The Ben Shapiro Show - The End Of The Cuomo Show | Ep. 1386

00:00:00.000 Chris Cuomo is suspended from CNN indefinitely after new revelations about how he used his position to help his brother.

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00:01:35.000 Alrighty, so the most trusted name in news has now, at long last, suspended Chris Cuomo.

00:01:41.000 And what's weird about the suspension of Chris Cuomo is it's not like we didn't know this stuff.

00:01:45.000 We've known for months and months and months that Chris Cuomo was basically advising his brother while simultaneously covering his brother on television with regard to COVID.

00:01:52.000 Again, we got the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour with the governor, the LoveGov.

00:01:56.000 He literally called him his own brother, the LoveGov, on national TV while his brother was shipping COVID-positive elderly people back into nursing homes, killing all of them, and then suggesting that they had not died, or at least if they had died, they had not died inside nursing homes.

00:02:09.000 Underestimating the number of nursing home deaths by thousands in the state of New York.

00:02:13.000 He was not ousted from that position because he had killed all the old people in New York. 1.00

00:02:17.000 He was ousted from his position as governor because Letitia James, the very aggressive attorney general who had her eye on his gubernatorial mansion, decided to issue a report without a prosecution suggesting that he likes to play grab ass with every woman within a 32-mile radius. 0.92

00:02:31.000 And Chris Cuomo was trying to help his brother cover that up, track down some of the women who were making the accusations, spin the media on his behalf.

00:02:39.000 So there were new revelations that came out on this. Thanks again to Letitia James, whose unbridled ability to simply throw out chum in order to smear the guy so she can grab a seat. 1.00

00:02:51.000 It's pretty, it's pretty spectacular.

00:02:52.000 I will say it's pretty naked in its ambition.

00:02:55.000 Well, now Chris Cuomo is on the outs at CNN.

00:02:57.000 Why?

00:02:58.000 Because presumably he has smeared the level of trust you once held in CNN.

00:03:01.000 Now, let me just say this about trust, my trust in CNN.

00:03:08.000 Wait, you guys thought that, like, I trusted you guys?

00:03:10.000 Like, you think that this undermines my- Like, you- Really?

00:03:13.000 You think that for a huge number of Americans, their trust in CNN was shaken by Chris Cuomo hobnobbing with his brother?

00:03:20.000 Really?

00:03:21.000 Like, Don Lemon follows that guy on TV.

00:03:23.000 Anderson Cooper is on your network.

00:03:26.000 Jim Acosta is your White House reporter.

00:03:29.000 I'm pretty sure that our trust in CNN was relatively gone by the time we got to Chris Cuomo hanging out with his bro.

00:03:36.000 But you have to at least maintain appearances over at CNN.

00:03:39.000 And so now, CNN has suspended Cuomo over new details that were revealed this week about the amounts of help he allegedly provided to his brother.

00:03:45.000 They pretended these were all new revelations.

00:03:47.000 They really were not.

00:03:48.000 Here is CNN releasing its statement via Anderson Cooper, the wolf husky, who appears on that network nightly.

00:03:54.000 Here's a statement released tonight from a CNN spokesperson, quote, The New York Attorney General's Office released transcripts and exhibits Monday that shed new light on Chris Cuomo's involvement in his brother's defense.

00:04:05.000 The documents, which we were not privy to before their public release, raise serious questions.

00:04:10.000 The spokesperson continued, quote, when Chris admitted to us that he had offered advice to his brother's staff, he broke our rules and we acknowledge that publicly.

00:04:18.000 But we also appreciated the unique position he was in and understood his need to put family first and job second.

00:04:24.000 However, these documents point to a greater level of involvement in his brother's efforts than we previously knew, the spokesperson added.

00:04:31.000 As a result, we have suspended Chris indefinitely pending further evaluation.

00:04:35.000 Okay, so they're just lying.

00:04:36.000 I don't believe them at all.

00:04:37.000 My guess is that they are lying even about this. 1.00

00:04:39.000 The baseline idiocy that they had no idea. 1.00

00:04:44.000 How involved Chris was is really, really silly. 0.99

00:04:46.000 They probably knew on a general level how involved Chris was.

00:04:49.000 The only thing that happened here is that it embarrassed them.

00:04:51.000 It embarrassed them, and so they decided to suspend him indefinitely.

00:04:53.000 For his part, Chris Cuomo has a radio show on SiriusXM.

00:04:57.000 He said, the game has rules.

00:04:58.000 One of the general principles is you can fight against the other party.

00:05:01.000 You can fight against the media, but only if you have your party.

00:05:04.000 Andrew had his party enforcing a rule against him that if you have accusations, you have problems.

00:05:07.000 You don't really get to vet the accusations.

00:05:10.000 You don't get to go against your accusers.

00:05:12.000 And Chris Cuomo said that his brother's resignation was forced in part because he had Republicans hating him and because the media never really liked him.

00:05:18.000 He said that was too much.

00:05:19.000 That's why he had to resign.

00:05:20.000 Yes, I'm sure it was the Republicans who forced it, Chris.

00:05:23.000 So it seems to me that there is only one way back into the good graces of CNN for Chris Cuomo. 0.98

00:05:28.000 He has to masturbate on a Zoom call in front of his colleagues. 0.96

00:05:31.000 That is the pathway back to glory, as we know from Jeffrey Toobin. 0.99

00:05:36.000 So, good news.

00:05:37.000 I feel like Chris Cuomo doesn't have tons of limits on that sort of stuff.

00:05:40.000 So, you never know.

00:05:41.000 You might see him back on CNN sooner rather than later.

00:05:41.000 You never know.

00:05:45.000 Meanwhile, other members of the media coming out in sort of quasi-defense of Chris Cuomo.

00:05:49.000 Sunny Hostin over on The View doing her best to try and rehabilitate the guy.

00:05:53.000 Do you think he did anything illegal?

00:05:55.000 I mean, does it feel... That I don't know.

00:05:56.000 You're the lawyer.

00:05:57.000 You tell me.

00:05:59.000 You know, that's the thing.

00:06:00.000 I think it comes down to it doesn't feel right.

00:06:02.000 It seems unseemly, right?

00:06:04.000 But is it illegal?

00:06:05.000 I don't think so.

00:06:06.000 I think he's a brother.

00:06:08.000 He wanted to help his brother.

