The Ben Shapiro Show - The End? | Ep. 944

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00:00:24.000 Alrighty, so we have reached the big day.

00:00:26.000 Today might be the day when finally this whole impeachment thing that started all the way back in October and now is carried forward all the way to the beginning of February.

00:00:34.000 It may be over today.

00:00:35.000 The reason it may be over today is because it appears that the Republicans have the witnesses, have the votes to prevent further witnesses from testifying.

00:00:42.000 I say further witnesses because all of the witness testimony from the House was in fact admitted as evidence in the Senate impeachment trial.

00:00:49.000 So what you keep hearing from the media, which is that there were no witnesses, not technically true.

00:00:53.000 There were witnesses and many of the witnesses that were quote unquote called during the Clinton impeachment was the same thing.

00:00:58.000 They were actually interviewed by the DOJ or by the House.

00:01:00.000 And then those transcripts were admitted via video or via transcript.

00:01:04.000 To the to the Senate impeachment trial.

00:01:06.000 So the idea there have been no witnesses is obviously not true.

00:01:09.000 The question is, why are there no further witnesses?

00:01:12.000 And that question, of course, was exacerbated by that supposed bombshell that John Bolton dropped in which he suggested that the president was pretty explicitly making clear that he wanted to withhold Ukrainian aid in exchange for particular investigations from the Ukrainian government targeting events back in 2016 and Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and CrowdStrike and all the rest of it.

00:01:31.000 So There was a big question coming up to Friday, coming up to today, as to whether Republicans were going to vote to admit additional witnesses.

00:01:39.000 And as of this hour, effectively, there are a few different options, right?

00:01:42.000 The Senate is supposed to convene...

00:01:44.000 About 1 p.m.

00:01:45.000 today, East Coast time.

00:01:47.000 So that means that there are a few different options that are sort of on the table here.

00:01:50.000 Option number one is that the Senate votes not to bring in further witnesses.

00:01:55.000 And then this thing is over.

00:01:56.000 And by tonight, the Democrats have a few kind of holding pattern things they can do.

00:02:00.000 They can they can hold up the vote on impeachment for maybe 12 hours or so.

00:02:05.000 And by Saturday morning, This thing is over and Monday we begin fresh with the Iowa caucuses and the State of the Union address.

00:02:11.000 It's a big week next week, regardless of what happens with impeachment.

00:02:14.000 That is option number one.

00:02:15.000 That one looks like the most probable at this point.

00:02:17.000 Then there's option number two.

00:02:18.000 Option number two is that there are three Republicans who vote in favor of further witnesses.

00:02:23.000 And this is where things get kind of dicey, because if you get Mitt Romney and Susan Collins, both of whom have come out for further witnesses, and they are joined by Lisa Murkowski, then you have a 50-50 split in the Senate, assuming that everybody on the Democratic side shows up.

00:02:35.000 Okay, if you have a 50-50 split, normally in the Senate, the presiding officer breaks the tie.

00:02:39.000 And normally the presiding officer in any sort of Senate procedure would be the Vice President of the United States.

00:02:44.000 But, in an impeachment trial, the presiding officer is Chief Justice John Roberts.

00:02:48.000 So you could end up with the unenviable scenario for Chief Justice Roberts, where he is the person who actually has to make the decision.

00:02:54.000 As to whether further witnesses are called, which throws him right in the center of a massive controversy, which, by the way, is the place that Chief Justice Roberts least likes to be.

00:03:02.000 If you know one thing about Justice Roberts, he really, really hates being the center of attention.

00:03:07.000 He really wants to, quote unquote, stand up for institutional legitimacy.

00:03:10.000 He doesn't like to inject himself in politics.

00:03:12.000 It's the reason that he let Obamacare be reclassified as a tax rather than as a fee.

00:03:17.000 The reason he did that is because he specifically Wanted to, quote-unquote, not interject in the legislative process.

00:03:25.000 So making John Roberts sort of the swing vote here is just a disaster for everybody involved, except the Democrats, because they win either way.

00:03:32.000 If Roberts says no witnesses, then the Democrats should say, because he's a Republican appointee.

00:03:37.000 And if he says, I'm not going to weigh in on this, so it dies, then they say, because he's a Republican appointee.

00:03:40.000 And if he votes in favor of more witnesses, then Republicans go on attack against the guy who was appointed by George W. Bush.

00:03:45.000 So Democrats, In that scenario, don't really have a losing situation.

00:03:49.000 And then there is the most unlikely scenario at this point.

00:03:52.000 And that is that somehow the Democrats do pry away four votes for additional witnesses.

00:03:56.000 And we hear from additional witnesses over the next couple of weeks.

00:03:59.000 Now, as I've been saying for a while, I'm not sure that the smartest strategic play long-term here is to go with no witnesses.

00:04:05.000 Like I hear the argument.

00:04:06.000 The argument is let's just get this thing over with.

00:04:08.000 It's a charade anyway.

00:04:09.000 If the Democrats want to reopen this thing in the House, they can.

00:04:11.000 If the Democrats want to call John Bolton in the House, they can.

00:04:14.000 They can vote for impeachment again.

00:04:15.000 Tomorrow, right?

00:04:16.000 Which is all true.

00:04:16.000 They can do that.

00:04:17.000 They can call John Bolton next week.

00:04:19.000 They can have John Bolton testify.

00:04:20.000 They can wait for the subpoenas to go through.

00:04:22.000 And then they can bring another impeachment charge six months from now.

00:04:25.000 But the Republican calculation is, OK, you've already taken your shot.

00:04:29.000 If you take a shot at the king, you best not miss.

00:04:30.000 You missed.

00:04:31.000 It's over.

00:04:32.000 Right.

00:04:32.000 That is sort of logic, number one.

00:04:33.000 And there is some merit to it.

00:04:35.000 There really is.

00:04:36.000 And then there is sort of logic, number two, which is, OK, if they shut down the witnesses and then two weeks before the election, John Bolton goes on a speaking tour talking about all the stuff he would have said if he'd been allowed to testify.

00:04:46.000 Then that's not going to look good, not only for Trump.

00:04:48.000 I mean, Trump doesn't care, right?

00:04:49.000 I mean, Trump is not really vulnerable on the score, but it doesn't look great for a lot of the purple state Republicans who voted against bringing witnesses.

00:04:56.000 So it is a not risk-free move to simply vote to shut down the witnesses.

00:05:01.000 Okay, we'll give you more of this story in just one moment, because then we are moving forward on the impeachment vote, probably by tomorrow, if all indicators as they are currently hold.

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00:07:19.000 OK, so here's the way the vote is going to go.

00:07:21.000 Republican, according to the according to the Associated Press, Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee declared late Thursday night he will oppose calling more witnesses in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, all but dashing Democratic efforts for more testimony and pushing the Senate toward an imminent vote to acquit the president.

00:07:34.000 And he put out A long Twitter thread explaining why it was that he was not going to vote for additional witnesses.

00:07:42.000 And here's what he said.

00:07:43.000 He said, I worked with other senators to make sure that we have the right to ask for more documents and witnesses, but there is no need for more evidence to prove something that has already been proven and that does not meet the US Constitution's high bar for an impeachable offense.

00:07:53.000 Okay, so the point he's making is the point I've been saying that Trump's team should be making the whole time, right?

00:07:57.000 which is, yeah, the president engaged in a quid pro quo in which he requested investigations in exchange for military aid.

00:08:05.000 The question is whether that is impeachable or not, given the fact that the United States does have a legitimate interest in the investigations, at least some of those investigations, and given the fact that the president of the United States was engaging in what is generally understood to be foreign policy.

00:08:19.000 Now, if you don't like his foreign policy, you have an option to get rid of him.

00:08:22.000 That comes in November.

00:08:24.000 But you don't simply get to say him exercising his general prerogatives under foreign policy, even if they're prerogatives you don't like.

