The Ben Shapiro Show - The Democrats Need January 6 | Ep. 1259

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00:01:42.000 Alrighty, so.

00:01:43.000 Yesterday, the House rammed through, along party lines, essentially, a January 6th commission.

00:01:50.000 There were 35 Republicans who voted to create the January 6th commission as well.

00:01:54.000 Most Republicans voted not to go along with the January 6th commission.

00:01:59.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, the House passed a bill on Wednesday authorizing a bipartisan independent commission to investigate the January 6th pro-Trump assault on the U.S.

00:02:06.000 But the proposal could stall in the Senate after GOP leaders in Congress and former President Trump For the second time in a week, House Republicans found themselves facing a contentious vote that Trump has framed as a test of their loyalty, even as the party tries to focus on more unifying topics, criticism of the Biden administration and winning next year's midterm elections, which, of course, is the reason why they are pushing a January 6th commission to ignore the politics on the side of the Democrats who are pushing the commission.

00:02:06.000 Capitol.

00:02:31.000 The reason they're pushing this is because they wish to have this bleed over into the 2022 midterms, because the reality is that Joe Biden has not governed well.

00:02:38.000 The Democratic Party is not In high favor with the American public right now on a number of issues, Democrats are really struggling.

00:02:47.000 And so they have to redirect toward Trump.

00:02:49.000 And thankfully for them, Trump is still there to fight with.

00:02:52.000 But it really is about January 6th for them.

00:02:54.000 If they can continue to focus in on January 6th, if they can continue to focus in on Trump, this allows them to avoid the consequences of having to look in the face of their own governance.

00:03:02.000 Because remember, Democrats right now are in control of the House and the Senate.

00:03:06.000 And the presidency.

00:03:07.000 So 2022 naturally is going to be a referendum on the party in power.

00:03:11.000 This always happens.

00:03:12.000 Midterms are a referendum on the party in power.

00:03:14.000 The way that Democrats are hoping to shift that math is by making instead 2022 a referendum on Trump, who will have been at that point out of power for two full years.

00:03:22.000 And so what they're going to attempt to do is say, well, you know, however bad we are, Those Republicans, they're the ones behind January 6th.

00:03:28.000 They all remember how bad January 6th was.

00:03:30.000 And so we're going to do a full investigation.

00:03:32.000 And our investigation is going to focus in not only on failures, systemic failures that happen, right, with the Capitol Police or with the federal law enforcement.

00:03:42.000 The failures are going to focus in, the investigation is going to focus in on the rhetoric of people in the opposing political party, and we are going to attempt to link that rhetoric to the events of January 6th.

00:03:52.000 The Republicans know this, Democrats know this, which is why Democrats are pushing it, and Republicans are pushing back against it.

00:03:58.000 Now, could there be an investigation of January 6th that makes sense?

00:04:02.000 Sure, but it would actually fall under what congressional investigations usually do.

00:04:06.000 So, to understand what a congressional investigation like this would actually look like, were it designed to elicit something useful?

00:04:13.000 You actually have to look at the general purpose of congressional investigations.

00:04:16.000 So, 2003, there was a report for Congress that was put out by Lewis Fisher, a senior specialist in separation of powers from the government and finance division, this is from the Congressional Research Service, talking about what investigations typically look like.

00:04:29.000 And one of the things that is clearly true is that there are really only two specific functions that Congress is supposed to perform when it does an investigation.

00:04:38.000 One is that it could theoretically be performing legislative oversight of the executive branch.

00:04:43.000 So there was a failure inside the executive branch, the 9-11.

00:04:46.000 And so you need to look at how the system is structured.

00:04:49.000 FBI, CIA, were they talking to each other?

00:04:52.000 There was this Byzantine wall that was designed to prevent, for example, domestic law enforcement from using material and evidence that they could not use in a courtroom.

00:05:00.000 And that wall had to be breached in order to allow intelligence sharing between agencies.

00:05:03.000 That would be a good reason why you'd have congressional investigations. 0.54

00:05:07.000 Congress created these agencies and wanted to make sure that these agencies are performing their duties under the law.

00:05:13.000 That is a normal oversight investigation.

00:05:14.000 Then you have a legislative powers investigation.

00:05:17.000 In other words, the goal would be to look at legislation anew.

00:05:22.000 It's sort of connected to oversight, but the idea here is we're trying to figure out how the system actually works in practice now because we might actually want to think about whether or not we need to change the law, whether there are legitimate legislative concerns that undergird the investigation.

00:05:36.000 Now, what congressional investigations typically are not supposed to do, and they've really run afoul of basic kind of black-letter law here for decades on end, they're not just supposed to be fishing expeditions where Congress just calls random people in front of them and then has them testify about things that have nothing to do with these specific functions.

00:05:54.000 Remember, Congress is a body with a job.

00:05:57.000 It is not just a bunch of people who are supposed to sit there and talk to you about random stuff.

00:06:02.000 We have an entire commentariat that is designed to talk to you about random stuff and to talk to you about political implications of events that are happening around you.

00:06:08.000 That is not what Congress was designed to do.

00:06:10.000 Congress was supposed to be your legislative plumber. 0.52

00:06:13.000 They were there to fix issues.

00:06:14.000 They were there to make the system work.

00:06:17.000 To make sure the system worked.

00:06:19.000 If Congress was doing an investigation of, for example, steroid use in baseball, there are a lot of folks, including people like me, who said, I don't like steroid use in baseball, but I have no idea what this has to do with Congress.

00:06:30.000 What in the world is Congress doing having hearings on steroid use in baseball?

00:06:34.000 Makes no sense.

00:06:35.000 Congress isn't going to legislate on that particular issue.

00:06:37.000 Congress really has no interest on drug use in a particular sport.

