29:34.000He wrote a piece in September 2011 for the New Republic called The Sharpton Renaissance, How the Reverend's Reputation Got Refurbished.
00:29:40.000Quote, there's a time not long ago when the dominant arbiters of public opinion relegated Al Sharpton's the outskirts of serious respectable discussion.
00:29:47.000Sure, he was a fixture on the ebony magazine list of the top 100 black Americans.
00:29:52.000Sure, journalists called him when they need a provocative quip.
00:29:54.000Sure, Democratic Party politicians courted him.
00:29:56.000But the Rev was unmistakably relegated to the black ghetto of celebrity journalism, celebrity activism.
00:30:01.000No one thought to ask his opinion regarding issues other than those perceived as directly pertinent to aggrieved blacks.
00:30:07.000The deference accorded by establishment bigwigs stem more from fear of his ability to cause them trouble than respect for his skill at envisioning positive initiatives.
00:30:15.000Among white opinion leaders, he was widely seen as the very embodiment of a race hustler, a living version of Reverend Bacon, the demagogue that Tom Wolfe concocted in his novel Bonfire of the Vanities.
00:30:24.000There was, alas, a basis for this negative impression.
00:30:27.000But now, says Randall Kennedy, Sharpton has risen above the confines of a strictly racial niche and emerged as a person of far-flung and real influence.
00:30:34.000His prominence in the American mainstream, from his appearances on the Sunday morning news network programs to a favorable profile on 60 Minutes, a laudatory cover in Newsweek, and now his own primetime show on MSNBC, is partly by a hint of ambition, persistence, skill, and an apparent immunity to embarrassment.
00:30:50.000But it is also due in no small part to the sponsorship of President Obama.
00:31:09.000Since Obama's victory, says Randall Kennedy, circa 2011, Sharpton has not only been an unequivocal cheerleader, he's been a vocal critic of blacks on the left who complain about Obama's priorities, appointments, and methods.
00:31:20.000Sharpton has acidly and repeatedly rebuked, for example, Cornel West, one of the president's most esteemed African-American detractors.
00:31:26.000In that way, Sharpton performs the valuable service to Obama of validating his racial bona fides.
00:31:31.000When West, Tavis Smiley, and Maxine Waters, among others, draw into question Obama's commitment to black folk, Sharpton is on hand to refute them.
00:31:39.000The President has rewarded Sharpton handsomely for his services.
00:31:42.000When seeking to display attentiveness to black concerns, he includes Sharpton among the leaders he purportedly consults.
00:31:47.000He has invited Sharpton to the White House for numerous events, including his birthday bash.
00:31:51.000The President's patronage has played a key role in the renaissance of Sharpton's public image.
00:31:56.000So as we say, when it comes to racial polarization in the United States, the media didn't take any notice of this.
00:32:04.000The Wall Street Journal did at the time, but it was Obama who restored one of the great race-baiting grifters in American history to a point of central contention, and now, apparently, it is a point of hot controversy to criticize Al Sharpton and point out exactly what Al Sharpton is.
00:32:18.000If Democrats want this, this is what Democrats bought.
00:32:20.000You want to know why racial polarization has been growing in this country?
00:32:23.000It didn't start with Trump, and it ain't gonna end with Trump, so long as the media continue to rehabilitate pieces of crap like Al Sharpton.
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00:35:03.000Okay, so as I say, the Democrats will defend anything so long as President Trump attacks it.
00:35:16.000And that is why the Democrats have come to see Rashida Tlaib and the rest of the squad as their allies, even though Rashida Tlaib is blatantly anti-Semitic.
00:35:25.000Even though Rashida Tlaib is a terrible congressperson.
00:35:27.000She has a piece in the Washington Post today called, while Trump spews hate, I continue to do my job.
00:35:32.000Her job apparently involves helping to sponsor resolutions in favor of boycotting the state of Israel.
00:35:37.000That resolution, by the way, if it were carried into effect, it has no legal effect.
00:35:40.000If it were carried into effect, it would actually be illegal under federal law, because federal contractors are not allowed to discriminate.