00:08:30.000 By the way, I don't like his policy here, right?

00:08:32.000 I think that holding back the Ukrainian military aid was a foolish move. 0.99

00:08:35.000 I think that him doing it in exchange for weird conspiracy theories about CrowdStrike is idiotic. 0.98

00:08:39.000 But that does not make it impeachable, as I've been saying, right? 0.93

00:08:42.000 Lamar Alexander said, there's no more need for more evidence to prove that the president asked Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

00:08:47.000 He said this on television on October 3rd, 2019, and during his July 25th, 2019 telephone call with the President of Ukraine.

00:08:54.000 There's no need for more evidence to conclude that the President withheld USAID, at least in part, to pressure Ukraine to investigate the Bidens.

00:08:59.000 The House managers have proved this with what they call a mountain of overwhelming evidence.

00:09:02.000 There's no need to consider further the frivolous second article of impeachment that would remove the president for asserting his constitutional prerogative to protect confidential conversations with his close advisors.

00:09:12.000 It was inappropriate for the president to ask a foreign leader to investigate his political opponent and to withhold U.S.

00:09:16.000 aid to encourage that investigation.

00:09:18.000 When elected officials inappropriately interfere with such investigations, it undermines the principle of equal justice under the law, but the Constitution does not give the Senate the power to remove the President from office and ban him from this year's ballot simply for actions that are inappropriate.

00:09:31.000 The question, then, is not whether the President did it, but whether the U.S.

00:09:35.000 Senate or the American people should decide what to do about what he did.

00:09:38.000 I believe that the Constitution provides that the people should make that decision in the presidential election that begins in Iowa on Monday.

00:09:43.000 The Senate has spent nine long days considering this mountain of evidence, the arguments of the House managers and the President's lawyers, their answers to Senators' questions, and the House record.

00:09:51.000 Even if the House charges were true, they do not meet the Constitution's treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors standard for an impeachable offense.

00:09:57.000 The framers believe that there should never, ever be a partisan impeachment.

00:10:00.000 That is why the Constitution requires a two-thirds vote of the Senate for conviction, yet not one House Republican voted for these articles.

00:10:06.000 If this shallow, hurried, wholly partisan impeachment were to succeed, it would rip the country apart, pouring gasoline on the fire of cultural divisions that already exist.

00:10:12.000 It would create a weapon of perpetual impeachment to be used against future presidents whenever the House of Representatives is of a different political party.

00:10:19.000 Our founding documents provide for duly elected presidents who serve with the consent of the governed, not at the pleasure of the United States Congress.

00:10:24.000 Let the people decide.

00:10:25.000 Okay, so what he is saying here is wholly true.

00:10:29.000 I will say this with one caveat, which is this doesn't answer why you would vote against the witnesses, right?

00:10:34.000 The answer is why you'd vote against the impeachment.

00:10:36.000 The answer is why you would not vote to impeach the president.

00:10:38.000 But the Democrats are saying, okay, well, what if John Bolton were to come forward and testify that the president told him he was going after Joe Biden because he was afraid of him in 2020?

00:10:45.000 Would that change your math at all?

00:10:47.000 And Republicans are pushing back saying, well, you guys could have called them in the House at any time, but it doesn't really answer the question.

00:10:53.000 And that's my fear, right?

00:10:54.000 Not that John Bolton would actually say that, but that the House Democrats and the Democrats generally and the media claiming that this is a cover-up, whether that has any impact on some of those swing state senators.

00:11:05.000 I mean, Adam Schiff was playing this up to the hill yesterday.

00:11:08.000 He was basically begging the Republicans, let's limit the witness subpoenas to one week.

00:11:11.000 You keep saying it's going to drag out for weeks.

00:11:12.000 How about this?

00:11:13.000 We'll make a deal.

00:11:13.000 We'll limit the witness subpoenas to one week, and then we'll be done.

00:11:17.000 Here is Adam Schiff trying to make this argument yesterday.

00:11:20.000 I will make an offer to opposing counsel who have said that this will stretch on indefinitely if you decide to have a single witness.

00:11:28.000 Let's cabin the depositions to one week.

00:11:33.000 In the Clinton trial, there was one week of depositions.

00:11:36.000 And you know what the Senate did during that week?

00:11:38.000 They did the business of the Senate.

00:11:41.000 The Senate went back to its ordinary legislative business while the depositions were being conducted.

00:11:46.000 You want the Clinton model?

00:11:47.000 Let's use the Clinton model. 0.96

00:11:49.000 Let's take a week.

00:11:50.000 Let's take a week to have a fair trial.

00:11:52.000 Okay, the Republican comeback came courtesy of Representative Steve Scalise, the House Minority Whip from Louisiana.

00:12:00.000 He says, listen, why exactly does Schiff even need more witnesses?

00:12:03.000 I mean, they keep saying he's made the case.

00:12:05.000 This is true, right?

00:12:06.000 It is true.

00:12:07.000 The Democrats keep saying we have the case for impeachment, so why do they need more witnesses?

00:12:10.000 That, again, that is a good point, right?

00:12:12.000 The point that Democrats made their strongest case.

00:12:15.000 The case is not good.

00:12:17.000 And so we're not going to make their case for them.

00:12:19.000 Like, if they want to take this up in the House again, they can take this up in the House again.

00:12:21.000 That's the House's job.

00:12:22.000 This is not a bad argument from Scalise.

00:12:25.000 Jay Sekulow, I thought, had the mic drop moment when he looked over at Adam Schiff sitting there on the Senate floor today and he said, over 30 times, you said that you made your case.

00:12:36.000 And literally, you know, looking over at Schiff and Schiff said, yes.

00:12:40.000 So if Schiff made his case, why do you need more witnesses?

00:12:44.000 Especially when Sekulow pointed out, oh, and by the way, we'll call the whistleblower.

00:12:48.000 We'll call Adam Schiff.

00:12:49.000 We'll call Joe and Hunter Biden.

00:12:52.000 You know, is this going to go on and on for months?

00:12:54.000 Or we all know the president didn't commit a crime.

00:12:57.000 Okay, so, Senator Susan Collins, for her part, she came out at basically the same time as Lamar Alexander, and she said that she would vote in favor of more witnesses. 0.89

00:13:06.000 This makes sense on a political level.

00:13:07.000 The reason it makes sense on a political level is she is voting in favor of witnesses, presumably knowing that Lamar Alexander was going to vote against witnesses, so the vote has no actual impact, right?

00:13:16.000 She gets to say to her constituents, I called for more witnesses, what are you blaming me for?

00:13:20.000 At the same time, her vote was not the swing vote to ensure that the witnesses actually happened.

00:13:24.000 She put out a statement saying, we've heard the cases argued and the questions answered, In keeping with the model used for the impeachment trial of President Clinton, at this point, Senators are able to make an informed judgment about what is in dispute and what is important to the underlying issues.

00:13:35.000 I worked with colleagues to ensure the schedule for the trial included a guaranteed up or down vote on whether or not to call witnesses.

00:13:40.000 I believe hearing from certain witnesses would give each side the opportunity to more fully and fairly make their case, resolve any ambiguities, and provide additional clarity.

00:13:47.000 Therefore, a vote in support of the motions will allow witnesses and documents to be subpoenaed.

00:13:50.000 If this motion passes, I believe that the most sensible way to proceed would be for the House managers and the President's attorneys to attempt to agree on a limited and equal number of witnesses for each side.

00:13:58.000 If they can't agree, then the Senate should choose the number of witnesses.

00:14:02.000 Guys, this does give Susan Collins some political cover for her main race, but obviously it has no impact if the Republicans have 51 votes not to call more witnesses at this point.

00:14:11.000 And, you know, again, I think the media are going to blame the Republicans.

