The Ben Shapiro Show - The Feds Investigate Hunter Biden | Ep. 1154

00:00:00.000 In a shocking development, Hunter Biden announces he's now being investigated by the Feds for tax issues.

00:00:05.000 YouTube announces it will crack down on videos alleging election fraud.

00:00:08.000 And Trump's last-ditch lawsuit strategy comes down to Texas.

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00:01:36.000 Our media, they have declared that they are the defenders of democracy.

00:01:39.000 The slogan the Washington Post adopted just after Trump's victory in 2016 was, democracy dies in darkness.

00:01:45.000 Democracy dies in darkness.

00:01:46.000 And now, our esteemed members of our journalistic establishment, they have decided that democracy is under threat.

00:01:52.000 It's under threat because Trump keeps talking about election fraud.

00:01:54.000 It's under threat because Trump keeps saying that the election was stolen from him.

00:01:58.000 And it doesn't matter that he's going through a legal process.

00:02:00.000 And it doesn't matter the Electoral College will vote.

00:02:02.000 It doesn't matter that the states are certifying.

00:02:03.000 This is all a threat to democracy, a deep, dark threat to democracy.

00:02:07.000 Pushing this agenda last night was, of course, block of wood Chris Cuomo on CNN.

00:02:12.000 So here was Chris Cuomo last night laying out the case for why he, as an officer of the court, is standing up for democracy.

00:02:20.000 This moment will be remembered for what happens next.

00:02:24.000 And I want to be on record to you and to all as an American, as a journalist, and as an officer of the court.

00:02:32.000 Trump and his party are trying to kill our democracy with these efforts.

00:02:38.000 And I accuse them of this high crime tonight.

00:02:42.000 This is wrong. 1.00

00:02:46.000 Now, let me just say in no uncertain terms, these people are full of so much crap. 1.00

00:02:50.000 Their eyes are now brown. 1.00

00:02:51.000 If they start off as blue, their eyes are turning brown. 1.00

00:02:53.000 They are so full of crap, it is spilling out their ears from boots to the top of their head. 1.00

00:02:58.000 They're full of absolute unmitigated crap. 1.00

00:03:01.000 The fact is that if democracy is dying, it is largely due to the effect of people who are turning out the lights. 0.99

00:03:07.000 If democracy is dying in darkness, the people who are enforcing the darkness are the members of your esteemed journalistic media, your journalistic establishment, these objective news reporters.

00:03:17.000 Because as it turns out, yesterday, very late last night, it broke, that Hunter Biden, the president-elect's son, now says that federal prosecutors are probing his taxes.

00:03:28.000 Now, I'm old enough to remember when the New York Post was banned from Twitter because they posted a story about Hunter Biden's laptop in which it talks about the fact that he was engaged in nefarious goings-on in foreign countries and that those nefarious goings-on may have had some tax consequences.

00:03:43.000 In fact, the New York Post stories talked about his connections with China.

00:03:46.000 They talked about the possibility of connections between Joe Biden and his brother and his son.

00:03:51.000 The New York Post stories talked about all of this and they were banned from Twitter.

00:03:54.000 Facebook preemptively decided to downgrade the stories.

00:03:57.000 They said, you know what?

00:03:58.000 These haven't been subjected to fact check yet.

00:04:00.000 So pending a fact check, we are downgrading them.

00:04:03.000 Meanwhile, members of that same established journalistic media, the people who are guarding democracy from the predations of the evil Trump cadre, those same jackasses, they were spending their days suggesting that the New York Post stories were actually Russian disinformation based on nothing, based on literally nothing.

00:04:22.000 I mean, if you look at the headlines from the members of the media before the election, here are some of those headlines.

00:04:27.000 Here's Politico's headline.

00:04:28.000 Hunter Biden's story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.

00:04:32.000 More than 50 former intelligence officials signed a letter casting doubt on the provenance of a New York Post story on the former vice president's son.

00:04:39.000 Now, at no point did Hunter Biden ever at any point deny that the laptop was his or that the material on the laptop was his.

00:04:45.000 At no point did he offer a detailed defense of his activities.

00:04:48.000 Nor at any point did he offer a detailed explanation of what his relationship was with Joe Biden and whether Joe Biden knew that he was running around the country and for and abroad basically trafficking in daddy's name.

00:04:59.000 Okay, so now here is the political headline today.

00:05:05.000 So what changed?

00:05:07.000 Question, what changed?

00:05:08.000 Because the answer is nothing.

00:05:09.000 It turns out that he has been under investigation since 2018.

00:05:13.000 Since 2018.

00:05:15.000 So your entire media spent the last year and a half covering up any allegations of Hunter Biden's corruption or any allegations that that corruption was connected in any way to Joe Biden.

00:05:25.000 And they suggested it was Russian disinformation.

00:05:27.000 And they had other journalistic outlets like the New York Post downgraded or suspended.

00:05:31.000 And they banned the dissemination of the story by Twitter accounts.

00:05:34.000 And they did all of these things Just before the election.

00:05:37.000 Then the election happens and oh, look at that!

00:05:39.000 Politico is now reporting that the Justice Department's interest in Hunter Biden covered more than taxes.

00:05:43.000 And these people have the temerity to suggest that the threat to democracy is coming from somewhere else?

00:05:49.000 These folks are the threat to democracy.

00:05:51.000 When your media, who are charged with providing you information, decide that they are going to be the arbiters of what information you are allowed to see, and not only that, they're going to bully social media companies into ensuring that you can't see the alternative information.

00:06:03.000 Because remember, it's not just the places like the New York Times and CBS News and Politico and all these other journalistic outlets refused to report certain facts about Hunter Biden and investigate certain facts about Hunter Biden is that they actively stumped to prevent social media from disseminating information from websites like the Daily Wire.

00:06:21.000 The fact of the matter is that the New York Times has several activists on its payroll whose sole job apparently is just to lobby Facebook to downgrade traffic from places like the Daily Wire.

00:06:32.000 These are the people who are the threat to democracy.

00:06:33.000 You wonder why there's no systemic trust?

00:06:36.000 You wonder why the trust in institutions is way down?

00:06:38.000 Because it's not just that people don't trust the media anymore.

00:06:40.000 It's that anything the media talk about is now tainted.

00:06:44.000 If the media say that the election is fraudulent, we don't believe you.

00:06:48.000 And if the media say that the election is good, we are also not going to believe you because we don't trust you.

00:06:52.000 See, it's not just that the media's disgusting and nefarious partisanship masquerading as objectivity.

00:06:59.000 impact how we view the media is that whenever the media says something about another topic, we now no longer believe what they have to say.

00:07:05.000 Because after all, our news media are supposed to be our prism into the rest of the world.

00:07:09.000 So if we believe that the prism is broken, if we believe that the glasses that the media are providing to us are sunglasses and they're blocking out light, that's going to affect our interpretation of facts across the spectrum.

00:07:20.000 It's going to lower our trust in other institutions.

00:07:22.000 If the media say, people we don't trust say, you should trust X, we're going to say we don't trust X anymore.

00:07:27.000 That's what's happening here.

00:07:29.000 If there is a decline in institutional trust in America, and there certainly is, it begins with the media, but it doesn't stop there.

00:07:35.000 It is now infused into the bloodstream of the American political system. 0.55

00:07:41.000 Again, just as if you knew you had a friend, okay, and it turns out that your friend was a liar and a cheat, and your friend then came to you, and you knew he was a liar and a cheat, and he said, you know who you should trust? 0.97

00:07:50.000 You should trust this guy over here. 0.96

00:07:51.000 Would you trust that guy?

00:07:52.000 The answer is probably, now, maybe you should trust the guy.

00:07:54.000 Maybe that guy's actually a good guy. 0.69

00:07:56.000 Maybe your friend, the liar and cheat, is actually right in this one circumstance, but you have no way of telling that.

00:08:01.000 And if it turns out that your friend, the liar and cheat, has also restricted your access to other information to verify whether this third party is good or bad, Then you are more likely than not to not believe what he has to say. 0.89

00:08:13.000 That is the mainstream media today. 0.85

00:08:16.000 That's the mainstream media.

00:08:17.000 The mainstream media are not merely about not providing you the facts.

00:08:20.000 They're about actively covering up the facts, preventing themselves from investigating the facts, throwing journalists like Sheryl Atkinson out of work if they try to investigate particular stories, and then going to social media companies and trying to prevent you from getting another story from another group of people.

00:08:35.000 That's what they do.

00:08:36.000 And then they put Democracy Dies in Darkness at the head of their fake newspapers. 0.99

00:08:39.000 It's ridiculous.

00:08:40.000 And when I say that the Washington Post is a fake newspaper, I don't mean that there aren't great investigative journalists at the Washington Post. 0.89

00:08:46.000 This is the sad part.

00:08:47.000 A lot of what people do at the Washington Post is useful.

00:08:49.000 The same thing is true of many of the reporters at the New York Times.

00:08:53.000 But when you overall turn your brand into basically a mouthpiece for the Democratic Party, it makes it impossible for people to distinguish what is true from what is false.

00:09:01.000 It makes it impossible for people to trust you on any issue, ranging from how we should act with regard to COVID to how we should believe you with regard to foreign interference in American elections.

00:09:11.000 We just don't know what to believe.

00:09:13.000 And then when you use censorship in order to quash everybody else, it makes us suspicious that you are seriously lying to us.

00:09:20.000 We'll get to more of this in a second, because I'm going to bring you the details of this Hunter Biden story.

00:09:24.000 It's amazing.

00:09:25.000 All this stuff was available before the election.

00:09:27.000 And don't tell me that it doesn't affect an election when you prevent the public from seeing things.

00:09:31.000 What happened is that in 2016, the media actually sort of did their jobs by reporting on Hillary Clinton's emails.

