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00:01:43.000Yesterday, the House rammed through, along party lines, essentially, a January 6th commission.
00:01:50.000There were 35 Republicans who voted to create the January 6th commission as well.
00:01:54.000Most Republicans voted not to go along with the January 6th commission.
00:01:59.000According 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.
00:02:06.000But 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.
00:02:31.000The 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.
00:02:38.000The Democratic Party is not In high favor with the American public right now on a number of issues, Democrats are really struggling.
00:02:47.000And so they have to redirect toward Trump.
00:02:49.000And thankfully for them, Trump is still there to fight with.
00:02:52.000But it really is about January 6th for them.
00:02:54.000If 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.
00:03:02.000Because remember, Democrats right now are in control of the House and the Senate.
00:03:12.000Midterms are a referendum on the party in power.
00:03:14.000The 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.
00:03:22.000And 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.
00:03:28.000They all remember how bad January 6th was.
00:03:30.000And so we're going to do a full investigation.
00:03:32.000And 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.
00:03:42.000The 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.
00:03:52.000The Republicans know this, Democrats know this, which is why Democrats are pushing it, and Republicans are pushing back against it.
00:03:58.000Now, could there be an investigation of January 6th that makes sense?
00:04:02.000Sure, but it would actually fall under what congressional investigations usually do.
00:04:06.000So, to understand what a congressional investigation like this would actually look like, were it designed to elicit something useful?
00:04:13.000You actually have to look at the general purpose of congressional investigations.
00:04:16.000So, 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.
00:04:29.000And 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.
00:04:38.000One is that it could theoretically be performing legislative oversight of the executive branch.
00:04:43.000So there was a failure inside the executive branch, the 9-11.
00:04:46.000And so you need to look at how the system is structured.
00:04:49.000FBI, CIA, were they talking to each other?
00:04:52.000There 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.
00:05:00.000And that wall had to be breached in order to allow intelligence sharing between agencies.
00:05:03.000That would be a good reason why you'd have congressional investigations.
00:05:07.000Congress created these agencies and wanted to make sure that these agencies are performing their duties under the law.
00:05:13.000That is a normal oversight investigation.
00:05:14.000Then you have a legislative powers investigation.
00:05:17.000In other words, the goal would be to look at legislation anew.
00:05:22.000It'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.
00:05:36.000Now, 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.
00:05:54.000Remember, Congress is a body with a job.
00:05:57.000It is not just a bunch of people who are supposed to sit there and talk to you about random stuff.
00:06:02.000We 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.
00:06:08.000That is not what Congress was designed to do.
00:06:10.000Congress was supposed to be your legislative plumber.
00:06:19.000If 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.
00:06:30.000What in the world is Congress doing having hearings on steroid use in baseball?
00:06:35.000Congress isn't going to legislate on that particular issue.
00:06:37.000Congress really has no interest on drug use in a particular sport.
00:06:40.000It's kind of a weird thing for Congress to be doing.
00:06:42.000However, 9-11 is a sort of different story.
00:06:44.000Okay, so January 6th, Lies along the 9-11 lines in the sense that there are actual government oversight functions that need to be performed.
00:06:52.000If 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?
00:07:00.000Or were there members of the executive branch who breached their duty, and therefore there needs to be an oversight function of the executive branch?
00:07:08.000Or 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?
00:07:16.000Does that need to be changed in order to prevent a future January 6th?
00:07:19.000That sort of stuff would be legitimate.
00:07:21.000But what everybody understands here What everybody knows is that the goal here is not that.
00:07:25.000The 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.
00:07:34.000This immediately shifted from everybody of good faith and good heart is horrified by what's happening.
00:07:42.000We remember that Mitch McConnell got up on the floor and he reamed the protesters.
00:07:45.000He spoke out against Trump's language between November 4th and January 6th.
00:07:51.000You'll remember that it was Mitch McConnell who oversaw the certification of the election.
00:07:56.000Vice President Pence oversaw the certification of the election.
00:07:59.000I 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.
00:08:08.000Every battleground state had high-ranking Republicans who were helping to oversee these election results, right?
00:08:12.000Georgia was all Republicans overseeing the certification of those election results.
00:08:16.000You may not like how the system came out, but the system did in fact work, and Republicans worked within that system.
00:08:22.000It was Republicans, again, who oversaw that system on the federal level as well.
00:08:27.000What actually happened on January 6th is that President Trump gave a rally at which he made claims about the election that were not true.