00:14:14.000 But the fact is that if the Democrats had done their job in the House, none of this would have been an issue in the first place, right?

00:14:18.000 I mean, if they just waited to adjudicate the Bolton subpoena, if they'd waited to adjudicate the documentary subpoenas from the executive branch, none of this would have been a problem in the first place.

00:14:26.000 So it's easy for them to blame the Republicans.

00:14:28.000 And sure, you can make the case that Republicans ought to be allowing witnesses.

00:14:31.000 But let's just be real about this.

00:14:32.000 Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff showed up with nothing but their bleep in their hands here.

00:14:36.000 They did not have the case.

00:14:38.000 They did not have the case, okay?

00:14:40.000 And because they did not have the case, they were then calling on the Senate to fill in the gaps in their own case.

00:14:44.000 And let's assume for a second that John Bolton had not come out with this quote-unquote bombshell a week before the end of this thing.

00:14:51.000 Then everybody would acknowledge that there was no need to call additional witnesses.

00:14:55.000 Because who would those additional witnesses be?

00:14:57.000 Okay, it was just because Bolton spoke up that this became a hot issue.

00:15:00.000 Now, the reason I've been saying that maybe Republicans should consider additional witnesses is not because I believe it would change the outcome.

00:15:05.000 In fact, I've said precisely the reverse.

00:15:07.000 I don't think it would change the outcome.

00:15:08.000 The only reason that I've suggested that it might be a good idea to allow the calling of additional witnesses is because you want everything out right now because you don't want it all coming out later via another channel and hurting the senators who voted against allowing the witnesses in the first place.

00:15:22.000 And you can see the media already building up to this, right?

00:15:24.000 Karl Bernstein.

00:15:25.000 of Woodward and Bernstein fame.

00:15:26.000 He was on television last night and he was suggesting it's a cover-up.

00:15:30.000 They have covered up what the President of the United States has done in his grievous action when they had the ability to find out more and reach a bipartisan, as it were, decision if we could hear from the witnesses.

00:15:45.000 If Mr. Bolton could come in and tell us, is there anything else there?

00:15:49.000 No, maybe it would be exonerating.

00:15:51.000 This is a cover-up, plain and simple.

00:15:54.000 Okay, it's not a cover-up, plain and simple, because again, the House has the means at its disposal to simply call Bolton.

00:15:59.000 So it's not a cover-up when there is a branch, an independent branch of government that has the ability to make all of this happen, like right now, in the here and now.

00:16:07.000 It's also not a cover-up because, frankly, the Senate gets to decide its own procedures, right?

00:16:11.000 Acting in coordination with normal procedures, which...

00:16:13.000 Is what this is.

00:16:14.000 Senate gets to decide its own procedures.

00:16:15.000 You may not like the procedures.

00:16:16.000 That's how the process works.

00:16:18.000 That does not constitute a cover-up.

00:16:19.000 A cover-up is where you do something illegal in order to prevent information from coming out.

00:16:23.000 And as the Trump team and the GOP were pointing out yesterday, there was a political article that came out during Thursday night's proceedings about how former VP Joe Biden actually argued against including new witnesses during former President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial and that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer agreed with him.

00:16:39.000 Trump attorney Patrick Philbin called it the Biden Doctrine and the Biden Rule.

00:16:42.000 And suggested that five minutes ago, the Democrats were very much in favor of barring witnesses.

00:16:47.000 Now, of course, they have flipped their positions.

00:16:49.000 Of course, the same is true for a lot of the Republicans with regard to Clinton impeachment.

00:16:53.000 Now, in a second, we'll get to the Democratic reaction to all of this because it's beginning to dawn on them that this thing went nowhere and that they don't have a lot coming out of this.

00:17:01.000 You don't know what's coming tomorrow.

00:17:02.000 You don't know what's coming tomorrow.

00:17:03.000 I don't know what's coming tomorrow.

00:17:05.000 people are predicting.

00:17:06.000 Barring any of that, the Democrats really have nothing here.

00:17:08.000 And you can see how desperate they are from the proceedings yesterday and from what they were saying about what impeachment means generally.

00:17:15.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

00:17:16.000 Okay, let's be real about this.

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00:17:20.000 I don't know what's coming tomorrow.

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00:18:24.000 Okay, so the Democrats, desperate to spin this thing as a victory in some way, are now trotting out more and more ridiculous arguments.

00:18:36.000 So Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House who botched this thing from beginning to end, I mean truly botched it, truly and well botched it, right?

00:18:42.000 She put forward this impeachment without actively knowing what was in it, and that pre-committed her to a path where impeachment had to take place. 1.00

00:18:50.000 And then, because the witnesses were not giving them exactly what they wanted, they just sort of forced through a partisan vote, which gives Republicans the excuse to say this thing is wholly partisan from the outset, which of course it was.

00:19:01.000 Well, Nancy Pelosi is now faced with the prospect of having brought an impeachment that did not receive a single Republican vote in favor of the impeachment, and not a single Republican vote presumably in favor of conviction.

00:19:12.000 Okay, and now Nancy Pelosi is out there trying to proclaim that she won, she won, she won, right?

00:19:16.000 She's insisting that she won, even though the game is over and she lost.

00:19:20.000 Here she is explaining, don't worry, President Trump has never acquitted.

00:19:23.000 No matter what, he's not acquitted.

00:19:24.000 Now, she's gonna have to explain how it is that after you're acquitted by the Senate, you're not acquitted.

00:19:30.000 It's sort of like saying that OJ Simpson was not acquitted.

00:19:32.000 OJ Simpson, you can still say he's guilty.

00:19:34.000 But O.J.

00:19:35.000 Simpson was in fact acquitted by a jury.

00:19:37.000 Okay, the fact is that Donald Trump will be acquitted.

00:19:40.000 That is a thing that is going to happen.

00:19:41.000 But she's claiming that his acquittal does not matter.

00:19:45.000 It's not real.

00:19:46.000 Nancy Pelosi, explain. 0.66

00:19:46.000 Why? 0.66

00:19:49.000 Do you think that President Trump will be chastened and understand that he's got a Congress watching him?

00:19:57.000 Or will he be emboldened because the Senate will have acquitted him?

00:20:02.000 Well, he will not be acquitted.

00:20:03.000 You cannot be acquitted if you don't have a trial.

00:20:05.000 And you don't have a trial if you don't have witnesses and documentation and that.

00:20:11.000 Um, no, that's not how any of this works. 1.00

00:20:14.000 So a few reasons why this is idiotic. 0.99

00:20:16.000 Number one, the Senate procedures are decided upon by the Senate. 1.00

00:20:19.000 That's in the Constitution.

00:20:21.000 The trial is at the behest of the Senate and the procedures are decided upon by the Senate and if you're acquitted, You are acquitted.

00:20:27.000 That's number one.

00:20:28.000 Number two, Nancy Pelosi's actually now making the case. 1.00

00:20:31.000 She's now actually making the case that Trump was never impeached.

00:20:34.000 Not just not acquitted, not impeached, because she's making the case that you cannot have a Senate trial without witnesses, right?

00:20:40.000 So that doesn't count as a trial.

00:20:41.000 Okay, well, what if you have an impeachment without the very witnesses that you are assuming are necessary for the trial itself?

00:20:48.000 Right?

00:20:48.000 So if you are saying that the trial never took place because no witnesses were called in the Senate, Well, you didn't call any of those same witnesses in the House.

00:20:55.000 So what exactly were you doing in the House?

00:20:58.000 Does that count as an impeachment now?

00:21:00.000 Like, this is just attempting desperately to grab onto any piece of news and try and treat it as though she's gotten a victory when she's pretty clearly lost.

00:21:07.000 Angus King, the quote-unquote independent from Maine, he's not independent in any way.

00:21:11.000 He says, without witnesses, he's never acquitted.

