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The Election Is Only Over When It’s Over | Ep. 1134


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Joe Biden declares the election over, and the media demand Republicans repeat that. Republicans claim voter fraud and irregularity. Meanwhile, Attorney General William Barr authorizes an investigation, and Pfizer develops a miraculous vaccine for Coevid. Ben Shapiro explains all of this and more on today's show on The Ben Shapiro Show, wherever you get your news. Subscribe to the show to get immediate access to all of Ben Shapiro's latest videos and listen when he's not on the air. You can also join our FB group, and join the conversation by using the hashtag on social media, and find Ben on all of the social medias, if you search for Ben Shapiro, you'll find him. If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts and other major podcasting platforms. We'll get to everything in the news in just one moment, so we can keep you up to date on everything else! Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your friends and family! Be sure to tell a friend about this episode on your social media accounts so they can also be notified when Ben Shapiro delivers his next episode! Subscribe, share, and spread the word to your friends about this podcast! You have a right to privacy protected by the Privacy Protect protected at ExpressVPN. Ben's Lawyer: . . . . The Privacy Guru: The Honest Campaign: Protect Your Day Offset: Protect Privacy Protects Your Data Protect Your Data, Protect Your Election Day: Privacy Protect Your Vote: Protect Every American Has a Right to Protect Their Vote, Protect Their Election Day, or Protect Their Privacy, or Find Out How Their Vote Counts Their Vote Is Fair, Fair And Fair And Secure Their Election System Is Fair And Equal, or They Can Have It All? If You're Concerned About Something Better Than That, Don't Sleep Well, You'll Never Rest Better, Don t Sleep Anywhere But Don't Ask Him Or Not Get More Than That? . , Protect Your Privacy Protect Their Data, Too Sensible, Can They'll Hear It, Too Safe, Will They Say It's Safe, Can't Say It, Will It, They'll Think So Much Better, Can You Say It? And They'll Get It, Won't They Say So, They Will Think It, Can It, Or They Won't Think So?


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00:00:00.000 Joe Biden declares the election over and the media demand Republicans repeat that.
00:00:04.000 Republicans claim voter fraud and irregularity while Attorney General William Barr authorizes investigations and Pfizer develops a miraculous vaccine possibility for COVID.
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00:01:34.000 Okay, so.
00:01:35.000 The media have declared that the election is over.
00:01:38.000 And as I've kept saying, I've been saying this consistently, I've said it since Tuesday night, the election is over when the election is over.
00:01:44.000 The election is technically not over.
00:01:46.000 Until all of the legal lawsuits come to an end, until the election results are certified, until the electors are selected and then actually vote, the election is not technically over.
00:01:55.000 And while everyone seems to be panicking, like really, like sheer panic in the media over the fact that Trump has not conceded the election, Who cares?
00:02:03.000 I mean, really, like, who cares?
00:02:04.000 I understand that there are lots of people who are very upset that Trump hasn't conceded the election and think it's undermining the integrity of our elections and that more Americans are not going to believe in the integrity of our elections.
00:02:14.000 OK, let me just tell you, it's a temporary phenomenon.
00:02:17.000 The reality of the situation is that Americans typically don't tend to believe in elections when the elections don't go their way.
00:02:23.000 And this holds true for literally every election.
00:02:26.000 OK, it's certainly been true since 2016.
00:02:29.000 So there are a lot of people today who are pointing to Gallup polling results showing that when it asked about election integrity, election integrity for Democrats, their belief in election integrity began to soar as soon as they thought they'd won the election.
00:02:42.000 They're not talking so much about that, right?
00:02:44.000 But if you go back all the way to, say, October 21st, on October 21st, only a bare majority of Democrats said that the election of 2020 was going to be free and fair.
00:02:54.000 And you're not seeing the media talk about that today because that would undercut their narrative.
00:02:58.000 Which is that only Republicans doubt elections, and the reason they doubt elections is because of Trump.
00:03:02.000 The fact is, the media were saying for months that we were going to get serious voter suppression, that Trump was moving mailboxes, that the mail service was going to somehow disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of people.
00:03:11.000 And so if you look back at the polling data, by polling data, Democrats on October 21st, only 51% said they thought that the election was going to be free and fair.
00:03:18.000 That same date, only 53% of Republicans thought the elections were going to be free and fair.
00:03:22.000 And more than either, independents thought the elections were not going to be free and fair.
00:03:26.000 Only 45% of independents thought the election was going to be free and fair.
00:03:29.000 In fact, on October 15th, just a week before that, only 40% of independents thought the elections were going to be free and fair.
00:03:34.000 Okay, so there's a lot of fluctuation in these numbers.
00:03:37.000 Now, after the election, when Democrats think that they won the national election, when they think that Joe Biden was elected, 90% of Democrats now say that they believe that the elections were free and fair.
00:03:46.000 So that is a jump of 40%.
00:03:48.000 OK, so the media today are all up on Republicans.
00:03:52.000 How dare you guys undermine the integrity of our elections?
00:03:54.000 I mean, back in October 25th, 57% of Republicans said that they thought the elections were free and fair.
00:04:01.000 Today, only 26% of Republicans say they believe the elections are free and fair.
00:04:06.000 Okay, well, back on October 25th, only 55% of Democrats said they thought the elections were free and fair.
00:04:12.000 Fewer than Republicans.
00:04:13.000 And now, 90% of Democrats think the elections are free and fair.
00:04:16.000 So, can we just point out that the stats on whether people think elections are free and fair are innately tied to who they think wins the election?
00:04:23.000 If you think your guy lost, you think he got cheated.
00:04:25.000 And if you think that your guy won, you think the election system was perfect.
00:04:29.000 Chef's kiss, excellent.
00:04:31.000 And this has been true for quite a long time.
00:04:34.000 So I'm seeing a lot of people talking about the dangers of the process dragging on and the legal process.
00:04:38.000 It's not dangerous.
00:04:40.000 It isn't.
00:04:41.000 And once we get to January 20th, somebody's going to get inaugurated.
00:04:44.000 In December, the electors are going to meet.
00:04:45.000 They're going to vote.
00:04:47.000 The fact that the process is taking, like, we are so impatient in our society that this thing wasn't called Tuesday night or Wednesday morning and everybody started running around with their hair on fire.
00:04:55.000 And now it's the next week.
00:04:56.000 And guess what?
00:04:57.000 Joe Biden is being prepped in case he is the president-elect.
00:05:00.000 And Donald Trump is still occupying the Oval Office.
00:05:02.000 There's not going to be a big battle.
00:05:04.000 Trump is not going to lock the doors and start snorting coke and firing guns through the door if, in fact, he is deemed to be the loser of the election by the legal process.
00:05:12.000 And just because CNN or MSNBC or Fox News declare something, there is no constitutional provision that says that this now ends the election and the election is over.
00:05:18.000 And if you don't repeat it, this means you're a very bad, terrible, no good, very bad person.
00:05:22.000 The reality is that if you look at this thing in the bare light of day, Joe Biden looks more likely to be the President of the United States when all of this is said and done come January 20th.
00:05:29.000 And the reason for that is because currently he has a 12,000 vote lead in Georgia, a 15,000 vote lead in Arizona, a 36,000 vote lead in Nevada, and a 45,000 vote lead in Pennsylvania.
00:05:38.000 In order for Donald Trump to win the election, he would need to overturn the results in Georgia, Arizona, and Pennsylvania, or get those states booted out of court.
00:05:45.000 That is highly unlikely to happen.
00:05:47.000 So if you had to lay money on this thing, you'd lay heavy money on Joe Biden being inaugurated in January.
00:05:52.000 But that does not mean that the process is over, nor does it mean that if the Trump campaign shows significant evidence of voter fraud, like really, really significant, like in the tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of votes, That wouldn't shift the election.
00:06:04.000 Is that sort of a hope and a prayer for a lot of Republicans?
00:06:07.000 Sure.
00:06:08.000 Is it also true that they're going to definitely be able to find evidence of voter fraud and voter irregularity?
00:06:13.000 Absolutely.
00:06:14.000 They are absolutely going to be able to find evidence of that because in an election that involves 150 million people voting, you would assume that there are going to be some people who engage in voter fraud and voter irregularity.
00:06:24.000 And that is a very large number, 150 million people.
00:06:27.000 But it's a very hard stone to lift to suggest that hundreds of thousands of votes were shifted by voter fraud or to prove that in court.
00:06:33.000 So people might be suspicious after the election.
00:06:36.000 Hell, after the election in 2016, 67% of Democrats, literally 67% of Democrats by polling data said that the Russians had switched the vote numbers.
00:06:45.000 So spare me all the hysterics about people think the elections are rigged and it's going to completely destroy our democracy.
00:06:52.000 Same poll today from Morning Consult that's showing that only 26% of Republicans say the elections were free and fair, showed that in 2016, only 39% of Democrats thought the elections were free and fair.
00:07:02.000 Today, it's 90%.
00:07:04.000 Is that because they're super consistent about American elections being free and fair, or is it because people tend to follow their partisan nose?
00:07:11.000 The last time that there was no partisan gap in terms of election process and people thinking the election was fair was 2004.
00:07:19.000 In that election, 65% of Independents, 68% of Democrats, and 66% of Republicans thought that the election was free and fair.
00:07:26.000 But even if you go all the way back to 2000, only 44% of Democrats thought that the election was free and fair.
00:07:32.000 In other words, in every election where your candidate loses, you tend to think that the process was skewed.
00:07:37.000 And in every election where your candidate wins, you tend to think that the process was not skewed.
00:07:40.000 So let's take with a grain of salt all of the talk about the end of democracy because this process is taking a while and because Trump won't concede and be great.
00:07:47.000 First of all, do you really believe that if Trump said tomorrow, you're right, I lost.
00:07:51.000 Do you think if he said that, that all of a sudden Republicans would be like sanguine about this thing?
00:07:55.000 That they wouldn't suspect voter fraud or voter irregularity?
00:07:58.000 Hillary Clinton, within the week of the election, conceded the election.
00:08:02.000 And still, a vast majority of Democrats thought Russians had changed the votes.