00:09:37.000 And then they were so regretful of the fact that Trump was elected, they decided they would never again cover a story that hurt a Democrat in the last month of a campaign.

00:09:46.000 It's that simple.

00:09:47.000 That's all that happened here.

00:09:48.000 And you can see it.

00:09:49.000 You can see it.

00:09:50.000 You can see it because anytime anybody mentioned anything about Hunter Biden, like when Maggie Haberman tweeted out the Hunter Biden story from the New York Post, she was immediately swamped with a tsunami of other journalists telling her not to do it.

00:10:02.000 These are activists.

00:10:03.000 They are not journalists. 1.00

00:10:04.000 They are damned liars and they are destroying the basis, the fundamental basis of a democracy. 0.99

00:10:09.000 Because again, it is one thing to have a variety of news sources you pick from. 1.00

00:10:11.000 It's another thing to have a dominant establishment media that prevents you from seeing any of the other sources that are available to you.

00:10:17.000 And that's what's going on.

00:10:18.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

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00:11:26.000 Okay, so here is the actual story.

00:11:27.000 According to NBC News, They're allowed to report it now.

00:11:30.000 It's okay.

00:11:31.000 It's okay, guys.

00:11:31.000 The election's over.

00:11:32.000 They're allowed to now let the light flourish.

00:11:35.000 Here's D'Artagnan Clark, Tom Winter, and Mike Mimoli reporting.

00:11:38.000 Hunter Biden, President-elect Joe Biden's son, said Wednesday federal officials in Delaware are investigating his taxes.

00:11:44.000 Now, number one, weird that we're finding this out from Hunter Biden, isn't it?

00:11:48.000 Isn't that strange?

00:11:49.000 Like normally you find this out from leaks via the Justice Department.

00:11:52.000 Or maybe from the Justice Department directly.

00:11:54.000 But in this particular case, Hunter Biden is announcing he's under investigation.

00:11:57.000 How strange!

00:11:59.000 Almost as though he is getting special treatment.

00:12:01.000 Hunter Biden said, quote, I learned yesterday for the first time that the US Attorney's Office in Delaware advised my legal counsel also yesterday that they are investigating my tax affairs.

00:12:08.000 I take this matter very seriously, but I'm confident a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors. US Attorney for Delaware's Office declined to comment on an ongoing investigation. This news came weeks after an election campaign in which President Donald Trump and his allies made unfounded and baseless claims of corruption regarding Hunter Biden and his father.

00:12:29.000 How do you know if they're unfounded and baseless if you refuse to do the basic reporting, NBC News?

00:12:35.000 And what exactly are the unfounded, baseless claims?

00:12:38.000 Would that be that perhaps Joe Biden knew about what his son was doing?

00:12:42.000 Because that was not unfounded and baseless.

00:12:44.000 I mean, that's exactly what Hunter Biden's business partner, Tony Bobulinski, was saying publicly.

00:12:48.000 That was not unfounded and baseless.

00:12:50.000 But the media treated it as unfounded and baseless because they obviously have a dog in this fight.

00:12:55.000 They alleged that Hunter Biden used his father's influence to enrich himself through business deals in Ukraine and China, and that his father not only facilitated, but that he may have benefited financially.

00:13:02.000 Trump provided no evidence for these claims.

00:13:04.000 OK, even in the story, you can see the absurd, anti-factual bias.

00:13:10.000 They allege Hunter Biden used his father's influence to enrich himself through business deals in Ukraine.

00:13:13.000 They didn't allege that.

00:13:14.000 Hunter Biden overtly admitted that in a public interview on national television.

00:13:18.000 They asked Hunter Biden, would you have gotten a job on the Burisma board having no experience in natural oil or gas or Ukraine if your dad's name weren't Biden?

00:13:26.000 He said, absolutely not.

00:13:28.000 Of course he was using his father's influence.

00:13:31.000 Of course he was doing all of these things.

00:13:34.000 We know that there are companies founded and in their founding documents it talked about using Hunter Biden's influence with Daddy and in Washington, D.C.

00:13:41.000 We know that is the case because we have seen the documents.

00:13:44.000 And now we are being told by NBC News that the Trump campaign was making those baseless allegations.

00:13:48.000 They weren't baseless.

00:13:49.000 You guys just didn't want to investigate them.

00:13:51.000 You didn't want to report them.

00:13:52.000 You still don't want to report them.

00:13:54.000 That's not an allegation that he used his dad's name to get rich in Ukraine.

00:13:57.000 That is an actual fact that he has admitted to.

00:14:00.000 However, says NBC News, Hunter and his ex-wife Kathleen Buell had an internal revenue service lien against them for taxes not paid, possibly including interest and penalties totaling $112,000 until this past March, according to publicly available documents.

00:14:13.000 The documents filed by the IRS show the tax lien was placed on Hunter and Buell in November of 2019.

00:14:18.000 It is not immediately clear if the lien has anything to do with the investigation.

00:14:21.000 The Biden team then put out this pathetic statement, quote, President-elect Biden is deeply proud of his son, who has fought through difficult challenges, including the vicious personal attacks of recent months, only to emerge stronger.

00:14:34.000 Well, listen, he's a good dad. 0.83

00:14:36.000 He's got a right to be proud of his son.

00:14:39.000 I'm not sure what about Hunter Biden would make you proud.

00:14:42.000 It's not like there's a lot there that would make you proud of Hunter.

00:14:44.000 But with that said, the idea that these were vicious personal attacks, nope, that's just called reporting.

00:14:49.000 Especially when it turns out that the entire Biden clan, and this has been widely reported everywhere from the left to the right, including a big New Yorker story just a couple of years ago, the entire Biden clan has used its influence and daddy's name in order to get rich.

00:15:04.000 Hey, that is unchallengeable.

00:15:06.000 Now it turns out there's even more to the story.

00:15:08.000 So CNN, now they're allowed to investigate, right?

00:15:10.000 CNN's allowed to cover this now.

00:15:11.000 So after months of suggesting that any questions about Hunter Biden were simply made up and we should just ignore them because it was a distraction from Trump's threat to democracy.

00:15:22.000 Now we've got Evan Perez and Pamela Brown at CNN reporting.

00:15:25.000 After going quiet in the months before the election, federal authorities are now actively investigating the business dealings of Hunter Biden.

00:15:31.000 A person with knowledge of the probe said, his father, President-elect Joe Biden, is not implicated.

00:15:36.000 Now that the election is over, the investigation is entering a new phase.

00:15:39.000 Federal prosecutors in Delaware, working with the IRS Criminal Investigation Agency and the FBI, are taking overt steps, such as issuing subpoenas and seeking interviews, the person with knowledge said.

00:15:47.000 Now, I have a question.

00:15:49.000 Why did they wait until the election was over?

00:15:51.000 Why?

00:15:52.000 Seriously, what is the rationale?

00:15:53.000 Because they wanted Joe Biden to win.

00:15:54.000 End of story.

00:15:55.000 That's all.

00:15:57.000 Typically, legal investigations do not get held up contingent on the person's proximity to an election.

00:16:03.000 That's insane.

00:16:04.000 That's an insane act of corruption.

00:16:06.000 Do you understand how crazy that is?

00:16:08.000 That if you had prosecutors who are on the trail of a candidate, or a candidate's family member, and they decide, you know what, we're putting this off until after the election because we just don't want to interfere in the election.

00:16:16.000 That is election interference.

00:16:18.000 That's election interference.

00:16:20.000 If Ivanka Trump had committed a crime, and she were under investigation, and the Fed said, you know what, there's an election coming up, we're just gonna put this thing off until like just after the election, that would be election interference.

00:16:31.000 The same is obviously true of Hunter Biden.

00:16:34.000 In the first three paragraphs of the CNN story, they mentioned the election three times.

00:16:39.000 Three times in three paragraphs, the relevance of the election.

00:16:42.000 Quote, activity in the investigation had gone covert in recent months due to Justice Department guidelines prohibiting overt actions that could affect an election, the person said.

00:16:51.000 So first of all, if there are actual guidelines from the Justice Department saying you can't take overt action, meaning you can't take perfectly legal action because it might affect an election, that affects an election.

00:17:01.000 What actually happened here is members of the DOJ decided that they didn't want to get caught in the James Comey trap of 2016, having to publicly investigate one of the candidates or a family member of the candidates.

00:17:10.000 They didn't want the heat.

00:17:12.000 They didn't want all of the rage brought about.

00:17:14.000 And so they said, you know what?

00:17:15.000 We're going to bury this until after the election.

00:17:16.000 And the media did the exact same thing.

00:17:18.000 We're not going to cover this until after the election.

00:17:20.000 And now the election is over.

00:17:21.000 And guess what?

00:17:22.000 Now the DOJ can move forward.

00:17:24.000 And we're supposed to trust the media and we're supposed to trust these legal institutions that apparently are dedicated to not affecting an election by directly impacting an election?

00:17:34.000 That's insane.

00:17:34.000 This is all madness.

00:17:35.000 This is all madness.

00:17:37.000 And then you wonder why there are conspiracy theories blooming.

00:17:39.000 You wonder why people are suspicious of election fraud.

00:17:42.000 You wonder why people don't trust the system.

00:17:44.000 Maybe because if you don't trust the media or the prism to view the system, and if it turns out that members of the system are engaged in corrupt activities, they weren't in 2016 with regard to going after Carter Page with a bad FISA warrant, with regard to pumping the Steele dossier through the federal government via a Hillary Clinton law firm,

00:18:04.000 If you don't trust the system because of that, and if you don't trust the system because before the 2020 election, they decided they were not going to investigate Hunter Biden because it was too close to the election, it might be that somebody might draw the perfectly understandable, if incorrect, conclusion that the entire system is just not worth trusting.

00:18:23.000 How many times can you go back to the well before people say, you know what, we're done?

