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00:01:26.000Alrighty, so the big story of the day yesterday, Marjorie Taylor Greene, the controversial first term Republican, Congresswoman from Georgia who has put up all sorts of social media posts over the past several years expressing sympathy for a wide variety of weird conspiracy theories ranging from questioning whether a school shooting took place and whether it was staged to whether a plane really hit the Pentagon on 9-11 to whether Jewish space lasers had started wildfires in California.
00:01:52.000All of those are really wild conspiracy theories, except the last one, which I can either confirm or deny.
00:01:58.000As a member of the Jewish Worldwide Conspiracy, I can't confirm or deny that our Jewish space lasers started the California wildfire.
00:02:04.000Perhaps we were aiming for the Mueller's house in Iran and just missed.
00:02:10.000In any case, Marjorie Taylor Greene, the congresswoman from Georgia, There was a debate inside the Republican caucus whether to strip her of her committee assignments.
00:02:19.000And I had suggested that it was worthwhile stripping her of her committee assignments, and she could earn her way back into the good graces of leadership by not being crazy for like five seconds.
00:02:27.000Just give her a six-month probationary period, and then you can restore her to her congressional assignments if you see fit.
00:02:34.000But at the very beginning, she has entered office on the wave of nonsense about election Well, that didn't play out inside the Republican caucus, probably for a couple of reasons.
00:02:52.000One is, there were a lot of people on the Republican side of the aisle who didn't like the image of the Republican Party taking Marjorie Taylor Greene, a big Trump supporter, off of her committees while simultaneously making sure that Liz Cheney would remain in House leadership.
00:03:06.000I didn't see why that was really a big problem, frankly.
00:03:08.000It seemed to me that that was actually the proper solution.
00:03:10.000And so the sort of big tent prevailed, and the idea here was that, yeah, we'll let Marjorie Taylor Greene keep her committee assignments, and maybe down the road she blows up and we remove her from the committee assignments, but she's not actually sinned while being a member of Congress yet, because she was made a member of Congress five seconds ago.
00:03:26.000When she sins, maybe we'll remove her from her committee assignments, because you actually have to do something bad as a congressperson, as opposed to before you were a congressperson.
00:03:34.000And frankly, there's a fair bit of precedent for that.
00:03:36.000There are a lot of Congress people who have said crazy stuff before they were Congress people.
00:03:39.000They were not removed from their committee assignments.
00:03:41.000The truth is, there are a lot of Congress people who have said insane things while they are Congress people and not been removed from their committee assignments.
00:03:47.000Cynthia McKinney, the former Congresswoman from Georgia, Democrat, was rabidly anti-Semitic, conspiratorial.
00:03:54.000She retained all of her committee assignments when the Democrats had control of her committee assignments.
00:03:58.000Okay, so the Republicans make the decision not to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments.
00:04:04.000But one thing is pretty clear from precedent and practice, and that is parties get to choose which members they want to be on particular committees.
00:04:12.000The majority does not get to choose for the minority which members of the minority party get to be on a particular committee.
00:04:18.000The majority comprises the majority in each committee, but they don't get to decide, OK, you know, we don't like this Republican.
00:04:24.000We're not going to put them on this committee.
00:04:26.000We just don't want Back in the day, Trey Gowdy on the Judiciary Committee.
00:04:29.000So we're not going to put him on the Judiciary Committee.
00:04:32.000We're instead going to force him to go to the Commerce Committee, right?
00:04:35.000That's not something that has historically been done.
00:04:37.000It is the job of each party to decide which of its members sit on particular committees.
00:04:42.000Well, yesterday, the Democrats, because they have basically decided that all norms are out the window, they're just going to cram down whatever it is they want to cram down.
00:04:51.000Again, I can believe that Marjorie Taylor Greene should not be on these committees, but it is not the job of the majority in the House to tell the minority in the House which people it can put on particular committees.
00:05:01.000That is a violation of every norm and every rule so far that we know about when it comes to House committee assignments.
00:05:08.000Nonetheless, Democrats went ahead and they did this last night.
00:05:10.000The House voted Thursday to strip Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments, according to CBS News.