00:36:20.000According to Rashida Tlaib, He said the values I hold dear are not in line with those of my home state of Michigan.
00:36:25.000Nothing could be further from the truth.
00:36:27.000We are grounded in the values of equity, justice, respect for each other.
00:36:30.000I was elected to represent the city of Detroit and Wayne County.
00:36:33.000It's a remarkable time in our country's history when the president is hindering our desire for universal health care, lower prescription drug prices, equity in education, and stopping the for-profit schemes that hurt children and communities such as mine.
00:36:44.000With every hate-fueled tweet, he gets us off track as we try to hold him and his reckless administration accountable.
00:36:51.000And of course, the Democrats continue to rally around now Al Sharpton and Rashida Tlaib and I guess the greatness of how Baltimore has been run.
00:37:02.000So instead of actually instead of actually tackling what Trump is saying about Baltimore, for example, or explaining that President Trump doesn't have any solutions for Baltimore.
00:37:11.000He's just mouthing off, which is actually what happened there.
00:37:13.000Or that the squad are too radical, which Nancy Pelosi was trying to say two weeks ago.
00:37:17.000Instead, the media have decided to rally around the Trump is a racist narrative because they're really familiar with it.
00:37:44.000So CNN's Don Lemon, yesterday, he talked to a black pastor who met with President Trump.
00:37:49.000So Trump met with a bunch of pastors from the inner city, and Don Lemon said to this black pastor, is it godly how Trump attacks people of color?
00:37:56.000I definitely recall Don Lemon asking Barack Obama whether it was godly for the Reverend Al Sharpton to be visiting the White House after, you know, inciting a couple of riots, allegedly.
00:38:06.000Here is Don Lemon, though, doing this routine.
00:38:41.000President Trump does not pick the people he attacks because of color.
00:38:45.000He attacks anybody he feels needed. - It's 100% true, but I love Don Lemon now doing this religious routine.
00:38:52.000Well, you know, you know, isn't it godly I don't know, was it godly when Barack Obama decided that he was going to slander the officers of Cambridge, Massachusetts?
00:39:00.000Was it godly when he welcomed Al Sharpton back into the good graces of American society after Al Sharpton had helped set off racial conflagrations on repeated occasions?
00:39:10.000Don't worry guys, the media isn't biased.
00:39:13.000You wanna know how the media isn't biased?
00:39:14.000Okay, so CNN had a panel yesterday talking about Baltimore.
00:39:17.000And someone pointed out, hey, didn't Bernie, like, rip Baltimore in 2015 and talked about how it was a third world country?
00:39:22.000And everyone agrees, no, that's totally different, because that was Bernie, man.
00:39:25.000And Bernie's just a good guy, but Trump's a bad guy.
00:39:27.000So when Trump rips Baltimore, totally different.
00:39:30.000Senator, I'm sorry, Jen, let me show you this tweet from President Trump.
00:39:34.000It says, Crazy Bernie Sanders recently equated the city of Baltimore to a third world country.
00:39:39.000Based on that statement, I assume that Bernie must now be labeled a racist, just as a Republican would if he used that term and standard.
00:40:05.000Now, we're not going to explain the difference.
00:40:06.000We're just going to say that there is a difference.
00:40:08.000And then everybody sort of just accepts it as rote.
00:40:10.000And there's a difference that when Trump says that Baltimore is a bad place, when Bernie Sanders says that Baltimore is a bad place, totally, totally different.
00:40:16.000They mean two totally different things.
00:40:18.000And this is all, of course, pushing a particular narrative.
00:40:49.000He said illegal immigrants are infesting America, said Congressman John Lewis' Atlanta district is crime infested, and that the squad must go back to their crime infested countries.
00:41:00.000Like, you don't need to be a genius to see what Trump is implying, because he's not a subtle person.
00:41:20.000All of this is meant to drive the narrative.
00:41:21.000And the narrative is that black people are under threat.