00:21:11.000 He's a Democrat.

00:21:13.000 This is going to be the Democratic talking point.

00:21:15.000 He's never been acquitted, guys.

00:21:16.000 Don't trust your eyes and your ears.

00:21:18.000 Trust me.

00:21:19.000 Doesn't matter what the vote says.

00:21:20.000 He's never been acquitted.

00:21:24.000 Frankly, from the President's point of view, if this trial winds up in the next 24-48 hours with no witnesses, he can say, well, I was acquitted, but he really can't say he was exonerated.

00:21:35.000 I think there will always be an asterisk by this, you know, trial but no witnesses.

00:21:41.000 I mean, one of the Senators last night said, you know, we had a Okay, again, this is such a ridiculous, ridiculous contention that if you don't have witnesses at the trial... Yeah, you know what else you normally have at a trial?

00:21:52.000 never happened before.

00:21:54.000 And the American people understand they watch Perry Mason.

00:21:56.000 You always have witnesses. 0.59

00:21:58.000 Okay, again, this is such a ridiculous, ridiculous contention that if you don't have witnesses at the trial, yeah, you know what else you normally have at a trial, a prosecution that brings its case. 0.62

00:22:07.000 Normally, you have a prosecution that brings its entire case. 0.79

00:22:11.000 If you're in a normal criminal trial and the prosecution showed up and they're like, okay, well, we don't actually have a crime we're charging, so we're not going to charge a crime.

00:22:17.000 Also, we're not going to bring sufficient evidence.

00:22:19.000 And we insist that the defense call our witnesses for us.

00:22:21.000 We insist that you, like, in no way is a Senate trial comparable to a criminal trial.

00:22:28.000 So suggesting that a trial has not taken place because you didn't get the witnesses that you wanted, that you were fully capable of calling in the House is an absurdity on its face.

00:22:34.000 But this is what the Democrats have been relegated to because they lose.

00:22:37.000 Okay, they lose.

00:22:38.000 This is over.

00:22:38.000 They lose.

00:22:40.000 Speaking of losers, Elizabeth Warren tried to get in a final shot here at Chief Justice John Roberts. 1.00

00:22:44.000 She is just awful. 1.00

00:22:45.000 She's truly an awful human being. 0.92

00:22:48.000 So Elizabeth Warren, what they do over in the Senate during the trial is they submit their questions to John Roberts, who sits there and reads the questions out loud.

00:22:57.000 Like, all of these people are contestants on The Price is Right or something.

00:23:00.000 And here is John Roberts reading Elizabeth Warren's question, which is designed to, quote-unquote, humiliate John Roberts.

00:23:05.000 And of course, the left is like, look at her, humiliating John Roberts.

00:23:08.000 Yeah, except you know what's going to happen after this is over?

00:23:10.000 John Roberts is going to go back to his life-tenured seat on the Supreme Court and get to wear that robe around all day.

00:23:15.000 And Elizabeth Warren is going to lose in Iowa, and then she's going to lose in New Hampshire, and then she's going to lose everywhere, and she's going to go back to being an elderly senator from Massachusetts. 0.99

00:23:22.000 That's what's going to happen after all of this.

00:23:23.000 So the humiliation visited upon John Roberts, first of all, nothing can humiliate John Roberts worse than his own judgment in the Obamacare case.

00:23:31.000 But beyond that, like truly, this is this is puerile nonsense.

00:23:36.000 From Senator Warren is for the House managers.

00:23:40.000 At a time when large majorities of Americans have lost faith in government, does the fact that the chief justice is presiding over an impeachment trial in which Republican senators have thus far refused to allow witnesses Or evidence contribute to the loss of legitimacy of the Chief Justice, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution.

00:24:03.000 And then he just stares at her.

00:24:04.000 He's like, OK, this is bullcrap. 0.98

00:24:05.000 Like, you're asking the house managers how humiliated I am. 0.99

00:24:08.000 Like, what absolute horsepucky. 0.97

00:24:11.000 Serious nonsense.

00:24:12.000 Honestly, I'm more interested in what watch he's wearing.

00:24:13.000 That looks like a nice Breguet that he's got on his wrist right there.

00:24:15.000 I'm a bit of a watch guy.

00:24:16.000 So that's a nice watch there, John Roberts.

00:24:19.000 I like what I'm seeing. 0.98

00:24:20.000 Okay, so this whole thing, of course, is incredibly, incredibly stupid, and it is now over, and we know it's over, and it's just a question of where we go from here. 0.99

00:24:28.000 Well, that does clear the decks for President Trump to go hog wild out there, and he is indeed going hog wild out there. 0.99

00:24:34.000 He held a big rally last night in which he just blasted the Democrats.

00:24:39.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:24:50.000 Let's say that your entire job is literally to make sure that all the technology in the office works.

00:24:54.000 And then just one day you shut down the server rack, like at an internet company, which is what we do.

00:24:59.000 And just the server rack is down and boom, like the entire company is down.

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00:26:05.000 Okay, so President Trump going hog wild on the stump.

00:26:08.000 This impeachment thing didn't go particularly great for Democrats.

00:26:11.000 Now, again, I still think that there is a risk out there lurking in the distance.

00:26:15.000 That John Bolton decides that he's gonna talk about Trump saying to him that he hates the Bidens and that's what this is all about, or that Mick Mulvaney does an unfortunate interview or something like that where a document leaks, right?

00:26:25.000 This is why I was suggesting maybe that Republicans should just go forward, clear the decks of all of this, and then move on with their lives.

00:26:30.000 But!

00:26:31.000 Whatever it is, it's over.

00:26:32.000 And now Donald Trump is out there and he is on fire.

00:26:36.000 He was very jazzed up last night as he was getting the news that there would be no further witnesses and this thing is basically over.

00:26:43.000 So this makes two narrow escapes for the president over the last three years.

00:26:47.000 We had the Mueller report, which dragged on for years at a time.

00:26:50.000 And then that went nowhere.

00:26:50.000 Witch hunt!

00:26:52.000 And then he got to go out on the stump and talk about how he'd been persecuted, which was fairly true. 0.96

00:26:56.000 And now he gets to go out on the stump and talk about how he's been persecuted by Democrats, which, again, is about three quarters true. 0.97

00:27:03.000 I only say three quarters and not wholly because he did make a boo-boo with this whole Ukraine thing. 1.00

00:27:07.000 It was very stupid. 0.99

00:27:08.000 But with all of that said, this is the president's favorite place to be. 1.00

00:27:13.000 He said this way back in 2016.

00:27:14.000 It was one of his best and most honest lines.

00:27:16.000 The president said, I whine and I whine and I whine until I win.

00:27:19.000 He really said, like, this is an actual line that Trump used back in 2016.

00:27:22.000 Well, this is his favorite place to be, right?

00:27:24.000 Is that he's been victimized by the media?

00:27:26.000 That he's been put upon by the Democrats?

00:27:26.000 True.

00:27:28.000 And so here he is, blasting the Democrats and saying, what they really want is to make sure that I'm not on the ballot, right?

00:27:28.000 True.

00:27:33.000 That's what they really want.

00:27:34.000 By the way, there are polls out.

00:27:35.000 It shows that Republican voters are more enthusiastic than Democrats.

00:27:38.000 Democrats are nervous.

00:27:39.000 Republicans are fired up, which is I just got impeached!

00:27:42.000 Can you believe these people?

00:27:43.000 is if you impeach somebody and you take the shot and you miss, all you've done is fire up Trump's base, which thinks that you are trying to toss him off the ballot unfairly.

00:27:51.000 Here is Donald Trump saying the entire goal of this thing was to come after you, which is, again, true. 1.00

00:27:55.000 I just got impeached.

00:27:59.000 Can you believe these people?

00:28:00.000 I got impeached.

00:28:02.000 They impeached Trump.