00:05:16.000All Democrats and 11 Republicans voted for the measure, despite Republican leader Kevin McCarthy's opposition to it.
00:05:22.000It is worth noting at this point, by the way, that Liz Cheney, right, who does not like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Liz Cheney, who voted for impeachment, she came out and she said, it's ridiculous that Democrats are doing this, right?
00:05:32.000She believes the same that I do, the same that I think a lot of Republicans do, which is Marjorie Taylor Greene, maybe a fringy, crazy kind of person, but it is not the job of the majority in the House as a full body to decide which members of the minority party get to sit on which committee.
00:05:47.000Liz Cheney put out a statement, she said, Republicans are not the party of QAnon conspiracy theorists, white supremacists, Holocaust deniers, or neo-Nazis.
00:06:14.000Just as the Democrats came to regret Harry Reid's decision to nuke the judicial filibuster when Mitch McConnell decided, you know what?
00:06:21.000We're just going to ram through a bunch of Trump nominees.
00:06:23.000Democrats are going to live to regret the decision where they were going to start telling which Republicans could be on particular committees.
00:06:29.000Because when Republicans retake the House in two years, which, frankly, they have a good shot at doing, when that happens in two years, by January 2023, they are going to be deciding which Democrats ought to sit on which particular committees.
00:06:41.000CBS News says that although some Republicans have rebuked Greene, there's been opposition to stripping her of committee assignments, which carry power since bills are crafted in committee.
00:06:49.000Democrats have slammed her seat on the Education and Labor Committee in particular, given Greene's previous promotion of conspiracy theories related to the Parkland and Newtown school shootings.
00:06:57.000McCarthy said on Wednesday he unequivocally opposed Greene's comments, but accused Democrats of a power grab.
00:07:02.000On Thursday, ahead of the vote, McCarthy said the resolution creates, quote, a dangerous new standard that will only deepen divides.
00:07:08.000That, of course, happens to be correct.
00:07:10.000There were a handful of Republicans who broke with the party.
00:07:12.000That is mostly Republicans who are in competitive districts, like heavily purple districts or heavily blue districts.
00:07:17.000People like Nicole Malliotakis in New York, and John Katko from New York, Adam Kinzinger from Illinois, Young Kim of California, who just started, Maria Alvarez-Salazar of Florida, down here in Florida.
00:07:29.000Congressional Democrats have been, of course, attempting to tie all the House Republicans to Greene.
00:07:33.000Their implication is if you don't allow them to push Greene out of committee assignments, then this means that you are in favor of what Greene said.
00:07:40.000That, of course, is not true in any way, shape, or form.
00:07:42.000You can think Republicans should have done it inside their own caucus, but you don't get to decide as Democrats who Republicans put on their particular committees.
00:07:50.000And so, this all kicked off yesterday with Marjorie Taylor Greene getting on the floor of the house and essentially apologizing for all of the crazy stuff that she had posted over the past several years.
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00:09:04.000All right, so the entire event kicked off yesterday with Marjorie Taylor Greene going down to the floor of the house.
00:09:10.000She was wearing a mask that read on it, free speech.
00:09:12.000And she says that she was, quote unquote, allowed to believe things that aren't true.
00:09:16.000I'm not sure exactly what that means, but here was Marjorie Taylor Greene yesterday.
00:09:20.000Throughout 2018, because I was upset about things and didn't trust the government, really, because the people here weren't doing the things that I thought they should be doing for us, the things that I just told you I cared about.
00:09:35.000And I want you to know, a lot of Americans don't trust our government.
00:09:41.000The problem with that is, though, is I was allowed to believe things that weren't true, and I would ask questions about them and talk about them.
00:09:51.000Okay, so she says that, you know, there are a lot of people who believe conspiracy theories these days because they don't trust people in power.
00:11:38.000You're allowed to think that she is just BSing it and that the apology isn't real.
00:11:41.000But as we will see, there's a massive double standard here because it turns out that when it comes to the Democrats, if you are a Democrat who believes radically conspiratorial crap, if you're an anti-Semite inside the Democratic Party, the entire media will rush to your defense headlong.
00:11:55.000I don't buy any of it, because I have eyes and ears.