00:06:40.000 It's kind of a weird thing for Congress to be doing.

00:06:42.000 However, 9-11 is a sort of different story.

00:06:44.000 Okay, so January 6th, Lies along the 9-11 lines in the sense that there are actual government oversight functions that need to be performed.

00:06:51.000 So for example.

00:06:52.000 If there were members of Congress who are actively involved in criminal behavior, were there rules that were preventing them from being involved in that criminal behavior?

00:07:00.000 Or were there members of the executive branch who breached their duty, and therefore there needs to be an oversight function of the executive branch?

00:07:06.000 All of that would be legitimate.

00:07:08.000 Or if you wanted to look at the law, how exactly is it that the White House works with the Speaker of the House to determine security protocols on Capitol Hill?

00:07:16.000 Does that need to be changed in order to prevent a future January 6th?

00:07:19.000 That sort of stuff would be legitimate.

00:07:21.000 But what everybody understands here What everybody knows is that the goal here is not that.

00:07:25.000 The goal here is to link every Republican that Democrats can find with January 6th, because this was the goal immediately after January 6th, right upon January 6th happening.

00:07:34.000 This immediately shifted from everybody of good faith and good heart is horrified by what's happening.

00:07:40.000 We were all there.

00:07:41.000 We all remember it.

00:07:42.000 We remember that Mitch McConnell got up on the floor and he reamed the protesters.

00:07:45.000 He spoke out against Trump's language between November 4th and January 6th.

00:07:51.000 You'll remember that it was Mitch McConnell who oversaw the certification of the election.

00:07:56.000 Vice President Pence oversaw the certification of the election.

00:07:59.000 I know we all want to forget about the fact that the process actually ended up working, that many of these Republicans ended up voting for the certification of the election, and it was indeed Republicans in every state.

00:08:08.000 Every battleground state had high-ranking Republicans who were helping to oversee these election results, right?

00:08:12.000 Georgia was all Republicans overseeing the certification of those election results.

00:08:15.000 So the system worked.

00:08:16.000 You may not like how the system came out, but the system did in fact work, and Republicans worked within that system.

00:08:22.000 It was Republicans, again, who oversaw that system on the federal level as well.

00:08:27.000 What actually happened on January 6th is that President Trump gave a rally at which he made claims about the election that were not true.

00:08:34.000 But he also told people, and they always cut this part out with the ellipses, to peacefully protest and then go home and yell at their congresspeople about the election.

00:08:44.000 Okay, so Trump did not encourage people to breach the Capitol building. 1.00

00:08:47.000 Then, a bunch of idiots decided, you know what would be a great idea? 1.00

00:08:49.000 What if we breached the Capitol building in an attempt to either hunt down legislators, or to just delay the process, or to be idiots. 1.00

00:08:57.000 And then, hundreds of them were arrested. 0.99

00:08:59.000 So the real failure there would have been, for example, the Capitol Police.

00:09:02.000 The real, on a systemic level, if you were going to investigate this properly, it would be about the Capitol Police.

00:09:06.000 Who did not deploy the, like, all of that's legit, but that is not where this investigation is going.

00:09:11.000 Again, when it comes to congressional investigations, Subpoena power is generally tied to legislative power or oversight power.

00:09:17.000 Those are the powers that are supposed to be exercised here.

00:09:21.000 And the reason I keep coming back to that is because it is fairly obvious that that is not where this is going.

00:09:26.000 Again, according to this paper from the Congressional Research Service, Judicial rulings do recognize a greater sweep to congressional authority in 1927.

00:09:35.000 The Supreme Court faced a situation where Congress looked not into the activities of people in the private sector, but rather the conduct of the executive branch.

00:09:42.000 And the court stated that the power of inquiry with the process to enforce it is an essential and appropriate auxiliary of the legislative function.

00:09:48.000 Congress couldn't legislate wisely or effectively in the absence of information.

00:09:51.000 But again, it was designed to proceed along the lines of legislative purposes.

00:09:56.000 This is the governing Supreme Court precedent.

00:09:58.000 Legislative purposes.

00:09:59.000 Okay, so we'll get to it in a second, whether the House is actually pursuing legislative purposes.

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00:11:17.000 So again, legislative purposes would be the language, right?

00:11:21.000 Because if you're talking about just criminal investigations, we have Full-on branches of government that are designed to do this.

00:11:28.000 We have the DOJ.

00:11:30.000 We have local law enforcement.

00:11:32.000 We have state law enforcement.

00:11:33.000 We have all sorts of law enforcement bodies, which is why, again, there are hundreds of people who have been arrested over the January 6th riots.

00:11:39.000 Okay, so back to this January 6th commission.

00:11:42.000 This is now being used by the media as a litmus test of whether you're okay with what happened on January 6th.

00:11:47.000 And that, of course, is not correct.

00:11:48.000 You can point out that the January 6th commission does not seem like it is directed at eliciting information that is going to allow Congress to fix the process.

00:11:58.000 It seems more like it is designed to elicit a political response just in time for the midterm elections.

00:12:03.000 And that is not an unfair point, because everything in Washington, D.C. 0.84

00:12:06.000 is politics, and to pretend otherwise is simply silly.

00:12:09.000 Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell declared his opposition to the House bill earlier on Wednesday.

00:12:15.000 He joined House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in dismissing the commission as unnecessary and unfair.

00:12:19.000 McConnell said in a speech on the Senate floor that after careful consideration, he'd come to the conclusion the House bill was slanted and unbalanced.

00:12:25.000 He pointed to other investigations underway by law enforcement officials and in Congress.

00:12:30.000 Biden, of course, supports the commission.

00:12:32.000 He's going to need 60 votes to advance in the 50-50 Senate.