00:06:09.000 I think certainly there is an ethical issue when it comes to journalism.

00:06:15.000 Oh, okay.

00:06:16.000 So yeah, he didn't commit a crime, so I guess it's okay now or something.

00:06:20.000 Remember, CNN spends every waking moment watching Fox News and covering the media malfeasance on Fox News.

00:06:25.000 So I wonder if last night they covered Fox News covering CNN completely imploding over Chris Cuomo, who again, they put on the air covering his own brother for like months and months and months in the middle of a pandemic where his brother was completely botching it in the state with the biggest outbreak in the country at the time.

00:06:43.000 Really impressive, impressive stuff.

00:06:45.000 And this again goes to the level of trust that Americans have in the media, which is to say almost none.

00:06:50.000 And that distrust is well justified at this point.

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00:07:52.000 All righty, so again, the level of systemic distrust that we have in the media is well justified at this point.

00:08:05.000 Jason Reilly has a good piece over at the Wall Street Journal talking about how the media has suddenly discovered colorblindness again when it comes to walk-a-shop.

00:08:12.000 He says, in the aftermath of George Floyd's death last year, employers offered black workers time off to deal with the news.

00:08:17.000 UCLA suspended a professor who refused to grade his supposedly traumatized black students more leniently than their non-black peers.

00:08:24.000 Such gestures may have been well-meaning, but they were also nonsensical and reeked of condescension. 0.95

00:08:28.000 Are black psyches really this fragile? 1.00

00:08:30.000 Are blacks so starved for exemplars that miscreants must be treated like martyrs? 0.98

00:08:34.000 Should Floyd's death matter more to them than the huge number of black homicides that don't involve police? 0.96

00:08:38.000 And why would people who aren't black Be any less disturbed by a video showing a police officer kneeling on the neck of a defenseless suspect for nine minutes.

00:08:45.000 The protests that followed Floyd's death rested on two assumptions.

00:08:48.000 The first is that Floyd, a career criminal and drug addict, was somehow representative of Black America, which is not only false, but deeply insulting.

00:08:54.000 The second, says Jason Reilly, is that police acted out of racial animus, which has never been proven.

00:08:59.000 This is what happens when racial identity becomes the centerpiece of politics and public life in a multiracial democracy.

00:09:05.000 The political left often pretends to pine for a post-racial America, but that's the last thing it really wants.

00:09:10.000 People who are interested in a post-racial America don't name their organization Black Lives Matter or welcome racial propaganda like the 1619 Project into elementary schools.

00:09:19.000 They don't advocate racial preferences.

00:09:21.000 They don't call for white people who are never slaveholders to pay reparations to black people who are never slaves.

00:09:26.000 The Biden administration, says Jason Reilly, has picked up where Obama left off.

00:09:29.000 The unwarranted racialization of the Kyle Rittenhouse saga, which concerned one white man shooting three other white people, was a clumsy attempt by President Biden and his allies to further a narrative about bias in the criminal justice system.

00:09:41.000 The same press outlets that portrayed Rittenhouse as a white supremacist have had remarkably little to say about the racial identity of Daryl Brooks, the black suspect in Wisconsin who was accused of plowing his car through an annual Christmas parade last month and killing six people, including an eight-year-old boy, all of whom were white.

00:09:55.000 Given the suspect's history of posting messages on social media that called for violence against white people and praised Hitler for killing Jews, you'd think his race and the race of his victims would be relevant to reporters. 0.95

00:10:04.000 Race is all anybody would be talking about if a white man had slammed his vehicle into a parade full of black people. 0.89

00:10:09.000 Yet suddenly, the left has gone colorblind.

00:10:12.000 Liberals want us to believe that racial disparities in police shootings and incarceration rates stem from a bias system and have little to do with racial disparities in criminality.

00:10:19.000 They want to talk about so-called hate crimes that involve white assailants and black victims, but not those involving black assailants and white or Asian victims.

00:10:25.000 They want headlines to read, white cop shoots black suspect, even when there's no evidence the encounter was racially motivated.

00:10:31.000 This is playing with fire.

00:10:34.000 Says Glenn Lowry, the Brown University economist.

00:10:36.000 Once we go down this road and get into the habit of racializing such events, we may not be able to contain that racialization.

00:10:42.000 This, of course, is exactly right.

00:10:44.000 But this is why nobody trusts the media.

00:10:46.000 Because we can all see the agenda.

00:10:47.000 The agenda is absolutely crystal clear at this point.

00:10:51.000 And the fact that it is so crystal clear is why it doesn't really matter if you get rid of Chris Cuomo.

00:10:51.000 Okay?

00:10:56.000 You can get rid of all the Chris Cuomos. 0.87

00:10:57.000 It's not gonna matter.

00:10:58.000 We all know the game at this point.

00:11:00.000 It is not as though there is anything hidden here.

00:11:04.000 Meanwhile, transparency in the media is getting worse.

00:11:08.000 Twitter announced yesterday that they are going to ban sharing of private people's photos or videos without consent.

00:11:14.000 The social media platform says it will remove private media when it is reported by a person depicted or authorized representative.

00:11:20.000 We used to call that, in some cases, reporting.

00:11:23.000 Because what happens if you videotape some sort of incident in public that involves a private person?

00:11:30.000 And that incident is actually newsworthy.

00:11:31.000 So a lot of the video is not.

00:11:32.000 A lot of it's like, here's a Karen.

00:11:34.000 And the Karen isn't actually a Karen, it's just a lady who is walking her dog in Central Park or something. 0.93

00:11:39.000 And then calls the police because a guy is acting weird and threatening.

00:11:42.000 But some of these videos actually are kind of relevant.

00:11:45.000 But according to the Wall Street Journal, Twitter said users will no longer be able to share private media such as photos and videos of another person without their permission.

00:11:53.000 Twitter said the misuse of private media can affect everyone.

00:11:56.000 It can have a disproportionate effect on women, activists, dissidents, and members of minority communities.

00:12:01.000 So now we are now to believe that the widespread dissemination of videos that are newsworthy must be suppressed on behalf of women, activists, dissidents, and members of minority communities.

00:12:15.000 This is not an unbiased free exchange of ideas public town hall.

00:12:22.000 Now it is just the elites at Twitter deciding what you should and should not see.

00:12:27.000 Twitter said it can take enforcement action when private media is posted without the consent of someone included in it.