00:08:06.000 For four years, we got talk about how Trump was an illegitimate president and the election was fixed on behalf of Vladimir Putin and Facebook or some such nonsense.
00:08:13.000 Okay, so again, take everything the media is telling you with a grain of salt.
00:08:17.000 It is the formation of a narrative whereby anybody who wants to wait to declare the election over is a cat's paw of Donald Trump and is complicit in the rejection of the Republic There's a constitutional process.
00:08:29.000 The constitutional process has not been violated as of yet.
00:08:32.000 There's nothing in the constitutional process that says that Donald Trump has to concede before he gets to go through his legal challenges.
00:08:32.000 It has not.
00:08:39.000 So the media are trying to build up momentum for this idea, and this is what they constantly do.
00:08:44.000 They find a statement that nobody really made, and then they ask every Republican to defend the statement that nobody really made.
00:08:50.000 The media are a big story in all of this.
00:08:52.000 The constant driver by the media is a false narrative that portrays one side as eminently reasonable and the other side as eminently unreasonable.
00:09:02.000 Again, after years of declaring Stacey Abrams is still the governor of Georgia, spare me the hysterics about people who are wondering whether voter fraud and voter irregularity impacted this election.
00:09:11.000 At least voter fraud and voter irregularity, you're gonna have to prove it.
00:09:15.000 Voter suppression, there's no way to prove.
00:09:16.000 Voter suppression is an unprovable thesis.
00:09:19.000 This is what Stacey Abrams alleged.
00:09:21.000 She alleged that people not voting was, in fact, the problem in Georgia.
00:09:25.000 There's no way to un-ring that bell.
00:09:27.000 Because the people who voted, voted.
00:09:29.000 And the people who didn't, didn't.
00:09:30.000 And there's literally no way to prove that people who didn't vote didn't vote because they were suppressed, or because they just didn't want to, or for any other reason.
00:09:37.000 Voter suppression is a far harder charge to prove than voter fraud.
00:09:39.000 The good news is, at the end of this process, either large amounts of voter fraud and voter irregularity will have been proved, or they will not have been proved.
00:09:45.000 So all of the kind of crazy, insane, hysterical conjecture about how the American Republic is on the brink and everything's going to end because Republicans are following Trump down the primrose.
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00:09:59.000 Yeah, I know everything's fine.
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00:11:20.000 OK, so Joe Biden has declared the election over.
00:11:22.000 The media have declared the election over.
00:11:24.000 And of course, you're very, very bad if you don't also declare the election over.
00:11:26.000 Even if you say the election has a natural terminus, it has a legal terminus.
00:11:30.000 We're going to go through the process.
00:11:31.000 Nope, you're bad.
00:11:31.000 Here's Joe Biden saying the election is over.
00:11:33.000 So stop talking about the election.
00:11:34.000 The election's over.
00:11:36.000 This election is over.
00:11:37.000 It's time to put aside the partisanship and the rhetoric that designed to demonize one another.
00:11:45.000 It's time to end the politicization of basic, responsible public health steps like mask wearing and social distancing.
00:11:53.000 We have to come together to heal the soul of this country so that we can effectively address this crisis as one country where hardworking Americans have each other's backs.
00:12:04.000 OK, so the election's over.
00:12:05.000 Give it up.
00:12:06.000 Then we get Whoopi Goldberg, the specter of Whoopi Goldberg, saying that we have to suck it up.
00:12:09.000 You know, we sucked it up when Trump won.
00:12:10.000 In what way did Democrats suck it up when Trump won?
00:12:13.000 We got four long years of you whining that Trump wasn't the actual president of the United States.
00:12:17.000 Not hashtag not my president.
00:12:19.000 The women's march in the immediate aftermath of Trump winning.
00:12:22.000 We got huge.
00:12:24.000 Black Lives Matter protests throughout the summer.
00:12:26.000 The idea being that Trump was the font head of systemic American racism.
00:12:30.000 We got the media and their collusion narrative that went on for years on end, despite lack of evidence.
00:12:35.000 We got an impeachment.
00:12:37.000 At what point did Democrats actually come to terms with the fact that Trump had won?
00:12:40.000 They never came to terms, which is why they're so celebratory now, because they think that now reality has snapped back into place.
00:12:45.000 But spare me.
00:12:46.000 Like, really, all this stuff is just blech.
00:12:49.000 All these people who are unwilling to accept the results of election now going, you know, you guys, you got to grow up.
00:12:54.000 I'm not I'm not willing to hear that from you.
00:12:55.000 I'm sorry, Whoopi Goldberg.
00:12:57.000 I think you have.
00:12:58.000 I think you literally have no leg to stand on here.
00:13:01.000 This is well, not literally.
00:13:02.000 I assume you have legs, but you have no leg to stand on here.
00:13:04.000 Here is Whoopi Goldberg.
00:13:06.000 When you know who was elected four years ago, Hillary Clinton didn't say, hey, wait a minute.
00:13:12.000 This doesn't feel right.
00:13:13.000 Stop the count.
00:13:14.000 She didn't say, this isn't right.
00:13:16.000 I'm not going for it.
00:13:17.000 She didn't say any of that.
00:13:19.000 So all of you, suck it up.
00:13:21.000 Suck it up like we sucked it up.
00:13:23.000 And if you are not sure that you're comfortable with Joe Biden, do what we did.
00:13:28.000 Okay, that is literally what is happening right now.
00:13:37.000 People are literally going to the courts.
00:13:39.000 They're literally filing affidavits.
00:13:41.000 So in the meantime, Attorney General William Barr, he has put out a memo to assistant U.S.
00:13:47.000 attorneys all over the United States.
00:13:49.000 Telling them that if they see credible evidence of election fraud, then they should investigate it.
00:13:53.000 This is being taken by the media as a sign that William Barr has militarized on behalf of the Trump campaign.
00:13:59.000 Literally changing the legal standard.
00:14:01.000 So the headlines are William Barr initiates investigations and the media are like, yeah, but we don't see any evidence of serious widespread voter fraud.
00:14:06.000 That's not what the letter says.
00:14:07.000 So here's what William Barr's letter actually says.
00:14:09.000 He's the attorney general.
00:14:10.000 Here's what he actually says.
00:14:11.000 And by the way, people are saying that this is him, you know, basically trying to please Donald Trump, that this whole thing is about him trying to appease Donald Trump because Donald Trump doesn't want to accept that he lost the election or something.
00:14:21.000 What if the reason that William Barr is doing this?
00:14:23.000 I mean, here's here's a possible take.
00:14:25.000 What if the reason William Barr is doing this is because, number one, there may actually be credible allegations of voter fraud out there that are worth investigating, and two, if there are not, it is good for the DOJ to be on record saying that they were investigating those things so people feel more safe and secure after the election is over.
00:14:38.000 Did it ever occur to anybody that the reason this process exists is so that when the election is over, people at least are able to point to the court cases and to the investigations and say they came up empty?
00:14:48.000 It turns out that the Mueller investigation, it was bad and it was badly predicated, but the Mueller investigation did justify Trump's claims that there was no collusion.
00:14:55.000 It made it very difficult for Democrats to claim there was collusion.
00:14:58.000 Well, after this election, let's say that the DOJ comes up with no serious allegations of widespread voter fraud.
00:15:02.000 It's going to be a lot easier for people to point to that and say, okay, there was no widespread voter fraud that decided the election.
00:15:07.000 The purpose of the process is not to come to a preset end.
00:15:10.000 The purpose of the process is to ensure the integrity of the elections.
00:15:13.000 Here was Attorney General William Barr's letter, he said, Last week, our nation once again demonstrated the strength of our democracy as more than 140 million Americans cast ballots to select their leaders. I want to thank each of you and your teams for your extraordinary efforts to ensure that all Americans could exercise this most fundamental of rights with confidence and in safety. Now that the voting has concluded, it is imperative that the American people can trust that our elections were conducted in such a way that the outcomes accurately reflect the will of the voters.
00:15:37.000 Although the states have the primary responsibility to conduct and supervise elections under our Constitution and the laws enacted by Congress, the United States Department of Justice has an obligation to ensure that federal elections are conducted in such a way that the American people can have full confidence in their electoral process and their government.
00:15:51.000 The Department's general policies with regard to election fraud investigations are contained in the Justice Manual.
00:15:56.000 These policies require, among other things, consultation with the Public Integrity Section's Election Crimes Branch in some instances.
00:16:01.000 Those policies already allow preliminary inquiries, including witness interviews, to be conducted without ECB consultation.
00:16:07.000 In instances in which they are consulted, the ECB's general practice has been to counsel that overt investigative steps ordinarily should not be taken until the election in question has been concluded, its results certified, and all recounts and election contests concluded.
00:16:21.000 Okay, so in other words, the process usually is that you don't open an investigation or announce an open investigation until after the election results are certified because the crime hasn't actually been finalized at that point.
00:16:35.000 What Barr is saying is, here's the problem.
00:16:37.000 We have an ongoing presidential election.
00:16:39.000 There's a date certain at which the electors will vote on who the president-elect of the United States is.
00:16:43.000 And we need to know before then exactly what the outcome of these investigations is going to be, whether they are serious or whether they are unserious.
00:16:49.000 And so we are expediting the process.
00:16:50.000 Is that really bad that we're expediting the process?
00:16:52.000 Or would it be worse if it let's assume for a second that the DOJ actually came up with evidence of widespread voter fraud?
00:16:58.000 Wouldn't it be significantly worse if the electors went and voted Joe Biden into office?
00:17:01.000 And then two years from now, the DOJ came to the conclusion that hundreds of thousands of votes did shift, right?
00:17:05.000 Wouldn't that be a lot worse?
00:17:07.000 So he's saying expedite the process so that we can actually make sure that the right person is is elected to the president-elect of the United States.
00:17:16.000 He says, In other words, the idea that the DOJ is now shifting votes.
00:17:18.000 There's no election to be had.
00:17:19.000 determinations and judgments must be made.
00:17:20.000 While most allegations of purported election misconduct are of such a scale that would not impact the outcome of an election, and thus investigation can be appropriately be deferred, that is not always the case.
00:17:29.000 Furthermore, any concerns that overt actions taken by the department could inadvertently impact an election are greatly minimized if they exist at all, once voting has concluded, even if election certification has not yet been completed.
