Trump and Biden are less than a week away from the first presidential debate, and it's going to be one of the most important debates of the cycle. It's a referendum on Donald Trump's character, and Joe Biden's ability to speak coherently and effectively on the issues that matter most to the American people. And there's a good chance that both candidates will fail to live up to the expectations that were set for them in the lead-up to the first debate. And that's why this debate is so important, and why it could have a massive impact on the outcome of the election. The two candidates are in a dead heat in the polls, and there's no reason to think that either of them is going to come out of this debate with a clear advantage in either of their respective campaigns. The question is, will they be able to hold on to their lead? And what will it take to win it? And will it be enough to change the trajectory of the race? or will they fall further behind? We'll find out on Tuesday night, and we'll have a better sense of who's winning and who's losing, and which side is really winning? What s going to win and who s the favorite to win the debate and who has the best chance of taking the momentum going into the second half of the 2020 election cycle? Today's episode is all about what's really going to happen, and how it will affect the race going into Tuesday night's debate and who wins and who doesn't win it and who loses who's going home what s going home and who gets the most respect in the next four days, and who makes the most of it Who wins and loses the night which is going home, and what s gonna win the most in the night and who keeps it the most and who does the most, and who s going the most? who wins the night, how much they win it the next day, and is it the best of it all? and is it all that matters that s why it s gonna be the real winner? Why it's not enough, and much more! What do you think it's time to get your tickets to the next one? Is it too late to vote in the second presidential debate? Vote now, and do you like it or not?
00:00:05.000Usually, the debates don't change the direction of a presidential race.
00:00:09.000Typically, you have a pretty strong frontrunner and somebody who's running pretty well behind.
00:00:13.000Or you have a race where the debates don't matter all that much because it's basically incoherence all the way around.
00:00:18.000In this case, the race is so extraordinarily tight, the debate is going to matter an awful lot.
00:00:22.000There are very few inflection points in this race, or possible inflection points.
00:00:26.000The conventions will not be inflection points, for example.
00:00:29.000This debate could be an inflection point.
00:00:32.000The other big inflection point, obviously, could be the possibility of Donald Trump having to serve jail time in the middle of the election cycle.
00:00:38.000We're not going to find that out until the middle of July.
00:00:41.000And then the third possible inflection point is a health crisis involving Joe Biden.
00:00:45.000And we're not going to know anything about what happens with those latter two until they actually happen.
00:00:48.000But the thing we know is going to happen is this debate.
00:00:51.000And make no mistake, this race is extraordinarily tight.
00:00:57.000The fact is that the state-level polls that we've been seeing have not been updated, many of them, since May.
00:01:02.000Most of them are within the margin of error.
00:01:04.000The national polling is all within the margin of error.
00:01:07.000And so this race could really go either way.
00:01:09.000I know there are a lot of Republicans who are pretty sanguine about the possibility of Trump winning re-election over Biden because they look at Biden and they say, how can anyone vote for that guy?
00:01:17.000And there are a lot of Biden voters who are pretty sanguine about the possibility of Biden beating Trump because they think, how can anybody vote for that guy?
00:01:23.000And then there's a huge chunk of the American population that goes, Why are either of these guys on the stage?
00:02:31.000Some people think that might help Trump because it'll prevent him from talking over Biden, but I think Trump probably learned his lesson from the first debate in the last election cycle.
00:02:38.000The problem with the mics being muted is that Trump can't jump in and get in these sort of quick quips that he famously used against Hillary Clinton.
00:02:44.000Like the one where he suggested if you're president you should go to jail, right?
00:02:47.000It's a very famous quip that he used in 2016.
00:02:50.000So there are a lot of factors that are stacked against Trump here.
00:02:52.000And the biggest factor that is stacked against Trump is Trump himself.
00:02:56.000Because obviously, Trump's tendency is to go extremely hard and extremely aggressive to defend everything he has ever done.
00:03:02.000And in reality, what he needs to be here is cool and calm and collected and meticulous in his attack on Joe Biden's presidency.
00:03:08.000Because if this is a referendum on Joe Biden's presidency, Joe Biden loses.
00:03:11.000And if this is a referendum on Donald Trump's character and his foibles, then probably Trump loses.
00:03:17.000So, the new polling suggests, again, a slight shift in the national polling toward Joe Biden, presumably since Trump's criminal conviction.
00:03:25.000It is all within the margin of error, so it is not just positive by any stretch of the imagination.
00:03:31.000Democrats are making a big deal out of a new Fox News poll that shows a three-point change from the last poll.
00:03:36.000Again, this is all within margin of error.
00:03:38.000So, back in March, Trump was leading Biden in the Fox News poll 50-45.