00:12:32.000 It said the change is part of its work to align its safety policies with human rights standards and better prevent so-called doxxing the publishing of private information with malicious intent.

00:12:40.000 But this policy seems to be too broad.

00:12:44.000 Now, they are saying that the policy wouldn't apply to images or videos taken from large public events, like sporting events or protests, but how much newsworthy stuff happens that's not a sporting event or protest?

00:12:54.000 A lot.

00:12:55.000 Emerson Brookings, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, tweeted it's basically an anti-doxing rule, which is fine, but it's written so broadly, most anyone can lodge a complaint against anybody.

00:13:06.000 So, should you be concerned about the bottlenecking of information?

00:13:09.000 I am.

00:13:10.000 Especially because, again, all this does is it just means whoever has the biggest loudspeaker is the person who wins.

00:13:16.000 And if you control who can use that loudspeaker, it makes it very difficult to challenge the legacy media's narratives, which sort of seems to be the point.

00:13:22.000 Meanwhile, the media doing their best to rehabilitate the Biden administration, So the New York Times published a piece, I'm not kidding, called Jill Biden's White House Christmas Looks Very Normal.

00:13:34.000 You won't find any blood red trees this year.

00:13:36.000 This is the important stuff according to the media because remember that Melania Trump had put up some red trees and this of course was it showed that she was basically a child of the devil because of course the devil likes red and the Christmas trees were red and this means that she's very very bad but Jill Biden Who is a doctor, let me tell you.

00:13:53.000 She has put up regular Christmas trees and this means that she is an amazing person.

00:13:57.000 According to the New York Times, gone are the blood red trees, gone are the icy sparkling boughs and the imagery of a woman isolated in a winter wonderland or horror story Depending on your point of view.

00:14:08.000 In their place, white and red striped knit stockings with green heels dangling brightly from a hearth, family photos, handwritten thank you notes, and an arch of presents in bright red boxes.

00:14:18.000 The Biden White House Christmas decor unveiled on Monday isn't nearly as stylized or surreal as the Trump-endorsed looks that preceded them.

00:14:25.000 Oh, it's plenty cheerful and sparkly, but in the context of recent White House holiday styles, it's positively Accessible?

00:14:31.000 They're people of the people, don't you see?

00:14:33.000 Jill Biden is a person of the people.

00:14:36.000 She's one of you, the little people. 0.97

00:14:39.000 And her stylistic choices are a return to normalcy as opposed to the evil Trumps.

00:14:44.000 Remember when we had a booming economy and pretty much everybody was free to do what they wanted without masks and vaccine mandates and all that?

00:14:52.000 Yeah, that was bad because there were red Christmas trees.

00:14:54.000 Now there are green Christmas trees and everything is great.

00:14:59.000 According to the New York Times, in this, the White House is fully in line with the tactile, unpretentious image that the current first couple likes to project.

00:15:05.000 That's what they are.

00:15:06.000 They are tactile and unpretentious.

00:15:08.000 When I think about Jill and Joe Biden, I think about accessible people who are definitely people of the people, not People who got very wealthy off their political background and or sending their bagman hunter to trot around the globe picking up cash.

00:15:22.000 No, no, no.

00:15:23.000 They're like us.

00:15:24.000 They're like us.

00:15:25.000 Celebrities, they're just like you.

00:15:26.000 The president and first lady, just like us.

00:15:28.000 That's literally what it says.

00:15:31.000 I swear to God, I had not read that line, and now I just did, in the New York Times.

00:15:34.000 The President and First Lady, just like us, their home is your home, only a little more so.

00:15:40.000 It did, after all, require 6,000 feet of ribbon, over 300 candles, more than 10,000 ornaments, and about 78,750 holiday lights to dress the White House for the holidays, according to the Office of the First Lady.

00:15:50.000 That may sound extravagant, but like Dr. Jill Biden herself, I'm never going to get over the fact that the media acquiesce to Jill Biden's demand that they call her Dr. Jill based on her doctorate in education.

00:16:01.000 I'm never going to get over that.

00:16:03.000 Honest to God.

00:16:04.000 Can you imagine if Melania Trump had said, I need you to call me by X title, and the title was just something that had nothing to do with the actual role of, say, a doctor?

00:16:14.000 You think the media would have gone along with that?

00:16:17.000 Did they do with Dr. Sebastian Gorka?

00:16:18.000 Is that something they liked to do with Dr. Gorka?

00:16:22.000 But now it's like, oh, you know, Jill Biden insists we call her doctor, even though, man, if you're having a heart attack and Jill Biden approaches you, To give you a community college lecture, you are in serious trouble, my friend.

00:16:34.000 I love how they just go right along with it.

00:16:35.000 The propaganda, the Pravda wing of the Democratic Party here.

00:16:40.000 The New York Times says, that may sound extravagant, but like Dr. Jill Biden herself, whose unofficial job it is to oversee the declaration, the effect was rather homey.

00:16:47.000 Social media categorized it as normal.

00:16:49.000 Whether the response was complimentary or pejorative, it nodded to part of her husband's campaign self.

00:16:54.000 A return to normalcy after the turbulence and extremes of the Trump years.

00:16:58.000 Since his election, it's been an underlying theme, a foundational element of Build Back Better.

00:17:02.000 For the holidays, it's gifts from the heart.

00:17:04.000 Trillion dollar gifts from the heart.

00:17:07.000 That's why Christmas at the White House is such a useful moment of pageantry, says the New York Times, especially at a time when the usual communicative ceremonies of office, state dinners, White House tours are on hold.

00:17:17.000 I love the fact that they're telling you the substitute for things being normal, which they totally are, by the way, in large swaths of the country.

00:17:24.000 Down here in Florida, guess what?

00:17:26.000 Life's normal.

00:17:27.000 We ain't running things like Joe Biden's White House.

00:17:29.000 But up at the White House, everything is closed, and Joe Biden is still masking up occasionally in front of the cameras to demonstrate that he loves masks and then taking off cameras when he's actually not in camera view, he thinks.

00:17:40.000 But things are very abnormal there, but at least we have the look of normalcy inside the White House, says the New York Times.

00:17:46.000 Dr. Biden's office said she had been working on the decorations since late May.

00:17:51.000 Really?

00:17:51.000 Late May?

00:17:54.000 It's like November, man.

00:17:56.000 Really, it took you, it took you like, just counting the months here, it took you June, July, August, September, and October.