00:17:39.000 In other words, the idea that the DOJ is now shifting votes, there's no election to be had, the votes are already in.
00:17:44.000 Given this, and given that voting in our current elections has now concluded, I authorize you to pursue substantial allegations of voting and vote tabulation irregularities prior to the certification of elections in your jurisdictions in certain cases, as I have already done in specific instances.
00:17:56.000 Okay, now, this line has been taken out of context to suggest that Barr is overtly saying there has, in fact, been substantial allegations of voting and vote tabulation irregularities.
00:18:06.000 That is not what he is saying.
00:18:07.000 He's saying if you identify such substantial allegations, you should investigate them.
00:18:12.000 He is not averring that those vote tabulation and vote irregularities have been widespread.
00:18:17.000 He is saying, if you find any evidence or allegations that such voting fraud has been widespread or regularity has been widespread, go ahead and investigate.
00:18:24.000 The media went nuts on this.
00:18:26.000 Went nuts on this.
00:18:27.000 How dare he?
00:18:28.000 He says, any investigation of claims of irregularities that, if true, would clearly not impact the outcome of a federal election in an individual state should normally be deferred until after the election certification process is completed.
00:18:38.000 While US attorneys maintain their inherent authority to conduct inquiries and investigations as they deem appropriate, it will likely be prudent to commence any election-related matters as a preliminary inquiry so as to assess whether available evidence warrants further investigative steps.
00:18:51.000 He says it is equally imperative that department personnel exercise appropriate caution and maintain the department's absolute commitment to fairness, neutrality, and nonpartisanship.
00:18:57.000 You're the most senior leaders in the US Department of Justice.
00:19:00.000 I trust you to exercise great care and judgment in addressing allegations of voting and vote tabulation irregularities.
00:19:05.000 While serious allegations should be handled with great care, Specious, speculative, fanciful, or far-fetched claims should not be a basis for initiating federal inquiries.
00:19:13.000 Nothing here should be taken as any indication that the Department has concluded that voting irregularities have impacted the outcome of any election.
00:19:19.000 Rather, I provide this authority and guidance to emphasize the need to timely and appropriately address allegations of voting irregularities so that all of the American people, regardless of their preferred candidate or party, can have full confidence in the results of our elections.
00:19:31.000 Okay, should this be wildly controversial?
00:19:33.000 No, it should not.
00:19:34.000 What William Barr is doing here is not wildly controversial.
00:19:37.000 Nothing major is changing.
00:19:38.000 He's simply saying that instead of deferring the election investigation until after all of the votes have been certified, I'm now giving you the authority to go and investigate serious allegations of voter fraud if they arise.
00:19:49.000 That seems perfectly appropriate to me.
00:19:51.000 The idea that William Barr is now, you know, playing offense for Donald Trump here No, no, he's doing what the DOJ ought to be doing, which is investigating serious allegations of voter fraud before the possibility of the rectification of the problem disappears, because it does disappear on a particular date.
00:20:07.000 OK, so in a second, we're going to get to some of the allegations that have been levied by the Trump campaign.
00:20:13.000 We'll get to that and we'll get to the difficulty of the process, because the realistic And I think that it is important to note that so that we are realistic going forward.
00:20:21.000 probably do not change.
00:20:22.000 The reason being, again, the amount of voter fraud and voter irregularity is not in the hundreds of thousands.
00:20:26.000 Even if it were, it would be incredibly difficult to prove that.
00:20:30.000 And I think that it is important to note that so that we are realistic going forward.
00:20:33.000 That does not mean we should not investigate every single allegation that is credible.
00:20:37.000 We should, obviously.
00:20:40.000 I was the first person in America, on Twitter at least, to say all legal votes should be counted, all illegal votes should not be counted.
00:20:47.000 I've been holding this since Tuesday.
00:20:47.000 Guess what?
00:20:49.000 It's hilarious how the way our stupid politics works.
00:20:51.000 On Tuesday, I say the outcome of the election has not yet been determined, and everybody goes crazy.
00:20:56.000 And then on Friday, I say the outcome of the election has not been determined, and everybody on the other side goes crazy.
00:21:00.000 How about this?
00:21:01.000 The outcome of the election is determined when it is determined.
00:21:03.000 But given the current vote counts, the Trump campaign obviously has a serious legal hill to climb.
00:21:08.000 We'll get to some of these allegations in just a second.
00:21:09.000 Again, allegations that voter fraud exists are not sufficient to change the nature and outcome of an election.
00:21:15.000 You have to prove the size of the voter fraud.
00:21:17.000 You have to demonstrate that it would have changed the outcome of an election.
00:21:20.000 That's just how the law works.
00:21:22.000 Okay, we'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:22:42.000 OK, so let's get to some of the actual allegations here.
00:22:45.000 So yesterday, Ronna McDaniel, who's the head of the RNC, she did a presser in which she announced that there were 131 affidavits completed in Michigan concerning voter fraud and voter irregularities.
00:22:54.000 All of these, every single one should be investigated so long as they are credible.
00:22:58.000 As of 4 p.m.
00:22:59.000 this afternoon, 131 affidavits have been completed just in Michigan, with over 2,800 incident reports that have been submitted to us since Election Day.
00:23:09.000 Two new lawsuits were filed today by people who were working in Detroit, and a whistleblower who has gotten their information to the Eastern District Court of Michigan.
00:23:20.000 Okay, so all of those should be investigated and will be investigated.
00:23:23.000 It is worth noting at this point that 131 allegations or affidavits in Michigan is unlikely to change the voting outcome in Michigan because the fact is that in the presidential election, President Trump ended up Right now, he's down in the actual vote count by about 150,000 votes, 146,000 votes.
00:23:41.000 So it's going to be difficult for him to overcome that burden, even with 131 affidavits.
00:23:45.000 Now, listen, should our systems be cleaner?
00:23:47.000 Absolutely, right?
00:23:48.000 Our systems should be run like Florida.
00:23:50.000 Would it be great if there were no voter fraud, no voter irregularity?
00:23:53.000 But that is not the legal burden.
00:23:53.000 Absolutely.
00:23:54.000 The legal standard here is you have to prove enough.
00:23:57.000 I'm just telling you so we're realistic about the future here, guys.
00:23:59.000 This does not mean the system can't get better.
00:24:01.000 It doesn't need to be better.
00:24:02.000 What it does mean is if you're expecting the outcome of the election to shift based on voter fraud or voter irregularity, you have to look at the actual hard numbers and the actual legal standard because there is a process.
00:24:10.000 It is going to go to court.
00:24:11.000 That is the way that this works.
00:24:13.000 Now, there are cases where voter glitches do change outcomes.
00:24:17.000 For example, Daily Wire, Ryan Savedra reporting, an incumbent Republican in Michigan actually went from losing his reelection race to winning it after officials discovered a technical glitch by which the results from seven precincts had been counted twice.
00:24:28.000 Officials responded to the error by urging voters to have confidence in the system.
00:24:32.000 Adam Kochendorfer, Republican of Rochester Hills, went to bed Tuesday night believing, with all precincts reporting, he had lost his seat on a 21-member board of commissioners to Democratic challenger Melanie Hartman by 104 votes, but there was a problem.
00:24:43.000 According to the Oakland County Clerk Lisa Brown, the total from seven precincts in the city had been reported twice.
00:24:48.000 So the final count correctly moved Kochendorfer from a 104-vote loss to a 1,127-vote victory.
00:24:56.000 Okay, right, so these are small numbers, but those small numbers matter in an election in which there are only 40,000 total votes.
00:25:01.000 So you do see stuff like this.
00:25:03.000 It is important to note that the presence of voter fraud and voter irregularity does not mean that entire huge election swaths, decided by tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of votes, are going to switch.
00:25:12.000 This is a point made by the Georgia Secretary of State yesterday.
00:25:15.000 So he said, yeah, we're going to find voter fraud, and yeah, we're going to find voter irregularity.
00:25:18.000 But he's a Republican Secretary of State in Georgia, by the way.
00:25:20.000 He's saying that is not going to likely change the 12,000 vote margin in Georgia.
00:25:26.000 Remember, Al Gore couldn't even get via recount in Florida and via all of the legal maneuvering.
00:25:31.000 He couldn't even narrow a 1,000 vote differential between him and George W. Bush in 2000.
00:25:36.000 Meanwhile, Lindsey Graham presented an affidavit from a Pennsylvania mail carrier.
00:25:43.000 His name was Richard Hopkins.
00:25:45.000 He's a mail carrier who claims he was instructed to collect late ballots with the apparent intent from postmaster Robert Weizenbach to backdate the votes.
00:25:51.000 Hopkins made the claim in a signed affidavit under the penalty of perjury.
00:25:55.000 Although, as I understand, Pennsylvania law ballots must be postmarked by 8 p.m.
00:25:58.000 on Election Day, November 3rd, 2020 in Pennsylvania, Postmaster Robert Weizenbach directed my co-workers and I to pick up ballots after Election Day and provide them to him.
00:26:05.000 The affidavit reads in part, adding, quote, I heard Weizenbach tell a supervisor at my office that Weizenbach was backdating the postmarks on the ballots to make it appear as though the ballots had been collected on November 3rd, 2020, despite them in fact being collected on November 4th and possibly later.
00:26:19.000 Postal Service spokesperson told the outlet it was aware of Hopkins' claim and has referred the matter to the U.S.
00:26:19.000 A U.S.
00:26:24.000 Postal Inspection Service and the Office of the Inspector General.
00:26:27.000 Weizenbach did not respond.
00:26:28.000 Back to a request for comment.
00:26:30.000 Graham said in a statement, it is imperative that all credible allegations of voting irregularities and misconduct be investigated, he said.
00:26:36.000 The presidential election remains close in multiple states.
00:26:38.000 As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, all credible allegations of voting irregularities and misconduct will be taken seriously.
00:26:43.000 I will not allow credible allegations of voting irregularities or misconduct to be swept under the rug.
00:26:48.000 Good.
00:26:49.000 It'll be fully investigated, right?
00:26:51.000 The message of the show today, all of this stuff can and should be fully investigated and will be, I think, and will be.