00:08:34.000But 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.
00:08:44.000Okay, so Trump did not encourage people to breach the Capitol building.
00:08:47.000Then, a bunch of idiots decided, you know what would be a great idea?
00:08:49.000What if we breached the Capitol building in an attempt to either hunt down legislators, or to just delay the process, or to be idiots.
00:08:57.000And then, hundreds of them were arrested.
00:08:59.000So the real failure there would have been, for example, the Capitol Police.
00:09:02.000The real, on a systemic level, if you were going to investigate this properly, it would be about the Capitol Police.
00:09:06.000Who did not deploy the, like, all of that's legit, but that is not where this investigation is going.
00:09:11.000Again, when it comes to congressional investigations, Subpoena power is generally tied to legislative power or oversight power.
00:09:17.000Those are the powers that are supposed to be exercised here.
00:09:21.000And the reason I keep coming back to that is because it is fairly obvious that that is not where this is going.
00:09:26.000Again, according to this paper from the Congressional Research Service, Judicial rulings do recognize a greater sweep to congressional authority in 1927.
00:09:35.000The 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.
00:09:42.000And the court stated that the power of inquiry with the process to enforce it is an essential and appropriate auxiliary of the legislative function.
00:09:48.000Congress couldn't legislate wisely or effectively in the absence of information.
00:09:51.000But again, it was designed to proceed along the lines of legislative purposes.
00:09:56.000This is the governing Supreme Court precedent.
00:11:33.000We 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.
00:11:39.000Okay, so back to this January 6th commission.
00:11:42.000This is now being used by the media as a litmus test of whether you're okay with what happened on January 6th.
00:11:48.000You 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.
00:11:58.000It seems more like it is designed to elicit a political response just in time for the midterm elections.
00:12:03.000And that is not an unfair point, because everything in Washington, D.C.
00:12:06.000is politics, and to pretend otherwise is simply silly.
00:12:09.000Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell declared his opposition to the House bill earlier on Wednesday.
00:12:15.000He joined House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in dismissing the commission as unnecessary and unfair.
00:12:19.000McConnell 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.
00:12:25.000He pointed to other investigations underway by law enforcement officials and in Congress.
00:12:30.000Biden, of course, supports the commission.
00:12:32.000He's going to need 60 votes to advance in the 50-50 Senate.
00:12:36.000That means at least 10 senators would need to vote with all of the Democrats.
00:12:40.000Even 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.
00:12:51.000As 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.
00:13:01.000The 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.
00:13:15.000Right, 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?
00:13:32.000How much does rhetoric contribute to violence?
00:13:33.000If 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.
00:13:50.000The 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
00:14:19.000during racial justice protests last summer.
00:14:22.000McConnell said that he was open to hearing hearing arguments for and against the commission on Tuesday.
00:14:28.000And then McConnell sort of reversed himself and he said that he wasn't particularly interested in this particular process.
00:14:33.000OK, 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.
00:14:41.000I think we know the truth about January 6th.
00:14:43.000And 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.
00:14:51.000They 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.
00:15:01.000And then they decided to ram that through without an investigation.
00:15:04.000So it's been politics top to bottom here, and the January 6th Commission is just as political.
00:15:08.000Again, 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.
00:15:18.000Sure, you look at whether there was a delay in the executive branch receiving orders to go in response to the crisis at the Capitol.
00:15:25.000But if this is going to turn into a broader conversation about whether Refusal to acknowledge election results inevitably leads to this sort of activity.
00:15:33.000Then, of course, you would be remiss to not investigate people on the other side of the aisle for doing the exact same thing.
00:15:40.000And 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.
00:15:47.000And when Republicans do something highly political, Democrats say they are doing it for highly political reasons.
00:17:12.000Basically, 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.
00:17:18.000Here is Nancy Pelosi clicking and clacking her way through this one.
00:17:21.000It sounds like they're afraid of the truth.
00:17:49.000No, 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.
00:17:58.000Again, you could have had an impeachment inquiry.
00:18:53.000The greatest attemptâ We literally had $2 billion in property damage over the summer with people who wanted to destroy the systems of the United States.
00:19:00.000We had federal buildings attacked en masse.
00:19:03.000It's not even the greatest insurrection attempt of the last 18 months.
00:19:06.000Okay, it was evil, and it was egregious, and the images were horrifying, and the criminals should go to jail.