00:18:01.000 It took you five months, and most in November.

00:18:03.000 So it took you like six months to come up with decorations that just look like normal Christmas decorations?

00:18:09.000 Between this administration delegating their Secretary of Transportation in the middle of a supply chain crisis, To paternity leave.

00:18:17.000 To care for, I guess, his ailing husband who had suffered no actual physical harm in the birthing of the child.

00:18:24.000 And Dr. Joe Biden spending six months on Christmas decorations.

00:18:29.000 What do they do around there?

00:18:32.000 Aside from Joe Biden, like Edith Wilson, sort of I guess manipulating her husband's hand into signing papers.

00:18:38.000 Well, what exactly do they do around the White House?

00:18:40.000 That's useful.

00:18:41.000 Most people can relate.

00:18:41.000 one of the few widely shared or at least widely recognized rituals we have," says the New York Times.

00:18:46.000 That's useful.

00:18:47.000 Most people can relate.

00:18:48.000 It's why Melania Trump's choices caused so much controversy. 1.00

00:18:51.000 Some, especially late-night TV hosts, found her alley of unnatural trees alienating.

00:18:56.000 Others saw them as aspirational, if unachievable.

00:18:58.000 And it's why the fact that the Biden look is so unremarkable is itself worth remarking on, apparently over the course of several thousand words.

00:19:04.000 It's a hard balancing act to pull off, walking the fine line between fancy and folksy, between representing the Republic to the most polished degree and relating to the Republic, not just politically, but visually.

00:19:14.000 Yet it's a look that has come to define Dr. Biden's style.

00:19:19.000 As a person who has a wife, who went through medical school, I'm just gonna say it drives me up a wall.

00:19:26.000 I'm not gonna get over it, guys.

00:19:27.000 I'm just not.

00:19:27.000 They keep calling her Dr. Biden over and over and over in this article.

00:19:30.000 They've called her Dr. Biden more than I call my wife a doctor on this show, which is a hell of a lot. 0.98

00:19:34.000 The difference is my wife's an actual f***ing doctor. 1.00

00:19:38.000 It's a look that has come to define Dr. Biden's style, which can pretty much be summed up in the dress she wore to her Christmas hostess duties. 0.96

00:19:44.000 A short-sleeved, full-skirted, forest green, Oscar de la Renta number splashed with white magnolias.

00:19:50.000 That is a Woman of the People dress. 0.98

00:19:52.000 A similar style is available for $3,900 at Saks.

00:19:53.000 Woman of the People, $4,000 dress.

00:19:56.000 at Saks.

00:19:56.000 Woman of the people, $4,000 dress.

00:20:01.000 $4,000 dress.

00:20:03.000 Okay, we do well in my family, my wife being an actual doctor and all, and my wife has never worn a $4,000 dress unless we were talking about like her wedding.

00:20:14.000 And I'm pretty sure her wedding dress did not cost $4,000.

00:20:16.000 So she's just what, people of the people here.

00:20:19.000 They're, they're just, these are, the media are working overtime to try and spin and massage this administration into something worthwhile and they're having a hard time doing it.

00:20:28.000 But again, this is why When Chris Cuomo gets suspended at CNN, it's like, OK, what about all the rest of you?

00:20:34.000 All the rest of you?

00:20:34.000 It's like all the unbiased journalists who are not Chris Cuomo take one step forward.

00:20:39.000 Sorry, not so fast.

00:20:41.000 Any of you take one step back again.

00:20:43.000 Seriously.

00:20:45.000 Says the New York Times.

00:20:47.000 Like them, Dr. Biden understands the decoration of her house, of her person, is a tool at her disposal.

00:20:51.000 But unlike them, she's using it to normalize what is, by any account, an abnormal time.

00:20:56.000 Just like the way she's using tinsel and turtle doves.

00:20:59.000 They are secular expressions of the faith, family, and friendship described in the welcome letter of the commemorative 2021 White House Holiday Guide.

00:21:06.000 Everyday examples of the things, sometimes as simple as favorite shirt dresses and poinsettias.

00:21:12.000 Yes, nothing unites us like spending six months planning Christmas decorations while people can't get actual gifts for their kids for Christmas because of your supply chain crisis, can't pay for gas at the pump, are suffering from another round of COVID lockdowns.

00:21:27.000 But here's the thing, it's a return to normalcy because Dr. Joe Biden, the greatest of all doctors other than Dr. J, She has a $3,900 Oscar de la Renta dress, so she is a woman of the people.

00:21:40.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:21:41.000 None of this is going to play with the American public.

00:21:43.000 You can try to massage this into reality, media, but you're going to have a real problem because people are still feeling the fact that the country is in serious and dire trouble.

00:21:52.000 You know who knows this?

00:21:52.000 The White House Chief of Staff, Ron Klain.

00:21:55.000 No matter the media's attempts to spin this administration into normalcy, they just can't do it.

00:21:58.000 Biden's chief of staff, Ron Klain, he admitted yesterday, we have a lot of problems on our hands.

00:22:03.000 Remember that time that Joe Biden promised to return to normalcy and then decided to govern like Bernie Sanders and wreck everything?

00:22:08.000 Yeah, that's not been good.

00:22:11.000 Joe Biden was elected to deal with the pandemic, to get the economy moving again.

00:22:16.000 We have work to do on both.

00:22:17.000 I'm not saying this is far from mission accomplished.

00:22:20.000 We still have too many people dying from COVID.

00:22:22.000 We still have problems with inflation, prices, gas prices.

00:22:26.000 We have a lot of work to do on both fronts, but we have made significant progress already, and we're going to make a lot more progress in the months ahead.

00:22:34.000 No, nobody believes this.

00:22:35.000 So what we've got right now is the media attempting to spin the Biden administration back into the realm of normalcy and completely failing at it.

00:22:43.000 And the way that they're going to try and spin the Biden administration back into normalcy is not the only way that you possibly could, which is, Joe, take your hands off the steering wheel.

00:22:51.000 Like really, your hands on the steering wheel are worse than no hands on the steering wheel.

00:22:55.000 Just let it go.

00:22:56.000 People are going to be okay.

00:22:57.000 If you just allow people to live their lives and go back to normal, everything will go back to normal.

00:23:02.000 You know how I know?

00:23:02.000 Because I live in a normal place.