00:03:42.000In May, he was leading 49-48, which is effectively a dead heat.
00:03:46.000And today, Biden is leading 50-48, which again, is effectively a dead heat because the margin of error in this poll is larger than the margin of Joe Biden's lead.
00:03:56.000However, that has been mirrored by some other polls.
00:03:58.000A 538 national average now has Joe Biden like 0.1 ahead of Donald Trump.
00:04:03.000Now, that doesn't really matter so much because that's going to be the popular vote.
00:04:07.000And in reality, Donald Trump lost the popular vote in the last election cycle by 7 million, and then he barely, barely, barely lost the election by a handful of votes in a handful of states.
00:04:15.000So the swing states matter a lot more, but the polling in the swing states has been fairly erratic.
00:04:20.000There's not tons of polling in the swing states right now.
00:04:23.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:06:14.000I think one of the things that's happening is that pollsters, in a frenzy not to be caught out, are following each other.
00:06:21.000Because it turns out that when you compose your sample, one of the things that you do is you try to figure out exactly who is going to vote and who's not.
00:07:40.000I mean, one of the untold stories of American politics, and frankly, American society, is this vast political gap that is emerging between men and single women, particularly in the United States.
00:07:49.000And it has some pretty severe social ramifications.
00:07:53.000Also, obviously, he's leading with white women with a college degree.
00:08:34.000And there's a New York Times article out today talking about how Biden's lead with women is smaller than Trump's with men, and that's a warning for Democrats.
00:08:41.000According to Ruth Aguilnick, who covers polling for the New York Times, She says, Mr. Biden's lead among women has slid to about 8 percentage points since the 2020 election, according to an average of more than 30 polls conducted over the last six months and compiled by the New York Times.
00:08:55.000That's down from a lead among women of about 13 percentage points four years ago.
00:08:59.000Meanwhile, since the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump's support among men has recovered and is back to double-digit leads that he had in 2016.
00:09:07.000Biden's drop in support has been particularly pronounced among Black and Hispanic women.
00:09:11.000So those white college-educated lefties, they're still voting for Joe Biden.
00:09:14.000But there are a lot of Black and Hispanic women who are not so enamored of Joe Biden.
00:09:19.000Furthermore, new polling data, as reported by Axios and Equus Poll, found, it's a poll of almost 1,600 registered Latino voters in seven battleground states, and it found that 41% of Hispanic voters trust Trump on immigration compared to 38% for Joe Biden.
00:09:34.000So those are terrible numbers, obviously, for Joe Biden.
00:09:38.000I guess what I'm saying here is anybody who is telling you they know definitively who is going to be president right now is lying to you.
00:09:43.000Anybody who even says that one candidate over the other is heavily favored to be president at this point is lying to you.
00:09:50.000Donald Trump has a lot of entrenched problems about him.
00:09:53.000Joe Biden has a lot of entrenched problems about him.
00:09:56.000Now, it seems to me that there are only two things that sort of exogenously could affect the race.
00:10:02.000As opposed to, you know, the sort of criminal conviction stuff or in a health event.
00:10:07.000In terms of general world politics, only a few things could affect the race.
00:10:10.000One would be if the American people start to perceive that the economy is doing better.
00:10:14.000If they start to perceive the economy is doing well, maybe see some of them lighten up on Biden and shift back into Biden's camp.
00:10:20.000The other is, if there's a major international conflagration or a serious attack on American soil, that's going to cut very much in Trump's favor because it's going to expose the weakness of Joe Biden's foreign policy.
00:10:31.000Meanwhile, in terms of the actual debate itself, RFK has now officially failed to qualify for the debate, so he will not be on the stage, despite the fact that in most of the polling, he's currently averaging about 10% in the polls, which is the best third party showing for any candidate since Ross Perot.
00:10:46.000CNN posted the announcement shortly after midnight on Thursday morning, saying that Biden and Trump were heading for a historic showdown with the stage now set for their June 27th meeting.
00:10:55.000The debate qualification window is closed.
00:10:58.000Kennedy was not on enough ballots in order to be allowed into the debate.
00:11:04.000The polling threshold required a candidate to receive at least 15% support in four separate national qualified polls of registered or likely voters.
00:11:13.000And he was on less than a third of the ballots in the various states that you would need in order to participate in the actual race.
00:11:21.000I mean, it's worth noting at this point that the only states where he's officially on the ballot at this point are California, Delaware, Hawaii, Michigan, Oklahoma, and Utah.
00:11:27.000Literally, the only state there that's a swing state in any way, shape, or form is Michigan.
00:11:32.000So, how are the two candidates prepping for the debate?