00:19:11.000It 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.
00:19:19.000So no, no, but again, the goal here, it's not about January 6th.
00:19:24.000What 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.
00:19:34.000And so they created this catch-22 for Republicans.
00:19:36.000Either 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.
00:19:44.000And then Democrats say, well, see, they won't go along with the commission because they're in favor of January 6th.
00:19:48.000So either way you go, Democrats are going to claim that Republicans are in favor of January 6th.
00:19:53.000Meanwhile, Democrats who are running for Senate have decided to make a big issue out of this.
00:19:59.000Of 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.
00:20:09.000He decided the best strategy here would be to get up and shout a lot, and the media would pay attention to him.
00:20:14.000Benghazi, you guys chased the former Secretary of State all over the country, spent millions of dollars.
00:20:20.000We have people scaling the Capitol, hitting the Capitol Police with lead pipes across the head, and we can't get bipartisanship!
00:20:29.000What else has to happen in this country?
00:20:33.000This is a slap in the face to every rank-and-file cop in the United States.
00:20:38.000If 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.
00:20:51.000Okay, just a couple of questions on that particular clip.
00:20:53.000One, 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.
00:20:59.000When 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.
00:21:10.000I mean, actually longer than that, going all the way back to the Obama administration.
00:21:15.000So you've picked an odd example of things that are disrespectful to the cops.
00:21:20.000The media are trying to play that aspect of this up.
00:21:22.000Of course, they did this a little bit falsely yesterday.
00:21:25.000There 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.
00:21:32.000Capitol Police had sent out a letter calling for the January 6th commission.
00:21:36.000Capitol 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.
00:21:57.000Her 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.
00:22:08.000That tweet had like 33 likes because that's the way things work on Twitter.
00:22:11.000If it's information that confirms your priors, it goes viral.
00:22:14.000If it's information that does not confirm your priors, it does not.
00:22:17.000Meanwhile, CNN playing up exactly the Democratic Party line here, that is Republicans are choosing party over country.
00:22:35.000It's the most cynical and spineless act imaginable.
00:22:38.000It's the definition of putting party over country.
00:22:41.000Because 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.
00:22:57.000Don't worry, guys, this is all just journalisming.
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00:24:07.000Again, the entire January 6th commission theory here is not that they want to get to the bottom of the systemic law enforcement failures.
00:24:14.000The 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.
00:24:21.000And again, it's just set up for a catch-22.
00:24:22.000The catch-22 is that you're unpatriotic if you are against the January 6th commission.
00:24:28.000You 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.
00:24:33.000And, 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.
00:24:44.000If you do that, then, of course, you're also unpatriotic.
00:24:48.000Basically, side with Democrats or you're unpatriotic is the line.
00:24:51.000And this holds true throughout American public life.
00:24:54.000The 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.
00:25:00.000And that holds true for every radical theory they push forward.
00:25:04.000So we've seen a wide controversy break out over the use of critical race theory in schools.
00:25:09.000So first, we actually need to define what exactly critical race theory is and where it comes from.
00:25:13.000I've talked to you at length about what critical race theory is and I've talked about the origins of critical race theory.
00:25:17.000It began basically with the thought that America's systems were quote unquote institutionally racist.
00:25:24.000Stokely Carmichael was perhaps the first prominent person to talk about this in 1966.
00:25:29.000Carmichael suggested that while the federal government had barred discrimination on the basis of race, racism could not be alleviated by that.
00:25:35.000Inequality 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.
00:25:48.000It makes a hell of a lot less sense in 2021.
00:25:52.000And Carmichael made an argument that, as we would say in law school, it was an argument that proved too much.
00:25:58.000His argument was that forever and always, any evidence of disparity in outcome was evidence of discrimination inside systems.
00:26:05.000So it was that basic idea that launched the critical race theory project in the late 70s and early 80s.
00:26:11.000The chief expositors were a couple of people named Richard Delgado and Jean Stefanczyk.
00:26:15.000They wrote an entire book about critical race theory and laid out its basic principles.
00:26:19.000First, 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.
00:26:28.000Second, that our system of white over color ascendancy serves important purposes, both psychic and material.
00:26:34.000That you are invested in racism, even if you don't think that you're invested in racism.
00:26:38.000So 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.
00:26:45.000Critical 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.
00:26:55.000It was a worldview premised upon the public and private spheres.
00:26:57.000It was an attractive mirage that masks the reality of economic and political power.