00:28:05.000 The best trade deals, the strongest military.

00:28:08.000 I took care of the vets.

00:28:09.000 We got choice.

00:28:10.000 We got accountability for the vets.

00:28:12.000 Accountability.

00:28:13.000 We got all these things.

00:28:15.000 And they impeach you, President.

00:28:17.000 No, that's not going to work.

00:28:18.000 Watch.

00:28:19.000 Just watch.

00:28:22.000 They want to nullify your ballots, poison our democracy, and overthrow the entire system of government.

00:28:30.000 That's not happening, I can tell you that.

00:28:33.000 Okay, so listen, Trump is a larger-than-life figure.

00:28:35.000 Again, they keep taking shots at him, they keep missing, they keep stepping on rakes. 0.98

00:28:39.000 It's a bad look for them, and the rest of their field is just garbage in 2020. 0.92

00:28:42.000 And this is the problem for the Democrats. 0.97

00:28:44.000 It truly is.

00:28:45.000 Elizabeth Warren has completely lost her mind. 0.97

00:28:47.000 I mean, at this point, she's gone.

00:28:49.000 Elizabeth Warren cannot deal with the fact that just a few months ago, she was the presumed nominee, right?

00:28:54.000 I mean, back in October, she was the presumed nominee.

00:28:56.000 She was leading in the national polling.

00:28:58.000 She was leading in Iowa.

00:28:59.000 She was leading in New Hampshire.

00:29:00.000 She had the ground game.

00:29:01.000 She had the organization. 1.00

00:29:02.000 And then, she decided to try and fill in the bare bones of Bernie Sanders' idiotic ideology with actual plans. 0.99

00:29:07.000 And people are like, oh wait, that's what that plan looks like when it's implemented? 0.99

00:29:11.000 That sounds awful. 1.00

00:29:12.000 That sounds like garbage. 1.00

00:29:14.000 And she started to plummet in the polls. 0.99

00:29:15.000 And so now she's gone right back to the Kamala Harris well.

00:29:19.000 And she is pandering so hard.

00:29:20.000 I mean, she is pandering like a pander bear eaten at a Chinese wildlife market. 1.00

00:29:24.000 I mean, she is just really going for it.

00:29:27.000 Here is Elizabeth Warren, pandering harder, pandering harder, starring Bruce Willis.

00:29:34.000 I'm going to have a secretary of education That this young trans person interviews on my behalf, and only if this person believes that our Secretary or Secretary of Education nominee is committed to creating a welcoming environment, a safe environment, and a full educational curriculum for everyone, will that person actually be advanced to be Secretary of Education.

00:30:01.000 What?

00:30:02.000 Panderhard with a vengeance, my God.

00:30:05.000 Credit to producer Mike on that call.

00:30:07.000 My goodness, look at that, that is just, and people are cheering, woo!

00:30:11.000 We're gonna find somebody, a child with gender dysphoria, and we're gonna have that child, that seven-year-old child with gender dysphoria, I am jazz, we're gonna have that child interview the prospective secretary of education to tell us what national policy should be with regard to locker rooms and LGBT education, Senator Elizabeth Warren.

00:30:28.000 Now, if she really wants to do this, honestly, Elizabeth Warren should, here's what she should announce.

00:30:33.000 Senator Warren, if she really wants to win this thing this way, she needs to announce that her vice presidential pick is going to be a trans, Native American, half Native American, like her, half Native American, one quarter Chinese, one quarter African American, one eighth Latinx, disabled person, with With Vitiligo.

00:30:56.000 That person is going to be her vice president.

00:30:58.000 And then she promises that because that person has the most knowledge of the world affairs, because that person is the most sensitive to everybody's needs, that she will then resign as president and that person will become president.

00:31:10.000 That is the most woke thing that she could do.

00:31:12.000 She could give up her white woman slot to a minority. 1.00

00:31:16.000 She could do this.

00:31:17.000 She could make this happen.

00:31:18.000 We can find the most intersectional human being in existence She can nominate that person as her vice president. 1.00

00:31:23.000 She can pledge that if elected, she will then resign and hand over all power to the trans little person so that they can shape American policy. 0.99

00:31:33.000 I'm sorry, this is crazy.

00:31:34.000 Who is she appealing to? 0.69

00:31:35.000 Who is the population like, oh my god, now I'm voting for her.

00:31:38.000 Now that she's said that.

00:31:40.000 And look at her, she's so enthused.

00:31:41.000 She's like, yeah, yeah.

00:31:43.000 She's got the hair shaking and everything. 0.99

00:31:45.000 Wow.

00:31:46.000 It's going to be so sad when she loses and then Anne Taylor Loft has to put all those sweaters on at half off because the market for the Elizabeth Warren sweaters are just gone.

00:31:54.000 So that's exciting stuff.

00:31:55.000 Meanwhile, speaking of delusional people, so it turns out that Michael Bloomberg is going to drop $100 million on ads attacking Donald Trump in just two months.

00:32:04.000 According to the Drudge Report, Bloomberg has already spent more than $100 million just on ads that attack Trump.

00:32:11.000 And that does not include the nearly $100 million more that Bloomberg has spent on ads on his own behalf.

00:32:16.000 And it's true. 0.56

00:32:16.000 I mean, if you watch YouTube or Hulu, if you watch any of these things that have ads on them, there will be an ad for Michael Bloomberg. 0.56

00:32:23.000 I have personally seen three ads for Michael Bloomberg.

00:32:25.000 Okay?

00:32:25.000 And that's amazing.

00:32:27.000 He is drying up the market.

00:32:28.000 He is blowing out the market.

00:32:30.000 It's pretty incredible.

00:32:32.000 Meanwhile, national polling, Sanders is now leading an NBC Wall Street Journal national poll.

00:32:39.000 So Joe Biden is getting desperate now, and Joe Biden is starting to open up the guns on Bernie Sanders, saying he's a Democrat, Bernie Sanders is not a Democrat.

00:32:46.000 Yeah, good luck with that.

00:32:47.000 The entire pitch for Bernie Sanders is that he's not a Democrat.

00:32:49.000 This is like Jeb Bush saying to Donald Trump, I've been a lifelong Republican, you're not a Republican.

00:32:54.000 The entire appeal of Donald Trump is that he was running from outside the party infrastructure and that he was shaking things up and bringing something new.

00:33:01.000 Biden, speaking in Pella, Iowa, said, I'm a Democrat.

00:33:05.000 Earlier, he had told reporters at Dairy Queen that the contrast between himself and his top rivals were, quote unquote, self-evident.

00:33:11.000 He says he says he's not.

00:33:12.000 He says he's not registered as a Democrat, to the best of my knowledge, and Bernie has a different view.

00:33:17.000 So everybody is sort of going at each other now.

00:33:20.000 But the fact is that Biden is old.

00:33:23.000 Biden is decrepit.

00:33:24.000 Biden is barely holding it together at this point.

00:33:28.000 And so I do not think that he can hold off Sanders.

00:33:31.000 I just don't.

00:33:32.000 I think that Sanders is going to win Iowa.

00:33:33.000 I think that Sanders is going to win New Hampshire.

00:33:36.000 Again, the polling in Nevada is super slim.

00:33:38.000 That is the next state.

00:33:39.000 And it's a caucus state, which tends to favor Bernie Sanders because caucus is all about enthusiasm and turnout.

00:33:45.000 The only poll taken in the last month with regard to, or the last three weeks with regard to Nevada, had Biden and Sanders dead even.

00:33:53.000 The only state, here's, I've been saying this for years, ever since Rudy Giuliani set up the quote unquote Florida firewall in 2008.

00:34:00.000 By the time he hit the firewall, it was gone, right?

00:34:02.000 Anytime you have a candidate who sets up an electoral firewall, the firewall is breached every single time.