00:18:26.000 That's one of the things that is happening here.

00:18:29.000 So now, CNN contacted Biden's attorney and the campaign this week, seeking comments about the investigation.

00:18:33.000 On Wednesday, they released a statement acknowledging the probe.

00:18:35.000 Okay, so this is the key, right there.

00:18:37.000 Okay, that is the key.

00:18:39.000 It is not that Hunter Biden was the first person to find out about the investigation.

00:18:43.000 CNN knew about the investigation.

00:18:47.000 They say so.

00:18:48.000 They openly admit it in the CNN story.

00:18:50.000 Again, let me read that more slowly.

00:18:52.000 CNN contacted Biden's attorney and the campaign this week, seeking comments about the investigation.

00:18:59.000 On Wednesday, which will be after CNN contacted them, they released a statement acknowledging the probe.

00:19:05.000 Oh, look at that!

00:19:06.000 That means the media- Hunter was not the first to know.

00:19:08.000 The media knew as well.

00:19:09.000 Members of CNN.

00:19:11.000 Reportorial gang knew.

00:19:12.000 Which means they could have known before the election.

00:19:14.000 Because guess what?

00:19:15.000 This investigation has been ongoing, according to CNN, since 2018!

00:19:18.000 This is madness!

00:19:23.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

00:19:24.000 If you're not mad, you're not watching.

00:19:26.000 Seriously, you should be pissed.

00:19:27.000 When people talk about rigging the election, you know, people talk about voter fraud or voter irregularity.

00:19:32.000 No, the way that you rig an election is by taking the entire media infrastructure, using it as cover for the Democratic candidate, hiding all the information, and then, as we will see, trying to mobilize social media to crack down on anybody who would actually report that information.

00:19:44.000 That's how you rig an election.

00:19:46.000 The way you rig an election is by preventing the American public from seeing information that they need to see, meanwhile focusing all of your ire on one candidate.

00:19:54.000 The media decided this election.

00:19:56.000 Period.

00:19:57.000 End of story.

00:19:58.000 That is what happened here.

00:20:00.000 Aided and abetted by people apparently in the Justice Department.

00:20:03.000 I'm not saying the Hunter Biden thing would have swung the election to Trump.

00:20:05.000 I'm saying there's a consistent pattern of the media refusing to report anything about Joe Biden.

00:20:10.000 Anything at all.

00:20:12.000 And there's a consistent pattern of social media.

00:20:15.000 Attempting to downgrade information unfavorable toward Democratic candidates.

00:20:18.000 And this has an impact.

00:20:21.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

00:20:22.000 First, you've been staring at screens all day long.

00:20:25.000 I mean, many of us across the country have been locked in our homes for months on end.

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00:21:37.000 OK, so the CNN story continues.

00:21:41.000 They say hints of the investigation emerge after President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani helped orchestrate news stories centered on a laptop purporting to belong to Hunter Biden and said to include his business documents and other personal material.

00:21:53.000 Again, look how CNN twists the story here, right?

00:21:56.000 They don't report the contents of the laptop.

00:21:58.000 They don't suggest that the stories were true, because they were.

00:22:01.000 Instead, it was that all of these stories were orchestrated by Rudy Giuliani.

00:22:05.000 Oh, I look forward to hearing how the entire Russian dossier was orchestrated by Hillary Clinton, because it was.

00:22:10.000 Hillary Clinton and her law firm, through which she was laundering the Steele dossier.

00:22:16.000 You didn't hear this kind of language from CNN about the Steele dossier.

00:22:18.000 The FBI took possession of the laptop in late 2019, according to a computer repairman in Delaware who showed reporters a copy of a subpoena.

00:22:24.000 The subpoena is real, according to people briefed on the matter, but the FBI and prosecutors in Delaware have refused to confirm the existence of the investigation.

00:22:31.000 It's unclear whether the laptop's contents are relevant to the ongoing federal probe, and whether investigators can even use them given potential chain-of-custody requirements for evidence.

00:22:39.000 CNN has previously reported that at least some of the information Giuliani claims came from the laptop appears similar to information that was being shared by others last year in Ukraine.

00:22:47.000 Giuliani's efforts to dig up dirt on the Bidens in Ukraine last year were at the heart of Trump's impeachment.

00:22:51.000 The current investigation into Hunter Biden appears to predate those efforts.

00:22:55.000 And so this is CNN attempting to defend its own shoddy work in suggesting that the entire story was Russian disinformation when it turns out that every element of the story was apparently true.

00:23:05.000 The involvement of Trump lawyers in the published news stories on the purported Biden laptop led to a flurry of activity by Republican lawmakers and the Trump campaign, looking to amplify allegations of corruption ahead of the election.

00:23:14.000 The FBI met with a former Hunter Biden business associate who publicly made claims about potential wrongdoing.

00:23:19.000 The FBI issued a statement at the time saying, quote, as a general matter, when contacted, the FBI reviews information from the public for consideration of any violations of applicable federal laws.

00:23:28.000 The political implications of the probe already have been an issue in recent months for William Barr, the AG, who is under public pressure from Trump to make Hunter Biden's business activities an election issue.

00:23:36.000 To date, the investigation does not involve any allegations of wrongdoing by the president-elect, according to the two main sources briefed on the matter.

00:23:43.000 Okay, but here is the key of the story.

00:23:45.000 Are you ready?

00:23:45.000 Investigators appear to be focused on Hunter Biden's business activities connected to China.

00:23:50.000 Again, this is a key element of the New York Post story.

00:23:53.000 Media went nuts.

00:23:54.000 And the fact is that Hunter Biden was involved in nefarious activity in China, which we all knew because he was taking Air Force Two with dad to China to secure billion dollar loan deals, or at least investments.

00:24:06.000 Some of his business dealings in China are publicly known through interviews and documents released in September by Senate Republicans on the Finance Committee and the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, says CNN.

00:24:15.000 After his father left office in 2017, Hunter Biden worked on securing a deal with CEFC China Energy to invest in US energy products according to documents released by Republicans.

00:24:24.000 At least one of the matters investigators have examined is a 2017 gift of a 2.8 carat Hunter received from CEFC's founder and former chairman, Yi Xiao Ming, after a Miami business meeting. One person briefed on the matter said, in 2019, Biden provided the New Yorker magazine an account of receiving that diamond from Yi. He told the New Yorker he felt uncomfortable receiving it and gave it to other associates. He doesn't know what they did with it. I knew it wasn't a good idea to take it. It just felt weird, he said in his New Yorker interview.

00:24:49.000 Apparently, he said, the CEFC deal fell through.

00:24:52.000 He didn't consider Yi to be a shady character.

00:24:54.000 Chinese authorities later detained Yi amid Chinese media reports of corruption allegations against him.

00:25:00.000 Receiving such a gift could have potential tax implications, of course.

00:25:04.000 Sources say that investigators have been looking into whether Biden properly reported his income for tax purposes over a period of time.

00:25:12.000 Also, Hunter Biden had been involved in an earlier Chinese business venture that drew concerns in the Obama White House and Joe Biden's staff, according to The New Yorker.

00:25:18.000 In 2013, Hunter Biden became involved with U.S.

00:25:20.000 and Chinese partners who were creating an investment fund called BHR Partners for deals outside of China.

00:25:25.000 Hunter Biden was an unpaid member of the BHR board and took an equity stake after daddy left office, according to The New Yorker.

00:25:30.000 So now it's okay for the CNN to report all this, right?

00:25:32.000 At the time, it was just a big, a big distraction from all the election issues.

00:25:36.000 Now it's okay to report it.

00:25:37.000 The election's over.

00:25:38.000 But you should trust these people.

00:25:39.000 You should trust the media.

00:25:40.000 We'll get to more of this insanity.

00:25:42.000 I mean, it really is.

00:25:43.000 It should give you heartburn how much you have been lied to here.

00:25:46.000 It should give you heartburn how much people who claim to be objective have become just mouthpieces for the Democrats and then decide their timing based on elections.

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00:27:20.000 Okay, so the way CNN covers this, of course, is that it's very sad for Joe Biden.

00:27:26.000 That's the way CNN covers this.

00:27:28.000 According to CNN.com, in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper last week, President-elect Biden pledged to maintain an independent DOJ free of political influence.

00:27:35.000 Uh-huh.

00:27:36.000 Sure.

00:27:37.000 Sure.

00:27:39.000 Republicans in Congress, says CNN, are almost certain to seize on the existence of the probe.

00:27:43.000 Ready to tell?

00:27:44.000 Every time Democrats do a bad thing, it means that Republicans are about to pounce, pounce, like little kittens.

00:27:49.000 Pounce, woo-hoo-hoo. 0.55

00:27:49.000 They're gonna pounce. 0.55

00:27:51.000 Or, alternatively, Joe Biden's son is corrupt as the day is long.

00:27:55.000 Republicans in Congress and CNN are almost certain to seize on the existence of the probe to further their argument that Hunter Biden's activities in China are a sign of his father's conflict of interest when it comes to dealing with foreign policy with Beijing.

00:28:05.000 Well, I mean, that would seem to be an issue, would it not?

00:28:07.000 Considering that we now have information that not only have the Chinese deployed spies that successfully infiltrated the offices of both Eric Swalwell, and apparently the bed, allegedly, of Eric Swalwell, as well as the office of Senator Dianne Feinstein, we know from intelligence reports the Chinese desperately wanted Joe Biden to win this election.

00:28:23.000 So maybe some suspicion would be warranted.

00:28:26.000 Funny, because we got four years of suspicion that Trump was a Russian agent.

00:28:29.000 Now, of course, we're supposed to just dismiss all possibility that perhaps Joe Biden could be influenced by the fact that the Chinese were so sweet to his son.

00:28:38.000 It's likely going to be an issue that Biden's AG nominee will have to face during a Senate confirmation hearing, according to CNN.