00:26:59.000 Meanwhile, in Michigan.
00:27:01.000 A third lawsuit has been filed over Michigan's vote count.
00:27:03.000 This one was filed in Wayne County Circuit Court alleging problems with the counting process at TCF Center in Detroit.
00:27:09.000 The filing relies on the affidavits of four Republican poll challengers and a city of Detroit employee who said she worked in the city's election headquarters through September, a satellite clerk's office in October, and the TCF Center the day after the election, is according to the Detroit News.
00:27:21.000 Besides the affidavits, no actual evidence of the alleged issues was presented.
00:27:24.000 The allegations range from restrictions on poll challengers, to late arriving batches of absentee ballots, to the encouragement of early voters to cast their ballots for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
00:27:33.000 Election officials said they allowed the maximum number of poll watchers for both Democrats and Republicans, only restricting access to additional poll watchers because of COVID-19 concerns.
00:27:42.000 The suit seeks an independent audit of the election, a halt to the certification of Wayne County votes, in order voiding the county's election results and the initiation of a new election in Wayne County. There's also there's already been judges who have turned this down. And meanwhile there's a lot of questions about Pennsylvania.
00:27:58.000 Now, I think it is important here to distinguish between allegations of voter fraud and voter irregularity and the changing of the rules that happen in Pennsylvania.
00:28:06.000 One reality here is that the changing of the rules all over the United States to allow for mail-in voting, not on request, not absentee voting that you get, you request a mail-in ballot, it comes to you, you then vote, but the vast sending of ballots to people Because of COVID or for any other reason?
00:28:23.000 Because supposedly it was unsafe to vote in person even though we literally had tens of millions of people vote in person and no massive outbreak due to it.
00:28:29.000 And we'd had evidence from earlier on.
00:28:31.000 There was an election in Wisconsin earlier this year in which there were big lines to vote and no COVID outbreak.
00:28:37.000 The changing of those rules is in fact a problem.
00:28:41.000 And it's a problem that needs to be fixed.
00:28:42.000 The changing of the rules to not allow pre-tabulation of the votes before the election day.
00:28:46.000 That is a problem and it undercuts faith in the system.
00:28:52.000 Pennsylvania rules that suggested that you might be able to count a ballot after it arrived after an election day without a postmark, right?
00:28:58.000 That undercuts people's faith in the safety and security of the election system.
00:29:03.000 All of those things are systemic changes that are dangerous.
00:29:06.000 That is not quite the same as voter fraud or voter irregularity.
00:29:09.000 So it's important to tease out the various issues for sure.
00:29:12.000 You know, all of these issues, I believe, are going to be teased out.
00:29:16.000 And I think that we are seeing responsible rhetoric from people like Mike Lee, from people like Mitch McConnell.
00:29:21.000 We'll get to that in just one second, because while we are seeing responsible rhetoric, really, I don't think it's irresponsible for Republican senators to say the process is going to play out.
00:29:29.000 We have faith in the process.
00:29:30.000 Why is that more irresponsible than simply declaring the election is over and if you refuse to repeat it, you're a bad person?
00:29:35.000 Which is the media's take on all of this.
00:29:37.000 Here are some of the Republicans responding to all of this.
00:29:39.000 So Mike Lee, the senator from Utah, he put out a statement.
00:29:41.000 His statement says, Voters on both sides of the political aisle understandably expect and indeed deserve to have a high level of confidence in the results of each election.
00:29:52.000 Especially in a close, hotly disputed presidential election, the candidates are uniquely positioned to decide whether to request recounts, verify the accuracy of data, and otherwise take steps to ensure that all votes have been counted properly and lawfully. I look forward to working with whichever candidate emerges as the winner at the end of this process. Okay, and then Mitch McConnell said yesterday, he was talking about, listen, the states haven't certified yet.
00:30:13.000 So all of this talk about how if we refuse to just say President-elect Biden, it's because he literally is not President-elect Biden.
00:30:19.000 We've had fact checkers who've been like white on rice going after every supposed misstatement by President Trump for four years.
00:30:19.000 It's hilarious.
00:30:26.000 Then the entire media declare that Joe Biden is, in fact, the President-elect.
00:30:29.000 Fact check, he is not the President-elect.
00:30:31.000 He becomes the President-elect when the process concludes and when the electors vote for Joe Biden.
00:30:36.000 The electors haven't even met yet.
00:30:37.000 Here's Mitch McConnell making that very obvious point.
00:30:40.000 Obviously, no states have yet certified their election results.
00:30:46.000 We have at least one or two states that are already on track for a recount.
00:30:51.000 And I believe the President may have legal challenges underway in at least five states.
00:30:58.000 The core principle here is not complicated.
00:31:03.000 In the United States of America, all legal ballots must be counted.
00:31:08.000 Any illegal ballots must not be counted.
00:31:13.000 Why is this wildly controversial?
00:31:14.000 I'm just wondering.
00:31:15.000 Okay, the reason it's wildly controversial is because the media have simply declared that the election is over and they want to move on with their lives, even though, again, the American public have very serious questions, many of them, about the irregularities and the possibility of people playing around with the election.
00:31:30.000 So the New York Times has an entire article today about how evil Republicans are, how terrible, terrible Republicans are.
00:31:37.000 Declining to recognize Biden's victory.
00:31:39.000 McConnell says Trump is 100% entitled to challenge it.
00:31:42.000 Okay, well, again, the Biden victory is still preliminary, considering not a single state has certified its election result.
00:31:49.000 This idea that we have to bully every single Republican into saying that Biden is the president-elect, even though the process is not yet concluded, Concessions, when you concede an election, it makes things easier for everybody because everybody can then just move on with the assumption.
00:32:03.000 But until it's actually formally appealed, that is the assumption, right?
00:32:06.000 I mean, it's an assumption.
00:32:07.000 It is not, in fact, a legal outcome.
00:32:10.000 But the idea here is that you're very bad and you're undercutting the electoral integrity of the United States if you don't call for the assumption to be made across the board.
00:32:19.000 And so you end up with stuff like this.
00:32:20.000 So yesterday, Kayleigh McEnany was doing a presser talking about voting fraud and voting irregularities.
00:32:27.000 Now here is my general rule.
00:32:29.000 Politicians and political actors get to speak.
00:32:31.000 I think that the Obama administration lied routinely.
00:32:34.000 Routinely.
00:32:34.000 I think that Jay Carney would go out in those press conferences on behalf of Barack Obama and he would lie.
00:32:38.000 I think Barack Obama lied to the American people regularly.
00:32:41.000 Barack Obama lied that if you liked your plan you could keep your plan.
00:32:43.000 Barack Obama lied that the Iranians were on the brink of moderation if only we made concessions to them.
00:32:48.000 Barack Obama lied about a vast number of issues.
00:32:50.000 But, you know what?
00:32:51.000 You still gotta broadcast that because the American people are entitled to more information, not less.
00:32:56.000 And you can always debunk it later, right?
00:32:58.000 This is why they have fact-checkers, supposedly.
00:33:00.000 But yesterday on Fox News, Fox News did something that, frankly, I haven't seen a lot.
00:33:04.000 And it does demonstrate the level of the news media's arrogance when it comes to not just fact-checking news sources, but literally cutting them off because they don't like what they are saying.
00:33:14.000 OK, so Kayleigh McEnany was on Fox News and Neil Cavuto, who I generally like, just cuts her off.
00:33:18.000 She's doing a presser accusing Democrats of voting irregularities.
00:33:22.000 And again, it's either going to be evidenced or it's not going to be evidenced.
00:33:24.000 And if it's not evidenced, then people are going to say that Kayleigh McEnany wasn't telling the truth.
00:33:28.000 All of that is fair.
00:33:29.000 But to cut her off literally in the middle of the presser so that the American people cannot even see the information.
00:33:33.000 This is where we now stand.
00:33:35.000 Our betters, our media betters, have decided what you can see and what you can hear.
00:33:39.000 And that is not appropriate.
00:33:40.000 Social media have been doing the same thing.
00:33:42.000 Social media have been bullied into shutting down true stories.
00:33:45.000 Kevin Roos, who has literally bullied Facebook into lowering engagement on conservative pages.
00:33:49.000 It's insane.
00:33:50.000 Facebook's entire company is now being run by some woke staffers and a bunch of idiots at the New York Times who write op-eds and send nasty tweets about, ooh, look, look, look, Shapiro's page, Dan Bongino's page, Mark Levin's page.
00:34:01.000 People are paying attention to them.
00:34:03.000 That's really bad.
00:34:03.000 You guys should downgrade them.
00:34:05.000 Kevin Roose put out a tweet suggesting it was disinformation to point out that an election result in Michigan did shift.
00:34:10.000 It did shift!
00:34:10.000 That's not disinformation.
00:34:12.000 You just don't like the narrative.
00:34:13.000 Tough.
00:34:14.000 But the idea here is that social media and media are our saviors because, you see, they are wiser than you and they are wiser than I am.
00:34:19.000 And therefore, they get to censor what you see and what you hear.
00:34:22.000 Now, again, I'm happy to debunk any claim that is false made by a Republican or Democrat.
00:34:27.000 You can do that.
00:34:27.000 But first, you have to listen to the claim.
00:34:29.000 Here's Kayleigh McEnany being cut off by Neil Cavuto yesterday.
00:34:32.000 We want to protect the franchise of the American people.
00:34:36.000 We want an honest, accurate, lawful count.
00:34:40.000 We want maximum sunlight.
00:34:42.000 We want maximum transparency.
00:34:45.000 We want every legal vote to be counted, and we want every illegal vote to be... Whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:34:50.000 I just think we have to be very clear.
00:34:52.000 She's charging.
00:34:53.000 The other side is welcoming fraud and welcoming illegal voting.
00:34:56.000 Unless she has more details to back that up, I can't, in good countenance, continue showing you this.
00:35:02.000 Why?
00:35:02.000 I mean, seriously, couldn't you just come on right after that and say, you know, I don't think she provided any evidence of those pretty outrageous charges?
00:35:08.000 Couldn't you just come on and say, I can't and good countenance continue showing you this?
00:35:11.000 Who are you?