00:34:06.000 Hillary was talking about how she had the blue firewall in Michigan and Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, boom, gone. 0.79

00:34:10.000 As soon as you have a candidate who is talking about a firewall, that requires You know, a full month of losing in order to reach the firewall, that firewall is not going to exist.

00:34:20.000 So right now, Joe Biden's firewall is in South Carolina because that's really the first state where a significant percentage of the vote is black.

00:34:26.000 I mean, and he is wildly outpacing Bernie Sanders among black voters, but the latest polling in South Carolina was only done on January 8th.

00:34:36.000 So it hasn't captured anything that has happened in the last three weeks.

00:34:40.000 Right now, the betting markets have Sanders as a fairly heavy favorite to be the nominee for the Democratic Party.

00:34:45.000 Which is just unbelievable.

00:34:47.000 I mean, it truly is incredible.

00:34:50.000 Now, maybe the field consolidates.

00:34:51.000 Maybe Elizabeth Warren drops out, and maybe some of those votes go to Joe Biden. 0.97

00:34:54.000 Maybe Pete Buttigieg drops out, some of those votes go to Joe Biden.

00:34:57.000 But by the way, if Elizabeth Warren drops out, there's just as good a shot that Elizabeth Warren's voters move over to Bernie Sanders. 1.00

00:35:03.000 So right now, you gotta be seeing this geriatric communist as the guy who is the greatest threat to take the Democratic nomination.

00:35:10.000 And the reason I call him a communist is because I would like to see him, before I start just signing on to the idea that he is pro-capitalism, I'd like to hear him say, like, a nice word about capitalism, like, one would be good.

00:35:18.000 You know, maybe revise his support for various communist regimes over the last 60 years.

00:35:22.000 Maybe explain why he was wrong in the 1970s to support nationalization of every major industry in the United States, ranging from banks to the energy industry.

00:35:30.000 Like, I would love to hear him explain what changed.

00:35:33.000 And if you say, well, he's not calling for that stuff anymore, right, so explain what changed.

00:35:39.000 Explain what changed your mind.

00:35:40.000 Why you were wrong.

00:35:40.000 Why you were wrong in the first place.

00:35:41.000 How's nobody ever asked him this stuff?

00:35:43.000 But, you know, that's where things stand right now with Bernie and Bernie's got the momentum.

00:35:49.000 He does.

00:35:49.000 And him being off the campaign trail is not terrible for him.

00:35:52.000 It isn't because Joe Biden is still wandering around somewhere in Iowa trying to gather votes.

00:35:56.000 This thing is...

00:35:58.000 Wide open at this point for, my goodness, geriatric socialist versus Donald Trump.

00:36:03.000 This is gonna be, what a year this will be, gang.

00:36:06.000 We've already had a conflict in the Middle East with Iran attacking American bases.

00:36:11.000 We've already had the President of the United States impeached.

00:36:15.000 And we are not even in February yet.

00:36:17.000 Wow.

00:36:18.000 Wow, you thought 2019 was wild.

00:36:20.000 Okay, in just a second, we're gonna get to coronavirus.

00:36:22.000 Turns out, folks, don't eat bats.

00:36:25.000 I know.

00:36:25.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:38:12.000 Meanwhile, things are getting pretty horrific surrounding this coronavirus.

00:38:21.000 I'm always one of these people who says, like, don't panic until it's time to panic, because the time that you've wasted worrying is never receivable.

00:38:29.000 You don't get it back on the other end.

00:38:30.000 But I will say that this is starting to look not so great.

00:38:34.000 The State Department is now telling Americans not to travel to China at all.

00:38:37.000 They've issued a travel advisory because of the public health threat posed by coronavirus.

00:38:42.000 The WHO has declared the coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency.

00:38:45.000 They declared that on Thursday.

00:38:48.000 So apparently, apparently there are now over 200 dead.

00:38:52.000 There are over 9,000 diagnoses of this.

00:38:56.000 Just by contrast, the SARS virus, I believe over the course of an entire year, had about 8,100 diagnoses.

00:39:01.000 So this thing is spreading a lot faster than the SARS virus did.

00:39:05.000 I've seen estimates that put the death rate from this virus at around 2%.

00:39:08.000 The problem is you don't actually know what the rates are because the Chinese government lies.

00:39:12.000 So we have no idea how many people are actually dead.

00:39:14.000 We have no idea how many people have actually obtained the virus.

00:39:16.000 And the biggest problem with this virus is we don't actually know how it is crossing human to human.

00:39:21.000 Is it liquid transmission, the way that Ebola is, for example?

00:39:25.000 Or is it aerial transmission, which is a lot scarier, right?

00:39:27.000 Like the flu, like you sneeze in a room and suddenly somebody could get it, or you breathe on something and somebody can get it.

00:39:32.000 That, of course, would be incredibly frightening.

00:39:35.000 The fact is that we do have human-to-human transmission outside of China.

00:39:38.000 This has happened in the United States when a person who came back from China gave it to her husband.

00:39:42.000 Beyond that, we also know that the coronavirus is is giving people sort of secondary conditions.

00:39:51.000 A lot of people apparently who are dying are dying of various other sort of conditions that are contingent upon the having of the coronavirus in the first place.

00:40:02.000 The biggest problem is, of course, that they are now reporting that you can get the coronavirus.

00:40:08.000 You can actually get the coronavirus from somebody who's asymptomatics. 1.00

00:40:11.000 So somebody's walking around, they appear to be perfectly healthy, but they are a carrier for the coronavirus.

00:40:15.000 That makes it nearly impossible to stop the transmission.

00:40:18.000 And because you can't even quarantine people, you can't even, you don't know if they have it or if they don't have it.

00:40:22.000 So once it spreads, it's going to be very difficult to stop at this point.

00:40:27.000 All of this Is scary as hell, obviously.

00:40:30.000 But, important to note, again, that in the United States there were 3.7 million diagnoses of the flu just at the end of the year.

00:40:36.000 And some 3,000 people died of the flu or conditions related to the flu just at the very end of last year.

00:40:41.000 So we're not anywhere near that scale at this point.

00:40:45.000 With that said, This is not good news.

00:40:47.000 This particular case in which a person transmitted asymptomatically, it was described from Germany, and it could help resolve one of the major unknowns about the virus.

00:40:55.000 As of Thursday night, it had infected nearly 10,000 people in China alone and killed 213.

00:40:59.000 About 100 more infections have been reported in 18 other countries, but no deaths.

00:41:02.000 Now, what we have to know is why people died in China. 0.98

00:41:05.000 Did they die from lack of medical care because China is a garbage country run by a communist regime? 0.98

00:41:09.000 Or did they die because China cared for them and the virus is just that much of a killer? 0.98

00:41:14.000 We don't know any of that.

00:41:15.000 But good news!

00:41:16.000 Our media are on the case, guys.

00:41:18.000 They are on the case.

00:41:20.000 And so I bring to you this headline from CNN Politics.

00:41:23.000 Are you ready for this?

00:41:25.000 So it's a picture of President Trump and his coronavirus task force.

00:41:29.000 And it is placed above a picture of Barack Obama and his Ebola task force.

00:41:35.000 The headline from CNN, I'm not kidding you.

00:41:36.000 Coronavirus task force, another example of Trump administration's lack of diversity.

00:41:40.000 I'm not kidding you.

00:41:42.000 This is not a parody.

00:41:44.000 CNN is complaining that the people on the coronavirus task force are not diverse enough.

00:41:52.000 Because that's what I want.

00:41:53.000 I mean, I know that it's like, oh god, we have a coronavirus world health emergency. 0.97

00:41:57.000 Get me three black guys, a Native American, and a transgender little person right now, stat! 1.00

00:42:01.000 We need those people in here right now! 0.98

00:42:02.000 Do they have medical degrees?