00:27:01.000In other words, basic things like private property and individual rights.
00:27:04.000These are simple masks for white supremacy.
00:27:07.000According 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.
00:27:21.000This is what critical race theory is, and it has been mainlined into the Democratic Party at this point.
00:27:54.000Intersectionality started off As a basic, fairly true theory, which is that people can be discriminated against in a variety of ways.
00:28:02.000So, if you're a black woman, you can be discriminated against on the basis of two characteristics, being a woman and being black.
00:28:08.000Now, as it turns out, actually black men have lower economic outcomes in the United States than black women do.
00:28:13.000But, 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.
00:28:26.000Because 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.
00:28:33.000She 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.
00:28:51.000Here's Kimberly Crenshaw defending critical race theory, which is what the Democratic Party is pushing.
00:28:55.000Critical 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.
00:29:06.000Criticories 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.
00:29:21.000So Criticories Theory is not anti-patriotic.
00:29:24.000In 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.
00:29:32.000We believe in the promises of equality and we know we can't get there if we can't confront and talk honestly about inequality.
00:29:43.000OK, 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.
00:29:52.000He doesn't believe in things like equal justice before law.
00:29:55.000Those are those are merely fig leaves for systems of white supremacy and racism.
00:30:00.000What she's talking about is not actual critical race theory.
00:30:02.000What she is talking about is something broader and simpler and And really not associated with CRT.
00:30:11.000She's saying something that is true, which is that history has an impact on the present.
00:30:14.000But 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.
00:30:21.000Because quantification could lead to the conclusion that the vast majority of disparity today is not the result of historic discrimination.
00:30:28.000The vast majority of disparity today is the result of individual decision-making that is not equally distributed by communities.
00:30:34.000That is what critical race theory does not want to argue.
00:30:38.000Okay, well, so these folks are making that argument that deeply undermines basic and fundamental American principles.
00:30:45.000And then they're surprised when there's blowback, and they suggest that any blowback is evidence of your racism.
00:30:49.000Again, it's trying to create these sort of unfalsifiable theses.
00:30:55.000So the thesis from the left on January 6th that's unfalsifiable is the right is responsible for January 6th, broadly speaking.
00:31:01.000And if you say no, we're not, then that's just evidence that you don't take January 6th seriously.
00:31:05.000And they're doing the same thing with regard to American racism.
00:31:07.000They say that if you oppose CRT, it's because you're a racist.
00:31:10.000And if you accept CRT, it's because you're accepting your own racism.
00:31:15.000And 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?
00:32:52.000The University of North Carolina has now rescinded a tenure offer to 1619 project author Nicole Hannah-Jones.
00:33:01.000She should never have been offered this in the first place.
00:33:03.000According 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.
00:33:10.000Well, instead, they will offer her a fixed five-year contract, according to a report by NC Policy Watch.
00:33:16.000The 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.
00:33:21.000They choose just to offer tenure right off the bat.
00:33:22.000Usually, you have to earn your way into tenure at a major American university, particularly if you have no academic background.
00:33:27.000The way Nicole Hannah-Jones has no academic background.
00:34:45.000Meanwhile, cryptocurrencies, you may have noticed, took a serious dive over the course of the last couple of days.
00:34:51.000According to the UK Daily Mail, Bitcoin has rallied after plunging below the $40,000 mark for the first time in more than three months.
00:34:57.000As Tesla boss Elon Musk insists the company will not sell any of its holdings in the cryptocurrency.
00:35:01.000Despite 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.
00:35:09.000This 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.
00:35:24.000For example, investors had rushed out of cryptocurrency earlier Wednesday after China sparked a market panic when officials announced a regulatory crackdown.
00:35:31.000And 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.
00:35:45.000Because if you can trade in currencies that are not government currencies, this allows you to divest from the government's inflationary policies.
00:35:53.000And this is the thing that the government cannot allow.
00:35:54.000This 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.
00:36:04.000The 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.
00:36:27.000By late afternoon trade in New York, the currency was still down about 10% on the day, but well off its earlier lows.
00:36:32.000Musk indicated that his company would not sell any of its Bitcoin holdings.
00:36:35.000He tweeted on Wednesday morning, Tesla has diamond hands.
00:36:38.000Diamond 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.
00:36:45.000Tesla stock was down about 2.6% in afternoon trading.
00:36:48.000Good for Musk for pushing Bitcoin, frankly.