00:35:11.000 I mean, seriously.
00:35:13.000 Like, what are you, God?
00:35:15.000 I can't, you can't see that information.
00:35:17.000 You might agree with that information.
00:35:18.000 You might be misled, misled.
00:35:20.000 You might be misled, right?
00:35:23.000 That would be a problem.
00:35:24.000 And thus, you cannot see the information.
00:35:26.000 Oh, that's great.
00:35:26.000 I want my media outlet censoring what I can see and what I can hear.
00:35:28.000 That is definitely what I am looking for here.
00:35:31.000 And that kind of stuff from Fox News, even the Fox News host last night, Tucker, was like, our own network is beclowning itself here.
00:35:38.000 That followed hard on an outtake from Sandra Smith on Fox News, acting exasperated when other guests on Fox News said, oh, you know what?
00:35:46.000 We might want to wait for the legal process to play itself out.
00:35:48.000 And Sandra Smith didn't realize she was still on camera and was rather skeptical of this claim.
00:35:53.000 Whoever has decided to be the president, remember, just because CNN says or even Fox News says that somebody's president doesn't make them president.
00:36:01.000 So I think everybody wants to know that this was done properly and legally.
00:36:06.000 What is happening?
00:36:06.000 Like, Trace, we've called it.
00:36:09.000 Okay, we called it and therefore it's called, right?
00:36:11.000 And once the media call it, it is the truth.
00:36:13.000 That is the way that this works.
00:36:14.000 I only have one problem with this, which is that I don't trust the members of our media to make objective determinations.
00:36:19.000 Not only that, I certainly do not trust the members of our media to determine what I can see and what I can hear so that I can determine whether their determinations are in fact correct or not.
00:36:27.000 We're going to get to more of this in just a second because it is pretty wild how the media have unmasked themselves.
00:36:32.000 Generally speaking, the establishment media have unmasked themselves during this election.
00:36:36.000 We'll get to that in just one second.
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00:39:34.000 So when I say that you cannot trust the establishment media, I really, really, really mean it.
00:39:45.000 So over the past few weeks, we had the specter of a CNN contributor who had denied on air that he was the anonymous author from inside the Trump administration writing crap about Trump.
00:39:54.000 Acknowledged that he was in fact that person, but he lied to Anderson Cooper on air about it.
00:39:57.000 Did CNN even suspend him?
00:39:58.000 Nope.
00:40:00.000 And then, today, we find out that Jon Meacham, the presidential historian, wrote the speech that Joe Biden gave on Saturday night.
00:40:08.000 He's been writing speeches for Joe Biden apparently all along.
00:40:10.000 And then he's been going on MSNBC and commenting on the speeches that he wrote.
00:40:15.000 Sources told the New York Times, according to Fox News, that Meacham had been, quote, playing a larger role than was previously known behind the scenes, both writing drafts of speeches and offering edits on many of Mr. Biden's big addresses, including the one he gave at Gettysburg last month and his acceptance speech at the DNC.
00:40:28.000 Biden campaign press secretary T.J.
00:40:30.000 Ducklow told the Times, quote, President-elect Joe Biden wrote the speech he delivered to the American people on Saturday night, but given the significance of the speech, he consulted a number of important and diverse voices as part of his writing process, as he often does.
00:40:42.000 Meacham, who publicly endorsed Biden back in March, has long been a go-to analyst for MSNBC.
00:40:46.000 The Times reported that according to a network source, Meacham would no longer be a paid contributor going forward, but don't worry, he'll still be welcome as a guest.
00:40:53.000 Meacham did appear on MSNBC following Biden's speech on Saturday.
00:40:58.000 He was asked by Brian Williams, another news anchor who makes up stories about avoiding gunfire in helicopters over Iraq.
00:41:07.000 Okay, I'm sorry, the specter of Brian Williams, who's a falsifier of his own stories, asking questions to John Meacham, who wrote a speech for Biden about that same Biden speech, neither disclosing that Meacham was actually the author of the speech.
00:41:20.000 That's peak media.
00:41:21.000 I mean, that is peak establishment media stuff right there.
00:41:23.000 So Brian Williams asked, quote, I'm not the historian that you are.
00:41:26.000 I don't have the Pulitzer that you do, but do you concur this is the way we are used to hearing from our presidents?
00:41:30.000 Absolutely, Meacham answered.
00:41:32.000 Why, you know, it's pretty incredible.
00:41:34.000 John Meacham loved the speech that John Meacham wrote.
00:41:36.000 Who could have known?
00:41:39.000 There's a shocker.
00:41:40.000 That's a huge shocker.
00:41:42.000 Our media are thoroughly corrupt.
00:41:44.000 Thoroughly corrupt.
00:41:46.000 Jake Tapper, who again, very often I think Jake Tapper is the only person in the media who will ask a tough question to folks on the left.
00:41:52.000 This was not a good example of this.
00:41:54.000 So Jake Tapper tweeted out yesterday, quote, I truly sympathize with those dealing with losing.
00:41:58.000 It's not easy, but at a certain point, one has to think not only about what's best for the nation, peaceful transfer of power, but how any future employers might see your character defined during adversity. OK, that sounds an awful lot like that sounds an awful lot like if you don't act the way that I want you to right now, people might not hire you in the future.
00:42:16.000 So that sounds like so.
00:42:18.000 A few minutes later, he followed up.
00:42:20.000 And he followed up that tweet.
00:42:22.000 And he said, I mean, I don't expect the Ride or Die crew to listen to me, but... So it says here on your resume that you drove a sex offender to testify at Four Seasons Total Landscaping north of the Ticoni-Palmyra Bridge.
00:42:33.000 Okay, so that is a reference to Rudy Giuliani doing a much-ballyhooed press conference yesterday about voter fraud.
00:42:40.000 But the basic idea that you might want to think about what your future employers are going to think about you and all this, that sort of subtle implication there, which is that if you act the wrong way here, guys, if you act the wrong way here, people might not hire you in the future.
00:42:53.000 That is what has led to the backlash.
00:42:55.000 And the backlash has taken a few forms.
00:42:56.000 One, the rise of alternative media sources like ours.
00:42:59.000 And two, the rise of a huge number of Americans who are voting in ways that the media simply cannot detect.
00:43:05.000 Because they don't want to be covered by the media.
00:43:07.000 They don't want to talk to the media.
00:43:08.000 They don't want the attention.
00:43:10.000 Because they understand what goes on in these media outlets.
00:43:13.000 These media outlets have become thoroughly corrupted by their own bubble.
00:43:16.000 They've decided that it's their way or the highway.
00:43:19.000 There's actually a fantastic piece over at New York Magazine about the goings-on over at the New York Times.
00:43:25.000 And it does demonstrate full-scale how corrupt our media are.
00:43:28.000 According to that article in New York Magazine, They're talking about Tom Cotton's column.
00:43:34.000 You remember this.
00:43:34.000 Back during the election cycle, Tom Cotton wrote a column, the senator from Arkansas, about how the Insurrection Act might in fact be justified to stop rioting and looting in America's major cities if local authorities wouldn't do it.
00:43:44.000 And James Bennett, the op-ed editor of the New York Times, ended up losing his job for printing that after a bunch of staffers said they were unsafe.
00:43:50.000 Oh, poor babies.
00:43:51.000 They were unsafe.
00:43:51.000 Because a sitting United States senator wrote a column that 55% of Americans by polling data agreed with.
00:43:57.000 Okay, so here's New York Magazine's description of what happened.
00:44:01.000 The conversation turned into what more than one Times employee described to me as a food fight.
00:44:05.000 During the melee, opinion columnist Elizabeth Bruning uploaded a PDF of John Rawls' treatise on public reason in an attempt to elevate the discussion.
00:44:12.000 What we're having is really a philosophical conversation and it concerns the unfinished business of liberalism, Bruning wrote.
00:44:17.000 I think all human beings are born philosophers, that is, that we have an innate desire to understand what our world means, what we owe to one another, and how to live good lives.
00:44:25.000 Philosophy schmilosophy, wrote a researcher at the Times whose slack avatar was the logo for the hamburger chain Jack in the Box.
00:44:31.000 We're at a barricades moment in our history.
00:44:33.000 You decide, which side are you on?
00:44:35.000 By Monday morning, Bennett was out.
00:44:37.000 So, I mean, this is the way that it works over there.
00:44:40.000 This is the way that it works over at the New York Times.
00:44:42.000 According to the New York Magazine, in the weeks that followed, one opinion staffer told me it felt like no one at the Times got any work done at all.
00:44:48.000 There were focus groups, 38 of them and counting, and working groups and innumerable conversations about what the paper should be and look like and who it was for.
00:44:54.000 The Mass Ted started holding black people meetings, as one black employee put it to me, in which members of the Mass Ted talked one-on-one with employees of color to sort out why they felt the Times was an unwelcoming place.
00:45:04.000 In hashtag newsroom feedback, there were many days in which several people were typing.
00:45:08.000 The gears of institutional change were slowly churning.
00:45:12.000 Okay, this is the This is the best part of the article.
00:45:15.000 They're talking about how the outraged New York Times staff had basically taken over the op-ed page.
00:45:19.000 The section sometimes ran into the same problems.
00:45:21.000 Last month, Opinion published a column by a Chinese government official arguing for the country's military crackdown in Hong Kong.
00:45:27.000 It was a virtual repeat of the cotton situation.
00:45:29.000 The hashtag newsroom feedback channel lit up briefly, but the conversation was muted.
00:45:32.000 The China op-ed didn't hit home because everyone is exhausted, one Times reporter said.
00:45:37.000 You can't be mad all the time.
00:45:38.000 Everyone agreed that broader reforms would have to wait until after November, after the election.
00:45:43.000 That's when the broader reforms were going to kick in.
00:45:44.000 And that's when, presumably, they would start to be angry about the fact that China just subjected Hong Kong to absolute tyranny.
00:45:49.000 I think you should trust these people.
00:45:50.000 I think you absolutely should trust these people.
00:45:52.000 Or alternatively, you should definitely not trust these people and you should go subscribe to Daily Wire.
00:45:56.000 It sounds self-serving.
00:45:56.000 It also happens to be the truth.