00:12:36.000 That means at least 10 senators would need to vote with all of the Democrats.

00:12:39.000 That probably is unlikely.

00:12:40.000 Even some kind of wavering Republicans, people like Susan Collins, have said they don't really like the way that this commission is structured, particularly because it allows Democrats the full capacity on the commission to select all the staff.

00:12:51.000 As we saw with the Mueller investigation, who you select for your staff makes an awful lot of difference in the final product that is produced by any quote-unquote independent body.

00:13:01.000 The Bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus had endorsed the commission, according to the Wall Street Journal, saying the plan had won support from more than 75% of the 58-member group, but it is strongly opposed by McCarthy and other House GOP leaders who say that it is counterproductive and also too narrowly focused on the events of January 6th.

00:13:15.000 Right, so the Republicans are also saying, okay, fine, if you want to do this as a political thing, like how much is rhetoric contributing to political violence in the United States, then you do need to make this a truly bipartisan investigation, and you need to look at things like, for example, the congressional baseball shooting, Or like the BLM riots over the summer?

00:13:30.000 Or like Antifa over the summer?

00:13:32.000 How much does rhetoric contribute to violence?

00:13:33.000 If that's really what we're talking about here, if that's the direction you want to go with the January 6th Commission, if the issue is not what systemically went wrong to allow the walls of the Capitol to be breached, if the issue instead is how closely is rhetoric tied to action, well then, you do have to broaden out the scope of the inquiry.

00:13:48.000 That is not an unfair argument.

00:13:50.000 The language agreed upon by the Democrats and a couple of Republicans, particularly John Katko from New York, states that the focus of the commission will be, quote, the domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol and targeted violence and domestic terrorism relevant to such terrorist attack. Katko has said that the scope could include events that occurred before or after the date of January 6th if commissioners chose. McCarthy and McConnell say the commission should examine political violence broadly defined, including the actual murder of a Capitol police officer who was ran by a car on April 2nd and riots

00:14:19.000 during racial justice protests last summer.

00:14:22.000 McConnell said that he was open to hearing hearing arguments for and against the commission on Tuesday.

00:14:28.000 And then McConnell sort of reversed himself and he said that he wasn't particularly interested in this particular process.

00:14:33.000 OK, so Democrats, of course, are jumping all over this and they are suggesting that this just demonstrates that Republicans don't want to hear the truth about January 6th.

00:14:41.000 I think we know the truth about January 6th.

00:14:43.000 And by the way, if Democrats wanted full investigative power, they could just have investigated this in the context of like an impeachment investigation, which they didn't.

00:14:51.000 They decided to ram through a very poorly and vaguely worded impeachment charge against Trump on grounds of incitement, which is really weak tea in terms of legal speak.

00:15:01.000 And then they decided to ram that through without an investigation.

00:15:04.000 So it's been politics top to bottom here, and the January 6th Commission is just as political.

00:15:08.000 Again, there could be an iteration of the January 6th Commission that makes sense, where you talk to the actual law enforcement officials responsible for not staffing up at the Capitol, and you look at the response time.

00:15:18.000 Sure, you look at whether there was a delay in the executive branch receiving orders to go in response to the crisis at the Capitol.

00:15:24.000 All of that could be encompassed.

00:15:25.000 But if this is going to turn into a broader conversation about whether Refusal to acknowledge election results inevitably leads to this sort of activity.

00:15:33.000 Then, of course, you would be remiss to not investigate people on the other side of the aisle for doing the exact same thing.

00:15:40.000 And we'll get to more of this in just one second because, as always, when Democrats do something highly political, the media say that they are doing it on principle.

00:15:47.000 And when Republicans do something highly political, Democrats say they are doing it for highly political reasons.

00:15:51.000 This follows that pattern.

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00:16:59.000 Alrighty, so naturally, Democrats are jumping on this and saying, it sounds like Republicans are afraid of the truth.

00:17:04.000 Well, it seems like Democrats are afraid of the truth if they don't want to have a broader commission based on BLM.

00:17:10.000 We can play this game all day long.

00:17:12.000 Basically, if you don't want an investigation of an issue because you're afraid it's going to get politicized, then we can just claim that apparently you're afraid of the truth.

00:17:18.000 Here is Nancy Pelosi clicking and clacking her way through this one.

00:17:21.000 It sounds like they're afraid of the truth.

00:17:24.000 And that's most unfortunate.

00:17:25.000 But hopefully they'll get used to the idea that the American people want us to find the truth.

00:17:32.000 And that is what we intend to do.

00:17:34.000 And to do it in a way that is as unifying as possible.

00:17:38.000 That's why we yielded.

00:17:40.000 Unifying as possible.

00:17:41.000 If I wanted to go to another committee, I would have done it sooner.

00:17:45.000 But I didn't want to go there.

00:17:49.000 No, what she wanted to do was get a little bit of cover from people like John Katko so that she could pretend that it was a bipartisan commission after making it not bipartisan because the entire staffing process is controlled by Democrats. 0.90

00:17:58.000 Again, you could have had an impeachment inquiry.

00:18:00.000 You did.

00:18:01.000 You impeached Trump on this inside of a week because it was just so urgent to get rid of Trump before he left office, like a week later.

00:18:07.000 And then you held it up for several days before even submitting it to the Senate.

00:18:10.000 So this is politics all the way down. 0.92

00:18:14.000 Nancy Pelosi pretending to stand on principle is one of the most ridiculous things in life. 1.00

00:18:17.000 Here's Chuck Schumer doing the same thing. 0.76

00:18:20.000 Letting the most dishonest president in American history dictate the prerogatives of the Republican Party will be its demise.

00:18:29.000 Mark my words.

00:18:31.000 Whatever that means for Democrats, it's bad for America.