00:23:03.000 Again, it's so funny because this show, you know, is listened to all over the country and internationally.

00:23:08.000 I get letters from different parts of the country and different parts of the globe.

00:23:12.000 And everybody who's living in a red state right now is going, I don't even know what Joe Biden and his chief of staff are talking about.

00:23:17.000 They're talking about shutting everything down.

00:23:19.000 They're talking about lockdowns.

00:23:20.000 They're talking about how everything is in crisis mode.

00:23:23.000 Where we are, it isn't.

00:23:24.000 The only crisis we see is at the pump.

00:23:26.000 The only crisis we see is in the supply chains.

00:23:28.000 The only crisis that we see is not enough people getting back into the workforce, all of which are the direct results of Joe Biden policies.

00:23:34.000 But when it comes to, like, everyday life?

00:23:35.000 Like, I went to a wedding last night.

00:23:37.000 Nobody was masked.

00:23:38.000 Nobody cares.

00:23:39.000 Everybody who wanted to vax is vaxed.

00:23:40.000 Everybody who's not vaxed is not vaxed.

00:23:42.000 End of story.

00:23:42.000 We all had a great time.

00:23:43.000 It was a fantastic wedding.

00:23:45.000 Everybody was dancing.

00:23:46.000 Everybody was eating.

00:23:47.000 It was wonderful.

00:23:48.000 We're all back to normal, and we don't care what Joe Biden has to say about it.

00:23:52.000 But because the media are invested not only in Joe Biden as a president, they don't care about Biden per se, because they're invested in a picture of top-down elite control solving all of your problems, they have to, every solution is a top-down elite control solution.

00:24:06.000 Which is why, as Omicron supposedly threatens the globe, you're having media members who are coming out and saying, I want top-down control, more top-down control.

00:24:16.000 Last night, for example, on CNBC, Jim Cramer started ranting about how Joe Biden should force every person in the United States to get vaccinated.

00:24:24.000 Yeah, good luck with that, dude.

00:24:26.000 The federal government needs to require vaccines, including booster shots, for everyone in America.

00:24:32.000 This charade must end.

00:24:34.000 The government must require vaccinations, not of this group or that group, not company by company, not cruise ship by cruise ship, or airline by airline, or governor by governor.

00:24:42.000 The buck stops at the White House.

00:24:44.000 So it's time to admit that we have to go to war against COVID.

00:24:47.000 Require vaccination universally.

00:24:49.000 Have the military run it.

00:24:50.000 If you don't want to get vaccinated, you better be ready to prove your conscientious objector status in court.

00:24:56.000 And even then, you need to help in the war effort by staying home until we finally beat this thing.

00:25:01.000 Okay, what does beat this thing constitute to you, Jim Cramer?

00:25:05.000 Because you know what I noticed about this variant?

00:25:07.000 It didn't start in the United States.

00:25:08.000 It started in, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, South Africa.

00:25:11.000 Which, as it turns out, is quite far away from the United States, where they have a vaccination rate of something like 27%.

00:25:16.000 There are vast swaths of Earth right now where people don't have the vaccine.

00:25:20.000 In fact, one of the controversies over the booster is why we are boosting 18-year-olds when we could actually be using those doses to vaccinate people in the third world.

00:25:29.000 And by the way, all of this panic is completely overwrought.

00:25:32.000 It is completely 100% overwrought.

00:25:34.000 I'm gonna read you two stories now, demonstrating how overwrought it is.

00:25:37.000 One is from Dr. Angelique Koetze, who's the chair of the South African Medical Association and a GP of 33 years standing.

00:25:44.000 She says this, nothing has prepared me for the extraordinary global reaction that met my announcement this week.

00:25:50.000 I had seen a young man in my surgery who had a case of COVID that turned out to be the Omicron variant.

00:25:57.000 This version of the virus had been circulating in Southern Africa for some time, having previously been identified in Botswana.

00:26:02.000 But given my public-facing role, by announcing its presence in my own patient, I unwittingly brought it global attention.

00:26:08.000 Quite simply, I've been stunned at the response, and especially from Britain.

00:26:11.000 Let me be clear.

00:26:12.000 Nothing I have seen about this new variant warrants the extreme action the UK government has taken in response to it.

00:26:18.000 No one in South Africa is known to have been hospitalized with Omicron, nor is anyone here believed to have been fallen seriously ill with it.

00:26:27.000 This is the person who discovered it.

00:26:29.000 And she's like, no one's ill.

00:26:31.000 No one's in the hospital.

00:26:32.000 What the F are you all talking about?

00:26:35.000 She says, yet Britain and other European nations have reacted with heavy travel restrictions on flights from across southern Africa, as well as imposing tighter rules at home on mask wearing fines and quarantines.

00:26:44.000 The simple truth is we don't know anywhere near enough about Omicron to make such judgments or to impose such policies.

00:26:50.000 We've been accustomed here to new COVID variants.

00:26:53.000 So when our scientists discovered yet another, nobody made a huge thing of it.

00:26:56.000 Many people didn't even notice.

00:26:59.000 This is the person who discovered it.

00:27:00.000 She's the head of the South African Medical Association.

00:27:03.000 And she's like, um, guys, no one's sick.

00:27:05.000 It doesn't matter.

00:27:07.000 Our media and the Western media in general have to incentivize politicians toward control.

00:27:12.000 It is about the control at this point.

00:27:13.000 By the way, here's another story.

00:27:15.000 This one from Israel.

00:27:16.000 Okay, there are indications that individuals fully vaccinated against Corona within six months or with the booster are also protected against Omicron, according to Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz.

00:27:27.000 Another two cases were identified in Israel, bringing the total caseload to four.

00:27:30.000 By the way, they've not released data so far on whether if you've had two doses, you're also safe.

00:27:35.000 But here's what we know.

00:27:36.000 If you are young and you've had two doses, generally speaking against Delta, for example, the booster only very, very mildly increases your protection against the virus in terms of hospitalization and death.

00:27:47.000 It increases your non-infection rate, but you weren't going to die or get hospitalized anyway.

00:27:53.000 If you had two doses in your 20, you're pretty much good to go.

00:27:57.000 And there's no evidence to suggest that Omicron is somehow so much more deadly or hospital worthy than Delta when it comes to people who have had two doses and who are young.

00:28:06.000 If you're over 60, you should have gotten boosted anyway.