00:45:57.000 But subscribe to BlazeTV.
00:45:59.000 Subscribe to Daily Wire.
00:46:01.000 Go give a donation to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
00:46:03.000 Like, seriously, go get alternative sources of media because these people are simply not trustworthy.
00:46:08.000 You know, the other predictable effect of all of this is, of course, that shy Trump effect that the media were completely unable to detect.
00:46:14.000 And they can't believe it.
00:46:15.000 They don't understand why there are so many Americans who simply didn't tell them the truth in polls.
00:46:19.000 I mean, where did these tens of millions of Americans who supported Trump come from?
00:46:22.000 I mean, it was unthinkable that even a single one of their friends could have supported Donald Trump, let alone millions and millions of Americans.
00:46:28.000 So there were two possible ways out of this ideological conundrum.
00:46:32.000 Way number one was you could do like Michelle Obama and simply declare that tens of millions of Americans were racist, sexist, bigoted homophobes who are ridden with hatred and simply wanted to keep the status quo.
00:46:40.000 That is way number one.
00:46:42.000 Way number two would be to actually be a little introspective in the media and say to yourself, OK, we missed it in 2016 and then we missed it again in 2020.
00:46:49.000 What did we do wrong?
00:46:50.000 What can we do differently?
00:46:51.000 And maybe you might want to hire a person or two who voted for Trump.
00:46:55.000 I don't know.
00:46:55.000 You should think about it.
00:46:57.000 Considering that Donald Trump won 48 percent of the vote and over 70 million votes, making him the second leading vote getter in presidential election history.
00:47:04.000 Like Donald Trump, part of this is population growth, part of this is huge voter turnout.
00:47:09.000 Donald Trump won more absolute votes than Barack Obama did in either of his elections.
00:47:13.000 So that means there are tens of millions of Americans who are willing to pull the lever for that guy.
00:47:16.000 Is there a single person who voted for Donald Trump and will say so clearly working for the New York Times?
00:47:21.000 Seriously, it's a real question.
00:47:23.000 Is there a single person working a regular gig at CNN who voted for Donald Trump?
00:47:28.000 One.
00:47:29.000 I'm not asking for 10.
00:47:30.000 I'm not asking for 100.
00:47:31.000 I'm asking for one.
00:47:32.000 Is there one person at MSNBC?
00:47:34.000 Is there one person at ABC News, NBC News, CBS, who will clearly say I voted for Trump and why?
00:47:40.000 You can't find one.
00:47:41.000 Weird, weird.
00:47:42.000 And then, inside the bubble, they're like, well, you know, we are the arbiters of the truth, and we will tell you that elections are legitimate, and we will call elections.
00:47:48.000 I can't imagine why there's systemic distrust of the people who are calling elections.
00:47:52.000 I can't imagine why there's systemic distrust of people who declare the narratives.
00:47:56.000 I can't imagine why the establishment media are blowing themselves out.
00:48:00.000 It's amazing.
00:48:00.000 The media are saying, you know, it's really bad that Trump is undermining election integrity.
00:48:04.000 Hey, you know who undermined election integrity before Donald Trump?
00:48:06.000 You know who did it?
00:48:08.000 It was you jackasses for four years.
00:48:10.000 You undermine the election integrity of 2016.
00:48:12.000 You undermine the election integrity of 2018.
00:48:14.000 And now when you flip around, you say, hey, listen, our elections are perfectly clean.
00:48:18.000 Why should we listen to you at any point here?
00:48:20.000 Seriously, why?
00:48:22.000 How about we listen to people who are consistent, who say that the process works?
00:48:25.000 I said the process worked in 2016.
00:48:27.000 I said the process worked in 2018.
00:48:28.000 I said before this election, the process was going to work and the process is going to work.
00:48:32.000 And guess what?
00:48:32.000 There's a process and it's going to play out.
00:48:34.000 By this idea that we're supposed to simply blind ourselves and listen to our objective news media betters.
00:48:40.000 GFY, man.
00:48:41.000 Seriously.
00:48:43.000 Now, the predictable result of all of this is, of course, that shy Trump effect.
00:48:47.000 So, really, really interesting article by a guy named Eric Kaufman.
00:48:50.000 He's a professor of politics at Birkbeck University of London.
00:48:53.000 He says, with the final ballots yet to be counted, with the next president still unknown, the polling postmortem is underway.
00:48:59.000 So much of the experience of watching returns remarked frustrated MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes was anchored by the polling going into it.
00:49:04.000 It was a bad night for polling, an enormous polling miss.
00:49:07.000 Why did the pollsters get it so wrong?
00:49:10.000 Pollsters typically receive low response rates to calls that leads them to undercount key demographics.
00:49:15.000 To get around this, they typically wait for key categories like race, education, or gender.
00:49:18.000 If they get too few Latinos or whites without degrees, they adjust their numbers to match the actual electorate.
00:49:23.000 But most attitudes vary far more within a group, like university graduates, than between graduates and non-graduates.
00:49:28.000 So, even if you have the correct share of graduates and non-graduates, you might be selecting the more liberal-minded among them.
00:49:33.000 For example, in the 2019 American National Election Study pilot survey, education level predicts less than 1% of the variation in whether a white person voted for Trump in 2016.
00:49:42.000 By contrast, Their feelings toward illegal immigration on a 0 to 100 thermometer predicts over 30% of the variation.
00:49:48.000 In other words, when you see pollsters say, well, you know, we properly sampled high school educated white voters, it really matters whether those high school educated white voters are baristas in Seattle or whether they are farmers out in eastern Washington.
00:50:03.000 It turns out that education level might not be the greatest predictor.
00:50:06.000 It turns out that there might be complicating factors.
00:50:08.000 Maybe you're oversampling non-college graduates who are the baristas with the earring and two nose rings working at Starbucks, rather than the guy who is working a manufacturing shift over at the local factory.
00:50:21.000 Unless pollsters wait for attitudes and psychology, which is tricky because positions can be caused by candidate support, they miss much of the actions, according to Eric Kaufman, again, professor of politics at University of London.
00:50:31.000 He says, looking at this election's errors, I wonder if political correctness lies at the heart of the problem.
00:50:35.000 Political correctness refers to the policing of speech so that it conforms to cultural taboos, especially the ones concerning race, gender, and sexuality.
00:50:42.000 Those who wield the taboos gain rhetorical power, encouraging them to stretch the meaning of concepts such as racism to encompass non-racist actions such as voting for Donald Trump.
00:50:50.000 In other words, if you keep calling people racist, and you keep extending those taboos, people are going to treat the taboos as taboos, and then they will not tell you what they are doing.
00:50:58.000 Across all racial groups, 80% of Americans say political correctness is a problem in our country.
00:51:03.000 Only the small progressive activist 8% of the U.S.
00:51:05.000 population thinks it's not.
00:51:06.000 In practice, the burden of political correctness arguably falls most heavily on university-educated Republican supporters.
00:51:12.000 Data from a recent Cato Institute survey shows 88% of Trump-voting graduates compared to just 44% of Clinton-supporting graduates agreed that the political climate these days prevents me from saying things I believe because others might find them offensive.
00:51:26.000 So he says 45% of Republicans with degrees compared to 23% of Democrats with degrees said they feared their careers would be at risk if their views became known.
00:51:33.000 Okay, well that is going to have an impact on that shy Trump effect.
00:51:36.000 So where are the shy Trumpers?
00:51:37.000 They are not the high school educated whites.
00:51:39.000 They are college educated whites.
00:51:41.000 Particularly college educated white women.
00:51:43.000 They don't want to tell pollsters what they are thinking because they are afraid of the social ostracization as well as people like Jake Tapper saying, well, watch what you're saying in this moment because people might not hire you.
00:51:53.000 How does this affect polling?
00:51:55.000 According to Frank Luntz, he told Emily Malus, Trump voters were over twice as likely as Biden voters by a margin of 19 to 9 to conceal their intended vote from others.
00:52:02.000 I would expect this ratio to be considerably higher among university graduates, which would accordingly skew predictions the most among graduates.
00:52:10.000 In other words, just because you're online doesn't mean that you are going to answer honestly these questions, even though they are somewhat anonymous.
00:52:15.000 surveys are anonymous, they reason a shy Trump effect should reveal itself and they find none.
00:52:19.000 But we know that people who internalize social norms conceal their views in online surveys.
00:52:23.000 In other words, just because you're online doesn't mean that you are going to answer honestly these questions, even though they are somewhat anonymous. For example, a recent survey of North American academics found that 23% of academics were willing to state they would discriminate against a Trump voter for a job.
00:52:39.000 But the actual share, when using concealed techniques called a list experiment, was 42%.
00:52:44.000 Which, by the way, I mean, that's an extraordinary number, right?
00:52:47.000 That's 42% of academics saying they would discriminate against a Trump voter for a job.
00:52:50.000 You think that's not going to have an impact?
00:52:53.000 There's also a problem of blowback among elite Republicans.
00:52:56.000 Luntz has said that feedback from Trump-supporting respondents revealed considerable resentment toward pollsters who are perceived as part of a media establishment out to misrepresent them.
00:53:03.000 Why would they possibly think that, considering that the pollsters keep saying they are racist?
00:53:07.000 This may explain why the polls didn't do badly in predicting the white non-graduate vote, but failed miserably among white graduates.
00:53:13.000 According to a Pew survey on October 9th, Trump was leading Biden by 21 points with white non-graduates, but trailing him by 26 points among white graduates.
00:53:20.000 Likewise, a political ABC poll on October 11th found that Trump leads by 26 points among white voters without four-year college degrees, but Biden holds a 31-point lead with white college graduates.
00:53:30.000 But the exit polls showed that Trump ran even among white college graduates, 49-49.
00:53:36.000 He even had an edge among white female graduates, 50 to 49.
00:53:39.000 So pre-election surveys were off by a whopping 26 to 31 points among white graduates.
00:53:44.000 By contrast, among whites without degrees, the actual tilt in the election was 64 to 35, a 29-point gap, and the polls basically got that right.
00:53:52.000 That is a massive error.
00:53:53.000 It's a massive error.