00:11:34.000Well, Joe Biden is doing what he traditionally does.
00:11:45.000He's gonna order in from Denny's, watch some Matlock.
00:11:50.000Apparently, according to ABC News, the famous rustic retreat in the Maryland mountains has hosted many debate boot camps during election years.
00:11:56.000Biden hopes to make the most of its secluded setting in the days before heading to the June 27th debate hosted by CNN in Atlanta.
00:12:03.000The campaign said Biden is preparing ways to hold Trump accountable on the debate stage for his track record and remarks he has made on topics from reproductive rights to the economy, including his comment that he will be a dictator on day one.
00:12:14.000The Biden is preparing for all scenarios.
00:12:16.000Some Biden advisors said they believe Trump will be a more disciplined version of himself on stage.
00:12:19.000Sources familiar with Biden's team's planning also said they believe Trump is preparing more than he's letting on, which would make sense considering that he's not letting on that he's preparing at all.
00:12:28.000The Trump team is saying that he's not even prepping for the debate, which of course I don't think is true.
00:12:33.000So meanwhile, I guess it's Ron Klain who's going to be leading the sort of debate prep.
00:14:42.000Nonetheless, CNN, again, this is what Trump is up against.
00:14:45.000He's up against the moderators for sure.
00:14:48.000Apparently, he is going to be prepping by having some sort of policy meetings According to CNN, he has deployed the help of some of his top contenders for VP, as well as senators, policy experts, and outside allies to help brief him ahead of next week's debate.
00:15:04.000Apparently, he has participated in roughly a dozen of these private meetings, dubbed as informal policy discussions by his campaign.
00:15:10.000The subjects of the meetings have ranged from sharpening his message on the economy, the border, and crime, to his views on abortion, the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, and how to best frame his May 30th conviction on business fraud.
00:15:21.000So he's been basically meeting with all of these people, but they're not doing mock debates apparently.
00:15:26.000So in 2020, Trump did mock debates with Chris Christie, the round mound of rebound.
00:16:04.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden is going to have to somehow raise the bar for Trump.
00:16:09.000Now, the thing is, again, with regard to raising the bar for Trump, I'm not sure how much Biden has to do that because everybody sort of expects that Biden is going to collapse on stage.
00:16:16.000However, today I wanted to go through the way that Trump really should handle the debate.
00:16:20.000We know what Biden's strategy is going to be.
00:17:08.000So what he says up here on the stage cannot be trusted because he is not a trustworthy figure.
00:17:14.000He should lead off with that because, again, that sets the groundwork for the fact that when Joe Biden says things that are not true, Donald Trump can say, right, because he's lying.
00:18:08.000He's brought you 40-year inflation, wages have not kept pace, That inflation is now embedded in the economy.
00:18:15.000He has brought you a foreign policy that is so disastrous.
00:18:18.000There are now two massive, ongoing conflagrations across the world.
00:18:22.000Plus, you have Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un and Xi Jinping all hanging out together and plotting their next moves.
00:18:28.000The enemies of the United States lick their lips when they see Joe Biden in the White House.
00:18:32.000So those are the three things that Donald Trump should set up as the predicate, but those should be the themes of the debate.
00:18:37.000That Joe Biden is, one, a liar, two, tyrannical, and three, incompetent.
00:18:43.000Those are the three things to know about Joe Biden.
00:18:45.000Notice, none of those things are about his senility.
00:18:46.000That's something for everyone else to notice.
00:18:49.000And there are subtle ways, of course, that Trump can point this out.
00:18:53.000I've said, for example, But if Joe Biden comes to the end of an answer, but he has time left on the clock, like a minute left on the clock, which will undoubtedly happen.
00:18:59.000He did it a lot during the last round of primary debates, even in 2016.
00:19:04.000And now it's hard for him to keep it together.
00:19:05.000If you get past minute 50, he's going to start to fade.
00:19:07.000He always starts off strong in these things, and then he starts to fade.
00:19:10.000If you get to minute 60 of the debate and Joe Biden has two minutes on the clock to respond to something, and he uses 45 seconds of it, and then he says, well, anyway, I don't want to get into that.
00:19:21.000And then the moderators turn to Trump.
00:19:22.000Trump should say, you know, Joe, you have a minute left on the clock.
00:19:26.000I really think the American people deserve to hear your thoughts.
00:19:43.000The number one line of attack, of course, of course, of course, is going to be January 6th.
00:19:47.000He believes that this is his Trump card.
00:19:49.000He believes that this is his get-out-of-jail-free card, his re-elect card.
00:19:53.000He's just saying January 6th over and over and over.