00:28:09.000 If you're under 40, you should probably get the vaccine. 0.99

00:28:13.000 If you are between the ages of like 18 and 40, if you're like five.

00:28:20.000 Okay, but again, Omicron is not the issue here.

00:28:22.000 The issue here is when you have a problem in the world and you have suggested, it's your own damn fault, when you guys keep suggesting over and over, you have the solutions, and then it turns out you can't solve the problem, you've made a George H.W.

00:28:34.000 Bush, read my lips, no new taxes pledge, except about everything.

00:28:39.000 You've done, read my lips, no new lockdowns, read my lips, no new mandates, read my lips, no new disease, read my lips, economic recovery.

00:28:46.000 You're not making any of those things happen, my friends.

00:28:49.000 And no matter how much the media try to spin in favor of you having more control, we don't want to give you more control because you're a failure. 0.99

00:28:54.000 You guys are failures. 0.52

00:28:56.000 Right now, the United States is weighing stricter coronavirus testing for all travelers to the United States, including, by the way, people who test negative.

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00:30:29.000 Okay, so you've got CNBC's Jim Cramer calling for the authoritarian notion that we are going to force every person in the United States to vax.

00:30:38.000 That is not going to do it.

00:30:39.000 It's not going to happen.

00:30:40.000 Okay, again, Omicron does not change the ballgame so far as we know.

00:30:45.000 And it's still not clear whether young people need a booster at all.

00:30:50.000 Again, former FDA officials are still not convinced.

00:30:53.000 They wrote in the Washington Post yesterday, they said, quote, the data does not show every healthy adult should get a booster.

00:30:58.000 Indeed, the push for boosters for all could actually prolong the pandemic. 0.72

00:31:01.000 First, such a campaign diverts focus away from the goal of persuading the unvaccinated to get their shots.

00:31:06.000 Second, and relatedly, exaggerated descriptions of the waning efficacy of the vaccines undermine public confidence in them.

00:31:11.000 Some people may be less likely to accept vaccines they regard as less effective than originally advertised.

00:31:17.000 That happens to be true.

00:31:19.000 Also, if you keep extending fully vaccinated to, like, third booster shots, fourth booster shots, you're gonna get a drop-off rate.

00:31:24.000 Like, I was number one in line to get the vaccines.

00:31:27.000 Yeah, I love the vaccines.

00:31:28.000 I think that they are a medical miracle.

00:31:31.000 I got the vaccines, like, as soon as I possibly could.

00:31:34.000 Back in February, like, I got the vaccines.

00:31:37.000 And, um, am I all that interested in getting a booster?

00:31:40.000 Not particularly.

00:31:40.000 Because I don't see a real necessity to do it.

00:31:44.000 I'm 37 years old, thank God, in excellent health, and, um, my parents are already triple-vaxxed.

00:31:49.000 So I feel no great necessity to go get boosted.

00:31:52.000 But, again, it's about the control.

00:31:53.000 It's about the idea that they can control something that they can't control.

00:31:56.000 And they must have the panic.

00:31:57.000 So you have the NIH director calling for greater alarm over Omicron.

00:32:02.000 Who hired these doo-fi?

00:32:05.000 I'm reading these South African doctors who said that these are mild cases.

00:32:10.000 They cause fatigue and that's about it.

00:32:12.000 A lot of people being treated at home.

00:32:14.000 I see no great cause for alarm based on that early reporting.

00:32:19.000 What am I missing about this story?

00:32:21.000 So I've been on Zoom calls with the leaders of the South African public health system.

00:32:25.000 They're worried that that may have been a premature declaration of mildness of the illness because most of the early cases were in college students who tend not to get very sick anyway.

00:32:35.000 So let's hold off on that before concluding that this is not a virus that can cause people to get sick enough to be in the hospital.

00:32:42.000 Okay, I just want to pause for a moment on the fact that he says college students don't really get sick from this.

00:32:47.000 He's right.

00:32:48.000 But are you allowed to say that now?

00:32:49.000 Are we allowed to say that?

00:32:50.000 Because I've been told that we're not allowed to say that, even though that's 100% true. 1.00

00:32:55.000 So he's saying we need to worry more, worry more.

00:32:57.000 The Biden administration is worrying more because, again, they have to keep that implicit promise that they can control all bad things in life.

00:33:03.000 According to the Washington Post, the Biden administration is preparing stricter testing requirements for all travelers entering the United States, including returning Americans, to curb the spread of potentially dangerous Omicron, according to three federal health officials, as part of an enhanced winter COVID strategy.

00:33:19.000 It's like pumpkin spice latte or something.

00:33:22.000 It's an enhanced winter cup strategy.

00:33:23.000 So if you go abroad as an American, they will force you to get a test, even if you're vaxxed.

00:33:26.000 everyone entering the country to be tested one day before boarding flights regardless of Vax status or country of departure. So if you go abroad as an American they will force you to get a test even if you're vaxed and by the way even if you come up negative they're gonna force you to quarantine.

00:33:43.000 Administration officials are considering a requirement that all travelers get retested within three to five days of arrival and it would require all travelers including US.

00:33:54.000 citizens, to self-quarantine for seven days, even if their results are negative.

00:33:59.000 And if you flat the requirements, you would be subject to fines and penalties.

00:34:03.000 So if you are an American and you travel abroad for business, you have to get tested before you get back on the plane.

00:34:08.000 If you end up positive, you can't get on the plane.

00:34:10.000 If you end up negative, they will still force you to quarantine when you come back into the United States for seven days after getting the vaccine.

00:34:17.000 And this is their way of doing what exactly?

00:34:19.000 Seriously, what?

00:34:20.000 Nothing that you guys have done in this entire pandemic has stopped the spread of the virus.

00:34:25.000 It's endemic.

00:34:26.000 There is no herd immunity for it.

00:34:28.000 It's endemic.

00:34:29.000 It's changing.

00:34:30.000 There are new variants.

00:34:30.000 It's like the flu.

00:34:32.000 Have we done any of this crap for the flu? 0.99

00:34:34.000 No, because it's ineffective. 0.97

00:34:36.000 It's not useful.

00:34:37.000 But again, the promise of the media is that these people can solve all your problems and they cannot solve all your problems.

00:34:42.000 This is the problem.

00:34:43.000 And so what do you have?

00:34:44.000 Now you have the media trying to gin up enthusiasm for this stuff by suggesting that Americans are all deeply worried.