00:53:55.000 And what that suggests is that Republicans who are more educated, meaning they are more likely to come into contact with Democrats who are telling them they are racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes, those are the ones who are being shy about this.
00:54:05.000 So what that means for the future is that the more that Democrats and the media rely on this narrative, the more they refuse to actually investigate their own biases and their own hatred for people on the other side of the aisle.
00:54:14.000 The more they refuse to hire a single Trump voter to write on the pages of the New York Times op-ed page, the more people are going to internalize the media's hatred for them.
00:54:22.000 And then they are not going to tell the truth on how they vote.
00:54:25.000 And they're going to vote Republican more and more often.
00:54:27.000 This is the good news from the 2020 election, no matter which way it goes.
00:54:31.000 And there's a lot of heartache for a lot of Republicans who are looking at the numbers, the raw numbers from Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and they're thinking to themselves that there's a high likelihood that Joe Biden is president-elect.
00:54:40.000 Or will be president-elect when the process is finished.
00:54:43.000 Okay, here is the good news.
00:54:44.000 The good news is, the path forward for the Republicans is rosy.
00:54:47.000 It is really bad for Democrats.
00:54:48.000 Democrats have decided on a coalition of aggrieved racial politics.
00:54:52.000 That is not a winning coalition.
00:54:54.000 In fact, demographics are not destiny.
00:54:57.000 The argument of both the racist alt-right and the mainstream left is that demographics are destiny.
00:55:01.000 That a coalition of blacks, Hispanics, Gays, Asians, that that is gonna be the new minority majority, and that is going to swamp the white vote in the United States, and that it's all about the demographics.
00:55:12.000 The alt-right thinks the same thing, by the way, which is why they want fewer people who don't look like them in the country, right?
00:55:18.000 It's funny.
00:55:18.000 The mainstream left and the alt-right agree.
00:55:19.000 Demographics are destiny.
00:55:20.000 Then there are the rest of us who think that people ought to be treated as individuals.
00:55:23.000 And you know what the evidence bears out?
00:55:25.000 That when you treat people as individuals, they act as individuals.
00:55:28.000 The New York Times has an entire piece today about how Democrats missed Trump's appeal to Latino voters.
00:55:33.000 According to Jennifer Medina, she says, after four years of draconian Trump immigration policies and divisive messaging, the Biden campaign courted Latino voters primarily by reminding them that Joe Biden was not Donald Trump, that if they felt targeted in Trump's America, a vote for Biden would change that.
00:55:48.000 That argument resonated for many Latinos who became the second largest voting group for the first time this year.
00:55:52.000 But for others, it was Trump who made them feel part of America, not targeted by it.
00:55:56.000 Teresa Melio, an accountant in her 60s who immigrated from Cuba and attends an evangelical church in Miami, said, I've been in the country since I was nine.
00:56:04.000 I'm an American.
00:56:04.000 I've been through a lot.
00:56:05.000 Abortion is the litmus test.
00:56:06.000 Jesus is my savior.
00:56:07.000 Trump is my president.
00:56:09.000 Democrats lost in Florida, in part because of lackluster support among Latino voters.
00:56:13.000 They did basically no better than they do normally in Texas, in part because Hispanic voters in the Rio Grande Valley moved decisively toward the GOP.
00:56:20.000 In Arizona, Democrats will claim both of the state Senate seats for the first time in decades, fueled by young progressive Latino voters.
00:56:26.000 For years, many Democrats have presumed demography as destiny, believing that Latinos would come to vote for them with the same kind of consistency Black voters do.
00:56:33.000 A growing Latino population they hoped would transform the political landscape and give the party an edge in the Southwest.
00:56:38.000 That dream ran into reality in this election, in which the results confirmed what was evident from conversations with hundreds of Latino voters in dozens of settings from the early days of the Democratic Party until the long ballot-counting hours in Arizona over the last week.
00:56:50.000 The Latino vote is deeply divided, and running as not-Trump was always going to be insufficient.
00:56:56.000 Okay, this is the reality, and it's very good news for Republicans.
00:56:58.000 So here's the good news for Republicans.
00:56:59.000 There are a lot of voters who voted for Trump, and they lied to pollsters about it because they understand political correctness and its diktats.
00:57:05.000 There are a lot of Latino voters who are moving toward Trump because they are not going to be treated as a monolithic voting bloc.
00:57:10.000 In fact, there are a lot of Black voters who moved toward Trump by exit polling, and outside shares of Black males voted for Donald Trump.
00:57:17.000 Because he is as blunt and direct with everyone as he is with everybody else.
00:57:17.000 Why?
00:57:22.000 And that has some appeal.
00:57:25.000 Also, we have been told that there is no age shift happening.
00:57:37.000 We've been told that all of the people who are 18 to 29 and went for Obama in 2008, that they are not shifting, that they are going to remain blue voters forever, and that we're going to get this permanent shift toward the blue as those people continue to age.
00:57:50.000 Only one problem, as Sean Trendy at RealClearPolitics points out, In 2008, 18-29 year olds went 66-32 for Obama.
00:57:54.000 Today, that cohort is 30-41 years old.
00:57:55.000 That cohort went for Biden by 7.
00:57:57.000 Today, that cohort is 30 to 41 years old.
00:57:59.000 That cohort went for Biden by seven, by seven.
00:58:04.000 So either 42 to 45 year olds are really Trumpy or there's doings at transpiring.
00:58:08.000 In other words, people shift as they age, as they have families, as they realize that the progressive oddities and stupidities of their youth no longer make sense.
00:58:15.000 So if you're looking to a future for the Republican Party, that future for the Republican Party is quite bright.
00:58:20.000 And it is worth noting that because, while I know a lot of people are pessimistic right now, The fight is only beginning, as I said yesterday.
00:58:27.000 It's time to push.
00:58:28.000 It's time to push.
00:58:29.000 Donald Trump has wedged open a door with many Latino voters, with some black voters.
00:58:35.000 He alienated a lot of suburban women.
00:58:37.000 Those women voted for George W. Bush twice and Mitt Romney in 2012.
00:58:40.000 A lot of those suburban women will come back.
00:58:44.000 The fact is, what we are watching in real time is the Democratic Party alienate so many voters that they've alienated themselves into a minority in the country.
00:58:51.000 I truly believe this.
00:58:53.000 It's going to manifest itself in the House over the next couple of years.
00:58:55.000 It's going to manifest itself in the Senate.
00:58:57.000 And I think it's going to manifest itself in presidential races.
00:58:59.000 If the Democratic Party decides to double down on the poisonous 2012 campaign of Barack Obama, which suggested that instead of campaigning to Americans as individuals, you have to campaign to Americans as groups, I think it's really going to go badly for Democrats in the coming years as Americans decide, you know what?
00:59:16.000 I like being treated as an individual and not as a member of a group.
00:59:19.000 And I don't like being called a racist.
00:59:20.000 And I'm going to vote however I damn well please.
00:59:22.000 And I also don't trust the media that tell me I'm a racist if I don't vote like all of our media betters say that I should vote.
00:59:28.000 OK, meanwhile, some actual good news.
00:59:30.000 Pfizer announced yesterday that there's a COVID-19 vaccine that is strongly effective in early data.
00:59:36.000 According to Stat News, Pfizer and partner BioNTech said Monday their vaccine against COVID-19 was strongly effective, exceeding expectations with results that are likely to be met with cautious excitement and relief in the face of the global pandemic.
00:59:46.000 The stock market rocketed through the roof yesterday on the news.
00:59:50.000 The vaccine is the first tested in the United States to generate large-stage data.
00:59:54.000 The company said an early analysis of the results showed that individuals who received two injections of the vaccine three weeks apart experienced more than 90% fewer cases of symptomatic COVID-19 than those who received a placebo for months.
01:00:06.000 Researchers have cautioned that a vaccine might only be 60 to 70% effective.
01:00:08.000 This is way, way, way more effective than previously supposed.
01:00:14.000 William Gruver, Pfizer Senior President of Vaccine Clinical Research and Development, told Stat, quote, He came out yesterday and he said, this is truly an amazing thing.
01:00:21.000 He said, this is a great day for humanity.
01:00:22.000 So this really bodes well for us being able to get a handle on the epidemic and get us out of this situation.
01:00:27.000 The Pfizer CEO, he came out yesterday and he said this is truly an amazing thing.
01:00:32.000 He said this is a great day for humanity.
01:00:34.000 Here was the CEO of Pfizer.
01:00:38.000 It is a great day for science.
01:00:40.000 It is a great day for humanity.
01:00:43.000 When you realize that your vaccine has a 90% effectiveness, that's overwhelming.
01:00:51.000 You understand that the hopes of billions of people and millions and businesses and hundreds of governments that were felled on our shoulders Okay, that is Dr. Albert Bourla, who is the CEO of Pfizer.
01:01:09.000 So Big Pharma is good again.
01:01:10.000 Remember that time when Big Pharma was evil?
01:01:12.000 Big Pharma is actually good.
01:01:13.000 There's a lot of speculation that this announcement was held until after the election.
01:01:16.000 That lacks evidence.
01:01:18.000 The only evidence that that is the case is that apparently Pfizer and BioNTech had decided in late October that they were going to drop a 32-case interim analysis. At that time, the companies decided to stop having their lab confirm cases of COVID-19 in the study, instead leaving samples in storage.
01:01:31.000 The FDA was aware of the decision. Discussions between the agency and companies concluded.
01:01:35.000 Testing began this past Wednesday. When the samples were tested, there were 94 cases of COVID in the trial. This means that the statistical strength of the result is far stronger than was initially expected.
01:01:44.000 It also means that if Pfizer had held to the original plan, the data would have been available in October, as Albert Bourla had initially predicted.
01:01:50.000 Now, that is not enough evidence that this thing was held for political purposes.
01:01:53.000 In fact, Pfizer said the reason that we didn't actually take public money when we were developing the vaccine is we didn't want this thing to become political.
01:02:00.000 Here's the Pfizer CEO saying, listen, we weren't working with the election as a timeline here.
01:02:04.000 For us, the election day was always an artificial date.
01:02:07.000 We were not working with the election as a timeline.