00:20:00.000And what Donald Trump needs to say is, listen, Joe, you and I disagree on what happened in the 2020 election.
00:20:05.000I, for example, think that your party rigged many of the voting rules in advance of the election in order to ensure an extraordinary number of mail-in ballots, ballot harvesting.
00:20:14.000I think that you worked with the media in order to prevent the dissemination of a story about Hunter Biden's laptop in the last month of the election.
00:20:21.000And you and your son, knowing that the laptop was real, lied about it to the American people.
00:20:25.000We can disagree about what happened in 2020, But none of that matters to the American people.
00:20:30.000Because right now, the calendar reads 2024.
00:21:07.000We'll get to more on that in a moment.
00:21:09.000First, I'm old enough to remember when COVID basically shut down all healthcare.
00:21:12.000Remember, the hospitals were overflowing, and the urgent care had eight-hour wait times.
00:21:16.000They're like, if you're sick, you should just stay home.
00:21:17.000Well, the CDC recently issued a bird flu health alert after the first human infections were reported.
00:21:21.000Is this gonna be the next time that everything shuts down?
00:21:24.000Listen, I don't know about you, and it may not be, but I'm not about to let the government run my life again.
00:21:29.000I'm gonna take control of both mine and my family's health and order a medical emergency kit from the doctors at the wellness company today.
00:22:06.000Okay, the second issue that Joe Biden presumably is going to bring up is a corollary of the first, and that is this threat to democracy stuff.
00:22:13.000So Joe Biden keeps saying, And he's going to talk again about January 6th.
00:22:21.000He's going to suggest that Trump wants to overturn the election, that he's threatened to be a dictator on day one, all the rest of this sort of stuff, right?
00:22:27.000The dictator on day one thing is just a lie, right?
00:22:30.000What Donald Trump did is he joked about being a dictator on day one, saying that he was going to effectively reverse Joe Biden's executive actions.
00:22:49.000That's not dictatorial unless you also believe that it's dictatorial for Joe Biden to do what he's done on the border.
00:22:55.000In fact, there's much more legal authority for Donald Trump to shut down the border than there is legal authority for Joe Biden to simply not enforce immigration law.
00:23:03.000So Trump's proper response on the threat to democracy stuff is twofold.
00:23:05.000First, he should say, Joe, you keep saying my threat to democracy because I don't believe I lost the 2020 election.
00:23:11.000Well, I noticed that Hillary Clinton doesn't believe she lost the 2016 election and that's apparently just fine.
00:23:16.000And she keeps saying that it was Russian disinformation or that I stole the 2016 election.
00:23:25.000In reality, you are the threat to democracy.
00:23:28.000Democracy means, in the United States, a democratic republic with two elected branches of the legislature who are supposed to initiate bills, and then you are supposed to effectuate those bills once you have signed them.
00:23:41.000And that is not how you have run the government.
00:23:43.000In reality, you've sicced your political allies on me in the courts.
00:23:46.000You've had your party's members From New York, to D.C., to Florida, to Atlanta, sicked upon me for political reasons.
00:23:55.000I had zero criminal investigations into me for my entire life, and I'm into my eighth decade of life, until I decided to run for re-election, at which point the House fell in on me.
00:24:24.000Trying to use the courts to go after your political opponent?
00:24:27.000You used OSHA to mandate vaccines for 80 million Americans.
00:24:30.000Violated the Constitution to try to allow people to skate on their student loan debt so you can let a blue-collar plumber pay for the tuition in the future of some gender theory major over at Wellesley.
00:24:42.000You violated your constitutional oath by keeping the border open and letting through at least 7 million illegal immigrants.
00:24:49.000That sounds like a threat to democracy to me.
00:24:51.000And you're baking all of these regulations into the administrative state, so even if I'm elected, it makes it difficult for me to change our policy.
00:24:59.000You've effectuated the establishment of a fourth unelected branch of government, independent of even the executive, unless the executive happens to be a Democrat.
00:25:08.000Okay, so that is response number one to the democracy issue.
00:25:13.000The other one is he should say, listen, I joked about using executive orders on my first day in office.
00:25:20.000You have been a dictator the entirety of your presidency.
00:25:24.000You haven't just been a dictator on day one.
00:25:25.000You've been a dictator the whole time.
00:25:27.000And then you should list off the litany again.
00:25:31.000Hey, then you have issue number three, and that's the criminal convictions.
00:25:33.000At some point during this debate, Joe Biden is going to bring up, Oh, I'm running against a convicted felon up here.
00:25:40.000Now, Maggie Haberman suggests that Trump is going to bring up Hunter in this context, that your son is also a convicted felon.