00:34:51.000 Here's the thing.

00:34:51.000 We're not.

00:34:52.000 We're not, okay?

00:34:53.000 Most of us are just not.

00:34:54.000 We're ready to go back to life.

00:34:57.000 Virtually all Americans who are not living under the thumb of blue governments are ready to go back to real life and already have, months ago.

00:35:04.000 My family and I, we've been living free and easy here in the state of Florida since we moved here.

00:35:10.000 That was October of 2020.

00:35:11.000 And we've been living super free and easy since February, March, when everyone in my family was fully vaxxed.

00:35:18.000 Since then, four sheets to the wind, man.

00:35:20.000 And guess what?

00:35:21.000 That is most people who are of any rational mind at this point.

00:35:25.000 But it is so much about the media.

00:35:27.000 It's so much about the media.

00:35:29.000 The message is always that we, the elites, must control you.

00:35:31.000 And so you end up with pieces like this, quote.

00:35:33.000 This is from the Washington Post.

00:35:35.000 Children five and older now have a coronavirus vaccine, but many parents of younger children are still anxiously waiting.

00:35:41.000 Are they, though?

00:35:42.000 Are they?

00:35:43.000 So I have three children, seven, five, one and a half.

00:35:47.000 Um, have I been anxiously waiting for the vaccine?

00:35:49.000 Again, I'm a huge fan of the vaccines.

00:35:50.000 Have I been anxiously waiting?

00:35:52.000 No, because I can read data.

00:35:54.000 You think I'm, like, anxious to jab my one-and-a-half-year-old with a COVID vaccine that has not been sufficiently tested on small children, that has no longitudinal data whatsoever to prevent my tiny baby from getting a disease that will do nothing to her by the stats?

00:36:13.000 Like, who are these people?

00:36:15.000 So this is what the media do.

00:36:16.000 They find a couple of anecdotes of paranoid crazies, and they're like, these people have been desperately waiting for a vaccine, and until these people can get vaccinated, you must mask up, and your children must mask up, and we must all panic.

00:36:27.000 According to Lindsey Bever at the Washington Post, even with the recent authorization of a COVID vaccine for children aged 5 to 11, many parents and grandparents are still in limbo, anxiously awaiting shots for younger children.

00:36:38.000 When's the last time in human history, seriously, that parents and grandparents were like, you know what we have to do?

00:36:43.000 We have to jab our babies to protect us. 0.96

00:36:45.000 You know how ridiculous that sounds? 0.99

00:36:48.000 It should sound ridiculous because it is ridiculous. 0.98

00:36:51.000 All you guys have been able to get the vax. 1.00

00:36:53.000 The hell are you talking about?

00:36:55.000 What are you talking about? 0.96

00:36:57.000 Although children are less likely to suffer disease, says the Washington Post, they can still contract and transmit the virus to others.

00:37:04.000 Those who test positive must quarantine, and children may even have to stay home from daycare or preschool when their classmates become ill after exposure to the virus.

00:37:11.000 This forces parents to find alternative child care or take time off from work to care for them, which some families say has become common.

00:37:16.000 Well, there's only one problem.

00:37:18.000 Even if you get the vax, people are still passing the virus.

00:37:21.000 And by the way, that decision that if you, if a kid in your class tests positive, everybody has to go home, that is a policy decision.

00:37:27.000 It is not a realistic science-based decision.

00:37:29.000 No one does this with the flu.

00:37:30.000 No one does this with colds.

00:37:32.000 And when you're talking about diseases that affect kids are sick all the time.

00:37:36.000 I have three of them.

00:37:37.000 They're always sick.

00:37:38.000 The chances at any given time during a year that one of my kids is sick is 193%.

00:37:42.000 This is true for every parent, but we're supposed to act like crazies.

00:37:47.000 Why?

00:37:47.000 Because you got a bunch of paranoid parents who will talk to the Washington Post.

00:37:51.000 Diana Joaquim, a 31-year-old in Columbus, Ohio and mother of a 2-year-old said, quote, It's nice that 5 to 11-year-olds have this option, but we're just sort of sitting here and twiddling our thumbs and thinking, when are we going to be protected?

00:38:01.000 When can we keep our son safe and ourselves safe?

00:38:03.000 Now.

00:38:03.000 Now is when you can do it.

00:38:04.000 Because your kid is too.

00:38:06.000 Your kid is safe.

00:38:07.000 What in the?

00:38:09.000 If you generate enough panic among people, you can control them until the end of time.

00:38:13.000 You can control them and control them and control them.

00:38:15.000 And this is the theme.

00:38:17.000 The media will do this on everything from COVID to finances.

00:38:19.000 We'll get to finances in just one second.

00:38:21.000 They're doing the same routine.

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00:41:22.000 All righty, so meanwhile, the media, which again, they have a vested interest in the idea that the government solves all of your problems.

00:41:32.000 They are fighting mad that there are members of the government who actually would like the government to butt out of your business.

00:41:37.000 So right now, the Republicans are considering the possibility of pushing the Democrats to get rid of the VAX mandate in order so they can pass their new debt ceiling increase.

00:41:48.000 Hey, this is a good idea because frankly, Democrats need to have their feet held to the fire on this.

00:41:52.000 The Democrats have been embracing these VAX mandates via OSHA.

00:41:55.000 They've not been forced to a vote on it yet.

00:41:57.000 And so the Democrats who had like pretty much six weeks to figure out this whole reconciliation debt ceiling thing, and then they just didn't do it.

00:42:05.000 They waited until the last minute, again.

00:42:07.000 And now Republicans are holding them.

00:42:09.000 They're squeezing them.

00:42:10.000 No, no, no.

00:42:10.000 They're not plotting to force a government shutdown.

00:42:12.000 They're plotting to force the end of the vaccine mandate.

00:42:14.000 down Friday in an effort to defund the Biden administration's vaccine mandate.

00:42:17.000 No, no, no, they're not plotting to force a government shutdown.

00:42:20.000 They're plotting to force the end of the vaccine mandate.

00:42:24.000 And Biden can choose.

00:42:25.000 Capitalizing on a last minute scramble to fund the government, a group of Senate conservatives is planning to object to quick consideration of a stopgap measure to extend funding into early 2022, unless Democratic leaders agree to deny money to enforce the mandate.