00:42:04.000 I don't care! 1.00

00:42:05.000 We need diversity in this room, dammit! 0.99

00:42:07.000 I don't need any medical expertise. 1.00

00:42:09.000 All those white doctors, you tell them to go straight to hell. 1.00

00:42:12.000 You know what I need in this room? 1.00

00:42:13.000 I need diversity in my coronavirus task force.

00:42:18.000 I need RuPaul in here.

00:42:19.000 Get RuPaul here now.

00:42:21.000 Now.

00:42:24.000 What is wrong with these people?

00:42:25.000 What is wrong?

00:42:25.000 How is that even a headline?

00:42:27.000 What is wrong with you?

00:42:28.000 CNN says, It's a statement that's as predictable as it is infuriating.

00:42:33.000 President Donald Trump's administration lacks diversity.

00:42:36.000 On Tuesday, Trump tweeted photos of a briefing he'd received on the new coronavirus spreading out of China.

00:42:41.000 We will continue to monitor the ongoing developments, the president said in his post.

00:42:43.000 We have the best experts anywhere in the world, and they are on top of it 24-7.

00:42:47.000 Who are these experts?

00:42:48.000 They're largely the same sorts of white men and a couple women on the sidelines who have dominated the Trump administration from the very beginning.

00:42:56.000 Now, nowhere in this article does it actually explain which of these people is not an expert.

00:43:01.000 It's just assumed that because they're white, they can't be experts.

00:43:03.000 And white men, men, men.

00:43:07.000 By contrast, former President Barack Obama's circle of advisors in the face of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa was hardly so monochromatic.

00:43:15.000 Neither was it so abysmal in terms of gender diversity. 0.99

00:43:18.000 This is the worst piece ever written.

00:43:20.000 We have discovered it.

00:43:21.000 We need to frame it.

00:43:22.000 We need to put it in the Hall of Fame.

00:43:23.000 We need to gild it in gold.

00:43:24.000 This is the worst piece ever written over at CNN.

00:43:27.000 And yet, as unsurprising as the diversity issue in the Trump era has become, it's still worth pointing out from time to time, especially as the country approaches the 2020 presidential election in earnest.

00:43:36.000 That's partly because of the recent photos of the best experts telegraph, the kinds of people the administration deems worthy of holding power.

00:43:45.000 What?

00:43:45.000 This person was dropped on the head as a baby.

00:43:48.000 Like, Brandon Tensley, I don't know what happened to you, sir.

00:43:50.000 Please seek medical attention ASAP.

00:43:53.000 From the diverse doctor of your choice.

00:43:55.000 Please.

00:43:56.000 Your hot take is that the doctors who are trying to solve the coronavirus problem are too white.

00:44:04.000 That's your hot take.

00:44:05.000 If you're looking for some rip on Trump and it's like, oh, well, you know, these doctors he's got here talking about how to stop a global pandemic, he needs in here right now the cast of Project Runway.

00:44:15.000 Get them in here right the hell now. 0.99

00:44:20.000 Okay, speaking of stupid media coverage. 1.00

00:44:22.000 So, producer Colton made me aware of this idiotic report. 1.00

00:44:26.000 I'm not even sure who this person is. 0.98

00:44:27.000 Who is this person, Colton?

00:44:28.000 I have no clue who this guy is.

00:44:31.000 ASAP Science, okay.

00:44:32.000 And this person put out a video.

00:44:34.000 We know that he is supposedly intelligent because he's wearing glasses.

00:44:37.000 That's pretty much our only indicator.

00:44:39.000 And also because he buttons the top button of his polo shirt, which even I, a tried and true dork, do not do.

00:44:45.000 In any case, He did a video called Coronavirus and Racism.

00:44:49.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:44:50.000 He's about to claim that if you think that it's a bad idea to eat a bat, it's because you're a racist.

00:45:02.000 Our media, the people on the left, what is wrong with you?

00:45:05.000 What is wrong with you?

00:45:06.000 Can't they just say it's a bad idea to eat a bowl of bat soup? 1.00

00:45:10.000 It's a bad idea.

00:45:10.000 Like, I understand that you're all bat bleep, but can you just, like, really?

00:45:13.000 Come on. 1.00

00:45:14.000 Okay, let's listen to this idiot for a second. 1.00

00:45:16.000 Ugh. 1.00

00:45:17.000 We live in Toronto where the SARS virus got world-scale attention.

00:45:20.000 That's because the only people who died outside of Asia from that virus were in Canada, and most of them were in Toronto.

00:45:26.000 With only 44 people dying in total in Canada, it had a huge impact on our city.

00:45:31.000 We lost a lot of tourism, we lost millions of dollars, but most importantly we saw a lot of stigma and racism towards Chinese people.

00:45:38.000 It's important that we do not repeat those racist notions that happened here in Toronto, and we all need to be aware of this when we talk about the current coronavirus.

00:45:45.000 On our social media channels we've seen lots of people saying things like this always happens in China and relating it a lot to the types of foods that Chinese people eat.

00:45:53.000 But it's important to remember that Western food practices are what created mad cow disease and also Western meat consumption has created a big issue with antibiotic resistance.

00:46:05.000 Why is that important to remember?

00:46:07.000 Exactly.

00:46:07.000 Like, why?

00:46:08.000 It turns out that the last several global pandemics have come from outside the West, right?

00:46:12.000 We've had Ebola, which happened in Africa.

00:46:13.000 And then we've had SARS, which happened in China.

00:46:15.000 And then we've had this, which happened in China.

00:46:17.000 I believe MERS started in China as well.

00:46:20.000 And that has nothing to do with Chinese people being Chinese. 0.91

00:46:23.000 It has to do with don't eat a fricking bat! 0.98

00:46:27.000 I'm not the person, by the way, saying don't eat a fricking bat. 0.94

00:46:29.000 That would be like every scientist you know. 0.92

00:46:31.000 Don't eat bats, gang.

00:46:33.000 You know, it turns out that domesticated animals, you rip on American meat consumption.

00:46:36.000 Okay, here's the thing about domesticated animals.

00:46:38.000 Typically, domesticated animals have had a lot of disease bred out of them for years, and there may be other problems associated with it.

00:46:44.000 But, you know what's one problem that's not associated with that?

00:46:47.000 The wild diseases you get from eating like a meerkat. 0.98

00:46:51.000 It turns out that when you eat weird animals, bad crap can happen.

00:46:55.000 And listen, I am- I'm a person with one of the most religiously restrictive diets on the planet, right? 0.99

00:46:59.000 I keep kosher, which means that we think pigs are exotic.

00:47:02.000 But, like, if you think that you are going to, like, take a chomp out of a cobra, and this is somehow a great idea, and that it's racist for me to say that, that somehow it's racist for me to say, please, please, do not go into the forest and tear that lemur off a tree and just take a chomp.

00:47:17.000 Please don't do that.

00:47:18.000 If that's racist, why- What does that have to do with being Chinese?

00:47:21.000 It has to do with cultural practices that involve eating wild animals that, by the way, the Chinese government is trying to ban right now.

00:47:28.000 And so if it's racist, then why is the Chinese government trying to ban it?

00:47:31.000 Last I checked, the Chinese government is Chinese and filled with Chinese people. 0.98

00:47:34.000 But apparently the Chinese government is now racist against Chinese people because they're saying, please don't eat the freaking bat. 0.98

00:47:41.000 Like, this is wild. 0.95

00:47:43.000 CNN reporting, in Western markets, suppliers can buy beef, chicken, pork, and if they're lucky, perhaps some duck or bison.

00:47:48.000 But the options in China can be a bit more exotic.

00:47:50.000 Vendors in small city markets often sell wild animals, including rodents, yak, snakes, and even porcupines.

00:47:56.000 And experts say that makes them far more dangerous.

00:47:58.000 The meat could contain deadly pathogens, like the coronavirus.