00:18:36.000 We know, we all know, there needs to be a thorough and honest accounting of what took place on January 6th.

00:18:43.000 The greatest attempted insurrection since the Civil War.

00:18:48.000 Okay, the greatest attempted insurrection since the Civil War?

00:18:51.000 Uh, no.

00:18:52.000 I mean, really, no.

00:18:53.000 The greatest attempt— We literally had $2 billion in property damage over the summer with people who wanted to destroy the systems of the United States.

00:19:00.000 We had federal buildings attacked en masse.

00:19:03.000 It's not even the greatest insurrection attempt of the last 18 months.

00:19:06.000 Okay, it was evil, and it was egregious, and the images were horrifying, and the criminals should go to jail. 0.90

00:19:11.000 It was a bunch of morons who went into the Capitol building, were promptly dispersed and arrested within like five hours, and then the entire system just went on as before. 0.97

00:19:19.000 So no, no, but again, the goal here, it's not about January 6th. 0.98

00:19:24.000 What this is really about is Democrats attempting to prolong the incident of January 6th, and raise that as the specter, and then suggest that all Republicans are in defense of that.

00:19:34.000 And so they created this catch-22 for Republicans.

00:19:36.000 Either they go along with this very biased commission that is designed to elicit a response saying that all Republicans are responsible for January 6th, or Republicans say, we're not going to go along with that commission.

00:19:44.000 And then Democrats say, well, see, they won't go along with the commission because they're in favor of January 6th.

00:19:48.000 So either way you go, Democrats are going to claim that Republicans are in favor of January 6th.

00:19:53.000 Meanwhile, Democrats who are running for Senate have decided to make a big issue out of this.

00:19:59.000 Of course, Tim Ryan, Democrat of Ohio, who ran a very short-lived, ill-fated presidential campaign last time around, and now wants to run for Senate in Ohio because, of course, Rob Portman's seat is open.

00:20:09.000 He decided the best strategy here would be to get up and shout a lot, and the media would pay attention to him.

00:20:14.000 Benghazi, you guys chased the former Secretary of State all over the country, spent millions of dollars.

00:20:20.000 We have people scaling the Capitol, hitting the Capitol Police with lead pipes across the head, and we can't get bipartisanship!

00:20:29.000 What else has to happen in this country?

00:20:32.000 Cops! 0.78

00:20:33.000 This is a slap in the face to every rank-and-file cop in the United States.

00:20:38.000 If we're going to take on China, if we're going to rebuild the country, if we're going to reverse climate change, we need two political parties in this country that are both living in reality, and you ain't one of them.

00:20:51.000 Okay, just a couple of questions on that particular clip.

00:20:53.000 One, when he says that if we want to fight climate change, then we need to do the January 6th Commission, I'm confused as to how these two are related.

00:20:59.000 When he starts ranting and raving about how it's disrespect to cops not to do a January 6th Commission, this is coming from the same party that has been ripping on the police as systemically racist for well over a year, minimum.

00:21:10.000 I mean, actually longer than that, going all the way back to the Obama administration.

00:21:14.000 And cops are quitting en masse.

00:21:15.000 So you've picked an odd example of things that are disrespectful to the cops.

00:21:20.000 The media are trying to play that aspect of this up.

00:21:22.000 Of course, they did this a little bit falsely yesterday.

00:21:25.000 There was a letter yesterday that was released by basically an unknown number of anonymous Capitol Police officers, and the media played it up as though the actual U.S.

00:21:32.000 Capitol Police had sent out a letter calling for the January 6th commission.

00:21:36.000 Capitol Police immediately denied that and said that is not correct, but not before Nancy Pelosi and members of the media like Olivia Beavers decided that they would pump out The news that the US Capitol Police had called explicitly for an investigation in January 6th commission later Olivia Beavers, this reporter, she had to actually walk that back. 1.00

00:21:36.000 The U.S. 1.00

00:21:56.000 She had to delete her tweet.

00:21:57.000 Her original tweet had something like 6,000 retweets and 12,000 likes, and it was replaced with a tweet saying, oh yeah, no, it was just a couple of anonymous Capitol Police officers who said they wanted a January 6th commission.

00:22:08.000 That tweet had like 33 likes because that's the way things work on Twitter.

00:22:11.000 If it's information that confirms your priors, it goes viral.

00:22:14.000 If it's information that does not confirm your priors, it does not.

00:22:17.000 Meanwhile, CNN playing up exactly the Democratic Party line here, that is Republicans are choosing party over country.

00:22:22.000 That was literally the chyron on CNN.

00:22:23.000 Which is pretty strong editorializing here from CNN.

00:22:27.000 Now we know what Republican House leaders will do when confronted with a domestic terror attack on our Capitol.

00:22:34.000 Nothing.

00:22:35.000 It's the most cynical and spineless act imaginable.

00:22:38.000 It's the definition of putting party over country.

00:22:41.000 Because of opposing a bipartisan commission to investigate the insurrection on January 6th, Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is once again choosing Trump over the truth while carving out his own profile and cowardice.

00:22:57.000 Don't worry, guys, this is all just journalisming.

00:22:59.000 It's all just journalisming.

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00:24:07.000 Again, the entire January 6th commission theory here is not that they want to get to the bottom of the systemic law enforcement failures.

00:24:14.000 The bottom line here is that what they wish to do is castigate everybody who disagrees with them politically and then lump them in with January 6th.

00:24:21.000 And again, it's just set up for a catch-22.

00:24:22.000 The catch-22 is that you're unpatriotic if you are against the January 6th commission.

00:24:28.000 You are in favor of January 6th if you're against the January 6th commission as constructed by the Democrats, even if you offer an alternative.