00:28:44.000 Biden's likely attorney general candidate will probably not be recusing themselves in the same way that Jeff Sessions did because he was a member of the campaign.

00:28:50.000 But this whole thing, it just stinks.

00:28:52.000 It stinks to high heaven. 0.89

00:28:53.000 The holdup stinks to high heaven. 0.69

00:28:56.000 Joseph Simonson.

00:28:57.000 And Jerry Dunleavy of the Washington Examiner reporting back in October that Hunter Biden was aiming to avoid violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in pursuit of Chinese business deals.

00:29:06.000 So it's not like this stuff wasn't known months ago before the election.

00:29:10.000 It was.

00:29:10.000 It was reported.

00:29:11.000 It just wasn't reported by any of the sources that Facebook wanted you to see.

00:29:15.000 According to the Washington Examiner, again this is late October, Hunter Biden made it clear one of his goals was for him and his associates to avoid violating the anti-bribery Foreign Corrupt Practices Act or having to register as foreign agents as he pursued potentially lucrative deals with a Chinese Communist Party connected company.

00:29:30.000 According to newly released text from ex-business partner Tony Bobulinski.

00:29:33.000 James has very particular opinions about this, so I would ask him about the foreign entity.

00:29:37.000 Biden texted Bobulinski on May 1st, 2017.

00:29:38.000 make bids on federal and state funded projects.

00:29:39.000 Also, we don't want to have to register as foreign agents under the FCPA, which is much more expansive than people who should know, choose not to know.

00:29:46.000 James has very particular opinions about this, so I would ask him about the foreign entity.

00:29:49.000 Biden texted Bobulinski on May 1st, 2017.

00:29:52.000 Regardless, we should have a Delaware corporation called CEFC America and ownership should be 50 me, 50 them.

00:29:59.000 We then cut up our 50 in a separate entity between the four of us, create that company, call it BWBG or whatever.

00:30:04.000 It's just a pass-through.

00:30:06.000 So, um, they were openly talking about how to game at the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

00:30:11.000 And all of this could have been reported by, you know, mainstream media sites.

00:30:14.000 All of these texts were available.

00:30:15.000 All of this stuff, these emails were available.

00:30:17.000 Bobulinski was doing interviews.

00:30:19.000 And yet it didn't, it didn't, none of it mattered.

00:30:22.000 Amazing.

00:30:22.000 Just, just amazing.

00:30:24.000 Because the media were more focused on protecting Joe Biden's electoral chances than reporting the news to you.

00:30:29.000 It is simply that easy.

00:30:30.000 It's that easy.

00:30:32.000 Speaking of which, it is not merely that your establishment media have decided that it is important that you view only what they allow you to view.

00:30:39.000 They've decided that you are not allowed to view things that they don't want you to view.

00:30:43.000 So this is an amazing, amazing clip that I'm about to play for you.

00:30:46.000 So there's a Man named Steve Cole.

00:30:50.000 Steve Cole is the Dean of Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

00:30:55.000 Right, this is Captain Journalism over here, Steve Cole.

00:30:57.000 He was on MSNBC the other day, and this really does explain where your journalistic betters lie.

00:31:02.000 It is not merely that they wish to provide you a filter, it's that they wish to prevent you from accessing other sources of information.

00:31:09.000 So he literally says, this is the Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, perhaps the most prestigious journalism school in America.

00:31:17.000 Suggesting that freedom of speech is itself a problem.

00:31:21.000 Freedom of speech is a problem because then you might not get the sort of journalism you're used to from your objective news sources.

00:31:27.000 Right?

00:31:27.000 All the people who are journalism-ing all over the place.

00:31:29.000 All the people pleasuring themselves Jeffrey Toobin style to pictures of the Democratic campaign.

00:31:35.000 All of those people wouldn't be your only source and that's bad.

00:31:37.000 We don't want that to happen, says the Dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

00:31:41.000 Here is Steve Cole summing up the position of so many of our journalistic betters.

00:31:45.000 Those of us in journalism have to come to terms with the fact that free speech, a principle that we hold sacred, is being weaponized against the principles of journalism.

00:31:55.000 And what do we do about that?

00:31:57.000 I just say, you know, as reporters, we kind of march into this war with our facts nobly shouldered as if they were going to win the day.

00:32:06.000 And what we're seeing is that Because of the scale of this alternate reality that you've been talking about, our facts, our principles, our scientific method, it isn't enough.

00:32:18.000 So what do we do?

00:32:19.000 And the answer is what they do is they try to pressure social media into preventing other people from reporting.

00:32:19.000 So what do we do?

00:32:24.000 This is something we've been experiencing with Facebook for the last several months.

00:32:27.000 Right before the election and then right after the election, it turns out that according to the New York Times, Facebook changed its algorithm to elevate news sources that they deemed to be high quality.

00:32:35.000 What were those high quality news sources?

00:32:37.000 Hmm.

00:32:38.000 Let's think about it.

00:32:38.000 Oh, look at that.

00:32:38.000 Hmm.

00:32:39.000 It's the New York Times.

00:32:40.000 Shocker.

00:32:41.000 So the New York Times has Kevin Roos out there every day.

00:32:44.000 Yelling that people like me, like my Facebook page, has wide reach.

00:32:48.000 That's bad.

00:32:49.000 Dan Bongino has wide reach.

00:32:50.000 That's bad.

00:32:51.000 Fox News has wide reach.

00:32:52.000 That's super bad.

00:32:54.000 And then Facebook magically changes its algorithm right before the election and right in the aftermath of the election to downgrade the news sources that you like in favor of news sources you're trying to avoid by going to Facebook in the first place.

00:33:05.000 And who's pressuring them to do that?

00:33:07.000 Your bettors in the media.

00:33:09.000 They love speech restrictions.

00:33:10.000 It's not that they are opposed to speech restrictions.

00:33:12.000 They just don't want speech restrictions on them.

00:33:14.000 But for everybody else, they're in favor of speech restrictions.

00:33:16.000 Now, notice the inconsistency here. 0.91

00:33:18.000 I have defended at every step of the way the right of the New York Times to publish whatever the damn hell it wants.

00:33:23.000 I have defended the right of people I radically disagree with to cover things in ways that I radically disagree with.

00:33:28.000 They have that right.

00:33:29.000 I think they're wrong to cover things the way they cover them, but they have absolutely that right.

00:33:33.000 I've never called for the downgrading of a journalistic source or an opinion news source.

00:33:38.000 On places like Facebook or YouTube or Twitter.

00:33:40.000 I've defended people from exactly that sort of stuff.

00:33:43.000 Hell, I've defended people that I think have horrible evil views from being fired from their jobs if their horrible evil views have nothing to do with their jobs.

00:33:52.000 And that is the way that you should act if you're a First Amendment advocate.

00:33:54.000 But that's not the way the Democrats act.

00:33:56.000 That's not the way members of the media act.

00:33:57.000 Members of the media are interested in changing your mind about the issues.

00:34:00.000 And the best way to change your mind is to close your mind.

00:34:02.000 And the best way to close your mind is to prevent you from seeing any alternative sources of information.

00:34:07.000 Which is why we should see it as somewhat dangerous that the Biden team has now appointed Rick Stengel As the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, he had that job actually under Obama in 2013.

00:34:23.000 And now, apparently, Stengel is on Biden's transition team to head the U.S.

00:34:27.000 Agency for Global Media, an agency that oversees, quote, public service media networks that provide unbiased news and information in countries where the press is restricted.

00:34:37.000 So he's very much in favor of open journalism and free speech and news reporting, except for the fact that in 2011, he wrote a Time cover piece featuring a picture of the Constitution and a headline saying, Does It Still Matter?

00:34:48.000 In that piece, he said, quote, But we cannot let the Constitution become an obstacle to the U.S.' 's moving into the future with a sensible healthcare system, a globalized economy, an evolving sense of civil and political rights.

00:35:01.000 The Constitution does not protect our spirit of liberty.

00:35:03.000 Our spirit of liberty protects the Constitution.

00:35:06.000 The Constitution serves the nation.

00:35:08.000 The nation does not serve the Constitution.

00:35:10.000 So, the Constitution is completely malleable.

00:35:11.000 And then in 2019, he went further.

00:35:13.000 Here's what he argued in an op-ed for the Washington Post, quote, As a government official, traveling around the world championing the virtues of free speech, I came to see how our First Amendment standard is an outlier.

00:35:24.000 Even the most sophisticated Arab diplomats that I dealt with did not understand why the First Amendment allows someone to burn a Quran.

00:35:29.000 Why, they asked me, would you ever want to protect that?

00:35:33.000 Okay, so the supposed defenders of free speech inside the Biden team are openly saying that they don't like free speech, that they think free speech is bad, that free speech ought to be quashed.

00:35:44.000 Not, by the way, just to affect American elections, apparently, but also to avoid offending the sensibilities of people in other countries.

00:35:52.000 We're supposed to believe that these people stand for American values.

00:35:55.000 By the way, that was from a David Harsanyi's piece in National Review, November 11th, 2020.

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00:39:38.000 Remember, the New York Post was banned from Twitter.

00:39:41.000 Their account was shut for trying to report the Hunter Biden story.

00:39:44.000 If you tried to tweet out that story, they suppressed your tweet.

00:39:48.000 Remember that Facebook preemptively shut down the Hunter Biden story.

00:39:51.000 They said pending a fact check before there was even a fact check, before there was a fact check, they shut down the distribution of the information.

00:39:58.000 It's absolutely maddening.

00:40:01.000 It is madness.

00:40:01.000 The fact that anybody trusts these jokers in big tech or in social media or in the press is beyond me.

00:40:08.000 Why would you possibly trust them?

00:40:09.000 OK, well, now YouTube has announced that it's changing its policies.

00:40:13.000 OK, so here is what they just released.