00:41:23.000Democrats Want to portray that narrative despite the fact that we have record black unemployment, despite the fact that blacks in the last several election cycles have outpaced their percentage of the population in terms of the voting population.
00:41:35.000What they want is for black people to feel under threat so that black people turn out and vote against President Trump, duplicating the Obama 2012 coalition rather than their turnout in 2008 alone.
00:41:44.000Charlamagne Tha God, he was one of the people on MSNBC pushing this.
00:41:47.000I mean, you want to talk about over the top, here's over the top.
00:41:51.000Given what the president has done over the last two years, is that enough to get black voters motivated again to go out and vote for him in a big way?
00:42:00.000I mean, if they know it, I know that they should.
00:42:02.000Because, you know, if America is in danger, like, who do you think is going to be impacted the most by whatever racist policies, you know, whatever policies that oppress, whatever policies that marginalize, like, who's next to be in concentration camps in America?
00:42:34.000OK, this narrative that President Trump is attacking Al Sharpton because Sharpton's black or attacking Baltimore because Baltimore is a largely black city.
00:42:59.000Well, after the Mueller hearings, which were a giant dud for the Democrats, I mean a giant fail for the Democrats, they immediately pretended that they were shocked to find that the Russians had been hacking The election had been involved in hacking during the election and that they were involved in trying to manipulate people during the election.
00:43:15.000And so then they took a bill that passed that passed with only one Republican vote in the House.
00:43:20.000And they tried to have it declared into law in the Senate by unanimous consent.
00:43:39.000That was passed by a Republican Senate.
00:43:41.000And Mitch McConnell, for holding up a bill that has a lot of specifics that are controversial, including the use of paper, mandated paper ballots as backups, for example.
00:43:50.000There's also mandated particular uses of federal authority over state elections.
00:43:55.000Republicans generally have opposed this because how state elections are run is generally up to states, not up to the federal government.
00:44:00.000In any case, Mitch McConnell was called Moscow Mitch by Joe Scarborough, and then this became a thing.
00:44:06.000That he's actually attempting to shield, he's actually attempting to shield the Russians, that the Russians can continue interfering in our elections.
00:44:12.000Right now, trending on Twitter, is hashtag Moscow Mitch McTreason.
00:44:23.000Regardless of who is in the White House, regardless of which way the political winds were blowing, I have consistently treated Russia like the threat that it is.
00:44:35.000Even under a Republican administration, I spoke out when I was afraid the U.S.
00:44:38.000wasn't doing enough to stop the erosion of democracy and rule of law in Russia.
00:44:44.000So, Mr. President, I don't normally take the time to respond to critics in the media when they have no clue what they're talking about.
00:44:52.000But this modern-day McCarthyism is toxic and damaging because of the way it warps our entire public Discourse.
00:45:03.000OK, and that, of course, is exactly right.
00:45:05.000Do you really think that Mitch McConnell is a Russian tool or that Mitch McConnell is ignoring election security because of some fealty to Trump?
00:45:47.000Sorry, McConnell's support was $380 million, not billion, in aid to election security funding that passed Congress just a few months ago.
00:45:54.000He supported the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into election interference that produced an alarming public report last week.
00:46:02.000This is exactly like when Democrats claim there's a crisis, and then they pass, and then they propose like a trillion dollar bill that doesn't solve the crisis.
00:46:09.000Republicans oppose it, and then Democrats say that Republicans refuse to acknowledge the crisis.
00:46:13.000It's exactly the same sort of idiotic virtue signaling you see with the Green New Deal.
00:47:19.000So we will see if there is any sort of conflict, because here's the fact.
00:47:22.000According to new polls, Joe Biden has restored his lead.
00:47:25.000So it seemed after the last debate that he was starting to sink.
00:47:28.000And then Joe Biden went back to his original strategy, which was disappear and let the other Democrats act like idiots.
00:47:33.000And he started to gain in the polls again.
00:47:35.000According to a new Emerson poll, he's back on top at 33 percent, 13 points ahead of Bernie Sanders, who's at 20 percent, Warren at 14 percent.