00:25:47.000The reason I think that's a mistake is because the minute that he does, then Biden is going to say, I respect the justice system for my own son.
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00:29:07.000Okay, so what should Trump actually respond if they bring up the criminal conviction?
00:29:10.000What he should say is, Joe, you're right.
00:29:12.000I was convicted by a Democrat judge and a Democrat prosecutor who coordinated to set up a series of specious charges in a district that you won overwhelmingly, in an extraordinarily blue district in Manhattan, which is why the case was filed there.
00:29:29.000At least I was found competent to stand trial.
00:29:31.000Your own Department of Justice refused to prosecute you for mishandling of classified information, for keeping classified documents in your drawers, telling your ghostwriter about it, keeping them in your car, in your garage.
00:29:44.000Your own DOJ refused to prosecute you because they effectively found that you are too old and too wavering mentally for a jury to convict you.
00:29:54.000That is the actual rationale set up by your own Justice Department for not.
00:29:58.000So at least I was found mentally competent to stand trial.
00:30:00.000That's the least you can say about me.
00:30:02.000Your own DOJ effectively said you were not there.
00:30:06.000And so the jury would find you innocent because they felt bad for you because you're just too old.
00:30:19.000Why won't your DOJ, why don't you authorize your DOJ to release the tape?
00:30:23.000You say that Robert Herr was targeting you, and you lied about that because we saw the transcript.
00:30:28.000So, why won't you, you're the president, why don't you, and you're the guy who's the subject of the interview, you can release the tape today.
00:31:41.000So the fact that they've gotten him to do it this way is actually pretty revealing and also speaks to the fact that I think he knows that this has to go well for him.
00:31:49.000He has said to people multiple times that he knows that he interrupted too much in the first debate with Biden in 2020.
00:31:55.000And having just rewatched that debate recently, it's really striking.
00:31:59.000I mean, we all talked about it at the time, but Biden could barely get a word in edgewise, and Biden was kind of smiling throughout as this was happening.
00:32:07.000So again, I think that Trump knows this.
00:32:10.000And so his big thing is let Biden talk.
00:32:15.000If he lets Biden talk for prolonged periods of time, people are going to see that Joe Biden can't even realistically defend his own policies.
00:32:22.000Look, I'm not looking for Donald Trump to fact-check Biden in real time.
00:32:25.000I don't think that that's Trump's strongest game.
00:32:28.000I do think that he needs to go unarmed with a set of facts that he knows Biden's going to lie about.
00:32:31.000So when Biden says, I created X million jobs, Trump should say, actually, you didn't create any jobs.
00:32:38.000The American people created jobs despite your vaccine mandates and all of your insane regulatory policies and 40-year highs in inflation.
00:32:48.000When he when he suggests that inflation was very low when he was already high when he came in and then just got higher, Trump should fact check him on that.
00:32:58.000Inflation was was that kind of historic norms when you came in and then within a month of you coming in, they blew up because you started pumping money into this economy.
00:33:08.000When he starts citing and jabbering about how historically successful he's been on the foreign front, Trump should be able to say things like, well, I noticed that despite you guys labeling me a Russian agent, Russia never actually invaded Ukraine while I was president, but they did while you're president.
00:33:23.000That's because you're a weakling and everyone knows it, including Vladimir Putin.
00:33:27.000The truth is that you keep saying that I'm palling around with dictators.
00:33:30.000Dictators drool when you're the president.
00:33:32.000Dictators gleefully shout when you're the president.
00:33:36.000Every dictator around the world has gotten more aggressive because you're the president.
00:33:40.000And there's certain things that Donald Trump can certainly do factually that don't require him to memorize facts and statistics because, again, that's not something that Trump is going to do.
00:33:48.000So, as we draw closer to the debate, I would assume that Trump's team is prepping him for all of these things, and he's going to have to avoid kind of the easiest grab bag of things that he tends to go for.
00:33:58.000Donald Trump debates like he speaks, which is he picks things off the tree.
00:34:30.000Okay, in just a second, I want to get to the insane media willingness to cover for the radicals, like true radicals, evil people inside the Democratic Party first.
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00:37:58.000We get into issues of race, the status of the Republican Party, the status of the Democratic Party, the status of intelligentsia in the American public scene.
00:38:14.000When the real violence on the streets of America today is these miscreants and these THUGS running around with automatic weapons, firing them aimlessly out of automobiles at their gang rivals and stuff like that.
00:38:27.000I mean, and you don't have any engagement with that problem.
00:38:32.000Instead, You convert it into a white domination problem?
00:38:38.000So that's the kind of truth that a Black president needed to pull the covers off of,
00:38:57.000Okay, meanwhile, it's truly amazing to me how radicals on various sides of the aisle are treated.