00:24:33.000 And, also, if you go along with the commission, and then that biased commission comes up with a report saying that every Republican was complicit in January 6th, which, of course, has been the Democratic Party line since the day of January 6th.

00:24:44.000 If you do that, then, of course, you're also unpatriotic.

00:24:47.000 So, it's a catch-22.

00:24:48.000 Basically, side with Democrats or you're unpatriotic is the line.

00:24:51.000 And this holds true throughout American public life.

00:24:54.000 The new rule from the media, the new rule from Democrats, is that if you side with Democrats, you're patriotic, and if you don't side with Democrats, you're unpatriotic.

00:25:00.000 And that holds true for every radical theory they push forward.

00:25:04.000 So we've seen a wide controversy break out over the use of critical race theory in schools.

00:25:09.000 So first, we actually need to define what exactly critical race theory is and where it comes from.

00:25:13.000 I've talked to you at length about what critical race theory is and I've talked about the origins of critical race theory.

00:25:17.000 It began basically with the thought that America's systems were quote unquote institutionally racist.

00:25:24.000 Stokely Carmichael was perhaps the first prominent person to talk about this in 1966.

00:25:29.000 Carmichael suggested that while the federal government had barred discrimination on the basis of race, racism could not be alleviated by that.

00:25:35.000 Inequality and outcome could always be chalked up to historic racism and the structure of institutions built in a time of racism, which made some sense in 1966 when we were literally just exiting legalized racism and legally imposed racism.

00:25:48.000 It makes a hell of a lot less sense in 2021.

00:25:52.000 And Carmichael made an argument that, as we would say in law school, it was an argument that proved too much.

00:25:57.000 It was too broad an argument.

00:25:58.000 His argument was that forever and always, any evidence of disparity in outcome was evidence of discrimination inside systems.

00:26:05.000 So it was that basic idea that launched the critical race theory project in the late 70s and early 80s.

00:26:11.000 The chief expositors were a couple of people named Richard Delgado and Jean Stefanczyk.

00:26:15.000 They wrote an entire book about critical race theory and laid out its basic principles.

00:26:19.000 First, that racism is ordinary and not aberrational, that everybody is racist, that systems are racist, and that we shouldn't use racist as a slur so much as just a description of the way life is.

00:26:28.000 Second, that our system of white over color ascendancy serves important purposes, both psychic and material.

00:26:34.000 That you are invested in racism, even if you don't think that you're invested in racism.

00:26:38.000 So the system is designed to create racially disparate outcomes, and if you defend any aspect of the system, it's because you have a deep psychic need for such racism.

00:26:45.000 Critical race theory pioneer Derrick Bell, who was a mentor to Barack Obama, wrote that the whole liberal worldview of private rights and public sovereignty, mediated by the rule of law, needed to be exploded.

00:26:55.000 It was a worldview premised upon the public and private spheres.

00:26:57.000 It was an attractive mirage that masks the reality of economic and political power.

00:27:01.000 In other words, basic things like private property and individual rights.

00:27:04.000 These are simple masks for white supremacy.

00:27:07.000 According to Derrick Bell, even purportedly good outcomes like, for example, a rising black middle class, that was just the system perpetuating itself by basically granting crumbs to people who had been historically downtrodden.

00:27:21.000 This is what critical race theory is, and it has been mainlined into the Democratic Party at this point.

00:27:27.000 It is deeply unpatriotic.

00:27:28.000 It suggests that the origins of the country are rooted in racism and slavery and evil.

00:27:31.000 It suggests that every institution in American life is shot through with that.

00:27:34.000 Now, if Republicans sound off against that, this is now considered unpatriotic by our mentors on the American left.

00:27:40.000 So CNN's Don Lemon did an entire segment explaining that actually critical race theory is more patriotic than patriotism itself.

00:27:47.000 He went and interviewed Kimberlé Crenshaw.

00:27:48.000 Kimberlé Crenshaw is most famous as the founder of the intersectional theory of law and politics.

00:27:54.000 Intersectionality started off As a basic, fairly true theory, which is that people can be discriminated against in a variety of ways.

00:28:02.000 So, if you're a black woman, you can be discriminated against on the basis of two characteristics, being a woman and being black. 0.99

00:28:08.000 Now, as it turns out, actually black men have lower economic outcomes in the United States than black women do. 0.99

00:28:13.000 But, put that aside, her basic theory was that if you're a member of several different intersectional groups, the intersection of those groups created your identity, and that was how you would be treated in American life.

00:28:23.000 Which is really reductionist.

00:28:26.000 Because it wasn't just that she was making a legal point, which is that discrimination law didn't account for multiple patterns of discrimination, which is a fair legal point.

00:28:33.000 She was making a broader point that has now been extrapolated from that, which is that if you are a member of various victimized groups, this means That almost like a tally sheet, we can determine how victimized you are in American life and give your views greater legitimacy because you're speaking as a member of various historically victimized groups.

00:28:51.000 Here's Kimberly Crenshaw defending critical race theory, which is what the Democratic Party is pushing. 0.62

00:28:55.000 Critical race theory is basically just a name for let's tear down all of the systems and restore systems of actual discrimination, reverse discrimination, in order to restore some sort of equality of outcome.

00:29:06.000 Criticories Theory just says let's pay attention to what has happened in this country and how what has happened in this country is continuing to create differential outcomes so we can become that country that we say we are.

00:29:21.000 So Criticories Theory is not anti-patriotic.

00:29:24.000 In fact, it is more patriotic than those who are opposed to it because we believe in the 13th and the 14th and the 15th Amendment.

00:29:32.000 We believe in the promises of equality and we know we can't get there if we can't confront and talk honestly about inequality.

00:29:42.000 OK, that's just untrue.