00:47:44.000Sanders has gained five points since Emerson's last survey.
00:47:48.000Kamala Harris has fallen four points, which there was a reversion to the mean for Kamala Harris.
00:47:53.000She had a big bump, and then she started to drop again.
00:47:55.000She was not able to build on that momentum because she is mechanical.
00:47:58.000Nate Silver yesterday, the pollster, compared her to Mitt Romney, and that, I think, is kind of fair.
00:48:05.000She sort of checks a lot of boxes for Democrats, but she doesn't enthuse anyone.
00:48:09.000The only other candidates above 3% were Mayor Pete Buttigieg at 6% and Beto at 4%.
00:48:14.000Again, I am astonished by the amount of media attention Buttigieg has gotten to receive 6% in these polls.
00:48:19.000Buttigieg does not have, apparently, any breakaway quality that has allowed him to climb.
00:48:24.000He sort of reached his high point a couple months ago and it's been, again, reversion to the mean ever since.
00:48:29.000Morning Consult also has a survey today that shows Biden at the top with 33 percent.
00:48:34.000Sanders is again second in this survey, so that's a bit consistent, with 18 percent and Warren at 13 and Harris at 12.
00:48:40.000So Sanders is showing a little bit more durability than I thought he would at this point.
00:48:44.000I thought he was going to slide into oblivion.
00:48:46.000We'll see tonight if Elizabeth Warren is able to put the hit on him and knock him down a couple of pegs.
00:48:51.000That's what she needs to do because both Warren and Sanders are not going to survive the final round.
00:49:03.000So, a lot of folks on the left are very focused in on climate change as a key and important issue.
00:49:08.000I'm not averse to discussing climate change as a key and important issue if we do so in a rational way.
00:49:12.000What I'm not going to do is humor the idea that the world will be on fire by 2100, that all of the coasts will be underwater, that we are all going to die by 2100 if we don't do anything to stop climate change in the next 12 years.
00:49:25.000I think that there are mitigation efforts that can be made.
00:49:26.000I think there are things like geoengineering that can be done.
00:49:29.000I think that there has been talk, and there should be more talk, of deregulation of the nuclear power industry, which is one of the easiest ways of producing energy at cost-effective method without increasing carbon emissions.
00:49:41.000But in order to assess the actual damage, you have to go about it in a rational way.
00:49:45.000So there's a great book out by William Nordhaus from 2013.
00:49:47.000It's called The Climate Casino, talking about the risks of climate change and trying to assess what those risks are.
00:49:52.000Because very often what you hear from the left is this definitive, here is exactly what's going to happen.
00:49:58.000Now, it is quite possible that something bad is going to happen in the future.
00:50:02.000There are tipping points in the environment, as William Nordhaus, Nobel Prize winner in economics last year, talks about.
00:50:08.000There are tipping points, and we're not sure where the tipping points are.
00:50:10.000Where, for example, The ice caps start to melt a lot faster than they were if you reach a certain level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
00:50:18.000There's talk about a certain level of ocean acidification that is unable to be recovered from, or sea level rises, over the course of the next 500 years.
00:50:27.000You have to sort of, number one, determine time frame.
00:50:29.000Number two, you have to determine what exactly the modeling shows about the time frame.
00:50:32.000So, there are models that show that by 2100, there'll be warming of about 2 degrees Celsius, which is about 6 degrees Fahrenheit.
00:50:38.000Let's see, yeah, about 4 degrees Fahrenheit, rather.
00:50:41.000Or, it could be all the way up to 6 degrees Celsius, uh, sorry, it could, yes, it could be up to 6 degrees Celsius, which, of course, would be the upper end modeling.
00:50:51.000It's pretty unlikely that happens, but...
00:50:54.000The best kind of average scenario is three degrees Celsius by the end of the century, which would mean six degrees Fahrenheit, which would be a problem.
00:51:01.000But it would not mean that ocean levels rise by 30 or 40 feet, as people keep saying, right?
00:51:07.000This book does a good job of breaking down what exactly are the rewards and the risks over time.