00:11:57.000you for your anti-Semitic comments in the past. So here's Jake Tapper saying he doesn't buy any of Marjorie Taylor Greene's routine. I don't buy any of it because I have eyes and ears.
00:12:09.000And as you know, this is about something bigger than Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is just, you know, a frivolous person who, and not a serious person who says horrible things.
00:12:22.000It's about how much the Republican Party is willing to embrace this and mainstream it.
00:12:28.000Okay, again, I'm just wondering when CNN and Jake Tapper are going to point out and acknowledge that the Democratic Party has embraced an extraordinary number of kooks in their own party.
00:12:40.000How many members of the Democratic Party have met with Louis Farrakhan, who's like the worst anti-Semite in America?
00:12:47.000Including, by the way, you know, the former president of the United States, Barack Obama, used to hang with Jeremiah Wright, and Jeremiah Wright was good friends with Louis Farrakhan.
00:13:02.000It sounds like she's still queuing on.
00:13:05.000I mean, I think what we don't understand about conspiracy theories, and theories if we're not in them, is the ways in which they talk and maybe dog whistle certain things that we don't necessarily understand because we're not knee-deep in them.
00:13:20.000I think what's dangerous about this moment is she's still a conspiracy theorist, but she's sort of wrapping it in the language of conservative talk.
00:13:41.000You are not allowed to say that you don't believe Marjorie Taylor Greene's apology, but You definitely believe that Ilhan Omar has learned her lesson on anti-Semitism.
00:13:49.000Rashida Tlaib has learned her lesson on anti-Semitism.
00:13:51.000And the Democratic Party is completely innocent.
00:13:54.000So the Democratic Party trotted out Ilhan Omar, who is a rabid anti-Semite.
00:13:59.000She's not made a lot of bones about this.
00:14:10.000What we are as a democracy is people get elected to Congress and then other members of Congress strip their committee assignments from the opposing party in a norm-breaking move that has very little precedent in American history.
00:14:22.000That sounds like what we are as a democracy.
00:15:15.000And Democrats, Kamala Harris was trying to bail out rioters.
00:15:19.000She tweeted out a bail fund for people who are engaging in violent acts.
00:15:27.000The double standard here again is what's killing the United States.
00:15:29.000It's double standards that kill the United States because it is one thing to hold a standard, and we may not like the standard, but at least it's held evenly.
00:15:36.000When the standard is applied to one side but not the other, that is a completely different thing.
00:15:47.000Okay, let me just remind you, Ilhan Omar wrote a letter to a judge suggesting that a person who tried to join ISIS should be given a lenient sentence because America is filled with systemic racism.
00:15:57.000Ilhan Omar tweeted, forget about before she was in Congress, she tweeted while she was in Congress about how AIPAC was paying American Congress people in order to be pro-Israel.
00:16:07.000Right, it's all about the Benjamins, is what she tweeted.
00:16:09.000She accused American Jews of possessing dual loyalty to Israel and the United States.
00:16:15.000Before she was in Congress, as long as we're gonna go with the before in Congress standard, which is what they're using now with Marjorie Taylor Greene, she accused Israel of hypnotizing the world.
00:16:23.000She still supports the boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign against Israel, which is anti-Semitism.
00:16:28.000She submitted a resolution in the House of Representatives that compared boycotting Israel to boycotting the Nazis, according to the Jerusalem Post, because there was a whole move inside Congress to prevent BDS on college campuses.
00:16:40.000And she immediately said, no, no, no, boycotting Israel is like boycotting the Nazis.
00:16:50.000In fact, not only did she not apologize for that, not only did she not apologize for that, she went on CBS This Morning, and she said, I don't regret any of those comments.
00:17:00.000I regret how people took them, which is always, that's one of my favorite apologies is, I really apologize for how you took that.
00:17:09.000I just properly interpreted your comments.
00:17:10.000Here was Ilhan Omar not apologizing just a little while ago.
00:17:15.000Oftentimes there are things that you might say might not hold weight for you but to someone else, right?
00:17:22.000The way that we hear and consume information is very different than how the next person might.
00:17:29.000So you don't regret your words either?
00:17:30.000I do not, but I have gotten the... I am grateful for the opportunity to really learn how my words made people feel and have taken every single opportunity I've gotten to make sure that people understood that I apologize for it.