00:29:43.000 OK, so when she says that proponents of critical race theory believe in the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendment, Derrick Bell explicitly says that he doesn't believe in processes like due process.

00:29:52.000 He doesn't believe in things like equal justice before law.

00:29:55.000 Those are those are merely fig leaves for systems of white supremacy and racism.

00:29:55.000 Right.

00:30:00.000 What she's talking about is not actual critical race theory.

00:30:02.000 What she is talking about is something broader and simpler and And really not associated with CRT.

00:30:11.000 She's saying something that is true, which is that history has an impact on the present.

00:30:14.000 But one thing that you'll notice from critical race theorists is that they actually don't want to attempt to even quantify what impact history has on the present.

00:30:21.000 Because quantification could lead to the conclusion that the vast majority of disparity today is not the result of historic discrimination.

00:30:28.000 The vast majority of disparity today is the result of individual decision-making that is not equally distributed by communities.

00:30:34.000 That is what critical race theory does not want to argue.

00:30:38.000 Okay, well, so these folks are making that argument that deeply undermines basic and fundamental American principles.

00:30:45.000 And then they're surprised when there's blowback, and they suggest that any blowback is evidence of your racism.

00:30:49.000 Again, it's trying to create these sort of unfalsifiable theses.

00:30:55.000 So the thesis from the left on January 6th that's unfalsifiable is the right is responsible for January 6th, broadly speaking.

00:31:01.000 And if you say no, we're not, then that's just evidence that you don't take January 6th seriously.

00:31:05.000 And they're doing the same thing with regard to American racism.

00:31:07.000 They say that if you oppose CRT, it's because you're a racist.

00:31:10.000 And if you accept CRT, it's because you're accepting your own racism.

00:31:15.000 And not only that, if you oppose it, if you oppose CRT and you point out the shortcomings of people like Nicole Hannah-Jones, who's a prevaricator and a liar, if you point out that she should not have a tenured position at a major American university because she is not qualified to do so, Because she has fabricated history?

00:31:30.000 Because she ignored criticism?

00:31:31.000 Because she has doxxed people? 1.00

00:31:32.000 Because she's a terrible candidate to be a professor at a major university? 1.00

00:31:36.000 Then this means that you're a racist.

00:31:37.000 We'll get to Nicole Hannah-Jones and her fate at University of North Carolina in just one second.

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00:32:51.000 Alrighty, so.

00:32:52.000 The University of North Carolina has now rescinded a tenure offer to 1619 project author Nicole Hannah-Jones.

00:33:01.000 She should never have been offered this in the first place.

00:33:03.000 According to a report by NC Policy Watch, UNC is backing down from offering Hannah Jones a tenured position at its journalism school because she's not a journalist.

00:33:10.000 Well, instead, they will offer her a fixed five-year contract, according to a report by NC Policy Watch.

00:33:16.000 The change in plans comes three weeks after it was announced that she would have a tenured position at the university, which is kind of incredible.

00:33:21.000 They choose just to offer tenure right off the bat.

00:33:22.000 Usually, you have to earn your way into tenure at a major American university, particularly if you have no academic background.

00:33:27.000 The way Nicole Hannah-Jones has no academic background.

00:33:29.000 She's not a professor.

00:33:30.000 She's not a PhD.

00:33:31.000 She hasn't taught at a major American university.

00:33:32.000 Very weird to be offered a tenure-track position right off the bat.

00:33:36.000 That's very strange.

00:33:38.000 It's not what we wanted.

00:33:39.000 I'm afraid it will have a chilling effect.

00:33:40.000 UNC's Hussman School of Journalism and Media.

00:33:42.000 It's not what we wanted.

00:33:43.000 I'm afraid it will have a chilling effect.

00:33:45.000 Okay, so first of all, UNC, yeah, if they wanted to hire her and they knew this going in, they should give her the.

00:33:52.000 Frankly, I think UNC should give her the tenure track position because I think that people should recognize UNC for what it is.

00:33:57.000 But should they ever have offered it to her?

00:33:59.000 No, they should never have offered it to her because she absolutely does not deserve it.

00:34:02.000 She's 100% not a person who deserves a tenure track position or a tenure position right off the bat at a major American university. 0.83

00:34:09.000 The fact that she was granted it is just evidence of how deeply CRT has seeped into the American system of thought.

00:34:15.000 So there are a lot of people on the left who are saying, let's cancel culture.

00:34:18.000 If Nicole Hannah-Jones is not given a tenure position at University of North Carolina.

00:34:23.000 Okay, well, here's the deal.

00:34:27.000 Again, should she be canceled?

00:34:28.000 Should she lose that position?

00:34:29.000 She never should have been offered it, and it's a taxpayer-funded institution, University of North Carolina.

00:34:34.000 Taxpayer-funded institutions are not the same as private universities.

00:34:36.000 If she'd been hired at a private university, I would say she should keep her job. 0.82

00:34:39.000 If she's at a public university, that's your taxpayer dollars.

00:34:42.000 Taxpayer dollars are a very different thing.

00:34:44.000 Alrighty.

00:34:45.000 Meanwhile, cryptocurrencies, you may have noticed, took a serious dive over the course of the last couple of days.

00:34:51.000 According to the UK Daily Mail, Bitcoin has rallied after plunging below the $40,000 mark for the first time in more than three months.

00:34:57.000 As Tesla boss Elon Musk insists the company will not sell any of its holdings in the cryptocurrency.

00:35:01.000 Despite the turbulence, celebrities and others who bought in early are still up big, but small investors who jumped on the Bitcoin trend in the past few months May have suffered some ruinous losses.

00:35:09.000 This is one of the problems with Bitcoin right now is that because the amount in circulation in terms of being used by that many people is still not that high, it can be disproportionately affected by swings from celebrities who decide that they're not going to engage in more Bitcoin use.