00:39:04.000So on the right side of the aisle, there are certainly radicals in Congress.
00:39:07.000Say, Paul Gosar from Arizona, in the Republican Congressional Caucus.
00:39:11.000He's basically been excised by Republican leadership from any position of power, and essentially sidelined by all right-wing media.
00:39:19.000Because he's kind of nutty, and so people don't really want to associate with him.
00:39:23.000Meanwhile, on the left side of the aisle, you have people ranging from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, A ridiculous human being with foolish ideas to Rashida Tlaib, who's legitimately a border, to Jamal Bowman, all being supported by the democratic infrastructure.
00:39:42.000Rashida Tlaib yesterday tweeted out, Palestinian liberation and black liberation are interconnected.
00:39:48.000From Detroit to Cleveland to Gaza, we must come together to fight for the collective liberation of oppressed people everywhere.
00:39:54.000This is insane on so many possible levels.
00:40:00.000She combined to write this piece with the former national surrogate for Bernie Sanders, Nina Turner, for the nation called Black Liberation and Palestinian Liberation are interconnected.
00:40:11.000Not even kidding, that's her argument.
00:40:12.000Her argument is brown people oppressed, white people bad.
00:40:15.000Never mind the fact that a huge percentage of Israeli Jews are Mizrahi, meaning like from Arabic countries.
00:40:23.000Which is why, for example, the units that you see in Fauda on Netflix, they look like Arabs, which is how they are able to go into Arab villages and, you know, actually carry out operations.
00:40:32.000It's how they're able to free the hostages as they did about a week and a half ago.
00:40:36.000The total insanity, again, of trying to connect black Americans to Palestinians who support a genocidal group, I mean, how little do you think of black Americans?
00:40:51.000How many black Americans are in favor of, you know, spilling out from predominantly black areas of Detroit into the suburbs and every white person they can find, including the babies and grandmothers?
00:41:02.000I don't think there are a lot of black Americans who think like that.
00:41:21.000So Jamal Bowman is a trash heap of a congressperson from New York.
00:41:25.000He represents a district that is largely Jewish.
00:41:30.000He's being primaried right now by a person named George Latimer.
00:41:32.000He's being supported in that primary by a bevy of prominent Democrats who believe correctly that Jamal Bowman is an anti-Semite, which he is.
00:42:13.000If you were a white supremacist and you said the same things as Jamal Bowman, you'd be treated as anathema by the body politic and by the media.
00:42:23.000This actually came to a hilarious sort of apex yesterday when Nick Fuentes and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had that bizarre sort of online meme from predator of like the black fist and the white fist,
00:42:37.000like gripping hands and agreeing that the Jews are responsible for everything.
00:42:41.000So Fuentes tweeted out at Alexander Ocasio-Cortez because Fuentes and Alexander Ocasio-Cortez agree
00:42:48.000that supposedly AIPAC is responsible for all the ills in the world.
00:42:52.000So first of all, let me point something out at AIPAC.
00:42:54.000AIPAC, typically speaking, is a fairly left-wing democratic institution.
00:42:58.000AIPAC, for example, did not intervene in 2015 when they had the opportunity to do so
00:43:03.000to pressure Democrats not to vote on behalf of Barack Obama's horrific Iranian nuclear deal.
00:43:09.000Also, many of the people that you see Congress people talking about, oh, we have an AIPAC handler.
00:43:15.000A handler, typically speaking, is a person who works for an organization and then provides covert payments in some way in order to do corrupt things.
00:43:24.000The people that, for example, Thomas Massey is talking about, those are just constituents Who actually agree with the cause of AIPAC and then lobby his office.
00:43:32.000That's not a handler, that's called a constituent, and it exists across the board.
00:43:36.000It turns out there are many people who are arranged with many different lobbying groups across America, from left to right, on causes ranging from the environmental, to tax, to foreign policy.
00:43:44.000Them calling off an office does not make them a quote-unquote handler.
00:43:47.000In any case, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez has attempted to jump on this bandwagon, suggesting that AIPAC is in control of the United States Congress, which is a full-scale absurdity.
00:43:58.000AOC tweeted something out about AIPAC in which she says, an unspoken secret in Congress is that much of the reflexive, blind, unconditional vote support for nearly any Israeli government action isn't from actual agreement, it's from fear.
00:44:11.000Reps are terrified of this, of AIPAC, so they don't vote their conscience, they vote their fear.
00:44:15.000Now, this is very reminiscent of the kind of language people used to use about the NRA.
00:44:18.000They'd say, oh, the NRA controls gun policy.