00:48:00.000 CNN! 0.98

00:48:02.000 Racist! 1.00

00:48:03.000 Racist! 1.00

00:48:04.000 If you say that that guy should not eat a porcupine, it's because you hate the Chinese. 1.00

00:48:09.000 Breaking news!

00:48:10.000 It's amazing.

00:48:11.000 Racism is everything now.

00:48:12.000 There was this whole controversy yesterday over Pete Buttigieg suggesting that America is driven by heartland values.

00:48:18.000 And people were like, Pete Buttigieg is racist because when he says heartland values, he means not black people. 0.98

00:48:23.000 And it's like, what the hell are you talking about? 0.88

00:48:26.000 It is hilarious to watch though, by the way, as the media take the exact same position on Pete Buttigieg as they took on Ted Cruz.

00:48:33.000 Remember when Ted Cruz suggested that there's a difference between quote-unquote New York values and Heartland values?

00:48:37.000 And people were like, he's saying because of Jews!

00:48:39.000 And I was like, no, it's because New York has different moral values than people in Indiana.

00:48:43.000 They do.

00:48:44.000 And also, who do you think Pete Buttigieg is talking about?

00:48:46.000 Typically the moral values that people are talking about When they say Heartland Values, very often they have to do with values with regard to sexual activity.

00:48:54.000 People would judge a gay man who lives in Indiana.

00:48:56.000 So he ain't talking about that.

00:48:58.000 He's talking about, like, Heartland Values means, like, hard work, you go out on a tractor.

00:49:02.000 Like, we all know what he's talking about.

00:49:03.000 He's talking about a Budweiser commercial.

00:49:04.000 That's what he's talking about.

00:49:06.000 And the entire meeting was like, oh, it's racist. 0.82

00:49:08.000 He means not black people. 0.99

00:49:09.000 No, he doesn't. 0.98

00:49:10.000 Cut it out. 0.97

00:49:11.000 Okay, it's not racist to say, don't eat the frickin' bat. 0.99

00:49:13.000 It's not racist to say, you know that rat crawling around in your attic? 0.97

00:49:16.000 Please do not pull it down and roast it over a spit and take a chomp.

00:49:19.000 It is not racist to say heartland values.

00:49:21.000 Everybody, loosen up a little bit. 1.00

00:49:24.000 Because you're making the world a stupider place. 1.00

00:49:26.000 Like, each and every day a stupider place. 1.00

00:49:28.000 Donald Trump's task force is not diverse enough. 0.99

00:49:31.000 It's racist to say that you shouldn't take a, like, it's racist to say now that if you go to the LA Zoo and you take a walk around and you see it as a dinner menu that maybe this is a bad idea.

00:49:41.000 What in the?

00:49:43.000 You know what, honestly?

00:49:44.000 Maybe the coronavirus should come for us all.

00:49:46.000 Maybe we've reached that point.

00:49:47.000 Maybe it's just time, guys.

00:49:48.000 Maybe we should all sign up with Policy Genius and let the coronavirus take us.

00:49:51.000 Just come on.

00:49:52.000 Bring it.

00:49:54.000 We have reached peaks. 1.00

00:49:56.000 I hesitate to say we've reached peak stupidity. 1.00

00:49:57.000 Apparently there is no peak. 1.00

00:49:59.000 It's a Sisyphean task. 1.00

00:50:00.000 Every time we reach the top of the stupid pile, the boulder rolls back down. 0.99

00:50:03.000 Then we have to roll it right back up again. 1.00

00:50:05.000 There is no peak to the stupid pile. 0.99

00:50:06.000 Alrighty, time for a quick thing that I like and then a thing that I hate. 0.99

00:50:11.000 So, things that I like.

00:50:13.000 So, I told you I was watching, like, 1990s silly movies with my wife.

00:50:18.000 And so my wife and I, the other day, watched the John Woo film, Face Off, from 1997.

00:50:23.000 This is one of the greatest cheesy action flicks of all time.

00:50:26.000 First of all, Nicolas Cage was in every movie.

00:50:29.000 Just note that from 1992 to 2000, Nicolas Cage was in every single movie playing Nicolas Cage.

00:50:34.000 He's the exact same person in Face Off that he is in The Rock.

00:50:37.000 The difference is that in The Rock, he plays like a chemist, he plays a scientist, and in Face Off he plays an international criminal who's crazy, and they're exactly the same person.

00:50:45.000 Which is pretty wild, right?

00:50:46.000 He's also the same person in Raising Cain.

00:50:48.000 So, literally the same person steals a baby, Also performs chemistry experiments and also is an international fugitive.

00:50:56.000 So just things to know about Nicolas Cage.

00:50:59.000 So this is truly just a wonderful example of horrible overacting.

00:51:05.000 It's John Travolta and Nicolas Cage.

00:51:07.000 What actually happened during this movie is they had to bring in new scenery for them to chew because they actually ran out of scenery.

00:51:14.000 They chewed the scenery so badly.

00:51:17.000 They mangled it.

00:51:17.000 They had to bring in new scenery.

00:51:19.000 The movie's great.

00:51:20.000 It's horrible and great at the same time.

00:51:22.000 Here's a little bit of the trailer for Face Off.

00:51:25.000 Yeah, slow motion, man.

00:51:36.000 This is the 1990s.

00:51:38.000 Explosions, slow motion, people falling off speedboats, Nicolas Cage and John Travolta looking at each other.

00:51:44.000 Yeah!

00:51:45.000 He's also in Con Air.

00:51:46.000 I'm just gonna point that out.

00:51:47.000 Like, Nicolas Cage in every single movie.

00:51:49.000 So the whole premise of the film is that people can switch faces, and so John Travolta, in order to stop Nicolas Cage, has to become Nicolas Cage.

00:51:56.000 And then Nicolas Cage...

00:51:58.000 It's been a bit of a week here, so I think that we are going to skip the things that I hate today, and we'll leave you on a high note.

00:52:03.000 Nicholas Cage and Nicholas Cage acting like John Travolta, which is to say both of them just overacting.

00:52:07.000 And it's phenomenal.

00:52:08.000 It's phenomenal. 0.97

00:52:09.000 So go check out if you want a dumb movie this weekend, go check out Face Off. 0.98

00:52:12.000 It is fantastically dumb and also fantastically enjoyable. 0.99

00:52:15.000 You know what? 0.97

00:52:16.000 It's been it's been a bit of a week here.

00:52:17.000 So I think that we are going to skip the things that I hate today.

00:52:21.000 And we'll leave you on a high note because let's be real.

00:52:23.000 You can go watch Face Off and worry about the coronavirus this weekend.

00:52:28.000 Just try to stay indoors.

00:52:29.000 Please, try not to eat the household pets if you can avoid it.

00:52:32.000 Just don't eat your cat.

00:52:34.000 That's not a racist thing.

00:52:36.000 Really, just make sure that whatever you eat is safe enough that you would have a child eat it.

00:52:41.000 Don't go to any wildlife markets over the weekend.

00:52:43.000 That's not anti-Chinese.

00:52:44.000 It just means don't go.

00:52:45.000 Please, please do not go to the nearest pound and find the wildlife center and then just take the tarantula and take a bite out.

00:52:52.000 Like, please just don't do that.

00:52:53.000 Okay?

00:52:54.000 Just please.

00:52:55.000 We'll be back here next week.

00:52:56.000 Presumably, when we come back, impeachment will be over.

00:52:59.000 So we'll give you all the updates then.

00:53:00.000 And then we'll be heading into Iowa, which happens on Monday.

00:53:03.000 Monday is the Iowa caucuses and the State of the Union is Tuesday.

00:53:07.000 Wow, a lot going on.

00:53:08.000 So make sure that you rest up because next week it's going to be a barn burner.

00:53:11.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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