00:35:24.000 For example, investors had rushed out of cryptocurrency earlier Wednesday after China sparked a market panic when officials announced a regulatory crackdown.

00:35:31.000 And this just demonstrates, by the way, How important Bitcoin is going to be for the future of economic freedom, because more and more governments are going to start cracking down on Bitcoin in the same way that during the 1930s, governments started cracking down on the private ownership of gold.

00:35:45.000 Because if you can trade in currencies that are not government currencies, this allows you to divest from the government's inflationary policies.

00:35:53.000 And this is the thing that the government cannot allow.

00:35:54.000 This has always been my great fear for Bitcoin, which effectually is just a form of precious metals that has been that has been digitized. That's really all that Bitcoin is.

00:36:04.000 The volatility in Bitcoin right now is in effect of nobody knowing whether or not governments are going to even allow the circulation of Bitcoin. But long term, I'm not sure the governments can prevent it, which is why I've been a Bitcoin fan for quite a while. The Bitcoin had hit like 30% drop before it retraced most of its losses after Elon Musk's vote of confidence.

00:36:27.000 By late afternoon trade in New York, the currency was still down about 10% on the day, but well off its earlier lows.

00:36:32.000 Musk indicated that his company would not sell any of its Bitcoin holdings.

00:36:35.000 He tweeted on Wednesday morning, Tesla has diamond hands.

00:36:38.000 Diamond hands is slang popularized by Wall Street bets, which is a Reddit forum indicating a refusal to sell even in the face of falling prices.

00:36:45.000 Tesla stock was down about 2.6% in afternoon trading.

00:36:48.000 Good for Musk for pushing Bitcoin, frankly.

00:36:51.000 He said, I know one person wrote on Reddit, I know today looks terrible and lots of people lost too much money.

00:36:55.000 They can't afford to lose, but markets always bounce back.

00:36:58.000 So let's not do rash decisions.

00:36:59.000 Life is more important.

00:37:01.000 That, of course, is true. 0.83

00:37:03.000 Long term, Bitcoin is going to be something that I believe remains worthwhile, particularly as governments try to stop it.

00:37:09.000 In fact, again, the value in Bitcoin lies in the fact that governments are going to try to stop it in the first place.

00:37:13.000 All right.

00:37:14.000 In just one second.

00:37:15.000 We are going to get to Joe Biden's continuing gaff-tastic journey through the universe.

00:37:19.000 It is pretty incredible.

00:37:20.000 As I've said before, Joe Biden must feel like the luckiest guy in the world every morning because he wakes up, somebody tells him he's president, and then he realizes for the first time every single morning that he's president.

00:37:28.000 It's like Christmas every morning for Joe Biden.

00:37:30.000 He wakes up in the White House like, where am I?

00:37:32.000 Like, you're president.

00:37:33.000 He's like, oh my God.

00:37:36.000 Come on, man!

00:37:37.000 All righty, coming up, we're going to get to Joe Biden's continuing journey.

00:37:42.000 It is amazing to watch.

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00:38:20.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden is continuing his journey toward senility and we all get to watch it It does make for exciting TV.

00:38:33.000 Yesterday, he was speaking to the Coast Guard, and he sort of randomly insulted the Coast Guard class because they weren't responding to the fact that he is the least inspirational politician in modern American history.

00:38:45.000 He is just a houseplant of a human.

00:38:47.000 Here he was yesterday getting weird.

00:38:49.000 I can only assume that you will enjoy educating your family about How the Coast Guard is, quote, the hard nucleus around the Navy forms in times of war. 0.79

00:39:03.000 You are quite, you're a really dull class. 0.81

00:39:07.000 Come on, man. 0.83

00:39:08.000 Is the sun getting to you?

00:39:11.000 I would think you'd have an opportunity when I say that about the Navy to clap.

00:39:17.000 Oh my God.

00:39:19.000 He's the one who's running this radical agenda.

00:39:23.000 Oh, great.

00:39:24.000 Perfect.

00:39:25.000 Yes, we've all made an excellent selection.

00:39:28.000 OK, that was only round one.

00:39:29.000 So the teleprompter really knocked him down right there.

00:39:32.000 And I mean, it was an ugly knockdown.

00:39:34.000 I mean, he was cut.

00:39:37.000 In this corner, the manager was stitching him up a little bit.

00:39:40.000 Then he came back out for round two and he really started jabbing at the teleprompter.

00:39:44.000 And then the teleprompter, unfortunately, came up with just a clean uppercut. 0.94

00:39:47.000 Here is the teleprompter versus Joe Biden.

00:39:49.000 Here we go.

00:39:51.000 I brought with me a former Academy grad.

00:39:54.000 who now serves as my Coast Guard Millie.

00:39:57.000 Lieutenant Commander Jena...

00:40:00.000 Now, I'm gonna embarrass her. 0.95

00:40:03.000 Jena McCrone of the class of 2007.

00:40:07.000 Oh, the teleprompter!

00:40:08.000 Oh! 0.60

00:40:09.000 Strong overhand right from the teleprompter, and the president is on the canvas!

00:40:13.000 Oh, he's struggling to his feet.

00:40:15.000 He's struggling.

00:40:16.000 He's up!

00:40:17.000 He waves off the referee.

00:40:18.000 He goes in, and oh no, the teleprompter is on him again!

00:40:23.000 We need to see more women at the highest levels of command. 1.00

00:40:26.000 We have to make sure that women have the chance to succeed and thrive throughout their careers. 1.00

00:40:33.000 There's a saying we use in a different context, a Chinese saying, it says, women hold up half the world. 0.97

00:40:42.000 It's an absolutely stupid position not to make sure they represent at least half of what we do. 0.95

00:40:51.000 Okay, so teleprompter comes with the clear TKO, third round, the precedent goes down again. 0.98

00:40:56.000 The teleprompters, I mean, it's like the Washington generals versus the Harlem Globetrotters here.