00:44:20.000And it turns out, nope, it's just there are a lot of Americans who support gun rights And then a lot of their Congress people also support gun rights.
00:44:26.000And when your constituents support a thing, you very often tend to support that thing.
00:44:30.000It turns out the American people are overwhelmingly pro-Israel, except for AOC and Nick Fuentes, who lock arms in their hatred for Israel and for Jews.
00:44:38.000In any case, this was the best exchange.
00:44:42.000Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rips on AIPAC and suggests that everyone is voting this way out of secret fear of AIPAC.
00:44:48.000Which again is reminiscent of the old joke about two Jews meeting in 1937 Germany and one of them sitting on a park bench and is reading Der Sturmer, which is the Nazi newspaper.
00:44:58.000Another Jew walks by and looks and says, what are you reading?
00:45:18.000If by America first, you mean like Nazi sympathizer, then kind of, a little.
00:45:23.000She does have a lot of sympathy for, you know, today's Nazis, meaning the advocates for campus protesters are perfectly willing to act as today's soft brown shirts.
00:45:33.000Anyway, Ocasio-Cortez then replied, you are a white supremacist.
00:45:36.000I want nothing to do with you, nor the world you imagine.
00:45:38.000I believe in a multiracial democracy, one of economic rights, civil liberties, and that affirms the working class and the rights of women and LGBTQ plus minus people.
00:46:35.000Because if you have the right bona fides, An LGBTQ multiracial democracy.
00:46:41.000You can say whatever you want about the Jews, according to the radical left, in the media, and the mainstream media.
00:46:47.000Do you involve your family in the campaign?
00:46:50.000This time around, yes, because my wife got really pissed off when they challenged me.
00:46:54.000And so she got pissed off and she said, we're going to, I can't curse, we're going to win this election and we're going to have record turnout just like we did in 2020.
00:47:04.000So my wife literally like for the first time ever, like gave a speech at a Latinos for Bowman event.
00:47:41.000And what you get away with if you are a radical Democrat is astonishing.
00:47:46.000And you get to be, remain treasured by the mainstream media.
00:47:50.000Bowman tweeted out, catch me on Colbert Late Show tonight.
00:47:52.000We're talking old school hip hop, bringing principal energy to Congress, and so much more.
00:47:58.000See, this is the thing about the left.
00:47:59.000When they look at the radical left, the left, like the mainstream democratic left, they don't see people who are wrong.
00:48:04.000They don't see people who have bad moral principles.
00:48:07.000What they see are people who are just too passionate about the issues.
00:48:10.000You know, their big problem is they say the quiet part out loud, but their heart is in the right place.
00:48:14.000That's why Stephen Colbert can have on Jamal Bowman, why the Democratic Party can continue to push terror supporters like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and AOC.
00:48:24.000You know, the truth is the only thing that is stopping the Democratic Party from running off the rails is Joe Biden.
00:48:29.000I mean, that's the weird position the Democratic Party is in right now.
00:48:32.000The old man who we've been laughing at and pointing out that he's senile, he's falling off stages, and he can't string a sentence together.
00:48:38.000If you got rid of him, that wing of the party takes over.
00:48:42.000That is the likely outcome for the Democrats because the media are already in the corner of Jamal Bowman and AOC.
00:49:10.000We talked about the causes of the fentanyl crisis.
00:49:12.000Joe Biden has said that he has worked with China to shut down the shipment of the precursor chemicals to fentanyl, which are shipped from China into Mexico, processed there very often by Chinese nationals, and then moved across the border, smuggled across America's southern border in the areas that are no longer protected by Border Patrol because of Joe Biden.
00:49:30.000Well, Joe Biden said, well, we worked with China to shut down the big manufacturing labs.
00:49:33.000According to the Washington Post today, when President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to revive a joint crackdown on illegal drug trafficking in November, it sent a brief shockwave through the vast network of Chinese suppliers, fueling the production of fentanyl.
00:49:45.000Drug suppliers hit pause on international orders as local Chinese officials conducted site inspections and began circulating fresh reminders of regulations.
00:49:52.000Beijing sent a warning notice to its pharmaceutical industry and shut down 25 companies selling fentanyl precursors, the chemical building blocks of the drug.
00:50:01.000and Chinese officials hailed it as a breakthrough, but seven months later, the same sellers say it's business as usual.
00:50:05.000Traditional routes for shipping small but potent packages of chemicals used in the production of fentanyl remain largely unhindered, according to three people involved in the export of illicit precursors.
00:50:14.000The three people, two salespeople for Chinese chemical companies and a Chinese reseller based in Mexico, described resuming sales this year after making minor adjustments to avoid scrutiny, including tweaking customs labeling on packages and pivoting to alternative compounds that have virtually identical applications.