00:51:12.000He suggests a carbon tax as a possibility.
00:51:15.000I think it's going to be very difficult to implement a carbon tax on a global scale.
00:51:18.000Which is what you would need in order to actually affect climate change in any real way.
00:51:22.000Otherwise, what you get is a serious free-rider problem where the United States imposes a carbon tax like Europe has, and then starts importing oil from other places, and also China and India just keep producing carbon emissions to an extraordinary extent.
00:51:36.000The fact is that, as Nordhaus points out, also, whatever future problems we're going to deal with, we're also going to be dealing with an economy that is completely different by 2100.
00:51:44.000The centers of power are going to shift in the world economy.
00:51:48.000Back in 1900, would anyone have predicted that China was going to be a world economic power?
00:51:55.000Or that Russia was going to have faded into oblivion?
00:51:59.000You can't predict what's going to happen in the economy.
00:52:01.000This book does a good job of trying to reasonably lay out the case for what exactly is happening with climate change.
00:52:06.000What the economic costs are going to be of climate change, how we assess those, what we should do about it, what we can do about it.
00:52:14.000As I've said, I think there needs to be talk about geoengineering.
00:52:16.000I think there needs to be talk about building seawalls and mitigation.
00:52:19.000I think that there should be talk about international agreements, but those international agreements have to have teeth, and if those international agreements are not reachable, then destroying the United States economy so that China and India can catch up with us.
00:52:31.000And free ride off of our own willingness to cripple our economy seems like a very, very bad idea.
00:52:36.000This is why when people say there are easy solutions to climate change, the answer is yes, if you could wave a magic wand, I'm sure there would be, but in a world populated by real governments and real people.
00:52:47.000The Paris Climate Accords were a complete waste of time, mainly because nobody was abiding by the Paris Climate Accords.
00:52:53.000The number one reduction in carbon emissions by country has happened in the United States since the Paris Climate Accord and since the pullout from the Paris Climate Accord by President Trump.
00:53:02.000So that international agreement didn't mean anything.
00:53:04.000China signed it and then kept emitting like nobody's business.
00:53:08.000So, again, I think the book is well worth reading.
00:53:10.000The Climate Casino, Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World by William Nordhaus.
00:53:14.000An actual reasonable take on the issue as opposed to the climate catastrophic thinking you see so often.
00:53:20.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:53:26.000Okay, so Ted Cruz was at LAX and there is this new thing on the left where if you are, if you see a Republican in public, you're supposed to berate this Republican in public.
00:53:35.000This gives you some sort of virtue signaling point.
00:53:41.000If you want to go to his office and protest, do it.
00:53:44.000If you want to sponsor some sort of rally outside the Capitol building, do it.
00:53:48.000If you want to harass public officials in a public place simply because they happen to be standing around an airport, this makes you a jackass.
00:53:56.000I don't think many Republicans would, frankly.
00:53:58.000And if they did, I think it would be a nasty thing.
00:54:00.000If you're not asking him a legitimate question, if you're not a journalist who's trying to get an answer, for example, if you're just there to bother him and yell at him, then this makes you a bad person.
00:54:08.000And it makes the country a worse place.
00:54:10.000Because we at least have to have common spaces that we can share.
00:54:14.000If I have to bring security with me every time I go to the airport because I'm afraid somebody's going to punch me in the face, that doesn't make for a better country.
00:54:20.000And if I'm there with my wife and kids in a public place and you're accosting me to scream at me, This fairly definitionally makes you a bad person.
00:54:57.000You're standing there screaming in the middle of an airport like a jackass.
00:55:01.000There's Ted Cruz being very polite because this is what Ted does in public.
00:55:05.000You know, the fact that none of these people wanted to have a conversation or discussion, they just want to yell at Ted Cruz demonstrates this is all virtue signaling garbage.
00:55:12.000Want to make the country a worse place?
00:55:13.000This is a pretty good way of doing it.
00:55:14.000All right, we will be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
00:55:17.000Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow to recap those Democratic debates.