00:40:15.000 They released this statement yesterday, quote, We just shared an update on YouTube's election efforts, including how we're handling community guidelines pertaining to election-related misinformation.

00:40:24.000 Our policies disallow content alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of a historical U.S.

00:40:30.000 presidential election.

00:40:31.000 We allow this type of commentary for current elections as election officials work to finalize counts.

00:40:35.000 December 8th was the safe harbor deadline for the U.S.

00:40:37.000 presidential election.

00:40:38.000 States need to resolve contested elections by then, and enough states have now certified their election results to determine a president-elect.

00:40:44.000 Okay, so just to be fair, We should note at this point that the election date, the date in which the election is essentially over, is not December 8th.

00:40:52.000 That's the safe harbor provision.

00:40:54.000 Court challenges could still overturn safe harbor provisions. 0.90

00:40:57.000 December 14th, when the Electoral College votes, that is when this sucker is over.

00:41:01.000 Okay, so they're preemptively declaring it over, obviously, because if we're going to just talk about legal dates, December 8th does not mean nearly as much as December 14th, when the Electoral College actually meets to vote.

00:41:10.000 And even that doesn't mean as much as, I believe, January 6th, when that final Electoral College vote is certified, I believe, by the House of Representatives, is the way the process works.

00:41:17.000 But, YouTube is taking preemptive action.

00:41:20.000 They say.

00:41:21.000 As such, starting today, we will remove new content uploaded on or after December 9, 2020, alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S.

00:41:30.000 presidential election.

00:41:31.000 For example, we will remove videos claiming that a presidential candidate won the election as a result of widespread software glitches or counting errors.

00:41:38.000 This is in line with our approach toward historical U.S.

00:41:40.000 presidential elections.

00:41:42.000 Content that includes sufficient context may remain on YouTube, similar to how we allow COVID-19 medical misinformation that violates our policies to exist in videos with other context that debunks it, for example.

00:41:51.000 If your content is impacted, you will receive automated emails from our system regarding this content.

00:41:55.000 As we ramp up our enforcement, we'll initially remove violative videos without giving a strike.

00:41:59.000 After Inauguration Day, we'll start giving strikes and taking down accounts, basically.

00:42:02.000 Okay, so...

00:42:04.000 A couple of things here.

00:42:05.000 They're not going to remove a single video claiming that Donald Trump was not the legitimate president of the United States in 2016.

00:42:09.000 Not one.

00:42:09.000 Not one of those is going to come down.

00:42:12.000 So it's only a certain type of election fraud.

00:42:15.000 It's only a certain type of claiming an election was illegitimate they're going to take down.

00:42:18.000 So if you say that this election was fraudulent because of vote counts or because of voter fraud or irregularity... By the way, all claims I'm skeptical of, as you know, If you say that, YouTube will take down the video.

00:42:31.000 If, however, you say Georgia's non-governor, Stacey Abrams, is actually the governor of Georgia thanks to voter suppression, that stays up.

00:42:38.000 I mean, hell, that was part of the DNC.

00:42:40.000 We can't take that down.

00:42:42.000 If you say that Donald Trump was the illegitimate president of the United States because the Russians interfered in the election, are they gonna leave that up?

00:42:50.000 What if you allege that Donald Trump was made president because of Russian interference in the election, not indirectly, but directly, like they messed with the vote counts?

00:42:57.000 Is YouTube gonna take that down?

00:42:58.000 Not that I'm aware of.

00:43:00.000 This is your social media betters deciding what you can and cannot see.

00:43:04.000 By the way, it's not going to kill conspiracy theories.

00:43:06.000 Do you really think that the way that you are going to kill dissemination of information like this, theories about the stealing of the U.S.

00:43:13.000 election, you think that you are going to kill those theories by having liberals who all gave money to Joe Biden suppress the information?

00:43:20.000 Good luck with that.

00:43:21.000 Seriously, good luck.

00:43:22.000 But this is the goal.

00:43:24.000 And it all ties into this basic idea that if you are on the right, and it won't stop there, by the way.

00:43:29.000 And the left doesn't want it to stop there because they simply label anything they don't like disinformation.

00:43:32.000 It'd be one thing if they were actually exact in their labeling of disinformation.

00:43:37.000 They claimed the Hunter Biden story was disinformation.

00:43:37.000 They are not.

00:43:40.000 They had a blanket shutdown on the Hunter Biden story.

00:43:42.000 They downgraded content.

00:43:44.000 The big tech bros.

00:43:45.000 And now we're supposed to believe they're gonna restrict it to no well-verified claims?

00:43:49.000 By the way, they've even gamed that system.

00:43:51.000 The way that Facebook works this thing is that they actually allow left-wing fact-checkers to ding particular news sites in order to downgrade their content on Facebook.

00:43:59.000 So they just outsource the dinging.

00:44:01.000 They outsource the censorship.

00:44:03.000 And then they claim, oh, well, we're not in control of that.

00:44:04.000 I mean, obviously, listen, we have our factcheck.org folks over there, and they say Daily Wire is not as credible as CNN, and we believe them because their name is Fact Check.

00:44:12.000 It's right there in the name. 0.97

00:44:14.000 This is all bullcrap. 0.99

00:44:15.000 It's all bullcrap. 0.97

00:44:16.000 It is designed to restrict your access. 0.97

00:44:19.000 It is designed to pervert how democracy is supposed to work.

00:44:22.000 Free flow of information.

00:44:24.000 Access to information.

00:44:26.000 Now does that mean that the solution is going to be federal regulation?

00:44:31.000 I have doubts about that because I think that Democrats are likely to take over the auspices of running these companies.

00:44:36.000 I think that if you create a media oversight watchdog, right, a social media oversight watchdog in the federal government, sooner or later, Elizabeth Warren ends up running it.

00:44:44.000 And then they just restrict it from government as opposed to the sort of social restriction outside.

00:44:48.000 But should there be liability for companies that effectively promised their consumers that they were going to have free and open access to information so long as it was not defamatory?

00:45:00.000 I don't see why there shouldn't be some sort of liability from customers who are promised something and given something else.

00:45:06.000 I think beyond that...

00:45:08.000 The main theme here is that you gotta find alternative sources of information.

00:45:11.000 It sounds self-serving, but it happens to be true. 0.99

00:45:13.000 So I'm gonna make it broader than this.

00:45:15.000 You need to go subscribe, not just to Daily Wire, to Blaze TV.

00:45:18.000 You need to go subscribe over to Daily Caller.

00:45:20.000 You need to go subscribe over to Breitbart.

00:45:21.000 Like any place that you want alternative sources of information, you need to go subscribe today, because the bottom line is that they are going to try to shut down all dissemination of information.

00:45:30.000 This is what they do.

00:45:32.000 It's what they are interested in doing.

00:45:34.000 And then they wonder why people are so skeptical of the media, and not only the media, all of the institutions surrounding the media.

00:45:41.000 Because we're being gaslit.

00:45:43.000 We're being gaslit.

00:45:44.000 Let me give you a great example, okay?

00:45:46.000 On COVID.

00:45:47.000 So there's a lot of media coverage right now of the fact that many Americans are skeptical of COVID regulations.

00:45:53.000 One of the reasons we are skeptical of COVID regulations is because the media got this thing wrong from the beginning.

00:45:57.000 They botched it every way it was possible to botch it.

00:46:00.000 First, they said the thing was not particularly dangerous in February when they were saying that Donald Trump was xenophobic for shutting down the borders.

00:46:05.000 Then they suggested that masks were really not important and you shouldn't wear them.

00:46:09.000 Then they suggested the masks were the most important thing that ever was and that lockdowns were excellent.

00:46:12.000 Now they say, well, lockdowns are still kind of excellent, but they're not so excellent if they apply to Democrats.

00:46:17.000 Also, they suggested in the middle of the summer that millions of people protesting in the streets and spitting on each other over George Floyd, suggesting that America was systemically racist, which is a lie.

00:46:28.000 They suggested that that was good.

00:46:29.000 It was a public health problem.

00:46:30.000 So they had a they had a triple lie there.

00:46:33.000 I mean, the rare triple lie.

00:46:35.000 It's an Olympic-level triple lie there from the media.

00:46:37.000 One, America is systemically racist, and that's why there are disparities between black and white, particularly in policing.

00:46:42.000 Two, if you go out and protest for George Floyd in the street, that is riskier than if you go to an outdoor church service, and more important, because it's a public health problem.

00:46:51.000 And three, if you disagree with any of that, it's because you're a COVID denier.

00:46:54.000 So the rare triple lie, it's like a triple axel.

00:46:56.000 It's amazing how the media could twist themselves into pretzels.

00:46:58.000 And then they wonder, why don't they trust us?

00:47:00.000 Why don't they trust us?

00:47:02.000 And they engaged in these sorts of lies over and over about COVID, right?

00:47:04.000 Andrew Cuomo, incredible at his job.

00:47:06.000 Chris Cuomo on there every night doing buddy comedy with his bro, holding up giant, weird props to talk about the size of his brother's nose while tens of thousands of people died in his brother's state because his brother was shipping old people with COVID back into nursing homes.

00:47:22.000 Okay, well now, now we're supposed to trust Andrew Cuomo again.

00:47:26.000 Isn't it fun how this works?

00:47:26.000 Isn't that fun?

00:47:28.000 If you feel like you are being swiveled around, like your head is now being moved all the way around, exorcism style, while you vomit in all directions, that's because that's what the media have driven everybody to.

00:47:36.000 So, quick flashback first.

00:47:38.000 Okay, here is a flashback.

00:47:39.000 This is from October.

00:47:40.000 Okay, this is October.

00:47:42.000 Good morning, America.

00:47:43.000 Andrew Cuomo, the greatest governor in America on COVID.

00:47:46.000 Amazing governor.