00:17:49.000Would you like people to... Would you like to make it clear that you were not anti-semitic?
00:18:00.000Neither was Rashida Tlaib, by the way.
00:18:01.000Neither was Rashida Tlaib, who has flirted with the blood libel over and over again.
00:18:06.000Earlier this year, she had to delete a tweet in which she retweeted a tweet suggesting that Jews had had kidnapped a seven-year-old Palestinian child and thrown him down a water well.
00:18:17.000It turns out that he had just slipped and he had fallen into a well and died there.
00:18:23.000Rashida Tlaib, a well-respected member of the Democratic Party, tweeted that Israel, quote, unjustly oppresses and targets Palestinian children after a Palestinian rocket attack against Israeli civilians.
00:18:32.000She compared Israel to Nazi Germany, which is a form of anti-Semitism.
00:18:37.000In December, after an anti-Semitic shooting at a kosher deli in New Jersey, you remember that?
00:19:02.000The entire Democratic Party rushed to Ilhan Omar's defense.
00:19:05.000There was an attempt to push a censure vote on Ilhan Omar.
00:19:08.000It was like only a couple months, by the way, after Kevin McCarthy stripped Steve King of his committee assignments.
00:19:13.000Just a few months later, Ilhan Omar was brought up for a possible censure vote and Democrats decided instead to pass a resolution condemning every bad thing in the universe.
00:19:36.000If you want to make the case that Republicans are the party of Marjorie Taylor Greene, again, that case is a lot weaker than the case that Democrats are the party of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, considering the amount of defense they have placed in these two people.
00:19:57.000The double standard is what the Democrats are living off of right now.
00:19:59.000It's what the media are living off of right now.
00:20:01.000My favorite thing here is that Republicans point this out.
00:20:03.000We point out that, look, Marjorie Taylor Greene, in my opinion, should have been stripped of her committee assignments by the Republicans.
00:20:08.000Democrats don't get to do this from the top level of the House of Representatives.
00:20:12.000By the way, again, when Republicans take the House in 2022, I promise you, the first move they will make is to strip Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib of their committee assignments.
00:20:21.000Ilhan Omar is a rabid anti-Semite who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
00:20:25.000In any case, the media, their move here is not to say, oh yeah, you're right, both sides really should purge themselves of the members who are unrepresentative of their viewpoints and who traffic in conspiracy theories and traffic in Jew hatred.
00:20:54.000But I have to say, the most vile defense of green I saw today came from Republicans in Fox News, which repeatedly tried to equate her with Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
00:22:09.000I mean, if we're talking about Democrats who have accused, who have used inflammatory language that has ended with, you know, actual violence, I can name a kind of a big Democrat who said some things about how Republicans wanted people to die, and then a bunch of Congress people got shot, one nearly to death.
00:23:53.000It is indeed the smartest way to hire.
00:23:56.000Okay, so, meanwhile, the Biden administration kicking into high gear.
00:24:00.000One of the beautiful things about having a media that's willing to cover for you on all available fronts is that you can be unbelievably crappy at your job on a regular basis, and the media will just continue to pretend that everything you say is just truthful beyond belief.
00:24:13.000So, And the entire media, upon Trump's exit, the entire media swiveled into, we have now entered the period of science, choir from heaven, science, angel wings, people backlit.
00:24:35.000They love science so much that boys can be girls, girls can be boys, and babies before they are born are actually just clusters of cells you can flush down a toilet.
00:24:40.000Other than that, they are super into science.
00:25:01.000You know, the same exact plan that Joe Biden did about vaccine rollout.
00:25:04.000And sure, Operation Warp Speed did end with the creation of vaccine in record time.
00:25:08.000And sure, the Democrats were most praised by the media.
00:25:12.000It turns out it kind of sucked at their job.
00:25:13.000Sure, it turns out that Andrew Cuomo, the anti-Trump, ends up not only being a garbage governor of the state of New York, but perhaps a criminal in covering up the number of nursing home deaths.
00:25:26.000Okay, January 20th, the skies opened, the rays of light came down, and Sir Isaac Newton, holding hands with Albert Einstein, holding hands with the greatest of all doctors, Joe Biden, came down from heaven and brought us to science.