00:36:51.000He said, I know one person wrote on Reddit, I know today looks terrible and lots of people lost too much money.
00:36:55.000They can't afford to lose, but markets always bounce back.
00:37:20.000As 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.
00:37:28.000It's like Christmas every morning for Joe Biden.
00:37:30.000He wakes up in the White House like, where am I?
00:37:44.000First, some bow to political correctness.
00:37:45.000Some write entire books revealing its insidious roots.
00:37:48.000Michael Knowles has now actually written a book with actual words.
00:37:51.000In his new book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, Knowles masterfully breaks down the history of political correctness and what America's future will look like if we don't stop its growth.
00:38:14.000Understand the PC police better than they understand themselves.
00:38:17.000You're listening to the largest, fastest growing conservative podcast and radio show in the nation.
00:38:20.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden is continuing his journey toward senility and we all get to watch it It does make for exciting TV.
00:38:33.000Yesterday, 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.
00:38:49.000I 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.
00:39:03.000You are quite, you're a really dull class.
00:41:01.000The teleprompter wins every single time.
00:41:03.000I'm not, I'm not even sure what the point of these fights is anymore.
00:41:06.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:41:14.000They'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.
00:41:22.000Keeping Joe Biden as a viable political figure is not great because the reality is the person standing behind him is deeply unpopular.
00:41:28.000A poll on Kamala Harris a little bit earlier last week demonstrated that her unfavorable ratings are underwater.
00:41:34.000She's 48% unfavorable, 41% favorable, and really bad ratings with independents.
00:41:38.000Her ratings with independents are like 50% unfavorable.
00:41:44.000Even Joe Biden doesn't like Kamala Harris.
00:41:47.000Apparently, according to Edward Isaac DeVere, who is the author of a new book about the 2020 election, apparently first lady doctored Joe Biden.
00:41:59.000Doctor, the greatest doctor of all time.
00:42:02.000She apparently used a naughty turn of phrase in 2019 after Kamala Harris took aim at Joe Biden.
00:42:07.000The 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.
00:42:16.000Apparently, 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?
00:42:25.000This is the first time I've ever liked Dr. Jill Biden.
00:42:28.000She is truly a doctor, a wordsmith, par excellence.
00:42:32.000According 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.
00:42:45.000The report said, Well, apparently they got over that rather quick.
00:43:02.000And what happens come 2024, if you're the Democrats?
00:43:05.000The next few years do not look easy if you are the Democratic Party.
00:43:09.000If you forecast this out, the economic growth is not booming the way that it was supposed to.
00:43:13.000Joe Biden is responsible for an inflationary cycle that is beginning right now.
00:43:17.000Maybe it gets under control, maybe it doesn't.
00:43:19.000Joe Biden is responsible for continuing chaos in the Middle East.
00:43:22.000He's responsible for continued divisions here at home.
00:43:27.000He's responsible for continued confusion over masking and over COVID and over all of this stuff.
00:43:34.000I 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.
00:43:43.000Like, the mixed signals coming from this administration are quite astonishing.
00:43:45.000Here's the CDC director, Rochelle Walensky, terrible at her job yesterday, saying, well, you know, we're still not out of the woods yet.
00:43:52.000I think we would be remiss to say that we are out of the woods.
00:43:58.000This pandemic, this virus has sent us too many curveballs to say that we, too early to declare victory.
00:44:06.000Certainly with virus circulating in other parts of the world, that is in high degree that gives the opportunity for more variants to emerge.
00:44:14.000So I still, it's among the things that keeps me up at night.
00:44:19.000Okay, so he's still trotting out, Rochelle Walensky was awful at this job, talking about how she's staying up at night.
00:44:24.000Okay, we are down to the lowest level of daily cases measured since like early March, right?
00:44:30.000March of the beginning of this pandemic, right?
00:44:32.000We had, as of May 19th, we had something like 28,500 cases in all of the United States, a country of 330 million people.
00:44:40.000The last time that we had 28,000 diagnosed cases in a day was like June of last year.
00:44:47.000Okay, and that's when the testing was way lower than it is right now.
00:44:51.000The baseline at that point was much higher than the actual number of measured cases.
00:44:56.000The number of coronavirus deaths on a day-by-day basis in the United States is down into the hundreds.
00:45:01.000Okay, so, yes, we are basically out of the woods at this point, but Biden's been continuing to trot that out.
00:45:07.000It 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.