00:47:47.000 And here he is explaining he does not trust a vaccine developed under the Trump administration.

00:47:52.000 I'm not that confident, but my opinion doesn't matter.

00:47:55.000 I don't believe the American people are that confident.

00:47:58.000 You're going to say to the American people now, here's a vaccine, it was new, it was done quickly, but trust this federal administration and their health administration that it's safe?

00:48:10.000 And we're not 100% sure of the consequences.

00:48:14.000 I think it's going to be a very skeptical American public about taking the vaccine, and it should be.

00:48:19.000 They should be skeptical about the vaccine.

00:48:21.000 OK, fast forward until after the election.

00:48:23.000 And now what is Andrew Cuomo, the most beloved governor of the media, the greatest governor in world history, saying about the vaccine?

00:48:28.000 Here he is again.

00:48:29.000 Nothing changed.

00:48:30.000 Nothing changed.

00:48:31.000 People just voted for Democrats.

00:48:32.000 That's it.

00:48:33.000 Okay, in his opinion, that's it.

00:48:35.000 Here is Andrew Cuomo completely reversing himself.

00:48:37.000 So I guess Andrew Cuomo is going to have to fight Andrew Cuomo over the credibility of the vaccine, because here he was yesterday.

00:48:42.000 First, we're going to have to have a real public education campaign to battle the skepticism.

00:48:48.000 Just think of the math on this.

00:48:50.000 You have to get to 75% to 85% of the overall population vaccinated for the vaccine to be effective.

00:48:54.000 75% to 85%.

00:48:54.000 population vaccinated for the vaccine to be effective. 75 to 85 percent. 50 percent of the population says right now they don't want to take the vaccine. They don't trust the approval process.

00:49:11.000 They're worried about vaccines in general, but 50% are now saying they don't want to take the vaccine.

00:49:16.000 You cannot get to 75% if 50% don't take it.

00:49:22.000 Okay.

00:49:23.000 The media said this guy's an amazing governor.

00:49:25.000 You'll click.

00:49:25.000 Super consistent.

00:49:26.000 He won an Emmy, guys.

00:49:27.000 He won a TV Emmy for his clarity and his wit in presenting information to the public.

00:49:32.000 Let me explain something to both Andrew Cuomo and the members of our esteemed journalistic establishment.

00:49:39.000 Fire truck you.

00:49:42.000 Seriously. 0.98

00:49:44.000 You guys can just fire truck right off.

00:49:47.000 You can just take a hike.

00:49:49.000 Nobody's interested in your opinions.

00:49:51.000 Nobody believes you when you say that your opinion is separate from the facts.

00:49:53.000 And nobody really believes you when you say that you're any different than the folks over at The Daily Wire because you are objective while we are biased.

00:50:00.000 Of course we're biased because we're honest. 1.00

00:50:02.000 You guys are damned liars. 1.00

00:50:04.000 You're liars. 1.00

00:50:06.000 You lie to project any damned narrative you want. 0.99

00:50:10.000 You will suggest that Joe Biden has cured this thing by the time we hit the end of January, that we're on the road to recovery using a vaccine developed under the Trump administration and a distribution plan developed under the Trump administration. 0.91

00:50:20.000 You'll suggest that Joe Biden has fixed everything.

00:50:22.000 Oh my God.

00:50:23.000 And we can all see it coming.

00:50:24.000 We all know where this is going.

00:50:26.000 You will suggest that you guys were just the reason that so many people voted for Joe Biden is because you were just so honest.

00:50:34.000 You did the sort of journalistic work that you should have been doing.

00:50:37.000 And you will continue to pretend that your back rub of Joe Biden, which will continue for as long as Joe Biden is in office, and then any Democrat is in office, that that back rub is really just hard-hitting journalism.

00:50:49.000 No one believes you anymore.

00:50:50.000 And so now you have to engage in the sort of monopolistic behavior that prevents anybody from seeing the alternatives.

00:50:56.000 That's the goal.

00:50:58.000 In the end, that's the goal.

00:50:59.000 It's always down to business.

00:51:01.000 And here, business meets ideology.

00:51:03.000 The authoritarians in your media don't want you to see certain information, and so you didn't see it.

00:51:09.000 The authoritarians in the media thought that you were not capable of processing information and making complex decisions, and so they simply prevented you.

00:51:15.000 And your authoritarians in the media were just upset at themselves, because in 2016, they accidentally covered the Hillary Clinton emails, and it may have cost Hillary Clinton the election, and so they regret it.

00:51:24.000 And you're starting to see, I mean, the backlash on this sort of stuff to members of the media who actually try to be honest is astonishing.

00:51:28.000 The other day, Joe Biden completely blew the name of his nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary, Xavier Becerra.

00:51:34.000 He called him Xavier Becerra.

00:51:37.000 Or something like that, okay?

00:51:38.000 And a couple members of the media noted this.

00:51:40.000 Other members of the media said, how dare you cover this?

00:51:43.000 Why would you cover this?

00:51:44.000 Democracy is under threat from Trump.

00:51:47.000 If you guys are just gonna work for the Democratic Party, then seriously, just go get paid by the Democratic Party.

00:51:52.000 Don't pretend to be what you're not.

00:51:53.000 And certainly don't try to shut down the spigot of information so that everybody else can see the information that they want to see.

00:51:59.000 Okay, meanwhile, It is incredible how the Democratic Party is now going to turn on people who are not wild leftists.

00:52:09.000 So remember, Joe Biden, I mean, speaking of just media bias in the extreme.

00:52:13.000 So for the entire election cycle, we were told that if you mentioned that Joe Biden is a senile old man, which he clearly is, right?

00:52:18.000 Joe Biden is in decline.

00:52:19.000 It's perfectly obvious that he is in decline.

00:52:21.000 He is not full-scale senility, like thinking the curtains are talking to him or something, but he just is not with it.

00:52:28.000 He makes mistakes on a constant basis.

00:52:30.000 He fumbles his words.

00:52:31.000 I mean, he's 78.

00:52:32.000 That's not his fault.

00:52:34.000 But first, I would say that he's, you know, I know a lot of 78-year-olds who are in better mental shape than Joe Biden.

00:52:40.000 But I know a lot of 78-year-olds who are in worse mental shape than Joe Biden.

00:52:42.000 But there's no question that Joe Biden now is not what Joe Biden was even 10 years ago.

00:52:45.000 And Joe Biden 10 years ago was nothing to write home about. 0.98

00:52:48.000 Joe Biden 10 years ago was still an incompetent buffoon who could barely get a paragraph out of his mouth. 1.00

00:52:53.000 Now he's an even more incompetent buffoon who can barely get a sentence out of his mouth. 0.98

00:52:58.000 But if you mention that, then this is because you are apparently an ageist or because you are not taking into account the fact that he had a childhood stammer, which of course, this is not about stammering. 0.96

00:53:06.000 I've said before, anybody who overcomes a stammer has engaged in an act of tremendous courage, and Joe Biden has helped out so many people who have stammered with advice and comfort and all of that.

00:53:16.000 It's not about that.

00:53:17.000 It's about the fact that if you believe, as the Democrats do, that he's president-elect of the United States, it sort of matters that the man literally cannot say the names of the members of his own cabinet without stumbling over them.

00:53:28.000 If you mention that for the entirety of the election cycle, or now, then it is suggested that you are just, you're age-shaming people.

00:53:35.000 Which brings us to a piece by Jane Mayer in The New Yorker.

00:53:40.000 Diane Feinstein's missteps raise a painful age question among Senate Democrats. 0.96

00:53:44.000 See, you're not allowed to mention that Joe Biden is 78 years old, because that's ageism.

00:53:49.000 But if you talk about Diane Feinstein this way, that's fine.

00:53:53.000 Now, I have a question.

00:53:53.000 What changed about Diane Feinstein?

00:53:55.000 What changed over the past few weeks?

00:53:56.000 Can anybody think of it?

00:53:57.000 Anybody?

00:53:58.000 Any questions?

00:53:59.000 Any answers?

00:54:00.000 Hand up?

00:54:00.000 I see you in the back, yes!

00:54:01.000 The answer is, Dianne Feinstein hugged Lindsey Graham. 0.84

00:54:04.000 That's what changed.

00:54:05.000 Dianne Feinstein, who is a rabid, militant Democrat, She went after Brett Kavanaugh with pretty much everything she had, and she engaged in really corrupt activities to do so, bringing forth narratives that simply had no factual basis. 1.00

00:54:18.000 But she had the temerity during the Amy Coney Barrett hearings to turn to Republicans and say, you know what?

00:54:22.000 This was actually kind of nice.

00:54:23.000 We actually had like a normal judicial hearing, and that was kind of nice.

00:54:26.000 And then she gave Lindsey Graham, with whom she's been in the Senate for 1,000 years, a hug.

00:54:30.000 This means she is senile and must be booted from her positions in top positions of committee power. 1.00

00:54:35.000 According to Jane Mayer reporting for The New Yorker, In a hearing on November 17th, Dianne Feinstein, the senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, who at 87 is the oldest member of the Senate, grilled a witness.

00:54:46.000 Reading from a sheaf of prepared papers, she asked Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, whether his company was doing enough to stem the spread of disinformation.

00:54:52.000 Elaborating, she read in full a tweet President Trump had disseminated on November 7th, falsely claiming to have won the presidential election.

00:54:58.000 She then asked Dorsey if Twitter's labeling of the tweet as disputed had adequately alerted readers that it was a bald lie.

00:55:03.000 It was a good question.

00:55:04.000 Feinstein seemed sharp and focused.

00:55:06.000 For decades, she has been the epitome of a female trailblazer in Washington, always hyper-prepared.

00:55:13.000 But this time, after Dorsey responded, Feinstein asked him the same question again, reading it word for word along with the Trump tweet.