00:25:43.000Right, so, how's that era of science going, guys?
00:25:47.000So, you'll recall that over the past 48 hours, Joe Biden's CDC director, His CDC director, whose name is Rochelle Walensky, was on a live stream.
00:26:00.000This was a CDC presser that was being live streamed by MSNBC.
00:26:04.000And the CDC director said the teachers do not need to be vaccinated in order for schools to open.
00:26:10.000Now, I remember during the Trump administration, the claim was that Trump kept undermining his public health officials.
00:26:17.000How dare he ever, or anyone in the administration ever, contradict the all-wise, all-knowing, all-seeing Anthony Fauci, who has only switched positions on masking more than the Kama Sutra does on sex.
00:26:30.000How dare anybody ever put out data or theories that are contrary to the all-knowing eye that was Dr. Anthony Fauci.
00:26:41.000And the claim was that Trump was routinely undermining his own public health officials.
00:26:44.000He didn't get to undermine public health officials.
00:26:46.000Okay, so, Dr. Rochelle Walensky is the CDC director.
00:26:50.000Here she was, like 48 hours ago, saying, you know, teachers don't need to be vaccinated in order for schools to open.
00:26:56.000There is increasing data to suggest that schools can safely reopen and that that safe reopening does not suggest that teachers need to be vaccinated in order to reopen safely. So while we are implementing the criteria of the advisory committee and of the state and local guidances to get vaccination across these eligible communities.
00:27:23.000I would also say that safe reopening of schools is not that vaccination of teachers is not a prerequisite for safe reopening schools.
00:27:32.000Now, you may notice something in this clip.
00:27:34.000If you're watching this visually, you may notice something behind Dr. Rochelle Walensky.
00:28:27.000They're in opposition to those things.
00:28:28.000OK, so the unions come out and they're like, no, we need teachers vaccinated.
00:28:32.000There are certain teachers unions over the past week who have been saying we need students vaccinated, which is crazy considering the CDC has not greenlit the vaccine for small children.
00:28:41.000You can't vaccinate in the United States, I believe legally, kids who are like seven or eight years old.
00:28:49.000The great, how refreshing, according to Brad, super refreshing, the most refreshing, like the fresca of press secretaries over at the White House.
00:28:58.000Jen Psaki, who only used to lie professionally for the State Department, now she lies professionally for the entire White House, which is exciting.
00:29:04.000So she gets up there at the White House.
00:29:07.000And she has asked about the CDC director saying a thing that contradicts one of the Democrats' chief constituencies, teachers unions.
00:29:14.000Because again, the teachers unions, they don't like the actual science.
00:29:17.000So Jen Psaki has asked, you know, you know, that CDC director, she said that teachers can go back to work, you know, without having been vaccinated.
00:29:40.000And he wants health and medical experts to be the guides for how we should do exactly that.
00:29:48.000Dr. Walensky spoke to this in her personal capacity.
00:29:52.000Obviously, she's the head of the CDC, but we're going to wait for the final guidance to come out so we can use that as a guide for schools around the country.
00:30:47.000We need to send bottles of wines to reporters who actually ask serious questions of this administration, since most of them are too busy bootlicking the administration.
00:31:05.000This is a good question because the teachers unions right now are striking effectively against the students in direct contravention of the actual science.
00:31:14.000Here is Jen Psaki's response to this intrepid reporter.
00:31:18.000If it comes down to a binary choice, who would the president choose?
00:31:34.000And I'm not sure that any parent in this country would disagree with wanting their kids to go to school in a safe environment where there's ventilation, where proper precautions are taken, whether it's masks or social distancing.
00:32:00.000The teachers' unions are striking against the students right now in contravention of the science.
00:32:04.000By the way, you know who agrees with this?
00:32:06.000The queen of science over in Chicago has finally realized that, wait a second, I made that video right after the election talking about the glories of science, and then I've spent the last several weeks kowtowing to the teachers' unions.
00:32:16.000Maybe I should actually stand up for the science.
00:32:17.000So here are what, that question, Jen Psaki's like, that's an idle question.
00:32:21.000The teachers want the same things as the students.