01:02:10.000 We were working... I released a letter, if you remember, Meg, to our employees some time ago, saying that the only pressure we feel it is the pressure of the billions of people that are hoping on our vaccine.
01:02:23.000 And we are going to follow the speed of science.
01:02:26.000 So science spoke.
01:02:27.000 And I was predicting that this will happen at the end of October.
01:02:31.000 It happened a week later.
01:02:33.000 Well, naturally, the media immediately decided that it was time to say that Trump had nothing to do with it.
01:02:39.000 So this part is hilarious.
01:02:40.000 So the Pfizer head said that we weren't part of Warp Speed.
01:02:43.000 What Pfizer's head meant by we weren't part of Warp Speed is we did not take initial money.
01:02:48.000 According to Dr. Janssen, who is one of the heads of Pfizer, she said, we were never part of Warp Speed.
01:02:55.000 We've never taken any money from the U.S.
01:02:56.000 government or from anyone.
01:02:58.000 Well, as it turns out, Pfizer is indeed part of Operation Warp Speed, which is Trump's initiative to develop a vaccine, because the government has declared that on the back end, if you develop the vaccine, that the government is going to buy billions of dollars worth of doses from Pfizer.
01:03:09.000 So they were, in fact, part of the Warp Speed operation.
01:03:13.000 They just were not taking money up front.
01:03:15.000 On Monday, a spokesperson for Pfizer clarified the company is part of Operation Warp Speed as a supplier of a potential coronavirus vaccine.
01:03:22.000 Okay, and then, hilariously enough, the entire media ran with the narrative that they weren't part of Warp Speed, so presumably Trump had nothing to do with the development of the vaccine.
01:03:30.000 The reality is, if the government were not pledging to buy billions of dollars worth of doses, then Pfizer wouldn't be sinking hundreds of millions of dollars, presumably, into the development of the vaccine in the first place.
01:03:41.000 Now, Democrats are sort of conflicted over how to treat the news of the vaccine.
01:03:45.000 On the one hand, you have Chuck Schumer, who's saying we need to combat vaccine hesitancy.
01:03:48.000 Here was the Senate Minority Leader yesterday.
01:03:51.000 We Democrats will do everything we can to make sure this vaccine or any vaccine is distributed quickly, fairly, equitably.
01:04:02.000 And the challenge is now one of scale and one of delivery.
01:04:06.000 Congress should fund a national vaccination program.
01:04:09.000 And the administration, whether it's the Trump administration or the Biden administration, must do everything to reach minority and underserved communities, combat vaccine hesitancy, and ensure that the vaccines are free to everyone.
01:04:25.000 So number one, that's already been done, right?
01:04:27.000 The vaccines are going to be provided to the American public.
01:04:29.000 Also, when Chuck Schumer says it's time to combat vaccine hesitancy, maybe he should call up the governor of New York.
01:04:33.000 Here was the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, yesterday, saying that he's very angry that the vaccine was developed while President Trump is president because now he doesn't trust the vaccine, which, because this is Captain Science over here.
01:04:43.000 Captain Science makes ship the old people back into nursing homes with COVID.
01:04:47.000 What an excellent governor he's been, right?
01:04:48.000 He wrote an entire book about what an excellent governor he has been, while killing every old person in New York with COVID, apparently.
01:04:54.000 Here he was undercutting the efficacy of a vaccine.
01:04:58.000 The good news is the Pfizer tests look good and we'll have a vaccine shortly.
01:05:02.000 The bad news is that it's about two months before Joe Biden takes over and that means this administration is going to be implementing a vaccine plan.
01:05:13.000 I've been talking to governors across the nation about that.
01:05:17.000 How can we shape the Trump administration vaccine plan to fix it or stop it before it does damage?
01:05:26.000 Unbelievable.
01:05:27.000 So he's undercutting the efficacy of the vaccine because, again, you need people to trust the vaccine in order to take it.
01:05:32.000 Absolutely unbelievable.
01:05:33.000 By the way, in other good news, the FDA has now granted emergency authorization of a COVID-19 treatment made by the American pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly.
01:05:40.000 It was given to Chris Christie when he was infected with COVID.
01:05:43.000 That authorization only applies to people newly infected with the virus.
01:05:46.000 The treatment is approved for people 12 and older.
01:05:48.000 The treatment, which is called Bamlanivamibab, Not kidding.
01:05:53.000 Bamlanivimab should be administered as soon as possible after a positive test and within 10 days of developing symptoms.
01:05:59.000 Dr. Daniel Skowronski, chief scientific officer of Eli Lilly, says it's a great day for science and medicine, sort of a feat of what is possible.
01:06:07.000 So we are reaching better therapeutics.
01:06:08.000 We are coming close up on a vaccine.
01:06:10.000 A lot of that is due to the Trump administration and its mobilization on all of this.
01:06:14.000 So, naturally, the media have declared that Trump is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths without giving him any credit for any of this.
01:06:22.000 The science that dominates the left is truly excellent science.
01:06:25.000 You know what's going to cure this, probably?
01:06:27.000 Probably, if Joe Biden just has put on a mask, then all of this will be cured.
01:06:30.000 And that's what Joe Biden said yesterday.
01:06:31.000 Joe Biden, he finally unveiled his COVID plan yesterday.
01:06:34.000 Just going to note this.
01:06:34.000 Final note here.
01:06:36.000 Joe Biden, who has declared himself president-elect, along with the networks, he laid out his COVID plan.
01:06:41.000 It turns out his COVID plan is a task force.
01:06:43.000 Yeah, a task force!
01:06:45.000 Assemble the Power Rangers, guys!
01:06:47.000 We need to have a government task force!
01:06:50.000 When I think of efficiency and effectiveness, when I think of how to solve a problem, I think of a task force!
01:06:56.000 So he assembled a task force that also includes Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who once famously wrote a piece for The Atlantic about why everybody should accept death at 75.
01:07:04.000 Which, if he actually took that seriously, would mean that he should completely ignore COVID, since it is disproportionately killing people above the age of 75.
01:07:10.000 In any case, Joe Biden laid out his plan.
01:07:13.000 And guess what his plan was, guys.
01:07:14.000 Guess what his plan was.
01:07:14.000 You ready?
01:07:15.000 His plan was put on a mask.
01:07:17.000 Boom, boom, pandemic over.
01:07:19.000 Joe Biden dropping the hammer on COVID by telling you to put on a mask.
01:07:23.000 Huge, huge news.
01:07:24.000 Here was Joe Biden.
01:07:26.000 We could save tens of thousands of lives if everyone would just wear a mask for the next few months.
01:07:33.000 Not Democrat or Republican lives, American lives.
01:07:37.000 You know, maybe it would save the life of a person who stocks a shelf at your local grocery store.
01:07:43.000 Maybe it saves the life of a member of your place of worship.
01:07:47.000 Maybe it saves the lives of one of your children's teachers.
01:07:51.000 Maybe it saves your life.
01:07:53.000 So please, I implore you, wear a mask.
01:07:57.000 And so, I mean, now that Joe Biden has said it, pandemic over, gang.
01:08:00.000 And then, did you have questions about that?
01:08:02.000 Did you have any questions about Joe Biden's plan?
01:08:04.000 I have some bad news for you.
01:08:05.000 He's not answering questions.
01:08:06.000 So I'm glad that COVID has been cured by this old coot.
01:08:09.000 Here is Joe Biden curing COVID by avoiding all questions.
01:08:12.000 Catch you later, guys.
01:08:13.000 I say masks.
01:08:14.000 You say what?
01:08:15.000 And then I leave.
01:08:16.000 Here is Joe Biden just leaving.
01:08:19.000 Thank you.
01:08:22.000 Pandemic solved, guys.
01:08:23.000 Pandemic solved.
01:08:25.000 I'm so glad that the American public decided that this person was definitely going to care COVID.
01:08:29.000 Excellent, excellent, excellent stuff.
01:08:31.000 OK, one final note.
01:08:32.000 Last note.
01:08:33.000 Just going to note here.
01:08:34.000 Ben Rhodes yesterday.
01:08:35.000 The Biden, the incoming Biden administration, they suppose will happen.
01:08:39.000 Ben Rhodes.
01:08:41.000 He came out yesterday and he said that the Biden team is already having calls with foreign leaders.
01:08:45.000 Here is a failed novelist who became the progenitor of the Iran deal, which he then admitted to the American public he lied to the American public about.
01:08:52.000 Ben Rhodes is just a bag of garbage.
01:08:53.000 He's a bag of flaming garbage left on somebody's doorstep as a Halloween prank.
01:08:57.000 He is just the worst.
01:08:58.000 So here is Ben Rhodes saying, guess what?
01:09:00.000 Members of the incoming Biden administration are talking with foreign leaders already.
01:09:03.000 The center of political gravity in this country and the world is shifting to Joe Biden.
01:09:08.000 Foreign leaders are already having phone calls with Joe Biden talking about the agenda they're going to pursue January 20th.
01:09:13.000 If that reality hasn't sunk in yet for some people in the White House, it will sink in when they have to leave on January 20th.
01:09:19.000 Okay, so I'm old enough to remember that time that they tried to prosecute Mike Flynn for a Logan Act violation as the incoming National Security Advisor for having a conversation with the Russians.
01:09:28.000 So I guess Logan Act violation's all around now.
01:09:30.000 Let's start prosecuting members of the Biden administration.
01:09:32.000 I think we need a full-scale investigation.
01:09:34.000 I mean, they're not elected yet, and they're having foreign policy conversations already.
01:09:39.000 I was fully informed that that was very bad that Mike Flynn did that, even though we had a readout of the conversations.
01:09:42.000 Just shows you the utter, utter dishonesty of the media, the utter dishonesty of the Democrats.
01:09:47.000 They didn't care two craps about Mike Flynn talking to the Russians.
01:09:50.000 But you know what?
01:09:51.000 We're supposed to pretend along with them.
01:09:53.000 And if we pretend, if we clap loudly enough, Tinkerbell will live.
01:09:56.000 All right, so here's my bottom line to all of this.
01:09:59.000 Stop paying attention to members of the mainstream establishment media.
01:10:01.000 Go get a subscription to Daily Wire or Blaze TV or anywhere else that will provide you actual information that is not biased to the left.
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