00:55:19.000 Her inflection was eerily identical.

00:55:21.000 Feinstein looked and sounded just as authoritative, seemingly registering no awareness that she was repeating herself verbatim.

00:55:26.000 Dorsey graciously answered the question all over again.

00:55:29.000 And this has led to serious questions.

00:55:33.000 Serious questions about whether Dianne Feinstein has lost it.

00:55:36.000 Okay, now, it may be possible that Dianne Feinstein has lost it.

00:55:39.000 I'm just going to note that the only way that you are allowed to talk about this now is because Dianne Feinstein has fallen out of favor with the left wing of her party. 1.00

00:55:47.000 That's all that's happening here.

00:55:49.000 Many others familiar with Feinstein's situation describe her as seriously struggling, say it has been evident for several years.

00:55:55.000 Speaking on background and with respect for her accomplished career, they say her short-term memory has grown so poor, she often forgets she has been briefed on a topic, accusing her staff of failing to do so just after they have.

00:56:04.000 They describe Feinstein as forgetting what she has said and getting upset when she can't keep up.

00:56:08.000 One aide to another senator described what he called a kabuki meeting in which Feinstein's staff tried to steer her through a proposed piece of legislation that she protested was just words which made no sense.

00:56:17.000 Feinstein's staff has said she sometimes seems herself, other times unreachable.

00:56:22.000 The staff is in such a bad position, a former Senate aide who still has business in Congress said they have to defend her and make her seem normal.

00:56:29.000 So, this means that it's time to get rid of her, obviously.

00:56:32.000 Obviously, Dianne Feinstein is buried in this piece.

00:56:35.000 The internal criticism grew more intense this fall over Feinstein's handling of Amy Coney Barrett.

00:56:39.000 Feinstein had bungled the question about abortion during Barrett's 2017 appeals court confirmation hearing, provoking conservative indignation by casting it clumsily as a question about Barrett's extreme religious beliefs.

00:56:49.000 The backlash over her question about Coney Barrett effectively indemnified Barrett from further questions about how her faith affected her judicial rulings.

00:56:57.000 According to several sources, Chuck Schumer, Democratic minority leader, was so worried Feinstein would mismanage Barrett's confirmation hearings, he installed a trusted former aide, Max Young, to embed in the Judiciary Committee to make sure the hearings didn't go off the rails.

00:57:09.000 He did the same during the Kavanaugh confirmation.

00:57:11.000 Schumer brought Young in from the gun control group Everytown to handle strategy and communications and serve as Schumer's eyes and ears on Feinstein, as one source puts it.

00:57:18.000 Schumer's office declined to comment.

00:57:20.000 The precaution failed, nonetheless.

00:57:23.000 To Democrats' dismay, Feinstein instead hugged the Republican chairman of the committee, Lindsey Graham, thanking him for his fairness and for running one of the best set of hearings that I've participated in.

00:57:32.000 So clearly, this was a failure, and this means that she's crazy, right?

00:57:36.000 It can't just be that she handled it how it was actually supposed to be handled, you know, in normal bipartisan fashion, like most judicial nominees. 0.79

00:57:42.000 It was that she was bad, and she was senile, and now she became senile.

00:57:45.000 So you have Brian Fallon, the executive director of the progressive advocacy group Demand Justice.

00:57:49.000 He says it's time for Senator Feinstein to step down from her leadership position on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

00:57:54.000 If she won't, her colleagues need to intervene.

00:57:56.000 And apparently, Schumer then chided her.

00:57:59.000 Overtures were made to enlist the help of Feinstein's husband, Richard Blum.

00:58:03.000 Okay, so let me just point this out.

00:58:05.000 Let's say Susan Collins were like 10 years older, 15 years older.

00:58:08.000 And let's say that she were making overtures to people on the left side of the aisle. 0.97

00:58:11.000 And let's say that people on the right were like, you know what, maybe she's senile. 0.98

00:58:14.000 And Mitch McConnell called her up and then called her husband.

00:58:17.000 To try and pressure her.

00:58:18.000 You think the media would be like, oh, probably she's senile. 1.00

00:58:20.000 Or do you think the media would be more like, I can't believe they're trying to pressure this person who is a bipartisan hero into giving up her positions.

00:58:28.000 Look at these extreme right-wingers and their militarization of age.

00:58:33.000 It's just, it's incredible stuff.

00:58:36.000 But you know, our media, perfectly consistent across the board on this.

00:58:39.000 Dianne Feinstein's great, her great sin here is that she wasn't sufficiently woke, she wasn't sufficiently radical. 1.00

00:58:46.000 Speaking of the sufficiently woke and sufficiently radical, that wing of the Democratic Party is in the ascendancy.

00:58:52.000 Raphael Warnock running for Senate in the state of Georgia. 0.81

00:58:55.000 Every day a new clip from Raphael Warnock who is a Marxist, a Marxist crazy person.

00:58:59.000 So this one is from Raphael Warnock describing Castro's Cuba as very much like America.

00:59:05.000 You know, except for the fact that all dissidents are thrown in prison and the fact that people literally get on 1950s Chevys and try to float their way from Cuba to Florida.

00:59:12.000 That sort of stuff happens in the United States all the time.

00:59:14.000 Let me tell you, the way that I got to Cal, the way I got to Florida from California is I actually took a tire and I jumped I did that because, you know, America's so oppressive and terrible.

00:59:22.000 would sort of carry me all the way through the Gulf, you know, go through the Panama Canal and everything, and then I would end up in Florida.

00:59:27.000 I did that because, you know, America's so oppressive and terrible.

00:59:31.000 Alternatively, Cuba is nothing like the United States, which is one of the reasons why Cuban Americans vote Republican. 0.75

00:59:36.000 To the great consternation of all the Democrats who think that if they say latinks, that a bunch of Latinos are gonna vote for them. 1.00

00:59:42.000 Just a side note here, I was talking to a couple of the Latina members of the Daily Wire staff before the show, and we were all laughing at the stupidity of this Latinks nonsense. 1.00

00:59:50.000 I had to be informed, my producer Savvy, who is indeed a Latina woman, that Latinks was supposed to be a gender neutral thing because apparently Democrats are afraid that if they say Latino, Latino is used as the

01:00:05.000 plural right latinos is used as the plural masculine but it's also it covers the feminine also when you say latinos it covers masculine and feminine it's sort of like in in in hebrew right a language i know much better than than spanish in hebrew when you say jews you say yehudim right the im at the end is a masculine suffix okay but it covers everybody when you say people you say anashim right im is the masculine suffix right ot would be the female suffix not to get into linguistics here but im covers Male and female, right?

01:00:33.000 Apparently the same holds true in Spanish.

01:00:36.000 Okay, so Democrats were so afraid that this would piss off Latina women that they made up Latinx. 1.00

01:00:41.000 Latinx.

01:00:42.000 Latinx. 1.00

01:00:43.000 Which is the stupidest thing anyone has ever heard of. 1.00

01:00:46.000 And people who are actually Latino laugh at this. 1.00

01:00:49.000 They think it's the dumbest thing in the world. 0.99

01:00:50.000 But this is where Democrats are. 0.98

01:00:52.000 And then they can't believe that Latinos are voting in larger and larger numbers over time for Republicans.

01:00:58.000 I mean, they certainly can't believe that Cuban Americans consistently vote for Republicans.

01:01:01.000 One of the reasons is because you keep running jokers like Raphael Warnock.

01:01:03.000 Here's Raphael Warnock in Georgia.

01:01:05.000 We pray for the people of Cuba in this moment.

01:01:11.000 We remember Fidel Castro, whose legacy is complex.

01:01:17.000 Don't let anybody tell you a simple story.

01:01:19.000 Life usually isn't very simple.

01:01:24.000 His legacy is complex.

01:01:26.000 Kind of like America's legacy is complex.

01:01:33.000 No, actually his legacy is not complex.

01:01:36.000 He took over an island nation with a few hundred people, and then he proceeded to ram down a communist dictatorship on generations of human beings, impoverishing them and turning one of the richer countries in the entire Latin American sphere into basically a hellhole for people to live in.

01:01:53.000 Again, You don't try to escape great places by getting on an old Chevy and trying to float 90 miles to the coast of Florida.

01:02:01.000 Typically not a thing that you do.

01:02:02.000 So, Democrats, running that guy.

01:02:05.000 Definitely.

01:02:05.000 By the way, Republicans in Georgia, vote against that guy!

01:02:07.000 I don't care what you think happened in the presidential election in Georgia.

01:02:11.000 Go out and vote against that.

01:02:12.000 You don't want that in the Senate.

01:02:14.000 By the way, he also said that Benjamin Netanyahu was basically a Nazi, the prime minister of Israel.

01:02:19.000 He said that he was like an apartheid South Africa racist and all that.

01:02:23.000 He compared him to George Wallace, I believe was the actual quote.

01:02:26.000 He compared him to George Wallace.

01:02:28.000 The Jews, like George Wallace. 1.00

01:02:29.000 Raphael Warnock.

01:02:30.000 You might want to vote against that.

01:02:31.000 This is the new face.

01:02:32.000 Dianne Feinstein is too old. 0.86

01:02:34.000 This is the new face of the Democratic Party.

01:02:36.000 Karen Bass.

01:02:37.000 Who's widely considered a possible VP pick for Joe Biden early on.

01:02:42.000 She went on CNN yesterday and she says that policing is very obvious to Americans that policing is an issue of systemic racism.

01:02:48.000 Oh yes, this is going to be your Democratic Party from now until the foreseeable future.

01:02:52.000 Here she was.

01:02:54.000 Considering the historical moment that we're in post-George Floyd, where people finally in the United States understand that the issue of policing is a question of systemic racism.

01:03:04.000 We understand because of COVID, the underlying health conditions.

01:03:08.000 And so we have real issues in this country.