00:32:24.000Let me remind you of the over $100 million in mitigations that CPS has invested in our schools to make them safe.
00:32:27.000same thing as the students. They're breaking the system because the teachers unions are being awful.
00:32:31.000Let me remind you of the over $100 million in mitigations that CPS has invested in our schools to make them safe. They included ventilation, testing, health screening, face coverings, enhanced cleaning and other in-school safety measures. And as the expression goes, the The proof is in the pudding.
00:32:57.000CPS had three weeks of successful implementation of these mitigation plans in our schools.
00:33:05.000That was until the CTU blew up that success and created chaos that we are now enduring.
00:33:12.000But don't worry, according to Jen Psaki, the unions aren't exactly the same side as the students.
00:33:16.000We're all on the same side here, except for the teachers.
00:33:33.000And by the way, speaking of the best science, nothing undercuts faith in the vaccine like what Jen Psaki said yesterday at the White House.
00:33:40.000So this has become a talking point, and it's the dumbest talking point I can imagine.
00:33:46.000Here is Jen Psaki, White House press secretary yesterday, saying the thing that is most calibrated for people to say, I'm not going to bother getting the vaccine.
00:33:55.000Part of what we're also trying to do is make our health and medical experts available to ensure people understand, and I'll reiterate it here today, it's not just a vaccine.
00:34:03.000It's obviously an incredible medical breakthrough and we want every American to have one.
00:34:08.000But even after you're vaccinated, social distancing, wearing masks are going to be essential and we'll need to continue communicating about that through health and medical experts.
00:34:29.000Because at a certain level, yes, is there a baseline risk that a few, a few, a vanishingly few people could get infected after they get vaccinated?
00:34:49.000If you want to say that everybody for the future should always, under all circumstances, socially distance and mask with people who are over 80 in nursing homes, there is a better case for that than what you were saying post-vaccination.
00:35:17.000Out of 417,000 people, 254 people got COVID after getting that second shot.
00:35:20.000And zero of them had heavy conditions.
00:35:21.000people, 254 people got COVID after getting that second shot and zero of them had heavy conditions, zero. Over the same period of time, out of 778,000 people in the control group, almost 13,000 new cases of COVID-19 emerged.
00:35:40.000That shows that the vaccine is 91% effective seven days or more after the second injection is administered.
00:35:46.000The whole point of people taking the vaccine, particularly if you are not at high risk of death from this thing, if you're under the age of 65 and in decent health, the only reason really that you are taking this is to prevent yourself from infecting people who are old, Or, more importantly, so you can get back to regular life.
00:36:02.000So, if you want to convince a bunch of healthy 40-year-olds not to take the vaccine, the best way to do that is to tell them that even if they take the vaccine, they have to continue doing this crap ad infinitum.
00:37:00.000And it is going to convince millions of people not to get the vaccine.
00:37:03.000Because if they're saying, okay, well, I don't even know what the risks of the vaccine are two years from now.
00:37:06.000We don't have a longitudinal study or anything.
00:37:08.000So, either I could go back to my regular life and not get the vaccine, or I could go back to my regular life and get the vaccine, or alternatively, I can get the vaccine and not go back to my regular life, or not get the vaccine and not go back to my regular life.
00:37:40.000He's responsible for the stuff that happens on his watch.
00:37:42.000So if Donald Trump was supposedly responsible for every death happening while he was president of the United States from COVID, that means that Joe Biden is now responsible for well over 50,000 deaths in the United States from COVID, right?
00:37:51.000That's the way the calendar works according to the media.
00:37:53.000I don't think that's how it should work.
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00:40:48.000The FDA continues to be a largely garbage organization that does not do a good job in the United States.
00:40:53.000In fact, there was a story in the Washington Post just two days ago talking about how the FDA had completely missed the fact that there were heavy metals in baby food for like years.
00:41:01.000And the FDA didn't say anything about it, which is just fantastic.
00:41:03.000Because I probably fed my baby some of that food, as did pretty much everybody else on the planet.
00:41:07.000In any case, now it turns out that the FDA, right, the FDA is supposed to run all of these vaccines through its process.
00:41:13.000And they delay, and they delay, and they delay, right?