00:41:00.000 I mean, this is, it's ugly.

00:41:01.000 The teleprompter wins every single time.

00:41:03.000 I'm not, I'm not even sure what the point of these fights is anymore.

00:41:06.000 Meanwhile, Kamala Harris, she's standing in the wings, and as I've said before, the problem for the Democratic Party is they're reliant right now on two things.

00:41:14.000 They're reliant on the continued viability of Joe Biden as a political figure, and they're reliant on being able to keep Donald Trump in January 6th front and center.

00:41:22.000 Keeping Joe Biden as a viable political figure is not great because the reality is the person standing behind him is deeply unpopular.

00:41:28.000 A poll on Kamala Harris a little bit earlier last week demonstrated that her unfavorable ratings are underwater.

00:41:34.000 She's 48% unfavorable, 41% favorable, and really bad ratings with independents.

00:41:38.000 Her ratings with independents are like 50% unfavorable.

00:41:40.000 People do not like Kamala Harris.

00:41:42.000 By the way, you know why?

00:41:43.000 Because nobody likes Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:41:44.000 Even Joe Biden doesn't like Kamala Harris.

00:41:47.000 Apparently, according to Edward Isaac DeVere, who is the author of a new book about the 2020 election, apparently first lady doctored Joe Biden.

00:41:59.000 Doctor, the greatest doctor of all time.

00:42:02.000 She apparently used a naughty turn of phrase in 2019 after Kamala Harris took aim at Joe Biden.

00:42:07.000 The incident came as a result of that election cycle's second Democratic presidential debate, in which Kamala Harris randomly called Joe Biden a racist for opposing forced busing. 0.99

00:42:16.000 Apparently, the First Lady opined in a call with supporters, quote, with what he cares about, what he fights for, what he's committed to, you get up there and call him a racist without basis?

00:42:24.000 Go F yourself.

00:42:25.000 This is the first time I've ever liked Dr. Jill Biden.

00:42:28.000 She is truly a doctor, a wordsmith, par excellence.

00:42:32.000 According to the author, Delvere, he says, the debate was just one night in the campaign, but what it revealed about Biden and about Harris and about how issues of race and identity factored in for Democratic primary voters had implications that stretched into the running mate selection process and beyond.

00:42:45.000 The report said, Well, apparently they got over that rather quick.

00:42:48.000 But there's a problem for them.

00:42:48.000 What happens come 2024 if you're the Democrats?

00:42:49.000 called herself a friend of her son's, although Beau was not her biological child.

00:42:53.000 She raised him his entire life as if he were, tried to tear her husband down to score a point at a debate. 0.99

00:42:58.000 Well, apparently they got over that rather quick.

00:43:00.000 But there's a problem for them.

00:43:02.000 And what happens come 2024, if you're the Democrats?

00:43:05.000 The next few years do not look easy if you are the Democratic Party.

00:43:09.000 If you forecast this out, the economic growth is not booming the way that it was supposed to.

00:43:13.000 Joe Biden is responsible for an inflationary cycle that is beginning right now.

00:43:17.000 Maybe it gets under control, maybe it doesn't.

00:43:19.000 Joe Biden is responsible for continuing chaos in the Middle East.

00:43:22.000 He's responsible for continued divisions here at home.

00:43:27.000 He's responsible for continued confusion over masking and over COVID and over all of this stuff.

00:43:34.000 I mean, even though Americans are starting to feel like we're pulling out of the woods on COVID, he's still got his CDC director out there saying that we're not out of the woods and that we still have to be super careful.

00:43:43.000 Like, the mixed signals coming from this administration are quite astonishing.

00:43:45.000 Here's the CDC director, Rochelle Walensky, terrible at her job yesterday, saying, well, you know, we're still not out of the woods yet.

00:43:52.000 I think we would be remiss to say that we are out of the woods.

00:43:58.000 This pandemic, this virus has sent us too many curveballs to say that we, too early to declare victory.

00:44:06.000 Certainly with virus circulating in other parts of the world, that is in high degree that gives the opportunity for more variants to emerge.

00:44:14.000 So I still, it's among the things that keeps me up at night.

00:44:19.000 Okay, so he's still trotting out, Rochelle Walensky was awful at this job, talking about how she's staying up at night.

00:44:24.000 Okay, we are down to the lowest level of daily cases measured since like early March, right?

00:44:30.000 March of the beginning of this pandemic, right?

00:44:32.000 We had, as of May 19th, we had something like 28,500 cases in all of the United States, a country of 330 million people.

00:44:40.000 The last time that we had 28,000 diagnosed cases in a day was like June of last year.

00:44:47.000 Okay, and that's when the testing was way lower than it is right now.

00:44:51.000 The baseline at that point was much higher than the actual number of measured cases.

00:44:56.000 The number of coronavirus deaths on a day-by-day basis in the United States is down into the hundreds.

00:45:01.000 Okay, so, yes, we are basically out of the woods at this point, but Biden's been continuing to trot that out.

00:45:06.000 So, what does this mean?

00:45:07.000 It means that this administration is a bit of a disaster area, that the person standing in the wings is deeply unpopular, and this is why, for all that is holy, they have to keep the focus on Trump, they have to keep the focus on January 6th.

00:45:18.000 They must.

00:45:19.000 Because if ever the focus shifts to the Democrats, the Democrats have real troubles come 2022, and even bigger troubles come 2024.

00:45:26.000 All righty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content coming up soon.

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The Democrats Need January 6 | Ep. 1259

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