01:03:11.000 And what we saw over the last few months is that maybe we can address some of these issues.

01:03:16.000 I think it makes absolute sense.

01:03:18.000 To do that at the highest level.

01:03:21.000 Every crisis is an opportunity to cram down a social justice viewpoint on the world for the Radical Democrats.

01:03:26.000 And anyone who stands in their way becomes an enemy.

01:03:29.000 I will say there are certain lines that even the Radicals will cross at a certain point. 0.97

01:03:34.000 So apparently Portland's mayor has now evicted a new Red House Autonomous Zone by force. 1.00

01:03:38.000 This is Emily Zanotti reporting for DailyWare.

01:03:40.000 By the way, imagine that there were a city in which there had been right-wing riots for a hundred straight nights.

01:03:44.000 A hundred straight nights.

01:03:45.000 You think that might be a national news story just a little bit?

01:03:48.000 There were riots for a hundred straight nights in Portland.

01:03:50.000 And everybody's like, well, you know, that's just Portland.

01:03:52.000 Kind of kooky.

01:03:53.000 They like hemp clothing and they wear Birkenstocks.

01:03:55.000 They're weird.

01:03:56.000 But you know, it's like a kooky fun thing.

01:03:58.000 Rioting every night.

01:03:59.000 For a hundred nights.

01:04:01.000 Well, according to Emily Zanotti, Portland, Oregon Mayor Ted Wheeler sent the city's police force to evict a new autonomous zone that cropped up around an anti-eviction protest on Tuesday, reversing a months-long policy of tolerating ongoing demonstrations even when they turn violent.

01:04:14.000 Protesters have been camping out for months to prevent the eviction of the Kinney family.

01:04:17.000 On Tuesday morning, tensions escalated.

01:04:19.000 Protesters used fences and barricades set up by law enforcement officials to surround the home, which has been renamed the Red House on Mississippi due to its location on Mississippi Avenue, according to Newsweek.

01:04:30.000 Videos of the autonomous zone appeared on Twitter showing a shantytown made of cardboard boxes and pilfered public fencing with warning signs posted on the outside.

01:04:38.000 Reports indicated that a few dozen protesters plan to take up residence in the autonomous zone surrounding the Red House.

01:04:43.000 The family owes $100,000 on the home.

01:04:46.000 The bank foreclosed.

01:04:47.000 Protesters believed that the family should not be forced out during a pandemic and that the bank was seeking a swifter eviction because the property next to the home recently sold for more than seven figures.

01:04:55.000 When the city refused to honor protesters' demands, they organized an autonomous zone like Chaz Shop in Seattle.

01:05:01.000 And even this was a little too humiliating for Mayor Ted Wheeler, so he authorized Portland Police to break the thing up.

01:05:06.000 Shortly before 5 a.m.

01:05:07.000 on Wednesday morning, the Portland Police and the Multnomah County Sheriff began their property mission, reclaiming the land on which protesters had set up the autonomous zone.

01:05:15.000 They said it was not simply a protest they were dismantling.

01:05:18.000 Apparently, there was a stockpile of weapons and the presence of firearms.

01:05:22.000 Well, I'm glad that they finally realized that there was one bridge that was too far for them.

01:05:24.000 the threats of the community to media and to police.

01:05:26.000 We've seen the attacks.

01:05:27.000 The Portland police will enforce the law and use force if necessary to restore order to the neighborhood." Well, I'm glad that they finally realized that there was one bridge that was too far for them.

01:05:36.000 But you literally have to get to the point for Democrats of threatening violence before people are like, oh, maybe this person shouldn't be like a mainstream part of our coalition.

01:05:43.000 All righty.

01:05:44.000 Now, I do have to bring you an update on the 2020 election.

01:05:49.000 A lot of focus being put on this final sort of Texas bid.

01:05:52.000 It's sort of a last-ditch bid by Team Trump to stop the certification of the election.

01:05:57.000 According to CNBC, 17 states whose elections were won by President Trump told the Supreme Court on Wednesday they support a Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's bid to file a lawsuit that could effectively reverse Biden's projected Electoral College victory.

01:06:09.000 The filing backing Paxton by the states came a day after he asked the Supreme Court for permission to sue Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, all of which Biden purportedly won, over their voting processes.

01:06:19.000 Later on Wednesday, Trump filed a motion to intervene in the case in his personal capacity as a presidential candidate.

01:06:24.000 These states are basically saying that if other states vote unfairly, they are being deprived of equal protection under the law.

01:06:30.000 So Texas is basically saying, for example, that if Pennsylvania screws up its voting procedure, it outweighs our ability to vote fairly.

01:06:36.000 So we voted fairly, they voted unfairly, therefore Democrats stole that, and therefore we have a stake in the national election.

01:06:42.000 It's a hard legal argument to make.

01:06:47.000 17 former officials and lawmakers filed their own brief supporting the four swing states.

01:06:53.000 They said the Constitution does not make the Supreme Court the multi-district litigation panel for trials of presidential election disputes.

01:06:59.000 So in other words, states get to make their own voting procedures and other states cannot sue those states for their voting procedures.

01:07:04.000 This was actually just an attempt to elevate this thing to the Supreme Court.

01:07:07.000 That was really the idea here.

01:07:09.000 Because again, under the Constitution, then controversies between states are typically adjudicated by the Supreme Court or can be adjudicated by the Supreme Court.

01:07:18.000 But for a controversy to arise between the states, you actually have to make a plausible federal claim.

01:07:23.000 Most legal experts think that this thing is basically doomed to failure.

01:07:27.000 Andy McCarthy, who is an ally of President Trump and has been a big defender of Trump throughout his administration, has a piece over at National Review pointing out that this lawsuit is unlikely to go anywhere.

01:07:37.000 He says, the first thing to notice about Texas's lawsuit is what does not appear on the front page, the name of the state's solicitor general, Kyle Hawkins.

01:07:45.000 The lawsuit is brought against four other states.

01:07:48.000 Thus Attorney General Ken Paxton invokes the original jurisdiction of the US Supreme Court to hear disputes between the states, but the brief is not signed by the lawyer who typically represents Texas when there is a Supreme Court case.

01:07:57.000 That's because this thing has no prospect of winning, according to Andy McCarthy.

01:08:01.000 He says there's a lot to be said for Texas's complaint as a political polemic.

01:08:04.000 It's true Democrats labor mightily to undermine election integrity.

01:08:07.000 The only rational reason for that is to make it easier for legally unqualified people to cast ballots and to cast them in bulk.

01:08:12.000 The ballots of people who would not otherwise have voted.

01:08:15.000 It's also true.

01:08:15.000 Mail-in voting on a massive scale creates tremendous potential for fraud.

01:08:18.000 This potential is inevitably realized in at least some fraud when coupled with other policies that Democrats like, like getting rid of ID or signature verification, witness requirements, ballot harvesting.

01:08:27.000 All of these matters should be addressed by Congress and by state lawmakers, says Andy McCarthy.

01:08:30.000 But none of them give state, Texas, the standing to sue other states over the manner in which they do elections.

01:08:36.000 Again, in order to have a case or controversy.

01:08:39.000 You have to demonstrate standing.

01:08:40.000 And you have to show that you have been damaged.

01:08:42.000 Right?

01:08:42.000 If Colton gets hit by a car, I can't sue the person who drove the car.

01:08:45.000 On behalf of Colton, I don't have standing.

01:08:47.000 Colton, members of Colton's family, would have to sue.

01:08:50.000 Presumably.

01:08:51.000 Says Annie McCarthy, this does not mean the flouting of election laws by officials in Pennsylvania and other states is not a serious issue.

01:08:56.000 It means that if Texas wants to raise that issue, the Supreme Court is not the right forum.

01:09:00.000 To repeat a point I've made before, the court did not grant review of a case from Pennsylvania it should have taken involving a narrow critical issue of constitutional law pertaining to elections.

01:09:08.000 When that issue is raised by parties in the Commonwealth who were directly affected, the justices are not going to have interest in entertaining a sprawling lawsuit brought by an unaffected third party state.

01:09:18.000 He says he thinks that, in all likelihood, they're just gonna throw this thing out.

01:09:23.000 It's also a problem because it actually creates the legal predicate.

01:09:27.000 If the Supreme Court were to take it, it would actually create the legal predicate for any state suing another state for any supposed impact on the first state.

01:09:34.000 So, for example, California could sue Alabama over Alabama's abortion laws, saying that California provides abortion, Alabama does not provide abortion, and therefore, that affects California.

01:09:44.000 Because people are traveling from Alabama to California to have abortions and it is creating strain on their system, right? 0.92

01:09:48.000 You can see people making those sorts of claims.

01:09:50.000 This is why you have pretty strict rules in terms of what is a case or controversy and what standing constitutes.

01:09:57.000 So, it's unlikely that this is going to go anywhere.

01:10:01.000 According to Annie McCarthy, federal law provides a procedure under which, on January 6th, Congress will convene to count the electoral votes.

01:10:06.000 If Texas's elected representatives object to the counting of any state's electoral votes, Congress will heard debate and vote on those objections at that point.

01:10:13.000 There's no way, however, the Supreme Court will entertain that Texas lawsuit.

01:10:16.000 So it's important that you know that going in, so that we know exactly what is coming down the road.

01:10:21.000 There's still one outstanding lawsuit in Georgia.

01:10:23.000 That one has plausible claims to make.

01:10:26.000 I'll be fascinated to see how Georgia's Secretary of State responds to very specific allegations that are made in the Georgia lawsuit about not only the violation of election protocol, but also About specific voters who should not have voted.

01:10:38.000 I mean, there's like giant lists of them included in this Georgia lawsuit.

01:10:41.000 So that one is the one to watch in terms of lawsuits that have a chance of going anywhere.

01:10:45.000 OK, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.

01:10:48.000 Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.

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