00:41:15.000They take forever to do this kind of stuff.
00:41:17.000So, now we are learning that Johnson & Johnson is seeking emergency FDA authorization for single-shot coronavirus vaccine.
00:41:25.000I mean, we're in the middle of a giant pandemic.
00:41:26.000Yes, the rates of transmission have dropped about 45% since their height, but they are still way above anything before October.
00:41:34.000So a single shot would be fantastic, because that also means that you don't need as many doses.
00:41:38.000It means that you don't need to come back three weeks later.
00:41:39.000It means that the period for developing immunity is much shorter.
00:41:43.000So Johnson & Johnson submitted its single-shot coronavirus vaccine to U.S.
00:41:47.000regulators on Thursday afternoon for emergency use authorization.
00:41:51.000The submission is a pivotal step toward reducing the burden of disease for people globally and putting an end to the pandemic, said Paul Stoffels, chief scientific officer of Johnson & Johnson, in a statement.
00:42:00.000If the vaccine received regulatory clearance, it would be the third authorized shot in the United States.
00:42:22.000In the middle of a pandemic, with 3,500 people dying a day.
00:42:26.000The FDA, I mean, they're really on top of their business at the FDA.
00:42:29.000Not like, I mean, I don't mean to bother you guys.
00:42:31.000I don't mean to like ring the bell over here and wake you guys up in the middle.
00:42:34.000It's like at like 11 o'clock in the morning.
00:42:36.000I know you're lazy, but like at a certain point, might you want to consider the possibility of an emergency use authorization for a single shot vaccine that could revolutionize our treatment of a horrifying disease that has shut down the entire world economy for a year?
00:42:51.000Could we bother you just for like a second?
00:42:53.000I know that you guys are super busy making sure that almond milk cannot actually be called milk.
00:42:58.000I know that that's like a big priority for you and that vegetarian meat should not be able to be called meat.
00:43:02.000Like, I get that these are like huge things, but at some point you might want to get around to, you know, authorizing for emergency use a vaccine so that people don't die.
00:43:27.000That means that Joe Biden has been president since January 20th.
00:43:30.000And that means that Joe Biden has been president for two weeks, more than two weeks.
00:43:35.000So anytime now, gang, like seriously, anytime you want to actually start having Joe Biden take responsibility for his administration would be just fantastic.
00:43:51.000And by the way, I love how the media are just going to treat the Biden administration as though they're doing everything right while they continue to do everything wrong.
00:43:57.000That's just the way this is going to go for four long years.
00:44:00.000And it is truly amazing what they are going to be able to get away with in terms of bad policy.
00:44:06.000Cheered on, by the way, by pseudo-conservatives, as it turns out.
00:44:10.000David Brooks has one of the worst columns I've seen in recent memory.
00:44:30.000He says, and he's correct, that the bill that Joe Biden is pushing forward right now, this $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill, is way too big.
00:44:39.000It happens to be way too big by virtually every estimate.
00:44:42.000Economist Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Institute says there will be a $420 billion output gap in 2021 because of the pandemic.
00:44:50.000We're gonna spend almost $2 trillion in order to fill that output gap, right?
00:44:54.000Even David Brooks acknowledges this, but I love this.
00:44:57.000This is how the entire media are just gonna treat this stuff.
00:45:02.000And when we experiment, we have to be bold, bold with our experiments, says David Brooks.
00:45:09.000I'm impressed by the scale of the social crisis all around us.
00:45:12.000The Biden team is absolutely right to go big if we can use COVID as a pretext Yes, this is the way it's going to go.
00:45:18.000Remold all of American society using COVID as a pretext.
00:45:21.000Why are people suspicious of what the government has to say on COVID when people are openly calling for them to use COVID as a pretext?
00:45:27.000Why are so many Americans suspicious of what the media and what government tell them on things like climate change when people openly say that the government should use climate change as a pretext?
00:46:14.000They'll get credit for having taken the risk of spending money that they don't have the right to spend from people who have not yet been born.
00:46:20.000This is the kind of treatment that Biden can expect for four long years.
00:46:24.000If you think that the populist turmoil that has been roiling the country for the last several years is going away anytime soon, it ain't.