00:50:37.000All they did was they shifted production to less discoverable modes.
00:50:42.000The sellers spoke on condition of anonymity or using nicknames to detail their involvement in the sale of fentanyl precursors.
00:50:48.000Their accounts highlight the vast challenges facing U.S.
00:50:50.000officials who have sought to parlay warming relations with Beijing into a broader crackdown on the supply of fentanyl in the United States, a problem the Chinese government has little incentive to dedicate resources to without its own large-scale opioid epidemic.
00:51:02.000The Chinese government has a very large interest in maintaining fentanyl production because number one, it poisons Americans, and number two, it makes them a lot of money.
00:51:10.000China remains the top global producer of the chemicals used to synthesize fentanyl.
00:51:13.000So Joe Biden has been going around declaring that he's been doing all he can on fentanyl.
00:51:17.000That's absolutely untrue, because either you have to shut down the Chinese shipment of the precursors, or you have to shut down the border, or both.
00:51:25.000And Joe Biden has done none of those things.
00:51:27.000This is one of those areas of rare bipartisan agreement.
00:51:30.000According to Axios, House members from both parties are now forming a new group to crack down on China's role in the U.S.
00:51:34.000fentanyl epidemic as part of a more aggressive push to cut off illicit supply of the lethal drug.
00:51:39.000Some members of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party are forming a new working group.
00:51:44.000They will seek to boost sanctions, target money launderers, and explore trade reforms to cut off supply from China.
00:51:50.000Again, this is one of those rare areas of agreement.
00:51:51.000The only person who seems to disagree with this is Joe Biden, who wants to continue to be soft on America's enemies because he is of the bizarre opinion that being soft with tyrants somehow makes them like you more and be nicer to you, which is wild.
00:52:04.000Okay, meanwhile, speaking of people who have worked with China in the past, Anthony Fauci is out doing a book tour.
00:52:09.000It is truly astonishing how obnoxious Anthony Fauci is, just as a human being.
00:52:14.000The extraordinary self-righteousness of Anthony Fauci, the total lack of introspection, So yesterday he was doing those media rounds, and he has this peculiarly tyrannical, dictatorial way of viewing science.
00:52:27.000So he said, questioning me is threatening to the social order.
00:52:31.000Anybody who says stuff like this is certainly a person not to be listened to.
00:52:34.000I served and advised seven presidents, Democrat and Republican, both sides of the aisle, and there has always been disagreements.
00:52:43.000Of course, I mean, that's why our country is a great country.
00:52:46.000You have people who have different ideological views, but the disagreements were always associated with civility, with respect for each other, and for respect for institutions in the government.
00:52:59.000So you could have a disagreement, but at the end you try and compromise.
00:53:04.000What happened with COVID, as I think was represented by the hearing a few weeks ago, was just pure ad hominem and vitriol.
00:53:15.000I thought that there would be that kind of give and take and respect each other's disagreements.
00:53:20.000And that's the thing that worries me not only about what I have to face, but about the direction of the country and the social order in our democracy.
00:53:35.000Or you could just admit that you made some mistakes because you did.
00:53:39.000And you could, you know, apologize for saying things that were not true about masking, both ways, about the efficacy of the vaccines in preventing spread and transmission.
00:53:48.000And then Fauci drops, this is one, I love when people do this.
00:53:51.000It's like when you go to a job interview and they ask you, what's your biggest flaw?
00:54:32.000Or that you got people to do things that were interventions that made them more safe against a deadly pandemic that killed 1.2 million people?
00:54:49.000He's guilty of loving too much Anthony Fauci.
00:54:52.000I can't imagine why people think that he's absolutely obnoxious.
00:54:56.000Okay, I do want to talk a little bit about some culture because there are a couple of culture stories that are pretty fascinating this week.
00:55:02.000Culture story number one comes courtesy of James O'Keefe, who continues to do good undercover work.
00:55:09.000He had a conversation with a guy named Michael Giordano, who's the senior vice president and team leader of 20th Century Television at the Walt Disney Company, who freely admits that Disney no longer hires white people, which is a pretty amazing admission.
00:55:21.000Certainly, there have been times where, you know, there's no way we're hiring a white helper.
00:55:33.000There's no way we're hiring a white male in this room.
00:55:34.000I've been in the company 11 years now, so I have friends in HR, and I have friends in other divisions, and they're like, look, nobody else is going to tell you this, Mike, but they're not considering any white males for this job.
00:58:52.000They've hired Dr. Cori Bush to show up at the new Amsterdam hospital where she will lay her hands upon the child whose tumors have been caused by racism and the tumors will just disappear.