00:42:37.000 Because of the tight schedule and Senate rules that require unanimous consent to move quickly, the Senators believe they will be able to drag out the process well past midnight Friday when funding officially expires.

00:42:47.000 Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah.

00:42:49.000 Full disclosure, I'm friendly with Senator Lee because he's a terrific senator, because I'm sure we would all like to simplify the process for resolving the CR, but I can't facilitate that without addressing the VAX mandates.

00:42:58.000 Given that federal courts across the country have raised serious issues with these mandates, it's not unreasonable for my Democratic colleagues to delay enforcement of the mandates for at least the length of the continuing resolution.

00:43:09.000 It's unclear how many Senate conservatives are willing to follow through on the shutdown threat, but apparently, 15 Republicans have signed a letter spearheaded by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas in early November, vowing to use all means at our disposal to block passage of a continuing resolution that doesn't stop implementation of a VAX mandate.

00:43:24.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:43:25.000 If Democrats had started on the continuing resolution three weeks ago, they'd be fine.

00:43:29.000 They didn't.

00:43:30.000 They waited until the last moment.

00:43:31.000 again, because Democrats have no intention of actually preventing a government shutdown.

00:43:36.000 They just want to spend all the money and rope Republicans into approving it.

00:43:39.000 They did this last time.

00:43:40.000 Republicans gave them another, another stay of execution.

00:43:44.000 And then Mitch McConnell said, we're not doing this again.

00:43:47.000 And Democrats were like, well, what if we just push it to the last minute again?

00:43:49.000 The strategy, according to Politico, means the government will likely shut down for several days, even if appropriators strike a bipartisan agreement to extend funding by the end A Senate Democratic leadership staffer told Playbook, without an agreement to truncate the timeline, the Senate would need at least five days to process the continuing resolution.

00:44:07.000 That would mean a brief shutdown ending Sunday at the earliest, but possibly dragging into next week if a deal is not reached today.

00:44:13.000 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer appeared to nod to the possibility of trouble, seeking to preemptively blame the GOP.

00:44:21.000 Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell predicted Tuesday we won't shut down, arguing, quote, nobody should be concerned about a government shutdown.

00:44:28.000 The issue came up in the Senate GOP lunch on Tuesday.

00:44:32.000 So here's the thing.

00:44:33.000 The Democrats control both houses of Congress.

00:44:35.000 So all they have to do to prevent a government shutdown is they could initiate the continuing resolution today and use reconciliation.

00:44:42.000 Use one of the bullets in their chamber to simply pass the continuing resolution.

00:44:44.000 You'd have a government shutdown that lasts about 24 hours without Republican approval.

00:44:49.000 Yeah, they could do that.

00:44:50.000 Or they could try to drag this out on behalf of a VAX mandate that is increasingly unpopular with the American public.

00:44:56.000 So Chuck Todd, of course, you know which side he's going to come down on.

00:44:59.000 He's going to come down on the side of, I love VAX mandates, and I also love Democrats.

00:45:03.000 And so Republicans are the problem here, even though Democrats run both the House and the Senate.

00:45:07.000 Here is Chuck Todd over on MSNBC.

00:45:10.000 Aren't all members of Congress, folks, come on members of Congress, aren't you embarrassed by the silliness of this debt limit thing that we go through, this shenanigan?

00:45:19.000 Just shame on all of you. 0.84

00:45:21.000 Shame.

00:45:21.000 Come on.

00:45:22.000 Particularly Republicans.

00:45:23.000 You're playing games this time.

00:45:24.000 I know the Democrats play games, but enough of this. 1.00

00:45:27.000 This is stupid. 1.00

00:45:28.000 Enough of it. 1.00

00:45:29.000 Enough. 1.00

00:45:29.000 It's so stupid. 1.00

00:45:30.000 It's stupid. 1.00

00:45:31.000 Really because the Democrats did it when Republicans were in office. 1.00

00:45:34.000 They also negotiated over the debt ceiling.

00:45:37.000 It's pretty common, politics, at this point.

00:45:39.000 And Democrats can move forward with this anytime they want.

00:45:42.000 But they were the ones who decided to delay all of this.

00:45:45.000 Specifically so they can then try and blame Republicans for it.

00:45:47.000 Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, says, oh, we have to pay our bills.

00:45:50.000 We have to pay our bills.

00:45:51.000 Oh, I have an idea how you could pay your bills, you know, a great way. 0.98

00:45:54.000 Not spending trillions more dollars all the damn time. 0.80

00:45:56.000 That would be a good way to start paying your bills. 0.73

00:46:00.000 There are two decisions facing Congress that could send our economy in very different directions.

00:46:06.000 The first is the debt limit.

00:46:08.000 I cannot overstate how critical it is that Congress address this issue.

00:46:15.000 America must pay its bills on time and in full.

00:46:19.000 If we do not, we will eviscerate our current recovery.

00:46:24.000 Um, so I, again, would recommend a little fiscal responsibility would go a long way here.

00:46:31.000 At no point has Janet Yellen suggested perhaps we should spend a little bit less money.

00:46:33.000 In fact, Janet Yellen lies.

00:46:35.000 She says the Build Back Better won't increase the national debt, despite the fact the CBO says precisely the opposite.

00:46:40.000 Build Back Better is the right economic decision for many reasons.

00:46:45.000 It will, for example, end the child care crisis in this country, letting parents return to work. 0.89

00:46:52.000 These investments we expect will lead to a GDP increase over the long term without increasing the national debt or deficit by a dollar.

00:47:02.000 Okay.

00:47:04.000 These people lie.

00:47:04.000 They lie, they lie, they lie.

00:47:05.000 And then they're like, oh yes, by the way, we need to pay our debts. 0.99

00:47:07.000 They're just liars. 0.99

00:47:08.000 They're just liars. 1.00

00:47:09.000 But here's the thing. 0.99

00:47:10.000 The media continue to lie for them, continue to cover up for them.

00:47:13.000 These are the normal people.

00:47:14.000 These are the people who should be in control of your life.

00:47:17.000 It ain't about Chris Cuomo.

00:47:18.000 It's about all of you.

00:47:19.000 All of you.

00:47:20.000 And you know what?

00:47:21.000 Keep doing it.

00:47:21.000 Because frankly, we here at The Daily Wire, we are happy to eat your lunch as more and more people continue to look elsewhere for better sources of news.

00:47:29.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

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